skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've met plenty of people that took huge risks and wound up incredibly depressed. Many (most?) startup founders pour everything they have into that company. They give up money, time, health, relationships, other opportunities, etc. Most don't make it. Others will have a success on paper and then waste another year as a middle manager in a big company to get that earnout. Of course, that gets into the debate about whether they were working on the right thing at the right time -- survivorship bias is really strong on this topic.

I'm happy for your success. I assume it was earned with hard work. I hope it works out. A lot of startups with high valuations are feeling the crunch right now. Many of those will peter out and the founders will join the rest of those depressed by their life choices and/or feeling like victims of circumstance. There's far more to success than forgoing comfort and there's far more to happiness than success.

For my part, I co-founded and built two companies for ~4.5 years each: one in hardware and one in SaaS. The SaaS one was in the second batch of TechStars Boston. I had some success and I'm happy I did it. I learned a lot and it was generally fun. But, I trashed my health and wouldn't recommend others do it under the guise of happiness.

Nowadays I do industrial research on language VMs. I get paid very well. The work is gratifying. I have time for my kids, I'm learning things on the job. And I work with great people. I'll probably start another company some day because I like the variety of work and the thrill of the chase. My startup experience gave me a broad network and introduced new opportunities, but I'm only marginally better off compensation-wise than peers that worked a more conventional career. I'm almost certainly behind in terms of lifetime earnings. Many of them are impressed that I struck out and built multiple companies, but that has no real bearing on my happiness.

I'm not sure what being in the top 0.5% means without knowing the metric. If you love starting companies, have at it, but I can think of more challenging paths if you're looking to reach your full potential. Some of the smartest people I've ever met built the foundational technologies that allow SaaS to even exist while working for decades at the same company. I don't know how happy they are, but I know how impactful they've been.
When WoT was into book 3 or 4 or so my friend would hang for every release.
I didn't see it as worth my time until it finished coherently.
Now I just don't see it as worth my time.

There is so much content out there that I don't see any particular thing as a "must experience" anymore.
The first part of the article I can relate to, but how it tied to the conclusion and this: “the average Russian spends about 50% of their income on food.” — is utter nonsense.

Here is on the napkin calculation of grocery basket to salary from retail and service sources[0] for central region:

5600 ₽ * 100 / 62000 ₽ => 9,0323 %

[0] MOEX:FIVE https://www.x5.ru/ru/PublishingImages/Pages/Media/News/Index...

[1] MOEX:HHR https://stats.hh.ru/central_federal_district

And here is the 2022 state of supermarkets in Russia:

[2] Typical near apartment supermarket, only of this retail chain there is, 18300 of these in country https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTy04V1bTDs

[3] Hypermarket https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kG9yfCwG_s
A good architect will be this third party and hold the GC's feet to the fire. The GC might not care about you and repeat business, but they will likely care a lot more about keeping a good architect & firm happier with a decent reputation. Plus, the architect is used to helping this process.
Two of my cousins died from COVID-19, and one of my best friends - first her daughter died, and then she got it from her grandson. I don't recall a single person dying from flu - and I know thousands!

That was my point as well - if everybody wore the proper mask for a month around the globe, this would have been over with long ago! But, no, people feel entitled to make this stay here and continue to kill millions each year!
I presumed they’d fold cutlass improvements into cuBASE so cuBASE would be at least as fast. Maybe some compile time optimizations?
eNPS is a bad metric for a lot of reasons, but in this the concern would be that in low sample sizes, you are unable to quantify uncertainty. The results for small (around 30 but depends on what the mean is) will also be noisy. Don't use NPS unless you have to, ie, you want to release a number for a marketing campaign because your score is a selling point.

"Our future vision is building towards an ideal mix of automated analysis working with machine learning, natural language processing and sentiment analysis, alongside best-in-class consultancy via human-in-the-loop systems when issues or opportunities are identified." - from the blog.

Interesting. I could see this tech being a good on ramp to a consulting practice, but the applications of sentiment analysis are much trickier, since almost anyone writing in a corporate environment is going to have roughly the same detectable sentiment, independent of content. (look at sentiment samples if you need to convince yourself). I'm sure there's signal there, but reliably deriving insights for heterogeneous companies out of anonymous survey data is definitely a tall order. The big consultancy groups in the US certainly are using deep learning to determine topic trends in their client communications. That's a very straightforward thing to measure compared to sentiment, which is trying to measure how people feel based off word choice, so I'd encourage you to focus on that first.

The only other issue see with this, from a survey product perspective, is how you get people to actually complete the survey if it's anonymous. If not enough people complete the survey, it'll skew towards the people most motivated to complete it, but without knowing who completed the survey and who didn't, you can't follow up individually with reminders to ensures surveys get completed so the data is representative. Maybe non-responses aren't actually a big deal, but those response rates (and your incentive schemes) will likely impact any downstream analysis on that data set.

Anyway, fun to think about this stuff. Good luck folks!
While there is certainly nuance in Fediverse communities, I think the idea of "Mastodon people" has merit. Many people on Mastodon have strongly held political and cultural opinions and strong feelings on the types of ideas their conversation partners should have. Deviation from these opinions is usually met with derision at best but more generally vitriol and banning. It sounds like the OP ran against exactly this behavior. Over the years there's certainly been a rise in interest oriented communities, but even those come with strongly held cultural and political opinions.

My experience comes from using Mastodon from 2015-2018 (where I got to witness the free speech instance wars) and ultimately distancing myself from it.
By that logic any security feature is an antifeature. The problem with that logic is that you can't ignore the potential harm that is being protected against.
This is a good idea. What I've run into is that bungalows like this exist in my area (Greater Seattle/Tacoma) but look like shit and were built 80-100 years ago. My research has shown that older homes have all manner of issues with plumbing, electrical and so on. So rebuilding it from its guts looks like it could take care of a lot of that.
Wow, you have opened a world for me.

What would be the best way to search for these videos? Just "snagging" or are there other keywords I should use? Is Tiktok the best way to find such videos?
thanks for suggesting this! I bought "populous: the beginning" just a few weeks ago, didn't know there was a modern variant!
I'm a senior eng at FAANG nearing my 40s, so according to your napkin math I should be a millionaire.

Of course is not that simple. I won't bore you with my life history, but I spent most of my career living paycheck to paycheck, and only got a high paying job recently. With the double wammy of moving to the US and stock plummeting, my life savings are paltry. I'm still renting and I project it'll take me 2-3 years to save for a down payment.

In fact I'm confident that if you graduated 3 years ago and have been working in tech in the US, you'll likely have more wealth than me.
That's totally true. The initial version of this is still running at the company I set it up in. That was years ago. And I have spoken to people in recent weeks who have said they didn't trust it - they were shocked when I talked them through how and why it was. Ahaha. And they felt they'd missed an opportunity to say things.

Convincing people it's a safe space is one of the biggest challenges for us. It's part of the reason we think SMS is great (it's not a company-owned platform), and we make an effort to describe our process for the staff so they can understand it. But it's definitely something we will need to work hard at.
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Thanks for the answer. Looking forward for your project success!
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Not exactly the same, but my city is retrofitting a lot of Soviet-era apartment blocks to bring them up to modern standards. They are made out of concrete with no insulation and were built when (natural) gas was basically free.

The bulk of the work is wrapping the building in 25cm of rigid foam exterior insulation, replacing windows and making sure that they are fairly air tight. They aren't adding mechanical ventilation, as installation would cause too much disruption to residents who are living there. Heating systems are being upgraded to newer units if they are old and inefficient (still powered by gas or district heating, no heat pumps).

The main issue with older buildings is often you want to maintain the 'character' so wrapping the building in external insulation and replacing the facade isn't always an option. However if you have a building made of masonry this is the best way to insulate it, as the masonry then acts as a thermal mass to keep temperatures inside more stable (in both hot and cold weather). These apartment blocks were ugly concrete that nobody wants to ever see again though, so it's not an issue here :-)
> End of the Magical Thinking That Infected Capitalism

...wishful thinking
> well 0.02 cents for 1000 tokens for davinci is already high I am not sure how affordable the new model may be

Is it? I guess it depends on use case. Their site claims that a token is (on average) 4 characters, or roughly .75 words*. Let's say that's generous, and that a token is more like an average of .5 words.

The "Way of Kings" (according to reddit**, at least) is 383,181 words. So, roughly 766,362 tokens. $.02 gets you 1000 tokens, which comes to $15.33.

I dunno what you use it for, and maybe this isn't feasible for your use cases so take this with a grain of salt, but I personally would happily pay $15.33 to be able to send half a "Way of Kings" worth of words to ChatGPT and get half a "Way of Kings" worth of words in response. I mean, I'm certainly not typing half or even a third of the "Way of Kings" in a month to ChatGPT now, even though it's still free. *shrug*

Am I missing something?

* https://openai.com/api/pricing/#faq-token

** https://www.reddit.com/r/brandonsanderson/comments/cncrea/wo...
Few years into our emigration to USA, my family brought my grandfather over to USA. He was a blue collar worker, electrician at the cement factory, entering that profession right after the war, which he spent under the occupation and mostly I think as a shepherd for cows and pigs in what is now Belarus. He has built several houses in his life and was always incredibly handy with tools. We took him to Home Depot. He looked around, stood silently for a while, and then cried. His words were "we have wasted so much our lives". Trading for nails and building materials, scrounging and scratching out a living, while the country spent all the money on weapons (currently being burned out in Ukraine, and good riddance)

As my father told my then girlfriend and now wife, Soviet Union was okay for us growing up there because we didn't know any better.
Which makes you wonder why GPU companies don't proactively give you control over these parameters.
Clearly they didn't "ruin" it because there are people in this very comment thread with a mix of opinions. Some saying they like it, some saying it's okay, some saying they don't like it.
There's some truth to this, but environment does make a difference. The problem with this advice is that it seems to imply that moving doesn't make a difference - when the reality is that some people are just better suited to different environments. A nature lover is just going to be happier living somewhere blessed with beautiful nature than in NYC. The challenge of course is distinguishing which problems are external vs internal, and sometimes you need to make the external change to discern the difference.
Thanks for this. It's funny how stemmed from some british dude who essentially made it up and people bought into it.

I was also surprised by all the other terms I seen floating around that are a similar thing
I have one of the affected motherboards, a B350 PC MATE: 7A34vALS. I'm glad. I just updated the CPU to a Ryzen 5 5500 (half the price of the 5600G, no "G", less L3, fine for my use case, and only $100 right now). It has TPM, so now I can upgrade to W11 (save it, don't want to hear the W11, don't care) but I need to turn on Secure Boot, which I haven't had a chance to examine yet. But now, I don't need to. MSI's implementation caters to people like me who don't need enterprise level security just to run an OS.

Thanks, MSI.
My bitwarden (not LastPass) iteration count was only 5000, even though their default is supposed to be 100,000
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That doesn’t account for the loss of goodwill, risky strategy!
Almost nobody builds a server from scratch in either Go or Rust. People use libraries and frameworks for that, because while the basics are easy enough to understand, getting the details wrong means security vulnerabilities and subtle, hard-to-find bugs.

So unless you're only interested in playing around, what the core language can do isn't important. When writing a server in Rust, probably the first thing you would do is pull in Tokio/Tower or similar. At which point you'll already have a better foundation than Go provides out of the box, plus all the other benefits of Rust like a proper type system.
Sounds fine to me. That's safe.

But if you have a compacting GC, you shouldn't need an arena. You should be able to get away with fixing the GC.
In the plane, there are myriad hazards that, at effectively random times, are right nearby, close enough to sterilize your whole system if they go off then. Most of them -- supernovas and magnetar outbursts -- are not jets. Off-plane, nothing gets close enough to be a hazard except, if you are extra-unlucky, a jet pointed straight at you, which could as well happen were we are now.

Above the plane of the disc, only jet sources near the "top surface" (if there were one) have less dust between them and us than when we were in it. Generally, being farther away is better.

Before you can get far away from your galaxy, you spend a very great deal of time near or in it. Being someplace farther from hazards during that time is better than being nearer to them. The alternative would be to blast toward the rim, staying in the thick part, and spend the whole time getting to the rim at about as much risk as when you started.
Absolutely, it's image-based. I have considered Smalltalk, but I like macros a bit too much. I am pretty sure CL code will have better performance too, but don't quote me on this. A point worth making: if I were to do it in Smalltalk, I would choose the standardized one, as the most stable one. Stability is pretty important for a project like this, as you would imagine.
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It's happening with DADUs (detached living units), with one critical issue -- they're way too expensive for the average person. I'm curious what the distribution of DADUs are nationwide with respect to cost of living.
Gorbachev's take was "let's think it through and hear all opinions and then decide what should be done about long term future of USSR".
Yelsin dropped "let's think it through". Although privatisation of state enterprise by distributing vouchers to all citizens has merit on paper, one must ensure that population is educated about realistic ups and downs of stocks and is given some basic security to make long term rational decisions.
Putin dropped "hear all opinions"
The rest is history.
West should have bailed our Russia through some equivalent of Marshall plan to avoid present day situation.
Alternatively, used Thinkpads and Dells are probably quite affordable for the capability, which includes the ability to repair and upgrade.
> Having both the password and the phone basically proves full ownership.

The thieves changed the phone number immediately while they only obtained the password around 5 days after stealing the phone. Had Apple support been more... well, supportive, we would have been able to recover the account long before the thieves got the second factor. There was a big window of time in which Apple could have helped, but they chose to send us in circles instead.

As for "proving full ownership", those factors cannot prove full ownership because the thieves are not the legal owners of the account. There are multiple ways in which we can prove ownership (legal documents, access to the iCloud email, photos of us inside the account, etc) but Apple doesn't want to provide real tech support (as this commenter [1] pointed out).

Also, related: had this happened in Europe, the GDPR would force Apple to provide my brother his data (as I've written before regarding Google and a locked account [2]). So it's not like they can't, but rather that they don't want to, and I think it's perfectly fair to criticize them for that.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34407647

[2] https://7c0h.com/blog/new/lost_gmail_ii.html
Agreed. I won't buy a x86 laptop until it has the same performance/watt ratio as the Apple Silicon laptops
>Go from losing more mindshare to Rust

This sounds like a common mantra from people who love Rust to the point they'd use it even for basic scripting.

No, Go does not losing any mindshare to Rust whatsoever. Rust is an interesing choice when you need all these memory management tricks but treality is - in most cases you don't really care because Go is just good enough.

Add to this that developing in Go requires much less time and effort (in other words money) and you will see that it won't be replaces by Rust in areas of web dev, systems integration etc.

Rust is good for systems programming, embeded devices and so on.
> I might get a better answer on GBA, but any building performance folks you'd recommend connecting with in the SF Bay Area?

I'm halfway down that road, having completed a high performance remodel in the Bay Area, and contemplated a career shift into some adjacent field.

High performance building is not as organized a movement here, but instead a patchwork of architects, contractors and consultants that I had to assemble for my project. Assembling a team that was willing to work in a high performance modality was probably the hardest part. It's still unfamiliar to many customers and professionals.

I also did a good amount of the high performance work on my house, so I got to know the principles and practicals pretty well. It was a lot of work, but I enjoyed the process and the learnings (and living in the result).
Here's nearly the same exact story in a 1955 American anti-communist propaganda piece. Start at 3:20

https://archive.org/details/0038_Americas_Distribution_of_We...

I have no doubt this happened, but my gut says the US govt set this up to help him make the transition look like a principled decision rather than an outright loss. I'm sure the CIA was more than happy to help him with PR side of things.
The basic technique is from a research paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/4295561_Fast_Hydrau...

My first attempt at creating a simulation of water and erosion before I saw this paper was pretty bad as well.

Yes, it's a grid based system. When you choose map size (e.g. 1024x1024) that's the resolution of the underlying simulation. My refinement of this approach is there is an extra step that "smooths" everything out. The vertex points for rendering are offset depending on how the water flows, which allows rivers to appear to flow at angles other than 90 degrees. Without this, it would either be very blocky or cover a much smaller area- there are other implementations of that paper floating around and the scale is an order of magnitude less, as a river needs to be many grid points across. In my implementation, you can get a nice looking river from a sequence of single points.

The drawback is this complicates a lot of other things. E.g. you can no longer easily tell what the height is at a point on the map is- there is no easy way to know what vertices to interpolate between since they can be offset in different directions. So when rendering trees, there's a whole GPU calculation to produce a separate data layer just to know what height the ground they're sitting on is at. But it's worth it to get a map that covers a big area with a full water flow simulation.

In general terms, the simulation is done as a series of grids of values (called layers, in reality just textures on the GPU) and operations that take some of them as input to generate another. Some layers persist always (e.g. the water flow) and update themselves iteratively. Other layers are produced on the fly when needed, and can be at different resolutions. E.g. you zoom into an area of the map- the water layer is read to determine the biome layer for just that part of the map. The water layer is read to determine the heights layer I talked about previously. Then the biome layer, water layer and heights layer are combined into a trees layer where one grid vertex is one possible instance of a tree. The values represent whether a tree is there, the position of its base, the type of tree, etc.

That's used as input for the rendering system, there's a mesh that uses that trees layer to render all the trees. It's also used as input for the animals system, so the animals walk around the trees, etc. It's basically a big dependency graph of data layers and the operations needed to generate them. Most of the work so far has been building all that tooling and getting it running asynchronously so the game doesn't lag if it takes multiple frames to generate what is needed.
You're no longer talking about defense, but rather trying to justify an offensive war. Those lines on the map are Schelling points that had enabled a great deal of peace. And frankly they were much more defensible through their legitimacy with other nations, than whatever geographic obstacles are hoped to be obtained.