skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the problem here is the political bias in censorship. If facebook existed 100 years ago, you could say the same thing as now, just the 'good' and the 'bad' groups would be a lot different.

And you don't have to wait a 100 years, in my country, if we overly applied the same rules, at the start of the first covid wave, facebook would censor all the science-deniers, and crazy preppers for using masks (because "masks don't help" - our doctors, depending on where you live, probably yours too). Then one random saturday, our government decided you need a mask and gloves to enter any indoor public place (stores,...), and facebook would censor the anti-mask people.

We also live in a culture, where we have a few "protected groups", where we censor anything (even jokes) about that (eg. rape jokes), but even those rules, we apply very arbitrarily.... in movies, rape bad, rape jokes bad, unless the person raped is a man, then it's not a crime/thriller, but a "satirical erotic romantic comedy" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40_Days_and_40_Nights ). Again, rape jokes are censorship worthy, unless you change one tiny variable, and that makes it all ok. Today atleast.
100% agreed there. I'm just thinking, you generally get more value out of building for the world you live in than out of building for the world you wish you lived in.
What is chortling?
Thanks for sharing. That was a good read.
Not to mention the cost of X more servers for a year is probably less costly than the developer time of optimization and the opportunity cost.
> So a mul or div would literally be like calling a function to do it using other arithmetic instructions, except the function is stored in the CPU.

Wouldn't this be times (if not orders of magnitude) faster than loading it in software anyway? I believe it was one of the most frequently used functions, hard or soft.
> it may sound obvious, but - optimizing your app to fulfill a request in 1/10 the time is like adding 9 servers to a cluster. Optimizing to 1/100 the time (reducing requests from say 1.5 sec to 15ms) is like adding 99 server

Who the hell is casually optimizing away 90% of the latency in the time it takes to spin up 9 more pods? That's insane. Like the latter is an operation on the scale of minutes.

Also, this is a throughput/latency conflation.

90% of the cost a startup incurs is in the things it could be doing instead, not in the infra. Opportunity cost dominates.
I thought it was clear with my second sentence. My question was facetious and rhetorical.
Good Architecture: Data Model vs. Data Flow
> I think Japanese websites are better

They are only better if you never use them.
Costs go up because they get paid.

Once enough money is sunk, no amount more can kill the project. (Rare exception, Californian "hi-speed" rail! But that was politics.) Thing is, none of the money is wasted, as such: somebody gets every single dollar. The higher the costs, the more they get. So long as that somebody spreads enough of it around, everybody actually involved (the paying public not among them) benefits.

That model applies to any big-enough multi-year construction project, whether it's a nuke plant, a subway line, or a fleet of bombers. So, it's nothing to do with nukes, as such, except that for nukes there are always enough pigeons convinced that the next one will be cheap, for sure! And around we go.
> kindhearted pedantry

lol. You can be as kindhearted as humanly possible and some people will still get pissed.
In Kansas there is a law explicitly dealing with this: You can not disclaim an implied warranty or suitability for a particular purpose. In the broader context of the entire US, this is just a restatement of common sense law that is already on the books.

I bought the product to fulfill a need. If it can't do that, then you don't get to keep the money. Nobody hands money over for some vague, nebulous promise of something in return.
A good plug is always welcome. Especially when you have donated your time to create something useful and put it on Github for everyone else to benefit from.

Thanks!
The Callaway plant cost ratepayers so much that a state ballot proposition outlawing that accounting trick passed with 66% of the vote. The last time Ameren tried to remove that protection was 2015. Even they've noticed how cheap renewables are now.
If you're building the app for free, and you're considering posting code to boost your resume, these both sound like academic pursuits consistent with your coursework. If you are currently enrolled in a 4-year university, take your code and ask for feedback from your professors. It's a unique learning opportunity and shouldn't cost anything extra.
Learning about financial independence. The peace of mind that comes from knowing you have your financial world in order is enormous and opens up many possibilities. You are in control once you have 'F--- You" money.
this is textbook whataboutism.

also, I support less repression on sexual expression (btw something that often correlates with support for LGBT issues) and (as a European), I find American prudishness to be often quite puzzling, but this

> TLDR: we (as a group) support social networks deleting photos of female nipples, because showing and seeing those is morally wrong in our culture, even though it's an issue that affects a lot more people than LGBT stuff.

is ridiculous. Some people's inability to be able to view boobs on FB is not on the same level as LGBT rights.
> Docker-in-Docker paradigm

Apologies for the patronising comment, but do you really mean that? Docker in Docker works but is intended for the developers of Docker to debug Docker itself. Usually for running Docker from within a container, you just hook up the Docker client to the TCP port of the Docker daemon running outside the container, which isn't strictly Docker-in-Docker.

I ask this in case you're trying a wildly use case (if you really are running true Docker-in-Docker), or are making an unfair comparison (if you're just using the usual Docker client in container to daemon on host). In the latter case, I must admit I don't know what the idiomatic alternative would be for podman, given that I know nothing about it except that it's daemonless (and even that I only learned by reading your comment).
As a counter point, why give them screens so young at all?

I am someone without children, so my point is much less valuable then the others already below. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/23/screen-ti...

https://www.businessinsider.com/screen-time-limits-bill-gate...
"first gen" usually insinuates, among other things, concepts like unproven, untested, extra risk, etc.

The M1 is part of a technical lineage that is over 10 years old at this point. It's hardly "first gen" from what people usually intend when using the phrase "first gen".

This also is Apple's 4th rodeo in changing the instruction sets that Mac's run on, and since the last transition their tooling, expertise in frameworks, compilers and other aspects of their ecosystem have also matured significantly - as evidenced by all the reports of the incredibly seamlessness of Rosetta 2 for the vast majority of applications (including terminal apps like Homebrew which still boggles my mind).

I figured there would at least be one or two earth shattering issues - but surprisingly no, seems to be pretty transparent for the vast majority of use cases. It's pretty mind boggling when you really think about it.
> The Japanese language itself has very low "information density"

This is just wrong as characters are much more concise than using Alphabet because of use of Kanji and the like.
Interesting mentions of the WELL family. I chose WELL512 for TXR Lisp back in 2011.

Unfortunately, the implementation was bungled until October 2020. :(

If you re-implement, don't be a cowboy: validate that you're getting identical results to the reference implementation.
I don't think anyone's trying to argue about whether it's better or worse than the Rust concept. Just that it's subtly different.
these flu related vaccines already go to high risk (e.g. elderly) first so a lot of the risk is already factored in to the benefit they can provide.

having said that, yes i'd have it if i could go eat in a restaurant again.
All of the things that I don't have (except for 802.11ac) are things I would be turning off anyway and would buy the laptop without them if I could.
Social gatherings and schools followed closely by nurses and old aged homes.

Restaurants account for less than 10-15%
In coding, making mistakes is expected and correctable. The challenge is often akin to solving a puzzle. You have a general idea of the shape of the solution, but it usually isn't laid out as a blueprint. The work is almost entirely mental. The challenge is intellectual.

In (fine) woodworking, making a mistake is far more punishing. You have a blueprint, not a puzzle. The work is as much physical as it is mental. The challenge is in setting up and executing a series of cuts, shapings, sandings, and finishings with perfect precision. There are few correctable mistakes: material can be removed but never added, joinery must mate perfectly else it's useless, blemishes in the finish are extremely difficult to remedy, etc.

I think a lot of coders tend to be perfectionists, wanting to be certain that their end product generates correct results and irritated to the point of obsession when it doesn't. I think fine woodworking feeds into that same perfectionist drive, and in an even more challenging way.
Didn't they abandon that product for Teams, for enterprise users/customers?
Your link describes it as a "K-12 complex". Maybe you think they should have thrown in preschool and PhDs too for that price, but there's no need to exaggerate.
It's funny to me that one could look at these webpages and think they're "behind":
https://www.yomiuri.co.jp
https://okwave.jp

They load pretty much instantaneously, run few scripts, have no swooshing animations or scroll behavior overriding, elements don't jumble around and rearrange themselves as the page is loading... they are basically just plain text and hyperlinks on a plain background. From my perspective they're lightyears ahead of the state of English-language webpage design.

I guess they're behind in the sense that they have declined to incorporate many new bad practices. They're behind like a farmer who doesn't use pesticides, a candy-maker that doesn't use artificial coloring and flavoring, or a gas station that doesn't play ads on a screen at the pump.
> I believe this will all change within the next decade or so.

I heard that many decades ago.
It would be hard to benchmark.

Any single-threaded program wouldn't care at all, because you're just plucking values out of store-buffers (aka: store-to-load forwarding) anyway.

There needs to be some kind of multithreaded benchmark, maybe a mutex ping-pong or spin lock ping-pong, to really see the difference.

Well... hypothetically anyway. It seems like something that's very hard to actually test for.
Good questions.

1. Precisely because it felt like a good middle ground between the two. MIT/Apache feels like completely giving away something which doesn't seem fair, while GPL would put some people off. MPLv2 is GPL compatible so that won't stop anyone.

2. Yes, well, will see how it turns out. One strong counterexample in this space would be Mapbox, their client code is open-source and this doesn't seem to do them any harm

3. https://www.pheelicks.com/
> Are you ready for the political cost of taking on the Unions? Esp. public sector unions? They may not have their fingers in the pot, but they still likely a massive barrier.

> What about exposing the fact that a ton of workers in infrastructure are in the country illegally? Who's going to 'clamp down' on that and pay the political price?

Unions are going to clamp down and pay the political price of squashing illegal labor. That's their whole purpose of existing! Anti-union sentiment in America reflects significant cognitive dissonance on this issue.

Public unions are a different matter. They're entrenched largely because private sector unions have disappeared. With greater private sector unionization public employees wouldn't dominate union lobbying as much as they do, and politicians wouldn't feel as obliged to protect them if there existed a larger pool of well paying, stable private sector jobs for the working class.
It is still very scarce outside of the Tokyo bubble. Japan is not Tokyo.
One thing I discovered using the Raspberry Pi is that Linux is constantly writing to the SD card, and it's very hard to stop this behavior, even if you turn off file system timestamps, disable logging, etc.. Cutting the power or resetting the Pi seems to result in relatively frequent data corruption, and I've also ended up with several unusable SD cards.

However, switching to a read-only SD card and a RAM file system seemed to eliminate the file system corruption and SD card damage I'd been seeing in my Raspberry Pi-based design. No problem with power cycling the thing.
Transitioned from MBP to Dell Precision with Ubuntu at the beginning of the year. I was an indie iOS dev, but that's all done now. I have zero desire to use any Apple product or Windows.
"right to choose to continue group health benefits provided by their group health plan for limited periods of time under certain circumstances such as voluntary or involuntary job loss, reduction in the hours worked, transition between jobs, death, divorce, and other life events. Qualified individuals may be required to pay the entire premium for coverage up to 102% of the cost to the plan."

Yeah, no, that's not the same thing at all. As a Canadian I have health coverage I can, y'know, live with regardless of whether I'm employed or not. And buying coverage in the US (with a pre-existing condition) was absolutely not worth it (even considering the wage gap) when I entertained a few offers in the early oughts.

Staying here means I have substantially better freedom of movement and negotiating power. In the US the "freedom" to not have healthcare just seems to mean that everyone has the "freedom" to pay more - and often for less.
You need to construct your fence and feather boards in a way that the bit is always covered and feed in from one end using push sticks. In most cases your hand should not be over the table at all. The main risk that can result in getting too close to the blade is a kickback pulling your hands in to the blade. Don't put your hands on that side. Understanding feed direction is critical to router safety. Don't feed work between the bit and the fence, have the bit half in the fence and spinning towards the work. I knew a guy who lost three fingers to a router because it wasn't in a table when it should have been.

Much of that is true of a table saw too. Stay back, use a pushstick, or make a jig. I cringe when I see Adam Savage using a saw with his fingers by the blade, there is no need. When I was an apprentice I would get yelled at for that.

The real risk with a router used properly is to your ears, your lungs, your eyes.
What makes you think ARM is the clear future? It's easier to do a wide decoder thanks to ARMv8's fixed-length instructions, but that's more or less the only difference that results from the ISA. And only Apple is even taking advantage of that currently - all the ARM CPU designs are 4-wide decode. Same as pretty much every modern x86 CPU.

Do you think Amazon will be better at design & fabrication than Intel (when they get their shit together) or AMD? Do you expect Amazon to actually throw Apple's level of R&D money & acquisitions at the problem? And when/if they do, why would you expect any meaningful difference at the end of the day on anything? People love to talk about supposed ARM power efficiency, but the 64-core Epyc Rome at 200w is around 3w per CPU core. Which is half the power draw of an M1 firestorm core. The M1's firestorm is also faster in such a comparison, but the point is power isn't a magical ARM advantage, and x86 isn't inherently some crazy power hog.

Phoronix put Graviton2 to the test vs. Epyc Rome and the results ain't pretty: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=epyc-vs-...

"When taking the geometric mean of all these benchmarks, the EPYC 7742 without SMT enabled was about 46% faster than the Graviton2 bare metal performance. The EPYC 7742 with SMT (128 threads) increased the lead to about 51%, due to not all of the benchmarks being multi-thread focused."

Graviton2 being a bit cheaper doesn't mean much when you need 50% more instances.

But right now there's only a single company that makes ARM look good and that's Apple. And Apple hasn't been in the server game for a long, long time now. Everyone else's ARM CPU cores pretty much suck. Maybe Nvidia's recent acquisition will change things, who knows. But at the end of the day if AMD keeps things up, or Intel gets back on track, there really doesn't look to be a bright future for ARM outside of Apple's ecosystem and the existing ARM markets.
> Resolution is high and Ubuntu does not scale things properly.

The 7th gen has two different screen options. I gather you got the higher density one. I don't use Ubuntu but I have the same display and don't have scaling issues. I use Arch & OpenBSD and configure everything myself though.

> Speakers are incredibly quiet.

Mostly a PulseAudio issue (doesn't play well with 4 speaker configurations). Has multiple workarounds (2 speaker only and to use all 4). I got it working in an hour. Full fix coming in next major version.

> Suspend / hibernate does not work reliably.

Has had a fix since February
Looks like it might be hard to ensure coverage for very long if the reason for losing your job was the employer going bankrupt.

Are there other systems aside from Cobra that pick up where Cobra doesn’t? E.g for bankruptcy , companies smaller than 20 employees?
How civil.

Oregon’s restrictions were no more or less strict than, say, New York City. In New York, gyms are open, dining is open.

New York is currently at 20 per 100k cases per day. Portland is at 100 per 100k. I suppose this means that New York is masking harder?

What’s so complicated?
But will health care providers adjust to your insurance?

Here in Germany, you get treated differently in some places if you have private insurance. I have actually avoided private insurance because I worried about too many unnecessary treatments (not sure if that was a good trade off - maybe if one day I'll get seriously ill, I'll regret that choice).

A bit annoying is that often the doctors won't even tell you that they are not suggesting a certain treatment because it wouldn't be covered by public insurance.

But what I mean is, possibly your treatment will somehow get cheaper once you are in the second stage of your insurance plan?
> Seeing "them" as "behind" is a bad way to think about it and prevents true understanding.

So I guess still using Fax Machines to do business in 2020 is not "behind", it's just "different" right?

Let's call a cat a cat when we see one.
Right. It's called liberty. No one ever said freedom came without risks. In fact, the people who fought for it often died for it. And they set it in stone: Live Free or Die. The reason is simple, if you're afraid of death, then your fear of death will be used to control you.

I think if people want to live in a bubble they should be free to live in a bubble. And if they want liberty over medical tyranny they have that right. Businesses should be free to set their own policies and I should be free to choose which businesses I go to based on which policies I'm comfortable with.
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Windows 3.0 was the first usable version, I think. You had multitasking, virtual memory (on the 386, anyway), VGA support, etc. That was less than 5 years later.
That's fair but an independent criticism: whether mask wearing compliance is high. But the ability to build manufacturing capacity is different. It's almost an unskilled task.
>The patients (called "consumers" or "members" in IT insurance parlance) are not actually the customer. The customer is the insurance companies like Aetna ("payers")

This sounds frighteningly like the "overmind" theory of AI, wherein a system (perhaps the internet) becomes to higher order brain functions what they themselves became to the brain stem. The higher order systems pass currency (data, money) between themselves, over the heads of the lower order entities, making decisions that may or may not be in the latter's best interests (even though there is a clear hierarchy of existence that relies on the latter). Essentially, we've created a system where massive systems negotiate our life and death outside the public's purview and influence. Musk et al. warn about the dangers of AI, but with our existing systems, it seems that we're already there.
> The ability to push out opposing viewpoints is rather new.

I don't think that's true. I saw cases of it back in the 1990s.

It might be true that the online forums today have evolved in terms of their typical norms to make it more acceptable to do this. Which could be part of the Internet evolving in general to be less permissive and more controlled. That would be similar to the way previous communication technologies have evolved, although the evolution is no doubt faster with the Internet.

> When I say things are worse today than say 10 years ago. I'm not necessarily focusing on HN.

My comments weren't intended to be restricted to HN either; I just used it as one example.

> echo chambers are just trying to push other viewpoints out in order to strengthen their friendship with the others

If this is indeed a factor, I think it's part of human nature and certainly not something that just came into being with the Internet or social media. If anything, social media should make this problem, if it is a problem, more visible and therefore more amenable to some kind of counter action.
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I need JS to view the page?
Constant software compatibility issues is what caused people to avoid WindowsRT.. depending on how soon Apple resolves these issues will determine if people stick with M1 or migrate to Windows 10. My company runs on Windows with lots of 3rd party domain specific windows apps. We use Mac laptops because the hardware is nice, but it's probably not going to be an option for us in the future.
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On the topic of telomeres, Rejuvenation Tech is a YC company (S18) working on extending telomere length for health benefits.
Actually, compared to OECD countries, the quality is pretty bad.

The US is at or very near the worst among OECD countries in: life expectancy at birth, healthy life expectancy, rate of obesity, disability-adjusted life years, doctors per 1000 people, deaths from treatable conditions, rate of mental health disorders, rate of drug abuse, rate of
prescription drug use.

It would seem health insurance companies charge a lot of money for not such great healthcare.
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And now your env is in this weird state that doesn't work for the previous or next tool you try.
About 20 years ago, Buffalo NY had more MRI machines than Canada (not coincidentally, it's also the closest US city to the Toronto-Mississauga and St.Catherines-Hamilton areas.)
My mother lives in BC. She is old and has had multiple problems. She has been in the hospital a few days every month for the last 4 yrs. She never pays anything.

My mother in law is in a similar situation in the US. It costs thousands for a hospital stay with insurance. My wife has spent a few hours every month arguing with the insurance company.

Our retirement plans are in Canada. There is no way that we can afford to retire in the US.