skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fwiw, I studied humanities, do a lot of pop science reading in my spare time, and I'm able to appreciate it. There are more detailed and technical sections I skim or skip, but the overviews are fantastic. Incredible description of, for example, the sheer wonder we should all experience at the fact that all life starts as a single cell.
Yup. As mentioned, she doesn’t own the rights to her early albums, so this year she actually re-recorded and released alternate versions of her own music.

Cover songs are covered under “compulsory” licenses. You can safely cover an entire album without permission as long as you pay the royalties to the writers.

The entire “songbook” genre is basically this. If you want to drill down further there is an entire category of albums which is just people covering “Dark Side of the Moon”

Musical copyright is a whole other thing.
> they'll simply sell the natural gas to Asia or through another pipeline

Which pipeline? They don't have pipelines to Asia that can handle the gas they meant to send through Nordstream.
Okay, they got me. The Important Blue Internet Checkmarks made me chuckle. There's been so much inkled spilled over Twitter's profile icon in the past few weeks, it's just silly.
> But take Uber and Lyft for example - their drivers probably net well under $20/hr

I agree, but this isn't sustainable. You can only depend on people screwing up the math on their net pay for so long.

> both of those companies have been bleeding money for their entire existence

They subsidized rides, so that inflated the market size. Waymo probably needs that larger market size to get enough volume, but I'm not actually sure.

> Waymo doesn’t seem like they have a big competitive advantage in self-driving technology

Hard disagree here. It feels like when Apple launched the first iPhone, and someone demoed a feature phone with a resistive touchscreen and said "no competitive advantage."
From FAQ:

What is Open Library?

Open Library is a universal catalog for book metadata. Our goal is to create a web page for every book ever published. We call it “Open Library” because it is a collaborative open source initiative, which means that anyone can use and contribute to the Open Library catalog. In this way, Open Library opens the doors to the places where you can find the book you’re looking for.
I'd still argue there ought to be a clemency system that is entirely outside the authority of the judicial branch.

Yes, such a system could be (and has been) abused, but given the power the judicial side has (and how that power has be abused) there has to be a system in place that checks the judicial system's power over individuals. This check prevents over-corruption in the judicial system to an extent. The point is to not allow any branch of government to gain too much power - a "separation of powers".

So many people are wrongfully convicted, either because the law is unjust (many drug laws from the 1990s, for example) or because the judicial system itself is so imperfect--from overzealous district attorneys who count their convictions as merit points (independently of the case merits) to the unjust plea bargain system to police investigators who extract false confessions.
Even with stdlib, the concept is the same: if you want small binaries, you have to work on it, you don't just get the smallest ones out of the box. Seems like sibling commentors have already explained the biggest tips so I'll just leave it at that.

While you may be talking about larger boards, the fact that Rust code can fit into even smaller ones means Rust isn't the issue here.
100% counts! Keep rocking!
What I want to know is, what is your goal? Do you have an end result in mind? Eg. Learning? Sharing the sheets? Making online calculators for fun? Or do you want to turn this into a business?

Can you share example links for what you have in mind?

Without a clear goal you will get as many suggestions as there are developers in this thread.

Best of luck with whatever you end up doing
The main task for any BIOS is to initialize the memory controller, which for modern DDR4 or DDR5 memory is a very complex and undocumented task, so it must be done usually by a binary firmware blob provided by Intel or AMD.

The usual operating systems might be able to initialize the peripherals, but they expect an already working memory and a memory map provided by the BIOS.

After a quick browsing through the sources, it seems that this project has not progressed so far yet, even if it probes for working memory and it may be able to use the cache memory as RAM on some CPU models (as all BIOSes must do, before the memory controller is initialized).

Under an emulator like QEMU, a BIOS can work even if it is not able to initialize a real memory controller, but on real bare-metal hardware that has to work.
Impactful? Not sure but I'm proud about it.

In high school I started a private torrent tracker with open source projects. At the time I was pretty new to programming and was gluing things together and slowly after years I started getting a lot of traffic. I was getting good at programming as well, forked the project multiple features addition, dedicated servers and just doing it all.

It used get a daily 1 million visits with 4-5k unique visits every day and slowly we breached the top 25 websites in our country and somewhere around under ~10k in Alexa ranking. But that's when things started getting a bit heated, I had to be more cautious about my footprint and what started something as hobby consuming a lot of my energy.

I really liked it but the fact that I couldn't talk or share about it to anyone was a bummer. I just had it, made a lot of money while I was in school blew it all up quickly but only a handful of irl people knew.
You didn't read it and don't know what it was about, and you think that's what the author wanted? Why would that be "the point"?
>they'll simply sell the natural gas to Asia

That would require either pipelines or port facilities for loading LNG transport ships in Russia and in China, either of which would take years to implement.

The gas fields are in North-Western Siberia, which is closer to Europe than to China.
I'm cognizant that it's your workflow, and who am I to butt in, but surely there are local processes available to you that don't involve HTTP round-trips to a datacenter to do math? For example, Spotlight will do math, and then command-c will copy the result to the clipboard
Rich white guys get the "affluenza" defense.
If I recall correctly, collision testing is only done between vehicles of equivalent size. I do not for the life of me know why that is, but it's a pretty big problem for the safety standards.
I found VueJS easy to pickup and I have used it to add interactivity to what are otherwise static HTML5 sites.
You should do this by email, now you are just calling someone a shill indirectly.
Why? It looks like bog-standard 2 seats in front, 3 in back layout with more legroom.
Nobody is telling you to make your server public. Configure it the way you want. Naturally you won't be able to use features like this if you don't make it publicly accessible.
Rust is a manual memory managed language, it literally has nothing inexpressible that C could do. Hell, C is a “higher level” language in that it doesn’t have any way for SIMD instructions.

To add something concrete, you can manually free memory as well based on some dynamic property if you wish.
Freight trains have stopping distances measured in kilometers too. Even with lots of brakes. Passenger trains can stop shorter, but not that much. Light rail, subways, and some commuter rail is a lot less massive and can stop relatively quickly of course.

But, large boats can turn if the channel allows and trains can't, and boating tradition is clear that vessels restrictred in their maneuverability have priority, so trains win. ;p
I think they were one of the ones to adopt the "female presenting nipple" language as well. I would like to know which lawyer originally came up with that language because I've seen it in many places at this point.
Great and fun talk on the development of Viridis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAoljeRJ3lU
Carl M. Bender's Course on Mathematical Physics (2011)
I was thinking about this amazing lecture series which I watched several years ago, and I figured that quite a few people here would find it interesting.

It is about getting information on the solutions of hard differential equations, using perturbation methods. Basic knowledge on differential equations and complex functions should be enough to feel reasonably comfortable.

The videos are also available on YouTube.
Blender Graphics: Lenses and Optics
This garbage was appropriately torn apart in the twitter thread already

Sad to see someone so non understanding add the "ah yes the people who are 10x as strong as others, just only held back" shtick and then to see it echoed as "yes, I think that IS what is going on"
There is a huge difference between decisiveness and aggressiveness. There is no need at all to be an asshole in order to make good decisions.
A step closer to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xToQ4cIHkk
Yeah it’s not blackmail, it’s coercion.
It’s a good thing for conversation but a bad thing for the system we all find ourselves in, capitalism. Virality has economic value, so the masses will chase it.
What is the purpose of our lives currently?
If the parent comment meant HROT, it’s using a custom engine written in Pascal.
He wrote all the best scifi on cryptocurrencies.
This is called metameric failure
The obvious point is it’s not exactly impressive to dominate a market that everyone else realises is uneconomical. The key is his PR managed to produce massive overvaluation in a ZIRP environment. But then what we’re really saying is we’re impressed by the PR not the engineering.
Maybe a bit off topic, but does anyone else have problem closing and deleting his Twitter account?
I was happy to find that because Sharepoint supports WebDAV, you can store and serve a Tiddlywiki file from a Sharepoint file store and saving it will Just Work, and permissions are handled via Sharepoint/AD. Works great for a company knowledge base.
Call me when non-tech fields learn to treat engineers as equal partners rather than disposable labor.

Academia? Yeah they're going to be one of the last to realize, PIs don't want to cede any power in their little fiefdom. Very familiar with the dynamics there.
It would be more awkward if the seats were facing each other.
There is nothing creepy about egg freezing. There is something very creepy about telling a woman that she should freeze her eggs rather than having a kid, because you've decided that's more appropriate.
> What does Twitter do so we’ll that we can’t imagine doing without it?

It's a place that media whores love, and they're the ones who make all of the content. That's why we're hearing about it endlessly. One of the biggest media whores bought it, so it should really be considered an internal war that we're just bystanders to.

> I’m not suggesting Twitter has no value, but I question whether it or something very much like it is the only place that value can be realized.

I'm pretty sure that what we wanted was to be able to send public text messages that people could subscribe to, and to be able to subscribe to other people doing the same thing. Putting the right UI over group chats, and making every registered user a mod of a group chat that shares their account name would be Twitter-- i.e. an ideal replacement.
> But things like labor laws and the FCC consent decree will provide a strong legacy drag.

You know you're on the "bad side" when labor laws are computed as a nuisance.
Backend guy here. I've been looking for something like this as well.

Google Sheets, Zoho Calc, Airtable and Streamlit offer functionality I like but I want something that will work in a local browser without a cloud link. Ideally something that could be served statically as you describe from Vercel or perhaps a webserver on the user's local machine.

I couldn't find anything so I started playing around with Pyodide, Elm, Typescript, XState and Tauri before discovering Yew and WebAssembly. I like the idea of a small interactive calculation engine in Rust with a customizable table/spreadsheet interface that a user could load and run entirely in their browser.

CSS is indeed a beast. I tried avoiding it but eventually decided to see how far I can go with just Bulma, CSS media queries and CSS grid-template-areas. I've started making mockups with Zola to figure out the subset of CSS that will work for me. Then I hope to port or incorporate the Zola templates in my Yew application.
Did not know:

"correlation is 80% between test and retest, meaning you being you explains less than 64% of your test results"

"IQ decorrelates as it goes higher"

"So “very low IQ” may provide information, while “very high IQ” may convey nothing better than random"
It reminds me of that time that Batman enabled echolocation on everyone's smartphones so he could catch the Joker.
I do think not allowing users to override blacklists is an issue personally. When the main point of federation is supposed to be about giving power back to users, and that you are supposed to be able to follow anyone on any server. Having blacklists as default is one thing, but not allowing your users to make their own decisions is just treating them as children.

And it's not just about "nazis" many instances do block instances that allow porn or simply opinions they don't like. For example the largest instance lists plenty of blocked instances just under "inappropriate content" (they list "hate speech" separately, which I assume nazis would fall under)

The only way to get access to the entire fediverse right now is to host your own instance, that doesn't seem desirable.
his, you mean Elon’s? Yeah, been trying for a couple weeks now but it’s not easy.
Could you explain what you're getting at? Taxis have been a part of modern cities for a long time, and they serve a purpose beyond moving humans "from screen to screen." This looks to me like an attempt to make a more modern, hopefully cheaper taxi.
I completely agree that an overpriced valuation can be good, or at least useful. To make a new car company viable, and, remarkably, doing only organic growth, is a huge accomplishment. Tesla's valuation was an important tool to enable that to happen. I'm not going to be a prude about tech hype.

But that does not make Cathie Wood right, or prevent Starship from being the Space Spruce Goose (say it three times).
…because the discussion is about working people being able to access things? It’s not relevant for people who can pay anything. I think you’re deliberately being confused.
In the united states people need jobs to have health care and exist without living on the streets. Not every job can be a maximally efficient non-stop grind, that sounds like a hell scape. There needs to be a bench, back fills, slack. Places where people show up, put in their work, go home, and the company makes money. Granted that only works for profitable places that can both pay back their equity holders, and provide an environment for employees. However it's sad to see people act like creating "nice" places to work is a bad thing or a weakness. You can do both.
Why is it so hard to launch a Mac instance on Amazon e2?
Why is it so hard to launch a mac instance on amazon e2?

I have been struggling with this for days. It's 10x harder than windows. Every single imaginable error possible.

It says "Launch initiation
Failed"

All the guides are obsolete.

The official amazon tutorial hasn't even been updated to account for the new interface.

It will not even explain the source of the error. Only that the initiation failed.

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Edit: I finally got the instance to launch. Now trying to get into the server. How do I set up the SSH client? It keep getting authentication errors. I have the private ppk and pem keys.
Lazy people are the loudest. The ambitious hard workers remain at Twitter.
It’s not kinda both. It’s the equivalent of scary quotes. By framing this as Koch funded, anti Koch people already made their decision and grabbed their pitch forks without reading anything past the headline.
Many Worlds: A Philosophy of Data Collaboration
FYI you are describing the pop-psych concept of "Ego depletion" which was in vogue ten years ago and then rigorously researched and thoroughly debunked five years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_depletion#Reproducibility_...
Sounds kinda like progressive growing except you're not doubling the resolution uniformly. See ProGAN and its successors. You'd still need to add a large block of weights at a time for performance reasons.

Edit: Ah I checked your profile and you already know all this. You probably should have mentioned that lol
The Koch’s aspire to the level of financial destruction for personal gain that Soros pulled off.
not for the journos and activists used to getting thousands of reactions to their hot takes

I'm watching this with mild amusement, knowing that they will all be back, and they will all pay for the checkmark
Except for the "casino" viewpoint ?
L. Ron Hubbard’s ship, the Apollo, was struck by a train while in port. The train derailed/jumped the track, plowed through a concrete barrier and impacted the ship.

Now arguably this was not a right-of-way situation; but I guess you could argue that stationary objects have right-of-way over vehicles.
For me it was a way to discover communities of technologists (Erlang, distributed systems), a way to interact with former co-workers, celebrate and commiserate major events… I doubt I would have found the best job I’ve ever had without it.
Moreover it is also microkernel-based.
Sounds like it, that’s why the headline has Koch in it, by framing it this way the anti-Koch crowd grabs their pitch forks without reading past the headline.
Hard no.

Initial code would still be developed by SME, who:

- Don't understand most programming abstractions

- Don't see the advantage of a clean codebase

- Would rather go back to their code spaghetti mess, than help figure out why some corner cases behave differently in a fresh codebase

- Would still submit changes to their code spaghetti mess and expect you to apply them to the cleaned codebase

I did what the author suggested (not in genomics, but in a different research-heavy scientific field) for a while and would not recommend it to anyone.

And that's not even taking compensation and work conditions into account.
The press and the rest of the chattering industry is so full of shit that it's amazing they can taste anything.

Today doesn't matter. Tomorrow is what matters. If you read the press Apple would be in bankruptcy, Intel would be unstoppable, and Nokia would rule the mobile world.

It's fun to read, but really, the chattering classes are full of myopic insta-pundits who can be safely ignored.
Compassion in Dying have some advice about advance decision making.

https://compassionindying.org.uk/making-decisions-and-planni...

It's important to get the right balance around specificity. You need to include some
I did SRE for years.

A lot of time it would end up being DNS or routing somewhere outside of our control.

Sometimes a disk would get close to filling up and a cron would clear it just in time so you would see decreasing performance then it would clear.

Other times we would have a customer that did something that we just did not expect with the system and it would cause SQL queries to slow down in ways we could not imagine. And it was transient so those would be hard to find or explain.

Or we would hit a limit in the load balancer (haproxy) in really odd ways. Too much traffic on the frontend or not enough capacity in the backend. And many other various ways of things not working. Haproxy was and still is amazing software. Really almost magical.
Legally I’d agree with you, but that just means he has to pay severance and whatnot which I suspect is just a line item to him. If I’m right he’s trying to go full “Sparta” and his actual goal is to end up with the best devs at the finish line.
Oh wow, looks like Signal requiring a phone number strikes a good balance.
I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at. This looks like a standard minivan layout, but without a driver. I'm pretty socially awkward myself, and I've always used taxis and such without any issue.
MBC is readable by someone with an undergraduate background in science. You'd probably want basic knowledge of biology, general chemistry and organic chemistry.

It's essentially an upper-level undergraduate textbook.
heh, you think scientists automatically understand computing nature?

You’ll be the janitor cleaning up their 20k LoC, one file Python with zero abstraction.

If this is already a thing at a FAANG, it will be worse at a pure science shop.
Spent the last hour binging - incredible what UIs I haven't seen before. Do you have a monthly donation option?
> Anyone's ability to broadcast on Twitter is only as far as the system dynamics of Twitter and its users allows them. Retweeting is not some pure expression of speech that needs to be "free", it is limited already shaped and limited by all kinds of incentives and technological particularities (character limit, anyone?).

There is no pure expression of speech in this sense. All speech is shaped and limited by incentives and technological particularities.
They are facing each other.

Edit: oops, I was looking at a chinese version in pictures lower down the page.
It's less than 1000 words ...

How can I say this? Would it not make sense to just /read/ things this short?
Usually, scientific oriented companies or organizations have little regard for software as a domain, craft, etc. It’s just a thing that gets in the way, despite being vital. It’s almost just a utility to them rather than a differentiator and active component of the advanced work going on.

For example, the Broad Institute is super interesting, but having applied there several times, they are esoteric, to say the least, in their hiring. They pay well below market, and their process is opaque and slow and sometimes downright non-communicative. They are also not really open to remote work, so you gotta move there and commute to the heart of Cambridge. Budgets are set by folks maybe a couple years out of a PhD program, who will also make technical decisions in terms of the software design (the latter an assumption given my experience in similar places).

These organizations are also pretty traditional in their selection of stacks. Good luck trying to use a functional-first language, aside from maybe Scala (usually lots of Java stacks), and be prepared to write lots of Python, the only language that exists to many scientists. I once saw a Python signature (function name and arguments) spill over 10-20 lines, in a file over 10,000 lines long. They had given up on another software stack because “it wasn’t working for them”.

This is all painting with broad strokes, of course. But I think scientific organizations that would embrace software as a major component of their technological and scientific development would do well. There’s a lot of opportunity.
FDA Green Lights Cultivated Meat
> When you haven't connected to a friend in months, you're a shitty friend.

Needlessly harsh overgeneralization, I think.

I hate phone calls for the sake of catching up, and I have plenty of friends who are the same. We'll go months without talking until there's some reason to - maybe I'm going to be visiting their city, or I want to let them know that my wife is pregnant, or I just watched a new TV show that I think they'll love. When those things happen, I text, and we chat and maybe see each other, and our friendship isn't ever diminished just because we haven't spoken in months.

I'm very happy with these friendships, and my friends are very happy with these friendships, and yet you're telling me that we're all shitty friends. Maybe you need to be contacted regularly by someone in order to consider them a friend, but not everyone shares that need. Other people aren't shitty friends just because they don't meet your needs.