skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
in the USA it’s been possible to get COL down to sub $50k for a comfortable life and live on 3 mos a year of freelancing mainstream stack stuff, you can focus on long term research indefinitely without distractions. Main downside is can’t live in SF/NY so your project better work out. if you weren’t gonna chase money anyway then what difference does it make?
It seems like the reporting is that two out of three objects are said not to be balloons. I don’t know of any terrestrial technology that can be that large (size of car) aloft for multiple hours/days that hovers. Am I correctly groking the news here?
Why wish for a peaceful transition? The best approach for China, and the world as a whole, would be for revolutionaries to summarily execute every member of the Communist Party down to the lowest village commissar. Communism is a cancer, and it's too dangerous to leave them alive.
I don't agree that some of your statements are facts.

However, pretty much all countries have unjust conflicts in their history, where they were on the wrong side. That doesn't mean it should continue.

I'll refrain from commenting on Syria topic - I feel it justifies better facts on the table and longer discussion than this place allows. You may think what you want.

Maybe it's time for many countries to keep to themselves - that would roughly correspond to Westfall sovereignty, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westphalian_sovereignty . Or maybe we should be of the opinion that certain things, like human rights, aren't the matter of countries, and have some ways of supporting them too.

> If we don't, we have no moral superiority to blame putin for anything while our own soldiers are occupying foreign sovereign countries this very moment.

Why?
> Culture eats processes for lunch.

Damn, that's a good way of putting it.
This seems like an argument to not shoot them down. If we can identify and track them then obviously we can determine their speed. If we can fly by with fighter planes then we can get a visual look. I don't see how we'd be giving anything away about our capabilities by sharing these things.
Why was this downvoted? I never read any comments on HN that says SF today is better than 10 years ago!
Whats Up with Nvidia
I've been kind of conflicted lately. On one hand, Nvidia produces high end chips that meet the demand. But on the other hand, they just suck. Some of the chips you can't even buy if your not some corporate client, or whatever you have to do to qualify. But even if you could, who in their right mind would spend 10 grand on one GPU. Because of this, the overall tech community seems to hate them because of this. But, many other places (the media, etc) heap insane amounts of praise on them for producing "cutting edge" chips for AI. Can they not see how overpriced they are for everything? Even for gaming. The new 4000 series largely marketed towards gamers, is also considered insanely overpriced. They are beginning to face competition in that area, with Intel and AMD having released budget options that have come close to rivaling the flagship Nvidia GPUs. Close. Nvidia still dominates, but how can they not realize that they are going to DIE if they do not bring down their prices. It can be done. The Intel Arc series is around 200 dollars (even less). Intel Arc does not do very well on the performance side, it runs games mostly as well as chips from a couple years ago. But still, 200 dollars? So here I ask, what the hell is up with Nvidia?
>So when the alien invaders arrive with the FTL ships and release their conquering armies...our automatic machine guns and missiles and tanks and bazookas and such totally outmatch the aliens troops who have flintlock rifles and black powder.

That doesn't even make sense. Why would having simple gravity manipulation stop progress on the development of other technologies, particularly weapons?

Especially if, as it seems, those weapons aren't mitigated by having gravity manipulation? Literally no one in the universe realized the potential of having gravity manipulation and modern technology?
Fair. Thanks.
I will nitpick because the naming is a giant mess: There is no "Intel 10".

Intel's old naming scheme had "nm" after every number, and the one you're describing is "10nm".

Then they renamed everything to use smaller numbers, and no "nm". Newer versions of "10nm" became "Intel 7", still at ~100M transistors per mm².

Similarly "7nm" became "Intel 4", with an expected density of ~160M. And so on.
Yeah! Like why is Microsoft lying by no longer being “micro.” They’re way too big for that name.
There’s a policy against multiple versions of third party dependencies. Though there is a mechanism for exceptions.
Ultimately as a consumer, I just don't care. Other than for nostalgia purposes, I don't get much enjoyment at all out of playing very old games. For pretty much every style of game, you can get newer, better games that pull off the concepts better.

I see gaming like most forms of entertainment which are enjoyed in the moment and then you move on. When I got to a music concert, I don't sit there and record it for watching again 10 years later. I enjoy it in the moment and move on, there will be newer ones to enjoy later.
Ask HN: Dev experience buying an existing website?
Anyone have experience buying an existing site from something like flippa and building it out from the developer side?

I heard most of these are scams, but was wondering if there's good methods for finding a site worth spending dev time.

Mental model (knowing very little) about the process is like house flippers that take existing run-down houses, renovating and re-selling for a markup.

Except I'm fine w/ just building the site for long term.
It will sound like I'm arguing against myself, but hear me out: when it comes to relations between these two countries, the UN is a relatively feckless PR platform at best, and not even a forum, despite what numerous aides seem to hopelessly believe (and bless their eager little hearts for it). You're right that their peacekeeping forces are a rounding error for either nation.

The original point to which I was replying is that they don't understand why people call on a mere forum to solve their problems. Some regions repeatedly look to UN peacekeepers to solve their problems and so the forum designation is insufficient to describe it.

But the UN is oddly violent for a mere forum, some would say immorally so. War crimes are as old as war, but war is war. The UN is this bizarrely unaccountable keeper of peace and rape. And many people really don't understand the UN's modest peacekeeping capabilities and the collateral damage they often bring to a conflict, and often wrongly believe the UN is a silver bullet when it's far from it. I believe that's why people repeatedly think the UN is a solution to problems it mostly isn't.

That's the scope of what I was trying to address. My added detail about its structural and fundamental flaw of having no real mechanism for recourse when its troops commit war crimes was just to properly frame what an inherently deficient entity it really is.
Yeah Bloomberg , like the The Economist, seems to have declined as of late.

The money does not leave the city; it just gets spent in different ways. Less on commuting, more on other stuff.
In regards to #1 - we have a feature (WIP right now) that adds the ability to delete data (cache, cookies and local storage) per container. Look for that in a future release.

https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/pull/249...
But this isnt an orbiting satellite, it's an object moving at 20 km/s (quoting another post, I dont really know in what direction or relative to what) which is ~Mach 60. I don't know how that compares to satellites - is it close enough we'd expect an anti-satellite missile to work?
Mushrooms magnify memory by boosting nerve growth
Yes, yes. But that was before they tried to build the tower of Babylon.

Thus they were as ONE!
I tend to have most of my things half-maximized, so the same width as a 1080 but twice the vertical space. Generally three half-screens like that with vs code or a browser or whatever, and then the last half has a bunch of smaller overlapping utilities (terminal, notes, chat, etc).

I don't generally maximize windows across a whole screen except for word (~8 document pages on-screen at once) and visio.
Wasn't my intent on that. I was thinking in comparison to elementary school kids. Also just curious, all told.

My expectation would be that mutts have healthier teeth. And general health. That said, that expectation isn't strong enough that counter would shock me.
Haven't national research labs solved this problem? Nobody I talked to at APL seemed to have any concern about shortage of R&D opportunities and although it wasn't Silicon Valley money (which is not sustainable long-term anyway), I don't recall anyone complaining about the salary either.
If you ask google this same thing, you could still get the wrong answer, what if there's two games called 'inside', or it mistakes 'inside' the game for the Pixar movie of the same name.

Are you telling me you've never googled and gotten shit results, aka unusable stuff? Everything comes back with 100% accuracy?

I mean, I know we need to be more skeptical of the results, but this is also early days. All we need are fact-checking engines that can give some sort of confidence score to results, and that should at least start moving in the right direction.

10 years from now, this will be moot, as the models they will have will be so far advanced we, probably won't even think it's possible or can fathom what it does to disrupt society. To say generative X hasn't disrupted industry already is insane, whether it's art, music, video, text - generative ai is going to only get better and more insane as text to video and voice cloning tech becomes mainstream.

Imagine being self-conscous and wanting to do a youtube channel, so you have a virtual avatar with your own voice do it for you - you just write the script. (This is where I really want the ai tech to shine, as I want to do just this. :))
Prevents potential assassins near Putin thinking they have an easy out.
Because he sympathizes with companies profiting millions of dollars from free software without giving back a single penny to the community.
I think you're looking at it too broadly. The AGPL's intent is to extend GPL protection for software available on the network, see the FSF's blog post here: https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2021/fall/the-fundamentals-of-t...

> Simply put, the AGPLv3 is effectively the GPLv3, but with an additional licensing term that ensures that users who interact over a network with modified versions of the program can receive the source code for that program

The text you are referencing is present in the GPL too, and it doesn't make GPL code infect adjacent apps.
I haven’t worked at google but I think there is one other difference. At amazon teams “merge from live” and have control of their own service’s CD pipeline. They might manually release the merged changes or have full integ test coverage. The Amazon workflow offers more flexibility to teams (whether or not that might be desirable).

Not sure how deployments and CD work at google but I think the picture is different at google for unit tests, integ tests etc. Amazon teams have more control over their own codebase and development practices whereas, based on what I know, google has standardized many parts of their development process.
You're missing that the video is making a claim with two parts:

a) you need to use unrealistic pairings to get the true margin of the parts under review...

b) we prioritize exposing the margin to allow future-proofing your CPU choice

I'm totally agreeing that they need to use mismatched GPU to make the first point.

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But I'm strongly refuting the second: they expose the "hidden" margin because again, the real world gains for most owners wouldn't be there and the content would be a lot less exciting.

And they're claiming that it's not about today, but it will be once future GPUs at the same price point are faster... but they concluded the exact opposite before: stating that you should not bank on GPU futureproofing changing the math on which CPU is a better choice.

And what's so damning is that when they wanted to prove that opposite take about the exact same topic they used direct competitors twice.

As soon as they benefited from the gap they decided to downgrade the CPU.
"personal" and "communal" seem opposed. Especially since we're talking about entertainment Babel. Society functions better when "norms" are held across enough of the population, when there's shared experience. This just sounds like we're building ourselves Matrix pods and there isn't even a sentient AI at the helm to blame. How bleak.
Namecheap is still reasonably cost competitive. I use them for a few domains I own and haven’t had any major issues and found the price closer to other well known competitors.
Keyboards from my collection of strange/esoteric/meaningful keyboards
Not sure I would qualify ITO as transparent. The thicker the coating the less transmission (but lower resistance) you get.
They should demonstrate it in drop the Ukraine.
Gp is quoting one of Yogi Berra's oxymoronic quips. It's funny if you think about it for a second :)
Are you aware of how common this type of behavior is? Where are you purposing to draw the line? Should we not even discuss local and state elections on the internet to prevent outside voices from swaying the views of voters? Should we not report on these elections?

A free and fair election is about ensuring that eligible voters are informed, that they have access to the ballot box, and that those ballots are accurately counted.
I'm a big supporter of permissive licenses, but I have to admit this seems like a very responsible and well-thought-out approach to relicensing the project to me.
And the fact that the “level up quickly” promise is verbal, means they aren’t bound to anything. Get them to put it in writing if it’s important to you _before_ you sign an offer letter.
the first one they got had hardware from several Chinese corps and had every sign of being from China, are you denying that? I guarantee if they got even 2% of the hardware they were able to figure out where it came from.
I do not believe this is correct. See my response to your other comment below. I think you're reading the corresponding source line too broadly.
it also has about 3-4 different UIs, all of which have very slightly different options

brilliant functionality, just the UI is beyond awful
From the dataset it is, but the new bing search, should be better, since it has the whole internet at its disposal.
In summary, compressing contents before encryption provides a size side channel if you don't pad (which would defeat the purpose of compression). Interesting seeing a somewhat practical application of a well known concept!
I don't think this is unique to NameCheap, I've gotten both metamask and DHL emails from other lists I'm on, I assume from the same threat actor. I would assume that they're opportunistically using whatever mailing list they can gain access to.
"Safely" because it is expected to burn completely before impact with the surface? If not, then fair to call it a potential hazard, even if a small one?
Yeah, I’m a big fan of strong, static types, and was a big JS hater pre-ES6 (still a light JS hater), but I gotta say, TS is damn good. It really is almost as type safe as a classic strongly, statically typed language, and almost as productive “in the small” as a dynamically typed scripting language.

If you don’t need systems language type performance, and don’t need true parallelism, it’s a pretty terrific choice. Starts out productive/simple in the early days of a project, stays productive/simple as it grows. Plus, if you’re doing “mobile apps + web app + RESTful services”, pretty nice that you can do it all in one language (assuming React Native on mobile), and that there’s no JSON related boilerplate.
> It's not like the AGPL infects everything on your network, it's limited to the original source.

Indeed. By the way, the difference between the AGPL and the SSPL is that the SSPL does infect your entire stack and isn't limited to just the original source, which is exactly why the AGPL is free and open-source but the SSPL is neither.
You can restart your browser without losing what's it your incognito windows.
In the near future, if having access to a computer means cheating, you are doing education wrong.
Conspicuously absent from that document are any vertical measurements. At exactly what altitude national airspace stops is not clearly established.
Of course it's the network subsystem. I've heard nothing but terrible stories from colleagues that have had to interact with those maintainers.
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I feel like pedigrees are somewhat underrated in software engineering. Everywhere I go there always seems to be some sort of egotistical “I can make the best thing”
> The only reasons to replace business desktops are swollen batteries and Microsoft.

Windows 11 requires TPM 2.0. Windows 11 is the garbage one everyone is going to skip, but will Windows 12 require the same?
Where did I say that it was “literally impossible that anyone could have a negative experience”?

Straw man much?
Trading seems dauting, especially when your competition are HFTs and huge firms, but there are even very simple patterns that can be profitable, that does not require any advanced coding, APIs, huge troves of data, quant formulas, etc.

Once such simple method, which still works, is to short BTC and go long QQQ/SPY during market hours if there is relative weakness of BTC before the market open, whilst going long QQQ/SPY. Both legs are exited at the market close.

This has been very profitable. Even the most advanced firms are bound to miss easy strategies. Pattern recognition, intuition are more valuable when to comes to trading than having more data or better tools.
I remember that in the middle 1980's, U-Haul vehicles and trailers advertised $19.95 daily rates, painted right on them.

Today, if you see a U-Haul, it sports the same $19.95 day.

Lesson in fixed cost vs. variable.

https://live.staticflickr.com/208/442280529_898a6b1f8e_b.jpg
I am really feeling this now.

We are an academic group (sort of) that is looking to stand up a server or so for some public-facing apps and databases, but it's like no one has ever heard of such a thing. They keep giving me servers that are behind a firewall and only accessible on-campus.

We could maybe do AWS or Azure, but that is really expensive and not really covered by our (government) funding. Plus, any time you want to do something like that (particularly with a company the university doesn't have an existing contract with), you have to get several layers of bureaucracy (including lawyers sometimes) involved. We are a state school, so you can guess how fast that moves.

In general, it's easier to ask for a $500k instrument, or take $10k trips to conferences, than get $10/month subscription for some web hosting company. Academia can be really behind on this front.

(For me, academia is generally ok and fun in my current position, but this part is getting ridiculous)
Ask HN: Areas for new grads interested in lower level work?
I will be graduating next year with a CS degree. My issue is that most of the jobs I see are web dev and I am primarily interested in lower level areas.

I do not see many opportunities for CS graduates interested in lower level work. A lot of the postings I do see in low level work seem to be in embedded, and desire CE and EE grads.

Re: embedded, I am more interested in software than hardware, but hardware does interest me, although I'd prefer to spend as much time as possible coding.

Basically, what areas should I look out for that might be open to new grads? I really want to find an area with lots of depth and opportunities to go deep in the stack. That is what brings me the most joy when it comes to programming.

Along with ideas for lower level areas, are there any project ideas one could recommend that would be interesting to work on, and that perhaps might help if included on my resume?

Thank you
Car sized balloons. Gliders. "Hover" is conjecture.
>It feels like the broader trend is for academics to move towards applied research, instead.

Funny enough it was the opposite in my niche, a few years ago I could not get any applied research published. The CS reviewers would write things like 'where's the novelty? there are no novel architectures here', the biology reviewers would write things like 'this is a neat tool but we have other solutions that work worse but are established', and the papers would die as preprints. Ah well, glad I'm out of that game.
It's also highly brittle, with a fracture toughness of 2 MPa.m1/2 -- which makes it only marginally tougher than borosilicate glass, and broadly equivalent to many brittle ceramics such as silicon carbide.

6061 aluminum has a fracture toughness of roughly 29 MPa.m1/2.

So "transparent aluminum" exhibits fracture behavior that is much more glass-like than aluminum-like.
"Speech is corruption" is a bad take.
If I have a business and I use a company like sendgrid, I have credentials to use that service. If some employee has access to that account (such as to send newsletters), and that employee’s credentials were lost or stolen, that doesn’t seems suspicious at all.

I don’t have any inside info here, but it makes sense. And as a namecheap customer, I see no reason to panic at this time.
> I’m taking the PC refresh savings and buying Macs, iPads and meeting room hardware.

What's the failure rate of Macs?
Ask HN: Where to get a cool research-oriented job?
I've noticed I have a tendency to do totally out-there stuff (my github is full of unusual things and so are the things that I haven't published like facial gesture recognition). Where is a good place to find a cool research-oriented job such as prototyping new things? I don't have too many formal academic credentials.
> You do not need to make any precautions for this - backpressure, failure handling, retries - as it is inherent in how a messaging-based system works.

In reality, there are time limits on fulfillment of requests. Even in your previous example of an order execution / fulfillment system, the orders must execute while the exchange is still open. I can’t think of a system that is truly unbounded in time, but maybe one exists.
The best way to save money is not to target 4k
Who says you need to settle down in one location? My parents haven't lived in any time zone more than five or six years.
The video made it look like a continuous beam laser versus a pulsed laser (unless it's just pulsing very very fast which is a distinct possibility). Would there be any advantages or disadvantages to using a pulsed laser over a continuous beam?
Back in the day I was day trading a stock at a gig that provides high speed internet and professional trading software. Many of us did have medium to long term profitability, so I guess it's the same for algo trading.
I suspect this is being heavily downvoted because people are wrongly attributing Elon's "humans drive with just their eyes" prattle to being your own personal take...

I'm recognizing the quotation marks and fully sympathize with the color they add to the statement.
I think understanding these jailbreaks give us a much deeper insight into the actual “comprehension” of these models. From a research perspective, this is fascinating
I tried "Penrose tiles"
I never worked at Google, but this post sums up everything I had to say about the matter. GP has a sh-tty monorepo experience at one company and decides to make a statement about another company where they never worked (so I presume). HN absurdism as its best!

I second your point about monorepo versus ball of mud. They are so different. And managing all of this is about social/culture, less science-y. If you don't have good culture around maintenance, well then, yeah, duh, it will fall apart pretty quickly. It sounds like Google spends crazy money to develop tools to enforce the culture. Hats off.