skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not about the length. It might be a perfect day for them, it's not the point. It's about the fact that you have to use 100 ksec instead of a "day". "Each day" is not the same thing as "each 100 ksecs", since the latter has much more implicit precision. So, practically speaking, your either have a concept of 1-day cycle (because of sleep, sun, or whatever — doesn't matter why they need it and how long must it be for their purposes), or you are stuck with thinking in Unix-time. And if it isn't bad enough for you to fill your calendar in unix-time without "days" or "months" (I can actually believe you might get used to it, somewhat) it makes organisation-level planning and communication hell, if not impossible.

Heck, let's even assume their comfortable "day" cycle is 1ks (after all, they had to chose the length of their second based on something". It still means that their next comfortable MUST be EXACTLY 1 Ms (in their numeric system) to be able to use it as a cycle. If it's off even by 0.1 s, it still will get unusable for thinking and planning sooner or later.

So, yeah, long story short: just think about having all your schedules (like work shifts, payday, train schedules, everything) in Unix-time. I guess this is enough of a clue to arrive by yourself to the conclusion, that calendars (any calendar, that is — not necessarily Gregorian one) are not some "silly tradition of ours", but a really, really useful invention, which is almost for sure a necessity for any civilization, even if it isn't bound to an earth with yearly weather-cycles.

The only way this could work out is if ALL their cycles happen to fit PERFECTLY to orders (degrees) of some number — then they could choose the length of 1 second and their numeric system base accordingly, and I can imagine it being somewhat usable without introducing explicit cycles. But to happen it must be one Math-Wonderland of a Universe they live in. I don't even dare to say it's "implausible". It's... ridiculous.
Everything is an expense no matter what. Even if you were to have prison time or capital punishment, that is just an expense to someone else. E.g. How much for a fall guy
One unanswered question that I have around resumes is how to represent work done as a contractor or consultant for another company. I've seen everything from making it look like you were employed by the customer directly (obviously bad) to intentionally vague descriptions of the company such as "fortune 500 defense contractor" and every variation in between.

My favorite was a candidate that described consulting with "large internet search engine company based in Mountain View, CA".

Even when I worked at a consulting firm, there were huge variances in how folks would represent themselves on both internal and external resumes.
And the same if you’re in academia, we have lists of papers and conferences we need to fit in
You have a every specific, and not very accurate set of assumptions about what a ‘remember me’ checkbox does (hint, it’s not always session extension - it’s often just remembering your login ID).

Also, you are regularly asked to authenticate to google services, and presented with the screen shown. To pretend otherwise is just weird.

You can complain about the default session length, but that’s a much more specific and different rant from the one in TFA.

Also, do you really think the 99.8% of regular gmail and YouTube users want to log in to google every time they close their browser windows?
What I want to know is how I read all these posts about starting VMs in <3 ms and I'm still waiting 15 minutes for VMs?

… could be I'm stuck in Azure, but I feel like I get comparable times in GCP, too.
Dystopian for you yet billions of people have access to computing and it works intuitively for them
Current RTX hardware is rather lame to only get to 1spp isn’t it?

It’s not even clear that it’s the right approach.

A graphics engineer I know has this to say about it. “Telling me you made hardware accelerated BVH is like telling me you implemented hardware accelerated bubble sort.”
I just started implementing Zoho’s SalesIQ which is very competitively priced compared to other commercial alternatives.
You could install Linux on the USB drive, and then tell your laptop to boot from it instead of your laptop's hard drive when you want to use Linux.
The regex affected the hardvard. The effect was emending.
I admit I haven't so much as glanced through their rant/essay, not the least because I don't value anything Mozilla has to say anymore.

Assuming Mozilla is talking about operating systems and how they mandate or encourage their own in-house offerings in lieu of third-party offerings, I'd say Mozilla is being a hypocrite.

Firefox usurped IE6 at a time when all odds were against them, and Chrome today continues to overcome all such factors at play (only Android has Chrome as the default browser). Mozilla's very own history demonstrates that operating system lock-ins do not prevent an eventual change in the browser market leader.

So yes, I would say their history of misguidance undermines their own arguments. Mozilla has an inferior product, which once was a superior product, and they are now groveling with pedantics because they can't once again ship a superior product (specifically, superior to Chrome) to reobtain market share.

Whatever Mozilla wants to say or is saying here, they are the words of a loser who does not understand why he is losing, made even worse because the loser was once before a winner heralded as the saviour of worlds.
Using Tailscale for Authentication
UML seems useful IMO. Personally I don't use it because I don't want to get it wrong - miscommunication is often more harmful than insufficient communication. It's probably something that should be taught in college, but I didn't do CS and nobody in the industry does it, so I never picked it up.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-01/crypto-co...

people work in banks and sometimes people make mistakes.
It may not describe the entire universe, but it's a useful approximation for short distances. Like pretending the earth is flat.
Due to a weakening of the polar weather system, there's a higher than usual chance of colder 'outbreaks' towards the US and Europe this winter.
I don't necessarily want to see bans on it, I just want existing insider trading laws to be enforced and those with strike rates 7x higher than Warren Buffett to be investigated.
How to Approach Technical Interviews
Reminds me a little of the loss of signal from Cassini as it burned up in Saturn's atmosphere as the final step in the Grand Finale
https://youtu.be/B2XQLHDtkqw?t=3108
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/cassini/mission/grand-...
Whats stopping them just selling the excess chips to hyperscalers? They already force them to buy "Datacenter" chips (pure price discrimination). Why not cut them a license to sell the gaming chips in a cloud environment.

There is obviously shortages of GPU's for AI training on all public clouds, and the price (due to the above price discrimination) is very high.
Why bother with the dependency hell of JavaScript and Node.js if you’re not forced to go the SPA route? Heck, even Deno would have been a more compelling platform.

If all this is is composing plain ol’ HTML, which are just strings, any language will do. We have file based routing in Go in less than 10 lines of code connecting filesystem calls to Go’s template package. We have live reload with Air, too, and the builds times are under a second. Another nice thing with go is Filesystem embedding, so we build the HTML strings straight into the binary and deploy the binary as is.
> Fab expenses haven't raised that much,

mega wrong, 5nm is 10x the product R&D cost and probably something close to 20x the wafer cost of 28nm when that was current.

https://semiengineering.com/big-trouble-at-3nm/

https://www.techpowerup.com/272267/alleged-prices-of-tsmc-si...

the estimate I've seen is that AD102 is 2.2x the cost of GA102, I personally think that might be an undercount. Samsung 8nm was cheap as fuck, NVIDIA is using a customized TSMC N5P with optical shrink, but ironically maybe yields might go up? there were always rumors about samsung 8nm sucking ass

anyway it only gets worse, 5nm design costs were $542b and comparable 3nm design costs are projected at $1.5b, for a "complex NVIDIA GPU" (a Hopper successor I guess). Node costs are probably gonna roughly double again.

6nm is gonna be very popular because it's the only node that isn't zooming upwards in cost faster than the benefits can be justified to the consumer.
Dual booting works fine, just don't mess with the Windows partition if you're anxious. Better yet, just find an old computer. It doesn't need to be good, a 10 year old laptop with 2 or 4gb of RAM will do fine.

If you have always-available internet, you can find a free server online. Just get an account on Python anywhere (for example) and you'll have access to a Linux console. Or install a terminal emulator in your phone, which is already running some unix variant underneath the GUI.
That explains the history but not the present. People aren't afraid to get rid of something stupid (see OSHA, anti-seatbelt lobbyists, chamber pots).
Maybe it's just all in my head, though.

What you said makes perfect sense to me.
Apologies, I must've gotten some wrong info because I thought the DF-17 carried only nuclear payloads until I checked it's wiki just now.
>I don't want to dual boot because it's not recommended that much.

Who doesn't recommend it? It's absolutely viable and easy to do[0].

Another option might be WSL[1] which lots of people like. I don't use it myself, but apparently it works pretty well.

Another option would be to install Cygwin[2][3], which will provide you with most of the unix/linux toolset. The advantage here is that you don't need to install Linux at all.

all of the above have the ability to install servers (nginx/apache/postgres/etc.), use linux dev tools (clang/gcc/gdb/php/Node/React/etc.), run unix/linux shells and utilities/GUIs and provide you with a linux or linux-like environment from which to learn.

[0] https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-dual-boot-any-linux...

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install

[2] https://www.cygwin.com/

[3] https://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ov-ex-win.html

Edit: Replaced incorrect link for WSL.
I found this fascinating! Unitarity does seem to suggest that the future somehow equals the past, which does seem to leave a bit of explaining to do (why would time exist/happen at all?) I also like the way that the new 'isometry' method resolves this by extending into a new dimension. It reminds me of the idea of the self-organisation of space (from previously dimensionless information) proposed by process-physics back in the 90s.
That's HIP, and you're putting your faith in ongoing support, but, it's cool that those libraries got ported. I bet my old thesis would probably HIPify pretty well.
Good for you for finding a truly sexism free university.

However I _do_ have experience in CS departments, as both a student and as a tutor/TA, and I have had multiple women in classes I TA'd complain to me about how some of the men in the classes are behaving.

The other thing to realize that those women who complained were not alone in the labs or classes - there were plenty of other people in those classes and no one intervened. So either people in those classes and labs did not noticed the harassment as it occurred, or they did see it and chose to do nothing. I'm sure that there was plenty of creeper nerd obsession that was occurring while I was present and didn't notice - I certainly didn't notice in the case of the people who explicitly told me they weren't feeling comfortable in classes I TA'd until they told me and I deliberately paid attention to behaviour of the people involved.

I want to be really clear here: If you are not the victim of many of these behaviors you are unlikely to notice it, because what to you might be an occasional weird comment for the victim is often continuous, because by definition they are there for all of the behaviour that they're subjected to.

For people who do do the obsessive nerd crush: ask them out, or move on. If they so no, then move on. They subject[s] of any obsessive "nice" behaviour aren't going to generally say explicitly "stop it" as the rest of their life experience tells them that doing so can be directly harmful - my back up here from plenty of friends of mine they have experienced negative consequences from saying "no", I'm a white dude so haven't had to deal with anything similar so can't provide first person pov here - everything I have is second hand or me seeing/hearing people making sexist (and racist) comments about other students in my department.
nice but it runs android, the worst garbage OS in the world. someone needs to find a way to create a linux phone capable of running android apps but without having to have a google account and dealing with this bullshit company.
Either way I appreciate the corrections from both of you!
They should do 2 things going forward:

1. Ramp up anti cheat across the board. Stream delay, collect metrics which trigger an INTERNAL review at a certain threshold, etc.

2. Give players a process for lodging a suspicion of cheating. Part of this would be working with FIDE, not starting public drama. Fine them if they break the rules of that process.
> It's not like he has a history of temper tantrums or petulant behavior

Is this a joke? He literally does have a history of being a sore loser.
Which ones do you mean? That is the first time I've had someone express a positive sentiment regarding the state of GUIs in Rust.

I would say that I've tried most of them and they are all varying levels of aweful right now.
Chess is not a game where there is always one right move, but where positions are threatened/protected to a greater/lesser degree, and the _value_ of those threats/protection can only be realized much further along in the game.

The best players in the world, these 2700+ rated players have:

1. Played many many positions many times over and have incredible recall of those general positions.

2. Know how to analyze a position/state of the game at any given moment and have a better "feel" for who is advantaged and/or where the greatest strengths/weaknesses of black/white are located.

However, none of them have the power of chess engines, which analyze singular moves (or poll a db) for the hundreds/thousands of possible outcomes 1, 2, 3, ..., n moves ahead (this is why the best engines are strictly better than humans at this point), so unless a player has both played and committed to memory the exact line being played in a game, the best they tend to get to is "having a feeling" about the state of the game (please forgive my oversimplification here, chess fans)

Now if a 2600 rated player - someone who's still easily in the top 1% of chess players and incredibly capable player of the game - were to be playing a game against a 2800 rated opponent, but had a computer tell them "Hey, this one move is critical" without being told the exact move, they would almost _certainly_ become heavily favored to win. That "feeling" about a position is now irrelevant. There are only a few pieces that will be likely moved on any given turn, and now you can narrow down your own analysis to what is different about moving any one of them in particular because you've been given advanced warning that the most-likely-to-be-played moves will result in wildly different consequences n moves later.

These are hours-long games. Taking 15-20 minutes on a turn is not unheard of, and doing so on a turn that is proven-critical can make all the difference.
Wow, what OS are you booting?

I used to run a “bare metal servers as a service” product, and we could provision most images to a bare metal server in under 5 minutes.

If I had a VM take more than 60 seconds to come up today I’d suspect something was wrong.
Bobby Fischer was one of the greatest players in history, and he was EXTREMELY paranoid.
> If it's not hard to name a thing that Firecracker makes difficult for a serverside workload, could you... name one?

I already did that with live migration. But ok.

Encrypted storage: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/issues/65...: WONTFIX

The answer given is appropriate for firecracker use cases but insufficient otherwise. I'm not anti-firecracker; it's the right choice for many things. Just not all things.

The sort of VM I want orchestrated has encrypted (by contract) multi-pathed network block devices to encrypted storage volumes. 3-10 per tenant. This is trivial for a full-featured kernel; multi-path just works, encryption just works.

VLAN: https://github.com/weaveworks/ignite/issues/810: Open. Maybe one day.

Again, trivial for a full-featured Linux kernel. Has been for ages.

I think you're missing the point. It's not about what hypothetical thing firecracker can or can't do. It's about elevating VM orchestration to some degree of parity with what has been created for container orchestration. These VMs and their complex storage and networking requirements should be modeled as we model containers now; through an orchestration system that makes management easy and as foolproof as possible. The fact that firecracker isn't sufficient to be the Micro-VM of choice for this isn't relevant.
Air/Qi Connections: Notes from the History of Science and Medicine [video]
Maybe I got it wrong, but the eSIM seems to be enabling a corporate VPN of sorts here.
Yeah, but maybe in the future FB really will be offering "anti corruption drive" tooling to governments...haha!
The first time I saw the running guy boss in Area 4 of Rez -- one of the most intense boss encounters of all time -- I thought of Bravoo Man. Gunstar Heroes, and Treasure in general, was incredibly influential.

And yes, Genesis > SNES. The 68000 heart on fire.
Will be happy to have you on-board Let us know if you need any help with Chatwoot setup.
If the CTO isn't technical, how do they know what to delegate? Who to delegate to? How do they determine who to listen to?
There is almost nowhere on Earth that you could hope to raise cattle on 0.5 acres per cow long-term.

For instance, the Texas Land Association gives guidance of 50-75 acres per cow for natural wooded pastures. If you develop a "managed pasture" (ie, you're driving tractors over it to spray fertilizer, have irrigation, etc) you could get that down to 2-6 acres per cow. Source: https://landassociation.org/how-many-cows-per-acre-in-texas-...
My favorite part was the retro posters. Actually really well done. I could picture Sergey sitting there in a 1950s magazine advert for his new thing.
>Would it be natural for a reasonable person to assume that theft is the most likely explanation?

Based off of their previous behavior of stealing cars? Yes it would absolutely be the most likely explanation. Under such a circumstance, it would simply mean that their skill at stealing cars has improved to now include forging documents, and possibly bribing police.

Given their passed behavior, the objective is no longer for you to prove guilt, but for them to prove innocence. It is illogical to continually approach accusations of theft, or cheating, under a neutral assumption when a pattern emerges.

If you own ten chickens and come out one morning to nine, and a pile of feathers next to a fox, you have your culprit. Should you wander around demanding to see feathers each time another chicken goes missing before you blame the fox sleeping at your doorstep? The fox is there. There are fewer chickens. The easiest answer is the most likely.

There is enough certainty for the alternative to be inconsequential.
Realize Magnus JUST literally lost rating pints to somebody who chesscom has alleged to have cheated on their website recently. I think he’s furious.
My UK rail experience is about 15 years out of date, and mostly focused on commuter trains (with some London<->Manchester travel). I rapidly discovered that timetables were artful fictions, but that if there were supposed to be 4 trains per hour on a certain run, there typically would be 4 trains...just not the ones in the timetable.

I craved a job in the Excuses Department of South-West Trains, who were responsible for announcements such as “The 19:41 train to London Waterloo will now arrive at 20:23, because of a crew member joining the train late in Portsmouth.” The creativity of these announcements was amazing.

That said, I relied on the train service while I was in the UK. I can only think of one time that it ground to a halt, during a snowstorm that paralyzed the country.
15 years in tech is a good time to start rounding down your age.
The problem is that in order for work to be useful to secure a blockchain, the work needs to have special properties. Specifically...

- It must be difficult to compute. It should be possible to get exponential increases in difficulty out of problem size increases.

- It must be easy to verify. It needs to be verifiable solely through data that can be copied on-chain, with no reference to external sources[0], and an easily-understood computer program needs to exist to verify that data.

- There must be no ambiguity in interpretation or valuing of the work. Every node should be able to look at the data and agree that work has been done just by having a connection to other nodes and valid consensus algorithms.

Most PoW is hashing-based, there are a few weirdos like Primecoin that use prime searches as a PoW; but these are both forms of numerical work. Number problems are easy, they have neat exponential-blowup properties, we can validate that the work has been done far quicker than they take to produce, and we only have one axis of value: how hard is it to produce that work? ML training and SETI@Home don't work that way. Verifying that someone did training requires testing the entire training set, and verifying that a Fourier transform worked involves just running the inverse, which doesn't have that same performance gulf between verification and work.

Furthermore, useful work has a value ambiguity problem. What ML training sets are considered valid proof of work, and how do we put them in a nice total ordering so that we can resolve chain splits? Who gets to inject signal data from SETI@Home into SETICoin? The nature of the work is not value neutral; if we just allow people to say "here, I trained an AI on a training set and it got better", then that allows deliberate construction of "easier" problems that look hard. Imagine like being able to unilaterally change Bitcoin from an ASIC-friendly hash function into one that is more akin to, say, Burstcoin and Chia. That would be a major trust problem for the chain.

[0] This is why most smart contract proposals fail. If we want to have the network, say, track container ships, we can't have every node operator actually board every ship to punch in data and make sure it was done correctly. There has to be trust, which disqualifies us from using an unpermissioned blockchain.
Many people have older devices that they cannot replace, for various reasons.

Many others do not have a device of their own at all.

I think they should be able to access their email.
I still miss Tab Mix Plus.

Having no way to properly save/manage sessions feels like I'm one crash away from losing my (way too many) tabs, although luckily that hasn't happened to me for a long time.

And no, I don't want to be told that I should be closing tabs. I have 64Gb RAM and I can search tabs by typing "%" into the url bar. Why should I ever have to close a tab if I don't want to?
Looks like someone else went out arguing, but I do actually agree with this. Maybe where I’m optimistic is that I think we are on track to stop adding more co2 within the next few hundred years or so (hopefully much sooner). Though I do think it’s worth knowing the natural environment also introduces co2 to the atmosphere at a roughly linear rate (via volcanos)
Wondering what is your preferred content blocker of choice? Thanks