skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So basically it is better to have a terrible tax situation, because you’re hoping to hang on to a job where you aren’t wanted?

I’m sorry to hear it, that’s a really sad situation.
Compare them to the general population.
This is super exciting! Brings a bit of competition to NVIDIA for ML-related tasks, while being more "open" (to some extent) than the TPU ASICs (because you won't have single-cloud lock-in). In any case, good to see Intel finally waking up.
That would involve starting from scratch learning a new language and framework, and projects could no longer graduate to be web apps, or benefit from the much larger Javascript/web ecosystem.
The only problem is that such increases in speed are really only needed either for gamers or a small subset of people who work with graphics/engineering/video.
My favorite part -- "Peeing or pooping in space is now a lengthy process, involving a fan, a targeting system, and a fair amount of prayer."
> white "limousine liberal" regressive elitists disguised as crystal worshipping Leonard Cohen fans

That breaks the site guidelines against name-calling and ideological battle. We've asked you many times to stop using HN this way. If you can't or won't stop, we're going to have to ban you. Would you please be a good citizen here and control your impulses?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Or hopelessness looks for hope through the lottery. As opposed to the hopelessness being caused by the lottery.
Indeed, but the US has 51% more cars per person than the Netherlands and 66% more than Denmark[1].

[1] https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Transport/Ro...
Not really. Induced demand applies to housing.
Debt literally is the problem. Specifically the creation of the money supply only by a select group of corporate banks. The practice of fractional reserve banking means they literally create money out of thin air as debt when they "give" out loans. This means that there will always be significantly more debt and money owed than money in circulation. And literally all of the value of the newly created money goes to the corporate banks.

The problems in our society stem from this universal basic income for corporate bank persons.
The computer a graphic designer users has nothing to do with the end product. The vehicle you ride in has a huge impact on the experience. Sure, Uber could designate certain dimensions of car, certain features, fit and finish, whatever, but it's easier to have a whitelist and probably a lot more reliable.
It makes more sense when you put it like that. The average mortgage holder has a 2019 salary but probably only a 2010 mortgage. (Or whatever bygone year is correct.)
Programming as a medium for poorly understood, sloppily-formulated ideas (1967) [pdf]
My Computing Setup
I'm not saying it's a good thing; it's a clear downgrade. I'm just saying, civilization functioned.
Funny that, and it's just as expensive, as well.

You'd think the costs would trickle down to the consumer.
The Grothendieck I Knew: Telling, Not Hiding, Not Judging [pdf]
Does anyone know of any FPGA implementation?
Yes, I should've mentioned them rather than sweeping it all under loanwords.
Thank you for posting this. I grew up in the area and I'd never heard about this.
We have this in Fiji, plus a new one that started this year called Family Care Leave. Family Care Leave is 5 days/yr you can take off to care for a family member.

There's still some uncertainty about how it can be used... some employers don't require a sick sheet (of your family member), so you could use it to support a child on a day they're playing a rugby match, or when you can't get a babysitter. Other employers require you to present your family members' sick sheet.
The Problem of Schooling
I thought bringing back the death penalty was a stronger correlate than university education? (Also I wonder if David is related to Steven Runciman)
If I were in charge of Intel,I'd have bought AMD when they were struggling...
Calling someone disingenuous isn't "highly civil, PC, and blunted. It's a fancy way of calling them a liar, and already crosses into personal attack. Presumably that's why DiogenesKynikos responded the way they did, and I wouldn't say it was an overreaction—they asked a question neutrally.
Alaska oil sets new record
Disable swap (pagefile) when you have that much ram, or even when you only have 8 or more. You lose hibernate but that's fine by me. Modern cpu and ssd cold boots pretty fast, especially if you have debloated things similar to this script.

Many of the things that are pitched as beneficial, like indexing everything and caching the indexes and keeping all kinds of services alive to "quick start" other things in case you happen to want them, hibernation or sleeping instead of cold boot, etc, these are all cases of adding more crap to counter the harm from previously adding other crap.

Instead of adding foofeature you don't really need, and then adding foofeatureaccelerator to try to disguise the overhead of foofeature, you can just remove both foofeature AND foofeatureaccelerator, and everything is better.

Less total software to break or misbehave or serve as a security opening. Smaller disk footprint. Fewer running processes. Less ram/disk/net resources consumed. Less telemetry. Simpler total system for you to manage, and maybe actually have a hope in hell of grasping more of what all is going on with one human head. More of your resources available for the apps and services YOU actually want, whatever they are.

Whoever wants Pandora, they can totally have it without it coming pre-bundled. If I want Pandora, I would rather install it than find it already built in. In fact, I DO want Pandora, but in fact, I use a 3rd party open source unofficial player. So even though I use it, it's still wrong for it to be built in.
Could you elaborate on what you mean by "there is also, of course, Gödel"?

Isn't the statement "This statement is false" non-falsifiable?
I've relied upon Unraid and its awesome community, and now I'm a happy NVidia on AMD gamer in my Win 10VM and code in Debian. There were still hurdles to get IOMMU working with Threadripper boards, but it all eventually worked. With that I have a NAS and "app store" like Docker experience I use for databases, testing new OSS projects, and game servers. Best $60 I've ever spent! Dual booting sucks.
It sounds like your interpretation of this is very different from mine.

I read this as "When figuring out what to do with your life, don't _just_ consider what you love. You should also consider what you're good at, what is useful, and what others will pay/support you to do." instead of "Ignore yourself and just do what others want you to do."
Millennial logic: Move to a place with a growing population, but expect rent to go down, and complain when it doesn’t.
Except they didn't lower their prices in this case.
some companies let you take your 3 weeks off in a calendar year so you can actually start taking them your second day.
> I mean a program will keep running even if no one knows how it works anymore.

Not if it doesn't compile anymore because of a switch in hardware. I've seen this firsthand; same exact code but results were off by an order of magnitude.
Lots of other uses for an 8-core desktop workstation... Lots of guest VMs inside virtualbox, a host operating system such as Qubes which is a xen hypervisor, etc. Not just gaming and very cpu intensive things like 2160p60 video encoding.
You don't need to worry about leaking, because they're openly already selling it in the ad-tech ecosystem.
"How am I supposed to read this paywalled article? I'm not paying for it." read like a complaint to me, rather than a question. Now that you say that, though, it's clear that I could have read it the other way.

I'm a moderator here, so it's my job to make sure the community follows the site guidelines. That includes not posting personal attacks, which you just did again. If you keep doing that we're going to have to ban you. Would you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use this site as intended?
You know, that's one of the few valid points against the legalization of all drugs. I don't care how many die or overdose or whatever (it's a moral issue of owning one's own body, much like abortion) but antibiotics seem to throw a wrench into the whole thing. By misusing antibiotics, you are not just affecting your body, but everyone else's on earth as well.

An interesting problem that I still haven't resolved.
I think that's the longest non-loop Youtube video I've ever seen.
PWN FTW.

PS. Spokane is terrible nobody should move here.
While I'm sure some in the feast/famine group "just" need to get their act together. It's not always that's simple.

Most people have a limited number of good choices in a day:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_fatigue

Maybe other concerns/issues were causing some of them to run out of good decision bandwidth.

Note. I'm not claiming that all poor decisions can be explained this way.
Found the Googler!
The extreme response is for companies to stop putting out programmable silicon. Everything on the cloud, only executing signed binaries
I assure you that $5500 is a substantial addition to the TCO of buying and running the server.

The reason these parts exists is for optimising for expensive software that's charged per core. For the same performance bump, you can add two cores and pay Intel $2000 and Oracle $10000, or you can buy a chip clocked higher and pay Intel $5000.
Just the mere fact that such a processor exists,is not in the official catalog and costs substantially more, tells me that there's adequate demand for these or at least the particular customer has very deep pockets if they can ask for custom build.
> For a drop in the bucket of energy savings

Incandescent bulbs last months, LEDs last years and use 5x less energy.

> Thank God for decent LED lights in the last few years or the irony would still be pretty thick.

Do you think we would be better off using incandescents?

I think the main thrust of your point is that you don't think the government should be able to tell folks they can't use crappy bulbs. I think without government intervention LEDs wouldn't be where they are today, which is partly due to that weird anxiety I mentioned, and that's unfortunate.
Sure, if what you’re doing is easily scalable to another machine.

There’s a lot of software out there, legacy and otherwise, where the throughput ceiling is what you can do with one box.
It does matter.
Models of Generics and Metaprogramming: Go, Rust, Swift, D and More
How many times have you taken Uber and how many times has it been a yellow cab?
When I was at Fairchild AFB for SERE training we had a break before it started and we got a ride into Spokane's Downtown. Immediately upon exiting the vehicle we saw a guy in front of a bar getting beat up by several people surrounding him and kicking him. Across the street a guy was staring at us and then lifted up his shirt to flash a piece. That combined with the memories of SERE training make me never want to return.
That's what I do. I use a mostly unmodified Windows 10 for gaming and audio, and Linux for work. If there is something wrong with Windows, it doesn't affect me. The Linux system, on the other hand, is constantly backed up.

I do run an "optimizer" on Windows 10 called Kerish Doctor. It's cheap and in my experience one of the few programs in that category that work well.
My understanding from working at a company that did that was that it’s technically required in case they’re audited.

That is, to treat your salary as capital investment instead of operating costs (which has certain accounting benefits), they need to allocate that salary to specific investments (projects).
Uh, what's the paradox? What pro-labor leftists are yelling "We only care about the minimum wage! We don't care about any other worker issues, nor structural economic and societal issues such as automation!"

Also don't see a ton of "pro-social, anti-libertarian leftists" defending Walmart's labor practices with outrageous anecdata and dismissively saying "idpol" but I'll charitably presume you're just a sincere outlier and not something more ominous.

EDIT: just saw dang's comment and I think I was baited by a troll, but I'll leave my comment as-is.
Fernando Corbató Who Introduced Computer Passwords, Dies at 93
Title: Millennials are flocking to the Pacific Northwest, study finds

Article: 2017 data suggests the westward trend has faded in recent years, in favor of areas like New Haven-Milford, Connecticut; Madison, Wisconsin; and Syracuse, New York.

So it sounds like the title should have been "Millennials are flocking East, study finds"
then you can get a 3200g which has 4 fast cores and a decent gpu for $99! its amazing.
You’re lucky he didn’t actually do anything to your teeth. Story of a dentist giving unnecessary root canals https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/the-tro...
I don't agree. I see that as a very US-centric view of the world.

ASD
CSE
GCHQ
GCSB
NSA

FVEY

(I'm seriously considering getting some of those made as tshirts...)

only one of FVEY is a US IC org. See also Nine Eyes and Fourteen Eyes.
Spokane is great, so long as you don't need a job

You might be able to make $80k as an engineer if you really push for it

You can buy a lordly mansion for $700k and the floor's the limit on normal houses
Back when I worked for Boeing in the 80's, every other Thursday I'd look out the window and see people running at full tilt for their cars at lunchtime. (These were middle aged and older people.) Naively, I asked another older engineer what was going on.

He said they just got their paychecks, and were it a great rush to get it deposited in the bank before their checks bounced.

These were not poor people, and were well paid. But they had no money.
Boomer logic: considering yourself a proud capitalist while resisting new housing supply because of “character” “parking” while experiencing collective amnesia about the post-war ownership society where the housing “market” was built on the back of older tax payers.

Honestly if they’d have just built some freakin (affordable) houses millennials would have been fine. Instead we have click-baity pitty-articles about how some retiree can’t sell their 5000sqft $1.5mil dream homes to debt-strapped 30-somethings.
Boomer logic: oppose every new construction project anywhere near your neighborhood and mock millennials when they find there is a scarcity of affordable housing.
You must do you, and may the repercussions for that be no more serious than a few downvotes. But as far as everybody else is concerned, this matter is, if not actually outright sexual, at least sex-adjacent, and therefore not an appropriate topic for discussion when one's children are around.

(Your children will probably be grateful for this.)

This might not be logical, but there you go. Something these things aren't. If you feel strongly that this is so ridiculous that things should change, then let nobody tell you that you are wrong, but I think you'll find that this is a minority viewpoint, and you'll attract few fellow travelers for your quixotic quest.
Of course the people around these parts tend to have very particular needs and use cases, but for anything resembling the "common case" the performance impact of not using sendfile should be negligible.

(I'll just point of that using sendfile means that traffic is unencrypted... which is probably fine on an internal network, but I've started adopting the stance that even internal network traffic should be encrypted unless there's a very good reason not to do that. An absolute requirement for performance might be a good reason.)
A highly secure connection either uses a fixed-bandwidth pipe or constantly sends random data to avoid correlation like this.
As my later edit said, it seems that they can breed them, but the yield rate (i.e. offspring with decent fruit) is ridiculously low.
Complete guess, but I would say they weren't just optimizing for ease of creating software, they were also optimizing for ease of creating the hardware.

If you're creating hardware that's only going to be used a few times, it's probably not worth it to spend a lot of effort into giving it every feature that programmers want.
The Internet of Things by James Whittaker of Microsoft
I honestly think that's a terrible idea, and that paid sick leave should be paid not by the employer, but from taxes. Which should be raised slightly to cover such a policy.

Otherwise, hiring someone presents a gigantic risk for smaller companies. Getting unlucky even once with someone that will use 1-2 years of sick leave (legitimately or not) would be enough to bankrupt them.

In general I think making employers pay for a safety net, instead of funding it from taxes paid by those employers, is universally bad. What it does is make employers discriminate against potential hires likely to need that safety net, which makes those in need even worse off.
Is the ‘polite Canadian’ (“Sorry!”) trope perhaps an overcompensation for this? Or am I creating an urban legend?
Would Plan9 fit in with applications like robotics? I feel like such an operating system would do well with the need to interoperate between a bunch of different types of sensors and hardware, and the need for sensor fusion. I’m not sure if Linux and device drivers are the right foundation for that kind of stuff.
Interactive Parser Synthesis by Example (2015) [pdf]
I’m not sure how much it counts for, but the federation of Australia was barely 13 years old at that time. Furthermore it’s flag was also the Union Jack.

When WW2 rolled around, the point was moot, with offensive forces literally on the doorstep - Darwin was bombed, and there were submarines inside Sydney’s harbour.
> and we farmed out only one job

That speaks of expertise and therefore is poor measure of TCO for the average person. That said, buying a 3-6 year old used car is frequent advice.

Where people fall down is not buying a used car. It's buying a used car they could not afford as a new car. If your buying a used vehicle that was 30+k new, your not actually getting a cheap vehicle, just an old one.
It is surprising how easy that can happen. I returned to a client to help with the next generation of a product they were developing. I helpwd with the S/W for the earlier generation. The people working on it when I returned had the source code but none of the supporting documentation. The documentation wasn't extensive and without my help, it might have been difficult to understand anyway. (Or maybe I underestimate the folks working on it at the time.) The bigger problem was that they had no idea what was missing, let alone where to find it. Much of it included descriptions of why things were done the way they were.

On my return, I knew what was missing but had no idea where it was. In the ensuing decade, the company had been through three generations of documentation archives and I had to ask to get access to anything in the new system. I didn't know what to ask for. Further, they gave me a new login and could not provide access to my old email account. (Much of the documentation was shared via email attachments.)

I got lucky and ran across another engineer who had worked on the project and had saved a bunch of stuff. He was now with IT, had helped with the document migration and knew where I could find it. I found that a pretty tenuous way to propogate technical history.

That was over a ten year period and many of the participants were still alive and working there. Any break in the chain and they would have had to start the next generation from existing code and the embedded comments (which would be cryptic if you didn't understand how and why the system worked the way it did.)
Also Boomer logic: cut down every rezoning proposal for no reason
I'm trying to figure out something substantive to add other than "WOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Hells yeeahh!!!!" But the trekkie in me is not coming up with anything g else rn
I ran a TOR exit node at home for a while, I don't recommend it.

Within 30 minutes of my public IP changing, CloudFlare would get wind of it again and then it'd be back to hitting a captcha for 75% of all of my own NOR tor traffic with the same origin IP as a TOR exit node. This among myriad other misadventures resulted in me shutting it off after ~6 months.
First time these Kenyan eight graders are seeing Apple photo effects
Spokane seemed to have many pretty parts but many violent aggressive guys on the streets and apparently a huge problem with violent white nationalists from what I understand
Privates in the military don't get to make many decisions while on duty :-)

They were ordered to get counseling from my dad, and he provided a budget for them. No decisions required.
Unfortunately there appear to be zero references to this drug at clinicaltrials.gov.
Wittgenstein somehow managed to suck all of western philosophy into his head and came up with this.

That's not true if you mean it in the literal sense, that he was a student of philosophy. He really wasn't; he hadn't read much philosophy (having been an engineer/mathematician), but he did jump in and criticize contemporary ideas and managed to very much impress Bertrand Russell, who became his mentor. Later in his life, towards his final days, he did start to read philosophy from the ground up, like an undergrad or grad student would.[1]

What's amusing is that he wrote the Tractatus, then "retired" from philosophy, believing he'd solved it all, before getting back into it again and producing Philosophical Investigations. During this time I believe he was either a monk or a teacher and gardener.

1 - Source for this is a talk given by Professor A C Grayling at Cambridge University (on YouTube) about Wittgenstein's life
I do use linux 99% of the time. Do you have any other questions I can answer?

But I am still required HAVE a windows install, and use it occasionally, and not even for games, as I don't game.

So, since I must have a wondows install and actually use it, even if only infrequently, I want it to be as close to sane as I can make it.

This particular debloat script might be questionable, but the concept of debloating is not.
I am not a millennial (born in 1977) but the combination of the strong regional economy and access to natural beauty (Puget Sound, Pacific Ocean, Olympic Peninsula, etc) is really amazing.

On top of this, the area has a significant resistance to the kind of temperature highs that are hitting most of the country right now. I spent the weekend camping on Vancouver Island where the high was 71 when I was there.
The detailed and verbose comments are amazing. Not to mention I have zero idea what the assembly code or even the math is doing.

from https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/master/Luminar...

# SINCE WE WILL FIND THE MODE 1 SHAFT ANGLE LATER, WE CAN FIND THE MODE 1 TRUNNION BY SIMPLY TAKING THE ARCSIN OF THE Y COMPONENT, THE ASIN GIVIN AN ANSWER WHOSE ABS VAL IS LESS THAN 90 DEG.

Nervously looks around.. Ummmm what?
Retractions are always a small corner while the original story got a full page. They fear saying "we were wrong" too many times could affect their credibility and therefore their (economic) bottom line.
Do Couch to 5k on 3 of your rest days. When you finish, progress to Bridge to 10k.
It almost felt like reading one of those machine-generated finance articles that fill in sentences with some stock statistics.
Ah, the LGP-30!

I've actually programmed one, back around 1980 or so, at the University of Calgary.

Some friends and I got a collection of computers to play a musical piece. The LGP-30's role was to do the percussion. It was a bit of a challenge to get it to output the rhythm (pounding on the flexowriter) at speed, but we eventually figured out how to get the program to go fast enough for this. Of course, we probably didn't know all the good tricks...
Differential geometric algebra using Leibniz.jl and Grassmann.jl (PDF draft)