skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get an overwhelming sense that Internet mediated connectivity between people has produced a societal phenomenon that is an analogue of psychosis within a single brain. It's like there is just not enough dampening to prevent wild feedback loops. I imagine that a normally functioning brain has some way of dealing with the problem and maybe society will eventually evolve something. In the mean time, there's nothing to do but keep your head down. It's terrifying to me that being polite and nodding and being tolerant of others is not enough to keep one out of trouble though.
Paleo maximalists currently on suicide watch as their foundations are being shaken. Flatbread may have crossed the lips of prehistoric man and not just meat and berries.
I meant translate the actual Go code to Swift code so it's pure Swift, but the effort to implement the algorithm right is removed. But yes, to support Go's features you will need at least a GC. Once Rust gets async/await down and people run with it, a static lib in Rust w/ an exported C interface might instead be the norm. But in the meantime, it's annoying that the options are to either reuse a complicated/unsafe C/C++ impl or re-impl in each language individually. Go has a terrible C export story with lots of limitations and impedance mismatches so that's not a great approach imo (granted it's what gomobile does iirc).
Audio books help a lot. It makes reading a more passive activity that you can do while doing other things that are less taxing on the mind. If you have a long commute and you can knock off quite a few books just going back and forth to work. My commute is around 30 minutes, which means I can listen to at least 5 hours of audio each week. I also tend to listen to audio books while doing chores -- tending the yard, cleaning the garage, cleaning the house, buying groceries, etc.

Most nonfiction books tend to be around 8-9 hours so you can usually finish one book a week, maybe 2 or 3 if you listen at 1.5x. If it's scientifically backed with a lot of studies and arguments, then it's closer to 15-18 hours. Novels are all over the place, from a short 4 hours to epic 50 hours books. But since it's all passive, it becomes less about finishing because it's easy reading. You'll finish it eventually.

Audio books are also great in the sense that they save my eyes for things that I can't listen to passively, like technical or mathematical books.
No load testing ever?
ARE YOU a HOMEBORN SLAVE
Yeah but the thing YC discourages even more than that is solo founders.
I have known this for years. This is why the earliest I've ever been up is 10am.
Is that true though?

I mean, there's the obvious point that if you're coming from the in-power group, its very hard to be "meaningfully stigmatised" by the out-power group no matter what. You will be identified, but if the other group has little power, no one from the in-power group really cares. And for better or worse in the majority of contexts, native english speakers are coming from in-power groups, and the context of them meeting with people with english as a second language is going to be usually in the context of dealing with low power groups and stereotypes.

I, of course, recognise that happens, and that it will be a common occurence in east/west coast america.

But take the "baka gaijin" phenomenon as a contrasting stereotype for example. I don't accept that english speakers learning a second language, outside of the context where the english speaker is just authoritatively in the positive-power relationship, suffers no social stigma or consequences when trying to learn a second language.

See also connotations around gringo, bule, laowai, gweilo, etc.

Given that WITHIN english and context there are disparate and conflicting connotations of having various accents, and that we (and others) can discern various ethnic and regional cross-language influences, i think its either a very localised-specific phenomenon (i.e. with the caveat as long as you're power dominant white english speaking person in the coastal US cities) or something that can't just generally be held to be true.
Any civilization that has mastered interstellar travel will almost certainly also have mastered atomic transmutation as well. So as long as all the interesting stuff is made of atoms, and the atoms over there are the same as the ones over here (which AFAWCT they are), there are only two possible "goods" that could be worth transporting between star systems: information, and free (in the physical, not the economic sense) energy. You don't need a space ship to transfer either of those, you just convert them into photons and let Maxwell do the work. The idea that it might be worthwhile to actually ship something (including ourselves) to another star system is based on very quaint notions of identity binding and what it takes to produce things.
Roborace's first ever driverless hillclimb [video]
> Then I contrast that with the pie-eyed faith of the “Musk is saving the world for us,” fanboys and it makes me tired.

There are things that the fanboys understand that critics don't. It will make more sense to everyone once people understand that the Model 3 is the iPhone of cars and the Gigafactory and other investments start paying for themselves.

As far as the pro-Tesla and anti-Tesla arguments, I find the two sides talk past each other because the time frames being discussed are very different. Case in point, it's not that Tesla investors are covering their ears and saying "lalalala" about Tesla's missed deadlines. It's that they don't care. Based on the Model X delays, I didn't expect the Model 3 to even enter production until the end of this year. Besides the financial risk factor, I couldn't care less about the company missing its deadlines by a year. It simply does not matter. Repeat for many other topics.
Some things you didn't mention are domain resolution latency and caching, browser request parallelization, delivery protocol selection and reducing the raw number of content requests. Basically you are entering CDN territory here.
You’re not going to do it once the site’s up if you get the same price?

Presumably the price sensitive customer doesn’t just go elsewhere, right?
This isn't exactly surprising, in that CRISPR is a bacterial anti-bacteriophage defense system.
Playing London Calling, on repeat. Turning the volume up to 9, not 11.
Have worked on one such project, can confirm that these exist.
> There are many popular trends that I believe are not suitable for every situation

Almost nothing is suitable for every situation. Anyone who is pushing something as The One Right Way(TM) is almost certainly wrong. Worse, they are usually either a true believer (zealous but without knowledge of the limitations), or are selling something.

I don't know how to (successfully) challenge stuff like this without some grownups in the room. If you have some genuine technical people who have been around for 20 years, they'll look at cloud computing as just another technology (with pluses and minuses), rather than as this magic new thing that changes everything. If you have such people, you can have a rational discussion with them. Hopefully they're the ones in charge; if not, you can form a vocal group with them to get your concerns heard.

If you don't have some grownups... you're going to have to expose the flaws yourself, in a way that others will believe. My best suggestion is find others who adopted such approaches in the past, and recommend that the relevant decision-makers talk to them before jumping in with both feet.
> You are arguing against perhaps the most dominant notion of config best practices in the modern era

I don’t know that it’s “dominant”, nor that it’s good merely because it’s “from the modern era”. But even if all that is true, 12 factor apps constitute a small subset of configurable software that is deployed worldwide, and hardly a silver bullet for all kinds of software (it even defines itself as a methodology specific to SaaS applications).
Also, will they ever encrypt files on the client side?

(Hey, it's been only nine or ten years evading that question ...)
I don't mean to be too negative here, but this is hardly a new development, so can someone clarify the novelty in this paper? Neural nets have been extensively demonstrated in memristor-based architectures [1] and several memristor-based training architectures have previously been proposed and tested [2]. The abstract's claim that "no model for such a network has been proposed so far" is prima facie blatantly false.

In any case, I have yet to see a conclusive, publicly explained solution to the significant system-level problems with memristor-based neural architectures, or indeed any analog neural architecture. The best claimed digital architectures are around ~250 fJ per multiply-and-accumulate (MAC) [Groq], and these generally involve 8-bit multiplication, which is extremely expensive in the analog domain thanks to the exponential scaling of power with precision levels. Even if you set aside the monstrous fabrication and device-level variance issues with memristors, DAC and ADC consume tens of pJ per sample in the realistic IP blocks that are commercially available. Although only one pair of DAC and ADC operations is required per dot product, this is still 40 fJ per MAC from DAC and ADC alone, assuming a 256x256 matrix multiplication and not taking other system-level issues into account. This limits memristors to a 5x over current digital architectures, and as nodes shrink, by the time memristors come out, this will be around a 3x. While a 3x is considerable, I don't think it justifies the moonshot-level deep tech risk that memristors will continue to represent. Many hardware companies [Tabula...] have failed attempting to reach something like a 3x in the main figure-of-merit, only to find that system-level issues get them a 1x instead. Besides, I'm sure digital architectures have more than 3x room for improvement- plenty of tricks left for digital!

I'm hoping for a breakthrough, because I am fundamentally an optimist, but memristors have been failing to deliver since 2008.

[1] http://www.cs.utah.edu/~rajeev/pubs/isca16-old.pdf
[2] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7010034/
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DbslbKsQSk

Price info: https://wccftech.com/microsoft-surface-hub-2-22000/

There is a better article I read about the pricing when it was first announced, but that's the few top results that goes over it.
The Jim Keller Interview
Counterpoint, there are some times where the older model is actually preferred, either due to being just as good and cheaper, or rarely better than the new model. I don't know how their choice algorithm comes up with those labels, but a cheaper older model isn't always a bad deal.

Unless the $150 base price is what it normally sells at, and the $50 discount was truly a one time deal... In which case idk what is going on there lol.
You miss the real problem: The cow is a placeholder for whichever category of persons the listener most fears.
If Tesla makes more components in-house than other automakers, that could shift costs from parts to labor without affecting overall costs. So I don't think having more employees or hours per car is evidence they're dysfunctional on the face of it.
There are things that the fanboys understand that critics don't. It will make more sense to everyone once people understand that the Model 3 is the iPhone of cars and the Gigafactory and other investments start paying for themselves.

If. IF. It could be the iPhone 1, or it could be a distant memory, or it could just be another car. It’s the certainty and sense of destiny that makes the fanboys so impossible to deal with, like cryptocurrency fanatics who can only talk about “fiat is dead,” lines. Putting aside the extreme positions, Tesla shows no signs beyond aspirations of being more than a car company. They don’t seem like they’re about to keel over, or conquer the world, they’re just making cars.
I share the opinions you've expressed. For the cloud, I say "it's expensive" (10x more than a bardebone server).

I don't try to be people-pleasing. I tell my truth. I'm never aggressive but people often understand something that is not is my words (something they believe).

I believe it's also a good strategy to create meaningful relationships. If you show the others who your are everytime, they can count on what they know about you. You become more trustful for them.

I wanna improve OSS. I wanna change the current meaning (keep the freedom for the users but add money for the programers). If I'm successful, the content of the Wikipedia page about FOSS should changed.

Feel free to reach me to talk about that.
Good luck generating Prime Day load artificially.
I once used a variety of services, but now use Dropbox (free version) exclusively. It does what I need and I prefer their privacy based model (in comparison to other set-it-and-forget-it solutions).
I'm in my late 30s, and my girlfriend and I are currently streaming more Twitch than Netflix. There's a use case where sometimes you want something on in the background while you're doing other things. Usually we'd stream Netflix shows we've watched already, but after doing that the 10th time for a show, it gets stale.

When you find a streamer you like, it can be very relaxing. It's also introduced us to games we wouldn't play otherwise. My girlfriend hates anything scary, but we found a great stream of Last Of Us that made it really fun. I've also discovered new games to play through it.

So much depends on the streamer, though. If you don't get it, you probably haven't found the right one for you.
I can relate. I've lived in many areas of the US, and picked up bits and pieces of accents from here and there. I'll even pronounce the same word differently at times without even realizing it, the most notable word being creek, pronounced either "creek" or "crik". I'm liable to pronounce it both ways in the same sentence!
camelegg was shut down by newegg, not by amazon.
I actually found myself doing somewhat similar when playing digital card games like Magic: The Gathering online and Shadowverse: I would "think out loud" and talk through the lines I was considering them ("Hmm, if I attack like this, then he probably double blocks me, so I don't want to do that...") and also audibly reacting to things that were happening in the game ("...oh, I totally didn't expect that. I got greedy, and my opponent was in a position to punish me. I should have been playing more conservatively.") Whenever I do this, it really forces me to stop playing on "auto-pilot" and actually think about the lines I'm taking, and also better internalize the lessons I'm learning through experience.

The difference is that I don't actually stream myself as I'm doing this: I talk the same way a streamer would talk, but the walls of my home office are the only audience. I actually kind of "learned" this approach from watching Magic: The Gathering Youtubers and streamers, who do the "thinking out loud" approach as a way of teaching strategy, but one of the lessons I picked up is that in the process of thinking out loud, these players sometimes seem to talk themselves out of making inadvisable plays, so I decided to try it for myself, minus the audience, and found that it often caused me to play better and learn better. (Of course, this "skill" doesn't really translate over quite as well to tournament Magic when you're sitting across a table from your opponent, but playing better in online practice often translates into playing better in a tournament setting.)

Third-hand story: friend of friend has a nephew who spends a lot of time playing Minecraft (grade school age), and as he explores the world, he narrates everything he does in a calm British accent. It's kind of surreal that this genre of Youtube videos (Mincraft Let's Plays by Englishmen speaking with a David Attenborough-like cadence) has taught a generation of kids that this is how people play Minecraft. It reminds me a bit of kids I've seen in youth sports leagues who sometimes make a big show of stomping off in a huff or yelling a soft expletive like "Darn!" when something doesn't go their way, not because they're actually frustrated or invested in the outcome of the game, but because they're mimicking the kind of behavior they've seen from professional athletes on TV. (That's not to say that there aren't kids who get genuinely frustrated during these games, but the more time I spend observing kids in "organized recreation," the more I come to realize just how much of their behavior is performative.)
That's a very good answer and the example is quite valid. I think the trend of microservice-everything is going out of hand in many teams. Yeah, many smart people set it, but what if most of those smart people were working in companies that a magnitude bigger than yours?

Moreover, sometimes challenging the trend is so costly that you are better off going with the "wrong" solution than fighting it. In general it's a tricky one, and I'm sure there isn't a single correct answer to it.
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People say the same thing about every big tech company - Google and Facebook included. Trust me, employers will still be impressed with Amazon on your resume.
F-150s are fully aluminum and they do pretty well turning those around.
"Here's the thing. SV Tech companies aren't too great at the whole "at scale" manufacturing thing."

There was a time when Apple was notorious for problems with manufacturing shortages, but somewhere along the line of becoming a juggernaut they seem to have figured it out.
obama took it
Always scared about fermenting things like this. How do I know it has the right culture in it and I won't die?
We roll data off the site after 30 days, so you are only looking at recent history, and also not every report goes live on the site. I think the largest we had reported in this period are maybe a couple of cases citing between 20 and 40 people sick.

Thanks for the sentiment re Dinesafe. Iwaspoisoned.com is not for everyone, but it does fare well on search and being memorable.
"pick your battles" that's the best advice here so far!
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See https://github.com/alphagov/govuk_frontend_toolkit/blob/cf1c... and https://github.com/alphagov/govuk_frontend_toolkit/blob/cf1c...
The floppy method failed me because I had bought 50 unbranded floppies at what I thought was a bargain price. But it turned out they weren't reliable at high density.

Switching to a different brand meant my only remaining problems were:

- the time it took to install by switching out all those floppies

- having to wait overnight for a kernel recompile whenever I added new hardware (not that often, but the memory is strong because those were the exact times I didn't want to have to wait)

- not really knowing why I wanted to use Linux, apart from thinking it would be cool to have a web server running in my room (this was back in 1994)
I was thinking of, e.g., Somalia. There wasn't a monopoly on violence, but there was still violence, and lots of it. There were competing warlords, not a nice smoothly-running anarchist market. It's... not a pleasant environment. It's closer to hell than to paradise.

The government monopoly on violence has problems (much worse when the government goes off the rails), but in the absence of that monopoly, anyone who wants to do violence can. As that strategy turns out to work against those who would prefer not to do violence, more people turn to violence either for gain or for defense against the violence of others.
Marty: Doc, you don't just walk into a store and ask for plutonium. Did you rip this off?

Doc: Of course, from a group of Libyan Nationalists. They wanted me to build them a bomb, so I took their plutonium and in turn gave them a shiny bomb case full of
used pinball machine parts.
> People want to see themselves in whatever you produce for them. It's that simple.

Funny thing is comrade Tocqueville hit on that upon looking at the USA for a couple of months almost two centuries ago.

Something along the lines of "democratic peoples want to hear stories about themselves" (instead of the classics), rather early on the pages of his Democracy in America, writing about theater and culture.
From my experience, I didn't realise I tapped a 'fake' esc key when using vi, it's in the same position so you naturally tap it easily. I think the only downside is you realise a moment later that what you pressed wasn't exactly right.
I wonder how much of the desire for kids to stream has to do with the potential scale. The bar to entry is low, but if you take off, then you're making six figures a month. Once upon a time, mobile apps had that kind of reputation. Before that, it was blogs. Before that, websites.

There always seems to be a gold rush whenever a market becomes democratized. The gold rush seems to end once organic acquisition is no longer viable. I'm curious if that follows some static cost-per-user marketing dollar amount across all of these trends.
I have Century Link in Seattle. IPv6 is laggy as hell even though internet speed tests report >400Mbps. They also mysteriously doubled my service fee 10 months in. Comcast had better latency and less "billing-anomalies"
I don't view myself as a "negative person", although I've been repeatedly diagnosed as such by "positive people" for pointing out truths that they would have preferred to ignore indefinitely. At the end-of-the-day, these "positive people" make up the bulk of humanity and the universe is constantly ridding itself of them through the natural consequences of their actions.
Freak Coding – A Sarcastic Fighting Game (WIP Devlog)
There were all sorts of problems with Target's expansion into Canada, I'm not sure you could blame them specifically on SAP:

https://www.canadianbusiness.com/the-last-days-of-target-can...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10956638

The data entered into SAP was riddled with errors, it sounds like a great example of "garbage-in, garbage-out".
> Stop focusing on stuff you disagree with. Tell us why. For example, devops may be BS, but if so, why, and what is the alternative? There are answers.

Also, consider the possibility that you are wrong about the fad being stupid precisely because you've already accepted the fundamental premise behind the koolaid.

The original instantiation of devops is actually the "fad" that made me realize this particular truth. I had only ever worked in situations where all the infra people sling scripting languages along with the best of 'em and the software developers are as comfortable with iptables and apt and load balancers as they are with their editor/ide/compiler of choice.

So to me, devops sounded like a lot of ridiculous hot air -- it's just a new name for how things have always been; how can all these promises about productivity improvement make any sense to anyone?! And besides, the stuff that wasn't obvious was often ridiculous cargo culty stuff.

What I didn't know was the sheer number of shops where the IT people didn't have any programming skills and the programmers had never become competent with CLIs! In many shops, IT folks knew some recipes in the Windows Server GUIs and the devs knew how to use one IDE. When I first encountered a shop like that, I suddenly realized devops isn't hot air, even if for me the core tenets are just a description of how you should obviously do thins and how they've always been done...