skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like banning handgun sales this lets the government get headlines that they are doing something to stop runaway crime without doing anything but piss off normal people.
With GPT 4's context window I've had no luck with more than 2k lines of code in a single prompt.
Throughout my career I have made the decision to take union jobs for less pay and it has paid off many time over by now. My retirement funding is solid, health insurance about as good as it gets for the US, student loans all paid off, working conditions are reasonable. Sure I get paid significantly less and don’t have a Tesla, but overall I’m pretty happy with my quality of life and have a hard time seeing how it could be much better. Thank you Union jobs!
Hey Steve, I don't have a book recommendation but rather some short advice.

- Don't expect your client to understand the work you do the way you understand it.

- A corollary is that you cannot expect the client to put the same price on your work as you would or want.

- Another corollary is that you will inevitably lose some bids.

- Value-based pricing has been way simpler to deal with for me.

- Hourly pay only for a retainer or a fixed amount of hours per month ("I'll be there when you call."). Otherwise I find that incentives get misaligned.

- Requirements and client desires can change every single time you speak to them, so communicate often. I've been lucky with inflating time estimates by 25-33% to account for this inevitability.
Many relevant goals of the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020 [1] have already been implemented. Executive Order E.O. 14028 of May 12, 2021 "Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity" is substantially similar in requirements. NIST in particular got called out for work and already implemented "IoT Cybersecurity Guidance" [2]. Mostly part of "Trustworthy Network of Things". [3] Also [4].

[1] (Public Law No: 116-207), https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1668

[2] NIST, IoT Guidance and Catalog, https://csrc.nist.gov/News/2021/updates-to-iot-cybersecurity...

[3] Trustworthy Network of Things, https://www.nist.gov/programs-projects/trustworthy-networks-...

[4] IoT Cybersecurity, https://www.nist.gov/itl/applied-cybersecurity/nist-cybersec...
What about storing the context for lazy-loading? Like a client that's initialized in main() with a ctx, but starts async workers on first-use deeper in and across go routines?
In British Columbia:

9.75 cents per kWh for first 1,350 in an average two month billing period (22.1918 kWh per day).

14.08 cents per kWh over the 1,350 Step 1 threshold.
> According to the graph below, BTC goes up when inflation goes down. That is the opposite of a hedge! It proves that Bitcoin is not valuable due to "not having sound monetary systems."

> https://charts.woobull.com/bitcoin-inflation/

That graph is charting BTC price to BTC supply inflation, not general economic inflation (which is what I'm talking about).
I see you have not been blocked by another team/org.
The 3 questions help keep the meeting on track. I was once part of a team that didn't follow the "3 questions rule" and all standups were at least 1hr+ in length with a few going to 2-3 hours in length, basically a debugging session with a ton of people on the call that didn't need to be there.
To Sell is Human by Daniel Pink is a great book for integrating sales into your mindset by realizing how much of it you already do on a day to day basis. As a consultant engineer it's completely changing my mindset.
Winning through intimidation
https://www.amazon.com/Winning-Through-Intimidation-Robert-R...
These three questions are intended to keep standups short. I haven't, personally, been on a team that sticks to this format. It always ends up with individuals talking about their individual implementation thoughts on whatever they are working on. During this time, others zone out, missing anything that could be important. Nobody learns anything, and nobody is able to fully concentrate on their tasks.

I purposefully schedule meetings after our standup to make sure I cut it off after 30 minutes. Our team of 11 will go for almost an hour if nobody cuts people off.
Just gonna leave this here: https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/sustainability/pr...

There are much more efficient ways of doing datacenters than we're doing right now.
Bitcoin’s transaction throughput is artificially limited (hamstrung) and so not a useful denominator for comparisons.

In theory it’s possible for a Bitcoin-like blockchain to record all of Visa’s transactions in a single giga-block with only a single mining hash attempt.

Transaction throughput is not meaningful here.
Given LP's multiple security issues, that is an fair argument.
It isn’t the best cold brew, but at $1.09 and being able to get it while waiting for my bus, it is hard to beat.
> * no streaming videos

RealPlayer, Macromedia Flash & Shockwave were quite popular (and horrible)

> * no ebooks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebook#1980s_and_1990s

> * advertisers hated social media

The social media user base was tiny and primarily full of antisocial nerds.

> * email cost money

No, it didn't.

> * Amazon just sold books

By 1999, Amazon was selling other stuff too.

> * cloud computing wasn't anywhere near mature

It depends on how you define "mature," I suppose. VPSs, dedicated hardware rentals, and managed services were quite common.

> * cell phones were only on TV

Having been in high school from ~1996 to 1999, I can say that a good portion of the girls had cell phones.

> * identity theft wasn't a thing

Identity theft has been a thing since the beginning of the human race.

> * Subscription-based "walled gardens" like AOL were popular

Almost everyone in the tech community widely mocked AOL. It was "popular" among a small subset of computer users. And to be fair, this was before good search engines. Services like Yahoo! and AOL made it possible to find content easily.

> * server side programming was done in C

And PERL, and Fortran, and Shell, and .NET language like C#.
They are too specific, formulaic, and reek of management tactics. If you mean, "how's it going?", say, "how's it going?" As the wise Dr. Seuss said, "I meant what I said and I said what I meant."
This is very interesting to me. I've seen / heard a number of reviewers who have the same complaint about the Virtual Display (too blurry), and a number that don't (it's great to work on).

Are some people are more perceptive to things like this so they're more bothered by it? Or is there a population segment that is just unable to get a crisp picture via virtual displays, and if so, why?

Anyone else tried Virtual Display for an extended period: "too blurry" or "totally fine"???
That would have been nice.

Deploy change on Friday ...... have a lovely weekend off.

Wander in Monday and wonder why everyone hates you.

It never changed.

Same page? Often it wasn't even the same book.
Any windows suggestions?
"care and assistance", in Tory Britain means they can send some bored police officers to destroy your tents and other stuff, no?
https://www.globalenergyinstitute.org/average-electricity-re...
us average: $0.18
Wyoming: < $0.09

yeah, cheap. But cold so a heat pump would still totally pay for itself.
> I'm saying prices aren't dropping and wages aren't keeping pace not as saying inflation isn't coming down but as a statement of observation. IE, the reality on the ground is prices are in fact, not falling (or falling enough) and wages aren't keeping pace with that fact.

But they are though.

The median wage is now higher than Q4 2019 in both real and nominal terms.

Real: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q

Nominal: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881500Q

Maybe this particular group isn't feeling it because there's been a lot of layoffs, and we're still swinging back from the 2021-2 over-hiring specifically in tech. But the for the median American this simply isn't true.

The purchasing power of the median American wage has been on a broad up-trend since Q4 1997.
Sounds a lot like where I was about twenty years ago, and today I sell stuff for a living... a few thoughts I wish someone had given me...

1) Productize yourself. That is, have several very clear services you offer at established rates. Brand yourself around a very clear idea that has people saying "hey, call the <service> guy" when they need <service>.

2) A lot of us in tech are shy and introverted by nature, which on the surface appears in direct opposition to the skills needed to sell. What I'm telling you is that you can absolutely learn how to be the life of the party - it just takes work and courage, just like any other skill.

3) Sharp branding can make you stand out. Good quality cards, website, etc. Speak well, write well. When you ask someone for a meeting, be very clear in communicating why it is a good use of their time. Figure out early if you are talking to the person with the authority to buy.

4) Small companies will often run you through the wringer of interviews etc, only to not actually have much money. Well-established companies will often be slow to pay and full of bureaucracy, but reliable income.

5) Time-boxing is your friend. It is hard to both do the sales and do the work. You need to really be aware of this as a potential problem.

6) Do sales by not doing sales - there is a lot to be said for meet up groups, speaking opportunities, providing "free" resources, etc. That is - be seen as an expert in your community and people will come to you and/or you will have already passed the social validation test.
The Human Element in AI-Driven Testing Strategies
"based on Futamura Projections" is kind of cheating: they don't have a `mix` specialization function, which is the entire point of Futamura's paper. They're doing automatic symbolic execution using operator overloading, but I'm looking extremely suspiciously at them referring to that as "the first Futamura Projection without mix".
Yeah when Obama said we're the first generation to feel the effects and the last one able to do anything about it, he was right. One way or another we're locked in now.

Of course there are still options to avoid the worst but they'd require such an immediate turnaround and international collaboration at a time when geopolitical polarization and tensions are ultra high. I just don't see it happening.
Daily stand-ups are wonderful and need to be encouraged.
That book was intriguing, it made less and less sense to me the more it continued. I should give it another read
From all that I have read, file-size is a major part of cold-starts as your zip needs to be fetched internally first so there is some app size where increasing the files by pre-parsing might make it slower and only after a certain size would it make sense. Edit: Sorry, you were talking about the runtime, not the app bundle, just realized this now. If it‘s in the runtime it probably is free as that will probably be available in all lambda hosts I guess.
Lambda already has an even more aggressive optimization than just pre-parsing, which they call SnapStart; where it takes a RAM snapshot after init and loads that afterwards but I think it‘s inly available in some regions and some runtimes like Java with very slow cold start times.
> We've always been this way.

That makes it fine then.
Meanwhile, TikTok and Agora are still going strong. Shouldn't they address that?
Yeah, I totally understand and agree with your "downsides" for lambdas. My use case just happens to gel perfectly with them but it's not a "one-size-fits-all".

I also looked at SEED and I would like to give them money but some of their methodology with SEED didn't fit with mine and since my deploys aren't horrible I left my system as-is. Also I understand they need to make money but I wish more tools geared towards serverless "scaled to zero". I'm happy to pay but my company has such bursty traffic that paying for a plan (on SEED or something like monitoring) that can handle our "peak" means burning money 70%-90% of the time while our app is scaled to zero but we still have to pay for tools around it.

Some monitoring tools, like New Relic, are based on usage but both NR and DataDog have absolute shit serverless monitoring solutions and their docs are a dumpster fire (at least around serverless). It's also unfortunate that most serverless monitoring means adding ~$10 per account per month (in increased AWS costs) just for their data pipelines to scan CloudWatch logs. This again sucks since we have an AWS account per client but each client is only active for ~1mo every year so it can get expensive fast.
Only if 100% of everything is powered by renewables that could be a good argument (but see below), because there's always opportunity costs: The energy production capacity used for crypto cannot be used for anything else, which means something else uses non-renewables now. Maybe an exception could be made if every crypto miner built their own renewable power source which provided all of the energy instead of relying on existing ones, but then the next point still stands:

Renewable energy production has externalities, same as everything else. The power production equipment has to be built, which needs materials. It has to be transported, which needs energy. It needs to be maintained and so on. Just saying "well, we can always add a few more renewable power plants, who cares?" would only be valid if we could produce them out of thin air.
You can still connect to other non-nated individuals that might not expect that.
Standups could make sense in a team that isn't operating well, but in a well-functioning team, everyone is having these sorts of discussions with each other during the natural course of each workday anyway. Standups are unnecessary then.

My experience with standups is that they're almost entirely worthless. They're rote and performative and rarely, if ever, provide anything that was missing.
Owners of bitcoins pay for all this unproductive work. They pay for it by buying the new bitcoins being issued by the miners every 10 minutes. So long as these idiots continue to buy the coins, miners can continue to waste resources.
With TCP you have the congestion control algo baked in hardware

This part isn't correct, and you wouldn't want e.g. NewReno baked in to your NIC and preventing you from using CUBIC or BBR. It's true that TCP benefits more from NIC offloads than QUIC but most places (besides Netflix) aren't driving enough WAN traffic per server to matter.
I remember this book having the concept of people running at different time scales so people in “the real world” would run at 1x and simulated people would run at whatever fraction they could afford. And they could speed up temporarily to have conversations back to real world.

This made me think that sometimes our physical brains speed up and can run at 2x but still only get I/o at 1x. It will be neat that I think at some point we’ll be able to boost up to like 1000x with implants or whatnot and think about something that doesn’t require any new information and then return to the present with insight to continue the conversation.

I hope this is affordable because it will be so handy for many things. If even to just spend more time staring at the Mona Lisa and contemplating.

It also makes me wonder how people age in fiction where people can freeze time. If someone freeze time for a year, does their body keep aging biologically?
The Minimal Phone
> Totally agree. This is behavior of authoritative and totalitarian governments, who demand to have so much authority and power, that they need to attack and undermine the most successfully businesses, bending the laws to do so (or creating abusive laws that give them the power to do so).

This is the kind of things police will do if they have a warrant (or the local equivalent) in any sane democracy. Democracy does not mean that we have to let companies get away with crime or nicely tell them before a search so they can destroy evidence.

> ransacked

Search, that’s the word you’re looking for.

> More and more is it so, that European governments see successful companies as a threat to their power and control.

How’s the US government handling Huawei again? Did the Atlantic Ocean close overnight?

Also, what makes you think that police investigations are more common than they used to be?

There is not a single sentence that makes sense in your post.
I will say, I prefer Bazzite for dev too.

In general Project Bluefin is newer, but seems to be trying to get into gaming too.

Likewise, Bazzite is considering developer images also. So I might switch to those.

But it's so easy to switch. I currently use Bazzite + Nix + HomeManager + Flatpaks and it has been fantastic. I only layer Tailscale and a few minor things that need be system level to operate right.
QUIC: let's build an application-specific protocol on top of UDP and call it a day.

So really, is it faster? Does it reduce the amount of load on network devices? Does it allow a server to serve more connections more quickly than the equivalent HTTP/2.0 stack? Does it make my web app faster?

I mean, for 99% of Wordpress sites the problem is Wordpress, not the transport protocol. For a lot of the web the problem is client-side rendering issues.

QUIC may solve a problem, but is it a problem in real life or a thought experiment that got folded into a standard?
You can roll back transactions for whatever duration of time you were able to outspend the network. Critically, that can include your own transactions.

You mine quietly, outpacing the regular network, creating your own longer chain. Perhaps you do this for an hour, several hours, or a day. The only transactions on this chain are those in which you send your own coins to yourself -- maybe plus some random transactions from the mempool you throw in to help cover your own tracks. Meanwhile you spend those same coins (UTXOs) on the "honest" chain.

Once you are satisfied, you publish your longer chain. By the rules of the network the longest chain is the true one. Honest miners immediately begin building their blocks on top of your dishonest version of events. Since you are now working together with them, blocks are produced quickly. The honest chain dies.

Chaos would ensue.

Anybody who received coins on the dead chain can try to republish the transaction to the mempool and hope it gets mined again, so they get their money again. But if the sender is fast, they might realize they have a double-spend opportunity here, and submit a higher-fee transaction in which they sent those coins to themselves. It's a race. Of course, for your own UTXOs that were already spent in the dishonest chain, the race has already been won. Those double spends are successful.
The whole point of QUIC is to re-implement TCP to be better than TCP.
Classical computers can keep up or surpass quantum counterparts
I agree this is a great question. Maybe more for managers, but it let's people think "This is day 2 of that blocker, I need to step in". Sometimes junior devs will let external asks sit too long and write it off as "blocked on another team". Managers can manage this.
It takes both intellectual and emotional maturity to understand and accept the wisdom and power of free markets. Bitcoin is delivering what the market wants an uncensored currency outside the control of governments.

This is only the beginning of the outrage over Bitcoin, wait until it does another 10x gain in value and fiat currency failures grow worldwide. The next few decades will require a lot of popcorn to watch the show when calls to ban it only result in more rapid spikes in it’s value appreciating.
The guy I got my ASN no longer files them, but this guy also comes highly recommended.

https://ifog.ch/en/ip/lir-services

CHF 60/lifetime for natural persons , which is about $60.

The guy that did my ASNs still does IP space - https://my.cloudie.sh/index.php?rp=/store/lir-services

$10/y for a /40.

A bit more expensive than the $50/lifetime that I promised, but that was the deal I got from Cloudie.
It may be DRM-free, but it is very much locked down from a legal perspective.

- Cannot have licensed music in any public video without re-licensing it for that specific use. (This is almost transparent now but we had a time where a viral video would get huge legal problems for having even a song in the background. Not to mention Hollywood productions)

- Cannot sample music and release new music from it without navigating dense legal relationships. Same with releasing mixes

- Cannot play background music in your business without licensing it

- Cannot legally do a performance where you lip-sync to someone else’s song (yes it happens esp at drag bars, but this is a “don’t get too famous and we’ll look the other way” situation)

- Cannot even legally play popular music for a party if it’s considered a “public event” (two common “or” criteria are 1. Charging for admission 2. The party is out in the open.). This is extended to places like yoga studios, aerobic classes, dance classes, conferences, presentations, fundraisers, and wedding receptions.
The standup questions are awkward motivation killers. The people that look good in those meetings are usually just pandering. I'm convinced standups have stuck around because they make managers feel like they're adding value. If people are waiting until the next workday to be unblocked your team is moving too slowly.

On the flip side having the team chat regularly is a value add. Maybe you can talk about upcoming product things, ideas people have, the market in general, and any other thoughts people have top of mind. But forcing everyone to talk about what they're working on is counter productive. Everyone on the team knows if they want to know. If there isn't team visibility to what everyone is working on then something else is broken.
I agree, that would be really dumb. While I am prone to saying and doing dumb things, I think it'd be sloppy to suggest that I made that assertion.

There's a set of things that include lab work, simulation, data analysis, etc that I consider doing biology, and another set of things that I consider philosophy of biology. The latter set includes pontification but also more analytical and serious work.

But it is still wrong to compare Spinoza's interest in optics to a contemporary philosopher of biology's interest in biology unless that person also does biology.

I don't hold philosophers to the impossible standard of classical polymaths, but I still don't feel a mere philosopher of X is as deeply interested in X as a practitioner of X.
Calling julia code from python or python code from julia is relatively straightforward. I haven't spent much time doing the former, but love the ergonomics of the later with PythonCall.jl and CondaPkg.jl to manage python dependencies.

The syntax is just totally different though.
> while being "perfectly safe".

In a CYA way, maybe. The risk with LLM:s is social unrest when white collar workers get laid off due to execs thinking the LLM can do the job, I think.

But ye, the political angst is why I think more or less open LLM:s have a chance vs Big Corp State Inc.
Need to fork to make it bloodstains
Why put this on farmland? We need farmland to produce food. And it can be used for other plants too which capture CO2.

Better put this absorbing rock in places we don't need for other stuff like deserts and salt lakes
RB01 revealed: First images of RB's first F1 car under team's latest identity
Sweden Closes Investigation of Pipeline Blasts, but Stays Silent on Cause
How do you meet up at a bar when your team is 1000 miles away?
Huh? Having a bunch of roads at random angles explains the "even distribution of road orientations", by definition. How would it not?

That's my point. The city is fragmented into tiny grids oriented at random angles. Wherever these grids meet, there are odd intersections and traffic patterns that are difficult to optimize.