skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think moore's law has spoiled a generation on what technology can do. It is extremely ridiculous that lithography has gotten so much better in the last few decades, and IMO it has resulted in a lot of people thinking that exponentials are a) common, and b) automatic. Neither of these are true.

There are few, if any, other exponentials in the history of humanity that worked as consistently for as long with as massive of impacts on technology, and TBH I'm doubtful that we will see anything like it again.

Moore's law worked because loads of engineers and scientists made it their life's work, but everyone watching seems to think it just happened.

There was one magical exponential that changed the world, and it's coming to an end.

There's certainly a lot that can be done in architecture and software, but most applications probably aren't worth the effort.
I think more importantly, ISPs made a (in my opinion, bullshit) free market argument that resonated with conservatives. At the same time, FANG made themselves an enemy of conservatives. Conservatives are now in power.
The developers of Telegram want to launch a super secret internet
Nice work man will set it up on my MBP19 the unofficial metrics seems really promising. any idea to change the license to MIT ?
I really love this blogpost which discusses these two personalities, in the context of "corrections from strangers on Twitter".
Some see corrections as "sharing information"; others see making corrections as asserting status/dominance which disrupts social harmony.
https://status451.com/2016/01/06/splain-it-to-me/
Is this based on insider knowledge of some kind?
The downside to these rulings is that it has the potential to cause unemployment for these gig workers. As the saying goes, the least exploited people by employers are the unemployed.

It is like in American Samoa when the federal minimum wage was passed. It crushed their economy (dominated by tuna canning) since the tuna canning mills couldn't afford to pay top dollar for the raw tuna from the fishermen. The fishermen ended up going to Vietnam and southeast asia where their catch could be sold for more. The Vietnam mills were able to pay more because of the lower labor costs. The end result was that the unemployment rate in American Samoa skyrocketed to over 40% and even to this day it is still at around 20%-30%.
He seems to be using small clinical differences over the population as a proxy to insinuate that the effects on the individual are small as well.

They aren't. The average might be small, but the range is wide.
What we can learn about power from chess
Jacdac: A single wire plug and play protocol for microcontrollers
I'm surprised more people didn't complain about the Galaxy S5 charging port, which not only had one of those monstrosities, meaning you have to plug in a standard micro-usb connector into only one specific half (less even) of the whole plug, but it had a door on it that you had to open first.
Doesn't work in Safari. Doesn't work in Firefox. Doesn't work in Chrome.

The last update to the GitHub repo was over a year ago. Yay dead projects on the front page.
Vultr is underrated too. I've had nothing but positive tech support experiences with them. Their weird branding turns people off but they do not seem fly by night. We have used them for various things for years with very few problems.
Sure, but glibc being bloated doesn't explain why they didn't take working, tested code from glibc and cobble together a stripped-down version instead of starting entirely from scratch. You can absolutely fork a version of glibc that pulls out things like dynamic NSS backends, sunrpc, nscd, etc. even if it won't be accepted upstream, and it'll get you a working libc way faster than writing your own cleanroom libc. (With the important bonus of working with existing software that expects glibc and not just a pure POSIX libc, of which there's quite a bit!)

Also, Android isn't "embedded" in the sense you're thinking of: the first Android phone had a 528 MHz ARM processor with DSP coprocessor, 256 MB boot disk + storage on microSD, and 192 MB RAM, which was quite a bit more powerful than e.g. the computer I had in 1995 (75 MHz Pentium, 16 MB RAM, 1 GB disk) that ran Red Hat Linux 6 just fine and definitely far more powerful than the machines glibc was originally developed on. So glibc was certainly not too big for Android. And plenty of "embedded systems" along the lines of Android did / do in fact use glibc, from OpenEmbedded to Emdebian to Maemo.

Heck, there was even a project called "embedded glibc" (EGLIBC), which is now the official glibc.
The case for having kids – Wajahat Ali
Pong – Project on Nuclear Gaming
I think you'd be shocked to consider the possibility that porn fosters a seething tendency for unthinkable violence in quite a number of individuals.
The article glosses over what the decision really says.[1] This strict test applies only to "wage orders", which means minimum wage and overtime laws. Anybody who bills at $40 an hour does not hit this problem. It reaches mostly the subminimum wage "gig economy". Uber, Lyft, delivery drivers, and other exploited "freelancers".

[1] https://www.laboremploymentlawblog.com/2018/10/articles/inde...
FWIW: Before the preceding comment apologizes and distracts from the real issue, the WH involving itself in the issue is very different from the prosecutor meetings described by the previous comment.
Ten years ago, I had a pretty reasonable $10/mo account, that I eventually moved to a $20/mo account because I needed more resources to keep up with traffic.

I'd expect that, as more transistors have been packed blah blah blah, that such a $10/mo account would have gotten better, not worse, since then.
Companies had come to the conclusion that they could just save lots of money by using contractors or freelancers as cheap long term employees since they didn't have to pay benefits. It was obviously wrong, but everyone was doing it, and no one was stopping them, so it became normalized as a business practice.

There are some companies like Uber that have their entire business model based on misclassification.

The issue of people blacklisting California freelancers though now becomes a real problem for some people.

Maybe other states will make similar laws.
Not sure how correct this is, but I think of silicon as basically a small metallic rock.
The one in Tacoma, near the Boeing Field? That isn't SR-71, it is the M-21/D-21 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_D-21
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Is it mischaracterizing anything though? The nature of life is to eat other life. The nature of corporations is to propagate atany cost. The nature of employees is to accept what's given, but the nature of humans is to take what's possible to take. There is a lot of grey between accepting everything and starting a business, e.g. anyone that's "high level". It's human to accept what's "realistic", e.g. a "fair" wage, and it's also human to take all that one can take.

Presumably you started your companies because you were sick of someone else's perceived bullshit, and you probably had a bunch of structural help in order to become an employer.
For all we know space is finite and there is a countable number of stars in the sky.
What if Alphabet is forced to spin off YouTube in to a seperate entity?
There must be a difference between stealing the formula to gun powder vs. downloading the software and engineering for a F-35 plane.
Not least England, which is literally full of actual native English speakers, and 8 hours ahead of the west coast of the USA.
https://outline.com/rN4XYB
The ability to be "agile" with writing is pretty important to some. I sometimes find I'll edit and revise (and tweak) a gamedev stack post many, many times over just little things.
I'm sorry, but I would call that false hope.
Show HN: A Super Straight-Forward Pomodoro App – With a 5 Minute Ramp Up Time
A straight-forward focus app that's helped me tremendously. 30 minutes only. I added a 5 minute ramp up period to overcome the initial dread of starting work (mood follows action: https://medium.com/personal-growth/mood-follows-action-3d3f6...)
They can very easily manage AD types, keep the stuff that drains batteries, barks at people, the worst in check.

That would be a nice balance of net happiness and making money.
That’s what you should have said then, instead of they changed something which resulted in this.
Do you really think putting the word 'social' in italics is sufficient to argue that Facebook can hand my private data over to third parties without my knowledge?

If you've read the article, the context here is the cambridge analytica scandal, not someone posting on their public timeline.
U.S. DoD bought phony military gear made in China
The job of a libc involves a lot more than just tracking the kernel APIs: it's got a malloc implementation, string handling, userspace buffered I/O and formatting, locales (quite a bit more important on a phone targeted at consumers around the world than on servers whose sysadmins generally prefer messages in English to their native tongue anyway), user and group names and not just numeric IDs, DNS resolution, thread handling, math functions, etc. All of that is quite independent of your kernel and hewing closer to Linux doesn't help you with any of it - except maybe the thread stuff, and for that glibc is the standard pthread implementation for Linux so you're probably better off using it anyway since that's what the kernel developers expect. (In other words, libc is the C standard library, not the kernel's client library for its APIs.)

Bloat in terms of amount of code is a confusing argument: you map libraries from disk, so you only use memory for the pages of code that have actually been read from disk and you only use one copy regardless of how many programs are running. You could add a function to glibc to print War and Peace to the screen and the only thing it would do is add a few megabytes of disk usage if nobody called it. Even on Android, disk is cheap.

EGLIBC stands for Embedded GLIBC. That's a pretty good sign IMO that it was intended for embedded use.

The BSDs don't use glibc because of licensing concerns, not because they dislike glibc's bloat. (Their own libcs implement just as much, because programs use those features.) My claim upthread was that Android avoided glibc for licensing concerns, not for technical unsuitability; giving the BSDs as an example seems to agree with that argument.
"After a few weeks it’s no longer in theaters. You can’t buy it. You can’t rent it. The only way to watch is to subscribe to Disney’s steaming service, Disney+. "
WRONG.
Any movie or TV show is on bittorrent for free. It's simply not the case that the only way to watch it in that situation is thru subscribing to a streaming service.
Isn’t that a case of the tail wagging the dog? If Python code were 10x faster, the need to write performance sensitive code in a native extension would be a lot lower. There is a cognitive cost in having to switch between languages and knowing when to switch.
Alternatives to the WayBack Machine
Given that people are fired on a pretty regular basis for social media posts, I'd tend to agree.
Almost like an orbital version of https://www.sealandgov.org
"Poorly educated populace" is a statement of fact, not a racial insinuation, as is seemingly being implied. South Africa has an awful education system, coming off a low base under apartheid. Its populace faces the problems of poor literacy (and associated critical thinking skills), as well as the general issues that the rest of the world faces with social media. Until cellphone network MTN killed its free data for Twitter offering, it was a hotbed of manipulation for precisely that reason.

The difference between social media disinformation empowering white supremacists in the west, and misinformation in third world countries, is the risk of mob violence in the third world.
I probably should have left the word "overseas" out of my initial comment, it gave it a flavor that doesn't match my left-wing multicultural globalist ideals.

That said, I disagree wholeheartedly that it's okay for support staff to not be completely fluent in the language they're providing support in, regardless of the language.

There is functionally no difference between trying to interact with talented support staff who aren't fluent in your language, and trying to interact with illiterate support staff. The end results are identical.

There are people who are very talented and very fluent in more than one language. Those people tend to be more expensive. So, many companies forego hiring those workers and instead hire others who are cheaper and "about as good". My multiple experiences with DO support have suggested that that's what they're doing.

As other commenters are suggesting, it may just be instead that DO is expecting its support staff to meet metrics that are causing them to spend only a minute or two per ticket and send out scripted replies.
Are you aware that Viasat has blacklisted a huge amount of Digitalocean /24 subnets? I can't access many of my servers when I'm on a satellite connection in addition to other websites hosted on Digitalocean. I've talked with the Viasat NOC and they told me they were blocking Digitalocean subnets due malware.
I have never understood why people put the TL;DR (I assume civ equivalent to BLUF) at the end. I don't want it at the end, I want it at the beginning!
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Are humans inconsistent?

Are different vocal minorities loudest at different times?

I’m not convinced people is a coherent group.

Does the fact that some people were mocking X at some point in the past negate the validity of antitrust cases against X for ever?
Ya ya, and sometimes a small typo just slips through.
It is, like most other major media websites. It's a small downweight, and there are several ways it can get overriden.
I would be very surprised if you were getting arc damage with five volts at two amps. More plausible would be some electrochemical/galvanic corrosion effect.
This argument doesn't make any sense, because someone who somehow manages to find 'must' ambiguous would also find 'absolute requirement' ambiguous. The RFC doesn't solve the problem, if there is a problem in the first place.

If 'absolute requirement' is clear enough as plain English in a normal sentence, without having to capitalise it, then why isn't 'must' clear enough?
Show HN: React Hook for DOM Event Listeners with TypeScript Supported
Bookmarking this for next time there's a HN comment "why is Netflix using AWS, they should just get some cheap VPS's from DO"

The rise of the public cloud is pretty fortunate for companies like DO, they can make the same assumptions that legacy VPS companies did (most vm's sit idle so oversell them massively, most customers will create a single vm and nothing else) while branding themselves as having the same strong infrastructure as AWS.
No idea, although it might defeat the purpose a bit (which doesn't mean nobody would do it)
Maybe it’s a west coast thing. I lived in a fiscally challenged city (worst in the state I think), where the someone tried to repossess a fire engine for nonpayment of repairs. Code enforcement is a profit center.

They still managed to give my neighbor a $150 ticket for parking his commercial vehicle (Verizon Ford Taurus) in his driveway.
You don’t have to charge for your service to be within the scope of the Sherman Act.

> The Sherman Act broadly prohibits (1) anticompetitive agreements and (2) unilateral conduct that monopolizes or attempts to monopolize the relevant market.

You don’t have to get very abstract at all to see how Google may violating it. Microsoft lost their antitrust case in regards to how they distributed Internet Explorer, another free product.
How can you be so sure about the outcome of a jury trial when the investigation hasn't even reached the point of a specific allegation, let alone one that Google wants to defend at trial?
For AWS it doesn't make a lot of sense to protect against AWS itself losing data since you're paying them a premium for that. Backups in this model would be logically separated so a user/programmer error can't wipe out the only copy of your production dataset.
Buying a competition is not anticompetitive. So why congratulate any acquisition on HN?
Looking at the author's bio, I'm not sure how he is any more qualified to make a statement on this than any other random person on the street.

> Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory of this birth, but he does remember noticing himself in the mirror for this first time—it happened on May 3, 1972. Mudede is also a filmmaker: Two of his films, Police Beat and Zoo, premiered at Sundance, and Zoo was screened at Cannes. Mudede has written for the New York Times, Cinema Scope, Ars Electronica, C Theory, and academic journals. He also wrote the liner notes for Best of Del Tha Funkee Homosapien: Elektra Years. Mudede has lived in Seattle since 1989.
And don't forget the related metric: "number needed to harm". Physicians practicing good, Evidence-Based Medicine also weigh how many patients are likely to be impacted by harmful side effects.

In an example from The NNT about PSA Screening for Prostate Cancer: http://www.thennt.com/nnt/psa-test-to-screen-for-prostate-ca...

No benefits were identified to PSA screening, while 1 in 5 will go on to have an unnecessary prostate biopsy (which can itself lead to complications, false-positive diagnosis, and further treatment with associated complications, and so on).

(I feel obliged to mention that I'm not a doctor, btw, just sort of a casual fan of medical science and stats.)
It stands for "too long; didn't read." The operative word here is "didn't".

"If you started out trying to read this, but then realized it was too long and just skipped to the end, here is what you missed."
Even in cancer precision medicine is pretty crap. It works, but only sometimes. Most of the time even a correctly targeted drug results in a resistant tumor.
You're right about the title, but when a substantive post like this one has a whimsical title, we prefer to leave it intact. By whimsical I mean indirect and playful and not using any obvious internet tricks. Leaving it is respectful to the author, and I think it's good for the HN front page not to reveal itself completely without a bit of effort.
As an Indian engineer, Hasura is one the few indian startups that i really am proud of. They are innovative, distinct, product focused and super young. The only other company which made me feel like this was Notion Ink, but those guys seem to have faded away.

I wish Hasura the best and would be cheering for them from the sidelines
You only think healthcare is overrated until you need it and find out there is no free market there and you owe 5 or 6 figures for something you thought was routine.

There’s a reason that medical bills are the #1 cause of bankruptcies in the US.
What rulings can you point to to support this legal theory? The Sharman Act relates to monopolising any market, it doesn’t make any distinction between markets that are monetised in different ways.
This is infuriating, and was one thing that motivated me to quit Gmail. I'm much happier now – traditional mail clients like iOS's Mail app work much better with a mail host that implements IMAP properly.
Pushing a 28-core CPU to its limits: 6GHz and beyond
Please don't post unsubstantive comments here, and especially not flamebait, which this is.

Instead, when there's a good article, post a substantive comment if you have one, or simply don't post.
If you're interested in this, Lisp In Small Pieces is also a good resource.
There's no shaping involved; I'm not talking about the implementation details of the rendering algorithm. There is a D, followed by a Ž. This only seems confusing because Unicode (and - to be fair - other, earlier character encodings) willfully misinterprets the term "character" for self-serving purposes.
Lambda containers serve 1 request at a time, so the number of JVM's tends to scale out a lot quicker than you would expect. This is more of a broader problem with Java on lambda, as the classic Java way of creating a bunch of singletons on startup and accessing them from multiple threads doesn't work, you just get a really slow cold start time and some near empty connection pools.
That’d be true if we had a functioning free market. It’s one of the things that Obamacare tried to do with the state exchanges, with varying success.
Have you seen the military spending?
You practically did, just now. My interpretation is that you recognize that this is in fact Trump making Mexico pay for the wall, but it pains you to admit that.
Given that this amazingly nameless "white house advisor"and title is clear spin for their narrative in the same way the "top competition counsel" thing is (and proven wrong by totally trivial fact checking), do you have evidence or anything to back up that this was not a standard meeting?
Perhaps you forgot about AWS? More than 70% of the world's internet data goes through just one of their data centers: https://www.nextgov.com/analytics-data/2016/01/70-percent-gl...
Microservices Architecture
A further point to this- I don't believe our science is advanced enough to define better even in a perfect world where subjective considerations are somehow discarded.

I'm thinking of stuff like people prone to sickle cell anemia having increased malarial resistance.

I believe even an otherworldly morally correct implementation of eugenics would not account for unknown quirks like this and be counter productive in the long term.
Could you please not post political battle comments to HN? We ban accounts that do that. We've also had to ask you this before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Why can't you bear it? Being wrong is not that bad.
I was involved in discussions and part of the decision loop. Then a very big and leading mobile phone maker asked for it, even designed most part with a leading connector maker. USB IF eventually bite the bullet and accepted. Probably 2B+ of these connectors are shipped to date.

Frank's answer, given in 2011, seemed most interesting to me. Scroll a little further and he names Nokia as the driving force.
Would you like to say more? I have a feeling that we should introduce that to HN.
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My understanding is this is actually what’s exacerbating the “two-class” system at big tech cos like Google where something like half of all workers are contractors. Like it was bad before, but from what I hear it’s even worse now because companies want to make you look as little like an FTE as possible.
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I’d swap places with my kids so they could enjoy pre climate change and I’d live in that future, assuming we don’t solve the problem.
Or UC Berkeley's math department, which doesn't require submitting anything for publication at all.
Please don't break the site guidelines by being snarky or doing personal attacks.

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The most likely problem is surviving a fall. Water damage is the least of your worries.
I think it says a lot that this CTO joker flew in, regurgitated the standard-issue "we will endeavor to do better" apology and left without answering any of the very legitimate follow-up questions. I would never deal with an organisation that behaves like these guys.