skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My interlocutor above has a "thick lens of ideology and tribalism".
This is why they're being very unspecific and arguing like a child from a position of conviction, "this is the most evident thing there ever was".

There you go again, making up my back story despite having no idea who I am.

It is rude, but worse than that, a waste of words.

I would insert another whimsical parody, referring back to you, but that somehow threw you last time.

So I will just repeat:

> Is that really the kind of conversation we want to have?

> you might check out the guidelines on this site for keeping discussion constructive.

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It isn't controversial, nor should it require a complex justification to say with some confidence, that the richest person on the planet has been "successful". Widely documented synonym: "prosperous", i.e. achieving great wealth.

>> "this is the most evident thing there ever was".

I will be more precise and less rhetorical: based on the meanings of the words "successful", "prosperous" and "richest person on the planet" it is as close to a tautology as informal human language allows.

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> I don't trust the rich when they say they're "progressive" or whatever, like Musk did before. If they meant what they say, they'd get rid of their riches and return to society.

"Progressive" doesn't mean charitable.

As has been pointed out to you already, reading and using words consistent with their widely documented meanings will help you communicate better, and communicate something coherent, beyond simply projecting strong dislike and distrust of Musk.

But, I am sympathetic to that viewpoint as was evident from my first comment.

Musk has not lived up to values he previously espoused. And he routinely demonstrates deep hypocrisy relative to principles he claims to value today.
Are these the facts?

- You are using a container orchestrator like Kubernetes

- You are using gVisor as a container runtime

- Two applications from different users, containerized, are scheduled on the same node.

Then, which of the following are true?

(1) Both have shared access to an NVIDIA GPU

(2) Both share access to the NVIDIA GPU via CUDA MPS

(3) If there were 2 or more MIGs on the node with a MIG-supporting GPU, the NVIDIA container toolkit shim assigned a distinct MIG to each application
"complacency breeds complacency breeds complacency breeds complacency breeds complacency breeds complacency breeds complacency breeds complacency breeds complacency breeds complacency breeds complacency breeds complacency breeds complacency breeds complacency breeds complacency breeds complacency"

So funny!
For hearts I'd deal everyone in face up. Then I'd point out "because of X card this person starts" (I don't remember hearts, is this always left of the dealer or is it one where the person with some other card starts. If hearts is a bidding game of course I'd go over each person's bid, but I'd probably just tell everyone what to bid as bids won't make sense until the end when you see the results). That person will probably want to play X because it is the best legal move - of course we know that so and so has a better card and so will win the hand, now the next player has to play, this is why they would choose this card... Then play a game or two to get experience. Then erase the score for everyone and start playing
Bingo ... let's not confuse a techie for a messaging app selling ad data as a tech savant (almost) brilliantly predicting the future because it tries to bootstrap itself into the stratosphere with a flourish of art copy & paste by association with pictures of CERN, Egyptian hieroglyphics and so on.

The latter are cool ... and stand well in time. CERN requires something a tad more complicated that pushing around "lol :)" over tcp-ip done before them + "big data" analysis to sell it to morons on madison street.

Claude Shannon, von Neumann, creators of the transistor, capacitors, languages, algos etc are the cool+smart kids ... not Zuckerberg. Not Facebook.

"Move fast and break" things has some tactical truth in larthargic companies, but averaged over time is asymptomatically a zero. It's just SV frat boy talk. Enough.
Norway suspends controversial deep-sea mining plan
Narrative is the correct word for what this is. This is what Facebook leadership wanted to persuade the Facebook rank-and-file that _this_ is what they're about. This is purposeful internal propaganda.
I'm just learning about lockout systems from convos on the internet, but the idea is you have a device that locks the equipment in shutdown mode. Apparently fairly common in power generation. The hasp (the part the shackle goes into) has multiple holes, and everyone doing maintenance has their own lock, which they all put on while they're in the danger zone.

You're supposed to remove your lock when you finish up, but it sounds like sometimes angry phone calls have to be made.
Neat. I am curious what notable differences there are between Modal and Tailscale.
Design and content references must have felt like a cute satirical reference at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotations_from_Chairman_Mao_T...
Catan brags about its Overview, Game Rules, and Almanac.

https://www.catan.com/sites/default/files/2021-06/catan_base...
A Brief History of Calculator Watches
Most modern boardgames do something like that (although typically in a single book with multiple sections).

The standard seems to be to start with a setup/quick start guide that walks you through the initial setup and the in-order game loop.

Then have a reference section that goes through all of the specific mechanics (e.g., a deckbuilder might have "then play a card from your hand" in the quick start, and the reference section would go through the various cards available).

Then at the end is a FAQ, that is mostly just all of the rule lawyer stuff.

Modern games also tend to be better at not needing new players to refer to the rulebook as they used to. Nowadays, you almost always get some form of a cheat sheet card that explains the core game loop, and many rules will be encoded in some way on the game elements themselves.

Now that I think about it, technical writing classes should really take field trips to game stores. There is a lot of impressive that goes into communicating how to play that most people never notice.
We don't use Kubernetes to run user workloads, we do use gVisor. We don't use MIG (multi-instance GPU) or MPS. If you run a container on Modal using N GPUs, you get the entire N GPUs.

If you'd like to learn more, you can check out our docs here: https://modal.com/docs/guide/gpu

Re not using Kubernetes, we have our own custom container runtime in Rust with optimizations like lazy loading of content-addressed file systems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlkEW4C2kd4
It's just called "markdown". I used it to make this template a few years ago:

https://gist.github.com/te-lang-wakker/b401bcf7f05658c624fab...

Only problem was that hyperlinks are converted into footnotes, but I'd be surprised if you can't hack your way around that.
Per trip is also a poor metric, since trips vary wildly in length. I think you want something like accidents per hours of travel, i.e. hours that the vehicle is in active operation.
Any such blog / article / video that features a Penrose diagram is just wrong, because it's using mathematics that doesn't apply to the physical universe.

Penrose diagrams draw black holes as if they have existed forever, and will last forever -- that's what the "future infinity" line means.

Obviously black holes form at some finite time, and Stephen Hawking showed that they evaporate in a finite time.

This matters. A lot!

Fundamentally, relativity does not allow observers to disagree on observations of what, only when. If an outside observer never observes someone falling into a black hole then they cannot fall in. It's just that simple! Again, for the slow people at the back of the class: Observers cannot disagree on this. If there is a paradox in your model, then your model is broken, end of story.

There is this weird aspect of modern physics of holding on to the almost-mystical "woo" aspects far more than is justified in either the mathematics or observations. Quantum Mechanics and cosmology are especially rife with popularisations of what amounts to science fiction story telling. It's fun to think about wormholes, white holes, alternate universe accessible trough black holes, etc... I've read these novels, they were fun! Not physical though, natch.

Much more realistically: An infalling observer is slowed down relative to the outside universe and the stellar remnant that formed the black hole. Effectively, the hapless infalling victim sees the black hole and the universe both "speed up".

The error most people make here is that they assume that the black hole is already fully formed in the infinite past and is "completed", making it a mathematically perfect sphere in a sense.

No!

It hasn't finished forming because as its gravitational field increases its time distortion increases. Its formation is "frozen in time" (actually just very very slow), it is never fully formed.

Infalling observers see this slowdown speeding back up, so what they observe is the light of the black hole evaporation getting blue-shifted and brighter until right before mathematically they would have "fallen past the event horizon" what they're actually seeing is akin to a supernova exploding in their face. They're blasted into subatomic particles, joining the radiation of the black hole evaporation many trillions of years into the future... but not infinitely into the future.

This model solves every paradox of black holes, making them boring and not sci-fi exciting again, which is why you haven't heard about it! Uncool stories don't get repeated on blogs for ad-clicks.

Just remember: there are no infinities in the universe, and anyone using one in their theory is almost certainly just making stuff up to sound cool.

PS: Penrose is also behind the kook notion that brains are quantum despite all evidence.
A nice short bio of Claud Cockburn (by another son, Alexander): The Greatest Radical Journalist Of His Age, https://theava.com/archives/251920

Another piece following the book (Claud's biography recently written by Patrick), Claud Cockburn was the journalist’s journalist, https://thespectator.com/book-and-art/claud-cockburn-was-jou...

Edit: contrary to easy guesses, the Cockburn that will be most familiar to the readers of the Spectator is not Andrew, the third brother, but a pseudonym inspired by Admiral Sir George Cockburn (see https://thespectator.com/uncategorized/real-cockburn/ ), incidentally related to the family of journalists. Andrew Cockburn (mainly editor of Harper's Magazine) does occasionally write for the Spectator, but is not the "Cockburn" of the vitriolic articles.
Luma Photon and Photon Flash
are there any precedents in this regard?

> I do not know if that can be enforced in general, but it would not be fun to have to find out in court.

does the above sentence refer to using EULA-restricted public domain works and asking volunteers to carry the risk of being sued? or does it refer to somehow challenging the enforceability in court?

can it be illegal to merely insinuate EULA's as described above? which laws prohibit intimidation regarding copyright that is not held?

can John Doe intimidate people with EULA's on public domain works?
The "Little Red Book" is the name of Mao Zedong's propaganda book. It's an example of indoctrination.

Marshall McLuhan introduced the idea that the "medium is the message," which is heavily alluded to in this book with images of the printing press, etc. The idea is that changes in how information is shared play a bigger role than the actual content of the messages being exchanged. Chris Cox, the Chief Product Officer, used to regularly talk about McLuhan.

McLuhan also envisioned trends in the change of information media culminating in a "global village," which Facebook echoes here in its mission of "making the world more open and connected." McLuhan expected that this would divide us more than it would unite us.

So I think what the person you're replying to was saying Facebook's appropriation of Mao Zedong and Marshall McLuhan is... weird. Facebook is directly drawing from dictators' propaganda and a philosopher who predicted what Facebook would bring about, and didn't think it was a good thing.
Also the manual contained the copy protection "proof of analog information" challenge answers.
Any closer look into biology completely dispels the notion of intelligent design. It’s over complicated, fragile, poorly architected and works, essentially, by side effects of all chemical reactions happening inside those bags of goo.

Wouldn’t survive a code review.
Atmospheric analysis shows Venus never had Earth-like life, scientists say
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

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Technologies: ITIL4, A+, Network+, Project+, Security+, CySA+, SSCP, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Python, MySQL

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As a matter of taste, fair enough.

But having recently read about all etiquette concerns of the Japanese admirals doing their life or death struggles during WWII, it hardly seems unrealistic.

For a lot of people, seeing people navigate multiple military/social/political spheres is part of the appeal of imperial fiction.
For a moment I read that "the amount of each person's shares doubles each year"
It won the Hugo and was shortlisted for the Nebula, so at least some people have heard of it. Those are the two most famous sci-fi awards. Sometimes I look at their shortlists for ideas on what to read next.
Is there a specific package manager that you're thinking of? I'm always open for recommendations.
Fresh players are easy, just go any college and put up some posters. $minimum wage to try a new game - it isn't a good deal if you are into money, but if you ensure they have fun and have some beverages they will do it anyway. If someone is really good at something you know who to make an offer to.
Yes. I get updates from my local community
Thanks. We did check out Tailscale, but they didn't quite have what we were looking for: some high-availability custom component that plugs into a low-level container runtime. (Which makes sense, it's pretty different from their intended use case.)

Modal is actually a happy customer of Tailscale (but for other purposes). :D
Lucas was friendly towards fan works, so Disney kind of got that situation handed to them and were smart enough not to go against it. When nerds are your core audience, you have to accept them doing nerd things. WB took down the Hunt for Gollum fan film and ended up reversing course. Would Disney and WB still make a ton of money if they tighten the reins? Probably, but why risk it?
Musk Record Tesla Pay Plan Rejected Again by Delaware Judge
Usability studied are not about finding solutions, they are about finding where your solution works/doesn't work. There are too many places where creative solutions are not usable, and so you need to send your creative people back to the drawing board.
Location: NYC

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Skill areas: Frontend dev, technical project management, digital communications, political communications, political campaigns, civic tech/data

Résumé/CV: https://ovrtn.com/resume

Email: jesse@ovrtn.com
And one of the reasons their roast is too dark is that it's easier to be consistent that way, which is the point being made.
Kapwing | San Francisco (SF), California (CA) | Onsite | https://www.kapwing.com
We're a series A stage company building an in-browser, collaborative video editor (think Figma for video). We think content creation should be easier, accessible, and more collaborative.

We're looking for full-stack engineers that are interested in building a polished, consumer facing product that enables many content creation use cases. This job consists of everything from building the frontend tools to making sure our backend is scalable and reliable.

We're backed by top investors including CRV, KPCB, Shasta, Village Global. We have a culture of doing a lot of random things to grow our company and we write a lot about our startup journey on our blog: https://www.kapwing.com/blog.

I'm a co-founder, feel free to reach out directly if you're interested: eric@kapwing.com; or check out our open roles at https://www.kapwing.com/careers
Location: Bucharest / Romania

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Technologies: C# and .NET, SQL server, Javascript, Python, LLM & GenAI

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Email: please see the resume

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Github: https://github.com/Mihaiii
Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Remote: Yes, anywhere in the EEA. Also willing to work in-office.

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: In no particular order: Frontend web (HTML/CSS/JS), Svelte, React, Rust, C, TypeScript, SQL, Postgres, Cloudflare Workers, Python, C#, Unity, Godot, OpenGL, WebGPU, Dart, Flutter, PHP.

Résumé/CV: https://resume.kurtisknodel.com/

Email: kurtis@kurtisknodel.com

Main caveat for Sweden-based opportunities is that I don't speak much Swedish (I very recently immigrated), so I would prefer an English-speaking company.

My primary experience is in game development, mostly with Unity, but also with several other engines along the way. I also have a lot of experience with web development (fullstack), and I created my own mobile app using Dart/Flutter for the frontend and CF workers + Postgres on the backend.

I also have some experience in graphics programming, game engine design, and general high-performance stuff/optimization.

Outside of game dev, I'm most comfortable with backend development. While I am able to do frontend work, my design is usually too "practical" for the design team to like :p
re: 4 -- Facebook and reactionary politics have been hand in hand from the beginning of general public access to Facebook -- the world would be in a much better place without it.
Wasn't there just an article that demonstrated writing from 7,000 years ago?

My point was that using prejorative language against oral traditions is inappopriate considering the supposed superiority of "literate" cultures is yet to be demonstrated.*

Considering how little regard we have for what was written 5,000 years ago in terms of valuing it for any historical accuracy whatsoever, or how much of that 5,000 year old narrative was available to us just 100-200 years, it is frankly baffling that I have to defend the idea that there might be something to a different form of social memory that manually encoded 10,000 years of history generation by generation.

Is it really such a thought crime as "noble savage"-ism to point out that there is a difference between losing knowledge for thousands of years before then regaining it later (to hold in fairly contemptuous disbelief) and remembering it for the entire timespan?

*EDIT: Perhaps a better way to say this: the ultimate inferiority of oral traditions is complicated by evidence to its contrary. I don't mean to claim that there are no advantages to written traditions, only that assigning zero advantages to oral traditions is not only arrogant, it is contradicted by the evidence available to use.
But who is going to pay for that?

Pushing people to get new devices is pushing people to pay for the updates.

Other way would be an iPhone would have to cost idk somewhere in range of $10000 a piece to support it fully until last device hardware fails.
> It is your belief that interest taking on loans and legalized slavery are a difference of degree, not a difference in kind.

No. They are comparable, and both moral evils, but are different species of action.

But suppose I said yes, then what? It would not affect the argument. Whether I'm right or wrong about interest-taking per se, I would be wrong to believe that people who defended it were wicked or stupid (rather than simply misguided) given its universality. Similarly, regardless of whether Aristotle was right or wrong about slavery per se, you are wrong to believe that Aristotle was wicked and stupid for defending it (rather than simply misguided) given its then-universality.
Show HN: Sunrise Calendar: custom printed calendar with sun and moon info
This is a personal project that I've been working on very slowly now on the side for the past 4 years (yes, ridiculously long), using it for myself for a while and now finally have it ready to share to a wider audience.

It's a web app for building printed wall calendars that include sun and moon info for each day, specific to the location you choose. Rather than using accounts, each calendar gets its own unique URL by which it can be accessed. This way there are no accounts, no logging in, no tracking, etc. Everything is deleted 7 days after the last access, or if ordered, 18 months after the last access. There's no email list, no collecting/saving of email, etc. It's for creating and printing calendars; nothing else.

I built it with nodejs and pdfkit for creating the calendar PDF that gets sent to the printer (lulu.com). I'm just using file storage of json documents to start with -- I know this is not ideal, but I started simple and lightweight and will fix things if/when needed. In the past I've been overly obsessed with using all the right tools and everything, but that can sometimes distract from the simple core goal, so for this I've intentionally taken a different approach (specifically since this is more of a "just for fun" project).

Thanks for checking it out! If you order in the next couple days, it should still arrive before Christmas in the US. (As long as not too many order all at once!)
Most contemporary people can't freely dispose of their time. Their ability to move in space is restricted likewise. Aren't they essentially [part-time] slaves? That is, by comparison with people who can dispose of themselves freely.

Note that I'm assuming an objective/neutral definition of "slavery", and not the usual "slavery=bad thing".

Now, we could argue that it's a matter of education, circumstances, etc. But surely you must have met people who would obstinately refuse to listen to reason, entertaining their own misery. At least IME, it's sadly a common trait.
FB has done a lot of great things. There just aren't any articles written about them.
Yep, LHX Attack Chopper had all the specs of the helicopters and weapon systems and would ask you random questions about those on start.
Isn't Intel's main problem that they've ceased to be a leading edge foundry?

Maybe they should follow AMD's lead and spin off the foundry business.
I Was Wrong About Scrum, Again
Eh? If I spend even five minutes a day (i.e., less time spent going to the toilet) looking at ads I'd be surprised.
Roger Penrose – The Needy Genius Who Understood the Cosmos (People, Not So Much)
That's because the GPU is very different on a Mac. The x86 emulation is perfect.
http://archive.today/IngKL
Facebook was started as a way for college boys to gleam full names, pictures, and other personal information of college girls. When it was just this, it was actually wonderful and mostly innocent kids having fun. But Zuck was greedy, and eventually it evolved into yet another of the online behemoths that can only thrive by selling as much of your private data as it can get away with. As such, it is no longer special, and therefore it is ripe for disruption.
GitHub Copilot Extensions Now Supported in JetBrains IDEs
Living rent-free in my head for 30 years:

"The family that transmogrifies together eats flies together!"
No, you had it right - e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrew_Computer_Club which, as you say, is probably a borrowing from older tech nerd communities.
So you use them regularly at work ? What industry leading machine learning project?