skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Moving from Idaho to SF doesn't magically make you more productive.

If your entire world consists of staying home and interacting remotely with a company, then you are correct: Location doesn't change anything.

However, moving to a high-energy city with a high density of experienced engineers and tech companies can increase your rate of learning, career advancement, and experience much more rapidly than living in a smaller city. You have to actually branch out and interact with local companies and people, but it does happen.

But this is all beside the point. Hiring is a labor market. Developers who live in SF have more high-paid job options to choose from than someone living in Idaho. As a result, you need to bid more to get them into your company. Hence, the higher salary.

The discussion about cost of living misses this point. The real reason developers from places like SF get paid more is because if you don't pay them wages that are competitive with their local companies, they're just going to walk away and take any number of higher paying jobs they have access to.
> Very simple market dynamics.

Distorted by an anti-competitive duopoly.

Separate hardware from software / platform.
Some people might like the taste.
When my company looked into it VXBlock looked less like fully integrated hardware and software and more like a smattering of pre-selected components wired into a box ready to go with VMWare with a support contract. If you're already in deep with VMWare they're probably great. But the software side made my head spin. It looks like Oxide is a better fit for orgs that are more IaC.
Self sustaining robots would be a cool project on Earth even.
> Of course we can.

Can we really, without either a massive reduction in population, a massive reduction in standard of living, or a massive centralization of capital and authority to force a switch to alternative energy sources?

And if it requires any of those three, is it really a lack of willingness that prevents us?
That’s still a lot of hopes and prayers you do not end in financial ruin.

Instead, the cloud providers could offer prepaid credits/billing maximums to let individuals sleep at night. I would love to run my side project off of AWS to gain the experience, but no way I feel comfortable with a potentially unlimited liability because I configured something poorly. My joke project can take the uptime hit if it means I know that I will never spend more than $X to host it.
> look nearly indistinguishable

maybe I'm top 1% neurotic about these things but I can tell from Zillow images alone. And definitely by feel of walking on them and the distinct noise they make. There's no comparison.

I seriously doubt they are indistinguishable for most people, but I could be very wrong, especially since so many people go for them.
Thank you! It's working for me
No. The joke’s humor is in the fact that it’s such a strange coincidence that they were served the ad that something totally absurd, like their phone listening to a private conversation, is a possibility.

Someone making a joke says nothing about what they believe to be true. Like the birds not being real.
Spain itself it's a mixture between different kingdoms, indigenous cultures, self-imposed Castillian colonialism (and, mostly, utilitarianism on commerce by using Castillian back in the day), and yet everyone agrees on using a common core of values, rights and language to be able to communicate between ourselves.

The Andalusians and Valencian/Catalans are both located in the Mediterranean and they can have huge cultural related differences and traits, and they can differ a universe from the Castilles and the Northern Spain which is a bit less "partier" than the always-sunny Southern part of Spain. Also, you have microclimates and microcultures in these regions. Yet, I repeat, a common background it's stated by pure practicalism. It's either that, or isolation and poverty.

Because if you have a look on the map of Spain, you'll find that half of the map of Iberia it's crossed by mountain ranges creating isolated regions up to very recent years (relatively compared to the Middle Ages), making the cultures of Spain anything but homogenous.
How does this happen? Do you just see a bunch of ruins on your land and think "well if it was important people would know about it! Let's toss all this stuff in dumpster!"?

I can't imagine how many things went down like that. Large Dinosaur repositories and people trying to plant some vegetables were like "geez another bunch of bones. Alright, into the fire"
Nothing to do with being disensitized. Most people can handle very violent movies while they would be extremely disturbed to see the same events in real life.

It's typically made very clear to everyone that violence is wrong, and what you are watching on a movie or series is fictional violence. In other words, you are watching something that no one would like to go through.

Sex is fundamentally different. As it is not only desirable in many senses, but it is also a basic human function, but at the same time it is something extremely intimate, not something you share with any random person.
>and that's simply not going to work in the modern era

It was working until Elon bought twitter.
No, its stupid and wrongheaded, but that doesn't mean people don't do it, just giving an example of my most recent experience but I have seen it multiple times. They believe they will be able to sell their SaaS product in different clouds using existing budget companies have invested in said clouds.

People are loss averse to decisions that they made about things that are completely unrealized, it makes no sense.
"You can know the name of that bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird [...]".
I don't think this is an issue of free association. It's more an issue of: should your employer be able to make your employment contingent on the non-expression of your political views during your free time?
Liquid Neutral Networks (2021) [video]
I'm a Berkeley prof. Working at a startup led me to update my 1500-person class
This is a weird assignment idea. I’d love to hear what you think, how you might improve it, etc.

Some specific open questions I have:

1. How can I nudge students towards being creative with their comparators so that we get more variety?

2. Is there a natural extension that would get students working on the same files, yielding a richer demonstration of CI?

3. Could we allow students to somehow edit the contest code itself without breaking the entire idea of the project?
Qualcomm is stopping Microsoft from running Windows 11 on Apple Silicon
Right, but water not being readily burnt is not evidence that hydrogen is inert.
I used to love Sun and Solaris. Then the dot-com bubble burst, and Linux ate its lunch. I haven't seen a new Solaris system deployed in over 20 years.
Thank you very much for the kind words! It has been important for us to do things the right way and to be a model for others -- so it's really meaningful for us to hear that that's appreciated; thank you!
I’ve never drank in my life and never had any issues abstaining. “No thanks,” is almost always enough and rarely do I have anyone question why or try to pressure beyond that. Even when I was in high school or college.

It seems to me people who do drink, even if only occasionally, have a harder time justifying to themselves why they shouldn’t drink when the opportunity presents itself.
Ampt AI: Building Generative AI Apps with JavaScript [video]
Technically no, because if you register now our fee will be 0% for life.

I haven’t decided yet, but it will be less than 5%.

Cheers :)
The way you just saddened me with this is indescribable.. as I've just deleted 4 paragraphs that could get me into a lot of trouble.
I think society generally thinks of phones and computers as separate concepts. Phones are supposed to be locked down for security, and computers are supposed to be open. Apple's dominance is in the phone sector, and people who use Apple computers are largely used to or supportive of that locked down, Apple knows-best-approach to devices.

Apple also knows what mistakes MS made, and can avoid them while slow-walking OSX to the same locked-down ecosystem as their other devices use.

I'm curious if Microsoft could build their own iPad knock offs and get away with the same stuff that Apple does, but my guess is no.
About a year ago I ran a seltzer water tap to the kitchen sink and it has been great. We go through 5 gallons of RO water carbonated to 35 PSI in about a week or two.
Thanks for this, my peers thought I was insane to move in the front end about 10 years ago (after having been in the industry for 10 years already).

But it’s so important for SaaS type companies to do this correctly, I felt like I was treading water and stagnant with "backend code" that was mostly just piping the db data to the UI.
What am I missing here? Hasn't SoftIron been building this exact thing for around 5 years? Heck, they design and manufacture all of the hardware as well.

https://softiron.com/hypercloud/

https://softiron.com/blog/run-bmc-why-we-decided-to-build-ou...
Your system only works if everyone is uniform. Unless you strongly disincentivize or eliminate the desire to see over the heads of the crowd standing on the plain, a taller person will be able to see further than a shorter person. The shorter person, who happens to desire to see at least as far as the taller person, may then try to scoop some dirt into a pile to get their head above the crowd. Hills and valleys of all types will then be made by the taller person to preserve an unobstructed line of sight.

The only way a person can absolutely reject authority is to live alone in wild territory (since managed territory is ruled by governing authorities). This scheme works until another person decides they want to live in the wilderness and happen to choose the exact same spot of woods as you, which is statistically probable since some geographic locations are more desirous than others. At that point, you will either find a way to coexist with this person or attempt to push them out. If you try to push them out, you're saying you're the ruler of the territory, so that option contradicts the objective of rejecting authority, for how can you say you reject authority and then become authority without being a hypocrite?

So, the only viable option is to coexist. Over time, more people who reject authority arrive, and you must coexist with them or pack your bags for somewhere else, which you really don't want to do. Presumably, you'll work the land in some way to provide for your own sustenance. One day, your neighbor accuses you of killing their livestock overnight. You obviously didn't, and you tell them that, but they just don't believe you because they know they saw you on their land the previous night. At this point, you're frustrated because you're innocent but can't demonstrate it, and the other people who reject authority like yourself are unable to decide who to listen to because neither one of you has more authority than the other. Someone comes up with the idea of writing down a common set of life principles and rules for dispute arbitration, so both legal and judicial systems are born. Down the line, someone decides to ignore the arbitration outcome, and the community decides that arbitration outcomes must be respected, so enforcement systems are created. At that point, everyone living in that spot of wild territory have created a government under the rule of law.

The point of all this is, at some level, we are all ruled by something, be it a single human or a government. Are you primarily taking issue with monarchy? If so, absolute monarchy exists in only a handful of places in the world, with most monarchies being constitutional monarchies which delegate much political authority to democratically-elected individuals. And yes, some people like trusting that the rulers will do a good job. If that makes them peasants, so be it, but consider that even the people in the wilderness community must hope that their government under the rule of law will be successful. If they aren't rooting for its success and actively work against it, the rule of law will eventually collapse.
Actually Assange was charged with rape for failing to take an STD test after consensual sex, the 'victim' came at him awhile after the one night stand.
Best pun I have heard in ages.
Do all employees get the same equity?

I've worked at two companies where everyone got the same base salary, but the variation came in equity.
That isn't sodium, that is already exploded sodium.
Prioritizing wealth creation is probably beneficial to most people. As Adam Smith observed:

"It deserves to be remarked, perhaps, that it is in the progressive state, while the society is advancing to the further acquisition, rather than when it has acquired its full complement of riches, that the condition of the labouring poor, of the great body of the people, seems to be the happiest and the most comfortable. It is hard in the stationary, and miserable in the declining state. The progressive state is, in reality, the cheerful and the hearty state to all the different orders of the society; the stationary is dull; the declining melancholy."

Not that it should come at the expense of exploitation, and Smith would likely agree. He was critical of rent seekers and slavery and was very much interested in the well being of common people.

His observation, I believe, it also applicable at a smaller scale when looking at companies. Growing companies are great to work for with lots of excitement, perks, and new opportunities, even for average or mediocre employees. Stagnant companies are difficult and melancholy, not much advancement, raises are small or non existent. Declining ones are miserable as everyone is fighting for survival.
Honestly, for me Hacker News fills the roll that Slashdot did for 20 years. I was reading them both daily for a while, then realized that I could save time by just following HN.
There is so much dark fiber out there. Bothering to activate it is a different story.
Ime you can when you apply some creative negotiation coupled with a multi-million $ spends. Usually to their peered (“partner”) networks though not generic transit
There are weird lines here in general. The court of public opinion plays a major role in where major advertisers are willing to spend their money, regardless of guilt or proof of guilt.

But should we treat platform monetization the same way? I hope not, but I can see why there are advocates on that side.
It's getting the favicon, and while doing so gives information about the client in the user-agent and the IP-address.

How is this different from any other request to a website?
> that they don't get your next business.

Even small shops can use bad experience as leverage for credits and discounts, especially if the vendor has account managers. This is one of the (few) benefits of having a human involved in invoicing vs. self-serve.
More discussion a few days ago:

EU Chat Control Bill Postponed

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37982655
OpenAI Preparedness Challenge
Is your wood unstained? If you stain or paint it, wood should be lasting longer than 5 years. I think my mom rebuilt her wooden deck after about 10 years at least.

I don't know what this plastic wood is tbh, but I'm having a hard time imagining any plastic surface looking good after 5 years of rain, sun, and boots. Maybe if you sand it down annually. I'm not a fan of grinding microplastics into my yard.
Is this available in a commercial license like the CLIP model from OpenAI was?
I wonder what ever happned to Palcahol or like David Nutt's substitute? I think the fundamental issue is you wanna "get fucked up" so you basically have to either reproduce that or simulate in a way that can be easily ended on demand and won't make people behave just as badly as alcohol, reminds me of when kids get into something that isnt alcohol but the placebo affect or social pressure gets them all to play along as if it was.
Lots of place use mod bots running on forums to remove words the trigger the censorship overlords just for this reason. Instead of the corps just removing the offending post, they nuke the user and excommunicate them for society.

Amazed spell checkers dont highlight words that are not allowed by our corporate overlords, or have AI check your comments before posting.

Also highlights the issues of having 1 mega corp run a service. Instead of just providing the service, they have to be an arbitrator of who is their idea of a morally acceptable person.
Like many I used to visit /. regularly. I looked at my history and my last comment was in 2013.

I think I stopped when they revamped their comment system. I really liked how customizable it was where you could put a penalty on "funny" posts if you wanted and a +1 on off topic or something but they removed that customization and it made it harder for me to enjoy the comments.
I'm struggling to understand from your explanation what is this "hinternet".

The hard-to-use internet of the 90s, centered around IRC and Usenet? The seedy parts of the 90s internet with illegal content hosted on free hosts? Because you say today's internet is like that, and I don't see any comparison at all however I look at it.

How is the 90s Internet (forums, IRC, Viagra spam and goatse) anything like the modern sterilized version full of dark patterns in the hands of a dozen megacorps?
Yes. You are correct.

Thankfully kitchen sodium is in compound form, and thus not likely to react violently with water. In this context, the properties of pure metallic sodium are relevant because it would need to be handled in manufacturing. Kitchen salt is more commonly mined or extracted, requiring minimal to no handling of pure metallic sodium.

I hope this helps clarify any misunderstandings.
If I recall - CmdrTaco talked in considerable detail (at the time, on SlashDot) about the rather extreme technical changes that he and his crew performed, on the fly, on 9/11, to keep their site up.
San Diego native here. California bees are incredibly docile and produce honey year-round. They produce more slowly in the winter due to availability but they don't hunker down+expel male drones like in harsher climates.

If you take a California queen to a state like CO they tend to do poorly the first year. They're not used to things like other hives raiding honey stores in winter. It's pretty fascinating!
Glad to hear :)

Yes, I'm off doing my own thing now. Deep Learning went so much further than I ever expected, and now I'm drawn to all the things that can be built today. Who knows, maybe I'll swing back into neuroscience in a few years. (Still friends with my old coworkers / bosses.)
The point of this article was trying to liberate bandwidth, and I was highlighting how even common answers like your Droplet are far from the value-end of what's available. I showed an 18x better price point than what you would have gone to, on transfer alone (the 8GB memory is also a colossal advantage vs 0.5/1gb on a droplet).

I think for a lot of people, a nuc with dual m.2 drives is probably a much more affordable & realistic entry point that would probably survive even your fairly demanding gameserving use cases. And cost less than half as much.

Overall I'm very interested in a future where we do have scale out edge caches, where we do just need modest resources to maintain wide-scale connectivity. Many personal services are not at this scale or not this architecturally complex, but being able to have efficient scalable personal systems would be an interesting ends to move towards. Matrix would be a good example of a service that would be nice to have good fan-out for.
The US government loves outsourcing technical problems and hates developing that stuff in-house. Even for things we'd assume, naively, to be a core competency like "identifying a citizen."

It's how we ended up in a world where some 70% of all retail transaction is now fundamentally brokered via private institutions using not-real-money (in the sense that credit on a credit card is "numbers the private institution tracks themselves" until the cash clears, and most cards have a loyalty discount program that sums up to the dollars spent on the credit card having different value than bare cash), in spite of the fact that control of and guarantees for the monetary system are something a government should have as a core competency. So on 70% of transactions, Americans get nickel-end-dimed by private institutions for basic commerce (on top of government taxes; the private tax atop the public tax).
Global CO2 emissions could peak as soon as 2023
Cdchn was hoping that it had a Starlink antenna built into the rack. :)
Cloudflare Workers vs. AWS Lambda with New Pricing from Cloudflare
Nintendo does not develop the Pokemon games for what it is worth. The quality of Game Freak's output is notably lower than Nintendo first party releases in general from a technical perspective. Even the original Pokemon games are some of the most famously buggy games of any prominence, so it is nothing new.
Yes. Altruism does not scale. It is very likely they thought, “oh, this is some old looking shit but doesn’t look that important. Better clean it up quickly before the preservationists come in and bankrupt this project.”
> I don't associate companies w with whatever random things their ads appear next to, I don't even remember it.

Of course you don't. You're watching things you're comfortable with and so you have no complaint about an advertiser's association with it.

> I'm pretty sure this is also true for 99.9% of other people. This brand safety stuff is just an excuse for woke marketing staffers to feel like they're "making a difference" by attacking people and companies they don't like.

Holding advertisers accountable for their placement, and distributors accountable for their catalog, predates "woke culture" by well over a century. Most "woke culture" activists in the US grew up seeing it aggressively deployed by "family oriented" activist groups in 1970's - 2000's era and they saw it be extremely effective at influencing what was available on TV, in print, in cinemas, and on music shelves because it threatened revenue and scared capitalists. And those "family groups" learned it from the anti-communists of the post-WWII era, etc, etc.

It's not new, it's not "woke", and history suggests that it does have material impact on media, culture, and business.
Thank you for your fast, friendly, and plain-spoken responses. I like that, and it makes me more comfortable about exploring your service.
Sodium batteries looks great on the outside, but amount of charge discharge cycles is roughly half what lithium batteries can do. So what you will save on cost difference between sodium and lithium will get eaten up by shorter life of sodium battery.
Those baffled by "life-testing" (poke it to see if it moves?) should try mentally adding some spacing around the em-dash: Physics has long failed to explain life – testing a groundbreaking new theory
C# supports AOT since forever, NGEN was present in .NET 1.0. Not many people used it, because it requires signing binaries and only supports dynamic linking, with a performance profile towards fast startup.

On Microsoft side the Singularity and Midori experiments used AOT.

They influenced the AOT toolchains for Windows 8 store apps with MDIL (Singularity/Bartok), and Windows 10 store apps with .NET Native (Midori/Project N).

Now there is Native AOT, which supports CLI and native libraries,.NET 8 extends that to EF and ASP.NET frameworks. For GUI applications, maybe only fully on .NET 9.

Mono AOT has had support for ages, being used on iOS, Android, and Blazor.

Finally there is IL2CPP and Burst compiler from Unity.