skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, it can be faster to figure out how to plug two computers together with a direct Ethernet cable and set up static networking and run netcat or a Python simple HTTP server to transfer such large amounts of data, than it is to copy it onto the crappy slow USB thumb drive that I have in my keychain.

Sure, physically moving the thumb drive from one computer to another takes virtually no time - the bottleneck is getting the bits on and off the thumb drive, which can be quite slow depending on how cheap a thumb drive you happen to have lying around. I would be happy to be able to sustain 100 Mbps (12 MB/s) on transfers to/from my thumb drive!
Ironically, the article falsely quotes Einstein at the end.
Carpal tunnel syndrome is nothing to take lightly.
Considering switching towards tech because finance isn’t fulfilling. Seems like a grass greener problem frankly
It's an animation blog. With context it's obvious the blog is going to discuss the "Rudolph" animation, not the song, since the latter has no place on such a blog.
You don't even have to ban it outright; you just ban making new ones (though even the CFC ban wasn't 1000% complete; there's been evidence that some companies were 'faking finding old supplies').

People who "really want to" will keep old ones working and most people will slowly start using the new ones.

After all you can still get a horse-drawn carriage if you want to, and you can drive a Model T, but few people bother.
Pedantically, we don’t need to bring back the dinosaurs since they are already here. All birds are dinosaurs. If we want to bring back the non-avian dinosaurs, cause a mass extinction of mammals (we are doing a great job at that) and then wait millions of years.
I think the hard thing about mental work is you never feel like you've finished something. There's always more work to do and new features to build. The appeal of something like woodworking is it has a finish, and you have a tangible thing at the end. I think lifting and running scratch the physical exertion itch that the desk job leaves me with.

At the end of the day, if you have a pretty easy going role that pays well enough you can always take the big pay and fill your time with hobbies and what not that do bring you joy and fulfillment.
Right, I think we're on the same page here. My underlying assertion is that the overall policy impact is more prevalently phenomena like your last paragraph than the first three. Surely the policymakers have observed or predicted this and are operating on theory more sophisticated than macro 101. What is that theory?
> I see using the choice syntax as PROLOG-esque, rather than Python-esque.

I didn’t think otherwise. Many functional languages have comprehension syntax, and I prefer declarative programming.

> When using this pattern, it's clearer to be able to express the space with the shortest syntax rather than the verbose one.

How is

x <- [1,2,3]

or

x <- {1,2,3}

more verbose than

x := (1|2|3)

? Also, the first and especially second are basically identical to mathematical syntax, but the first implies order better.
Hmm. I've had friends stating they feel like going into something agricultural.

But consider that on that idyllic countryside farm, you need to wake up at 5 to feed the cows on a fine summer day. Also on that stormy day when you have to wade through half a food of mud to the barn * . And also when the snow is up to your waist * .

Another solution is using that income from your cushy tech job to get some fulfilling hobbies?

* I have waded through half a foot of mud and waist high snow, but recreationally. That was fun, but it's a different thing when you have to do it every day because you must.
Thanks! I added it to https://dosyago.com
Inb4 "No way I am just sooo fulfilled by improving ad targeting on a social media website."
I mostly did, and it saved it as a passion and hobby to me. If your heart lies elsewhere, go, but dont dare ignore where and how tech increasingly steers the world.
Why is this? Is Norway famed for finding and lifting ships? Presumably Norway found it because it's in a lake in Norway?
I don't know, plenty of "normal" sports have complexity that most people don't understand. Like, how many people really understand the batter-pitcher duel in baseball? That's the very core of the game but most people just see "pitcher throw ball, batter swing, random result".
I used to do this to other websites (we won't go into why) - one thing that may help you is to always return your HTML responses gzipped, regardless of whether the client asked for them or not, so ignore Accept-Encoding preferences. This makes it harder for their server to rewrite your URLs on demand, and most clients will accept gzipped responses.
Don’t forget to check the link about Amanda Ghassaei, it’s halfway through the article and it has many interactive web demos/simulations: https://amandaghassaei.com/apps/
It's still decades off but as I understand it, this was the hardest nut to crack. They got what, 2.5 megajoules out of 2.1 in?

I might be in the opposite camp as you but this is very much a "where were you when—" moment for me. I'm sure someone will pop in to disappoint me but I think the point is it's no longer a hypothetical exercise.
Multi Gen LRU in Linux 6.x might change this figures
The US currently implements (and I support) one of the most thorough versions of religious egalitarianism anywhere in the world, which dates to the work of James Madison (whose writing on the topic is instructive). The UK, on the other hand, has a state religion (Anglicanism), and many countries in Europe (including Germany and Sweden) retain a "church tax". Does that qualify as "Gilead"?
The thing that would be surprising is if they discovered something new to do; but this seems like more refinement of what they already know how to do.

Continual refinement may finally get us where we need to be, but it's going to take a long time.
Hasn't this happened before? Reading the History of eSports will show 'pretty much' the same thing happening in the 80's with High Score Arcade tournaments, then in the 90's with Console Game Championships, etc...

We may see another round of interest when the new wave of gaming systems matures, but I think this will always be the case. Maybe next time people will learn from the past?
I mean that's kind of ignoring rural problems though... They cannot afford the same type of infrastructure that a city has because the area the communities span is way bigger and in general just different. The problems are different so you need a different solution. I think this is more akin to the other solution solves 20% of problems those rural area's did not even have but now have to maintain the excessive solutions to their detriment.

I do agree that it requires looking ahead but that's kind of what the OP is saying the solutions they are being given are not looking ahead to the realistic problems they are actually facing no?
I only got a small glimpse into this world (specifically, esports betting), but the thing that makes the most sense to me is that esports is driven by gambling. That's the economic engine under the hood.

Might be wrong, but it kinda looked like that was what was going on, just from some of the numbers floating around, and seeing that was the first time esports-as-an-industry made any sense to me at all, as far as how the economics might work out.
A very great deal depends on urgency. Here in the US when it was erroneously through I might have cancer I was in the specialist's office in less then 24 hours. Granted, that was a "Oh, we're not going to be too busy tomorrow morning, come in and we'll make room for you" partial special case. Other times I've waited a lot longer for a specialist's appointment, but those absolutely weren't high urgency situations.
London gets its own way, with its own affairs, a lot - it already has a mayor, an elected assembly, and its own transport governance.
They figured out Enron too, after tens of billions worth of damage. Didn’t stop them.

I do agree that the EU isn’t likely to be hands off enough to ever let it get to that point though. It was a particularly dumb set of regulatory decisions that let/encouraged Enron to do what they did.

But market forces are powerful motivators.
Well, get an older one that does not use the chips in the toners. The new ones are iffy.
Best hack:

Rewriting a C++ matrix library to change its API back in 1996/1997, for a 100x speedup.

It was a nice library... It had things like a = b + c; ... but back then, C++ really didn't have tools to support that syntax with great performance. Especially mixed with a bad allocator, that prevented multi-threaded allocation.
During the pandemic real reacecar drivers turned to the e-version of their sports and there was even some coverage of mainstream racing channels of those virtual races given they couldn't do the real thing.

For anyone who has tried virtual racing (especially with high-end setups), the level of authenticity of the experience is actually incredibly high, and racing simulation is even actively used as part of real life driver training and car development. I think there's a healthy community in virtual racing as is and I can easily see continued and growing investment in it... its an incredibly compelling way to bring people into the sport and can easily be a revenue generator in its own right.
> The problem is; one needs to get to the point in the hiring process where one gets the chance to demonstrate competence.

If you follow the same path as everyone else, yes. A "hack" of sorts I've done for this is to find things to improve at a place you want to work, front-load the cost of improving them via a small demo/report, and then reach out to someone in the company who'd find it valuable and start building a relationship. In a lot of cases, you end up getting plugged in directly and can skip the resume roulette.

There's a ton of wisdom in this quote that I picked up from Derek Sivers via his music teacher, Kimo Williams: "the standard pace is for chumps." There's always a backdoor to get what you want, you just have to be more creative than the other people to find it.
ChatGPT-based pithy quote generator incoming.
The “opposite” thing you’re describing sounds like a tarpit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpit_(networking)
Cold boot to i3 and launch Alacrity:

bash-5.1$ uptime
08:38:18 up 1 min, 1 user, load average: 0.18, 0.06, 0.02
bash-5.1$ free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 63997 674 61498 129 1824 62579
Swap: 8191 0 8191
bash-5.1$ cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora release 35 (Thirty Five)
> It’s an example of a coordination problem that that darn nanny state is decent at handling.

I agree with you, but I think you're being condescending.

I agree with you that the industry has changed and certain ways of life wont be sustainable in that context. It's unfortunate.
Why do parish Sheriffs get any say on the release of someone incarcerated at the state level?

>..In October 2017, Sheriff Steve Prator of Caddo Parish, which includes Shreveport, told reporters he was concerned that a recent criminal justice effort in the state was bad for parish governments. Not only would it result in higher crime rates among the “bad” former prisoners, but it would also deprive his staff of free labor provided by the “good ones.”

That's not surprising in the least. Much of the Deep South still holds on to Lost Cause ideology ideals, including the idea that the state security apparatus should be used to extract free labor from The Other.
Would it be possible to host an fdroid repo on GitHub pages?
What precisely did you enter into GPT?

Just the raw source code, or other parts of the website?

Which text did you use to ask it for a description?

Can you try progressively removing parts of the source code to see what the minimal version is which makes GPT say that the code renders a snow effect?
Wayland as a protocol may be designed to be stutter-free, but the gnome compositor is very clearly not designed to be that. For example, it will happily request new frames or send new configuration events despite already being behind in processing what the client has produced so far. Which likely will make it fall even further behind, creating a bad circle.
> On the Metal has been discontinued

They started hosting conversations on Twitter spaces instead, which were then published as a podcast called Oxide & Friends: https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends
Interestingly enough, if you search for "telegra", the search results shown display a message "Including results for "telegram."
Show HN: AIaC – AI Powered Infrastructure-as-Code Generator
The US did it for much longer off the coast of Southern California and other places
Irrelevant in this case. You don't need a double-blind experiment to determine suicide rates, as I already said.
Not everything is expressed in cost, externalities like the looks and intrusiveness of something do matter.

1 fusion plant has less NIMBYs to deal with than wind-on-land, for example.

But yes, could be that still it's too expensive by the time it becomes available. By then I hope we can make a fusion plant so small it fits on a space ship and power an Epstein drive :-)
SC2 was absolutely not the first esport. Quake3, counterstrike and Starcraft 1 were all big (relatively) esports back in the day with professional players and teams.
Fish factories just smell. There's not much you can do about that.
It really depends what you're working on. If you go to a one product company you'll be stuck forever improving it. In other niches, for example embedded-ish, you can have multiple solutions churning the customer's bits in production in just a couple years.
Great Civilization
Why does that matter though?

No writer does this. Why are programmers obsessed with word length to such a degree?
Posting here because I’m worried about personal burnout leading to an increase in OP’s sentiments. I welcome any advice from experienced folk on how to avoid taking on too much responsibility or otherwise setting myself up for burnout. So far I’ve had a very nice time as a programmer, and I find the work fulfilling and fun (based on feeling like I’m truly generating value that gets consumed to the benefit of others’ wellbeing).
No.

> my head-canon for Gilead (to be clear: a theocratic state, eg Afghanistan, Israel, Iran, Saudi, the Vatican etc.)
You put the finger on exactly what I find incredible about the recent progress in ML - the reason I wrote this post was to see how much I could de-mystify these state-of-the-art models for myself, and the conclusion is that (after the model is trained) it all really boils down to a couple of matrix multiplications! All the impressive results we see, they're not coming from an extremely complicated system ('complicated' like a fighter jet is, with many different subsystems, which you'd need to read many books to memorize).

Of course, there's all the secret sauce to actually getting the models to learn anything, and all the empirical progress we make to make the training more efficient (ReLUs, etc). But how many of those are fundamental, vs. simply efficiency shortcuts? And: if you'd asked me 10 years ago what I thought it would take to get the kind of output these large models are getting these days, I would not have guessed anything nearly as simple as what those models actually are.
If all talented scientists and engineers do is work on boondoggles, maybe it is not so vital to pay them?
I participated in several online leagues and in person tournaments for Counter-Strike and Quake III before Starcraft II was released. The Evo Moment 36 [0], still one of the most iconic fighting games match, happened in 2004, six years before Starcraft II's release. Starcraft Brood War and Warcraft III both had tournaments and world rankings. There's been a culture of in person tournaments at arcades and lans for as long as there's been arcades and lan ports. If these aren't esports, where are you drawing the line to say Starcraft II was the first?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Moment_37
Have you ever took an ice bath?
I liked this site initially, but decided to read the ToS and was a bit turned off:

> To the extent that you provide User Content, you hereby grant us (and represent and warrant that you have the right to grant) an irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free and fully-paid-up, worldwide license to reproduce, distribute, publicly display and perform, prepare derivative works of, incorporate into other works and otherwise use and exploit such User Content, and to grant sublicenses of the foregoing rights.

So not only can Meta use these cutting edge techniques in their products without needing to request permission from the implementer, they can also sell those derivatives to anyone and practically have full ownership over what was submitted. Furthermore:

> You assume all risks associated with the use of your User Content.

and

> For the avoidance of doubt, Meta Platforms does not claim ownership of User Content you submit or other content made available for inclusion via our Website.

So, if anything goes wrong, it is the implementer’s fault entirely, but Meta may freely profit from those submissions in any way they see fit.

Sure, this is a cynical reading of the ToS, but I’m assuming the ToS will only ever be used in Meta’s favor…
You may not be as far as you think.

If you've done 'proof by induction', that's listed there (beginning of post 6), and should hopefully give you some grounding.

Several of these are not as complicated as they may look. Though some of them I certainly have no ideas on at all.
> They got what, 2.5 megajoules out of 2.1 in?

Of laser energy into a tiny control volume that doesn't consider how much energy went into the laser systems. If you draw the control volume around the building and see that the lasers require vastly more energy than what came out, I think you'll be less excited, right?

We've been getting lots of energy out of fusion since the early 1950s with thermonuclear bombs. We know we can get energy out of a control volume. But is it a practical energy source is still the question imho.
I'd have to think more about "proudest" but here is a recent one:

Reshaped RAID by

* LVM moving entire storage off to external iscsi SAN
* wiping the controller config and recreating it from scratch in desired layout
* migrating it back from SAN

(before the whiners, it had backups and it was a node in cluster so even if it died no availability loss).

Similar weird admin trick was

* removing all of the nonessential LVs in LVM
* creating a big fat file in /dev/shm (essentially ramdisk)
* migrating storage to that file
* shredding content of hard drives
* voila, shredding drives of system without restarting and with still having ability to clean shutdown it.
I wonder if we should seriously consider moving people away from such cold climates and towards warmer ones. Air conditioning is cheaper and coincidentally happens at about the same time as maximum solar power.
Fulfilment is found by some people by improving spiritual health.

So cut out unwholesome bad things and replace them with good, love, kindness and beauty.

People find solace in God and meditation.
> E-sports is essentially advertising for computer games.

No more than live sports are advertising for sports equipment. The real money in sporting events is in the events themselves: advertising dollars, gate receipts, and merchandise. Esports isn't terribly different, except that the gate receipts and merch sales are much lower. The revenue of the game itself is secondary, especially since the publisher rarely plays a major role.
Yes, the issue with Linux is not Linux. It's the hardware. Mainly the processor. I'm amazed that Qualcomm, Broadcom or someone else cannot release a decent ARM based processor that can compete with the M1 in terms of performance and power consumption. I really hope there will come something in 2023.
I mean, I'm personally not at all surprised, but it might be disconcerting to people who actually buy Musk's schtick.
It is you who clearly need to step back and look at Sweden who didn't follow WHO lockdowns and it is doing better than Australia.
I'm generally with the detractors on a lot of this. I don't think that bringing back dinosaurs is the best idea. I do think getting more diversity with grazing animal populations and increasing the numbers for ruminants would be beneficial. A lot of the grasslands have deteriorated as the numbers of grazing populations have declined. Nature is an ecosystem, not a mono crop.

On the flip side, just with breeding, we've seen what variance can do to bee populations (africanized bees), and how a lack of diverse pollinators are less effective than honey bees alone.
(To prevent further confusion, I think you have a unit typo -- the final result should be 8100 kiB or 7.9 MiB)
Raspberry Pi inventory improving, could reach pre-pandemic levels in 2023
You can be able to identify those requests by inspecting the TLS cipher. Cloudflare Workers has that value in `request.cf.tlsCipher`[0]. Keep in mind the collateral damage it may have, though.

[0] https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/runtime-apis/reque...
The Freakishly Strong Base
90% of humans don't speak English, so I'm not sure that's a compelling comparison case.

If we're talking 90% of English writing people, I'd take that bet any day just on the basis that most of the communication I've ever seen isn't written so passively.
My favorite hacks mostly came from when I worked in a robotics+computer vision research lab, ~13 years ago.

If you've never worked with stereo vision systems, they have multiple cameras as input. The algorithms need to know the exact position of each camera. These calibrations are extremely sensitive - if the camera moves even a teensy bit, the algorithms start to fail because the image features aren't where they expect. Anytime we had a bad calibration, we needed to rerun calibration. This was a process where we waved a checkerboard in front of the cameras at tons of different angles, and software would process all the images and deduce the pose of each camera. It typically took at least an hour, and sometimes it'd fail and you'd need to redo it. Typically we'd need to recalibrate systems every few weeks, no matter how hard we tried to make the whole rig rigid.

Anyways, one day I accidentally drove the robot's sensor head into a table right before a demo with the people funding the project. The program started spitting out "BAD CALIBRATION" warnings. This would basically mean we'd need to cancel or postpone the demo to recalibrate, which would look really bad since they traveled all the way to our office only to be told "never mind!"

As a last-ditch effort. I grabbed the cameras and started wiggling them back and forth, and managed to force them into an orientation where the calibration worked. The demo went off perfectly. I later told the researchers about it and they hated it. "You should just always do calibration," etc.

My favorite hack that I've seen someone else do was at Google, where some specific project had a weird test that checked some ratio like "lines of tests to lines of code." Someone checked in a test with the comment "If you're not cheating you're not trying", and it just had the same assertion over and over for hundreds of lines to satisfy the metric. I never looked into why the person couldn't just disable the test, but I like the simplicity of the solution.
Side note: great idea for a website. This could be really helpful. You got a new user here.
NASDAQ has moved the matching engine to AWS Outposts

https://www.nasdaq.com/press-release/nasdaq-completes-migrat...
Going defcon3 on proxies

You can also write some obfuscated inline JavaScript that checks the current hostname and compares to the expected one and redirects when not aligned.
Going from know-nothing to "know-at-least-enough" in a few dense fields, I've found that the concepts, once you get them, are usually pretty plain and straightforward. It's the custom terminology, unique vernacular, and commonly used abstractions that can make it so hard to internalize initially.