skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue isn’t MBAs. They are just a symptom.

What the issue is, is that we’re essentially in the third ‘wave’ of US economic change post WW2 manufacturing boom.

Post WW2, the United States was the only manufacturing economy that hadn’t been bombed to smithereens, has not only little to no real debt, but a lot of debtors that would repay them, and had massive amounts of undeveloped land ripe for development, and a major new manufacturing base looking for things to do.

This allowed the US to become the world’s reserve currency (along with gold) in the Bretton Woods agreement in ‘44. That lasted until ‘71.

[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system] when the dollar stopped being backed by gold, allowing periods of increased inflation.

At around the same time, the economies of Western Europe and Asia had mostly recovered, and they were starting to catch up on manufacturing to compete with the US.

This led to increasing competitive pressures with US manufacturing, and increasing incentives to go towards Globalization and outsourcing to chase the cheap labor and more willing to compete manufacturers in these locations. Switching the US to a ‘knowledge economy’ was the natural progression.

That easy money is mostly gone now, and the US is also no longer far ahead in many areas on knowledge.

China in particular is starting to come close on almost all metrics. If Europe has a recession, their primary disadvantage (cost) may turn into an advantage.

So then the US is much more on par with everyone else - for the first time in several generations.

And that causes quite a rude awakening economically, as now the US potentially has real and actual competitors it isn’t 5 steps ahead of already.

MBA’ism is because long ago the economy switched from ‘actually leaps and bounds ahead of competitors’ to optimization. As most of the actual structural differences have now equalized, and we’re down to who can make it cheaper/simpler. No one wants a 5 lb drill that costs $100 if they can have a 2lb drill that costs $50 and does the jobs they want well.
You could also do a random sampling.
Well that's awkward. Thanks for the tip--fixed now.
Holy strawman, who said anything about eradicating most of humans?

Let me rephrase: realistically speaking, the things humanity will manage to do in the next 10 years will be such a lukewarm attempt that the chance we will "accidentally" overshoot and create more misery is close to zero.
I think for you idea to have traction (1) the questions should be selected by their importance and (2) the questions should be chained to allow new results. Just for inspiration or example you could create a quiz for solving a puzzle and at the same time solving the puzzle by answering the questions. >The big idea is using your tool to enhance step by step rationing in LLM.

I think you could use a text area for the user to indicate if the quiz is about getting the main idea or if it is about testing the details.

And for big clients, the system could be tailored so that the questions and structure reflect user intentions.
Google UK DC – Our $1B investment in a new UK data centre
That is great news- Tesoro Golden Eagle also did the same, so that actually makes 3 out of 5 that are converting.
As someone who uses Machine Learning to predict the presence of Talc I approve of this, even if I have no use case for it whatsoever.
Absolutely. I don’t use Facebook the social media platform, or instagram, and I only reluctantly use WhatsApp - but Facebook as a company for software engineering seems excellent.

They also seem to genuinely take care of their employees (this is of course an outsiders perspective).
Profitable companies can pay out annual or quarterly dividends to shareholders. That could even include employees.
US law:

> If you did not have permission to enter [...] the likely charge is a misdemeanor charge of illegal entry (also known as entry without permission).

[1] https://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/is-it-breaking-and-enteri...
C# doubles the size of a List<T> each time you hit the capacity (if you didn't set it correctly when you created the list or left it at the default). Does Go do something similar or does it only increase it by 1 each time?
That stuff about Voroni tesselations looks pretty orthodox to me.
this post is a bit of a "nyah nyah I told you so", but since whoever was running Ello did not give any heads up to users a way to get at their content, they just allowed the thing to buzz into the ground and they shut off all communication, they deserve it.
That’s totally efficient, awesome, thanks for sharing.
Try racknerd… they have various Black Friday/new year specials that rarely/never expire and the price can be as low as $25/year for a decent 2-cpu VPS. Not the same hardware as OVH, storage often limited, but still an interesting price point and service. Biggest limitations: no 2FA on the control panel and mounting an ISO requires talking to customer service… oh and no automated backups but they might have recently added snapshots.
I worked on a design (only as a hobby) for a group of units in a pentagon or hexagon shape that would surround a central room. The landlord can quickly sheetrock over some doors while cutting others open. The idea is to be able to expand or contract units to accommodate different tennants.

The most hilarius objection I could imagine is "nobody can have 2 refrigerators and 2 kitchens," coming from my brother who spent a fortune to renovate for exactly that.

A second laundry room can be handy, as can a second bathroom. A third laundry room can be converted to a closet with minor work to cover the washer/dryer connections and some shelves.

The central area would be another bedroom that has one doorway cut open and all the other doorways sheetrocked over.

One last thought, if you have never considered buying a duplex for a growing family and cutting in a door or two between the sides, you should. The "you can't do that" usually turns into "that's so cool" after a few hours.
> C23 has raw string literals

Are you sure about that? I only see u, u8, U, and L defined as encoding-prefixes.
He wanted to make Germany great insofar as greatness means him being in power, his hatred manifest in murder, wealth and rights incredibly unequally distributed and hundreds of millions living as an underclass.

It takes a very warped view of greatness to believe it.
It actually worked for me. I applied for a position a while ago, no interview. Then one year later a recruiter from the company reached out to me saying I should apply for a new position. So I did, and I got an internship that way!
Computer hardware has always been rapidly depreciating. You'd always get much more (performance/capability) for the same money just a few months to 1-2 years down the road. GPUs have been a complete outlier in this area for around ~8 years, and even they depreciate relatively quickly still.
it's wild how easy it is to misconfigure (or not configure) logrotate properly and have a log file fill up the disk. Out of memory and/or out of disk are the two error cases that have led to the most pain in my career. I think most people who started with docker in the early days (long before there was a docker system prune) had this happen where old docker containers/images filled up the disk and wreaked havoc at an unsuspecting point.
> potential funders were like "well, Google got out of this so why do you think we should fund you?".

Google shuts down projects and products because it's Google and can't productionize ideas. It's sad that this results in such secondary effects.
>However, several CAs disliked having to revoke all those certificates, because it cost them staff time (and hence money) to do so. They went so far as to change their procedures from the standard way of accepting problem reports (emailing a generic attestation of compromise), and instead required CA-specific hoop-jumping to notify them of compromised keys.

It would have been nice to have names be named. This is obviously in bad faith, and the bad actors should be called out.

Given that Matt Palmer is an active participant of the MDSP (Mozilla Dev Security Policy) mailing list, I am surprised that I don't recall seeing discussion about this pop up, although I may have missed it. The CAs acting this way really should have to explain themselves.
The pension fund money is not real and will never be seen by the population, it is all controlled by private hedge funds.

Retirement age in Norway is 70... And there are some rumors about going to 72. Also there is talks of increasing taxes on the pensionsts... So what is the point of having a pensions fund if you are never going to retire...
Or consider the Old Summer Palace in Beijing by Anglo-French forces during the second opium war.
Art theft implies actually stealing something from someone. IE taking something away from someone else. So that they no longer have access to that thing. For instance the occasion discussed in the article is about art being stolen from a museum. So that people can no longer go to that museum and look at that art.

I hope you can see the difference between that and the "theft" of "intellectual property" that is so hyped today.
He didn’t just “verify the credentials”. He was in the database making queries, viewing private data.
That's a lot of what I've seen the upper class be. Take a lot of bets, you need one to hit VS play it safe...

And it even pans out in generations. The scion of the Tang family (as in MIT Tang hall) sent half his kids to business, half to politics, figuring out on average it would turn out ok (it did)
> Self-hosting has Become Easier

> Self-hosting has become more reliable

Docker and Kubernetes really are the two best things happened to me in my selfhosting journey. They made billion dollar enterprise grade tech approachable in my homelab.

- I powered on a brand new mini PC, 10 minutes later it showed up as a node in my cluster and started running some containers

- Two servers died but I didn't notice until a month later, because everything just kept working.

- Some database file got corrupted but the cluster automatically fixed it from a replica on another node.

- I almost completely forget how to manage certs with letsencrypt, because the system will never miss the renewal window unless the very last server in my lab goes down.
> you can't outsource plumbers and electricians

You can outsource trades (that's literally what almost every general contractor builder does->outsource specialist trades to subcontractors).

You can't off-shore them (or at least not nearly so easily and completely).
Your story is so similar to mine that I thought you must be my co-founder, except for the fact that just one piece of the story doesn't align.

Congrats on the success - have you thought about hiring a banker to seek an exit to PE?

From personal experience, after eight going on nine years, the itch to work on something new can kick in.
I would say I don't (or now, didn't) expect collect to be able to know that there is an allocation under there, since that's not part of Iterator's interface.

I.e., the docs could call out that there aren't such implied behaviors, and that in some circumstances, it might reuse the allocation, but that that's not guaranteed. (And ideally, offer me info on what to do if I do want certain guarantees about the allocation of the Vec.)

Warding off what I think is a reasonable, but wrong, assumption, is well within the scope of the docs.
I’m unsure what part of revoking certificates is labor intensive if you’re a certificate authority, given your entire purpose is to sign and revoke keys..
Of course 1-2% will pay for the infrastructure. It's not such a huge deal. F-droid runs on donations.

Let's hope for more competition in the future, at least in EU.
Google typically didn't ask fermi problems like that. Although, actually, sphere packing problems are pretty interesting, mathematically...

A common classic era Google question would be roughly "find an O(n) or O(logn) solution to a problem that most people would solve quadratically, and write pseudocode for your solution, handling important edge cases, while also intuiting the special details that your interviewer is fishing for (because they learned it in their PhD)".

So many people I knew at google were great math and science folks who ended up writing CRUD apps. Really depressing for them.
We're about to uncover ten telltale signs that scream, "Hey, time for a revamp!"
I happen to tell people I’m a statistician—because it’s true, and because I didn’t learn from the first 10,000 times someone heard that, turned around, and left without a word. The always run away, except in one case… If they stay, I know they are

a. a Ph.D. Student and

b. having a very bad time and therefore

c. about to ask me pointed questions about their methodology section, what is a t-value and a p-score, why there are two xis, and whether it’s too late to prevent Bonferonni, Hochberg, Holmes, Benjamini, and Šídák from ever publishing they terrible ideas. (Yes.)

I’ve been confronted with utter confusion in every field of knowledge, including art history, and literature. It’s a miracle we make any progress in science, but I wholeheartedly blame *how we teach statistics*. It’s, at best, a dark cult that requires sacrifices to obscure gods, and most likely three cargo cults in a trench coat. Conditioning scientific discussion to passing under the Caudine forks of Greek letters incantations isn’t helping us. We need a reform.

There is no problem with people looking at black holes, counting cells in a Petri dish, or trying to define inflation. If it hurts when you touch your forehead, your thigh, your elbow, and your knee, it means your finger is broken. There is one thing in common between all those people: the three-hour elective on stats taught by someone who had the social skills of a door hinge, the clarity of VentaBlack, and the patience of a toddler on cocaine.

There are amazing statisticians who explain things beautifully. Get them to teach, and people will finally grok uncertainty. They’ll see how clumsy are most of the methodologies pre-approved by reviewers because it was used in the same journal before. We ask the most critical minds of our generation to challenge the status-quo. They know how. They just need to know what the status-quo actually means.
He might be surprised to learn how many papers published in STEM are cargo cult science.
Thank you but I actually got a somewhat worthless graduate degree in this stuff.
I would just say "cargo cult thinking" or "cargo cult scholarship" instead of cargo cult science, as it's more accurate in general, and avoids addressing whether political science and media science (the fields of the people used as examples in the article) are considered science per se. Just as plagiarism cuts across disciplines, including non-science fields, so does cargo cult thinking. So, it's a better term.
For me it’s the opposite: VPS are the standard solution, since it’s difficult to self-host behind a consumer ISP. Wikipedia seems to agree [0]: “The practice of self-hosting web services became more feasible with the development of cloud computing and virtualization technologies, which enabled users to run their own servers on remote hardware or virtual machines.”

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting_(web_services)
Very, very impressive works, both MRISC32 and FuryGPU (which I just learned about, love the idea of a FPGA-retro-GPU that could go in a modern computer!). It's hard to overstate the amount of passion, care and technical expertise that go into such projects.

I'm the author of 'q5k' (Quake viewer in 5K LUTs) and so I wanted to say Hi to my fellow Quake-on-FPGA enthusiasts. Thanks for the mention, and looking forward to the next steps of your projects!

PS: Q5k is of course much, much slower (runs on a small $10 ice40 up5k FPGA), and only a viewer. The renderer is custom using fixed-point only. Unlikely I'll be ever able to run the full game at any decent speed, but I'm surely going to try :) For anyone interested, here's the repo of q5k and doomchip-onice: https://github.com/sylefeb/tinygpus
The reason I feel confident in the Fediverse's longevity is that it's independently hosted. If BlueSky ran out of money tomorrow and shut down its servers, BlueSky is gone. If mastodon.social ran out of money and shut down its servers, the Fediverse would continue.

There would be pain if mastodon.social failed with zero notice. People would lose access to their accounts and would need to find a new server where they'd be starting over. Some may have backed up their contacts, but most wouldn't. If mastodon.social gave a couple months notice, people could migrate to other servers. given that mastodon.social is the largest server, there would be some growing pains as other servers worked to accommodate new users, but it's possible for the Fediverse to continue.

Note, I'm not saying that the Fediverse will be incredibly popular. I'm simply noting that there's an amount of resilience. Once Ello's owners ran out of interest or money, that was the end of Ello. Even if others had a huge interest in seeing it continue, there was nothing they could do. Even if the Fediverse doesn't "catch" by your definition of catching on, it has caught on for enough people who have moved there and will remain there.

That's why I feel happier in the Fediverse. It feels like something the community controls. Sure, I don't run my own server, but I possibly could in the future and there are enough people running servers that I don't feel beholden to any one entity. It just feels like something that can stick around - even if the cool kids aren't interested. Enough of us like it and we'll keep it going even if some of us become disinterested in it.
I know nothing about kites but as someone who currently works at Google and knows a bit about how projects are funded, the first argument doesn't really make a lot of sense to me. At Google's scale, a materially impactful opportunity needs to have the opportunity to generate billions in revenue and have high margins. That's just a function of Google's size and opportunity cost (people can otherwise work on Ads, Cloud, etc). However, just because something isn't a Google business for Google doesn't mean there isn't an opportunity for a (very) profitable or successful business. Sounds pretty weak - perhaps the VCs you guys were pitching to were more focused on SaaS vs hard tech.
Looking forward to when aws does this. Lock in and tighten the screws.
This is inspiring! I think your realistic, keep-plugging-away attitude will lead to continued success.

The cost is $49/month/student.
> I think this bug is probably a contender for the top 3 practical cryptography vulnerabilities on the Internet. Its close cousin, Vaudenay's CBC padding oracle, is a lock for #1. Then it's just down to whether nonce reuse is #2 or #3.

Is this top 3 list from some public resource that exists and I am a noob who missed the reference and how the community knows what the Top 3 are? If not a resource would love to see it or help make it.

P.S. Been loving SCW podcast from time to time when I can list, keep up the good work!
And regular people also frequently lose their keys and cards, including me.
So what, you would have preferred low pay all of these years?And you think React wasnt an improvement? Its been out for a decade now, the trope that javascript frameworks churn alot is not true anymore
I insist that it still is post-scarcity if you would provide the same or greater (equivalent) value regardless of the system.

While your definition might be elegant, it's too strict to foster a useful conversation.
The issue is that without funding a projects velocity is low and that can frustrate the community.

Everyone says they are on board with supporting the little guys, until they hit bugs and start complaining.
Netflix won't have a Vision Pro app, compromising the device's appeal
The Deloitte one is written quite well.

"We have determined that our position isn't ideally suited to your talents...."
Well, one more condition is needed: scalable. An actual, working, viable carbon capture exists: growing trees and then cutting down and carbonizing them. Unfortunately, this does not scale to offset enough of CO2 in time.
Even with the key, from what I can tell it’s fairly hard to exploit for the average netizen.
I'd guess that's true, and also that the people on the most patents are just "co-inventors". It likely makes the program highly profitable for a few, who may not even be the ones doing most of the followup work with the lawyers who actually get the patent filed.
The worst part is that it is 3x longer than it needs to be because every claim they make is repeated, nearly identically and without further elaboration, at least 3 times. It's like watching the same exact commercial 3 times
If you ever wonder why Germany is trapped in a predigital state since the late 2000s: Things like this are the reason.

If met people from all over the word, some of the coolest hackers and devs were from Germany, but: The perpetual effort of the German government to make all things „safe „ and „stable“ hinders the evolution of the country into something greater than a nation of car manufacturers.
It doesn't seem that hard to pull off, nor particularly unlikely that some people will try. So I don't think I expect 'proof' that they are real.

It's like the ice bucket challenge. Sure some people probably will fake it, but I expect many of them are real.
Actually, no, people don't generally copy-paste parts of each others' literature review sections.
Trying to capture carbon out of the air makes zero sense besides as anti climate change propaganda. Why wouldn't you capture the carbon at the source of the emission where it is much more concentrated? I'll tell you why, because then the cost is born by the emitter but they'd rather shift that cost onto society as a whole.
The BBC started running their own instance as an experiment, and it seems that they will not keep it running: https://mstdn.social/@isleofmandan/111775751771437531
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That's a customer choice. Metafilter charges money and there are others that do as well.
There's a couple of key differences between Google backing Google+ and Meta backing Threads.

1. Meta's entire business is social apps, and Google's is not. There are strategic differences in approach as a result.
2. Google+ was an attempt to disrupt Facebook's rise at the height of Facebook's popularity. People _liked_ FB then - so trying to get them to switch to another product was harder. Threads shipped during a time of volatility with Xitter and is poised to capture more of that audience as Xitter continues to decay.

In terms of how things will change in the space over time, Threads choice to support ActivityPub will probably mean good things for the Fediverse in general, at least in the short term (3E notwithstanding), and could ultimately serve to be the arbiter that kills BlueSky and the AT Protocol.
Yeah, I like the federated idea, but I think it had its chance when Elon took over Twitter and they never managed to capture the exodus of users in any significant way. The barrier to entry was just too high (but they have taken great steps to reduce the complexity).
Redeployment Part Three
My evidence is the lack of a basis for 2C and lack of a cogent plan to limit warming to 2C. I tried to find the basis and instead just found lots of IPCC discussions with no scientific basis.

That’s why I asked: you can find articles saying that a degree of difference is very important, but not the basis for why 2C is used.

If you are arguing that fossil fuels must be shut down immediately, you must have an understanding of why 2C is used, and the difference in harm between 2C and whatever we end up with if we keep emitting. If you are not aware of this science in these cases then you are basing your beliefs on politics.