skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If everyone just died tomorrow, we wouldn’t have any problems either.
I remember seeing somewhere a Linux or Unix program or system that shows how much money it costs for running the program. I think it was from an online course but really couldn't remember where, but the cost is very expensive...
We actually can give everyone a phone since there are well over 8 billion in circulation.
They haven't bought themselves out in 10 years, how much longer is it going to take?
After hearing good things about i3 for years, I made the somewhat steep learning curve switching to it in the office several years ago and have not looked back.

At home I still stayed with xfwm. Some variation between work and free time I guess :) However, with being at the office at most a couple of hours a week under current circumstances I notice that my muscle memory doesn't fully work any more. Reminds me of the steep learning curve in the beginning. No plans to give up though, maybe I should switch to i3 at home, too.

From reading the IceWM FAQ I see nothing that it would displace my i3.
They even had to come up with their own security scanner (https://scan.nextcloud.com/). I assume because they don't even trust their own code mess or cause you can f-up your PHP conf in so many ways that your server becomes vulnerable.
Maybe a yellow sleeve?
He was calling out how people won’t face their miseries and will do almost anything else other than sitting alone with their own thoughts.
> the first thing we usually notice when we look honestly at ourselves

Most people cannot achieve that level of objectivity or self-awareness. That is measurable.
> how youthful the director looks in that shirt

indeed, that why you don't comment upon that directly
Yes, and you said it much better than the article.
Of course, what else is there in the world? We're only distracting ourselves from reality because it's harder to deal with.
A brand deal appears like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9mPTQDF7Ok "This video is sponsored by Tempo."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0nTI-lwU1Q "This video is created in partnership with Nikon."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY8Yxw46TBQ "This is a Google-sponsored post"

They seem rare. Maybe only one in 2020.

There are also other potential income sources that weren't mentioned:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA9Ww5ffA3I "This is not a sponsored video, but I did use an affiliate link"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J52T748MOI0 "This is not sponsored, but I did use an affiliate link!"
> You mention that most people would sell those shares for cash.. well that is cash in their hands then. That is money they didn't have before that they now have, that they can then spend on goods and services correct?

Because if sold quickly, it will crash the price of shares. So instead of a share being worth $3000 like it is now, it could cause a short term event where the people that need cash the most would only be able to get $100 for a share, which will get swooped by people who have disposable income to blow on investments.

It would just re-consolidate the wealth in the hands of wealthy people.

Sure, that's probably somewhat better than having it in the hands of 1 person, e.g Bezos, but is it better than other alternatives? Like just giving people stimulus checks in cash?
The person's point is likely that you spent a lot of energy on something that probably doesn't matter. This might be subjective, of course, but it is possible to think about something for longer than you should.

Navel-gazing isn't a virtue. Though ideally you probably want to be with people who think that the same stuff is important.
DeepMind and Kramnik had an interesting paper a few months back exploring possible chess variants:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04374

The basic idea is to train AlphaZero on proposed variants, and look for ones that have fewer draws and a smaller advantage for white.
The Grand Unified Programming Theory: The Pure Function Pipeline Data Flow with Warehouse/Workshop Model

Everything is a pipeline, the perfect way to achieve the simplicity and unity of the software ecosystem.

https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow
There is a proper-looking scan of high-rise buildings in the linked SAR 101 article:
https://capellaspace.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02...

See how only the 2 near sides of the buildings got imaged.
The skyscrapers in that Tokyo image only have the 2 far sides imaged.

So I guess the image was acquired upside-down on the satellite. The team fliped the 2D image and called it a day.

Now if Capella can release raw range information of their scans and let us play with it...
If you really knew the answer to this, you would make a lot of money.
There might be a useful rebuttal buried in your reply, but it's going to be killed by downvotes because you obscured it with ageism and arrogant dismissal.
> highly unlikely that in next 2 weeks suddenly the death jump significantly.

Is it? Cases have been spiking but deaths are going in the other direction or are flat lining. There is usually an increase in deaths about a month after covid cases go up.

Even conservative modelling predicts a lot more deaths (+50%) and less conservative models see a doubling or more.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/

https://covid19.healthdata.org/sweden?view=total-deaths&tab=...
Maybe I’m weird, but I love getting lost inside speculative, fictional, or imaginary worlds inside my mind.

Granted, those worlds are built from experiences gained outside my mind.
Cable companies can no longer ‘rent’ you the router you already own
I think he's talking about people who respond to the professor's questions in lecture.
Firstly, there hasn't actually been a significantly larger loss of planes and boats in the triangle compared to most other highly trafficked areas of the ocean. Secondly, geologists don't think any significant gas release from Methane Clathrate have occurred in that area for about 15,000 years.

In other words, there's nothing to be explained, and if there were, Methane Clathrate wouldn't be it.
You tell all over the site that Flurly only charges 1% but then at "Pricing" says: 1% + 2.9% + other fees.
Care to explain that? I see it like: here's a new iphone, 1$, cheapest in the market. And then at small print: 1$ + 999$.
> Time cost of these setups is real.

Compared to the maintenance cost of something equivalent 10 years ago, it's a lot better now. I don't find it meaningfully inconvenient, even with kids.
I read it as 'a gross position, don't put yourself in it'; not 'anyone in such a position is themselves gross'.
I can get a test at about 50 locations within 20 miles of me on Monday. Just checked.

I have not looked at the lines you are talking of recently but I've never seen people unserved.

We have plenty of testing capacity and we are doing a LOT of testing.
> I think it's very naive to assume that the marketing department of a megacorporation isn't going to say anything to make more sales.

Huh? I was just saying the claim (whether it turns out to be true or not) wasn’t about only the M1, and that it’s more reasonable to assume that Apple is confident they can release something above their lowest range offerings.
> [Snowden] had been on his way from Hong Kong via Russia and Cuba to what he hoped would be sanctuary in Ecuador when the US cancelled his passport, leaving him stranded in Russia.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2019/sep/...
Or we could restructure society a little bit so we don't have to work as much, freeing up time for us to explore our ideas and thus improving the economy in the long run. Authors like this take things to their logical extreme as a form of rhetoric when what they really want is to get you to think about the necessity of work on a deeper level than what you've read in your economics 101 textbook.
I feel like Windows Update didn't used to be such a shitshow. Was I just not paying close enough attention a decade ago?
Yes, humans occasionally differentiate ourselves from arbitrary chunks of hydrogen ice. This puts us in the distinct minority in the universe, but vive la différence, as the monk said to the nun.
What i don't understand is how some random firm of wideboys had risk limits big enough to do this trade.

WTI futures are 1000 barrels per contract. The trading range for the day was 58.17 dollars per barrel. Assuming they sold their TAS at the top, it settled at the bottom, and they bought their normal contracts evenly over the whole range, they made 0.5 * 58.17 * 1000 dollars per contract. That's 29085 dollars per contract (!). If they made 700 million dollars, then they turned over 24067 contracts. So they sold 24k TAS, and then whittled that position down to being flat. 24k seems like a rather big position for a firm like this.

The story does mention that they changed clearing firm after this happened. So perhaps their clearer had been lax about setting their risk limits properly, and after this happened, realised it was a near miss and tried to tighten it up, at which point they jumped ship.
And I thought destroying file systems was reserved to early versions of btrfs. Well, luckily I have not had a need to touch Windows for 10+ years...
I had the same problem when it came to “getting a girlfriend” (quoted because it might sound too trivial compared to this current issue, and also because I wanted one for the wrong reasons, which was to seem “normal” to others and stop being “forever alone”).

I was told I was acting too desperate and lacked confidence, to which I countered... how can I not act desperate when I’ve been lonely for so long? (Of course the answer to that is to enjoy being alone/single first, but I was getting huge FOMO and envy during college-age years when everyone else seemed to be in a relationship and I wasn’t). In hindsight, breaking out of a negative feedback loop requires a lot of conscious effort, or else reality becomes a nonstop fulfilling prophecy.
Wow, great post! I have the same complaints:

(1) Languages have gotten worse as distributed back ends have gotten more powerful. The IBM JCL and XML references in this post were good!

(2) Workloads that currently run on such back ends could run on a single computer, or at least with many fewer resources. This is one reason I got into shell in the first place! I wrote some shell scripts that saturated 32 cores instead of using distributed systems. In other words I try to avoid the "COST" or "parallelizing your overhead" problem.

We're paying a huge productivity tax and in many cases not reaping the rewards. I think a better better UNIX SHELL can help in the following ways:

(1) We need to bring the interactivity of Unix back to distributed systems. We're still in the days of "IBM Job Control Language" with Kubernetes config and similar kinds of "declarative cloud configuration". We need a flexible and efficient analogue of Bourne shell.

(2) Unix shell is already how you set up local development environments: Docker embeds shell; virtualenv changes your shell state, Ruby's bundler, OCaml's opam switch, etc. We need to evolve this into first class and polyglot environments specified in shell.

Debugging distributed systems locally could be the norm, but it's not.

The local topology should simply be a configured variant of the distributed topology, but it's not. I used to do this at Google with a trick of generating a shell script with BCL (Borg Config Language).

(3) A better shell should be able express configurations that evaluate to JSON, and also statically validate them before pushing, to solve this problem.

XML, however, was universally rejected in favour of things like JSON, Yaml, HCL, Toml - all free of structure, with zero indication whether a computer would find your prose gibberish or the next Shakespeare play until you actually pushed your code to some test cluster.

I want https://www.oilshell.org/ to go in this direction, and there is already some progress. (Feel free to contact me if this resonates with you.) And I have a draft of a blog post about shell, distributed systems, and languages that I need to publish, based on these comments from a couple weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25343716

Those comments talk about the other problem with the cloud: that it locks you in to APIs! We need the POSIX of distributed systems. Kubernetes was trying to do that, but it's not good enough.

Shell can solve this problem more economically: it expresses UNPORTABLE glue code to leave your application PORTABLE. I did that with Oil's continuous builds, and the Unix-y gg FaaS framework also appears to do that in a pretty nice way.
Wasm execution doesn’t exist in the abstract. Lucet, the vm in question, does no theoretical instruction-level mitigations of which you speak. It does, however, expose a larger attack surface than simply using seccomp (not seccomp-bpf).
My entire contribution to this thread has been an attempt to move the goalposts :) If the question is “is it possible to stop working without literally starving to death?” the answer is trivially yes, but I don’t think that’s particularly interesting.

Getting thrown in jail will get you fed without working. But most people would consider that an absurd tradeoff. So we pretend it’s not an option, moving the goalposts in order to have a more interesting discussion about how to stop working without upending your life or withdrawing from society.
This is entirely rosy retrospection, Windows update has always been a nightmare.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosy_retrospection
Also M2 is going to be for the mid-range 14/16" MacBook Pro + iMac.

You will need to wait for the M3 in 2022 for the true desktop HEDT/Threadripper competitor.
> She didn't get my Covid.

Out of curiosity, did she get tested? What about for antibodies?
Might still be backed by old fashioned humint - maybe an asset in Russia told someone. If so, that might be trustworthy, but also needed to be kept secret. If I needed to publicize and justify such information, I might try to claim that "the coding of the exploit was consistent with Russian trade craft" or something like that...
ah yes, the 1970s where you could sit on your laptop at home, go to a cloud providers website, copy paste your code and launch an app in minutes.

This guy is trying too hard to sound smart.
Exactly. It's also unpleasant to witness this happening to someone else. In contrast I used 'hate' for the abuser.
Why would you bother when your competitor (AMD) is literally nowhere? For example, in 2013 AMD's revenue was something like 7% of Intel's.
The only thing in this aerial view of Houston (before flying machines) is a flood plain:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Old_map-Houston-1873.jpg

Where Houston was founded as a real estate venture to be the new center of government, business & industry for a newly independent nation, the land had been shaped by thousands of years of occasional overflow of these narrow bayous by miles beyond their normal banks. As the water from events like Hurricane Harvey always accumulates from all the upstream watersheds at this low point before moseying into the bay and the gulf.

Or as a hurricane making a direct hit pushes the storm surge up the bay so the low point is not so low by comparison, and lesser rain than Harvey can be just as bad for some people.

The purpose of Houston is to sell false estate (a flood plain) as if it was real estate, so a bigger fool has always been necessary.

The 100-year and 500-year flood probabilities were likely gamed since the first flood of Houston. The capital moved upstream ending up in Austin. 100-year means one chance in 100 each year, if you're above the 500-year line it means you only have one chance in 500 every year.

Note; where the big buildings were then is about where the big ones downtown are now.
In practise none of this is correct. We already 'do what we want', what we want happens to be improving ours and others lives by making things. The great issue since the division of labour has been to figure out how to distribute products. If products are distributed to people who can then free up their time to 'play', in practise they free up their time to create things as this is what the author really means by 'play'. It's just an anarchists way of talking.
Redis becomes the most popular database on AWS
To be fair... I think the learning curve causes higher maintenance time cost at the beginning. But eventually you get stable infrastructure as code set up with good log monitoring and backups and you really don't have to think about it anymore. Any problems and you'll get an alert.
> why are they never publically revealed?

To protect the source(s)?
Apparently, Microsoft disbanded the Windows Test team and switched from testing on real hardware to virtualised hardware a few years ago.[1]

1. https://www.ghacks.net/2019/09/23/former-microsoft-employee-...
Not a state, but American Samoa's governor ordered the ports closed in 1917 and allowed no ships to dock. They escaped the flu pandemic with zero cases.
Rare? Half the videos I watch have those ads for Raid Shadow Legends, some random vpn, and a bunch of others that are totally disconnected from the general topics discussed on the channel containing the ad
Distraction isn’t the problem, the inability to face one’s self is the problem, and distraction is the solution. However, even with distraction, there is still insight. It just comes indirectly.
Moving the goalposts. I didn't say general population, I said masks. Efficacy will be tested where it can be observed. I.e. very unlikely that a trial with high confidence will ever work on the public.

Also, given your arguments, what is your position on the efficacy of lockdowns vs. their negative effects?
What if we go too far some day, Alex?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odrgDzciG6s
Can you provide a link where they say it beats everything ?

Because on their marketing page they specifically compare it to laptops and refer to low-power use cases. I have never seen them compare it against HEDT platforms.
> the people who do not comply are basically the same people who were problems in the Before Times: belligerent, mentally ill, or both.

Or maybe they're one of 12,943 medical and public health scientists who signed the Great Barrington Declaration [0].

[0] ; https://gbdeclaration.org/
How can one be 'over-educated'? Is that a bad thing?
This article immediately reminded me of a video I saw a while ago.[1]

The long and short - MS basically laid off the staff that tested Windows, and much of it is automated nowadays (I bet the MBA educated executive at MS who was responsible for that got PHAT bonus, at the expense of Windows customers and laid off testing staff, of course). Seems like it happened in 2015, which is why it seems that windows updates have been more unstable in the last couple of years.[2]

I really want to like windows, but Apple's M1 and Linux's community make it hard to ever love windows again.

Oh well, I guess I will be using Macbooks for the rest of my life. Which, actually, isn't so bad I guess.

FWIW - I would say this is unacceptable on microsoft's part. Windows is the default operating system of corporate america, department of defense, etc. Imagine if an update would brick Wells Fargo or the US Army.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9kn8_oztsA

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/former-microsoft-employee-ta...
The article argues that we have an innate desire to be distracted from our thoughts. I agree, insofar I may generalize from my own experience. In my experience, being alone with my thoughts is depressing. I can't focus anyway.
While still of course afraid of actually dying, instead of being perennial fearful of death I am instead now grateful for being alive this day. Try that change in perspective.

Background anxiety about our "eventual demise" is the consequence of false entitlement to life and health. Young and healthy people imagine good life without end, the dying and people who've lost health and ability often know better.

This change in perspective also helps you make the most out of each day, because those who make a point to remember that their good days are finite will not want to have spent them in waste.
Why Are People Mean? by Donald Carveth, PhD

http://www.yorku.ca/dcarveth/Why%20Are%20People%20Mean.pdf
I’m tempted to just correct you, but I’m going to leave open the possibility that you’re discussing different policies than I think. What do you mean? What specifically in policy terms have politicians enacted to make certain cities substantially higher cost for residents?
Despite the claim that there is no alternative, there is something invisibly worthy in claiming that the way we live now is not the only way humans can live. Who knows what that inertia may lead to?

The anti-capitalist project - based off my brief and limited political philosophy reading - seems to be an infinite one: not only is there much to build but more imperatively, there is an entire world to destroy.
It's on the graphs: Azul OpenJDK 13.0.5
Usually ends up masterbating.
Are you serious? You just allocate a large section of virtual memory before entering seccomp mode. This is not hard. I have used seccomp in production myself.

Not to mention sandboxed wasm is similarly restrictive and you need third-party library support to operate in that “embedded” environment. You don’t just get a normal runtime environment for free. Wasm simply gets you memory “bounds checks” but it’s not necessary if the isolate owns the entire process, as in the seccomp model.
I don't think burning in sum hundreds of billions of Dollars (or even more) because "it's OK being irrational, because emotions" makes sense.
Indeed, and maybe most would prefer to have something playing, but my point was that most wouldn't have any trouble spending an hour driving without it, even through driving is a fairly "mindless" activity.
> The Mac Mini is $699 with only 8GB RAM, that runs out after a few browser tabs

You know swap exists right.

I just opened 30+ tabs on the MacBook Air without any issues.
> A significant portion of Apple's lead came from buying exclusivity on TSMC's 5nm process

It's hard to estimate how much of Apple's advantage came from the 5nm process, but we can get a guess by comparing the A13 and A14. One of the biggest differences between last year's A13 and this year's A14 is the 5nm process (vs 7nm+). The performance increase seems to be on the order of 15% [1], and Apple was able to fit in a lot more transistors- 11.8B vs. 8.5B, though we don't know how many of those transistors were spent on the CPU, and how many were spent in other areas like the GPU or ISP.

Seems like the additional transistors and lower power consuption were used to increase performance in a bunch of ways- higher clock speeds, more cache, and a bigger reorder buffer being the obvious improvements. Perhaps AMD can pull off a similar improvement when they switch processes.

[1] Spec2006 numbers from https://www.anandtech.com/show/16192/the-iphone-12-review/2
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Hum... Most of it seems sarcastic, but a simple antagonistic view towards the US explains a lot:

> protecting a whistleblower against government overreach

Becomes protecting an enemy of their enemy, and one that commands a high press influence.

> pointing out how fundamentally insecure closed source, proprietary software

Becomes just exploiting the enemy infrastructure.

The one thing that I'm not comfortable with a simple explanation of "the Russian government doesn't like the US" is their support of SciHub. It can explain the support quite well, but it is not the only simple explanation available, so there may be other reasons.
Honestly I think they did a great bit of trading. But I think they drew a lot of heat and given the location of the traders and their Spanish links, I would not be surprised if the origin of the cash may be murky. They probably had a decent plan for general profits on that industry, but this trade will bring everything under scrutiny.