skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very slow. Someone I saw on YouTube tested a couple simple platformer. X86 games on the Pi 4 and got 2-4 FPS.

But it's neat that it works... there are plenty of simpler enterprise apps that would run just fine without a ton of performance.
I bring up vanity because when it comes to things like growth or value people are either talking about actual numbers or decoration.
Chaos in the sense of instability, of constant change, of randomness. Earlier ecologists like Frederic Clements thought that ecosystems tended towards a stable climax, but this theory has been largely disproven by more rigorous data analysis that shows ecosystems are more influenced by chance of physiological and environmental condition than by competition.

If you're interested in reading more, I found Kricher's "The Balance of Nature" to be a highly engaging read. There's a good retail PDF available from Princeton University Press [0]

[0]https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691138985/th...
Read about Daytona Beach police chief Mike Chitwood in this piece:

https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/2017/investigations/f...
I think that was the plot of the "Pacte Des Loups" movie others in the comments are discussing, but I don't know of the idea ever having been proven out.
Cheap Linux smartphone can replace your PC
What processors do you recommend as a stripe alternative?
I love hiking pants! But as a woman, my hiking pants pockets are not large enough to hold my (large) phone, making the zipper useless. I'm actually trying to remember if I have any pants pockets that fully encapsulate my phone and nothing is coming to mind. I usually work on the principle that if my pocket holds at least 50% of my phone, my phone probably won't fall out. Unfortunately this doesn't work for hiking over rough terrain.
I associate cargo pants with middle aged and older men, a holdover from the 90's when they were popular, not manual labor.

Not many "work pants" even have cargo pockets,
There are automatic battery-operated (probably infrared?) dispensers posted in public places in my area. The whole thing is smaller than a tissue box, so the logistics are probably a lot simpler than they would be with dispensers the height of the distance between the ground and people's hands.
I put some spaces in your nines to prevent the comment from borking the page layout. Sorry, it's a bug we're working on.
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The bigger issue here is how expensive credit card processors are for such little value. The Visa MasterCard Amex oligopoly should be broken up. The value we get from having an additional 2-3% sales tax is very low, and only kept in place by anti-competitive behavior.

This is what Stripe should be focused on of they really want to help improve global commerce: lowering this enormous tax.
this guy gets it. unlike most of the upvoted drek in here.

The real problem is the finances of hospitals and their associated clinic networks is much different than most people think. And as is typical with America, not having a clue how something works is not a barrier to people opining on whats wrong with it or trying to change it.
The distinction is largely moot unless we discover a way to pierce the veil.

The strongest argument for modern materialism (in the philosophical sense of the term) is that it doesn't matter if it is true unless we discover a way to observe or interact with something beyond - as long as all we observe is a materialist representation of the world, we have no other meaningful choice than to act as if it is true, because we can but guess at what else might exist and the options are infinite.
> (Disclaimer: my current implementation is not as fast as make for some things, because it's written in python. Eventually I'll rewrite it an C and it'll be very, very fast.)

Lol. Whatever, python community...

Anyway, I don't think redo really provides an answer to the insanity that is the js build system(s). I'm also a bit of a DJB fan, like python as a language, etc. However, this implementation in python... eh... I'm not sure about it. It's annoying to require someone to have some particular version of python to utilize a simple build system. He uses SQLite instead of the file system as a database paradigm favored by DJB.

DJB's software is all about technical correctness and simplicity of design. There's nothing wrong with this per se, but it wouldn't surprise me in the least to run this on some version of python that it isn't quite coded for and have it fail in some weird way without me realizing it.

The whole "I'm moving my python code to C tomorrow" thing is becoming a bit of a smell IMHO.

Shell script or a compiled language would be preferable in my opinion.
> If everybody in possession of a penis wore a condom at all times

That would be about as likely as everyone wearing a mask at all times.
That doesn’t work if your BluRay player requires an internet connection. Yes, they exist.
You... do realize you just said its okay to smoke and drink, right?
> Check again. I left. many of my buddies at Google left.

I'm familiar with the statistics, the issue gets raised here every couple months or so. You and your friends from. Google aren’t the whole universe. Sure, some well-off people leave and some less well-off people move in, but that's not what is dominating the aggregate statistics.
Doctors don't really create economic growth unless they start medical tourism operations. Doctors are maintenance workers. Necessary but they don't push the needle.
I've seen different teams and sometimes for some reason it's quite challenging to get folks participate in retrospectives in a meaningful way. E.g. it's hard to come up with a few things that went bad for engineers. And it's not a matter of trust, it's something else. Does it come with practice? What are the techniques to get people involved?
For pockets to look good with items in them, they need to be big. For pants to look good when the pockets are big, the articles themselves need to be designed to be worn big. Most modern clothing is designed to hug the body and constrain movement, not enable movement. Hence most pants look bad with objects in their pockets.

I know of a few brands that buck this trend, but they're basically constrained to wealthy aestheticians.
Lists can't be Show HNs. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.

Lists also tend not to do so well as submissions because there isn't that much that's interesting to discuss—just the lowest common denominator of the items on the list. It's generally better to pick the most interesting item on the list and submit that instead.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I don't agree with the comment you responded to but all server tools for Windows are configured via Powershell, and the GUIs just use the PowerShell Apis.

They started migration back in server 2008 or 8r2 to support Headless/Azure.

The GUI is literally a second class citizen in Windows Server these days.
Will it take more time to setup and configure the Pi's than with the $3k system? If not, great! If so, then unless money for a hardware budget is the primary constraint, your time has to factor into the price as well.
I think I was making the same point as you - that consciousness is indeed not a computation.

But I actually wanted to hear from someone who thought otherwise, rather than you - dream brother :)
Let's just say that unless you're under a non-technical (e.g., political) mandate to use an embedded version of Windows, I cannot think of a good reason to seriously consider it.
That’s why I used Boise as an example.
I struggle with this in sublime, I would love to hear how you figured it out.
I wrote my first program on a Wang "desktop". You hand-punched cards with binary data, put the card into a clamshell-like reader, which read the card. It was quite a learning experience.

Later at school I worked on a remote IBM machine through a dial-up and teletype connection. I got a job running the "computer room" (teletypes and then selectrics) for the 4 years I was there.

Learning involved random encounters with information. I got a copy of the hardware maintenance manuals for the IBM 360. Someone from Rutgers told me about state machines and turing machines. I learned Basic, the Fortran, the Lisp 1.5 (I've been a lisper ever since).

My undergrad major was math so I learned numerical integration (e.g. the method of false position). There was no "computer science" degree or department. It was taught by math professors who were one chapter ahead of the class. I wrote (ghost) some of the final exams for some of the classes.

Graduate school was computer science from the engineering department where we learned analog computers, Karnaugh maps, and clocked/unclocked circuits. I did "machine vision" work with images from bozes of punched cards (we didn't have a camera).

The field was not nearly as complex then. You could "learn it all".

Now I get to play with (the IBM) quantum computer, do machine learning, and use program proof techniques, each of which involved a LOT of youtube videos. It is hard to keep up but still great fun.
Sure kill billions to save exclusive access to a foundry. It’s not worth it.
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Straw purchases are only when buying for someone that can’t legally buy a gun/ammo.

Lots of shops limiting gun/ammo sales to X/person to maintain stock.

There should be no issues with buying a gun and then deciding to sell it to someone eligible after quickly deciding you don’t want it anymore, no?

What are the laws about carrying your spouse’s gun?

I genuinely don’t know.
For some historical perspective, consider this. When Tomboy was new, people complained about its ‘bloat’. Why? Because it’s ‘unnecessarily’ written in .NET, and Mono was a ‘huge and bloated’ dependency.
Agreed. With autocomplete I find myself being able to make those long commands painless while making sure I'm being explicit. Only took me one time running the wrong command against the wrong cluster to drill that one into my brain forever haha
Ask HN: Which job criteria is important you when searching a new job?
When you search a new job, apart from the regular job description (position, technology, Joel test) which criteria are important for you?

What makes a good job for you?

I feel that a lot of companies still underestimate softer criteria like "remote possible", "deep work possible" or "development plan from day".
How will you sterilize it?

Bad to remove the bacteria. Good to not spread invasive species like worms and such.
How old is the biosphere? 3.8B years? So it has 38M left?

Or 635M years, from the Ediacaran, so 6M left?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ediacaran
I've always wondered what the chances were that two people with synesthesia would have similar subjective experiences.

In general pitch corresponds with brightness of the colors. Bass would be a metallic, more roughly textured brown; medium pitched guitars shading from brown into reddish/lighter brown, then pink, then pink-white with a plasticy sheen at the highest pitches. Although certain types of guitar sound are shades of deep electric blue. Drums... I'm not sure if that color has a name. Something like bass, but lighter colored, and less dense.

Different instruments / notes played are separated in space, though always moving and sometimes swarming around each other.

Let me tell you, smoking up and sitting between two stereo speakers back in the day was just out of this world. You got the visuals from the synesthesia and the heightened sense of realness and meaning from the pot. I still remember one specific time I listened to Led Zeppelin's Kashmir like that. Or the first time I ever heard Pink Floyd's Shine On You Crazy Diamond, with alcohol this time. Fully-body music listening.
CGP Grey - The Problems with First Past the Post Voting Explained (section The Spoiler Effect): https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo?t=300

http://enwp.org/Ralph_Nader#Spoiler_controversy
I’m only just starting to get into gardening and we have a lot of garden waste to try to deal with (including a lot left by the previous owners). In the last few places I’ve lived, the previous occupants have always left a big pile of garden waste and it’s just sat there. Turns out you actually need to put in some effort to make compost - it’s really a big organic system that needs nurturing. Also, it does take a long time; months to years, apparently - but I’m not quite there yet so I’m no expert.
The red flags I saw were are the exact red flags you'll see written up if you google "How to tell if someone is a sociopath". I'm not going to dissect the specifics of the person I worked with beyond that vague guidance because HN isn't the place where I'm comfortable having that discussion.

But I can tell you that yes, I would quit. I should have quit years before I did, and although it has worked out OK for me the last couple years, in many ways I deeply regret the years I spent living in that kind of scenario. The short-term hit you take by leaving a job is worth the trouble when you find a place to work that truly is a positive and healthy environment.
We had those at work long before covid, and they were always failing in some way, batteries, detector fouled etc

Just the simplicity seemed ideal
Ask HN: Best birthday gifts for developer friends?
I have a best friend that has his birthday in a few weeks and I'm at a loss for gift ideas, so just soliciting some. He's in his early 30s, and pretty much has the money to buy whatever he actually needs, so probably something fun/frivolous/surprisingly useful would be great.

I of course would prefer it to last rather than be a oneoff novelty thing, but am open to ideas!

Feel free to also name a good gift you yourself got.
Anyone curious about the core abstractions and capabilities of build systems should read the amazing Build Systems à la Carte paper:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2018/0...

Here is a teaser, the 1st table:

Build system | Persistent build information | Scheduler | Dependencies | Minimal | Cutoff | Cloud
Make | File modification times | Topological | Static | Yes | No | No
Excel | Dirty cells, calc chain | Restarting | Dynamic | No | No | No
Shake | Previous dependency graph | Suspending | Dynamic | Yes | Yes | No
Bazel | Cloud cache, command history | Restarting | Dynamic(∗) | No | Yes | Yes

which shows that Excel can be viewed as a dynamic build system!
>the impact of the virus being "man made" on our current predicament

One good aspect could be the lack of an animal reservoir would make it less likely to come back. So far minks seem to be the only animals to catch it in a major way.
You are right if the facts are exactly as presented and there is nothing more to know.

I would say we should ready between the lines here. Most postmortems are marketing artefacts to some sense designed to reassure customers so taking them at face value is not really good idea, I have written and read enough to know that it is rarely ever the full story for variety of reasons.

It is quite possible like you say they are playing fast and loose with config and they have systemic process risks as you point out.

It is also possible that the issue is not just routine congestion i.e. it is symptom and not the root cause, and they are not talking about it in detail either to make the communication simple enough for non networking experts to understand, but has enough depth for technical folks to kind of follow along and reassure their managements that cloudflare has handle on it . It could also be revealing more may give their competitors some crucial information about their IP/architecture and they are calling it routine congestion to not reveal that.

Lastly, all of the above are not mutually exclusive, it could be all of them in parts too.
Thanks for the suggestions. I think those 4 all look OK. The site content is purely static HTML (and some images) that hasn't changed significantly in months, so I'm guessing that's not the issue.

I'd rather not post the site URL here; is it OK if I email you?
I agree, compost is amazing!

I'm a small-scale farmer (maybe a large-scale gardener?), and one thing I've found about composting is that you just need a lot of material. Even at my small scale, it's almost an overwhelming amount of work to bring in the necessary inputs, or even just to move it around.

One reason people turn to synthetic fertilizer, I think, is because of how incredibly nutrient-dense it is. A 30 pound bag of 20-20-20 fertilizer has a similar amount of nitrogen as an entire pickup truck bed of horse manure. If you've loaded/unloaded a pickup full of manure several times, you start to see synthetic fertilizers very differently :)

A lovely aspect of hugelkultur is how little labor it requires over time, and how it uses logs as its main input. Logs are easy to find, easy to move, and decompose over many years if used this way.
Maybe GitHub can help
Both having higher tax rate than california.
But that is the point I was trying to make. No language can save you from logic errors, but a lot of languages let you recover from errors in functions. The simplest way is exception handling in Java like try { parse(xmlFile) } catch ( ... ) {.... }
There is no reason the device should get in an undefined state if parsing that file fails or even completely crash.
The problem with all the hackernews, producthunt or github fame is that the people really think they can monetize an app which is basically the same as everyone else's. The whole selling point for notable was that it was oss with a rather polished interface. Not that it was the fucking note taking app that resurrects the last atoms of einstein in your body.
Why do companies do this? It's not as if this is a secret. Is access to the Chinese market and manufacturing really worth losing your IP and having knock-offs made at scale?
As a coder, this unbalanced smily-parenthesis is triggering my syntax error radar aggressively :)
Quick thoughts and impressions on GPT-3
It already happened for me, I've been using it with all my computers since 2000.
I think were angry about both. At least I am.
I doubt there are many doctors that bring in 200-300k in two weeks a year of work. :) And are these numbers net of expenses or gross? E.g. is it net of malpractice insurance costs?

But yes it appears the median doctor gets paid somewhat more than I thought. Although only a few of the surgical specialties outstrip my personal compensation, I would guess I'm a good deal above the median for software engineers and the median engineer is probably only in the same neighborhood as the median doctor, not above.
SUVs Are Worse for the Climate Than You Ever Imagined (2019)
Are you compiling it and putting it on your phone yourself or are you trusting that the same version that they posted on GitHub is the same version on Google Play.
I (almost) replicated OpenAI's GPT-2 (124M version)
Yes, what are the alternatives?
I know, and I don't like the fact that it uses .NET either.. Especially because it doesn't use plain .NET but GTK as well. It's a bit of a hassle installing, even on Windows systems that come with .NET but not GTK.

However its performance is amazing, it's the fastest notetaking app I've ever used. And I also really loved the lack of the concept of 'saving'. Everything you type is automatically saved.
Our software decapitates some titles that have 'how' at the head. Usually they're less baity that way but occasionally a wrong meaning is created. We've re-howed this one.
I don't know about the Swiss system, but I do know a bit about coalitions.

I'll assume you're American and are not familiar with them.

Coalitions are much less stable than 2 party systems, which is great. Political positions don't ossify and get turned into sports and people rooting for their camp.

Plus representation is in my opinion better since the big guys frequently have to accommodate the little guys just to get the majority.
If a solution is actually important I would suggest looking harder at the raw numbers and less hard at being offended. The problem isn’t that California is too expensive. That is a problem at present but the real concern is slowing growth and declining projections, which is a future problem. Colorado, which is seeing high growth, is also very expensive, which suggests costs of living are not solely to blame.
It's basically just an agreement among the larger parties to share the government, which has been upheld since its inception. In German it is called 'Konkordanz'. I think that direct democracy leads to this agreement being upheld since there is a general fear of any party going into the opposition - direct democratic votes make an opposition overly powerful, in some ways more powerful than governmental powers.
Dixie cups aren't named after the south. They aren't even a southern company. They are named after the Dixie doll company of New York.
https://archive.is/Pd5vY
Perhaps it was a tasteless joke...
I was commenting on how you seem to need to post on HN to get any support from the FAANGs.
Joplin has a broken mobile interface on iOS. I had hopes, but they were dashed.
These would be things that would have to be escalated to an SVP or above to be brought to an equivalent on the business side. In just about every company I've had experience with, these type of decisions stay within engineering and rarely need to involve lower executives.
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It's ok. The cups aren't named after the Confederate south. Op doesn't know what they are talking about.
Or when both parties passed the background check. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abramski_v._United_States
I'd love to see more automatic doors, especially on restrooms, but I understand that automatic doors are pretty expensive for some reason?
Windows IoT for Raspberry Pi is dead. That was enough for my to forget MS for the embedded end. Azure Hub sure. But a serious OS for the sensor end.
> We must also take unconscious racism and classism into account when judging the fashion dictates of others: "Big pockets make it look like you work for a living! We must therefore shun big pockets!" is not exactly value-neutral.

No, we must not. The only thing fashion miss is ideological foundations, then it'd take just one more step for it to make following fashion mandatory for everyone with legal repercussions for not following fashion trends enough.

There are different reasons to dislike big pockets. Different people have different reasons. If some people have racist between their reasons to dislike baggy pants, it doesn't mean that to dislike baggy pants is equal to be a racist. If the most stupid person in the world believes that sky is blue, it doesn't mean, that sky is green.
Bootcamp is intentionally gimped by Apple. If your Mac has an GPU and an integrated GPU, OSX can switch between them while in use to lower power or heat when no acceleration is needed. Windows, however, will only ever see the GPU, blasting it on full power decreasing battery life and making the computer hot. The windows drivers for the trackpad are really, really bad. The fan control in Windows seem off the charts. So don't judge windows based on running it on a Macbook, I guess. It's an abysmal experience, unfortunately.
Please do name and shame.
It feels to me that customers submit to Apple's desires...
I think there are quite a few such businesses, but maybe not in your area. I grew up going to such places with my Dad way back to the 80s. There is prior art before you take the plunge :-)
> My favorite is how, even in the realm of conspiracies that Shakespeare didn't write his plays, the posited true author is invariably another famous Elizabethan personality, e.g. Francis Bacon.

Surely, if such conspiracy theorising is to be anything other than random guessing, one needs some sort of corpus of the proposed author's work to which to compare. It's probably less than people don't think that a nobody could have written them than that there's no reasonable way to test that hypothesis.