skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't mean to bash the reputation of the Lancet nor that of the authors.

But here's one thing to keep in mind with respect to this specific research. They examined the ability of two specific strains of bacteria to develop resistance. There are tons of microbial pathogens mixed together and 'promiscuously' swapping genetic material [including those for resistance] out there in the real world. Two specific strains (one for S. typhimurium and one for S. aureus) in isolation are like two water molecules in the ocean. It's a nice start, but it's far from the finish line.

Also, keep in mind that the corresponding authors are academics (UCSB). The bar is pretty low with respect to what they have to deliver. I don't mean that as an insult--their job is basic research. Their job is not to make a marketed product.

I used to be an "ivory tower snob." I thought university profs were a cut above industry researchers, but it's far more mixed (in my experience) and the research (between industry and academia) is judged by different metrics. In biotech, your research needs to lead to something that actually makes money. Otherwise, nobody cares. Academic research is far more exploratory, which is what I think this paper is an example of.
Getting a bit into the personal domain, I would suggest reconsidering the last statement by George and Musk's record on that matter.
It’s not clearly stated in the docs, this is exactly how and why that happens.
At least for those other use cases the emissions are much less.
What does your company charge for standard B2B SaaS acquisition technical DD?
So we just advise on things that might constitute as "red flags", however ultimately our clients make the decision to break a deal. I would say its about 5%~10% rejection rate (some clients are more risky than others), and it's very rare that tech alone is the deal breaker. When tech is an issue, it's usually combined with some business issue (example - it takes 3 months to onboard a new client and the company has little automation for data migration, so they won't scale well)
You should consider that by the time you finish your PhD (in 3-6 years), the demand for experts in ML/DL will have gone down significantly - either because the next AI Winter has finally arrived or there is simply an oversupply of experts in this area since currently the majority of CS students wants to work in AI/ML/DL.

In contrast, there are a number of open PhD student positions in systems here in Germany for which it is extremely difficult to find appropriate candidates. The few students interested in systems topics receive excellent offers from they industry and leave academia after graduating with a master (and sometimes even bachelor) degree.
Hope that don't violate an NDA...
It's mostly safety, engines got actually much smaller since you can't get atmospheric engine anymore, where you would have in past basic 1.5-1.8L without turbo now you have 1.0L turbo.
Paywall free version republish at arstechnica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/the-us-plan-to-b...
Wow, that unlocked a key memory, thanks.
Most of those accounts are actual people registered with their actual name using spamming tools (some of them LinkedIn approved) to connect with as many people as possible though, usually to boost the appearance of their personal profile and have as wide a possible audience for promotional messages they share rather than to circumvent LinkedIn's information paywalls. Spamming people loosely connected with your industry with what you're doing at work is, after all, LinkedIn's intended purpose...
Fair point but this is also directly labeled as stuff. Most of the Chrome-only stuff on web.dev barely tells you that. It is at most a footnote that this isn't available in most browsers and that the other browsers may actually be opposed to implementing the Chrome proposal.
> In practice my imperative shell tends to have two layers.

Doesn't that boil down to a hexagonal design, ports & adapters, that is also mentioned at the end of the Boundaries video?
Exactly this. You don't pass or fail Tech DD...it's more to provide comfort to the buyer.
Source code must become a C-level priority
If you're familiar with Node.js promises, you already know how it works. I just pass a hollow "DB" object to my controllers that can perform queries and commands, but instead of returning data imperatively, I use JS-like "promises" to chain the next steps. On the "success" callback you have the result of queries. At the end I will just return this "chain of statements" that wasn't executed yet. I only really run everything at the "imperative" layer, within a database transaction.

return DB.Query(...).ThenCommand(res => ...).ThenHttpSuccess(res => ...);

That's also similar to how Haskell IO works. If you desugar the "do" syntax, you get something like this. Of course I said "monadic" between quotes above because it doesn't follow the functor/monad laws, it's just a Fluent interface promise-thing tailor-made for that very small app.

A big issue is that this was in very small project. Promises are not exactly pretty, and the code is not the easiest to maintain if you don't know how they work, which is why I "cheated" on the Golang app. I think someone else smarter might be able to figure this problem out too, though :)
this looks very nice. i think i like the ergonomics of your library... the "sketch on a plane then extrude" workflow feels nice and familiar.

could you compare and contrast replicad to JSCAD (https://openjscad.xyz)?

the examples in your docs are quite sluggish to load in Safari, but the workbench is very snappy!
> programmers tie their identity to being smart

And not just programmers themselves: more than once I have heard a manager say, Let’s ask a programmer, they are smart!
That stability comes in a dead trees tome that everyone should certify their compilers against.
Do you have an example of your work? I'm curious what a report looks like, having done only a couple of 'code reviews' myself (that is, I got a codebase and three days to write a report on how it could be improved, not very formal at all).
Who’s subsidizing car ownership? If you look at the rate of car ownership outside of top 5 metro areas it’s 93%+ everywhere with with on average more than two cars per household and that’s before commercial vehicles that take you places, stock your stores, and deliver your packages. And the usage of your own personal vehicles is taxed in proportion via gasoline.

When we’re talking about government services that literally everyone uses
multiple times over it stops being a subsidy and starts being “we all pay for it collectively.”
I've recently been able to crystalize this as "Hyperfocus is just concentration you don't control". Concentration: that thing non-ADHD people can do too.
How do you plan to have differential technological development and careful alignment research if anyone is allowed to build Skynet in their garage?

I use and generally support E2EE and onion routing. E2EE and onion routing aren't inherently existential risks to the continued existence of life on Earth.
Class-divide in gaming.
Ask HN: How to encrypt cloud-stored Git repos that contain sensitive data?
Given git repositories that contain sensitive data, how would you store them in the cloud, so that this is secured (e.g encrypted)?

By secure I mean: the cloud provider (or an attacker who could gain access to the repositories through the cloud provider) can’t see the names and contents of the files. Commit messages, branches and author names could be visible, but would be better if they can also be stored securely. I understand that a web interface is unusable, nor is it needed in our case.

Are there some other source code management systems (with cloud hosting offers) that have better support for storing such sensitive data security, and can do it in an easier / less cumbersome manner than git does?

I understand that this is just one piece in the security chain, would appreciate if we could keep this on-topic instead of making a broader security discussion out of it. Thank you!
I do happen to agree with idle time, unrestricted access to information for self study and high level entourage.

Not so sure about tutoring.
You are comparing the office with working ad-hoc around your family.

For remote work to work you really need to build a designated space where you go to for the 'work' part of your day. It could be a part of a bedroom, an attic, a basement, a co-op office, the point is that it must create separation and you also have to explain this separation to your family and ask them to respect it.

Just because you are remote doesn't mean you are working 'from home' there is a huge difference perhaps not in distance but in mindset.
Just want to say this app is great. Great work.

Pointed me to some interesting pictures I haven't seen before.
A FAANG company that has its choice of who it wants to hire can require a PhD, other companies that need talent but will be blown off entirely by many candidates because it isn't FAANG will hire who it can.

My take is that until relatively recently, CS was a place where people got further without PhDs than other fields. As late as the mid-2000s, Carl Lagoze was a PI at Cornell on a very large project and taught classes before he got his PhD. There is no way you'd find somebody in physics like that because for any physics job there are 20+ PhDs who want it.

A PhD, however, is (potentially) the right training for what you are trying to do. I say "potentially" because you can easily get diverted into "me too" research that is citeable and fundable right now; it's not so much that involvement with this develops your skills in the wrong direction, but it definitely can develop your attitudes in the wrong direction for industrial research.
It kind of feels like the epicycles that were used to make geocentrism work. Sure, they make the math work out correctly, but the equations for the motion of the planets become needlessly more complex than if you just take the sun to be the center.
A pharaoh with 100 children bungled his succession
And if those engineers read to the last line, I think they would pretty surprised at the author’s conclusion:

> Take your most competent sales person and put him in charge of the product.
At least for me, product development is all about the business: you need to get feedback to know you're building the right thing (otherwise you're fired). Whereas when one creates alone, it's all about the pleasure of creating for the sake of it.
Very nice. I've played with OpenSCAD a few times and quite enjoy the CAD as code idea.
Man, this sucks. CSS-Tricks has long been one of the best resources on the web for doing CSS right and the quality of their writing and research is outstanding.

Bad on DO for going through with this acquisition and then lopping off its head: it's a net negative contribution to the web.

Geoff, thank you for your contributions.
> There is absolutely enough food and shelther available on this planet for every man, woman and child to have a roof over their heads and enough to eat.

Only on paper. Reality is not that simple. The problems are not solved with giving people food and shelter. Rich countries did that, they still do it, it solves nothing. People will stay hungry, and now they depend on it, and will also raise demand. In the past, we've seen horrible cases of charity destroying local economies, making people even more depending on charity. This can't be an answer for making the world a better place.

We can do better, but not with a simplistic view. It will make things just worse.
Unfortunately, I can't disclose that, but I can tell you what market rates tend to be. I've seen firms in this space charge anything from $10k to $150k per deal. The lower end tends to be the "one man shop" and the larger end tends to be more established advisory firms who work on large and or complex deals.
Editions can only represent basic changes and the standard library isn't part of them.
Exactly my problem. With what you've described, I think Astro + some headless CMS would be the way to go here. I say Astro because having JS is a nice thing and it will let you do things that would require more effort with Jekyll/Hugo. (since you say want to integrate with your existing hobby e-com website)

Plus, it has the added benefit of keeping your front-end skills upto date.
after your finals, you should read about forward error correction.
1-in-10B binary star system that may explode into cosmic gold
The world’s $13T interest bill
This is why we’d have them at the house of whoever’s parents were away at the time. I think they appreciated the fact we just gathered and cranked up their electricity bill a bit rather than completely destroying the house. Once we managed to hire a scout hut for the weekend which was the pinnacle.
It seems he was just overly credulous. Yes, he was very Christian, but I imagine if he got some ancient text from China on how to transmute lead to gold he would give it a shot
> This is a ton of time investment for a company that has no idea if an offer will be forthcoming, or if it would be in a ballpark where a deal would happen?

But the work can be reused for other candidates, and... this is about multi-million deals, the work will pay itself off.

I heard about a financial guy working his ass off (nights, weekends) for weeks if not months on end on getting part of the company acquired or sold off; in the end the deal was worth €100M, and I'm confident he owned a significant chunk of the part sold. I wouldn't mind working weekends / evenings for a while if it was for a "you can retire" sum of money.
Not a great road map. A nice little science organization hampered by being chained to an delusional monopoly in Arianespace and politicians with no real interest in space beyond propping up its local space industry.

Some of the goals are flat out contradictory.

So in summation here is the strategy:

- Do everything ourselves

- Maybe be a minor partner but still be able to do everything ourselves

- Be a minor partner in all human space flight activities for the next 40 years

- Be a leader of partners.

Now I provide the non marketing translation for those that don't know enough about European space politics:

- HELP! we are forced to pay Arianespace unlimited amount of money so they can maybe figure out how Falcon 9 works and not go bust while doing it.

- We don't have funding to anything ourselves so we just go along with NASA on everything and do some research to convince ourselves that we could do it to if we had the money.

- Pretend we are not totally and utterly reliant on NASA and SpaceX by doing small project with UAE
https://www.boundarylayer.tech/

There's a Y Combinator supported company pursuing it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21662056

3rd comment is from an employee. Big benefit being quick turnaround. Load 160 containers and start the ship rather than loading/unloading a few thousand while the other tens of thousands of containers sit on the ship doing nothing.
Fair enough -- can't say I disagree with any of that!
These chipsandcheese articles are fantastic, they really go into depth.

Last week I had occasion to dig deeply into the microarchitecture of the Apple M1 and M2 GPUs (which are very similar to the A series on mobile). I found the metal-benchmarks[1] repo to be very useful, and, relevant to this article, it contains a comparison to the RDNA generations. From that it appears that GPU microarchitectures are starting to converge, even if terminology is not. The standard configuration these days seems to be blocks of 128 threads (WGP's in AMD terminology, "cores" in Apple), organized into 4 SIMDs. Resources like workgroup memory (LDS in AMD lingo) are shared among each of these 128-blocks.

The linked repo also has links to other resources, including the incredible work being done by the Asahi Linux people to reverse engineer M1 and deliver working open source GPU drivers.

[1]: https://github.com/philipturner/metal-benchmarks
Yes, with a density of 128k people per sq^2 (50k per km^2). That's about 115% the density of Manila in the Philippines, and about 60% the density of Malé in the Maldives, if you want some places to compare to.

Wikipedia has a nice photo of Malé [1]. So imagine covering the entire state like that and it would be enough to hold the projected peak human population which is forecast to be a bit under 11 billion in 2080.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mal%C3%A9#/media/File:Mal%C3%A...
I don't think you read the headline, either. The headline (and the article) both make no mention of engineering. In fact, you said nothing about innovation, which is the core premise of the article. From the post:

> There is a famous quote about Henry Ford “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses”. Innovation is not something you see in the data. It is someone that has intuition and most people disagree with. When you start by saying “Let's look at the data and talk to users and we will build what we see”. You are basically saying “Let’s not innovate but work on the most visible issues”.

Which actually is an indictment of, as you describe, "thinking in practical business terms".
Yeah, seems like the way to go here. To get something up and running first and then deciding if a different and shiny tool really would make much of a difference.
ASCII art is not always made using a monospace font. On platforms where a large proportion of users are using the same font face and size, that font can be used.

Great page!
How do you plan to have differential technology development and thoughtful and cautious alignment research if we go building these things without a speed limit?

Giving a baby a hand grenade would be more responsible.
If you really want to dig into it you can read up on the tutorials and/or papers from the Legion project: https://legion.stanford.edu/

But briefly, these task-based programs preserve sequential semantics. That means (whatever the system actually does when running your program), as long as you follow the rules, the parallelism should be invisible to the execution of the program.
I would say about the same (15 mph), but maybe a little faster. The problem with mixing pedestrians and scooters is the former don't have lanes and the amount of momentum a 200 lb person has going 10 or 15 mpg is considerable. The people I saw riding on the sidewalk had no problem zipping through pedestrian traffic.
Okay, that's what I was guessing, but it's confusing because even in a traditional family with a breadwinner and a stay-at-home spouse, you often need two cars to get the breadwinner to work and the spouse to... well, anywhere outside the home, kids' activities etc. The two car lifestyle in America is about sprawl and bad urban planning.

All that aside, my family is doing something like you're describing. We do come out ahead but not by much. Some women genuinely want to work outside the home, and the kids are at school anyway.
Jack's Ass
The qualified immunity we have today came from a ruling in the late 1960s, at the end of the Civil Rights Movement which also spawned a lot of other laws that gave the police more powers. So unless we think the US was absurd in the 60s, it's an empty statement to say that it will lead to absurd results.

[1][https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity#:~:text=His....]
Looks minimal and cool! Will check it out.
I'd love to share this, but unfortunately our reports belong to our clients so it would be really hard for to disclose an example to the public.
It's tricky because maybe life coaching doesn't work for most of those in poverty but is good to have for the minority who respond to it.
I also knew what you meant but it was more for those people who skip the article and comment based solely on the title.

Sidenote - if you can find the time, you should write more often. I just went through your articles and there is a lot of useful advice to be found. The projects are pretty interesting too. Cheers!
Tidal Bore
Don't forget that YouTube compresses videos, so the extra filesize makes the videos resistant to that destructive process.
Even if they are correct about the costs and taxes, that doesn't mean the infrastructure is unsustainable. It only implies that more taxes will be needed to pay for infrastructure (which is basically the debate we had recently).

I'm not even sure I should call it a debate - more funding for infrastructure seemed to be popular and bipartisan, even if some parts of the actual bill were controversial.
That sounds… cheap. Like that’s less than the monthly take home for a single non descript engineer.
Has anyone built this? I'd love some screenshots of my website.
Please elaborate, I don't see how it automatically is detrimental to inner cities.
The fediverse often has an old internet feel to me.

Project Gemini is the most direct example of “just text” https://gemini.circumlunar.space/

marginalia should be able to find WWW pages of a similar ethos. https://search.marginalia.nu/

I feel like the “old internet” is still here but you need to put in some work without The Algorithm being there.

EDIT: I should add the broad category of “the indie web” as well. I believe they mostly use the same Social Web protocols but I’m not as familiar as I am with the Fediverse.
At the macro level, a country’s immigration controls are the gates for that community and at a micro level, the locked doors/gates to a house or property are the gates.

At which level they should or should not exist is dependent on many parameters, but I would not classify it as bizarre.

People in the US are fortunate enough to have so much space that many times distances themselves serve as the gate, but if you live in a more dense society, perhaps a controlled border is necessary for some purpose.

It is dystopian though, I imagine it is a direct representation of lack of trust between the members in society, and likely related to the size of wealth gaps.
I love this question since my career path is so irregular. It'll take some time so lemme write a more detailed response in a bit.
But this academic did design for the real world. He works for Amazon. This project is happening inside Amazon. How the heck can you be saying he wouldn't have insight into how such a policy language would function "in the real world", when he's literally designing this language at a "real world" company?
It's a common thing to see in theories that try to unify QM with GR because in GR spacetime is dynamic, while in QM it's static. For QM to produce GR, there needs to be some way of generating space and time instead of taking it as an assumption.
The closest thing to gathering I've seen is the consistency of posting on LinkedIn with the #layoffs and #opentowork tags. I've also seen a decent amount of activity in the ex-Googler community where former Google leaders (e.g. Laszlo Block, former head of HR) host Zoom discussions about what life's like on the outside and whatnot.
Yep, but all of those things are much, much cheaper than $8 per account to work around.
Well, that sounds exciting, but I am a novice programmer from data science field. So, I am more like a user, rather than a developer.

Contributing to world class projects such as Postgres sounds cool, but doesn't it take years of experience?

Of course there are other benefit of learning C as you noted.
Replace "AI" with "uranium enrichment and nuclear research" and the answers fill themselves in.