skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to be a lawyer in SV, and whenever my lawyer friends talk about earnouts, it's always in the context of what a bad deal they are for founders.

Basically, they take a lot of lawyer time to negotiate, in order to make them as close to airtight as possible. And if anything goes wrong, it takes a lot of lawyer time to resolve them. And lawyer time equals money (as much as $2k/hr, billed in 6 minute-increments). So you could pay six figures negotiating an earnout, and another six figures when things don't go as planned. That doesn't mean they're always a bad idea — just the vast majority of the time.

A candid lawyer will counsel you away from an earnout, and if a lawyer doesn't mention the potential downsides of earnouts, I'd consider that a big red flag.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41036526

We dont know what we dont know... what else do we not know?
Fast charging is not necessary for someone who works from home in a suburban house in a country with abundant electricity and who has money to buy an EV with a high-capacity battery, instead cheap urban chinese EV cars.
The encodings we use today have a surprisingly deep and complex history. For more, see:
"The Evolution of Character Codes, 1874-1968"
https://ia800606.us.archive.org/17/items/enf-ascii/ascii.pdf
I think that just means it isn't solely a capitalist mindset, no? Which i didn't mean to say that capitalism owned the idea, just rather that it's a core tenet of capitalism.
Niches inside of niches. I’m one of the few who enjoys a split ergo with > 60 keys and low-pro caps that doesn’t want to build it myself. The sofle choc looks promising as does the pinky4[1] if it can be made with all chocs.

[1]: https://github.com/tamanishi/Pinky4
So they were producing defective CPUs, identified & addressed the issue but didn’t issue a recall, defect notice or public statement relating to the issue?

Good to know.
In the US there were similar minimum age limits for other offices. President was 35, upper chamber legislator 30, lower chamber legislator 25.
Do you know what percentage of published books in the USA each year is that sell more than 1000 copies?
Maybe, but the iPad does have the benefit of an optically bonded display. If the displays were recessed under the surface, as they were on the Optimus Keyboard, I suspect you'd see more blurring from that kind of matte coating as the light is scattered more.
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Streams Logger
Streams (1) is an interesting logger that features a "graph-like" API pattern for constructing logging pipelines. Each node in a graph is a Node.js stream.

It offers a rich selection of contextual data (2) for augmenting log messages (e.g., module name, function name, line number, etc.). The default configuration is suitable for error logging; however, it can be tuned (3) for high throughput logging applications.

(1) https://www.npmjs.com/package/streams-logger

(2) https://github.com/faranalytics/streams-logger?tab=readme-ov...

(3) https://github.com/faranalytics/streams-logger?tab=readme-ov...
> Indeed, one thing that happens after people dig that deep hole in the shield is it will fill with water sooner or later.

The hydraulic conductivity of both considered sites (Revell, South Bruce) is quite low:

* https://www.nwmo.ca/-/media/Reports-MASTER/Technical-reports...

* https://www.nwmo.ca/-/media/Reports-MASTER/Technical-reports...

The repository will be >500m deep, and the geology at those depths is such that water penetrates it at a rate of a few centimetres per century. And then it would hit the human constructed structure, and then it'd have to penetrate storage flasks, and then it'd have to get through the metal bundles that hold the pellets. And only then it could it start dissolving/absorbing the nuclear stuff.

And then it would have to go through all those layers again to escape the facility.

> […] so maybe no one will notice the increasing lung cancer stats.

From Geraldine Thomas, co-founder of the Chernobyl Tissue Bank, "Look at the science – smoking and obesity are more harmful than radiation"

* https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/apr/26/obesity-...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldine_Thomas
Their acquisition of Altera seemed to harm both companies irreparably.

Any company can reach a state where the Process people take over, and the Product people end up at other firms.

Intel could have grown a pair, and spun the 32 core RISC-V DSP SoC + gpu for mobile... but there is little business incentive to do so.

Like any rotting whale, they will be stinking up the place for a long time yet. =)
The ending of the book series or just the TV adaptation?
slightly off topic, but there is dire need for a scientific "workflow manager" built to FAANG engineering standards attuned for the needs of academia (ie primarily designed to facilitate execution of DAGs on clusters). The airflows of the world have complex unnecessary features and require extensive kitbashing to plug into slurm and the academic side of things is a huge mess. Snakemake comes the closest but suffers from massive feature creep, a bizarre specification DSL (superset of python) and blurred resource requirement abstraction boundaries.
Hello fellow ex-employee of that bank. I was in a segment governed by PCI, and they wouldn't even let us touch Gaia in fear of the whole thing being declared in scope
https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=41040680&goto=item%3Fi...
> About half the oxygen we breathe comes from the ocean.

I don't even know what this means. The oxygen we breathe has been on the planet for 4+ billion years. We breathe it again and again and again. It's not being produced or consumed in any meaningful sense.

It does get converted between O₂ and CO₂ by a number of processes, but this framing tries to scare the readers to think mining will start slowly suffocating them.
Plutonium pits slowly transmute, and the emitted alpha particles are trapped and form helium bubbles. They have to be replaced periodically.
I think a reasonable protocol is to stop using any apps when your cyber protection crashes. Why have that suite at all otherwise?
ebcdic is also quite elegant

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13543715
When two people are continually raising eachother in a poker game they are doing it because there is an probability of winning the pot. It remains zero sum.

edit: The economy being positive sum has nothing to do with the way wealth is distributed.
> how long a nuke in storage lasts

Decades, certainly. All but the first few generations of bombs were designed for long periods of storage.

Notably, many of the TOP500 supercomputers were built with the singular goal of simulating the ageing of nuclear weapons in storage.

If a supercomputer is owned by the DoE or SANDIA, then that's what it is for.

> turn those swords into ploughshares relatively easily.

Yes! Cold-war era warheads from both the Soviet Union and the US have been used as nuclear fuel. A notable one was the Megatons to Megawatts program: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatons_to_Megawatts_Program

The plutonium in bombs is essentially "super high grade" reactor fuel. Even degraded after decades in storage it is still far, far better than what is typically used. It just needs to be converted into the MOX (metal oxide) fuel pellets and then used in a reactor, pretty much as-is.
Hans has always been the guy keeping count. Just about anytime you hear someone cite the US stockpile count, it’s his number. Truly impressive how accurate he is able to be with no special accesses. Only 40 off.
They did, people died who should be alive. People are alive who died in the books.

And there are extra characters who are not in the books at all.

So I'm pretty sure they're adapting heavily just to avoid the second and third book things.
Love Galactus.
The "can be arranged" is the tricky part. E.g. you might know from context that some states are impossible (where the probability distribution is zero), even though they combinatorially exist. That changes the entropy to you.

That is why information and entropy are different things. Entropy is what you know you do not know. That knowledge of the magnitude of the unknown is what is being quantified.

Also, the point where I think the article is wrong (or not concise enough) as it would include the unknown unknowns, which are not entropy IMO:

> I claim it’s the amount of information we don’t know about a situation
I don't know but synology uses BTRFS now as well and if something crucial like that was broken I don't think they would support it on a NAS.
Awards up until that Tor-adjacent blogger network started setting the agenda (intentionally or otherwise), i.e. pre-"Racefail", tend to be pretty good. After that (i.e. post-2009) the Hugos become very unreliable.
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Who (other than ZeroAvia) is talking about batteries for flight?

For more information, please reread.

"the cost of building safe low leakage infrastructure might exceed the cost of
batteries and solar/wind to produce power. You're probably better off making H2
dynamically where you need it and just sending electrons or storing them locally
in safe batteries."
Dude's gonna be canned so hard.
To be fair when netflix started they were solving legitimate problems that a major streaming provider would have.

In the time since those problems have been solved and now are offered as a service by most cloud providers (for a hefty fee of course)
It may be less boiling over, and more exiting. A major increase in suicides, increasingly fewer people willing to do jobs, and a ever aging demographic with increased pressure on social support and health care. Everyone looses with no clear path forward.
That sounds infuriating.

3 hours of travel time, plus 20 minutes for hotel check-in, plus 15 minutes for checkout, plus 15 minutes for waiting for the shuttle x 2, plus 10 minutes of walking to the bus stop, and that's 4:15 before you even hit the pillow.

That would put you at 5:15 AM, 45 minutes before the plane departs. Delta recommends you be at the airport at least 2 hours before the plane departs. So by their own recommendations, there is no way this could work, even assuming you didn't even head up to the room.
> I look forward to an eventual return to fun video games

They weren't saying they wanted games that run on old hardware. It's just the trope of "back then hardware was bad and games were good. Now hardware is good and games are bad."
I was about to share some of the traits of Cubans I know that serve as strong counter examples.

Then I realized this is all public, and Cuban intelligence services spy on the diaspora.

Censorship by proxy sucks.

I’ve run into this before with Chinese and other nationalities. I don’t know what’s safe to say, and what could get someone in trouble. So the ethical thing is to say nothing, unless it’s really important.

It sucks that foreign powers can censor a conversation like this, but they can.
It takes quite a bit of work to maintain nuclear warheads. All active US weapons contain plutonium 239, which has a half life of 24,100 years. It's radioactive by alpha decay, which leads to changes in the material properties due to energetic collisions and the buildup of microscopic helium bubbles (alpha particles are merely ionized helium nuclei, so stopped alpha particles become helium). Since the US stopped testing actual nuclear warheads in the early 1990s, it takes a great deal of indirect theoretical and experimental evidence to make sure that nuclear warheads are reliable without live fire tests. That's part of "stockpile stewardship." [1] If the plutonium has deviated too far from its original mechanical behavior, it would need to be removed from warheads, purified, and remanufactured into replacements that match the original specs. And again, the rebuilt components need to be reliable but they can't actually be tested via explosion.

US weapons also rely on tritium gas "boosting" to operate reliably and efficiently [2], and tritium decays with only a 12.3 year half life. The gas reservoirs of weapons need their tritium replaced at significantly shorter intervals. Even manufacturing enough tritium to maintain the stockpile has become a challenge because the US has retired its Cold War era weapons-material reactors that used to operate at Hanford and Savannah River. Currently the US uses a power reactor owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority to make tritium for weapons [3].

It's possible to make nuclear weapons (even thermonuclear weapons) with only uranium 235 for fissile material and no stored tritium. Such weapons could last a much longer time without active maintenance, since U-235 decays thousands of times slower than Pu-239. However, they would be larger and heavier for the same explosive yield, which complicates delivery. They would also lose certain safety features. Finally, without being able to perform full scale tests, it is doubtful that the US would have the confidence to replace its current high-maintenance weapons stockpile with a new generation of low-maintenance weapons.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockpile_stewardship

[2] https://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Nwfaq/Nfaq4-3.html#Nfaq4.3....

[3] https://www.wvlt.tv/2022/05/24/watts-bar-lone-source-nuclear... "Watts Bar lone source of a nuclear weapon material; TVA increasing production"
it gets consumed oxidizing C resulting in CO2, and then that conversion back to O2: takes place about half in the sea, that's what they're talking about, you're not disagreeing except that you don't want them to mention it.
Isn't that the wrong baseline? I'm pretty sure the proportion of, IDK, disc golfers who win more than $100 in prize money is tiny, but that doesn't mean that a disc golfing tournament offering $100 needs to institute a massive anti-fraud crackdown.
I used to work for an EDR vendor and this post glosses over two major and important things.
1. There’s no need for eBPF on windows, it has the ETW framework (event tracing) which is much more powerful and provides applications subscribing to a class of events almost too detailed insights. the issue most AV vendors have with it though is speed. Leading to …
2. eBPF lets you watch. Congrats. It’s something, but it’s not the reason why these tools are deployed. Orgs deploy these tools to prevent or stop potentially bad stuff from executing. The only place this can be done in our operating systems is usually the kernel - for that you need kernel level drivers or various other filter drivers.

Crowdstrike screwed the pooch here, yes. But after a couple of days I feel like I haven’t read enough blog posts and articles that crap on Microsoft. It’s their job to build a secure operating system, instead they deliver Windows and because they themselves cannot secure windows, they ship defender… and we use tools like falcon like a bandaid for Microsofts bad security practices
I don't know anything about the matter, but the Wikipedia page [1] says:

> several authors being declared ineligible without explanation [...] Leaked emails revealed that the authors were excluded due to self-censorship by the Hugo Award administrators in order to appease the Chinese government

Is Wikipedia incorrect here?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hugo_Award&oldid=...
Anything chucked into a black hole becomes either gamma rays or more black hole.
The claim seems to be that the microcode on the CPU is in certain circumstances requesting the wrong (presumably too high) voltage from the motherboard. If that is the case fixing the microcode will solve the issue going forward but won’t help people whose chips have already been damaged by excessive voltage.
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in-car racing cameras have very wide FOV. it's not uncommon to have such corrections applied to the video stream. i believe even the ubiquitous go-pro has such a filter.
But that doesn’t create shareholder value, thus, as capitalists we must exploit it! /s
There is 0% chance someone without industry experience is going to successfully build new systems to replace what the industry uses...
Yes. We get it. Boeing bad.
It’s possible, but very difficult.

The problem isn’t really the removal of compounds, as far as I can tell, but moreso the change to the bean composition itself. Because the porosity increases so much roasting the decaf beans is much more difficult. Additionally, beans grind differently due to their porosity and brittleness.

Basically, this means both the roaster and the grinder of the beans (and preparer of the coffee) need to change their behaviors slightly.

Then, at the end of it, the coffee stales much faster so it’ll go bad faster.
Source available can be helpful if you want a local dev setup or testing environment.

>Source only helps me if I'm the one running the code

Many times I've gotten better support when I open a Github issue and send the link to support--usually I can get around all the canned troubleshooting steps and get to an engineer quicker.

>So the fact that your SaaS is source available has no bearing on my use of it

You can tell if the product is garbage before you pay for it (does this place review changes, do they have automated tests??)

imo it's still helpful although small. If you're looking to run it yourself, sometimes source available can quickly be ruled out--especially if your company reviews and tracks license terms and doesn't want the headache of something custom/complicated
By no means condoning this behavior, just wanted to comment that you're largely correct in that EdTech companies tend to start out with altruistic intentions and and shift away from that over time. However, I wouldn't say that it's always greed — I'm sure it is in some cases! However, in general it's a really tough industry to even break even in. If you don't generate income, you're shutting down, in which case you ain't helping anyone any more. EdTech companies tend to start out with an unsustainable premise. Honestly, it's not too dissimilar to the typical start up playbook whereby you want to build a brand and attain a certain level of market penetration before focusing too heavily on revenue. The issue is it's not necessarily a high retention industry, so when it comes time to generate revenue there tends to be drastic changes to the core offering and the company's mission is diluted :(

I say this as a 2x Head of Engineering in this industry who would very much like to work in this space again.
I think the tritium "preignition" has to be replaced every 10 years.
> ...people who do manage to live with the same partner for more than a few years. How do you do it, guys?

There are probably as many answers as there are couples. One idea is just don't have (or look for) any better options. If the only realistic alternative seems to be solitude then the threshold to leave is higher.
No, each edge in the graph has 2 states. There are 15 edges between the 6 people.
Could you elaborate on the process people versus product people?
While I disagree with most od the unsavory stuff said above, I do think there's a nugget of truth in the premise. If you pick a man because he's wearing expensive sneakers you really can't be surprised when he continues to spend his money on expensive sneakers.
> Are they saying that their CPUs are signaling the mainboards to give them too much voltage?

Yes that's exactly what they said.
It sounds like their analysis is that the oxidation issue is comfortably below the level of "defective".

No product will ever be perfect. You don't need to do a recall for a sufficiently rare problem.

And in case anyone skims, I will be extra clear, this is based on the claim that the oxidation is separate from the real problem here.
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Lets suppose that eBPF solves this particular problem, eventually, for Windows. Doesn't sidestepping the entire class of Crowdstrike-style fubars require that Microsoft then mandate that no, backward compatibility will not be offered?

Back compat seems to be such a shibboleth in the Windows world, but comes at an incredible price. The reasons cited all seem to boil down to keeping some imagined customers' obscure LOB app running for decades. But that seems like an excuse to me. Surely Microsoft would like to shake out the last diehards running some VB5 app on a patched up PC in a factory. Isn't it more beneficial to everyone to start sunsetting acres of ancient NT code and approaches and streamline the entire attack surface?
> If some person, people, or organisations attempted to masquerade as multiple non “natural” persons they seem to have been found out, which I would not call a “loophole”.

Some entity or entities doing this in a very dumb way has been found out. Why should that give us any confidence that no other entities did this in more sophisticated ways?
We've never done it that way -- there's no historical precedent. America has done well, so it doesn't make a lot of sense to change that particular thing so radically after over 130 years of similar, but varying, immigration rates to today.
Preparation of a dish, varietals, and many other things (such as setting, accompaniments, etc) can impact taste.

Just because you don’t like something one time doesn’t mean you wouldn’t in the future. You’d miss out on many great experiences this way.
I don’t see why it would be ethical to give back the money either. This isn’t an uninformed person making a mistake on contract terms, this is one of the most qualified legal teams betting that they can get something by breaking the law, and losing the bet.
I have no idea about the specifics of this case, but Wikipedia is not a reliable source on politicised topics like this.
No need for that, you can get pretty far with a $500 desktop GPU added to your existing machine or a $2000 gaming laptop (for inference workloads).
Personally, I really don't care about these cases. What really grinds my gears is when a diff plucks out a weird line in the middle of a block of code that only has a closing curly brace and that's the line that it thinks is the same, and everything around it is a diff.

If you're going to call yourself a semantic diff-ing company, fix that before you worry about the order of my imports.
How does one go about learning to design and make something like this?
Very few. That doesn't change the fact that selling more than that is still basically beer money for the most part with very rare exceptions.
She has a campaign staff. "she" probably isn't doing this. Her staff are. And it's only one of many strategies and by no means the biggest or the most important: It appeals to a particular market segment and sometimes leaks a bit more widely.
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