skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't trolling, I was reacting indignantly to what I perceived to be a blatant overstep on their part by claiming to speak for Poland. I know they do not, because I personally know and socialize with Polish people and also know - as a direct result of that - a bit of Polish political news.

I am not here for any "SJW" debate as everyone else seems to keen to get into, nor do I care to litigate Poland's track record of immigration as I lack either interest or competence to do so. I do not doubt or question that Polish has a different cultural disposition than more Western countries.
> There are a few fundamental differences between these languages, but it's just plain wrong to say that any of them are not "structured." Did OP mean "schema-less" instead?

I read him as referencing what people would have called "structured programming" in the 1980s, and pointing out that we have these settings/metadata/control files in languages that have no capacity for "structure" in the sense that, say, Pascal or C would have over BASIC or assembly, that is, thin-to-no factoring or abstraction capacity. Hence the contrast with "Configuration as Code."

Now, depending on your personality and experience, you might find the idea of using a complete language as config an opportunity for someone to do something non-obvious or horrifying, and the closer to the "settings" end of the setting/metadata/control spectrum you're on the more plausible that position is. When you get to a level of complexity that's the other end I'm not so sure and horizontally scaling systems might well be arriving there.
What do you use to watch the tv show? One person share's their screen?
Vitamin D and Heart Palpitations
Time money and resources are being spent on a protection from something that should be regulated out of existence. We are now actively innovating against these tracking technologies which we are finding adversarial to our rights to privacy. Isn’t it time we ask our governments to do something about this?
In my experience and where I work, the build system tends to be the most neglected part of the pipeline, most trouble-prone and frequently the source of headaches nobody wants to bother with. I think the days of build being the red-headed stepchild nobody wants to deal with is coming to an abrupt end.
I just tried NearlyFreeSpeech, which uses FreeBSD and jails, and it has resource billing, although a little more coarse grained:

https://faq.nearlyfreespeech.net/q/ResourceAccountUnit

So basically if your website doesn't get any hits, you don't get charged.
It's commoditise your complement run by the management class on the technical class
I recommend NethServer or YunoHost which can install nextcloud as a module, along with many other services, and can be easily updated with security patches. Freedombox may become a contender some day too.

Its one thing to set it up, and it's another thing to keep it running stable and secure.
Legislation isn’t robust
The broader point is that RISC-V provides the freedom and a practical ecosystem in which to innovate. Custom instructions may only be a small part of that.
>I am not too familiar with the situation with the poverty in the US. Do people there still die from poverty-induced starvation in the 21st century?

I think the question needs to be a little more nuanced than that. Here are a few resources to get you started:

https://hungerandhealth.feedingamerica.org/understand-food-i...

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/27/912486921/food-insecurity-in-...

https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/food-insecu...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_in_the_United_States

https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ag-and-food-statistic...

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/11/23/hungry-at...

https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/54-million-people-america...
> So we're replacing unit tests with integration tests

Nit: those were always integration tests.
I read it as:

"They risk their lives cleaning hospitals. Now, they are (finally) getting vaccinated"

...vaccination as their due for being on the front lines.

I think vaccination is a positive thing, and my reading of the title was positive.
Same, I love the idea of RISC-V but I don’t really get how it’s better either from a technical standpoint. Would love to hear more about the main advantage of RISC-V against others.
I think people think it's going to be a vibrant open ecosystem in collaboration with industry and academia with a lot of development and fresh ideas leading to some significant simplification and so opportunity for performance and functionality breakthroughs. I don't know if that's true or not.
Cable cards have a debug interface to allow the user to query the state of the cable card. Accessing that interface doesn't allow you to change the encryption methods on the cablecard.

ISP gear has often been terrible, notably in situations of bufferbloat. If you don't want to fix your crappy gear, at least give the users an interface to diagnose the problem and possibly fix it on their end.

And yes, certain things like bufferbloat can be fixed at the user's end.
You don't have to be uniquely gifted to help someone move, just average.
Active-Active Postgres Federation on Kubernetes
> Many people enjoy their work immensely.

According to CNBC, 85% of US workers were happy with their jobs:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/01/85percent-of-us-workers-are-...

And according to the Washington Post, 13% of people (surveyed from 140 countries) were "engaged" in their jobs:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2013/10...
Yeah... um... how about making sure we have an alternative that not only works, but works better, before we get to the destroying part?
yes, "hurting small businesses" is probably a/b tested as effective politician-terminology.

Sort of how a politician might speak about "creating jobs", which is not how a normal person thinks/speaks.
>but what constitutes as rich

Well according to this proposed law it is over $30 million in wealth.

>How do you grantee that tomorrow they will not tax every IT worker who is staying bit longer in California?

There is no way to guarantee that a hypothetical won't happen.
> It is mostly a result of health issues, which is in all likelihood more due to the lack of access to healthcare than food.

Is it? What statistics do you have to support that? And do those statistics track poor nutrition due to poverty as a component, or do they just ignore that?
There is a runaway trolley barrelling down the railway tracks. There are people tied to tracks as far as you can see. You can pull the lever at any time to stop the trolley from killing people, but that would not be fair to everyone who has already been ran over by the trolley. Which is the right thing to do?
Fair enough, but to be clear - I am not saying that apple software and products are free from problems. Far from it - butterfly keyboard, for example.

I am just saying Apple, for me, has the most reliable and consistent experience. And I have tried most options:

- windows, linux, and macos for my personal and work machines

- android, ios, and even windows phone (remember that?)

So far, may experience has been the opposite of yours - my work laptop is a 2015 macbook pro 15 and still performs really well (no crashes), but I have BSODed a couple of times on my windows 10 laptop I bought last year. Doesn't say much, I know.
> Split your codebase, split your teams, create a lot of opportunities for mediocre coders to grow into mediocre engineering managers, everybody was happy.

This is the best description of modern software development I have ever seen.

> It seems that, contrary to what everybody is saying, software developers are in plentiful and cheap supply so wasting a lot of their talent makes economic sense over the perceived cost of adapting more powerful programming systems.

> but we just throw more bodies at the problem because Gartner tells us this is the future.

This last part is the real reason for it: executives are blind morons who have no idea how to run technology-dependent companies, and their poor leadership bleeds down because hierarchical organization.

I used to blame executives because it seemed like they were making terrible decisions that everybody knew were terrible. But now I realize that the reason they're making the terrible decisions is they just have absolutely no concept of how the organization should run. They don't understand the customer, the employee, or the product, but they have generic ideas of how to make generic things, so they just do that and hope the people under them will fix everything.

So of course we're managing everything as tiny little components that get glued together. They're "Fordisming". And "Globalizing" is already here too. Many companies already have one microservice made in India, another in Romania, a third in Spain. Who cares if they barely talk? Who cares if they reinvent the wheel and use conflicting technology? It's all just a game of "reduce cost and increase profit".

The next big hotness is going to be the API-gateway-service-mesh-distributed-tracing monolith that every service will be plugged into. Developers will be given more power to turn on and off things that are connected to this monolithic service frontend. They will thus be able to have faster feedback, but nobody will be coordinating the changes they are making, so actually things will break more often due to conflicting changes.

Finally, some time after that, the developers will figure out that it would be better if, instead of depending on all the external Infrastructure/Configuration-as-Code, they should be using frameworks that have everything built into them, and have their application tell the framework what to do, so a dedicated person won't need to write it all using external tools and weird DSLs. This will persist as a sort of "Java framework for Kubernetes-native Applications", although it'll extend into all the thousands of shitty extension apps that plug all the holes in K8s. And then we'll truly have a new monolith, but a distributed one.
If so, they might tell us that. In particular, if they have a practical plan, they might actually tell us what it is...
dead weight that's not utilized

Dead weight, maybe, but unpowered dead weight. That’s the real tradeoff here. If you devote all of your silicon to one big general purpose machine, you need to use it for everything and so it’s always powered.

If your general purpose machine can do every task but nothing well then it’s essentially always wasting a lot of energy. A collection of special purpose cores, on the other hand, might power on and off at different times, depending on the need. Each one could perform its task with a great deal of speed and energy efficiency. The whole system would then be much more energy efficient because it would only use the resources it needs to perform its tasks.

It’s like choosing to own either: a) a Ferrari super car or b) a minivan and a super sport bike. In the former case, you can go really fast if you want, but you’re going to be wasting a lot of fuel getting groceries or picking the kids up at school. In the latter case, you have one vehicle for mundane tasks and another for high speed fun. Your fuel costs will be way lower and you’ll be much more energy efficient!
> We could have a society without starvation even if 99% of the population did not work.

Only if nobody wanted anything else but food. Which is nonsense. People want lots of things besides food. And clothing, and shelter. And sanitation, and medical care, and...

What you are calling "rich" countries are countries in which people have way, way more options--where their lives are a lot more than just bare subsistence. And history shows that the vast majority of people want all those options; they don't want to live a bare subsistence life. (If you do, how are you even posting here? The Internet is not possible in a bare subsistence world.) And providing all the things needed for all those options requires lots of work.
> "on" is a synonym for true

And "no" is a synonym for false, hence "the Norway problem."

https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/why/implicit-typing-removed/
And CPU/GPU companies have been caught multiple times in the past optimizing for these particular benchmarks. To the point where if you changed the name of the executable, the performance would drop significantly.
Are people seeing ads in Windows 10?

I often hear this, but I've never seen an ad (except MSFT's own ads getting to to try its new Edge browser.)
As this service uses stripe or other payment processors, the 2.9% is probably a third party fee. So, while not representative of the total overhead, it is accurate about their cost beyond what any similar transaction would involve.
The full title has one more sentence at the end:

‘I want people to know that we exist’

I think the idea is to highlight the existence of an group of people whose role in society is important, hazardous (particularly during a pandemic), and often overlooked.
My point was exactly that you don’t necessarily write your code for an embedded environment in the seccomp model. You provide code in a dynamic library format and the normal dynamic linker links the necessary calls (e.g. malloc) at runtime, exactly as a wasm would provide that environment (via WASI or whatever). Since those calls are all only implemented in terms of write,read,exit,and sigreturn you are guaranteed a high level of security.

Wasm is no different in this regard. You don’t get libc for free with wasm. The only thing you get with a wasm format is memory bounds checking but again that isn’t necessary in the seccomp model.
This is false. There’s a lot of evidence that mask usage reduces spread.

The evidence ranges from the fact that masks almost certainly capture water droplets which are supposed to be major carriers of the virus to the fact that there is correlation between countries that wear masks having reduced spreads compare to ones that don’t. In fact, a recent study compared districts in the same state, grouping them by whether the district implemented mask mandates or not, and found that the ones that had mask mandates had significantly lower levels of COVID hospitalizations vs the ones that didn’t.

There’s a LOT of evidence that masks reduce COVID spread. What there isn’t, is conclusive evidence that lets us say with a 95% degree of probability that masks work. Or carefully designed scientific studies that prove this.

But evidence doesn’t just mean a double blind scientific study, and if we waited for that degree of confidence to make decisions in everyday life, or even in very significant arenas like business and politics, we would be making no decisions at all. The entire IT industry, a massive trillions of dollar industry, for example, has switched from waterfall to agile development on the basis of far less and weaker evidence that agile works better than waterfall than we have for whether or not masks work.
>which is 5x cheaper than competitors like Gumroad.

Highly misleading comparison since Gumroad doesn't add extra charges on price of the product (other than cases like VAT)
Wasabi is likely even cheaper at $6 a month for 1000 GB (minimum) [0] and free egress to go with it (similar plans from Backblaze too [1]).

Scaleway is pretty impressive with its pricing too with 75 GB (storage + egress) free per month [2]

[0] https://wasabi.com/cloud-storage-pricing/#three-info

[1] https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html

[2] https://www.scaleway.com/en/object-storage/
Show HN: A Bridge from Nest Thermostat to Apple HomeKit Written in Go
For all its flaws in design or philosophy, cloud computing has a sweet spot.

As an indie, lone dev, I can run my site, email and a basic web app for about 10 USD a month and, if my app kicks off, I can scale it to a million users without breaking a sweat.

To me, that is the true power of the modern cloud computing paradigm. An influx of great apps and services enabled by cheap scalable and sweet competitive cloud services.

Was this even possible in 2000?
The person with $30 million will pick up and leave over $4000? His moving costs alone are going to be greater than that.
Have you looked at the laptop market lately? AMD has had quite a few design wins. Brands like Lenovo (including the Thinkpad, flex, and legion), HP (pavilion), Dell (including inspiron, gaming, and Alienware lines), Asus (Studiobooks, zenbooks, TUF, and ROG), Acer Aspire, and MSI, and the Microsoft Surface.

I wouldn't call all of those "niche". AMD has made a surprisingly quick move from the bargain basement laptops to the Thinkpad and Microsoft Surface lines in a single generation.

The nice thing is the new chips are pin compatible, so every current design win should move over to the new chips quickly. In fact half of the Ryzen 5000 laptop chips are renamed and slightly tweaked zen 2 chips from the previous gen. Based on the number of leaks, benchmarks, photos, etc it seems like the channel might well be full.

So I'm comparing laptops available in Nov (although people I know couldn't get theirs till Dec) to laptops I expect to be available in Feb, but that's speculative of course. Even the previous gen (zen 2) APUs are getting similar write ups to the M1. Things like benchmarking against the I9-9980KH and i7-1075H and winning. The zen3 is quite a bump vs the zen2 so I'm optimistic it will go well.

I'm hoping to get a few, maybe a mac mini like widget and another for a NAS. I don't expect them to crush a M1, but to be reasonably competitive, and while I contributed to the patreon to get linux on the M1, I expect the Zen 3 chips to have much better linux support.
My mother used to direct the pantomime in my local town, and various other shows. She'd always have the cleaners and curtain crew on the stage at the end: "there wouldn't be much of a show with the curtains closed."

These people are possibly the most important staff in the hospital: nobody else would be able to do a thing without them, as everything would be an unsanitary mess.
While this is a nice small playground, it is closed source and hasn't been updated since 2015.

Those who enjoy these emulated/simulated experiences in VisUAL's flavor may enjoy the "Cheap EMUlator: lightweight multi-architecture assembly playground" [0] it supports several variations of arm among other instruction sets(intel, mips, sparc) and to a much greater degree than VisUAL.

It is also open source, regularly updated, and also provides a visual experience, though a bit more limited than Visual's.

[0] https://github.com/hugsy/cemu
Windows 7 was peak desktop Windows. Server 2012 R2 was the peak on the server side. Everything after has been downhill.
I'm genuinely annoyed with headlines like this.

"risk their lives"

Unless they're old or vulnerable -- then they're not risking their lives. There's a likelihood that they may catch an incredibly mild virus.

inb4 "it's deadly"

Yes, to the vulnerable and the old it is, to everyone else...not so much.

It's not a literal death ray, unless you consider walking to work/driving in the same realms of risking your life.
>>But you seem to be making the case that this principle is completely disagreeable, and so you disagree with the social contract completely.

No, I just do not accept the idea that the terms of the "Social Contract" can be changed on the whims of a Majority / democracy, or worse on the whims of an elected officials

I believe in the Lockean principle of natural rights, on which I believe the terms of said social contract are written and are unchangeable

I believe what Authoritarian Democrats and Republicans call the "social contract" is a complete perversion of the concept in order to justify their own unethical power driven political ends.
If you count the whole field of agriculture, which would include most supplies producers and processing, you reach ~2% of the population (in France, I took my country as a reference, as I know it is a net exporter of food). I don't consider preparation to be necessary because if the food is free, I can wash the potatoes myself or even make my own bread.
It wasn't a trader who didn't know the price could go negative, it was a passive retail investor:

https://archive.is/33zf6#selection-3201.1-3205.1

>>>> “It didn’t occur to us” oil could go negative, A’Xiang Chen, a 26-year-old investor from Shenzhen, told Bloomberg News.

https://archive.is/XBP6v#selection-2457.0-2478.0

>>>> Thousands of miles away, in the Chinese metropolis of Shenzhen, a 26-year-old named A’Xiang Chen watched events unfold on her phone in stunned disbelief. A few weeks earlier, she and and her boyfriend had sunk their entire nest egg of about $10,000 into a product that the state-run Bank of China dubbed Yuan You Bao, or Crude Oil Treasure.

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I guess that's exactly the part about regulation that would normally prevent people from doing these things without having full understanding of the consequences. Obviously to your point, though, it does sound like the fund managers of that fund didn't exactly have their act together, either.
You have less general purpose cores to use, so you have less processing power in that sense.
I believe when apple music came out my music disappeared and I never put music on my phone since. (I just used a usb stick in the car from then on)

I think the music industry doesn't care anymore about selling music - why sell you a song for $1 (that you might copy for your friends) if they can sell you the same song again and again every month?
Yields are inverse to the die size.
May be more energy efficient but likely less powerful overall in general case.
Cool, I'll check it out. Thanks!
This is why I think it is important to understand and practice meditation and prayer. Maybe most don't understand the psychology behind it but dedicating some time during your day to sit and think can be surprisingly beneficial.
Even across modern chiplet designs?
Yep. Point taken - pun intended. This forum has fallen into the garbage bin a long time ago. Just sort of wondering if it's a requirement of all pop tech forums to go down this way.
Yes, agreed. But at this point you want to buy the products that has decreased the least in terms of quality. In my experience, that usually means apple.
amen nigga
Nice article! A map would've been nice, though.
I wasn’t speaking to a philosophical maxim, but rather practical application. Self-awareness is a real thing that can be objectively measured comparative between different people.
I just read Ecclesiastes, it’s amazing what universal perspective can do for the spirit.
> I vaguely recall news of rapes having occurred on the Illinois prairie path around where I grew up.

I don’t mean to be a dick but this is completely meaningless and useless. So why post it?
Why do you have to have less general purpose cores? If they're not powered up at the same time they're not competing for power or heat. They're competing for space but does that matter much when you're packaging chiplets?
It was during the time of Omar Ibn AbdulAziz. I looked up the reference, and it was actually not just income from Zakat, but the entire fund in Iraq was overflowing, so much so that it was not only sufficient for the needy, but it also paid off people's debts, and married whomever wanted to get married.

[1] https://www.islamweb.net/ar/fatwa/181283/%D8%A3%D8%AB%D8%B1-...
To be more specific they evaluated your courtesy as a sign of lower status from their perspective (whether consciously or not) and got angry because you did not in fact react as someone of lower status
Which makes them more likely to have low level symptoms while simultaneously spreading it further. This policy just doesn't make sense.
Women on YouTube generally make 2 to 3 times more than men, for the same amount of views. This might be because most YouTubers are men, so the advertisers who want to target women have to outbid each other harder to reach female audiences.