skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> browser-based technology struggles to utilize multiple cores in the same VM instance

> javascript VMs choke on processing large amounts of data, which leaves them a better fit for advanced interactive forms than compilers or data processing pipelines

2005 called and wants it’s quotes back. It is trivial to spawn worker processes today and VM performance is only 2-5x behind compiled ones, often closer. Not to mention WASM.

The elephant in the room is not JavaScript or it’s VM but the browser engine.

EDIT: seems like JavaFX has its own browser-like “scene graph” and embeds WebKit, so this will suffer from the same bloat in memory use and app sizes?
It's Looking Like Android Could Be Embracing WireGuard – “A Sane VPN”
This is exactly where in have ended up. And I am happier for it. My code is simpler and less "clever" per line but far wiser is structure and in use.

I abstract far more carefully now and I don't mind a few extra lines of code that make it easier to digest at a glance.
Amazon warehouse workers are walking out and Whole Foods workers are striking
> that there was not a market opportunity to capture

Weird, there is an internal project ( already live) at the company ( multinational) where i work for that it's used.
Go Micro v2.4.0 – Go microservices development framework
IPsec is industry standard, but the whole IPsec stack and surrounding technology stack are very complex, different implementations (e.g. those Swans), configuration combos (phase 1,2 or in strongSwan sense - IKE, ESP, route-based, policy-based, etc.) and clients for different platform makes the whole thing a headache to deal with at large scale.

I've been using / working [1] [2] with strongSwan since early 2014, admittedly, the hands-on experience lifted my Linux / Networking skills to a whole new level, but at cost (countless hours burnt). It requires a broad range of skills, has a relatively steep learning curve.

> The company I've worked for (in pre-IPO stage), had 800+ strongSwan instances served as site-to-site VPN gateways inside AWS VPCs, they were single point of failure from a design PoV but that simple design (with health check and recovery mechanism of course) worked surprisingly very well over a period of 3 years (thanks to simple design and stability & quality of strongSwan). Personally I've been using strongSwan based VPN gateways to punch holes in GFW and encrypt network traffic until mid 2018, happy with it (<10 strongSwan instances to manage).

WireGuard is totally different design when I first migrated from strongSwan, simple, visible (interface, route-based), cryptokey routing, built-in roaming, small code base (minimal attack surface), performance (in kernel). Over time scalability and usability (all sorts of web UIs or GUIs) will improve, for large scale overlay we may better off with something else (nebula). For now officially it offers native client for most of the popular platforms.

For any new typical VPN (remote access, encryption in transit, site-to-site may not be as flexible as IPsec as I haven't done that, I used nebula instead to created an overlay) use cases, I'll pick WireGuard to start with ;-)

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13654412

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13434417
The US doesn't recognize 100.0 °F as a fever. That's within normal range.
>which is a very convenient accusation (if it was in fact not true)

The key here is that you don't know if the accusation was true or false, but you arguing as if you do.

Which, in the language of Information Theory, is called a bias.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_maximum_entropy
I read _Go It Alone!_ in 2009, and was blown away. Try it? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19029346-go-it-alone
Facebook deletes Brazil President’s coronavirus misinfo post
A better reference: https://what-if.xkcd.com/4/

"What would happen if you were to gather a mole (unit of measurement) of moles (the small furry critter) in one place?"
Ask HN: Has economic conditions benefitted or made your project irrelevant?
Weekly Picks Part 1: 5 HR Tech Products You Should Try in 2020
I think the more apt analogy would be that most people can follow a recipe, but not many people can invent new recipes from scratch (let alone achieve a specific food effect with said recipe).

Most people can modify a recipe, if the modification is natural or easily comprehended. For example, adding extra ingredients to flavour a food. But to invent one from scratch would be akin to creating a new type of food, or new way to cook, or a new way to combine cooking methods.
Why the Idea of a Digital Dollar Is Bullish for Bitcoin (BTC)
I agree laws help, but well done laws. Not another cookie consent mess again, please.
It is discouraging that so much effort is spent attempting to impose the limitations of printed books onto PDFs.
Thank you for this insight. I wasn't aware that this was a reasonable name when coming from Ada.
I'd imagine GamersNexus on YT would be all over that one as they are sponsored by them. However, Steve tends to be down the list when it comes to getting new toys to play with.

Yes, replacing the LLM every few months, would be serious level of dedication IMHO and not sure I'm aware of anybody would go to that effort - however it was good to see what was possible.

Still, nice to see that they did use thermal paste and not pads in the production, though we don't know what paste they used. If that was known then some crude gestimations could be extrapolated.

They did however put some attention to that cooling system and was very interesting in the review how the fan blades are varying length in an effort to reduce fan noise - I'd never considered that or been aware of that before and made sense as well as being kinda neat attention to detail thinking.

Me personally, I'd not want to do any of that until warranty expired and to eek out more life in that puppy. Though, as I'm rockin a Core2Duo, you kinda feel my budget is never going to see this. Still nice to virtual experience it.

Yes the whole nail polish, kinda neat hack way of doing things and not aware of any downsides with that - beyond warranty, though at least you wouldn't have to replace that periodically compared to LM.
The real question is why though. Why should we use the HTTP/HTML/JS/CSS universe to deliver interactive applications to users. I only see downsides here. Not to mention that we pull these things into native applications like it was great to begin with.

WASM might be able to address some of the shortcomings of this stack, not sure.
You could use a domain name with an appropriate TTL.
Maybe framing it different might help. “Be honest with yourself and others about how certain you are about your facts, and never state opinions as facts.”

If you do this, people will more readily challenge the ideas they have evidence against and trust you when they don’t. It also allows you to throw more ideas into the pot since you don’t always have to know the perfect answer before saying something.
>> I think I would be better off with using either C++ with Qt5 or even FreePascal with the Lazarus IDE for this instead.

Or many other things. Not sure why are we so afraid to develop native applications with minimal overhead. V and Zig is going this direction.
From what I understand, Wireguard is intentionally non crypto-agile. Wireguard 1.0 has a mandated cyrpto suite, and in the future 2.0 or 3.0 would have mandated standards as well. As a result the connection negotiation is simplified and interop is guaranteed between providers.
Second this.I used to use Skype back in the day and even with astronomical Internet at the time it used be painful. Zoom managed to pull it off somehow.
A single honest mistake in the privacy/security area is already close to inexcusable. Zoom has a proven terrible track record in anything security and privacy related. So letting this one go would be very very naive.
I'm honestly much more worried about NVIDIA's overwhelming success in buying their way into the entire scientific community.

CUDA is proprietary, not standardised, and tied to a single hardware vendor. Technical issues aside, I applaud any effort to break the dominance of CUDA. CUDA is a pest that needs to either open up or be replaced.

HPC is a very heterogeneous environment (on the whole) and making it easier to use the full potential of the hardware is understandable. Also keep in mind that it's a research project and very early in its development.
> One especially annoying thing is that the JVM will not garbage collect until the heap is actually full.

Factually incorrect. Depends on the settings of the GC.
The rules cited come from the essay Politics and the English Language. [i]
The style guide of the Economist newspaper is predicated on that essay. [ii]

[i] https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_poli...

[ii] A copy of The Economist style guide at archive.org -
https://archive.org/details/EconomistBooksTheEconomistStyleG...

- the latest edition is sold via The Economist and by some book sellers.
Ask HN: How to self study management, especially supply chain management?
I recently saw [an HN thread about the bullwhip effect] (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22663332) where [one user discussed](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22664178) their experience in management school with that simulation.

I was curious about investigating more, but I realized that unlike topics like mathematics and computer science, I was having a lot of trouble even finding the search terms to use to find textbooks and syllabi, as I didn't even really know what they teach in management school. Could HN help me find a course of self study on management school? Knowledge of what they teach, or what different specializations train you in would be helpful as well, thank you!
Make sure you investigate "flux" on windows, night light on mac, sct(1) on linux, amongst others. I use a colour temperature of 3000K maximum during the day and 2700K at night.
Can we remove the tracking query-string from this link, please? It works fine without it:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-020-0608-8.epdf

Edit. Sorry, seems to only show the first page if you remove the token.
> It seems a bit too similar to the idea that "most people simply cannot read".

Remember that most people require extensive schooling for the better part of a decade in order to learn how to read.
Where I come from (.au) that’d mean somehow taking back the bottom half of the 915MHz band we sold off to the mobile phone network operators... Not happening any time soon... :sigh:
Why would it? It’s not a loan.
I wish I could think of a leveled way to speak my mind but gosh, there's something about all this that really makes me want to throw up.

The idea of adding a tiny little button that makes a sound is innocent. It's a single button after all, isn't it? The thing is, once you share this idea, it has a risk of going to all of the pages. Websites everywhere are already full of distractors that make them annoying to browse for people with limited attention. Once you also add sounds, you might hit several problems you might have not thought of:

1. the tab is opened in the background and the user is trying to find the one that's using the speaker,
2. the volume is mismanaged because some other tab is playing their sounds too silently and yours will make the user's ears explode,
3. (probably some more that I hadn't thought of)

At first it just felt like a chunch, but then I saw another IMHO not-so-great idea coming from the user - the sticky navbar at the top is partially transparent, effectively taking even more screen estate. Probably looks shiny, but also makes your website hard to read. It really does feel like some hostile design.

It really looks like we're back to 90s', with a new generation of equivalents of <marquee> tags, annoying GIFs, mismatched colors and "still in development" signs. Thing is, this generation is sugar-coated and seems shiny at first, until you realize that every single web 4.0 page is making you nauseated. After all, it's legitimate to put on a GDPR consent overlay covering 90% of your smartphone and do other shitty moves other people do anyway, right? Though I have to admit I appreciate that this at least this one wasn't to be found on your website.

I mean, excuse the rant... as much as I appreciate open sourcing your work and hoping to improve something on the net, consider effects on users' sanity this change will bring. In the meantime, I wish I could anti-star your project, as an example of where I don't want the web to go.
Doesn't really do it for me.

The 'Early Riser' tune on my iPhone, which I use to wake up in the morning, is the only alarm sound I have had in my entire life that doesn't strike doom into my heart. I can go back through ringtones or alarm sounds I've used for the last 10-15 years and every one more or less triggers panic even to this day but that one.
Seat makes respirator based on the windshield wiper motor of their cars[Spanish]
Preguntas y respuestas sobre Raspberry Pi
Try "The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook". It has some techniques for helping. I know that what helped me was just understanding that this is a physiological and psychological phenomena, a positive feedback loop.
Elaborating a bit more on this, I have made the observation that again those _most people_ don't care much reading (good) code from other people. There are many outstanding examples of code quality out there. For instance, I've found many good patterns and solutions by simply reading the Chromium source code, many of which I can apply directly to similar problems I'm facing myself for any given software project I'm doing.

The same holds true for literature, I think. Surely, there are many people how can read and write a piece of text. However, there surely is a qualitatively difference between a gossip article from the magazine and Shakespeare's Hamlet.
You're underestimating the influence CMC has over the space.

They determine what exchange volume is legit and what isn't, also what coins are worthy of being listed. At the least, this gives Binance additional stability, at the most, they can really consolidate trading volume at their exchange and for Binance approved coins.
Probablemente no deberías usar cualquier cable para cargar tu iPhone
The Psychology of Miles per Gallons
China’s Coronavirus Count Excluded Infected People with No Symptoms
Good idea.

I wonder if the site could run a URL cleaner on all link submissions?

@dang?
Is Gitlab asking you to give it something for free?
Because it is an extremely effective model for building UIs. As I mentioned above even this project uses a similar architecture, only backed by Clojure. Any UI toolkit will have similarities with the web stack.

The real issue is the size of these monster engines, but a lightweight engine that only supports the subset needed for apps is possible - see Sciter, and I have high hopes for https://ultralig.ht/
Is there a way to do all of this with CSS only ?
Have you checked React Native for Windows and macOS?

It goes even further as it get rid of the webview

https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows/

Native widgets, bridge between JS thread and the native world. That gives you good performances and the flexibility of JS/Typescrit and React to glue things together.

(I haven’t tried yet, but that looks quite nice on paper)
No, you're not missing anything -- I was just saying that it would be a shame if people still can't code preemptively scheduled parallel apps when the average home gaming machine is going to have 16 cores soon and that many devs (me included) are looking to buy a 32/64-core workstation. Nothing else. :)

Really exciting that preemption is possible. Thanks for your insights!
A bit of a tangent, however mentioning 'private collection' reminds me of a 'private collection' that is today open to the public, a place that sat on my doorstep for years but I was unaware of. Free entry of course, like all museums, is relatively unknown in terms of galleries (certainly off the typical tourist trail), and well worth a few hours: Wallace Collection [1] [2].

If anyone's in London after the lock-down is over then it's well worth a few hours.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Collection

[2] http://www.wallacecollection.org/
The first go-to book would be this one, if you ask me:

https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Managing-Supply-Chain-Stude...

Maybe you can get access to an e-book version of it. I have a more than decade old ediion at home, and while the some case studies and technologies maybe a little but dated, the overall principles haven't changed. And the book itelf is top-notch content. Older editions of eBay or Amazon should be fine, and also a ot cheaper I assume. I brought mine back from a vacation to India.
USA can chew gum and walk at the same time.
> If we can start from an assumption and perform a series of logical deductions and reach True, then we know our original assumption is True, that it is provable

is this a difference between mathematical and natural language?

my understanding is if you deduce something true from an assumption it means nothing.

you need to deduce something false and thus the negation of your assumption is true.
The intro is definitely anxiety-inducing, though the rest of the song is super chill.
It's not a trademark because they didn't apply for one. They regret this. The origin of the term is well documented: OSI did invent it. To argue otherwise is historical revisionism.
I’d argue that there’s at least two problems: software is needlessly complex, and no one understands what the computer is doing.

You might say that second one is the same, but our model for what a processor is and what it’s doing and how fast it’s working hasn’t changed in at least 10 years. Graphics cards have gotten faster, but still have a similar operating model. If anything access to low level systems has gotten easier to understand and harness.

Because all of this stuff is still the same, you can usually take a look at any piece of software and make it faster by aligning the code to what the computer is good at. That could be done by increasing data locality and widening the processing pipe with SIMD. Caching and cheating the calculations are also often good since they essentially skip work that will go unnoticed. This will often increase the code complexity, but improve the software speed.
I don't think the poster wants to drive you crazy. I don't think the poster said they wanted everything to be free. What I believe they're asking is a pricing plan that offers a feature without support for a reduced price. It is an idea, and GitLab's staff who are lurking here are smart enough to check if there's a business opportunity there, and a need that can viable be filled.

In many parts of the world, $200 is a salary.

The tiered pricing concept and the upgrade pushed by induced demand and "Parkinson's law" has changed the world as it allows companies to start working using free or low priced tiers instead of needing high initial capital. As these companies grow, they will use more features and pay more.
Clear and concise isn't dumb. It's more readable and maintainable. The dumb code is the clever code that no one understands and requires weeks of effort to do, and to understand, no more than what the clear and concise code does.
You can't, without having every client process all the video and mix all audio. In other words, with current consumer hardware and internet coverage, you can't.
See, that's why I use co-vid. https://co-vid.github.io/join (rickroll)
Charm with Menaces
Arnold heard the avian flu say, "I'll be back..."
Ah interesting! Thanks for the reply, seems like you're having to deal with a lot more variability than me. Definitely sounds like an interesting problem and interesting solution to match.
An analysis of unclear lessons in video games (2019)
I agree.

Criticizing someone for being biased is an ad hominem; dismissing their arguments because of it is committing the genetic fallacy.

In the extreme, it reminds me of this blog post, about how knowing about biases can let some folks universally dismiss others they disagree with (and thus manage to never learn or consider alternative ideas):
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AdYdLP2sRqPMoe8fb/knowing-ab...
What happened to Dat?
... and the story here is that it can be a real stretch to recognize the value in slimy behavior.
What, competitors like this? https://co-vid.github.io/join I see where you're coming from. The video calling scene needs something good.
AFAIK (correct me if I am wrong) OpenBSD does not have a single unit test.

No unit tests.

There is so much code that parses text input and yet I can’t find a single test that actually shows that the code works and that it properly deals with malicious input.

How do OpenBSD developers test? How do they make sure changes do not regress things.

Why is unit testing just not a thing? (Same for many other C based projects)
Well, they can add the two engineer's annual salary to the cost function as a constant!
Is anybody thinking deeply about what it means to fight against natural selection as a modern species?

I know nobody wants to hear this nihilistic take but humans are the most destructive invasive species in existence.

I wish biomedical and health science research instead focused more on how we can lead rich lives with the little time we do have, knowing nature might take us back to dust for any reason, and leave the world a better place with more knowledge for the next generation. Instead we have old wealthy (mostly white) men driving the interests of science research for them to live longer and have more time to spend their money destroying the earth.

It is an ethical mess to know how to cure a disease or give one better health outcomes and intentionally not apply it but there has to be a balance. I worked in a hospice for a few years and I saw elderly folk often abandoned by their (alive and well) families and dieing alone. It sounds crazy to think but I feel like too much of anything, even longevity, is not good.
Thanks for the advice! This seems like a reasonable approach I might give a test drive.
Obviously tracking an individual satellite would not provide you with any information, so I'm not sure why anyone would expect my comment to mean that.

The major countries all have thousands of merchant vessels traveling in every major shipping lane all over the world. My thinking is navies would be worried about these ships being equipped with sensors that analyze satellite signals looking for what could be intended for submarine communication. Eaves droppers wouldn't even need to break the encryption of the signal, they'd only need to be aware of a signal is being broadcast to only a specific region of the the ocean and that bears other attributes associated with military communication.
This whole evolution looks more and more like expert systems from 1980s where people kept adding more and more complexity to "solve" a specific problem. For RL, we started with simple DQN that was elegant but now the new algorithms looks like a massive hodge podge of band aids. NGU, as it is, extraordinarily complex and looks adhoc mix of various patches. Now on the top of NGU, we are also throwing in meta-controller and even bandits among other things to complete the proverbial kitchen sink. Sure, we get to call victory on Atari but this is far and away from elegant and beautiful. It would be surprising if this victory generalizes to other problems where folks have built different "expert systems" specific to those problems. So all this feels a lot like Watson winning jeopardy moment to me...

PS: Kudos to DeepMind for pushing for median or even betten bottom percentile instead of simplistic average metric which also hides variance.