skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought a Turing Pi 1 . It's a 7 node mini-cluster, not very expensive (I think about £300 fully populated), that fits into an MiniITX-style case with a single small power supply and single ethernet exposed to the world. You can easily pick the thing up with one hand. It's certainly not powerful, each node is a very modest ARM processor with "only" a gigabyte of RAM and 8 GB of local storage.

The alternatives are much more powerful, but far more expensive and not very attractive in other ways. Blade server? Huge, noisy, power-hungry and I wouldn't get much change from many thousands of pounds. Rack of NUCs? Powerful of course but far more expensive, large, separate power bricks, ethernet switch and lots of wiring required. VMs running on a desktop? Still more expensive, larger, and not the same tangible experience as having a real cluster. VMs on a laptop? Laptops at the same price point would have too little RAM to run lots of VMs well.

So these Raspberry Pi clusters fit a niche which is not well served by other solutions.
I got an M1 MBA to use until the real pro machines come out. It's much faster than the 2017 MBP it replaced, and does it while staying completely silent. The no fan noise is uncanny...sort of like a 'is this thing working?'.

Not scientific at all, but one of my large java app test suites takes ~7 minutes to run on my 2017 MPB and ~3 minutes to run on the M1 MBA using the Azul ARM build.

I can't wait for the 16" MBP with Apple Silicon.
Dunno, maybe because compared to Node.js developers, C/C++/Rust developers have more time to burn on HN (due to their multithreaded build still takes ages), so they are more likely to show up and make a downvote?

Joke aside, claiming "In most programming benchmarks, single core and RAM is the game" is far from truth.
I suspect the majority of readers are being paid less than $100k with no stock or bonuses, and correctly intuit that new-hotness things on their résumé will help them climb the salary ladder towards that magic $100k threshold.
Converting to Islam seems legit to me, I have doubts though the kid is still living at the same place with the parents once it became a jihadist. To me this seems like a well-intended idea from the UK but it's not how reality works. I would even go so far and argue that people develop and engage in extremist views only once they have actually broken ties to any 'normal' people. That said, all documentaries I remember watching about the topic, e.g. the people who did the 9/11 attacks, they were basically living solitude lives, and extremists were welcoming them with open arms.
When I hired a car and traveled along the North Korean border circa 2005 the driver told me about how the NK villagers would, in recent memory, go up in to caves on the adjacent mountains in winter and basically lie there starving and dying in a group because their clothing and houses were so poor (no windows, no insulation) and the nearby land so denuded of firewood that they would otherwise freeze to death. The ones who survived were seen lying in the sun near the river in the spring awaiting the return of energy. I understand the first edible crops in the area are immature fern fronds which poke through the snow. According to the driver, the women would reportedly illegally cross the river to prostitute themselves in China before the winter to obtain rice to survive. It is likely these people have the same bone deformities.
Why do we need a special case law for this? Seems like it should already be covered.
I have mentioned this in several comments and no, it's not that simple and worse, there is zero money to be made even if they did release such a product because Apple would never sell their chips as an OEM.
There are AMA's from time to time. Typically, they involve an aspect of YC.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=ama

Immigration attorney Peter Roberts has done several

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=peter%20roberts
There was absolutely no need to include the stupid fake feminist take. Plenty of women and plenty of feminists also oppose porn.

The problem with onlyfans and chaturbate and others is that there are a lot of serious criminal activities that the creators might be engaged in. Anything from the creator stating they are over age when they are a minor, to full blown sex slavery where girls are held and forced to perform against their will.
So it is understandable that people are wary of getting into that mess.

The same fake feminist spewing bullshit about men keeping sex workers down, will very quickly accuse the same men of profiting from sex slavery or child porn if they had invested in these platforms.
Hey, it's not only programming, how many other triggers would you like me to mention? ;-)
yep, thanks for noting
Nice, found a bunch of vids of featured "performer" Aella getting boffed on Spankbang. Surely "unashamed casual porn consumer" OP would have no problem if his sister were also a "performer" on Onlyfans.
With a blockchain.
If porn down on internet, 3° World War will happen
Porn isn't going anywhere. The oldest known depiction of a human figure is pornographic [0]. Since porn will always exist, better that it be produced and consumed in the open, legally speaking. Sex workers deserve the same safety and labor protections as the rest of us.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Hohle_Fels
I joke with friends that the internet was invented by porn coders - back in the 90s, porn companies would pay college kids to deliver more porn faster, cheaper (with perl). Before that it was porn BBSes doing the same thing, people would pay for dialup access to download. Porn delivery has been on the forefront of pushing certain areas of tech for a long time, it's just not openly acceptable.
Does Hetzner's storage share also have snapshots or backups?
The game was announced in 2012 but actual development didn’t start until 2016
Good to know. I couldn't see any reason that they wouldn't work for a Pi4, but I couldn't find a single manufacturer that said Pi4 was actually supported.
What Is the Best Font for a Pitch Deck?
The fact that there is even a viable market for OnlyFans type content was such a disheartening thing to learn.
Can someone explain what the point is? Can't you just gets a multicore xeon off eBay really cheap and get more performance for less money?
My understanding was that Pascal's wager implies the prospect of eternal damnation or some infinitely negative consequence. Therefore the choice of religion is probably of great import if we enter the logic of the wager.
"The cloud" is a leasing program except even more optimized for OpEx - pay-as-you-go monthly billing and you now don't even need to hire ops people because it's "serverless".

(Of course you have to force your devs to do the ops stuff now, but that's not accounting and HR's problem now.)
In more developed countries, gamification is "put each kind of garbage in its own can" (in half of that world, those cans are still emptied to the same trash truck).

I don't think the recycling schemes (illusory and otherwise) were introduced on the assumption that the public would get so addicted to rubbish separation that we'd eventually be able to eliminate the need for any paid garbage collectors though. Or indeed that many people don't view rubbish separation as 'work' imposed on them, to the extent many local authorities collecting household waste have to threaten fines or at least noncollection of waste to enforce compliance.

As for less developed countries, they usually have an abundance of flytipped waste because they don't pay [enough] garbage collectors and whilst there's the occasional eyecatching 'clean up this beauty spot' activity nobody wants to play the garbageman game all year round...
I was aware of this one and I'll probably go with this, but I'd really prefer an "all-in-one" form factor of a small NAS without going with a closed-source vendor like Synology.
cloud style microservice architectures. saves a lot of power and no single node is carrying all the weight. distributed computing is scalable. 1 big xeon is not.
Amazing the recipes survived considering the cooks were probably illiterate until somewhat recently. They are written in Old English though so someone decided it was worth recording them way back when.

It is humbling to see what variety, quality, and quantity of food is available today. I didn’t really think twice that I’m able to easily get a rib roast to cook for Christmas dinner and have already been planning the delicious roast beef sandwiches I’ll make from the leftovers.
Did Processed Foods Make Us Human?
A synthesis of risk management, part 1
I didn't appreciate this article's tone. It seems to somehow suggest Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are evil for not having made the collective decision to launch porn startups. It takes me about five seconds to think of good reasons to not get involved in that business, that have nothing to do with being a bad person.
Does anyone have an updated link to the "Introduction to Computer Architecture" at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of Imperial College London that VisUAL was designed for? The linked URL simply states that the site is decommissioned.
That's wonderful! :)
> fat connection to memory

It's the same "thickness" as desktop (or good laptop) DDR4, i.e. 128 bits. Apple is running a very high clock though, and with other manufacturers, even for laptops with soldered memory they were quite conservative with memory tuning, basically running JEDEC spec. Maybe now they'll feel the kick in the ass and overclock their RAM already.
It was apparently built for a very specific use case (doing CI for some application) so I guess it has to be ARM Linux. You can run Linux in a VM guest on Mac mini, but some limitations remain:

- The project was obviously started before the Mac mini was available

- Linux guests are still rather experimental and might not behave the same way as a real machine.

- 32-bit Arm applications do not run on the M1, it is a 64-bit-only CPU

- Nested virtualization is said to not work yet under MacOS, so you cannot run KVM guests inside of the Linux guest

- If you need to spin up lots OS instances simultaneously to test various setups and each of them need 8GB, you can have at most 2 instances on a Mac.

For most use cases, none of those apply, so you would be better off with a Mac, a Graviton instance or an off-the-shelf PC.
I'd guess that the vast majority of "cloud" customers are boring enterprises doing boring enterprise stuff, probably not even Internet-related stuff at all.
Do they also take 30% of meals sold through Uber eats?
Researchers achieve first “sustained” long distance quantum teleportation
John Rawls: can liberalism's great philosopher come to the west's rescue again?
This article and these comments make me feel like a human surrounded by aliens. This discomfort with one's own thoughts, this inability to sit alone, this irritation with being is an aspect of life I identified and seriously attacked in my pre-teen years. I foresaw that aspect of life as an exploitable weakness, and a weakness exploited everywhere - religion being #1 abuser of this weakness, but it's shadow used to sell products and politics and all using fear of self as it's key mechanism.

I started reading the literary classics early, like 3rd grade. They were far too mature for me, but that information at that age was a crash course in the true nature of this world and life itself. I started meditating in 5th grade and continue to this day - not the pop culture meditating I see sold today, but some old Indian guy I purposefully located with zero ego that taught me to calm and just be.

Do people not read to locate themselves in history? One of my earliest intellectual activities was locating myself in my cultural heritage, my place in society's hierarchy and how that level and those above and below me operate. Are you adrift in an ocean deep society you do not understand?

The time I am not working or supporting my family, I am continuing to research and learn how our society and world operate; it is deep complex and in many aspects hidden in legal terminology intended to confuse. But it is essential.

We do not live in a physically dominate world, our world is dominated by ideas and those ideas dictate everything that is and everything that will be. Until one is comfortable with their "most feared" thoughts they are candidates for exploitation with "scary possibilities of death and an after life".
I have no interest in an academic debate about choice. Most reasonable people will agree that having a "choice" between x and the end of your existence (in most cases in extremely painful and excruciating way) is no choice at all.
I completely agree with your overall point, that there are too many confounding factors to reliably attribute anything to government actions. I guess I just couldn't resist the urge to nit.
> And Silicon Valley has almost nothing to do with it.

Wrong, it has a lot to do with it. Search engines, servers, laptops, cameras, websites, encryption, internet access,the list goes on...
>Any biological talk at this point is unhelpful mystification.

The business marketing groups for NNs might push back on this a bit, I suspect.
Thank you for pointing this out. I studied math and still get tripped by the flowery language. I understand the reason for analogy but it hinders application of concepts like regression, line of best fit and other things that makes machines “smarter.”
This is great approach. Implementing well-designed horizontally-scalable monolith app usually leads to keeping it monolithic for years, saving enormous amount of time, money and effort, keeping devs team compact and agile.
Selfhosting is neat until you really start thinking about durability, reliability, quality, integrity. Never self-host important data with at least doubly redundant backups incl. regular offline backups. On that thought, also never have a single authoritative copy without backup online. If all important photos are on Google Photos with no backup, you're doing it wrong. If you have important data in Onedrive with the convenient sync enabled from multiple PCs and maybe your phone, it's not safe, all these clients have write access. Same for nextcloud.

I employ a "spider" system. I use paid online storage like Onedrive, S3, Azureblob or Gdrive, or Fastmail for email and calendar and contacts, but pull all data from their primary hosting location and then disperse it into multiple cloud copies plus local plus distributed local offline (in intervals). All spider copies are encrypted either using GPG or symmetric encryption. I can access all spider target locations with credentials I know by heart or have offline backups of them, and I can also access or know the encryption keys required to access the data itself.

I also keep an encrypted emergency copy of my most important data on my phone's storage.

In such a system, it's perfectly fine to use Google storage + Azure storage + S3 and whatnot provider, as long as you have a sound system and encrypt your data. They can deliver important features you cannot deliver yourself at reasonable cost.

Nothing is free.

Essentially, to safeguard the most important personal data, the exact same methods and knowledge that a system engineer who designs a storage layer as part of business critical infrastructure should be applied.

Nextcloud is just too messy and complex. I don't want to spent a lot of time managing its lifecycle, testing updates before deploying them to production, etc. I trust accomplished vendors to host production copies of my data as a service, and take responsibility from there. Sure it's easy enough to deploy some piece of open source software and update it continuously, but I suppose the work that goes into making it a high-quality service, like testing updates with duplicate data before letting a new software version lose on your important personal data master copies, is something I doubt few people are putting in.
Looks like the porn industry is bankrolling a PR campaign to legitimize their business.
It is particularly amusing to see them pretend they are feminists when in truth practically all feminists hate porn.

And I also find amusing the implication that onlyfans is a win for sex workers. Yeah, maybe for the typical porn star it is a better deal, but on the other hand they are also corrupting a lot of young girls that would otherwise have never gone into porn.
For those looking to escape porn: https://nofap.com/
I believe the real problem is pricing. The ability to advertise $30 (bait) and charge $50 (switch) basically begs for scams like this.
Neither does the Mac Mini, what's your point? If you're building your own desktop PC, then you're clearly not comparing it to a laptop.

On top of that, Apple charges $300 (in Sweden) for every 8GB of RAM, and $300 for every 500GB of SSD storage you add. The costs quickly even out. Unless you buy the absolute cheapest Mac Mini version, a self-built PC will be cheaper, at least according to the PCs I've built.
I think you're right on the money with people having gotten used
to it. Once I truly started harnessing the power of Vim combined
with shell scripts and terminal multiplexers, my patience for
many other programs and tasks decreased even further.

We have the computing power to run complex physical simulations
or AI training sequences on a normal home computer, but for some
reason use programs that take 100 times longer to start than
old software despite not having more features, and websites that
sometimes even come with loading screens. Electron isn't even as
bad or slow as many people think, but somehow developers still
manage to throttle it so hard that I might as well just use a
website instead.

As someone who is just starting with nodejs and web development
I find a lot of the tech feels nice but sometimes also
unnecessarily abstract. Sure, it tends to make a lot of the code
very elegant and simple, but every additional framework adds
another guide and documentation to look at, another config file
that has to be correctly referenced by an already existing one so
npm knows what to do, another couple of seconds of build time
and another source of bugs and build problems. Then of course
you need that trendy package for easier imports maintenance -
which IDEs automatically handled in the past, but now we gotta
use an editor running in a hidden web browser which started from
scratch in terms of features but is just as slow in return.
Memories of Peter M Neumann – mathematician
I’ve got over 300,000 dead countrymen and women who, were they still able, would disagree that the numbers are irrelevant. But go ahead and yawn while 3,000+ people die each day gasping for air.
So this is basically a go-like language which can be compiled into C (which would explain fast compilation small size)?
Neat!

I guess community and adoption will make it or break it
Alternatives to HashiCorp Vault?
I'm going to play devil's advocate here. A sleepy engineer wakes from their slumber when a new technology
takes hold their mind. They find new ideas exciting and intoxicating. And sometimes that energy can be infectious and makes the entire development process more enjoyable for product owners and QA.

There needs to be a balance. For example, upgrade to the latest version of Rails. Upgrade previous file storage gems to active storage. Upgrade the deployment process.

There are many exciting things to improve in a monolith.
This is so exciting. Is this type of "movement" (trend) likely to see data centers coming back on premises for enteprise markets? (ie. back from cloud)
Fun to see the spiritual exercises on hn. I did a 4-day version at one point. It was wonderful.
Yes, but it improves quite a lot on Go:

https://vlang.io/compare#go
> looking at smooth, undisturbed surfaces like the roofs of buildings

a flat roof (with fine enough texture) will be reflective thus invisible. What you see are precisely tiny "corner" reflectors formed by large enough gravel, rocks and building structures. On a mountainous area, as long as you have some rocks and gravel here and there, you are still able to find correlations--and thus interferences. Of course, if all you have is wet mud and vegetation there's nothing to do, but this is not often the case. In a region of special interest like near a mine, people often install ad-hoc corner reflectors at calibrated positions.
> viable market for OnlyFans type content was such a disheartening thing to learn.

why is that?

Somebody else enjoying content they paid for has nothing to do with you - it's easy to avoid and easy to not be involved.
The CPU support list is here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/min...

Next LTSC release should be late next year apparently.
This was the original statement "Not if you are hungry. Deep mysteries are fine and all but doing so in -1 deg celcius on an empty stomach lays out the reality of existence with exacting clarity".

It was more about questioning the relevance (and authenticity) of "deep mysteries" and "existence" etc. It was not about whether or not human beings can train themselves to endure such difficulties. Which they can, apparently.

When you said "it would be a cake walk for an ascetic" I thought that by ascetic you meant one who is into meditation and all such "deep realities". Not Wim Hof.

Nevertherless, I personally don't see any virtue in being hungry in -1 degree celsius, if I have food and a warm home. Except in case someone is making money out of it, like Wim.
This is a super good read, if you have 10 minutes I highly recommend. I have absolutely no problems with pornography and if my own daughter decided this was the industry she wanted to enter I would help jumpstart her career anyway I could just as I would any career she chose. My wife and I are very free spirits and the previous HN discussions on Pornhub / NYT article made me feel like I was taking crazy pills and living in 1850’s Victorian England. The pearl clutching was so intense I was very worried the pearls would break from pressure!

The vast majority of those that enter the sex business are consenting adults with free agency and control over their own actions. That some people are angry later and feel shame is a result of society disapproving of their decision rather than genuine harm caused to them. We need to change attitudes towards sex work to remove the shame rather than stop entry into a massively popular and universal industry that crosses all cultures.

Vice - and by that I mean sex, drugs, and rock and roll - is best consumed in moderation and the human experience is improved because of it. Prohibition and outlawing massively popular industries drives them underground but does not eliminate the demand, overall harming the people who work in the business. The insane shutdown of Backpage, a website whose operators worked closely with law enforcement, just drove the prostitution industry underground and made it even harder for detectives to do their jobs. Furthermore the internet is global and shutting down western sites just moves them offshore where they are just as easily accessible but basically impossible to shut down.

In summation I applaud OnlyFans and wish that there was less shame and more support to employees of businesses like pornography that provide massive enjoyment and receive tons of hate for literally zero reason when analyzed rationally.
If you want enterprise customers, you still need to support SAML in 2020.
Much of the produced food is thrown away because it's no longer considered fit to eat, however. And scarcity also takes into account the where. Malnourished people in poor countries might happily eat bread which is past its 'sell by' date in rich countries' supermarkets, or even the slightly burned leftovers from my plate, but there isn't a distribution system to get it there (and the resources needed to transport that food to them whilst the food is still edible genuinely are scarce)
Bridges are relatively easy to specify. There aren't so many variables and they aren't likely to change after the bridge is built.

Most software is underspecified (an unsolved problem) and thus in exchange for "hacking it together somehow" the vendor is allowed to disclaim any responsibility.