skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This blog post leaves a badtaste of hierarchical management regiments of the 80's office culture. I see my manager as an enabler, not some kind of a master I need to follow orders from. I give more feedback to my manager than the other way around. They're eager to know how things are in the weeds.
I would love to hear more about this too.
A mantis shrimp hits as hard as a 22 caliber bullet and can break reinforced glass. The hit of a mantis shrimp generates cavitation sonoluminiscence upon impact.

The pistol shrimp also uses cavitation sonoluminiscence. Its claw creates a bubble that upon collapse reaches 7,700 °C (2,200 °C hotter than the sun).

Researchers created a larger, 3d printed version of the claw that creates the same effect. https://tees.tamu.edu/news/2019/04/shrimp-claw-inspires-new-...

And video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOdRRjskWcc
My grampa gave me my first pc and it had a cli I learned and then years later when I was introduced to Linux I just had an intuition for the basic commands and usage, I haven’t been able to track down what that PC was (it was cli only but could load games from floppy’s). I think it may have been an Amiga (this was in 98 but the pc was a decade+ old at the time.)
> Negative experiences get dismissed with a mix of victim blaming (usually "set and setting" comments) or explained away as exacerbating pre-existing underlying conditions. Eventually those with bad experiences give up on participating in discussions.

+1 to that and there is so much irony in it because of the focus on improved empathy.

I usually end up leaving druggie anecdote circle-jerks just wishing that peer reviewed studies merely existed, and further frustrated about how many challenges there are to getting to that point. Even state-level legalization is whack for studies.
> How those modern API runs on old HW?

Very well. The API Glauber (the author) describes has always been a good API for performance even with old HDDs and old CPUs.

In fact with very old CPUs the reduction in memory copies and system calls was more significant than it is now. The extra control over memory use with direct I/O is beneficial on some lower-end embedded systems too, e.g. video streaming from HDD on low memory systems.

It's just that before fast SSDs, there wasn't as much motivation to get the "best" I/O performance via complex APIs, because most of the time overhead was dominated by the HDD performance itself. (This was less true for big, fast RAIDs though.)

There was some benefit in a small amount of parallelism with HDDs, to improve block sorting, but that was usually best achieved with a few threads or processes, which is still a simple API to use, just read() and write() syscalls.

The only things really worth doing a complex API for before were O_DIRECT+AIO together, and even then they need a well-written, I/O-aware application to make them really worth using. In general, those applications have tended to be databases and VM hypervisors, but I've also seen it done for optimized file streaming to/from HDD on embedded systems. Though beneficial, the Linux AIO implementation had problems for a long time, even with O_DIRECT in some cases (such as filling holes in sparse files and extending files); so it was never reliably "true" async I/O. And there was no memory-buffer transfer and system call elision as there is with io_uring.

Now there is more motivation, so the API has been improved. O_DIRECT+AIO+io_uring is a better combination. The benefits are increasingly worth the effort for more kinds of applications due to the faster SSDs, and the SSDs' ability to handle large I/O request queues. But they would have been a good API combination for performance 20 years ago too.
Some video that was extracted.

http://www.r00t.cz/Sats/Change5
OpenGL is still "fine" on Windows and optimal on Linux (which if their survey is accurate, are both larger platforms for them than Mac https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2020/ ).

Of course, they could go full dx12 on Windows, Vulcan on Linux and Metal on Mac, but precisely because their needs are not that demanding in the graphics department, I imagine the incentive is to keep it simple
> military-industrial complex

Here's a link [1] to the list with the world's richest persons. Can you tell me how many of them made their fortunes in the military-industrial business?

To spare you a click, here's the top 10: Bezos, Arnault, Musk, Gates, Zuckerberg, Buffet, Ellison, Page, Ortega, Brin. Tech (7), fashion (2) and finance (1). You can go on and on. I'd be very curious at what position you can find a military-industrial billionaire.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/#31614dc93d78
I split my thumb in two with a rusty manchette a few years back.

I had a night in emergency, surgery under general. Plus an overnight stay for plastic surgery reconstruction, plus pain killer drugs and an extra visit after a few weeks and the whole thing cost me less than 2k. (and almost no scarring and full functionality returned.)

This is in Australia.
I think the tipping point may be when you first get a job that allows you to save a meaningful amount of money. for me, this changed the question from "how much can I give and still make rent?" to "how much can I give and still hit my savings goal?". "will I ever be able to retire?" leads to a very different mindset from "how early will I be able to retire?".
I don't think that an entry-level MacBook is the right computer for you. Chill.
If you and your partner both spent 40 hours every single week on Zoom with 1080p cameras, that's still less than 1 TB of data. The cap is 1.2 TB, and you can get around it by paying an extra $25. It's hard to think of actual cases where this hurts people working from home.

There are certainly ways to go over that cap, but just doing your regular office or programming job from home doesn't seem like the best way to do it.

I guess my point is, yeah, by all means screw Comcast, but the linked article is misleading in its headline.
Very interesting. Have you written anything else about hitchhiking? I would read it. Also: nice photos on your Flickr.
Going after home cheesemaker:Cease and desist.I never thought this would happen
IoT wouldn’t be such a shit show if we designed in good manual failovers. There should always be functionality available at the next lowest complexity level.
Iceberg A-68A: Hit or Miss?
Here it comes. Going after Home Cheesemaker for sharing too good recipe. Unfortunately R.Stallman predicted it in his talks. The more predicted cases we observe the less hypothetical and crazy his ideas appear.
Ah lovely, as an alternative to systemd? Sweet!
Microsoft's Creepy New 'Productivity Score' Gamifies Workplace Surveillance
If curious see also

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17427593

2011 (a bit) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2498868

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1627246
I simply don't believe he lacks those skills. He says "Python. I feel bad about this one — I have worked with Python for several years at some point and I’ve never bothered to actually learn it."

He's skilled at JavaScript and C# and worked with Python for years, what's the betting he's as good as any typical Python developer, if not better? Pretty good, I'd think.

> "I struggle to read either LISP-inspired (like Clojure), Haskell-inspired (like Elm), or ML-inspired (like OCaml) code"

How many people don't know Haskell but can successfully struggle through reading it instead of having their eyes glaze over and completely refuse to try?

> "CORS. I dread these errors! I know I need to set up some headers to fix them but I’ve wasted hours here in the past."

"I don't know it - but I've also worked on it and know how to fix it and done so" - hmmmm. I suspect he is more capable than he's making out; politely talking himself down.
More Mutt from 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24173676
For any first prospective first timers in the Bay Area reading this....

Nature is the way to go.

Oakland volcanic preserve. Go at 6am and hike to the top. You won’t be able to see anything because of the fog.

When the fog disappears and you see the world.... it’s like 4K oled meets virtual reality. Except the your peripheral bounds span beyond imax.

That + color. There are so many micro world vibes that will blow your mind. The different shades of green based on where you are the park will lead to different emotions.

Unforgettable.

For another trip; Berkeley’s botanical preserves (if you can get access) are a completely different vibe. As I’m sure you can imagine. Access can be a little tough.

Anyways, as one who always ‘yeah yeah yeah’d those who appreciated nature around me.

I finally learned to shut the fuck up and appreciate nature.
As another commenter is right to point out, a multi-region setup would suffice—no additional cloud provider(s) necessary. This outage says more about companies failing to architect adequate failover than it does about the risks of the cloud.
I don't find it to be any more sluggish on my Mac compared to my coworkers on Linux. If anything I have a better experience than them due to various random Linux UI glitchiness (which could probably be attributed to the specific hardware they are using, but still).
The definitive source on the history of artillery sound ranging through WWII is Hercz, "Development of the Field Artillery Observation Battalions". He says:

"The first officially recognized experiments in sound ranging started in September 1914, when a professor of astronomy from the Paris Observatory was given leave from service at the front to work on this new idea. In Paris he consulted with Lucien Bull of the Marey Physiological Institute... On November 17, 1914, various systems were tested at a base laid out at the Marey Institute. Two guns firing from 4 kilometers away were located within about 50 Meters."

He also credits Ernest Esclangon of the Bordeaux Observatory with discovering that the microphones needed to filter out the high frequency sound of the shell in flight and listen only to the low frequency sound of the gun wave.

And he adds, "The Germans expedited the work by conveniently moving the front lines to the suburbs of Paris, where the scientists could readily travel between the laboratories and the ultimate proving ground of combat areas."
I was an Amiga user for most of the late 80's and early 90's. The hardware didn't change much over the years. Software wise, OS 2.0 was a huge upgrade, but hardware wise, it felt like little changed until AGA. AGA machines (1200/4000) were too little, too late. If the had come out in 1990 instead of 1993, it might've been enough of a lead. Maybe in an alternate universe where the A3000 had AGA.
Thanks for posting that. I never thought I’d see a video from a manufacturer telling me how to “factory reset” a light bulb.

How did we get here and when will it stop?
The article describes the microscopic plating but doesn't show it. Here's a picture!

http://cdn.sci-news.com/images/enlarge8/image_9093_2e-Acromy...

Source: http://www.sci-news.com/biology/acromyrmex-echinatior-biomin...
I am afraid that a variance in both alcohol content and psilocybin produced by such symbiotic culture could mean that some users will get an unexpectedly huge dose of both.
I liked the specificity in your original post.

For myself, the example in the blog post brings up a lot of feelings from previous complex relationships with managers and their managers.

I have been in contexts where asking for a heads up on skip level feedback would have seemed reasonable. I have been in contexts where asking for a heads up on skip level feedback would have felt like retaliation. I’ve honestly been more fearful of saying anything at all in skip level 1:1 in recent years, from those previous experiences of feelings of retaliation.
I can only offer an anecdote but it's fine outside your first time as long as you're comfortable with yourself and your life and setting.

I wouldn't do it around other people who aren't part of your adventure though.
My dad was an immigrant, and my mothers parents were was well, and I do think some aspects do provide opportunities, but I'm not sure it will negate the long term tail winds faced by many and would rather wait it out while they seem to be ok with engaging in the state of affairs.

> where did you move to?

I moved to Jakarta for now (and a few other places "nearby" for weeks/months here and there pre pandemic) and have been working remotely for the past 5 years for a variety of companies globally.

> How much better are things there?

For me, there is more social economic freedom, cheaper cost of living, more social cohesion (probably related to the fact that the distribution of wealth isn't as skewed towards the wealthy as it has become in the US), and relatively weak government (less downside risk with federal diktats) with nowhere near the amount of %debt to gdp in household/corp/gov sectors. But still faces similar headwinds stagnation in many places and issues unique challenges to being spread out over many islands. Though, I still remain flexible and have my eyes out for others places that could be better in the future.

> And what other countries do you think are in better shape than the US?

Overall I think SEA is pretty good as far as near future. Not really sure about anywhere else (besides nice island enclaves few on earth can enjoy like caymens, seychelles, etc.). There's just a lot of convergence going on between areas globally in all aspects of ones life and I really think that with our current global communications infrastructure being able to enable different forms of organization, there are a lot of existential questions about what things will look like going forward: what most people will accept? what actors will exert sovereignty? how will the most indebted nation/city states (and sub jurisdictions and corporates) deal with declining tax revenues/cash flows in the face of not just mobile capital, but a mobile workforce?

Exciting times!
Awhile ago, when I first heard of this, I thought it was just a curiosity.

Now I'm starting to think it's reopening gateways that were long thought closed.
Only speculating, but maybe it's because the legal status of psilocybin prevents all but the people who are most interested in it from taking it. If it were legally available then maybe more people that would use it casually would emerge than if it were illegal, and the number of negative experiences would increase. From what I understand, it's best to have a good mindset and have someone else knowledgeable of the substance to guide you through the process, otherwise it isn't as effective or harmful to the psyche.
> from hackaday gave me all sorts of sh*t because I used GET to activate and deactivate a PIN.

The biggest issue with this is that some common chat programs and text message providers will request URLs for virus checking or getting image previews.

Using a GET isn't a bad idea but if a random service using your GET url can cause trouble, it is a bad idea. You'd be surprised how often you need to move a URL from a device to another and end up emailing it / texing it / slacking it to myself :D
You don't even need a fancy machine. Simple practice with flipping and catching a quarter in a consistent way can get you statistically significant differences from a 50:50 ratio between heads and tails.

The important part is that you're catching the flipped coin out of the air, rather than letting it bounce on the ground. The bounce is much less controllable than how high and how quickly you're spinning the coin - the bounce depends not only on the rotational and kinetic energy, but the exact phase angle it lands at, whereas at the end of the catch you only care about how high and quickly you flipped the coin, which can be done consistently enough by hand.

And honestly, even if they brought a machine, as long as you allow it to land without interference and call which side you want in the air, it'll end up being fine. They'd have to know which side you'd pick in order to rig it, and that's just as bad as the initial coinflip.
Yes and it can confirm your feelings of security as well.
Exactly this, the people from Austria and southern Germany don't find that name offensive at all. They've had enough. And now they exert their right to be left alone and not be harassed by a serious number of english speaking idiots. Places ending in -ing hasnt the same grammatical meaning like doing something, that scheme is really common (Mering, Kissing, Manching, Piding, Peiting, and hundreds more). It's the same idiots that beleaguer known instagram photo spots - just a worse kind. And only for some quick silly joke that humiliates the people there. This will hopefully stop the influx of assholes stealing the village's signpost, "insta posing" at the village sign and making prank calls. Also note that normal people live there, probably in a closer knit arrangement than you normally would assume (3 digit inhabitants). I'm rather sure that persons who profit off the infamous name are looked down to (eg. the silly "Fucking Hell" beer brand, "hell" meaning light in that case in german). Dont forget it's normal people living over there, Doctors, Engineers, Farmers - and they want to be treated that way :)

PS: The pronunciation will not change.
You're literally describing the bubble. An asset that is worth $20k one day, and worth $6k 6 months later, is worthless to anyone except speculators, speculating on... a bubble.

This is short term thinking and a general mischaracterization.

First, we've never seen a new form of money created in realtime, so it's hard to say how it's supposed to perform.

However, nobody should expect something that will fairly soon have the same market cap as gold (about $10 trillion dollars) to not have a lot volatility as it grows. The tech darlings of today—Apple, Google, Twitter, etc. were also quite volatile as they grew.

There's a lot of ups and downs for Apple as it went from darling startup to nearly going out of business in the mid-90's to a $2 trillion dollar market cap today.

As you may know, the mantra in the bitcoin community is to HODL—hold on for dear life, not to time the market. For long term investors, the ups and downs don't matter.

A publicly traded company that puts its treasury of $425 million into Bitcoin isn't speculating: https://www.microstrategy.com/en/bitcoin.
Best Jupyter Notebook for Enterprise
I'm exploring options for our Data Science team and seems to be few Enterprise ready Notebook solutions (Sagemaker, AI Platform Notebooks, Databrick's) any suggestions/feedback for the above 3 options? *Enterprise ready means SLO, Security, Permissions integration, encryption.
That's true. It can be a total nightmare trying to configure stable hardware rendering on a lot of linux distro/hardware combos.
We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines and ignoring our requests to stop. You can't post like this, regardless of how right you are on the issues, or feel you are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Good work, thanks. I feel bad saying "why don't you" when I'm not willing to PR it myself but ... it would be really good if each "Show" had a permalink so you could send a link to someone and be sure they would find it (within https://showhn-dashboard.netlify.app/). Thanks again.
Don’t forget these guys, I’ve been to both -

https://goo.gl/maps/tyDE578TkHtShaPp6

https://goo.gl/maps/anpHReZbbHGgNtki6
Unfortunately the upcoming legislation doesn't make psilocybin available to casually try out - it won't be available for over-the-counter purchase like marijuana/alcohol, but rather during therapy sessions with a therapist specifically licensed to administer psilocybin. Possession of small amounts of it have been "decriminalized" (you need to pay a fine or go to rehab, but you don't go to jail) along with cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, etc. but it still isn't fully legal to purchase and possess per se.
That's exactly what I was thinking while reading this. Whenever I see things like "apply the font style to a nbsp, to ensure the DOM loads it" I always wonder why web developers so often have to "trick" the browser. Why can't we flesh out the common use cases and come up with something clean that web developers and browser vendors can agree on?

As for using a fallback font that closely matches to minimize the impact of the switch over, how realistic is that? In the demo I felt the fallback font looked very different from the final font (in weight, style and size) and I'm wondering if it's because I'm on Android and the author chose fallbacks that only match on their OS?
Our fucking community pool has an app to unlock the gate. Why do I need to install your app to open a gate?

I refused to install it and demanded a keycard. People look at me like I’m a freak when I open the door with it.
A) I find utility outages are rather rare - I can't remember the last time power or water failed at my house (it's been some number of years at least).

B) Devices _need_ power and water (depending on the device). There's no reason my Dyson fan has to talk to an external server to be controlled by an app on my phone, but it does. It's an unnecessary dependency.
https://twitter.com/Catfish_Man/status/1326238434235568128?s...
I go the middle ground. I get a toaster that toasts with a dial that goes from 1 to 10, and set it to 4 for my toast.

Result: toast goodness.

I don't need a toaster like this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec
By "loading delays" do you mean FOUT? I did see FOUT when I visited.
The Fungible DPU mentioned in the article is capable of it, it's only very briefly mentioned in that article but it does link to a more in depth article about it. https://www.servethehome.com/fungible-f1-dpu-for-distributed...
This simply is not true.
I am not the person you replied to, however spores are readily available online in many nations (they are absent psilocybin/psilocin, and thus are often unregulated and lawfully sold as syringes or prints), and techniques like "PF Tek" are simple, well documented, and speedy.
To avoid being caught could be one reason. Why would they hide the feature without option in GUI to turn it off? We do not know. Possibly they are hiding something else, something bigger, who knows.
Canada must have cheated. How did they jump -$22 in one year? I didn’t notice these discounts.
Using lasers to deliberately blind people is illegal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_on_Blinding_Laser_Wea...
How do you deal with skin waste etc.? Reducing dust is certainly possible, but I thought it is just impossible to bring it even remotely close to zero to make vacuuming unnecessary.
Teasel where how when ?
>There's a famous book about Linux internals that I don't remember the name (but has "Linux" and "internals" on it)

this one? https://0xax.gitbooks.io/linux-insides/content/index.html

though it says insides instead of internals