skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To keep the focus off your home network, consider instead running your torrent programs on a cheap VM in a cheap VPS provider, then sftp down the files you wish to keep and destroy the VM. You can probably automate this. VPS providers typically have much faster symmetric network connectivity anyway.
One book[1] I read explained this in detail, amongst other similar concepts. It was really interesting and helped me think of how functional concepts could work in OOP languages.

1: https://www.elegantobjects.org/
I was talking marketshare wise.
Otherwise, yes Java is catching up!
Can you give them read only access?
This article is one of those that only looks at the very surface of an issue and immediately jumps to conclusions. My take from this is that the author hates governments and wants to blame issues on governments regulating.

The bit about phosphates being banned doesn't go in to /why/ they were banned. There's a very good reason for it! As use of phosphates grew over the last ~200 years in materials like soap, our waterways became incredibly polluted. Phosphorous in water is one of the major causes of the massive algal blooms that constantly occur as well as the ever growing dead zones in oceans near river outlets. Even today with reduced phosphorous soaps wastewaters contributes about half of the phosphorous in our waters.

Something to think about when complaining about the government causing water spots on dishes.
A little bit. It was a lot easier to escape exclusion by changing your identity in Usenet compared with the real world so motivated trolls would often do that.
110watt max reading with many CPUs firing... I think he might have missed a zero.
The lack of ease with which one gets into and out of the cloud computing business will preclude Google from killing off the GCP products with the same wanton disregard for customers as they demonstrated with social and others.

At worst, they'll sell off or divest the business entirely. They'll expose themselves to tremendous liability if they attempt to wind it down like their other properties.
Huh. I don’t understand it. Over the past years, I’ve moved several times, and lived with five different dishwashers. The dishes come out… clean, except for the occasional bit of rice wedged between tines of a fork or dried guacamole. I do a lot of cooking. I’ve used a few different detergents and never had a problem. I only rarely rinse anything off before putting it in the dishwasher. Most of these have been cheap dishwashers in apartments I rent.

The cycles are long, sure, but I’m usually running the dishwasher before bed or before leaving for work.
"Make lazy engineering lazy again."

High performing appliances still exist -- you just can't get high performance by ignoring environmental concerns anymore.
My team and I work on Actions at GitHub and I just wanted to stop by and add a bit more context. We definitely understand the concerns the article brings up and it's actually why we recommend in our documentation using SHA references when consuming third-party Actions. We also introduced the concept of verified Actions that extend an Organization's verification to Actions in the marketplace. We know there's more to do here to help prevent any malicious Actions and we're planning to continue to iterate. Thanks so much for the feedback and keep it coming.
I've always used TSP to etch a surface to prep it for painting. How long have you used that? Is it dilute enough not to damage?
I have win 10, fast boot and two nvme drives striping in raid 0. Boots in maybe 8 seconds.
Me too. It reminded me of the time I discovered how much Wikimedia spends on salaries [1]. At the time I was sure it would lead to a collapse in donations.

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salarie...
Another complaint I have with jupyter notebooks is that they don't play nice with git. For this (and other reasons), I much prefer Emacs org-mode, or even running Python in Rmarkdown+Rstudio+reticulate.
If the government finding out who you are would result in imprisonment or death, would you want to entrust your safety to Amnesty International's opsec practices? Against a state actor?
PyCharm also has this integration. You can run python files with “#%%” delimiters for cells or Jupyter notebooks. I had issues with scrolling because opening the notebooks results in a split view with editor and notebook rendering.
I can never figure out if these people who have all this trouble with modern dishwashers are doing something really odd, or is there some specific design defect in American dishwashers (beyond the water and energy usage restrictions; European ones are generally stricter) that we don't get over here. "Dishwasher doesn't work properly" seems to be a big talking point in the US, but I've never really seen it here.

Only time I've ever really seen dishwasher problems in person is when people aren't cleaning the filters. Which is an easy and routine task.
Porting Flask to FastAPI for ML Model Serving
I wish Apple would also improve their process for handling “ordinary” non-security bugs.

Since the WWDC 2019 betas and even after release all the way through to the latest updates today, I still run into a bug in Apple software and services, even their IDE and APIs, almost every single day.

Just a few hours ago I had to hard-reset my MacBook because it failed to wake from sleep (beachballed) after plugging in.

This has happened a few times on my barely-a-year old MBP running the latest Catalina, freshly installed and without any system-level/third-party modifications. This is not really acceptable and triggers horrible flashbacks of my time in the Microsoft trenches.
There is a non-trivial energy and chemical expense in purifying water for home use.
Is it because they're not a Windows company that they would suggest this?

If anything registry cleaners are more likely to bork your PC.
Indeed. Familiarity with the environment, features, and such is the biggest selling point when I give recommendations.

Plus, iOS across all your devices tends to "just work" way better than trying to stitch together things across environments via 3rd party apps or web widgets. So if you're already in the iOS ecosystem, just keep extending it.

Of course, the opposite is sorta true too. If you're heavily invested in Android, Android devices will tend to work well together. But with a bit more manual massaging sometimes.

Windows actually had the best across device seemless integrations out of all the offerings. Too bad they didn't make enough market share to make a dent.
None of this rings true to me. I just got a new dishwasher to replace one that was about 15 years old. And the new one works great. The dishes come out clean every time. And compared to the older model, you can barely hear this one running. There's a 1 hour cycle that I use if the dishes aren't very dirty, but for a tougher load, I run the longer cycles. Personally, shorter cycle times aren't really of much benefit... I run the dishwasher overnight.
All empires were multi-ethnic, multi-religious. That doesn’t mean they were tolerant, of course, or that they did anything to promote tolerance and culture mixing. The fear of the emperor/king/sultan kept them all together.

Another example is Yugoslavia. Or USSR

The common ingredient in all of them: Unfree

It s perhaps not an accident that liberal democratic nation states were culturally homogeneous
I remember Asus refusing to accept that there was any flaw with the cc820 at all, and thus not joining in on the recall, it was my last Asus board for a few years as a result (finally turned back to them in ~2006 with a Core 2).

The lack of that recall on Asus brand cc820 based boards, is probably why one commenter notes that they were easy to find in 2014.
(OT): But...as told years ago... um Some people are better in memorizing things. Someone told me that 'managers can memorize 6 or 7 things correctly' -so i answered: 'Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday...-call me a manager!' (-;

And (Disclaimer) sure, this has nothing to do with nothing... or others, but attentional -blink-(crossed out) came to you for an entertaining OT-purpose. ^^
GitHub could completely disappear and it wouldn't cause mass societal chaos or the breakdown of civilization. Those other things you listed, if they disappeared, there's quite a good chance they would cause mass societal chaos or the breakdown of at least certain civilizations. If the judicial system suddenly disappears, I reckon we'll have other things to worry about besides how it affects our build-chains.
My Mum loves her Macbook Air. All I have to do occasionally is click the update button when she's a bit too scared. She manages everything else. It's the best thing ever.
I strongly feel as if the developer community at large need to take another hard look at server-side rendering of business UIs and the benefits this approach can bring.

Consider what you could do if you had a cloud-only multiplayer game engine with all players just receiving a low-latency video stream of their interface and local events being piped back up the same connection, but with some business application built on top. The ability to say that you no longer have a client-server contract and it's all just one big server implementation drops a massive number of design constraints and immediately makes the security and client interface to the system a trivial affair.

Obviously, the downsides with the above are the latency, bandwidth, and additional load seen at the server in order to render client views. But, these are really the only downsides, and none of them are extraordinarily complex in terms of technical resolution. Latency is probably the only hard constraint that cannot be resolved by simply increasing an existing resource. The other 2 can be resolved with More Money™. Everything else is upside from here.
That story is a couple of years old at this point - the company now has more than 6,000 software engineers.
Can a Weapon Be “Unsheathable”?
In the past few years, Bloomberg has been sponsoring a booth at PyCon US (they're always hiring). They have a 3 screen terminal setup there where you can see it in action and ask questions about how it works. They will be there again at PyCon in April in Pittsburgh.
"aggressive liking" is that like a "heart attack"?
“Developing”. They are the #2 economy.
It's to reduce the friction to lock-in. GitHub should Just Work™, regardless if that sacrifices security, because the smoother the experience the more processes you'll build around it, so the harder it'll be to migrate away from it.
There are already other options, if NASA had chosen to fund them -- Sierra Nevada put together a fairly strong bid for their DreamChaser lifting body, which is still being funded as one of the next-generation commercial ISS cargo transports.
One thing that I've never understood as a Scandinavian is why people for their own pure interest doesn't want a wellfare state. Why would you rather have a paranoid society than one where crime and drugs are the exception?
The biggest problem with that story is rural Iowa is almost exclusively Mediacom, who are even worse than Comcast.
Political conservative commentators get hung up on dishwashers as the answer to everything that's declined since the 1950s, because "regulations screwed them up".

The technology changed, but many people's usage of them hasn't, because they used to be simple but inefficient devices that overworked to accomplish a specific task (as described in totally self-unaware and _excrutiating_ detail here) but are now more complex devices that require more than zero thought or effort.
Interesting approach. I don’t like to take the blame either, but I’d never tell my mom and dad to screw themselves. I usually fix whatever is up with their laptops, fortunately they don’t call me up too often. I usually try to go for long term solutions and explain everything carefully.
The real answer is to just get everyone an Apple device. Those physical Apple locations have free classes and year long in person support at the store. One on one in person support only costs approx $100 if the many free classes aren’t enough
Huh, I probably have the same machine and have no issues with it. If I run the normal cycle 90 minutes, it gets about 99% of dishes clean, there might be one that I'll rewash or wash by hand one every other run.

When I have a lot of dishes, like with family over, I'll run the 1/2 hour cycle and 80% of dishes come out clean, then I'll swap out 80% and run the 1/2 hour cycle again, I might leave a few in there on the long cycle when I'm done and in the time it takes to do one load, I've cleaned dishes for 12.
I think the point is the Chinese manufacturers are making minuscule amounts from non-rich consumers. Most of the money is being made by Apple
That sounds like a really excellent way to have your insurer not pay out when you burn your house down.
I am curious about this comment. Do you think that their argument is invalid because they are conservative?
Sorry. This type of guy would gut clean air, water, FDA, “regulations,” you name it, in the name of “free-market” capitalism. I put regulations in quotation marks because they’ve actually utterly integral to a complex technological society. So he writes an interesting piece on a problem some of us have. But he is disguising his intent. Moreover, solving the problems he points out looks like an excellent business opportunity.
But China, Persia, and Rome lasted a whole lot longer than a century or two.

If memory serves, most of the college books considered the height of Roman quality of life, as well as Roman influence in the world, to be the time of Diocletian's reign. (I think he was the tetrarchy guy, but people are free to correct me if there are real historians out there.) In any case, obviously Rome was heterogeneous, again just going by memory here, but it must have been at least before the first century BC. (Assuming the Bible is to be believed. Also, why else would we call it "BC" and "AD"?) So that's like, at least 4 centuries right there.

Persia you can probably go what? At least a thousand years. And that's assuming you only start at Cyrus the Great.

China is China. Different dynasties like the British, but even if you only counted the dynasties that ruled uncontested over all of the different ethnic groups, you'd be talking about a millennia or two at least as a political grouping whether by birthright, marriage or usurpation.

Just pointing out that while some heterogeneous empires certainly fail, all of the empires in mankind's history that were great and long lasting, were unquestionably heterogeneous. I mean, some people may correct me on some details here and there, but in essentials that can't even be debated. It's extremely difficult to take out these empires. And despite what is generally believed, the historical evidence indicates that well run empires are not at all likely to fail on their own. (Even in the face of élites fighting each other, well run places just stand by and watch the old emperor get assassinated, and then, Hey! New emperor in Rome today!) Even at their heights, unless you have a few millennia to wait for failure, they typically just haven't gone away as fast as the homogeneous empires have.
I hope I didn't (again) express my self badly...

Of course I'm not expecting to be spoon-fed with a ready made pricing model, but was just trying to get overall sentiment..

You make a lot of great points, and this is one area where I definitely need help, so thank you for your offer. I'll get in touch after I've survived today :)
And the Soviet Union succeeded partially by having two competing design bureaus.
Where do you get that from the article? They even say tha the memory deficits were observed in constant darkness conditions as well (and therefore due to intrinsic clock not extrinsic light per se). Also keep in mind that mice are nocturnal so poor memory performance late in the light period for them is probably analogous to poor memory performance during early morning for us, when there is no light.
Eh, for my girlfriend’s grandparents? Sure, I’ll fix their WiFi problems to be hailed as a hero and to get brownie points, but also just because I care about them.

Some random schmuck who happens to be at a holiday party and hears that I work with computers? Probably gonna say something along the lines of yeah that’s not my area of expertise so I’m not sure. I work on data conversions, I’m not going to help you load music off iTunes onto your Android that you bought because Trump told you Apple = Bad. And I’m not being hypothetical, this happened to me during Thanksgiving.
It's a cool idea.

However, I personally like not glancing over user karma just to avoid bias. On Slashdot, for instance, I subconsciously assigned higher credibility to posts made by smaller (numeric) ids. The new reddit has it too.
Those salaries are downright modest for something as significant as Wikipedia. I was expecting to see multi-million dollar payouts to execs
It doesn't need to have a normal distribution for this to work. And there is no incentive for parties to form even if it was a 100% polarized electorate.

However, let's imagine a slightly more realistic case where 45% of the room prefers exactly 65 degrees, 46% prefers exactly 75 degrees, and the other 9% are evenly spread in the in-between range. That's far from a normal distribution curves, it is two big spikes and a very low area connecting them.

The median preference is probably going to be around 70/71. A reasonable middle ground. The only way it won't arrive at that result is if people are consistently acting against their own interests.

If people attempt to get strategic about it, and form parties and agree to vote in a particular way, it won't change the result at all. I'm not sure where you are thinking these incentives come from, but I'm saying they don't exist. What is the incentive for an individual voter of doing anything other than voting for their exact preference? If you are one of those closer to the middle, preferring, say, 72 degrees, your vote will have exactly as much upward pull if you vote for 72 compared to voting for 75. Joining the 75 party doesn't help you (but it potentially hurts you, if you were wrong about the median being lower than your preference).

I'll refer again to this, where I built a demonstration app you can play with, or you can just watch the video. If you want it done with polarized distribution, let me know. (it would be easy to hack it to do so)
https://pianop.ly/voting/median.html
> Hell I don't always know where I'm going to put all the groceries I take home

Just don't buy so many groceries. Jk. Actually, I have started working on a project that would help solve this problem (in combination with solving others). It's just nowhere near ready and won't be for a while.

> too much data isn't really useful

That's not what all the companies building huge data centers are saying.

> When we are talking personal data collection it's basically a librarian's job

I'm not really sure I understand this point. What do librarian's have to do with this?
It's still not a business.
Map: Whether Every Country Imports More from China, the EU, or the US
There's also a non-trivial desire for a dishwasher that works well. A requirement that prioritizes water usage over dishwashing performance removes the ability from consumers to make that decision.
Modern Problems for the Smalltalk VM (2014) [pdf]
Andrew Sorensen Live-Coding “Carol of the Bells”
The thinking here is that the "tip" is <= to a single page.

Wikipedia articles can be quite long (and justifiably so) - perhaps scrolling many pages.

The "tip" of an "Iceberg Article" is ".. a single page of writing ..."

Perhaps confusing because I don't mean a "single (web)page" I mean, an actual single page.
Timeline of Web Frameworks
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16159744
When I moved into my current house, I must have purchased the "good stuff" without even knowing it. I didn't really research detergent, just bought something at the store. My dishwasher worked great, and I was quite happy.

Well one day, my dishes started looking foggy and food wasn't getting broken down. I realized that coincided with the fact that I purchased a different detergent. Even the drain and screen were getting clogged with a nasty goo. I really thought something was wrong with the dishwasher and I was getting ready to replace it. Well I decided before swapping out the whole unit, that I should try the old detergent again. Boom, everything came out sparkly clean, and the inside of the dishwasher looked like new again.

I never thought detergents would make that much difference, but apparently they do. How you're supposed to know for sure when buying is beyond me. I guess just keep trying different detergents until you find one that gets your stuff clean.
then there is parkinsons law:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law
Compare south Europe too. Scandinavians have replaced the family/kin based support system with extensive welfare safety net. The south is trying hard to do the same and ends up with corruption. Because people don’t see the same incentives
Not that I've ever heard of, except for a few unaffordably high-end servers that put out absurd amounts of heat. Rackmount servers are meant for datacenters, where noise levels are generally not a concern.
This was a strange decade for tech.

Seems like a lot has changed, but at the same time the companies we were talking about in 2010 are the same companies we're talking about today e.g. FB, Twitter, Apple, Google, Netflix, even Uber all existed in 2010 and are just a more polished version of their 2010 selves.
Maybe not personally but this organization appears to be just another think tank shilling for industry interests.
Not sure if you're joking but this is the exact startup I'm going to create.
It’s a much better use of my time to just buy my parents iOS devices and point them to the Apple store if something goes wrong. Fighting malware and people’s propensity to click on sketchy links is too taxing.
You're attributing the difference in success here to Esperanto, but my guess is the key differentiator was actually how you went about studying the language and how interested and motivated you were.

I took two years of Spanish in high school and gained more or less nothing from it. I decided one day as an adult I wanted to learn Spanish, and within a few months I could hold (very basic) conversations in Spanish.

What did I do? Well, I probably did what you did with Esperanto. I started reading extensive passages in untranslated Spanish even when I didn't know the language, looking up any word or conjugation I couldn't remember. I more or less ignored grammar, except when I just couldn't figure out why something would be said one way instead of some other way. That quickly sent me down some interesting rabbit holes that even native speakers struggled to fully explain, but as a result I rapidly got to the point of being able to form reasonably complicated sentences. I started listening to stuff in Spanish. Any time I was about to ask someone a simple question in English, I'd ask myself, "so how would I ask this in Spanish instead?" I obsessed over pronunciation, and even though I'll never perfect it I'm much better than I ever was in high school.

For what it's worth, my primary tool in all of this was just LingQ.