skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, this is what I tried too. What you describe as “hands on” is precisely what my original complaint is about. It was even more difficult (impossible?) for me due to the case-sensitive FS setting being enabled on my Mac.

Everything about first contact with Nix is off putting. I really wish it weren’t so :/
I live on one of the Seattle streets mentioned in the article where there was a cluster of RVs, they were forced to move, and now there are ecoblocks.

The RVs arrived a little over six years ago after they were forced to move from a lot underneath a nearby overpass. There were around a dozen vehicles and some tents.

There was a lot of violent crime, including several shootings toward the end of the encampment.

There was a lot of trash and sewage. When they were moved the city hauled away several tons of trash and "shopping bag toilets".

There was a lot of obvious mental health problems and the deep fear and desperation that goes along with it. I've worked in enough urban service jobs to recognize people who don't have access to the mental health support they need.

There were single people, couples, and two families with children. The people I spoke with are mostly from Seattle and a few grew up in this neighborhood. They are homeless but not from some far away place. This is their neighborhood. They stay here because they know people and because they can sometimes find work here.

We failed as a city to provide a safety net when these people fell. My street is more safe and has less trash and it's true that I like it but to get that we didn't solve a single problem. We just moved it along.
The way that this course and many others in certain Harvard departments (CS, Math, Physics) work is that it designed to feel like a boot holding you under the water while you struggle to breathe, but when the semester is over you feel like you learned something.
Okay, but wouldn't a hydroelectric dam encourage people to build in areas that would be otherwise unsafe, thus putting them at risk of a terrorist attack on the dam?
You have to read further down to know that it was someone assigned to argue this point of view - not that it was a study or review where someone looked at research and came to that conclusion. Reading the abstract and title did not give me the impression that someone was assigned to make that argument. Those are very different
Yes. Most people's CV's who have been around for a while are too long anyway. The goal should be one page, with only the most recent/relevant experience.
> Would this prohibit him from accessing cryptocurrencies?

Taken literally he wouldn’t be able to do online banking or access any encrypted website.
As long as there is money to be made by blurring the line, people will continue to do it.

But there is no consensus on what is "open source". Is AGPL open source? Despite the FSF and OSI approving AGPL, many would argue that it is a EULA.

The inevitable result is the erosion of the generic branding "open source" and the rise of specific licenses. "MIT" or "Apache" or "BSD" evoke one set of reactions, while "GPL" or "MPL" evoke another.
I've the great fortune to live within walking distance of Lune Brisbane. They are very good croissants. The queue mania has died down now, I'm unsure if the two stores in Melbourne are still insta-famous the queue in 2020 was silly.

I wish they did brioche with lump sugar crust as well. Can't have 'em all I guess.
Don't lump NZ in with Aus, different government, different laws. Afaik the trying to outlaw encryption stuff hasn't hopped the ditch yet.
China's population will start shrinking around 2025, and there's a real estate bubble that's clearly starting to deflate right now.

Obviously China is still a poor country and there's a lot of housing stock being upgraded, so it's not going to be a complete collapse, but I do expect construction to slow down both in the short and long term.
What would happen (most likely) is that the wave function collapses and you find yourself in a universe where the random number you chose is not in fact a divisor and so, according to your algorithm, you now have to kill yourself. Probably, you don’t feel like doing it and so this algorithm does not work.
Are you talking about lithium batteries?

Why on earth?
Are you suggesting that curbside parking should be available only to property owners? In what proportion?

As I recently published at [1], my city of Berkeley does not raise anywhere near enough money from property taxes to pave the city streets. If you think the majority of roads in the United States are paved with property tax revenues, I'd like to see your math.

1: https://observablehq.com/@jwb/property-tax-whales-of-the-eas...
It is not racist. I have family members who were married without consent of both parties. That is an arranged marriage with a distinct difference than that of a marriage that happens with the consent of both parties.

Getting introduced to a potential partner by family or friends and then dating is not any different than flirting with a partner and then dating, for the purposes of describing the circumstances that resulted in marriage.
So much wrong here I don’t know where to start.
But isn't the intention of posting something here for people to read?
> The thinking group expected to enjoy the task significantly less than the news-checking group, but afterward, the two groups reported similar enjoyment levels.

Does the study really suggest not checking the news then?
> How did people ever manage to do anything before k8s?

Nobody ever said it wasn’t possible. Nobody is saying “you can’t run things the way you want”, the argument is “you keep saying K8s is bad, here’s some reasons why it’s maybe not”.

> I'm going to make the claim that a load balancer + asg + basic networking setup is all you need in 95% of cases.

If you can make it support the autoscaling Spark jobs, the jupyter-hub env the analysts use, and all our GRPC API’s, and have everything mTLS’d together, and have all of DNS+cert + routing magic with similar setup and maintenance effort, I’ll convert.

> Learning how to package services and have them run anywhere? A lost art.

The issue isn’t my teams code-if we were only running our own stuff, and we only used a single language, packaging would likely be straightforward. But it’s the fact that we run several other applications, of varying degrees of “packaged” and the fact that I can barely get the Python devs to use a virtualenv properly that makes this statement a bit too unreasonable in my experience. Containers may be messy, but at least I can run 3 different spark pipelines and 4 Python applications without needing to dig into the specifics of “how this particular app packages it’s dependencies” because that’s always an awful experience.
Hoe many startups did you see with multi region databases?
Also, can you compare the approach to postgress + operators on kubernetes?
And how do you charge for cockrouch db?
5nm while 2/3nm is about roll?

Probably for mid-range chips I guess.
End of the Machinery Game Engine
The Machinery game engine seems terminated. From email:

Thanks so much for supporting The Machinery.

Unfortunately, we’ve reached a point where it’s no longer possible for us to continue in the current direction. Per Section 14 of the End User License Agreement, the development of The Machinery will cease, we will no longer offer GitHub access, all licenses are terminated as of 14 days after the date of this notice, and you are requested to delete The Machinery source code and binaries. You will receive a full refund of your annual license payment through Gumroad.

We really appreciated you being a part of the Our Machinery Community. We hope we have been helpful in some way to your development needs.

-Our Machinery
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Mac Mini M1,

Keychron C1 with linear switches,

Behringer homestudio headphones.
Tips for having a high productivity remote company?
We're building a product that from a technical perspective, is extremely "nitty-gritty". It is complex, feature-rich, and has a non-negligible degree of technical risk.

What are your tips for running a successful remote-based company building something like this?
Its also noteworthy that the definition of "Open Source" is not something that any organization or entity has ownership over. OSI wants the definition to mean specific things. The FSF wants it to mean similar, yet different things (or that they never wanted "open source" to pollute the vernacular at all, and continue to use the "Free" software terminology.)

But the definition itself is fluid, contextual, and subject to change over time.
But they aren't failing - this is the result of liberal policies being voted in by citizens. Unintended consequences maybe, but not a failure.
Sure. But in this case there was no claim of a sufficiently strong X-ray source for this, so it fell flat on its face.
USA could also transition to a proper mains voltage like much of the rest of the planet.
The challenges with Edge are management and cost. IoT and Edge computing still require centralized data storage and data management. Kubernetes/K8s are at the network edge in those environments. Thousands of nodes are simply unmanageable without an orchestrator like Kubernetes. Kubernetes is fueling momentum because the central manageability has gotten noticeably better over the past few years. Today organizations find that for performance reasons it’s better to do given functions in situ, rather than centrally.
Not sure what do you mean? In many countries nuclear is government subsidised and is the cheapest & cleanest source of energy available compared to say renewables. In fact countries build these because of the price of other alternatives: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-17/czechs-st...

The caveat is indeed incredibly large CAPEX and very long time, but what is the alternative? At least then you are secured partially for 20-40 years depending on needed capacity.

EDIT: typos
Dictionaries are one of those things that should be free, at least the digital version. This is 2022 - shouldn't governments pay the dictionary creators using tax payer money and make the digital version available for free, to anyone for any use?

How much does it cost to maintain a dictionary anyway? A few million dollars at best? It is crazy that a ton of projects don't even get started, because these APIs are so expensive and unfriendly
Following the news very closely is a dubious activity, even though being ignorant is worse.
Oh I'm going to need you to elaborate on that.
Animals are delicious.
I run a remote only team, I agree with this and think the trade off is worth it. I get the productivity I’ve always expected. We have deadlines and we meet them on average. That my engineers may spread 6 hours work over a 14 hour period isn’t really my concern.

Then again we do a ton of live share “office” coding and pair programming. So we still have a similar environment to an office. But I think my team is overall happier than if they had to come in 8 hours a day.
There's nothing magical or divinely inspired about the OSI open source definition; it's an elaboration on the DSFG. The DSFG has the hoops it does to facilitate the mental gymnastics of reconciling the appealing concept of free software with the ugly reality that the GPL was a poorly-implemented singleton that formed the bedrock of their enterprise.
Yes, with a powerful enough source you can resolve protons, that's true. They didn't make such a claim - they listed a run-of-the-mill instrument in their methods section that would not have been capable of this.
Those startups popped into existence in the west just as pictures from Chinese rental bike graveyards showed up. Everyone with IQ of a donut could see where it was going.
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According to public statements by the execs at Rpi, the availability issues are due almost entirely to unexpected new demand exceeding their planned production volume (which they claim was quite large and scaled up from previous gens).

They report their suppliers have been delivering their parts orders on time and RPi is shipping the full volume of units they always intended for 2022. They are just getting bought up at a much higher rate than expected. They also say some of the issues in buying single units through online consumer retail channels is because RPi is prioritizing filling advance orders from volume integrators.

I have no idea the accuracy of what they're saying but fulfilling advance commitments from volume integrators first makes sense as those are long-term customers who are counting on the orders to ship their own products. Shorting those orders would be fairly disastrous as it flag RPi as an unreliable supplier reducing future design wins.
California not counting methane leaks from idle wells
I hope someone else also finds irony in taking advice on avoiding extensional terror from The Shrike.
Someone made a killing on that deal if the blocks they used look anything like the ones in the article. Blocks similar to those in the article (2 ft tall, 2 ft wide, 3 ft long) can be bought for $50. Add a foot of length to that and they are $75.

Someone there spent $1000/block and since those appear to be about 4 feet long they would likely cost about $100 each so the labor cost to install each block plus profit to the installer eats up $900. Probably a kickback in there somewhere.

Of course with lawyers involved there was probably a round of blowjobs to buy for the team and the final cost of that would depend on which corner they visited for that service.
If one more reactor goes down nuclear isn’t either in your country. Germany has to run their load balancing gas plants right now to fix your nuclear fever dreams.
I don't think Google's problem comes from productivity losses, and I think leadership is to blame exclusively for this.

Google lost focus of what made it great under the CEO that's now demanding better productivity and focus, so I wonder what the problem here is.

Google also has(had?) great employees but somehow great products aren't coming out, the cure isn't more productivity imo but better vision and leadership.
Similar story with images of pits taken by the Lunar Reconaissance Orbiter:

https://www.universetoday.com/156932/lava-tubes-on-the-moon-...
Oil refineries also take years to build and are built on site.

The difference is that oil goes onto open markets and it is thus possible for oil refiners to get a return on their investment.

We don’t need innovation in nuclear. The nuclear technology we have today is already a miracle technology.

Can’t speak to Europe but in the US the issue absolutely is regulation. The exact regulations vary by state, but energy grids are not open markets and the regulations universally disadvantage nuclear and benefit other sources. Safety focused regulations do impose a cost, but the primary issue is that we don’t let nuclear power operators turn a profit.
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I'm glad this kind of comment is floating to the top of these threads now, instead of the straw man arguments more commonly propagated in the past which consisted of blaming "fear". It's always been $money$.

Let's spend the money on the better alternative sources wherever we can. If nothing else, we will see the benefits faster, which is now an even more critical factor than ever as feet have been dragged for decades.
Nuclear projects globally aren’t collapsing because they aren’t “green”. They’ve been collapsing because of the economics despite green subsidies. And where they have succeeded they’re charging customers a lot more money than equivalent solar and wind alternatives have.

This is the problem that needs to be solved. And it’s not clear to me how it gets resolved in a much higher cost of borrowing environment than what we’ve had for a decade.
I'll be honest, the use of 'free' in your comment is vague on the same level of 'open source', ie. do you mean "free (freedom) software" or "free (as in beer) software".
There's some confused or misunderstood stuff in here but I guess it's just somebody doing the equivalent of musing out loud about what they've learned? I noticed:

Those aren't "ASCII code pages". "Code pages" are a way to talk about character encodings, mostly these days used by Microsoft in its Windows operating systems, but historically because IBM's manuals would dedicate a whole page to each such encoding. They aren't "ASCII" code pages, although many of them reserve the first 128 codes for the same things ASCII put there.

"The upper 128 bits from the ASCII table" is presumably a mistake and means the upper 128 code values maybe?

It's called "us-ascii" because that's the name IANA assigned to the ASCII encoding. IANA keeps registries of a lot of stuff... here's the one with character sets in it:
https://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets/character-se...
It seems unlikely that small business owners and homeowners actually rented serious trucks to move these into place themselves (or made them on the spot) , I would expect with a little asking around you could find someone enterprising who picks up chunks of concrete (aka 'urbanite') and tosses them into molds with additional concrete and delivers them for a price.
You do know that you can use k8s on AWS, DO, Azure & your own bare metal right?
If they went to cars, they'd have to spend a lot of time and money moving them around. And a car that will move costs a lot more than a chunk of concrete. And the car has to be registered.

According to the article, the city is set up to tow cars, but not set up to move the concrete blocks. The blocks are actually probably easier to move than the cars, if you set up a system for doing it. A flatbed with a crane could move those blocks out in time comparable to hitching up a car for towing, and carry more than one at a time.

On edit: cars would probably get vandalized, too. I am not saying I support that, but it makes rotating cars even more impractical.
I ghosted the last Google recruiter I talked to because they wouldn't say "full-time remote" and spent a good amount of time qualifying it.
No, because you see that would reduce property values. The line is only supposed to go up. You can't create affordable housing, or allow multifamily housing, or do anything that would stop the people who own homes there from having their property value raise 50k every 6 months.

But you also can't have homeless people around, that would be unsafe. Also they still expect people to live there and do service jobs for them, even though there is no place affordable to live.
> We don’t need innovation in nuclear

The Nuclear industry will need that innovation, in order to remain even remotely competitive with the alternatives. It's not improving faster than those alternatives though.
The article claims "around 80 percent of families with children in the LAUSD live at or below the poverty threshold". Click the source to find the actual quote, "about 80% of Los Angeles Unified students come from families living in poverty". These statements are clearly not interchangeable - a good reminder to take all statistics from pop journalism sites like this with a grain of salt.
> 2. A nuclear reactor cannot be shipped, it has to be build on site.

Does it? This is the premise behind NuScale's modular SMRs. https://www.nuscalepower.com/technology/fabrication-and-asse...
Continuous dependency updates: Improving processes by front-loading pain (2021)
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Oil is the incumbent with vast majorities of the costs already sunk. As a result it’s cheaper (there’s also massive geo political aspects where certain countries entirely depend on selling it so will try to make it work no matter what).

That’s why the best thing that can happen for nuclear is a carbon tax/alternative carbon pricing system, that has sources like oil paying all their costs, including externalities they offload to everyone else.
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No organization can strictly define "open source" except to say which definition they use. A more valid way to approach the issue is to point out that a license is or is not not approved by the OSI, the FSF, or some other person or group. "Open source" has always been and will always be as fuzzy a term as "the Metaverse" and "handsome".
Hopefully this will be a lesson that proprietary licenses subject you to rug pulls with no recourse, which FOSS licenses protect you from. Had Machinery been FOSS, then you could at least still keep using the last version of the engine that they did release, and even fork it to continue development yourself.
The US allows sharing a neutral line between two circuits, which also saves copper
> I 100% support people doing everything in their power to push these people out.

Where do you advocate for them to go?
This makes no sense

Homeless advocates say it is not fair that the city expects vehicle dwellers to obey parking laws..

It does not matter if it's to run errands or improvised RV housing, why should some obey the parking laws and others are allowed not to? The defeats the point of having parking spaces. Parking spaces were never intended to be dwellings. This seems really unfair. It's a difficult problem...everyone says that housing affordability/availability is the answer yet nothing get done.
If overtesting kills people then I'd argue the testing is flawed or the followup procedures are flawed.
Ceasing development is one thing, rug pulling licensees by demanding they delete the framework they've built their projects on is another thing entirely. The hell happened at Our Machinery?

The Machinery was a young engine but it had pedigree as the spiritual successor to Bitsquid, which did ship in a number of commercial games until it was killed by Autodesk after they acquired it. The main developers went on to found Our Machinery.
A Black high school science teacher revolutionized the study of insect behavior
Nice UX! I imagine I'd prefer your app since it gives me a constant feedback loop with the writing process (vs the select to look up native UX). I've downloaded it and will give it a try.

Just fyi, "Donwload" at the bottom is a typo. Figured as a dictionary app, you'd want someone to flag that
If you have a pension fund, target date fund, market index, or many variety of diversified products in an IRA, 401k, or similar retirement account, you almost assuredly have money invested in tobacco.

If you look at history, nicotine has been nearly unstoppable. If one cigarette company stops selling them, they will simply cede market share to another. If all stop selling, it would inevitably create a massive black market - there are specific markets that attempt prohibition, you can see what happened historically.

Instead, isn't it rational to be realistic and aim for harm reduction? If Consumers can receive a satisfactory nicotine experience from a product that is going to be far less harmful, isn't that still a net positive?
It depends on the underlying chipset. A good place to start is by choosing devices with a mainlined chipset.

https://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort

And also, have a look at SBC's supported by Armbian.

https://www.armbian.com/download/
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> You could use the same type of logic to argue that voting is meaningless

Wouldn’t it be more apt to compare it to not voting? If morally principled people opt not to vote then the leader is chosen by those who are not morally principled, and the parent comment argues that if morally principled people opt to divest from tobacco then only the morally unprincipled remain as the shareholders in the industry.
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What are better solutions for low-carbon, dispatchable, high power electrical energy generation?