skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AFAIK in the US disability is $1,200/month, which is absolutely not enough considering rent <$500/month is rare even in rural areas.

And you can’t work on disability or you lose the $1200/month. Yes, disability is intended to provide income for those who can’t work, but why can’t it be a sliding scale, where more disabled (definitely
can’t work) = more income? Work isn’t just for income, and the government should be encouraging people to work wherever they can even if it’s part-time.

EDIT: Forgot to mention, most disabled people probably have a lot of medical bills too, which is ironic because inability to pay can make it hard to get routine care. The saving grace is that the debtors can't extract any money from those who are only relying on the $1200/month.
Fair enough, I'm not (obviously) as familiar with the AWS systems and how the price to performance ratio works out for all the products.
Are there any benchmarks?
The dynamodb docker image you’re referring to will get you shot if you try and use it in prod. It’s an API wrapper on top of sqlite and has a ton of missing functionality

There are a couple of databases out there with ddb compatible interfaces, like scylladb
How challenging is it to add new libraries?
> I have another friend who boots Windows on a cheese grater Mac Pro to play World of Tanks.

What has Apple done to prevent the WOT developer releasing it on Mac?
It's not core stuff. If the one sysadmin leaves, you buy in a solution.
It's not because some ingredients taste different from what you have in the west that it constitutes a new flavor type.
Like parent said, Network Link Conditioner is exactly that tool. It's even built directly into iOS (though only visible in settings once "used for development" via XCode).

Both Firefox and Chrome dev tools also have built in throttling of network connections. https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2016/11/07/simulate-slow-co...

The tools exist and they're easy to use. Most people just don't bother.
Getting diagnosed with ADHD because you "can't focus" is comically easy. Millions of college kids, software engineers, investment bankers, and kitchen staff do it every year.
I've been reading Casey's blog post for a few years now, and while he is a very optimistic person when it comes to the possibilities of energy technology, nothing he says here stands out to me as unreasonable.

His basic thesis is: Solar PV energy cost is declining rapidly and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future, primarily due to the scaling effects of making more of it. At a certain point, energy from solar will become so cheap it will start making financial sense to just make hydrocarbon fuels directly from air and water instead of digging it up from the ground.

He also spends a few paragraphs making hand-wavey statements about all the other things that might be done, like refining metals and recycling goods by turning them into a plasma and sorting the atoms.

But as far as making hydrocarbon fuel directly from solar pv power, as long as the trend of decreasing cost holds true for long enough, then it must eventually become economically feasible.

I really like this idea because it doesn't require that dozens of the worlds largest employers, oil companies, will just suddenly disappear in the next decade or two. That these companies can transition to oil and gas production, simply downstream of solar pv instead of a hole in the ground, is very appealing. and feels really possible.
> The great economist Milton Friedman provides a starting for point. In his best-selling book Capitalism and Freedom, Friedman argues that there may be an economic rationale for public provision of neighborhood parks, but there is no such rationale for national parks. In his words, “The entrances to a national park like Yellowstone… are few; most of the people who come stay for a considerable period of time and it is perfectly feasible to set up toll gates and collect admission charges. This is indeed now done, though the charges do not cover the whole costs. If the public wants this kind of an activity enough to pay for it, private enterprises will have every incentive to provide such parks.” As usual, Friedman’s logic is impeccable, but privatizing national parks, especially the crown jewels, is a political non-starter. [1]

It might be a political non starter but sooner or later USA will have to consider selling off the national parks to more private entities. US federal government is needlessly sitting on vaste amount of land and not putting it for good productive use.

Roads in Yosemite remain terrible, poorly maintains, has horrible connectivity and fees are sky high. Not to mention there are hardly any proper resorts and recreational opportunities inside the park itself. Some of the national parks like Pinnacles appears to be government move to hurt some very specific landowners.

[1] https://www.perc.org/2015/07/20/back-to-the-future-of-americ...
It seems pretty obvious that they didn't, and I suspect this whole project is a function of knowing the right people.

I also don't think it's a very well-designed experiment (in that it makes some assumptions about where attention is focused; if there were truly an OOBE taking place, then I would not expect the disembodied consciousness to be connected to the sensory apparatus, nor to pay particular attention to a tablet with some random image being held up toward the ceiling), but I suppose you have to start somewhere. I don't think it's unethical exactly, but it's intrusive in an extremely weird fashion. Might be justifiable if the EEG cap turns up useful medical information independent of the parapsychological investigation.
If you'd left them to the states, they'd have mostly been broken apart and sold off years ago, for starters. Especially when they see a budget shortfall.
I've had three out of body experiences that I think are completely attributable to things happening in my brain at the time. They were interesting and memorable but I'm not sure they represented some kind of unmeasurable/unknowable para phenomena out of the reach of science. (One while falling asleep sitting up after many hours awake studying for exams in college, one while trying out some lucid dreaming techniques I'd read about, and one after underestimating the potency of some cannabis.)
Oh you are in for a surprise

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/dear-google-cloud-your-deprec...
> We are fortunate to have them and helping disabled people take advantage of the parks is an excellent idea.

Joseph Sax is rolling in his grave.
An update on our IRS tax audit – Microsoft
> Are you saying the least competent candidate is always the one who gets elected?

The skills to get elected rely on being about to lie to people and lie to yourself as much as possible and be a narcissist at the same time, so all of these factors make it VERY unlikely that they correlate with actual competency.
Amazon hasn't announced any direct-to-phone capability.
Glad somebody else said it, was very confused at first.
Title made me laugh until I cried :)))))

- Developers, usually position themselves as MASTERS of machines (sure, I'm also dev, and sure, I feel myself father of my semiconductor little pet), but article describes, how devs built slavery, where MACHINE is master :)))
https://github.com/microsoft/snmalloc/blob/main/docs/securit...
Ask HN: Did LinkedIn change how personalized notes with connect requests work?
Linkedin used to allow you to add personalized notes to connection requests. It was a nifty way to avoid to use the upsold inMail. But I noticed today they have added a caveat: 5 personalized invations left for this month. Is this a recent change?
Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover – Frontline PBS [video]
I have tried to make time for hobbies but it has never worked out. I guess my only "hobby" is running every day. At least it's not work, is that a hobby?
Is that your father or mom who you got referral from or just some random friends? It's totally different if the referral recommendation is very strong.
As a software engineering manager at Google I can tell you that you don't underestimate the power of managers these days. One can easily connect resources and asks for which team is actively hiring and put in some good words.
Otherwise, if the candidate is that strong, why did he never spoken about being offered position at aws or even meta? Likely he just get rejected by minimum qualification requirement by resume.
Direct-to-phone is so slow that it can't congest the lasers.
Of course! I look forward to your analysis on how big a deal it is (or could be).
wonder if copying preserving timestamp is possible? best of both worlds?
Yes, IIRC, they own the NPS lottery website. And they take a giant slice off the top of every bid placed for those restricted passes.
> you take away anything indicating gender during the hiring process, in general you will end up with... a 90/10 mix

What? That makes no sense. When I put up a job listing and I get 90% resumes of people who are under qualified, and 10% that are qualified, that doesn't skew my hire rate of under qualified people.
Why is that different from "abusing a preprocessor"? Because it's built into the assembler?
I think you need one motivated developer who likes to tinker with hardware for a few hours a month.

Given how popular homelabs are, I don't think this would be too hard to find.
I never felt disabled until I got a significant other who wasn't as familiar with my ADHD symptoms. When we get up to go do an errand I tend to execute my todo list very quickly thinking I will lose the opportunity. I'll do dishes, put in laundry, clear away trash, send emails, pay bills, schedule appointments, etc. All the things I should have been doing in the hours before we do the errand. It's become very clear to me how much this frustrates my partner while they're waiting for me by the door to get this stuff done. They can't get me out of the house sooner because I'll just say "just one more minute!" and "almost done..." over and over. I work from home, so my partner will get frustrated if I work past the end of my day. Computers/technology is the one area I can focus very well, so I might dig into something interesting for hours. Except then I've infringed on the time we have to be together (my partner).

When I was living with family they were used to this stuff, and just let me be if I was obsessed with something. They let me satisfy those last-minute compulsions where I procrastinated and was unable to execute on my todo list earlier. etc etc.

I thought I had light ADHD but it effects my relationship, friends, and work responsibilities so much. I hate that I do everything at the last minute, with only a suitable stress to make my thoughts order themselves. And it appears entirely un-ordered when I'm doing x-y-z quickly.

Why couldn't I do it all earlier?
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Why BBC doesn't call Hamas militants 'terrorists' – John Simpson
Here are the reasons I chose it for a few projects: single binary distribution; easy concurrency; low system overhead; small language; garbage collection; semver respect; and opinionated styling.

I used it for pushing data around on a server and a cli. The easy concurrency was the killer feature for the server, and single binary distribution for the cli.
Bad fat, as opposed to good fat (omega3).

Kids these days eat too many donuts and processed foods in general.
Good points, thanks. What makes you wish you didn't use Rook/Ceph/Longhorn?

In a professional setting, and depending on scale, I'd probably rely on a storage provider to manage this for me. But since this is for my homelab, I am interested in a DIY solution. As a learning experience, to be sure, but it should also be something that ideally won't cause maintenance headaches.

Keeping separate volumes makes sense. I can picture three tiers: SSDs outside of the distributed storage dedicated to the hosts themselves, SSDs part of distributed storage dedicated to the services running on k3s, and HDDs for the largest volume dedicated to long-term storage, i.e. the NAS part. Eventually I might start moving to SSDs for the NAS as well, but I have a bunch of HDDs currently that I want to reuse, and performance is not critical in this case.
Idk about you guys but the only reason I do peer review is to reject competitors and enemies.

If I really hate them, I give them a "Major Revision" aka a laundry list of expensive follow-up experiments and then reject them on the 2nd or 3rd round after a few months.

There's actually zero benefit to earnestly engaging in peer review.
Four-day week: Which countries have embraced it and how's it going so far?
The surprising behavior was that the child process received the configured signal not when the process that created it exited, but rather when the specific thread that called fork(2) exited.

The parent process was an event loop based python program whose main function was to manage the creation and deletion of these child processes, and the simplest way to spawn child processes without blocking the event loop is to call fork(2) on a thread pool. My thread pool was triaging the number of worker threads based on demand, so occasionally it would decide a worker was no longer needed, and all the child processes that happened to have been created on that thread would get SIGKILL'd — something you rarely want when using a thread pool!

I didn't want the child processes to die unless the parent process's business logic decided they were no longer needed, or if the parent was itself killed (this latter reason being the motivation for setting PDEATHSIG).

Once I understood why my processes were dying, the solution was simple: make sure the worker threads never exit.
Although in this case, this was a good use of government time even if it goes to the courts! I would like to see the government instill a culture of fear in these companies’ legal departments, that leaves them wondering them the law will change to hit them.
.. and Toyota Land Cruisers, one of the most globally popular 4x4s are bigger and heavier than a Honda Civic, so it's not clear what point you're making by bringing that up.

FWiW the 2022 Toyota LandCruiser LC300 VX (4x4) is 2630kg (5798.2 lbs in obscure units).

Still, if you're going to cross a big desert area we can at least agree that lighter is better, (failing access to camels).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI3T_vM3VBI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robyn_Davidson

NB. width of Australia is approximate width of mainland USofA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP4UcVbhR8o
I installed the app, the (18 page) terms of service lists an address. I think it's somewhat clear from the questions (Verizon, Vemno) that it targets US audience but it might be better to be explicit. App is nice and fast, I like it. I couldn't see an option to contact the customer service but maybe that's further in the process.
I work in cloud and you sound like a shill.
You're also prohibited from having much in the way of savings for emergencies, which is especially cruel. It means you are intentionally put in a precarious situation forever.
I hear this criticism but it always seems to be from people who claim to rarely go on Twitter. I use it all the time and see basically zero bot content. My feed is full of high quality info and it's been a far better source than most mainstream news over the past few days. Faster, more nuanced, and quicker to self-correct. Community Notes seem, on balance, pretty effective.
The inter-agency America the Beautiful annual passes cost $80.[1]

[1]: https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/passes.htm
Perhaps the sedentary lifestyle is partially caused by the high car usage, so switching over to cycling would be beneficial.
A 1U rack is a small machine, but a few hundred of them+ in a constrained space is a different story. At larger scales, moving electricity in and heat out are usually the defining factors.
or first, if you sort in decreasing order of tax evasion / avoidance.
NDE, also as what I get from the article, seems to be just hallucination.

I also have experience of void, but from serious surgery. It is hard to describe something as simple as absence. But it left deep impression on me that there can be true emptiness. And as other have said here, I'm now not that worried about it.
The author suggests that "The fear that multiple submissions would overwhelm the peer-review system lacks empirical evidence". Maybe it won't "overwhelm" it, but it will certainly add to the reviewing workload. Simply stated, if authors submit to N journals and each asks for 2 reviewers, that's 2N units of work (assuming they can get the reviewers), compared to 2 units of work.

But it may be worse than that, actually. I will not be much inclined to bother reviewing, if I know that the authors might pull their manuscript if another journal gives a green light quicker than the journal for which I have been asked to review.

The solution to a slow reviewing process is not to ask reviewers to do more of this unrewarded work.
> Indentation is not meant for alignment

In 2023, we've made that mistake enough that there's a consensus not to do it. But when these defaults were chosen, there was wider variation in styles. (There wasn't even a consensus on how to format braces in C.) Expecting people to never do that would have been a pretty opinionated default.

Also, you touch on another issue: terminal width and wrapping lines. Back then you couldn't just tell people to make their window wider. Their response might be, "At 80 columns, it's already the full width of my screen." Or going back further, "What's a window?"
In general, it's something like $20-40 to go into a national park--maybe for up to 7 days--though it varies.
The history of Scabby the Rat (2020)
> People think disability as having no leg or being blind.

These are the "visible" disabilities. ADHD, amongst other conditions, are more invisible[1]. I have diabetes but "look" normal. I know a guy with epilepsy. They too, unsurprisingly, don't "appear" disabled. (I know this wasn't your main point but I think it's important for people to know.)

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_disability
Worth noting the teams are extremely secretive. It’s not unlikely some teams are using clever tricks like the driver pushing/pulling the steering column to adjust hydraulic pressure, etc.
$80 a year. The disability, military, or age 62 will get you a pass that's valid for life, and only those who age into it have to pay anything at all.

Typically you have to visit three parks within the year to pay for it. If you live in the East, it's probably not something you'd get every year. If you live in much of the West, it's probably something you'd be crazy not to get every year.
It's not any kind of advanced math at all! The quoted fragment above is just a line of computer code. Anyone who has done any programming in any typed language should be easily able to understand it, though they may need to look up the syntax.
There are multiple riscv based solutions that will be out in 12-18 months. But for now, getting Apple hardware is the best solution.
Real meaning comes from helping others in some way. Even if it's just being a friend or part of a group. But what makes it satisfying is making an improvement to the world.

It's strange to me that almost no discussions about the meaning of life mention something like this. Maybe that explains some of our problems.
I also work in biological sciences research, but I'm more skeptical of peer review than you appear to be. My main criticism is that peer review is an n=2 process. Why not publish an unreviewed pre-print in bioRxiv and explicitly solicit constructive, public feedback directly on the pre-print on bioRxiv? I envision something similar to GitHub where users can open issues and have nuanced discussions about the work. The authors can address these issues by replying to users and updating the data and/or manuscript while bioRxiv logs the change history. Journals can then select sufficiently mature manuscripts on bioRxiv and invite the authors to publish.

This would massively increase the number of people that review a manuscript while also shortening the feedback cycle. The papers I've published have typically been in the peer review process for months to years with just a handful of feedback cycles of sometimes dubious utility. This can be improved!

Edit: I forgot to mention the issue of politics in peer review! If you're in a relatively small field, most of the big researchers all know each other, so peer review isn't truly blinded in practice. Junior researchers are also pressured into acquiescing to the peer reviewers rather than having an actual scientific debate (speaking from experience).
My local starbucks recently underwent a complete renovation. The result is a changed layout with probably 40% of the seating and that seating is more awkward. The goal appears to get 'em in and then out.
There's no real reason to code in machine code, or to give up the convenience of a macro assembler and use a micro assembler.

But you can do both with RISC-V, there's nothing to stop you.
Except dynamodb is easier to set up and use than pretty much any other db out there
If you wanted to create a font-generating NN and are worried about future IP laws deciding NNs are not transformative but mere derivative works of the training data, this would be potentially interesting. And if you wanted to ever sell such a business, say, to a certain private equity-owned company with $200m+ in annual revenue, it would be very useful to be able to show during due diligence that you had belt-and-suspenders your NN's data and it didn't all have to be thrown out & restarted from scratch.
Operating System Written in JavaScript
It’s an open question in many (most?) of the reported NDEs as to whether their experiences were contemporaneous with their “deaths”, or rather their brain’s retrospective backfilling of the period when it was oxygen-starved and neurotransmitters lacked the ability to regulate their concentration and flow. I’m not a neuroscientist (or any kind of scientist) but I don’t think the consensus involves approaching reported subjective experiences from a presumption that they reflect the literal experience of death in the more permanent sense.
>"Joseph Sax is rolling in his grave."

Could you please elaborate, I don't know anything about Joseph Sax, and his Wikipedia entry doesn't contain anything that explains your comment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Sax
> Fraud is considered rare, and trust is fundamental.

This is a nice sentiment but demonstrably false.

Fraud is common in academia and everyone knows it. A large part of academic science is a grift for funding. Is not "Trust" that is fundamental, is tit-for-tat.
Blood has other minerals as well. Iron comes to mind.
How many tokens a second? Really trying to figure out viability.

4x NVIDIA A100 at lamda labs is $4.40 an hour and I really have not had an issue getting them.
> To which The Atlantic Council’s Emerson T. Brooking replied, “Boo-hoo, Twitter’s dead, whatever — except that X remains the preferred platform for policymakers. And what they believe affects millions.”

There is a key distinction that is missing: do the policymakers prefer this platform to get information or just to interact with constituents?

> And so I think I’m ready to finally face the facts: Community moderation, in almost every form, should be considered a failed project

Completely disagree. Moderation cannot be distilled so simply. Larger platforms may have had failures but even the moderation across large platforms vary. Smaller communities have different moderation needs and objectives than larger platforms.
Real meaning comes from helping others in some way. Even if it's just being a friend or part of a group. But what makes it satisfying is making an improvement to the world. That could be a business that provides a valuable service, volunteer work, organization, or anything constructive.

It's strange to me that almost no discussions about the meaning of life mention something like this. Maybe that explains some of our problems.