skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google is an advertisement company there is nothing conspiratorial about them using their market share to force ads on people. After all whats the point of supporting chrome if it sells no adds.
It really doesn't seem like the EU membership of, say, Portugal has anything to do with these problems. That organisational chart may appear overly complicated, but it's no different than any other chart for any other project of this size.

So apart from n=1 always being on the low side to draw vast conclusions, any comparison with similar projects will show that this kind of thing simply happens with complex projects. How's the F-35 these days? Or the 737-MAX?

The Airbus/Boeing comparison may actually be the most informative here, Airbus being the quintessential pan-European technology project. And if you compare them over the decades of their existence, I believe the only conclusion one can be confident in is that then national/international difference in their respective setups just doesn't matter that much.
> Which is much better than just declaring end of life and no further updates.

Undoubtably true, although I would add that it hardly promotes free software as a "generally good thing" if the landscape is full of zombie projects like this, devoid of any community that makes open source what it is.
>An american anime geek does not have more in common with a japanese anime geek than an american evangelical. Race, nation, language, history, etc are far more potent than what naive utopian people wish it were.

Studies on international otaku subcultures show large commonalities between them. Perhaps you just chose a bad example, but I don't think your point is convincing.
This Week in DevOps: November 11th
Hey Everyone,

As a long time DevOps practitioner and advocate, I struggled to keep up with the constant barrage of new cloud and devops provider announcements each week. So I decided to aggregate all the major announcements in one place with a short summary so you don't have to read the whole article to see if it's something that interests you.

I will be blogging each Monday and then sending the article out as an email newsletter. I hope you find this useful, it's something I wanted for a long time, so I finally decided to create it myself.
True. In Finland where taxation is high, you get a certain sum per year that you can hire home improvement work without tax. (Ie you can deduce it from your taxes). Also makes tax avoidance a little less attractive.
It's not standard everywhere. My theory is that furniture and home fittings like doors have not really been disrupted by the internet (perhaps because of high shipping costs and bulky sized items). Therefore, there is wide variance in cost and quality from country to country.
> Maybe this is the result of 30 years of wage stagnation.

Don't think so. My family moved to the US in the early 80s and all the same observations applied back then.
Well, the fridge needs to be opened, closed, has inner compartments, you need to be able to regulate the temperature, possibly to let the user know the fridge is running/which temperature is inside... all this happens in the kitchen, possibly with dirty hands, or with wet hands, or while you're holdin ga handful of things... that's all UX-related aspects.

The Design of Everyday Things, by Donald Norman, had a nice example of how even the wheels for regulating the temperature can be very confusing (and indeed, in basic fridges you don't regulate the temperature, you set a number on the scrollwheel e.g. between 1-7. But is 7 a higher temperature or higher cooling power?).
This looks great. I am primarily a Logic X guy, but my son uses Ableton mainly for his live act (looping). This announcement has prompted me to dive a little deeper into the Ableton world to see what it is all about.

I know Logic has fairly powerful MIDI connectivity etc., but it looks like this takes it to a whole new level with different audio comms protocols. Wonder if they support PureData at all?
I have to agree that it depends on specifics. Being used to the famous and beloved Wegman's in the US, I'm finding the Sainsburys and Tescos of my neighborhood in London to be a real disappointment.
Making the Music Industry More Financially Accessible (3k Songs to Date)
Women in Tech: Nenne Adaora Nwodo
Marina Hinojosa of PBS did an episode of "America by the Numbers" hunting racism in Idaho:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=R2TDc1lgZrQ
Also Lidl, at least in Sweden, does some things amazingly. One of the best shops for produce, for instance, both in quality and price.
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Absolutely agreed, To add to that, I will post a link to a comment I made in the past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21256125.
I bought some bread from Safeway earlier this year in August. I called the number on the package when the bread started to mould within four days of me buying it.

Outside of New York City area, I wouldn't think of doing groceries more than once a week. The place I've lived at are all terrible in terms of how grocery stores are walkable.
You’re shopping at the wrong places. There is good bread out there.

For better or worse, a lot of Americans like fluffy white bread that’s loaded with preservatives to give it a long shelf life. That’s what they ate as kids & they’ve never branched out.

I’m not defending US mass market bread, but I do think it’s largely a matter of differing tastes and values. Your comment (and much of this thread) comes off as “I have different values, I don’t understand mainstream American values in this or that regard so let me tell you why they suck and why we’re better than you”.

So yeah, it’s flame-baity & perhaps even unkind. Even if you’re right. A gentle reminder: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21490714
Tell that to the Beatles, Stones, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix... but yeah I kinda agree ;-)
> I'm not vegan, but that's absurd.

Sorry, I'm having trouble figuring out from your response what it is that you disagree with. The main point of my post is to address the question of whether it's ethical to raise and eat animals at all: whether, all things being equal, a world in which nobody eats cows or sheep or chickens is better than a world in which we eat cows and sheep and chickens, but give them decent living conditions.

Obviously other things are not equal, as I alluded to in my final paragraph.
Nope, no copies. This is (at least I thought it was) an original project. The idea was to create new web components little by little and use them as building blocks. Like fos-bar, for example, it's a generic bar that can be used on the fos-desktop or the fos-window.
Most supermarkets in the UK have in store bakeries. Buying fresh, good quality bread, including sourdough, etc. is easy.

I don’t recognise your statement on most bread being made for a toaster.

Edit: admittedly not as good as some other European countries.
How to get a spa therapist job onboard a luxury yacht
Sounds like something a true-blue Aussie bloke would come up with.
The limit surely isn't anywhere near having meat in every single meal, including bacon in milkshakes.
Douglas Hofstadter's Le Ton beau de Marot is a great read, and discusses these issues in depth. (Hofstadter is strongly on the side of creative rather than literal translations.)
Ever tried Italy? ;)

I think quartirolo (https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartirolo_Lombardo) is the closest to the white cheese you're looking for and also salty ewe's ricotta is pretty similar.
Ping pong is almost solved: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZzL2rDNSJk Give it a year or two and it will probably beat the world champion. Tennis is more challenging, but still, the surface is flat, no obstacles, so a platform with wheels carrying an arm with a racket could be fast and stable.

I'm not even sure what would be the hardest part to make a champion tennis robot.
IIRC, Markus Petersson, the creator of Minecraft, worked for a long time on Wurm Online, an MMO where you can kinda do what you're talking about - as a group or individual, you can level forests, dig down mountains, build roads, cities, etc. It's a slow and labor-intensive grind but it is a game where as a community you can change the whole game world's geography.

I saw it was on Steam the other day, I guess they tried to add some storyline to it.
There are already 1873 German Aldi discounters in the US. Maybe it's not where the HN croud buyes their stuff (that would be trader joe's ;) ). But there is a way to get cheap fresh produce in the US now.
With respect to their core CPU business, they were executing on a monopoly playbook since the start of the decade - 4 core desktops and 5% generational improvements on the same architecture, every generation - which made them organizationally unfit to stay competitive. When the Ryzen chips first launched they quickly moved to punch up the core counts to keep pace, but were still waiting on their 10nm process to come through, so they ran out of breathing room really quickly. For the past year it's just been "run hotter and engage in FUD", and now that AMD has got onto 7nm process there's really no comparison to be made.

Could they have seen it coming? Absolutely, and they could have had a new architecture ready earlier or adjusted their process plans to de-risk, but again, multiple years of uncontested dominance in their main business tends to make things that aren't next quarter top-line a lower priority. And I think that really is at the heart of the issue with their projects failing so frequently. Intel's pursued anti-competitive practices for decades, and when it works, they coast along without urgency, letting marketing call the shots, and when it doesn't they use their economic moat to rush a solution.

But this time, with everything running late, Intel is going to face several quarters ahead without having a real response on the CPU front. They are not going anywhere, though. Their foundry channel is needed to meet global demand for new chips - a good deal will still find buyers. They still have plenty of existing agreements to work with, and can negotiate their way through a lean patch. And they have their new GPU stuff coming soon which should hopefully give them a piece of a different market. There will be plenty of stress to re-org along the way, though, so Intel could come out of this looking very different.
While a sphere is going to be in the same ballpark, a cube of 1mm³ is presumably easier to imagine.
You updated your post since I have made my comment. I have no issues with the new version.
I predict there will be much more assembly programming required in the future to squeeze out as much as performance as possible because the end of Moore's Law is already very apparent for several applications that can not be easily parallelized. It is a complete myth that you "can't beat the C-compiler" as it is claimed so often. The compiler can't know many things you know about the problem at hand. So far I have been able to beat gcc on a regular basis while just relying on x86_64 (which means using no instructions/registers beyond SSE2.0).

Right now I'm looking for a C/Shader-like language for x86_64/Linux which allows you to be much closer to the metal without requiring you to go down to the cumbersome level of ASM syntax and at the same time shedding libc and use syscalls instead (E.g. if you have specific knowledge about the data structures you want to map you can use the heap much more efficient than plain old malloc). So far I found nothing.
That's how you make people switch to Firefox, Brave, Opera, etc.
In Poland the in-house bakery in a grocery store is the cheap and convenient way to get bread if you can't be bothered to get actual quality (not made from deeply frozen dough).

So if the Polish baseline is super fancy for NL, NL is better than UK and UK baseline is artisanal US bread, I wonder what baseline US bread looks like. It's made of sponge and sugar?
Safari's limit is significantly higher, and bluntly nobody is using Safari because they think it gives them user freedom.
You don’t need the “INTO df_merged” or entire second line, right?
Don't forget Hotspot as a way to visualize perf results, which vanilla perf is unfortunately a bit lacking in: https://github.com/KDAB/hotspot
Ubiquity hardware sends telemetry and it cannot be turned off
I received a phosphorescent Sony Beans Walkman as a gift from my gym in Tokyo. It read "They grow in the dark!" on the package.

Here is an image. The orange one has the type, while on the others it seems to be corrected.
https://img.alicdn.com/imgextra/i3/948158/TB2nUm9ni0TMKJjSZF...
Thank you, that was a well written and informative post.
Any amount of running, even once a week, is better than none
And yet the deep state managed to install a Kenyan communist as the President of the United States, even though Romney won the popular vote, and was only beaten by the phoney Electoral College and yet no one shot this tyrant even after future President Trump called for revolution on twitter:

https://mashable.com/2012/11/06/trump-reacts-to-election

So the facts suggest it doesn't work that well.
uMatrix is specifically designed and optimized to work on domains. The rules syntax is:

source hostname {white spaces} destination hostname {white spaces} [request type {white spaces} [action]]
Aldi and Lidl's quality is overall better in Ireland because they use local suppliers for certain items. The dairy and meat in Germany is quite low quality for example, although the beer is way better and cheaper in Germany.
My 2007 Toyota Camry was made in the US and has a known problem of burning oil because the sealing between the piston and the cylinder rent desire all the oil back or something.

My next car will not be made in the US, regardless of manufacturer.
Discussion of the Anandtech article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21473235
Hah! And I have completely the opposite experience - with the exception of modern American cars of course (still miss my 90s Chrysler Saratoga!) Europe is very often about the looks and the function is secondary.

The most recent example - Vaillant vs Honeywell heating controllers. Vaillant looks fancy with decorative, smoothly flowing elements, knobs and fancy backlight, and the Honeywell unit is, well, spartan: big LCD letters, primitive graphics. Vaillant is crazy - it is too slow to react on temperature changes, the interface is just horrible: imagine no escape or back button - you just have to idle a minute to go back to the "main screen." It takes 30 seconds or so to connect wirelessly to the boiler, sometimes it fails or even freezes and requires a reset, and I can go on forever. I hate the fucking thing. Honeywell... Well it just works.
> which once seemed a company on their knees

Weren't AMD cpus a good alternative to intel for most consumers ? If I remember correctly athlon, phenom, FX were pretty good for the price. Or are you talking about earlier times ?

edit: "good alternative" perf/price wise, yes intel used to have the advantage in raw performance but their pricing made AMD cpus look very interesting for most consumers.
oops, fixed. Thanks !
> “I have different values, I don’t understand mainstream American values in this or that regard so let me tell you why they suck and why we’re better than you”.

If your "values" are medically unhealthy... I'll let you draw your own conclusions ;-)
> is so obsessed with the discount model,

It is really not.

Nobody goes to LIDL to buy food, unless has some real money problem.

You have to make a different comparison: buy quality food from a local farmer and the same food from a local European farmer.

You will notice that in Europe is much more common than you think, it can usually be found in the local market in your neighborhood and it's much cheaper than in the US.

> the meat, cheese, and chocolate is great, but it stops there.

Basically every kind of raw food, except maybe for raw meat, in Europe taste better.

Including vegetables and fruit.
What are the infertility treatment options available in India?
It's made of sponge and sugar?

Yes, pretty much. It’s very bad.
Design maybe but their engineering is not exactly stellar. Ableton is pretty crashy, especially when working with external plugins (including their own Max). I’m not sure I’d be thrilled by that in the context of an OS.
Yeah, it is strange for me too. I live in Poland and such doors are the only kind that is being sold - it protects one from the winters.
I didn't know you could run graphical apps in Docker. How does that work?
Many many people use adblockers now. The amount of users they will alienate would be very high.
In California, proper vegetables are very attainable.
On mobile i use brave, and when things break I switch to chrome. I tried Firefox multiple times, but I can't help but miss the swipe the address bar to go from tab to tab. I always revert back to chrome. So it's more of a convenience for me.

But if I had to choose between adblock or swipe to switch tab, then they made the decision for me. There is no way I can ever browse the web without an adblocker
They are, but the drivetrain is a very small part of a modern vehicle.

If we're talking about Tesla in particular, if you've ever watched those transplant drivetrain videos you can see that aside for the battery temperature control and a few other things it isn't super complex.

Where Teslas are complex is everything else. Tesla started as a luxury brand and you can really tell even in the Model 3. Everything is electrified. Everything. Even the door handles themselves have electric motors in them. That little flap that changes the direction of the airflow in other cars? Electric motor in a Model 3. The design aesthetic is almost a contradiction with the reality: minimalism brought to you by huge increases in back-end complexity.

I'm not claiming this is intrinsically bad (nor good). But I am pointing out that when you complicate simple things you add more points of failure. The "debate" is if the assembly/maintenance/etc costs are worth the benefits provided, and that is largely a matter of opinion (and how much people value the benefits).
Yes but performance was not part of the question. Any correct solution would do. I see this a lot that people go an extra mile trying to optimize the solution and introducing bugs along the way instead having a simple certainly correct solution and optimize it later if necessary. It is funny that the string version is faster in Python.
While I am not so old I remember a time before dialup, I definitely remember travelling without basically all the things that you mention here. To me, the more things have been said to change, the more they are exactly the same. Consider that perhaps a perceived difference lies mostly in the eye of the beholder.
Sorry about that, and thanks for the correction.
what do you call a master craftsman ? his pantorouter build is far above the usual craftmanship IMO. Maybe not the best but clearly worth knowing.
This. America has always been considered crude by Europe when it fines to cuisine, craftsmen, etc.
I found this part very interesting: "In fact, the quality of brand-new Model X vehicles today is 3.5 times better than the quality of brand new Model X cars from 2015.".

(I have no idea what "quality" means here, and how you can put a number on that, that rises 3.5x, but that's beside the point).

With one sentence, Tesla is telling 2015 customers that they got screwed over, and future customers that they should wait 4 years after a new model comes out before buying it, because they need that time to figure out all the quality issues.
Portugal Solved Its Drug Crisis. Why Can’t America Do the Same?
The article leaves in unclear whether this is actually a reproducible effect, or even what exactly the claim is. The "Recent Reviews" section seems to be the most informative part of this article.
re: privacy monitoring

I prototyped an access logger based on tamper evident logs, which used rolling hash codes. Precursor to this blockchain mania.

re: visibility

I'm still bullish on the Translucent Database thesis. TLDR: Use the password salt + hash technique to encrypt data at rest at the record level.

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Source: Designed, implemented, supported 5 regional healthcare exchanges. eg Brooklyn Health Information Exchange (BHIX): https://www.itnonline.com/content/medplus-implement-clinical...
As (perhaps) obvious as this argument is, you will find a large part of US-based commenters claiming freedom-related limitations wilfully ignores skewed power relationships (or deny that they exist). Given that premise, what you see is not a view that will be shared by them.
Quick cash. Selling at auction means guaranteed money in a matter of days. When the house is sold on the market, it can take months to sell it. In those months the bank is losing money as it's tied up in the house and not actively generating revenue. If the home owner has a mortgage of 50% against the home, it only has to sell for 50% market rate for the bank to recoup their investment fully.
The United States is the World's richest third-world country.

You have crazy levels of gun violence, high inequality, tribal politics, high levels of corruption that have been legalized via Super-PACs, effectively state-run media (Fox News), highest per-capita incarceration, a failing medical system, failing infrastructure, etc, etc...

The best example I can think of to show how far the US has fallen behind the rest of the world is that it's one of only a handful of countries that hasn't adopted the Metric system!
I’m not sure I’d put a preposition in my shortlist of favorite words, but you do you I guess…
I have travelled US a lot and have rented a lot of different cars. Honestly I don't know a much about reliability (except I got several problems with top Nissan models),
but comparing to US cars, the rest of the world cars just don't drive and are not fun. And then you got Tesla which is crap inside but for some reason is super fun and you want to buy it immediately.
Useful anecdote to learn from but not the article I expected from reading the title. I was prepared to read a story about literal rubber bands.
The trick to finding real bread in the U.S. is to skip the “bread aisle” in grocery stores like Safeway. Instead, look to shelves in the bakery section for fresh-baked, un-sliced whole loaves of bread without sugar added.
The duplication I see in the commercial world in ML inference hardware is in designs similar to the TPU... So a big ~128x28 accumulating mat-mul array, with enough memory throughput to get one operand in and out fast, and enough cache to store the other operand (weights) and switch between which weights are used so the mat-mul array can very efficiently do larger matrix sizes.

Also lookup tables for a bunch of activation functions.

That basic design can efficiently implement nearly any neural net architecture as long as the layer sizes are at least 128x128 and fixed point is okay.

The other exotic designs you suggested are more academic research things, and not yet deployed at scale in anyone's datacenters.
> According to the New York Times, at least a quarter of the world’s countries have temporarily shut down the internet over the past four years.

I was a bit shocked reading this sentence. A quarter of the world's countries is a big percentage. But apparently that is the case.

There is a good report by Freedom House that analysis "Freedom on the Net"[1] and it seems that the trend of restricting access is a global phenomena. (especially across "less-connected" countries).

[1]: https://freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/FOTN_2018_Final...