skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would turn that around. What kind of development are you doing where you feel 32GB is "Barely enough"?

Right now I primarily work on a very complex react based app. I've also done Java, Ruby, Elixir, and Python development and my primary machine has never had 32GB.

More RAM is definitely better, but when I hear phrases like "32GB is barely enough", I have to wonder what in the hell people are working on. Even running K8s with multiple VMs at my previous job I didn't run into any kind of hard stops with 16GB of RAM.
> In America, any power not explicitly granted to the federal government is left to the states. If Biden wins, this fact does not change, and he cannot enforce any policy regarding masks.

Sure he can.

The exact parameters of any such mandate and its manner of enforcement is circumscribed, but that doesn't mean there is no legally-enforceable federal mask mandate. A direct federal individual mask mandate, with direct personal liability for violations, is least likely to be Constitutional.

A federal mandate that states adopt, enforce, and demonstrate adequate compliance with such a mandate, with failure resulting in additional restrictions on interstate travel and trade, is certainly not only within the power of the federal government under the Commerce Clause, but also the executive branch under the Public Health Services Act and other laws relating to federal commerce-related responses relating to public safety.
It does indeed compete with C in a lot of places. Device drivers and embedded are a couple of places where Rust will replace a lot of C.
A screenshot is not verifiable. You can take a screenshot of my Tweet but that is not proof that I tweeted it, unless it's captured and verified by a screenshotting service that has a solid reputation for integrity.
Don't forget ARM's more relaxed memory model vs. x86's TSO.
I have a sibling with a degree in early childhood development and what you're describing is what she told me is called, colloquially where we're from, "cry it out" parenting, and it can result in negative outcomes related to the child's attachment style and their ability to form relationships even into adulthood.

Babies that are not attended to when crying, alone at night in a separate room, are more likely to develop an attachment style similar to a child who has been abandoned by their parents.

It's really not healthy. Now, I'm not an expert either, but my sister is and you'd get an earful from her for your comment as it is potentially very harmful advice.

I hope readers here hear my concern more than anything: don't take parenting advice from random people on HN! If you're considering "cry it out" parenting, or its inverse, attachment parenting, talk to a professional before ignoring your crying baby because it's "manipulative" or "can soothe itself". We're talking about a developmental stage that comes before -object permanence- and the comment above refers to -emotional manipulation- from an infant?

Please folks, try to understand when you're talking about something outside of your field...
> I feel like this sort of rhetoric is a fine example of the very phenomenon that I described

I see your point, that by attaching certain labels (like a logical fallacy), many people write off information without independently judging its veracity (whether the fallacy actually occured)

Yet in your case, you still fail to support your key claim:

> I was describing how these types of stories can be discredited, by simply attaching a label to them...

Obviously some people will never read past the label, whether it is "Qanon" or "socialism", but plenty of people do read past the label, and independently try to discover what is true.

I don't think Dominion conspiracy is false because some low quality nbcnews article said it started on qanon - where it "started" does not really matter to me. I think it's false because it's obviously politically motivated and doesn't make any fucking sense. There would be noticable statistical differences between the results of Dominion and other voting machines.

I reject the premise you seem to be trying to push, that only conspiracy theorists care about truth. I care about truth and am not a conspiracy theorist. Some conspiracy theories turning out to be broadly true (e.g. nsa metadata surveillance and mkultra) has no bearing on the truth of other conspiracy theories.

Conspiracy theorists are a result of modern magic like airplanes and fiat currency being poorly explained in school and bad critical thinking skills. Most conspiracy theorists believe in multiple directly conflicting theories because it maximizes the chance of being correct at some point.
I also really, really wasn't into babies before becoming a father, then when they were there, it was actually kinda okay — but now that they can talk, reason and you can mess with them, it's definitely _so_ much cooler.

What's interesting though is that for me, having spent time with a baby seems to have changed some wirings retroactively. Just saw a toddler yesterday doing random things and having so much fun in the puddles, it was reeeeally cute. Good memories.

What nobody tells you though is that annoyingness and cuteness go hand in hand. As soon as they stop being annoying, they also stop being cute. It's hard to enjoy much of that cuteness because life's generally hard, loud and exhausting with a toddler. But as soon as it starts getting better, you also realize how much you miss that will never come back.

As Paul Graham said so wisely: There are only 52 weekends you will ever have with your three year old. Life is short, use it. Or at the very least, try to :)
Australia has a similar mechanism in the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. Drugs are selected based on cost-effectiveness analysis and subsidised price is negotiated with pharmaceutical companies.

If anything, Australia is quite generous to pharmaceutical companies. New Zealand's Pharmaceutical Management Agency has much less negotiating power but still manages to obtain substantially lower prices.

For myself I can't help but wonder if lump-sum licensing might not be more effective. Pharmaceuticals are a bit like software: very high R&D cost, but the marginal cost to manufacture is very small. A one-time payment to sink a large chunk of R&D for a drug might be quicker and easier than guessing at a price. On the other hand, I have no experience in health economics, so it's possible this is a terrible idea.
I prefer to stay at home vs. a colony of trucks that transport elderly people in coffins, because hospitals can't handle it.

Eg. Italy

Additionally, there's is also a big difference to those that say masks are stupid and live in a rural area vs. In a city with a lot more people.

You are already being helped by those who stay at home ever day. Be grateful for those taking responsibility, instead of whatever this is.
If a weekly chart demonstrated a different result, but excess deaths for the year didn't change, then a reasonable conclusion would be that COVID-19 brought some deaths forward in time, but not any further than a year. That makes plenty of sense. The vast majority of those who died of COVID-19 were in advanced age or had preexisting conditions. Some fraction of those people would have died even if there was not a pandemic. This is neither controversial nor disputed.
Debatable. Qualcomm operates under a strict transistor budget because their chips lack a dedicated customer willing to pay what it costs to develop an ultra-wide CPU like this. Apple knows they're going to sell 100+ million of whatever core they make so they're able to more easily amortize and justify the costs of development.

Intel gets no such benefit of the doubt. I have no idea what on earth is going on over there.
Yeah, DD and others figured out that customer acquisition is where the value-add is for restaurants so they take ~30% gross from each order as commission . Being the "first place" people look when they're hungry gives them pretty okay leverage.

In non-pandemic times this is actually a sweet deal for restaurants that don't want to do their own delivery because food and the marginal cost of labor is cheap and your goal is to reduce kitchen idle time as much as humanly possible and another source of orders is a positive. It cannibalizes take-out orders a little but opens up people who would do delivery but not take-out.
Apparently Linux 5.4 and newer can.

Most other peripherals are barely working, though.
SSD speed is important in this kind of operation. The SSD and controller in the Mac are very fast.
Public markets
Fleets aren't to protect the Leader of the Opposition -- they're to protect the random insurance adjuster who doesn't Tweet anything except sports because he's afraid of getting fired for it. Fleets might let him open up a bit.
> Trust the programmer.

Programmers have been show, time after time, not to be particularly trustworthy. Have we not learned the lesson that it's really easy to make mistakes, and we should trust tools instead of people to check our work?

> Don’t prevent the programmer from doing what needs to be done.

Ditto the above.

> Keep the language small and simple.

It is in some ways, but it's "smallness" leads to a serious lack of simplicity as seemingly simple things are incredibly hard to do right consistently. For instance, avoiding indexing past the end of an array or rolling over an integer.

> Provide only one way to do an operation.

That's nice, I'll grant you, although there are of course exceptions that prove the rule, like:

a[b]

is synonymous with

*(a + b)
*((uint8_t *)a + (b * sizeof(*a))

> Make it fast, even if it is not guaranteed to be portable.

Well... I mean...
It's worth highlighting that the Linux kernel was doing open source development using Git and email long before GitHub was created.
I'm not sure what the problem is, then. You have a device that does what you (or the GP) want, which is to install any operating system, tinker, etc.

Is the worry that Apple and its practices will dominate the industry to the point that you literally will not be able to turn on your current machine and use it?
Since H.264 has P-frames and B-frames and so on which I think would be by definition stateful, I assume that processing is just pushed out to the client/userspace somehow?
Actually tiktok helped to identify new songs and seeing people do funny stuffs and cheerful.
Babies aren't meant to be fun. I became a single dad when I had a baby and a two year old. Honestly, I don't think most men are wired for doing this role. The 4-5 years that followed were very difficult for me mentally. I was socially isolated, had no support (all support structures were mother orientated) and I had two really little kids to care for.

I'm not sure if I changed, or it's simply easier for me now they're a bit older, but over time I had merged into this parenting role really well. My kids are both happy and well balanced, other kids and adults both like them and they're doing really well at school.
I'm not saying a browser isn't effected by its settings. I'm saying that not being affected by browser settings is not an advantage. If I'm running an in-browser app, I want and expect it to be effected by my browser settings.
> you can own actually own the domain and the email server

I believe the worst problem here is spam. Google grew that much as email provider also because they have among the best filters out there, but what about different servers on small hosting providers?
Security issues aside (I assume their sysadmins know how to setup a safe email server), I've planned that route many times and resisted because having to fiddle with constantly changing spammers lists is something I really wouldn't want to waste a minute on.
The touchbar is pretty great if you program it yourself using, e.g., BetterTouchTool. I especially love the clipboard widget - works fantastic with VIM/EVIL.
Well, I never said Bitcoin is "dead", I said it's a Ponzi scheme. People will be able to withdraw their funds until someday, they can't. (Or the value decreases to a pittance of what they put in)

You definitely have a small but meaningful use case. I don't see how that makes it worth the current $300B market cap.
> no, the federal government exists to defend the interests of the states, and resolve disputes between them.

Clearly, yes.

> it's not meant to be a higher level of authority.

The Supremacy Clause fairly explicitly disagrees.
Apparently someone had the following thought.

"Everyone when faced with the dilemma of having either an unsound or incomplete formal system chooses incompleteness. What happens when we allow for unsoundness and treat this notion as first class?"

There has been a slow burn on paraconsistent logics going back to the 80s or so now.

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

I seem to recall at least one where one of the states was something analogous to a maybe/don't know.
Hi GreatQuux!

The article linked below explains why [Gödel 1931] did not prove inferential undecidability of Russell's Principia Mathematica and likewise why the formalization of [Gödel 1931] in Lisp proof being discussed is also invalid:

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3603021

However, the article linked above does have a correct proof of inferential undecidability (also known as "inferential incompleteness").

Would be happy to respond to any questions that you might have.
Why? What is your culture's cultural ideal?
>That's misleading and I wrote the article to explain to correct that narrative.

There is your first mistake, you can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves in to. There are literally people denying covid is real/serious while they or their love ones drown in their fluids.
Are you the kind that can't hear their computer fan because they wear headphones?

And/or the kind that keeps their laptop plugged in all the time?

Some people do care about cool, quiet and long battery life.
Firefox has is own such domain, detectportal.firefox.com, which would presumably be excluded. But otherwise, it looks like the user will just have to turn it off for these kind of sites. Same goes for things like browsing APT update servers that don't use HTTPS by design.
Why the $#% is my social title not updating?
One might be tempted to agree if the converse were observed, those who believe in their right to not wear masks should observe the rights of those who ask that all who enter or interact with their staff wear masks. If you choose not to wear a mask, you choose not to enter that store or engage that employee. The problem is we have people who want people around them wearing masks, yet those people are refusing to stay away and in a number of instances assaulted and even murdered people who tried to restrict their movement into private property with a mask requirement.

I hear your line of reasoning from these same crazed individuals so I am lead to believe that this is the extreme end of that set of beliefs without also observing the corollary that I mention above..
Thank you for your comment.

I would describe what is happening as rationality 'blind spots' -- everyone has them about different subjects. It's not a matter of smart vs stupid. That framing of the world is too simplistic to be valuable.
I have a Yoga 720 with a touchscreen and honestly the only time I use the touch is inadvertently when I'm wiping a piece of dust or the like off the screen. Every time it is a bit of a shock.

The form just doesn't conduce itself to touch. As someone earlier said, even if Apple does eventually add touch, they need to figure out the collision with iOS to allow functional use without requiring it.
This is pure FUD. Why spread misinformation?
It's unreadable because the proper use of adverbs gives context. If the adverb "succinctly" was not flagged by this ridiculous app, the sentence would sound natural.
Deploy serverside cells from within a notebook
It is, in fact, already used by everyone, because it's an evolution of the chipset in basically every smartphone in the world with widely divergent target audiences, income brackets, and technical limitations.
This, but I also hope they understand that most studio headphones have cable attached on the left side and come back to pre-touchbar era jack placement. With new, miniaturised components there should be enough internal space on left side.
If the difference between affording a car and not being able to afford a car would kill me, then maybe I would like the government to step in to negotiate on behalf of all of its citizens.
It is perhaps reason for you(and others) not wanting migrate, however there is nothing wrong in the way DoH functionality is implemented.

Cloudflare broke a lot of traffic when the 1.1.1.1 dns server came up, google broke lot of dev setups when they got the . dev TLD, however it is not theit fault though.
Having had the fun experience of compiling a fairly heavy UI application on Unix, they all seem pretty "other" to me. Solaris didn't do anything weird, so it was maybe the only non-other. HP-UX had something really weird with linking and I feel like it was lacking some shell commands that were fairly standard. AIX did something strange with shared libraries and their error messages were decidedly non-standard, although they all had unique code at the beginning so at least it was easy to search for problems. I think AIX was the only one for which malloc(0) = 0, all the others at least produced a valid pointer. I can't remember what the problems with Irix were, I think it was just that by 2008 Irix was just old so getting an up to date compiler was troublesome. Linux was just as "other" compared to the rest, but it was increasingly full-featured. Solaris kept up for a while.

And admining them was definitely very different aside from the basic shell commands.
Fishing was not allowed? Ok now I am curious, what area are you talking about?
I just switched over from the 'shell account' for the closet, to what it is now.
Just testing the waters, but thanks for the advice. I'll look at the stats and see which works better.
I know a lot of Trump supporters, here's my take:

1. The candidate pool is biased - in terms of demographics, under-30, college-educated, coastal-city individuals are dramatically skewed to the left. I think as IT workers get older, have families, and high paying jobs and education become more accessible to rural areas, we'll see a shift to the center.

2. Tech companies are in the spotlight of the "culture wars" - if your platform is an echo chamber for the narratives of the media, those narratives will eventually become descriptive of your company's identity.

3. H1-B visas and outsourcing is great economics for tech companies. This also reinforces the imperative for domestic workers and company culture to be highly inclusive.

4. More of a soft-factor, I think since most of tech's growth happened under Obama, there was an incentive for companies that were still finding their culture to align themselves with the administration and ruling powers at the time.

5. I think all of the above has pushed tech culture to a critical mass where those in the consensus will actively purge non-conformists.

--

A side-note, but another strange feature of tech culture is how the industry started off as more libertarian/anarchist, and I don't think my answers above explain the catalyst of this cultural 180. Curious what others think the reason behind this might be?
If I may ask: Thurston county?
What an insightful observation!

It has a lot of follow on implications too.
My objection is that the change was made without notice or explicit permission, and changed the chain of trust. Mozilla decided that I should trust Cloudfare and that I should not trust my own network or the corporate network.
turn existing small pharmacies into associate stores and then use them as a distributed fulfilment centre..
The historic planes beyond the basic multilingual plane are usually referred to as the "astral planes" which includes things like gothic, runes, alchemy, egyptian, and emoji https://justine.storage.googleapis.com/astralplanes.txt
Low oxygen, low food, crashed ecosystem. Interesting science, but a total failure at demonstrating the feasibility of a closed ecosystem.
I'm also curious to learn where was the bottleneck in both tests.

I've read stuff about how the M1-packing MacBook Air shipped with a SSD whose burst write speed was far higher than the one shipped in older MacBooks. The bottleneck on build jobs tends to lie on disk access, specially with projects comprised of a significant number of small files whose build also outputs a bunch of small files.

This is one of the reasons behind doing builds on RAM drives.

If that's the case then these weird speedups might not be due to magic properties on Apple's M1 professor but due to the fact that the processor doesn't idle as much while waiting for all those reads and writes to finish.

If anyone has any data on this, please do share.
It was getting the hug of death that I didn't expect. I upped the resources now so it should be much faster.
Other resources' usage (memory, I/O) tends to scale up with size on disk. And empirically, the more code you have, the slower your program runs.

Lots of folks in this thread brought up Electron and Servo being a potential replacement for it, but the preview build is already larger than Electron today.
Exercise, Good food, just holding hands of people (parents for me) and sleeping.

Take things lightly literally everything.
Face masks have been normalcy on public transport in winter in south east Asia for a while, I think, but am not sure, since SARS Cov-1, in 2003.
Isn't most everything going on in custom decoding silicon now?
The first MacBook Pro immediately outperformed the Power Mac G5.
Not at all! I very much appreciate any corrections you may have.

> More seriously, I think you would be surprised at the variety of human experience that’s not covered by your ideals here.

I'm not sure what you are getting at here. I am not talking about my "ideals", or at least that is not the primary focus of my comments. The primary focus of my comments is this phenomenon whereby people have an extremely strong aversion to discuss what is Actually True.

If you believe I am mistaken in this, I would be more than happy to discuss it at great length. Perhaps I have some imperfections in my analysis that I am unable to see, and you can point them out so I can then improve upon my model.

I welcome being proven wrong - I encourage people to do it.
Covid-19 and the Cost of Vaccine Nationalism
Blue cities are denser than outlying red areas. Density means more opportunities for transmission. All else being equal, they would see higher transmission and per-capita infection rates.

The fact that we see the opposite is unfortunate and unnecessary.
Worse, this entire thread has already been flagged into oblivion, like any other thread that HN apparently "can't handle" anymore,

Sadly, that will ultimately decrease the amount of smarts working on this critical problem.
Decades ago, I received a gift while reading Hackers by Stephen Levy and an anthology Scottish poetry.

In Hackers, there's a page or two that talks about the relationship between the wiring under their train set and the ability to "hack" the lines / bytes of code required for a program to operate. Moments later, I was reading Robert Burns.

The gift was: remove all that is unnecessary and include only your best, and you have the best chance of success.

Poetry is language hacking - thank you ISL for posting this here - well played!
From the article there are actually a number of weak correlates: a man with smaller testes, for example. But it concludes with the prefrontal cortex being the largest discriminator, all other factors considered. It would seem that picking a partner who is capable and willing to use rational thought to override emotional responses would be a successful strategy - more capable of dealing with the frustrating reality of childcare, less likely to leave in search of another mate.