skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Solving the Climate Change crisis demands questioning Capitalism. Good luck with that.

Are non-capitalist economies any better? ie. are there non-capitalist economies out there with fossil fuel reserves that aren't extracting/burning them?
> Ageism is real and some of the younglings treat me as someone whose knowledge is obsolete, only to be proven wrong.

It's possible you are assigning this sentiment yourself. I've always noticed a great deal of cultish nonsense in this industry. People promoting tools and techniques that have no reasoned basis and are often downright harmful. Where age comes into this is that as you become older you become more confident at identifying this BS and better at dismissing it. Played out in the context of a range of aged coworkers, this _looks_ like they think you are clueless because you are old. But a wise young person would have exactly the same attitude as you have. It's not that these folks are young, it's that they are unaware they're in a cult.
> Write interactive & collaborative code notebooks in Elixir

Think Jupyter Notebooks (if you're familiar with the python world), but collaborative and for Elixir.
Making cat games is what I got into after shutting down Candy Japan due to covid. It's been quite fun, especially being able to run various experiments much more quickly than with an ecommerce store.

Let's be honest: the bar on Roblox is still quite low for games. That's why I was able to get a start there despite having no gamedev experience besides participating on Ludum Dare a lot. I did this port to see if it makes sense to also release these games on Steam, or if they're just not good enough to sell there.

So far it's only sold $116 net, so it's feeling a bit like the answer might be no, but the game was only launched 5 days ago. If it keeps selling say $10/day consistently, then I'd consider it having been worth doing.
Share of U.S. EVs, by State
So, if a nascent company chooses to go down this same path of generating (or maybe _seeding_) their logo design with AI, have they essentially given up any ability to protect that logo going forward?
Tests aren’t particularly useful for detecting this kind of bugs though.
You can buy them off Amazon. I did that to replace a wonky Realtek with an Intel.
They've exercised the same diligence as usual [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madoff_investment_scandal
my experience in k-town is going to BCD-Tofu at 2am and them having the door locked. You knock, they look outside to see if they feel you are safe to let in. Sorry but I don't want to live in a place where businesses have to take such precautions
Coal could turn out to be the most expensive fuel ever. That depends on whether we avert disaster.

Similarly, when the nukes are mothballed, long before their design life is over because their power is too expensive to find any buyers, the actual cost of each kWh produced up to that end will balloon out of sight, as the exorbitant construction cost is suddenly amortized over much less energy.

But comparing nukes to coal is pointless. Wasting money building nukes instead of the much larger amount of renewables the same money could buy brings catastrophe nearer. Burning coal for ten years while the nuke is built brings catastrophe nearer.

To avert catastrophe, we will need to build out renewables radically faster than we are doing this far. And, we will need to build out factories for the equipment we will also need, particularly hydrogen and ammonia synthesizers to provide portable fuel for vehicles that cannot rely on batteries.
The only wifi devices that have not caused driver issuese for me on linux are the Intel ones. Realtek and Atheros drivers are so buggy it's crazy.
Yes. It's not a compelling argument that something can be used well for crimes. If cryptocurrency is just John Wick tokens, it not only isn't useful to most people, but further it's anti-useful to society in general and will likely be suppressed.

It's also hard for me to understand these "payment outside of X authority system" ideas when the value shifts so wildly and so unpredictably. No one wants to get paid, not even criminals, in a currency that might be worth 20% less tomorrow, depending on what's going on with Matt Damon's Super Bowl ad for the criminal currency or whatever.
They're not. Just as "everyone" was saying that those particular real estate assets were incredibly risky, so too is "everyone" saying that all crypto assets are incredibly risky.
If it's on a mini-pcie card you may be able to swap.
Well, there's a "hardware" link at the top of the linked article for starters.

Or google "esp-32" to find store selling a very popular one.

Or check out what's available on sparkfun or adafruit.
I'd say that Big Data is the Collateralized Debt Obligations of business operations. It looks fabulous from afar but it can blow things up quickly if there's no understanding of the internals.
Doomed mean to unavoidably suffer some negative outcome in the future, but not necessarily death/extinction.

Someone that forgot about an upcoming test is doomed.
Limits to Economic Growth
In my mind, 'wustl.edu' will forever be one of best treasure trove FTP sites back in the late 90's. That is all.
I've never used their workflows thing, but having been forced to live with ArgoCD it sounds horrifying.

Argo is another over-engineered "CNCF" thing trying to ride the Kubernetes hype train. It's all "eventually consistent", which makes it extraordinarily difficult to see when any particular thing actually happened. Is my code deployed? Who knows, Argo is "syncing".

Check out these great docs: https://argoproj.github.io/argo-workflows/rest-api/

> API reference docs :

> Latest docs (maybe incorrect)

> Interactively in the Argo Server UI.<https://localhost:2746/apidocs> (>= v2.10)

Yes, that is a localhost URL on their website.
Not being in the space myself - can you generalize the whole thing by saying it is about any one thing? Speculative asset appreciation seemed to mostly be what drove people to it. Curious about the good emergent behaviors, as the bad ones are literally advertising themselves.
The article is not really presenting any strong arguments aside from literal hand waving the "<complexity>". The same hand waves could be made for PoW. See the last time it made discussion[1].

The article suggests that two chains can simultaneously exist but that would invalidate the protocol, which will always choose one using LMD GHOST. You can read more about it here[2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27235668

[2] https://eth2book.info/altair/part2/consensus
It doesn't seem well known - I can't find any many claims prior to the Summer of 2020.

I found one quote in passing from 2005 - note this in regards his working time frame from 1979 to 1995.

You got an MBA at night a few years later. This should have put you right on track for a boss-type position at the bank. What happened?

Well, one day, my boss called me in, and said they couldn’t promote a white male because there was too much attention on the fact that there was no diversity in senior management. She told me I didn’t have a future with the bank. And so I put my resumé out and went to Pacific Bell. A couple of years later, [Pacific Bell] told me exactly the same thing. And that’s when I started looking at cartooning as an option.

and

You were placed on a series of doomed projects at Pacific Bell as punishment for mocking a boss’ memo in your cartoons. Did that actually work to your advantage by providing better grist for your cartoon mill?

Well, it certainly made me angry, which is good. There’s a correlation between anger and humour. The angrier you are, the funnier you can be. You can drive things to the next level. But as far as material goes, I didn’t need any special bad projects to give me material – there was plenty.

I urge you to read the full interview - I suspect his lack of promotion may be more related to him as an individual than his race or gender.

https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/escape-from-platos-cub...

Given he is the only source for this claim, I dunno what you want or expect me to say.
"We just need". But we don't. That is absolutely not a thing we need, and doing it would steal time and money away from what we really do need to do instead.
By government's hands being out of Bitcoin, I was mostly referring to its fixed money supply and the fact that its "permissionless", like cash.

> Things like being able to stop or reverse mistaken or fraudulent transfers, protections from fraud, protections from whoever is handling your money for you (with crypto, someone is still handling your money for you) going out of business, etc.

That's only true when you do on-chain transactions, or in the case of fiat, when you pay with cash. If you worry about dispute arbitration, you could use the same dispute arbitration services that exist for fiat. For example, I don't see a reason why payment networks like Visa or Mastercard couldn't add support for Bitcoin eventually. You'd still get a currency that can't be arbitrarily debased and that you can easily transfer on and off the payment network.

As a side note, a lot of Bitcoiners would hate me for saying the above. A large chunk of the community believes that everything needs to be decentralized and it has probably hindered adoption.
The only agreed upon contract here is the one on the chain.

I’d love for this type of thing to be tested in court. I’d invest in popcorn futures ahead of that trial.
Writing a good resume is very much a skill. You always want to keep the length limited and focus on the most relevant parts of the most relevant experience. Anyone with a decently solid career probably has far too much experience to put it all on a resume that any hiring manager would actually read.

I often like to write up for myself a "full" resume with plenty of details about everything, making it way too long, then tailor it as needed for any specific job I want to apply for by cutting out stuff less relevant for that specific position until it's short enough, like 2 pages max.
That's already happening with no code tools, hosted solutions, saas, GitHub copilot and more.
This is the reason I love opening HN in the morning. I very much have lived experience with this as well. Thanks for sharing.
>Ageism in this industry is real. I think the root cause of it is investors, it's where the origins of this phenomenon are.

It's a simple but profound statement. Ageism (and many other 'isms') would not exist if older people did not discriminate against other older people. Investors would typically be older people.
There are well over 100k US-based software engineers at the five FAANG companies alone, plus a long tail of other companies that compete with them for talent and offer similar (and in some cases higher) compensation. All of those companies can go over $250k in total comp for the equivalent of Google L4, i.e., one promotion above entry-level.
If they ended the legacy system they could kiss all donations from millionaire and billionaire alumni goodbye. In the first place, this whole "racial diversity" thing is a diversion in order to maintain their legacy system. Can't accuse them of being elitist and exclusionary if they regularly admit a quota of non-legacy applicants deliberately selected for racial diversity.
When I said 'fiat money', I meant stuff that you can use to buy things in a store. I live in a city that has a large blockchain community, but I'm not aware of any physical retailers that accept payment in USDC.

I imagine folks receiving remittances in Manila, Mexico City, Nairobi, Delhi etc. would have difficulty using stablecoins (whether backed or algorithmic) to buy food and other necessities.
Atos Notches Up Another Win with “Pegaso” Supercomputer at Petrobras
>but they're always entirely surprised when it happens to them.

Not always. When I was laid off I wasn't surprised in the slightest. There had already been layoffs and the company eventually effectively shut down.
Wow did the tone change halfway through! She seems to be leaning into a crusader's mentality. Which is not exactly what PRC has come to love about the Democratic party in recent decades. This will be interesting to watch.
How long would this kind of battery last before unrecoverable failure? From what I can tell, this is essentially a potato battery where the paper is the potato and the penny and nail are printed on the paper. Eventually the printed zinc and graphite terminals are going to corrode completely (well maybe not so much the graphite). Once all the zinc is oxidized, that's it.
It's typically human to classify something we've just begun to understand as insane before time and deeper thought yield appreciation and in some cases, awe. Though I may just be describing dunning kruger here.

That being said I don't agree with anything the OP said about these being "ugly hacks". As another poster said, the UX of the visual system is exceptional, we've built no system as elegant or functional.

When you look at eyes and visual system from a systems design perspective they don't look randomly generated, they look purposefully engineered the way they are. Making educated tradeoffs against the limits of physics and organic chemistry.
Oh, for sure; it's entirely a byproduct of engineering an SOC that needs high GPU bandwidth. That doesn't stop Apple from marketing it as a CPU boon though, and it certainly didn't stop starry-eyed HN readers from losing their minds over a spec that only a small handful of people care about. Even price-to-performance, a figure that hasn't been relevant for nearly 2 decades of commodity computing, is a better metric to advertise than memory bandwidth. People simply won't notice the difference.
Agism is probably somewhat overestimated because there are a lot more young people entering the industry than there were 30 years ago. So it looks like a lot of old people were pushed out, but they were never there to begin with.
Use image data to create custom image-filters in Processing
That was quite remarkable. Thanks for doing that.

I've always been fascinated by how artists abstract the core notion of an image. It's stunning to see a computer do that.
And are the images it's trained on copyrighted? What are their source images from which these are derived?
Because that would take work; while you're at it why not switch to a decent microkernel and run all of these buggy-as-hell drivers in their own services. I have devices which I have 99% of the time on the kernel blacklist but enable when I need them as the system won't stay up reliably for more than a day or two with them enabled.
I have not used celery + rabbitmq but I assume that combo is like sidekiq + redis, or any other job queue + worker system.

Airflow packages those things together and adds some additional features
- UI with Graph, gantt, logs and other views of the workflow
- Users and permissions
- Places to store config
- Mechanisms for passing small data between tasks
- Various "sensors" for triggering workflows
- Various operators that interact with common data-oriented systems (bigquery, snowflake, s3, you name it). These are basically libraries that expose a config-forward API.

Probably the main selling point is the pre-made operators, but in short it is a complete solution with bells and whistles that aligns itself with the data ecosystem.
I mean FB's stock got halved in the last few months
That's the plan for all industries and competition. It's a little weird to see it for employment pricing, but that makes sense too.

Years ago my town had a bunch of lumber yards where you can get market rate lumber. Home Depot moved in and provided way lower than market rate lumber until all of the independent lumber yards went out of business in the area.

Then they raised the price above market rate and that's that. Everyone hates them for that but we all shop there.
This absolutely reeks of tech grift for the aim of poaching valuable research dollars.
I think actual numbers are hard to come by, but I would say it's like a "go do it then" sort of thing. It's easy for well off folks to offer thoughts / advice.

Go accept a $67k job (which is actually higher than each of my non tech friends, but whatever), and then go live somewhere on that (renting too!). After a few years, show me how much you've saved. I have zero doubt you'll find it's been eaten up by emergencies, etc. Then get laid off! Hopefully you don't have family to take care of either. I don't even want to think about what happens to your health in that time (fitness, nutrition, etc.).

That's why I have major respect for folks who do it. I don't think I'd have the resolve.

That's also why I fight for better pay / social safety net for all. They shouldn't have to live like that.
> 2) What's the benefit of multiple AZs if the SLA of a single AZ is greater than your intended availability goals? (Have you checked your provider's single AZ SLA?)

… my providers single AZ SLA is less than my company's intended availability goals.

(IMO our goals are also nuts, too, but it is what it is.)

Our provider, in the worse case (a VM using a managed hard disk) has an SLA of 95% within a month (I … think. Their SLA page uses incorrect units on the top line items. The examples in the legalese — examples are normative, right? — use a unit of % / mo…).

You're also assuming a provider a.) typically meets their SLAs and b.) if they don't, honors them. IME, (a) is highly service dependent, with some services being just stellar at it, and (b) is usually "they will if you can prove to them with your own metrics they had an outage, and push for a credit. Also (c.) the service doesn't fail in a way that's impactful, but not covered by SLA. (E.g., I had a cloud provider once whose SLA was over "the APIs should return 2xx", and the APIs during the outage, always returned "2xx, I'm processing your request". You then polled the API and got "2xx your request is pending". Nothing was happening, because they were having an outage, but that outage could continue indefinitely without impacting the SLA! That was a fun support call…)

There's also (d) AZs are a myth; I've seen multiple global outages. E.g., when something like the global authentication service falls over and takes basically every other service with it. (Because nothing can authenticate. What's even better is the provider then listing those services as "up" / not in an outage, because technically it's not that service that's down, it is just the authentication service. Cause God forbid you'd have to give out that credit. But the provider calling a service "up" that is failing 100% of the requests sent its way is just rich, from the customer's view.)
Bitcoin isn't immune to money printing at all. The value of Bitcoin comes from people using it as a speculatory vehicle rather than a medium of exchange of goods and services. If the price of a commodity like rice hyperinflates, this does nothing to the price of Bitcoin because nobody uses Bitcoin to buy rice. As a result, the price of Bitcoin would inflate at the same rate as the underlying fiat used to exchange Bitcoin.
> Why should the government be choosing which platforms are available?

Exactly. We should let the market decide what the best product is.
Thanks, I was looking for them but couldn't remember the name

> From Riksgränsen on the national border to the Port of Narvik, the trains use only a fifth of the power they regenerate. The regenerated energy is sufficient to power the empty trains back up to the national border.
Well sort-of. They have to give two months' written notice, and they did, and I was very lucky to catch it in time as I'd been traveling and they had of course not bothered to send me an e-mail nor call any of the three numbers they had for me.

So I had about a week's warning and I was able to transfer my money out to other accounts. Had I not done that, they would presumably have held on to it until I'd gone in and personally told them where to send it, which would have locked me out of my money had I been abroad -- it was my primary account, held in good standing for 13 years.
You know you can run a server in the cellar under your stairs.

You know that if you are a startup you can just keep servers in a closet and hope that no one turns on coffee machine while airco runs because it will pop circuit breakers, which will take down your server or maybe you might have UPS at least so maybe not :)

I have read horror stories about companies having such setups.

While they don't need multiple data centers, power, cooling and redundancy sounds for them like some kind of STD - getting cheap VPS should be default for such people. That is a win as well.
> It's so easy to have a meritocracy

Evidence for this claim would be useful.
If you wrote a code that contains some bug, usually your your tests won’t catch it either. You’d need a fuzzer instead. But then again, it just doesn’t work this way - you can’t write perfect code, you need to follow the principle of least privilege, ie use compartmentalisation.
people don't account for the cpu & wall-time cost of encode-decode. I've seen it take up 70% of cpu on a fleet. That means 700/1000 servers are just doing encode decode.

You can see high efficiency setups like stackexchange & hackernews are orders of magnitude more efficient.
Yes, the main usecase for DALL-E is probably for illustrations next to a story/blog. Logos are much harder to get right, and unsurprisingly DALL-E is not up to the task (yet).
Btrfs with Linux 6.0: Send Protocol v2, ~3x Boost for Direct Read Performance
Save yourself a huge mess and don't try using an electric handheld mixer to do the initial oil stir...I got peanut butter EVERYWHERE. It's a nightmare to clean.
The failure of these undo steps is that what if transactions downstream have already happened. Possibly with physical goods or real money. Unroll those too? And on whose cost?
Chrome 104 comes with Web Bluetooth API change that concerns Apple and Mozilla
I don't see anything beyond anecdotal evidence that supports the claim in the title. Most of the support centers around innovations in the B2C market, but the B2B market is 10x larger, and where I would argue a lot of the innovation is taking place. It seems right now a lot of the bottleneck is on hardware, when we look at something like training NN models. Who knows, maybe once that bottleneck is relieved, the next bottleneck may be human creativity, and who knows what kind of innovations could take place in that kind of environment. Interesting read nonetheless.
What shows that? Are you calling the < L7 engineering candidates at Facebook and Google the "lower classes"?
> Tru64 UNIX and QNX have Micro-kernels, DragonFlyBSD and MacOS Hybrid.

You're reading too much into my comment. The original PDP-7 (and later PDP-11) Unix are monolithic kernels. The most popular Unix variants or clones today (Linux, Free/Net/OpenBSD) are all monolithic kernels.

Tru64 is long dead. QNX has a niche market. DragonFly ... not much market share.
MacOS? As you say, hybrid, not microkernel, and is hardly successful in the same space that the monolithic kernel Unices are (ie. servers).

It's not hard to argue that Unix has historically been a monolithic design, and that those have been the most successful, even if you can certify various microkernels.
Of course this comment may not hold for another 50 years, but it is certainly true of the last 50.
Why containers when you can use unikernel applications?
Is it really what "normies" want? Or is it just what drug companies/lobbyists want?