skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reads like blame shifting, not accountability.

> Yes, this was brought to my attention as a result of the review. That review has apparently caused sufficient damage that Raptor will now be reevaluating whether we can afford to service the individual market at this time, or whether they need to focus on business users only.

See: the review caused the damage, not Raptor's failure to provide a good support experience. In any case, if you can't handle the support load, then you're probably right in reconsidering.

I am really rooting for Raptor here, I'm not your enemy. I agree that x86 monoculture is awful for the ecosystem and ARM hardly presents anything better. This is also why I got heavily involved in RISC-V, and I wanted to find something similar in POWER9. I haven't laid hands on a working Blackbird yet but if it is as good as I hope it is, then I think you have a good shot if you just focus on scaling and fixing your support problems. If you can solve the support and get the system working, I would be thrilled to amend my review and publish a new one with all of the things I like about my shiny new Blackbird system.

> I am saddened to see x86 and locked computing profiting from this, but at the end of the day individuals have always been a difficult segment to target. They tend to want extremely low (below cost) pricing, high levels of service, and generally want to run various proprietary games on Windows while simultaneously settling for a false sense of security through open source firmware wrapping large hidden binary components. Out of sight, out of mind, purchase price above all other concerns seems to be the general takeaway for that market.

I can't claim to know what the firehose of support tickets is like, but know that there are users who don't fit this strawman. I'm one of them. I'm not here to run proprietary games on Windows. My stated goal is to promote the development of portable software and the adoption of freer systems by using my board to introduce POWER9 support to builds.sr.ht, giving access to POWER9 cycles to tens of thousands of developers. It's causes like this which help address the problems you mention of fat software needing to be improved to make alternative architectures viable. No small part of why Chromium is slow on ppc and fast on x86 is because there's a JIT for x86 and not for ppc, not necessarily because of fundamental problems in Chromium's design.

But yeah, there are fundamental problems in our entire ecosystem with respect to disreagarding performance thanks to the luxuries afforded to us by fast x86 systems. Is the answer to this that we should be writing off alternative hardware models? No, the hardware should strive to be fast and the software should strive to meet it. Both parties have a responsibility to performance and we can't lay the blame at each other's feet and ignore our role in it. It's a slow process to change the industry, we must exercise patience.

EDIT: it's been pointed out to me that Chromium has a JIT on POWER9. This doesn't substantially change my response.
Seems similar to my startup (for the enterprise):

https://insideropinion.com/

We also have https://projectpiglet.com for investing.

If the Doqume team wants to chat, happy to!
Thanks a lot, freediver! This is Francesco, co-founder.

We are using Entity Linking to detect entities in text. The algorithm takes into account context to disambiguate words, i.e., in "Mercury is a chemical element with the symbol Hg and atomic number 80" the word Mercury should be linked to the chemical element rather than the planet. When documents are indexed this way, the user is able to perform queries for specific concepts rather than simple keywords.

We had a demo open until a week ago, but we decided to close it to focus on finishing up some infrastructure work that will help us handle more efficiently maintenance of data sets. On the other hand we didn't want to drag it for too long and decided to just launch :)

We'll re-open to the public once we do that. If you're curious I can share a login for you to try it out.
How to boil a perfect egg: largest-ever double-blind egg-boiling-&-peeling study
If that's your thoughts on vapers then I can't imagine how low your opinion of cigarette smokers must go.
Isn't this just how everyone should be driving all the time?

This is what I was taught when I learned to drive 20 years ago, and texting wasn't really a thing back then.
'It doesn't need to be a logical reason' is a glib starting point that should only be arrived at after very carefully ruling out all the other options. What if there is a logical reason for people to feel economically threatened? There are a lot of arguments out there for things that could be good reasons.

It is known [0] that people are terrible at estimating what the actual rate of inequality is. If they aren't using data to come up with their opinions, why would this psychological effect trigger now in the late 2010s instead of some other time?

Feeling bad about gaps between your wealth and your peers is a real effect, but it doesn't scale up to societal levels because people by and large can't detect changes in inequality at that scale. They have no idea what the actual wealth distribution is. I don't actually know it, and I suspect if you wanted to actually say what it was you'd have to go look up the Gini coefficient or something. Psychological effects don't trigger at a large scale when people need to look up statistics to realise that they should be triggered. That isn't how psychology usually works.

It seems much more likely something is happening locally in people's own lives or amongst their small social circle.

[0] https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2010/09/28/actual-vs-e...
Not at all (inherently). Most economies have traditionally been internally driven with a lot of wealth production from agriculture, raw material gathering and the finishing of those materials - it's only in the industrial era that we saw the export of goods for finishing in other countries emerge as a thing that could occur. But, if some rare earth minerals are imported into Fakistan and then turned into an iPhone - then the labour exchange to add that value would be within the "internally driven" header mentioned above... as that's value that's been created domestically and can either be used to exchange for new goods abroad (where it becomes a trade deficit) or else just consumed domestically.
Isn't that what graph paper is for?
Banning plants has always been highly effective... it worked for weed, blow and of course heron. Highly effective ;)
Chemotherapy is the known cure for cancer, so a more accurate statement would be saying, "Pain killers are pointless, just find a cure for the cancer."

But no one is saying painkillers is pointless. Parent is saying painkillers should be temporary. I suspect they forgot to mention the "in an ideal world" bit.
That's a very short sighed view of addiction.
F# 4.7
For me the big difference between AWS and WeWork is that a company will always have people dedicated to figuring out their offices. WeWork isn't solving problems like "who do we have, how do we arrange them, and what kind of spaces are best for how they work". On top of that, finding and negotiating leases every 5-10 years isn't a lot of extra work. AWS in contrast eliminates entire classes of work.

Although now I think about it, perhaps demand volatility is even more important. Office space needs are way more stable and predictable than server load. Salesforce, for example, signed a 15-year lease for Salesforce tower. And there's every reason to think they'll use it. Whereas AWS and its customers benefit hugely from being able to change load both month to month and hour to hour.
That might be true, but you can still buy the cards from 3rd party resellers, e.g., https://www.newegg.com/p/2AS-006R-00046 .
Switch to Firefox and install uBlock Origin.
Camps and Trails is a good read, at least the Yunnan section, if a little travelogueish.
The existence of non-complaint countries shouldn't be a reason to give up or stop improving.

We need to accept a reality where some parts of the world will need to be massively carbon negative to compensate for other parts which are carbon positive. We need to be investing in technology, polices and structures which can achieve this.

Once we reach the technology/policy level where a country can choose to be massively carbon negative, we can implement the international policies to create an international carbon trading scheme. The countries that don't want to become carbon neutral can choose to financially compensate the countries who become carbon negative.

And then once we have this international carbon trading scheme, countries that refuse to take part can have penalties equal to their estimated carbon emissions leaved against their imports/exports.

Though this mechanism, the world can become carbon neutral (or perhaps even carbon negative) without every country having to be carbon neutral itself.
The argument is well known: the intertubes promises much equanimity but capitalism and stuff.

OK I am being a bit cruel but this is what we have. If you don't own up to intending to cuddle up to Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft in the next 30s then you are probably a liar or a bit deluded.

Thing is, I'm a bit of a fan of capitalism but perhaps some sort of light touch regulation is needed in the Wild West. A bloke with a big old star on the chest might be nice.
Hey Sorry just seeing this. Well this depends on your co-ops operating agreement. For us patronage (and membership) is defined by any person (like a beating heart human not "person" like entity) doing work for the cooperative on a per hour basis. So ownership in the form of dividends are allocated pro rata by time worked. We think that this is the most straightforward way of doing it, instead of tying equity to $ made, etc.
Thing is, there's no such thing as "where guilt is not in doubt". We have a legal standard of "beyond all reasonable doubt", and still we know for certain that this standard, when applied to its full extent as it gets for death row convicts with all the multiple appeals courts, it still manages to convict a nontrivial number of innocent people.

So the judgment on whatever should happen in case where guilt is really not in doubt must be reserved for omniscient infallible divine beings, as we the people simply are not capable of implementing a process that's able to determine when guilt is not in doubt, as all practical experience shows that we've tried and failed and failed and failed to do so.
Thanks for the explanation. I have never seen this company in USA. Nowadays, algorithms sell holiday packages in sites like Expedia, it would be very hard to compete with computers with old business models.
> prenatal classes

+1 for prenatal classes, the more granola the better.

Bizarrely, we had a married pair of clowns in the class before my older kid was born. All I could think of was, what if their kid is scared of clowns?
Animal fat is also allowed in Savon de Marseille as long as it qualifies under regulation CE 1774/2002 on the use of animal derivatives for cosmetics.

The point is that it's a very plain soap and goes back to the 14th century.

(I had linked to the English wikipedia article but it's the French one that has more details, sorry for the confusion.)
Indeed, which is why I have also focused towards setting some principles which would hopefully guide others into understanding and applying the mindset.
Where I live we have fully dedicated bus roads. Maybe they costs less than light rail - I don't know.

They are very popular. The suburbs they service are 20..30km away, and the dedicated roads make the long part of the trip very fast and comfortable. The far ends of the roads looks more like a train station, as they have large car parks surrounding them. Other cities in Australia now look on in envy.

There doesn't seem to be much chance of the buses being abandoned when the budget grows tight. A dedicated 2 lane mostly raised bus highway running parallel to a 8 lane highway isn't much use for anything besides buses, and they weren't cheap to build.
This is already the case, and has been for decades. It is entirely possible to get through high school and undergraduate math/science education without ever owning a handheld graphing calculator, just borrowing one for the 1–2 exams which require them.

A “scientific calculator” (or for that matter a slide rule) is pretty much always sufficient in class, and a computer with a full keyboard and proper programming language (this could be a chromebook with a web browser, or a Raspberry Pi or used iPad with an external keyboard) is a better homework tool.
If you are alright with a softcore, I think a picorv32 will fit on the ice40.
It's never about safety. These cameras bring in billions in revenue.

If you want to argue that they're not about revenue raising tell me why the Police here strike for pay rises by warning motorists of where the cameras are?

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/police-threaten-...

They've done this for at least 3 pay rises in the past and they actually have followed through.
I think DNS-over-HTTPS is a much bigger cause for concern.
Actually, that is a common issue with chronic pain, and thankfully that's far from the truth.

Chronic pain clinics have a physical therapist that shows muscle building exercises, so the body stops being worn out.

However, depending on what the kind of wear is, as paradoxical as it seems, going for a walk for at least 20 minutes, can charge an exhausted body more than laying down without napping.
There are a great many people who don't do any heavy maths/sciences data crunching, for whom Python is just their web+scripting language of choice. For those people, "Python" fits in the set of {Perl, Python, Ruby, Node, ...}. Elixir does fit quite comfortably in that set.
At a certain level, having the returns be uncorrelated is a lot more valuable than total returns.
You only get privacy from Cloudflare 3/4 of the time, as their resolver is one of the four requests are proxied to.
> non-residents can't cut through them.

Non-residents shouldn’t pay taxes to maintain those roads either then.
> Aren’t you replacing systemd with run_rc_command? This is just as opinionated, but with less features.

sure, but this is a 'reasonable shell library' rather than the 'systemd cruft + tentacles' that I mention.

want it to do something else?

write your own functions.

want "an init system that can automatically restart failed services, and with decent dependency management"

here you go:

# cat /etc/daemoncheck
#! /bin/sh

docheck() {
initscript="/etc/rc.d/$1";
if [ -x "$initscript" ]; then
$initscript check > /dev/null \
|| $initscript start
fi
}

docheck ntpd
docheck inetd
docheck dhcpd
docheck tftpd

& throw that, or similar in cron or make it run in a while loop. Nothing precludes
some rudimentary shell script being bundled as part of a simple shell-style init system
out of the box.

I don't need 5000 lines of C code, multiple binaries, 10 layers of symlinks, and all of the rest of it. a few hundred lines of shell that anyone who knows shell and how to read manual pages (that are kept up to date on the actual system, not bad HTML needing 10 tools to render the last time someone thought to update the documentation) can understand the entierty of in literally one sitting.
More heartbreaking would be if the pets of these suicide owners die of starvation over a period of terrifying, lonely days. It's more heartwarming, if anything, that a person who wishes to end their suffering still holds empathy and respect for the living.
> or can't ship Gnome because of GDM's dependency on Systemd

Void Linux is using GDM with elogind and seems fine:
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/blob/master/srcp...

> even the Linux kernel with a BSD one

You know, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is as most a fork of Debian as Devuan. They share most of the packages definitions, however some core parts (like the init scripts) are _very_ different.

> but you can't replace the init system, even though several alternatives exist

Well, you can. It is just that Debian maintainers don't want to maintain this complexity in their own system. Supporting only one init system is already difficult, imagine supporting N init systems like you're suggesting (and this includes bug reports: do you really think that this is a good usage of the time from maintainers to support that niche init system with 3 users?).

However there is nothing impeding you to use your own Debian installation with any init system you want. Or even better: switch to Devuan.
https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/recode/2019/5/1/18511540/si...

Anyone may not be who you think it is and their needs are likely different than the typical retail investor.
I'm sure you're already on top of all of this and I hope you'll forgive the tangent, but if you're starting to get RA symptoms you should be acting now. It used to be the practice of rheumatologists to wait to treat until symptomatic relief was required by patients. That's no longer the case. The earlier you act and get on DMARDs (and you might even need to try a few before getting one that works or finding the one that works best. Humira was completely ineffective for me), the less cumulative joint erosion you'll experience, the sooner you'll likely be in remission, and the more likely you'll be to experience a later sustained DMARD-free remission.

Even if that's not the case and DMARDs don't completely solve the problem for you, there's a lot of options before opiods for symptomatic relief. From panadol, through NSAIDs (including the magical COX-2 selectives), and even steroidals.

Don't give up hope too early. Three years ago I couldn't dress myself. Today I just got back from a rock climbing holiday.
For those that see halting illegal border crossings as a positive (which are likely a minority on HN but HN is not representative of the nation), this change hampers the ability to enforce the law.

Even for those that do think halting border crossings is bad, the consequences of making ICE change to a different IT solution is likely that ICE's bureaucracy is hampered and people detained at the border take longer to process and thus result in more hardship.
That's an awfully dystopian viewpoint. Ever-present surveillance is a cancer on society, and we shouldn't be increasing the amount of surveillance that happens.
This is a great example of why quantitative research isn't always enough, and this sort of "ethnography" of suicide qualitative research is also important. Some times you have to find out what the ground conditions are that generate the data in order to really understand what's going on & generate insights.
Ugh. You miss the point. It is the internet that is the issue.
I found the same thing - in the chezh republic, it was a far more free for all than any other urbanized country I had been to, however things ran way smoother because you counted on everyone else following no rules.
While this may be something that allows Apple to receive exemptions from tariffs on other products (e.g. iPhone), it may not be the major reason. It just makes sense that they'd continue assembling the Mac Pro 2019 in the same facility as the Mac Pro 2013.
Huh? There is no spam with RSS or IM. The user chooses what to consume.

And spam is a solved problem with email.
I believe start and end are numbered according to the lines between cells, not the cells themselves
I don’t know. I don’t see how anybody could know which companies you mean when you say big 5 tech companies. Which ones did you mean?
This is right up my alley, but I wish there was more detail before signing up. I don't even know if it will work with the notes app that I use. I'd sign up right away, and probably pay money, if it did.
Building Node Apps in Docker
Hard, not impossible. Void Linux is using elogind: https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/blob/master/srcp...

And BTW, if you don't like the way that Gnome is going you can fork it or use another desktop. There are multiple desktops for Linux that are very polished and doesn't depend on systemd.
You use the phrase 'objective pattern' here, but that conflates causation and correlation.

For example: black men in the US are more likely than white men to have criminal records, but this in no way means that black men are "objectively" more criminal.
Seeing as there's a SystemVerilog tutorial on the Arduino website, I'm hopeful for more.
Understanding Foreign Interference [pdf]
Actions speak louder than words:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21053119
With all the discussion on HN about "technical debt" I wonder why the same sort of strategies to avoid technical debt aren't applied outside the domain of software engineering.

Sure, it's effort now to do the smarter-but-harder thing, but the payoff will be huge in a few decades. Sure beats having a police state that is precipitated by goody-two-shoes demanding video surveillance of nearly all public roads in the USA.
Hi Vai,

I'm from https://insideropinion.com

We built a very similar product (I think). We took a fundamentally different approach, but I'd be happy to share what did / didn't work for me. Take it for what it's worth though, I'm still bootstrapping myself.

My contact info should be discoverable from my profile.
I have an OLPC, bought at $7 at a thrift store. It appears to come on but screen doesn't light up. Is there anywhere that these can get repaired? I'd like to have a working one for historical purposes.
Cyclone outclasses any ICE40 out there. If you need the logic capacity or peripherals your options become constrained. The sad thing is that we had cheap Spartan-3's and Spartan-6's with impressive resources but the vendors didn't want to keep making devices with that sort of bang for the buck.
Absolutely. Pulsar looks nice, too, but I think BookKeeper not needing ZK gives it an edge over Kafka.

I have to admit that I'm not entirely clear on what Pulsar adds, given that BookKeeper implements the distributed log. Pulsar looks like it's a slightly higher-level abstraction that gives you a more traditional topic-based pub/sub mssaging API on top of BK, plus things like schemas and "functions"?

From what I can tell, BK supports log streaming just like Kafka, so you can use it to build a pub/sub system if you don't need all of Pulsar's features — right?
Do you not think these things already exist? Seems like what you're asking for is solved. But o could be missing something
Ah, thanks.

My practice has some goals and complexity but I'm still doing fine with the iOS timer. shrug
> On the calculator portion, I remember formulating each problem to be the hard part and the actual differentiation/integration was straightforward.

The hard part was by far typing complicated expressions into the stupid TI-83, navigating its terrible menu system, getting it to output what it was supposed to, and figuring out what was printed on the screen.

Coming up with the expressions to type took only a tiny fraction of the time of actually punching it in.

What a tremendous waste of students’ time and attention. Might just as well test emoji typing speed.
Bots are fine
> So the reason quality is lower is because no-one will pay for quality anymore.

Unwilling or unable? I can't find a way to distinguish something that's expensive because it's high quality from something that's expensive due to branding. Price is an unreliable signal, brand is an unreliable signal, reviews can't take longevity into consideration, So I just buy cheap shit and hope for the best.
What if your soulmate is at the Louvre and you never get there?
We do want the chip to be "large" eventually. The scalability doesn't have anything with those, however. Refrigerators are pretty large and these devices are really really tiny; also qubits shouldn't be spaced "far" apart, this would kill all the (controllable) couplings.
Yes, sorry about that, the website is definitely not mobile-friendly yet. That is on my list of things to add.

But don't they say if you're not embarrassed with the first version you launch, you're launching too late? I guess I'm doing it right haha