skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two major dimensions to the operational cost weaknesses of open source. Neither is guaranteed to be meaningfully exploited by proprietary software in any particular case. Since we are talking about operational costs, this is almost entirely about data infrastructure software, not things like React.

First, there is a vast amount of supported operational tooling that is simply missing from open source ecosystems. PostgreSQL, which I still use extensively, is a perfect example of this. The code bases around this tooling are several times the size of the product they support, and it isn't the kind of code that most developers aspire to write despite its high value to the customer. Oracle and SQL Server have architectures that are as obsolete as PostgreSQL, they don't compete on the basis of being modern, efficient designs but on the basis of having dramatically better operational tooling. Cloud RDBMS attack a different aspect of this.

Second, is the operational infrastructure costs i.e. how much hardware is required to run a given workload. This is the larger threat to open source, particularly as the data intensity of business increases. PostgreSQL, Kafka, and Redis (I've used all three operationally) have several times the hardware requirements to deliver a workload in practice than is required with a state-of-the-art architecture. This isn't hypothetical, I've designed engines that replaced them when warranted. An 80% reduction in infrastructure cost is attractive when you are already spending tens or hundreds of millions of dollars per year on it. Some popular proprietary software is just as inefficient but that isn't guaranteed to remain the case (and I've replaced those systems too). Designing efficient software architecture isn't magic (see: ScyllaDB), you simply see very few examples of it in open source because it isn't a priority (see: use of managed languages for data infrastructure despite this being a known limitation).

The reality is that I can guarantee data intensive businesses who make competent use of open source that I can reduce their infrastructure costs by 4x with ease. You can bury a massive amount licensing and engineering costs in those savings.

Also, some companies are explicitly looking at this as a major "green" initiative. The wasteful infrastructure footprint to deliver a workload with open source is viewed as environmentally unfriendly, and this is pushing companies to consider proprietary solutions even if they are not sensitive to operational costs. That isn't a conversation open source is currently prepared to have but it is coming.
You work on ads at Google and feel that ad tech is a house of cards?

I actually disagree, primarily because of the auction. It's an incredibly clever way to ensure Google's incentives are aligned with the advertisers'. Assuming rational bidders, Google can only charge more per click if the clicks deliver more value to the advertisers. If Google just sends a bunch of garbage clicks to the advertisers, they will just lower their bids.
Wait, what? Give people more credit, a lot of people know it stands for the commercial domain name and understand the implications of that.
I don’t see why there “illegal math” is any more illogical a category than “illegal nuclear physics” or “illegal rocket engineering”
It seems you were invaluable to this startup, and the founders seems to be aware of it. You are in a good position to talk directly to them about the issue. Be professional, and if the founders are thinking rationally they’ll hopefully act to create the good environment for you because they like you and your work, and maybe remove the team lead. If they are not, then they are not considering your contribution to it’s just value, and/or they are not courageous enough to act. In these case you can leave with peace of mind, to find a place where you and you work will be more appreciated.

(Sorry for my limited English)
Yoga and Orientalism
This is just absurd - this is not a complex thing to implement and you'd think that folks would be hyper vigilant this time around. I guess most people never learn.
Just found out about saccade induced retrieval enhancement and wanted to share here. It's about how moving eyes for a bit enhances explicit recall. There weren't many articles covering this phenomenon so sorry for picking an article with somewhat editoralized title.
Fascinating! Thank you for sharing, OP! Having recently gone down a similar rabbit hole [1], having references and starting points is incredibly useful for further exploration, as this stuff is very hard to search for.
There does seem to be a direct computational link between information and the universe - and the way we’re using this link now , with classical computers, is highly abstracted and inefficient (the article also compares current energy cost of computing vs the much much lower theoretical limit). Quantum computers come closer to the nature of that link, but still require many abstractions.

I wonder if it will be possible to eventually compute without abstractions, directly on the substrate of the universe. Though that might be equivalent to real magic ;)

1. https://juretriglav.si/computing-with-nature/
I appreciate your perspective, but I'm not sure whether you're deeming me unqualified to pass an opinion or what? (Sorry. lol) I'm a lifelong musician, so I absolutely appreciate and respect Collier's technique. But I don't think it's beyond reason to say that I yearn for emotional substance in his work. I have always considered frisson to be invoked from both a technical and emotional balance in music. It is not just mechanical. That said, emotion is a subjective experience. Collier certainly has the technical prowess and he uses it heavily, but he seems to lack a mature emotional component. Paraphrasing the original commenter, it's not that Jacob can't get there but I am looking forward to when he does reach that point.

> people are going to be dissecting Jacob Collier harmonic choices in the 2100s

I hope so! He's nothing short of prodigy.
Also check out other courses from Prof. Andy Pavlo https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHnBsf2rH-K7pn09rb3qvkA/pla...
Ryzen 9 3950X is out of stock
> boy, does this guy's ethos for fossil impress me a lot more than the justifications i hear for the insane complexity of git.

git is not complex though. It just has an absolutely godawful "high-level" user interface.

Porcelain (high-level commands) are really shortcuts on sets of low-level operations usually performed together, which is why e.g. `checkout` is used simultanously for reverting working copy chances and switching the entire thing to arbitrary commits or branches.

That also makes git extremely hard to learn "top down" beyond rote learning of a few commands: from that POV the CLI is completely incoherent so you can't really build an intuition for what command could do what operation. The terrible naming doesn't help either.

If you have the time and desire to start from the on-disk storage (ignoring packfiles) you can build your own in a few hours.
I disagree about the opex cost, as anyone who has had to pay for oracle consultants to come in and fix a borked dB would.. I think that a more accurate assessment is 2x-10x the claimed sticker opex cost that the vendors talk about. The problem bring that "boss my system has shat its pants and I need half the budget to g fix it" is a story that NO ONE in ANY corporate can tell twice.
Wouldn't it be pretty different if he travelled to North Korea to help the people living there, maybe even to help them against the North Korean government. Instead of actually helping the North Korean government itself?
Twitter —> shouting into the void ?
> Meanwhile Intel is still the only good option for laptops

The new Thinkpad E595 replaces an Intel CPU with Ryzen (5/7 3x00U), and some reviews[1] seems to claim it’s a better laptop for it.

[1] https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-E595-laptop-re...
I very much respect and appreciate this perspective, however I think it's important to consider the context of what React is used for. It's made for things like building store fronts and UIs for SaaS companies. Stuff that's list of things, and has some form input. It isn't really used for games. Not to say that React couldn't be used for that, but most people aren't using React while also placing extreme pressure on the GPU.

Also, I don't know if people want an e-shopping experience that has the visual complexity of feeling like they're playing a video game.
Starting with "X is a Dick" will be less effective than "I'm having problems delivering, can you please help me - looks like my manager is running me to the ground". Thats all I'm saying.

You're probably more likely to salvage the relationship if you position it as process issues and give the Lead some room to walk back.

Even tho it is usually personal.
Originally posted by pg in 2007: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=76462
On how messages while drunk can have disproportionate effect
Another list of Amazon affiliate links from this same author (tag petacrunch-20). Ironically, it's behind the Medium paywall.
How is P2P killed? I would say P2P matured. There's open source stable torrent software. Just use it, it works.
US Police Have Started Testing Robot Dogs and You Shouldn't Be Scared Yet
3950X isn't a Threadripper. Which is just even more impressive.
Sure, but it also seems unlikely that anyone would be this dumb.

OP’s point isn’t that Griffith is innocent, just that we’re likely missing some piece of info which would make his motivations/thought process make more sense.
better off !== success
The T5 scored 1 NCAP star for pedestrian safety.
I have been lurking on Reddit for 5 years without an account. Decided to create an account last week. Deleted it within a day because I didn’t enjoy the new experience. I prefer reading what other people are writing and also prefer a mix of subreddits.
You should not put all eggs into one basket. Amazon might ban your account any day and you'll end up with no data. Or your data might lost because of some bug. There's Google coldline, there's online.net C13, they have similar price. Use at least 2 different providers.
While I do agree that Collier is a musician's musician, I don't agree with the remark he should look for people who are "cooler" and the "hip-hop and dance" bullshit. That is so denigrating. Music's purpose is not trying being cool. It sells, surely, but so does Helene Fischer.
I used to agree totally, but now I have a more nuanced view. While artificial scarcity offends my hacker sensibility, I also have to admit that this creates a society I like, with talented wealthy celebrities, and a large population of people who make their living in and around the industry. I'm not sure I would like a society where creative acts only happens in home studios and the work is given away for free, and all artists have to have day jobs.
This is quite strangely written, but if I understood correctly:

- they got $1.1 B for selling PIR
- the will build a new misterious endowment to manage this money,

right?
Today's paperclip monster is yesterday's gray goo. Today's AGI is yesterday's nanoscale economy. All run into obvious mundane practical challenges like power, resources, scaleability, stability, error correction, and so on.

Of course if you assume those problems are easily solvable implementation details you can produce all kinds of dramatic speculations - which (IMO) are mostly nonsense.
Google changed it lately without any special notification. Unfortunately. There are more things to watch out.

For example if you set a budget of 100 dollars per day, Google can, and most likely, will, spend 200 dollars in short campaign per day.

Another thing: in display campaign, on default, most of the budget will be drained by mobile fraud applications that generate fake clicks. And also by video clicks made by babies on YouTube. And Google removed an option to disable mobile apps altogether lately.

Keyword targeting - on default Google uses broad matching including variants etc. Eventually you can pay for clicks for non relevant keywords that will also drain most of the budget.

Another thing: Google advises to put ads on your company name. It is a neat strategy, because you pay for something you had for free. And campaign seems to have better statistics.

Another thing. You wont believe it, untill you see it. Aprox up to 80% of ad traffic are bots. And advertising platforms does not recognize it or refund.

And so on... I am working on Google Ads campaigns for several years now. Always say to my client two things:

1) Google and Facebook will spent every penny you want to spend

2) Spend on ads only such amount on money, you can live without, and keep it running for a longer time without interruption.

3) Optimise often
If I use twitter again, I will use it as a news source. I will follow news outlets, IT personalities, sports personalities, sports clubs, and Presidents. I won’t even tweet. Tweeting when you aren’t a celebrity or public figure is a waste of time.
Define "sustainable".

Seems like it encourages companies to get in a bidding war against each other in a race to zero profit margins, while Google pockets what could have been their revenue.
This is slowly improving, at least; `git switch` is now a thing, for example. https://git-scm.com/docs/git-switch/2.23.0
Reference Frames
> Does Spotify really cut that deep into the demographic of hardcore music tracker users?

It does because private trackers use buffer as currency. The music trackers have had to adapt to use points systems now to encourage downloading activity. But even still, activity is way down from the what.cd days. It's just easier to stream the easily accessible stuff.
Is it? Based on the comments, the situation looks like "it doesn't work and nobody has figured out how to make it work."
The allegation is that they use a Oxylabs-like service for disneyplus.com specifically. Your speed test result using a Total Servers Solutions LLC connection to a non-disneyplus.com destination is irrelevant to that allegation.
For those who don't know, A New Kind of Science is when Stephen Wolfram of Mathematica fame wrote something like 1000 pages in layman's terms to convince you of his pet theory that the universe is a cellular automaton.

I didn't the hate the book but it was pretty weird and not super scientific.
Most SSDs only guarantee your data for 90 days when off. Even high grade, SLC, professional SSDs. Hard drives fare better, but your best bet for decade-long conservation remains tape.
A company enforcing software patents is no longer "open source" in a meaningful sense.
Show HN: Inletsctl kfwd for Kubernetes port-forwarding
which local voice assistants have you tried? is Snips one of them? I'm thinking of setting that up for my next raspberry pi project but I havnt really done a whole lot of research on it either so maybe it's a waste of time
Yes, all modern disks use error correcting. Wrong bit reads happen frequently in HDD and corrected all the time. Bits can't rot in HDD or SSD outside of firmware bugs or transmission errors. You'll get sector read error instead of wrong data.
But in order to run a business you have to get customers from somewhere. And referrals aren't an option until you already have customers.
North Korea. Is this an actual question?

Since technically the Korean War never ended, yes, there is a war.
HuffPost is reportedly on the auction block
The seizing of .org is a scheme. I hope the US government steps in and puts the crooks in prison. Seriously, removing the caps right before the sale is a scheme with ICANN people paid under the table.
From the article:
"Delmer Joel Ramirez Palma had reported potentially dangerous lapses in construction safety to his supervisors before the collapse, according to lawyers"

From previous article:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/22/new-orleans-...
"Construction managers allegedly told him to ignore the issues"

Whistleblowing doesn't just mean going above the head of your supervisor. It can mean reporting issue directly to them. Wouldn't you agree?

Yes, he probably should have taken it further but maybe his immigration status made him reluctant to do so. And I think that's what clouding this case. But the timeline is pretty clear.
> For archivers there is now writable M-Disc bluray discs which claim to have longevity of 1000 years.

ISO cert' states 1000 years mean lifetime (coin flip chance) but only 530 at 95% confidence. And that's at a constant 22C and 50% humidity.

And that's solely for the original 4.7GB DVD, not blu-rays.

> There have even been some accelerated aging tests that were able to somewhat confirm that.

OTOH others (the French National Laboratory of Metrology and Testing) did not and found m-discs to be no better (and possibly worse) than other high-quality discs with an accelerated aging setup of 90C 85% humidity.
there is Snips as well. you can install it on a raspberry pi but I think they are working on making an actual hardware speaker too
It’s not clear how talent is being measured. Is it IQ, resiliency, motivation ?

And luck goes both ways, good luck or bad luck, we are all way way luckier just by being alive today
The Computer Failure Data Repository
Clearly, you've never ridden your bike in the city.
Right hooks are common, and they're really hard to be "prepared for".
Spying tools website taken down after UK raids
This is going to be one of the reasons why CD collecting (whether it's games, music or otherwise) will likely stall. Even games which have been kept in perfect condition can suffer from rot as a result of poor quality control.

Cartridges are generally more hardened unless they contain some battery-based saving system and even then a dead battery can be replaced.
That RFC hasn't been in effect, unfortunately, since the Internet became mainstream.
The author states the following under "Types of Relocations":

>"Addend The addend available in from the relocation entry discussed above"

I'm having trouble parsing this sentence. Should this be "the addend from the relocation entry discussed above" or 'in the form of"? I feel like this an important part of the article but there's a typo. Where and how is the "addend" obtained exactly? From the program counter?
Disputed Maternity Leading to Identification of Tetragametic Chimerism
Copyright is a specific legal right granted to authors, with the (ostensible) intent of balancing the rights of authors against the rights of readers. Copying a bunch of bits is legal by default, but we specifically outlaw copying certain bits under certain specific conditions. Copyright is not unconditional, universal or perpetual. In the EU, there is an element of "use it or lose it" due to the Orphan Works Directive - if the copyright holder cannot be located, then national libraries have the right to digitise and distribute the orphan work.

In the digital age, there is a perfectly reasonable case to be made for some kind of "unavailability exception" to protect the rights of readers in poorly-served markets and prevent anti-competitive hoarding of copyrighted works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_Works_Directive
Backblaze B2 as well, they advertise B2 at 0.5c/GB/mo, coldline is advertised at 0.4 (though the official docs quote 0.7c[0]), Glacier is 0.4 to 0.5 depending on the zone.

Azure apparently has an "archive" tier for 0.1c, which you can lower even further with long-term high-volume reservation: if you reserve 1PB for 3 years it's 0.081c/GB/mo (using only local redundancy) in the cheapest DCs where it's available (some DCs either don't have that feature at all, or it's way more expensive e.g. 0.1636 in asian DCs where it's available).

[0] https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing#storage-pricing
To me what is utterly crucial is to use pie pictures to
convince children (and adults...) that 1/2 + 1/3 cannot possibly equal 2/5. If they actually buy this that’s a pretty good inflection point in their education on fractions.
List of datasets for machine-learning research
My thought is "and so what?"

Domains are a monoploy with outrageous fees for new TLDs. This is what should be fought and not the fact they one of the TLDs is under the control of yet another entity.
I have the original install disks for BoeingCalc, the precusor to the more famous VisiCalc (Excel) but they're unreadable using consumer grade tech. Probably the only public copy of the software that I'm aware of.
You know everybody, don't you? Just last month Eric Volpe was telling me how you showed up at his house and gave him paper tape for his teletype!

> Even if you had nanomachines, building something big with a chemically powered system might take as long as growing a tree.

Suppose you have a tree-sized vat of milk --- 5 tonnes, say --- which has been boiled to sterilize it and allowed to cool down to 44°, the optimal temperature for Streptococcus thermophilus, where it is being maintained by a thermostat as it is stirred continuously with an impeller. You introduce a single Streptococcus bacterium, two microns in diameter, into the vat. If it happens to survive, how long does it take to convert the entire vat into yogurt, metabolizing most of the lactose into lactic acid?

Our initial seed bacterium is about 4 x 10¯¹⁸ m³ in volume. If we suppose that S. thermophilus doubles its population every 30 minutes under these circumstances, which is quite close to the truth, the answer is about 30 hours, entirely under the strength of the clouds of nanomachines floating around in the milk, despite the absence of external electrical power.

If we instead grant ourselves the luxury of dumping an entire 250-ml cup of seed yogurt into the vat, it only takes a bit over 7 hours.

You will note that this is noticeably faster than the time needed to grow a full-sized tree, even in a 44° rain forest; clearly there was plenty of chemical energy to transform a sufficient fraction of the vat into peptidoglycan to give it structure. This suggests that the tree's biology is not optimized to take advantage of the abundance of chemical resources available in such a quotidian object as a sterilized vat of milk; instead, it arises from a history of substantially more hostile environments, where such rapid growth will merely exhaust the available resources and then allow leaf-cutter ants to harvest your tender, unprotected leaves. There is no particular reason that nanotechnological factories need to operate under such conditions.

This is far from a wild speculation; yogurt-making is a well-understood industrial process, practiced for centuries if not millennia, which can be easily scaled down to tabletop experiments, and often is.

Of course, the gelled mass of bacterial corpses we call yogurt has substantially less macroscopic structure than a tree, and is also mechanically weaker, but that's not primarily a matter of available energy or speed of communication; it's a matter of evolutionary optimization. Organizing an ad-hoc network of 10²⁰ computers into a useful morphogenetic process, maybe one that builds a circulatory system into your house so it can keep getting nutrients until it finishes solidifying, is a nontrivial challenge, but it hardly seems like an insuperable one.

Zyvex's "convergent assembly" proposal provides an alternative that avoids the power problem in a different way and is less exposed to the vagaries of noisy self-replication and emergent morphogenesis.

I agree that most current "nanotechnology" is clearly humbug, sharing nothing with Drexler's (or Smalley's) ideas that it doesn't also share with asbestos or wood smoke.
On Earth, you don't even want these walls. City walls were for defense, building in a canyon just gives any attacker the high ground.