skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Taking nickel from rainforests destroys 30 times more life than getting it from the depths

So why not doing both at the same time !
I am not sure how you got that from my statement...
Why is it that pretty much all displays in the PC world have such dismal pixel densities (< 226 ppi)? It would be nice to be able to shop for a new desktop display without having to give up Retina in macOS.
CPU arch isnt't even that critical here, as Apple is talking about Metal.
Correct yes it works in 2D technically but it is absolutely amazing in VR.

Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j3SnPG45g8

You can even bend right over to the screen and see the subpixels on the TV. It's really well done. You can feel the love this was created with. Really mindblowing. And all free (though I patreon them, as do many others)

I hope someone makes this for retro computers also at some point, like PDPs, Amigas etc. This one can technically do some of those but it's really focused on retro gaming.
No. The temperature trend shows an upward slope from 1980 to present.

Eyeballing it, about 32F to 38F over the period. 30F if you extend back to the beginning of data in 1960.
I think this makes a great deal of sense, for any organization that wants a feed-type social media presence.

The fly in the ointment is DDOS protection. That might not be a problem in some cases, but once you attract enough attention you become a peachy target.
John Mastodon is the real captain of industry. That man can execute.
That state has a powerful Senator though, so not all the roads are like that. There are some ridiculously overbuilt highways with no traffic.
You touch on something important here. Until recently, we as a species haven’t had easy access to clean water, and somehow evolved to be susceptible to all sorts of water-borne pathogens.

So our social structures evolved in the context of alcohol as a given.

No surprise, then, that now that we (largely) have access to fresh water, we still find a place for alcohol in our lives.
Complexity theory doesn’t handle it, but that’s why I didn’t use complexity theory. Economics handles it fine: no one’s ever paid you or anyone else to do a wood-breaking simulation at a sufficient physical level of detail to capture the sound accurately, so the comparative savings on it aren’t economically valuable.
stuff like this really makes it seem like simulation theory might be real, there have been people warning about phosphate shortages leading to food crisis for years and even as recently as a few months ago, then Norway finds this massive supply

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-phosphorus-shortage-affect-wor...

https://www.wired.com/story/the-worlds-farms-are-hooked-on-p...

Norway also seems to be the luckiest/most blessed nation on earth, now they struck another gold mine to go along with all their oil
What's the point of having it public for humans but not for machines?
I like that ;)
Location: Maryland, USA

Remote: Yes, preferred

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Docker, Python, Kubernetes, Github Actions, Golang, Terraform, Flux, ArgoCD, Helm, AWS

Résumé/CV: https://andrew.weiland.site/pdf/resume.pdf

Email: aweiland[at]gmail.com

--

I'm looking for something in the backend/infra/platform/devops engineering space (is there a good title for this type of role?).
> Ie even lower than my guess of 90% above.

These are not comparable numbers. You're comparing "fraction of people" vs "fraction of outcomes". Presumably an eye-roller assigns ~0 probability to "extremely bad" outcomes (or has a shockingly cavalier attitude toward medium-small probabilities of catastrophe).
TestFit (all jobs remote - CST +/- 2)

We design buildings in milliseconds. It can be hard to describe in words - I'd encourage you to get a quick glimpse of our neighborhood layout tool at https://testfit.io/release/testfit-3-07-subdivision-configur.... Our real-time automation allows real estate developers and architects to design projects in a fraction of the time required with traditional CAD software packages. Job openings we have are listed below:

C Software Developer - Procedural Generation | Full-time | Remote (CST +/- 2)

We are hiring a software engineer to join our small team and add more functionality to our procedural generation systems written in C99. If you like solving tough spatial problems using 2D vectors and geometry, managing your own memory, and optimizing algorithms to run in under a millisecond, then we might be the company for you (being prone to ranting about how much RAM Slack uses is also a good sign). At TestFit were are seeking to create a company of people who are capable, humble, and hard-working.

You can apply at https://jobs.lever.co/testfit/62bb6dfe-fd34-41c3-8cf3-5318a0...

Back-End Web Developer - Senior | Full-time | Remote (CST +/- 2)

TestFit is seeking an experienced problem solver with a strong technical background in Ruby, SQL, and AWS to work with our team of developers building TestFit’s new web platform. Our web platform will be the centerpiece of TestFit’s efforts to revolutionize real estate feasibility via collaboration and convenience only possible with cloud-based software solutions.

As a senior member of the team, you’ll combine your technical expertise with solid emotional intelligence skills to lead the design and implementation of our cloud services efforts. You’ll be responsible for setting the pace both in terms of quality and productivity, requiring an attention to detail and a holistic understanding of software design, development, quality control, and DevOps.

https://jobs.lever.co/testfit/3dba97f8-7850-438e-86db-c94c9d...

Cloud Operations Lead | Full-time | Remote (CST +/- 2)

TestFit is seeking an experienced Cloud Operations Lead with a strong technical background in AWS, cloud operations, and security operations to maintain and enhance TestFit’s cloud infrastructure. Our cloud services platform will be the centerpiece of TestFit’s efforts to revolutionize real estate feasibility via collaboration and convenience. You’ll be responsible for ensuring that TestFit’s innovative SaaS products are built on reliable, scalable, resilient, and secure cloud infrastructure.

Furthermore, you will play a key role in maintaining and evolving our operations and information security practices. You will be all-in on tactics, managing, maintaining, monitoring, and supporting the day-to-day operations of our cloud computing presence and strategy, anticipating our future infrastructure needs, and designing and implementing elegant solutions that meet them.

https://jobs.lever.co/testfit/928b529a-9c71-429d-90ef-429837...
This is supposed to be a workstation CPU but it is not much faster than an Intel Core i9-13900KS. Why bother with a $2k ARM chip if you gimp it by only using 6 out of 8 channels? The performance difference is nonexistent at four channels. 27k for Intel Vs 30k for the ARM chip. That tells you either the people putting this box together don't know what they are doing or Ampere is so far behind they should close up shop before they embarrass themselves any further.
> But how is someone who doesn't know you or your network supposed to assess this?

IDK. And FWIW I'm not even sure that the leaders of those organizations all agree on the type and severity of risks, or the actions that should be taken.

You could take the survey approach. I think a good survey would need to at least have cross tabs for experience level, experience type, and whether the person directly works on safety with sub-samples for both industry and academia, and perhaps again for specific industries.

Also, the survey needs to be more specific. What does 5% mean? Why 2035 instead of 2055? Those questions invite wild ass guessing, with the amount of consideration ranging from "sure seems reasonable" to "I spend weeks thinking about the roadmap from here to there". And self-identified confidence intervals aren't enough, because those might also be wild ass guesses.

If I answered these questions, I would give massive intervals that basically mean "IDK and if I'm honest I don't know how others think they have informed opinions on half these questions". I suspect a lot of the respondents felt that way, but because of the design, we have no way of knowing.

Instead of asking for a timeframe or percent, which is fraught, ask about opinions on specific actionable policies. Or at least invite an opportunity to say "I am just guessing, haven't thought much about this, and [do / do not] believe drastic action is a good idea"
The IndieWeb is a nice corner of the web where you can find people with whom to chat about tech, the web, and many other things! https://indieweb.org/discuss
GPT-3 was trained on it, so just use ChatGPT
Many people are more sensitive than you are. I can easily tell the difference between 60 and 120 on both my phone and my desktop.

Though response times also matter a lot for ghosting and such.
TLDR :
1 - Some human action have negative consequence affecting other human being, or even have a high probabilities to generate consequences not bored by the person. That's why you can't "drink and drive" even if you havent (yet!) caused any accident.
2 - It's okay for society to prescribe (either by social norms or law) behavior that are dimmed beneficial. Of course this can and has gone very bad, but this everybody does what they want fundamentally doesn't scale neither

> I simultaneously don't think society has a role in restricting it more than presently, at least in the US.

Restricting maybe not, but strongly discouraging as well as informing the public of the strong negative consequences should be fair game.

> It turns out humans who don't care about wasting talent like wasting it any way they can; be it alcohol, drugs, video games, gang violence, take your pick.

IMO, a lot of things wrong here. I don't think there is a line somewhere that clearly separate the talent waster to the productive people. Human usually respond (albeit differently) to incentive structure. The point of those intervention is change the incentive structure of the environment to make the desired behavior a bit more common.

> Motorcycles are 20 times as deadly as cars to the rider - but I don't believe the government has any role in shutting them down.

Motorcycles seems to be "obvisouly" dangerous that most poeple do not drive them. Same reason we do not regulate rope-jumping : The impact on society is not that high. If/When the amount of people driving motorcyles increases as to become a problem, then more regulation might be needed.

> or example, the requirements for lots of new safety equipment in new cars has been shown to have significantly priced out poorer communities, causing them to opt for cheaper, older, even more dangerous vehicles.

First, references ? Second then let's make those things offorable for the target population... Let's not make life unsafe for everybody else...

> Fourth, I think is honestly stupid that he factors drugs in as an example of how "we can ban drugs - why not alcohol?"

Because they are both (potentially) addictive substances...
Deep sea mining has its own risks that aren't readily apparent. I'd like to see how long mining equipment at 12k ft under the sea lasts compared to land.
That's beside the point, isn't it? I don't think anybody is arguing that Windows doesn't have issues
Do you have a link handy? You've piqued my curiosity!
Will AI change our memories?
It's been pretty amazing how stagnant the monitor space is. I too am really craving an 8k@120 monitor, although there's a decent chance I'll balk at the price.
The second ranked solution (by me :)) shows that a more or less trivial assembly tight loop can get about 70% of the speed. The remaining 30% is... something else.
I agree, but my problem is not about kayaking. Not sure how to say it academically, but it's rare to be high, yet equally rarely to be too low as depression.
The increased dopamine and reduced anxiety resulting from occasional alcohol consumption in moderation is pretty useful in some situations, just like caffeine is useful in others. Relying on either every day however has dramatically diminishing returns that can quickly become a net negative.
A question:
Would it be possible to pass the stacktrace of the current thread to another, so that the stacktrace would be traceable across threadpools or worker threads?
> winner take all for those who figured it out (Amazon, Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Google, many others)

What's really funny to me is the following quote from "Cluetrain Manifesto" that sticks out in stark opposition to the above:

> We are not seats or eyeballs or end users or consumers, we are human beings. And our reach exceeds your grasp. deal with it.
> I haven't left simply due to one issue: I refuse to do leetcode interviews.

If it helps any to know this, I get compensated at least as well as Microsoft (or equivalent) companies provide and have never had to do a single leetcode interview. I've never even been asked.

As near as I can tell, leetcode is used by a certain subset of the industry. But the industry as a whole is much larger than those companies.
Very efficient for storage and memory bandwidth, but such a scheme is a headache for high throughput hardware implementations (at least compared to regular 4 bit math, which can be packed really really densely)
Isn’t that a pretty clear, if terse, description of the problem?

Use-after-free is a well known problem in the memory managed programming space and one that Zig infamously does not tackle.

For those who aren’t familiar, it’s the use of a resource (a pointer) after it is no longer available for use (or has been freed). Which can in turn result in accidentally accessing unexpected data or crashing.
> It's not unusual to see uptime numbers in the 300s or longer for some people.

Do you mean 300 days? Which consumer OS allows you to skip any reboot for that long?

In practice IIRC macOS and Windows basically force you to do it regularly, with users frequently complaining about this (although they got better at saving and restoring state I think?). Some Linux distributions also ask you to reboot into an updated kernel once it's available, for security reasons.

So I'm a bit surprised that a user would end up with such a long uptime without doing it on purpose.
“The Jepsen is coming… from INSIDE THE HOUSE!”
We have all seen the hot vents, the large worms/crabs etc that subsist on the large sulfur bearing hot springs. Large colonies of bacteria live on these sulfur based nutrients. There is a large ecology from bacteria all the way to large worms/crabs/etc - an amazing diversity. These sulfur streams also carry cobalt/copper/zinc - all crustal minerals. Most of these sulfides are soluble at very high temperatures. They start to precipitate as soon as they exit the vent = black clouds of diverse sulfides = bacteria food = supports the whole food chain.
These vents migrate and once they move away from the vent they cool, There is a zone of up to a kilometer or more within which the ecology lives. Once the live zone moves away = dead zone. The dead zone is full of the nodules and these zone are huge and dead. They can be mined for minerals = no need to mine the life zone.
The nodules are hard and dense, They get covered by silt and deep ocean detritus that is easy to break and mine with zero harm to life-forms, tube worms etc.
What is needed is a deep sea sieve with a separator/flusher connected to a conveyor to the surface. This what they do now. There are enough modules for mankind for 1000 years or more.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=deep+sea+nodule...
Wouldn’t an allusion to 20th century American poetry fall into the category of “curiosity satisfying”? Given they were not the only person who got the reference it feels kind of arbitrary to say this is frivolous entertainment when another person in the community (in this case, me) found it curious and also wondered if there was an allusion there.

If it was an intentional allusion, then it may actually add depth/meaning to the conversation but we may not know since it was already downvoted…
Nice! Is there something similar for freelancing gigs?
Effective arguments against alcohol will be scoped to why people use it.

Saying it hurts health, makes some people prone to violence, and undermines productivity misses the point. People drink alcohol despite the risks because it makes them feel good, around others especially but also alone.

There are other categories of activity like this. Eating at restaurants is objectively bad for your health. Traveling is bad for your body, productivity, the environment. So? We consider them a core part of enjoying life. We like how they make us feel, despite the risks.

You can argue that alcohol is a bigger risk and worse tradeoff. I agree.

But I think what is most likely to persuade people are arguments that undermine the actual reason they drink. “Yes alcohol makes you feel good - but for a short time, and you feel worse for longer, and eventually get depressed.” Or “yes alcohol can bring you closer to friends - but habitual use can ruin your best relationships.”

Alcohol is tempting because it has positives, especially short term ones. When I want to avoid it, I think of the other positives drinking will displace (exercise the next day, having an actually meaningful conversation with a friend, etc)

Focusing purely on the risks and downsides is a mistake because human decisions always weigh the upside and downside and you cannot ignore the upside. Best approach is to convince people there is a bug in how they are weighing those (which is true!)
>I had the same issue supporting my family members on good hardware with windows. It was just too common that software updates broke things, random adware would get installed when they clicked on things, etc.

Those weren't the issues that needed money. The issue that needed money was "sometimes their machines just needed to be upgraded because they were running the new office, and the new skype and the new chrome, antivirus, etc, and the 3yo system could barely keep up".
It would be nicer still if vectors and matrices were first class citizens. That way you can hide all of that stuff and it opens up across the board optimization routes that are otherwise much harder.
>Since when is my productivity his problem?

We are all in this together, our behaviors are all shared problems. The more important lesson from prohibition is that prohibition just doesn't work. There may be other ways to disincentivize the behavior though. If there was a way to do it, we would all save tons of money on health care, have less drunk driving deaths, less deaths due to various violence, get more done, etc etc
Agree, it was a preemptive buy to keep the competition out.
Unless you have a lot of resources to do in-depth code review of tests, a good automated mutation testing pipeline, or a dedicated testing team, this kind of behavior can take a very long time to root out (especially if they are more or less competent otherwise).
I'm actually not sure what your complaint is at this point. I've long been using 3 mixed dpi displays on windows 10 for gaming as well as normal desktop stuff. Any relatively modern software scales fine to high dpi. Some old software using old APIs has to be upscaled by the OS and is blurry, but that's stuff like... Winamp.
possible to interact between normal emails and the app https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/8LbrGXKZN70
The amount of people on here who irrationally hate Tesla is pretty entertaining.
Most people buying high-end monitors prioritize high refresh rates over pixel densities.
It's based on this hypothesis that bone growth, including in the jaw, is determined by the exercise of soft tissues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_matrix_hypothesis
Less car accidents to deal with, less domestic violence and general violence episodes to deal with, less divorces to deal with, less health problems to deal with and I could go on
It's pretty ironic that weed is frowned upon when alcohol is not. I very rarely drink (had alcoholic parents and learned the lesson), but I do enjoy smoking weed at times (2-3 times a month, at most). I find it much lighter and harmless than alcohol, no hangover, no risk of getting drunk and acting crazy. Yet, it's something I hide from my colleagues and family. There's still some stigma attached to it in my country.
Not with quantum mechanics.
> Like if you wanted to hire a musician, you might want to hear them play first. Is that completely unreasonable?

That's absolutely reasonable. But Leetcode isn't at all equivalent to that. Looking at examples of your work is.
> OS X just scales the entire surface and as result it always look blurry.

I genuinely have zero idea what you are talking about. Typing this from my macbook connected to a 5k LG ultrawide monitor, and it is as crystal sharp as it can get. As opposed to my windows 10 desktop (connected to the same monitor) having some occasional application windows render fairly blurry and inconsistently (one of the main offenders of this is, ironically, task manager). And don't even get me started on font rendering in general.
not drinking alcohol isn't going to make as much of a difference as many here seem to think. in my experience not drinking at all is going to be just that - not drinking any alcohol. it's not miraculously solving or improving anything. this is considering a moderate baseline of consumption which i set at an average of 0.5L of beer per day or maybe even more depending on tolerance. sleep isn't going to be impacted by that noticeably. neither is "productivity". and yes, i do enjoy that soothing feeling a cold beer provides me with. label me what you want but this health extremism itself is unhealthy. not everybody aims for getting as old as possible or as productive as possible - certainly not me.
Texas has had a “Safe Surrender” law since 1999, which allows people to surrender babies to first responders without penalty.

Texas also recently legalized “baby boxes” which allow for anonymous surrender: the law takes effect in September.

Source: https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/new-law-provides-safe-place-to...
If you like this, I keep a list of similar art collections, and am always looking to expand it: https://simonsarris.com/art-collections

I have David Rumsey on the list already. Historical map lovers may also like King George's collection of Military Maps, at the Royal Collection Trust: https://militarymaps.rct.uk/the-maps
I drive an EV (not Tesla) in a part of the country that is cold during the winter, there is no need to explain how it works. You can go into ABRP and change the reference consumption to 50% of the initial value and hopefully understand why no one with any experience will believe it took 24 hours to travel 700 miles on an interstate route with plenty of chargers.

> It turns out the charging situation is great from LA to Vegas (Barstow, Baker, and Primm) but almost non-existent past Vegas (essentially nothing past Vegas until you reach St George...

Both Tesla and EA have chargers 80 miles from Vegas in Mesquite? And something like 14 locations combined between Vegas and SLC?

> ...relying on the EA station a few miles down having working charging. Unfortunately, EA stations along this route generally don't have supercharging speeds...

Every EA station between Vegas and SLC has >= 1 charger at 350 kW, I don't understand what you are saying. Regardless, the charging curve for a Model 3 spends a lot of time <= 150 kW so it doesn't make a ton of difference.

> Long story short: just because you're a techie and can optimize your EV driving doesn't mean everyone else will. Your experience is the exception, not the norm.

This makes sense in parts of the country where fast charging is scarce. The route between LA and SLC is full of chargers, both Tesla and CCS. Tesla handles the routing for you, there is nothing to optimize on this route.