skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adding a sentence to explain how ARM "saves the planet" would perhaps be more effective than a hash tag. I presume you are referring to lower typical power consumption for ARM servers.
Armagh Shiraz would like a word...
What you should care about is using the software that makes your life the most easy, and that is not necessarily what you are currently using.

What you want is easy to use software, that is flexible and can do what you want to do.

The stuff you learned 10 years ago isn't necessarily that software.
25 votes and no visibility; did this post get squelched?

edit discussion seems to be here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25229544
I attempted to cross Norway in a completely straight line
I would agree with you that real estate is inherently local, with a myriad factors to consider. I would also agree with you about the limitations of generalizations. However, in a conversation about the price of housing, discussing supply and demand seems like a good place to start.
Appreciate the clarification. Sounds like it has the ability to take panniers if need be.
How soon before the 5 year citizenship application mark (post-getting your green card) can you begin the application process?

Is it advisable to file for citizenship on your own?
Aroundaworld: Walk around the world, one mouse move at a time
AROUNDAWORLD originated as a Phoenix LiveView demo app that we built over a couple of weekends. A simple idea with a compelling mission - get as many people people as possible to "walk" around the world, in the comfort of their homes. In a year plagued by pandemics, decaying democracy, and incessant lockdowns, we wanted to get people all around the world to roll their sleeves and work together again. Even in a challenge, as silly as this one.
I came across this issue. Dev Containers by VS Code solved it for me, allowing me to use development tools and packages by remoting inside the container itself.
the level of straight up bull shit in this post is quite something to behold....
macOS already has this and is in fact a proper Unix to begin with. Docker is supported just fine on macOS on Intel (and soon the new chip), and it runs basically Linux inside a VM, just like WSL2 does.
“Yes, obviously,” he responded, sarcastically.

Anyone who has bought hot food on a cold day has an opportunity to learn about how some containers do nothing and others do quite a bit. Even thin paper versus heavy brown paper makes a pretty big difference in insulation.

Many bags designed for laptops have open cell foam for shock resistance, and thermally conductive foam is a specialty item. You practically can’t make a laptop sleeve without an R value. So it’ll depend a lot on whether your laptop was room temperature when it went in or is warmer.

If you’re looking for a Christmas idea for yourself, I don’t think you find a better laptop bag than Tom Bihn. They have a laptop sleeve that’s practically an insulated lunch bag: https://www.tombihn.com/products/brain-cell with an air gap at the bottom that prevents damage if you drop your bag. Which I have.

Their stuff is expensive, but they’re bombproof and not Apple-expensive. They’re waterproof, including the zippers, the shoulder straps are butter-smooth, and the factory workers are paid a living wage.
Betteridge's law of headlines applies.

I don't think I've heard of a single one of the "Top Tech Companies in Switzerland" on their chart.
> how is your response substantively different from the thing it's criticizing?

That is a fair criticism. I still think there is a difference in degree between (A) reading a long, thoughtful article and responding with unkind speculations about the author, and (B) reading such speculation that has little content in it and responding in turn with unkind speculations about the comment's author; but only a difference of degree, not of kind, I admit.

> your comment would put a chilling effect on frankly discussing other people, as though the only way to do so is through irrationality and gossip.

The proverb I quoted would do that, sure, which is why it's explicitly marked as only a decent (not excellent) heuristic. There are honest, thoughtful ways to go about discussing and criticizing people. Speculations and borderline conspiracy theories are not among them.
Every time Apple says “This is the best iPhone we've EVER MADE” (2007 – 2020)
Value and compensation aren't necessarily coupled. Think of school teachers. It's clearly an incredibly valuable job preparing the next generation of society, but pays a miserable wage before the intervening of unions, and still not great even with that.

But there's more teachers available in the labor market compared to demand than computer programmers, so the latter command a much higher salary. Even though I would say many deliver much less value to society.

Or negative value like Facebook engineers. Sorry, I couldn't resist that cheap shot, and I do believe Facebook is a net negative for society.
What Is DesignOps and Does Your Startup Need It? – First Round Review
yes, these days you can get a file descriptor for pretty much everything so epoll is sufficient.

I think that epoll timeout granularity is still in milliseconds, so if you want to build high res timers on top of it for your event loop you have to either use zero timeout polling or use an explicit timerfd which adds overhead. I guess you can use plain ppoll (which has ns resolution timeouts) on the epoll fd.
Your welcome in the Netherlands 🇳🇱:
https://ind.nl/en/work/working_in_the_Netherlands/Pages/Star...
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand pg. The wisdom is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical business most of the insights will go over a typical reader’s head. There's also pg’s positivistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Sam Altman literature, for instance.
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You're narrowing down my line of reasoning to a specific example and then disputing it. But you didn't answer to the overall fact that there are central points of failure in most electronic devices/infrastructure that are even more critical than a vacuum cleaner. Yet we still rely on them. That doesn't make the whole "electric" infrastructure "a mess".

And BTW not every blackout can be solved with a generator. For instance a city-wide blackout, in regard to streetlamps etc. Also, not everyone can install a generator. Not every landlord allows a generator etc etc. Even if you had a city-specific generator, that can just as well fail. Now, if your not concerned with a backup system failing you shouldn't need to be concerned with Amazon's system failing as they also have multiple backup systems in place.
It'd be even worse if there were no external contributors.

Currently, they can reach the contributors at least...
I would bet it's using NLP (AI) and looking for lyric matches based on the captions. You could likely make a cover with an incorrect beat but the same lyrics and the AI would match to it.
Not at all. Yes Switzerland is probably the best country if you want to follow the rules, have a good quality of life and good education for your children. Not much for developers who are looking for interesting challenges. This is due to the mentality of the population and the risk aversion of the investors. From a Swiss person.
Dotarchy – Pick a Topic, Discuss It, Make Some Friends
> When using Tor, Google switches the CAPTCHA to the more strict "9 pictures" (or even the "endless pictures with delay on each") version. The rule of "If there is none, click skip" no longer applies. In this version, when Google misidentifies something as the object and you are not selecting it, the answer is wrong because Google thinks you are not selecting all answers. You must guess which one is the misidentified object and select it.

Even using Firefox with an adblocker is enough to trigger this one. Worse still is when you then go on to fail whatever the rate limited action is (maybe a forgot password form) and you get sent back to the captcha on the same site in a short interval. Then you get the one with the images fading out and being replaced soo.... slow...ly.....

Literally, it takes 30s for an image to fade out and 30s for the next to fade back in and sometimes there can be chains of 3-4 images in the same slot taking up 2-3 minutes for the captcha process. Arguably at that point successfully completion is more likely to indicate ill intent as most actual users will give up and go away.
Google no longer uses captcha to hone their AI.
> To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand pg

Emperor's new essays.
1. Intel will lose Apple as a customer.

2. Others will imitate, Microsoft Windows on ARM.

3. The iPhone wasn't originally a mass market product.
It was a small place on the "bench" southwest of Innsbruck, so I don't think that was the situation. He was more just like "we close at 6 sorry". In Italy, the guy most likely would have been "look, we're about to close, so I can't seat you, and our kitchen's shut down, but..." and he probably would have figured out a way to send us on our way with something.
> BUT... you're recommending this as a workaround for limitations in expensive "Pro" local development machines, as part of an encouragement to go ahead and buy them.

Yeah, I came to say the same thing - if you are anyway going to do remote dev, why still bother buying a new Apple device?? Anything else will do fine too!
Appropriate username? Not sure what the point of this comment is other than to incite an un-productive flame war.
> it seems likely that James Burke more or less created the idea too of connectedness across disciplines

Is there a name for this idea?
It also means that the managerial work is distributed amongst the team rather than focused on a smaller number of individuals. That distributes the power and decision making at the expense of individual productivity. I suppose generalists would thrive in an environment like this while specialists would have difficultly.
wow, I didn't think of that... it's interesting that a lot (but not all) of sf has flying saucers moving in a "horizontal" direction" where the GR solution suggests moving in the "vertical" direction, which some science fiction does do.
The process in the OP—starting a VM in Virtualbox, and having Docker use the VM—is basically a manual version of what docker-machine does automatically.

https://github.com/docker/machine

Even though it's all a VM under the hood, docker-machine makes it all feel a bit more streamlined/native. Also, the version of Linux it uses—Boot2Docker—will likely start up more quickly, and probably use slightly fewer resources as well.

I'm using docker-machine so I can run Docker on OS X 10.9, which predates Docker Desktop (and Hyperkit).
Hi Peter,

My wife (American citizen) and I (citizen of a South American country) got married in March of this year (we live on the East Coast) and I have submitted my Green Card application as well as Form I-765. Is it possible for an American company to hire me with that form pending? Or are my employment prospects basically zeroed until I receive said form?
Good points.

In startup terms, generally it's necessary to start with a MVP, from which you build on. The iterative approach is effective at ensuring you make progress toward the problem you're solving, but I agree, the risk is that you might end up carrying forward or "inheriting" problematic assumptions which can impede your ability to effectively solve the larger problem in the long run.

On the flipside, the iterative approach at the very least will help you understand the problem domain thoroughly from multiple perspectives (iterations), even if that means you periodically need to throw out all of your work and start again from scratch.
The status quo tends to be pretty good for the people who want a safe space from politics.
> Iran has been quite virtuous

I don’t think we should be assassinating scientists. But Tehran has been no angel [1]. Which is sad, since their people are one of the more peaceful in the region, judging from the limited polling we have.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_state-sponsored_ter...
The issue is whether these activities rise to the level of employment, that is, providing a service in exchange for some type of compensation or benefit or really anything of value. The main issues arise when the investor or advisor owns a piece of the company invested in or advised. The specifics very much matter, however, so send me an email if you would like to discuss.
> As Brian shared with the ColorBlock ERG this morning, we don’t care what The New York Times thinks. The most important thing we care about is you, our employees, and what you think.

(As long as you’re of the correct skin tone and political ideology)
Lightning Introduction to Nix for Developers
Back in 2017 there was a kickstarter to fund a connections app, it didnt hit the goal and i havent heard anything since. I remember he was on Dan Carlins podcast talking about it. Anyone know what became of the project?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/504632459/james-burke-c...
Yes, agreed. My friend said exactly the same thing.

I even pointed out that certain countries had lockdowns but had no excess deaths: https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/

But it’s all on deaf ears.
Hi Peter, thanks for doing this.

Founders need to understand the basics of immigration paperwork. For native citizen founders, this is probably our first interaction with the USCIS; we basically know nothing. Can you point us to any YC or legal white shoes backgrounder on what we need to know about hiring people at their various stages of immigration paperwork?
> Do you value independent thinking? If so, what part of the article did you most disagree with?

I wholeheartedly value being creative and coming up with fresh ideas, but I don't see how this is in any way connected to an innate property of being either "conventional-minded" or "independent-thinkers".

You could take his first four paragraphs (about scientists, investors, startup founders and essays) and continue as follows:

This is why it's important to be creative and be able to come up with new ideas — even in the most well-established places. In this essay I will share various techniques I use to stay creative.

But no, instead he divides the world into two categories ("independent-mindedness seems to be more a matter of nature than nurture"), says that you'll be most happy by doing your predestined work ("which means if you pick the wrong type of work, you're going to be unhappy"), and also outright says there are certain jobs that one of these groups can't do successfully.
I'm wondering if part of the problem with trying to come up with technology which allows us to propel ourselves vast distances "faster than the speed of light", is to do with how we abstract/describe the problem (and the proposed solution) in language.

For example; instead of saying "faster than the speed of light", would the problem not be better described using "faster than the speed of causality" ?

After all, isn't c really just the speed of Causality in a vacuum? (i.e. the time it takes for a beam of light from a source to be detected at, say, a distance of 500,000 kilometres, is basically the rate at which Causality allows that light to get from the emitter to the detector.)

And isn't the speed of Causality, basically like some kind of inertia-like quality of spacetime? (Apologies in advance - I'm trying to describe what's in my head as best I can using... language ;) ) For example - the speed of "light"/Causality through water is slower than the speed of "light"/Causality through a vacuum.

(And mea culpa - I am a layman, trying to make sense of all this in as best a way I can. I'm not sure if what I wrote makes any kind of sense (it does in my head))
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> Since COVID-19 mainly affects the elderly, experts expected an increase in the percentage of deaths in older age groups. However, this increase is not seen from the CDC data. In fact, the percentages of deaths among all age groups remain relatively the same.

This directly contradicts the excess mortality data published by CDC itself. [1] From the article it's unclear to me what evidence led to the claims presented. So far the article seems very unconvincing. Seems like John Hopkins has good reasons to take it down.

Also bear in mind that the excess mortality we've seen so far is with all the measures to limit the impact of the pandemic. It's fair to assume that excess mortality would be a lot higher without those. Our World In Data has a well explained international overview and analysis. [2][3]

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid

[3] https://ourworldindata.org/covid-excess-mortality
Where have I implied I hate the players? I certainly don't, nor do I think everything is terrible. I'm sorry it came off as such.

> I choose to believe that human progress will continue to solve the problems we face, in time. Because historically we always have.

This is where we disagree, I think. I don't see good evidence for this. I hope I'm wrong and you're right.
Who’s funding the Edge Foundation now that Brockman isn’t able to trade pop science against Epstein’s sexual abuses?
this is a tangent, but every single time i have ever watched an end user use "my" code i have learned an incredible amount. Often, related to how to make a CRUD app that isn't horrible to use!

Decoupling devs from exposure to these sorts of experiences is a huge disservice. Just sitting and watching someone use your product for a few hours is incredibly illuminating.
macOS 11 Big Sur Compatibility on Apple Silicon
You can have a small independent business. Buy a backhoe and become and excavator. Learn how to build custom cabinets.

You will need to hire people from time to time, but you won’t have to work in concert with anyone 40 hours a week.

In software, the best examples I see of that are in video games. Lots of solo developers. Hard to succeed but if you want it enough, the path is clear.

There are solo web developers too. But you need to be able to do sales and support.

You’re right startups are out because they grow and you’ll find yourself surrounded soon enough.

I guess my advice is treat your jobs like daily networking events, try to find people, especially with complementary skill sets, who you like and who like you. Have a side project, a game or a web dev company or whatever, and wait for a large enough revenue opportunity that you can incorporate and hire one of those people you got along with.

Problem is, the networking at work thing is nearly impossible if you’re as independent as you are. I’d recommend counseling. A therapist and/or career coach. Ideally both.
Totally agree. I think people should combine tools more. E.g. I use GUI tools to edit cells in a data frame e.g. But I do the processing in a programming language. Sometimes I may use Apple Numbers to create the visualization. When doing something visual such as creating plots, deciding colors, labels etc then a GUI tool is often more practical.

But the actual data processing seems a lot more practical with a programming language, as you got version control. Keep processing steps separate from data. Can modularize it etc.
Coinbase hit by connection, latency problems as Bitcoin plummets
Essential Features Should Be Part of Your Fintech Application Development
If I might be just a little bit snarky, in my experience the problem is not at all the level of friction in finding and organizing content. The main problem is that people put more minutes of stuff into their backlog "for later reading" than they take out. Every day the backlog grows, because every day there is more interesting stuff published and added to the backlog.

Apart from regularly declaring backlog bankruptcy, the only way out of this is to spend more time reading/listening and less time adding stuff to the backlog. No amount of optimizing the organisation of the backlog will help if you just keep going deeper and deeper into debt.
Great to see the lemond brand back after that armstrong stuff

Lemond was always a big hero of mine
Windows for Arm on M1 Mac Successfully Virtualized
Try to monetize the idea, and build a company around it.
I work at Microsoft 365 Workplace Analytics and I don't trust it
>This is due to the mentality of the population and the risk aversion of the investors

Can you please expand on those two points?
My company is concurrently filing the forms I-140 and I-485 for my GC in the EB3 category pretty soon. 180 days after that, when the AC21 rules kick in, and I have my EAD, would I be able to move to another state in the US and continue working remotely from home for the sponsoring employer in the same position?

Thanks!
It isn't on the list but how about Logitech.
Question I possibly couldn't ask a more appropriate person: how were the long-running server processes managed?

I really want to use PHP to manage backend-type, long-lived stuff... in a way that is relatively lightweight and self-managing, and idiomatically tolerates the occasional bit of unparseable syntax on script load or mis-named function call, without throwing a hissy fit.

Like... the only thing that'll typically ever knock php-fpm completely over is generally a script-triggered interpreter segfault, which is Bad™, exceptional, and (given php-fpm's collective uptime on all installations everywhere) vanishingly rare. Fatal error? FCGI response message passed upstream. Script exceeded execution time? Hard timeout (and message passed upstream). CLI SAPI? Clunk; no more script execution for you. I've always felt a bit left out in the cold by this, just in terms of how the language itself handles this edge case.

I guess I probably just stop whining and go setup systemd unit files or similar. That would definitely make the most sense in a production environment; I should probably build the muscle memory.

It's just that, for slower-paced and/or prototype-stage projects that don't have a clear direction... my brain's trying to reach for an equivalent of `php -S` that isn't there, and... I guess it's really easy to get idiomaticity-sniped, heh. ("But this project isn't a thing yet... and systemd unit files go in /etc, which is like, systemwide... and I forgot the unit file syntax again..." etc etc)

TL;DR, if this made sense :), did you ever encounter this sort of scenario, and how did you handle it? A $systemd_equivalent, language-level patches, shell script wrappers, cron, ...?

Oh, another curiosity - whenever remembering how pcntl_fork() works I usually have to reach for `killall php` a few times :) (especially when the forks are all using 100% CPU... and I accidentally start slightly too many...). How was killall isolated from nuking important server processes? Shebang line? Renamed interpreter binary (...probably not)? Different user accounts?

Thanks very much for reading :)
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Downvoting is reasonably considered peer punishment. To infer it has value as a (other than last ditch) teaching tool, seems like poor judgment to me. There are better options to apply to people who want to learn - which is mostly everyone.

edit: I can appreciate the snark value, however.
The thing here is that it seems Israel wants to provoke the Iranians into some sort of a response so that the U.S. gets involved before Trump leaves office.

It's mind boggling how the U.S. left the JCPOA, assassinated their top general & still somehow tries to pretend they have the moral high ground.

But these sorts of assassinations are known to be mainly Israeli operations.
Blackrota: obfuscated backdoor written in Go