skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the municipality provides the fibre to each house to a local data centre, then private companies can rent space in the data centre to provide services. You still get a choice between ISPs (some may want a proper internet provision, perhaps with BGP handling and no contention on the uplink, others may be happy with a company that provides a wifi access point that also irradiates a public SSID. Presumably the former will cost more, but that's fine)

Basically the local road (the fibre) is paid for by the local city and run on behalf of the residents, the local road transports people (packets) to the airport (municipal data centre), where the ISPs pay landing fees to take people where they need to go at different rates for different services, with competition between ISPs, and pretty easy entry costs, ensuring high standards, low prices, and plenty of choice.
> tell me what a terrible manager I must have been

Hum... The GP is talking about your superiors. What you just confirmed when you said you had to shield your people from them.

That is, unless you were the one deciding to reduce people's salaries every year.
>I had one chap refuse to check my portfolio, because "I probably faked it."

I don't know the context of how that came up, but I'd probably let the recruiter know of their unprofessional behavior if that happened to me.
I would say he certainly did think it was worth that, just not for very long.
If there’s only one wire in the cable, and one trace leading up to the socket, would there still be a stub? Have the sockets pins both tied to the same trace, and have the plug terminals both tie to the same wire.
The intention is to make use of the new "Origin privet file system" api, this provides the website with a sandboxed block level file system on the users device that can be used for efficient access and writes. It will be possible for WASM SQLite, or any other DB engine ported to WASM, to have full ACID compliance.

The SQLite team have been working with browser developers to ensure the new API is sufficient to enable all this.

Honestly, and I keep going on about it, SQLite in the browser via WASM is the missing piece to make "offline first" PWAs a serious contender when deciding an architecture for an app.

2023 is going to be the year of SQLite in the browser.

https://webkit.org/blog/12257/the-file-system-access-api-wit...

https://sqlite.org/wasm/doc/trunk/persistence.md#opfs

https://chromestatus.com/feature/5702777582911488
Yes but if you represent 2 functions over some state a(s) and b(s) then you have the same issue with this as if it was:

Class s:
fun a(self)...
fun b(self)...

The problem is mutability not how state is bound to a function.
I’m going to learn how to make peace with the fact that I won’t be achieving my dreams, at least not anytime soon :’(
There's good document about 536: https://youtu.be/cKUz5Vjq9-s
> I think that in 2023, folks will start approaching these projects more cautiously

You have a misplaced faith in people. There is absolutely nothing of societal value in Web3, and the fact that the author of the article can claim otherwise with a straight face shows that enough people haven't understood this yet.

Whether you put the source of truth in a centralized database or a distributed ledger controlled by the crowd, the ultimate arbiter is the rule of law. As soon as you accept this, the only correct engineering solution to any problem of tracking ownership is the one that is the fastest and lowest cost (per transaction, to evolve the spec for new requirements including compliance with new laws, to roll back failures, etc.), and that rules out distributed blockchains.
Forgot to mention the piles of evidence and testimony pointing at him, all thrown out and rendered inadmissible by the supreme court judge in his pocket based on some bullshit technicality.

> Apart from all that is always surprising to see folks that work in scientific fields to support Bolsonaro who was completely agains any form of science and education

Are you a software developer in Brazil? I wonder if you're going to enjoy the regulation of the software developer profession. It's coming.
A lot more productive and a lot less to show for it.
That doesn't really make sense given we have buildings and heaters.
Make some programmer friends, become a reliable team member in some hackathons or game jams. One day, you will start getting messages about opportunities since they know you and believe in you and want you to succeed
That's the one. (I edited in a clarification to my original post.)
On Windows, a USB device's configuration is tied to its port, so by using this hack the device's settings will change depending on the orientation of the connector. This can't be good for user confidence in USB-C.
> To feed a growing population, we need to double global food production by 2050, but we can't double agricultural acres. We need more food (or more high-quality calories and nutrients) per acre. That's where technology comes in.

While it's true that increasing global food production is one way to enable food security for a growing population, I think it's also pertinent to analyze the inefficiencies within our current supply chains. Food waste is a big issue[1] and efficiencies gained in this area could also have a big impact.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.123952
Drawing the attention of the masses to the game also makes them nervous, even if not embarrassed.
Will go into more detail on why I believe that in part II but you are spot on.
Perhaps improvement in the quality of life (=wealth) of the population as well as population increase? The world is incredibly richer today than in 1992 (particularly Asia, which accounts for about 60% of the world's population).
What is so labor intensive about making cheese? I was under the impression some cheeses were produced with a lot of automation in giant factories.

Why can't Parmesan or Reggiano or Burrata be made like that?
Vertical farms have their own issues and it turns out that they are incredibly vulnerable to electricity prices.

It seems an obvious route to take but it isn’t all sunshine.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/vertical-farms-energy-crisis
The other commenter posited $600K of revenue, which is not value. The absolute cap on direct value would be revenue times contribution margin percentage. If the CM% for your company is 60%, they're making a CM of $360K on the marginal $600K of revenue while paying you $300K.

If you reduce that $600K to $450K of revenue, the CM becomes $270K while paying you $300K, meaning a rational employer should fire you.
Now I’m basically doing this as well: music and audio electronics.

Although I have learned to play a musical instrument I’ve been somewhat fallow with it and so 2023 will be a more rigorous practice and exploring and playing with home made pedals and noisemakers.
"Instead, iPSCs are taken from adult human cells, usually from a skin or blood sample, and converted into an embryonic-like state."

What would happen if the adult human donor took these embryonic-like cells and reinjected them? Would the person develop the vim and vigor of a young adult?
Same. I started at 15 GBP / hr 13 years ago on peopleperhour, doing cheap jobs and building up trust. This slowly evolved into a network, enough experience to launch my own startup, and now I've been CTO of two startups and I run my own consulting company, at 20-50x the rate I started at.
He’s talking about web3. This is the idea of soul bound tokens. It can and should be independent of web3, but the problem is that web3 companies have taken in 5-10b of institutional funding, they have zero users and zero PMF, and they need to keep flailing to spend down the money they raised. This you see these weirder and weirder ideas that provide marginal utility in a mostly utility free asset class.
This is not an attack on you, you are free to your opinion and to voice any or all of it to whom you choose, largely because you don't live on a socialist society.

My opinion, however, is that my parents did the right thing to drag me out of such a system and into a capitalistic one. I am watching my peers suffer.
Sounds like near-realtime Google Earth is still way, way off.
In my own experience, yes. Very early in my adulthood I lost interest in working in software design in any conventional capacity entirely because of the kinds of people I was surrounded by and the ludicrous beliefs that they had which led them to where they were and to do what they were doing. There are presuppositions and prejudices that almost everyone coming into this network of industries has that can take years to unlearn (it often depends on the frequency and intensity of self-criticism one can psychically-withstand). One could spend a lot of time spelling all of it out. Probably the big hurdle and one most worth addressing is whiggish attitudes about noetic and moral progress, and the general disdain and disregard for mentality of any ancience beyond that which came about during the "Enlightenment".
Matrices are funny. You can encounter them as a teenager reading 3D graphics tutorials on the internet, learn that they can compactly represent scalings, rotations, and translations, and that several transformations can be conveniently “stacked” using this thing called matrix multiplication which looks like this… and that’s it, now you can use them for a cool practical purpose, but the tutorials never derive or attempt to justify why mmul looks like that, often because the author doesn’t know either!

Or you can learn about them in school and be given neither a real-world use case nor a rationale or derivation for mmul.

Or you can encounter them in college, and there the experience depends on whether it’s a good or bad kind of a linalg class. But even there – after all the painstaking definitions and lemmas and derivations – it’s easy to end up not grokking how mmul does what it does even if you grasp all the building blocks – vector spaces, bases, how matrices can represent bases and systems of linear equations and linear operations on vectors and how they’re all kinda equivalent.
Land is cheap. Efficiency in this context is units of product per dollar spent.
Thanks, I hadn't seen that book -- will give it a read. I'm interested to see how DDD gets applied to the functional programming paradigm, as it seems quite deeply ingrained in OOP to me.
Dumb question: is it legal to share a die shot like this one? What does copyright law say about this?

I mean, yes, the author took the photo himself but what about the underlying material? Can I share a photo of an entire book? Do I own the copyright to a photo of a painting?
John Tukey also invented FFT and apparently was the first to use "software" in a publication:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tukey
If you predict that California will secede from the United States in 2023, you clearly don't spend a lot of time in California.
Still the same problem, which is that the OS introduces a bunch of baggage that requires an additional layer of virtualization. To quote Dan Ingalls:

> An operating system is a collection of things that don’t fit into a language. There shouldn’t be one.
The dislike button is worse than the like button.

You may as well say get lost.

The Orville episode “Majority Rules” allegorises the concept wonderfully
Yep, HTTP logs: most standalone RSS clients have a distinct user agent, and most of the web-based ones send a UA containing the total subscriber count.

For example, here's a log from today:

8.29.198.27 - - [01/Jan/2023:00:04:42 -0500] "GET /feed.xml HTTP/1.1" 304 0 "-" "Feedly/1.0 (+http://www.feedly.com/fetcher.html; 99 subscribers; like FeedFetcher-Google)"

Interestingly, a few of the big ones (Feedly, Feedbin) have multiple subscriber counts for me. I'm not sure why that is.
Someone also needs to make that decision about managers. Might as well be their peers who they manage.
Lecanemab had an extremely strong effect, from a statistical point of view.

The average clinical efficacy could be stronger. But Lecanemab is definitely the largest step in Alzheimer's disease research in a very long time.

Well, when you have a large number of different mutations in the amyloid beta gene, and in the genes for the machinery for cutting the precursor protein APP to amyolid beta, that all leads to early and fast progressing Alzheimer's disease, which from a pathological perspective is indistinguishable from normal Alzheimer's disease, then the evidence is quite clear.

When you then see that people who have duplicates or triplicates of the amyloid beta gene, also have a much higher risk of Alzheimer's disease and the risk increases with more duplicates, the evidence is extremely strong.
Any suggested reading for #1 ("learn how to navigate \$THIS.")?
What are some applications / examples for the infinite-dimensional case?
The burden of proof is on the people making these claims that entire cities/cultures are overrun with SJWs screaming about pronouns. If what they claim is true, it’d be pretty unlikely that my personal experience is what it is.
The power of follow ups (especially in sales)

One thing which held me back for a very long time was not following up with people who didn't show much interest initially.

I wasted so many good leads thinking it is impolite to follow up with people after contacting them once. My whole life changed once I understood the power of follow ups and understanding that most people are so busy that it takes at least 6 reminders before most people will take any substantial action.

The reverse is also true. People say a lot of things and most of the times you never cross the bridge or reach it. Nowadays, I rarely argue about anything and don't act on stuff until a person reminds me once or twice. This small filter can be like a miracle for saving your time and energy.
Nobody knows. Which is why it's colossally reckless to propose anything around this as a guaranteed solution, instead of a proposal that needs more research.
This debate is as old as technology itself, and yet the naïve persist. Technological progress is inevitable and its application to war is also inevitable. All the amazing AI innovations, developed under the guise of AI-safety, are being used in surveillance cameras and weapons. And if the West doesn't develop the capability, then someone else will.
Really it is a shame that lots of people on tech have never hear of Smalltak. It is in my humble opinion the most influential language ever created. Ask anyone who played with Smalltak in the 80's and they will say the same: "I never ever will have the sensation of power and confidence that Smalltak provided".
The terminology really turned me off because I found it difficult to comprehend. But I loved the idea of ubiquitous language and always meant to return to the book and give it another shot.
a better question is : 'would we know if it did?'
30 foot line of sight indoors, more like 1-5 feet for most people working at computers
I was driving back from San Francisco to the South Bay in the early afternoon. Parts of the 101 were apparently closed off, so we took the 280, and saw several accidents along the way. Visibility was quite poor and the roads were very slippery. Haven't seen it this bad since I moved to the area about a decade ago.
Can confirm this advice. Highly recommended to explore comp sci programs at local schools or online; check WGU for example.
mine is the opposite, you can't get anywhere in life with the perspectiveless perspective
why not? you are free to disassemble your computer and take photo of motherboard or whatever hardware you have, I don't see how is taking photo of die different

you can have copyright to your own photo, but not to pictured design
It might be even more bleak because we have 100X the population. I live near San Francisco and yesterday it rained more than usual which resulted in some highways literally shutting down and hours long traffic diversions. I have pretty low faith in us.
Re: ICANN

https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/financials-...

They do publish financial reports. They also publish some details about executive compensation.

https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/remuneration-pra...

Granted ... I don't really know what we're getting for that. :D
Bestselling "You are your own gym" (YAYOG) by Mark Lauren is a good book to get started as a beginner. Good list of example excercises with progression plans and training regimes, overall good writeup of fitness basics.
It is irresponsible to use (let alone to hardcode) those addresses in the first place. But in any case, fortunately, software can be patched and it has been done so already in 'tricky' cases: Y2K and X.509 UTCTIME are examples.

My company operates big networks and it caught us off guard when 44/8 got used on the public Internet. Internal tooling used the space because it was assumed to be non-routable. Assumptions like this always carry a risk and sooner or later, they need to be fixed. In our case, a workaround could be produced within hours, and it was fixed within weeks.

0/8 support has been added in the Linux kernel as well.

Edit: scdown.qq.com resolves to 0.0.0.1 and is possibly related to WeChat. I am not sure, if the address is actually routable in China, though.
Unfortunately there’s not time for learning right now. 2023 will be filled with me fighting bureaucracies, reestablishing stable income, possibly moving, and then sitting around and waiting for other bureaucracies to move. Unfortunately just about everything that could go wrong went wrong at the end of this past year leaving me in a very bad position.

Then maybe in a year or two I can continue learning. I’ve been trying to go back to school for a while, but that won’t happen anytime soon in the least because I lost the job that was going to fund it and it looks like with market conditions and personal situation I’ll be stuck eating a massive paycut.
This is actually the big insight big time agriculture lacks about agriculture. They are obsessed with volumes and consider their farms to be large spread out factories making commodities and the tons of commodities produced to be the only metric that matters.

There are big wins to be had in making better food -- both healthier and better tasting. Most food in America tastes kind of bad and is very bad for you, so there is huge room for improvement. US agriculture is very efficient at making bad quality food. There is also a sub-industry of US agriculture-- organic farming -- who are very inefficient at making good quality food. Furthermore, there is a relatively large wealthy class in the world which have realized that health and a long life is the only thing that they cannot outright buy and every opportunity where you can trade money for some extra bit of health is worth taking. So there definitely is a market for good quality food.

There are other issues that are not considered critical yet but very soon will be. These are quality of soil and water. You can get good improvements if you make land that was previously unfarmable farmable.
Google is hamstrung by their AI ethics teams who don’t allow ground breaking things to be shipped.
Arbitrary-Precision Floating-Point Library
I once got a free Lightning cable from a recruitment talk, but it only had pins on one side, meaning it only worked one way around.

It’s hard to complain about things you get for free, but I did find it a bit odd. I’ve never seen another one like it since.
Strange that the article doesn’t specify the $100 for what… I assume computing power.

Headline reads as someone is offering as a service. Anyone else read it like that?
Pushing like button on this.
I'm under the impression that an acre inch of soil weighs ~170k pounds.

So if we're losing .14 inches of topsoil per year - you only need to replace ~23k pounds of topsoil per year. Probably less than half of that needs to be compost.

I'm also assuming loss was worse in the past than it is currently. So you'd need even less compost.

This sounds bad, but not like something that can't be worked around. And honestly, it sounds like it could be a good thing for there to be huge demand for compost.
I don't understand how gambling is legal. So many lives ruined by it.
Ben Awad: Technologies I'm Learning in 2023 [video]
Very nice work! How does it (does it at all?) control how hard it hits from one note to the next? What does the striking - solenoids?
F150s have gasoline, which is known to catch fire. In fact, that's kind of the whole point of gasoline: it it flammable. With a car fire, it is simply that the fire has escaped the part of the vehicle where the fire is supposed to be contained.

EVs are not supposed to catch fire, thus it is news when they do.
Yes, global warming makes winters wetter.

> A warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture, and globally water vapour increases by 7% for every degree centigrade of warming.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/dec/15/climate-...
Why accept the performance hit of copying structs when you could use a reference type?

It's a tradeoff. OOP makes sense for certain types of problems, and functional programming solves other problems. It's very much a case of selecting the right tool for the job.

I recently transitioned from C# game programming to C++ embedded system firmware. Objects don't make much sense for what I'm doing now, and I'm coming to see the elegance of functional programming.

There is no one answer, just a box of tools. What makes a good programmer is understanding each of your tools well enough to decide which one will solve your problem in the way you want.
Very interesting, seems like I have a lot of reading to do, thanks!
Can GPUs run reliably in an orbital radiation environment at all? The combination of extreme transistor density and zero error checking seems like the opposite of what you'd want in a space processor.
RPi+ Yolo can do real time object recognition of cluster Tank, Trucks, BMP from orbit.

A service with real time streams of those objects + GPS data info directly from starlink for a select sets locations should worth a lot for DOD, NATO, Ukraine. DOD and NATO would likely flip the bill for everything need to build such system.
That sounds absolutely terrible, but to be fair, it also sounds more like a Windows-specific issue, than a USB-C specific one.
UML

When I first saw it, I thought it was a process step that was unnecessary.

Then I thought it was a way to program visually, but generated code only works in narrow domains.

I realize that UML is tool to define your system, and it lays bare your assumptions, which is one of the hardest problems in computing.
I'm curious why such a seemingly high value opportunity hasn't attracted massive funding from philanthropy - at that cost a single billionare feeling generous could theoretically eradicate this form of blindness. But more realistically, foundations like Gates or Zuckerberg/Chan with excellent oversight and due diligence could surely jump on something like this and make a huge dent.

Is there something I (we) are missing here?
It's been a while that nobody in media thinks “everybody” is on Twitter. What I hear and witness (being myself part of the media) is that the most powerful, influential people use Twitter, which is… kinda true? As a major evidence, let's remember when the US spent four years being led by a Twitter addicted, decisions made on Twitter.

I hope Musk's disaster put an end on this, though.
Also: https://www.google.com/search?q=coin+flip
So the Supreme Court judges are corrupt because they pointed to problems in the process that warranted a mistrial, ultimately favoring the candidate you don’t like. But the lower court judges are guaranteed to be neutral because they convicted Lula. Right.

You don’t realize, but your bias is showing, kid.
Honestly, never encountered that. In my experience bootcampers are usually self-conscious about their background. Maybe they behave differently at small companies/startups (my experience is at a big tech co)?
Not the only, or biggest, nonpayment lawsuit they are facing:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Bay-Area-softwar...