skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worth noting, we're actually drowning in cow shit. In Germany the meat lobby is actually pushing for disposing even more into the grounds, conventional or ecological farming. We could reduce meat production a lot, before running out of shit... On top, most crops are grown for animal consumption anyway.
To me, this idea that I personally can change global problems with my individual decisions seems like a form of Delusion of Grandeur.

On another level, I think we all want to feel like we're doing something to address the major problems of our time. And these things are something.
Tiny Capital seems to take advantage of three principles:

1. Market of VC chasing next unicorns is very comoetitive. Chasing smaller opportunities is underserved.

2. Selling smaller companies is tough. A lot of founders enjoy freedom more than maximizing financial outcome.

3. There are efficiencies at scale that can be applied across portfolio. E.g. remote hiring.
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Has anyone made a notification system for replies to comments or posts on HN, or a way of setting key word alerts?
I don't think it's as common to hire consultants to announce layoffs as the Up In The Air / Office Space caricatures lead people to believe.

Layoffs are a huge distraction for a business, and so, don't happen except at need. When they do happen, they almost invariably involve losing employees tasked with things the company still needs to do. That leaves a bunch of short term business design problems of how to reassign those tasks to minimize disruption:

"We had to lose 30 salespeople, who will cover those sales territories?"

"If we got rid of dedicated agile coaches, would product managers have time to plan and run the scrum meeting? If we're able to keep 1, which teams should they work with?"

These types of questions can be analysis-heavy, are non recurring, and land on top of normal workloads (meaning executives may not have time to do them themselves), so it makes sense to hire a contractor to work on them.
China never allowed unfettered access to global firms. Since Deng Xiaoping opened up, the rule for a foreign firm to gain access was 1) to tie up with a local company which will have significant stake and 2) ensure technology transfer to the local company over a period. This was a pre condition for market access, and basically how electronics components makers were built. The recent stars like Huawei, Xiaomi and Lenovo could only be built once the supply ecosystem was local. You will not find a single example of any country becoming developed following free trade except for island nations like Singapore
I feel like there's a need for a privacy-protecting attestation service/protocol. Fully anonymous discussion boards/social networks are tricky because of obvious sockposting-related problems. Another poster mentioned a Voat mechanism for non-username identification, but it sounds like the old *ch concept where some identifiers are hashed s.t. the same poster gets the same ID across some subset of posts (time, topic, etc). That's an ok way of trying to maintain integrity without publicly deanonymizing participants, but is vulnerable to all kinds of technical workarounds. Anecdotally, dealing with ban-evaders in a forum context got a lot harder when CGNAT'd/v6 mobile IPs started getting common.

So, the next step is attesting your identity directly to the site. But, who's going to give some random forum their government-issued ID? Despite SV firms recently trying to normalize that, hopefully fairly few. Facebook can get away with it, but only because they're already Facebook and benefit from the trust implied by scale. Beyond that, what happens when a user says something impolitic and brings down the mob? Trust the mods to not unmask the user? Meh.

If site operators could ask a question like "is this person a real person, do they already have an account with us, do they leave in geographical region X" and a prospective user was able to obtain an attestation that those qualities are true without that attestation revealing any additional information (as well as being cryptographically secure), you could do some interesting things.

The downside is the attestation service then becomes a point of attack for those interested in unmasking individuals. Is it a private company that must answer subpoenas? What if the government wants the proverbial pen register or the organization gets subverted in some other way? Dunno. The ideal is neither side (attestor or service) knows more than it has to - service doesn't know anything about the user besides the handful of agreed-upon facts; the attestor doesn't know anything about the service. Obligatory buzzword: seems like a potential application of zero-knowledge proofs.
From one of the comments on the article

> I think Intel / Microsoft have found a way to interconnects scalable and this comes interesting thought on value of have more cores on cpu. Especially if system was designed to be pluggable and if one of cpu's failed than it does not bring entire system down.

I think this is an interesting point. If the QPI links on the Xeon Platinum is restricted to 3, I wonder what the 32 socket mesh looks like and what implications that has on availability of the system as a whole if one CPU was to fail. Also, unless these are fully NUMA aware workloads or each socket was dedicated to a VM, the latency has to be terrible for memory access especially if the interconnect is multiple hops away. Clearly it's not going to be a fully connected mesh?
The almost impossible chessboard puzzle [video]
It was a lot of things around that release. The look, the feel of the "cards" everywhere, the deprecation of power-user features in the name of security (like full SD card read/write access for apps). Totally the right trade for a dumbed-down-but-safe mass-market OS, but that's not why I liked Android. When presented a wannabe iPhone I prefer the real thing :p
In the Norwegian case it turned out refurbishing company was the one printing additional Apple logos on _non Apple_ parts of the display.

Its one thing to refurbish a display by gluing replacement glass on original LCD. Its another to then plaster the glass part with Apple logos and fake serial numbers.
No, but that wasn't the question. And I know plenty of people that regularly listen to analog radio.
You're still giving the idea too much credit, I think. Black is just a color. The attitude that all black-colored things are intrinsically associated with black people is itself bizarre and problematic.
Does this sudden upswell in irrelevant language policing not seem like some kind of coordinated op to discredit BLM? I don’t question that real people fall for it, but considering how wildly successful it’s been at distracting from material demands, like ending police violence, and how much the media has embraced these stories while ignoring ongoing protests, has me a little tinfoily...
The money was spent on buying the domain, there wasn't any budget to implement caching.
The typical boomer view on life.

While they made enough money to pay for school by delivering pizza.

Warren Buffet made serious amount of cash as a high schooler delivering news papers.
I'd to posit that the "Yes, and.." through-line in this discussion is that there are no narratives/memes which cannot be weaponized into infectious parasitism by Moloch; including the very model of ideas as viruses, the tacit implication that Something Should Be Done About That, stories of censorship, anti-censorship, anti-anti-censorship, on and on.

I certainly don't think it's wise to ignore the problem, and pretend the internet is merely Printing Press 2.0; but neither is realistic to cut it off at the source (even the printing press was not without side effects). The call is coming from inside the house (the human nervous system and its emergent inter-networked social incentives).
Fellow techies interested in helping solve the climate crisis may be interested in https://climateaction.tech/ :)
...or more specifically, re-implemented http 0.9 but with TLS. What here is wrong?
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F# + Giraffe
I don't really get why 'main' seems to be the goto replacement word. Surely 'trunk' is best, since it complements 'branch' analogy. Fossil calls it trunk and IIRC subversion does too, probably a few others as well.

Is it because main and master both begin with the same letter?
Birth restrictions aren't in place for Chinese people anymore iirc.
Someone please explain to me how labeling the word 'black' as offensive represents some kind of social progress. It reminds me of that joke from The Office where Michael acts like the term "Mexican" is problematic.

If there is a real problem here I am genuinely happy to hear about it and try to understand. I would love to see more diversity in computer science and I think the entire industry would benefit. But it sure feels like some rich white engineer taking advantage of a social movement to broadcast their own virtue.
Ok, we've replaced the title with what is effectively the subtitle.
I think both. But, hey, they are paying attention, I guess?
By limiting the length and number of responses, the debate is trivially vulnerable to the Gish gallop¹.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
Does JAMA network handle the journal translations or are they done by the authors?
Only users can flag posts, mods can only unflag
> Dreaming of some non-concrete, unbounded, inchoate blueskies solution while ignoring living patterns and modes which could be changed to improve their efficiency is reckless.

I don’t think this is what is needed. We know the solutions - we just need to institute them. Nuclear, solar, wind, wave, etc. Massive incentives to transition to EVs, solar mandated on every new house and incentives for retrofits, etc etc. We need a coordinated plan to attack this the same way we have worldwide (ex-USA) attacked Covid19.
Assuming you can raise debt, the other reason would be that if you fail to make debt payments then you potentially lose your company. Shit does happen, and it doesn't take a once in a lifetime virus to wreck your plans.
cancel culture, as its commonly understood ("woke" scolds running well-meaning people out of public life) largely doesn't exist. There are a few high profile cases of it happening to actual sexual predators, otherwise it's as ephemeral as Fox News hosts hyping fear over the "knockout game".
> then CPUs got faster and it wasn't anymore

The enabling tech was AES-NI instruction set, not the speed.

Agree on the rest. The main reason why modern CPUs and GPUs all have 16-bit floats is probably the deep learning trend.
> Yep, no one ever reads them and the cost to benefit ratio is extremely low

I read them quite often. Whenever there is a regression detected between 2 software revisions that have been deployed somewhere the first thing I do is checking commits and commit messages for packages that have changed to find the more obvious reasons for a behavior difference. Checking code diffs at that point would be a lot more effort.
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This ignores so many aspects before jumping to a conclusion. You have to take into account the “packaging” and “processing” environmental cost as well, plus the fact that local, organic farmers will also have a significantly lower impact than what’s shown, which is 90% comprised of large scale industrial farming.
I assume it is the battery. It must be replaced.
I remember reading a study once that concluded that buying from a farmers market is only emissions negative if the farmer lives within a few miles of the market. Ship transport is mind bogglingly efficient.
Another one would think with automation doing most of our jobs. Why can't we share the spoils more?
There isn’t and it is indeed comes from westerns, tho this predates what most people would consider the classical / spaghetti western era and has its origins in early black and white and silent films.
Super Smash Bros Melee was released in 2008, networking was way different back then + all the good libraries language you have now it's much easier.
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Few people correctly remember that "yelling fire in a crowded theater" was a comment directed at anti-war socialists who were distributing 'propaganda' against World War I. It's a rallying cry for suppressing war protesters.
Have any zealous "opt in" folks ever been in a position where they need to somehow obtain statistical information about their user base (to raise funding, to make business decisions, to know what features are most being used, etc)? Opt in is like hard mode and practically worthless, <1% of your user base will opt in.
Good catch. Added. Thanks!
Whether the term "black hat" perpetuates racial prejudices or not (I'm unconvinced), I think this kind of comment has the potential to take the whole thread down the wrong path. It asserts (without evidence) that no working-class Black people care about this¹, then argues that the author is "no doubt nevertheless wrong", and then quotes a work of fiction without any explanation of why the analogy is apt. Why is it that every time there's a discussion about language like this people try to shut it down with hyperbolic comparisons to totalitarianism rather than actually engaging? We can have these kinds of discussions while also pushing companies to put their money where their mouth is.

¹ Could it be instead that when working-class Black people complain about this they don't get national press?
While I agree that a single person reducing their meat and gasoline consumption means nothing, a single person not reducing said consumption probably makes things worse.

Why?

Because it can become a personal spur towards getting something meaningful done: which means collective political action to completely upend the out of control machine we are refusing to fix.

By all means, deprecate gesture politics, but only if you are doing something else more meaningful. Otherwise it comes close to being triple-layered hypocrisy.
I really don’t want to go back to the office. This week will be a tough conversation with my manager about WFH until there’s a vaccine.
No experience myself but you might be interested in this subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/algobetting/
I can't wait for VR-style chat[1] to become a dominant mode of online discourse. It is much more likely to emulate the civility of in-person discussions.

[1] Chatting with avatars that can navigate in a 3D digital environment, with or without an actual VR headset. That's just like the eponymous VRChat which allows 2D users to interact with 3D users and vice-versa. I highly recommend trying it. It's free and the worlds are beautiful. https://vrchat.com/
And female gamers can be stalked to their home addresses by obsessed people. Anonymity has some advantages for marginalized social groups as it lets them avoid predators better.

edit: Actually I'd assume a lot off harassment of people via other channels would happen including SWATing, emailing employers to get them fired, false reports to get them banned on other sites, contacting spouses with fake evidence of infidelity, etc. Only the victim loses anonymity, the attacker keeps it. Competitive gaming brings out the worst in some people.
And I don't understand the downvote. The Google justice fighter didn't ask to rename "black hat" because of negative connotation? If it is about negative connotation, why is it wrong to examine all phrases, especially the ones like "black market" and "black hand"?
The case was not about trademarked parts. It was about someone in China printing Apple trademarks on substitutes.

At first everyone, including Louis, assumed original Apple logos printed by Apple on Apple LCD module. Turned out Chinese refurbished decided to counterfeit the refurb to make it look like original part, by printing Apple trademarks on substitute parts.
Many studies like this don't exclude abstaining alcoholics that _used_ to be heavy drinkers, so you'll get strange results like "people drinking no alcohol are more likely to get liver cancer than moderate drinkers".
Maybe they deleted 57 because it triggers an edge case. Put it back if you dare. ;)

(no, that's the bad kind of tech debt that's unfortunately common and I actually hate)
It's a really big single computer-- that's what SSI -means-. Yes, shared memory over the most distant cores will be slow.

> but a weird hyperexpensive proprietary cluster thing that normal people won't be interested in

Yes, I'm probably not going to use it to play Cyberpunk 2077 or run Microsoft Office. But this is Hacker News.

The existence of things like this should rationally lead people to question scale-out in some cases. If you know the ceiling of how large of a machine you can throw at an unusual problem is very high, you may not want to dedicate the expensive engineering effort to scale out very early. After all, even very, very high end computing is cheap and people are very expensive.
So the school's application is to watch the video on their website titled "The Lake Conundrum" and give a response to the question asked.

https://astranova.org/aaol

I was wondering if anyone here would be up for watching the two minute video and giving their thoughts to the question asked at the end?

A tiny summary of the video is that it is about a hypothetical company that is polluting a lake and then tries to whitewash it to the town that lives near the lake. Seems like a "tragedy of the commons" type discussion.
I would not be surprised if by the 2060s (40 years, ~2 generations) that Asian Americans and Hispanic Americans get rolled up into being 'white'. Rates of intermarriage between groups seem to be on the rise [0] though Hispanic data is not well represented in my quick googling.

More hopefully, people will simply not care and diversity will be celebrated, not denigrated as we've awoken to since George Floyd.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interracial_marriage_in_the_Un...
I guess I should have been more skeptical of the articles figures. But still, if we give the benefit of the doubt, is there any scenario we might see the reduction mentioned? 1000 to 10 USD?
>That’s what I’m asking you! :)

As I've been saying comments in the code should describe how that specific section of code works, and why it's done that way if the "how" isn't enough. The new parts of the codebase would have comments describing how that code works. The unchanged code still functions as it always did. There's no reason to make comments on how another part of the codebase works. Code comments shouldn't be architectural descriptions of an entire codebase.
Also "MITM" (man in the middle), "Whitelist" and "Blacklist", even "Sanity Check".

This is all very aligned with a general trend of cheap moralization and virtue signalling that actually achieves nothing but makes as much noise as possible and poison every discussion with identity politics, by seeing prejudice and bigotry everywhere.
So? Was it those other countries birthdays
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be
the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under
omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his
cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good
will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own
conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to
make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be
"cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is
to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who
never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
That's an amazingly mechanical view of code.

If two blocks of code refer to exactly the same thing (event, process, object, rule) in the application domain, then the duplication can be eliminated.

You can't eliminate duplication without asking, "what does this code mean in this context?".
There's also a large study showing that binge drinking in early pregnancy is beneficial for the child's IQ. But the only statistically significant result was if it was done in the first 2 gestational weeks which turns out to mean "before fertilization".

However, there are so many confounding variables it's not funny. One interesting thing they controlled for was the mother's binge drinking habits because binge drinking mothers tend to have higher IQ than non-binge-drinking mothers.
If I recall correctly, Microsoft has gone all-in on topological quantum computing as an alternative to the superconducting loops preferred by Google and IBM. I'm really hoping their work pans out, since it would mean a lot for our future abilities to create large error-corrected quantum circuits.
you need very little bandwidth for an am-quality mono signal. i'm talking like 1kb/s. and when i say am frequency, i mean the am spectrum, not the spectrum of one station. you are literally arguing you can't transmit more on the same spectrum if you go digital. this is simply false. the move would make the current am spectrum, which almost no one uses, useful again. very useful.
> echo-chambery

What is the distinction you draw between an echo chamber and a community which mostly shares certain baseline assumptions and values?
> Someone please explain to me how labeling the word 'black' as offensive represents some kind of social progress.

It isn't (though recognizing that using the term “black” in ways which actually evoke racial stereotypes is), but both hostile provocateurs (deliberately) and people who don't understand the actual issue but want to try to appear supportive because they see social advantage (out of ignorance) act in ways which associate a more general rejection of the word “black” with what people genuinely concerned about social progress are trying to do.
I'm sorry, this is bonkers.

I have presented at more than one Blackhat conference and since then I have seen the hacker scene reduced to nothing but a farm team for surveillance companies, domestic spy agencies, and totalitarian movements in academia because they think merely being against-bad is sufficient to be good. Hacking was always about individual competence as a check on technological dominion and absolute political power. Today, it's something you do to get noticed by people who rent you out for dog and pony shows to sell surveillance technologies. Security is no longer about protecting innovation and enabling a perimeter for safe creativity and exploration, it is about inserting a governance layer over the competent and other technologists, to ensure their subordination to a layer of interchangeable compromised sycophants.

The movement to change these things has nothing to do with the content of "blackhat/whitehat." It is only about whether the people militating for the change have the power to cow others into submission. It is a test of whether the we will submit to the histrionic bullying by people in this movement. This is the same mechanism as the myth of Kim Jong Il hitting 11 consecutive holes in one, which was patently ridiculous, but designed to identify people who still have enough individual identity to recognize and resist the dominating absurdity of the movement behind it, who can't help but out themselves, so that they may be targeted by the movement for liquidation. What's worse, is people like this researcher aren't insane, they are calculated and cynical. This entire playbook is described by Hannah Arendt in her essay "Ideology and Terror," which was appended to her book, "The Origins of Totalitarianism."

If this makes me the first to stop clapping, so be it. The stakes are high enough that bearing the risk of being honest is a greater service to others than anything else I will likely achieve.

Good riddance.
except Julia because Julia <3