skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am also 45 and on a similar current situation as you (although I luckily come from a privileged background). One thing that is working a lot for me is trying to become a professional fiction writer.

There is a lot a of ambition and uncertainty in it. I always enjoyed writing (whatever the context, not only fiction) and now I enjoy getting better at writing fiction. I enjoy being part of a group of other wanna-be writers with the same goals and challenges. I made real friends this way. I enjoy listening podcasts, videos, interviews from experienced authors. I am even enjoying more working on some software side-projects that are related to literature (in general or my own).

At the same, there is very little chance that this endeavor will have any financial return. In Brazil, where I live, you can count in the dozens the number of writers that live solely from the income of book royalties and in the hundreds the number of writers that live from literature (royalties + workshops, online courses, literary services, etc).

So, even some successful authors that have decent number of readers (for Brazil's context) and some awards, have a day job.

This, interestingly for me, who has a well-paid job, removes the pressure of this project of mine. Since it is an art project, to not have the pressure of needing to earn money, actually makes my art better, I have more patience and time to reflect upon it (ironically, increasing my chances to earn money through my art).

But I still have the pressure to earn readers. It's not like I am painting paintings that I am happy enough to complete and leave them on my house studio. I am not doing art for myself, but for others. That's where the ambition part come from. Which I like.

I don't think this comes from a mid-life crisis, as I write short stories since my twenties. It's only now that I have the time, money, and, I might say, wisdom to be able to do it seriously. Writing is one form of art that benefits a lot from like experience.

Just to share what worked for me, and maybe you can find something for you that fits the bill of being an ambitious project that you hope to achieve something meaningful from, but that it's not necessarily attached to financial outcomes. The privilege of being able to be professional about something that might not return more money, even if successful, is something that I treasure a lot.
Beautiful article. Glad to see Bitter Southerner here. They have a wonderful perspective of the South.

If y’all are in the market for a good coffee table book: Waffle House Vistas is very interesting.

Link: https://bsgeneralstore.com/products/waffle-house-vistas-2-0
I almost had an accident like this.

I was driving home on the freeway late at night and there was a car on its roof that had been in an accident in the lane I was in. It was at the end of a long sweeping curve and I just barely saw it in time.

I was really glad I was in the car I was in and paying enough attention. I was in my fun car going too fast but was also more alert because of that.
Broken EV chargers become a business opportunity for L.A.'s ChargerHelp
Show HN: Voyage of the Marigold – A Scifi Adventure
Command a starship on a desperate mission through unexplored sectors.
I was downvoted multiple times for this obvious idea.

How you plan to strike those coal power stations?
We also do not - yet! - have carbon-neutral alternatives for energy usage, either in amount or kind. This is why people are working both to scale up the kinds of energy use that is already carbon-neutral but which there is not yet enough of, and to figure out alternatives for things that do not already have carbon-neutral solutions.
Surely if you're using octonions you have to draw a....squid! Or possibly some other cephalopod.
I'd say it depends on the product and level of effort that goes into supporting either group but yes, I'd generally lean towards this as well but it can be very difficult for a business to maintain this depending on their stage.

The upside to having a healthy number of minnows is, assuming it's low effort to have them onboard in a mostly self-services manner, then they can help the business grow in a healthy way while the team focuses on the larger and more complicated opportunities that may easily lead to nothing. If all you have are the whales it becomes feast or famine but if you have a healthy combination of small and large you'll be well covered. And of course you're banking on a percentage of the smaller customers eventually growing too.

Again, it's about the product and selling motion. Back to the topic, in this instance Broadcom did the math and they simply don't have a product that lends itself well to smaller shops and just isn't worth their time and effort to pursue.
I'm not the person you asked, but for me it's that I'm interested in solving problems. Not for money or recognition, but because I don't want to tolerate the problem anymore. If seeing it solved means doing more, then I have to do more.
Addressing things like this is part of the purpose of government (on any level, be it personal, family, community, on up). Regulations can shift our habits.

Does a corporation's existence justify its continued existence? Like people, it'll try to keep on going, but it not being a person, it's okay to let these things go. People will lose jobs, but the answer to that is to revitalize the land so we can transition to getting our food nearby, and spending the time to do it- time well spent.

Computers, for example, are a fun diversion we enjoy thanks to our curiosity, ingenuity, and cheap (money-wise, not life-wise) energy. I don't consider them essential.

Letting go of a lot of our costly and polluting playthings is the way to go. Children cry when someone takes their candy away, and we'll be no different unless we realize that candy is killing us and we exercise our adult brains to change our habits.
Tied back, atypical behavior.may create neurodivergent conditions, but one would expect children of aurististics to seek less overall care which doesnt support the hypitheses that antibiotics are causing aitism as this thrwad started
Better article

https://ain.ua/2024/04/12/chy-mozhna-kupyty-starlink-v-rf-sp...
I'm sorry, but selling the landlord's literal rent seeking as a value to anyone but themselves is just blatant antisocial shilling.
Yes - you are completely right. I just looked up my receipt for my C64 and it was Dec. of 1984. Still have it all! So long ago, yet seems like yesterday :)
Half of the revenue does not mean half of the profit. Spending any time working with minnows may be time not worked for big companies. With big customers you can have much higher profit margins when they want to buy expensive services.

Comparative Advantage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage
> I would rather not give the presentation than do this. It is a cringe and self-embarassing experience.

I'm the same way, and honestly I don't understand why.

I'm not sure it's embarrassment per se, because nobody else is in the room.

But something about doing a dry run, in private, is so unpleasant that I can't make myself do it. Despite the apparent benefits.
I'm not sure that math works out, with the amount of pork barrel the government hands out to contractors. Might be a lot cheaper to bring more talent in-house than to pay somebody else's margins.
Can confirm, I have about 8 gradients deployed now, including one in my studio with 31 dBa noise floor, and I can only ever hear the Plantower's fan with my ear nearly touching the device. I've never heard it day to day.
Please do.

My hope with this blog was to rile up other CUDA enthusiasts. Making them wanna bring in bigger and better hardware that I don't have access to.

+ Someone in the CUDA MODE community got 6 seconds on a 4090.
I'm in awe of your deep insight into my life and work.

Now make like your username and do one.
Preterminated fiber isn't the worst thing. Obviously you have to estimate the length, and will (hopefully) estimate a little long rather than a little short. But it works fine, is relatively affordable, and you can just coil up the extra in a service loop somewhere.
To what degree could we be okay using less energy?
Appreciate the feedback! I'll see about tweaking the model a bit to up the difficulty
>Hart has seen that change firsthand. About 20 years ago, then 19 years old and a mother of two, she started part-time at the same Walmart she now runs. Her first job was cooking live lobsters pulled from a tank in the deli.

Was definitely expecting this to be a story about someone who graduated college and walked into management. I have respect for anyone who could rise though the ranks of retail.

She deserves every dime.
I'm not quite sure how to address the fact that in society various biases cloud our perception of safety despite statistics to the contrary.
I have 2 Roku TVs, and I suppose I should be deeply concerned, but at this point, I'm just like "meh". By this time my info has been in enough data breaches of supposedly more secure companies like Adobe and others that I feel like "defensive Internetting" is the only real answer (password managers, single-use credit card numbers when you can, etc)
Try an array of FPGAs.
The FBI has a long history of being a bad actor...
It can compute both the starting offset for itself and next_offset for (bx+1)...
Yeah, this is a bug in their quick example code. Basically think that you simply give each thread a start and stop offset with simple byte division. Then each thread handles the first line that starts after the start offset up to but excluding the first line that starts after its end offset. So there will be a small amount of "overread" at the boundaries but this is probably negligible.

let chunk_size = buf.length / threads;
let start_byte = chunk_size * bx;
let end_byte = start_byte + chunk_size;

let i = start_byte;
while (buffer[i++] != '\n') {} // Skip until the first new row.

while (i < end_byte) {
let row_start = i;
let row_end = i;
while (buffer[row_end++] != '\n') {}
process_row(buffer, row_start, row_end);
i = row_end + 1;
}

Basically you first roughly split the data with simple byte division. Then each thread aligns itself to the underling data chunks. This alignment can be done in parallel across all threads rather than being part of a serial step that examines every byte before the parallel work starts. You need to take care that the alignment each thread does doesn't skip or duplicate any rows, but for simple data formats like this I don't think that should be a major difficulty.
yes...but one click purchasing got patented (by amazon), while purchasing existed and so did clicks...
Continuing the 30 year trend in decreasing violent crime that only briefly pushed back up during the start of the pandemic, ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States#Cri... . Nowhere near the highs of the late 1970s/1980s/very early 90s. Unfortunately this WSJ article is behind a paywall.
2.7MM now
To extend your analogy further. When you measure the return on investment for minnows vs whales, you realize that your time is worth more when you focus on the whales. So you end up diverting 100% resources to the whale operation out of your fiduciary duty towards your shareholders (you are a business at the end of the day).

Were this a private operation, they may be more leeway in terms of striking that balance between profitability and social responsibility. A good example of that is Patagonia (the outdoor apparel company).
Wouldn't we see much lower rates in Christian Scientists?
How does one measure the corruption rate? What even qualifies as corruption when it's so often "I know it when I see it?"
> Regular working people like barbers and kitchen workers who work hard to make ends meet are are not needy enough to to satisfy the activists' savior complexes.

There are lots of people trying to help regular workers. Like trying to get them into unions with bargaining power, increases to minimum wages, improvements to worker safety laws and enforcement, something like universal public health care would be an incredible lift for struggling workers. People are actively trying to do all these things. Its just very difficult because there are powerful forces resisting all of them.
Except on Fedora where it’s /usr/bin.

That feels so wrong to me.
Related, A City is not a Tree:

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

1965 essay:

https://blogs.ischool.berkeley.edu/i103su12/files/2011/07/19...
Why would they need to cover it up?
This is one of four criteria listed in section B, which only requires two to be present. See https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/hcp-dsm.html

So it's still possible to receive a diagnosis if you don't have hyperfixation but have two or more of the other section B criteria.
Would be great if there was something you could run on tables to recommend more space efficient data types based on what’s actually stored in the table.
Ah yes, the front page featuring the recorded talks kind of hides the real substance. Here's the full collection of papers, by category https://neverworkintheory.org/category/
"The /usr/sbin directory becomes a symlink to bin, which means paths like /usr/bin/foo and /usr/sbin/foo point to the same place. /bin and /sbin are already symlinks to usr/bin and usr/sbin, so effectively /bin/foo and /sbin/foo also point to the same place. /usr/sbin will be removed from the default $PATH. The same change is also done to make /usr/local/sbin point to bin, effectively making /usr/local/bin/foo and /usr/local/sbin/foo point to the same place. The definition of %_sbindir will be changed to %_bindir, so packages will start using the new directory after a rebuild without any further action. Maintainers may stop using %_sbindir, but don't need to."

the summary is very unclear for new users, was it saying _everything_ is now symlinking to /usr/bin? and /usr/bin is the only real directory the rest is all symlinks? The way of saying "symlink to bin" is just plain wrong or at least ambiguous.
The issue for smart devices, like TVs, is that you often have to type credentials in a tedious way without access to your password manager (other than transcribing it from your phone).
Early returns provide a breeding ground for subtle bugs. I wonder if the research considered that aspect as well.
> I think you’re giving way too much credit to medical associations to rig the game in their favor. They exert enough influence over all fifty states and the various private institutions to systemically deny training to qualified candidates?

The underlying fact that the AMA is directly responsible for the doctor shortage in the USA is historically accurate. 20 years ago the AMA believes we were heading towards a doctor surplus and heavily lobbied and for fewer medical schools, caps on federal funding for residencies and big cuts to the available residencies.

The AMA has reversed course and no longer supports these positions but the damage has been done, both to our supply of doctors and to their own reputation. However, even today the AMA supports many policies that keep taks that other professionals could perform the sole purview of doctors (which excacerbates the suppoy problem they helped create.)
The reason they are doing this is so that you can mount /usr as read-only or possibly on immutable storage.
https://archive.ph/CCnjL
If the set of cities is known (as your binary search algorithm assumes), you can insert all of them first, on the CPU. That will resolve all collisions ahead of time, making the structure of the hash table essentially read-only. (Of course, you would still need atomics for the values.)
> Were this a private operation

Privates and startups do the same thing.

If I even had an inkling that my portfolio startups in the Infra or Cybersecurity were not targeting large strategic customers who can subsidize their roadmap, I'd literally fire the founding team.
Acutally, I only learned about the 49 bit program after writing that blog entry.
It is described in https://github.com/tromp/AIT/blob/master/fast_growing_and_co...
Why would that correlate?
agree, so I think /usr/local should be kept
Why does Stanford want everyone to have unusable congested 5G experience, instead of letting people who want more bandwidth to pay for it?

BTW is mobile networking finally turning linespeed "bandwidth" back into true bandwidth? That's a glorious victory for language!
Yep! I'm optimistic that we're going to (painstakingly, with a lot of work) get to net-neutral emissions over the coming decades.

But then I believe we'll almost certainly want to go net-negative for some period of time. And we'll need to do a bunch of research and experimentation into carbon removal techniques to figure out how to do that. The earlier we start doing that, the better!
They really have kicked their grass roots supporters to the curb with this change. They already used distribution/aggregation, it really wasn’t a huge lift for them to continue that chain.
Most TV apps seem to use the ‘enter this code in a web browser’ auth model which gets around that limitation and allows you to use your browser’s password manager support.
From what I’ve read, this has been Google’s operating model. They will happily shut down a profitable business if it isn’t hundreds of millions of dollars worth within some time-frame. It’s a shame. I wish they would just spin them off instead.
Don't know :) So far I only cared about 8-bit computer systems from the 80's (specifically Z80 and 6502 based systems).
It is just emergency braking (electronic brake distribution across all wheels according to sensor readings), plus ABS in a hard braking scenario. The clutch is not affected.
Bar associations blast rejections of foreign arbitrators
I read that as saying that /usr/local/sbin will point to /usr/local/bin which will still be separate from /usr/bin. But /bin, /sbin, and /usr/sbin would all point to /usr/bin.
As more web development (in JavaScript) moves away from anything resembling inheritance, the cascade in CSS starts to feel annoyingly out of place. It’s perhaps subtle but a noteworthy distinction in my mind.

I struggled with letting go of old school CSS for this reason. I’ve written it for literal decades at this point and know it like the back of my hand, and it increasingly just feels like the odd man out in the front end stack.
> The only thing you need is to stop this idea that living a richer life means earning/spending a lot of money / reaources. There's so much personal development you can do without participating in the materialistic rat race.

If you launch projects to gain fame, sure it is materialistic. But you can work on projects that help you understand things better, or to build the personality you want to have, both of which are the opposite of materialism.

They aren't egoistic as well, because you can then share your solutions with others, which are also going to benefit from it.
New Zealanders are crazy for feijoa: like the kiwi, it is not native to nation
Never ascribe to malice what can easily be explained by carelessness.
They will, because someone on the board will know someone from vmwares board.

Besides, I've seen people buy oracle because all the big boys need Oracle, and we're a big boy now. Does anyone know what this 'database' thingy is? We really need one in this company, maybe it can store a list of all of our postgreses, mongodbs and mysqls? For management purposes?
It’s a hard problem. One avenue of improvement that I think about frequently is re-socialization of suburban and rural dwellers to urban life: it’s a lot easier to convince non-urban dwellers that our cities are lawless warzones when their only experiences of their local city are the news or through the windshield of their car. I think re-densification and mass transit will (if we ever manage to do them) do wonders to counter the shrinkage of social spheres/spheres of participation that suburbanization has caused.
https://archive.ph/r0Iy5
Yeah, seems we're in a population boom because we can. Lynx population grows with rabbits, wolves with moose, etc. This increased carrying capacity of the earth is thanks to the energy we pull from the ground (and air, water, sun), and in times of plenty maybe we're a little wasteful...

How many people can Earth reasonably support?

Edit to answer your (rhetorical?) question:
What we can do is build strong local connections; that's the first step towards decreasing our level of domestication, per Why We Need to be Wild, by Jessica Carew Kraft.
Re pilots vs doctors: pilots would be the equivalent of elective surgery, i.e., it can wait.

There are so few doctors that getting a tired doctor is "better than nothing" as you have a greater chance of survival if you get mediocre care vs no care at all and certain death.
Disagree. The economics are pretty simple.

If someone has a job but no assets, how do you expect someone to pay builders and materials? If they could, they would be an owner, not a renter. If they were credit worthy, they would be an owner, not a renter.

Renting is effectively a short term loan for the value of the house.

Try getting a 12 month loan for $1M without collateral, and see what the interest rates are.
The spooks spooks, the DIA, don't even get brought up much despite them being such a big deal in terms of doing "james bond" shit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Intelligence_Agency
I think the missing context here is the why. Laying out your credentials is probably a good idea if the intent of your presentation is to advance your career. Which I gather is the main reason most people do it. Her advice is centered on delivering value to an audience.

The part that got me was right at the start:

"Why: I get very little out of 95% of them. I much prefer online recordings, which can come vetted/recommended. Also I can bump them up to 1.5x or 2x speed, so that at least if the talk isn’t that good I waste less time on it."

I also just don't enjoy these conferences at all. I rarely attend and have zero interest in ever speaking. Watching recorded presentations is far superior.
Bring back leaded gasoline!

Oh, sorry, we were supposed to be solving problems.
I agree. But what does it have to do with your rant about women particularly getting a worse deal?
my roku has had a forgotten password for years. does this mean there might be a record of it somewhere so i can get it?
If so, it'll be a great first step and a powerful beachhead to fight from. Making homes into investments, even by you and me in the middle class, is the exact moral failing underlying our problems and creates a positive feedback loop that cannot be stopped. If it's true this is one of the only inflation hedges left, then that needs fixing, not the protecting of usury.
Positive finite floats compare like ints. If you can have negative values, things get slightly more complicated, since they use sign-magnitude (you basically shift the sign bit to the right and use that as an XOR mask on all the other bits). If you need to care about -0.0 == +0.0 and NaN != NaN, most bets are off. :-)
> I wish they would just spin them off instead

I agree. If you did so much innovation already, but it doesn't generate the margins needed, a spinoff with minority ownership would make so much more sense and gain the ability to grow.

A lot of enterprise companies actually do this, but I have absolutely no idea why Google does not. Maybe some sort of antitrust paranoia?

If someone from GOOG can give visibility into the strat I'd honestly love it.
> Near the cereal aisle, a customer walks up to Hart while recording on his cellphone.

>“Hi! Can we get some Snoop Cereal here on the shelf?” asks the man.
Earlier that month the rapper Snoop Dogg sued Walmart, claiming the retailer, along with Post Consumer Brands, had worked to suppress sales of Snoop Cereal. Some fans were recording videos related to the dispute for social media.

It's like you think you know America because you see it on TV and film so much, and then you read something that makes it sound so weirdly foreign.
It is cheap for the people using the energy, because the externalities are not paid.