skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve had some pretty bad experiences living in mid size apartment buildings. Everything from a drugged out neighbor causing a fire, to bed bugs coming through the wall from a slob next door, to someone nearly stealing my car until I shouted at them from four floors up, to landlords who wouldn’t fix leaks for weeks/months after I left a voicemail on their high priority line, to dreadful indoor temperatures because the thermostat controls are overridden by time-of-year policies and heating/cooling is disabled.

All this in Boston, at nearly $2,000 per month for a single bedroom, in the mid 2010s.

Conceptually, I’m on board with apartment buildings. I would like to think that the future looks more like Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood than the one that I lived in. But the people who evangelize high rise buildings must be either paying for a ritzy place or never actually lived in one.
Haha, it's possible that the author was making a half-joke, with the self-awareness that nearly no one's weekend is truly like that.

Though, if you do want a weekend like that at least once (hors d'œvre at least, maybe dancing in general, and at least one person to make accidental eye contact with), you can try to attend some startup launch or celebration event or a non-profit fundraising gala. The former might end up boring and the latter may be expensive for a ticket, but it's a great experience to better appreciate what you have at home (a computer to spend a lot of worthwhile time on, and also maybe family to spend time with).
Got it. It was a habit. Will edit instead, from next time.

Thank you.
This is not the first time that people have been moved from IBM to Red Hat or vice versa, for what it's worth.
You'll use a lot of skills from your current job in the new career path. Just do it!
I feel ya, it just worked well enough my use case of “back up phone photos directly to NAS” in a very frictionless way.

That is to say it’s not the best app, but it works enough for me.
According to the Chemical Weaponss Convention, tear gas is a "Riot Control Agent", not a "Chemical Weapon".

See https://www.opcw.org/chemical-weapons-convention/articles/ar... .
Facebook is dying. I'll not shed a tear... but I wish people wouldn't use this as a baseline for the tech industry in general.
Oh, I have plenty. Like not continuing to mine bitcoin circa 2010 while I was in high school, and then not buying a ton of bitcoin between 2014-2016 and then losing over 2 BTC in 2017.

Then there's the fact that I decided to go to a state school because I was entering with a decent amount of credits and entered a special program for tuition assistance (it sucked). Dropped out (which I also regret).

I regret not accepting the NSA's cooperative education program when offered.

I regret not deciding to live with my mother when my parents divorced.

I regret taking on a job with a ~3 hour commute as my first gig.

Should I keep going?
Undamaged tracks can still be read. Set the drive to the lowest spin speed and go for it.
> Your car's windscreen is 100x bigger than the rear view mirror for a reason.

Great metaphor! It reminds me of a song lyric: “The Future’s so bright you’ll have to wear shades.”
You're right! Thanks for the correction. Thin film modules use Cadmium Telluride, which includes two rare metals* (not rare earth* metals). I want to note that there are some similar supply concerns with each of those rare metals. But in any case, my larger point is that thin film modules represent less than 10% of the market, and are in no way critical to solar's success.
I use an all-fourths tuning on the Linnstrument and absolutely love it. As a person who approached both music theory and learning to play with their hands for the first time (after clicking around in a piano roll for years) with an all-fourths isomorphic keyboard, it removed whole categories of mental gymnastics and time sucks and let me pick up big chords and bits of jazz/rnb much quicker as a result. The benefits of being able to transpose and dance around the keyboard effortlessly without having to account for that major 3rd gap can't be overstated. You've got one unified mental model for everything and can skip directly to the good stuff. There are a number of grid instruments on the market that implement all fourths (Push, Launchpad, etc etc). If you have an iPad, Musix Pro can also act as a MIDI output (either for iPadOS instruments or for external hardware) that gives you an equivalent layout, but also many other interesting layouts that may work better for the music you want to play.

As a side note, after learning linnstrument, I picked up an 8 string guitar and found it much easier to translate my knowledge by tuning in all-fourths. With all-fourths, you really can learn chords as a set of (essentially) 2D glyphs that interact and fit together like Lego pieces. Inversions are easier to remember, transposition is always effortless, training your hands is quicker. Highly recommended.
There was some discussion about that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32793061
100% agree.

Had a realization about small steps making a huge difference a few days ago.

It was so profound to me that I've written a short essay about it.

https://kormosi.com/small-things/
Wikipedia is an excellent source about many topics, and a mediocre source about many other topics. For example, the article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesics_on_an_ellipsoid was mostly written by the world’s foremost expert about geodesics on an ellipsoid, and would be a fine source.

Edit to add an aside: In my opinion it is worth teaching students to look at Wikipedia’s talk pages and history pages to help them critically examine articles.
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There are plenty of middling engineers at FAANG-class companies. It is true that they have more rigorous standards and employ above average engineers, but that isn't the primary driver of the comp: these companies have to pay a premium to attract engineers in part because working at a huge (and in many cases unpopular) company isn't fun.

Source: Worked at Microsoft for about a decade.
I bet their first "Hello" from an NRS representative will be a cease & desist letter due to all the copyright infringement... They could have opted for a brand new logo and a non-trademarked project name in order to make things at least a little easier for them...

That said, I hope the project does NOT die. Power to the FGC!
What’s special about Racket? What makes it stand out compared to Lisp/SBCL/Scheme?

I recall a while back John Carmack tweeted about writing some project in Racket & it’s been vaguely on my radar lately.
If this is true, that means that any "savings" to the company by reducing employee wages is eaten by management and/or ends up costing the company due to their reduction of labor or mismanagement thereof.
Over-analyzing has always been a huge struggle of mine, and your comment reminded me of a few times in my life where actually doing things taught me something important:

1. I thought I wanted to be a lawyer through most of college. I took tons of law-related courses, did a few internships, and then realized I strongly disliked actually doing it once I got my first job in the field. Thankfully, I figured it out before going to law school.

2. I studied abroad in Kenya basically on a whim. I realized my penultimate semester of college that I’d managed to get all my graduation requirements done a semester early and somehow not noticed, and decided I’d take the last semester to have a little adventure. It turned out to be one of the best things I’ve ever done.

3. At the start of lockdown in 2020, I took CS50 basically because I was bored and a friend was doing it. I had never even considered studying CS before that point, and now here I am getting my ducks in a row to do an OSU post-bacc.

I suppose the throughline here is that life is full of unknown unknowns, and unknown unknowns, by definition, aren’t something you can think about and factor into your decision-making process. Just like you said — sometimes you just gotta try stuff.
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So you want to say that the Mastodon gGmbH that employees at least 1 developer and runs mastodon.social is not profitable?

I would check my notes on that.
I know this will sound “let them eat cake”-ey but just don’t use gmail then?
> I'd rather get my accounts hacked because of password reuse than lose access to my email, forever.

step 1: get your account hacked

step 2: hacker changes password

step 3: lose access to your email, forever

What you've presented is not in fact a dichotomy, for any practical purposes.
It's security vs homeless access to vital services. I think it's a diffiult line to draw
Sure? I mean, if you have:

1) A large enough queue of tasks

2) Users/donstream willing to wait

using your own infrastructure always wins (alsuming free labor) since you can load your own infrastructure to ~95% pretty much 24/7 which is unbeatable.
You simply have not had a proper sauna before. It can get your body way hotter inside and out than a shower ever could
> Conspiracy-theory-isation exists because people resent being told what they are supposed to believe by an authority they do not trust.

I keep hearing this theory, but it just begs the question: how are these people deciding which sources to trust? What makes them trust Fox News, Marjorie Taylor Greene, or Alex Jones rather than other "mainstream" news?

Somehow, I don't think the problem is a lack of tools. Something deeper is going on.
Which is why I said what I said. If the “political climate” were to affect the longetivity of Facebook, Twitter et al, then their longetivity is the least of our concerns because it would imply something much more disastrous has happened.

I personally couldn’t care less that there’s no Facebook around when I’m living in a post-apocalyptic hellscape due to the “political climate”.
This is sort of a confusing article because it assumes the premise of "you have a fixed hardware profile" and then argues within that context ("Most scientific computing runs on queues. These queues can be months long for the biggest supercomputers".) Of course if you're getting 100% utilization then you'll find better raw pricing (and this article conveniently leaves out staffing costs), but this model misses one of the most powerful parts of cloud providers: autoscaling. Why would you want to waste scientist time by making them wait in a queue when you can just instead autoscale as high as needed? Giving scientists a tight iteration loop will likely be the biggest cost reduction and also the biggest benefit. And if you're doing that on prem then you need to provision for the peak load, which drives your utilization down and makes on prem far less cost effective.
> More precisely, they are able to turn about half of the salary cuts into profits in a 5 years window.

Isn't that just...how it works? If you now pay $x less, that $x doesn't leave the company accounts and is counted as pure profits?

I've not yet had a chance to get into the article, but will soon.
Hope things go well for Ash.

Gaps/opportunities for Fediverse community:

- sustainable mgmt structure and plan for large nodes

- features to import content while not breaking existing ecosystem (it's currently possible to move followers and export content only, but not import)
> This is one of the strengths of a federated system run by people who aren't looking to profit.

People who aren't looking to make a profit (or even break even) means they are running a social media platform while funding it through some other means. What is that means of making money? What pays for the hosting and the time spent doing ops?

You can't take money out of the equation because you have hosting costs at the least.

How are things funded and why that way should be a conversation. Anything that ignores money ignores the reality of operating something on the Internet. That means it's not sustainable.
I've been a 10x engineer, I've been a 1x engineer, and I've been a 0.5x engineer. There isn't some consistent set of things, it's a ton of circumstance.

Now, as a leader type, I would prefer to hire 1x engineers to 10x engineers, for a whole litany of reasons. 1x engineers are largely predictable, where as 10x can be 10x in any wild direction, because they're more or less deciding for themselves a bunch of shit they really shouldn't be.

10x engineers like to decide for themselves things like how to go to market or which features to build in what order, without doing any of the requisite research or information gathering necessary. It's infuriating because 10x engineers think passion or some arbitrary definition of "Correctness" gives them power, when in reality they're just operating with a heavily limited set of information (gee, I wonder how they had all that time to build stuff, maybe because they weren't attending meetings???).

Sorry, this turned into a not-very-coherent rant, but the point is 10x engineers aren't worth hiring as anything other than literally employee #1, and even then it's a huge dice roll.
Yeah, what text on the page links to that URL? I’ve scoured it on my phone and can’t find it anywhere.
If you think "treat servers as cattle" is stupid or has no merit, I question your credentials.

Decoupling config, app state and the app itself has a lot of upside in certain cases.
> Wikipedia is an excellent source about many topics, and a mediocre source about many other topics.

Wikipedia is a moving target, so it could be a terrible source on a topic for the hour you're looking at it, and much better at other times. Trouble is, those other times don't do you any good. That inconsistency means it can't ever really be an "excellent" source.
The general rule of thumb in the HPC world is if you can keep a system computing for more than 40% of the time, it will be cheaper to buy.
Low skill is about whether you expect any experience or qualifications when filling positions.

Some businesses are built around the fact that most of their workforce will be composed of untrained people with 0 qualifications and very high turnover. See Amazon warehouse jobs, most fast food places. Lots of retail jobs.
Most of Signal's "competitors" don't just keep a plaintext database of every pair of users that have communicated, they keep a plaintext database of every conversation. (GChat is at least good about making expiring conversations visible and easy.)

There's not necessarily "alternatives" most of the competitors offer a much richer feature set and Signal has stripped away those features down to what they see as the bare minimum.
It really depends on your usage patterns with Signal. Most of my Signal usage is on the iOS client. However, I occasionally use it on MacOS and rarely on Windows.

If I keep the MacOS client open and active every few days, it doesn't have to relink. If I don't open it for a while, I'll have to relink.
There is plenty of music theory not based on traditional western music.

The "atom" of all music is that frequencies with simple relationships (for example, exactly 1/3x) sounds "nice" (we can hear the harmony) and frequencies with complicated relationships (pi x) sounds sour (used intentionaly with great effect by bands like Sonic Youth for example).

The essence of western music is the decision to split the octave into 12 and have this be the notes we use (anyone who have tried this will discover that we run into trouble when our instument tonal range spans more than one octave, this is where "tunings" come in).

But there are alternatives: Spliting the octave into 53 parts has way more harmonies

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/53_equal_temperament

This is partialy used in turkish music for example.
Haha love it, thanks
If you're going to buy storage from redhat/ibm you might as well skip all the pain and just use GPFS (which is currently branded as spectrum scale)

Ceph is fine, but its a toy.

You can slam hooks into everything, and the raid replacement (which is probably only allow on IBM tin, the bastards.) is brilliant. (rebuilding stuff doesn't take 24 hours)

Want to have a global filsystem, no problem, want to mange wrote clashes? no problem, everything is based on rules. Want to have a storage array in the US, but a copy in the EU, no problems. just set your rules and you're away.

and its all posix and really rather scalable.
>If you can’t afford to change, that answers the question.

In my personal experience the greatest challenge is always oneself and not external factors. So your advice to drop all self-help is wrong in my opinion. There are people who made it against all odds and their mindset may crave the necesseary pathways in your brain as well.

I would even say that the more the odds are stacked against you the more you should try because there are few things as impressive.
> The important part is to keep track of what's happening with your own connection to others, not what other peers are doing.

99%+ of the time any pair of peers has unidirectional traffic. The situation where two clients will have incomplete torrents and are exchanging data with each other is rare, like the first few hours after a brand new torrent hits the network.
During the early release of MK4 in arcades, John Tobias used to regularly come down to Playland Arcade in NY and wreck everybody at his game.

I met him twice from that. Never met Ed Boon though.
> Focused too much on making a living in my teens and 20s instead of college and social life

I did this too, to avoid addressing being gay. At times in my life I've regretted working so much, but in my late 50's I developed some health problems because of a goofed-up immune system (CVID). Now, I'm glad I was able to retire at 45 because I was a workaholic in my younger days. I still enjoy my life, but if I had to work full time, it would be pretty miserable and I'd probably have to go on disability.

One thing I try to keep in mind about regrets: when looking back, people always assume that if they had made a different decision, the outcome would have been better. But you don't actually know that: things could have turned out worse.
Source on both mental health being the majority and that generally the homeless will destroy the space they are given?
I should have clarified that I meant SCRIPTED mass media events.

This was based off the idea in the article that reality is a constructed game.

It's also funny that you mention this b/c when I usually mention the MASH story in person, I also share that the other events of that magnitude are usually Super Bowl/World Cup etc. Guess it slipped my mind this time.
Obligations become roadblocks due to a failure of imagination or ignorance. That sounds pejorative but it describes the common case, not the exception. If this applies to you you are normal.

To overcome the belief that "my responsibilities are preventing me from doing X" you need examples of people who have those same responsibilities but are doing X, or some X-adjacent thing.

Luckily there are lots of examples through interest forums, youtube, etc where people with say a mortgage and two kids are still traveling and adventuring. There are people who have built support networks so that they can still have time to learn languages while caring for an elderly parent, autistic child, sick dog, etc.

The viable path to unblocking yourself starts by asking for help. Ask how others are doing it, get advice, take time off specifically to do this initial research. The thing you will likely find is that you can't go straight from A to B. You need to build a support network, tie into relevant services, improve your financial circumstances, etc. But once you know something is possible it can be sufficiently motivating to do the upfront work.
Yes, and depending on topic, I discard 10% to 90% of the results out of hand.
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No screenshots, though. That would be a great addition to the page. Or a playthrough video on YouTube.
Even spot instances on AWS are still over 2x more expensive per month than Hetzner. The cheapest c5a.24xlarge spot instance right now is $1.5546/hr in us-east-1c. That's $1134.86/mo, excluding data transfer costs. If you transfer out 10 TB over the course of a month, that's another $921.60/mo – or now 4x more expensive than Hetzner.

Using the estimate from the article, spot instances are still over 8x more expensive than on-prem for scientific computing.
You don't know when they will simply decide not to give you access to certain data.

Look at email providers who suddenly decided "If you don't use it for X months, you're inactive and I'm deleting everything".

It's not about the service existing but people being able to extract and use what they've put in, in 10/20 years.
The registration lock is active for 7 days after the last time signal was used by that account at which point it is removed.

The edge case would be someone that continued to use signal with their old phone number, effectively blocking its new registration.
Not at all. The numeral-only search space is too small, the rainbow table fits on an inexpensive thumb drive.
Given that the ZIM format is highly compressed, I'd assume that any "diff" approach would be computationally quite intensive [1] – on both sides, unless you require clients to apply all patches, which would allow hosting static patch files on the server side.

Bandwidth is getting cheaper and cheaper, and arguably if you can afford to get that initial 100 GB Wikipedia dump, you can afford downloading it more than once (and vice versa, if you can download multi-gigabyte differential updates periodically, you can afford the occasional full re-download).

One application where I could see it making sense is a related project [2] which streams the Wikipedia over satellite: Initial downloads at this point probably take several days of uninterrupted reception.

[1]
Google has once implemented a custom binary diff optimized for Chrome updates, but I'm not sure if it still exists.
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othernet
I mean like a garden, a pool, a wood/metal working shop, gun range, kids play area, badminton court etc.
I thought Tornado Cash already spits out untraceable crypto. So it's not enough to use a mixer? Would you not be able to slowly withdraw from Tornado Cash and just exchange for fiat?
Agreed. Users shouldn't have to understand firewall rules, containers, VMs, or even VPNs in order to tunnel traffic for a specific app through a (more) trusted third party.

We need an open protocol for establishing tunnel/VPN connections. Apps implement the protocol, which lets you enter your tunnel provider and go through a quick OAuth flow to establish a tunnel. This would be a big win for VPN providers as well because people would be sending only specific traffic through them instead of everything.
Generally, scientists aren't blocked while they are waiting on a computational queue. The results of a computation are needed eventually, but there is lots of other work that can be done that doesn't depend on a specific calculation.
Teaching Paradox, Crusader Kings III, Part III: Constructivisting a Kingdom
> Avian carriers can provide high delay, low throughput, and low altitude service

Hahaha too good.
I feel like the cheeky cop out answer is that since one definition of a black swan event is that no one could see it coming, it's impossible to give examples because then someone saw it coming :p