skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Current graduates are simply asking for their compensation to reflect the cost of living in the United States.

If the entire GDP of the USA, after taxes, were simply taken (about $15 trillion) and equally distributed among the ~210 million working age adults of the United States, each would receive about $70,000 a year.

If the 70 million university graduates were each paid a handsome and deserved $150,000 (hey, that $100k's only the start, right?!) that would be about 10 trillion for them, and the remaining 140 million Americans would collectively get about 5 trillion, or an average of about $35,000 each.

America is not actually infinitely wealthy, and a fair and just society requires some hard thought about how ultimately limited wealth gets distributed.
PostgresML launches free/hosted SQL tutorials for Machine Learning
Yes, hence the rest of that comment. Those 6 words were just giving yet another example for the general case, which they would need to have a process for handling.
They're great for conferences and events. I don't try to do anything crazy or whimsical either. Utility over novelty.
The program does more than just knock 10k off their debts. It changes how interest and minimum repayments work, in a way that will, for many people, drastically reduce their monthly payments.

That's definitely enough to affect consumer behavior.
It feels a bit like celebrating reducing pressure on the gas pedal in a car, one that is currently approaching a wall. You need to 1) stop accelerating 2) deccelerate and 3) have enough distance to come to a stop. Regarding climate change, i neither see 2 or 3, so the collision is as inevitable as it was before. And what this article describes isn't even doing half of 1.
Good article, a step change in energy production ushered in the industrial revolution. The next step change on the horizon would be nuclear fusion. I wonder if/when that is achieved we'll look back at today like how this article looks back at the Romans.
Aren't the countries that would care about the legalities and patents the same countries that would be sanctioning them? I don't know who will adopt risc-v for high performance. Nvidia maybe? Intel-lattice-altera-intelgpu. Amd-ati-xilinx. Nvidia wanted to be nvidia-arm but as that didn't work, maybe risc-v? No big fpga players for them to pick up though.
The proverbial hits the proverbial
The government has more then enough money for essential services. That it wastes it elsewhere is it’s own problem.

Any new money will get spent on something flashy that will buy votes.
How to Succeed as a CTO, Part 1
Hey very cool blog post. Have you guys looked at adding client SDKs for your API? Also wondering if the go-swagger generated openAPI specs have any gaps or if it is sufficiently complete in your eyes.
If that's a great concept, they should extend that to the rest of government services.
> Most places I've worked for had a 3-6 month probationary period

This would be incredible, but I'm on the hardware side of things, so maybe the context is a bit different. No company I've worked for did this, with two startups, and two being in the top 5 (at the time). All hardware centric.

I brought this up with my org and was told that it just acts as a filter, since top talent is already well employed, doesn't want the risk, and would never consider a relocation without permanence. Being hardware, physical presence is required, so relocation is necessary more often than it's not. I can agree with this since it matches my own experience. I didn't considered temporary positions any time I was looking, for the same reasons.
Yes. ScyllaDB also has LWTs based on Paxos. More here: https://www.scylladb.com/2020/07/15/getting-the-most-out-of-...

[Disclosure: I work for ScyllaDB]
I agree that we need to eliminate fossil fuels.

I also didn't state that eliminating animal agriculture was the singular solution to climate change.

All I was pointing out was that it doesn't seem correct to say that cattle do not contribute to climate change, as you seemed to be saying.
> Germany is well able to produce enough energy to sustain its needs

> But of course, gas is scarce, as Russia is only supplying a fraction of its normal supply

So what energy can Germany actually produce on it's own? Because this just makes it sound like Russia is doing the actual work here.
No, it means people are forced to work multiple jobs because no basic social mechanisms, and when you are poor you can be jailed (and then exploited as a slave, slavery still pays billions per year in US) for nothing (https://twitter.com/dylanogline/status/1550121929939398656 for just one example). Not to mention many mechanisms, like student debts, seem designed to force people into military (https://twitter.com/repjimbanks/status/1562820837140742144).
I used to have the opposite problem. supposed to carry around your cards everywhere? instant notecards. bored in a meeting? make a little maquette.
I'm curious where the line might be then, at what point would it be problematic for the CEO to prevent this particular issue surfacing? Or is the onus on the board to ask for specific feedback?
Which version of iOS are you on?
Yes, that resolution has occurred in favor of the CCP. ARM Ltd folded. The person who controls the corporate seals is a CCP apparatchik.
I absolutely ADORE Espanso - I use it for stupid stuff, but for note taking and formatting dates I love it.
I just have simple expansions `:gp` does `git pull` `:dcd` does `docker-compose down` and for common tasks, you can do alot!
> More pages cost more money and the subscription fees only go so far

arxiv.org's budget is instructive: around $2M for 181K new submissions and a digital library of around 2M articles. Works out to about $12 per new submission.

For a reviewed journal or conference, presumably all published papers would have to be reviewed, much as they are currently by volunteer reviewers who review all papers before publication or rejection. If Prof. Lee is right then reviewing effort could go down overall due to fewer resubmissions.
Facebook, Twitter dismantle a U.S. influence campaign about Ukraine
"The covert influence operation used accounts on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and other social media giants to promote narratives supporting the interests of the United States and its allies while opposing countries including Russia, China and Iran, according to the report."
I'm happy to - SF is trying to lower the local voting age to 16, so being able to do a bit of research shouldn't be too much to ask for an 18 year old.
And for non-systemd systems like postmarketOS, there's waked that writes directly to the RTC dev node directly for the same effect. pmos also patches gnome-clocks to use waked.
“What we are currently living through is a kind of major tipping point or a great upheaval … we are living the end of what could have seemed an era of abundance … the end of the abundance of products of technologies that seemed always available … the end of the abundance of land and materials including water,” he said.

As an outsider, I think it's refreshing to see an elected official admit this openly.
I know a lot of people who go a Masters because they didn't want to get a job, then never worked in their field.
Upvoted for thinking outside the box. Europe to US by sea.. Doesn't it take like a month?

Edit: They can go by transatlantic cruise or a cargo ship, which takes about two weeks.
Note that they didn't prove that these millions of molecules are good replacements for DNA/RNA in an alien life form. They just enumerate all the possible variants that are similar enough to be the building blocks of DNA/RNA.

Proving that they are good replacements would involve proving they are stable, good to copy, good to repair, and a few other operations that use specialized proteins, and guessing which are the best proteins for the new molecules is impossible with the current technology.

The result is useful because they can feed the list to other software simulation that may discover useful properties on Earth:

1) Alternatives for the first DNA/RNA molecule when life begun. For example they "rediscovered" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycol_nucleic_acid

2) Alternatives that confuses bacteria or virus but not humans, and can be used as medicine, for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aciclovir (I'm not sure if they "rediscovered" it.)

But I guess those applications are interesting only to specialists.
> It's not the discussion that makes you a crank. It's publishing a paper claiming you have solved something that you haven't even begun to understand. It's bypassing peer review. It's ignoring all the literature out there and claiming that is somehow a virtue.

You've effectively said that people can't post things on ArXiV unless they're up to your unstated standards; otherwise, they're just "cranks".

Also, no one is "bypassing peer review" by posting on ArXiV and/or YouTube, nor have I seen anyone claim "a virtue" of any sort. Where are you getting all this? From the abstracts?

> It just wastes everyone's time. For example, this paper. It would take a lot of time to sit down and work through the math until I find a specific error in it. But the barren abstract and reference sections strongly suggest that would be a huge waste of my time and energy.

Well, since you've now admitted that you haven't read his work, it seems like everything you said earlier really must be coming from the abstracts alone.

> It just wastes everyone's time. For example, this paper. It would take a lot of time to sit down and work through the math until I find a specific error in it. But the barren abstract and reference sections strongly suggest that would be a huge waste of my time and energy.

Who's time is wasted? The random people who volunteer to read his ArXiV submissions and/or YouTube videos? Really, the only waste of time I've seen is your ad hominem comment in a HN post that isn't even about the author you're blatantly criticizing.

> Mochizuki pulled this stunt with the ABC conjecture. Wasted YEARS of mathematicians' time just to arrive at the conclusion it was all elaborate mathematical smoke and mirrors. The guy is an egotistical asshole with a messiah complex, and managed to burn a lot of PhD students by chasing his red herring. Not cool.

And that's why we must all attack Mochizuki whenever we see his name, right? Do you know Nick? Is he egotistical? Does he have a messiah complex? Are you just going on a tangent now? Are you just math trolling?
Indeed. I recently heard that many conservative podcasts - businesses that would have benefitted from the lockdowns - took PPP loans. Railing against student loan forgiveness is just "fuck you, got mine".
I'm in a similar (but different) position. I'll give you the advice my current boss gave me: keep your day job while you learn the skills needed to find another. Then keep your day job while you apply to jobs that are more aligned with your desired fulfillment. Once you are offered one of those jobs, quit your day job and transfer to the other.

In your case, where you want to start your own company, those are some grand ambitions. Be ready for disappointment, as that's not a path that works out for most people. But my boss's advice still applies to you: keep your day job and push through it while you work on building the infrastructure for your own company. Only once your company becomes profitable enough to pay the bills should you quit your day job. Because unfortunately, we live in a society that threatens everyone with homelessness, starvation, and death if the things that fulfill them are not producing something other people want enough of.
Was Simon Stalenhag actually involved?
I’ve worked in government for over 20 years and have never encountered anyone getting mad because someone worked too hard. I’ve heard people say what you are saying but have never had it backed up with stronger evidence than you have provided. It’s simply not believable and comes across as an urban legend to me.
That experience is frustrating for sure, but for what it's worth, they basically sell these at cost with very little mark up.

It's a store for hackers; it's not meant to be a consumer shop. I think they even warn you to not buy if you expect returns or customer service.
You want to have lots of software for your computer. Like Linux, Chromium, compilers, JIT, etc. It reduces the number of options.
Cancelling debt is a jubilee, which is necessary when the debt load becomes so onerous that it nukes the productivity of your economy.

It isn't printing money, nor is it essentially printing money. Money just sits there. Debt grows exponentially. It is extinguishing debt, in order to allow young people to make financial progress, which will incentivize them to actually work, which will produce actual wealth that we can all enjoy, since, as Marx and Smith both correctly said: labor is the source of value.

Steven Keen was right all along and professional economists should be sent to agrarian communes to work and think about things.
The coming decades will be very interesting. We're either going to have a step change up or step change down in energy production. I hope and am optimistic nuclear (fusion or fission), solar, and wind result in a step up. Otherwise the step down will be devastating.
My US wife’s passport and my UK one are a pretty similar colour. I actually miss the burgundy of the old UK one.
I'm not using that kind of stuff. Mine is mostly about video with a little sorta-backup for files that don't matter a ton, but I'd still rather not lose.
I doubt they can manage that while they border the US.

The US has interests in maintaining the status quo to keep the cheap labour flowing, gun exports, and drugs to maintain the social hierarchy.

If mexico managed to get rid a of a cartel member, the CIA would start working on making a new one
The FTC is using its regulatory authority here in the US to curb this as well, see this article from June of last year: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/06/02/automatic...

I'm not sure of the status of any current rulemaking, though. The current chair of the FTC has made it clear she is willing to take on "dark pattern" practices such as this.
Acquired Taste
We actually address it in the post - https://metalbear.co/blog/hooking-go-from-rust-hitchhikers-g...

> "Goroutine stack is dynamic, i.e. it is constantly expanding/shrinking depending on the current needs. This means any common code that runs in system stack assumes it can grow as it wishes (until it exceeds max stack size) while actually, it can’t unless using Go APIs for expanding. Our Rust code isn’t aware of it, so it uses parts of the stack that aren’t actually usable and causes stack overflow."

tl;dr - yes, you're correct and we replace Go stack with system stack for the duration of the call, just like cgo does.
I did this, and then after a while new clients started telling me they would pay me more than the rate I quoted them. That was an interesting flip.
+1 for blank back and QR code. I meet a bunch of folks for a hobby and this has served me well.
From what I understand the UK is pursuing a similar approach from Thatcher era onwards, they only seem to be slow with it.
I think the discrepancy between expectation and reality isn’t too interesting, but what is interesting is that this expectation wasnt there in 2019, so it’s a phenomenon new to the pandemic economy.
>But, I highly doubt the accuracy of many models and predictions at this point

Why?
For the US Army, you can read through ADRP 5-0 which outlines the Operations Process.
I liked it.

It is cherry picked but I think that doesn't affect the value of the book.

Essentially the point of the book is: "it used to be uncontested that all human societies in the past functioned in a particular way and moved through certain phases of evolution but we show that in at least some cases, that was not the case". Since he's only trying to attack the absolute statement that all societies fit a certain pattern, finding even one counter-example (i.e. cherry picking) to a general rule still serves his purpose since he's digging for existence proofs and not establishing a new absolute of his own.

His political purpose (and he's completely open about this) is to show that human societies have already existed that followed all kinds of patterns and that therefore certain things that we consider inevitable and almost like laws of physics about human societies are choices and could be made in a different way.
Won't happen until US ends prohibition.
Robot dog learns to walk on tough terrain in just 20 minutes
Things have changed a lot.
My half sister got kidnapped constantly by parents.

My mom had custody but her bio dad and his wife kept kidnapping her and taking her across state lines.

At one point the dad was at the airport with a shotgun waiting for them. Police had to sneak my parents onto a plane.

Eventually my mom just walked with for several years at school never letting her out of her sight. That stopped at least one attempt, maybe more.
The term you are looking for is “sign code”, and you can find info regarding the SF laws around this here: https://sfplanning.org/general-advertising-sign-program

I don’t know if you’ll have any impact at all though regarding your situation. You’re in a big city where this kind of stuff is part of life. Your best option is probably to move.
Delivered, accepted, sent for printing, and posted by courier from the UK, all with text messages to keep me informed of progress.
I have an idea. We make it clear that students can sue educators who do not inform them about the stupidity of taking on too much debt at a young age, and make "An Introduction to College, Adult Life, and Debt" a mandatory semester in all High Schools.
That's something I really should try to measure. I would guess that it lasts a bit longer than two hours; definitely way longer than my PinePhone Pro. Battery life totally could be better (one coukld also see it as a feature to not mindlessly be on the phone all day), like OP I really hope for a battery case that's not as bulky as the keyboard case.
I'm sure a judge (and the principal) will say the "Hi" example you give violates the "no other information" requirement.

You will need "a representation of the United States flag centered under the national motto."

The same judge/principal will likely interpret "the national motto" to mean there is only one instance of the motto, and thereby reject repeated copies of the motto.
Pretty sure the article said there are better options for grid storage.

I doubt this would be a good candidate for vehicles due to the minimum operating temperature. Certainly vehicle design would have to change to accommodate the different pattern configuration with all the required insulation.

Houses make the most sense, but not for more than emergency power given the battery life is hundreds of cycles and not thousands. Come to think of it, the need to keep it at the minimum operating temperature makes it a poor choice for emergency power too.
I don't see any reason to believe that industrial revolution wouldn't have been developed independently in multiple places if the movement of culture and ideas around the globe was as slow (or absent) as it was between all the places that independently developed agriculture.
I think you're thinking too hard about it. It's just a list of R&D projects that might be interesting to some people.

Or maybe they just updated the site in the last hour. It's got a list of team members and events and stuff.
I think a better way to put it is your client has a budget. If you fit within that budget it's OK, being the most expensive option is a good thing, gives the impression of quality, as long as it fits in the budget they have. It's price is right rules.
If you have an hourglass that allows sand to flow through it out into a sandbox at a rate of 1kg per day, yet you actively shovel 2kg per day of sand into it, you are going to be accumulating 1kg of sand per day in your hourglass.

Regardless of the fact that the sand will eventually all flow back out into the sandbox over a long enough timeline.
Finnish as a world language?
I knew this was going to be Explosions & Fire before I clicked. This guy is completely insane and I love it.
My impression is that ditching the hourly billing is for people who have already honned their skills and market and are confident in their habilities.
Billions of dollars in military aid given to a foreign country where Biden had shady interests.

Response: I stand with Ukraine <3.

Billions spent in failed foreign wars, which created seas of generational enemies.

Response: I support our troops <3.

A little bone thrown to debt slaves.

Response: This is outrageous! We will never recover from this recklessness spending!

This is a joke country.
> Considering that draws at the grandmaster level are occurring 70 − 75% of the time nowadays,

Does this mean we've basically solved chess at this point?
methane was 0.6ppb and is 1.9ppm? did we really increase its concentration 3000 times?
There are busses in the US ? Been here almost 20 years and car, car, car as far as the eye can see…
Steel is just iron mixed with a minuscule amount of other stuff. Which is a pretty amazing fact imo
Project Onboarding for New Engineers
$90 per hour remotely for a US company. As a Django developer from the UK this rate is really good for me, plus it is outside IR35. I doubt I'd be able to get this at a UK company.
What makes a good job good?
What? Are you saying that me literally sleeping until an impossible thing happens is too high a bar? I should say so!

I probably meant it figuratively, huh? What I am saying after having keynoted at a Microsoft formal methods conference (as a critic) and after playing with TLS+ (which was educational) is that formal verification will make little impact on commercial systems because such systems are obliged to be built with inherently buggy components.

I am happy to acknowledge that progress is happening, yet the ultimate source of trouble is human ambition and impatience. How do you solve that?
If the issue is that they need a warrant to enter someone's house, perhaps they should simply get one. I'm not a lawyer but it seems to me that find my iPhone reporting that someone's phone was in someone else's house would constitute probable cause.
Swath Grazing
So, to me, this provides the beginnings of an answer to "how else could the industrial revolution have happened?"

Choose a place that has slowly ramping up energy consumption so that they start supplanting it with coal until there's a threshold of it being profitable to mine coal in deeper wells.

What I still don't understand is why it took so long. Is it the critical mass of population and urban vs. rural population? Could it have happend in Asia, the Middle East or other parts of Europe? How long would we have had to wait if it hadn't happened in Great Britain?
Great blog post :) How would i sign up as a user - are you considering having a dev portal?
What's the difference between desktop and embedded? I reverse-engineered some medical device. It houses tiny CPU and 3" touch screen. Inside it runs Linux with X Window, Chromium, Electron and software written with JS. It's definitely embedded device, it's tiny, works from accumulator, hand-held. But its software stack is not any different from desktop.
Or maybe do? Maybe they were right that, from a societal rather than individual point of view, their industrial revolution was a disadvantage, at least at that stage.
> In 2019, the college students surveyed by Clever expected to make $57,964 — about $10,000 more than the average starting salary at the time, which was $47,000. Just three years later, college students are expecting to make nearly $46,000 more.

Looks like a bad survey.. I don’t think I’ve ever met somebody in a non-tech or non-professional major who expects to make 100k+ at graduation