skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do a lot of self-printed booklets, zines, etc., so I bought a saddle-stitch stapler.

Manual ones are relatively cheap, around $30, and they make it so easy to get a perfect result every time.
To me, the issue seems to be shared in common with "hard" engineering and infrastructure - it's easier to build than to maintain. The demo is easy, the thing people count on for their own work is a Sisyphean monstrosity.

The difference is just one of speed and scale. The software starts paying for maintenance almost immediately. People see a open source codebase that is now "good enough" for their problem, and within months it becomes a popular dependency, and then a singularity. Construction that goes wrong, on the other hand, often has a narrative that plays out over decades. The featureset of a bridge or building grows little with time, and often slims down, and so while the maintenance can be physically costly, it isn't like the building gets remodelled and rewired each year to do a new thing, which is a thing that happens often to software.

Software companies that can really embrace the "maintenance of a singularity" role usually last, even if they accrue some tremendous technical debt: see Microsoft, Oracle, Adobe for some examples. Companies that try to elude that outcome, on the other hand, have to have a business model of disposability: Apple tends to obsolete software when new hardware hits, as do most game companies. The companies that let the product rot are the common failure case, and the companies that keep the product small are themselves small.
Google offers free, weekly Covid-19 testing for employees
Fixed cost per IOPS allocated. Essentially, the same thing as before, but without the necessity of you storing large blank objects.
We once found a very annoying bug which was caused because someone set a feature flag to a tiny rollout % and then left the company without updating it. It sat that way for 2 years before someone finally noticed.
In addition to the nexus you point to, it's worth mentioning that for a lot of back pain, we have no idea what causes it, or why it goes away (if it does). I suspect a lot of it is pressure from individuals wanting their doctor to do something to help them with their debilitating and mysterious problem.

Source: I talked my dad out of a spinal fusion. I'm still not sure it was the right choice.
> I don't see any comments about water on this post?

Looks like it was deleted.

> - Sending a few kg of water (or other shielding) to space costs a fraction of the price of a fast non-rad-hardened CPU.

It doesn’t sound like a few kg is going to cut it. Recall that a 1 kg of water is about 1 L, which gives you about 6 cm of shielding, which is simply not enough. That’s less than 50% attenuation of the ionizing radiation you find in space. Mass increases with the cube of the thickness. If you want 20 cm of shielding, that’s 33 kg, and something like 86% attenuation.

It seems to me like there are better things you can do with your mass, which also needs to be spent on things like fuel for stationkeeping. Lower mass also means more satellites.

> - It really costs less than the extra development cost associated with having to use bespoke toolchains.

POWER is not exactly some obscure ISA. It is well-supported and battle-tested. You don’t need a bespoke toolchain.
How did you manage hitting OOM on 16GB, let alone 32? I'm curious. I had 8 till 2018 and then 16. Not even once did I run out of memory and I was running java apps in docker.
Microsoft is terrible at marketing anything to the common consumer and they always have been. That Windows dominates the consumer desktop dominant is a side effect.

Microsoft must always 2nd tier any consumer effort to their business of business.
And how many went to the nurses?
Yeah he used to be a good counter-point to all the "this is good for bitcoin" news. But now it feels like that is his shtick as opposed to a reasoned counter point. It's like "bitcoin is rubbish because it's rubbish and I say so"
Seems nice, though I typoed my password, but it seems so minimalist that on mobile there's no way to change it (when logged in obviously).
I have 6100U and it seems fine...
I think GP was hypothesizing an epidemic that had a black death rate even with our present medical knowledge.
Testing is done on earth in lab conditions, and some testing has been done in space. We've had good models of radiation energy and type in space for a while, so you can reproduce type and intensity of radiation on earth to test how the chip will behave. You can also fly chips for testing, where instrumentation and testing are controlled by known working hardware.

Diagnosing novel failures on hardware in space is hard, but the overall types of failures and their underlying physical phenomena are known. Obviously, in the case of a satellite that goes completely unresponsive you can't answer 100%, but you may have sensor data in the leadup to the failure, or from other "nearby" satellites that would allow you partially reproduce conditions before the failure in a test scenario.
In my early twenties, I was scheduled to get my wisdom teeth removed. It was going to cost me the equivalent of about a couple week's wages at the time. If I did it without general anesthetic it would be significantly cheaper. The oral surgeon to whom I was referred said I could do it either way, it was my choice. He did mention that, on a scale of 1-10, he would estimate the difficulty of removing my teeth at a 9. In x-rays, a couple looked like they were coming in upside-down.

After calculating the number of hours of work the anesthetic would cost me, I decided to bite the bullet of go with a local anesthetic. (My dad was also tough-guying me to skip the general anesthetic.) So I called the surgeon's office to make an appointment. When I mentioned that I would be opting opt of general anesthetic, the receptionist paused and asked me to hold. When she came back, she said that the doctor specified that general anesthetic would be necessary. I mentioned the conversation I had already had with him. She again asked me to hold. When she returned, she said it was no longer an option.

I put off the appointment. Miffed, I decided to take a closer look at the practice. This was pre-internet so I went to my local public library. I tracked down a British NHS study that suggested extraction was over-prescribed in the US in part due to the private insurance system. (I guess you can insert your tired joke about British teeth here.) One NHS study coupled with my incipient suspicion of the American medical system was enough for me. Plus all the money I was going to save. I decided to forego the surgery.

Almost 30 years on and I can say I have no regrets. (Yet?) My third molars are still buried in my gums. A few years ago, the bottom right one partially broke through the gum. It was irritating at times but never really painful. I take care to floss and brush it with my other teeth. It seems to have come to rest. If I remember correctly, the study stated that after age 30 or 40, most people's wisdom teeth will have settled.

One internet commenter's tale backed by one study for which I no longer have the reference.
I've read that one of the positive sides of it is hygiene.
What about the "helpers" found in the standard library? How do you feel about those things?
Libstdc++: Support Libc with stdio-only I/O in libstdc++
It's nothing special. I use Kubuntu on a MBP, and I've talked about how I've setup Plasma Desktop before on HN[1][2].

I run Catalina in a VM because it's the oldest macOS version that supports the APIs I'm developing against. I used to use KVM for virtualizing macOS, but VirtualBox[3] is more portable despite being much slower, so I use that now.

If you can use KVM with Virtio and VFIO passthrough, it's really fast. Linux just got Virtio-fs[4], too. I've had to pass boot options to the kernel to get the IOMMU to play nicely on the Mac, though, and I just don't have patience for that these days.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23607374

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25172499

[3] https://github.com/myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox

[4] https://virtio-fs.gitlab.io/
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It's gotten so bad that I actively avoid clicking any HN links with possible connections to China since I know a large portion of the comments will contain nonrelevant arguments along the lines of "China bad". On the bad astroturfing days I can't tell HN and Reddit apart.
Aren't you just suggesting "big Tegra"? If the host PC isn't providing anything but maybe storage and networking...why not just buy a console?
So my watch (or maybe headphones even) is several times faster than anything that's ever run a spacecraft?

(I understand why, but that this is so just blows me away)
Other than Australia, China, New Zealand, and Vietnam, you mean? And China managed that after it had already spread widely domestically; the others were quick on their feet.
The post I am responding to suggest calling that signal unmodulated, and I think that would be wrong.
> Most software engineers innately know that taking an open-source project, stripping the authorship, putting it your own site and running ads next to it is unethical, regardless of the licensing

only "stripping the authorship" makes it unethical, all the other things are totally fine and approved in the open source world.

Make an entire copy of debian software repository? People will thank you for another "mirror".

create a webpage which hosts existing docs (like man pages or software package documentation)? Totally fine as long as the docs are not modified (so any AUTHOR section is intact)

create another "how to get started with ZZZ" website, which is three quarter official docs? Ok as long as license allows remixing. Many do.

start a business which took over many project's discussion forums and centralized information in one place? And then the said business gets millions from ads and kills many previous forums? People love this, some even say that Stack Overflow is "the best thing that happened to programming"

and so on... so for people used to open source model, news aggregators are totally fine, as long as content is not modified and there is a clear attribution. The GP comment mentions "iframes", so both of those would have been true - it's not like you can blank out author name from a third-party iframe.

Yes, the journalism is different and the open source rules do not apply to it. But hopefully you can see where does this "information wants to be free" mindset is coming from.
Show HN: I created an open-source alternative to Mailbrew
Yes but the article lists all of the reasons that the alternatives you listed are also bad for bloggers.

If you are hoping to own a piece of the internet you can thrown Ghost on a cheap VPS for $5/month or you can pay someone else to host it for you for $30/month.

You can also take a 'free' option that makes money off your data and audience.
I don't pay rent, own property and spend very little, but yes I do 'live' off savings - its just not really making a dent for me. I wouldn't do it otherwise.
I haven't actually looked into it, hence why I said it could impact my ability to do so.
Thanks, this makes a lot of sense. I was coming from the angle of authoring expressivity, which would put Juicebox as a subset of them. But indeed, Tableau/PowerBI can be hard to get started and I can see the value of Juicebox in that regard.
The reason for sharing recovery could be largely placebo driven is because it empowers the patient by revealing a previously unknown skill they can develop.

Studies are showing that "open placebos," which is when the patient knows it's a placebo, can work even better than when the patient doesn't know.

Choosing one's own beliefs with deep intention and choosing to pick them up or put them down quickly are skills for improving both learning and healing. Withholding opportunities to develop these skills from people denies their need for autonomy and efficacy in their healing.

I would ask him if he wants to know of anything simple that can boost his recovery. I would also propose he prepare to mourn many losses immediately after, since there's possibly a lot of opportunity for regret when someone learns so much of the things they've done in their lives may have been unnecessary and within their power to heal from. Some people can get stuck in grieving/regret and this slows the healing process down, so I consider it important to learn to grieve efficiently for quick healing.
There's a significant difference in meaning between "write slow programs on purpose" and "write programs that are fast enough but not faster."
Could they not offload a lot of compute to ground based computers and submit results back via radio? Or are these real-time applications?
> Propagandists know the propaganda they are spreading is false.

If everyone who says something untrue is a propagandist who doesn't believe their own lies, then there's little reason to debate, since then everyone would know the truth, even if some may deny it. I rather think that most people who spread propaganda do so unwittingly, because they earnestly believe that they have some information that is both true and important.

> I love the role you are trying to play. It's a bit obvious, but a welcomed distraction.

I have some trouble noticing how I am perceived by others, so could you tell me what that role is? Am I the incorrigible idiot who thinks there are no bad people, only good people making mistakes? The mediocre mediator who believes the truth is always found in the middle between two extremes? The compulsive contrarian who'll find a reason to disagree with anyone? The perfidious propagandist who serves up a watered-down version of the same lie if the previous one didn't catch on? The annoying alliterator for whom words are toys and the truth a bendy reed?
What's fascinating is that I believe it's this exact trait that has allowed us to advance as a species.

Humans are excellent copycats, we follow traditions and practices often without question. Call this "culture". Culture can change, but often only slowly. Successful survival strategies are passed down via culture. Since culture is mostly preserved, but may change gradually, it experiences evolution in exactly the same way species do.

The result is that we are empowered with cultural knowledge that is far greater than we could ever devise in a single lifetime. It's allowed humans to inhabit almost everywhere on earth. A human without local, cultural knowledge would not survive, regardless of where on earth you place them.

These aren't my thoughts. Joseph Henrich first made this argument in his book The Secret of Our Success (https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691178431/th...) though I haven't read it.
Free and paid versions of Google services share pretty much the entire stack, so the Google Workspace (previously G Suite) status page works just fine – https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status.
I had a laptop running Linux from 2013 too and it was always snappy. The only reason I switched was because of how noisy the fans are.

Work also gave me a 2015 Mac and now Linux is running on it. It's pretty fine and far from sluggish. No idea what the author is doing to have problems.
A human-like neural network chess engine Capturing human style in chess
Ask HN: Did Google's AI run amok?
4 years ago I uploaded an unlisted video on youtube - video of a medical procedure, esophagogastroduodenoscopy. It did not have any views, I was keeping it just in case I need to show it to a doctor. Today I got an e-mail labeling it with adult content and warning about my channel (my other videos were of a Christmas tree and such, all unlisted). I changed video settings from unlisted to private and made it age-restricted - I understand that medicine is not for kids. I appealed since I wanted to help their AI (Remember Facebook's AI labeling a photo of onions for 'sexually suggestive' content?). I've just got another e-mail where they said that I lost my appeal, my videos are not safe and Youtube deleted them all.
They said they'll forever label my content as age-restricted. Are we already in an Orwellian Dystopia?
A single event is not data.
Multiple sizes isn't a bad idea. I'm not sure I know enough about what sizes would be appropriate though. :)

Transfers getting stuck like that usually is an indication that the decoder can't reliably find the 3+1 corner pattern. I might add a toggle to the decoder app that trades speed for more reliability.

That said, there are some failure modes that are harder to fix: I had a mysteriously slow transfer that was driving me nuts, until I noticed that my mouse cursor was on top of one of the corners.
Agree completely. I couldn't figure out how to both save democracy and pay my bills. And I'm not well suited to the fund raising, running a non-profit org type stuff.

Only notion I have for addressing this is some kind of grant or fellowship, meaning just give prospects cash.
> believes that putting royalty agreements on a blockchain allows all the parties to work off the same foundational information while enabling each to examine the business logic that applies to different participants

Lol. from the company that only feat was to strong arm OEM manufacturers out of DOS/windows-protection money.

that's too much for me. happy friday everyone.
One person's "bloat and inefficiency" is another person's "features at low cost".

We simply wouldn't have the services we have today at their low price if our hardware didn't offer them more breathing room.

As inefficiency tips more towards degradation in machines, more emphasis will be given to efficiency.
Anecdotal evidence, but I tore my meniscus playing football when I was 14. I thought I would have to have surgery but the doctor just told me to use crutches and a knee brace for a while.

It healed up really well, didn't have any issues afterwards.
A little wrong. It does matter that the thing is always cool to the touch and it can run all day, even under heavy load. That is pretty new to my knowledge.
are you designing a database schema and writing queries against it = kind

I worked in a project using MongoDB. Initial implementation was easy and quick to iterate. After a few years when it was evident that it was not sustainable. Two years of painfull effort was required to squeeze out MongoDB.

are you doing frontend development (or something similar where fast paced change means new technology, new best practices etc. all the time) = unkind

React already won, front-end tech is stable in last 4 years. It is an easier part of my job. Front-end development require high upfront learning, but it is boring at some point.

are you doing text processing analysis of structured data following well understood schemas = kind

I know some pipelines on structured data that are hell. I worked with XML (FpML) and systems that produced/consume these, It would make most people cry. It is very easy to create massive technical debt where data is flowing. Any change needs to be done from both ends. It is not like front-end where I can refactor components as much I want.

Because programming is such diverse field, I would be careful with labeling anything kind/unkind.
Damn.

And still not enough PPE to wear FFP2 during the protest? I wonder why they didn't do it outside though.
Thanks, I wasn't really aware of that distinction. I haven't read the decision yet. Do you have a sense of how important the distinction actually is in this case? I assumed the larger question was whether it was "transformative". For comparison, I was astounded by the decision that Richard Prince's work was considered fair use: http://www.artistrights.info/cariou-v-prince.

Quoting from that page (which I realize is just a synopsis and not a legal opinion): "In order to be fair use, a secondary use must transform the original by employing it in a different manner or for a different purpose than the original in order to produce a new expression, meaning, or message. A secondary use does not need to comment on or critique the original in order to be transformative as long as it produces a new message."

Is this really less transformative than painting a guitar and some face paint on someone else's photograph? Given that both cases involved overturning the decision of a lower court, clearly both sides are arguable here. It makes me wonder if this is really just a Circuit split, with different standards in different regions. Is there a canonical Supreme Court case here with national precedent that would unify these decisions?
> Only thing I can think of was that ours was the last class to be the last to be run through that specific program, but that's the only thing particularly unique about it AFAIK.

Could be that it was worse because of that. Your experience sounds unusual, but bad college/program + bad luck is statistically going to happen sometimes somewhere. I.e. I know plenty of people that were truly unhappy with their programs and switched or dropped out. (To be clear, not to be interpreted as a fault of those people, it just doesn't work out for everyone, even in generally good places). I don't have particular difficulty imagining a college I couldn't stand at all either.
Everything old is new again right? IBM, DEC, HP all built their own chips as part of their development. That got eaten alive by people like Sun and Apollo who started building workstations on commodity microprocessors, which got better and better so that even the "toy" computers (which is what the IBM PC started out as) became capable of eating their lunch, so they moved "into chips" with SPARC, PA-RISC, PowerPC which forced Intel to abortively try Itanium except that AMD kicked them in the nuts with AMD64. And that was where we lived until the computer architecture "for the masses" became the phone, with ARM chips and they started trickling down into the masses, and then Samsung and Apple started pushing advantages because they could customize their SoC chips and others couldn't, and all the while Intel kept adding specialized instruction sets to try to hold off ARM and AMD from their slipping hold on the Data center and what was left of the "laptop" business. Intel won some small battles in the "ARM Laptop" wars, with Microsoft's limited support for ARM applying pressure and Google's largely unsuccessful ChromeOS system of Chromebooks. But then Apple started making waves with their "tablet" the iPad and iPad pro and were getting margins that the laptop folks could only drool over so laptop makers started making bespoke chips to "up" their game like the pixel / pen processor in the Surface line. And as the iPad and the Surface and the other "ultralight" tablettops collided with overlapping features Apple went ahead and did the unthinkable and put a bespoke CPU into a laptop, and somehow once again managed to pull of huge margins.

That pretty much sealed the deal for any serious laptop makers and now we've got Microsoft embracing "alternate" instruction sets, Amazon embracing non-Intel data center architectures, and Apple out competing with a bespoke CPU in a bespoke laptop form factor.

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Intel is toast. (if you were still wondering) Which truly sucks because you really really want and need a chip fab business that can compete on the global scale. Intel needs to be that business for the US (Sorry Global Foundries you had your chance)

RISC-V is the new 8080A, FPGAs are the new SoC. Look for a huge number of computers available in all price points based on RISC-V sitting inside FPGA fabrics. This is going to be driven by open source tools and a set of open source HDL cores for all of the "essential" peripherals.

The consumer device kingmakers will be graphics architecture suppliers. The biggest differentiator for the next few years will be "can your graphics card do this?!"
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The thing is the tradeoff makes more sense for the developer, who gets his job done quicker, than to the customer who pays for the sloppy bloat every time he uses the software.
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