skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not need any scolding from a random internet person. My grammar cannot be "Asian" because I am native speaker of an Eastern European language. You do not even know me, and yet are trying to psychoanalyze me remotely. I am neither "individualist" nor "collectivist", I am just a pragmatic - whatever creates more stable world, without concentration of power in one country or group of people (which is exactly what goes against individualism) rubs me wrong way. I, in my turn, would advice to grow beyond Ayn Rand books, and understand that neither "individualism" nor "collectivism" can be ultimate goals, they are just instruments for particular societal issue at hand. Attempt to coerce people to buy into libertarian ideology is very "collectivist" by the way, it is forcing people to be like you, to make you feel that everyone else are like you.
nah. the "gone back" wasn't far enough. I liked say the first generation macbook pro, with concave keys and longer throw (although the creaky case was not as nice as the sculpted aluminum ones)

I had a friend with an old old powerbook and the key shape reminded me of a thinkpad.

They can do it, but the flat short throw keys are too form over function.
I guess that's mostly because there was no way to do it without intermediaries (banks, paypal etc). Which means that a) fees are generally too high to process micro-payments, b) payment processors require KYC and that's too much pain for a single-shot micro payment, plus your privacy is leaking. Some crypto projects are trying to fix this, but I don't think any of them is ready for 'normal' users.
Everyone mentions Intel high margins on servers and somehow does not consider if Apple wants these margins too.

> Guys, do you really not understand why x86 took over the server market?

> It wasn’t just all price. It was literally this “develop at home” issue. Thousands of small companies ended up having random small internal workloads where it was easy to just get a random whitebox PC and run some silly small thing on it yourself. Then as the workload expanded, it became a “real server”. And then once that thing expanded, suddenly it made a whole lot of sense to let somebody else manage the hardware and hosting, and the cloud took over.
It is reverted now. Thanks to everyone who participated in the revert.
Coming from a part of the world where most people studying IT start working (as full time programmers) on their second year of college I really don't understand the mentality that even after paying for your education you still are not trained enough to go into a real workplace environment.
A Chromebook with a sim, and a USB receiver. Chrome books can be managed, I'm not sure if they have Sim slots. Possibly not, in which case a 4G USB device or 4G wifi might have to do.
I started TextRewrite [1], a SaaS/API to automatically rewrite sentences without changing the meaning. SEOs use this to create unique content. Could also be used by students to cheat but I'm not encouraging this. Works in any language, uses AI. (Signup link is not yet working but you can email me if you want to give it a try.)

[1] https://www.textrewrite.com/
This is the same Linus who's recently switched his "at home" environment to AMD...

https://www.theregister.com/2020/05/24/linus_torvalds_adopts...
For further context on extra-territorial expansion of slavery, see also the non-political "filibuster" and review the Monroe Doctrine in light of the Congress of Vienna, Article XV.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster_(military)

Visualisation of the transatlantic slave trade:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23582777
Why you should re-read Paradise Lost (2017)
It's very stable. And mojolicious is nice.
shadow.tech has a 13€ offer that work really well with little to no latency.

Given a good connection and not being too far from the datacenters, it really is viable.
> double in the next 24 hours

there is a time-honored way to do exactly that.

Constrain the comparison.

"Double the performance" (of $899 to $901 laptops with 2560x1440 resolution)

"Twice as fast" (as all laptops with thunderbolt 3 and no sd card reader)
I decided a long time ago that when I buy a house, I’m running Ethernet cables in the walls.

WiFi is fine if you’re gonna meander around, but I’ve had enough nonsense with the signal cutting out while I’m sitting still. I’ve also had enough with my speeds degrading 90% from one end of my tiny apartment to another. Give me my copper cables back please.
I'm not convinced of the value of an NDA in the first place.

Anyone have any war stories where implementing an NDA saved them time/money/hassle/everything?
It's google edge by the way.
NIH halts clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine
Apparently, because they get well paid and get huge budgets to have high tech fun.

Unfortunately, most people don't reflect too deeply on the social consequences of their choice of employment.
Apple said that they allow this for B2B (enterprise) apps.
This looks to be great value for the money - even has GPIO pins!
Prior to working on Legion, I worked on a programming language called Sequoia that matches much of what you are describing [1]. In many ways Sequoia was the spiritual ancestor of Legion/Regent.

[1]: http://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/publications/papers/sc06.p...
As someone similarly unacquainted with this area, it was interesting to see the strong Microsoft influence here.
Trump drank a glass with a single hand specifically for you at a rally (which Biden is incapable of even drawing a crowd for, without busing people in), and said, I quote: "General, there's no way I'm going down down this ramp without falling on my ass. I have no railing." Anyone who has ever worn leather-soled dress shoes would immediately recognize who he was walking like this.
This mechanism ("batch auctions") are not immune to rewarding low-latency connections. The details depend on the exact auction mechanism but the general idea is that you want to join the batch as late as possible (at any moment in time when you make a decision to join the batch, you are never worse off if you wait a while before joining) and low-latency connections can afford to join later.

In fact with your exact proposal, assuming everyone has a connection with at most (say) 50ms latency, no one will join the batch in the first 50ms, which (I think) magnifies the low-latency advantage.
> Why aren't they doing something productive with their time?

Why is it any of your business how other people spend their time? There's no objective standard for morality.

>To make the roulette wheel run a little faster? I don't understand it.

Maybe try learning a bit about how markets work and the service they provide. Your criticism makes as much sense as somebody with no familiarity with the software industry complaining about encryption researchers wasting their time enabling child abuse.
wouldn't it be like this?

If the delays are randomized then you have as good as chance of getting them as your competitors. On delayed times you will have a bad chance of winning, but in comparison to others with the same delays your latency beats theirs, on non-delayed times your latency beats non-delayed competitors and really beats delayed competitors.

Thus in the end the best latency should win biggest on non-delayed trades, and on delayed trades lose least.
> You don't develop cloud software on a mac anyway

I've got anecdata that says different. My backend/cloud team has been pretty evenly split between Mac and Windows (with only one Linux on the desktop user). This is at a Java shop (with legacy Grails codebases to maintain but not do any new development on).
What are you doing to your wires?

Aside from Apple brand cables, which lack strain relief, I don’t think I’ve ever killed a single USB or Ethernet cable. If it weren’t for the transition from USB 2 to 3, I’d probably keep the same cables for my entire life at this rate.
I'd be interested in learning about how contract manufacturing works, although not necessarily for this particular project.

Hacker News has no DM function.
> If you have to develop cloud software, you'll do so on linux (or wsl or whatever).

I think you are vastly underestimating how many people use Mac (or use Windows without using WSL) to develop for the cloud.
Not the bit with a crashed Malaysia Airlines jet, but quite a few places nearby (in hundreds of kilometres away oceanic terms) maybe
> Yes they're mundane, but the "linear map between different vector spaces" case is pretty much the only thing they can do.

Of course it's all they "can do". They're merely a way of writing down linear maps for a given choice of bases.
Probabilities are also always real in quantum mechanics.
You can't exactly just shove a turbo on an under-powerd commuter I4 engine (fuel efficient) and expect it to turn out well.

I wouldn't imagine just upping the vcore and the frequency clock will just magically make it faster and compete at the same level as an intel chip.

I'm deeply skeptical as a developer, you -will- get compiler errors, and it's going to suck for a while.
Sounds like a person problem not a tool problem.
The bots don't take profit, the humans do. They just use bots because bots can help them better achive what they need, much like we may prefer to use a browser to fetch information from the internet rather than physically going down to a library.
So I'm not metallurgist but my impression is that stainless steel is used as an example because it's readily available, relatively cheap to produce and sufficiently effective. A number of megastructures require much greater tensile strength than that (eg space elevator). Sometimes those materials are theoretical, sometimes not and even when not, often we've yet to produce them in sufficient quantities for such a large engineering effrot.

But stainless steel cylinders? There's no in our technology to produce those (although producing them in space or on an airless world like the Moon or Mercury might be a challenge given our reliance on oxygen refining steel).

I don't know if there are any issues with having different alloys (eg carbon steel and stainless steel) in contact with each other. I know with other metals this can be an issue. But again, I'm no expert.
Unless that uncertainty now means that your time and resources is best spent elsewhere than shaving ms off your latency.
Making games, especially ones that sell at any volume, as the blog suggests, is extremely hard. And that's why the 'Educational' market is traditionally believed (or possibly, 'percieved') to be very tough (i.e. Professor Layton, or Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego).

Those games will always exist.

But what the blog author appears to allude to, is a latent category of games, that already exist, but he believes their true market value to be hidden.

Kerbal Space Program appears to be the most overt example of the class of games the author identifies, but I'd argue that most of the EA licensed sports games offer a similar experiential quality (I'd worked at a sports analytics company and know, for example, that FIFA rankings are used as a starting point for some lines of investigation).

I also remember learning more about cars from Gran Turismo, than from any other source of information I had access to. Including the internet.

As a lifelong video-game enthusiast, the article resonated with me, as I've always believed this potentially educational property of great video-games to be one of the most valuable parts of them. Though to date, it feels like successful manifestations have proven to be surreptitious, rather than prevalent, or even recognised at all for such qualities.
This sounds like circular logic to me. It really saves money to people who want to buy and sell often, which has no social value. I think having a penalty for buying and selling too often is a feature, not a bug : we want investors that think long term.
I started playing Rocket League. Now I'm on gold ranks throughout every compatitive game modes, though on varying levels (1 to 3). It was equaly satisfying like learning a new language or instrument. The controlls fall into the typical "easy to learn, hard to master" category and the advanced techniques require an immense amount of time to nail consistantly (I'm far from that, btw). But it was fun and I alwayse played together with friends, so it had a huge social factor too :)
>When I look at stats for things like wage disparities, and the amount of money poured into marketing (demand generation), and the amount of frivolous products that the capitalist economy produces because it must by its nature constantly expand production, I quite honestly don't see efficiency and I certainly don't see reason.

Have you ever picked up an economics textbook and read it?
> If you develop on x86, then you're going to want to deploy on x86

I can see this making sense to Torvalds, being a low-level guy, but is it true for, say, Java web server code?

Amazon are betting big on Graviton in EC2. It's no longer just used in their 'A1' instance-types, it's also powering their M6g, C6g, and R6g instance-types.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/announcin...
I think there’s a tinge of misanthropy in those who are comfortable being contrarian.
If most people believe something, it’s probably not that right, or at the very least, needs more vetting before blanket shallow acceptance. Contrarians must first diagnose that before all else.

It’s totally a valid criticism that contrarians are distasteful for that simple reason, but the herd can be equally annoying. It’s a symbiosis.

The Joker to Batman: You complete me

We’re also very pretentious as you can see :p
So? Linus doesn’t develop for cloud. His argument still stands.
All the species evolve the same way.

None of the species care about any specific "balance".

Humans are not destroying the planet (talk about hubris), but the biosphere and possibly the civilization.
Did anyone ever seriously believe that spies in general know what they are doing?

It seems unlikely that such groups of people would necessarily be better organized than any other well financed group of people (such as a major industrial concern) especially when you consider that much of what they must do has to be done in the dark and is difficult to verify.

Plus of course you have the problem that a lot of what they do know how to do only exists because of the existence of their counterparts in the opposing country and has nothing to do with actual intelligence gathering but rather is about competition and conflict between agencies both between and within counties and alliances.
> There are so many obviously brilliant people working on these things. Why aren't they doing something productive with their time?

You could say the same thing about pushing ads. The fact is that if there’s something that generates money, smart people will gravitate towards it if they can increase margins in a competitive field no matter how useless it might seem.
> If there was no targeting of any kind then half of the ads you'd see would be in languages you can't even understand.

Given I have zero interest in seeing ads in the first place, this sounds like a 'you' problem.

I'm not trying to be snarky here - this idea that relevant ads are important to users seems to be some sort of industry delusion. Why should I care if the people trying to sell me stuff while I read a news article are less able to target me? The ads are already an attention-demanding annoyance, it hardly matters what they're for.
Indeed, my 2080 Ti is about 30% faster than my old GTX 1080 at 1080p, yet almost twice as fast at 4K resolutions.

I don't have the exact numbers, YMMV
Most pages just flat out don't work, since they are HTTPS only, and the new encryption algorithms don't work, and the servers don't downgrade.

With better security for 99.9% people, you got less backwards compatibility for the 0.01%. And it's OK.
Ground-penetrating radar seems to be fairly well developed as well
Many ways to read this epic poem. Besides flat text versions from Wikisource and Project Gutenberg, here's a PDF, typeset with 17th century inspiration: http://www.samizdat.qc.ca/arts/lit/paradiselost.pdf
A youtube channel.
If you can get over the socialist aspect of it, the BBC consistently has great recipes on its websites, and isn't even ad-supported (in some countries).
Carl Sagan has a nice example for this: " we take a glass of water from ocean and assuming there is no fish exist"
> Saying that Kenton’s definition of zero-copy is unconditionally better

It feels like you're conflating things here.

It's not always a better algorithm, but it's a better definition.
I think a similar effect was described by Daniel C. Dennet. Imagine a row of lights next to each other. The leftmost one blinks, then the one to the right, then the one to the right, creating an effect of a smoothly moving light dot from left to right (similar to how animation works).

What does your brain see in the period between the blinks? Because it perceives the light as a smooth motion, and not as discrete jumps, it must "see" a virtual non-existent light in between two real lights. But if everything in your brain happens chronologically, how would it know if the light to the right would light up or not? It must have "backfilled" that information into your memory/perception after seeing the right light blink.
Have an English language game where enemies talk in German, where being able to understand them gives you an advantage, for example because you know what they're about to do.

Then mix and match for different languages.

Of course the things they say should be more detailed and diverse than just some standard sound clips.
The CME datacenter is in Aurora, and the ICE datacenter is in Chicago proper.
Broken windows and a Molotov cocktail:DOJ finds creative ways into rioting cases
Solaris had zones, which are similar to LXC or OpenVZ, which Linux had almost as long ago. But neither Solaris zones nor LXC/OpenVZ envisioned the sort of container in which this application is being delivered.

(The key insight here is that "containerization" in the modern sense is about norms/expectations/practices and an ecosystem of tooling around a particular design that's convenient for certain use cases; it's not about a technical facility in the OS.)
If a single player was capturing the entire arbitrage market, they'd be earning enough to justify other players building their own satellite network to capture a piece of the pie.
That's debatable. Just because the Play Store exists doesn't mean the App Store isn't its own market
I'm always fascinated by that fact that despite the immense amount of observations we have carried out on our planet (especially during the satellite age), the ocean is still largely uncharted in detail.

The discovery of the Muirfield Seamount [1] is a great story. A cargo ship is steaming through the Indian Ocean in waters charted at 5,000 meters depth, and suddently it hits a previously unknown submarine mountain where the summit extends to 16-18 meters below the sea. And apparently no one had discovered it prior 1973, when that cargo ship hit it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muirfield_Seamount
Does the same chronostasis effect with the second hand on the clock work if you can hear the clock tick?

I'm having a hard time visualizing this. If it still happens, would you sense a longer time between clicks? Or does the effect go away?
Always run `nginx -t` before reloading to test the new config.
Even without plans, the Allies crashed a bunch of gliders and the Germans unexpectedly had tanks positioned in the area.

(Glider tow pilots generally did not use the correct air speeds when avoiding flak and enemy fighters, resulting in horrific losses. Often soldiers would jump, and the high airspeeds would instantly rip off their parachutes and equipment.)

The Germans in WW2 were not an army you wanted to fight with on equal terms.
> Now, MDMA was bullshit in its own way, of course

I really don't get why you said that (I use the stuff myself). Do you really think that, or is that partly an externally-acquired anti-drugs message, perhaps picked up from school in drug 'education' lessons, or am I being uncharitable?
There are no other options for Apple devices besides the App Store. This is not about a monopoly in the smartphone market.
>which has no social value

Who made you the global arbiter of social value? Clearly the people participating in the transaction see some value in it.
No, stack overflow is in the other tab.
Hah, I did something very similar with MailExists [1], but not Open Source and using expensive proxies instead of TOR ;-)

[1] https://www.mailexists.com/
I had a similar experience but with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_the_Dancing_M...
Challenge: Hack the embeddable client side JavaScript sandbox if you might
Try to get out of it and read cookies, mine bitcoins, make a deface or something else.
Interstate commerce was interfered on by a bottle of tequila:

In another case, federal authorities charged a man with possession of a Molotov cocktail, arguing that because he had used an imported bottle of Patron Citronge Pineapple Tequila to make the incendiary device, the case fell under the federal government’s regulation of foreign commerce."
That's not enough. I have several good cookbooks (and some OK ones, and one that instructs me to have my fishmonger clean the squid). I still miss the collection I left behind when I moved out of the states.

But they don't fill the same niche. Cookbooks tend to do an excellent job teaching or introducing me to things I might not have otherwise cooked or searched for. The internet helps me when I have a specific ingredient I need to use up, if I am lowish on ingredients, or need something special that the cookbooks that I own simply don't offer. And sure, I could use cookbooks in a similar manner, but it isn't efficient and I don't always want to spend that sort of time.
Yes it is perverse indeed. Imagine all the engineering being put into ads, tracking and hft instead of, I dont know, engine emission control or educational programs for kids.

The incentives are all messed up.

Hft could probably be "fixed" by some game rules. Like delaying any request by 10s+-some random delay. Then having an edge of some ms would just be noise.
Cant wait for independent research and analysis this will enable. Things like correlating and fishing out systemic examples of https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/us/whereabouts-of-cast-ou...
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>> When I look at stats for things like wage disparities, and the amount of money poured into marketing (demand generation), and the amount of frivolous products that the capitalist economy produces because it must by its nature constantly expand production, I quite honestly don't see efficiency and I certainly don't see reason.

Have you considered its alternatives are not much better, if at all?
Crawlab: Distributed web crawler admin platform for spiders management
Well, I guess if you consider something to be a zero-sum game, it’s tough to say whether humans are good or bad at that game. Are we as a species better at chess, or tennis, or underwater hockey, or paper-rock-scissors?
I made a code base visualizer for Javascript, Typescript, and Python. Functions are shown as nodes, while function calls are lines connecting nodes.

https://codemap.app

Any feedback is welcome :)
Well, think through some toy examples. Suppose there is a market without order matching (again, toy example) and one market participant enters an extremely mispriced order, so the first person to fill that order wins. Even in the presence of random delays, the participant with the lowest-latency connection has a higher chance of filling the order than anyone else. (There are other anomalies, e.g. participants are now incentivized to have as large a number of distinct connections and hence "chances to roll low" on the randomized delay as possible).