skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes we need it.

This is absolutely becoming a tiresome trope. K8s is a huge benefit to tons of companies and none of them are Google.

Yes some people are using K8s when they don't need it. Just like many are using cloud managed services when they don't need them. Or vms. Or insert any technology here.

This article has nothing to do with whether K8s fits some particular use case but may be of help (although I disagree with the entire section on resources which reflects a lack of long term experience with K8s in production) to those who do want to use it.

You're the 10th person in this thread saying the same thing and it doesn't appear you even have that much experience with operations in general.

Sorry to go off on you but I'm really seeing these types of tropes and quick depthless one liner comments and offtopic snipes lately as the downfall of the hn comment section.
They should keep factories closed, unless they are engaged in solving one of the four problems that need to be solved in order for things to safely re-open:

1. Producing masks, gloves, face shields

2. Producing tests or test supplies (cotton swabs, reagents, etc.)

3. Things related to contact tracing (not sure what material goods this would need off-hand)

4. Vaccine research (again, nothing they could do)

The choice is not between re-open now or never re-open. If we actually had at least the first 3 things above, re-opening could be done in a controlled and safe manner. We still don't have those things, months later.
I think that might be true on Windows or Linux, but not on the Mac. It seems like Mac developers care more about making their application feel good to use.
Alameda County has announced they're moving into Phase 2 this week, which means basically everyone other than restaurants and public gathering spaces can reopen.
Most people don’t ride a crowded bus for hours to get food, nor do they shop for eight to ten hours daily.
I'd imagine any gasses would be squeezed out but it wouldn't look like an explosion.
It's an extremely inefficient weapon, is my point. Sending energy from orbit to earth sufficiently strong to kill someone would need something like thousands of gigawatts as a point source I think
Extreme Trans-Neptunian Object
HNers don't seem to get it, but the average, non tech-savvy really doesn't care whether an app is native or not. It just doesn't really matter, unless of course you're doing something performance-intensive.

But most people are probably not saying "ugh, Slack is made with Electron, I should completely avoid it."
Brave browser on iOS here. I also never saw it.
I meant legally.
This is asinine. They still have to go to stores and shop for food, going to a work at a factory is just one more place to get infected. And as demonstrated by the meat-packing plants, a much higher risk of infection than most everyday locations.
Alameda County says it has those things.
This is not really a hard problem to solve as is evidenced by literally every other country. Moreover, in almost every country it is possible to vote even outside of the country.

I can't comprehend why people try to insist that ID is racist and impossible to implement. It is so bizzare my only explanation is propaganda.
This is only a good suggestion if all the other people in Germany that want German content have their browser languages correctly configured.

My guess is that they don’t, and this fix would hurt more users than it helps.
Psychology of Design: 101 Cognitive Biases and Principles Affecting UX
"Every time users interact with products, they filter the information, seek the meaning of it, act within a given time, store bits of the interaction in their memories. So to improve your user experience, you need to understand the biases & heuristics affecting those four decision-cycle steps."
I think there is much to be said for storing physical media like photos and microfilm, such that the only technology you need to recover the information is a lens.

I am sure we are (and have been) losing valuable troves of early digital information, both through issues of hardware compatibility and corporate governance.

Hardware, in that the only reason I still have a CD drive at all is because I haven't replaced one old computer. Hard to read data on a CD without a CD drive.

Corporate governance, in that it seems every few months there is yet another frantic scramble by the community to back up an aging web service that has been deemed too expensive to maintain by its owner.

I expect there is a huge amount of information in this part of the digital age that in 50 years time will be gone simply because we are not actively preserving it due to a belief that it will always be there.
22 days ago you asked HN how to learn Japanese.
I don't think there's many people that want what essentially amounts to a 50-year revolution. It seems implausible that something like that would ever succeed; it would be long-aborted before then because citizens (rightfully) will not wait two generations for results.
You didn't have the $3 you spent, so after you made $1 you had to borrow $2 and now have to pay interest on the debt until the balance of trade goes the other way and you can pay it back. If that never happens or takes too long, you've lost more than $2 to interest payments.
Last time I checked three years ago, the UEFI spec states that the hardware clock (rtc) is set to "current local time". UEFI runtime service's GetTime() includes TimeZone value in minutes offset from UTC, and a Daylight bitmask.

Windows, Linux, macOS, all set the timezone value to 0x07FF which is defined as EFI_UNSPECIFIED_TIMEZONE which is to be treated as local time (but without a timezone).

In effect, it's the same mess as BIOS. It shows how specs can just be thwarted.
If you love latency, give it a try.
Sadly, this is a uniquely American failing. If you can't provide supports for people during a once-in-a-generation pandemic but have no problem taking out $20 Trillion in debt during normal times, things are seriously broken.
it doesn't have to be efficient, it just has to keep drones aloft indefinitely
I never left: http://sprout.rupy.se/feed?rss

Also has Pingbacks!!!
Kinda - QML is a programming language, Qt Quick is an UI scene graph (with the main way to use it being through QML) which also "renders everything" and makes by default less effort than widgets to look like the OS.

But :

- QML can be used with other graphics stack - for instance Qt Widgets like with https://www.kdab.com/declarative-widgets/ or alternatives to the official Qt Quick controls with https://github.com/uwerat/qskinny or with completely custom rendering like here with NanoVG : https://github.com/QUItCoding/qnanopainter

- QtQuick Controls can be made to use the same style hints than the desktop with https://github.com/KDE/qqc2-desktop-style
No, there is not just one top-level comment. Minimize that comment, then click “more” to see additional top-level comments.

As for the comment you commented on, that comment would be better placed as a child comment, but it’s about interstate commutation issues, which clearly relates to the topic.
The objective probably isn't to stop all infections. It's not possible. You act as if this is some kind of a death sentence virus, when in fact for the vast majority of people it isn't a serious illness.
> The nasty question in this whole thing would be: what so strangled capitalism that feudalism was able to make a comeback

I think you're assuming that the feudalism is referring to replacing the current system, rather than building a new system on top of it and describing the new structure within.

I don't think the article's neo-feudalism directly predicts that people in the hinterlands will be extracted from physically. But rather just in the scope of their digital activity - they want to communicate with friends, use Facebook, and Facebook grows richer off of their labor. But I do think the article hops around between the narrow digital context and the larger world to lend more gravity to its point.

Talking about the entire real world, and making things easy by assuming some basic income - what keeps people in the hinterlands from just sitting around? The article critiques the lack of a coherent description of work, which I am perpetuating. But the article also leans on Facebook moderators of an example of new-style work, even though it is fundamentally unnecessary.

To the extent that we go down this path, we could also just not have an economy - the people in the hinterlands could very well just end up homesteading, physically and digitally. Food and shelter enabled by cheap technology, setting up DIY servers for themselves and their friends, and scavenging digital devices that are cast off by the more centralized economy for lack of software updates.

I kind of already feel this way running libreboot/me_cleaned coreboot/microg for my main devices, and keeping as much stuff out of the cloud as possible. News about the latest gadgets just doesn't excite me much.
Let me use the, 'What programming language should i start with?!' analogy :)

Just start reading the book (any discrete mathematics book!) :)
Plus, more rent-seeking profit opportunities! Engineers create a social credit rating system for the spouses making the meals!
I mostly use plain command-line git.

But I also run gitk when things get a bit messy and I want to visualise the status of my local repository (and avoid making the situation worse).
Yeah, software seems to frequently follow Parkinson's Law:

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.[1]

Corollary: software expands to fill the available resources.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law
I think you will soon discover that it's not a "uniquely American failing", but a fact of life that applies everywhere. I don't see how it's even up for debate that you can't stop the economy for six months and avoid severe repercussions, including deaths, for years to come, and that the government can't just will the stuff (food, goods) into existence with no work required from the population.
Kind of a useless thing to say, no?
I've been hearing this for weeks.
They say that about advertising spend too. I think it was David Ogilvy but I'm too lazy to look it up.
A sufficiently large antenna would reduce the power requirements significantly.
Found the editor!
When you say web platform do you mean a browser? Using a browser is the mosted optimised and performant over installing an application on your desktop?

Curious what desktop do you run your browser under?

I would give you an example of a simple video split application. A web platform requires uploading, downloading and slow processing. A local app would be hours quicker as the data is local.
This is such a silly article. Of course they are technologically superior. This is like saying bare metal is better than a virtual machine. Of course.

But they are not universal for several reasons you fail to account for.

I won't bother categorically defending anything in this article, but I will leave a single statement:

good, fast, cheap - pick two.
I haven't played with Windows since the 90s and just assumed that would have been fixed by now! It seems really silly to set the RTC to local time. Especially given that most devices are mobile these days. Put it to sleep in Melbourne and it wakes up in Singapore...
web apps are run using interpreted javascript in a vm.
qt is compiled c++ machine code, that literally runs natively on the operating system.
you're missing the argument i made. i didn't say category theory isn't useful or powerful. i said it isn't replacing set theory in practice.

you can make it through the lion's share of a ph.d. in math without using category theory, but you'll use set theory ubiquitously up until you start doing categorical things. of course category theory is a powerful relator. but it is awkward for when simple sets do just fine. loring tu's manifolds book is a good example of this. set theory is used throughout with categorical concepts sprinkled about to show there's power of relation there.

and that's what i said. set theory is helpful as a brick. category theory is helpful as an architect.
All rich countries can support people for a bit, and the US is doing that, although the mechanisms that it's using I agree are not exactly ideal.

In the long term, you can't subvert the fundamental fact that the economy is what allows people to obtain goods and services. If a country cuts production in half for a year, it won't be able to provide the standard of living to which its citizens are accustomed, no matter what financial wizardry is involved.
BBC doesn't put bylines on articles that are merely reporting general information cobbled together from press releases and public activity.

https://www.bbc.com/news/help-41670342

That does leave a hole when articles include opinion content mixed in with general facts.
I like Inoreader and pay for it. I hope their business is sustainable.
Well maybe there’s one way to resolve this dispute?

Did the UK MEPs serve their last day already?
1) Subscription is not the same thing as micropayments (as they are commonly understood)

2) It's pretty unclear to me that Substack actually lets "legions" of writers make a living. https://substack.com/discover lists the top (income making?) writers, and it drops off very quickly. By number 25, it is "hundreds of subscribers" paying $10/month. That's a nice hobby income but isn't really "a living".
> if there is some easier way to get the D flag cleared you can use that.

Is there though? I didn't know about the dirty bit, so obviously I don't know much about x86 TLB, but I'm having trouble imagining any reasonable implementation where clearing the dirty bit wouldn't itself require a shootdown.

Have you seen somewhere claim that MADV_FREE allows avoiding a shootdown? The man page doesn't say that and I am pretty sure I heard before that it does not, but would be very interested to know if that's incorrect.
Indeed. I was thinking of Opel the car maker.
Interesting, but it's not enough to come to a general conclusion. Without understanding what the mechanism of infection was you can't say that's how it works for everyone, everywhere. Are we seeing this anywhere else? We're not seeing it here in Australia.
Why Are You Ignoring One of the World’s Top Paid Writer Listings?
Well, the budget of NASA is $22.6B/year for all projects combined. And as others have said, this is a small unmanned reusable vehicle, with a few flights under it's belt, after all of the reusable R&D was done for the Space Shuttle.

If I were to lick my finger and lift it into the wind, I'd estimate this flight cost between $0.5B and $1.5B, and most of that would be the gear that they are testing, given that the spacecraft itself is fully reusable.
Yeah.

Golang projects like to have a play on words with “go” or just prefixed like “go-commander”. Such as Hugo static site generator, the mascot gopher, Gorilla web toolkit...
> To me, it sounded like they were saying that when a developer works alone at nights or on the weekend, they cannot ask other members of the team, or the person who originally filed the ticket, any questions.

I think in response to the OP, the user identified the "problem." I've worked places where the above was the norm, and other places where if ticket showed up in front of a developer and required additional clarification (from QA or other developers) this would be covered in detail during sprint retrospectives, with the intention of making sure that the team works hard to make sure that this never happens. It can blow estimates not only for the given task, but can have cascading effects as well.

That said, this might not be easily attainable or the best practice for all organizations, but I think I prefer better processes over evening and weekend work.
>I normally don't close out of applications when I'm not using them, so I was always hovering around ~6-7 of my 8 gigs of RAM in use.

That sounds like your problem. And I refuse to believe that the new steam UI uses 2gb of memory.
This sounds like propaganda. They don’t want to pay and are stalling the process with bogus claims of fraud.
> The tough question is where is that 20-25k going? Large research expenditures are typically funded by external grant rather than tuition and fees. The university owns all of it's land, and surely should or could have the majority of the buildings already paid for given a 100+ year history.

Not every department can expect to fund faculty via research grants -- humanities departments in particular are often run as "service" departments reliant on the tuition revenue. Math departments often fall into this group as well.

The standard teaching load is 3 three-credit-hour courses per semester. Taking a look at current rates I'm familiar with, in-state tuition is 225 per credit hour. If we assume a class size of 30, that yields 60k per semester. But there are heating and cooling costs, building maint and cleaning costs, for the classroom, as well as departmental overhead: admin assistants for hiring, room scheduling, budgeting etc, as well as uni overhead for accounting, IT, diversity training, classroom techs, etc.

So you end up with maybe 90k annually to split between the professor and their TAs, if any. Which is about on par for starting tenure track wages. Not sure where the 2 orders of magnitude math comes from then.
The difference between "Qt native" and "native native" (e.g. Win32 or Cocoa) is still noticeable if you pay attention, although it's not quite as obvious as between Electron and the former.

(Likewise, applications using the JVM may also look very convincingly like native ones, but you will feel it as soon as you start interacting with them.)
VSCode is more editor then IDE.
Agreed on the description on how the State wielded the power (not very effectively I'd argue) yet I'm not claiming that the State knows what to do with power (specially in such pandemic situation), I'm merely describing that the people seem to have accepted very quickly and with little resistance whatever the State decided (late or not)
I think that would get a pretty close look from the justice department.
Recruit proctors from big companies.
That’s the PR spin. If you read it more carefully, notice that they did this without requests from the restaurant, which is why all of those articles include owners who were surprised by the practice. They claim that their TOS allows it and that’s why it’s not classic cybersquatting but if all they’d been doing was on-demand microsites they wouldn’t have stopped as soon as it got attention.
Sure, but the munmap() won’t return to the caller until the effects are visible in all processors.
All of this is moot if you have only the one thread. If you need parallelism, and can afford its complexity, separate processes sharing only what must be shared can eliminate your TLB exposure. Single-writer mappings eliminate cache storms.

All of this is moot if you allocate all your memory upfront.

All of this is moot if you can identify junctures when a stall is free, and cluster your shootdowns at such times.
Zoom Roulette (Chrome Only)
Ah yes you were charged the white tax. Mumbai taxis are actually famous for going by the meter while pretty much taxis in other metro Indian cities dont.

Since you dont look "Indian" the taxis know they can get more money out of you.

Next time before you enter the taxi try saying "Meter say chalo" which in Hindi means go by the meter.
> These systems of discipline were indeed quite real, but they were strongly associated with the mercantile system which was pre industrial revolution.

Okay, so post industrial revolution domination is what you want: Blair Mountain. Even more relevant? Literally today as America shovels an underpaid mass of it's citizens into the jaws of a pandemic so that a labor aristocracy can resume their bloomin' onions, onto the beach, and back into movie theatres.
Agreed! To build on your point - I used to teach Algebra 1 in a Title 1 school. What many people don't realize about "memorizing math facts" in elementary school is that if someone doesn't have a basic level of numeracy, it's really hard to learn more advanced concepts (like solving for x in a simple equation). You can't understand solving for x if you don't fundamentally understand how two numbers change when I subtract 5 from each of them, and you also don't have free working memory in your brain for learning if you're using all your working memory to do the subtraction. It's an anecdotal observation, but it's something that isn't often talked about in conversations about "memorizing facts".

I guess what I'm trying to say is it's useful to be able to calculate a tip without a calculator or tally a grocery bill. But more importantly, it'll be a big hurdle to learning slightly more advanced math concepts if you can't do some of the basics in your head.
If “making something easier” doesn’t count as a “benefit”, I think that maybe there’s a fundamental disagreement about what it means for something to be beneficial.

Global Entry is pretty clearly beneficial for the user, as part of the border control experience. Whether having things like Global Entry is beneficial to society is, as `tptacek points on parallel to your comment, a very different question.
What makes you think so? IDs cost here too and yes you have to go bigger centrums usually to pick them up. Unless you're English the whole dance around anti ID and voting sounds insane to Europeans and most likely large parts of the developed world. It's common sense.
Actually, a lot has updated about git-annex in the last few years. It actually does support git pointer files like git lfs, which makes it easier to when you want to modify binary files. In fact, it can even use git-lfs servers as one of its back-ends. However, I still prefer symlinks mode, because operations on them are faster because it bypasses the smudge filter.

Also, git-annex uses reflink copies whenever possible, on zfs, btrfs, or apfs. Also, since people were talking about p2p and git, git-annex does this amazing trick for syncing directly to other git-annex repos, even with the checked out branch. There is no need at all for a seperate server.

I have used git-annex for years on OSX, and have not found it be deficient in any way compared to linux.
Medical workers are generally using basic protection well, but their not walking around in BSL-4 bunny suits. Such methods might be 99% effective, but encounter 10,000x as many viruses and the risks are still significantly worse.
This of the converse - Capitalism: the the weird case in the history of Feudalism.

Feudalism seems to be a natural order. Look at corporations - they are all feudal hierarchies internally.

So what is capitalism among the natural order of feudalism?

Technology of industrial revolution allowed new generation of aristocracy (refer to as capitalists) to replace old generation of aristocracy (landed gentry).

It's more likely that we have regressed back to natural feudal order than that we are experiencing some funky next stage of capitalism, since there were no major wars or societal conflicts recently.
One that can read and write files and directories among other things. (Not an electron fan, but web pages are still pages, not real apps.)
I wish I was not writing this, but no.

Outside of niche use cases you get two much with electron.
Computers are so dam fast most users just don't care and those of us that do care use Linux anyway. If your app also runs nearly identically in a browser not just electron, on boring users is so much easier. I won't install an app just to try it, but I will use a website and reluctantly upgrade to electron.

A sand-boxed stripped down electron replacement as a system library, ala Deno for UI will replace electron in the next few years. Web-Native frameworks targeting WASM, WebGPU for responsive components and Dom for everything else will replace JavaScript, but the web will win.