skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An online talk by Denis Vida of The Global Meteor Network presented at the Royal Astronomical Society of Edinburgh last month.

Talks about the kit that amateur astronomers can set up at home consisting of a Raspberry Pi 4 and a camera (a bit tricky to get now of course) and their open source software reflecting their philosophy of transparency.
What hourly rate do you think is fair for them to pay their employees? $20-$30/hour is ~130%-180% of the median income for Allegheny County, where the company is located.

I honestly don't know what's fair for the jobs the company is hiring for. Maybe they're woefully underpaying! But at first blush it does not appear terrible.

A totally not in-depth look at machinist hourly rates (in Seattle) looks fairly similar to what they're offering.
Also it pleases the Chinese which suits him, given he has a company there, I suppose. As always, he plays all sides.

If he didn't have an inspiring side-gig in SpaceX and a credit for kicking off the electric car market, he would just be a monster. There is little that I find endearing about his day-to-day behavior. I find myself idly wondering about how much those achievements should tip the scales of how we judge a man.
ArbCom took over the block, I believe they did this so they could review it at a later date if I ever wanted to ask to come back. Could be wrong about that. Unlikely this will ever happen. My mental health is not always the best.
timestamp is coming from the operating system where the client library is running. so unless all your write request are issued by the same machine then

you are guaranteed to face the problem where the client machine clocks are not in sync.

just comparing timestamp is obviously a design from someone that didn’t review the academic literature on distributed transaction and consensus
https://archive.ph/STQPc
So why is Google any different to Wikipedia?
On AMD, DIMM training is done by the PSP. And you have to run the PSP to run the SoC, so we have no alternative there.

More generally, we have implemented and opened everything we can; there still remain opaque bits like the PSP, as well as some smaller bits scattered through the machine (e.g., SSD firmware, MCU boot ROMs, VR firmware, etc.). We have endeavored to make as open a system as possible within the constraint of not making our own silicon. And while we haven't talked about it publicly, we will also open our schematics when we ship the rack, allowing everyone to see every component in the BOM. While we do have some (necessary) proprietary blobs in the system, we want to at least be transparant about where they are!
There are plenty of difficulties hiding in the OSI stack. MTU is a fun one.
The rationale to justify the wifi link is interesting, and this is a creative solution indeed!

In the past I've used wake-on-lan cards but with the wake signal connected to the reset line instead, so it became reset-on-lan. That's much more useful in my lab, I don't know about yours!

Edit: Writeup: https://www.i3detroit.org/reset-on-lan-an-ethernet-aware-rem...
I agree. I wonder how many other people agree with the word "evenly"?

I think it should be proportionate though. If you work for 1 year full-time then you get 1 portion. After all that person is giving approx. 1/45th of their working life to the company. ( Pro-rata reductions for people who work part-time )

It's a pity that the people who choose the remuneration would never go for it. They might not be able to afford their new BMW if they are sharing the bonus pie with the staff who actually help customers.
I learned OO way back on Turbo Pascal, which came with a good tutorial on it. The fundamentals at least are pretty simple.

However, the way it's used these days - layers upon layers of (often unnecessary) abstraction and indirection - nobody really groks that. It's just the way it's done, even if it doesn't make any sense. No need to feel bad about not understanding that.
It seems to depend on what ATF regulation you want to look at. A lower receiver, according to the ATF, is a firearm and needs to be regulated.

What these gun buyback stunts have further illustrated is just how much of a patch work mess the gun laws have become.
I assume he did it without a lawyer. I know in Australia we have forums where you can represent yourself in these low level workers rights cases.

He spent time himself researching the law and going through the process, but he can't claim for that
Docker can benefit from it by running 1000x faster if they would be able to leverage Rosetta.
NPP: Still heaven or hell for new users – and for the reviewers
QEMU can do both virtualization (through Hypervisor.framework) and emulation. When you select "Virtualization" in UTM you have a checkbox "Use Apple Virtualization" which makes UTM use Virtualization.framework instead of QEMU. For "Emulation" it always uses QEMU.
Make a bigger mess. I want it.
This doesn't answer the question considering NTSC isn't used anymore. Why not 60 fps considering it's the standard refresh rate of practically all displays that are in use?
I would call any legal system making it practically impossible to sue without a lawyer a failure. But even if using professional help is recommended, it doesn’t have to be expensive - you can use legal insurance to cover majority of the costs.
When it comes to text, I would recommend using a simple XML format as the single source of truth and generating other formats from that. My own publishing pipline is:

a) XML directly to HTML via Saxon XSLT.

b) XML to LaTeX via Saxon XSLT. Then LaTeX to PDF via pdflatex/lualatex.

I have an input folder and two output folders (for HTML and PDF). I use a batch file that runs all files placed in the input folder through the pipeline. If I want to change the Layout a bit, I modify the the XSLT and re-run the batch file with all the old XML sources.

That has been working like magic for more than a decade, with very little changes after the initial effort of defining the XML format and writing the XSLT scripts.
Searching on "discursive carl hewitt" leads to many hits, including his trademark on the name, and another video [1] and a paper [2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ4X0l2298k

[2] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3581859
> What kind of dystopia is this?

I've been asking myself that question for quite a while, now. It's got totalitarian states, theocracies, personality cults, total surveillance, random ostracism, flying killer robots, increasingly unstable weather, increasingly unstable economies, the return of the nuclear threat, bitter internal political divisions, and probably more.

An "all of the above" dystopia?
More like step out. The biggest issue with housing today is lack of supply, and the biggest cause of that is the restriction on development imposed by planning regulation. It shouldn't be a 20 minute walk from a detached house to downtown San Francisco. It's a nice idea, but every house like that could be part of an apartment building housing 10 times as many people. US cities have jobs, entertainment, amenities and services, so demand is always going to be high; supply has to be allowed to meet it.
Just read today that the Florida Surgeon General announced they are recommending against mRNA vaccines for males under 40:

> The self-controlled case series analysis found that men 18-39 years old experienced an 84% increase in the relative incidence of cardiac-related death within 28 days of vaccination. [1]

Twitter removed the Surgeon General’s tweet then eventually restored it.

[1] https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/oct/9/floridas-sur...
Yeah, it'd be more accurate to say they're "reclaiming" water in tomatoes that would otherwise be lost during the production process. Basically, they're capturing and purifying that water.

But to be fair the reporter is citing the company's CEO...

"We like to say that, in simple terms, we grow water," said Terry Paule, co-founder and CEO of Australia-based Botanical Water Technologies.
Proximate and Ultimate Causation
Client À write value 1 on 2 of 3 node with timestamp=3

then later
client B write value 2 on 2 of the 3 node with timestamp=1

then read repair happen and (value=1 timestamp=3) is written to all 3 nodes.

this is only one of many scenarios where this stupid design fail.
>> Why have a child when you plan to have strangers (nanny, schools) do most of the work?

> Did you homeschool?

> I don't see what makes changing diapers or keeping infants from killing
themselves a very enriching way of spending energy.

> I'm interested in the dinner conversations, weekend activities and holidays, and in nurturing a child's imagination, creativity and character.

With respect, I think you're thinking about this wrong.

The menial tasks of caring for a child (diapers, cleaning, clothing, feeding, etc) are the structure within which you develop a bond, a relationship with the individual. It changes both of you, and by avoiding it, you also eliminate the thousands of moments that build that relationship between parent and child.

As your child grows, those tasks evolve: playing Lego, drawing, listening to their stories, playing dumb video games, taking them to soccer/swimming/music lessons/etc. Lots of stuff that's basically not what you'd really rather be doing, save that your kid wants to do it. Avoiding them again misses an opportunity to be a part of who your child becomes.

Now, this is not to say you need do _everything_. A kid benefits from relationships with family, as well as teachers, coaches, older kids, peers, etc. They learn how to make and maintain friendships, how to be both independent but also open to sharing. That can obviously include a nanny, or daycare providers -- everyone's choices are different, and depend on the child's own needs as well.

But I'd really encourage you to look beyond the dirty diapers, the vomit, the dribble, the food stain on your work clothes, the 3 hours of sleep. There's a lot more to the process than what's visible, and in my experience, it's important, profound, and well worth it.
> but the gov has to step in and bring real estate price under control

You do realize that the government created the inflation problem, right? The high amounts of stimulus spending plus years of deficit spending created this situation.
This is a solved problem and has been for at least 25 years. Of course there are daily failures in a system of this scale. You have to design around them so that when components fail the whole system doesn't go down.
But that would entail more work.
Remember not to look if you ever want to contribute to Wine or ReactOS.
Ideally everyone would only get the job that they verifiably deserve. Society does not scale to the level of the individual. We can't have an entire jury to judge whether vague criticisms like "They were good but too xyz" is actually grounded in their performance. Having injustice distributed evenly between the races is certainly better than doing nothing and having it being distributed unevenly.

> We can tell that it occurs, but we can't even accurately measure the degree to which it occurs. Our discourse generally just assumes that the degree of disparity is the degree of discrimination on the really, really awful assumption that disparities can only be caused by discrimination.

Plenty of studies have been done on this topic. I don't think it's controversial to say that disparities are due to discrimination
Paywall: <https://archive.ph/W5iUY>
Yes, people who want to commit suicide might still succeed. That doesn't mean Amazon or you or I need to make it easier for them or facilitate them.
An old WWII veteran who built the on-board CCTV system on a ship in the Pacific once walked me through making an AM radio that worked with no battery — just the power of the radio waves, themselves. Like what today powers RFID chips.

It took him maybe ten minutes of soldering probably six or eight components he pulled out of a box of junk parts.

He grounded the thing by sticking a nail into a wall socket.

It helped that this was in a small town with only a couple of AM signals, so fine-tuning wasn't all that necessary.
I appear to missing some inside joke. Anyone want to explain it?
I left in 2018 for a similar reason. People there got really strict about what is an acceptable opinion and what not. I'm a person who is quick to say what i think, and sometimes its nonsense, and i feel most comfortable in environments where people can point out where you have the flaw in your thinking.

The scene around CCC is not like that. If you challenge some thinking there, people will feel threatened and will start looking for reasons to have you removed. The escalation with VC was another iteration of that, but not the first i witnessed.

Some Erfa's are still good, but my local one isn't, and after 34C3, i think the congress isn't, either. The CrewCrew secret police thing is still creeping me out.
Attack on one of the largest supply routes during the least crowded time to minimize potential victims vs shelling an apartment building far away from the front lines in the middle of night.

One is just not like the other, no matter how you spin it.
It is not unrelated. If a is an abstract class, and f takes a pointer to an a, I can pass it a b, for any b which inherits from a; the implementation of b is up to me.
No one was looking then, no one is looking now. And no one will be looking later. The fate of obscurity.
A couple of books: "TRANCE-formations" by Bandler and Grinder, and "Monsters and Magical Sticks" by Steven Heller, both are written for the therapeutic context but the material is universal.
How does legal insurance work? The only time I ever heard of it I was pitched what sounded like an MLM. Is there another kind out there?
Let's continue the thread.

My first try at short sci-fi story. No spoilers, just the link.

https://initsix.dev/immutable/
The interleaving of modern day ads really kills the fun here. And everywhere I suppose.
You're talking about Unix the intellectual property.

They're talking about Unix the philosophy.
Why should I tip in those situations? They aren’t considered to be Tipped Employees; they are subject to the same minimum wage as any other non-waiter/waitress jobs.
That goes on up the chain, though. The reason manufacturing left the U.S. was because it was no longer cost-effective to pay American wages at the prices prevalent in consumer goods industries. Had we kept manufacturing on-shore, the price of goods would've mimicked services like health care, law, and education, all of which have undergone very significant inflation, much more than the economy-wide average.

The result of this on-shoring craze (modulo automation) is that we're likely to see very significant inflation, basically taking us back to the cost structures we saw in the 1980s. No more cheap Chinese or Vietnamese goods at Amazon or Walmart; if we have to Buy American, expect to pay the differential between Vietnamese and American wages, roughly a 30-40x increase.
I doubt you could. You need special entitlements to sign a binary using these APIs, I dont think a wrapper would be enough to grant you that entitlement
I talk about this elsewhere in the thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33139416), but for me, looking at more notifications is still net positive if it leads to less total time spent on the phone.

Without a smart watch, the flow for all my notifications is "notification -> take out phone -> (probably) use phone". With a smartwatch, the flow for the majority of notifications becomes "notifications -> decide it's not urgent -> leave phone in pocket".
> but I believe it's still technically illegal

I don't think so but who knows... even attorneys don't know all laws.
What makes a champagne vintage great? Ask a deep learning model
It strikes me as foolish to put this on GitHub.

And Microsoft owns GitHub, too.
Peterson developed very serious health problems, resulting in an extreme autoimmune response to food and ended up on pain killers and an induced coma. I would not take dietary advice from him.
> The US used to solve the majority of murder cases, but now it’s solving less than half

Closs the cases, not solve. It's good that police can't convict innocent people as easily anymore.
There are far more choices than Theocracies and Plutocracies.
It was an exciting time. Ads were one way to collect scarce information on the state of the art.

If you hoped to make money in the microcomputer field, as I did, you learned a lot: what corporate purchasers were thinking about, what consumer trends were happening, which companies were successful enough to pay for full-page ads over a period of months, and indirectly what systems were selling because of third-party ads.

If you were making the buying decision for yourself on what would be the equivalent of about $10,000 with of equipment, all market signals were worth observing. It was one thing for Apple to spend a lot on Apple ][ ads, but it was something else entirely to see how quickly the notion of IBM PC compatibility was featured in software or accessories by companies that weren't IBM.

I purchased some magazines 50% because of their ads and 50% for editorial; in the case of PC Shopper, a tabloid-size magazine that could be 600-800 pages, perhaps 70% because of ads, 30% editorial.

The meta perspective was fun too: no one really knew the best ways to advertise so there were many different approaches early on. Games had extremely fanciful cover art that had zero to do with the actual rendered graphics. Infocom's ads for their popular text-only ads were, duh, all text and had extraordinarily good copy. Ads for database managers ended up being DBMS tutorials that too often ended up mentioning recipes. Obviously I never saw an Apple or IBM or Commodore machine hoisted up on someone's kitchen counter, recipe opened, IRL.

It wasn't always creative or interesting though. Even 40 years ago my friend and I were making fun of endless pictures showing two white people in front of a monitor, with one pointing at it and the other trying to look excitedly at 80-column text or a 4-color pie chart in 320x200 resolution.
The rate at which people start applying for their jobs. Clearly, higher than "$20 - $30", which we all know means $20.

Something I left out in the interests of brevity is that there was no mention of taking people off the street and paying for their training. That is the indicator of staff shortages.
But don’t you then have to then explain this every time you try to communicate with these numbers to someone else. Are you just writing this down for yourself?
Interesting that other places would cite an OpEd. Seems like the other commenter has more indepth details than the OpEd.
Did the CDC or any health organization also make this claim? Genuinely curious
Your silver-bullet guide to interacting with the sun.
Thanks for the response. I read up on how Anki's algorithm works and tried to match it closely, although Fresh Cards doesn't have the exact same algorithm. I actually ended up adding a way for you to provide your own scheduling algorithm via javascript if that's your sort of thing. I also built a web page just so you can see the effects of recalling correctly and incorrectly, as well as reviewing too early or too late: https://www.freshcardsapp.com/srs/simulator/

I also included my attempt at converting Anki's algorithm to javascript so you can compare and contrast. I'm open to any feedback on improving the algo that I do use!

In terms of limitations, probably the biggest one is that Anki lets you create cards using a template system, which Fresh Cards doesn't have yet. In Anki you can create one note and then from that have multiple flashcards auto-generated using several templates. You can also do something similar with cloze deletions. One of my goals is to get to 100% Anki compatibility over the next few months, so I'll be adding a template system and similar cloze-deletion system.

In terms of UX, the app actually has multiple review styles. When I first built the app, a lot of users actually wanted to re-review cards, but the app would strictly schedule them, so you didn't have a way to do that. (Anki lets you "review ahead", but for the most part tries to keep you on the schedule.)

To satisfy both users who wanted to review whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted and users who wanted to stick to a spaced repetition system, I designed the UX to act as a "playlist". You just hit play and it'll start reviewing the cards in the order that you see. (You can sort and filter based on spaced repetition algorithm, or use several other modes.)

The app is pretty much designed to just pick up and go without a lot of instruction, so it should be easy to get used to.
We have “juridisch loket” over here in .NL which is advices people on legal matters for free. Especially common for housing and/or employment issues, but they deal with anything.

It’s not unlikely the employee from the article used their services, even if just initially.
What's the "VR" in "VR firmware" stand for? Unless Oxide has invented a revolutionary VR-based user interface for server hardware, I expect I misread that line. ;)
Or just have everybody kill everybody else. Reduce the population and you reduce demand for housing, food, energy, and all those other pesky necessities of life that have become too expensive.

/s, but history shows that this is how things usually end.
There are still a ton of complications for digital video. Compression, color spaces, transfer functions, etc.
A few reasons I've heard people bring up:

- It was not being used anyway and was less likely to be used every single day

- Apparently the gas wells in Siberia's permafrost areas have frozen due to lack of use and Russia doesn't have the tech to reopen them without Western help which falls under sanctions (note I read this in another forum and haven't been able to validate this)

- The attack happened one day after the opening of the Baltic pipe from Scandinavia to Poland. Could be a way of putting NATO on notice that their infrastructure is vulnerable, without actually attacking it. Like a veiled threat.

I also thought it was unlikely to be Russia at the time but in light of the arguments above (which I read brought by other people) it became more likely to me.

On the other hand the Ukrainians have always hated Nord Stream because it meant a loss of transit fees for them. Somehow I don't think this is their biggest worry right now though. And I doubt they'd want to risk agitating NATO counties which own half of it.

I'm still not convinced either way. I'm not very good at geopolitical insight :(
The digital data in many cases is still transformed into sine waves before being transmitted and received. There is a bunch of rf involved.
It's possible that a single-purpose firmware is too few stages, and it's also possible that the current acpi->firmware->uefi->grub->initrd->linux is too many stages.

UEFI does have many of the features of a full operating system including shell, multiprocessing, networking and it really should be Linux in this position instead. LinuxBoot is another attempt at reducing layers here.
I think we've conflated hard work with results.
Hard work is a symptom that we're doing something incorrectly.
Either it's too challenging for us, or we're doing it the wrong way.

There seems to be too much value on hard work, and not enough on efficient progress, breaking things down into challenges that we're capable of achieving.

Hard work is never accomplished, it's only once we break them down into achievable tasks that we're ever able to tackle something initially deemed as hard.
The great toilet battle – Does Bill Gates have a solution? (YouTube vid)
FWIW, while limited to a subset of technical issues and not for the majority of "support cases" their developer support on Discord has been excellent as I've used it several times. Someone immediately takes a look at your issue, if they have to leave they handoff to someone else and they are very thorough.

> Discord