skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not understand how this would help

It would still need reference counting on the handles to know when the handle is not used anymore and the element in the array can be reused

Without reusing handles it would surely run out of memory. Unless a full GC is used
The well paid developers I know are good at math and aren't afraid of it.
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What you say is true, but also incomplete. We are perfectly able to quantify the accessible states in purely classical systems, such as ideal gases, without requiring discrete energy levels. The trick is to think of a continuous probability density instead of discrete probabilities. This framework is very general and does not depend on the quantum-ness of what you look at.

Even in some systems that actually follow quantum mechanics (such as phonons or electrons in a material, or photons in a black body), we often use continuous probabilities (densities of states) because it’s much more convenient when you have lots of particles.
The latency here is the main takeaway for me. It's phenomenal for a space based system.

I spent some time at my parents cabin during the quarantine and the only option there is satellite internet. SSH with a ping of multiple seconds is rather frustrating. That and all the systems which have bad bandwidth because that much latency makes them think they've lost connection.

As my parents are both techies, they are desperately hoping they're accepted into the beta.
The comment:

> if you have mutexes in your code you’re probably programming at too low a level

is quite disappointing to read
Presidents usually start thinking about pardons at the end of their term. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_pardons_in_the_United_...
As a UK citizen living in Germany, I am worried about the power that America and China have over my future. I can be worried about both despite saying that one looks like a democracy and the other does not, even though I have no say over the government of either, and “customer” feels like it maps to “where exports go”.
While I agree that these responses are rude, patches like this are the lkml equivalent of taking a dump in someones backyard...
It might very well be that the submitter didn't know that, the documentation on what will be flat out rejected is not very explicit.

But a compile-time dependency on a non-gpl module should be very self-evident, and the documentation explicitly asks people to go and learn about how the GPL works...

Revealing that as Patch 21 of 21 just adds insult to injury. Wasted a lot of peoples time with that one.

The fact that the module in question is from nvidia further shows that the submitter just had no idea of the histoy and culture of the linux developer community.
And that is the charitable Interpretation...

The kernel developers have to fend off stuff like that constantly, some are probably pretty jaded by now, which leads to responses like that.

It's normal human nature, most service workers who have to deal with customers have similar problems, and some develop the same kind of behaviour.

If you don't outsource thinking to other people you actually won't get reponses like this.
HN's hive mind will never get it but if it interests you here's a great write up of how this happened in Texas, deals with some of the government processes and creep too -

https://youtu.be/pdDuHxwD5R4

CBS is a great resource that should be shown in high schools.
Art (with factory owners patronizing artists), luxury restaurants, sex industry, etc. There is plenty of room for unautomated work to redistribute money from rich people to ordinary people in the absence of government action. There would be extreme levels of socioeconomic stratification, but I don't think people would just starve or whatever due to lack of jobs.
With all due respect, did you read the announcement? This is only for packages. Ballots are unaffected.
If you go just a few miles into the hills south and west of Silicon Valley there are huge dead zones.
Bend business networking to your will
They had a project called "Midori" which was a new operating system (I believe including browser?) written in a C# derivative. The blog posts on it are fascinating stuff, diving into some greenfield decisions for both language design and OS design. http://joeduffyblog.com/2015/11/03/blogging-about-midori/

It's interesting to compare what we know of "Midori C#" to Rust.
Oh FFS get real. The issue here is the Postal Union is playing its typical games at the behest of the Democratic Party. As such any changes are always drastic and designed to slow mail when its the union members on purpose slowing the mail and saying stuff is broken or not being fixed.

Seriously, having had two relatives run good sized post offices these stories are common anytime the union bosses tell them to jump.

plus all these are being fed into the news because the DNC wants them there. you are being pulled along by the nose and your irrationality makes it easy.
This is the inevitable, unavoidable course of human progress. Letters to telegram to telephone to TV to email to blogs to social media. Eventually we'll all have some wearable device and constantly sharing one-to-many in that way, and later it'll be driven by neural implants.

The more you connect people and enable one-to-many communication and information distribution, the more you increase the chance of "viral" ideas propagating, be they (in one's view) good or bad ones. The harm imposed by Facebook mostly has to do with the fact that they're a for-profit company, and particularly a for-profit company that doesn't charge users, causing them to acquire revenue in ways that are extremely prone to perverse incentives.

More people gaining the capability to be exposed to more information from more people isn't the problem. I mean, sure, it causes problems and isn't what we're evolved to properly handle, but it's not inherently a bad thing or something that necessitates megamayors policing the distribution streams. (Barring some exceptions in extreme scenarios where death has a high chance of being imminent.)

At some point we'll probably have at least one popular decentralized P2P communication medium / social media platform, backed by cryptography, and there'll be no central authority able to control communication in any way, besides governments arresting people or taking other security measures. Zuckerberg-like figures will be irrelevant in these systems, but they'll still exhibit the same properties you describe. It won't be possible for anyone to redesign these systems to mitigate what you see are issues inherent to unrestricted democratization of communication and information.

Shouldn't we prepare for this eventuality and accept that this is the asymptote of human civilization, rather than asking gatekeepers to clean things up during this interregnum where the gatekeepers happen to hold a lot of power? It's like growing up with helicopter parents you cling onto despite the fact that you're going to have to face the world on your own when you turn 18.
Good news, seems like the GNU Linux-libre team has enough to do anyhow … (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2020-08/msg00001...)
This price increase affects only 'commercial competitive packages', as per midway down the page. Think of this as a "Black Friday" palliative measure.
I'm pretty sure most/all the people who think that college gives you a unique social experience that you can't get elsewhere are just suffering from confirmation bias, and also perhaps want to justify why they spent so much money.

I went to a top-tier 4-year university, and did develop several life-long friendships, many of which have led to introductions to other people, which have further increased my social and professional circles. It'd be easy to say if I hadn't gone to college, I wouldn't have that now, and, well, that's actually true... but it's missing the point. I'd still be me, and I'd still have the same drive to meet people and take advantage of opportunities. My life would be different, certainly, but I doubt it'd be less socially fulfilling.
Not him but maybe as a uni student he was driving a crappy car that had problems before, more bad things happen to people without reliable hardware.
I've biked a lot, and been into different styles of bikes over the years.

Hands down, the best and friendliest service I ever received was buying my first road bike from Sports Basement (in Sunnyvale).

Buying my xtracycle from a hip Berkeley independent bike store was probably the worst service.
That is quite interesting. There are a lot of things like management, tests, and such that I love and miss from django. Going to have to really think about what I think of this.

Edit: Although, now that I think a little more its not that surprising. Our initial tests did literally just define FastAPI schemas on top of our existing DB. The co-mingling while actually running is an interesting concept though.
Update: Trump was directly asked if he supports QAnon conspiracies, and he refused to answer[1].

That's why it's dangerous. It has penetrated to the mainstream of the party in control of 2 out of 3 branches of US govt, as well as the entire military.

1. https://www.axios.com/trump-qanon-refuses-to-answer-question...
This also makes remote work more viable in non-traditional locations.
A friend and I were joking today that we could probably create a career out of helping people/companies fix their git issues. I've been to several employers now where most of the developers have an anxiety attack when they get merge conflicts. Being good at this is really great, though I'm not sure how to capture that on a resume, because basically everyone lists git these days.
No worries! Html2screen was a very good start, I modified it to support audio recording and got it to a pretty good state in a couple of days. After that the hard thing was just to run it automated on AWS. I used AWS Batch and Step Functions for that. When it’s a bit more stable I’ll definitely write about it and might open source it later. If you want to discuss more, feel free to email me at michiel@tella.tv
Well my robot is an explorer:

https://reboot.love/t/new-cameras-on-rover/
I didn't say it was attributed to genetic differences, nor that IQ is a good measure of general intelligence. I didn't even use the word "race" that you're concerned about the definition of. You might be arguing a different point.

What are these most studies that have been refuted? Can you tell me the number or the percentage or a big list of refuted studies along with a shorter list of non-refuted ones, or anything to show that's a real fact and you're not just repeating what activists have told you. Make sure it's not a trick like counting mostly 100 year old studies which could be greater in number allowing you to ignore everything from the last couple of decades. That might make true but also misleading.
> "online marketing" degrees are just part of this category, not anything special in themselves.

I disagree in that many of the other topics have a real academic history and tradition, involve the expression of genuinely important ideas. Being immersed in that for years has value: in the facts learned, the overall experience, and an appreciation for aspects of the world that you might not have understood or appreciated before.

The fact that that arts degrees often have a very good return on investment /might/ be because they are a waste of time and irrelevant but it seems like the preponderance of evidence indicates that they are not a complete waste of time.
https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/collegeroi/

Pushing students towards STEM and trade schools is probably not a good idea, creating markets that actually work properly and then letting the students sort all that out for themselves seems like a better way.
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Totally agree.

Also - my frustrations over the last few days compel me to point out that the latest AAA shooter is in fact 227 GB, plus >100GB of updates.
Counterpoint: You can get a FANG job, and make it to senior engineer, without knowing a lick of math past O(N).
This applies to commercial packages, not retail packages and definitely not ballots. So if you’re here for a “steal the election!” you’re in the wrong place.
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It is mostly trusted. It is not perfect but most people have not been screwed by it, it it a zero sum game so sometimes they side with one more, usually the buyer. There are more buyers than sellers.
The claim is that this particular customer is net loss. In that case, the customer driving elsewhere because you raised price or stopped selling is a gain.

The concept of selling part in a loss instead of raising price and then treating customer badly so that he does not buy that is still mystery.
> If polled, I doubt consumers would guess the royalty is even that high. Someone should run a survey.

This is definitely the right mental model. I am fully onboard for more data.

However, to clarify my previous point when I said "customers agree" I meant customers understand and are generally accepting of "priced in" convenience. For example, in some convenience stores they offer a discount for using cash or debit. Most big stores tho, "price in the cost of credit transactions". Customers understand this and are happy for the convenience and happy for the points.

With the Apple store, digital goods are 30% more expensive, and seemingly customers are ok with it because they are making purchases, while getting the conveniences of the AppStore vetting, refunds process, permissions model, advertising model, privacy, etc.
> I am with one of the world’s biggest telcos, Telstra...

You have my condolences :(

That's so bizarre to have that kind of low speed on fibre, though. I'm half an hour by car / bus from the 4th biggest city, and I'm reliably getting 10Mbps upload over the copper lines. (I was getting the full 20Mbps of my plan, until NBN recently botched the repair of a temporary line fault - their repair guy even said it was the legal required minimum speed and he wasn't going to try any harder than that.)

Is iiNet not available where you are? Though since it's all NBN now, the reseller telco shouldn't make any difference.

That 6th biggest city is awesome though - if I didn't live here, I'd move there. 3rd biggest is a nice place too.
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"Life is quite strange
Life is quite weird,
Life is really
quite odd.
Life from a star
is far more bizarre,
Than an old bearded bloke
they call God.
So gaze at the sky,
and start asking why
You're even here on this ball.
For though life is fraught
The odds are so short
You're lucky to be here
at all"

(Galaxy DNA Song / Eric Idle)
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That's the same kiosk where you go to interact with friends, post and view statuses and pictures, coordinate with local groups, and then get crack cocaine (social validation) to remind you to come back again. Significantly fewer people whom you care about are at the other kiosks, so you don't visit them.

That's why I thought the public square analogy was more apt as-is.
> Some small fraction of the people who study them actually go on to do something near-related to those topics. Many (most?) others go on to work recruters, office managers, in call centers (etc), immediately throwing away their studies and never revisiting them.

You are drawing a line that is convenient to your argument.

I have an engineering degree, and worked for a bunch of years in my discipline. As part of the degree, I had to take 3 calculus courses and one differential equations course. Never needed them on the job. I took 2 circuits courses, 3 electronics courses, 2 communications courses, 2 E&M courses, 1 control theory course, and 1 microcontrollers course - all part of my major. About half were mandatory (not electives). Of these, only 2 courses were relevant for my job. I could have done it as effectively as I did without taking all those other courses.

Amongst engineers, my engineering experience is not an outlier. My experience is the norm. Even while I was in college that was the feedback I would get from people in industry: Most of the engineering courses are useless for your job, and getting the degree is merely a formality and not much of an indicator of knowledge/expertise. The whole "a degree shows you can commit to something for a dedicated amount of time" is mostly a post hoc justification.

Your argument that a "small fraction" of people who study them actually go on to use them applies very well to engineering degrees. I suspect they would apply equally well to CS degrees as well. I mean, I'm the perfect example. I took very little CS in school, but make a living as a SW professional.

Most people I know who got math degrees (but not a PhD) use almost none of it in their jobs - even the technical jobs. Ditto for physics. Should we do away with these as well?

In general, look at all the people who have a BS degree in something other than CS and are working in the SW industry. Look at their degrees. While engineers like me often actually do go on to become engineers, for probably all other majors (math, physics, literature, philosophy, etc) you'll find they rarely get a job in their discipline.

I've lived in countries where those subjects are usually not offered in universities. It really sucks. You usually end up with 2 scenarios:

A class full of people who don't care about the subject but are taking it because society has deemed that what they are interested in is not to be taught in universities. This often results in a lowering of the standards to appease them (who are often in the majority). Indeed, many math majors in the US complain about this - calculus, diff eq and linear algebra are usually taught to cater to engineers, and not math majors.

Or you'll get the other extreme, where the standards are made unnecessarily tight to keep those people out, but in effect also then prevent decent students who are interested in the topic from studying it.
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Had Mozilla invested 75% of it rather than spending 75% they would have probably had a guaranteed $100 million/year from their investments alone for the next century.
Well for some throwback memories I have some old TechTV coverage of Robogames 2005 of my YouTube channel. I’m the kid with bleached blonde hair in the video.

https://youtu.be/J2R-TlBomnQ
Oh snap! that's a fun little game and I didn't make the connection, my kids like it! It's exactly the kind of game that you should polish, and make available for people to pay for to support you. Whether it's ko-fi, buymeacoffee, patreon, or just a paypal donation button - monetize that stuff. I can certainly say that something that keeps my kids entertained for a couple of hours during COVID is worth a few bucks to me :D
To be corrupt and make corrupt choices you need to ensure that the underlings don't catch you, so you hire the most incompetent, scared, needy, yes-men possible. It limits the ability of your organization to be effective overall but enables you to have complete power. Corruption tends to go with lack of ability by design.

E.g. the Trump Administrations high turnover rate.
Have you ever tried installing Bromite or vanilla Chromium from F-Droid?

I imagine they'd address at least some of your qualms with Chrome.
What hardware is required to use the Starlink network? Would that be expensive?
Question: why is this called a supercapacitor, rather than just a standard one?
This is completely true, but on the other hand my choices are very limited when it comes to finding organisations with anything even remotely like the sort of mission I would like Mozilla to have.

I'm more or less resigned to supporting them (although with much less enthusiasm than I'd have otherwise) as the lesser of all available evils.

It does seem that quite a few people feel similarly, so I'd hope it'd be possible to create an alternative organisation with a tighter focus and to garner enough support to make it pay, but I'm aware what a huge undertaking a modern browser is, and how difficult it is to stand out in such a mature market.
Heck, many Americans in metro areas have only one choice for internet providers. I've helped people here in SoCal whose only choice has been 5-10MB DSL service, and they were getting charged like $70/month for it.
It's quite usable as-is. Not sure why it hasn't gotten much attention. It's more privacy oriented than Firefox and is faster than Firefox. I have been using it on desktop Linux for years. I tried Brave and Firefox, but they both have bloat and phone home to someone by default, unlike UG. For all the time it takes to argue back and forth about which browser should take over next, you could have installed UG and moved on with life.
Stronger: For the last several years, the US has been the target of a disinformation and agitprop campaign. (Or more than one. And it doesn't really matter if the origin of the campaign is domestic, so you have to count the Republican and Democratic machines, which both paint a picture that things are terrible, and our side is the only one that can fix it.) That doesn't make it easy to form a realistic assessment of how good or bad things are...
They have migrated to PostgreSQL due to performance issues.

> Unfortunately RethinkDB was a bit slow. It was fast enough for our needs at the time but as we grew we gave up waiting for its performance to be improved. We sponsored one improvement in an effort to help it scale with us but it wasn’t enough. We ended up abandoning it in favor of PostgreSQL.

https://www.zerotier.com/on-the-gpl-to-bsl-transition/
I'd sure hate to work on a product with that guy working in QA! Oh the bug reports he would generate! The Satisfactory developers must have a dartboard with his face on it.
For someone in the know, how different is tokenization strategy between Japanese and Chinese? The grammar/sentence structure is different and Chinese does not use kana or qualifiers for things like verbs in the same way but then both have compound words and lack of spaces in text.

Do languages like German which is rife with compound words have any overlap in tokenization or do you end up with completely different strategies?
The SpaceX approach also completely bypasses a ton of the nonsense local bureaucracy, stonewalling by existing ISPs, etc that a company would have to deal with to put in cables, towers, etc in the first place, saving both time and money.
Yep, I messed up on that one -- forgot uber drivers aren't employees (in which case the standard deduction would ordinarily come into play unless the driver did something more exotic with their taxes). That was my own background slipping through in my answer.
I thought for a second it was related to the recent '26-Second Pulse' XKCD https://xkcd.com/2344/ but that is about seismic waves while this is about atmospheric pressure.
This gets annoying after a certain limit. What are they even doing at the company?!