skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't only a problem with technology: https://ofdollarsanddata.com/why-winners-keep-winning-4e7f22...

> Both King and Rowling’s foray into undercover writing reveals a harsh truth about success and social status — winners keep winning. This idea is formally known as cumulative advantage, or the Matthew effect, and explains how those who start with an advantage relative to others can retain that advantage over long periods of time. This effect has also been shown to describe how music gets popular, but applies to any domain that can result in fame or social status. I discovered this concept by reading Michael Mauboussin’s The Success Equation where he writes:

>> The Matthew effect explains how two people can start in nearly the same place and end up worlds apart. In these kinds of systems, initial conditions matter. And as time goes on, they matter more and more.
I would go out of my way to avoid people who communicate like this with me. People put time and energy in making software better, at least in their own eyes, for others and then they get textually abused like this by someone who has his fame to protect himself with.

He also does no service to his own arguments by peppering them with childish swearing because things like "So standards are not some kind of holy book that has to be revered. Standards too need to be questioned." can't be said enough to some people in the industry.

If his reply were written with more tact and less swearing it would be a lot more powerful. We as an industry should demand this of each other, but also of our 'celebrity' colleagues.
That looks so unreal and so awesome. We are not quite there yet but we are getting to the space travelling being like what people decades ago thought it will be like in 2000s.
A visit to Bunnings isn't a visit to Bunnings without a snag in white bread (with onions).

Sadly, Bunnings effort to open up in the UK has fallen flat on its face and so I won't get to enjoy the Saturday morning Bunnings snag unless I go back to Australia.
> Gitea isn't meant to replace Github... it's meant to be a self-hosted alternative to it. That's subtly different.

Furthermore it is not unusual to see people run Gitea, GitLab, or just stock git, for their main repository and use GitHub as a public mirror. This takes advantage of GitHub's inertia, and acts as an extra backup.

The way git is design to be distributed makes this easy to achieve for the actual repositories. Issue tracking, CI, and everything else that isn't actually git (the core source control feature-set) isn't as easy of course, as that is more product specific.
Prefab components are mostly used for faster RoI by building quicker

... or by displacing work to places where labor and materials are cheaper (even if mainly due to poor QC and/or compromised worker safety).

A classic example of this was the imported prefab segments of the New Bay Bridge, which costs tens (hundreds?) of millions in rework costs and who-knows-how-many remaining unfixed defects.
Nobody probably knows how many private providers would remain, and how much they would shrink (yes, single-payer countries usually still have private insurance providers, clinics, hospitals, etc). Pretending you can know a precise answer is worse than admitting you just know there would be a negative effect in that job market.
I've had such terrible advice that I've quit going to Home Depot altogether; I spend the extra 3 minutes to drive to Lowe's. And it's from the exact opposite of what you describe.

I needed to run a bit of low-voltage wiring from the house to a sprinkler controller. I knew to use the dark grey PVC-like conduit (is it actually PVC? I have no idea). I had everything I needed except the glue. I've seen electricians run the same stuff and I knew the glue they use was clear, not blue like it is for water pipes, but I couldn't find that glue near the conduit.

I asked the guy in the electrical department with a thing on his apron with "ask me about electrical stuff" written on it. He spent the next 5 minutes trying to talk me out of using the correct glue, and instead he told me to go get some 2-part epoxy and use that. The kind of epoxy that expands, and would crack the rigid pipe, and has zero guarantee of standing up to water.

In the rare cases I do have to go to Home Depot I either ignore anything anyone there tells me, or I tell them I rent (because that way they won't try to sell me solar).
Arithmetically, the majority has to be the group that includes the minority, surely?

More seriously, all those kids recognise that news coverage and politics applies very different bias to young white people and young nonwhite people, and they're refusing to accept that and keep pointing it out.
Read the second part of the message and you will understand that the first part is ironic.
I'd start with the WebAPI sample and it's rd.xml file, see https://github.com/dotnet/corert/blob/master/samples/WebApi

Also take a look at this project https://github.com/shtik/cli/tree/dev/src/slidey, AFAIK it's the project that inspired the video I embedded in the post
Wow. The translations are impressive indeed, I didn't expect that.

That reminds me of the French traduction of Discworld, an amazing work by Patrick Couton.
Note now it supports just about anything thanks to GDNative and related efforts. Including support for D, Rust and other languages (I only cared to look those two up but if those are supported I can only imagine what else is). Also people can make plugins that extend the editor altogether. Its amazing that without C# the installer is a tiny download. You download other game engines and you're in for 1GB+.
Centum and satem languages
If headphones don't do the trick, and you want to stop people before they actually bother you, have you tried just putting a sign on your desk or the back of your chair that says not to bother you?
Also you're only allowed to read that char
The price of labor is so cheap now apparently there is almost no incentive to clean this up.

Consider that even small sandwich shops consider it worthwhile to hire a guy to stand on a street corner waving a sign or dressed as a pickle.

I suppose we as a society have decided to do this rather than guaranteed minimum income or any other livable social safety net.
my strategy is to only go shopping at supermarkets when i have recently eaten a decent meal, and i already have enough food back at home to survive with out needing to go grocery shopping for a few days. that way i only buy bargains, and reasonably often dont buy anything at all. it helps to live close to multiple supermarkets, and have too much spare time.
What makes you think the other insurance markets can absorb anywhere near that number of workers, without collapsing wages and causing even more misery?
Even for the low hanging fruit there is some concerns that the bias correction will only be made based on view of those currently in power at Google. They might want to make sure that translation AI will make careers like scientist, engineer, doctor to not get associated with male gender, but will Google do the same for crime and criminals? Google may want to steer YT recommendation AI away from the damsel in distress trope, but will it do the same for the bumbling dad trope?

In current polarized climate there isn't much trust left that bias correction will be itself unbiased, or if it will reduce existing discrimination rather than doing the opposite.
I don't see him here "insulting the helpers". He's saying the argument for this change is bad, he's saying a bunch of things in the C standard are bad, but there's nothing personal there.
Hmm... I ride mine in the bike lane so I'm not sure how that would be endangering pedestrians more than bikes do. But yeah, I agree, you might hate them but only until you try one for at least a day.
This video shows how to monitor android which can run web server :o
Yeah, that's what impressed me as well!

Turns out that even more components could be written in C#, but the ROI just isn't worth it, see https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/17576 for an interesting discussion
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I'm not American. I'm just a respectful human being who expects to be treated with respect at work.
Ah the joys of HN. Here is a source for you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxWpvgTH9oI&t=25m27s
union wasn't designed for the type punning in the first place. It's just historically used for type punning.

For modern compiler, just use memcpy and compiler can optimize away the memcpy and produce the exactly same code.

But the kernel developers has some issues on trusting compiler generated code.
When it comes to being oversensitive needy little things there is no true Scottsman.

As a northern European I find it not only comfortable that Linus runs Linux, but I would be less comfortable if it was another American smile in face pretend to be your friend but be shady as fuck attitude that you guys seem to confuse for 'professionalism'.

So let's chalk this to cultural differences. We wouldn't hire someone like you and you wouldn't hire someone like him.
I've been waiting for this....
Out of curiosity, why would BitBucket be out of question?
This is where the ancient Stoics come in handy. I still struggle mightily with these kinds of things every single day, but we are animals, after all. It is certainly a lot easier for me than it was before I started studying stoicism, though.
Come on are you really making this argument? That we cant know if it was better for the USA or Nazi Germany to have nuclear weapons? Like, say you have to go back in time and give nuclear weapons to Nazi Germany or the USA during ww2.. you would throw up your hands and say we can't know who the weapons should go to?
The lake looks quite nasty but it's really sad. Of course, that could have been expected with all the droughts but it is still sad that it keeps happening and the right people either don't care enough or don't really know what is the best option here.
Yep. Broad world model, physics, common sense, human communication, prediction, reasoning. Waymo’s low-level stack on hi-res map rails can’t replace human drivers.
Traduction is translation in English, one of the three faux amies with -ion at end.
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Yep, seems like the Mono impl was more mature, you can read a bit more about this decision here https://github.com/aspnet/Blazor/issues/286#issuecomment-373...
I don't see what your objection is to a game that is fundamentally a simulation, trying to simulate as much as possible as accurately as possible. You can sit down and watch every single one of the hundreds of games it simulates each day of game time for 90 minutes in real time, and the gameplay bears up pretty well to reality. You can also turn all this off and just run a single league, but I certainly appreciate the effort they've put into parallelising it. Obviously if you think games are fundamentally frivolous, then you'll think any amount of computational power sunk into them is also frivolous, but it seems an odd hill to die on.
I've heard this quite a few times. There is really nothing fundamental in keeping you from having the same or better observability in a Unikernel as opposed to a traditional POSIX kernel.

A couple of examples. The Gnu Debugger (gdb) supports connecting to qemu-backed virtual machines, so you have the ability to everything that gdb can on a unikernel as well, given the unikernel is implemented in something gdb groks.

In addition we've created a trace layer, similar to strace that allows you to run strace inside the vm itself. Since the POSIX libs are just libs wrapping them inside something like strace is rather trivial.

Also the unikernels have a huge advantage of having everything in the same memory space, meaning that you can observe the application and operating system at the same time.

High level languages like Python or Node.js can typically have debuggers loaded dynamically and as such would be able to offer full debuggability without having to do tricks with gdb.

All this doesn't have to induce bloat. The socalled bloat in POSIX systems is mostly caused by the security barriers raised by a design that forces strict separation between unprivileged and privileged access to the system. In addition a POSIX kernel will typically be built to support "everything" that a user might need whereas a unikernel can take a build-time decision on what to include into the OS.
Citations/Examples, please? I always thought these are different.
The 'scrum master' guy in the first chapter is the sort of terrible communicator who gives technical people a bad name. He either can't or won't express himself in terms familiar to his audience, instead throwing out a stream of terms that he knows mean nothing in a bid to appear sophisticated.
"can" but can also suffer from other idiocy. I know, i've worked many times in big, medium, and small companies.

The problem with small companies is... the lack of inertia! You get the CEO reading an article and decide to 'rebrand', throwing away whatever plan there was in motion to do the previous fad.

Then he goes to a show, and comes back all bouncy about the new cool stuff we HAVE to start integrating or else we won't be relevant when coming to market.

Been there, done that, got a whole pile of t-shirts ;-)
I'm so happy to see it being funded successfully in Patreon[0]. Having its creator to work on it full-time is important to unlock its full potential.

I can see that it will become the game engine with full Blender integration, carrying the spirit of the recently discontinued Blender game engine[1].

[0]: https://www.patreon.com/armory/overview

[1]: https://twitter.com/themikepan/status/986308335438671872
Trees can't do it all, but they can help a lot and are cheap and we like trees!
Unreinforced masonry won't cut it in earthquake country.
> And this is exactly why all of these articles recently about how "great" it is that Tesla sends out frequent OTA updates are ridiculous. Frequent, unpredictable updates with changelogs that just read "Improvements and bug fixes" is fine when we're talking about a social media app, but is entirely unacceptable when we're talking about the software that controls a 2 ton hunk of metal

I recently got downvoted for that exact line of reasoning.

Looks like some people don't like to hear that :-)
... which is why he said he prefers a mix of both, instead of either extreme.
It's not for not reason, it's for status, that it's the oldest reason in social primates.

The most people you have reporting to you the more status you have in the organization. What do you make all those people do? Statistics and power points that you can show in meetings with other important people.
Then you do not understand the whole point of asking this question. Its speculative whether the counterfactual "Linus is nice to everyone"-Kernel would be better or worse. Both options are possible. Like everywhere in capitalism, just being nice and doing the right thing must not always select you as a winner...
Yeah, it's a major issue — and with CSS there's also no easy way to set HDR colors either.

Hell most displays nowadays don't even do sRGB, which was defined as the colorspace and contrast of an average 1990 CRT.
Here (Norway) it's whenever it involves the work on the mains panel or on unterminated power wire. You can change ceiling fixture if it has a clip in power socket, you can of course change lightbulbs (doubt it's licensed anywhere in the world), you can even install electric flooring that clicks to connect. You can't do anything that requires tying or soldering power wire together, and you can't install hidden cabling/channels and fixtures yourself (fire safety reasons).
What I find astounding with meta ocaml is that the compiler guarantees that your program will not generate a program [that will not generate a program]* that will not compile.

How does Terra fares in this regard ?
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Well he did start the rant with "I have no problem with the code, it's just the rationale that I disagree with." And from what I've seen, Linus is nothing if not pragmatic. Good code is good code regardless of the rationale.
This is quite a fair comment, but I can’t tell if you’re agreeing, disagreeing or just making an unrelated point.

The point I was making is: this article isn’t practically useful, its just ‘how it would be nice if things were’ not ‘how to get there’.

Its got some good ideas, sure... but as you say, reality and ideals aren’t easily matched; so as a step by step guide, its somewhat trivialising what is actually a very hard, entirely unsolved set of problems.
There's no such (real, usable) language as 'standard C'.
You're the only one here talking about civil suits. The rest of us were having a fairly intelligent conversation about guilty verdicts. I suggest you read more closely before you contribute next time.
Romanticism in science
What I like the most here is that they make CO2 into actually useful renewable resource.
Sure, the organization chart is full of Mr. Miyagis that care about your personal development.

"Man who catch mistake in power point with chopstick, accomplish anything"
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But if you didn't do that, you would be assuming any crazy theory you think of is true, and require overwhelming evidence to refute it.

> I'd suggest starting with Meehl 1967

Your very quote states that this whole idea works for physics, and is describing that it doesn't work in psychology and social sciences. I'm confused by this:

To take the IQ example, if you take the set of all people in a country, for instance, and randomly select two sets of 5 people, you will find that their average IQ differs by some amount. If you instead select two sets of 50000 people, the average IQs should be a lot closer (to each other, and to the true average). This is by definition true, since IQ is by definition normally distributed. If that's not what you see, you have a methodological problem.
They said "infra" so you know they know what they are doing!
Question: How about having the option of not blocking but only reporting?

Then you can put a use clause in your service agreement and bill your customers according to their use. They've signed that any additional use incurs a cost, but they don't think you know.
Not sure this is a good example. As - for me at least - the point in students writing papers is not so much in someone reading them. But the students writing them. As only by writing a bunch of papers will you learn how to write a paper.

I agree that it would be better if someone would read them and give actual feedback based on your actual performance. But looking at my own little episode in academia, the most was learned while writing stuff.
That was a well informed piece, worth reading, but the final complaint is weak - so the book was just about its subject life and times and not piled on with later centuries' consequential factoids ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anxiety_of_influence strikes again.
The complaint isn't about in-depth knowledge of "little pieces of felt or rubber to prevent my cabinets from being loud when they slam" or advice paint stripper suitable for particular wood types but simply being able to point the customer to paint stripper or pieces of rubber. And that, in many large DIY shops, is what the employees seem fail really well at.

If I wanted in depth knowledge of how to do a particular job, I wouldn't be asking in a large DIY shop, I'd be asking someone who knows, such as someone at a small DIY shop who has earned their stripes or a professional tradie.

And if I had in depth knowledge of how to do a particular job, I wouldn't be working at a large DIY shop pointing customers (or not, as the case often is) to where they can find M4 wood screws.
Well, then what are they testing exactly?

This is beyond broken, it's a fundamental misunderstanding of how physical products are supposed to work. Software people have gotten used to dismiss the principle of least astonishment because they know better —and no user got killed because of a Gmail redesign—, but this is a car, it's hardware with its user on-board, a lot of kinetic energy and all of it relies on muscle memory.
It moves the running object/process between nodes (vms/machines) of a cluster, then back to the origin nodes.
> Wait, so according to you it's OK to be as rude as you wish, as long as you are technically correct?
I never said that. My argument is that people/culture are different. What is considered offensive/rude in some culture is considered normal in other cultures.

> Personally, I'm far from convinced that there even is an objective right or wrong in this question. It's probably just a matter of taste and/or perspective.

This is not always true. Sometimes there is only one correct/pragmatic way of doing something. And if someone asserts that it's nothing wrong.

> I find Linus behavior rude because in discussions like this he seems to have little to no understanding of other perspectives than his own.

You can't say this is the case always. I have read a lot of the discussions like these. A lot of times, he writes a pragmatic and valid explanation of his dislike about a certain topic.

> In either case, it's not exactly accepted public discourse.

Again, you are assuming all cultures and societies are alike, they are not. There is a vast wide world with different thinking and a culture other than the Silicon Valley bubble. It's time people stop generalizing everything under the sun.
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You're right, apparently it changed in C99 so my knowledge is pretty out of date. Thank you for pointing it out.
Use of profanity is pretty orthogonal to respect but again it's very culture specific thing.
Yes. We have production deployments of IncludeOS. The use case was network functions like firewalls and load balancers.

I think the perception of Unikernels as something that is suppose to replace containers is a bit artificial. They have a much stronger appeal in replacing Linux where Linux struggles. So CPU-based IoT devices where Linux security is a problem, serverless architectures where Unikernel boot-times of 5-10ms can provide more elasticity or network functions where the GNU/Linux footprint is significant.

Certain containers could be a unikernel case down the line when the tooling improves. Once you can do "npm unikernel" and it spits out a bootable node-app might make node-based Unikernels attractive. But nobody is there yet, AFAIK.
Except "strong opinions" is not what happened here. He's being verbally abusive.

I think it'd be helpful to be able to talk about this behaviour without needing to suger-coat it as "opinions".

There are far less damaging ways to say exactly the same things as Tovalds says, and someone with his position in the community should know better.

Punch up if you like, not down.
Yes, and that's one way we know it's a lie.
Modern safety features shut it down if current goes into the earth, so the most dangerous is if you touch both wires and are well isolated from the earth. This makes you look like a light bulb to the safety features. The other danger is that it sets your house on fire a week after you've "fixed" something.

That said, as a kid I played with 230v electrolysis (stupid I know) because my 30v version was too slow. This is basically the worst case scenario: electrodes close to each other + water + combustible gas + potential for sparks + deadly voltage, but the safety system shut the power down immediately when something went wrong.
I don't think it's a given that if you don't develop a certain type of weapon it renders you unable to defend yourself against it.