skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 4th amendment

> The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

The 5th amendment

> No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

IMO it's pretty cut and dry that the government can't just seize your stuff on a whim, and was written as a reaction to the British Crown doing exactly this sort of thing.
“Oh, just one more thing...”
So 46,000 in disposable income? That's a massive amount of money by normal-person standards.

Hell, the fact that you had $30k in a 401k that you could borrow from yourself already makes you exceptional.
Western Governor's! Recognized that name, they're spammers. "Ready to start your dream job?"
> I did have to do engineering and got the hard technical questions all day long. It's not your run of the mill sales job, the sales person used me as their tech arm. It was mentally exhausting.

I had a role similar to what you are describing at one point. I got to the point where I was basically mentally exhausted and short-tempered all the time. I had a lot of in-person meetings and strongly preferred web meetings. With web meetings you only put on your game face for the length of the meeting. With in-person meetings you travel to, you need to put on your game face for much longer, including before and after the actual meetings.

IMO the way to not destroy yourself in PSE roles is to basically be the type of person who is okay with having a very superficial technical understanding of the wide range of things you see at customers. Otherwise there are an infinite number of technical things you can become an expert on, and other people in your team and sales people will absolutely crush you under the weight of all the different questions your customers have.

At least for me, I was an technical expert in a bunch of enterprise level technologies and duct tape stuff that basically translated into nothing if I moved a bit out of the software I was responsible for. Some people are okay with that. I was not and it really crushed my mental state after a few years.
Well... having n browser tabs open is hard on the brain, particularly when they're similar.
Compared to Witcher 3, they DID do this with 2077. 2077's main storyline is roughly 20 hours long, while the Witcher's is about 50 hours. CDPR is kind of known for their longer story driven stuff, and its my understanding they took that feedback in this game and made the primary quest shorter while expanding the optional quest branching.
Although I agree that their purpose wasn't to reduce the market value of software to zero, it is the effect. That's why it's disingenuous to me. It's an attempt to route around an obvious truth: if you allow someone to distribute your software freely, you've set its market value to zero. Not sure how you can disagree with this.

You haven't offered any counterargument to that.
If you know what you're doing with a common LAMP setup that wordpress requires, you can totally host wordpress on a $2.50 per month virtual machine.

If it gets a huge volume of traffic, set up nginx as a caching proxy in front of it. On the same VM.
are there any good articles about what has gone so, so wrong at intel in the last few years?
If you live in the US, as long as you sue the car and win first, (which not everyone can do), that's a perfectly fine argument. If you don't like it, change it.
SolarWinds/Fireeye/Sunburst Countermeasures
The Power of Shared Browser
I once read some advice that I'll try to repeat, but without knowing whether I can do a great job capturing it, but here it goes. The general idea was that if you're on a date with someone, then you should avoid asking or saying things that subtly insist that something is true if you don't know it to be true. An example is that if you don't know whether your date was molested by their father as a child, you should tread carefully with any questions or comments that carry the presumption that they weren't.

Here's some more sage wisdom: the average human has approximately one testicle. Except not, right? Because that's not how numbers work. So, it doesn't matter if, say, only 4% of the people you interact with are unlucky and 96% aren't. This is not an engineering problem. If you do meet someone who is (or was) unlucky, and you have an interaction with them like this, then even though they're in the 4%, their circumstances are still 100% at odds with your assumption.
Damore highlighted a serious issue in silicon valley hiring practices. This researcher is just angry Google called her bluff and fired her. It's fact versus spilled grapes.
IMF Paper: Web History Should Be Considered in Lending Decisions
Two more policy failures!
"plummeting in profitability"

this part is to be seen, to be honest my guess is it will stay around the same range (if google would join I would even guess that it would go up after this change).
Everyone I know who pays for them just buys the "All Products" pack. The loyalty discount just makes it a no-brainer.
Non-linear logic would be regular old logic. Linear logic is logic where every operation permanently consumes its input.
Predictably, another article that doesn't know what DRY is, leading to slaying of strawmen.

I believe DRY was coined in Programming Pearls, and probably none of the examples in the article are instances of DRY.

DRY is about knowledge/requirements, not similar code. It is about ensuring that a given requirement is not duplicated in multiple places in the code. It is not about similar looking code, which often involves differing requirements but just happen to be coded similarly. The latter leads to coupling if you unify it into one piece of code.
It is paradoxical. The reality is that many constitutions around the world have aspects that contradict and can overrule other rights afforded in them, and America is no exception despite the advertisement to the contrary.

In this case because the human is not on trial, they don't get to exercise those rights.
I am quite intrigued by the graph about walking speed in cities. Apparently there are a few cities where people walk... Backwards?
How does this apply to the 4-part/3-part japanese structure?
> completely on point.

It's not. They can't. Not even remotely close.

They're so far off the claim it's embarrassing they even said it. They couldn't write 1% of Twitter in a weekend.

Twitter circa 2006, they could clone the basics of it. And only because someone else already showed them what to do so they don't have to burn much time thinking very much or go through many learning iterations.
Traitor Tracker: Chrome Extension marks politicians who tried to throw out Votes
Like HIV/AIDS. We were lucky that doesn’t spread as easily.
These days it's a security concern to allow any random site to iFrame your property due to clickjacking. This is why you see X-Frame-Options headers blocking / whitelisting who can iFrame sites.
Thanks for sharing! I'll try it out in my next presentation
Not to discount that product at all, I’ve got no experience judging those things.

But Amazon is not a reputable retailer. there’s no way for the end user of this to validate its effectiveness so that’s why I’d prefer at least a retailer who’s merchant had to sign off and order a product vs a completely unknown company selling through Amazon.

I guess this is where we are when all our institutions fail us collectively.
This is actually what my sister did. She got a WGU Bachelors Degree and then went on to get a Master's Degree from a more recognizable college. She shaved 3-4 years off her full masters program that way (if you consider the time spent for the Bachelors degree in that process) and at the end of the day she is applying on her resume that she has a Master's from a recognizable university name that raises eye brows.

I am currently looking at doing the same.

If you do the math, it is possible to get a WGU Bachelors Degree + Full 2-Year Master's Degree program from a "recognizable" school for less money and in less time than most people are spending to get a bachelors degree from an unrecognizable community college.\

That's a life hack for anyone looking for Master's programs.
Your argument seems to be scalpers don’t have power because OEMs could just raise the price themselves and get all that scalp profit.

That’s good in theory but in practice you have complex sales channel configurations and contractual agreements. If Best Buy is selling your GPU at $400 because that’s the agreed upon MSRP, they’re going to be pretty unhappy if they’re out of stock and suddenly you decide to increase MSRP to $800 after they’ve sold out because then they’ve made even less money.

So your job now is to figure out what the scalp price will be in the future before there’s any demand.

Additionally, please factor in your pissed off customers who paid you $800 for launch day delivery for the price to potentially drop to $400 a few months after. What’s the cost of that brand damage?

Scalpers have numbers (if demand and supply are close, they have an artificial power to restrict it) and power (the OEMs have to tread a delicate line with many constituencies that scalpers don’t since you “blame” scalpers but that doesn’t hurt anyone’s actual reputation).

For all we know scalpers are part of the business plan. NVidia gets record sales numbers and press articles about how the GPU is sold out. All the OEMs offer preferential access to buy the GPUs giving them better margins, getting rid of inventory, and no reputation risk beyond at worst some marginal grumbling that they’re not doing enough to stop scalpers. The only ones getting screwed are early adopters who are eager to pay higher prices.

It’s the perfect way to segment the market by price sensitivity without paying for it or running afoul of any laws if it’s being done intentionally.
They're slow. The only thing a Chromebook has is a web browser. The browser performance of e.g. the Samsung Chromebook 2 was less than half that of its contemporary competitors, and a modern Chromebook with an Intel Core CPU is 5-10x faster.

Exynos didn't even manage to be the fastest ARM CPU in a Chromebook. The Tegra K1 was a bit quicker.
Monkey's Paw fits well with "From Bad to Worse" in my opinion. There's a couple of Twilight Zones that follow a similar pattern. Usually in these stories there is a brief blip of good but in soon the characters find themselves into a deeper hole as a trend.
Spontaneous Synchronization
There's some relevant backstory to understand what was said - Nvidia's CEO kicked off the RTX 3000 launch (which was the first of the recent chain of products that have been hard to get) by saying "The 3080 and 3090 have a demand issue, not a supply issue" and as you just pointed out this doesn't make any sense but here we are having to point out there are reasons in the world Nvidia can't produce enough GPUs since that sounds too negative for them to say outright for some reason.

Since companies have at least admitted there isn't going to be a lot of supply (some after reality actually hit them but at least they eventually said it) but still while dodging actually admitting it's simply because of the reasons in the article, hence the article.

I think it's a valid point and certainly not conspiratorial or what's wrong with humanity even if it wasn't.
That would probably be nice once in a while, but doing it all the time sounds horrible.
How would the tags for a submission be determined?
Clearly we need a good acronym for "duplication is better than the wrong abstraction".
You think you (or anyone else) could earn $150k/yr working as a webdev for a media outlet based in Richmond, VA?
Or sleeping.
Thanks for the recommendation! That podcast episode sounds interesting - I'm always looking for new German shows to add to my podcast queue :)
Except Amash has been principled throughout his entire term, not just this last cycle after deciding not to run again. Of course, it's hard to look at every vote/comment he has made over the years since that's too much, but just as one example, he has been consistently very vocal with his criticism of house leaders from both parties that don't allow for the proper legislative process.
This is the same wishful thinking that Neumann was selling. The best version of Wework is IWG- which is worth basically that (circa $4B). We work is much less efficient and this bullshit about “maybe the recession is good” is the exact thing that got them in trouble in the first place.
Why Did Quibi Fail?
Great post, I'm personally someone who feels that they struggle with focus sometimes and this post makes me cognizant of some of those underlying issues. That being said, I've noticed that when I do exercise in the morning (bike ride), it's much easier for me to stay focused.
One perspective to take is this.

1) CDC reports 5101 deaths for the 35-44 years ago group. I assume YTD with "Date" being "recent".

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm

2) My reading of the 2018 (best I found sorry) mortality table for 35-44 age group would put death by covid as the 5th leading cause of death. Just between suicide (7521) and homicide (3304).

https://www.cdc.gov/injury/images/lc-charts/leading_causes_o...

Note that "flu and pneumonia" for that age group was just 956 - putting it at #9 for leading cause of death in the 35-44 age group.

So I think covid is a bit more than "just the flu".
> yet nobody cares as much unless it is done by some stupid toy that is never going to be a practical weapon.

You're correct that that government wanting to kill you is a primary concern. However you're submitting this comment under a story with a video of drones flying autonomously through a forest, in a world where facial recognition is commonplace, and commercial drones can easily carry the weight of a polymer firearm.

There is value in the inherent friction a state encounters when deciding to kill someone. A lot of people have to say yes, and a person usually has to pull some kind of trigger.

Reduce that friction, reduce the amount of people involved, and it is a guarantee that coups and purges will be too tempting of an option for power seekers.
But this pretty much proves the GP's point - that there are no actual morals or higher principles to who can get away with human rights violations and who gets sanctioned, it's simply about power.
As a combat Infamtryman (2007) the drone footage gave me chills watching. Im glad I don't have to fight in a war where drones are the norm. When I was in our drones were still very much in the early stages and practical use seemed very far off. There is definitely some serious amount of money for anyone who can field technology to defend tanks, infantry, and artillery from this sort of onslaught.
You’re being downvoted presumably for snark, which as a lover of snark I can’t support.

However, your point is also mislaid: there were plenty of anti-maskers at the time of the 1918 Influenza pandemic.

Ignoring or selectively using facts to support the narrative you wish were true did not start with the internet!
When they locked my freshly created account and didn't let me use it unless I gave them my phone number I mailed them and told them I would not do so for privacy reasons. My account was unlocked the next day.
That's because companies and society in general is afraid of women and blacks. Asians are routine discriminated against in academia, but nobody fears them. Hispanics and Latinos are horribly abused by companies and the labor market, not to mention the government, but nobody fears them. Women and blacks will sue you, riot, and drag you through the mud with no proof other than their own personal outrage. The media picks it up and amplifies it with disregard to the truth. That's the only reason society responds to them, not out of concern, but fear, which is the worst possible motive.
So is WET (write everything twice). The right answer typically lies somewhere between the two extremes.
My understanding was that RV was less dense than the ARM-M Thumb variants, but more dense than AArch64 like these servers would be.
> In some ways, visually, they’re the steampunk of modern computing architecture.

So true! I love the artful treatment these machines get on TV, like in Devs: https://www.wired.com/story/inside-devs-dreamy-silicon-valle... or in His Dark Materials: https://hisdarkmaterials.fandom.com/wiki/Cave

Very artful, focusing more on the dilution refridgerator than on whatever it's actually cooling; it's natural, of course, to focus on that as it's beautiful copper or gold-looking pipes and fitments that intrigue the imagination more than the square that is the D-Wave chip: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/09/d-wave-releases-its-...

...though that motherboard it's on, or whatever you'd call it, is certainly a bizarre aesthetic that also doesn't fit the norm we see inside servers today, nor the gaming computer aesthetic. It's nice to see the symmetries and compromises in a design that is constrained to look a certain way by the physical requirements of what it's doing.
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The article is written in a way that we assume that they're not using any cookies unless necessary, but it seems that the actual implication is that they've re-categorised these cookies as "essential".
I'd be curious to see AES encryption performance compared between the same CPUs from Ampere, Intel, and AMD. In my experience, Intel have a significant performance advantage with their AES-NI implementation over AMD. I wonder what Ampere's cores can do.

For some workloads, special things like AES-NI or other optimizations which only Intel (or another vendor) have can make a huge difference in real world performance which generalized benchmarks don't cover.
Somewhat related, perhaps... Utterances (https://utteranc.es/), “A lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues. Use GitHub issues for blog comments, wiki pages and more!”
+1, one of many transcripts of a version of this talk: https://wcarss.ca/reading/you_and_your_research
This feels like "rust 2021 governance roadmap", which is good and all but not particularly interesting to those of us only peripherally involved.

I'd be much more interested to see "rust 2021 language/development/... roadmap" - I sort of expect I will be seeing this soon.
The "good old days" were never as good as we have them in memory. The medical advances alone make it worthwhile living in the future. Not to mention racism, gender inequality and all other sins of the past. The human race is in a terrible shape today, but it's never been better.

I would argue the analogy extends to the internet. People talk about pageload payloads of today vs 20 years ago, and somehow infer that the web fast faster back in the day. It wasn't - with the gigabit internet connections, we're easily making up for the bloat in payloads.

Also, it's never been easier to quit your 9-5 job and leverage the combination of the internet and globalism to be your own boss. Just because it's still relatively hard, it doesn't mean it's ever been easier.
I don't see it as Google trying to open up other sites either, I'm saying it might have this effect whether it's Googles aim or not.
That seems like an interesting plot for a story. Stonepunk? It seems a sufficiently advanced society could have Antikythera type computing mechanisms ground from stone. And extravagant "wood"-working artifacts shaped by sharp stone tools (obsidian single point turning tools for your lathe?). So you could have advanced looms for textiles, etc.. And then without metals you don't have electrical conduction, but what could you do with electrostatics? And telescope and microscope optics seem in the realm of possibilities. How much of our chemistry knowledge depends on metals? Could we have genetic engineering without metals? Interesting.
It's certainly not unreasonable or even uncommon. But, it's still way above the norm in the US. Median household income in the US is somewhere around $65k/year (before taxes and expenses).

Side note - You're only holding $2k in cash for a family of 5? That seems low. Your efforts to invest for the future are commendable, but if you get caught on the bad end of a 2008-style recession, is it enough to keep paying bills?
I'm not arguing against free software. I love free software.

I'm not arguing against the various business models that surround free software, such as vendor support contracts.

I'm arguing that GNU seems uncomfortable with what seems to me to be a self-evident truth: As soon as I grant you the freedom to use my software in whatever way you like, including for distribution, that software is effectively free-in-price moving forward.

And that's not a bad thing! What I DO think is bad is going to great lengths to avoid accepting that truth, or to avoid talking about it.

Free software is free in every sense of the word, no matter what GNU wants to believe.
> It just doesn't run on consoles

It does run just fine on Series X and PS5. Not the greatest looking game but is running nicely at 60fps most of the time.
Technically in the US the constitution means what the Supreme Court thinks it means.
> I regularly get the impression a certain slice of HN commenters think "the media" is a bunch of opinion bloggers fabricating sources to drive "an agenda". In reality, the effort for producing a deep investigative story can be equivalent to an a mid-size software engineering project in terms of person hours and expertise.

That's not just an impression, it's a fact. More than once have I seen commenters suggest (with what I assume is a straight face) that amateur bloggers can effectively replace "the media." A similar position I've seen frequently is that science reporting is worthless, and individuals should just sift through the all raw papers instead (which not even actual scientists do).

The best bloggers can do is substitute for opinion writers, since having and expressing an opinion is really a solo endeavor, regardless of where you do it. Pretty much everything else needs a bigger team and more support structure.
When doing my home programming projects, I regularly max out my 16-core / 32-thread Threadripper for minutes, or even hours. If you're not taking minutes to hours per programming task, you aren't really pushing the limits of modern computers. High-performance GPU and/or CPU is great.

Things like "what's the best 32-bit number for my custom random number generator" ?? (Try all 4-billion+ 32-bit numbers and run statistics on them, then sort the results). Except not really, that kind of search takes less than 10 seconds now, lol. But that should give you an idea of the size / scale of modern CPU power.

Or searching for chess or other AI search tasks. Or deep learning. Or raytracing. Or LTSpice simulations. Or... you get the gist.