skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some comments are treating this as an opportunity for a Solaris wake and while I certainly don't object I wonder if needs pointing out that there is a lively ecosystem of Illumos derivatives, Illumos itself being a derivative of Solaris (via what was once called OpenSolaris).

Some examples include SmartOS (Samsung maintained datacenter centric flavot, lots of tools for rapid/easy deployment of compute nodes and machine images); OmniOS (for laptops); and one I had never heard of until this post, Tribblix.

A common pattern is to run other OSes in some zones via bhyve (linux and bsd) or kvm or lx branded zones (linux). But the native platform can handle many scenarios these days.
The open question here is who does this effect. If the result is 1000 wrong arrests out of 10mil, that might be acceptable. But if ever one of those arrests is that 1 poor guy who get's arrested every time he steps out of his house because his face is a universal match, that's a very different result. Ditto if this leads to large numbers of incorrect arrests in certain groups (race, gender, age etc).

This is the problem with anything involving people: distributions matter a lot and distributions are hard...
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I live in Sweden where there is a national plan for rolling out broadband internet throughout the country until 2025 [0].

In Stockholm the physical infrastructure is rolled out by the municipality through Stokab [1] exactly to avoid this issue, the physical infrastructure, which is the most expensive and least competitive part of the deal, is public while leasing it out and providing access to the last mile customers is done through private companies. It seems to work pretty well so far.

[0] https://www.government.se/496173/contentassets/afe9f1cfeaac4...

[1] https://www.stokab.se/Documents/Stockholms%20Stokab%20-%20A%...
Tesla is the Commodore 64 of cars. (A comment that makes as much sense as arbitrary comparisons to the IPhone).
> It supports only modern browsers (not IE or Opera Mini) but drops that 88kb monster.

Whenever I read this, I usually take it the author is being serious. However, how long does it actually take to load a 88kb library these days, is it really 'monstrous'? If this was the authors top performance drain based on profiling, I commend their technical abilities.
It doesn't say whther the intervention was assigned randomly (and those assigned all stuck with it). Home environment and parental support has a huge influence and also those who get tuition (or stick with assignment to the tuition group) probably have strong parental support.
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Indeed. The 'Turing machine' was proposed by Turing as a thought experiment. It was the simplest implentation of a universal computing machine that he could think of. Any physical implementation of it would be incredibly inefficient.
At the end of the day, whatever shell best suits you basically boils down to usage, habits and how much willing you are to tweak it.
Falling crime rates? For some categories of crime, sure, but e.g. murder rates this year have risen sharply in major US cities.

https://nyti.ms/3gyoVqd - "At least 336 people have been murdered in Chicago through July 2, according to the Chicago Police Department; because murders typically increase in the summer, the city is on track to match the 778 deaths in 2016, its deadliest year since the mid-1990s. <...> Chicago is not alone. Before the coronavirus hit, homicides were escalating nationwide in early 2020, and although the lockdown brought a pause, they began rising again as the stay-at-home measures were lifted. A national study showed that homicide rates fell in 39 of 64 major cities during April and began creeping up in May."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/nyregion/nyc-shootings-co... - "On Sunday, another 19 people were shot in New York City, one fatally. Through the first seven months of this year, shootings were up 72 percent over the same period last year and murders rose 30 percent, even as reports of other violent crimes like rape, assault and robbery fell."
Guix is arguably better.
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If Zoom had an outage in early april, that would be legitimate. However it's been 5 months since schools first closed, and we've known for most of that time that this would be a long term issue. Do you really want the person who can't figure out two meeting programs over the course of several months to be responsible for your kid's education?
> Transmeta tried it and failed

Author has clearly not heard about NexGen! They implemented a RISC architecture that code morphed x86 i586 design. They were then bought out by AMD who shortly thereafter adopted the design for their own architecture. Then Intel had no choice but to adopt NexGen architecture as well lool. We all use NexGen Architecture now. The most famous microprocessor no one's heard of. I only know because NexGen was based in Milpitas and that's where I live, so Milpitas Architecture is like hometown pride.

As for patents, Xed is tiny (only ~4kb) and it allows us to distinguish the which instructions belong to which microarchitectures, e.g. k8, sse3, sse4, avx. That gives us a clear accurate picture of the intellectual property rolloff, thereby enabling a fabless chip or emulator to simply ignore the encumbered parts of the encoding space. The tradeoff is you can't patent troll Intel (due to Xed being licensed Apache 2.0) and I think that's fair.
Kind of off topic but when the word "hydration" become a technology term? I see it all over and it's never really made sense to me. The definition is specific to fluid:

1 : to cause to take up or combine with water or the elements of water
2 : to supply with ample fluid or moisture

Maybe I'm old school but the word "populate" makes a lot more sense than hydrate when talking about data.
There are several issues, though.

1. As discussed in the article, due to training sets or methodology, these systems are poor at distinguishing non-Caucasian faces. Or at least poor relative to a human looking at the image and the person together.

2. Police (though not just them) have an unfounded trust in the machines.

3. Police take this unfounded trust and push through arrests before they realistically should (like in the opening story of the article).

4. People arrested for felonies are fucked in the US. It can take years to get your record expunged. Until then your name shows up in lots of searches, you can lose licenses to conduct some kinds of business (or be unable to obtain them). (Expunging can also be very expensive.)

You may not mind innocent people being caught up in the dragnet, but as a society we probably should care a lot more than we do.
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As a full-time RHEL admin, there is a reason: we have some old, like ooooooooold, kernels and servers floating around.

I can't see needing BTFS on my granddaddy boxes, but we've definitely made use of backported code.
If they ultimately watch the videos later, what difference does it make whether they watch it live.

In my opinion, having a lecture recorded is a wonderful boon, as you can go back and rewatch a section if it wasn't clear the first time.
Most likely an adult or gambling site.
Wow, that's awesome! Would have definitely made some stuff I've done a lot easier.
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I think these problems might have to do with a current conflict within the US society that needs to be talked about and surveillance or the lack of it is neither the reason nor the solution.
That's no different than normal software engineering. We use version control software (VCS, like git) to deal with it. You can include your results in the tracked source.

For what it's worth, using results from outdated source code is extremely suspicious. This is a frequent problem in software development where we have tests or benchmarks based on stale code, and it's almost always incorrect. I would not trust your results if they are not created with the most up to date version of your software at all.
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It sounds like you might be looking at this with a little bit of humanities tunnel vision. In science, 99% of everything one person says will be agreed on by anyone else who knows what they're talking about. Even in cases where the truth is not yet known, among reasonable people you are more likely to find "they both agree that it could go either way," than "the two sides are each convinced the other is completely wrong."
pretty nice, is the SPARK market lively ? I'd love to see how work is done there
> Or is quality left up to the primary researchers?

Individual researchers, and in many disciplines (like physics), there is almost no emphasis on quality.

I left academia a decade ago, but at the time all except one of my colleagues protested when version control was suggested to them. Some of these have code in the 30-40K lines.
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That won't make them less evil, just less coherent.
Even more fundamental is that there is no maintenance budget for important scientific libraries and tools. Somebody wrote them as part of their job, and the person who wrote it, is now working somewhere else.
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> I hated the idea of wasting all that time I spent reading

Personally, I've come to the conclusion that I read in order to draw broad patterns, not necessarily to remember all the things in every book - my brain has limited space.

What are your thoughts on optimizing retention at the expense of remembering to see the forest?
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Their accounts pre Covid look pretty healthy for a charity https://beta.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?subid... so hopefully they'll be able to remain going by temporarily cutting down on staff.

When I went there were almost more volunteers than visitors, so there's no shortage of willing people to help
> I'm also not concerned about running software on telephones since doing so requires obtaining authorization from Google

That's not actually true. Fortnite has an APK download many users download straight from the internet and run on their Android phones for example. There's no requirement to run Google authorized software as long as you are willing to check a checkbox in the phone settings.
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I don't get it. One guy makes a job board and makes 300k/year. Not exactly a hard problem to solve.

What's stopping a proliferation of job boards to arbitrage away his revenue?
Surprising and noteworthy are not the same thing, but pretending they are definitely lets you make your non-sequitur reply seem like it addresses mine...

It's noteworthy when tech projects are successful and simple, because in the industry there is a widespread tendency to try and replicate what "the big guys" are doing, and often times what they're doing is extremely convoluted.

In other words, it is significant when projects buck this trend, because it goes against the mistaken belief that the only way to be "web scale" to replicate some of the most complicated tech stacks out there, making it worth calling out. Significant being a synonym for noteworthy in case that needs to be clarified...

HN being an example of this doesn't somehow make every other example not noteworthy either if that was what you tried to say?

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This concept has come up so many times I am, again, surprised anyone who is in the same tech industry as me does not realize it's a thing:

https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/you-are-not-google-84912cf44afb...

https://programmerfriend.com/not-google/

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-31646-...

Especially on Hacker News, a place where an immense amount of gnashing of teeth has happened over what the latest complicated tech stack that people convince themselves they need to make software that scales.
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It is actually pretty useful. If you’re given a locked down machine (for example in your company), you can write code in notepad, compile it with csc.exe and run it. As it is generated on the local machine, you may get to be able to execute it. (I tried this once when I was super bored at an intership, and a hello world program compiled and ran.)
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Like I said, I came to Go from C#, and my experience has been such that I’m generally more productive in Go. Further, I already addressed the fallacy that you can just avoid certain features.
Plucking a single comment entirely out of context and presenting it as damning evidence against an entire company's competency feels kind of over the top.
somebody posted a interesting comment:

For all of those pointing to Sweden as an effective count-strategy, here is some data to consider

Deaths per million

Sweden: 575

USA: 545

Denmark: 108

Finland: 60

Norway: 49

(Iceland, the final Nordic country, is 29 but is separate geographically and thus appropriate to exclude)

Conclusion: the rate of deaths in Sweden is 5-12x higher than comparable Nordic countries.

Now, let's look at the impact on the economy...

OECD’s biannual Economic Outlook summary full-year GDP growth forecast

Sweden: -7.8% to -6.7%

Denmark: -7.1% to -5.8%

U.S. -8.5% to -7.3%

The European Commission forecast both Sweden and Denmark to experience a -5.3% GDP contraction.

Conclusion: the lax coronavirus policies in Sweden contributed to deaths per capita 5-12x higher than comparable Nordic countries while not having any measurable positive impact on the performance of the economy.
I thought it was actually a good phrase, and GP's comment contributed far more to the conversation than yours. Please try to do better.
Younger kids in PAUSD have significantly less screen time. My Ohlone first grader has a 30-minute session, a 15-minute session, and a 45-minute session today, scattered throughout the day.
Does anyone know if they only tested for RNA, or for live virus?

At this point in time it is absolutely unacceptable to assume that presence of viral RNA equates to infectious virus. Hence the question.
I had been using Debian for 6 years when the first Ubuntu came out, and never had any trouble configuring anything. I was getting tired of waiting what seemed like forever for new stable Debian releases, so I gave Ubuntu a shot on the desktop, liked what I saw, and then started rolling it out on servers. It's been my Debian-flavored distribution of choice since then because of its steady stable release schedule.
Wow, I really like how you reserve the corners of the page for specific content.

I also really like writing notes in the book, but I take a picture of each page and stick it into Evernote. On each note I'll write down the book and page number that the note came from in case I want to see it in more context.

That way the notes are all searchable and it really helps when I don't remember which book I read something in
Here's a fantastically detailed 2019 review of replications of Bloom's work:

https://nintil.com/bloom-sigma/

As is oft the case, the conclusion is 'it's complicated'.
Something I think may be related, but I don't have strong evidence for, is that I think some of the high Quality shown in Japanese work is also evidence of a tendency towards not trying to do everything. Things I've noticed in a lot of Japanese products, both software and hardware:

1. Barebones UI/UX that I would guess isn't very accessible for blind/non-traditional users.
2. Poor user manuals and often even worse translations.
3. Proprietary systems where there's no interoperability outside of that company's ecosystem.

To me, this points to a system that does a very good job making things for the 80% case, and often doesn't even try to accommodate the 20% case.
I think this should work with many other models of cars too! I hope you found it helpful and interesting.
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As a person that speaks Greek, this hurts my delicate and beautiful soul. Please don't do that again.
Indeed. Historically, reducing contradictions and tensions in society is a much more durable solution than ramping up enforcement.
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I can see it happening when checking takes a long time - but they're probably man-days into an arrest at the point they're sitting in an interview room post-arrest. Against, the LEO looking at their tablet screen prior to arresting the guy, seeing he looks different and not arresting him?

Are the LEOs getting bonuses for raw number-of-arrests?
As long as it does not use some CUDA hardware which is using tensorflow and Numba which is using a version of llvmlite which does not support Python2 any more.....

This isn't a theoretical example.
Or Fortran.
> If I'm managing the state of, say, a form, and I want the submit button to be disabled when (condition), the obvious solution is to add `disabled={condition}`, rather than a conditional className or attribute to then match on in css.

I'm confused, are you saying you would prefer to disable the submit button without adding the `disabled` attribute?
I should take another look at it. Thanks for the reminder.
There's https://file.re/ that's worked okay for me.
All clearances are paid for by the government, they are never billed to the vendor. If they charged the contractors then small businesses would never be able to compete. Hell, medium businesses wouldn't be able to compete.

There is an estimated cost of said clearances, as needed so the government can try to budget accordingly, but it is not handed down to vendors.
In high school I would get to school early and practice my instrument or hang out. My band friend was in remedial algebra and failing and got up enough courage to ask for help with his homework. On the second problem I noticed that he couldn't read his own handwriting and asked him to write cleaner. He started getting the highest grades in the class and saying it was easy.

When I started Algebra, I was trying to save paper by writing everything on one line ``A = B = C = D = answer`` which makes it hard to do things to "both sides" of the equation. I could mostly do the problems in my head but showing my work was impossible and it's easy to make trivial mistakes at any step that give you the wrong answer. My friend was using a whole sheet of paper per problem and showed me how to do it and then it got easy.

My point is that if five minutes with a peer can fix trivial, fundamental issues with a student's approach, imagine what a trained teacher or professor could do on a short one-on-one session with each student?
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Short answer: Yes, my 30 year old Fortran code runs (with a few minor edits between f77 and modern fortran), as did my ancient Perl codes.

Watching the density functional theory based molecular dynamics zip along at ~2 seconds per time step on my 2 year old laptop, versus the roughly 6k seconds per time step on an old Sun machine back in 1991. I remember the same code getting down to 60 seconds per time step on my desktop R8k machine in the late 90s.

Whats been really awesome about that has been the fact that I've written some binary data files on big endian machines in the early 90s, and re-read them on the laptop (little endian) adding a single compiler switch.

Perl code that worked with big XML file input in the mid 2000s continues to work, though I've largely abandoned using XML for data interchange.

C code I wrote in the mid 90s compiled, albeit with errors that needed to be corrected. C++ code was less forgiving.

Over the past 4 months, I had to forward port a code from Boost 1.41 to Boost 1.65. Enough changes over 9 years (code was from 2011) that it presented a problem. So I had to follow the changes in the API and fix it.

I am quite thankful I've avoided the various fads in platforms and languages over the years. Keep inputs in simple textual format that can be trivially parsed.
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I understand that.

My point is that Universities have a brand for taking top tier raw undergrad students and moulding them into elite graduates who lead the world. In reality, many of those top tier students would succeed no matter what (raw talent, sheer will, family connections, etc).

If you dilute the pool in a meaningful way then 5% of the top 10k students go to Top Tier Uni 1; 5% to Top Tier Uni 2, ... Top Tier Uni 20. In ten years the outcomes of the students will no longer be biased towards Top Tier Uni 1 since students were dispersed across the top 20. Instead they are spread uniformly across the top 20. Why would TTU1 agree to lose their #1 place?

This is predicated on the reasonable belief that the Top 20 Undergraduate programmes are all 'good enough'.
> their job is not coding

To me, that's like a theoretical physicist saying "My job is not to do mathematics" when asked for a derivation of a formula he put in the paper.

Or an experimental physicist saying "My job is not mechanical engineering" when asked for details of their lab equipment (almost all of which is typically custom built for the experiment).
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> Browsers used to have RSS built in

Yes, but just having that button isn't enough. Consider: I'm someone who understands the benefits of RSS, and despite seeing that button for years, I rarely clicked it, and mostly wasn't sure what to do after I did click it. Because that button showed you the feed, but the browser didn't really have a centralized reader built-in (that I remember, anyway, and if I couldn't find it then you bet the average user can't, either). There's a big difference between just showing the feed and having an "Add stories from {{newspaper}} to my home page" button.
> package your code into a docker

docker is not a general solution for this.

What is needed is a way to re-generate everything from source and from scratch.