skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey Scott,

I appreciate the passion that you have for this project as well as the choice of OS. I already use mint and recently pop, so I am not your target audience.

I see ads occasionally for what I assume are scams such as "Xtra-PX" that (like your product) seem to be linux running on a USB stick and asking upwards of $80 (you want more than $130) for something that is essentially free.

So, I guess my first reaction is that I don't imagine your pdfs are worth the $100 and attempting to sell that here on a site dedicated to "hackers" seems like the wrong approach.
Unless the 4900U is twice as fast as the 4800U (it's not), Intel's stuff is still faster.
> people in it want to do better

Profiting by deluding yourself is just lying and deflecting your guilt. Either give back the money you made from your "accidental" misbehavior, or stop pretending it's accidental.
I really like this idea, but it misses the appeal of nodejs and its ilk...that you can speak the same JSON-native language on the backend as the front.

I think it’s a VERY interesting idea to use a browser for running some tooling, but that’s really just what the idea behind nodejs and deno etc are, aren’t they? It’s just that node tries to be convenient by providing access to things that would need in a non-user context (like filesystem and C interop), thereby breaking the sandbox. Deno tries to give you the best of both.

Running this stuff in the browser is still “just running on V8”, but with extra steps. If you don’t like the npm ecosystem, I get it, but then running nodejs without any packages is comparable to what you’re describing in the link, isn’t it?
There's an encrypted mode but it's missing many features and in my experience most people use it rarely or never. The default mode is not e2e encrypted.
More to the point, no one buys enthusiast or professional grade CPUs to run chrome or excel. They buy them to run games or do professional compute tasks (video rendering, 3d rendering, photo editing, code compiling, etc.). The companies that work in these spaces have realized that they can't write single threaded code any more. For example, the two big games I play, Hunt:Showdown (cryengine) and Modern Warfare (custom engine) are both happy to use all sixteen logical threads of my Ryzen 3700x. Gone are the days when gamers only cares about single core performance.
420? Not a http status code I know of
That Which Is Old Becomes New Again, What Is a SWOT Analysis?
All viruses mutate, but so far SARS-CoV-2 has been mutating relatively slowly. It has an error correction mechanism which blocks the majority of mutations. By contrast influenza lacks that error correction and mutates much faster, which is why we need a reformulated vaccine every year.

The human species already has a significant level of herd immunity against four other endemic coronaviruses. The same thing will eventually happen with SARS-CoV-2 one way or another, but hopefully we will have an effective vaccine soon enough to accelerate that process while minimizing the death toll.
Made by China is not such a big deal.

China having visibility on personal lives of most us Citizens is a bigger concern.
Not sure if you're aware but https://igel.com (thin client manufacturer) is a thing.
None of me or my friends cheated. You have a shitty circle of friends.
I guess GP is talking about Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib like prisons. While you can argue if you call that a concentration camp, it’s strange how fast people forget.
A few ideas of what we could do:

1. Since they're hurting the perception of the community, maybe Babel/Webpack/ESLint could admit that using multiple packages is the cause of most complaints against the Node.js/NPM community, and revert to single packages? Babel already use a monorepo, so I don't really see any disadvantage from their side. Most Webpack loaders are maintained by the same people who maintain the core packages. We need the whole community to push for this. I've done my part but I'm only a single person. We need more people reproducing my claim, seeing with their own eyes and complaining to those projects.

2. The community could rally around projects that don't use multiple packages. Sebastian McKenzie (writter of Babel) is working on a transpiler/bundler/linter/tester called Rome. There's also SWC written in Rust, which is a transpiler, but they're working on a bundler.

3. Using ES6 modules directly in the browser instead of using transpiled/bundled output. I'm in Europe, which is a big holdout on modern browser adoption, but even considering this, 99% of our customers are on evergreen browsers. With HTTP2 and gzip on the server you get the same advantages of using Webpack+Babel+minifiers without the bloat on node_modules.
Compared to English, say.
Some things worth pointing out about the linked article (not by Riley), regarding masks and disinfecting air: https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2006.0962...

- It contains no experimental data, it's a review of possible methods.

- It's not about Covid-19, although that's to be expected.

- The masks it talks about are N95 and N100 respirators (which it notes aren't in adequate supply).

Some interesting quotes:

> If one assumes that influenza is transmitted by respiratory droplets [..] rather than by aerosols [..], the supposition may be that keeping a safe distance may obviate the need for a mask. It is stated that the range of such droplets is generally no more than 3 ft. We are unable to locate the basic science behind that assertion.

> Whether contagious as a respiratory droplet, aerosol, or both, there have been no controlled studies to investigate the efficacy of respirators in preventing the transmission of influenza A

> there is a theoretical problem in the logic underlying N–95 respirators. Assume an N–95 mask functions better than its rating and at a sedentary inhalation rate blocks 98% of the bioaerosols that it is confronted with. We are still left with the 2% that penetrate through the filter, to be inhaled by the wearer. Whether discussing tuberculosis, influenza, measles, or smallpox, we do not know the concentration of pathogenic bioaerosols in the environment, nor do we know the minimum infectious dose for these pathogens.

Anyway I don't think anyone disagrees with their conclusion that having everyone wear N100 masks is a good idea, but I'm not sure if any of their proposed methods are feasible. And the most important conclusion of their research is perhaps that we know way too little about possible countermeasures.
Most viruses are smaller than visible light wavelengths. The biggest are about a wavelength or two.

Edit: some sizes here, including SARS-CoV-2

https://www.news-medical.net/health/The-Size-of-SARS-CoV-2-C...
I didn't say they did nor did I suggest we go back to medieval farming. I don't know what you guys are reading but it's not what I wrote.
Sounds like a ponzi scheme
Among estimates I've seen are 20,000 homeless (I belive from 2017 fire season), another source gives 67,000 displaced in San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties alone, and as many as 3,000 premature deaths from smoke-induced air pollution, most to 65+ age groups.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/20000-evacuees-...

https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires/article/Hid...

Attaching costs to these is difficult.

A chronically homeless person costs the tax payer an average of $35,578 per year.

https://endhomelessness.org/resource/ending-chronic-homeless...

Probably high-side, but a portion of the fire-displaced are likely to become so. If we assume half that cost, displacement alone is ~$340 million/yr.

The US puts a statistical quality year of life at $129,000. Life expectancy aged 65 is 20 years. Again, reducing this by half (assuming premature deaths are spread across the age cohort), we get a ~$4 billion value. This would again be an annually-incurred cost.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life

https://data.oecd.org/healthstat/life-expectancy-at-65.htm
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The Media's Corrupt Obsession with White Supremacy
I don't generally, but in the case of government surveillance, they would agree, right?
> ultraviolet-C disinfection technology for air purification systems that were installed in health care facilities, factories, and NASA space capsules. Today, this technology is being used in Shanghai, Moscow, and New York City to protect subway and bus passengers against SARS-CoV-2, and China is also using the technology to disinfect hospitals

Russian FSB has just arrested (on secret state security charges) on his short trip back home from China a top high voltage systems specialist who has been working for the last two decades on UV water and air cleaning system in South Korea and China. Seems it is becoming a sought after hot tech in the current situation.
A lot of media released now is poisoned by a much stronger symbiosis with its own deployment into "the market."

Netflix and all others track every minute of the shows they release. They track where people drop off, what they spend watching, for how long, what scenes they repeat. They probably track which scenes and stills are capped and shared on social media.

This alters the content, especially in something like a TV show which has time to be created in a reactive way.

The hallmark of a 2020 streaming show is a scene with 2-4 spicy, post-able bits of dialogue with a glaringly obvious connection to the political, social, or cultural malaise of This Month. TV shows are increasingly becoming just a chain of those.

This was always the case (studios have always had a profit motive) but with the internet it's turned up to 11. Like everything else in our culture, I guess.
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Well sure, but the point is the institution put a stop mechanism in place, when it was found out that someone had worked around it then a group of them were canned too. The media lab is a tiny part of the smallest school in a very large institution and the sums were correspondingly trivial compared to the institute's annual budget. (even all of education is a small fraction of that budget).

It's as if Google's parking valets were found to be running a car theft ring (made up example): unless Google seemed to think it below their notice, I would have a hard time considering that should be grounds for condemning Google.

I'm not defending MIT (or conflating car theft with sexual abuse) I'm merely saying that if you want to attack MIT consider something more substantive like its slow progress in recruiting and retaining female scientists; it's intimate ties with the government and military (despite various fig leaves assembled over the decades), or its treatment of undergraduates which at best is neglect. Don't waste your efforts on a small, if noisy, lab that has produced negligible research of consequence.
Hindu gods have both flaws and virtues. Doesn't mean the followers emulate everything they read. Wtf.
It's as usable (or better) as Signal is, though.
What are wim hoff exercises?
A tradeoff that I find fascinating is that of democracy vs authoritarian gov't. It's the question of our days.

I've come to the conclusion that a well functioning authoritarian government (like China's) has many short term advantages:

- very efficient in redirecting resources as needed

- the top concerns of the state (e.g. beat COVID, create a domestic semiconductor industry out of thin air) are addressed very efficently

- no politics or stupid "check and balances" to stall momentum (e.g compare to how many of Trump's orders, even for Tiktok, were at least temporarily halted by federal judges)

HOWEVER- to have a well functioning authoritarian government you need a strongman at the top (Xi, Putin etc). This is my own anecdotal estimate, but I'd say there is at least a 25% change you get someone that wants to hold on to power and willing to sacrifice their people's well being in order to do that (e.g. see China's Great Leap forward and resulting famine [1])

So you get 1, 2 3 leadership successions that work out and prosperity keeps growing... but how far will your luck take you? Even if 3/4 leaders are 'good' chances of having 5 leaders all good are 23%, and to have 10 successful successions your chances are .75^10=5%.

In the long run, the authoritarian regime will collapse under its own weight. In the short term it's kicking ass. Your call which one you want to pick.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine
I think XML sort of failed simplicity.

In a minute I can read and write json from most languages I use.

In the same amount of time, I'm still wondering if I should use a tag or attribute in xml. cdata? expat?

It's not that xml isn't a good technology. It's that it's not appropriate for general use, especially in comparison to simpler alternatives.
ArchaeoGLOBE – A collaborative assessment of global land use, 10,000bp to 1850
So we’re using multi-stage builds (totally awesome feature!), only including production dependencies, and I’m —squash ing the final image.

The issue is that packages often balloon in size from an accidental transitive inclusion of Babel or webpack. Because JS packages depend on so much, the fanout virtually guarantees someone in your dependency tree will accidentally a dependency every now and then. It’s compounded by the fact that I have several different versions of the same package installed because folks don’t use peerDependencies when they should (and I’m afraid to pin most packages because I don’t want to introduce subtle bugs).

I’d imagine I could solve this for us if I had enough time, but startup life leaves little time for battling with the package manager. And it creeps up on you slowly.

(Also: we use next-transpire-modules @martpie, thanks for a great library)
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results

There was humid areas with lakes and lots of animals in what is now the Prehistoric Sahara, burnt for pastures until desert

There was lots of extinct species in what is now Australia, and it was more humid in the past. Arid, subdesert, desert again.

Brazil has a huge stupidity problem, some new deserts ordered and in the way

Indonesia idem,

Russia has extensive wildfires in 2019, happily running towards the same path

We don't even understand well the dynamics and ecology of soil, and all that we can parrot again and again is lets burn more, lets burn more, that will solve it all... we are not burning enough fast.

We know that fallen trees are essential for many species of invertebrates and vertebrates, Not allowed anymore it seems. We must clean the area and turn nature into a cartoon.

Being an arsonist is not only the perfect crime, it seems that is even the fastest way to became a local hero. We are even justifying and giving reasons to them
Fair enough. I saw yellow and though "hrm, sulfur?"

Unless a geothermal event were cutting through and releasing a natural hydrocarbon field (it's happened: Permian–Triassic mass extinction event https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian–Triassic_extinction_...), organic chemicals would be unlikely.

My understanding is that Kamkatchka is too young geologically, as well as otherwise unsuitable, for there to be large petrochemical reserves.
The Criterion Channel has many highly regarded films from the earliest cinema to present day. Worth checking out.

https://www.criterionchannel.com/
Nice to see THE Perl listing!
Intel's US employees are mostly in Arizona and Oregon, which are much lower cost of living locations than the Bay Area and Seattle.

I would be curious to know which companies pay more for process engineers than Intel in the US. My best guess would be Samsung?
I am equally concerned about data collection by any and all companies and governments - these are being discussed regularly.

The potential international/cyber warfare aspect seems to have been ignored so far.

"Using our arsenal of forward deployed apps, how would population of country X feel if we took back that piece of land that is ours, and how could we make them see things our way?"
Who uses Telegram?
I tried for about 45 minutes to play this game (and lunar command) and couldn't figure it out. Is there any guide somewhere online? Specifically my habitat capacity never seemed to increase despite building and wiring/connecting/piping up habitats.
Not exactly the same for things done dynamically vs. statically.
Not OP but this is functionally true in the US.

I was diagnosed when I was younger, made the mistake of letting my prescription lapse (because I give myself breaks and therefore end up accumulating excess), and now can’t get the medication I need to function.

Fun fact, when you’re ADHD-PI, trying SSRIs isn’t just a harmless fun little exercise, it could have potentially life ruining consequences, which the psychiatrist will not tell you about.

If any psychiatrists are reading this, please know that the ‘harms’ of giving your patients the medication that is proven to work absolutely do not outweigh the harms of all the alternative coping mechanisms needed to avoid losing employment: black market pills, smoking/nicotine, caffeine by the gram, etc.
Super Size Me was a turning point where the power of dishonest propaganda as "documentary" became a major force in culture.

Super Size Me while dishonest about how bad McD is in just one month, was shooting fish in a barrel.

Waiting for Superman, a charter school infomercial featuring discredited superintendent Michelle Rhee, showed the danger of the form.
Chinese is popular regionally in Asia and among diaspora, but it doesn't have the anywhere near the number of outsiders trying to learn the language to tap into the social/cultural system as English does.
Who knew there were this many people on amphetamine. Back in the day they called that speed. Surprised all these people are admitting their Vyvanse and Adderall usage publicly.
It's not that I "want" anything else. It's that Facebook's product is ads, even if they also ran experiments to change sentiment. If I want to make a million people sad, I can't buy that from Facebook (directly). Conversely, if I want to show a million people an ad for my widget, I can absolutely directly buy that from Facebook.
Letterboxed is a really important part of today's movie watching story
> would be interesting to see them make a mobile part designed for phones.

I worked on a well-funded effort to build a top-of-the-line mobile AP (the Broxton half of these [two cancelled programs]). It was a shit show from start to finish. There is so much mismatch between Intel's strengths and what the industry demands that I don't see Intel being successful in this domain if they make another attempt. Things would be worse now than in that attempt, as Intel has suffered significant brain-drain since then.

[two cancelled programs]:https://www.anandtech.com/show/10288/intel-broxton-sofia-sma...
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms... HDT

I've lived in the forest for the last ten years. Nothing better. Sure there's risks; there's risks everywhere.
They started wearing masks which reduced their blood oxygenation and made them even stupider.
- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-telegram-exclusi...

- https://www.gatewayhouse.in/telegram-protests/
Is it correlation or causation tho?
What is interesting is that you may not get the same habitat you started out with. The current forest may be what is overgrown for over a hundred years.

What grows well after a fire might be different trees that thrive in the current climate. Many parts of Colorado have had fires in pine forests. What grows back will be pinion and scrub.
Yes, Nagasawa isn't the sort of character one should want to emulate in real life.
> in the name of "protecting privacy" Apple has been fooling users to believe that only Apple can be trusted with user data

Even if Apple can’t be trusted with my data, I’d rather that it lie with them.

> and the biggest lie

According to?

> From crippling Safari by allowing full cookies by default and claiming to block trackers and browser fingerprinting

It works, even if it’s not perfect and it’s certainly better than nothing or Chrome’s defaults.

> a Google study

/cough
Concurrency, as they say, is a bitch. I would hate to program against that model.

The best model I've found so far is cooperative multithreading, that is, coroutines that explicitly yield control, combined with well-isolated worker threads and a rendezvous mechanism for passing parameters and getting results back. I can write code all day long in this model and not run into very hard to find concurrency issues . . . or at least, not as many. I've written a ton of code in the "every thread for itself, have fun with locking" universe, and man, life is just too short for that stuff.

Naturally you run out of processor headroom in this model because you're essentially single-threaded; message passing between processes and running multiple services, one in each process, is one good approach to scaling. Often you can scale out to the network, too, and with 1K cores you need start worrying about the blast radius of your services when things eventually go sideways so getting off the box is a good idea. And things will go sideways.

I can see a thousand cores being useful for embarrassingly parallel things, like classic graphics algorithms where you're doing mostly SIMD with a few variations. But I can't imagine wrangling a zillion cores to do "random logic" type applications where you have to use traditional low-level synchronization primitives. See above: life is short.

Feel free to color me a dinosaur. I've only got another 20 years of my career to figure this out :-)
I have no doubt that the Clean Water Act has been super effective at cleaning up water. I do think that environmental protections have been significantly damaged, and that if we do not yet see those effects on water, like we currently do for air, then it's likely that water quality will soon decline.

There was a huge change in the 70s, but those changes are currently being rolled back.
I somehow doubt that argument. My 65" smart TV cost about $2000. My advertisement worth as a user is how much? Maybe about $30 per year like a Facebook user [1] (which I would think is to high for Samsungs model)? That's $150 to $300 over the lifespan of the device. I don't consider these extra 15% sooo much higher. It's within the range of regular retail discounts.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/234056/facebooks-average...
Good example, yes. Like a library. Just some basic rules like "talk in a whisper or use a meeting room", "set your phone on silent and forward notifications to your workstation", and so on. Passages wide enough to go without disturbing people nearby.
> They recruited 63 healthy individuals, 135 patients with mild cognitive impairment such as memory loss, and 68 people with Alzheimer's – the most prevalent type of dementia – in four hospitals in Barcelona and the metropolitan area

Wait so, N = 266? All from Barcelona?

C'mon.
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I just moved my portfolio from Robinhood to E*TRADE because RH had a scary long-standing bug around calculations after stock splits. I also have a Shareworks account which also was just purchased by Morgan Stanley. Do you think this acquisition will make the products (and how they work with each other) better, or should I head back to Robinhood?