skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the "peace of mind" is analogous to appliance insurance, i.e. HVAC. When it stops working have a guy come out and I don't have to worry about it.

Personally, my hangup is that the fix for my AC might be as simple are replacing a fairly cheap component. For me, I try to take some pride in knowing how to fix my possessions and being a little self-sustained.
Intel's 'Comet Lake-S' 10th-gen Core CPUs hit 10 cores and 5.3GHz speeds
This is a good question. I think the differences may lie in the perceived anthropomorphism and the difference that makes psychologically. Books, clothing etc are passive objects that utilize the imagination of the user in a definite way, whereas a talking robot with facial expressions taps into a specific set of neural/emotional cascades that, IMO, should be reserved for human interaction exclusively.
Describing itself as a “full-frontal assault on our sacred cows”
temporarily took down the film after describing it as “full of misinformation”
“trades in debunked fossil fuel industry talking points” that question the affordability and reliability of solar and wind energy.
the film includes “various distortions, half-truths and lies”

It is written, therefore it must be true. They crossed my accusation threshold, no more thinking required, case closed. But seriously I'd love to see their actual rebuttals to the film. In the meantime I'll check out the free YouTube link they include in the article.
I seem to return my cable modems, in NV & CA, about every 14-18 months. I walk in, ask for a new one, give them the (busted) old one.

Not losing sleep over this.

Feels akin to the "control your finances, stop buying coffee at coffee shops!" kind of content.
You Shouldn’t Build a Data Driven Culture
> Already with the release of Go 1 it was quite clear that Go has its best fit as a Server language.

CLIs as well. Before Go, how did you build a native CLI in a garbage collected language?
> do people really expose Redis on the internet??

You've never browsed unprotected IPs and ports huh? So many random redis instances just lying around.
Zoom market cap 38.24B (70% more than Twitter), Oracle market cap 167.05B. Can’t last as a long term standalone business and has to be acquired by Oracle? Sounds like a pretty baseless claim.
A nice sourdough bread recipe with hi-res photos:

https://github.com/hendricius/the-bread-code/blob/master/bas...
I think a more likely reason for a ban would simply be that the Vitamin D connection was being highlighted by lockdown skeptics for quite some time already, as part of investigating the Swedish outcomes. The problem is that to highly liberal Google employees it might look 'racist' because the Vit-D connection came out of trying to figure out why Swedish migrants were over-represented in ICU cases, also African-Americans.

For instance, in this comment from six days ago I write about a possible vitamin D connection:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22968268
Yeah I was thinking let's not continue his work, especially not on human children.
It looks almost identical to the AthlonXP/64 vs Pentium 4 days when Intel just kept bumping the clocks and power consumption. Until they came out with Conroe.

Jim Keller might be doing just that with Intel right now. I only hope whatever they come up with, AMD is ready and able to keep up. Otherwise we're going to see a rerun of the following period too: Intel tweaking the same architecture for years at a time, and squeezing low single digit performance improvements that come with questionable security sacrifices and deeply unpleasant sticker prices.
An Introduction to Human in the Loop
I'm not meaning to imply things will be good. Things will be slightly better than the parent implies.
Proves "2d" is better than "3d".
Verizon Fios allows it, AFAIK. The fiber terminates inside the house and converts to coax. Apparently there's an ethernet port on the fiber modem and you can skip the coax entirely if you just need ethernet.
Just the fact that it's yet another socket for basically the same process is insane. On AM4 I've been able to use their low-end to very-high end CPUs for the last several years and most likely will be able to use the ones coming out this year too.
>Amazon is very aggressive at stealing ideas from their partners

Are there some examples of this?

edit - this is somewhat related, from another comment in this thread: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40367626
This is exactly why the USA spending bazillion dollars on the military is a great thing. Think of all the wars its prevented.
I guess "systems programming" is an ambiguous term here like I personally wouldn't call something "systems programming" just because it's server-side.

What I mean is things that are basically kernel-level or embedded.
Early on Rust had optional GC boxing before it morphed into Rc/Arc, it never required GC of heap allocated objects like Go/Java/C# et al. Deterministic resource management has always been the default with Rust.
Thanks antirez for all the work you've done on redis. Personally I can say that no one had such an impact on my work as you did. Reading through your source code is educating and inspiring.

You are a hero.
'Moore can publish (obvious!) bullshit for years and never really get called on it by "experts" or popular media'

He gets called on it constantly. His reputation is so bad that it would never occur to me to bother watching this film.

'goes against the dogma'

Or, contains objective falsehoods and libels.
Thank you for posting this. The significance of this statement was lost on me until you pointed it out. Going by MathOverflow, it's slightly more complicated than that, but it's pretty close.

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1384917/relation-be...
Cliqz sounds like a name of a toy marketed to girls.
You don't have to - there's an account switcher in the top right on all Google products. Is it somehow missing on Meet?
Apparmor is no picnic either. I appreciate that they have all of these graphical tools to help diagnose problems and notifications that appear on the desktop when something is blocked, but that is less helpful on a minimal headless server install where you're more likely to have those features turned on.
Business schools teach what will be relevant on the job. If large corporate bankruptcies were an issue, MBA programs would teach it.
That depends on what you value, I believe. Yes, we can provide the 1800 quality of life to everyone by mostly automation. The issue is that very few are content with that, they want the 2020 version.
That makes absolutely no sense. I broke my leg and I was disabled for 6 months. Having a car during that period was essential.

Having a car is a nice luxury. Public transportation is a pain.
I have Verizon Fios. It’s generally a nice service; I pay $75/mo for near gigabit speeds (both up/down), no contract, no hidden fees. Just internet. It’s usually pretty reliable—at least, more reliable than their only competitor in this area, Comcast.

But there’s one problem: I have to fight them at every step over the router. They refuse to offer technical support of any kind if I’m not using their router, and it has to be the latest or second-latest generation. The current cost to buy that router outright? $300. Renting is cheaper because I’ll need to switch to a new model in a year. They even give me a hard time during installation—it’s not unusual for the technician to refuse to leave until they get a chance to test with an official Verizon router.

I keep a Verizon router on hand. When I need tech support—which is very rare and usually indicates a problem on their end, such as a chewed fiber line—I plug it in and call them up. I might need to do that once every 3 years; oftentimes I have to buy the latest model from them and wait for it to arrive.

Two days ago, I called about getting service in a new location. For the first time, they offered to include the router lease for free—but for how long? Would I need to start paying for it in a year? And the hassle of returning it when I don’t even plan to use it? It took some convincing to get them to remove the item from the contract—“if you don’t add it now, it will cost you $15/mo to add later.”
Some Japanese arcade games are known to have byzantine content protection schemes meant to prevent cabinet bootlegging. There's been a lot written about Capcom's CPS-2 and CPS-3 systems in particular.
I bought a cable modem & never rented but then had my cable company try to collect money for not returning ”their” router... It’s like $20 deposit, but I get nasty-grams every once in a while.
Go was always intended for writing the type of networked application servers that are common in Google's infrastructure. [I was at Google when it was released - I thought you were too?]

It's succeeded at basically the same niche that it was intended for. The difference, as another commenter points out, is Rob Pike's ignorance of how the world outside of Bell Labs & Google had changed. In the 80s you would've built networked microservices in C. In the 2010s you built them in Python or Node.JS. Hence if you have a new language that's a success in the microservice application-server market, it will end up cannibalizing Python and Node.JS, not C. Python cannibalized Java in the 2010s and late 00s, and Java cannibalized C in the 2000s and late 90s.

Go is still inferior to Python in prototyping, in web development, and in data-science. (I used it for the former 2 while still at Google, and decided it wasn't an upgrade.) But it's superior for production microservices, and that's an increasingly large market these days.
static types, native builds, cross-platform builds
Are Public Software Returns Really That Good?
On the same level as "contact your lawyer"
Some amount of relative drift in inevitable when the sources are independent, but yeah this suggests that the precision is only on the order of 1/48k. I cant imagine the hardware oscillator being that imprecise; crystals and mems are both better than 1/1M. I wonder if it's somehow software related. Ive seen some mysterious stuff with built in audio like variable input latency. if the output latency fluctuated similarly it might effectively introduce a low frequency modulation.
Researching Polymorphic Images for XSS on Google Scholar
How Webshrinker works (ML-based domain categorization)
Full disclosure, I wrote this and it's about our AI/ML engine at DNSFilter, but I wrote this post to shed some light on how exactly Webshrinker works and the way it's been programmed to categorize domains.
"I'd love to see their actual rebuttals to the film"

Then all you have to do is follow the link in the article to the letter that contains those rebuttals.
> you get some of the reward for having done something worthwhile without nearly as much of the work

I think it's ego satisfaction or something? I personally have started to tell myself "get it done/build it first before you share it". Like buying a domain before the site/app is ready.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/camera/hq...
> The number of credible online degree programs has exploded in recent years.

Could you supply some examples? I know of Western Governors University, but it only has limited majors.

In particular, do you know of any online degree programs in materials science?
It fazes the living daylights out of me.
What you need to know about the Covid-19 vaccine
Is this that bad? At our company we are using redis for real time recommendations. And this is our primary database for storing accumulated statistics about items and users. It has been important to us to have a quick way to share the data between the workers and we chose redis.
In Alberta, solar panels and other renewable sources of electricity, would compete with the price of natural gas [1], since that is what a new conventional generating station would likely use.

Natural gas and oil prices [2] are not tightly coupled [3].

[1] https://economicdashboard.alberta.ca/NaturalGasPrice
[2] https://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil-price-history-cha...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_gas_prices#/media/File...
Strace is of no help in discovering why your bootup is stalled out because one of the processes didn't receive a message it was expecting. Who was supposed to emit the message? Who knows? Why wasn't it sent? Sucks to be you. Unlike the old init days you can't just look at the previous lines in the script to figure out what went wrong, you have to understand the entire system before you can start debugging it.
Ah, that would be a pretty hard task for me to compile. Thank you for being explicit about your standard of evidence!
You're right, that was another user, rendering most of this moot. I got 3 downvotes, and I don't particularly care if three people disagree with me. Similar opinions expressed elsewhere have gotten more upvotes. Shitty appeal to the people fallacy.

> Not dumb. It's a good approximation, especially because post-pandemic times (after people have regained their jobs, which might take months/years) will be identical to pre-pandemic times with the ONLY difference being that a certain percentage of Americans will have died prematurely. That percentage will directly translate to an economic loss.

This is simply not true. The world does not click back to the state it was with fewer people. Millions of people are now unemployed. Thousands of companies will no longer exist. The lockdown is killing small businesses disproportionately fast and that gap is going to be filled by larger businesses. Larger businesses have fewer local employees. The wealth gap is going to be greatly exacerbated, and this will affect everyone. Supply chains will change, inflation will change, consumer spending habits will change. The economy is going to feel different, and in a large part driven by how long everything takes to restart. x% of people dead meaning x% worse economy is just an irrelevant, naive comment.

I don't really care to debate this further either because... it's not interesting
I found out about this concept when I was tasked with improving a portion of an app that converted decimals to fractions. I'm not exactly up to speed on the actual math of it, but I found an implementation online that was perfect for my task.

It allowed me to pass in a decimal and the largest denominator to use, and it spits out the closest fraction, with the lowest possible denominator (https://stackoverflow.com/a/14940739/8953064). The old way we did it, used only continued fractions. It would output '33/100' for '.33', or '40/100' for '.4', but adding the Farey sequence you get '1/3' and '2/5' just like you'd expect. Fantastic!
I agree that there may be specific use cases where this type of robot can help. My reaction is more to how it is portrayed in the video. The child appears to be depressed, with parents who show almost no interactive ability. I fear that this actually happens with increasing frequency, and that it represents a societal failure. Maybe we need these bots for the parents?
If you have an Android phone you can use DroidCamX, and it supports direct USB for higher framerates than WiFi.
Khabibullo Abdussamatov
Using PostgreSQL for JSON Storage
Exactly this. I used to bring my own, but I'm done. Every year when summer rolled around I would have very unreliable internet. Since I had my own modem it was very hard to convince Comcast to replace the cable to the house. Finally gave up and asked them for a rental modem. When issues persisted, they came and fixed it for real.
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> I’m still waiting for someone to explain to me how 15K+ in tuition a year is acceptable.

I believe people who support such things think as follows:

1. $15k a year tuition for 4 years is a great deal if it turns you into a banker or programmer with a $150,000 a year salary and a 40-year career. Indeed, it would be unjust for a garbage man's taxes to be paying for a stockbroker's education.

2. Majoring in poetry might not be such a clearly great decision, but if you're on the left politically, banning poetry is anti-intellectual; and if you're on the right market demand is its own justification.
Show HN: Blockchain-Powered Covid-19 Equipment Procurement
Longtime Hacker News contributor (and Saito founder) very happy to be able finally to disclose publically news of this Saito-powered COVID-19 blockchain procurement system that some members of our community are building:

http://org.saito.tech/blog/

This blog post discusses the details, explaining a bit about why (and how) supply chains are migrating on-chain. The short version is that what these industries need aren't smart contracts or digital money so much as public PKI networks capable of moving large amounts of data and a software infrastructure that allows for rapid application development.

As you can see if you visit the actual datahub, things are moving very quickly (pricing and supply issues are changing daily as well). If anyone needs to be sourcing this sort of equipment, I'd highly recommend the DHB team and suggest contacting them -- our focus on the tech side is making sure that their record of faultless delivery continues while ramping up product availability and bringing new equipment manufacturers online.

If anyone has questions about Saito or why it was chosen as the underlying platform I'd be happy to answer. Saito is known these days mostly for having the only known solution to the 51 percent attack in the blockchain space. I suspect that this will change in the coming months as people start to care more about the applications that are coming out on the network and move beyond thinking of blockchains as smart contract platforms and start to focus on them as large-scale and permissionless PKI networks.

Questions or comments or feedback welcome. Happy as always to be a member of the community.

--david
also, if you are using digitalocean, leverage private networking for faster inter-sever communication
>If I want to buy a house without a mortgage (or with a limited, affordable mortgage), I still need to be able to outbid other buyers who might have no qualms about taking on an unaffordable debt.

I'd blame local zoning boards for that, they won't let new houses be built, so the prices keep going up, screwing folks who don't own homes already.
The Humbling of Exxon
For some degrees. I don't see many CS degrees working retail. I don't see many EE degrees doing so.
Bona Tarda
Meungai sdug os dgsu dgudg ig ud guu ri eui eui eguig egu egi egiueg bengo
How else do you propose companies should assess new hires, especially young ones? And while the cost of tuition these days (IMO) outstrips the value of a college education, that’s not to say that value is zero.
"Systems programming" isn't limited to OS kernels. I'd call, say, the Coreutils programs "systems programming." But it'd make perfect sense to implement those (or things like them) in Go†. And that's the niche I see a lot of modern Go software addressing, too: simple new OS-packagable CLI utilities, able to be written with less gotchas than if they were written in C.

† I say this because we already have an alternative to GNU Coreutils for memory-constrained embedded systems, in the form of Busybox. If Coreutils had to "serve two masters"—be both powerful at scale on big multi-core systems, and functional on tiny embedded boxes—then Go would make less sense. (Rust would be pretty good for that, though. See e.g. ripgrep.)
Feature Management in Extraordinary Circumstances
A manager once told me something that stuck with me. "20% of your paycheck is for doing work, 80% of your paycheck is for being available with context."

It often feels like the way companies/teams/tasks are structured causes employees to waste time or be a lot less productive than they could be. But it turns out that, for companies to scale beyond a certain size, the winning recipe is (depressingly):

* Fungible employees are more important than productive employees. It's incredibly risky to rely on the specialized abilities or knowledge of any single employee. Keep your bus factor high.
* It's OK if your employees are kept "idling" most of the time, as long as they're available when you actually need them. In most white collar industries, demand for labor is extremely bursty.

This is one reason companies are so reluctant to adopt irregular work schedules. It works fine for (small) companies that are OK with relying on competence/specialization and accepting small bus factors, but it breaks the strategies larger companies use to scale.
It definitely prettifies most people although for one guy it took out his mouth. For the most part it “airbrushed them” and prettified the subjects.
Who are these "young people"? The climate scientists, some of whom are libeled in the film, pointing out that's it full of crap? How are they advocating destruction? The letter asks the film's creators to volunteer to retract the film and apologize.
At least in the past I was able to buy a modem on Ebay (used) for $40. I returned the one that came with the package. When I moved, Comcast wanted to bill me for a lost modem. Get a receipt when you return the modem. Take a picture and store it on OneDrive/DropBox in a folder called "Comcast Sucks"
Looking forward to the update from Zoom in about 18 months -- "Why we switched from Oracle"
half the comments don't make any sense anymore because of the title change
My point is that the film claims to challenge sacred cows and that the reaction alone is enough to show that that claim is correct, not that all or any of the specific claims in the film are.

There are likely many films that make ludicrous claims about climate change but even absurd ones rarely get called out as dangerous enough to warrant being banned. When films/books/etc get this strong of a reaction there is usually something in there that is worth understanding why it hit such a nerve.

...or it could just be good marketing.
> This exposed Rob Pike's lack of experience in the area

You don't write an UNIX derivative with a lack of system programming experience.
I had an initial period where Go felt really difficult, coming from Python. Now I've adapted and I actually feel like refactoring things is easier than it was before coming to Go. Just the fact that arguments and their return values are more strictly defined helps a lot.
recruiters may suck but they're also free (for you) and have contacts. fortunately or not, most of my gigs came from them... especially when I was hoping to work on short notice
The financialization of the economy is more a US/UK thing than the rest of Europe.

Lots of chemical industry here, etc.
"writing an OS" is a sweeping, unsupported and inaccurate statement. You can be involved in Linux and, say, write the ext4 filesystem or Wifi drivers. Those are pretty low-level. You could also write shell utilities like ls in probably anything where you're just using OS APIs. Is that low-level? I would say not.
I think a major one is simply the easy of deployment - one self serving binary is quite refreshing after dealing with wsgi etc.

I suppose the static analysis is quite cool too...
Wow, conspiracies everywhere. Oracle has switched their provider from Cisco WebEx to Zoom and the transition seems to have been very smooth. I don’t hear their employees complaining about it, they seem to like it.

I think it is just reciprocal business. It isn’t as though zoom will switch Google, Amazon or Microsoft.