skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry but it's just not happening for me, on macOS 10.15.3, on my late 2016 MBP. (And I've certainly never done anything like disable SIP.)

I run the commands and get:

Hello
/tmp/test.sh 0.00s user 0.00s system 8% cpu 0.045 total
Hello
/tmp/test.sh 0.00s user 0.00s system 75% cpu 0.005 total

If I'm reading this correctly, the first run takes less than a twentieth of a second, and the second a two-hundredth? I've never experienced anything like "have the entire machine freeze for 1-2 seconds every 10th minute". And I have the slowest internet package I can buy.

The only delay that's ever noticeable is when running a program I've installed for the first time, which yes usually seems to take a few seconds, before often telling me the application couldn't be verified or something, do I want to run it anyways. Which makes sense if you're running a checksum on a 400 MB application binary. But after that first time, starting an app is always instant.

Can anyone else elucidate what the author is talking about? They're presenting it as a universal, but maybe there's something else going on with their machine? Clearly something's wrong on their end, but possibly it's just some kind of bug. I'd avoid jumping to conclusions that executables taking a second to launch is "by design".

EDIT: switching from zsh to sh gives more granular results:

Hello

real 0m0.009s
user 0m0.002s
sys 0m0.003s
Hello

real 0m0.005s
user 0m0.001s
sys 0m0.003s
File extensions have terrible usability. People changing the extension expecting something to be fixed is a classic misunderstanding. Many people do this every day, decades into personal computing.
> They outright lied in their documentation about the guarantees.

> It wasn't the being early product part, it was the misrepresenting the truth part that hurt their credibility.

That's why I replied to the person you're responding to that his view of software development is cartoonish, but I don't think he got it.

> the problem was that authors of it had no idea about databases when they started their work

Speaking of which, have you heard of influxdb? It's going down the exact same route.
So what does this do to “the curve”?
Presidential elections have been pretty close lately. A candidate might increase their odds of winning substantially by swinging a fraction of a percent of actual voters.
One of the main criteria for a whiteboard is to use it with a stylus - so I purchased https://air.bar/ to turn my non-touch-screen laptop into a touch-screen-one. However, its latency is not low enough to provide a smooth experience. Does anyone know of a good digital pen that plays well with Win 10. I suspect our company policies won't allow me to share screen via an iPad.
Flexibility vs complexity is a slippery slope.
In many unrelated ways, Mac OS X has just always been slow.

The first computers I ran OS X on were a Pismo Powerbook and one of the first iMacs. Both with upgraded hard drives and maxed out RAM. They were almost unusable, and we'd put classic OS back on them, a new release of OS X would come out, and repeat.

I later got a chance to use a shiny new G5. I couldn't believe how slow it felt. Same goes for the PowerBook G4. The first Intel MacBook Pro didn't feel any faster.

Somewhere around the i5, Mac OS started to feel 'okay'. But I'd always still feel blown away at how fast a similar machine felt running Windows or Linux.

But I've stuck with it ever since 2010. I remember talking about my 16", saying "It's really fast...for a Mac."
DNA half-life basically wouldn’t be able to survive this long, no matter how well preserved I believe.
I am programmer not a medical professional, how do you expect me to find that out for myself? Not sure how ask a simple question about something I am not an expert at means I need more humility. Nice projection though.
My mother asked me to help her out with her win 10 installation on her work notebook. This was terrible.

UI is still inconsistent between apps, sometimes it feels like you are using 3 different OS from 3 different time periods. But you can get used to that I guess.

OS settings are still a strange place created to make an average user (or someone who haven't been using the OS for more than a decade) feel as an idiot.

No, amount the Big Three - Windows is the last place I'd look moving too. At least Linux gives me freedom at the expense of UI\UX. Windows give me... well games. I can't thing of any other reason to install linux except competitive gaming.
Tweet from Shopify CEO – https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1263845940257062912
This trainer is one of several features we've been developing to make implementation of vision-based AI super easy. The entire DepthAI API allows users to leverage the Intel Myriad X SDK for use with DepthAI and MegaAI hardware.

We've also made most of our hardware open source (github.com/luxonis) so that end users can develop with our Myriad X modules for integration into their specific devices.

The DepthAI hardware we've made can run "spatial AI", which combines hardware-level passive stereo depth along with inference to generate metadata which describes not only what's detected, but where it's detected.

Our latest module, MegaAI, combines a 12MP camera with the Myriad X in form factor half the size of credit card. The hardware features (https://www.crowdsupply.com/luxonis/megaai#hardware-features) include 4k60 max stream rate, hardware image and video encoding, 2.5W max power consumption, and of course 4TOPs inference power. All power and data is through a single USB cable.
You could presumably make a derivative game using the engine, and sell the game's assets, while complying with the licensing terms on the engine code.

I don't know any examples of this happening, but we've seen the engine/assets distinction before when DOOM and Quake were opened. Their source code was released as Free and Open Source software, but the game assets remain payware to this day.
To be fair, I am not a medical expert so most things on that page are foreign to me.
How to Leave Company to Create Product They Need
Suppose I am working for a startup, and working on an important product for the business. This product would also be useful for many other non-competing companies. I want to leave and start a company around this product. In what manner should I leave the company? Should I leave in secrecy and not expose my plan? Or should I include them in the plan and seek investment from them? The only thing I would be taking with me is what's in my head; are there potential legal issues?
Oh this is good. After reading this, the US President will be able to stop taking it.
Anyone want to guess where this sign is located?

https://imgur.com/XyTJHEc
That's really cool :D
> it was an enormous four-legged herbivore protected by a spiky, plated armor. It weighed approximately 3,000 pounds.

> To give you an idea of how intact the mummified nodosaur is: it still weighs 2,500 pounds!

How does it weight less as a stone fossil than as an organic life form mostly made of water?

Most stone is 2-3 times as dense as water

https://www.thoughtco.com/densities-of-common-rocks-and-mine...
If they are knowingly reselling dangerous out-of-spec parts, shouldn't that be an issue for law enforcement?
GPU switching (NVIDIA Optimus and the like) seems to be a major headache to get working on Linux. My current laptop (XPS 13) only has an integrated GPU, so I ssh into a desktop for running CUDA stuff.

But no, haven't tried WSL2, I'm comfortable with my Linux setup so not to keen on messing with it at the moment :)
GreatFire Envoy: Android SDK to make apps resistant to censorship
Switched from macOS this year having used it for about 8 years to first PoP_OS and now Manjaro. Both were great (GNOME environments) and very productive for both development and general use. I really like the streamlined, "get out of your way" UI.

I would say go for it, I'm glad to not be dealing with any of this nonsense, while paying a premium for it.
Which is great, but will there be 16-32 core version that average mortals can afford, or is it going to be another thunderX2 workstation?

The latter (https://www.anandtech.com/show/12571/gigabyte-thunderxstatio...) is a pretty serious piece of developer hardware, with much better single thread perf, and 64 cores. But its also quite spendy, and you have to be a really serious arm developer to be able to justify one.
Ask HN: How do large companies manage media libraries?
I work in a public school which is adapting to remote teaching and learning, and looking ahead to the Fall and beyond, we're creating more digital assets and supports than ever before using photos and videos.

Our staff is trying to collaborate to create everything we'll need and it's a big challenge to manage different versions and keep track of which students are pictured, whether there's a media release for them, what event the video or photo is associated with...

Our school uses Google Apps Suite to collaborate on shared documents, and we've never really explored using google photos to help us... is that the right step?

How do large distributed teams collaborate and share media assets? Do you have any experience with common ways to handle challenges like these?
Do they have it? I was under the impression that they had to resort to hacks in order to release the recent remastered version.
What makes it a good question? We don't even know the role OP was interviewing for!
There isn't much incentive to improve because they know that people will buy their hardware regardless.

Not to mention people defend and market their products for free.
Maybe it should stay the same from a moral perspective, but that's not how the system currently works in the United States - and, perhaps, most of the world.

No (viable) company in the United States pays for the value of your labor, but for the profit it can have from your labor. They pay you the very minimum they can get away with, and no more, in a complex decision-making process that tries to extract the maximum profit from your labor. Food, benefits, time off etc, it's all part of the goal of maximizing profits from your work.

So considering the above, and ignoring the morals of doing so, no, your pay shouldn't stay the same because that doesn't maximize profits for the company.

After you move, the company will pay you less because you will still be gladly giving them the same work, if not better work, for a smaller salary due to the new and immense benefit of accepting you to work from any place you want.

Now, you can always refuse to accept these terms. Your options: remain in the bay area or go to your new house elsewhere without the job. Would you prefer any of these options to taking the pay cut?

That's what I thought!

PS: possibly one day we'll have such a strong labor market that people in Wyoming can charge top dollar to bay area companies because the companies won't be able to find anyone else to do that job for less. But I think we're not there yet.
The enemy would rather you to have conversations about private matters they can blackmail you with though (or any piece of information that would help them find out how to help you tip to their side).
Purely hypothetical BTW :)
SpaceX Website Re-Design
That is my understanding too. Also they mention mineral deposits so it seems like this is still at least somewhat a fossil?
> To give you an idea of how intact the mummified nodosaur is: it still weighs 2,500 pounds!

Why is that relevant? Tissue has been replaced by minerals which presumably are much denser than flesh.
Give windows 10 and WSL2 a try. With the new terminal and editor it is really a neat setup. macOS is hard to beat in terms of smoothness and looks but unfortunately it gets more and more clunky for working.
It does depending on what software you want to run.

There is no actually good alternative to Photoshop. gIMP is not remotely in the same league. Pixelmator and Affinity Photo are brought up but they're also like nano vs emacs. Photoshop doesn't run on Linux AFAIK. I'm sure for a graphic designer the same is true for Illustrator. The cheaper alternative exist and you can maybe get by but there's missing so many features.

If you're into games there is really only Windows. Same for VR.

I'm sure there are other categories.

I did serious dev on Linux and that dev didn't require any games or apps so it was great and I loved it. It ran my editor of choice and otherwise I only needed a browser and a terminal. But as soon as I step out of that small subset it's pretty much MacOS or Windows only, at least for the things I want to do with my computer.
By an odd coincidence, I wrote about the same topic recently. Hope this can help someone. https://rogerkeays.com/how-to-survive-depression
It’s not the question that requires humility (although tbf this is a pretty easily Googlable one if you combine it with a high school level of chemistry) but the conclusion you drew that the study “doesn’t deserve much credit” as you baselessly claim Zinc is important.
Search relevance is incredible difficult, especially when there is not enough information provided in the query and there are multiple "correct" answers. Someone is always going to be disappointed. You can make the argument in this case that +90% of users would find that London, England is a better answer, but there are millions of these types of queries.

In a recent example, I was using my favorite search engine and showed someone a query for "toaster" where the top results was an infobox describing what a toaster was. They thought the relevance for the query was hilariously wrong saying, "everyone already knows what a toaster is, I want results for buying a toaster".

IMO I thought the results were perfect based on the query. Neither of us were wrong.

The expectation for search tools has dramatically shifted where many people expect them to have oracle like qualities.
this is very interesting -When Unreal 4 swapped out UnrealScript for C++ it went into overdrive in terms of performance and clean.

why do you think this happened?

why was C++ so much better
Exactly, you aren't a medical professional and you don't have the skills or knowledge to be evaluating the soundness of this journal article (for that matter neither do I), yet you said this:

> If zinc is not a `macrolide` I wouldn’t give this paper much credit as they didn’t test the treatment properly.
Ask HN: Why doesn't banana juice exist?
Just had a conversation with co-workers at the office... we are all equally puzzled how this is not a "thing"
Debian is just as quick, and does not have the problematic "rolling" updates of Arch. (It does have the "testing" and "unstable" channels which are roughly comparable, but the Debian folks won't tell you to use them in production.)
> If zinc is not a `macrolide` I wouldn’t give this paper much credit as they didn’t test the treatment properly.

A computer programmer suggesting a medical study shouldn't be given much credit based on a question they self-admittedly don't understand is pretty far from my definition of humility.

"Asking a simple question" is different from "asking a question and supplying your own assumed answer and throwing the whole thing out as a result."
To be fair, most people think the tower bridge is the London Bridge, not just a London bridge.
I submit that we don't have the wisdom to tell an overfit solution from a genuine decent work in progress with rough edges. Worse yet, overfitting makes for nicer demos quicker, so genuine work is always at a disadvantage.
sorry but lmao at people who think small daytrading drives these markets.

The author has zero credibility. Never listen to this dangerous moron ever again. He doesn't deserve a conversation thread.
He was always able to stop talking about it.
I was so happy when I saw the attention paid to deployment on ECS that I thought maybe they finally (years later) put some more attention into GCP[1], but it appears not. Hopefully in some time in the next few months!

[1] https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/charts/-/epics/4
The problem is, ten years after you buy your mower and need to replace the original battery pack, will the manufacturer even make that proprietary shape? If owning an electric mower means buying an entirely new manufactured unit and battery every 10 years, delivered to your door in a shipping container across the pacific, that can't be much better for the environment than using a 25 year old $50 gas mower that's been circling the neighborhood craigslist forever.

I just worry with the continual shedding of older technologies for better ones, that we fail to calculate the costs to replace these technologies and the costs to build new technologies as we get blinded by optimism and profit opportunities. The real rub on the environment more than anything else are our rampant consumerism and the globally extended supply lines needed to fuel that insatiable itch.
The federal stimulus never was nor was intended to be a long term solution to anything.

Social safety nets in the US are mostly handled at the state level, and that doesn't look like it's showing any signs of changing.
Our help desk is wise enough to keep existing mac users on the oldest supported macOS version; but inevitably at some point in the future they'll have to roll out the latest version. This will be the week when I will exchange my macbook for a Windows 10 ThinkPad. A lot of our dev teams have moved to this setup alreay using WSL or a VM for Linux if really needed and it has been really smooth (our helpdesk staying on top of the Active Directory and Windows Update management game also).
People seem to want to downvote this. A similar contradiction exists with automation, which the article explains a little. Automation should be a good thing. It means that if we could all feed ourselves and make commodities yesterday, after we automate some people out of jobs today, we should still easily be able to support them at the same high living standard, except they're free to do nothing (or something else useful instead, or shorten the work week for everyone). But instead, automation is used to crush labor costs, ie, our living conditions. Labor arbitrage across the pacific ocean is similar. Workers in the US shouldn't be in competition for jobs with either robots or Chinese people. But when the owners of companies have to always desperately compete for maximal profits, these are all nightmares for workers.
No, it isn't - see

> The context-free metric for ranking cities is global relevance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_city

There is no context whatsoever in global relevance.

If you ask someone what time it is, you don't get asked "where?" in return - the current location is implied. Same with cities - if you mention London, it is implied that you mean the most globally relevant London, not the one that was named after it.
> a degraded user experience, as the first time a user runs a new executable, Apple delays execution while waiting for a reply from their server.

Wow, this is extremely infuriating! I just ran the "hello world" test script with the network connection disabled and it took 5 seconds to run!

$ echo $'#!/bin/sh\necho Hello' > /tmp/test.sh && chmod a+x /tmp/test.sh
$ time /tmp/test.sh && time /tmp/test.sh
Hello
/tmp/test.sh 0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 4.991 total
Hello
/tmp/test.sh 0.00s user 0.00s system 77% cpu 0.005 total
The HoneyComb LX2K has an 8x PCIe slot as well, what else would you need ? I wouldn't want wireless on it anyway, just use ethernet.
@dang can we change the link to this one to give credit to the source? And add 2017 tag.
Food Banks Get the Love, but SNAP Does More to Fight Hunger
Macrolides are just a family of antibiotics that includes azithromycin and a few others. Z-Pak is one.
Previously, with better pictures: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14326913 (2017; 117 comments)
It doesn't work when there's no network connection, wonder if it would be possible to filter out and automatically block notarization traffic, or if it's all encrypted with cert pinning to prevent this type of MITM+filter.
It's been absurd that I have people on my Twitter feed attributing the low death rate in India to India's "widespread daily use of HCQ".

31 years in India and I've never even heard of it!
AMD Ryzen 3 Workstations with Nvidia GPUs for Data Science
Sure it is!

Go small. Embedded / retro / various micro controllers are a ton of fun, and they have most of the feel we all experienced back then too. A decade ago, I had a bunker. Unix, Linux, Windows, BSD, OS X, all piled into a basement running pretty much everything. It was serious fun building it up, and then when I got there?

These dark times took a lot of the fun out of it. So, I literally gave the best away to a younger guy I could see drooling over the whole works and ordered some micros. Back to my roots.

Assembly language was fun in the 80's. It's fun now. Hooking shit up to do things? Yup. Even more fun now because there is so damn much just laying around, and we can get almost anything delivered for a song too.

Back in the day, I actually got good at vacuum tubes. That is what was laying around, and I was in poverty at the time. (Which actually was good for me personally, no worries, no regrets, no harm done)

My point being:

Seeing and channeling that excitement will pay off for most who experience it.

Yeah, big brother networked computing is in a dark time. Oh well. It's a big world of tech out there.

And, these days?

Hell, we are super good at electro mechanical. So, a young person can get a look at that, learn to program, control things.

Then, head over to bio tech, which will soon be electro-bio-mechanical, among other things, and likely experience a boom and sense of wonder at it all same as we did.

I pretty much am against snuffing out those little sparks. Sometimes there is only one. Sometimes they don't come back.

I would have hated to see my own snuffed out. At that time, I probably would not realize the impact. But today I would, and do not want anyone with inclination to self-learn, grow, do, build, experiment, teach, go into business, to lose any of that inclination just because we see some bad times right now.
Always a red flag when an article doesn't put a date of publication anywhere on the page.
this solves the problem for most people, but coffee enthusiasts aren't going to like the idea of grinding the beans 8+ hours before brewing.
Why would sandboxing be slower?

They are definitely doing something way too slow.
Because it wasn't fossilized; it's mostly original material.
Not only would profits be lower (disincentive for companies), Chinese [or other off-shore] employment prospects would be worse (disincentive for them to comply).

Trade makes people better off in general, but it doesn't make every person better off.
> If you are not interested by the underlying tech of any category of computing, you are not a programmer.

I don't know much about Unity, but this gatekeeping ruins your credibility. It might very well be that writing your own game engine is faster than using Unity, but I actually believe that _less_ now after reading your comment. Your argument seems more pride-based than fact-based.

Programmers specialize based on their interests, and that's a _good_ thing. If we didn't have specialization, nothing useful would ever get done. Mistakenly choosing not to leverage prior work in design space[1] can come at a very high cost.

[1] Borrowing a term from "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" by Daniel Dennett (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%27s_Dangerous_Idea)
I was hoping that too but I think Amazon is still working on their time series database[1]. We registered for their preview in 2018 and it's still in preview with no access.

[1]https://aws.amazon.com/timestream/
I feel like people still have in mind what Linux desktop was 15 / 20 years ago. It improved a lot in the past years, battery life improved on laptops, Ubuntu that was already very stable and feature complete also got a lot of things with previous releases and I've personally been running Arch on my main computers now for 5+ years and haven't got any major issues while upgrading.