skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What’s truly unfortunate is how the people who can create such a cogent argument about the problems continue to enable them by bloviating at their screens on forums that don’t carry political weight, and avoid activities in general that do carry political weight.

Understand the politicians that most contribute to creating the problems are happy to absorb impotent rhetoric all day long.

Exceptional and gritty Americans will Grubhub, and social media, and otherwise luxuriate the country off a cliff rather than collectively get behind fairness in a real way.
This is true. I usually remove all cookies and data from my devices every three of four days - it just seems tidy to do so, even though I usually open a private tab for following links. There is the slight annoyance of logging back in to a few web sites and turning off notifications. That is definitely an opportunity cost, since it takes a little time.
The better way is to react reflectively, not reflexively. That happens in two stages. First, wait for your initial agitation to subside. (By 'you' I mean all of us, because this is universal.) That's necessary, because the reflexes that drive us to argue in mechanical ways are always the fastest to arise. If you observe yourself—that is, if you direct a portion of your attention to what's going on inside you as you react to someone's comment, rather than focusing exclusively on the comment and how bad/wrong it is—you'll notice this phenomenon easily. It is an activating, agitating feeling that drives you to react immediately. This is a threat response, and all it can ever do is pattern-match, i.e. repeat past responses to past threats. Think of it as responding from cache. There isn't time to compute anything new. For that, you need the slower, reflective circuits, and you gain access to those by waiting a little.

The second stage is to use your reflective capacity—which is slower and calmer—to look at the comment from multiple angles and ask yourself things that there wasn't time for before: what other interpretations might there be? am I sure that what I feel I'm seeing is actually here? do I really need to react this way / post like this? what effect is my post going to have on the thread [1]? is there a different way to relate to this person? who do I really want to be, in this context? what community do I really want to be part of?

The reason this is better is not because it produces any particular content. People sometimes misunderstand that and assume that we're telling everyone to always be civil, constrained, etc.—but that's not it. Rather, it's because it's the only way to make discussions not be predictable. If we're all reacting with cached threat-responses, the only thing we can do is fight the same battles we've all been fighting for a long time. Since HN is a site for curiosity and curiosity withers under repetition [2], finding ways to escape the predictable [3] and make new moves in the dance is a must.

Past thoughts here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
And yet, with a little time, patience, and dedication from parents, all children can be taught to be respectful, focus, and learn the way we need them to learn during a strange and complicated time.

This world is full of can't can't can't. Everywhere we turn, if there's an inconvenience involved. If we have to do something boring. If it won't be fun. If it's hard work..... we can't do it. It can't be done.

I wish we had a "we can do this" attitude. I wish parents could say, "Don't worry, let's help each other. You may not have the time, but I do, and I'm here to help."

But I'm out of hope.
That would be Vincent Rijmen of AES and SHA-3 fame.
I also found a nice overview in the MeiliSearch documentation [1]. Maybe, you find it interesting.

[1] https://docs.meilisearch.com/resources/comparison_to_alterna...
Wikipedia gives a fatality rate of ~10% with the citation below.

Cherington, J. et al. 1999: Closing the Gap on the Actual Numbers of Lightning Casualties and Deaths. Preprints, 11th Conf. on Applied Climatology, 379-80
MIT develops new solar “reverse air conditioner” for the developing world (2012)
Wise people don't like playing with sand on a beach?
Seems like the difference is the level of friction the project is willing to take on in order to support Rust.
Ads and tracking (i.e. $$$)
On Desktop, uBlock Origin blocks 13 trackers on the reddit.com frontpage.
Use Reddit in incognito mode on mobile, and you'll see how many ads there are.
With more users blocking ads and content trackers on mobile, Reddit would rather monetize you (the user) in their app where you don't typically block trackers/ads.
In the 2017-2018 flu season (one of the worse, which had the estimated 61k deaths in the US) infected an estimated 45 million people in the US; that's roughly in the middle of the range of the number that have caught COVID-19 so far (30-50 million the last I heard; note this is an estimate of total cases, not the confirmed 5.7 million cases, but so is the 45 million).

So our current understanding is that COVID-19 is both more deadly and more infectious.
I see kube as providing a set of tools. These are plugable built-in functionalities that you can use to make a functioning application. I think the problem is that it is common to configure these directly, often with unpowerful languages like yaml.

I think they are a great set of tools. However it seems like there should be more framework on top of them to make it an easy user experience. You can argue that this is what Google has done with Cloud Run. They put a simple "run an image exposed to the internet" interface built ontop of the kube foundation.
Probably DAGs - Operators can be tested from their hooks, but in my experience testing a DAG is annoying - I usually just make a copy that does a dry run/runs with test data, or just test in a local airflow container as it's much faster.
Assuming a perfectly spherical cow...
One extreme: calm, content, happy, don't care about much, don't do much.

Other extreme: stressed, unsatisfied, unhappy, always working, getting lots done.

Maybe there is a middle way. A more nuanced definition of success.
I disagree; All of the things you say about C++ code also apply to unsafe Rust code. There's an unsafe keyword that allows using that unsafe code, and when you use it, you are asserting to the compiler that "I promise this code is actually being used in a safe way". All this document says is that the C++/Rust boundary should be considered another place where you are asserting "I promise this code is actually being used in a safe way".
Nobody has asked it yet,so I will. What is the use case for this device. I know, the article says "measure radiation without being noticed", but what are the actual situations where you would want to do that?

Presumably sending spies to gather data on nuclear weapons production sites? Wouldn't those sites have crazy operational security and would confiscate things like iPods before entering anyways?

Or is the idea to detect facilities that are building dirty-bombs in dense urban areas (a-la some scene set in middle-eastern country X from the show 'Homeland')
Agreed. I tried consistently visiting and posting for a week or two,and while I feel like the site has been getting more popular, it's not a place for adult conversations.

What finally made me quit was a post of a meme involving Kamala Harris in a non-political section which was one of the most upvoted things I'd seen on the site, yet the meme itself was childish and racist.

I dislike censorship, but if the initial source of people visiting a site which has these anti moderation policies are low quality, good luck climbing out of that hole. Smart people are attracted to smart people, so your initial userbase is paramount. This isn't a condemnation of all on ruqqus, but the majority are looking for a right wing echo chamber.

The site is nowhere near as bad as voat, but give it a little time, it'll get there.
I think that part of the comment was specific to the game Cities Skylines. Like, "Oh they added another utility to manage... wtf is this? I haven't ever heard of cities doing this." But then they looked it up and found out it's a real practice.
In light of the absence of regulation, an ethical culture needs to be present in some form. Your response seems to indicate you think this is a pointless endeavor by fast.ai, but there is no harm in creating the content and subsequent discussions about the subject matter. Until more voices are raised about the issue, it’s unlikely that regulations are created.
Personal counter-anecdote. When I was I think about the same age (5-6), my mom would take me in the office and occasionally my only entertainment would be a DOS computer with a few basic games. From what I’m told, I was very motivated to get to the said games and quickly learned commands and my way around the command line - skill that turned out to be pretty useful in life. For “Raffi”, being a true digital native and having command of all of these communication nuances could be quite valuable in life. Who knows, maybe the “drained” experience his parents have won’t translate to him in the future because it will be second nature.

I do fear for the skills of reading a physical book though...
No worries, as you can imagine getting information about the programs in these countries at times can be tough :)

In general, being a citizen of a Gulf Cooperation Council gives you the following
1) Free healthcare
2) Free education including study abroad
3) Stipend monthly
4) Free electricity and water
Other countries may have more or a little less. Like qataris get an allocation of land if they marry another citizen.

The general qatari population is 15% while immigrant population is 85%.

They might have different names for it or its obfuscated but a form of UBI has been going on for decades, since I have friends who are nationals and ive been here for 30+ years.
The information might not be freely available.

Here is a page from the archive about Qatar https://web.archive.org/web/20150430001945/https://portal.ww... . It is no longer live, but they mention an adequate income
Ongoing crises are not emergencies. If it lasts for long enough, it becomes normal, and must be dealt with by your normal planning. If your planning can't deal with it, it must be adapted, there is no reason to keep creating exceptional actions for something that is there every day.

That said, it's perfectly reasonable for a government to keep exceptional procedures for an year. That's the minimum planning granularity they use. The GP's 6 months limit does not seem reasonable.
Play vs work?
We are already seeing Flippy the burger flipping robot taking over jobs originally meant for humans. The technology for Flippy is only getting cheaper and better, the quality of human labor is already at its most optimal point and is only getting more expensive due to laws passed.

Now, you could make Flippy the robot illegal, and maybe x number of businesses would eat the cost of the more expensive workers. But something else will suffer as a result, and I would argue it would involve price, efficiency, quality, and compliance...
I rarely remember commands when I’m typing, I use completion and apropos to remind me, feels like something similar must be possible. Either way, obviously I spend most of my life with hands on the keyboard and I’m not going to make out Emacs isn’t optimised in many ways for that. I just think it’s sad if someone thinks the big ideas in Emacs are just how it handles keybindings, that’s all really.
> I think a lot of people in this discussion are pitting the argument at people prioritizing their individual choices over the collective health of the community. I think that is a very singular framing from one side

> The fact is if your under 30 you have a better chance of being hit by lightning then dying of Covid

Yes, but what about the other members of the community who aren't below 30 who you might infect? Thinking "I'm under 30, so I'll be fine" and not worrying about the fact that you could still spread the disease to others is pretty much a textbook example of "prioritizing individual choices over the collective health of the community".
I know this might sound a bit cheap but I think there are national security concerns that are worth mentioning. You simply can’t rely on satellites for domestic backhaul unless you’re prepared for it to go away as soon as a war starts.

If a simpleton like me is capable of taking a Yagi into my backyard and talking on AMSAT birds with a 5 watt handheld radio, it’s not entirely unreasonable to believe that someone well funded would be capable of tracking and destroying a cubesat in orbit.
Though I agree it is classist (and probably a fair number of other "ists") and it's something that I as a white collar worker am keenly aware of, the fact is that if I can stay home, it's better for everyone -- including food service workers -- if I do. My class guilt will not protect people from infection.

I really don't know what the answer here is, but risk mitigation has to be part of the debate. It feels like the culture wars of class, personal freedom, social risk, public shame, etc have supplanted questions of "how do we keep all of the people who keep the engine of society running safe and how do we compensate them fairly for their work?" and "how do we ensure that everyone else does not engage in risky activity simply because they must do so to live."

This is all starting to get away from the core point of the article, which is that people will always find a way to engage in any activity that is illegal, but perhaps if we could address the issues above, the question of speakeasy gyms wouldn't seem so critical because we'd be safe in other areas of our life.
A lot of this fretting seems to come down to people who are bodybuilder types.

You don't need to be in a commercial gym to maintain solid functional fitness.

You might need to be in a commercial gym to maintain unnatural levels of muscle mass and body weight for bodybuilding & powerlifting. Even that stuff can still be done in a home gym setting though given an equipment budget.

This is not a health argument, it's not even proven bodybuilding is healthy.. excess mass from body building & powerlifting tends to have negative effects later in life due to the metabolic strain of the extra weight.

Just deal with the idea you can stay super fit but you might not weigh as much.

Gymnasts, rock climbers, etc.. are all ultra elite strength athletes that get by largely with bodyweight exercise & minimal equipment. They just don't have abnormally high body mass.

Outside of these arguments of "I'm too big and strong to get enough home equipment to keep my gains Bro!" it mostly seems to come down to narcissism.. desire to be seen in the gym and to socialize in the gym. If that's such an important part of being in the gym it's no different than not being able to handle avoiding bars.

You can still have a training partner for spotting... just make sure it's the same training partner and you both keep good behavior outside of workouts and it'll be pretty safe.
Exactly! Sounds pretty good if everybody gets to do what makes them personally happy..
That is not what matches my mental model of a "deep dive," but was interesting enough to warrant an upvote

For example, the phrase "decentralized marketplace of storage providers and choose the one" was just glossed over -- through what mechanism does one choose a storage provider? Is there an API that (for example) a container storage interface provider could consume? like that kind of "choose a provider"?

I also would have enjoyed more hyperlinks for terms such as zk-SNARK, and "a storage miner" which is similarly glossed over
I think a lot of people in the US are taught from a young age to work hard and be the best you can be. Get into the best college, work hard to get the best job. Get promoted. Get promoted. Start your own firm. Work hard work hard, make money.

Often they never learn you are allowed to back off.
Doesn't make complete sense to me. If they are complying with their obligation but they can charge a fee why wouldn't they be able to increase the fee enough to get out of actually providing the information?

EDIT: I think I got it - I am hearing the fee is equal to the amount it costs them to provide it.
I'd love to see a future where part of a plane's battery pack is a detachable drone that could fly back right after takeoff (most taxing on energy use) and thus decrease the weight of the plane.

You could also have battery swaps during flight as they pass over drone battery depots.

Sounds crazy. Might not be worth the gains for the complexity, but could be worth it across a whole fleet.

Microwave laser groundstations (or solar satellites) could come first, removing much of the battery requirement.
Can someone explain how and where to use a Workflow Orchestration Engine ?
With wafer scale the amount of connections that can cross a border between two tiles is limited by the spacing rules for the top metal layers and by the number of layers you can dedicate to this (1 or 2, I would guess).

For TSMC N7 Design Rules[0] the pitch is 720nm for the top two metals (1388 wires per mm) and 76nm for the middle metal layers (13157 wires per mm).

In the case of chiplets on an interposer, if we suppose that the interposer can use a process similar to the top layers of the wafer then the number of wires between chiplets is the same. But you need pads and solder balls from the chipets to the interposer (and back on the other side). These pads can be in a grid pattern (like in a BGA package) so the area is the limit instead of perimeter. Let's be optimistic and suppose a pitch of 30µm for the copper pillar micro-bumps.

With a conservative 1000 wires per mm of perimeter the pads are not the limit with a chiplet larger than 3.6mm per side. With a more aggressive 10000 wires per mm the chiplets would have to be larger than 36mm per side, which is just beyond the reticle size limit of many chip fabs.

[0] https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/7_nm_lithography_process
> expecting people to quit their jobs (and ability to provide for their partner and children) because of an ethics video series seems like a hollow solution

Why are you making straw man arguments? The person you're replying to didn't state or imply such an expectation, not did the OP.

In fact, meaningful regulation is discussed at length in the course. People involved in technology policy are one of the audiences that it's designed for.
I meant a pause in institutionalized learning—of course I expect them to learn other things around the home.
> what compelling reason could be offered that a.) entices drivers b.) entices endusers c.) technically feasible d.) sustainable

The big compelling reason seems Uber and Lyft suspending operations while drivers are hurting from a lockdown.

The enticements to drivers and users are the enticements to use Uber and Lyft, now not met.

A further enticement to drivers is to signal to Uber and Lyft that if they try to play hardball too much, they can be replaced. Even starting developing the app and service would create incentives for Uber and Lyft to accept that they have less negotiating power than they think.

I don't pretend to have all the answers, it just seems like an opportunity for drivers and riders to decrease the share going to Uber and Lyft.
$100/hr is considerably more than I make as a software engineer. if my employer was required to pay a janitor $100/hr, they would fire them and have all the junior engineers spend the last hour of their day cleaning. having someone clean the building is essential for any business with a physical presence, but it's only worth hiring a person specifically to clean if they can be paid less than your core employees or if they can do it much more efficiently. this is why restaurants typically do not employ janitors.
Any difference with airflow?
Not to mention the majority of people in this nation cannot afford to use ubereats on a daily basis.
If you keep in the game, you're going to get lucky sooner or later. Quitters, on the other hand, ensure that luck can never find them.

Many successful entrepreneurs had a series of failures before success.

You'll never get lucky by doing nothing.
Source? Reality. Look at the savings and investment rates for the poor. Where do you think the money is going? Most people still source their large purchases locally, even if it's at a store chain, which keeps the local economy going because there are plenty of services used at those stores that are local.

A guy who goes and buys a nice new luxury TV from a local Best Buy is still supporting local businesses indirectly because that Best Buy is going to have multiple contracts with local businesses for services.
"I'm amazed how dismissive all the comments are here"

The contrarian dynamic strikes again: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
I don't see how having a large British-owned company in your country makes it a colony.
Just don't hook it to the Internet?

Seriously - it isn't that hard. I guess I'm old school - I have an AV receiver (it serves as an amp for my speakers too!) and it let's me pick between the few devices I have. Xbox for games/BluRay, Tivo or Apple TV - there aren't very many services that aren't on one of those three. I would NEVER hook a TV up to Internet. Maybe long enough to do a firmware update, but that's it.
See also: https://nces.ed.gov/NAAL/kf_demographics.asp
This is what we do - it's great for decoupling the two. Any heavy work is run in GKE with some custom operators. It also makes on boarding non engineers much easier as they don't have to worry about connections/credentials/etc.
Now imagine for a second another country overthrowing the US elected government and installing their own dictator.

How exactly would Americans feel for that country later? (even just from that incident alone, let's ignore half a century of later meddling).

When Americans consider other countries' reactions towards them, they seldom consider the impact of their own actions, as if the toppling some sovereign country's government (the worse thing you can do) is no big deal, and others should just sit and take it...
If the other company can also do the same, why would they piss into their own cereal by reducing their profit?

And if the other company is a newcomer looking to gain market share by undercutting, they'll likely find themselves strongarmed or bought out of the market.
The drivers exist. Uber and Lyft are abandoning them, so it seems they have time and incentive to replace the missing service.
>but their success isn't magical, and it should be repeatable for another company.

Not 100% true, SpaceX went against a market that was not only disposable but also extremely inefficiently built. Today's market is significantly more competitive both from SpaceX's side but the other launchers have also decreased prices and are in the process of building cheaper rockets as well.
I have 4 kids. I work from home. My wife works 11 hours a day away from the house. I feel like this world is full of "can't" people who aren't willing to do the extra work. We seem to have enough time to comment on Hacker News. To argue about masks on Facebook. To watch every TikTok, and spend hours on Twitter.

But put in the necessary work to make learning at home productive. Nope, can't do that.

We have put in the work at our house to make e-learning possible, and it can be effective, and kids can focus, and kids can wear masks, and kids CAN still LEARN during difficult times - but it takes sacrifices from parents, be it sleep, entertainment, our phones, TV, or even time off work and living lean.

But I'm ready for it... let's hear some CAN DO stuff from the HN community!