skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, I feel bad about this tangent. I actually enjoyed the article, I just got annoyed about what I felt was a mischaracterization of the entire piece, leading to that mischaracterization dominating the discussion, I'm going to upvote the next comment..
I'm surprised this is allowed in the linux kernel. I am not familiar, but assuming these are commit messages, that's pretty damn pathetic.
Any piece that you can dissemble, from the top case and keyboard, to the logic board, to the display and bezel. And on older ones, they even had those amazing removable drives and RAM... and remember, since the drives at least were using a slightly proprietary form factor, you either have to buy a used OEM drive or a more expensive 3rd party replacement like the ones from OWC.

But even an old broken MacBook Air can get $100+ depending on the specific model, not parted out at all.
That is a 10GW solar array, at 22% capacity factor, so comparable to 2 VVER-1200 with a $12B contract like Rooppur, also the solar panels/batteries will last 20-25 years and the VVER 60.
> Singapore could get oodles of solar from Malaysia but they obviously aren't interested in doing that

To anyone who knows the history of Singapore, it is obvious why (and you quite possibly already know all this, but I'm sure many other people reading this don't). Singapore became independent because the Malaysian government wanted to introduce "affirmative action" laws which discriminated against ethnic minorities, especially ethnic Chinese. Singapore was the only state of Malaysia with an ethnic Chinese majority, and was fundamentally opposed to such laws. The Malaysian federal government's response was to expel Singapore from Malaysia and force it to become an independent country, so that it would be free to impose these laws on the rest of Malaysia without Singapore's opposition. And Singapore has never trusted Malaysia since.
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It cost me $3000 to have a professional run 7 CAT6 cables to every room throughout my 80 yo house, plus one to the modem, along with wiring proper earthed power into another four locations or so. The man was not claustrophobic. Plus less than $500 for another contractor to fill in and paint the sheetrock that was required in storage rooms. The cables meet in the basement in a server rack.

It was well worth it to me. I have teenagers and everyone has an Eero in their room, plus hardwire for the home theater and office.
I live in a country with nationalised healthcare and a strong welfare system. About 75% of gov expenditure is pensions and welfare.

If the borders were completely open then it is likely this system would collapse or perhaps be forced to introduce the idea of "second class" citizens with tiered benefits.

It's possible this might not happen but as far as I know the experiment has never really been tried.

There's a lot more to nations than just "land and freedom of movement". There's a regulatory climate, political system, local culture(s), defence, social contracts. It feels to me a bit like you are handwaving away all the "hard" parts of being a nation.

The half-way solution is to restrict immigration those who can demonstrate they'll contribute and not be a drain on locals (i.e, not divert too much resource away from existing citizens who currently benefit from and support the system). It's very divisive and a compromise that leaves many unhappy. Interested in your thoughts on balancing universal benefits with open borders.
USSR had rapid progress in some areas only because of the systematic plundering of the workers. Behind a majestic facade, it was a country of extreme poverty.

In 1950s peasants were basically slaves who could not even leave their kolkhoz without party permission. The vast majority of citizens lived in atrocious conditions in communal flats or barracks [1] (a type of temporary housing with no sanitation and basic heating).

[1]: https://ribalych.ru/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/baraki-_552.j... - such buildings can be commonly found in Russia even today.
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Zuckerberg and Musk and Trump are billionaires and no one wants to hear their ramblings. Gates has run a huge public health organization for over a decade.
> This doesn't explain cities that have successful public transit systems...

Do these cities simply have terrible private transit options?

I don’t know anyone who would prefer to take public transport except in cities with poor car infrastructure.

I do know lots of people who would rather walk or bike to work.
Which public transit system enables the median earner to own a 2,400sqft single family detached house on a quarter acre in a socioeconomically homogeneous school district?
The part that saddens me is that when Gates and Trump meet, Trump recommends Robert F. Kennedy Jr. the horriblly misinformed anti-vaxer. This is terrible when a COVID-19 vaccine arrives. Shaking at my head at this anti-science president.
Competition for real estate comes to mind.

Housing prices in e.g. Zürich and the surrounding area are already insane. There's something fundamentally sad about being priced out of the place you grew up in, let alone the country.
Depends on the questions I guess?

I’ve heard my own CEO try explain something technical and it’s clear they don’t really understand it (and why should they? That’s why they hired experts).

In this article Bill says “most of the Covid tests are garbage”. That seems like a technical statement that should come from someone who is an expert in testing.

If the question was “what do you think the most promising Covid treatments are?” that’s a good question for Bill, assuming he’s involved in the funding decisions (maybe he’s not?).
My Pixel 2 was great (I'm colourblind, so I didn't notice the apparent colour issues), so I was really disappointed when they pushed and update at some point and destroyed my battery life at around the 2 year mark. I bought a Pixel 4 since it had gotten decent reviews around the place, but when I was still commuting before corona I'd have to put it on to charge as soon as I got into the office. It was pretty common for me to sit down and only have 40% battery from 40 mins or so of use
> Compare that to 'new a.i.' workloads that eliminate branch misprediction almost entirely.

Wait a few more years, and your statement will be wrong. :)
So far, ML/DL workloads work with traditional matrices which are hitting a scaling wall.
The natural next step is sparse matrices, where branching comes back with a vengeance.
Bill Gates was not in anyway, no matter how much he might have liked to be, a prophet about the increasing likelyhood of a global pandemic.

This possibility has been discussed and researched for decades by experts and policy makers around the world.
It’s like being able to touch your nose in the dark, or even having been blind since birth.

Verbatim searches are for those easy tasks when you know literally, exactly, what you’re looking for.

Something tells me that a lot of folks on HN are being let down by Google in this area. I don’t mean it in a bad way, I want to identify these issues to help everyone. I wish the UI of search wasn’t so textually-bound.

Is there such a thing as an augmented reality search engine? You search like you do at the library, or when you lost your keys. But for data and virtual objects, they lose out - their evanescence creates a perception gap. There is no correspondence with physical objects, etc. We are getting better with haptics, however.

Rainbows End[0] is a future society I’d choose to live in, especially right about now.

Anyone have any good book recommendations?

[0] Vernor Vinge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End
Even a broken clock is right twice every day.

People have also been warning about the next market crash for many years. Finally, one happened because of pandemic, and it's over in a blink of an eye.

I'm still expecting an even bigger crash, but I've learned my lesson against timing the future.
You can probably change #1 in about a year. Maybe 1 hour a day of work.
I've been slowly degoogling myself this year. For ~80% of my search, DDG has been entirely adequate.

I do miss some of Big G's cards, and their Maps is vastly superior to DDG's Apple Maps integration, even despite GMap's advertising. DDG's solution is wild, really: they use Apple for static-image-only maps with no real contextual interface, only a sidebar for search results. If you want directions, you must search for your destination by text alone, then in the sidebar choose to get directions from one of four providers (defaulting to Bing).

But when I just want an engine to match the text I give it (i.e. most of the time), DDG performs at least as well as Google's increasingly-fuzzy matching.
What conspiracies are moving people to do that? And how do you burn down a steel tower?
These are only merges - they don't matter. The actual functional commits are excellent beyond anything you would ever find in your company VCS.
I don't think they have a rigid system, but this post indicates that they try to make it the last release of the year: https://people.kernel.org/gregkh/next-long-term-supported-ke...
There are a lot of us developers out there who have had less free time during the lockdown. Whether it’s because of having young kids or doing charitable work in the local community for those less fortunate.
Thanks for sharing this—I'd heard about the points system but I haven't seen any personal accounts of going through the process before, so it was illuminating to read one.

Unfortunately, there's no scheme to allow foreigners to stay as a resident if they work remotely for a company that doesn't have a presence in Japan, as I do. (I'd even be willing to pay taxes in Japan!)

Of course, such a provision is pretty rare, but it's still a bummer. I wonder if immigration policy might ever consider such situations—such a worker is basically injecting money into the Japanese economy for little cost on Japan's part. But perhaps there are downsides that I haven't considered.
Are wires about to get cheaper?
This is the reason why I wrapped my Webpack config in its own package (same with Eslint), that way I pretty much only have a single dependency to add when starting or maintaining a project (and if a project has a very unique need, it can still modify the config generated by the package).

The package has a bunch of automated tests, so Dependabot checks for me if dependency updates are still compatible with the way I expect them to behave (and if a dependency needs to be swapped by another, I only need to do it in one place).
If only Oracle would stop gimping performance on the free version of GraalVM. The best optimizations, the ones that make it faster than OpenJDK, are $$$$$. And they're trying to replace OpenJDK's compiler with Graal, to convert Java back into a language where performance costs money.

Imagine if the free version of gcc or clang had gimped performance. The whole purpose of a compiler is to build code that's as performant as possible.

I won't go near Graal
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Why is criticism of Trump downvoted but any praise not?
You could try your site:amazon.ca specific queries on DDG. DDG will allow you to iterate your queries without triggering a reCAPTHA. When you believe you have the best results you can get on DDG, then try that same query on Google. This way you avoid doing the iteration on Google and triggering the reCAPTCHA. Instead you just do one search on Google. Google will usually give some additional results that were not shown in DDG.
Looking at past releases[0] it appears every 5th release so since 5.4 was the last stable release, the next release at 5.9 should be LTS.

[0](https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html)
Because he isn't just the money guy.
I never said he was the only one who warned the world about the next pandemic. Nor do I believe he sees himself as some kind of prophet on this either.
Does anything actually exist yet, is this just a notice of intent?
Lead times for large satellites are measured in years. The industry is absolutely adjusting, but it's also very risk averse.
And has similarly discriminated against Malays in Singapore to this day! The messy knife of history cuts both ways.
We aren't recapitulating the e2e debate, Gates is in his interview.

Someone like Gates pushing for the end of private speech at scale is always going to be of interest to the HN crowd.
> Unfortunately, within Australia, coal is currently so cheap that even low-cost solar can't really compete.

That's only true for existing power stations. For new coal stations there is no way to make them competitive with large scale solar or wind.

The levelized cost of power from new coal plants is calculated to be between $76 per megawatt hour and $205.60 per megawatt hour depending on black vs brown coal, if you include a risk premium on financing and whose estimates you believe.

In 2017 the Victorian government signed a 12 year deal for $50 to $60 per megawatt hour for a wind farm, and the new Golden Plains wind farm will be under $50/MWh.

Adding storage costs a bit more: between $83.40 and $129.30 per MW/h for pumped hydro storage, or $138/MWh for batteries.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-12/is-renewable-power-ch...
As one data point, I am pretty tall, relatively slim but do exercise. Good fitting shirts in casual chic styles are extremely easy to find, but pants are very hard (and it seems to be the same for most people).

> As my gut and ass had literally grown to into the form / shape of these pants

It sounds a lot like you are wearing clothes that are too small for you :)

Regardless, I would be very surprised if there were no equivalent. There are even many brands dedicated to reproduce old garments (off the top of my head, TCB denim does that for jeans)
I wish that I could. Unfortunately, it is my MFA for half a dozen services.
This likely replaces (most) domestic wires, checks, ACH transfers, and other legacy funds transfer mechanisms.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/file...
Kudos for mentioning the relation between FF:SW and Scheme, I didn't know that! This is one of my favorite movies since I was a kid. Pity the documentary [1] doesn't mention any of that.

The ideas from Gaia theory and neovitalism in it are what eventually got me into my MS program (neurorehabilitation & bio-signal processing), and venerable SICP was the first programming book that really clicked with me. Heck, I even bought a phantom figurine for my working desk.

Speaking of actors, "Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams" [2] has a whole chapter discussing Aki Ross (the main protagonist) as the first virtual actress, with a very interesting rhetoric (an excerpt follows):

Final Fantasy is made disturbing by the fact that not only the Phantoms but the human characters as well appear undead. The ontological uncertainty of these digital humans has several sources. While the Phantoms derive part of their proliferating, malignant vitality from the human spirits they prey on, the filmʼs CGI humans literally "vampirize" the motion-capture actors who modeled them. The elastic, dot-constellation figures produced by the computer from motion-capture data provided by real human actors absorbed, as it were, the latterʼs "lifeblood", which then became the "living material" of the digital actorʼs "lifelike" behavior.

[1]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1634340/

[2]: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/robot-ghosts-...
I feel they should either disable this and actually route and account for all the traffic (using more capable hardware if required), or not use real units implying some number of bits.

The pfSense router in front of it has no trouble handling gigabit line rate while actually tracking it, and was cheaper.
Sometimes when I'm feeling a little blue I'll remind myself I am not crouched in a foxhole (in freezing or burning weather) with people across the field trying to shoot me.

Usually makes whatever's bothering me seem insignificant. Photos like these remind me that scenario has been real for many, many people.
there is no way you can do point-based immigration reform in USA, because it's not politically correct, not diversified, unhuman, etc.

Combined with all those looting these days I'm actually very interested in countries like Japan or Singapore via immigration, enough bullshit here indeed.

Learning Japanese is the largest challenge, I can do English in Singapore, maybe Australia.

And no to Europe, both Europe and USA are on their death road to socialism.
>>> The target launch date for the service remains 2023 or 2024, with a more specific time frame to be announced after additional work is completed.
The children raised in bushido, who would grow up to make sure the enemy took no prisoners by having all prisoners suicide attack captors? Those who didn’t grow up to be warriors an just be innocent civilians would still fall in line with a culture that would gladly sacrifice every innocent civilian in its borders to fight. Murder until not even the dust of the bones of the society remain. It isn’t some historical fantasy. Japan was in a bloodlust.
I am concerned because they are about to force children wear masks 8 hours a day in school. What do you think it will happen when it comes out this was damaging to their health?
This is a condensed summary of merges, not the commit messages. The actual commit messages for those merges were:

* A few little subsystems and a start of a lot of MM patches. Subsystems affected by this patch series: squashfs, ocfs2, parisc, vfs. With mm subsystems: slab-generic, slub, debug, pagecache, gup, swap, memcg, pagemap, memory-failure, vmalloc, kasan"

* More mm/ work, plenty more to come. Subsystems affected by this patch series: slub, memcg, gup, kasan, pagealloc, hugetlb, vmscan, tools, mempolicy, memblock, hugetlbfs, thp, mmap, kconfig

* More MM work. 100ish more to go. Mike Rapoport's "mm: remove __ARCH_HAS_5LEVEL_HACK" series should fix the current ppc issue. Various other little subsystems"

* Various trees. Mainly those parts of MM whose linux-next dependents are now merged. I'm still sitting on ~160 patches which await merges from -next. Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm/proc, ipc, dynamic-debug, panic, lib, sysctl, mm/gup, mm/pagemap"

* a kernel-wide sweep of show_stack(); pagetable cleanups; abstract out accesses to mmap_sem - prep for mmap_sem scalability work; hch's user acess work. Subsystems affected by this patch series: debug, mm/pagemap, mm/maccess,
mm/documentation.

* various hotfixes and minor things; hch's use_mm/unuse_mm clearnups. Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm/hugetlb, scripts, kcov, lib, nilfs, checkpatch, lib, mm/debug, ocfs2, lib, misc.

* A few fixes and stragglers. Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm/memory-failure, ocfs2, lib/lzo, misc

And of course there are hundreds of commit messages for the patches that describe what is really going on. That said, Andrew Morton works in a different way than every other maintainer so the merge commit messages in his case tend to be much less descriptive than everyone else's.
Or you're a dev working in healthcare.
“Lightweight” makes me think of something like Lua, not the JVM.
First a Haskell compiler and now this. My hometown is doing OK.
I'd like to point out that you are data-illiterate here.

Here is an alternate explanation: Very few people search for 19th century political philosphies on Google, compared to the number of people who search for "hangover". Therefore all it takes is 1 news article, interview, book, movie, etc to cause people to do a quick search and find out what a word means.

So called "using google as a dictionary" is all you are seeing here.

The spike you are seeing, no surprise, coincides with a specific person describing BLM as "marxist".

This has nothing to do with covid. It's honestly stupid for you to try to draw a straight line between COVID and marxism and imply that it's some kind of conspiracy that the Economist is hiding.
Your drivers license fee absolutely does fund projects unrelated to issuing you a license; for instance, in Illinois, they're also part of the road fund.
> This is a political project.

I'm sure there's political manoeuvring involved, but are you asserting that this will not be economically advantageous to both parties involved in the trade?

> Any engineer would take one look at this and go yep, let's put a nuclear reactor on one or more of Singapore's 64 surrounding islands.

Some engineers might, but it sounds like a very expensive and high risk proposition.

Hmm, trying to think of some recent accidents that involved nuclear fission power plants built close to sea level.

> Singapore could get oodles of solar from Malaysia but they obviously aren't interested in doing that.

Apart from the political complexities, you may find the air pollution and frequency of storms in that region would significantly impact on the oodle volume.

Parts of far north Australia certainly have a wet season, but I suspect if you compared hours of sunlight per year, it'd be well ahead of Malaysia. Latitude seasonal advantages might also be a consideration.
How much of Linux development is actually volunteer work? I assumed the bulk of the work was done by professionals whose employers were paying them to work on the kernel.
In that case, I could see a non-trivial number of those developers being in a situation that their other work commitments were slowed down, so kernel development got a bigger chunk of their time.
Eh, Musk is well respected when it comes to space matters. Check out his conversations with Everyday Astronauts, Scott Manley, Tory Bruno, Peter Beck as well as space journalists.
Gates has been at the forefront of antiviral research since 1991 when Linux was published under the "viral" GPL :-)
800,000 new lines of code. No matter how you count them that’s a lot of typing.

My main project has 95 libraries and is nowhere near that massive.
You’d hope they’d use MAC address instead of IP, but I fear you may well be right.
thanks for this comment.

this comment section is hard to read. For lots of topics, HN comment section is interesting to follow to see experts in the fields giving insightful info. This is not one of these.

Totally agree on fashion as an art form. The pursuit of beauty also applies to what you wear.
> The target launch date for the service remains 2023 or 2024, with a more specific time frame to be announced after additional work is completed.

Sounds like it's just a notice of intent.
> The target launch date for the service remains 2023 or 2024, with a more specific time frame to be announced after additional work is completed.

4 years away, at least...
Instead of donating to existing public health (and education) organizations, OS programmer Gates created his own so that his personal biases wouldn't be challenged.
That’s a lot of new surface area for attacks. A lot of new code quickly worries me.
Hmm, I'm seeing the same now.

You can more or less replicate the functionality with intext:specific.url/subsite

Will update and credit you.
Problem (lie, fraud, child pornography) is real. IMHO, Bill is not proposing a solution to disable encryption. He is simply saying that government should not allow these activities encrypted. Industry, governments, academics should figure out the best solution.
That's a self limiting decision. It's easy to rationalize yes
I'm assuming you are talking about ARGOS tags (more sophisticated tag that actually transmits GPS (last comment was talking about pet tags (which are RFID)), but it's FAR from microscope / injectable via needle. I get it, people's lack of understanding about technology is what fuels the conspiracy theories. They don't realize that no company NEEDS to track them as they have already traded all of that information away years ago.

I have some close friends that subscribe to such theories and no amount of tech discussion will convince them otherwise.

People will believe what they want :/