skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is exactly part of my point in how shrewd Microsoft's marketing is here. K8s exactly has the marketing "smell" of "cloud agnostic", without being in fact provably so. Microsoft can compete with Google better in that arena than Google can precisely because they have other services. It's a "yes, plus" situation. "Yes, we do K8s too, but also we can lift and shift your existing operation in the meantime while you build it." That has a lot of hidden lock-in power and I presume Microsoft knows that very well, even better because they know after that "lift and shift" many dark matter companies will just stop there because while they could migrate, migrations aren't free or cheap and they can kick that can down the road possibly forever. Managers every day are persuaded by the possibility that they could migrate to K8s if they wanted to, whether or not that is ever the real plan. It's why "lift and shift" really is a fascinating game changer that Azure has that neither GCP or AWS can quite so directly compete with.

It's why Azure's K8s strategy is so fascinating: precisely because the more they make it "cloud agnostic" on paper and are good K8s/Docker citizens the greater power they have for Manager mentality lock-in to the non-cloud agnostic stuff (especially "lift and shift").
Check out new versions of git. The overloaded checkout and reset commands are being phased out to some extent.
It’s still not royalty free yet.

There’s AMD mobo with thunderbolt support but they aren’t certified.
Fingers crossed that it also means 99% of YT ads budget wont be spent on baby clicks.
I support nuclear too, but the fact is - nuclear is a political hot potato and encumbered by enormous financial uncertainty.

If you wanted to spend $1B on energy, spending it on nuclear would be a crapshoot, while spending it on solar or solar + batteries would lead to implementation relatively quickly.

It's unfortunate given this table:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#Tables_of_energ...
> Which is a better choice than Git for most projects, to be honest.

That's pretty subjective. Most engineers I interact with personally know how to use Git but not SVN. I'd argue the opposite is true base on my subjective experience.

Really depends on where/how you're using versioning, team familiarity, etc.
What Linus is really saying is that the way Skarupke measured the spinlock being 'bad' is wrong. Skarupke tried to measure it in C, but you can never be sure if you're not being scheduled by anything else.

Skarupke inaccurately defined this as 'mutex vs. spinlock' and an ongoing debate surrounding this as they are comparable, when in no way are they comparable as in userland you simply cannot use spinlocks.

The Windows scheduler apparently doesn't do this, and handles spinlocks better; whatever that means. But the way it works is that spinlocks should work poorly if you run them poorly. Full manual-control of when running a spinlock in userland, you will be scheduled by other things, and you should know that.

That's what Linux is really about. The ability to do something and not have the system "better-ize" it like Windows does by doing some black magic and running an unknown process alongside your spinlock to make it run better.

A spinlock run in userland SHOULD be scheduled by other things, as Linus says. As Linus implemented in the kernel.
I think darcs has an algorithm which is not really suited for large repositories with many users contributing.

pijul regrettably seems to be broken most of the time, but I don't think it's irredeemable.
7-Eleven Struck Back Against an Owner Who Took a Day Off
>I wish Apple would adopt this at least for some products. It'd give AMD more credibility, and Apple would be able to negotiate pricing more easily with Intel.

May I am reading too much into a small thing. But this is the first time I remember any vendors has Apple's product Image and Logo in their presentation. Normally for other brands using their logos and image are simply a request away. Not Apple. Apple has historically distant itself from any vendors using their logo as some sort of endorsement. Since winning the Apple contract is a quality label in itself.

In almost all other cases you can mention, speak, or use the text "Apple" with regards to Apple itself using your component. But I dont ever record product image and Logo being used.

I think the Ryzen 4000s fits MacBook Pro 14" or MacBook Air Retina perfectly. Or even the MacBook Pro 16". Instead of using a Gaming Focused Navi / RDNA GPU, it is bundled with a GPGPU focused Vega, which Apple has already been Optimising for their Metal Compute.

Just waiting until USB 4 / Thunderbolt 3 is fully opened with non-Intel solution I guess Apple will be good to go then.
Keyline design predates Permaculture One. It was introduced by P A Yeomans as a means of dryland farming in Australia. It's a somewhat similar concept to the Inca system described here. Basically trenches are run horizontally with a very slight slope from a 'keypoint' where water enters a topography. This slowly distributes water throughout the land, producing fertile and moist regions between the lines.

This in turn is predated by decades of contour plowing, and thousands of years of terrace farming.
Think about the depth of human suffering you’re asking to unlock with this request? Millions of YouTube videos get uploaded everyday, at least hundreds or thousands of those must be YTKids flagged. A white list of channels as offered now is much better until machine learning backed filtering gets a bit better.
Don Quixote appears from behind the curtain up stage left--his left arm confidently and lustily on his right hip, right arm arcing gracefully over his head like half a rainbow.

There's so much going on in this response, but my favorite parts, in order of appearance:

> The tech men are frustrated because they are basically their best selves

The tech men are frustrated because of entitlement. Handed everything on a silver platter hand-delivered to them by a person of color driving a rented Toyota Prius for half of their monthly income.

> This is probably going to sound incredibly cynical, but the best advice I've heard for NYC techies is to try to date ballerinas.

Leave my goddamn ballerinas alone.

> But they retire before 30 and have to decide to either start a family or open a studio to start teaching.

Most of the people I dance with are software engineers of one kind or another. San Francisco may be somewhat unique in that regard--I wouldn't know, but most of the dancers I know both professional and retired are insanely enterprising and know how to hustle better than most of the people I know in tech.

> At that point most of the men they know are married or gay.

Most of the men I know that dance both professionally and at an amateur level do not identify as gay--some have families--with other dancers.

> So likely to be more willing to overlook the social weaknesses of tech men.

Nope. It's _impossible_ to overlook the social weaknesses of tech men.
> Dark energy is something predicted by general relativity

Not really. GR can accommodate it just fine, but GR did not predict it. In fact, Einstein, who originally introduced the cosmological constant (which was the term then for what we now call "dark energy") in order to allow a static solution to his equation, thereby missed the chance to predict that the universe was expanding, a decade before Hubble's observations showed that it was. Once it became clear that expanding models matched the data, and did not (then) require a cosmological constant to do so, Einstein dropped it, calling it "the biggest blunder of my life". Only in the 1990s, when evidence for accelerating expansion became available, was the cosmological constant (now called "dark energy") put back into the equations so they would match the data.

> it's what is behind the expansion of space (and acceleration of expansion)

The expansion itself, no. The acceleration, yes.
The top five most popular articles are well worth reading. I particularly enjoyed "The Google Squeeze" and "AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source".

And as he mentions, it really is quite brutal that the most popular one is "The WeWork IPO", where he was playing devil's advocate.
How having more than 1080p on a 13..15” screen would prevent eye strain? Or ‘shitty’ here mans cheap TS, not 1080p resolution itself?
has someone explored what the state of the art is if you just use two 1080p LG laser projectors and 2+ cameras and clever software

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1453431-REG/lg_hf80la...

it's 1080p of resolution in lighting from two angles at 60 fps for like ~100-200 W. if you had some good cameras and some clever and fast software you could use this thing to illuminate anything you need to know about -- a high frequency light probe. i don't think you need coherent light at all or phase control, you'd just like timing control so you can strobe between left and right lights and use the variation to better characterize objects.

whole system seems doable in budgets of ~$8k hardware (total guess...)
They can remove the voters' voting power instead of banning the website. (This has happened with at least company's blog/employees, that I'm aware of, when I got asked as a contractor to help upvote.)
Filtering? It’s a discussion about privacy....

(What content/functionality is available to what user is a different question, and, I think we both agree, should be left for the provider to decide.)

(And I always find internet-as-whole arguments as a straw man. We are taking about YouTube and Kids. Nothing more.)
Now that ads are blocked, what is the revenue model for YTKids videos?

I was about to suggest that content creators pay a nominal fee for the content to be reviewed but if creators have no way to monetize the platform, that proposal is bijective with suggesting that Google just shut down YTKids. Or are parents paying already for access to YTKids and the reviews would come out of that?
Any bio* field can lead to working on treating aging; at undergraduate level you have tremendous flexibility as to which direction you take. For now build connections. Go to the conferences where industry meets science and meet people (Undoing Aging, Ending Age-Related Diseases, Longevity Therapeutics, Longevity Leaders, etc). Figure out who the people are you'd like to work with. Either for the corporate path of interning with companies working on aging, leading to a scientific position with one such company, or for the academic path of postgraduate work with a research who is doing something in aging that you find interesting.
misleading title :(
I'm getting tired of these "chain of tweets each ending in a pithy scientific claim that sounds really impressive but is probably wrong for technical reasons".
https://www.ultrabookreview.com/34951-asus-zephyrus-g14-14-i...

Screen:
14 inch, FHD 1920 x 1080 px resolution, IPS-Level, 60 Hz, matte, 100% sRGB, Pantone Validated
14 inch, FHD 1920 x 1080 px resolution, IPS-Level, 120 Hz, matte, 100% sRGB, Pantone Validated
14 inch, WQHD 2560 x 1440 px resolution, IPS-Level, 60 Hz, matte, 100% sRGB, Pantone Validated

But I'm sure there will be many other offerings and possible Apple may well. But who knows, Apple may just license the core and launch a hybrid x86/ARM system. Fun times though.
>Years ago Intel said they would but they still haven’t yet.

They did and It is called USB 4. Where the top USB 4 profile provides full TB3 compatibility.
The beach isn't owned by Khosla and is not private so I don't understand this argument. The value of the strip of land should be assessed at the market value of having a land route to an already public beach that previously didn't have land access (the beach has always been public, the argument is whether Khosla needs to provide access to it). Given its a tiny beach with moderate attendance, I'd argue the NPV is way less than $30m.
It may be royalty free but getting access to the chips and reference designs still requires signing an NDA with Intel (which they may or may not even give you a chance to do). They are still the gatekeepers for the technology because no one else makes comparable chips.
I was responding to the idea that he couldn't coast very long without losing his job. He can without too much trouble.

Whether or not he finds meaning that way is a different question.
> I don't see any obvious flaws with Git.

Merge conflicts.
most of tracking/fingerprinting scripts lack any error trapping and simply crash when encountering undefined functions.
It's only a problem at a really large scale. At the scale of Microsoft or Facebook, there are factors that lead to the use of a monorepo being more efficient. At that big of a scale, companies have enough resource to develop internal tooling to deal with the problem (e.g. the use of Mercurial at Facebook).
Will AI Change the Way We Fridge Forever?
Yes maybe the word progress is wrong. It should be control. In the end the goal of human kind is to take control of every square inch on this planet. Farming has shown some real advancing examples of this principle
Yep, 1080 is still (sadly) considered not too bad for a laptop.
Hmm, but does importing keep all your issues, etc? I imagine it just imports the new commits?
> Dark Energy is a hypothesis for explaining why such a very small cosmological constant might exist, suggesting that the universe is permeated with a constant negative energy field.

No, that's not what dark energy is. "Dark energy" is just a general term for "anything that acts like a cosmological constant in the Einstein Field Equation". It could be an actual physical constant, just an inherent property of spacetime, or it could be some kind of energy field. We don't know. (Btw, the energy associated with dark energy is positive, not negative; the pressure is what's negative.)
> That fact is one of the main things that I value about gifts!

I'm happy for you.

Me, I've gotten some baffling gifts.
Another feature of Perforce I liked was view specs. If your dealing with massive repos (as for example games tend to have) you often only want some small portion of the entire repo. You may also want to alter the repo layout on your local machine and a client view spec can allow you to slice and dice the content in many interesting ways.

This is also very useful for working with external contractors. Not only can a user specify their own view specs, there is admin control for client views that can make portions of the repo read-only or effectively invisible on a per-user basis.

Perhaps this is possible with git?
Dunno, what’s the return on property, less maintenance turnover and annual wealth taxes vs the market? What’s the risk of dumping so much capital into exactly one asset vs a stock portfolio?
Funny you should mention this; we learned this in high school, 2 decades ago now. Quotes and OR and all. The task was to find some info on the teacher. It was in "computer science" class. Good fun.

I got an F.
To be fair, 1080 is quite ‘tolerable’ up to 17in.
There could be an argument made that coal and oil have saved basically every tree in the world (and saved the whales).

The book "the rational optimist" discusses how coal curbed deforestation, and oil wells replaced whale oil.

Of course now other forms of energy are becoming practical.
It’s easier and more fool proof to just not use it. That’s the point - their service isn’t working and it’s better for many parents to just tune it out.

That’s parenting - avoid the shitty services that can’t put out a good product so you can focus your effort on something more meaningful. Or YouTube can fix the problem and it will be allowed in my household.
No, "big rip" and "accelerating expansion" are not the same thing. A big rip would require that the density of dark energy in the universe is increasing with time. We have no evidence that it is, and most cosmologists do not believe we are heading for a big rip.
>why is the responsibility on the content portal (YouTube) and not the parent or supervisor?

because given how easy it is to access content on the user side there's no other way to do it feasibly. You can take the tv remote away from your kids, and that only turns the TV off. Tablets, pcs and so on are general-purpose computers with plenty of workarounds, it's extremely hard practically to stop kids from accessing content that they can technically access without greatly diminishing the value of the device or service.
Cheaper, yes, but currently corporate agriculture is less sustainable as they make little to no efforts in maintaining or building the top soil depth, and instead reap the soil for marginal yield gains and then buy out the small 75+ year well tended farm and do it all over again. Eventually having decent farm land is going to cost a premium and food price will rise because of it. Short term gains for long term costs.
The author makes a benchmark that compares a go program that explicitly buffers many "hello world" strings, and compares this to an assembly program that does not do this, then goes on to argue that this shows that high level languages can be faster. This can certainly be true, but this particular example is not a great way to show it, because the same optimization can be done in an obvious way in assembly, (just allocate enough space with brk or mmap2, write your strings and send the right memory address to ). This would of course be harder to do in assembly than in Go, but it is still quite straightforward to see what is the optimal way to do it. Furthermore, this would probably still outperform the optimized Go version by a wide margin.

A better example could be where a compiler picks an obscure but faster parallelization operation, or unrolled a loop appropriately in a way that is both faster and unlikely to be written by a competent human, or a complex memory management scenario etc etc.

I think this is not the point of the original article though. I think we all understand that abstractions can in theory bring great benefits, but we do need to scrutinize the cost they add. The hello world examples shows that even with the simplest program we can imagine, the result is extremely far from optimal in popular programming environments. If this is the case, why should we assume that these same compilers are doing an excellent job in situations that are actually hard?
Personally, I’m a fan of ideas of Quantized Inertia [1] [2] which proposes that Dark Energy does not exist at all.
We’ve been on a wild goose chase after dark energy for 30 years, which so far has proven to be an untestable theory.

[1] https://youtu.be/1itasiXNUPg

[2] https://youtu.be/VYdebV9YlnI
>"SSD efficiency would be the thing that's nearly irrelevant." you'd be suprised. most hdd's are still more power efficient than flash storage. Especially the bigger capacities have active idle power consumption of 1.5w that is, before we're adding any reads or writes to it. Yes, ssd's can power down but its not a silver bullet.

You will need data to prove your point, Most Laptop SSD has idle power and active power lower than HDD AND faster read write response time hence much quicker to idle power state.

i.e SSD energy per workload is significantly lower than HDD.
I don't know of any other evidence for dark energy, other than that mathematical physicists think the equations would be prettier with some, although they sort of wish there was more. It is quite embarrassing that the value was so close to zero without being zero, so that might be one embarrassment less.

We already knew there was likely to be something fishy about the most distant supernovas, because we have two divergent values for the Hubble constant, one of them based on these same supernovas.
Context for those who are unfamiliar with the situation: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=khosla

If you search HN for "Khosla", you will see approximately half of the first page of results are regarding this issue.
From people that have used both extensively (which does not include you or me, it would seem), I always hear that ggplot2 is unsurpassed. Admittedly, that isn't a satisfactory answer to your question.
That is not a cartoon for young children though. It is rated TV-PG and even TV-14 on some episodes.
It's easily google-able.
>I hope in the future there are more companies that try to align incentives with their customers, such that their business practices help customers be more successful (although many of them preach this, very few actually do). Many businesses these days seem to be geared toward making a quick buck, rather than really providing any value.

You're probably gonna need to wait until the current generation of MBAs retires for that.

This is an educational issue to some extent. All the problems that are now coming home to roost are the result of things business schools have been preaching as gospel from the 80s to present. New ideas are going to need to come along and all those people trained in the old ways are going to need to cycle out before we see meaningful change.
I think you could argue that this very battle was lost far before the 90s... Advertisers and marketers have been exploiting and targeting the mediums in which most consumers paid their attention too long before the Internet was around. Inevitably the Internet was going to have ads seep in because it garnered the majority of consumer attention
Meaningless in the sense (I was probably far too throwaway and should have added context or explanation) that all religions (and most of our institutions) have layers of human added baggage, rules for rule's sake, and things that are done because that's how they are done. Things that might have made some sense when instituted, or in the context of first century Middle East, or a Medieval religious-focused society but look increasingly anachronistic in a modern, developed world. Clearly they couldn't predict the swathe of inventions and human change any more than the US founders could predict the later interpretations and re-interpretations of their relatively simple words.

As they become no longer of their time, it becomes the rule that is significant and the heritage, and becomes the heritage rather than the reason it might have been instituted way back when. Yet just about every society develops habits and rituals. Occasionally they turn out to be counter-productive to the adherents in a modern world. Now you certainly raise a good point about the experience of following -- the ritual itself can take on importance, and the community benefits are well known. Decline of community appears to be implicated in no end of modern problems, and whether secular or religious, anything that preserves it is to be lauded.

I'm surprised at the discussion spun up from the oven feature -- seems like some manufacturers may interpret the feature differently to others. Which is correct, and which right for Judaism, I'm unqualified to say. A sabbath mode elevator is, to my mind, a much more obvious and clean workaround that seems to preserve the spirit of the underlying idea.
> It's 7% of emissions caused by fossil fuels

Which is still not the same thing as 7% of global greenhouse emissions. Plenty of non-fossil fuel sources for emissions, like burning trees, cows making methane, etc.

Even if Australia were responsible for 7% of global greenhouse emissions, ceasing wouldn't be enough.