skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With AMD pressuring Intel, I fear Raptor will be unable to make a price/performance-competitive POWER10 box the same way they did with POWER9.

IBM needs to understand that if there's no easy onboarding to a platform, it becomes a legacy one, as new things are built elsewhere.
I'm rooting for Dark, it's such a breath of fresh air, really hope this works out!

I hope HN can forgive Pul for choosing F# over Rust :)

Does anyone have experience porting code from OCaml or other MLs to F#, how does it work out?
Sun pioneered the "3M" model (were M meant "mega"):

* 1 MB of RAM
* 1 megapixels on the screen
* 1 MHz CPU

In the day, it seemed like unimaginable power! :)
Kinda reminds me of the "don't type anything into the browser console" warnings that sites like facebook etc. emit so that people don't type in commands strangers gave them, believing it allows them "hack" others while in reality it only hacks themselves.
Nothing killed the workstation market. It's still totally a thing. Lenovo, Dell, HP, Apple ... all of these companies will quite happily sell you a dual CPU machine with masses of cores, oodles of ECC RAM, extremely high performance graphics with certified driver support etc.

All that's changed is that the architectures for workstations and "business class" desktop machines have converged, and the distinctive operating systems that were needed to support those older workstation architectures have gone away.
Wonder when the security industry comes up with better rating system for vulnerabilities.

The rating for this one is all over the place...
Not too long ago, many people on HN were deliberating on how Ant is a national security threat because Jack Ma is a CCP member, implying that Ant is basically a state-controlled organization. I wonder what those people have to say now.

Right now I am neither arguing whether it is or isn't a national security concern. I just want to highlight that people's general understanding of how things work in China is very poor, and that one should be careful with speculations like that. At the very least I think more people should recognize that the Chinese government and the CCP are not monoliths, and that the distance between "the boss of the company is a CCP member" and "the company is state-controlled" is larger than what many think.
Thats a pretty zippy frame rate there :)

I did recognize the style, and then reading the comments Isaw it was indeed by David “Elite” Braben.

Watch this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HbsfeubbRA
Quite a journey from there to here
It seems that voters are deciding mostly on charisma and cult of person, rather than the message.

It'd be likely better, if that decision is made based on character - the pattern of thoughts of the person, rather than the charisma - attractiveness or charm.

If it is possible to curb charisma/charm/cults of personality with realistic fakes, overall the effect might be advantageous.
Here in the US, I could go downtown, stand on a street corner, and yell "F^%# the president" (or governor, or senator, or judge, or whoever). Before this year, I'd probably get some frowns and some smiles (under any administration). This year, I might get beat up.

What I wouldn't get is arrested. If I got in trouble with the police, it would be for disturbing the peace, not for the content of my speech.
The issue is that you get substantively different results from Millikan if you follow his stated experimental procedure. The only way to reproduce his results is to perform the experiment and then selectively remove datapoints that disagree with his result until you only have results remaining that are close to his. That doesn't qualify as reproducible in my book, except in the trivial sense you can perform the same experiment he did, irrespective of the actual result.
My explanation is in this thread to another comment(anon1096). To expand:

> The era between the mid-1830s and the Civil War—a period economists refer to as the “free banking era”—saw a proliferation of banks. Along with these institutions came “bank notes,” a private paper currency redeemable for a specific amount of metal. That is, if the issuing bank had it. At times, banks did not have enough gold or silver to satisfy all of their claims. Bank notes, like the public notes that preceded them, also tended to depreciate. It is during this period that the word inflation begins to emerge in the literature, not in reference to something that happens to prices, but as something that happens to a paper currency.

> The term inflation was initially used to describe a change in the proportion of currency in circulation relative to the amount of precious metal that constituted a nation’s money. By the late nineteenth century, however, the distinction between “currency” and “money” was becoming blurred.

> In addition to separating the price level from the money stock, the Keynesian revolution in economics appears to have separated the word inflation from a condition of money and redefined it as a description of prices.

> When Keynesian economic theory challenged the direct link between money and the price level, inflation lost its association with money and came to be chiefly understood as a condition of prices.

https://www.clevelandfed.org/newsroom-and-events/publication...

Keynesian economists changed the word to suite the needs of Keynesian theories. It is equivalent to "newspeak". It obfuscates and confuses. There is a large portion of the population that does not believe in the implementation of or understand Keynesian economics(and definitions). They may not be very good at explaining or understanding their discontent due to these semantics changes.

Then again, maybe you are right. As Milton Friedman famously stated, "We are all Keynesians now."
I think a single persistent notification is lower anxiety than a constant stream of them
> But it did make me think about just how easy it is to farm karma on Reddit, and how useless it is as a proxy for "trust" or "reputation" or anything other than what it is - fake internet points.

More than fake internet points, it's a distilled popularity contest, and we know popular people isn't necessarily trustworthy. Reddit calling it karma gives it more credit than it deserves.
I had a similar experience. The syntax formatter is https://github.com/fsprojects/fantomas, and there are some controls, though not as many as I'd like.
I read both articles and maybe I'm just a fanboi, but it really seems to me like Mr. Thompson has thought about this specific question a lot more than Mr. Wu, even if Mr. Wu has more experience in adjacent topics.
because the shoe salesman isn't a trained radiologist.
Could it be more obvious the author wanted to make this article soft on China?
It's true. I'll never stop being amazed at how in Helsinki 10 years ago I had a 500/500Mbps connection for $29/mo and in Seattle I have a 200/10Mbps connection for $59/mo.

I won't even get to mobile plans since at least there it's somewhat plausible that I must subside the rural cellphone towers since it's a huge (in area) network.
Did you figure out what the greyed out "v1", "v4", etc. after certain calls was for? I clicked through a few pages but couldn't figure it out.

Internal versioning as they release new methods on their own libraries? So it doesn't break old ones?
The problem for Docker wasn't that per say, Docker itself was the free part that got everyone interested it's just that their paid for tier went head to head with Kubernetes and lost.

Had Kubernetes not existed they would be doing just fine economically as they would be the dominant platform.

They got beat by competition.
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> are people really expecting CSS restyling tricks and Vimium to work in modern web apps like Google Drive or Discord

What's the problem? Modern web browsers are already dumbed down, now you want web pages to be dumbed down too?
I don't think the Neopolitan version coats the pizza in batter before deep frying it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-fried_pizza
> non-essential purposes

How is that defined? For many businesses it is essential to know conversion rates and which users buy, especially if they invest in ads so they can calculate their ROI and know if their campaigns bring in profit or loss, which I think it's pretty "essential".
And it is also nothing new. Personally, I had it 25 years ago in Germany. Same patterns than and now in virtually all western societies. Problem is and was, the topic owns some extraordinary tabu traits and prejudices from people not affected. Ironically, it is not uncommon for them to come three years later and ask when their own lives fall apart.
Fascinating. These ctrl-anything is like a dangerous, crippled emacs lurking in a dark corner of my beautiful vim, ready to terrorize with keyboard coords over modes and commands ;)

I've bound some complete-plug-in to tab, but that's pretty much all I do in insert-mode command-wise.
Yes, similar to a skyscraper being private property. It's private as in 'non-public internet', not as in 'only few humans have access/knowledge'.
I've almost managed to completely abandon the 24-hour news cycle. You hit the nail on the head with the anxiety thing. I live in Victoria, Australia and people looked at me like an alien when I didn't know what the daily COVID case numbers were.

Ironically it's 4am here and I recently woke up with my mind racing. Nowt to do with COVID or the elections though!
I think part of the problem is that many people aren't making agreements based on trust and are actually signing pre-nups, but those never seem as binding when it comes to actual court proceedings.
I stopped getting annoyed by elevators when I realized that there's nothing in my life so important that I have to elevate my blood pressure about waiting 30 seconds.

If I'm not wearing a badge, a fireman's helmet, or a stethoscope, absolutely nothing will change by me taking a few extra seconds to get to my destination.
I think the poster you are replying to is saying that shutting down people for spreading false conspiracies will be a net negative, because all of net harm from spreading false conspiracies is a tiny little drop against the vast hurricane of actual governmental conspiracies and the harm that can come from them, and that anything that might make it harder to hear about those conspiracies is far more harmful to the world than letting people say things that are untrue. (as evinced, here, by the poster pointing out that there was an actual governmental conspiracy in living memory, whereby hundreds of thousands or millions of (innocent) people died, in part because people were shut down as conspiracies theorists [or in some cases, even branded enemies of the state] and removed from discourse.)

I find it hard, as the poster seems to, to imagine a scenario in which even 100k clones of Alex Jones could cause the same level of harm. And while Alex himself may never uncover any real conspiracies (and really, how could you personally guarantee that?), that doesn't mean the same tactics used on him won't be turned on someone who has uncovered genuine malfeasance. (keep in mind, I've never been a fan, and I think he is a personally odious, obnoxious, and ill-intentioned individual who no one should listen to. Still, he shouldn't be silenced.)
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> A 12 year old or science hater should be able to reproduce the results if it's science.

Well, that's going to be pretty limiting. A 12yo isn't going to have the budget to build their own LHC -- reproducibility is certainly an important goal, but "a 12yo or science hater" is an unreasonable place to set the bar.
Note that in France last year someone was sentenced to a year in jail for publishing this cartoon:

https://besttv232-ynet-images1-prod.cdn.it.best-tv.com/PicSe...

Then a few days ago Macron, referring to the killing of the teacher, said "I will always defend the freedom to speak, to write, to think and to draw". Cognitive dissonance.
They offer a normal download these days: https://developer.apple.com/fonts/

I like SF Mono. Use it anywhere I have HiDPI.
Anyone interested in the impact this has on children (especially boys) should read "The Boy Crisis" by John Gray PhD. ( https://www.amazon.com/Boy-Crisis-Boys-Struggling-About/dp/1... ).

Tl;dr ... A disproportionate share of seriously troubled boys share an alienated, minimized or absent father in common. The worthwhile and well intentioned effort to right the wrongs of past discrimination of women has traveled a bridge too far. Tragic unintended consequences plague children of divorce, working men, and stay-at-home fathers. This cause-effect is an inconvenient truth, ignored because its not politically correct or advantageous to raise the issue.

Speaking for myself as someone who spent 8 years and about $300,000 to have an equal role in my children's lives... you can watch the damage this has on your children change them over time. Resignation, external locus of control, etc. are all divorce-induced impacts on kids who must endure the back and forth.

Brutal stuff.
> so trusted packages can be trusted indefinitely

If you specify an exact package version, you can trust that to be immutable. NPM doesn't allow replacing of existing versions, only addition of new versions.
> Because that social expectation is there [...]

The court should temper society's vices not empower them.
Yeah lockin is a problem in general for serverless if you need all the cloud vendor's extras. For example, lambda doesn't make sense without IAM, VPC, etc and you often want things to hook to it like SQS, API Gateway, database, cognito, etc.

Instead of lockin, you can run serverless in your own framework though, such as Kubeless or Knative, which could be deployed on prem or in a more generic cloud deployment.
Low deposit rate makes it a very risky lending business, not necessarily a pyramid scheme
But what happens if Biden refuses to go?
> You may also consider doing it in Rust.

The Vala compiler complains about my code. The Rust one tears it to shreds.

I understand Rust's constructive criticism is coming from a good place, but it's still very harsh ;-)
I started looking this up after reading this puzzle [0] in The Economist (itself taken from the beginning of Alex Bellos' The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book [1]):

> Now consider this problem, derived from these Japanese phrases: boru niko (two balls), tsuna nihon (two ropes), uma nito (two horses), kami nimai (two sheets of paper), ashi gohon (five legs), ringo goko (five apples), sara gomai (five plates) and kaba goto (five hippos). How do you say “nine cucumbers”? Kyuri kyuhon, kyuri kyuko, kyuri kyuhiki or kyuri kyuto?

[0] https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2020/10/31/a-tantal...

[1] https://guardianbookshop.com/the-language-lover-s-puzzle-boo...
So you are a spammer.
Sure, but the 'fix,' if there is one, likely needs to start with the social pressures on women to give up their lives to parent, with more equitable parenting expectations overall, and let that bubble up to the court baselines.
Well, the US is getting to the point where there are plenty of people who think that speech is cause for opposing that speech with violence. The difference is that it's their violence, not (usually) official police violence.
If you find yourself routinely pushing a bad binary that has (1) passed your test suite; and (2) passed whatever manual QA process you have on sandbox/staging deployments, then I would again suggest the problem is the process and not the architecture. Not to mention that if the service is indeed critical, you're not rolling out a deployment to every production server at once (or you're low enough scale that it doesn't matter). Either way, easy enough to roll back a bad deploy before things get hairy regardless of architecture.

Also, I'm not sure what kind of internal CRUD tools you're writing, but "malicious input" doesn't really seem likely to come from your coworkers.
Politicizing scientific results is more damaging than publicly falsifying them. I'd worry more about that. Once something is politicized, it's harder for the red/blue teamers to incorporate new data that shows it to be false.
Hopefully criminal charges would be filed against the responsible parties (destroying ballots is a felony, as I understand it). If none are charged, consider the US a defunct superpower. We don't possess a huge population (relative to the globe) and if the rule of law has failed so dramatically we will lose whatever remains of our political standing within the world.

But I still think it's unlikely that this will happen. At least on a statewide level. I could see some voting precincts doing something completely moronic like this.
What makes you think it's unintentional? In addition to depressing educated, skilled immigration, it has the desirable side-effect of depressing revenues for "lefty, liberal, coastal, elitist" universities, who admit those international students and charge them full non-resident tuition.
The life and death of a boy whose diagnosis brought hope to other patients
> the body text font sucks.

Could benefit ot a 1.5 linespacing and a slightly shorter textwidth, for sure.
I don't get it. I don't speak French, and I'm not in that culture. Can anyone explain what the offensiveness is?
I'm assuming it's for a similar reason that people like to watch sports rather than just read the outcome in the news the next day.
Seriously, I feel like I say it every time it comes up: WHY aren't people taking action against ISP monopolies?

It seems like such a cut-and-dried political issue: they're utilities and they overcharge you whether you're a Republican or Democrat. And taking action doesn't require new antitrust concepts, because it's just your garden-variety utility. It's the same established principles as electric or natural gas.

Yet bizarrely this doesn't show up as an issue on Republican or Democrat platforms. Going after Google and Amazon and Facebook's free products is the sexy new issue, but the fact that we're all overpaying hundreds of dollars a year for broadband is just massively ignored.

And I'm not talking about politicians being bought. It baffles me why voters aren't writing letters to their city councils, their mayors, their state reps, their governors. If voters actually care, politicians do respond.

It would seriously be so easy to change if the voting population actually did care about it. But, inexplicably, we just pay the fees and deal with the crappy customer service and complain, but it never seems to occur to anybody to actually organize local political action against it.

It's utterly baffling.
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... or writing native software in a compiled language.
I recently met somebody who read and believed the initial headlines for that story but never heard any updates. I think science reporting has some serious problems and no clear way to hold anybody accountable for it.
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The GDPR is not a clarification of the ePrivacy directive, on the contrary. The ePrivacy directive "particularises" certain aspects of the GDPR. National implementations of the ePrivacy directive (which, unlike the GDPR, needed to be put in laws within each EU country) that e.g. regulate certain aspects of electronic communication have priority over the GDPR as a "lex specialis". Wherever such provisions do not exist, the GDPR takes precedence as a "fallback legislation".

If you don't trust my word on this you might want to check out the official stance of the European Data Protection Board on this (from 2019): https://edpb.europa.eu/sites/edpb/files/files/file1/201905_e...

The EU is working on an ePrivacy regulation btw, which will indeed replace the ePrivacy directive, but it's not likely that it will be passed before 2021 or 2022.
libraries need a permission model like mobile apps

things like disk + network aren't necessary for a lot of libs

you should need to declare a manifest thing to access the platform APIs for those resources
Honest question as an outsider: What did Docker introduce that wasn't better addressed by other technologies? E.g. wasn't reproducibility the main point and already properly solved by nix?

By the way, it's "per se"
Unix Programmer's Manual (1973) [pdf]
CPA wanted $3,500 to set up an LLC and turn it into an S-corp + the filing for the year. Said we could deduct 80% of my car and some knick knack stuff. Ran the math, came out to be breakeven. Get $3,500 back to spend $3,500, risk an audit, lots of headache, not worth it to me.
Lots of people said that the data analysis might fall apart upon looking closely, as has happened many times before.
No, the overhead will be in how to best map the F# to the C# code all the time while reading C# docs versus just not having this mental juggling in C#.
There may be a constant flow of new players, but much of the time when they start to show a certain amount of success then one of the big players simply buys them up.
and we have found the genesis of corruption.
> 80s Belfast (with troops shooting people in the street and bombs going off) was still less lethal than Detroit

Well yeah, even during the worst of the troubles it wasn't like there was a drug war going on.
That doesn't have the Powerline icons, so if you use a terminal theme with it, such as Powerlevel10k, it won't render correctly. The Powerline icons are added into the font so it has to be modded, which is only available on GitHub repos as far as I can tell.
Movie Industry: VPNs and Tor Pose a Threat to Legitimate Streaming Platforms
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Lower still is no notifications, or a single notification when the result is final.
Agreed. Hopefully it’s used as a way to get over the pain and live with the reality of the relationship and focus on the positives.
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Great work on organizing this effort ! :)
The goal of the experiment is not to get a certain arbitrary number (the one Millikan came up with), the goal is to get the approximate value of the elementary charge.

Reproducible means that if you follow the method outlined by Millikan, you should get an approximate value for e. This is indeed the case, so the experiment is reproducible.

A non-reproducible experiment would be one where you follow Millikan's method but get something that is nowhere close to being a value for e.
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I read it in a different way, not to say your reading is invalid! My interpretation was that a malicious actor could be holding a compromised key.
"Because there is no perpetuum mobile"

No, but there is an oil sump in an engine, and that stops it seizing up.

"By issuing treasuries a government loans economic power from markets"

OK. Let's test that. Let's say Scotland issues a new currency. Let's say the Scottish government believes it has to get money from markets to spend.

Where are 'the markets' going to get the Scottish currency from to buy the bonds?

Now do you see how you have the monetary operations backwards.

Bonds are a reserve drain. You can't do a reserve drain until you do a reserve add.

"More you try to loan from market, higher rate will be required"

There is no operational mechanism for that to happen. For rates to go up prices have to go down. If prices go down then the Fed simply QE's the Treasury out of circulation and forces the price back up.

The Fed has complete control of the yield curve all the way up the maturity. You get to play in the Treasury market on the whim of the Fed, and under no other conditions.
"I'm helping out with a curriculum to help slum kids to (web) program in Thailand in English, but in a way that they can learn English as well"

Is there somewhere one could read more about this? Sounds nifty.
You can also favorite[1] HN comments by clicking on the timestamp first.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24351073
This prevents the application's thread from moving cores, but doesn't prevent an unrelated thread from using that core (especially in a hypervised environment). That unrelated thread could still perform those attacks against the application's thread.