skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you let outsiders of the system to go at will intervene you create a perverse incentive for those outsiders to game ways to keep these people in prison, if they are too good at rehabilitation they'll lose potential cheap labour. An actor outside of the system will have access to labour that is cheap and in precarious conditions, usually a pretty good start for exploitation, without having any responsibility whatsoever for their rehabilitation.

If you decide that a condition for access from outsiders is to rehabilitate people (with whatever metrics you can come up) then you have just privatised the job of rehabilitation... For what gain? Society as a whole would benefit if prisoners are rehabilitated and find that criminality is not worth it, isn't the job of the State the betterment of society? Why should we create convoluted ways to privatise that?
You mean like clicking that big DOCUMENTATION button at the very top?
There are so many things that would have to change about society for a suitable alternative to modern education to be put in place that my answer would be so politically radical that most would find it either unpalatable or unpractical. However, here are a few things I think should change about the existing system:

- School should start later so the students have more time to sleep.

- Phones should be fully banned from classrooms. ("But what if my parents need to reach me?" They can call the school.)

- Teachers should be empowered to permanently remove students who cause trouble from their classes.

- Students should have the option to test out of any class at any time.

- By 11th grade, working a part-time job should count for credit toward graduating, to the point where you can work 40 hours per week and still obtain a diploma.

- The GPA on your diploma should be changeable if you come back to night school or summer school as an adult.

- The GPA on your diploma should be changeable if you retake the tests from earlier classes.

- Students whose parents are capable of homeschooling should be supported by the system to pursue all- or mixed-time homeschooling, while still participating in the community and extracurriculars at school. This is especially true for students who are the target of bullying or who perpetually need more out of the system than it can give them.

- Parents who are successfully homeschooling (as measured by high test scores and student-reported satisfaction) should consider taking on a second and even third pupil.
I agree in most of your comment except that it's an overly pessimistic take, in my view. You can still get jobs outside the corporate/capitalism driven Sodom that aren't soul-crushingly pointless and boring.
I do think there are differences. If you read LISA papers there is obviously something fundamentally different about what we did when we were practicing system administration than what we were doing when we did devops.

One of the fundamental shifts in my opinion was building APIs on top of sysadmin tasks. Provisioning a VM, installing an OS, getting software onto the server, configuring ingress/egress, handling process restarts, etc.

These all were turned into tasks you could run from a developer’s laptop.

But it was still a different skillset and devops dumped that skillset on developers (“Hey! Now, instead of opening a ticket, just write a 1000 line magical incantation of poorly understood YAML and the system can do it for you!”).

Platform Engineering grew out of that pain. It’s the layer we are building on top of devops in a way. We are taking those APIs and treating them as foundations to build products that manage the SDLC lifecycle for developers.

I think at its core, deveops was about “how much sysadmin work can we turn into an API and give to developers?” The answer turned out to be almost all of it. Then Platform Engineering is “now that we have APIs, how much can we automate away for developers.” We don’t know the answer yet, but suspect we will find the answer is also “almost all of it.”

Site Reliability Engineering seems to be following a similar story arc and converging on Platform Engineering.
My engineering students explored this idea for a project. It turns out that sending something into the sun is really difficult. You have to overcome the velocity of planet earth orbiting the sun, which means you need a delta-V of 8.8 km/s to get the waste into a high orbit above the sun, followed by another burn to reduce its velocity to zero at that orbit.

That’s the same delta-V as going to Jupiter. You would need a lot of rockets.
The carriers had an iron grip on the phones and stores. People were cheering when Apple said the App Store only took a 30% cut. The reason the iPhone started on a smaller regional carrier (Cingular, but then purchased by ATT) was because they were the only ones willing to let Apple do Apple and stay hands off. Once the iPhone got traction it forced the others to follow suit.

Of course times have changed, but people are quick to forget what a mess cellular used to be in the US.
Perhaps this is also one of the reasons Reddit doesn't take action against spammers and repost bots that take popular posts and comments from <time> ago and report them verbatim later and get thousands and thousands of upvotes.

Nice way to fake content creation long enough to shove your IPO out the door and exit before the house of cards starts falling apart.
There is nice arty documentary film ”Into eternity” about Onkalo (made already 2010) https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ayLxB9fV2y4
How many falcon 9's would that require?
Full Time
Coding is the solution to all problems; can't get a job, learn to code. Not making enough money working a cash register, become a web developer. Nobody wants to hire you with your comparative religions degree, don't worry just learn COBOL. It reminds me of 1998 when the road to riches was paved with an MCSE and every time you got into a cab you'd see MCSE study guides sitting on the front seat. This is not the career for everyone, it's not easy and it takes constant tooling and retooling to remain relevant -this isn't the case in a lot of occupations and people looking for easy money are in for a rude awakening.

I've been through the Dot.Bomb and the Bush I & II recessions and I've seen thousands get laid off (The first day at my current job they laid off 15,000 people and over the 20 years they've laid off another 200,000). Some of the purging is good, companies hire just to hire and end up with a lot of crap employees the unfortunate fallout is good employees get fired too. I don't know where the industry is going, it's certainly not the industry I started in, I've been expecting our downfall for years and we just keep moving along. We shall see.
> The real problem is not software but, as many pointed out before, building a community of communities that size is hard.

Personally, I believe the solution is aggregation rather than forming a “community”. Outside of maybe subreddit networks, there wasn’t a whole lot of connection between various redditors. You really can’t consider the entirety of Reddit one large “community” housing other communities. Instead, it was more akin to a fancy RSS feed, aggregating posts from various communities together under a standardized API with some unnecessary algorithms mixed in.

So, my solution would be to promote individuality in communities, with having separate websites, but to offer an open source website that houses links to various communities alongside their RSS feeds.
I'm sure there are people like that, but as a data point of one, she has four guitars and a piano. She has her favourite, but plays all of them very regularly, each for different things. Different music, different guitars.
The significance of European hosting lies in its stringent privacy safeguards, enforced by European legislation, which severely restricts unpermitted data disclosure unless mandated by a court order in exceptional circumstances. Conversely, the US CLOUD Act authorizes American authorities to access unencrypted data. Thus, for those prioritizing data privacy, hosting in Europe often presents a more secure option.
While watching some math videos from Eddie Woo [0], I was surprised at how the students were behaving throughout his lessons. They were joking with each other, being loud etc. This was not how I experienced school. The teacher is talking and you are listening. You are to talk when the teacher asks you to, otherwise you get kicked out of the class.

Dunno why I wanted to post this but is that really how it is in USA highschool?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/@misterwootube
This might come close: https://store.planetcom.co.uk/products/astro-slide
Yes, what you're describing isn't Work. We may have been conditioned to use the same word for both things, as you did, to make it appear they are the same thing, but they're very different.
Another one: don’t program your own AB testing framework! Every time I’ve seen engineers try to build this on their own, it fails an AA test (where both versions are the same so there should be no difference). Common reasons are overly complicated randomization schemes (keep it simple!) and differences in load times between test and control.
After many years I'm still a big fan of Astral Codex Ten (previously Slate Star Codex).

I don't read every single thing that comes across, but Scott does a particular weird brand of fiction now and then that I really love. I also enjoy the book reviews a lot. It's just a good hodgepodge of stuff I find interesting and I think Scott is a pretty good curator and commentator.
This ransomware attack happened in 2021, and they were unable to bill Medicare and insurers for months. This is just like any other hospital closing for financial reasons
How the applications published by developers are hosted ?
Why hackits are the first thing I teach new classes (2014)
Deja View: Google ‘Reads’ from Its Old Playbook, 'Domains' Product Shutdown
As we watch the evolution of Google's product portfolio, we've observed the company's occasionally perplexing tendency to shut down successful, well-liked services, often to the frustration of its user base. The recent decision to offload its Google Domains product to Squarespace is the latest in a series of moves that has left many of us scratching our heads.
Well in my opinion cost is relative to the value it brings. I think by proposing such a jump in price, ($60 to $600 for iPhone, $300 to $3500 for Vision Pro) Apple is implying they believe that this breakthrough is worth more value to the end user. Whether they’re correct is for the markets to decide. But if I were to wager, I believe their constrained release of a (rumoured) million units will drive demand and carve themselves a nice premium chunk of the market.

So while absolute price does matter, I would say this product will result in the consumer waiting on upgrading their TV, sound system, or computer. With the vision pro, I’d be willing to trade off not having ‘bleeding edge’ tech in semi-stagnant fields such as display panels, audio interfaces, and laptops.
You have the numbers reversed.

In spent nuclear fuel 96% of the mass is the remaining uranium is still usable.
Spend nuclear fuel (=LEU) used in these reactors have almost all potential energy left.

You can use them if you close the nuclear fuel cycle with fast neutron reactors. The downside of it is that they FNR's are also good for making fuel for nuclear weapons.
"...it's surprisingly hard to actually go to the Sun: It takes 55 times more energy to go to the Sun than it does to go to Mars.

Why is it so difficult? The answer lies in the same fact that keeps Earth from plunging into the Sun: Our planet is traveling very fast — about 67,000 miles per hour — almost entirely sideways relative to the Sun. The only way to get to the Sun is to cancel that sideways motion."

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/its-surprisingly-h...
This is the best advice anyone has given spez this year. All Reddit needs to do is to goad Musk into making a binding offer, maybe by insulting his ego and saying he's too afraid to buy Reddit.
have you tried throwing things instead?

I fear that jumps may interact poorly with RAII. But I haven't been a C++ language-lawyer since the CFront days.
> I just want to ride my bike and take the train for most of my daily needs, maybe using an hourly car hire for the other trips.

If that's what you want, cool,
you almost certainly can find a life situation where it's possible. It's people who want to forcibly make everyone live that way that are the problem.
I think this is one of the big reasons TikTok has a completely separate app for creators (CapCut)

It allows them to continue to add creation features and a creators experience, without bogging down the main app consumers are using to mindlessly scroll while pooping.
I truly would be working on software in my spare time (and I do!) even if it was not my career. So it is possible to have both a job that is fulfilling and provides.

I don't take for granted that this is not common, but it is possible. I can earnestly say I like what I do
Well Today they do zero surgeries because their financial trouble shut them down

So again, distinction without difference
>Saying "there is a decision by Reddit that I don't agree with, so I am going to take my entire community hostage in my fight against it" is definitely a sign that the mod needs to be replaced by someone more suitable for the role.

Yet I'm not hearing Reddit talk about hiring professional moderators

>Mods should be servant to their community

Why? They're not working for a charity. If Reddit expects free servants, there's regulations on things like internships, which Reddit doesn't appear to be remotely in compliance with. Servants generally get paid when working at for-profit companies or are otherwise subject to specific labor laws for things like internships. How many IPO shares are Reddit's servants getting?

>But taking a subreddit private decease of this is basically saying: "I'd rather have no community, rather than have a vibrant community with someone else in charge". It's a clear sign you should be removed from power ASAP.

Yet there is a long history of labor strikes. Reddit could find itself facing a class action lawsuit by ex-moderators over unpaid wages. The more Reddit gets itself involved in managing free labor, the more it exposes itself to liability.
Why not instead charge 3rd party apps for the API and let the 3rd party apps show their own adds to help pay for the cost of the API?
I choose not to engage in proprietary newletter programs, but do read a lot via RSS. Here are some that I consider insightful and/or interesting, above average quality, have limited or no commercialization/monetization, and have a chance of being interesting to someone else:

OldHouseGuy Blog: https://www.oldhouseguy.com/ Has great taste regarding old buildings

Syonyk/Sevarg/Russell Graves: https://www.sevarg.net/ Some combination of /homesteading/off-grid/tech passion/tech skepticism/

The Long Now Blog - makes me think different things

Early Retirement Now - in depth financial writings regarding saving money more than the common person.

Tynan.com - eclectic person

Hugo Landau: https://www.devever.net/~hl/ - Thoughtful insights on tech and adjacent topics.

Casey Handmer - Crazy dreams about space and carbon

scripting.com - Old guy shouting at clouds, old-school Internet guy building stuff. I just read it for variety.
I mean, I think outright saying that you don't care if extremely successful, powerful people leave the country (taking their skill, experience, and creations with them) is not a particularly strong rhetorical move. I quite like being in a wealthy developed nation with an abundance of well-paid jobs.
And then you have to wonder how long young Canadians will stay in the country, when better prospects can be had nearly anywhere else. Japan? Their housing costs have been falling for decades. How about almost anywhere in the USA? If you seek a high degree of social welfare, go to Finland.

Canada is broken for young people. They should leave.
Not 10x, but Sqaurespace domains are already expensive - range from $20 to $70.
There are two things which have kind of cancelled out in terms of climate predictions: the worst-case CO2 emissions have not occured (mostly because growth became linear instead of exponential), but also a lot of the negative effects of climate change have happened sooner than expected (especially extreme weather events).

The really, really bad scenarios depend either on the CO2 emissions not reaching an inflection point and decreasing (which I think will happen, but how quickly it happens will have a big impact on outcomes), or on some positive feedback mechanism kicking in, of which there are a few potential candidates but a lot of uncertainty for where the thresholds are (predictions range from 'already passed' to 'in the relatively far future'). These should neither be ignored as a possibility nor treated as inevitable.
> But if something is cheap (the price approaches zero) but is widely used, it might still contribute to a large capital transfer.

Sure. McDonalds sells cheap food, while no doubt making more money than The French Laundry by orders of magnitude.
Ask HN: I want to work in Tech. What's best between product and data?
I have a marketing master. I have been working in the entertainment industry in marketing and content ops positions for almost 10 years.

I feel like I want to train on new skills. And of course, it looks like there are more and better paid opportunities in tech.

That being said, I'm not sure if it's best to train for a product manager position or data scientist/analyst/engineer positions.

Anyone who went down this type of path recently?
Amazon’s $1.7B deal to buy Roomba maker iRobot gets UK approval
I don’t see how the relative differences are relevant in this context.
Capitalism (as successful as it can be) is built fundamentally around cognitive dissonance. We know for a fact that the universe can't support unbounded exponential growth; one day, there will be no more resources to support that growth. On the other hand, the system requires the optimism that capital invested will produce value at an exponential rate forever. If the people ever became convinced that after tomorrow the growth will stop, the system would collapse overnight.
I can give you some kind of reasonable estimate for precisely one kind of work: stuff for which I have good domain knowledge, unfettered access to a small set of stakeholders who are in unambiguous agreement on the need, that is delivered on a technology platform that I know well, using people with whom I've worked in the past, and that has no dependencies on other teams.

This has happened approximately three times in my career.
Playing devils advocate a bit:

Maybe he's starting that project because the state of the art is just so abhorrently bad that two years is plenty of time to see some really low hanging fruit.

I mean, this seems very plausible to me. There's plenty of areas where this type of things happen. All the time.
Can Americans understand Old American? /s
I actually only ever saw something like that twice, HN and our issue tracker.
That's the way it's going. Discrete logic transistors fell out of use once integrated circuits became mainstream. Hand-solderable PCBs are next on the chopping block.

Consider chiplets. The initial impetus for them was to improve yields. With lithography development becoming increasingly expensive, packaging is looking like a much better target. This further unlocks options to integrate memory and accelerators like GPUs as chiplets on silicon.

At the same time, the high-speed digital world is bending over backwards to overcome the challenges of woven PCBs. Between chiplets and hand-solderable PCBs are some more attractive options to integrate bare dies on different substrates at smaller scales.

Power modules have completely eliminated packaging altogether. The outsides are ferrite material, which also serves as the substrate, heat spreader, and EMI shield. The only thing holding them back is the PCB. The polymer matrix is a heat insulator, and the distance to the next part requires many capacitors. Even logic chip makers are doing thin-film deposition of ferrites on chips.

For a relatively low-spec gadget like a phone, why wouldn't you integrate all the electronics into one component? It's the economically viable thing to do for now. Then there's only one more step before the whole product is fused.

People take PCBs for granted, but they only exist to connect components that people wish were already connected.
If the comments all belong to Reddit, are they legally liable for any illegal stuff on them?
My title is platform engineer.

In reality I spend my day doing everything from yes infra work and living in yaml, to working in Go/TS/ruby/elixir/etc repos and building those as well.

We have dedicated infra team, and as platform engineer I have to know their job to an intermediate level in addition to having advanced level in shipping code across stacks.

I love it but most other people seem to struggle with the constant context switching.
That's the flip side of this story

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36356853
You mean like alert you to missed phone calls?

It's disgraceful that the iPhone went out the door without this basic, standard feature. But it's straight-up petulant and insulting that Apple has refused to fix it this entire time... but did add repeating alerts for TEXTS, in a settings screen that is otherwise the same as the Phone app's.
One of the worker here:

The applications are all docker instances, this allows us to provide an environment cheapest then hosting a virtual machine or a dedicated instance.
What do you suggest instead? My favorite phrase that I think captures the urgency and the desperate nature of the situation is “This is only gonna get worse, and we are all going to die”.
AT&T, Comcast are great examples of companies that have tried to expand into online video distribution, and completely lost out to companies with better software management practices. Both of these companies had a huge leg up 10 years ago, in terms of customer base and equipment (set top boxes already present in many US households). Neither of them is more than a small blip now on Netflix's radar now, who have been able to leapfrog into installing their software on smart TVs. The margins they have and their growth rates are much, much smaller than software centric competitors.
> How many people do you know that had pre-iPhone smart phones, bought them and used them for a couple months, and then "abandoned" them on the shelf, a common phenomenon with current VR/AR gear as mentioned in the article.

The difference, IMHO, is that those with pre-iPhone smart phones were largely business users who didn't have a choice. Not that there weren't exceptions - I'm sure many had personal smart phones - but I vividly remember (in both Europe and the US) conversations with friends where the idea of paying for a data plan was considered the height of absurdity and would never happen for personal use.
I've got a few that I read most, if not every time they hit my inbox:

Slow Boring by Matthew Yglesias: https://www.slowboring.com/ - Daily column of moderate/rational takes on politics and government.

ParentData by Emily Oster: https://emilyoster.substack.com/ - She's an economist who writes about parenting by just reading the relevant studies. If you've got kids or are planning to, start with her book Cribsheet.

Jatan's Space by Jatan Mehta: https://blog.jatan.space/ - Pretty high-quality space-related stuff.

Astral Codex Ten by Scott Alexander: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ - I'm guessing the HN crowd is already largely familiar with Alexander and Slate Star Codex/Astral Codex Ten.

Patent Drop by Nat Rubio-Licht: https://patentdrop.thedailyupside.com/ - A regular look at some interesting patents that have been filed recently.