skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are using it wrong. It is not meant to be run in a K8S cluster woth dynamic IPs in multiple instances. You are supposed to deploy VM mesh of fixed IPs as database store. Moreover, it is design-dependent. You can live with just multiple master-slave pairs and have your data implicitly sharded by something, e.g. by user country or continent. It's sad that some people still think "perfect db" exists: partition-tolerant, high-available, durable, horizontal-scalable, low-latency, acid-compiant, open-source database dosn't exist and never will (see the CAP theorem, see the broken guarantees found by Jepsen[1]). Live with it and design your architecture appropriately.

[1] https://jepsen.io/
Funny that anyone would choose to live in a hellscape, innit?
It most certainly is what they declared.

> the rule on hate ... does not protect groups of people who are in the majority

That statement has nothing to do with protecting minorities, it's a declaration of not protecting the majority.
https://github.com/Aris-t2/CustomCSSforFx has some tweaks to make it less annoying.
Well, this is getting a bit philosophical but seeing as you don't mind discussing!

What you say may be true of Mozilla, but it's not true in general, is it? I mean, suppose two authors work at the same "institution". I think it's bound up in our notion of institution that the observer of this situation might expect, or at least not be surprised if, their creative output is subject to shared influences. So, OK, the theory I was floating was dubious because of its lack of real justification! But I don't think its reliance on a notion of institutional culture (shared influences) was problematic.
What's being plotted is the amplitude of a "hydrogenic" orbitals Ψ_{n,l,m}(x, y, z)^2. Hydrogenic orbitals are the eigenfunctions (wavefunctions) of the 1-electron 1-nucleus Hamiltonian (many-electron wavefunctions are visually similar to this but due to electron-electron correlation become waaaaay more mathematically complex).

This is a nice system because the result is analytic (ignoring relativistic effects and assuming a point-like nucleus). Specifically, Ψ_{n,l,m}(r, θ, φ) = L_n(r) * Y_l^m(θ, φ), where L_n(r) is the n-th order Laguerre polynomial and Y_l^m(θ, φ) is the m-th spherical harmonic with angular momentum l.

From a chemical perspective, n indicates which electron "shell" you are in, l indicates which type of orbital (l=0 is an s-orbital, l=1 is a p-orbital, l=2 is a d-orbital, etc.), and m indicates which of the different orbitals within that shell having that angular momentum (e.g. p_x vs p_y vs p_z).
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> CloudFlare does a lot of this, but you need a public server for them to proxy. They seem well positioned to add a CLI tool for the last mile ngrok-like part though.

It's funny that you mention this, because they actually do have a service for hosting static sites in conjunction with a CLI tool, wrangler, for publishing them: https://blog.cloudflare.com/extending-the-workers-platform/
> AVX can be faster

Yes. Another possible reason for that is instructions without SSE equivalents. I remember working on some software where AVX2 broadcast load instruction helped substantially.
Redis is one of the best pieces of software of the last 10 years, thank you so much for creating it and maintaining it! It has been incredibly useful for me and thousands (millions?) of developers.
It's funny that the United States prides itself on being the heart of capitalism, where anybody can allegedly strike out on their own and make their own way thanks to The Market.

But in reality, Ecuador sounds much more capitalistic (in the positive sense) than the United States. Today's United States is just as elite-ruled and hostile to the little guy as the next developed nation - possibly more so - it's just that in our case, many of the elites are overly-powerful capitalists instead of government officials or (nominally) oligarchs. But the end result is the same.

I think the basic fallacy that so many voters have in their heads is that that big businesses and small are on the same side politically. But the reality couldn't be further from the truth.
concerning point #5, the voting public is beyond greedy. they'll sue the sh out of any builder that wants to build anything, and there's soo many zoning laws and so many restrictions and taxes. At the end of the day, people who don't have houses yet end up paying for all this.

I think Remote work is by far the best option. If you can live in a lower cost city like Houston, TX or Chicago, it's a great way to go. Places like CA are so far beyond repair, there's no more hope, at all.
LTO specifications update at regular schedules employing forced regularized innovations, something like P times capacity every Q years and R times more effective storage with compression thanks to new XYZ technology invented after last update, so that corporate users can easily plan ahead for equipment upgrades.

That’s not how innovations work but they have been doing that for decades.
There might be some truth in this, but it's also true that we're really bad at avoiding risks.

The pandemic is a good example of that. Nearly everyone in the US, nearly every business in the US, was almost completely unprepared for it.

A better way to look at it might be that we optimize for being comfortable. It's not so much risk aversion, but since risks make us uncomfortable, we avoid them.
We’re a long way from the halcyon days of Usenet. Couldn’t have imagined in the 1980s the embrace of censorship by the tech world. It almost makes me physically ill.
I think it aged fine. I certainly hadn't heard of it, and I bet most people were in the same boat.

Really, you just asked a legitimate question, and now today you have a legitimate answer. I'd call that a win!
The headline here seems misleading:

(1) It's an iPad CPU running x86_64 code in emulation, but it's running macOS, not iPadOS. This is not an iPad, which AFAIK can't run x86_64 code in emulation.

(2) It's a two-year-old chip, not a one-year-old one. :)

The whole thing is a little weird; if I'm understanding it correctly, they ran the Windows ARM version of Geekbench natively on the Surface X, and ran the macOS x86_64 version of Geekbench on the ARM-based Developer Transition Kit hardware and it still performed competitively. So Apple's CPUs are pretty good and Rosetta 2 does really good instruction translation, but I don't think we can draw a lot of conclusions from the specific numbers either way. (Even setting aside complaints about Geekbench as a benchmark, commercially available ARM Macs when they start shipping are almost certainly not going to based on the DTK CPU/hardware, just like the original Intel DTK compared to the first Intel Macs.)
Yep, there's a feature called Lazy (will be renamed to memo for the official release) that allows you to do just that! :)
I did not realize this was so rare; my whole team toured a Google data center just a couple of months after I began working there. Perhaps security has grown more stringent in the last eight years. It was interesting, to be sure. I was particularly struck by the amount of engineering that went into the cooling system. I had never really thought about that before.

The tour left me with a powerful, pit-of-the-stomach feeling that I had made a big mistake by going to work there. Wasn't the whole point of the PC revolution that we were going to do away with these sorts of massive, centrally-controlled institutions of computing, instead giving the power to the people...? How did we end up back here?
I have a hackintosh (i7-8700k) and it feels about 2x faster than the top spec $4000 macbook pro latest 2019 model (subjective opinion ofcourse). It is such a huge difference, especially when using PyCharm and Adobe apps.

It is pricey but if it is something you want to buy for 5 years, it is about $100/month cost. Some people might want to buy it.
That's a fascinating measure. Thanks for sharing that. I didn't even know about that.

It would seem that our currency is overvalued then if our true output is skewed by our currency exchange rates?

How does that reconcile?
Not apple to apple because we're still comparing binaries for different architectures. Apple kit is running x86_64 binary and Surface is running an arm binary. The hardware comparison should be done once geekbench is recompiled to armv8.
3. https://github.com/Aris-t2/CustomCSSforFx has tweak to have multi-row tabs. I use pretty much switched to FF just because of this.
We are having some important conversations about equality these days, so I think it’s worth bringing up this point. The notion of subsidizing housing for non-profit workers is concerning. While many non-profits deal with problems like homelessness that overwhelmingly victimize people of color, non-profit workers themselves are overwhelmingly white. Much more so than the workforce as a whole: https://communitywealth.com/the-state-of-diversity-in-the-no.... Moreover a large fraction of revenues (for example, 65% for “human services” non-profits) comes from the government, so it’s taxpayer dollars that are paying for people to live in San Francisco and would be paying to subsidize their housing.

This is one reason why people are interested in things like UBI. It seems perverse for the government to use taxpayer dollars to say combat homelessness in San Francisco (the supermajority of whom are black, Hispanic, or multi-racial) only to have much of that money go to paying salaries for mostly white college educated people. Of course, non-profit workers of all ethnic backgrounds can be tremendous value-adds. But when we’re considering whether we want to subsidize housing for those workers, it’s worth stepping back for a moment. There is a lot of money on the line: even excluding universities and hospitals, non-profits spend $750 billion annually, more than the US military. When taxpayers spend money out of a desire to help certain groups of people—especially now that we are becoming more aware of the disproportionate impact of things like homelessness on certain groups—we should strive to make sure that the money helps the people taxpayers think they are helping.
Like some of the other comments already mentioned, its indeed on a per distance basis. Also traffic accidents are far more deathly if you're walking basically naked from a safety perspective vs protected by a well designed mass of metal.

When a car and a human collide, it's not the driver that's likely to die.

I got my stats from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort which shows walking approx 12 times as dangerous per mile.

On a time basis walking would be less dangerous than driving I reckon. Walking also has other health benefits.

I mentioned it specifically, because walking to the store instead of driving for safety reasons would not be a smart choice. Doing some daily walking in a park likely would be a smart choice though.
But my Surface Pro X can run Linux inside WSL2. Apps made arm32, arm64, and x86 32bits just works, both Windows and Linux terminal apps, or GUIs if I install an X11 Server.

And I can install whatever application I want, and not what Apple allows me to. It might be a bit slower, but it is more flexible.
I'd love some smart glasses for running / cycling. No need to look at handlebar for stats / gps would be huge
Reminds me of this:

https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/volvo/xc90/103233/no-fatalitie... (2018)

"No fatalities ever recorded in a Volvo XC90 in the UK
- Analysis of official figures finds no driver or passenger fatalities have been recorded in Volvo's XC90 since records began in 2004"

Volvo XC90 is a relatively popular SUV there, and for the UK, quite large.

"Around 70,000 XC90s have been sold in the UK since the original model launched in 2002"

I would guess the magic here is:

a) the car is designed with safety as the number 1 design criterium (it's a Volvo)

b) it's quite large (lots of crumple zone mass)

c) it's probably not driven at insanely high speeds by young male drivers with poor impulse control very often.
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It's an evolutionary constraint. Text templates are initially much more useful than HTML and CSS ones, so people adopt the first, despite a bigger potential usefulness of the later.

The tendency for SQL is even weirder, it's for replacing it with languages that are much less useful for querying data.
I found this [0] 2019 blog post from what looks to be one of the people credited in the blog post (Kostya). It's not directly comparing Android+jemalloc vs Android+Scudo, but it does compare the two allocators and others.

[0] http://expertmiami.blogspot.com/2019/05/what-is-scudo-harden...
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Thank you for Redis and some of the other stuff too! I had great fun reading through the small string compression code and learned a lot! Hope you have many decades of happy hacking ahead of you.
Why don't you just grow up and realize we don't live in a utopia where no one's feelings get hurt. It's an earned reputation with a simple identifier
I guess you know better than me, whatever.
Sure there have been hits, but there have been a lot of failures too.

The problem with "government VC" is not the low hit rate--private VC has a low hit rate too.

The problem is also not that government funds get gamed--private VC gets gamed too. See WeWork for an absolutely enormous example.

The problem is really with the different cultural expectations for government vs private capital.

If a private VC firm loses 95% of their investments to failure and fraud, but has huge hits with the remaining 5%, well, that's just how VC works. The only thing that really matters is their net. If they end up with a big return, they are geniuses.

But if the government loses 95% of their investments, that's a ton of wasted taxpayer money. That's a lot of fodder for press, politicians, and activists to make hay out of. And if the remaining 5% are hits, well, the government does not exist to turn a profit. So the credit does not work out the same, even if the hit rate is similar.
In my case, it was both heh .. its why my gut is hit, all that acid and pent up trauma .. makes it a breeding ground of an acidic gut flora ... its all connected. Just tve variation of the things that can go wrong in that system ... its huge. Were all affected a bit differently. Just share a common mechanism
I knew a lot more people that died cycling than I knew people that died in car accidents. And all of the cyclists got hit by vehicles.
As I got further in my Mathematics degree what really made it all "click" was classes on Philosophy. The logic and approach you forms in Philosophy give a greater understanding of how mathematical proofs are formed and how to approach problem solving. A series of lectures from a Philosophy 101 course would do a lot to help with the mindset you speak of so look to any of the MIT, Stanford, etc online courses.
Yea, that doesn't count as global force projection then, which was the argument a few comments upthread.
> Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism.

Is GDPR compliance really so difficult?
95% man, 5% Coors.
Ya think? Try googling "walmart subsidy".
It means the test procedure has vulnerabilities which need to be patched.
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It's happening on Ice Lake cores. Process node probably doesn't matter.
This is spot on. I feel like this bubble mentality extends to our online and social interactions too. We used to have to deal with our neighbors whether we agreed with them or not, now we just find out comfy communities online where we aren't challenged to think outside the box!
It's significantly better (I would say on par with Chrome) if you set general.smoothScroll.msdPhysics to true in about:config. No one seems to talk about it but the difference is like night and day on my system. No clue why it's not on by default.

Also using Wayland (on Linux), gfx.webrender.all and a few other options can help quite a lot. For more details, I suggest you check out these two pages:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox/Tweaks

I applied most of the recommended (and some of the not recommended) tweaks documented there, and I'm very happy with the results.
Most Android apps probably allocate more with the JVM than they do malloc, right? My intuitive guess is that they could regress the performance of libc malloc and many people wouldn't notice.
I don't understand how banks can claim to have federal FDIC-insured protection of $250,000 per depositor if they don't actually reimburse you when a simple wire transfer fraud happens??
I only use my credit card for online purchases, but now that you say that it would be several times my credit limit so it probably wouldn't go through
Interesting. I want to try this.

Could you share you camera number/link and your setup(pc or living room, distance) ?
Netscape 1.x and NCSA Mosaic were originally on a ~6 week release cycle. This is just returning to your roots.

I think we have this revisionist history where the signers to the Agile Manifesto invented these processes from whole cloth, when it's more accurate to think of it as 80% curated list of existing practices, >10% discovered, <10% invented.

I ran a Kanban board in 1995, and I wouldn't learn about Deming, Goldratt or Ohno for another ten years. I think a couple people were upset or at least perplexed by my 'yeah ok' reaction to some of their revelations.
Possibly! I'm not sure if writers who write for a publisher like The Atlantic would be able to claim any sort of compensation for something that I imagine the publisher owns the rights to. But on the other hand, it's kind of like a tip from the readers to the writer for writing a good article so would that be allowed?

Lots of questions here, but as I stated in another answer on the topic we're committed to keeping all payments open and transparent. This can only work if everyone has insight into who's getting money for what.
Where did you buy though? Bay Area has incredibly high prices.
Say I have around 25TB of a personal data hoard. Does tape make sense yet cost wise, instead of buying have it backed up over 2 HDDs?
You should also switch to Linux (or Windows with WSL if you insist on running a proprietary OS).
I was put in that trash bin for a few years due to always being tired. The only thing I was depressed about was being tired all the time. Eventually I asked for a testosterone panel, which came back really low. That hasn’t completely solved my issues but it would have been enough to put my life on a completely different track.
Maybe [0] is a better source.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-53223523
Even if present, how much do you think that affects it, and how does it change the outcome?

I’d say not much, and not at all. Even if cooling is a factor the outcome still has the same meaning.

Apple silicon is way ahead, and emulation is excellent to the point of being a non-issue.
You're nitpicking the language in a hypothetical here. Of course the court can't assume the defendant is guilty, but the purpose of the word criminal here is to say that in the hypothetical the defendant did actually commit the crime they are accused of.
I think such mathematics is probably the best way to improve abstract thinking, so you're on the right track.

Abstract Algebra and Linear Algebra are adjacent fields with a lot of clean abstractions that I believe exercise the same muscles as programming (even if a lot of it isn't directly applicable)

Related comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23152152

i.e. basically linear algebra for engineers is not abstract. Linear algebra for mathematicians is quite abstract, e.g. a 400+ page textbook that doesn't refer to any matrices.

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On the flip side, I think mixing abstract thinking with testing/debugging is the ideal combo for programming.

It is a skill to write useful test cases. To explore the state space efficiently.

If your code isn't grounded in real examples, then it may become overly general and not RUN run very well. It's a big danger to abstract before you have enough examples.

And probably the hardest thing that programmers do is debug OTHER people's code, as opposed to your own code.

(I guess you didn't ask about programming, but I'm sort of assuming you are programming by asking on this site :) )
I'm not sure how you can bear looking back at things you said 20 years ago, let alone enjoy it. My past self makes me shutter and cringe
I don't think Google is actually warehousing the physical books. They worked with a lot of libraries to scan their collections, but arguably couldn't legally offer CDL.
re: Performance, my reply here [0] to a similar question might be of interest.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23692806
> Also, tptacek is fairly far to the left it seems

While in the modern US there is a common (and increasingly strong) correlation on average between political attitudes toward race and gender and the left/right economic axis, there is nothing strongly inherent about that. Racism and sexism on the left are not at all unheard of.

(I don't see any evidence that tptacek is a racist or sexist, I just don't think “hey, he's left-of-American-center, so if he says HN is clear of racism/sexism, it must be the case” is even approximately a reasonable position.)

But, in any case, his own description seems to repeatedly focus on explicit misogynistic or white supremacists content, so even were we to take it as gospel it is perfectly consistent with HN being filled with the kind of urbane circumlocution that is frequently used to provide a thin veneer of not-all-that-plausible-in-aggregate deniability over bigoted attitudes.
Linux is not invulnerable to ransomware, it's just easier to secure.
I honestly think we give Chinese apps too much equal footing. In about 5-8 years, when China has insane surveillance network around the world (they already have), this comment is going to sound the most sensible thing to do - blanket ban any application developed and served by the CCP or similar government.

People teeter-totter about righteousness and freedom of choice, but IMO we need to stop feeding the CCP with more power/$$$/influence ... NOW ... Freedom of choice is great when there is fairness and democratic values built in, when the government isn't on some Han-supremacy drug and expansionist motives.

Someone will inevitably respond with whataboutism and smear American companies into the mix as if they're expressing their understanding of hypocracy and one-sidedness. It is supposed to be one-sided. The west offered two-way street which China declined to walk on. So, now all bets are off. Equivalency with the western apps/services/goods is no longer a valid counter argument.

On fair, just, and rational grounds - I am a progressive. In unfair, unjust and irrational waters - I am a conservative.
This trend will continue forever because, the way modern corporate capitalism is set up, publicly traded companies have a VASTLY lower cost of capital than private companies. Thus, private companies who are profitable at a much higher cost of capital can be bought almost risk free by public companies and run poorly and still be worth it because the public companies get money so cheaply.
So according to these figures, scudo is the best allocator out of all the options tested? That's pretty decent.
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