skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another deep-seafood story: Alvin was used by Tjeerd van Andel and other Scripps scientists to visit the Galapagos ridge hydrothermal vents and study the ecosystem there. They found giant molluscs, each the size of a grapefruit. Recall that these organisms, living in an isolated ecosystem two miles underwater and visible through the windows of what was basically a wet spaceship were pretty much the closest we’ve come so far to finding aliens.

The dive team harvested some, brought them to the surface, and… ate them for dinner. Apparently they were blood red like steak and had a strong mineral taste. They stopped after some other bright spark got out the Geiger counter — black smoker fauna accumulate unusual amounts of radiation.

Apparently the dive site was named Clam Bake. I don’t know if the name came before or after the mega-mussel meal. Heaven help us if alien life on Europa is discovered by a hungry Dutchman.
Just a crazy thought, can you make boats out of solidified salt? Perhaps with a mold of some kind
UFOs are no laughing matter for us: Behind the scenes of France's hunters
adding: they call it "backup codes" built into android phones even with 2FA turned off

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1187538

My old android phone had some kind of hidden code generation tool for Google that worked even when it was offline without a working sim.

Never seen that before or can figure how it works. Must have been some pre-shared encryption before it went offline.

I think it was buried under one of the "try another way" options and they walk you through it with instructions.

(I do NOT have 2FA turned on)
People usually write their goodbyes so that people who are interested know they weren't banned ... ban deleted or other and no long reside there, as such they will not continue to check that particular e-space. Many goodbyes go on to air grievances / problems that ultimately left them little room to stay. He's just opposed to the direction Twitter is headed.
> Personally I think fission power's failure is a political and marketing one.

I think it's because of the occasional catastrophic failures that spatter our short history with the technology. Fukushima made headline news around the world, leaked large amounts of caesium-137 into the ocean, caused a 20km evacuation radius, is projected to take a total of 30-40 years to clean up, and people think of it as not that bad of a nuclear incident.

In comparison burning fossil fuels is a classic tragedy of the commons problem. Way less sensational. You can do math and say nuclear has a safer track record than coal/oil. You can point to design, engineering or management faults with historical failures. It doesn't change the fact that nuclear had a very fair chance at being the future and shown itself to not be trustworthy. If humanity was a little more perfect maybe we could have pulled it off
Funnily enough, this is a pretty succinct description of the article that's being called a puff piece.
Same here.

At massive scale, sure, it might make sense to run your own infrastructure and data centres. Some may even run their own private cloud and get the benefits we see from the public cloud today from their own IT depts.

The vast majority of us however had nothing in common with the above. Like you we ran the hardware, and to the business, we were never more than a cost centre and anything pitched to the broader business to "improve" outcomes for the development teams were seen as a cost without benefit.

I find a lot of people who are proponents for getting rid of the cloud never had to manage their own infrastructure, and have very rose tinted glasses for a reality that never existed for most.
Microsoft's gain here is that they hurt their competitors, and they have demonstrated that they are willing to spend virtually unlimited sums of money to do that in certain cases.

When MS bought HoTMaiL, it was running on Unix. So, MS forced them to switch to Windows. And the service failed. So MS doubled the number of computers to throw at the problem, and forced them again. And failed again. And MS doubled the number of computers to through at the problem again, and finally HoTMaiL was now a turd but it wasn't completely totally dead.

Which meant that MS won and Unix lost. It didn't matter how much it cost or who they hurt in the process, they made that dog talk.

Same shit, different year.
I’ve taught mathematics for over 20 years in higher education and I strongly disagree with your view on the relative ease of learning math on one’s own. Let’s take a simple example. Here’s the distributive property for rings:

a(b + c) = ab + ac

It’s easy for me to convince someone that because of this property we get the following:

3(x + 2) = 3x + 6

It’s much harder to convince someone that

3x + 6 = 3(x + 2)

It’s hard to convince someone that factoring is just using the distributive property reading right to left instead of left to right. It’s much harder to convince them of this just from reading it in a book. The nuance will be lost. They need examples that one goes over in a classroom to see this and a book can’t contain enough examples without being too many pages or without boring the reader with what appears to them to be minutia. They can’t grasp the nuance from reading. They grasp it from doing problems and being guided on the problems at the time they do them.

Books and videos can not replace a teacher. Your experience is not the norm and you should not use it as a guide for what is realistically possible for most people.
Elon Musk is asking to follow QAnon
> I know server admins do this shit like in a couple of minutes

Yeah, but only from the second time on, and just until our notes become so crowded that we start gambling on re-learning being faster than maybe finding wherever the solution was documented ;)
Apple: One day everyone will have a knowledge navigator
Although they probably wouldn't want to live with all their emails being discarded because gmail becomes so easy to hack and everyone assumes gmail accounts are spammers.
Maybe I am missing something, but if the goal is to connect to C-based plugin interface using C++, what's with the simple approach of writing a C wrapper for each C++ function? Then one has a single global/static variable of type "basic_plugin" with virtual methods, and the "onload" method creates either basic_plugin or extended_plugin instance, depending on where it is defined.

That said, libffi's closure API is super neat! This approach was very popular in Borland's Delphi/C++ builder products and their VCL library, and when I moved to regular C/C++, I missed it. Nice to know that this function is still available if I ever need it.
Riight. I've been following a bunch of Twitch streamers for years, none have migrated to YouTube. (as much as I want them to, I personally find the viewing experience on YouTube live, is much better then Twitch)
I think actually the inverse is true; that market socialist systems would quickly evolve into capitalist systems. The main reason is that the capitalist benefits from what economists call the free rider problem, while communal projects don't get the same benefits. And there is no way to prevent some enterprising individual from capitalising on it and outcompeting all of the socialist firms without an enforcement mechanism such as the state to punish them when they do so.
So they taste tested a sandwich soaked in sea water and said it was palatable?
That opening statement is remarkable. Thanks for sharing the link.
There is a some amount of useless churn, but it's also the case that things are getting better, so that being decent at the current thing can be more productive and useful than being a master of the old.
I've always understood it as:

A bachelor's is an extension of high school. You show you can assimilate knowledge at a professional level.

A masters shows you can do extensive research of existing knowledge in a narrow field.

A doctorate shows you can perform novel research and add knowledge to a field.

...but perhaps that is not really applicable to all fields of study. In any case, "glorified dropout" is imho too harsh, as it implies a failure. For most people, the economic tradeoff in getting a masters degree or higher (both in terms of tuition and time lost not working) simply makes it a bad choice.
i wrote a script that played Facebook bejeweled for me. took screenshot and then pick out the pixel colors from a grid since they're all different and mostly static. then simulated some clicks. it was a bad player but stupid fast so it racked up the score nonetheless.
Reverse engineered the proprietary cryptographic hashes used by drivers of a major game console so I could use the devices for digital currency mining.
> it appears that Ghosn wants to pay them additional money

I feel like what Ghosn is quoted saying sounds more like "I don't want to admit that I don't want to pay" rather than "I am planning to pay additional compensation"

But regardless, the story goes on and hasn't become less interesting.

Next chapter might even be called "revenge" where we see a father/son team abduct a wealthy business man from Lebanon to bring him to Japan if he doesn't pay up.
I had a huge scare when I moved to a different country and my sim from my home country stopped receiving SMS for OTP. I got locked out of everything, my financials, emails, work etc.

I paid a premium amount for international roaming to get access to incoming SMS and changed the phone number for OTP. That was anxiety full day.

Later realised that I need to backup my recovery codes on my system somewhere.
Well, you certainly have your mind made up.

By the way, the founders were skeptical about democracy too, and weren't sure whether it would work.

They tried to mitigate the obvious problems with it (as Thiel points out) by creating a Constitutional Republic instead, dampening the threat of the tyranny of the majority.

It's been reasonably successful so far, and has lasted longer than some of them thought it would.

Perhaps they should be scorned as well?
OpenAI should have done that before releasing it and they need to go further and actually create detectors for this. The same with Stable Diffusion and the rest of them.

They probably knew that they needed to urgently create detectors due to misuse, but still released it anyway.
Opt-in is pretty useless. If users followed security procedures, people would use strong unique passwords and we wouldn't need 2fa.
This may be an overkill.

But I would argue most projects don't even need a cloud. Just go to Server Hunter, find a server up to your specs, and save 90-95% of your cloud costs.

These days you can scale vertically or horizontally for a long time without moving to a cloud.
> Maybe the Alameda execs are trying to say they just made irresponsible gambles (like a shitty Wall St investor) but SBF is the one who secretly covered the massive losses with FTX customer assets without telling the public and was responsible for the "dual accounting" issue where deposits were counted twice. Among all the other things that they did wrong.

Here’s the crazy thing. Maybe they pierce the veil and say the two companies acted as one, but hedge funds fail all the time. The fraud was SBF using FTX to prop up Alameda…
Agree. I had to calculate the cost of running and upgrading an existing HPC infrastructure that was approaching it's end of life vs cloud. In house HPC beat cloud cost in almost all scenarios.
> resulted in the loss of AM radio, which is not available in the MCU 2.

Tesla cars can't receive terrestrial radio? That seems like a serious oversight.
"everyone would simply choose not to enjoy the benefits of private property" isn't a very compelling argument. In fact, it's observably untrue. We can look at societies that forbade the ownership of private property and these systems always gravitated toward it in spite of state enforcement. People didn't gravitate away from it. Black markets thrived in these economies.
Just do it.

This is most popular mistake of people, to think about business, or to discuss it, instead of do.

Because idea is nothing, but implementation is all. History know many fails with exceptionally good ideas, and much less number of successes, where idea was moderate, but with good implementation.

And "book" knowledge at beginning is Your enemy, because book written in past, but You will implement in future, when old knowledge could become obsolete. Later, You will find ways to use obsolete knowledge.

Best friend of business is real field business experience. Also good, to find right partner, who have business experience.
So this, then? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shy51E-MU8Y (not rigging, but maybe you're talking about adding Mixamo to it?)
he may have been left leaning before but that label seems debatable at best for the last couple years

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/10/what-happened-to-matt-taibbi.html
Angelo Badalamenti has died
Really 2FA is just a complex way to give users a strong unique password. Everything else about it is security theatre (e.g. why do you care about your password and secret stored in the same place, when your session cookie is just stored in one place and all the attacker needs)
Different Types of Valves
yeah I also tried them once out of curiosity. I don't think I have an attention disorder, so it might've affected me differently than others, but adderall made me like super focused on everything

I'd imagine if I did it more often, I'd be a more productive programmer. At the same time, idk what the health risks are for that and I'm already a bit of a hypochondriac as it is... so I probably wouldn't risk liver damage or whatever is associated with long term use
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rabbit#In_popular_cultur...
So the energy that is cheaper than coal and driving operating coal plants out of business will make the cost of producing it go up when the share increases?

These mental gymnastics routines are olympic level.
You called a former president of the United States and a successful serial entrepreneur sociopathic cult leaders.

And yet somehow, you're redirecting to accuse me of making your very clearly biased post political.

This is what I mean by how our ideology colors our thinking.
Buddy replace “building airplanes and flying them” with “growing food and eating it” and you’re describing agriculture until the 20th century.

We’re humans. We fuck shit up. Our goal is to do it only when necessary.
Most of the capturable value in education is signal of acquired knowledge and other factors.

I misread what you wrote here. I thought your point was that the value of education was merely as a signal for knowledge rather than in the acquisition of knowledge. Rereading your post I see what you were getting at is the capturable value from an ed tech/ed business perspective. Sorry about the misreading.
A quick search confirms that are -plenty- of nice, boutique hotels (in downtown areas of the usual fancy cities) offering perfectly decent rooms in the under $300/night range, even on short notice. The only reason we go for the Ritz's price range ($600-$900) is to tell ourselves (or others) that we stayed at the Ritz.

The ability to distinguish between the cost-value ratios of the two categories -- and to understand that yes, even for a large, successful company, unnecessary expenses of this sort do add up -- is precisely the sensibility that GitLab[*] is looking for.

[*] Again, a hypothetical GitLab - the Ritz-Carlton example comes from the blogpost author, and not from GitLab.
I actually did something similar with the family computer and Windows 95. I didn't know anything about how computers work so I started deleting files and seeing if they were needed. I actually learned a little bit about the operating system from doing this.
Not sure if it works in Windows 11 yet, but Classic Start Menu is a prerequisite of mine on all Windows PC's I use for any length of time.
I wonder why UC Berkeley doesn't build a proper HPC, they have a Data School and should provide this service for free to their faculties. We have "free" HPC resources at TU Dresden (Germany) (meaning: faculties do not need to pay for using HPC resources and they are not calculated in project budgets). I once applied for a job at University of Virginia, and they didn't have a HPC - everything was bought from AWS. When students accidently left stuff running, the professor had to beg Amazon to reimburse the fees. This was the main reason I was hesitant taking the offer. I even calculated building my own "Cloud" with a Proxmox cluster at home, so that I could teach students the basic stuff.
This is also true for the other 99% of full time streamers who average less than 300 viewers and make a bit more than a cashier at Chick-Fil-A. Most of them leave the industry after 4 years and have to find a new life for themselves with nothing to show from it.

I get that its an emotionally demanding job, and I get that the people who get to the top are likely to be the kind of people who will work themselves to death to stay there, but like, its not actually "competitive" when you're worried about making 2 million dollars a year instead of 15.
But what does it have to do with this thread or the comment you replied to? If I wanted to read random wikipedia snippets I'd be at wikipedia.org, not news.ycombinator...
Great! At least we agree on one count. Now, from what you say, I see only two possible logical conclusions:

1. People only deposit their crypto on LP pools they can read and verify, on chains whose code they can read and verify. Since people with such technical know-how is very limited, there is not much liquidity in the "liquidity pools" and thus the DEXes are virtually unusable.

2. People deposit their money to DEXes without reading and verifying every single smart contracts and Blockchain code. DEXes have sufficient liquidity but the depositors sometimes wake up with all their money gone in the air.

If you are arriving at a third possibility, naturally you are making a different assumption than I made in the above two points. What are the assumptions that leads you there? I would really like to understand.
Back in the nineties, I walked out of a training session on animal capture and flew to a little island in the south. I was surfing its eastern shore, when my vision began to flash.
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> sure, maybe they're accessible and work for 98% of people and use cases which is lovel...

After experiencing many different proprietary apps, working professionally on both Windows and Mac systems, and studying the principles of intuitive design, I have come to the conclusion that nearly any organization who "designs for 98% of users" is actually just terrible at design and couldn't design for the 2% of power users if they tried. Either they lack the talent, or they lack the organizational flexibility to hand the reins over to the actually talented people.
I guess they want to detect frauds too (people pretending to be of the company culture).
I believe this is what Israel does in the Mediterranean with apparently no ill effects:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00431...

Given the greater currents in the Pacific and Indian oceans I’m sure this could be managed well by dumping out to sea, although I’m sure many plants just pump out near the local beach.
How to Fire Your Boss: A Workers Guide to Direct Action
Neutrality does not "implicitly support the status quo" unless you believe the status quo is stable or exists in a local maxima. That clearly isn't true however because the status quo is dramatically different today than it was historically, and I wouldn't attribute activism for the bulk of those changes.
Nope. I remember driving on some mountain road a while ago and the sign to tune into the frequency was flashing, but there was no way to get an AM station.
https://research-it.berkeley.edu/services-projects/high-perf...
I've made hardlinks for mine to Prog64 and Prog32 for years and it's helped with ergonomics.
The article doesn't seem to make a very strong case for the severity of this "scourge". Just like grades or degrees mean little without knowing about the school they came from, job titles, especially their implied seniority, don't mean much without knowledge of the company. Is this a problem worth worrying about, or just a fun rant?
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Thermal Diode
“Spend money like it’s your own”

“I like spending all the money I have. Every dollar left unspent represents labor that has been given away without enjoying the fruits of that labor. If I die I won’t take any money with me.”

“You’re fired, you’re not a good fit.”

“You fired me for discriminatory purposes and used your intentionally vague travel and expense policy as an excuse, I’m suing you.”

I see 100 person startups with policies like this, not major corporations like Gitlab. Yikes.
> Considering the majority of people are still playing new games, that would suggest the newer games are better.

Following that logic, mobile games must be much better than non-mobile ones. Surely soon we'll start seeing competitive Candy Crush being played with millions of viewers
So, an average person can make a living wage on income from YouTube/Twitch royalties?
> The wikipedia article [1] admits differences were found (including by the APA), yet doesn't show the results

Its because racial difference in IQ is pseudo science. There is no biological basis for the claim there is a difference in intelligence, the racial lines are arbitrary, and the metric used is biased, it is even disputed whether it is possible to use a single metric to assess something as broad and vague as intelligence.

The wikipedia article doesn’t need to show specific data for such pseudo-science. It would be like showing specific data for how much more temperamental Scorpios are relative to Libras, using some arbitrary Venus score. Describing these results is giving this plenty credit, there is no need to give it any more, especially since it is used by bad people with nefarious agenda.
If you are 2 years out of college you might not know what that compensation should be. You might not even know what the increased responsibility of the title should be.

But you do appreciate the bragging rights of the title, and so that is all you get.

E.g., senior means I'm officially leet. Not that I have responsibilities.
I remember in college seeing a LOT of OS2/Warp floppies, but I never saw any machines running them.

Now I know why.
It's not just tech companies. I've seen non-tech companies with internal engineering teams hire mid-level skill people at Principal Engineer. By their measure, actual Staff to Principal engineers would be something like Distinguished Engineer, Senior Distinguished Engineer, or Executive Distinguished Engineer.

The heart of the problem is that most companies have no real path that isn't into management.
I think Photoshop was around 22 floppies, but things from that time period are quite fuzzy
There is notable overlap between bullshit jobs and inflated titles though. Poke around any large corp and you'll find plenty of "Global Head of Value Engineering Strategy" types, often 'heading' a team of 1, namely themselves.
“Funny enough, Tesla CEO Elon Musk blocked Electrek’s and my personal Twitter accounts after we posted that article.“

Well, who wants to buy a Tesla knowing that if you complain about their service you could be banned from Twitter? And what if he-who-shall-not-be-criticized does an LBO of, say, Wells Fargo (remember, he wants to make Twitter an “everything app”), then you’ll lose your bank account, too.