skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was going to say “I recall when I had sepsis in my teens”, but the truth of it is that I don’t - there’s a six week hole in my memory, that skips straight from lying in a pool of blood and puss on the floor of the kitchen at school, having a mop thrust in my face, to lying in a bed in hospital with tubes snaking out of me.

The weird thing is, despite being unconscious for over a month, I woke up feeling like I hadn’t missed anything, and even now I look back at this with slight disbelief - surely you’re thinking of someone else, surely it wasn’t that long. I felt like I’d been out longer after a general for surgery a few years ago.

They did run a whole battery of neurological tests on me once I was conscious and eating - they were pretty surprised I had no obvious brain damage - I had maintained a fever over 108 for several days, despite ice baths and the, what, 20g of daily antibiotics? I do wonder if there was some, but rather more subtle than what was being looked for.

Re-integrating was weird. For everyone else I’d been as good as dead - they’d seen me carted off in an ambulance, and then a few weeks later term had ended. I on the other hand basically went straight from the end of one school term to the beginning of the next with zero intervening time, and nobody could figure out why I was pissed off. They kept asking me about what had happened - and I answered honestly that they probably knew more than I did.

It also sucked that I had no soft landing back into classes, and in the time I’d been unconscious they’d started calculus - I came back and had to differentiate and integrate and had no frigging idea what I was actually doing - I remember sitting in an A-level maths exam a year later and finally having the revelation that it was about curves and rates of change.

All this because I had what looked like a zit on my knee. It grew until I couldn’t fit trousers over my leg, school offered me a sticking plaster, and said I wasn’t getting out of sport that easily. Then my leg opened up one night fetching water in the kitchen, and I lost consciousness. I’ll never forget the sight of custard in crude oil swirling over the linoleum - perhaps that’s one side effect of the coma - my last conscious moment is vivid in the extreme.

Anyway, that brush with death didn’t change my outlook one bit, but then again I was an invincible 16 year old. The ones since then have definitely left their mark.
> Explain why you think this can't improve otherwise your comment is worthless.

No, it's on you to talk about why it might be possible.

It's easy to make X that does job Y at an efficiency less than what we currently have.

Children regularly do it for school projects.

It up to you to tell us why your X might be able to beat existing tech one day.
So, due to someone taking the time on irc, I managed to get Lem installed on a box at some point recently sans roswell. It doesn't actually depend directly on it, though I think there are some things built on Lem that use roswell.
I'd not heard of limnic eruptions until now. They seem interesting and terrifying.
Except you really don't have a choice, the internet allows companies to hold programs hostage and you have no market power.

The modern internet is one giant computer which companies unofficially own or control. By coding software in a fraudulent way where they take advantage of mass computer illiteracy from their end.

That's how DOTA 2, league of legends, SMITE, paladins, fortnite, exist... they can only exist in a society where mass internet penetration is sufficiently large, or else they would have just been regular PC multiplayer games coded like Quake 3 or UT2004.

You don't get the agenda, the last 20 years has been the greatest theft of PC games in history. When valve dropped steam in 2004 - the patch to take control of half-life, it was an act of fraud and theft because his customers couldn't reach him.

Valve is the biggest theif in all of history. The internet changes the dynamics of power between companies and customers because they can simply hold files and programs hostage on their computers and call it a service.

AKA google play is pure criminal enterprise, games you never own and who's programs run on your device but who's executables are wrapped in encryption and critical parts of the code run on googles servers, even though they are asking for money from the public.

The whole model exists based of mass computer illiteracy. These "Software as a service" models are irrational because the whole agenda for corporations is to deny local apps to the user for monopoly profits.

They get away with it because their tech informed customers are trapped 100 miles away, so they can simpyl force policies.

Free market theory is over, the power assemetry between creator of software and buyer is overwhelmingly now in the producers favor.

Nowhere is this seen more clearly then diablo 2 vs diablo 3 or starcraft 1 vs starcraft 2.

Where the game is the same but they hold the program hostage on a computer in their office to deny application control to the people buying the software. It's just fraud by any other means.

There's no reason for any game, application, or os to be split between my computer and the companies. It's fraud on a massive scale, they are literally enslaving peoples computers because writing software means you are a governing power in an internet enabled society.

Most people are not technology literate so you get a disaster in terms of privacy.
That's an IBM TDP (i. e. maximum ever power), not an Intel TDP (i. e. maximum power at some arbitrary power state declared as 'base clock speed').
Yeah, people have and had problems with common-lisp-controller, I certainly have. That being said I'm not one to turn to the arms of C to solve an environmental problem, not when it can be done correctly, if with effort, from the host language itself
Protect Yourself from Internet Landmines
> You don't find that vulnerability in qmail because qmail doesn't have that feature.

But being selective about what features to add is itself a valid strategy for writing secure software — perhaps even the most effective one!
No. AFAIK AIX only runs on PowerVM systems, which none of the OpenPOWER systems are.
4 Methods to Create an Engaged Team
Email stuff saved to read later and have it delivered as personal newsletter
Wow. Mark was the CEO of one of the first startups that I worked at in Toronto. I recall him being very driven and focused. It seems like these qualities helped him overcome this enormous challenge.

Wishing you the best, Mark.
There's a reason business owners fear unions: They understand fully well that the wide majority of people have a different interest than them and if that majority are allowed to come together and realize that they will ask for things benefiting the majority to the detriment of the minority. Same with elections. Hence the age old strategy of divide and conquer.
Unfortunately, I don't know CUDA yet and didn't implement a GPU accelerated version. I can't comment on its feasibility on mobile GPUs but the paper authors reported real-time performance on a GTX-480 + i7 quad-core CPU system.
The 10,000-Hour Rule Was Wrong, According to the People Who Wrote the Original Study

https://www.inc.com/nick-skillicorn/the-10000-hour-rule-was-...
PowerShell 7 Preview 3
What an Indian Travelling to Frankfurt Has to Say about It
Discussion of original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20724260
IBM doesn't do wacky stuff like Pointer authentication that creeps into every corner of the spec, making everything more complicated …
It will get the complete stacktrace along with the exception details of the crash.
When the university wanted him to pay the standard course fees, he somehow convinced them to give him a postgraduate scholarship so he could do it for free.

During the course he got two concessions:

- He was given 4 hours to do the 3 hour exam papers. After all, it had been 53 years since his undergrad math days.

- Exemption from the engineering work experience requirement. Instead in the Project Management course, he did a guest lecture slot on 'real-life project management in the offshore oil and gas industry'.
It isn't a customer's responsibility to be a company's guinea pig, and it's not a secret that customers would be unhappy that tech companies treat them as such. This is especially true when Product Managers intentionally implement features that take advantage of users by monetizing their data and then implementing high switching costs that make it even more painful for the customer once the Product Manager ends their "experiment". If tech companies want to perform market research by experimenting on customers, they should do the same thing that other industries do and compensate the experiment subjects, not take advantage of them.

If you want to disrespect customers by treating them like disposable guinea pigs (and not even giving them the courtesy of notifying them they're part of an experiment), don't be surprised if they start to catch on and treat your company as if it's disposable, too.
To other mainlanders, just add this filter to your ublock and go on with your life. Life is too short, and there's too much interesting stuff to learn, to spend time arguing this stuff.

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The JavaScript event loop illustrated
For a much better treatment of the same general idea, read "Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise" by K. Anders Ericsson.
I admire his tenacity a lot! He worked enormously hard to learn Master's level math properly. I hope I am half as switched on when I am his age.

P.S. One other thing I just remembered is he and my mum live in a country town 90km outside Melbourne. They weren't just round the corner from the university... It was a 90 minute trip by public transport each way. That's a major effort each day just to get to class if you are 18, let alone 75.
Isn't there a way to abstract that, using some of Django's libraries ?
You can already run a substential amount of Windows software natively on Linux with Wine, there is also Darling working on bringing MacOS to linux.

With that being said, my ultimate distro is Linux with a Desktop Environment that is less braindead than Gnome.

https://www.winehq.org/
https://www.darlinghq.org/
OK, so let's take free markets seriously.

The EU has a study which I cited in a previous posting indicating that price competition requires four substantial sellers. One is a monopoly, two tend to implicitly cooperate as a duopoly, sometimes there's competition with three but often two of those dominate as a duopoly, but with four, price competition usually appears. It takes at least four players to have a free market.

So, less than four players in a market, and Government constraints kick in. Breakups, blocks on mergers, restrictions on expansion, higher taxes and closer scrutiny for the top 3. The US used to do stuff like that. The EU now does.

Now that's a free market.
They are misunderstanding why RISC-V and Raspberry Pi are popular: it's not so much that they're freeware but that they are cheap. Very few people in IT know how to implement processors in hardware even with an FPGA. What makes a processor popular are cheap, affordable systems people can easily acquire in an online shop at prices which compete with or are below contemporary P. C. tin bucket hardware.

If IBM wants an uptake of POWER systems and people to develop on them and for them, the only thing which might make a dent are sub-$500 USD complete workstations and rack mountable servers. Otherwise, they will repeat the same mistake which Sun made, that is, they open sourced their UltraSPARC T1 under GNU GPL but the uptake was nil, because few had the knowledge to design systems around the processor. People want cheap, ready made toys they can tinker with immediately.
the financial equivalent of a a bug bounty.. never thought about it but every system needs external checkers so it's obvious in retrospect
Tesla Sent to Space Completes Sun Orbit, May Eventually Crash into Earth
I'm not sure if voluntarily self censoring is worth missing out on what happens around us.
Because they work :D
I have worked for a RAD platform similar to Outsystems. As I was building the platform I had the best of both worlds:

1) engineering with general purpose frameworks and programming languages on the platform and

2) the RAD toolset itself as we were eating our own dog food.

Today I’m not doing anything with RAD. But the experience is invaluable and I know what enterprise is like.

Bottom line is, I don’t think this harms your career. It’s all a learning experience and worse case you find a new challenge if you really don’t like it.

I think it’s worse to stay comfortable over exploring what else is in the world.
If the filesystem itself was modeled after a database (which it can be argued it is, somewhat), it's not much of a stretch for WinFS to have been a thing.

I was looking forward to seeing it in action based on reports of what it was.
I really need a resource on how to make code cache friendly (or at least, more aware of computer architecture). Got an interview coming up at a HFT firm. Please HN, deliver!
Of course etymology is not meaning. While the origin of the term is neutral, there is no doubt that "patent troll" is used as a derogatory term. But in order to count as defamation it also have to be false.

But since there is no clear agreed-upon definition of "patent troll", it is impossible to prove whether it is a false statement or not.
The model I have right now is that talent is learning rate, so I don't see how the beliefs conflict with each other.

Some people pick things up faster than others, but if you put more effort you can still catch up.

It also explains why even talented people still need to practice/learn/etc. to be at the top of their fields.
A lot of those heavier duty things you mention require three phase power, which is very difficult and expensive to handle independently without the grid to support you.
very simple minimally intrusive SOA/AOS conversion using templates: https://godbolt.org/z/rBeWOA

I just typed it in, I'm sure there are errors. I borrowed to_tuple from somewhere, that's the real hack. Real reflection can't arrive too soon.

edit: added soa2aos example
"Talos™ II 2U Rack Mount Server
TL2SV1
Talos™ II 2U Rack Mount Server
Starting at $6,089.00"

Not at $6,089.00; they can forget that. It has to cost no more than $500 USD or this will be a repeat of the same mistake Sun Microsystems did. Will these companies ever learn?

One cannot charge enterprise prices if one wants to build an upward spiral. Intel systems dominate because they are dirt cheap and convenient to buy.
Aren't tips taxed differently than wage in the US? Anyway you can also see this as DoorDash always paying the wage and pocketing the tips. When the user tip goes towards the wage it's no longer a tip. If they were taxed differently it would be obvious.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

Don't ignore what your government is doing.
They do not have a published list of requirements for Maven artifacts. This does not give a good first impression.
This probably varies by field, but the "large project" thing can be gamed too.

So, for example, in biomedicine you often have lots of people on a paper who might only read a draft, make some trivial suggestions, and then be added as an author.

As a result, there's this pressure for large groups to form, where everyone is added and everyone can cite each other.

This doesn't mean the projects are bad, but it does lead to individuals with large citation counts primarily because they find ways to add themselves to everything, regardless of their level of effort. People should get credit where it's due, and large projects involve lots of people. But what defines a "project" has become very vague.

I've become extraordinarily disillusioned with academics. Science gets done but the rewards seem to filter preferentially to those who are able to game the system, and the system exists out of a need to make one's self look as productive as possible, in areas where contributions are generally necessarily tiny or nonexistent, even among very competent people, because the problems are hard and because so many people see the same things at the same time.
You can't stop the signal, Mal.
Zope was my way into Python, way back in 2000. Brilliant concept, but hard to use well.
I can sorta agree; a database with tables and folders would be a much more useful basis for an operating system. After all, most programs will read and parse small configuration files. With a database it becomes necessary.

Windows sorta does that with the Registry but A) the registry isn't the filesystem, B) the registry is a filesystem on top of NTFS and C) the registry sucks.

If the Registry had the power of,say, PostgreSQL to back it up, it would suck a lot less. Of course, for large files, you should still be able to rely on more conventional filesystems as well as for backwards compat.
I've published AMP only sites and regular optimized sites. My niche is usually large informational sites. Minifying and removing unused CSS and inlining everything has resulted in better indexing than similarly positioned AMP sites.

The resulting pages are smaller than their AMP equivalents and load with less requests.

On my non-news sites I can say that I get more traffic without AMP.
Airbnb Clone with React Native Part 3: Email Authentication with Firebase
Is this an Inception reference?
As an OS I agree, but the desktop experience leaves a lot to be desired.

I'm currently trying to figure out how to properly drive a 4K monitor with my laptop and not have it end up lagging. Supposedly hardware acceleration is enabled on Firefox, but even trying to play even a 1080p YouTube video drops frames. On Windows it is buttery smooth, so it's not a hardware issue. Don't even get me started about scaling...

(Currently using GNOME on Wayland)
I guess the real question is though how many of them actually quit. I'd bet it's lower than how many are planning to quit.
I like the "Resource Viewer" feature which is easy to visualize the resources. Too bad that it is read-only which is fine if you are trying to make changes.
Most people won't pay that kind of money just to tinker with it.
Horses for courses, I think. Let's say you are plotting the pressure distribution on two different racing car wings (spoilers), side by side. If you're trying to say "this wing gives 2.4% more downforce than that one", you would use Viridis or Inferno. But if you are trying to say "look at how the F1 car wing is different to the Indy car wing", then something like Turbo is better suited.

Basically, I posit that sacrificing perceptual linearity for increased hue range can be worth it for conveying qualitative information.
Some Thoughts on Estimation
Well you clearly don’t actually know what postmodernism is, so mind your criticism until you read a book.
You just got another paid user. I am very much in the amateur hacker camp, so I might not add much revenue. Anyway, thanks for sourcehut. Mercurial is my preferred way. I have managed to shoot myself in the foot so many times with git that I just gave up on it and since it is my hobby I don't want to spend much time with git.
I've been using osquery (https://github.com/osquery/osquery) for a while. It is neat and I can appreciate the idea of 'exposing OS interfaces as databases'.
There's an issue with the History API, clicking from the posted link to another one on the navbar replaces the state instead of pushing it, making it impossible to go back
I think you're conflating package managers and package registries here. This GitHub product has almost no overlap with package managers like pip, gem, maven, or npm. It is not a replacement for docker.

This is a replacement for npmjs.com (the hosting service, which is not the same thing as npm the package manager), or for rubygems.org (again, the hosting service, not the gem tool), or for Docker Hub.

If anything, this may actually improve the collaboration between package manager developers because there will now be a large development team that will be working with the backend of various package registries and will have better insight into what each one is doing wrong and what each one is doing right.
Osquery: SQL-powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics
Back in highschool I wrote a script using sagemath that could draw bezier curves when given the points and handles. It was really cool how simple the math behind it was.
The Smartphone Car Key Thing Needs to Stop
If 90% are men, all else equal, you would expect men to win 90% of the time.
Phoenix police must now document each time they point their gun at someone
Taking dozens of pictures of yourself every day and showing them to strangers for comment was bound to be unhealthy.
> Or AS/400, which is more or less a SQL database.

People keep on saying that, but how really true is it? Many operating systems come with bundled relational databases–e.g. most Linux distributions come with more than one relational database implementation bundled. Does that make Linux "more or less a SQL database"? How deeply integrated is DB2/400 into the OS/400 kernel (or equivalent term, such as "System Licensed Internal Code")? There is a paucity of public information about the actual nature or depth of this integration.

I think an OS with a truly deeply integrated SQL database would expose things like a table/view of all files in the filesystem, a view of running OS processes, etc. As far as I am aware, OS/400 (or "IBM i" as they are calling it nowadays), doesn't have any such features.
> Preserving your wealth in a risk free fashion is a service the government is providing to you. That's a big portion of the reason why the army, police et cetera exist. It costs them and you a lot more than 1% per annum.

No, the government doesn't provide me with the financial tools to preserve my wealth. The market wants to do that, because there's demand for it. It's the government that indirectly manipulates interest rates and thereby distorts the market so that it isn't capable anymore of providing these services.

It seems as if all is nice and cozy from your viewpoint with this situation as long as I spend my currency (immediately!) to "help the system". But nobody asks whether this allocates my resources towards the right investment.

When the time comes and I cannot retire, because I wasn't able to save, it's now again the problem of society that needs to step in, and you will probably opt for even more debt to "sustain" my standard of living.

Again, this financial/political ideology is severely damaging our prospects as a society. I wonder how it's so hard to understand.
(Disclosure: I have ASD.)

Just a FYI, I agree with your post and your parent, and I don't find them at odds; your post is complementary, and a nice addendum. Both of you describe an symptom of autism. It is important different symptoms of autism get described, and that the general public gets to understand these instead of tunneling on a few symptoms. No autistic person has the very same symptoms as severe in the very same way as the other.
I am using fzf for every 5 min of my programming life
It was a Firefly reference.
I don't disagree with what your saying, but I think LSST's builder concept is actually quite amazing and the opposite side of that coin.

For people building the telescope (think hardware, software, logistics, everything before the science can be done), many of whom are not academics, and don't typically get authorship or write papers, it's great to get credit for working on the project in a formal, public way. You don't even have to edit or provide some kind of task directly related to the paper either, which I agree can get somewhat clique-ish.