skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is it undesirable to aim for objectivity?

It's definitely undesirable to admit the concept is meaningless, then to strive for it. That's just producing propaganda. You know the standards you're going to strive for are arbitrary and just made up of a combination of things you haven't questioned the importance of and things you've decided the importance of, but not only do you cleave to them anyway, but you criticize those who deviate from them as dangerous propagandists.

He thought his job was to create a more rational, more just society, and the narrative he used to connect the events described in his sources was a servant to that. That's the same thing that people who claim objectivity claim to be doing, while they write history as the conflicts between the wealthy and royal.

Claiming "objectivity" is just claiming that someone would be insane or seditious for daring to question the claimant's premises. Claims that objectivity is real inevitably ends in journalists and writers having to be licensed and approved by the government.
He gets hate for the same reason he gets love. Because he doesn't toe the state history propaganda line we are all spoonfed. That doesn't mean he isn't biased. After all history is interpreted propaganda. But he does point out some "inconvenient truths".

> Curious how so many self styled "contrarians" and "free thinkers" dislike his work without reading it.

There is a lot less of this here than you think. I think the name of site is misleading you.
For context, a skim of random internet sources claim that TSMC produced 1.1M 7nm wafers last year.
If the same measurement stick would be used against Capitalism it would be so vile* that capitalists are usually very careful to not accept the same measurement stick.

* Just to take a single point: 72k/deaths per year in just the US because of lack of access to health care.
Truth is not the point of social media. Facebook isn't an encyclopaedia. Humans already gravitate towards groups that validate their opinions. It makes sense for Facebook to show people content they want to see. It is incredibly Orwellian to say "Facebook should only show people content which corrects their wrong views". Facebook isn't a social conditioning tool. I find the alternative to "misinformation" much scarier. Misinformation and being mistaken are human flaws we will always have, and therefore any social groups will have them by default. Using technology as a tool to condition people out of their views against their will is scary.

The information is out there. There are reliable news sources. There are reliable databases and encyclopaedias and journalism. If people choose not to read them then that's on them.
the position the author takes is "i've never heard of `venv` so i'll do these other terrible 5 hacks instead".

$HOME or not is a red herring, i apologize if it appears more salient than it really was meant to be.
Companies tend to internally budget using hourly rates and time cards, so I can’t see how charging an hourly rate like most consultancies and professions, such as law, would not sit well with client companies. Also, charging a fixed price makes you very vulnerable to having to absorb additional costs if the project takes longer than anticipated. An hourly rate removes this risk as you amortise your costs into your hourly rate.

As an individual going up against an entire company you want to protect yourself as best you can, charging by the hour helps ensure that. Also make sure you get yourself liability insurance.
You say that this is different than a software product, but you don’t explain why.

You didn’t buy a GPU, you bought a consumer class GPU promised you the advertised consumer class features.

Why do you expect it to give you professional class features from a higher pricing tier?
This is such a flawed way to hand out co-founder titles.

Most companies start off as tech companies, but primarily rely on a biz dev and operations team to actually generate value. You'd likely not be focusing on those areas in the beginning, yet they are integral aspects of your business. Rewarding the people in charge of those divisions with a fancier title and consequently much more responsibility is the right way to go.
Guardian Takes Legal Action to Shut Down Parody Headline Generator
In fact robots.txt is a list of things a nefarious crawler will absolutely want to examine - no need to know those paths when they're all laid out for you!
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So... this isn’t news at all, but rather can be seen as supporting what our (norwegian here) own older tales and historians wrote down around the time:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimskringla

It’s well known we went around, even likely as far as asia (buddha statuettes were found in viking graves) and one of our kings (Harald Hårråde) was commander of the Byzantine royal Guard (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Hardrada)

So... far as I see there’s no one who knows Norse history that would find this the least surprising.

Not really sure what the fuzz in the comments is about either. (Oh, and 13’th warrior was "based on" a, most likely, true event, with a, most likely, embellished narrative due to the fantastical language used back then to regale.)
A 300mm2 chip would have about 50B transistors, 4x an A14 and 1.8x a Geforce GA102 (RTX 3090 chip). Don't think anyone would sell that for $100 in 2020.
It’s still possible to have memory protection without having to do address translation. In a more extreme example, imagine every program on a system sharing the same 128-bit address space. There’s plenty of room for everyone, TEXT, stacks, heaps, etc, and if you try to step on another program’s memory you can still get a segfault. The Mill architecture sort of works this way, except it goes even further by leveraging this in a clever way to perform fast IPC.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7KQnrOEoWEY
A Vectorized Python Dict/Set
That's price, not cost. TSMC charges 17.5k, we don't know how much it costs them to make one wafer, probably a lot less.
apt doesn't have my stack or its dependencies at proper versions, and cannot in general meet the version-locking of dependencies i and my dependencies require.

And --system-site-packages is a baaaaad idea.
Agreed. It has been long overdue that alternative OpenPGP implementations exist that try to address some of the peculiarities of GnuPG -- most of which are [still] there because its founder wants to preserve compatibility at all costs to support some of its long-term institutional users. And, yes, dealing with these peculiarities should not the responsibility of end users, but of further abstraction layers built on top of it (of which there are only a few, and all of them focused on the email use case).

The constant confusion between OpenPGP (the standard) and GnuPG (one implementation) has led many users to look elsewhere, which is unfortunate, but has also led many developers to look elsewhere, which is just sad.

Yes, trying to work within the existing standardization bodies can be very painful and disheartening, but the few people who try and survive in that space can use every good soul willing to assist.

The OpenPGP community has done hundred times more than Signal for the state of security on the Internet, and I'm sure it will continue to do so. Signal is great, and pushed the limits quite far (and still does), and I'm very grateful that it exists and use it every day.
Another very satisfied namecheap customer. It's so nice to not have to feel like you need to take a shower after visiting your DNS control panel.
It's pretty crazy to assume that we wouldn't be around in a millennia, two, or three. No other civilisation has been truly global, no other civilization has achieved so much in terms of mastery of nature and technological advancement.

So unless the carrying capacity of earth suddenly collapses to the point that it's impossible to maintain organised society for several hundred years, then I think we'll be alright. If that does happen, then a few nomads stumbling upon a nuclear waste dump will likely be the least of humanity's problems!
You don't even need to discuss your "evil plans" with anyone. Hell, it doesn't even need to be a plan. You just only hire people who already agree with you. You don't even have to do this consciously, it's the default human behavior.
Is the issue here that the driver installation program looks so pretty that people can't understand it's a driver installation program, and so they assume it's trying to scam them?
There's certainly a knack to it, but it has nothing to do with accountants or classified information. If one has experience in this sort of thing, it's generally possible to ballpark likely value-adds based on a single 30-minute conversation. Experienced consultants in this tier often offer a free initial call with prospective clients partly for this reason.
> and it's ok to leak metadata?

How could Signal (or other client-server protocol) not leak metadata? It is true that OpenPGP leaks more metadata than necessary (e.g. Subject), but seems to me that any efficient message protocol needs to leak at least three most important metadata - source, destination, time.

One could avoid leaking destination by broadcasting encrypted to many receivers (when only the true one can decrypt it) and therefore server does not need to know true destinations, but that is rather inefficient.
> If string interpolation is really useful, then Java will add it some years down the line.

Now is the year. String interpolation is really harmless feature.
On a much longer timescale but still within habitability of the Earth (theoretically..), Saturn's rings will also disappear[0]. (300 million years)

[0] https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/794/nasa-research-reveals-...
(Open)PGP is first and foremost a flexible packet format

That makes an even better case that PGP is not much of a modern secure system generally, rather than it just being bad for secure email.
Not full-blown wc, but custom HTML tags where possible (which is totally valid, very few devs realize this) and Custom Elements when js is required.

M- adds a bunch of elements on top of HTML (20 last time I counted). The design philosophy is that the API should match or feel like native HTML, e.g. <m-loader loading>, <m-alert type="warn" autodismiss>, <m-row> with <m-col span="6"> nested

And you def don't have to write your own styles. this example is a recreation of a Bootstrap demo page using M-: http://m-docs.org/examples/pricing. Looks good for 6kb and like 1 line of custom CSS imo
This is just an excuse for bad design.

You can make good online services that are still safe for children (and they wouldn't have friend codes).
Code reuse can result in failures. Sometimes those failures are big and loud. The Ariane 5 failure also happened in 1996, which is quite funny. :)

https://www.bugsnag.com/blog/bug-day-ariane-5-disaster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp_D8r-2hwk
> The top devs like Rambo are tweeting to avoid.

Who or what sanctioning body determines who is a “top dev”.

I’m using it on my phone, have been for a bit, and have had no issues. Zero. I must be reachable at all times. So whoever Rambo is, is wrong.
Just doing some napkin math to give myself some other context in my own head with something much smaller, die size for the Apple A14 isn't out yet, but the A13 (found in the iPhone 11 series and SE 2) is around 98mm^2 manufactured on TSMC's 2nd gen 7nm N7P. A14 might be something like that, because while it's a smaller process Apple boosted transistor count by 38% as well. Lazily/conservatively taking off 10mm on the edge for squares into a circle, that'd be about 630 chips per N5 wafer, a high enough count that chip loss rate shouldn't be too far from defect rate. Even assuming they can get 90% yield right out the gate (maybe generous) that's still about $30/chip, just for manufacturing without any R&D amortization, packaging etc. That actually seems not insignificant going by historical iPhone BOMs [1], so even for smartphones with their far far smaller SoCs 5nm at launch isn't nothing.

The continued ongoing progress in silicon is just mindblowing when you dig into the details in any real way. I was blown away already watching the "Indistinguishable From Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips" [2] presentation years ago, which still seems incredible and yet that's all talking about now ancient tech. The increasing costs and design challenges though are also going to have interesting effects on the industry, as who/what has the margins to afford fabbing aggressive chips on the cutting edge might start to diverge a bit more. I also wonder how longevity will be, I remember speculation that smaller processes would eventually have to deal with more risk of earlier breakdown even in more normal shielded settings. And speaking of that, in higher rad environments it's normal to use older bigger processes since they're more resistant to disruption. I wonder if small enough processes ever make that more of a consideration even at sea level.

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1: iPhone Xs Max for example: https://technology.informa.com/606680/iphone-xs-max-costs-ap...

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4 (highly recommended if you haven't seen it)
Yeah, I'm regretting getting the esp8266 not knowing of the esp32. Besides being a better device for basically the same price, it has better tooling from espressif.
What is Engine? It looks like a driver for the hardware installed.
Because packet formats are bad?

I don't understand what you're trying to say here.
Oddly, companies are actively and deliberately discriminating against race and gender in tech companies in the name of diversity and inclusion. It boggles my mind that none of them have been sued yet for these practices.
Pilotwings looks great in 3D if you actually make use of the 3D slider to adjust to your comfort level, instead of just pushing it all the way up.

I think later games realized people weren’t actually going to do that, and effectively optimized their visuals for the highest setting.
I got 35/45 with a little bit of research to find some spellings, so with no research whatsoever, I'd probably have been 29/45.
I was wondering if this was written in Go, and specifically using the Cobra framework. I checked out the repo and it was!

Other common CLIs written with the same framework: kubectl, hugo, rclone (to name a few)

Really is a great option.
Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Impact Closes Financing with Benchmark
They'll just build their own regions and AZs, instead. You'd only get that sort of service from someone who didn't build their own cloud.
thank you immensely for this. i want to research the Francis Field Trial... but also hopefully the entire field of virology is not derived from a tobacco plant study?
I'm feeling old when I remember the original domain name frontrunning scandal in 2008 when Network Solutions was cought doing it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_front_running

Ever since I've been using whois in terminal for domain name lookups.
As is Finland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repo...
Yeah, I'm not sure I get it either. More power to the author for solving a problem they may have, but I have yet, in my 20+ years experience with Java, had a need to do this kind of code embedding in the source code (whether in comments or not). Sure, it's nice to be able to run other languages at run-time (e.g. GraalVM, etc), but is there really a need to have this kind of language interoperability at compile time?
I always thought their almond croissants were really good. It makes sense they are from London because Europeans, even the UK seem to take baked goods more seriously than the US.
Bah, I could setup a large format camera and do optical reduction of an arbitrary B&W image, transfer that image onto a semi-conductor with a laser, then deposit a thin layers of metal (and whatever) onto it in a vacuum chamber for like, maybe $5 of material. What a ripoff.
scp is so slow, does anyone want to improve this?
If you believe in abolishing hierarchy and institutions where they have no legitimacy, _all_ you are left with is communication, community, and open standardization as practiced in anarchist bodies such as the IETF.
I used NameCheap for around 10 years, until they bungled up an order I made.

I renewed a .com for an additional 9 years. When the order processed, it turns out domains can only be extended out to a maximum of 10 years, and this domain was still a few years away from expiry.

The order didn't go through and I wasn't charged.

The next day I got an email from NameCheap saying that they had manually charged me $80ish, renewed the domain for 3 years, and put the rest in the NameCheap wallet. None of which I asked for.

I went back and forth a couple times with support saying they would cancel my domain if I wanted the money refunded, when all I wanted was for this transaction I didn't ask for to be undone.

After they "made an exception" I transferred everything to PorkBun, which works just as nicely.
Proofs are only valid as long as the requirements don't change and assumptions are still valid. Two things that any first year CS student could tell you are absurd to even imagine.
Do you have any recommended blog posts or literature to learn more about the best practices of using crypto I'm such a way, i.e. to evade tracking?
A well motivated exploration.

The paper largely:

1. Lay the reasoning of direct physical memory programs. The primary argument is that the cumulated complexity in chip and OS, for virtual memory is too large; and that limits the design scope and retards advancement (huge page is used as an example). Meanwhile, 5 major changes needed in OS and application programs to use physical memory directly were listed, which appears fairly straightforward (no doubt more complexity is hidden).

2. The paper then explored the performance penalty of supporting large continuous memory abstraction in such a new programming paradigm. They proposed 2 cases needed to support the abstraction: dynamic allocated stack, and tree-based array. Experiments are carried out to run modified program that addresses these 2 cases.

One thing I could not easily see is how their experiment rules out the existing virtual memory's impact to their modified programs, which are supposed to not need to use virtual memory.
How confident are you that the root cause of that political silence is a shared belief that politics shouldn't come up in the workplace rather than potential concern about the effects of openly discussing the issues that affect them?
When I plug in new hardware for work, I expect it to help me install the control software as soon as possible so I can use the device and get back to work.
Have a look at fossil https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki

Or maybe git-appraise https://github.com/google/git-appraise git-bug https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug

And recently discussed here https://radicle.xyz/
Is "screed" a word you're just using to show contempt, or something that is personally meaningful to you? Describing something with contempt is not a proof that it is worthless, and that tactic doesn't become any more honest if you choose something "on the opposite side" and describe it with the same contempt - and by making it "fair" in this way, somehow make it neutral.

Both Marx and Rand have very easy vulnerabilities to critique. Just saying there on equal and opposite ends of some imaginary scale where the truth must lie in the middle and those on the extremes are irrational advocates who write "screeds" is not rational, although it can look like it if you're in a friendly room or say it quickly enough.
Ignorant question time, will this mean native support for email services like proton mail?
and has what to do with Catalina being a “sshow”? Unless you’re advocating for MS 2.0 and have Apple never remove anything so we can have bloated OSes in a few years
Yeah, Pret is forever centered in my mind as airport food too. Probably because the first one I saw was in one.
CCP announces plan to take control of China's private sector
https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/

Is pretty good. Can filter by mission, instrument, or target. Resolution is kind of hit or miss, as a lot of it is raw or minimally processed, but that is part of the fun.
The Republicans have a little more blame for the deregulation driven blackouts of 2000.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Wilson
Wilson was the driving force behind the 1996 legislation that deregulated the state's energy market, which was the first energy utilities deregulation in the U.S. and aggressively pushed by companies such as Enron.[28]
As an engineer in his 50's (USA) - I am also a 90th percentile earner, but I absolutely agree, I'm nowhere near as well off as my parents were at my age.

I never had the money to take my kids on nice vacations every year like my parents did. Also never had the money to justify buying a new car. And while I do have a home, I have no hope of paying it off before retirement. (which, as an engineer, in the USA, could be 1-5 years from now, involuntarily - my father worked for the same company his whole life, while I've had to change jobs 6 times, due to either corporate buyouts or layoffs. NEVER had a bad performance review).

All of my kids, my brother and sister's kids (all in their 20's now), are all very much struggling, barely making it (and in a couple of cases, NOT making it). Only ONE of them (my son) got through college and found a reasonably decent job, and even HE is so bogged down with student loans, he may never own a home.

So as a picture of 3 generations, there's a very clear trend.
How is it bogus?
I actually have no idea how long waste needs to be kept out of the hands of criminals, but I assume it's "a long time". My comment was mostly facetious, but the point I was making was serious. We never really take the full cost of disposing waste and pollution into consideration.

I think, when you buy a new solar panel, you should also pay the full cost to pull it apart and dispose of it as well.
that's not the whois software or the whois protocol returning that, it's the configuration of the particular nameserver you're talking to; whois software/protocol allows you to specify different nameservers, so you could switch
It's even worse than unavoidable. My company has removed any kind of anonymous discussion/Q&A, which just fuels a mono culture.

You only get one-sided discussions because going against the grain will be career suicide.
I'd argue that it is Oculus' fault, they own the platform and could force the devs to do it if they want to be in the store.

Do you think Apple would put up with this kind of thing?

I buy a ton of software and I'm happy to support devs, but this isn't that.

Rebuying the same product from the same store to use on an iteration of the Oculus' VR hardware sucks. My guess is they looked and figured it didn't matter since there were so few Rift S owners.

Would you be okay with having to rebuy the same games every VR hardware release?

> "And, in a lot of cases, it makes sense why they didn't do it. For example, if the differences between versions are so stark that they are almost different games, paying separately makes sense."

Sure, but that's not the case.