skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Forsen feels like one of those meta content creators on Twitch where his fans and his name have become more famous than his content primarily.
but should i have to have an insecure account because homeless people exist?

No, of course not.

This is like when people who drive get chuffed about pedestrians wanting their lives to work and acting like "Well, if we do anything for you, then my life will fall apart." As if we can only build a world that works for cars or build a world that works for non-drivers and the other camp just has to accept a sucky life and all kinds of flak for not liking it.

What in the hell makes you think someone must get screwed and it might as well be those who already have the least? No one is asking you to get screwed here.
That's exactly how central bank lending works. You have a fallacy of composition.

In reality the central bank doesn't lend to banks. The banks lend to each other and they do arbitrarily 'create money' to do so.

The commercial banks have accounts with each other. That's what interbank lending is, and what they clear to at the end of the day.

In Bank A it is DR Bank B, CR Customer 2 Deposit. In Bank B it is DR Customer 1 Loan, CR Bank A. They can't clear interbank payments unless that happens.[1]

The Bank of England has a full document on it [0]

[0]: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...

[1]: https://new-wayland.com/blog/why-banks-pay-interest-on-depos...
I'm one of the creators of SkyPilot. Thanks for the thoughtful questions and let me try to take a stab:

SkyPilot is not just for multi clouds. It's useful for all of these scenarios:

- using a single region of one cloud

- using multiple regions of one cloud

- using multiple clouds

Data transfer between zones/regions within a cloud is much cheaper than across clouds. We see many users falling in the "one cloud" category and they frequently read 10s of TBs of data across regions to do ML training.

Finally, saving money is one of several key problems we aim to solve, and there are quite a few ways to save other than lots-of-compute-on-small-data. Other reasons why you may want to use a system like SkyPilot include

(1) improving resource availability (big pain point for GPUs/TPUs)

(2) use one interface and know that your jobs can migrate across regions or clouds

More rationale in the intro blog post: https://medium.com/@zongheng_yang/skypilot-ml-and-data-scien...
The Economist complaining about people having fancy job titles despite not doing the work is rich coming from the boot-lickiest of the capitalist bootlickers.
Well, unauthorized/illegal transactions will still be done using crypto, preferably one of the better designed ones like monero.
Hash function quality varies a lot. Especially if you are memory-limited, it can help to use a round-reduced cryptographic hash to rule out unnecessary collisions. Example: Speck (= add/rotate/xor), but just reducing the number of rounds.
And if that is again too expensive on the CPU side, we can always vectorize by inserting or looking up batches of keys at a time.
If you work for a small company and the original founder made the values, you can derive a lot about the company culture from the founder, and the values they announce (truthful or not) are a way of understanding them.

If you work for a big company, and the values were made at a corporate event, the values are a lie. They were made to sound good, but do not reflect the opinions of any one person. At best they represent some average of what the people most eager to declare generic human values at corporate events feel.

In either case, it’s just internal marketing. The true values of a workplace will be evident after a while, no matter what the values are declared as.

Especially, when a company has the value “transparency”, they usually don’t.
> capitalism, which is inherently based on mutual cooperation

Competition is not cooperation. Profit is not cooperation. Privatization is not cooperation.
All these alternative OSes are people having fun, they don't have any agenda to take over the computing world.

So in a sense, yes, they are toys for grown ups.
Very tough problem and likely not possible.

Look at energy requirements of desal vs. fresh water pollution proliferation.

10-14 kwh required to desal 1000 gallons of water.

50% of world's food supply is powered by proliferation of phosphorus and nitrogen rich fertilizer and their corresponding runoff.
The full transcript of the Dr. Anthony Fauci deposition
Respect a language and it will respect you
Common issue for anyone running at scale. The crypto winter should hopefully address this.
Dubai-based Murtaza Hashwani, chairman of the award-winning Hashoo Foundation, a nonprofit that works extensively to address humanitarian and social concerns in communities across Pakistan, tells Anand Raj OK how his foundation’s initiatives are impacting less privileged people. | wikipedia.org
Automatic degraded mount at boot time isn't implemented by md either, it's implemented by a dracut module (or whatever creates the initramfs). The gist is that when mdadm assembly fails, the dracut module's script performs a 5 minute wait to see if all devices will appear, and then if not, tries to assemble degraded.

These days, with UEFI prevalent, a system won't boot without EFI system partitions replicated (and possibly sync'd) on every drive.
I wondered that too. I think the sandwiches were inside the sub, which was still full of air?
I think you and the parent poster may be talking about different "goals".

My lazy quick skim of the main article here is that NIF has achieved a Q value of 1.2 presently.

ITER is aiming for a Q of 10 [0]; i.e. Q=10 means fusion outputting 10x the input energy, which is (by some considered) roughly enough to break-even in energy production [1], i.e. to recapture 10% of that energy (as heat or as electricity, not sure...)

So parent poster saying NIF is an order of magnitude away means Q=1.2 -> ~Q=10

And ITER seeking Q=10, means that's the goal that NIF is an order of magnitude away from, according to the parent poster.

[0] Q=10 for Iter: https://www.iter.org/sci/Goals#:~:text=ITER%20is%20designed%....

[1] Q=10 is a rough minimum for energy production (quick and dirty source from google) https://www.powermag.com/fusion-energy-is-coming-and-maybe-s....
Many companies have a policy that you can’t give someone a real raise without a promotion. In tech, this means everyone good gets an annual promotion at some firms.
-- uservoice and canny are the 2 I've tried --
He’s even more stupid than the stupid guy he pretends to be. What kind of criminal talks to the media about their crime before their trial?

The fact that he’s done this would give his stupid guy story credence... if there wasn’t already a boatload of other evidence that he’s a conman.
It happened to me as well, and that was the result: https://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl

Libraries written for Jim Tcl became the foundation of Redis.
> Opinionated products breed passionate customers

...Passionate customers promote lame products

Lame products breed indifferent customers

Indifferent customers subscribe to using opinionated products

Sorry.
People keep repeating "1 year of experience 10 times" like it's a bad thing.

The problem with the "1 year of experience n times" career trajectory is it pays incredibly well.

And it's extraordinarily fulfilling to tackle a new project and a new tech stack every 18 months.

Everyone keeps saying establishing yourself is worthwhile... the money and the exciting projects say otherwise. I'm not sure how to feel.
So cool. Love to see high quality OCaml Libraries.
Right.

First question should be: what does your data say about how much it cost to have an agile / data driven process compared to not having one? :)
To take your bitcoin (or monero) they will actually have to show up to your door with weapons. This is much more expensive and prone to failure for the government or other authorities than simply freezing your assets on a bank.

Note: I am aware that they can blacklist bitcoins and trace them nearly perfect nowadays, which can make them somewhat useless even if you still own them. With Monero, this is made far more difficult.
Should be able to restore it via VSS.
This is very unusual of KDE, I never experienced anything like that in the last decade. I mean, since (and including) KDE 3.5.x, yet alone 5.
(SkyPilot dev) Can't agree more on autostop / autodown. Subjective to measure but save our own costs massively.
About 10 years ago, I worked for a Toyota supplier. My job as, the only software guy in a house full of hardware people, was to find out every single Toyota and Lexus dealership in America, and then find out what kind of cell phone reception they had (3G, Edge or none) for each of the major carriers (AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, IIRC). They imagined this would be done manually so they estimated a few weeks to do the job.

Within 3 days, I wrote a script to locate the dealerships, load each of the carriers' web pages, enter the address/coordinates into their coverage map, then take a screenshot of the results. Each of the carriers, of course, had their own way of displaying the coverage information, but it was mostly a color-coded map (example: green area = 3G, blue area = edge, gray area = no reception). So, I wrote another script to process the screenshots and deduce what kind of reception they had at the dealership (some 3500 in total, if I remember right).

Unfortunately, this feat was met with the proverbial "great, while you're fixing things can you also fix the printer" kind of response, but damn if I wasn't proud to compress a few weeks into 3 days in a clever way, even if I had no one to appreciate it.

By the way, the reason we needed this information is because we were rolling out Lexus RES+ (an early version of the remote engine starter) and they wanted to make sure that every single one of the dealerships could demo the service to potential customers.
Yeah but it's not as if there is this huge epidemic of underreported or uninvestigated crimes committed by women. This doesn't account for the statistical difference.
This is the earth

The soil, its dirt

Through work and toil

The harvest of light
Software does not work like that.

If I would to meet somebody who claims to apply engineering principles or, worse, scientific method, I will make sure to be on top of their PRs at all times.
Big numbers would be in numeric formats. Int32/int64 would be bit fields or sequence numbers/row IDs. Given enough time and success you will overflow int32 for sequence number.
Same! It was such an aggravation
As for signalling, “The Case Against Education” by Bryan Caplan is a crisply argued case that signalling is >50% at least of what is going on.
Yep, the brine is only concentrated by a factor of about three, so it very rapidly dilutes near to the discharge point.

Environmental "concerns" like brine discharge are frequently raised without any reference to the quantitative scale of the impact. Desal plant brine discharge is a highly localised environmental impact.

There's an odd bias we have where highly localised environmental impacts are readily accepted when they're visually obvious (a car park eradicates all life in the area of the car park), but when it comes to the open ocean, a localised impact is not accepted.
That's a nice return. Where I am (BC) we can do net metering but no longer get paid the surplus and I think our power costs are at the lower end of things.

Being in a rain forest doesn't help. Don't get me wrong, the summers are as bright as anywhere else, but the cloudy winters are brutal if you want sunshine.

If it's financed with a mortgage that's another thing to consider.

I just don't ever hear solar come up in conversations about resale. I've heard a couple Realtors mention that energy efficient design is something coming up most often. The big questions are still about the area and how many bed/bath rooms there are.

>(assuming you already have a kitchen...).

You can always get a second kitchen....a summer kitchen.
All the separate companies plus the code that hid transactions speak to much of the conduct being intentional, no?
Yeah, same in germany. Being an "Ingenieur" requires an academic degree (and studying computer science doesn't grant you the title of "Ingenieur" anyway...)
My first company's primary product was a CMS-like system that integrated with some archaic backends for inventory management. The CMS was likewise relatively barebones and inflexible. Most of the pages involved placing a selection of widgets that could query backend data in fixed ways into fixed positions on one of a handful of templates.

We got a client whose brand and web presence was relatively more-modern. I soon found out that the sales and design teams landed the client by promising much more than what the CMS could deliver-- responsive, hand-tooled pages with flexible layouts. The timeline was a few weeks.

I took a walk and despaired. The way that CMS pages were implemented meant that even small changes to page layouts required database changes, which themselves required DBA review (which only happened when the DBAs deigned to descend from the mountaintop). There was no way that we could also support arbitrary layouts with the fixed database columns.

An idea finally came to me and I found one of the only backend devs that was willing to play along. We reused one of the existing templates, a simple one with only one large content area. I wrote a frontend that injected itself into that page and rendered a canvas with slots to place arbitrary widgets. The entire configuration was then JSON-encoded and stuffed into the single text database column, and when the page was loaded from the CMS we hijacked the load to decode the config and render our widgets instead of the CMS field.

The company actually won an award for the system and gave out beer steins at the holiday party with the system's branding on it. Over the next few years, they retooled the entire CMS to actually support the concept as a first-class idea instead of my hack, although I moved on fairly shortly after that moment of triumph.
> https://nobody.live

Something about that name is hauntingly sad.
Yes you can absolutely make boats out of solidified salt. They will last for minutes, maybe even hours.
Investigating Data Replication in Diffusion Models
A breaker can use sf6 gas but usually that is at 60 kV and above. For 35 kV and below vacuum bottle breakers are much cheaper than sf6.

individual wind turbines are not generating at more than 13.8kV so I would be surprised if they had any sf6 in them.
> The modeling codes are classified

What is the justification for keeping it classified?
"Most organizations have shifted to organize their engineering teams by product"

We have done the same. The great thing about it is locating decision makers and customer insight close to developers. The bad thing is that what is perceived to be a "product" can be very different from the natural division of technical work to be done.

I sometimes joke that our Head of Product ended up involuntarily being our Chief Architect. The master plan of the tech has to be divided along these fault lines between Product A and Product B.

In Sales these may be sold as separate products. But the reality is that 80% of functio ality is shared between them, and these 80% do not get a good organization developed around it, since the A vs B split is at the core of the company chart.
How will you prevent people from owning some means of production?

Congratulations, you're not an anarchy anymore and are now a socialist dictatorship imposing authoritarian limits on what people can do, for the "common good".

You can put power in a "democracy" to make sure everyone is equally poor or spread it in the individuals composing a free market and accept a natural level of unbalance.

Any type of anarchy which doesn't involve capitalism as the basic tenet to drive decisions on what gets done has no way of working, unless all citizens behave perfectly.
Seems like this could apply to startup founders as well.
Do people still use "Entwickler" in Germany, or are job titles all pretty much Denglish now?
In my first job I work on a database product in development that leaked memory slowly, leading to crashes after hours of usage. The software was written in C and there were no tools like Purify or Valgrind back then to deal with memory problem. It was a vexing problem that got punted until release time, when it became a show stopper.

I looked into the problem and found that the memory allocation used malloc and free. I then defined macros for malloc and free in a common header to call my_malloc and my_free functions with the standard __FILE__ and __LINE__ macros passed in as parameters. Re-compiled the whole program with the macros, which redirected every call of malloc and free to my functions. My functions logged all the calls with the allocated memory pointer, the filename, and the line number. Once I collected enough log data from test runs, I sorted the lines in the log file by the memory pointer address. Every pointer address should come in pair, one from the malloc() and one from the free(). The odd number pointer addresses are the ones with missing free(). And I got their filename and line number right there.
Checkout.com slashes internal valuation to $11B from $40B in January
Big milestone is construction materials, could long enough withstand neutron stream, which is about two magnitudes more, than in fission reactors.

This is last unknown in this equation. All others are already known, from achievements of last few years.

Materials research is one of primary targets of ITER.

If good enough materials will not being found fast enough, will need to use clear reactions like boron-carbon fusion, in which need magnitude higher temperature, so practical device will be few times larger (because x-ray losses, proportional to surface square of plasma configuration).
I think that OP's fundamental error is talking about school vs university. When I started my bachelor's studies in math the professor covered 3 years of high-school math in the first 2-3 weeks of the first semester.

Up to that point I too thought I could just learn by reading the textbook. University (assuming a good one, mine wasn't world famous but has a good reputation nationally & in Europe) level maths is completely different level than high school level math, and having access to the professors makes a big difference (although I was often the only student coming by at their office hours if it wasn't before a test, so I guess not everyone agrees with that).
Git diff and Git log and dots
One real-world scenario is the numismatics and bullion world.

Especially on bullion items, there's very narrow margins, and I'd expect a high transaction-reversal risk (i. e. demanding refunds or charging back if the price of gold dropped after purchase).

In practice, this means that many dealers will charge a higher price for using non-cash payment systems. At least in the US, some dealers will even be explicitly cash-only.

Six one-ounce gold coins would get you over USD/EUR 10,000, and isn't that exotic of a purchase in that context.

A documented payment system might be viable for that scenario, if it was completely zero-cost to merchants and consumers, although some dealers might still not want the reversal risks. However, conjuring that would require major state intervention.
KYC sucks, the fraudster is responisble not anyone else. You wouldn't say the same thing about ISPs or CDNs transporting harmful content right? You pass the buck as a burden to the public instead of finding and punishing criminals.
Zoom is working on calendar and email tools to take on Office and Google
It annoys me too, I often find such things to be the case. Too many programs don't give the user control over anything; especially modern programs. There are many other things difference too, than how I thought they should be. So, often I write my own software, but sometimes I cannot. Many of my ideas are different from many programs. Better design is you have enough ropes to hang yourself and also a few more just in case (that is UNIX philosophy). (I also hate UEFI, USB, HDMI, WWW, PDF, Unicode, and some other things, so I try to make my own designs to avoid them as much as possible. I also think that any good program should need good documentation; without documentation it is not understandable.)
Lesser-known JavaScript APIs
In the thread on what a future with fusion would like, where energy costs approached zero, one of the questions posed was, "What would the future look like if energy costs trended towards nothing?"

I think desalination is one of those things that would become plausible at scale, and that also would be a transformative change in human's relationship with the planet.
The issue though is 2FA is now required. That's literally the whole reason of this post.
Just curious, Cornell?
I'm not convinced that big organisations teach you more than smaller ones, given how hands on you have to be at a smaller shop and how sclerotic larger ones are.
It's a protected title in most jurisdictions but it's seldom enforced or have exceptions for "software engineer"

Although I've heard Professional Engineers Ontario made enough noise awhile back and big tech companies had to rename their local job descriptions to "developer"

https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/?location=Waterloo,%... (only "developer")

https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/?location=New%20York... (only "engineer")
It's not even as if he was good at it, the scamming. It's like a three stooges, slapstick approach to financial fraud. He went to MIT for God's sake, he could have done something positive and meaningful with his life but instead chose this. So much opportunity cost lost here, we could have built a few bridges and rail lines, done real work with the money he burned.
At several universities I've been at, HPC groups have been utterly unprepared (and disinterested in becoming prepared) to handle PII or any sort of health or confidential data.
But that's not true for Germany.
Or leading teams, starting new projects and stuff like that. Kind of carries your name for you
Good point.

I suppose what I meant to say is you need to communicate between processes somehow. Shared memory is fast, but it's hard to communicate with it exclusively - message-based protocols are better suited for that, and most of them are implemented over TCP.
Booting from a degraded array is only a fine idea in some circumstances, not all. That's why the kernel should not default to automatically doing so; but a distro or sysadmin that has better knowledge of the broader situation (eg. presence of hot spares or a working monitoring/alert system) can reasonably change that default when the risks of booting from a degraded array have been mitigated.
Most distros have a udev rule in place that inhibits a mount attempt of a multiple device Btrfs until all devices are visible to the kernel. The degraded mount option won't even matter in this case, because mount isn't attempted.

If you remove this udev rule and then add degraded mount option to fstab, it's very risky because now even a small delay in drives appearing can result in a degraded mount. And it's even possible to get a split brain situation.

Btrfs needs automatic abbreviated scrub, akin to the mdadm write intent bitmap which significantly reduces the resync operation.
If we simply replace text books with iPads and instructors with non-interactive videos, then it won't happen.

Here's how it will happen: digitalize knowlege, I mean really digital, like how LEAN math cover nearly all undergrad math subjects in mathlib.

Make learning courses like MUD or multi-ending visual novels so learners can hae adaptive route of learning. The higher education won't be replaced until we hae complete single-source-of-truth in digital.
Judging by all the comments I read on HN complaining about how "heavy" laptops are, you must be completely shredded and have trouble fitting through doorways.