skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of:
https://vaportini.com/

Inhalation must hit pretty hard, any alcohol vape for recreational use would have to be some form of micro-dosing.

A small hit if alcohol vape might be a nice anxiety reducer. A functional alcoholics dream, no smell, no bloat, fuck - no calories. Wish it wasn’t addictive.

Definitely think this needs more exploration. Could we just make better drugs already. Give me the pill or vape, why must I drink 700 calories and smell like it? Oh, and could I buy it at the grocery store and not have to goto a doctor (dealer) too? Promise to be responsible.
> Since my duty cycle for a Mac Mini is rather less than 20%, the economics even of on-demand instances immediately make sense,

Are you factoring in the 24 hour minimum AWS charges for a Mac Mini?
"At what cost" is what I'm going to ask. Startups will do it - okay - at what cost? What funding do they need that ITER is somehow consuming their budget?

The US military expenditure for fiscal year $934 billion dollars. That is not the actual spend. ITER, over it's entire 20-30 year history will cost about $23 billion USD projected. So a $1 billion or less per year.

By comparison, the US military budget between FY 2019 and FY 2020 increased in proposed (i.e. the actual spend was more) by $63 billion USD.

So the US, somehow, between 2019 and 2020 found the money for another 3 entire ITER projects. Just kick another 3 20-30 year projects out, fully funded.

Uber has raised $24.5 billion USD to date. A company who's principle asset is an algorithm which dispatches taxis, raised enough money to literally fund it's own ITER project.

So "At what cost" - what are these startups needing to be budgeted for, that are going to be so much cheaper, that they are unable to get any of this money? Set aside the actual defense spend of the US - but I mean, how can you, the US runs nuclear powered carriers, and would have infinite utility for a compact fusion power plant - how is it that ITER is always the problem here, and not that this notion of "we need startups" might actually be running into funding issues because on closer examination they're not actually as cheap, the data is not as convincing, or they're actually about to ask for just as much money.

So again, how much money do these alleged startups need? Why is it apparently so hard for them to get it, when the total valuation of ITER is being thrown around by venture capitalists pretty regularly and the prize is dominance of the next several centuries of power generating technology?
I’m Confused why you keep your magical laptop screen a secret??
Education = Enterprise edition for all practical purposes, so they wouldn't have to pay.
The terms seem to be a perfect fit for MacStadium and a poor fit for everyone else, including AWS. Do you think AWS wants to bill by the second…with 24 hours up front? Does this match their business model at all?

It's really not Apple's business to try to protect people from "performance issues due to multiple tenancy". People who buy these things already know how this works.
I think the no serious cases includes the over 55s. The BMJ are clearer in their wording

>The analysis included 131 covid-19 cases and showed the vaccine was 62% effective when given as two standard doses (8895 participants) one month apart, but 90% effective when a half dose followed by a standard dose regime (2741) was used. No hospitalised or severe cases were found in anyone who received the vaccine. https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4564

I think the 62% effectiveness which on the surface doesn't look that good, included basically asymptomatic people who PCR tested positive.

I'm not sure the other testing included asymptomatics so the difference between the vaccines may not be as large as it looks.
99% of said apps are actually nothing more than CRUD Web forms, or crap games easily done with WebGL + WebAssembly, so no it isn't the only way.
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> So, replace threads with separate processes that communicate via ring buffers

... but those ringbuffers you're using presumably have a lockfree fast path with a futex or pthread mutex slow path to prevent the consumer from busy-waiting, so you're still taking advantage of lockfree data structures.
There seems to be an organization to this. I'd almost think it's guide, almanac, or calendar.

Maybe the wiggly lines mean something, 12 days after planting some seeds or something. It really looks like an information writing system
Well, ARC is supposed to produce an order of magnitude more power than a WW2 destroyer power plant produced, so I'm not sure why that comparison is relevant. The first application of fusion reactors will presumably not be naval ships.

Anyway, assuming your 4000 ton figure is correct, that works out to 125 kW/ton. For comparison, a quick googling suggests a wind power plant is around 3 kW/ton, excluding the rather massive foundation of the tower.
exactly this. Thanks for the practical example.

The reason it is less relevant for integer computations is that integer ops have normally lower latency and tend to have shorter loop carried dependency chains.
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Congratulations, you’ve made it! I’ve been the victim of both Chinese and American IP theft with my startup as well except I had issues with Apple, not Amazon. It is a sign of your success. Perhaps start using words like “genuine”, “original” of “not a cheap knockoff” in your product descriptions. Unfortunately, IP theft is a big deal and we can’t really touch China.
> preach about the open web and breaking the habit of forcing publishers to pay in order to survive

> "solution" is a pro-only subscription model
It's true that Mac revenue exceeds that for iPads, but on the other hand Apple sells almost twice as many iPads as Macs. So from a business perspective the Mac might win out, but as a cultural phenomenon arguably the iPad has a much bigger impact.

Already at work iPads with keyboard cases often outnumber laptops in meetings. That shouldn't be surprising as people already have a full computer at their desks. My eldest is in 6th form (highschool) and is a gamer, so she has a decently powerful laptop in her room and her daily carry at school is an iPad and Pencil. When she goes to university we'll consider a keyboard case to go with it.

If you don't have a use for a powerful laptop, a skinny M1 Macbook Air is certainly very tempting and together with a powerful phone could cover some people's needs fine. I think the takeaway is that we now have a very granular, highly flexible set of devices available, covering a huge range of different combinations of use cases. It's not just about the individual tool anymore, it's about the right toolkit to meet our specific set of needs.
How does NTS work and why is it important
> Almost, as boring as asking why people get stuck in traffic, when effectively there is only one highway in the region connecting two important points.

Another thing that's boring is false equvalences. There are tons of other "highways", ie platforms that allow for communication like facebook does. People don't choose them.
For me it just represents Linux generation coming to grips with reality, most of it they have to blame themselves by shitting on the GPL, and pushing everyone to adopt Chrome.

For me, growing up with closed platforms, shareware, and tools that people actually paid for, it is business as usual.
Since you don't even need a facebook account to use Whatsapp, in what way are Whatsapp users forced to end up on Facebook?
This is wrong, for a programming interview FAANG and friends care greatly about mitigating legal risk and would not treat them any differently. Interviewers typically have their own questions and may have only glanced at the resume.
You can call them EC2 instances then. They aren’t VMs at all.
It's mostly Linear Algebra is you want to look it up. And it's one of the more fun / intuitive "college" maths, at least the basics of it.
Yes, but I think that misses the original point of OP's argument, which is that the variable cost nature of SaaS is beneficial to customers that don't want to or can't think about 3 vs 5 year lifecycles.

And while you may still have a perfectly valid use case for hardware, I think the growth of IaaS speaks for itself in showing that variable pricing is popular.
This may be a joke comment - but this is not the idea of the study. From the introduction:

the idea is to use alcohol inhalation as it reduce surface tension on the alveoli and markedly decrease sputum formation with improvement on oxygenation beside its cytolethal effect on virus lipid bilayer.
Opinion: What ‘The Social Dilemma’ Documentary Got Wrong
CI runners are kinda different than VM hosting. I mean sure you could abuse them to run sshd and interactively use them for a while :D but the service as intended is that you don't "rent" the VM in any meaningful way, it's fully theirs, they just run your one single job on it and show you the logs.
I should add: I have trouble these days even just using Firefox. Apparently, since its marketshare has dwindled to 3%, many sites either just don't support it, or their fraud detection algorithms view it as suspicious. E.g.: a bank I use has a website that supports Edge, but not FF; I tried to buy something through Amazon with FF a few months ago, and the account immediately got locked for "suspicious activity." Maybe I would have had similar troubles using Chrome on the iPhone, but I doubt it.

Imagine how useless an alternative browser more obscure than FF would be; you wouldn't be able to buy or sell anything, do any banking, and even basic, passive web browsing would result in never-ending CAPTCHAs on many sites.
That's likely to get the source of the leak shipped off for re-education. Most likely not one of the authors of the document, but they'd possibly be able to find out who had access to all those files.
Sure, but then a copy cat scammer will pop up in its place. This will be a time and money sink for OP unless he has the coin to keep a lawyer on retainer until the end of time.
No particular indication of that. This runs over Thunderbolt 3 anyway
I have been in post PC since 2006. Working on laptops with docking station has been a fact since then.
“Another” take or bad take on state management?
This seems to be another take on state management, apparently "the right way".
Given all of this, what approach does RISC-V take?

The RISC-V is presumably very 'greenfield' regarding its memory model, I imagine they've made their decision based on all this knowledge.
Prior to Big Sur, it's my understanding the macOS SLA explicitly disallowed this. Snippet:

> Except as otherwise permitted by
the terms of this License or otherwise licensed by Apple: (i) only one user may use the Apple Software at
a time, and (ii) you may not make the Apple Software available over a network where it could be run or
used by multiple computers at the same time. You may not rent, lease, lend, sell, redistribute or
sublicense the Apple Software.
Look at it the other way round: the company is bearing a cost 10% of revenue just in commission to salespeople. If all salespeople are exactly meeting quota, then the total cost of sales is 20% of revenue. The same applies to their manager, at 2.5%, for a total of 25% of revenue. The remaining 75% has to pay for everyone else in the company, and external costs!
I had the same thought. They put sugar everywhere even in the fries recipe (¼ cup white sugar, 2 tablespoons white corn syrup, ...) !
Network effects around facebook mean it is far more expensive for people's social lives to use those highways.
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." (Lev Tolstoi; 'Anna Karenina')

('Все счастливые семьи похожи друг на друга, каждая несчастливая семья несчастлива по-своему.'), for the purists.)
Creative computing is just a subset of computational design though and wouldn't have sufficed... also see my answer here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25263818
You don't have to install anything if you don't want to. You are free to not watch tv shows you don't want to.

Some content creators protect their's content more some less. What has that to do with open web?
In which circles is this the case? I know personally many people who don't have any "posts" in any meaningful way or quantity, and a number of ones that don't have any presence on social networks. Then there are a lot of other people who technically have presense there, but just in a way that they have an account - not in a way of using it or logging into it.

It is also strange to hear that if you have a landlord who is weird by asking for facebook account - that the assumption is that it's Mark Zuckerberg's fault? Shouldn't you blame the landlord for that?
The one place i workd with customer support people, they had a commission structure similar to sales, but based on retention. Is this not normal?
I don't think so. The essence of draid is that, instead of keeping a spare drive unused in case one of the working drives fail, it incorporates the spare drive to the array and uses it, but one drive worth of free space is reserved randomly across the entire array.

That way, if one disk fails, the reserved space is used to write the data necessary to keep the array consistent. Because the free space is distributed randomly across the array, the write performance of a single drive doesn't become a bottleneck.

This is unrelated to the ability to remove drives from a pool (which is difficult to support in ZFS due to design constraints)
I tried blogging once. Also didn't have enough ideas for content and no compelling theme, to boot. Used to have imposter syndrome bad, but at some point I just stopped caring about it.

What I DID do was to write things down. Any time I discovered a new thing (risk managment, recovery-oriented computing, various consulting tips/tricks/and so on) I wrote down what I wanted to remember. But I wrote that down on my web site, in HTML. Sometimes when I procrastinate I look to improve the layout, language or content.

There's not a huge amount of content there (maybe 20 posts?), but it seems to interest others so that's ok I guess. I'm happy with my blogging-but-not-blogging thing. It scratches the itch without consuming me, my time, and I don't need an editor.

That said there's a lot of other stuff on there that floats my boat, so there's that work/play variety which floats my boat.

https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/work
>This to me is one of the really big but less talked-about implications of Apple Silicon

Yes. Everyone is too busy hyping. No one is asking questions. ( Hype has die down a bit and we are now starting to see some quality information and discussions going [1] )

It was basically Apple admitting defeat. I mean even Steve Jobs didn't write off PC completely[1]. Or Intel is partly to blame because their roadmap were off by 4 years. The MacBook 12" in 2015 was designed with the hypothetical 10nm in mind.

People keeps talking about Tablet taking over PC, Phone taking over Tablet etc. It really isn't the form factor. It is the default input devices, and how they are optimised for. The PC is strictly optimised for Keyboard and Mouse. And for lots of task, business conducting activities, Keyboard and Mouse remains the best option. Business are not switching to Tablet, or Tablet with Keyboard. In fact they are switching back to Keyboard and mouse for lots of the task they thought Tablet were better. In other sectors, AutoCAD CEO mentioned ( sorry cant find the video , it was about 2-3 years ago asked by Emily Chang on Bloomberg ) in certain fields ( I remember it was construction ) all of the their customers has literally moved to Tablet / iPad. So it really isn't a once size fits all solution.

And the PC market is still growing. A very low single digit number, so 2020 will be an outliner. But it didn't slump to 150M or 100M unit a year as many predicted. Something somehow even Horace Dediu refuse to admit.

And since the PC market ( WorldWide, so you could argue China and India or other countries are picking things up ) is not shrinking by any definition, there are still innovations to be made. Estimate of 1.5B of PC Worldwide ( You wont find an actual real number, since even Microsoft doesn't have clue and keep changing it ), 750M of those are business. Compared to ~110M Mac, there are plenty of space to grow. In 2015 I wrote about Mac should be at least 150M and really should be pushing for 200M by 2020 if they continue with momentum, which they didn't. Luckily Apple was only really competing with itself.

The new Mac will have lots of user switching or coming back. There seems to be enough margin for an even cheaper MacBook Air at 11" or 12". Depending whether Apple follows the iPhone playbook where they have 16" and 14" for Pro, then the MacBook Air will be 14" and 12". That is going to be quite disruptive for a 12" MacBook Air at $799 and for Students $699.

Having said all that, whether Apple remains committed to Mac in its ideal as a Personal Computer, or a lock down iPad Appliance remains to be seen. It seems Apple execs are unsure. I could only wish a Mac remains a Mac.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25257932

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfJ3QxJYsw8
It was dead long time ago. China shut it off in decades. I guess like history meant western history, philosophy meant western philosophy hence no one noticed it is mostly a way trip - chinese firm can freely roam internet (but not chinese) but western firm cannot roam there. In fact whilst not always if you start from us and uk some chinese firm now block you.

It is like who, un, ... the stronger china meant a broken system as they are not really open up. Free trade if benefit then. No free information if not. After 2 decades and the west still not wake up. Good luck to humanity.
While I agree that it is backwards compatible, I don't agree it's a GUI. It's a document, and HTML is a document standard. The GUI comes from the browser, whose creator can choose which standard to adhere to, if any. For proof, all you need to do is look at caniuse.com or MDN. Come to think of it, can you say with utmost certainty that today's HTML5 standard will continue to be supported in 25 years' time?

That's part of the problem with developing for the modern web - HTML isn't at all composable, because it has no concept of partial views, unless you count iframes.

While improvements have been made, it still poorly supports an app model, leaving us to add warts through JavaScript. Although even it is improving, it has plenty of its own warts.

In addition to not supporting an app model, the web wasn't built with online payments in mind, has no concept of online identity and no concept of data ownership.

The result: dark patterns like tracking cookies, wild growth of payment providers (good and bad), data siphoning, erosion of privacy and the expectancy thereof, and so on.
rsync.net already provides zfs receive capability: https://www.rsync.net/products/zfsintro.html
There are only a few bolts holding the back end onto the safety cell. It's designed to detach in a really big crash so that it doesn't impact on the safety cell if possible.
I think this is a healthy way to approach side hustles, but may not scale well to full projects.
The web is not that bad if you just look at the western side. There is no war in the western front. Just child play cf with the real war.
> Since my duty cycle for a Mac Mini is rather less than 20%, the economics even of on-demand instances immediately make sense,

What are you doing with macs that naturally works out at ~one continuous 24h period per work-week on average? Turn on CI once a week Thursday midnight, and no one goes into the weekend before all test failures are fixed?
No I'm sure AWS don't want it either.

And it absolutely is 100% typical of Apple to do this kind of thing. They don't want third party companies to provide offerings which might cause them problems or degrade their brand/perception.

I'm not at all saying these terms were added to benefit AWS. More that they were a condition of Apple doing this first official cloud partnership.
You're not supposed to let them touch. You won't go to space^W^W^W have fusion today if the magnetically confined plasma somehow escapes its confinement and touches the walls of the plasma chamber, let alone the cryogenics of the magnets.

Besides creating the pressure, that purpose of the magnets is to keep the _few grams_ of plasma away from the walls of the otherwise vacuum chamber.

Look up magnetic levitation, where you keep an object up using just a magnet. Now imagine huge magnets that push against an object from all sides, creating a ton of pressure. (Don't forget to include a whole bunch of fancy math to prevent the object from slipping away like a wet bar of soap you squeeze with your hands.) At no point should the object touch any of the magnets.

Also keep in mind that when you (don't) want to heat something else up it's not the temperature that matters, but the total energy of the object. And the total energy is basically mass x temperature difference. So 1 gram at a million degrees is equivalent to 1 Kg at a thousand degrees, which is a lot less scary.
I can't make a WhatsApp call from my windows pc or control my tuya WiFi thermostat and it's ilk. It's the day's of near guaranteed "windows compatible" that have suddenly ended, and an era fading with it.
How's the memory consumption of ZFS without deduplication these days? I've got a couple of 4 TB drives connected to a single board ARM computer with 2 GB of RAM. I used to use btrfs, but switched to XFS after I accidentally filled up a drive and was unable to recover.
Well it doesn't really... The value is the transaction infrastucture that it creates around it. If that and the blockchain data is gone some day, it's completely worthless. While gold would still be some nice looking piece of metal...

But eventually the prices are still mostly created just by speculation... So the intrinsic value doesn't even really matter. It just comes down to what is easier to transport and store.
If by "expensive" you mean having to make 2 more clicks for some action, or installing 5 apps instead of one - then I argue that it's not that important to people to use those other highways in the first place. That's just not a high price to pay for anyone who cares about not being on facebook. If they are not willing to pay it, it is an indication that they just don't care. It seems that tech people have a hard time to realize this: most people are fine with facebook, knowing all its evils.

And of course the other platforms, they should keep improving and bringing those number of clicks down, and polishing up the UI, etc. But I just mean that they are already up there in terms of usability, at least in the same league.

PS. Heck, people can't even be bothered to spend 5 minutes listening about and 5 clicks installing adblock/ublock... I suppose that's Zuckerberg's fault too. /s
Ungleich is launching the IPv6 advent calendar
Depends on where. Some hedge funds like DE Shaw are known to hoard olympiad talent.
Anthos on bare metal is now GA
Fusion has been 10 years away ... for how many decades now. I am younglin when old engulf to heard about the promo use. It is still decades away.

2025 is a surprise target as it is only 5 years away.
The video above is from ARTE, a French-German public broadcaster (i.e., not Chinese propaganda).

It's a fairly critical look at Wuhan and the government response there, which nevertheless shows the stark contrast between what's happening now in China vs. Europe and the US.
That would be an even more interesting feature for NILFS2, as I understand it, its ring buffer structure requires moving the oldest unmodified blocks as the ring buffer write frontier approaches. Any blocks that are forced to be copied are by definition old and unmodified, and need to be moved anyway, so why not recompress? AFAIK, there are no plans for compression in NILFS, but I think it's an interesting idea.
It seems we are making the assumption that GitHub/MacStadium are bound by the same terms as everyone else. There is nothing that says they can't get special treatment for some arbitrary reason.