skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's reasonably apt. I wouldn't buy an electric car if charging wasn't available in my area[1], just like I currently don't buy fiber because it's not available in my area.

Over time, more areas will have fiber, and more people will be able to make the choice, or even have no choice but to buy fiber. Likewise, over time, charging access will grow and gasoline access will shrink, and more people will own electric cars. During the transition, there will be lots of people who might yearn to own an electric car (just as I currently yearn for fiber), but don't because the vehicles will be expensive, they won't be able to charge at home, and their routine places won't offer car charging. For those people, having access to less-dirty ICE cars will be a strict, if less-than-maximum, improvement over owning older, dirtier ICE cars.

[1] I can't charge at home because my neighborhood only has street parking, and the parking spots are on the other side of the street from my home.
Because "Artificial Intelligence" is a label forever applied to the effort of replicating some human cognitive ability on machines. A well-known lament goes something like: "once it's possible, it's no longer AI".

Business is about exploiting what exists. This is why the buzzword is "innovation", not "invention". Incremental improvements, not qualitative jumps. So nothing will ever be really considered "Artificial Intelligence" once it is boring enough for business.

Scheduling algorithms are incredibly useful for business. There was a time when this was considered AI, but that was the time when they didn't work well enough to be useful.
Energy density is probably quite important for something handheld like a chainsaw. I doubt batteries are able to replace that except for some light garden use.
Programming patterns as a general concept aren't actually all that interesting either, what people are interested in talking about is the things you can do with them.
We have quite a lot of evidence for:

* recent zoonotic origin (closely related to bat coronavirus samples, with likely pangolin recombination - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/20-0092_article)

* initial spread at an open-air market

Whereas our evidence for spread from Wuhan is mostly wild speculation about research on the same very broad family of viruses.
SDKs for languages are in beta and might not be production ready but the collector is production ready. You can use any of the OpenTracing or OpenCensus instrumentation libraries but deploy the OpenTelemetry collector and once Otel SKDs mature, migrate OC/OT to Otel or not if you don't want to.
I feel like OS as a superapp is an underappreciated concept.

Like the idea that fish don't see water. On one side we have WeChat, but on the other side we have IOS, Android, and the browser.

And we're free... to install approved apps from approved sources. Free... to view stuff inside a browser window that works the way the platform owners want it to.

What if we could unbundle the operating system? I wonder what innovations we're missing out on?

For example, true peer to peer networking would be nice. I don't think we'll ever see it from Apple or Google. It's a hard problem sure, but it's also not in anyone's interest to allow people to communicate directly without platforms intermediating.
I think you're confusing 'competitive' with 'skilled'. They are correlated but not the same thing. The best of the best who want to be the best relocate. The best of the best who don't care to be the best stay where they are. People in the second category are driven by an intense interest in their subject and their work rather than competition.
How did he know he actually had covid?

At the time, tests were strictly rationed to hospital patients and healthworkers.
>Who is going to be making heavy use of x87 or MMX (both obsolete) along with AVX-512 mask registers? It seems extremely unlikely.

Wouldn't this be a performance issue if your linking an executable against libraries compiled for MMX, AVX.
I aggree that "review bombs" are reviews too, but they intend to review something different from what is intended: the company creating the product instead of the product.

If you intend the reviews to be a help for deciding on the merits of the product, they are noise. Many people consider "didn't fit my purpose 1/5" or "amazon canceled the shipping on me 1/5" reviews as noise, even though they are not useless. I think, "review bombs" are similar.
As usual, it depends. If you have a few large customers and a large number of smaller ones I'd isolate the large ones in their own DBs and put the rest in a single DB. If any of the smaller ones become dominant then you move them out as well.

If all your customers are individuals or small accounts then I'd put them all in a single DB, but I'd still build in the option to redirect to another DB if the software has applicability to enterprise level customers.

Note that it is perfectly OK to upsell the capability to isolate your customers data from each other, segregation options could be offered at multiple levels (all in one bucket, different DB, different cluster), each with their own pricepoint. Some customers will simply demand this and move elsewhere if you don't offer it (and they are typically quite insensitive to price as long as the right boxes get checked for their auditors).
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/350/regulation/6/ma...

> 6.—(1) During the emergency period, no person may leave the place where they are living without reasonable excuse.

That has to be read in conjunction with the government and crown prosecution guidance about what reasonable means, and both the Government and the Crown Prosecutuion Service are very clear: that type of travel was not allowed.
In India, there isn't a super app just yet although there are multiple players trying to build it.
Paytm: Alibaba has invested
PhonePe: Acquired by Walmart (along with Flipkart)

Google Pay has opened its platform to select companies to offer their services: food ordering, investment products etc

Facebook invested in India's largest telecom network Jio (owned by Reliance which is India's largest listed company) and there are indications that they are building a super app with OTT, e-commerce, grocery etc as offerings.
You mean hardware emulators are better than software emulators?
Glad you're so upfront about supporting Nazis.
I believe that the issue discussed is more about mods having that control instead of the user itself. Not about the fact that everybody should listen to everything.

I understand that the question is: should the mod define who “the community” the community can connect with, or not?
> Li-metal batteries top at around 14 MJ / kg

Do you have a link to back this number? Are these batteries rechargeable? Does the measurement include wiring, cooling, cell connections and overall structure of the battery pack?

For comparison, Tesla's (Li-ion) battery pack energy density is 160 Wh/kg, which is 0.576 MJ/kg:

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2020/02/11/energy-density-advanc...
I mean, sure, I'd like everyone to run their own server. But in this case I don't think you'd even need it, a scheduled task in a regular client machine (smartphone/laptop/etc) would be enough. There just isn't an easy way for me to turn my script into something that a smartphone can use, without building a full-fledged app.
Only if you run out of space in the amount of registers, and there are quite a lot of them so that's unlikely in a real world application. But in a very specific benchmark you probably could.
People write about what interests them and what they know about before starting to write. That is where interest and knowledge plays huge role. Lack of knowledge about something means you wont be able to put together good article.

This has zero to do with original research, that is red herring trying to shift the topic. The whole "sourced information therefore pre-existing knowledge, interests and experiences dont play role" is obvious nonsense.

Experiences influence what you write about, what you put emphasis on and how you write.
> They're running it on VirtualBox. That's just a normal desktop VM, nothing cloudy.

You might be surprised.

If you have VirtualBox installed, try executing the CLI "front-end" without specifying any subcommands or options, e.g.,

$ VBoxManage

and looking for the available parameters that start with "--cloud" in the output.

---

From "Journey to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with Oracle VM VirtualBox" [0]:

> ... the great feature we've added to Oracle VM VirtualBox 6.0: the capability to export a Virtual Machine and get the same running as an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Emulated Instance.

---

[0]: https://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/journey-to-oracle-cl...
Having a 2 ton car to move a 60kg person from stop light to stop light is just insane

That is solely determined by the energy required. And there is, where the electric car excels. A Tesla uses less than the equivalent of 2l of fuel for 100km or in other units achieves 120mpg. In situations you describe, it fares even better, as 60% of the kinetic energy built up is gained back when braking using the electric motors. So mass is much less a problem with electric cars than with combustion engines, which can't recuperate the kinetic energy.
Makes sense I guess, thanks. Going a little off-topic, but regarding what you mentioned -- how do you reply when they (inevitably, I often feel) reply to your 'why not' with "Well because we shouldn't send out needless emails to people"?
> Does anyone know am I justified in thinking this, or is it all spinning smoke and mirrors?

There's a great deal of spin doctors on all sides that will do anything to make the party they're in look great in-front of the 'media' in order to sweep scandals under the carpet. So it's both.

The guy is undoubtably clever, something like an evil genius here and he knows the mainstream media is on his case for sometime with lots of skepticism of his own story if proven to be completely false. His attitude to answering questions in the Q/A was nothing more than a lure to show the extreme hysteria and anger the media has towards him, just as they ran with a story of 'allegations' of a second trip with no evidence. [0][1] Such stories without evidence are very dangerous.

> No photographic evidence has been published, and the reports are based on the testimonies of two eyewitnesses.

The UK didn't take the lockdown measures and this pandemic seriously from the start and was slow to act and testing targets were not met. The media compared it to the 'flu' and played down the death rates when comparing it to the 2003 SARS outbreak. Perhaps those who weren't socially distant and were clapping close together at Westminster Bridge [2] were just as bad as Cummings 'breaking' the lockdown, shouldn't begin to point fingers. It's everyone's fault.

[0] https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-dominic-cummings-made...

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52786206

[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/coronavirus-...
Indians sure as heck don't need motivation to download TikTok; it was downloaded 323 million times in India over last year.

https://sensortower.com/blog/tiktok-revenue-downloads-2019
Useful and interesting but some of them are either blank or, well:

> After reading it over and over again, i still have no idea what it does.

> Some quantum thing. It’s in preview so I have no idea what it is.

> in preview so no idea.
The weird-looking symbols also go the other way around: if your language uses umlauts, you can score very good .com domains. For example, I have the equivalents to email.org, entrepreneur.com, and hacks.com in my native language. Some of these domains receive so much type-in traffic that they pay themselves in ad revenue each year.
This can be a good cheat-sheet and no wonder there have been so many attempts at this(1).

Maybe we're better off making this as github page where users can send pull requests and add/rewrite to these.

(1) https://netrixllc.com/blog/aws-services-in-simple-terms/
(2) https://expeditedsecurity.com/aws-in-plain-english/
Yanosuke Hirai
There is no hard definition of a server. I think OP finds the fact that people use the word all the time when it doesn't mean anything confusing - they feel there is a load of secret knowledge that other people have that they don't. But a lot of the time people just use terms without worrying about whether they actually know what these words mean or not.

Any network enabled machine responds to network packets with other network packets. Is that a server? Does it have to encapsulate a 'service' in some way? What is a service? Is this a higher level concept than tcp? Maybe it has to be something useful to someone, whatever that means. So OK my client machine starts running iis, is it a server now? I just use iis to test my Web page as I develop it, no one else connects to it, well apart from Steve who helps me with testing, he connects to my machine and it serves up the pages. We could go on.

When someone says they don't understand something, make sure you do before telling them they should.
It's pretty close. I mean, he wasn't talking about specifically coronaviruses, because that's not the only kind of virus that could escape from a biolab. But he contracted discussion of SARS and coronaviruses to "[An example]".

Editing old blog posts is probably not the right way to do this. But bear in mind the whole biolab escape theory is entirely plausible. Such things have happened before. The 2007 foot and mouth epidemic in the UK was traced back to an escape from a lab at Pirbright. There were at least two outbreaks of Marburg Virus (ebola) in the USSR due to lab escapes.

I don't really understand the certainty many people here seem to have, about how it couldn't possibly have come from the Wuhan lab. How could you know that? Such escapes have happened repeatedly, that was sort of the point of Cummings' blog post.
Source? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome#FBI_Law_Enf... says it's rare but FBI seems to be saying it is a real thing.
Well this was really useful.

I didn't knew cloudfront was an Amazon product. I wonder what cloudflare people think of that.
Is it just me or did we actually start regressing in terms of moving things off IPv4? A couple of years ago I had a working IPv6 connection at home with a static /64 delegation. I had full IPv6 connectivity at work. Since I had IPv6 connectivity on my laptop ~90% of the time I actually moved a lot of my own private services to be IPv6 only, since that helped a lot with the usual background of port scans and other random annoyances.

Now I'm forced to move these things back to IPv4. My home ISP has first moved off static delegations in favor of dynamic ones via DHCPv6, and then broke IPv6 routing completely [1] and after a few weeks of me complaining still seemingly has no interest in fixing it. The place I work for now has no IPv6 connectivity and has no plans for it in the future. Many people I talk with don't believe that IPv6 is the future and I commonly hear that they have forcibly disabled it on their computers due to this or that random problem.

[1] https://www.tablix.org/~avian/blog/archives/2020/05/on_missi...
Can someone "fork", branch, and merge startups?

Several teams could work on different forks that would represent different hypotheses, for example. The fork that works is pulled into master.

You often find that idea X didn't work in the past for different reasons. Maybe the technology wasn't there yet and the timing was bad. Sometimes though, a startup is born because they chose a different distribution model.
“Hirai was a man with a strict sense of responsibility. He was strongly convinced that an engineer must take responsibility for the whole chain of consequences of his decisions.

And that mere compliance with the letter of the law or regulations would not provide him a reasonable excuse.”
The counterpoint to this is that once you've got enough bandwidth (and low latency) to stream an interactive session with negligible quality issues, you can move anything that requires more bandwidth offsite ('the cloud') and just stream the audio/video output.

As things stand though, it's as kortilla says: we don't even have any such bandwidth-intensive applications in the home. 4k video streaming is the most bandwidth-intensive problem we have. 10gbps may improve download rates for large archives, like modern games or perhaps major OS updates, but that doesn't strike me as a very compelling selling-point. It's a relatively rare occurrence, and reducing the download time by an hour (say) isn't worth reworking your Internet infrastructure. Even here, there's no gain if the Internet connection speed exceeds the write-speed of your storage hardware.

edit It's not quite the same, but I think 5G faces a similar problem. What's the point? 4G is more than enough to stream video. The biggest issue with 4G isn't the bandwidth, or the latency, but the coverage, and I don't think 5G is going to help there. (There are still parts of central London without reliable 4G coverage.)
I'm not ignoring anything. I'm simply stating that this is not an effective prevention method. I'm even going to argue that this can potentially _hurt_ whatever fraud system they have in place, as it could create a lot of false-negatives. Once the fraudsters pick up on this they'll change the ports. From then on, this script is useless.

At best, the result of the data points created by this script is going to create a temporary drop in fraud, which can be used by the aforementioned 'consultant' to claim (premature) victory. Give it a month or two, and the fraud numbers are going to go back to their previous levels.
I was referring to toot.cafe's block list, which I saw a lot of instances blindly followed. (I had my own instance)
What we talk about when we talk about disrupting science
From the Mastodon creator:

>For once am not happy about Mastodon being on the HN frontpage. Someone submitted a work-in-progress pull request there. Half the comments are circlejerking about free speech as always, the other half gives opinions without understanding the context of the feature (which is not surprising given that it's a work-in-progress pull request on GitHub and not a goddamn press release).

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/104233739773528179
I used that, and actually I may have missed the bit where they explain that "lithium metal as an anode were suggested for future high-energy-density batteries", implying that it's still an immature tech.

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/ee/c9ee0...
>An additional layer on top of it is so-called message franking, which allows encrypted messages to be reported to content moderators without compromising keys or message contents ahead of time while also preventing fake reports.

That sounds like the encryption isn't deniable. Personally I would prefer deniable encryption to ability to report wrongthink.
Yes.. some of them I have absolutely no clue on what it does. They might serve some edgecase specific for that domain. There are a few services in preview which I cannot see for myself what it does.

I will try to update and correct services as soon as I have more info (or somebody can provide it to me)
Vagina has her own mechanisms, how to operates vaginal discharge how to maintain vaginal PH balance, or ingrown yeast for the safety of the vagina.
> I wonder what cloudflare people think of that.

Because of the name? Cloudfront is older then Cloudflare afaik.
"Blindly followed"? Or "Trusted the administration decsisions of those with similar views, and decided to follow their lead"?
> an attempt to split up the content in the extremely long main knitting article into other articles

These attempts are inherently hard to arrange, often requiring a long discussion on some agreed-upon Talk: page. Wikipedia does not have an equivalent to the git sites' "merge request" workflow where a set of diffs to multiple pages can be worked-on in "draft" status and then transparently merged; these things have to be arranged manually.
Are you blocking instances, and on what conditions? I wonder how often you get complaints about wanting an instance blocked, and how you manage them.
FBI isn't exactly a trustworthy source of psychology. Psychologists and the DSM do not recognise it as a real thing.

Here is the backstory of how it was created: https://twitter.com/sezmohammed/status/1252500993972948992
You know what I think is really telling? I think you're correct that it was a joke/meta-commentary, but I didn't even process it as such until you called it out.

And that's exactly why Wikipedia has such a problem with its editors. They're so good at getting their way while appearing to just have logical arguments, as has been stated elsewhere in these comments.

So that either makes it an incredibly on-point joke, or actually a statement that anecdotes aren't facts, and I can't even tell which for sure.
Entertainment is not inherently stupid and videos on both platforms are not inherently entertainment or stupid. They mostly seem like a cross section of overall internet content (minus porn), which represents a large part of society as a whole.

For some reason people seem compelled to declare popular things they dislike as stupid, but that seems very unnecessary.
Well, he has a point. If you need a variable to be colored to know it's a variable, then I'd argue that you don't really know what you're doing.

If you don't need a variable to be colored to know it's a variable, then why do you color them?

A counter argument would be that you have this huge visual cortex in your brain which can use cues like this to help you quickly find what you're looking for.

A counter argument to that would be that you should know your code well enough to not need to rely on anything like that.

When I started programming, I had notepad and that was it. I didn't need colors. I use colors now, though. What's that say? I have no idea.
Hadn't seen that. Good to hear.
Derisking business too early can be dangerous as well. Volatility unlocks opportunities.
A little bit of noise in the system is the secret sauce.
Money: FAANG pays better than most companies outside of finance.

Job security: I don't think there's been a major layoff of engineers at any of these companies in years, if ever.

Peers: It's great knowing that wherever you go in the company and whatever you do, you can usually rely on your peers being competent and reasonable. Of course nowhere is perfect but these companies still act as a decent filter.

Culture: The companies are largely focused on data-driven decision making and something vaguely resembling a meritocracy, rather than the bureucratic middle-management driven hell one might find in more traditional companies like banks.

Flexibility: Most of the companies are fairly accommodating when it comes to switching teams, even when a relocation is involved. Taking Google as an example, you can start your career working on Android in Mountain View and finish it as a high-level SRE for an entirely different project in London. This is very different to say a startup where the company likely has one major product line and you can't really deviate from it.
I'd prefer to see this integrated into the AWS UX.

For an external crowd-sourced version, I'd like to see something like this with a column for maturity, and whether it actually works.

The classic AWS services are rock-solid, and perfectly sufficient to build a business on. Many of the newer ones are.... much less so. A green checkmark, yellow question mark, and red land mine icon would go a long way towards letting me know what I should and shouldn't use.