skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was older than you, I left technology to try for medical school. After several years of studies, some of it absolutely brutal, I had to go back to technology; my brain is just not wired to memorize large amounts of information as required to pass med school exams. It was a fascinating detour and I was fortunate that I had the tech skills to get back into technology, though my dreams of becoming a doctor had come to an end.

I guess my message is, push yourself to try different things, ascend to new heights. You may, like me, crash and burn, but it's also a way to grow (perhaps, at least, like me, learn some humility and understanding of your own flaws and limitations).

There's a wonderful book, a bit dated but still worth reading: "What Should I Do With My Life" by Po Bronson[1], a set of interviews with people who became restless and changed careers, sometimes succeeding, sometimes "a work in progress". I got a lot of inspiration from reading others' stories and perhaps you will, as well.

1. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FBFMKC
The Unauthorized History of the Potato: From Simple Tuber to Global Star
Totally agree. This is a classic clickbait title. Few months ago I came across a good resource that deconstructed the syntax of click bait sentences. Can’t find it now but came across this which you can try it for yourself https://www.contentrow.com/tools/link-bait-title-generator (I tired “mental models” and got pretty good results).
This is true for moderately-sized microservices. If your microservices are too small, though, it's essentially impossible to write integration tests of the overall system as a whole--any such test would need to spin up N different dependencies.
Wax has a very high expansion coefficient and is dirt cheap. Also, the force an expanding column of wax exerts is substantial compared to the size of the column of wax so you can use it to drive mechanical devices directly.

This principle has been used in a - now defunct - model of insulin pump.
Hans Rosling explained very well why advancements in National wealth leads to smaller families (less children per family) and longer lives

It's linked to becoming richer countries, which China has become

https://youtu.be/hVimVzgtD6w
Life is like a piece of music. The "point" of listening to it lies in the listening - not the getting to the end of the track. If you build and optimize your life around "getting to the end" - whatever that has meant for you, getting a degree, reaching a certain amount of wealth, a certain amount of success, a certain kind of partner, etc. - you will eventually find that there is no more "end" to get to.

Well, the way out of this is really stupid - you just have to learn to enjoy the music instead of always looking forward to reaching the end of the track.
In a perhaps futile attempt to solve the problem (contribute to solving it) I came to think of it like this: Web pages have the same kind of content as the first bunch of pages of a book. The entire internet is like that. You reach the largest audience by assuming the reader knows nothing. Eating nothing but appetizers turns out unsatisfying. It gets truly absurd where everyone seems to [further] optimize for delivering as little as possible.
It really doesn’t and I sense that you seem to be downplaying the whole concept that statistics can be interpreted in many different ways.

Edit: I can’t reply to your reply, I think it is a new hacker news feature that’s trying to slow down these back and forths. I listed several ways we could control the data, and I’m not proficient enough in statistics to do all that myself.

One talking point is: per police interaction, an unarmed non-Hispanic Caucasian person has a 4 in 10000 chance of being shot while an unarmed African American has a 3 in 10000 ... so the only huge person actually has a higher level of risk per interaction.

Again, this is not my area of expertise.

I’m not suggesting what all these numbers mean. I am suggesting that when you bring numbers, it’s only fair to discuss different ways to view the numbers.
>For example, in my own circle of hobbies. Fishing is getting worse[1]. Surfing is difficult because costal real estate is crazy expensive. Gardening is also difficult due to real estate, etc.. I can think of at least a dozen other activities that are now much harder to participate in due to rising real estate prices, climate change, or wealth inequality. For anyone who participates in these activities, there is a real loss in QOL.

You're using a ban on abalone fishing as an example of how hobbies are "becoming harder to participate in"? I'm sorry, but that's a massive generalization and a ridiculous stretch. The boom in technology over the past 30 years has undeniably enabled free learning, and while you can point at niche examples as outliers, you would be grasping at straws.

>Also, I think you are presenting a false dichotomy. Your suggestions is that millennials should be content because technological progress offsets the loss of economic opportunity. This is a false choice. We can have both with the right mix of policy. No one said to the boomers "You can have good economic opportunity, or you can have technological advancements, pick one". In their own lifetimes, they also saw huge advancements in medicine, infrastructure, communication, and tech.

Can you help me to understand how suggesting more variables be brought into the equation when comparing generational success is a false dichotomy? I think you're presenting a straw man. My comment was that I am content due to reasons not considered in the article, and that maybe those reasons should be considered when looking at the population as a whole and comparing them cross-generationally.
You're a cynic ;)

Knowledge from experts should feed into "think critically and figure it out", rather than replacing either with the other.

Software has an added bonus of the "works or doesn't" test, so it's easier to (in)validate the results of that thinking than, say, something on the scale of a planet and decades.
They say "tend to have less economic growth", not "always have less economic growth".
The x87 had (and still has) a stack. Itanium tried something as well.

The problem is that it does not really fit to complied code. The compiler usually has no clue how deep the stack is when a function is called (esp. with function pointer, virtual methods, etc), so it will not or can not generate optimal code for this. Plus you get the trouble with interrupts.

However, modern CPUs understand how the stack is used and actually will maintain and on-chip stack for you. That is, if you are using the standard function prologue and you dont play any tricks with the stack-modifying instructions.
The latter. We have a lot of metrics and data, but I need something consistent beyond "this box looks like its using a lot of CPU/memory/IO."

Our workloads are dynamic enough that a box using 20% or 80% are both within range of normal, with some single threaded workloads so per-core stats are also not great.

I'm also not looking to fix anything, just have the ability to say, with a high degree of confidence, "hey, our system detected this box looks funky, can you just pull it out and replace it?"
This describes me perfectly. I'm from Brazil and I want to leave for another country with better life quality.

The US is a nightmare regarding immigration. The Canadian system is straight forward for qualified people.
The F-word’s hidden superpower: Repeating it can increase your pain threshold
This test is flawed in so many ways. I just do not understand how the authors do not feel ashamed about what they're trying to sell to readers.

In a healthy environment the author/s presenting study of such quality would've been laughed out the door.

What their results are actually showing is that up to about 18 cores - the actual number of physical cores on a single Intel's CPU they've tested Intel kicks the shit out of Graviton. So if you want proper test to compare that particular Graviton 64 core CPU with the Intel then take system with single socket Intel CPU with 64 real cores as well and then come back with the results.
What in case when that „service” is actually a thousend of „microservice instances” thats communicating with other „services” via some „api gateways”?

And the teams managing those „services” do full DevSecOps? 10 people working on such component is actually pretty decent team size for that task...
I don't think that's the case at all with flight vs vehicles. Autonomous driving is complicated because you have to take into account a wide range of scenarios and wide range of human behaviors, and a complex environment to understand. And then make very fuzzy choices on how to react to those scenarios.

Combat is a simpler zero sum game, pick and target and destroy.

Based on how AI plays top games right now(Starcraft and Dota), very fast quick reflexes and pin point accuracy of their attacks I think the AI drones are going to crush humans.
Consensus as Religion
I never said I thought Covid-19 was a nothing-burger, and I have nothing to do with the right-wing online crazies.

Nevertheless it is clear that public health experts have not been straight with us. You don't need to be a right-wing loon to see that their open letter contradicts what they have been saying until now.

Why did you personally attack me and associate me with the 4chan nutters with no basis whatsoever?
Without going into detail on the actual debate, I just want to make a meta point here:
If you are writing an article and the following

> [All] technical challenges [...] will not be magically solved by using microservices

Is the key statement of your article, then you should really consider adding a lot of nuance or not publishing it at all.
I'm reminded of that scene from Annie Hall...

ALVY: Well, that's funny, because I happen to have Mr. McLuhan right here. So ... so, here, just let me-I mean, all right. Come over here ... a second.

(Alvy gestures to the camera which follows him and the man in line to the back
of the crowded lobby. He moves over to a large stand-up movie poster and
pulls Marshall McLuban from behind the poster.)

MAN IN LINE: Oh.

ALVY: (To McLuhan) Tell him.

MCLUHAN: (To the man in line)
I heard what you were saying. You-you know nothing of my work. You mean my whole fallacy is wrong. How you ever got to teach a course in anything is totally amazing.
> It really doesn’t and I sense that you seem to be downplaying the whole concept that statistics can be interpreted in many different ways.

Statistics can be presented in any number of ways; data can be used to lie in any number of directions.

But if you're not going to come here with a counterproposal, you're only undermining the movement Black Americans have been struggling with for so long by stating obliquely that these numbers are a lie.

Edit per yours (sorry you've been hit by rate limits. I get the feeling):

> One talking point is: per police interaction, an unarmed non-Hispanic Caucasian person has a 4 in 10000 chance of being shot while an unarmed African American has a 3 in 10000 ... so the only huge person actually has a higher level of risk per interaction.

The unknown variable here is the number of police interactions by race and whether they were the initiator or the intended target (or suspect, if a crime had taken place). That's why it's normally just reduced to shootings by police.

If you have the details and the exact breakdowns, it'd be helpful. But the BJS doesn't seem to discriminate between whether someone initiated the contact or whether they're the target of law enforcement action.

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Also, thank you for engaging.
I've read the article and the linked papers, and IMO this stems from a huge misunderstanding on what "insert" is, given inserts in DNA and RNA sequences can occur with replication errors and then can be kept due to selective pressure. So, that can't prove or disprove what this person is saying.

The part with the "previous version" of the paper is also fishy, given that it is not shown.
You could theoretically set up an Ergodox for one hand use (or any similar fully programmable split keyboard). There are smaller split programmable keyboards too if size is an issue. You would have to make generous use of layers.
In many ways.

For example being part of WTO and being a capitalistic state which mass produce goods and services for the whole World
If you face an adversary that is willing to torture you and can get away with it what you __really__ need is to deny the opportunity to do so.

I find it naive suggesting that "Proof of inability to decrypt" can lead to a positive outcome in such scenario.
> They save money on things they don’t control like batteries because the faster CPU uses less power, etc. Everyone else is stuck with whatever garbage Qualcomm is dishing out.

I don't think the battery/CPU relation you posit is true - the A13 is faster in single-core performance than the Snapdragon 865 (or 855), but consumes more total power to do the same work: https://images.anandtech.com/doci/15207/SPEC2006_S865.png

I think all this tells you is that ARM's big cores chose a power/performance curve point well below the A13. The upcoming Cortex-X1 in next year's 875 will be their first attempt at breaking into that market.
> They are dealing with profoundly uncooperative people

Yes, you're correct. But they're far from the only people who have jobs dealing with profoundly uncooperative people, and we do not accept violence from other professionals regardless of what they encounter from the public. I believe that police work is something of an exception, but only a limited exception: by and large I expect (and demand!) that they handle stressful situations without resorting to violence whenever possible, even if that is uncomfortable or stressful to them.

> I can see a good argument that if someone throws a brick the police should be as targeted as possible in responding. But it could easily be the point where a crowd disintegrates into an unruly mob and the police would have my total support for not being optimistic and trying to push into the crowd hoping it works out OK.

This is important to talk about - I think what myself and others are calling for is a targeted response by police, and what we've seen over the past few days in America is that the responses are overwhelmingly not targeted, nor are the appropriate. (Not to mention the fact that there is now ample video evidence of police responding with force when there was absolutely no danger whatsoever).

Essentially, it seems as though the police are taking the second part of your assertion to heart - that it's okay to just be indiscriminate when there's danger - but vastly over-applying it and labeling completely benign interactions as "dangerous", and using that to justify their use of force.

Again - I invite you to consider this through less of a theoretical framework, but through the lens of what we're seeing unfold in front of us: police aren't treating legitimately dangerous mobs with justified violence; rather they are treating all protestors as if they are an unruly mob and applying violence indiscriminately. And that is a very large problem.

> If someone in a crowd is throws a brick at them

As a parting note, there is really not much brick-throwing going on. And given the demonstrated propensity of the police in America to lie (despite video evidence), please treat their claims that people are throwing bricks with extreme suspicion.
Non-technical Chrome users who cannot "un-Google" can at least set shortcuts to clear cookies, history, etc.

Go to chrome://settings/searchEngines

Click "Add" and instead of typing a search engine URL, enter

chrome://settings/clearBrowserData#c

For "Keyword" one can enter a single character, e.g., "c".

Select options, e.g., Advanced tab, Time range: All time, check all boxes. (The boxes will remain checked on the next invocation.)

Now, whenever the user wants to clear the browser data, she can just type "c" in the Address Bar.

No need to keep typing "chrome://settings" or keeping a tab open for settings.

User-agent can be changed through Developer Tools, without the need for extensions, however other headers are not accessible. Technical users who avoid using extensions can use a localhost proxy to delete headers, including Cookie where it is unnecessary.

Despite all the user fingerprinting that is done using HTTP headers such as User-Agent, relatively few sites actually require User-Agent and other headers. For almost all sites, the only requirement to successfully retrieve the page is the Host and, often enough, Connection headers.

Specific resource requests can also be blocked in Developer Tools without installing extensions as a "poor man's ad blocker". Using Developer Tools, dummy Javascript resources can be loaded from local sources to remove undesirable page characteristics.

However neither ad-blockers nor stripping headers prevents all the fingerprinting. If one is not happy with browser-based tracking, then using a "modern browser" with so many advanced features to retrieve a page of text is a trade-off, and, arguably, overkill.
American CEOs Talk Race and Making a Change
It's a huge lie that once you've achieved the "american dream" (which I don't think is the real american dream anyways) then everything will be sorted out. yes your life will be more amazing, and it's 100% important to reach this place, but once you've hit that place you'll lose a lot of motivation and energy, cause now lack of money, lack of family, lack of anything, doesn't kick your ass during the day. so you have a huge new challenge on your hands, and that is to re-invent yourself and discover what can move you now. you're embarking on a set of veryyyy difficult questions around what's the purpose of all this, what's the point of this, what the heck should i do with my days now. just know that you've been put on this journey for a reason and there's a way out and listen to your heart more than anything else. trust yourself. and be patient. there are answers out there and they will make you more fulfilled than you can imagine. the worst thing you can do is turn a blind eye to what your heart is saying and dive back into work and whatnot. you're doing the right, difficult thing by sitting patiently and staring right into the eye of the storm, so despite it appearing you're doing nothing with your life now, you're going through a lot of inner changes that will ultimately lead to a lot of outer changes.
If smoking just caused lung cancer that would be one thing. Most smokers never get lung cancer, they develop and die from cardiovascular disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder.
Hey that's cool! Btw, I see the developer is listed as WunderFlix GmbH. You really registered a company just for side project, does that mean it makes enough money to justify the costs of a proper company?
They don’t. They shoot more caucasians per year by a significant margin.
I understand the temptation. I keep catching myself on writing `unless( ... )` in C++ every couple days, and I've considered adding a macro for it, but ultimately decided against it, as the rest of the team would not understand why I need it.
Shit, help people like me, 30 and not really near that level of accomplishment yet. Help explain how you got there and what less motivated people could do to reach even half that. I have a decent job and make enough to travel and all, but I'm single and could certainly be higher up in the professional sense than I am at the moment. It'd be nice to know what motivates other people or what they did to get off their ass in their free time to make it happen.
My only concern is with drones being hacked and turned against the deployer.
Read some Aldous Huxley and see if that changes you ;)
Show HN: Simply Jekyll – A simply yet highly functional Jekyll theme
The author has some great blog posts about his thought processes with the designs too. He's very heavily inspired by stenographic keyboards.
I'm perplexed:

> Blog posts, sign-up pages, curated lists, and other reading material can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs.

It's a list, but it's not intended to be consumed the way a list of books or other resources is meant to. It's a list of useful scripts that can be tried right away.
Statism is the most dangerous drug.
Whats your point? Telegram owners are private enterprise. They could say "okay we do it for money", or say "we won't do it because of principles".

Where is this so-called "arm-twisting" ??
Nothing to do with the Hummingbird notation, if anyone is wondering.

https://www.hummingbirdnotation.com/
They have them basically just missile frigates with new dispensers.
I went through a similar experience around the same age. Like you, I had everything I wanted except purpose.

Did you consider asking while meditating? In that state it's easier to reach into the unconscious, where there may well be an answer waiting for you.

That's the easy part, the difficult part is accepting the answer as it will potentially change your life dramatically.
This is the guy who was head of MI6 when they had damning evidence that Saddam had WMDs and we know how that turned out.

Now he read a paper and his credentials are used to 'spread the word' again.

Apparently they think it works every time.

In the meantime the virus has been under extraordinary genetic scrutiny and everyone else think that it looks perfectly natural.
The UE5 demo doesn't use GPU raytracing hardware and doesn't raytraced triangles. They use a combination of voxels, signed distance fields.

Raytracing accurately describes GPU hardware, it's not a fixed function path tracer, although you can use it to implement a path tracer (Quake 2 RTX for example). Developers talk about using it for non-graphics use cases like physics, AI and audio even.
It is, but I am using the global changes feed (so I don't need to create a process for each database which doesn't scale for me). And you have to manually create that database to have it work. And I have to filter based on my own code, I just wish there was a way to subscribe to high level events. In general it works fine but I keep thinking there could be a better way.
Work to solve one of the tough problems in the world. Renewable energy, systemic bias, corruption, health care etc.
>It's not just misery, it feels fundamentally unjust. Basically some rule violations are deemed more equal than others, so why should I care anymore?

Politicans politicize all that they can in order to use it as ammo against their opposition. The mainstream media creates and editorializes narratives in the name of garnering and sustaining attention and therefore advertising dollars.

If you're engaging with either, you have to approach it with skepticism, try to find balancing viewpoints, and make the best decisions for yourself, your family, etc. as a result.

Unfortunately, in the current case, healthcare professionals have allowed themselves to become tools of the above parties and have massively discredited themselves and their institutions in doing so. We're now even at a point where someone could rightfully be completely confused as to whether something as small as buying/wearing masks is a fruitful endeavour or a waste of effort, which is a dire state for us to be in.
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> They don’t. They shoot more caucasians per year by a significant margin.

Not when normalized. See my parent comment.

Or, reposting:

Ethnicity | EOY-19 killed | July-19 pop est | humans per 10m

------------------------------------------------------------

White, non-hispanic | 370 | 198,256,671‬ | ~18.7

Black | 235 | 43,984,096 | ~53.5
Fighters and SAMs serve different roles. A fighter is reusable, can provide coverage at a much greater distance from its launch point and can decide not to shoot/do patrols
https://swizec.com/blog/why-programmers-work-at-night/swizec...
Personally?

I note down some thoughts or tasks every day and carry a journal around for that.

I usually get more value out of (work) meetings if I do take notes. I usually take notes but prefer not to if I'm chairing/leading the meeting.

I rarely take notes on what I have read, unless it's something I am actively learning.