skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would it be worthwhile just using "cloud GPUs" (like the providers who rent out GPUs, not the overpriced AWS stuff) until the next generation comes out, then using that?
Thanks for the feedback.

I get where you're coming from about a new language for inflight. We will have support for existing languages in the future, through an SDK, although you will not get all the benefits of the Wing compiler this way.

About #2, we've identified the issue to be the lottie animations. Working on a fix
This is an important topic, yet IMHO the article forgets to ask some important questions.

* What kind of environments are healthy for children to grow up in, to become well-adjusted adults?

* What are the characteristics of healthy communities, which function well for the participants?

* Do all communities have to follow the same values and beliefs, or is it OK for different communities to have different values and beliefs?
https://www.wired.com/1997/10/intel-dec-settle-alpha-chip-di...

This.

Microsoft Windows NT and Wall Street were already embracing the successor to X86 (called MIPS) in anticipation of X86 hitting the same (CISC) architectural limits that DEC’s VAX had. Things did not look good for old Intel.

The allegation was that when DEC shopped Alpha to Intel (who had the most advanced fabs behind DEC) looking for a second source chip supplier, Intel took a while and came back with a No, but then their all-but-dead X86 architecture suddenly appeared in a new gen chip called Pentium with Alpha’s tech. You can guess the rest if you weren’t around yet.

[Commoditized PCs that ran the X86 version of Windows Server allowed Asian producers with near-slave labor to do to DEC what DEC had done, albeit with an entirely Western workforce, to mainframe manufacturers, to the point where Compaq was eventually able to buy what was left of once great DEC and put it to sleep —-along with any need for the MIPS version of Windows NT. Apple teamed up with IBM for a while with POWER PC, Sun flopped around with Thin Clients and Amiga/Atari murder-suicided, but there was no stopping Windows NT on Alpha-infused X86. Eventually, the ensuing economic chaos caused everyone to turn to free software everywhere they possibly could (as the theoretical communists like RMS lamented in their final vindication after so many decades in obscurity). When Apple got its second chance with the iPhone, the first thing it did was capture the manufacturing capacity in China to prevent a repeat of what had happened with the PC.]

Kind’a puts a new perspective on Intel needing to use TSMC as AMD began promoting 7nm x86 chips.

Footnote: The state of the art DEC chip fab (Hudson) that DEC made Intel buy was where DEC had taken the simple ARM architecture and put it on steroids (StrongARM) such that its eventual descendants live on today, even powering iPhone.
Worth linking this epic: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/mozilla-now-only-...
Working remotely is a competitive hiring advantage again
Pretty much. About 2 years ago I couldn't even do a single pull up without it being a huge strain. Now 20 to 30 is absolutely nothing. I couldn't tell you when it became like that, it just eventually happened.
I'm curious. Could you please elaborate further
The graph ends at 22:00, but I go to sleep at around 2:00. :(
He started with the "How hard can a simple website like twitter be?" mistake when he fired everyone. Now he's chasing it with some nice scope creep. Making an "everything" app could take time away from shitposting/Tesla/spaceX/10 kids.
I did something similar in the early 90s, placing parts into various machines (produced 15000 welding tips in one summer).

At that factory drinking previously had been common among workers. They banned alcohol during weekdays after one worker fell into a spinning milling machine. But even after that those workers who came in on Saturdays were allowed to consume a limited quantity of beer.
There is no 'right to revenue', iTunes or Spotify did not compensate because they are different media with different usage patterns and a different audience. It would be far more surprising if they did compensate it.

You are making the same mistake that software companies mad(k)e when talking about revenue and losses due to piracy: not every copy made is a lost sale and depending on the price points and other business model parameters you can find sustainability or lack thereof in many different places of the parameter space.

There is a pretty good chance that if the record companies had not sat on their hands lamenting all this online piracy and if they had provided a good alternative timely that those streaming revenues would be a lot higher today.

I simply stopped buying music around that time, and I don't have a feeling I missed out on anything. The very few things I love that you could call modern are by unsigned artists who are more than happy to put their art out there because they love making good stuff, not necessarily because they are going for a huge commercial success.

Record companies are very much like start-up accelerators: they are entirely optional.

sidenote: I think posting the same link over and over again in a single thread is not a very nice thing to do, even if you believe it shows you are right (which it doesn't...).
The endgame isn't the Japanese population reaching zero. Eventually, real estate prices will go down and, with increasing automation, having many children will again become affordable. There will be pain on the way there, as the infrastructure will degrade and many elder people will lack caretakers. But I believe the market will slowly adapt to the situation and create incentives for a new population equilibrium.
> Solder paste and a reflow oven are required for prototyping any circuit boards with surface-mount components (SMT) - basically any modern circuit board today.

This is incorrect. You can easily do small scale work with almost all SMT components without solder paste. Solder paste is required for automated assembly processes. But almost anything done by hand can also be done with conventional solder.

Source: I worked as an electronics designer for a few years, and assembled prototypes and small production batches by hand with SMT parts (0603's, TTSOPS, etc) every day.

The one exception is BGA devices, because the solder pads are underneath the device. But doing those by hand requires precise alignment that is difficult enough that few people do it. Also, for smaller BGA devices with fewer pins, skilled operators can still solder them in place with a heat gun by covering the pads with solder and flux and just melting them into place.
> coffee jacking up your nervous system, and then in the evening using alcohol to calm it down (or other calmers like weed or painkillers).

I've heard that green tea can calm down the effects of caffeine (despite containing a bit of caffeine itself). Something to try if you don't want to give up coffee like me.
Sea pools
And in other news..."College material" isn't the positive it once was.

But parents with money will pay for such a service, and the proles will do their best to follow. Society would be better served with a test for understanding the difference between cause and correlation.
Exception: small community-run conferences and barcamps. If the entry fee is like 10 bucks I'll gladly still pay.
Suhail lacks wisdom.

Stop obsessing about cloud GPUs.

Go buy retail GPUs.

Make them work. Adapt your software. Whatever, stop whining about cloud GPUs just switch to retail.

Solve the barriers/limitations. This has been the essences of computing for 60 years. Stop being intimidated by Nvidia. Get your job done in what is available.

Buy AMD, buy Intel. Work out how to make your GPU thing work on them. Stop wringing your hands about how there’s no cloud GPUs when there’s a ton of cheap retail GPUs.

INNOVATE. Look beyond nvidia. Stop whining.

If you’ve bet your entire business on cloud GPUs then you’re a fool. Bet on retail GPUs.
> Chicken flesh, is food, ... So is Tofu ... thus people in those countries were going without.

One takes 77% of the land, the other one 7%. We have so many animals to feed, that we need to deforest the Amazon (that was the discussion about, wasn't it) to be able to feed them all.

Just by those numbers alone it's clear that without the need to feed those armies of domestic animals we'd been able to slash international trade of those foods significantly. Were we not growing corn and seeds for animals, we'd have a lot of space to feed our populations with veggies.

> which have chopped down many of their forests, such as the USA

Again, if our needs were not that high, we wouldn't need to cut anything, but we'd be able to regrow them.

> I'll assume you're a vegetarian

No, vegan. And by choosing to eat legumes and peas I'm using 10-100x less land compared to the regular carnist.

> an issue I had with being vegetarian, one, I was hungry and tired

Sometimes people try to remove meat and eating just the rest. Or when being vegan, to be a fruitarian or eat raw veggies. Or they eat just the processed stuff. Beer, cocacola and oreos are vegan, but not healthy and cannot sustain you for long.

You have to make sure you're eating properly. In this day and age there are caloric tables online, meal plans, sites full of recipes, studies etc. etc. But let's not pretend it's overly complicated.

25% of your plate should be proteins (lentils, beans, tofu, tempeh, seitan, peas ...), 25% whole grains (brown rice, quinoa, whole wheat bread, whole grain pasta), 30% vegetables (variety of colors to get different nutriets), 10-15% fruit (apple, banana, berries), 5-10% fats (avocados, nuts, seeds, or a drizzle of olive oil).

That's it. No vegans think twice about it when cooking. Variety is a key for filling and healthy diet. With such diet you won't feel hungry.

I did it wrong too, few decades ago, turned vegetarian and ate as badly as my girlfriend did. I couldn't do it longer than few months, then ate meat for many years again, in big quantities, until I've realized how big problem the animal ag is for the planet and for survival of our children. Then I've learned cooking vegan and have not been hungry or feeling deprived of anything since :)

> I'll continue to eat food...and if I can't get access to it readily, I'll take it by other means

See ... animal ag will leave us scorched earth and gives us very real chance of an environmental collapse. Then people with such attitudes will fight for the scraps. I'd prefer if we'd tried to prevent such future.

> you're dismissing the fact that people need to eat food

You're dismissing plants as not being food. We eat meat for 4 reasons, and for 4 reasons only: tradition, convenience, culture, and taste. We already get something like 63% proteins and 82% of calories from plants.

> You've not refuted shit with your graphs.

Those graphs (and studies) are better than you think.
Tibet was not their country.
And Dusk OS, by the same person.
> The hole in revenue in the early 2000 was because pirating was the only real option to get music online, you had no other choice.

You had absolutely the choice to buy CDs and not pirate anything from the Web. And the "hole" never nearly got filled with legal online services anyway even when they existed. 1999 CD sales are still the peak of music revenue.
The first one I agree with, but 'automatic braking' works pretty well in subterranean metro, and poorly if the tracks are exposed to elements (crickets, leaves, ice although that last one is less dangerous). When trains loose friction during braking, they start their emergency braking, which is costly and sometimes not enough (trains then overshoot stations). I agree that most (or maybe all) subterranean metro/urban trains can be made driverless, but this isn't the case for countryside trains.
I loved that album so much when I was 17, and I don't remember anything other than HP Lovecraft that made me look up so many words in a dictionary - unfortunately this was back when I didn't have internet access, and most of the medical terms Carcass used weren't in my dictionary lol. And I guessed that they were medical students from that, seems I wasn't the only one to make that assumption!

But never since have I come across such philial odes to corpses and the cleaning thereof.

Edited to add I'm thinking of Symphonies of Sickness as the one I listened to the most, although Necroticism came a close second.
IMHO you're doing it a disservice by calling it a "narrative" and comparing to christian cosmology. On the face of it I think ideas like "past some threshold AI can become dangerous to humans" or "AI can become more intelligent through a positive feedback loop", even if speculative, have some plausibility and are worth investigating.

You are basically chiding people for changing their mind in the face of new information, while still staying committed to some core ideas based on argumentation which is not challenged by this new information. Sure, this roughly looks like what happened to religions as science developed, but it looks just as much like how any scientific or philosophical field of inquiry makes progress.
Yeah I've seen that in Spain as well, they have small cold beers at lunch and then get back to their day.

Here in north if we drink during lunch, we keep going.
Having a design is very far from having a working and commercially viable reactor.
I got my first software engineering job only once I had a successful open source hardware/software product. Every interviewer asked about it, and it was the reason I got in the door despite not doing anything CompSci related.
Slaughtering animals for food is indeed a much bigger problem and probably one of largest issues we currently have - ranging over ethical issues, environmental issues, health issues and socioeconomic issues.

However, this does not mean that "smaller" problems are somehow not worth mentioning/tackling. IMO zoos, just like TV shows for children in which cartoon animals are portrayed to live happy lives on farms, happy cows on products, etc. are all tiny little but VERY effective weapons for the industry to manipulate people into thinking that using animals for profit is actually good, because the animals are said to be so happy. The opposite is true.
Ukraine war spurring a revolution in drone warfare using artificial intelligence
Thank you! I was still unable to join with that link, so maybe they closed it off or something.
Can you explain in a few words what "edible eaters" are?
ESA sees satellite-based air traffic monitoring on near horizon
Hiring managers are looking for people like themselves. Simon is big on blogging and OSS so he looks for that. This type of bias is especially present at smaller companies where there isn’t much formal evaluation of hiring processes. Hell, some even amplify it with a “culture” interview.

This post didn’t say “I’ve found that candidates with public work are more likely to pass the interview.” Just that he noticed that he’s biased and that could be a good way to get the interview. It’s unfair but if you want the job you could use this to your advantage.
> Thanks to reasonable streaming prices

What you view as reasonable is so low that musicians hardly make any money from it.
Arc browser is now available to download for everyone
> This kind of attitude is absurd and counterproductive.

If you go in a supermarket in EU almost every food product contains sugar.

Why does a peas can has to contain sugar ?
After reading some responses suggesting the authors don't understand how to measure superconductivity, I double checked the senior author's credentials. He is very much a legit scientist but seems to be a relative newcomer to superconducting. There is a long established history of respected and productive scientists entering fields they don't really know anything about and engaging in mild to moderate quackery. In this case, I am now fairly confident that the following is true:

* he and his team did discover a (probably) novel diamagnetic material.
* it may or may not have interesting properties
* however, it is not superconductive.

According to people who were able to more fully read the "real" paper, the key issue is that their measurements, if taken at face value (and not as due to, e.g., bad contacts with the material) suggest two contradictory things:

* the sample is extremely pure (due to the shape of the first graph).

* the sample has impurities causing it to not exhibit zero resistance, and not to exhibit "full" superconductive properties (i.e. having zero resistance under a magnetic field with increasing strength).

Additionally, since they were never able to measure Tc, they can't show the full Meissner effect as that requires heating up the sample to above its Tc first and then cooling it and flipping it, something you can't do with a diamagnet. By itself the fact that they didn't reach this temperature did not bother me, because I assumed that the senior authors were experts in superconductivity and had made sure that the material simultaneously exhibited other superconductive properties like zero resistance (or close enough when factoring in impurities). The fact that they were so focused on replication and the process was so simple made it unlikely to be fraud.

But, the fact that the first chart doesn't make sense unless the sample were completely pure, plus the lack of expertise they have with superconductors, indicates that it is much more likely measurement error on their parts, in which case it's not clear whether there's any evidence at all for superconductivity right now outside the diamagnetism. Given that there are many room temperature diamagnets known (albeit perhaps none as strong as this one?) and no room temperature superconductors known, this puts the odds that this isn't a superconductor at practically certain, IMO.
As someone with too little spare time I'm curious, what are people using this for, except research?
Run the Debian Stable version and you're spared such churn. The version you're running may lag the current one by a few points but that is a small price to pay for relative stability (as in 'know your daemons'). Security fixes are backported but new functionality is not. While not a perfect guarantee - remember the weak key debacle - this strategy does provide a stable baseline which, in contrast to proprietary software [1], can be audited for telemetry/data leaks/etc.

[12] yes, yes, yes, it is possible to run that proprietary tool through Ghidra (et al) to look for nasties as well but this is far harder, you don't just run a diff between two binaries.
Try oolong.
GitHub and others call for more open-source support in EU AI law
Articles / opinions like these used to be very detrimental for accomplishing anything for me. In real life it's not that important that you do the ideal thing, the biggest issue is not doing anything at all. Partly because of being obsessed about finding the ideal thing. Doing squats regularly is an order of magnitude better than spending a lot of time figuring out the ideal and then doing it infrequently.

I now exercise a lot more than before and other than paying attention to not causing an injury, I do not care at all about doing optimal things. It's a big motivator to start when I know I can just do whatever I like at that moment in time.
I think it's meant as an add-on to stand out when applying to a job.

I'm quite Junior so I don't know if this applies to more senior positions, but in my experience when applying to jobs my Github page was always a point of discussion when I got an interview.
I didn;t know to be honest. So good point, thanks for clarification.

However I dove into it, Boiling wasn't always easy, so they didn't always heat it properly for sterilization: https://byo.com/article/raw-ale/.
Sugar is correlated to obesity which is correlated to all types of cancer. Not sure I fully understand this argument, as many people promote many things that are risk factors for cancer.
I hope RustiCL will become a viable alternative there.
Requiring brick layers to learn the chemistry of cement wouldn't suit society's demand for brick laying services.

It's not a matter of capitalism, it's a matter of priority.

We at this forum are a tiny minority of people who have the time and mental capacity to learn science. Most people in the world are struggling to have quality food and a roof.

Although not as essential as housing, the software industry also faces such challenges. Sure, every IT shop would love to have computer scientists, but they need some things done and there wouldn't be enough scientists if every developer was waiting to accomplish a full CS degree and get 5 years of high quality CS experience.
They say that engineers have no other talents
In a way, it's true, because usually your talents besides coding are collecting Funko Pops or completing God of War 100%. For example, I forgot about Frisbee for 3 years because of this damn coronavirus. How are you doing with this?
When presenting working experimental nuclear reactors Helion is not the company that I would use as my example. They are borderline scammy and given their lack of progress they seem to be stuck in the moving the goalposts phase for a long long time now. I wouldn't bet on them ever completing a working reactor that produces net power.
Does Amazon "pay" the same prices for AWS resources as everyone else?
For anyone who wonders a single LTO9 tape is about $250 and holds 45TB. I'm holding about 15 to 20 years data hoarding at home on 6TB zfs. So for me, cold storage for life would be at this price point. As you say the drive is heinous too: $10k+
Weird set of choices.
So clojure and elixir can be your hooks into fp community. To a degree they are similar in being dynamic fp langs with macro capabilities.
Python and node are more like "common dev platforms" these days.
I would first establish if I am looking for job market utility (both elixir and clojure offer great utility, but job market is more problematic). Yet if you are looking to learn and expand your dev horizons elixir or clojure are great options (I do clojure so a bit biased towards it).
> Can you give me an example of how a bit-flip would blow up a cryptographic merkle tree, but not blow up a non-cryptographic file system?

Any bit changes anywhere in the merkle tree immediately destroy its ability to self-verify because the integrity is ruined. Basically the entire tree is dead because you can't add new nodes.

Non-cryptographic file systems? A bit-flip changes 1-bit in an isolated place. That one place is ruined but can be easily recovered with checksums or strategies like RAID parity. Detection is harder, though.

Either can be recovered at the block level, though.

I use merkel trees as a solution for a project at work and it has brittleness issues related to data integrity and we have to solution specifically around it.
I used many browsers in the past.

These were:
ie

netscape

firefox

chrome

opera

Brave

Mighty

Sidekick (my second favorite)

And Arc.

Arc is my favorite browser of all time.
> and when they have, they implement SMS.

That's the problem. They do implement things, and they do them in the worst possible way.

My bank forces me to 2FA trough SMS when I connect from a new IP range. This means that I can't do any banking through them when I'm outside of my country.

I wish they just didn't implement any form of 2FA instead. That would be better than the current situation.
Well they have to pay some engineers occasionally to work on flamethrowers.