skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of the bank of modems we hung off our VAX to let employees telnet and do work from home.

It was like maybe 32 28.8 modems. My memory is so vague, and it was just a pile of cables and boxes behind the VAX. I mostly just flipped the power on and off the ones that went totally sideways and tried not to step on things. It was really cable neglect more than management.

After hours, we’d let employees use it as an ISP. It was slow, just 2xISDN from there to our ISP, but it let some employees get internet access that couldn’t afford the bill.

I know at lease one warehouse worker’s kid ended up being a developer after having that mid-90s access. I hope it helped him and maybe others.

Crazy to think, they’re probably around 40 now.
You don't have to "pay insiders", you simply have to purchase an asset on a liquid market. You can pay me and a thousand other people, it doesn't have to be insiders.

The bigger problem with PoS is that there's no ongoing cost. Buy your stake, don't fuck up and you're making money. Not true with mining, and this changes the incentive landscape quite a bit.
He was a member of gens Antonia, his father's name was Marcus Antonius Creticus and his grandfather's Marcus Antonius "Orator". Marcus was a common Roman name. Actually, along with Marc Antony and Augustus, the third member of the second triumvirate was Marcus Aemilius Lepidus.

Edit: it isn't rare that names of historical figures change in different languages (e.g. the English philosopher Francis Bacon in Italian is called "Francesco Bacone")
Is it? I'm glad it's an option, but I'm also glad retiring at 40 is an option (depending on a lot of stars aligning just right of course).

My answer to "how long do I want my career to be?" will never be "until my body or mind fail me".
I would to feel trapped in FANG ie being able to pay my bills :)
It's not just that. How much is simply people transferring away from alternative buses and tube trains? These other services still need to be paid for so if we have the same overall number of passengers but more infrastructure to support, it's even more reason for TfL to go to the Government (or London Assembly) with the begging bowl.

Obviously, it might be amazing that the existing passengers get a faster and more pleasant journey with less changes but it would also have been nice for money to be spent outside of London in the other major cities which could have benefitted much more from much less investment.
I think you'll have to expand a bit on that.

1)Government makes companies liable for hosted third party content

2)Companies set up workflows to detect said content

3)???

4)Blame capitalism
Yeah also think the word/concept fascism doesn’t fit here. While it is obviously oppressive or unjust, it is a company, so what would be a better fit?
From the post:

> Then, as Kimo suggested, I bought the course materials for other required classes and taught myself, doing the homework in my own time. Then I went to the department head and took the final exam, getting full credit for those courses.

As someone who never went to university is this really how it works? You can do all of the learning on your own, pay the tuition fee for the class and take a test without stepping foot in class to get your degree?

That's pretty wild if so. Literally tens of thousands of dollars for a piece of paper when you did everything yourself.
In some cases Google can only be avoided at a potentially life altering personal cost. Consider how many government services use reCAPTCHA, and what it means to have no access or delayed access to these services.
After a while they got greedy and fucked up that scheme, moving stuff that had been in the Professional edition (most importantly, client-server DB connections) into Enterprise, and other stuff (three-tier app development) from Enterprise into a new Architect edition. And then steady substantial price hikes for all editions from version to version. Shot themselves in the foot, AFAICS.
I find this incredibly hard to believe.

Governments have accessibility obligations and so their key services should absolutely be usable with something like Chromium/Linux. And it definitely shouldn't be more onerous than using a smartphone.
Yep, here’s interview with the founder of Stable AI, which includes their intent to release Stable Diffusion and be more open than OpenAI:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ2QtKcK2dA
I noticed the same thing and a few others did too.

Someone one twitter suggested that possibly the algorithm interpreted that as "abbreviated" but not "mis-spelled".

Either way it's intriguing.
Because they can't do breaking changes and must live with legacy baggage.

While zig can work use modern techniques without such issues
I have no doubts a vibrant self hosting culture would spring up the moment chain transaction censorship turns up on the horizon.
What do you do if something goes wrong?

The main point of a train operator is to handle things that automated systems cannot. Things break. Humans need to make decisions fast and be onsite.

When you entire goal is to keep things moving and resolve issues as quickly as possible it rarely makes sense to take the local human out of the loop.
I’d put pretty good money on almost every family having pictures of their naked kids doing some shenanigans. I know I have those pictures. My parents have those pictures of me and my sister. Quite a few, as I seemed to enjoy trying to run about naked…

Bill Waterson somehow managed to sneak watercolor paintings of a naked little boy into every major newspaper under the guise of being a “comic strip”— the perv.
> Combine that with how cheap `std::mutex` is on most platforms and it's just really a last resort, at least on server-class gear.

Mere 10-20M std::mutex operations per second can bring a server to a total halt. CPU interconnects and CPU internal core-to-core buses are quickly saturated by required synchronization traffic.

So I wouldn't call it a particularly cheap operation. In fact, I can't think of many more expensive operations a CPU could perform. I guess just page walks and interrupts might qualify.
Speak with recruiters.

Most of the jobs I've worked for have come via old school phone calls.
I keep telling anyone who will listen that they need to move every aspect of their online identity away from the big tech giants, and make sure that each type of service (email, webpage, memory storage, document storage, backups, contacts, etc) is compartmentalized in such a way that if one gets removed then it wont affect the others in any way.

Imagine having all your memories in the form of images and videos taken away because of sloppy review work at a tech company.
No you see that requires work when most people would rather complain.

It's such a shame because having these services be healthy and popular benefits everyone.
> Asking as someone who last saw Delphi in computer class at school, what would be the modern equivalent?

As the GP said, FP / Lazarus.
I wasn't homeschooled, but I knew homeschooled kids growing up, and they all had friends and active social lives. Homeschooling doesn't have to mean you're locked away never interacting with anybody - in fact my homeschooled acquaintances had lots of friends who themselves were homeschooled, since their parents met through one of the various homeschooling support networks that exists in the UK.

Meanwhile I went to school like everyone else from the ages of 5 to 18 and I still came out at the end with the social intelligence of a potted plant. Sending your kids to school doesn't guarantee they'll turn out normal - if that was true then everybody would be normal.
Why would you assume a crime by default? The presumption of innocence is only a slogan in the US, just like the above mentioned secularity. Look what happened with the guy in this post. You can't even take a photo of your own kid.
What I'd like to know if if they actually deactivate multiple linked accounts when any one of them gets flagged. I have three accounts, one more for personal things, one more professional, and a third one with my current country as a location for getting local apps in the Play Store.

Google knows I am the same person, even though they are different accounts, so are the two other accounts safe when one of the three gets flagged?
If it wasn't clear, people aren't objecting to the use of automated tools to prevent crime. It's that there is absolutely no avenue of appeal or review against it even if the law enforcement exonerates them and a big news media reports it.

Google has inserted itself into almost all spheres of digital life by hook or crook. It's practically difficult to avoid them in many services - especially email. And now they play judge, jury and executioner. I don't understand any of these are acceptable, much less justifiable. The old argument 'think of the kids' used to justify digital authoritarianism is such a cliché by now.
I don't buy this. This would mean that elderly people are also excluded from these services.
Yeah, it is obvious from all of Googles actions they have lost the script. We are a long way from the don’t be “evil mantra” and “let’s do this for humanity!”

I really wish it wasn’t so, but when your company serves the advertiser you aren’t serving humanity. The balance is off and which each passing year it isn’t getting better.
You have to sign up to take the rest, and not all colleges do this. Berklee is a very "vocational" college. I know a few folks that went there.

But I am not one to talk. I have a GED, and a couple of years of "redneck" tech school. All the rest has been OJT and following passion projects.

It's worked well for me, but, boy, oh, boy, do I look up a lot of noses...
This premise was in a Seinfeld episode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Package_(Seinfeld)

> Sheila, a clerk at the photo store, flirts with George when he picks up his photos, commenting on a mustard stain that appears in one. He photographs everything, even Jerry taking a screwdriver to his stereo, as an excuse to see her again. A lingerie model's picture is accidentally mixed in with George's photos; he assumes it is a photo of Sheila she inserted as a come-on. Kramer convinces George to return the compliment with seductive pictures of himself.
Sure if people want to be treated differently go ahead. But observing some women wanting to be treated differently (this step can go wrong!) and then applying that treatment to other women is a whole different thing.
Never ever use your personal Google account for anything you don't want to lose. You haven't seen all the horror stories the past few years?
No, they won't necessarily. I have a few banned accounts and a few working ones. Not saying it never happens - I bet it does. But not always.
Well as a data point I have pictures of my children naked. As another data point my parents have photos of me as a child naked, and as a third data point my grandparents have photos of themselves as children naked. Whereas I don't knowingly know any paedophiles.
Was your goal to be right or to get the patch pushed? Now you're opening up old wounds because.... ?????

Like damn dude, you catch more flies with honey than vinegar. Don't they have a saying like that in Spain?
Having a big CPU (which you need to get many PCIe lanes) and then not using it is waste.

It would be waste to _not_ use the CPU time.

Granted, the CPU powet consumption would drop with enabled power management, but that's only marginal gains as the CPU is likely busy anyway and the total duration of busy time might drop (race to sleep)

I have used this inverted logic to great extends. E.g. when expanding data center capacity I was usually swapping old harware for new hardware once it arrived. It is way better to have the older generations as spares and use the new capacity at the most utilized places.

Do not waste the things you pay for!
For me, the printed version of Wired was a true successor but i'm less sure of its current online form.
At some point this will give other the technologies the impetus to mature and scale. Li Ni has been the focus for battery production for so long, but this is a chance for other options to be added into the mix.
It's literally capitalism. It's the system that Google was allowed to thrive in and become this powerful.
As my previous reply to your comments says, I disagree here. It depends on the nature of the courses. I think some graduate coursework falls into the category you’ve mentioned of “accelerating learning” of stuff that’s very applicable in industry. Sure, a research-oriented course about neural networks isn’t going to help someone write SQL. You could even say that an academic introduction to AI is a waste of time, but a survey of software engineering methodologies and the resources surrounding them (SWEBOK, CMMI 1.3) is going to help a student in industry over someone who hasn’t invested that time (and being guided in an academic setting is only going to help).
TBH my worry in this sort of setup is China cutting you off. Say tensions increase and the CCP throws down a decree that says all Chinese sites must block themselves from being reached by the US/Western Countries.
It's similar and different in the sense I aimed for complete automation. In other words, once you train Atomic and get the settings right, all you have to do is tap and select a range for the scheduler to work on. Plus my goal (future road map) is to replace multiple calendars into a single calendar and a single source of truth. For this to work tagging and semantic search become an important part for availability and privacy.
I wonder what happens if I share the Nevermind album cover?
> It's fairly normal for parents to take pictures of their children naked in the bathtub/at the beach/ camping/etc.

And what I understand is that each of these private photos of their children that parents take on an Android phone with Google cloud enabled gets specifically flagged to be shown to a stranger working for Google.

That sounds pretty insane to me.
> Thats a crazy level of risk assessment for an average user.

It really isn't. Think about it for a second: how hard is it to spot phishing attempts when they are sent to an email address you know for a fact you're not using with a service?

And how vulnerable are you to phishing if your special-purpose email address that you only use for one specific purpose receives zero spam?

To claim that the most basic and easy internet security precautions are at a "crazy level", first you need to somehow believe that no one is targeted by these schemes. But somehow there's a whole international industry that thrives on stuff like Western Union transfers. Why is that?
I can't believe I read this comment literally 10 minutes after installing endless GBs of xetex haha. Thanks for the info!
Users and the market decides on the chain, governance in Ethereum is based on social consensus not “one coin one vote.”
Well it has started, Ethermine is not including tornado cash txns: https://mobile.twitter.com/lrettig/status/156082533102359756...
My dad as a teenager worked in one of these photo places with such a policy. Only, his boss printed all the naked pictures anyway and kept them.
Exactly, so it isn't a security/privacy leak, so there's no harm in leaving it on.
> If you haven't seen the technical difficulties that crossrail has run in to then you haven't been paying attention.

It would be good to avoid these snippy comments. Obviously no one can pay attention to everything - we don't have much additional capacity over family and work commitments, so phrasing things as though people are to blame for not knowing enough about a London construction project is worse than unnecessary.
Have a look at the little plastic bars that connect heater vent louvers on 1994 Toyota 4 runners. You will find that the plastic of the louvers is fine, but the bar that makes them move as a unit if extremely fragile (now). It also is an individually part numbered part with date codes lol. This is how they tell you your car needs replaced without making it unreliable, so you go buy a new Toyota.

Also, the gears inside of refrigerator defrost timers in the 160 refrigerators we bought for an apartment complex. Shockingly, still mechanical. And one of the gears is date coded and has teeth made of a rubbery, disintegrating plastic around a regular nylon wheel. The vast majority of the timers failed in a two years window. At 7-8 years. The cheap replacement timers have no such nonsense and I’ve never seen one fail. Most people just would have replaced the cheap apartment fridge.

This is just some of what I’ve personally seen.

But you are right, I’m just some guy on the internet, I could be just making this up.

And corporations would never make things with life limitations to make more money. Surely. I mean, that would be like a subscription model! Ridiculous!
London Reconnections has some articles on the subject, including how the term has basically become a political football.

https://www.londonreconnections.com/2021/the-political-myth-...
And guessing "si" for every question will let you pass that Spanish exam.
> Magic Links mean that if there is any issue with any of the email servers in the chain (which there often are), my ability to log in to the website may be delayed by 10, 20, maybe even 30 minutes.

This same exact thing happens with a username and password driven site because almost all sites (rightfully) require you to confirm your account after sign up by clicking a link in your email.
Elderly and marginalized people do suffer because of restricted access to online services. People who cannot access the web and its services are at an obvious disadvantage in life, and that sometimes can have severe consequences.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32304320
Really depends on the program. A friend taught CS in the US, Germany and now UK, and (Sanierung to him) the German university has the hardest requirements of the three.

One barrier are also tedious requirements like "do the exercises and attend tutorial lessons if you want to be allowed to take the exam". For a lot of people that's a good idea, but for some it's just a waste of time (tutorials/exercise sheets don't influence the final score at my Alma mater, but larger software projects sometimes did).

Not to say it's impossible here, just harder. I know a few people who were faster than the average student, which means they either took the expected time for their BSc/MSc or a semester less, since the average student took a semester or two more (or didn't finish at all). But people who really broke the speed limit? One, maybe two. Though of course that's biased since I didn't know everyone in the dept. For the one I'm sure of, I vouched that he should be allowed to take the exam without the formal requirements (I was his tutor in that course). He obviously passed, and IIRC he had one of the best exams while doing twice the courses everyone else did. A real genius & also a nice person as well!
It's a good effort, but somewhat naive to its approach. Material libraries like these are readily available in most renderer packages, and from many other places.

Check out the Maxwell renderer and some of their efforts to parametrize materials. They're collecting multiple values across multiple wavelengths, each measured over multiple angles of incidence to fully understand how light interacts with different materials.
It's completely ridiculous that Google's customer support process is basically:

1) AI bot

2) Beg HN/twitter for insider help

3) Lawyers

That's absolutely insane for a product set that has become central to one's life
Infinitymaps.io has network structure and very, very deep zooming abilities
Really depends on the university/program/classes.
You misspelled libertarianism
The cost of this is fraction of a percent of the whole project.
This will be the new soundtrack to my life. Many thanks, Matt
I suspect there there is a lot of politics involved with the transport unions. They are very protective of the driver/security/conductor jobs. If TFL tried to remove the driver completely from a train, even on a new line, the unions will push back.

From memory, one of the issues during the last few strikes was that TFL wanted to remove the conductor from some services, only having the driver who would then be responsible for safety. The unions strongly opposed it.
I'm similar to you, but not as extreme. There is also value to recognizing who you are (someone who is ok with work), and then optimizing your jobs around that fact. This means starting or finding companies (usually small) that could appreciate the work.

Some will say just learn to enjoy other things - that's also great if you can. But, if you have a hard time turning off, just try and make sure you are rewarded for the effort.
A believe a large portion of this is thanks to Tim Berners-Lee, CERN, and the web. That was the free technology that made it immediately apparent how valuable a global internet is.

(Unfortunately, with social networks and chat systems and such opting out of federation and defaulting to closed ecosystems, I think we are moving toward independent corporate-sponsored networks, this time built on top of the global one.)
Sony Mobile is definitely a "modern tech company" and they are Ubuntu first. At the same time a company like Volvo or ABB is these days probably 60% software development and at most 40% mechanical engineering.

I think you are living in a bubble.
One of my favorite books is The Screwtape Letters, by C. S. Lewis[0].

I'm not a Christian, and don't agree with everything, therein, but the book is a great treatise on general decorum and a thoughtful approach to basic morality.

That is exactly how it was written.

I'm pretty sure The Martian, by Andy Weir, was written that way, as well.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Screwtape_Letters
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Yup: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Anders+Hejlsberg
If you're enjoying waiting for a train now, you should've started waiting in 2017 when it was due to open :-)
You’re right! PowerPoint. I stand corrected.
The 80k DKK is the price you pay including tax. So 65k is the price before tax, plus 25% which is 81.25k.

Regarding car prices, many Danes drive cars that cost a bit over DKK 100k, on which the effective sales tax isn’t much higher than 25%.
One thing I can't stand is Spotify not allowing me to turn off / disable singles in the new music feed. I only want to hear an artist's new album.
And this is legal in your place?
Being a bit unkind here – it was "Crossrail" for the whole lifetime of the project—and was likely intended to be the operating name—up until the last moment where it was renamed the "Elizabeth line" in a bit of sycophantic forelock-tugging to the monarch.
> Thoughts themselves used to be public goods, but thanks to aggressive copyright laws and customs, even the most basic implementation of Bush's Memex from 1945 is illegal to use.

I don't believe this is true at all.
That's not hacking or faking it, any more than shipping a couple of products using the some pointers from stackoverflow. If you show you're actually able to stick with a thing and finish it to a sufficient level of quality, that's kind of the point. Developing a deep understanding of esoteric topics can be fun and intellectually satisfying but is usually a tiny part of most careers, even the fun and satisfying ones.
Factory workers usually aren't snagged by headhunters, and many jobs around the world require online application.
Of course this is real problem, but like most things COVID related the public discourse has been 90% culture war, and 10% search for understanding.
Unofficial timeline from 20 mins ago (from a construction worker outside Bond St) is that Bond st will be open in 3 months.