skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm upvoting because I see your point generally & it's good to keep in mind in general.

The main constrast is that those are all events. They're for a reason. This is a steady state situation: every week you'll come back to the Bay area, work a normal in office week, then leave. Not because there's any real reason, but just because those are the arbitrary rules.
I also discuss this in my book Street Coder in the section titled “Write it from scratch”.
Third-party integrations and the universality/reusability across multiple products and familiarity of HCL are big for me.
If only there were tools to spin up repeatable environments based on a given config file locally, using either VMs or containers, reducing the setup process to a single command.

What a world that would be.

/s
I strongly agree.

Once upon a time, I was in condensed matter physics. I was (and remain) interested in a very specific niche within that, and I read a small handful of the papers that were published each week. I’m not actively researching or publishing anymore so I cap this to one or two per month now, and mostly scan over them to see if anything piques my interest.

I was still interested in condensed matter as a whole, at the time, and attended group seminars once a month to see what other people were currently excited about - there wasn’t any hope of me reading a cross section of all condensed matter papers because there is far more published per week than I’d be physically able to even glimpse at, and most of it is stuff I don’t understand or particularly care about.

I was likewise interested in physics as a whole, and twice a year I’d attend a departmental seminar and see what people in the entire department were interested in. Most was far over my head, but it still directed me to a small handful of papers that I’d read for the hell of it. Of course, I couldn’t do this without first hearing people review the research. There’s far more published per day in physics as a whole than I could read in a year, and most of it I’d find unrelatable and uninteresting.

I guess where I’m going with this is that anyone with a specific interest is already reading papers. It’s their job. Anyone with a general interest would find actively pursing paper hunting to be a waste of time with a ridiculously bad signal to noise ratio. Instead, they should use channels that align closely with their own interests, through which they can get recommendations to read papers from the aforementioned specialists who have already filtered out much of the noise themselves. At that point, they should actually read the resulting papers.

There is another trick, though, and that’s to find an individual who publishes two unrelated pieces of work that you find interesting, then read their work and maybe those of their coauthors. Be careful, though, because this is a slippery slope to specialising, after which you’ll find yourself back at the point where you don’t aren’t following 99.9% of the stuff you wanted to follow in the first place.
Double neural bypass restores movement, sense of touch after paralysis
To me, this video looks like the sample is experiencing a torque, not a force. (Or at least not a force that is sizable compared to the sample’s weight.). The sample is doing a remarkable job of cavorting without actually going anywhere. Magnetic dipoles experience a torque proportional to the applied field, whereas the force is proportional [0] to the field’s gradient. The field gradient may be fairly small near the surface of a big magnet.

Plenty of things are magnetic dipoles or can be induced to become dipoles in the presence of a magnetic field. Ever played with iron filings and a magnet? Or a ferrofluid and a magnet?

[0] Assuming the dipole moment is constant.
No, this is not true for GPUs. https://www.twosigma.com/articles/a-workaround-for-non-deter...

(In this particular case, the order in which the numbers are summed up is non-deterministic due to GPU parallelism, which may change the result slightly.)

I would generally refrain from insulting other people's code if you don't know much about the system it's written on.

.

Editing here since all the replies to this are mostly saying the same thing: Yes, CPUs can also be parallel and it can happen there as well, but unlike a CPU where most instructions on their own are deterministic, CUDA provides primitives that aren't. This is very much by design (as they're faster than their deterministic counterparts), and I mostly just take issue with how parent phrased this as a bug caused by bad code.
Ah, but then they acquired Doubleclick (or was it the other way around?) and a monopoly was formed.
the issue is using inkjet
Red Hat has never required copyright assignment in any of the projects they have started or came to maintain.
In general the hardware on a 2D printer is simply more difficult than most or all of the OSHW stuff.

Paper handling is hell (there's a great magazine article from a few years back on the Xerox division who handles this... they're wizards, the lot of them). Hardware, software, and environment dependent.

Everything needs to be RIPped but that's the sort of thing which software is really good at and which is well suited to open source.

For an inkjet driving the nozzles is the nasty bit. First figure out which ones to fire when, then you have to actually do it. I'm told by those in the know that this really just can't be done well enough in software, you need the timing control of FPGA/ASIC solutions. So, very doable, but hard.

Laser printers have difficult drum and transfer belt issues but solutions are mostly copyable from existing products. Driving the laser diode itself is pretty easy (admittedly I've worked with laser guys, but still). The hard bit is pointing the laser in the right direction, with either spinny prisms or galvos. Or you could forgo the laser in favor of an LED array but I don't think anyone (Oki?) ever got great results out of that. Overall a B&W laser is probably the easiest thing to start with.

That all said, everyone knows China's reputation in the hardware space: clone, clone, clone. And yet, how many Chinese printers do you come across? There's probably a reason for that. It sure isn't lack of skill.

It's probably just that printers are awful.
I have used both terraform and cloudformation substantially and they each have pros and cons. One thing terraform has over cloudformation is its rapid support for new services and features. AWS has done an awful job ensuring that cloudformation support is part of each team's definition of "done" for each release. It just doesn't get the support it really needs from AWS.
> I noticed people from hacker news routinely read scientific papers. This is a habit I envy but don't share.

> Any tips or sites for someone interested in picking up more science papers to read.

Personally, the older I get, the more bored I've been getting with the level of information that "crosses my desk".

Eventually I basically stopped reading blogs et al and started getting my insights from books. Those books would often mention papers. Then I noticed a lot of books (and deep well-researched podcasts) mentioning the same papers. So I started reading those papers.

When you read a couple papers, you notice most of them reference a bunch of other papers. Now you have an exponentially growing queue of interesting papers that you'll never get to. Mission accomplished.

The main trick is to read stuff you're interested in knowing and understanding. Many papers can be quite difficult to read, but getting through a single paper will fuel your brain with more valuable information than 2 weeks of "the internet". In my experience at least.

Ultimately, life is short and papers give you a better information density return on your time than almost anything else. Even the bad ones.
Pretty good idea, then employees could exchange tokens between themselves for other goods or services if they don’t want company stuff.
It's a toot on Mastodon, with no commentary. Here's the actual link including replies, which is what should have been linked to instead: https://haunted.computer/@netspooky/110832978569741892
Look I’m the last one that will bang the capitalism, consume, spend, drum, but nothing is ever free. You want a free nat box? Your managed database cluster just got a fraction of a fraction of a cent more expensive every hour. You would never get it for free even if they billed it as such. They wouldn’t be the biggest company in the world if they were in the habit of using their profits for your bills instead of the shareholder’s dividends. This is a business, not a family style steak house.
It's less ambiguous. It's the name of the country. It's not a weird dunk to acknowledge that "America" is two continents (and that one them is in fact not called "Mexico"). What's weird is someone who lives in a country called USA being so insecure about being called USAn.
IIRC it was a couple of months from "these trees don't look so great" to conclusively identifying BLD as the culprit, then one more to get a quote for the possible cure. After that it was just a matter of scheduling the crew to cut them down. That varies according to demand etc., but I'm lucky that I know the owner of the largest tree-service company in the area so for us it went quickly.
Qualcomm–one of Arm’s biggest customers–starts a RISC-V joint venture
> you start getting annoyed ... by having to drag your laptop around with you

I'm sorry but you just lost me completely. If you're not taking a laptop with you, what's the fucking point of having a laptop?
Why do you hate Jupyter notebooks so much that it reaches “worst thing to ever have happened“ status?

Why do you love R Studio so much? (I’ve never used it, so no judgment)
I agree with most of your comments but perhaps with a different emphasis, and you're right, some people do get away with falsifying data but the risks are very high when that data actually matters and is subject to scrutiny.

I amplify my comments below in my reply to droopyEyelids.
Me, for one
I think this hits the nail on the head. Plenty of companies have software stacks so large / complex to configure that there's no reasonable way to run the entire system on a single laptop.

As much as I dislike the experience of remote dev environments in general, there are certainly times where it may be worth the pain.
I actually did a smaller thing for HN. I have client side JS that blocks results from a few domains that seemed to promote low quality discussions and/or irrelevant submissions.

const boringDomains = [
"newyorker.com",
"nytimes.com",
"economist.com",
"wired.co.uk",
"bbc.com",
"aella.substack.com",
"hecolumn.substack.com",
"wsj.com",
"kqed",
"voanews.com",
"wusa9.com",
"noemamag.com",
"arstechnica.com",
"independent.co.uk",
"axios.com"
]

Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(".titleline > a"))
.filter(elem => boringDomains.some(domain => elem.href.includes(domain)))
.map(elem => elem.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement)
.flatMap(elem => [elem, elem.nextElementSibling, elem.nextElementSibling.nextElementSibling])
.forEach(elem => elem.remove())
Streaming 16k video to your Apple Vision Pro 3 I presume.
Sure, that's better. I dunno, feels like bikeshedding to worry about the best way of getting help. It's sad that it turned out to be relatively boring (equipment not set up right) instead of any actual scientific discovery, but I'd personally rather see more people having fun and learning to love the process of discovery even when it doesn't pan out. And most things don't pan out, I get that.

This may well not pan out either, but lots of people with little floaty rocks are going to capture people's imagination in a way that a bunch of graphs just don't.
Same for a Brother black-and-white laser. Not a Brother ink printer. Not a Brother color laser printer. A Brother black-and-white laser.

Now maybe things have changed. But I bought my Brother MFC-8890DW back in April of 2011. It is still going strong. In that time period I have replaced the toner once. But I have only printed 3,768 pages in that time. So 314 pages per year.

It is the best type of printer for my use case which is infrequent printing. Ink type printers aren't the best options if you might have 90+ days between printing jobs. I also really like having the scanning and photo copying features that mine has. And the Ethernet connection makes it so anyone in the house can easily print.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocal_fry_register ?
There are some materials about "how to read scientific paper", like the pdf one from U waterloo [3] with some methodological advice. Some good advice in this old HN thread [1]

But I don't see the point of reading a scientific paper unless you're actually curious about a specific topic. They are often hard to read, dense, have so many field-specific jargon that if you're new, you won't be able to read one paper and grasp everything. You would have to read references, or a book/blog that summaries core points.

So find a specific field you're interested in, find a good book/blog/homepage/tutorial/video to get your basics going so that when you start reading papers you won't be completely lost.

Then find a highly cited survey paper to understand what progress have been made beyond what is now basic. Then you can follow your curiously along that survey, decide a branch of research to read upon. You'll probably then realize that a few labs research/publish a lot in a specific direction. Now you can follow those professors (Twitter, Google scholar email notification) to keep up to date. By reading a lot you'll also start to notice papers that are "published just to get my PhD" and soon enough you can just read abstract + intro/result to judge if it is valuable or not.

If ML/LLM is your curiosity probably Lillian Wengs blog [2] is a good start for tutorials / surveys.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24986727

[2] https://lilianweng.github.io/

Edit: direct link
[3]
https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee384m/Handouts/HowtoReadPape...
It's one of the items in section 4 (4. Create Animation and Games)
“You doctor yet?”

“No dad I’m twelve.”

“Talk to me when you doctor.”
Galloping Goose ( Railcar)
In the 2000s, it was very often egregiously wrong. People remember.
> because we need a Linux fork

actually we don't
I feel like this a symptom of trying to design while you code instead of putting down the text editor and just designing your solution instead.
For streaming, probably true. However my 2016-era 4K camera records at up to 150Mbps and I noticed recently that due to compression I was totally unable to show off some gorgeous telephoto video of a hummingbird bathing in a river because the fast running water looked truly horrible under compression, even though the original video looked great. I would love 100mpbs streaming options.
> India ... has one of the lowest consumptions of animal protein and yet low life expectancy

False cause fallacy.

> You don't have to eat a lot, but you have to eat some

Because you say so? Or do you have a source for your claims?

> Breast milk is animal protein, or you'd have to include dairy too

Vegans have a saying: "not your mother, not your milk".

It's one fallacy after another. You really should read the article I've linked, it's all there. Read it. At least skim it. It's not that hard.

> You can justify it for animal cruelty reasons, but not for health reasons

You think that adult humans have to drink cow milk to be healthy, do I understand you correctly? Not dog milk, not lion, giraffe, rat, pig milk, but cow milk specifically?

You don't read, so let's try youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcN7SGGoCNI

Dairy is scary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfpNzJ5HrdU

Milk: The White Lie We've All Been Sold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRCj8LVTRyA

How big government helps big dairy sell milk
49% of each district? Yeah, didn't win the majority. The squares have equal population not size,so rural places get large squares and cities get smaller squares but each are nearly equal in population. This helps the majority of any square, but right now being a majority of your district has no meaning at all because they use race and predicting who will vote how. I ask you back, is that not rigged? Does it make sense for states with more than 50% of people voting for one party to remain in contril of another party because they drew the lines to suit them?
It depends on why you want to read papers and what you want to get out of it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37006967 suggested some avenues for finding some classic papers. The follow-up https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37007360 pointed out some circumstances where that's not ideal. But in the process, implicitly assumes that you want to become familiar with current research, instead of just enjoying classic papers for some other motivation.

I mostly read papers in mathematics and computer science. For other disciplines I mostly rely on pop science, like Slate Star Codex or Money Stuff and blogs. There's also The Monad Reader (https://wiki.haskell.org/The_Monad.Reader) if you are interested in functional programming.

There's various blogs with interesting articles. Eg Vitalik Buterin has great stuff, like https://vitalik.ca/general/2017/11/09/starks_part_1.html and he links to the original papers. (I have no conclusive opinions on whether crypto-currencies are useful or good for the real world, but I do find the math behind some of them endlessly fascinating. Especially zero-knowledge proofs.)

Wikipedia is also often a good starting point. Whenever you read about a random topic, Wikipedia usually has an article that comes with plenty of references. Eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_Bridge#References links to http://www.bath.ac.uk/ace/uploads/StudentProjects/Bridgeconf... and down the rabbit hole you go.

https://gwern.net/ also has great write-ups and links to original papers.
> I don't think any of them should pull a 'Ted-X'.

That ship's long since sailed, see all those 'Nature Whatver' journals.
There is an LXC provider for vagrant, which gets you the one-file concept, with the benefits that not everyone on the project has to use LXC, they just need a provider that works on their host for the specified base box.

This is vagrants' real superpower.
The "in their little heads" gives it away.
It's a co-op not a private business
I worked closely with the folks that wrote our platform's IaC, first in CDK, then in Terraform. I wrote a bit of CDK and zero TF myself, but here are some of the reasons we switched:

A big plus is that Terraform works outside of AWS land.

CDK is a nightmare to work with. You're writing with programming-language syntax, which tempts you to write dynamic stuff - but everything still compiles down to declarative CFN, which just makes the ergonomics feel limited. The L2 and L3 constructs have a lot of implicit defaults that came back to bite us later.

With CDK you get synth and deploy, which felt like a black box. Minor changes would do the same 8 minute long deploy process as large infrastructure refactors. Switching to TF significantly sped up our builds for minor commits. There might be a better way to do this with CDK (maybe deploying separate apps for each part of our infrastructure) and we may have just missed it.
Providers I regularly use, even mixed in a single project. There are others I could use if they were available.

AWS
GitHub
Opsgenie
Okta
Scalr
TLS
DNS
Sadly Shortwave pretty much ruined their desktop product, turning it into a two-pane Outlook wannabe.

It's unfortunate, because for a brief moment I had Inbox back.
Love that essay, but the number of specs I've written for programs or hardware systems that not a single soul has bothered to read is so high it makes me steam at the ears just to consider tabulating the number.
Glad we cleared up our terminology! I agree that “root module” risks ambiguity, just like you point out.

I just realized I never responded to the very last point in your original comment. I don’t have, and I don’t think Terraform has, a complete solution to dependencies between root modules. Fortunately, data sources will at least fail if they don’t find what they’re looking for. For me, these failures never come up in production since I’m never using `terraform destroy` there. It does come up in pre-production testing and that’s an area that seems rich with patterns and products on top of Terraform that are controlling order and dependence between root modules.

PS thanks for your work on Terraform and Kubernetes.
Graphics is not as trivial of a problem as you're making it seem. Even if you're just rendering a single "thing", that thing can have an unbounded number of vertices. And it's definitely not a trivial problem deciding which vertices are important and which are not.
The sun is an “intermediate Population I” star, so relatively young (higher populations are older). Good overview of this topic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_population
There are certainly easier and harder papers. Though when you are struggling: keep in mind that there are also papers that are just badly written (and some papers that are well written).
CloudFormation is the ugly step child of AWS. It has bugs that have languished for years
American readers may be confused by these prices: EUR 1.095 is one thousand ninety-five Euros.
...BBC? Ars Technica? ...KQED and VOA? You're blocking discussion of some of the most reliably factual reporting on the planet.
How big is your phone screen and what are you using to read it? A few inches makes a lot of difference. In landscape mode my phone is 6.5" wide and reading a pdf with moonreader in full screen because its wide enough to read without having to reformat anything. You can also click on figures to view only that figure.

If that isn't enough you might consider a tablet or e-reader instead of trying so hard to make existing options work.

You CAN convert to something like epub which is trivially reflowed and this is just fine for reading fiction but just isn't as pleasant and nicely formatted as a pdf.
A Normal Person’s Guide to the Room-Temperature Superconductor Drama
Another fallback I have used in the past was to hang a hose into the shower and attach a mister head to it. I also had a mister for the porch. Some people install a mister rail [1] along their patio that has a dozen misters on them. They work great. Uses some water but better than heat stroke. This may be useful for people that can't leave their house and can't afford to install or operate HVAC.

Another method I've used was to point a carpet dryer which is just a big portable blower to a window to blow all the heat out of the house and pull in cooler air from the other windows in the evening so I could sleep. I never bothered to install HVAC. I've since moved to a much cooler place and have an earth bermed home.

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Misters-Outside-Nozzles-Umbrella-Back...
Ah yes, you're right. Thank you for pointing that out.
> but for now if you feel the need to purchase a new HP product you should definitely avoid the ones with an e in the model number.

The simpler solution is to just avoid purchasing HP products.
To me it seems like Google wants the same level of control, but is sacrificing user experience and ChromeOS brand impression to achieve it.

To me, resolution of this issue looks like either letting hardware providers release their own drivers to enable them to support the sales of hardware currently on the shelves, or refuse to license ChromeOS to hardware providers unwilling to meet support standards that Google’s customers expect. Selling unsupported hardware as new seems like a recipe to drive customers away from the ChromeOS experience.
Best quote:

Bruford writes ruefully that, throughout his career, women “generally and rather stubbornly stayed away” from his performances.

Brings back school memories. Fortunately I also had some Parliament.
You forgot the greatest escape hatch of all: null
> The giveaway was expected to include PlayStation 5 consoles and a computer for livestreaming.

How many of these items do people think he has, why won't they give up when seeing 100+ other people??