skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cynically I'm guessing it's for potential new users who have heard of Signal vaguely and inducing brand confusion. "Oh, Signal is part of Facebook Messenger, cool, already have that."
llvm does support ppc64le cores with VSX extension; if thats what you mean

in fact, IBM uses LLVM proper as its own compiler backend for its ppc processors
Then they don't understand what RAD / SCRUM is for - and I would bet had crappy outcomes before the switch.
Well, considering that converting food into fat is a way to store and 'save' for later, that's not surprising, indeed.

Arguably, if that made no difference to survival our body would have evolved away from even storing fat long before modern times.
> tertiary education complex is at least as influential as the military industrial complex

If you gave me full control (on the sly, so they maintained the role they currently have) of Harvard, Yale, NYT, and WaPo—I wouldn't care who held the Presidency or sat in Congress, and the military is a distant afterthought. All would follow my dictates to the letter and I would be able to entirely transform every aspect of the country.

So who, again, is in power? Votes (and by extension, voters) don't matter because they do not affect actual power. It's kayfabe on a grand scale.
I'm in two minds about this (deeper integration with a particular vendor - i.e. "serverless")

Reduced time to market is incredibly valuable. Current client base is well in its millions. Ability to test to few and roll out to many instantly is invaluable. You no longer have to hire competent software developers who understand all patterns and practices to make scalable code and infrastructure. Just need them to work on a particular unit or function.

The thing which scares me is, some of these companies are decades of years old, hundreds. How long has AWS/GCP/Azure abstractions been around for? How quick are we to graveyard some of these platforms. Quite. A lot quicker than you can lift, shift and rewrite your solution to elsewhere.
Free speech and censorship are issues that go far beyond just the First Amendment. This has always been the case, and recent efforts to narrow the scope of the term are actually part of the battle to reduce free speech (and increase censorship) that's going on right in the culture now.
The world is a better place when someone can disagree with another's opinion, and yet still take pleasure in their happiness.
Why do Americans think that cooking is so difficult that they need all these very dubious instructions?
> The VSC Codebase (and functionality contained in it) isn't easily ported into competitor products (the fourth point) while Pylance is fully portable by design (could be incorporated into competitor products instantly!).

Only if you consider the LSP standard (proposed and promulgated by MS themselves, made for and with VS Code) as not part of VS Code. My comment — "All of those reasons ... apply ... to VS Code itself" — includes LSP.

In fact, the only reason you can claim "while Pylance is fully portable by design (could be incorporated into competitor products instantly!)" is because of LSP!

Besides, it's not like competitor IDEs that have taken VS Code's codebase wholesale don't exist. Have a look at https://theia-ide.org/ for a start!
The delusional do not lie uniformly, and the trick to a good false narrative ("conspiracy theory") is to include as many true facts as possible, though cropped, shaded, cast, and lit to create an overwhelmingly false account. Usually true facts aren't sufficient, and most fabulists throw in additional false elements, some entirely fabricated, some subtly twisted.

The effort involved in separating truth from bullshit from someone fundamentally indifferent to truth is too high.

If there is in fact truth to be had, there will virtually always be a credible source from whom it can be obtained.

In Dante's Hell, it was bearers of false witness who occupied the penultimate circle.
It'll probably still be very difficult to find physically, as it only had one limited release and that sold out almost instantly.

Fortunately, if you're not interested in the digital PS4 copy, you can purchase a DRM free download from their itch.io [1] which works on Windows, Mac, or Linux. Its a game that would run on a toaster, so not having a gaming computer isn't a barrier.

[1] https://cardboardcomputer.itch.io/kentucky-route-zero
> We were discussing imminence, though

Yes, but immanence [sic] doesn't mean "right this second". It means at an understood point in the future, not during some undefined and indeterminate timeframe.

If everyone else is talking about violent action January 18th, and then you talk about people you'd like killed in the same general conversation, you don't walk just because you never specified the specific time yourself.

> You're also contradicting Volokh, a well-known and well-respected liberal first amendment lawyer's analysis by vaguely gesturing at one of the cases discussed in that very article.

Argument by authority. We have constitutional lawyers on the other side arguing the bar set in Brandenburg is met by Trump's comments alone. e.g. Niehoff, Somin (who writes on Volokh Conspiracy, too). Let alone after the additional context of a violent outbreak and more outright threats.
I don’t?
Trump went straight for the 'they do it too' lies, particularly early in his administration. When questions about his people's contacts with Russia and related people came up and what information might have been exchanged. His response was that he was sure other candidates would take any help / information from Russia if offered.

That struck me as one of those situations where you find that people who 'cheat' are more likely to greatly over estimate how many people actually cheat. But it certainly served the reverse cargo cult issue here too.

Interestingly enough when it came out that nobody in the Trump administration had informed US intelligence services that a foreign agent agent was offering them help... it also came out that every presidential candidate staff had reported some such contacts, with the exception of Trump, and Bush Sr. .
Related: the "Moral Maze" of Robert Jackall fame, recently "popularised" (if Less Wrong can be considered "popular") by Zvi Mowshowitz (https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2020/05/23/mazes-sequence-summa...).
It sounds like you are controlled by your thoughts. I'm looking into the concept of "Mindfulness" to get more control back and find more happiness. I also found that doing one workout every morning greatly improves my well-being and reduces thoughts that limit me.

I, too, struggled with wanting to to everything as best as possible but found that it really limits me. I eventually just started with very small iterations and even though I didn't write a lot of code yet the process itself already taught me quite a few things. The great thing with code is that you can come back later and improve it, so it doesn't have to be perfect on the first try!
Good catch! I just typo'd and used convection twice.
this made me think of what my take on "Cooking for Engineers" would be- roughly based on what I do personally.

essential gear would be a chef's knife, a stainless or cast iron pan, a nonstick pan, a large dutch oven, a sous vide circulator w a large bucket, a 10qt instant pot, and a vacuum sealer.

learn braising, roasting, sauteeing, and baking (veggies and proteins)

whenever you cook something where you can make extra, make a LOT extra, keeps a couple portions and vacuum seal the rest off and freeze them flat (keep your freezer really well organized)

find your core recipes and keep those perpetually in the freezer in small portions

learn to improvise and make gold out of whatever's in the kitchen (if you need inspiration, watch chopped)
> The companies are behaving in an un-American manner.

Those are transnational private companies. What is stopping others from claiming they have been behaving in an un-Chinese manner or an un-European manner or an un-Russian manner so far? How is a naive notion of nationalism of capital an argument of how such entities should behave when they operate in most recognized nations with different ideological and regulatory frameworks?
No. You’re spot on. When in doubt read Harold McGee. Conduction is “direct contact”.
(Vs convection and radiation)
Ask HN: How do you hire freelancers for single components?
It seems like most of the "quality" freelancing sites like Toptal are really focused on staff-augmentation or spending months to build out a full MVP.

I've been bashing my head for a couple weeks trying to build a particular complex React component and would like to hire a freelancer to do it. I imagine a professional dev could knock this out in a week, maybe even a few days.

How do you go about hiring someone for a single, small piece of a project?
I can't see anything about celibacy
The existence of #notallconservatives has no bearing, including no invalidating bearing, on this point.

Decent #notallconservatives, if they actually were so, could and should have policed their own indecent cousins. If they didn't, then they are complicit.

Any decent #notallconservatives didn't get kicked off of any other platforms in the first place. They lost nothing.

There is no cruel unfair intolerance to cry over here, any more than my comment getting a downvote, which favor you will note I didn't return, as long as we're trying to talk about intolerance. ;)
Teaching is one group of people trying to instill their ideas/understanding to others. There's always an authority to decide what should be taught, and it's power will be abused. Resorting to just proven science may limit these abuses but will leave you without social sciences/humanities altogether, because they almost never operate with properly (from scientific pov) proven things
The "SV style" runs into scaling problems. Engineers making product decisions requires that they have a solid grasp on everything the business cares about, which gets harder as the business gets bigger. Direct engineer -> engineer communication between teams is O(N^2) to organize things between N engineers.

As you grow I think reducing engineer autonomy is unavoidable, and the goal is merely to stick to reducing it and not eliminating it.
> as a person trying to build healthy online friendships from behind Tor.

As someone who's spent a lot of time on Tor-related IRC channels and other communities, gl lol
This has been and is being discussed in so many HN threads right now that this is not a great place to re-rehearse the same flamewars. Let's not let the generic drown out the specific—that's the main thing that reduces intellectual curiosity on the site.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(Yes, the GP comment started it by including flamebait, but it's not necessary to take the bait, and the guidelines ask everyone to resist that.)
This isn't even arguing with what I said. I said at the point of starvation, being obese is only going to let you live for a few more days longer than a skinny person assuming you dont get any more food until death.

This paper is arguing that they are more likely to survive in general, which is obvious.
The Fate of Empires (1976) [pdf]
Some countries have this. Denmark's tax:

Chocolate and confectionery (added sugar above 0,5 g pr. 100 g.), 3,76 USD per kilogram

Chocolate and confectionery (added sukker maximum 0,5 g pr. 100 g.), 3,32 USD per kilogram

...etc.
A short history of book covers
> disillusioned me from any participation in politics and politicians in general.

It's so much easier when the troublemakers show themselves out of the room. Of course, nobody could be blamed for wanting nothing to do with politics, but its only the people who are disgusted by the system that change it.
Notice that in C and C++ loops that might not terminate are UB, while in Rust they are just infinite loops.

So there is a significant difference in semantics between Rust and C/C++ here.
jwz's response is worth reading as well: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2009/09/that-duct-tape-silliness/

"It's such a strange article, in that it's mostly favorable to my point of view but with such a breathless amazement to it, like he's just discovered an actual unicorn or something. "Look, everybody! Here's a hacker who actually accomplished things and yet he doesn't fetishize the latest fads that I and all of my friends make our living writing about!" There's this tone to the thing like he just can't imagine that someone like me can exist."
The greatest counter to such constructs is logic. For those who can wield it enjoy likewise greater capacities due to the inherent nature of mind viruses.
200 years ago, those 10 year olds would have seen their parents at it pretty regularly. 2000 years ago, they'd have seen everyone in the tribe with their partners.
This is a bizarre hypothetical. Do you have any examples of someone in an acute medical emergency not receiving treatment because "obese people are clogging the health care system"?

Also what about all the other people who are "clogging the health care system"? Does the drinker with liver problems? What about the cyclist who needs to have surgery to repair a compound fracture they got in an accident? How about the surfer who has skin cancer from being in the sun too much? What about all the old people in the health care system? Do you deserve medical attention over them?

If the problem is not having capacity for medical system, let's build more capacity not stigmatize the people who need medical care.
I'm guessing that for the app store team everything except the ad revenue is in essence a cost center. The company makes money from it but it's not tied back to the app store team or not tied back directly enough. Ad revenue however is tied back directly. So they optimize the KPI they are measured on.
Oh, I meant it more in terms of "can you count on them as optional services".

Because they aren't optional, and yes, it takes non trivial amount to replicate them... but funnily enough, several of them have to be replicated elsewhere too.

NAT gateways usually aren't an issue, KMS for many places can be done relatively quickly with Hashicorp Vault.

IAM is a weird case, because unless you're building a cloud for others to use it's not necessarily that important, meanwhile your own authorization framework is necessary even on AWS because you can't just piggy back on IAM (I wish I could).
I did not cherry pick any benchmarks, I have picked the only 2 benchmarks that have been published for both Apple M1 and for Zen 3, and that were also freely available, so I could also run them on my own computer, to verify that the published benchmark results are correct.

They are not niche benchmarks. Geekbench 5 covers many common application domains and its only flaw is that the GB5 tests are very short so they finish before the CPU overheats and slows down, so this benchmark is much more favorable for Apple M1 than for a desktop CPU.

Even if GB5 is advantageous for M1, it still shows that Zen 3 is faster.

gmpbench tests a fundamental feature of any CPU, its ability to compute operations with large numbers. That may not matter for you but it is definitely one of the important criteria for measuring the single-thread speed of a processor, so when Apple M1 scores 6422 and a Ryzen 7 5800X (not the fastest Ryzen) scores 7816, there is no doubt about which starches which.

Moreover, the multi-thread results that I have seen for Geekbench 5, which very strongly favors Apple M1 (because in a real application M1 would overheat soon and it would slow down) show a 60% higher speed for 5800X, not of 40%, e.g. 12339 for 5800X vs. 7716 for Apple M1.

If you want to live with the illusion that Apple M1 is faster in single-thread execution than Zen 3, even if all the real numbers from benchmark results contradict you, that is your privilege.
I agree.

The only caveat is that this goes for founders or engineers who are financially tied with the company success. If the engineer just collects paycheck, they might prioritize fun - and I feel that might be behind a lot of the "reinventing the wheel" efforts you see in the industry.

Or maybe I'm just cynical.
If your views are aligned with what the echo chamber agrees with, you will be able to reply. If you do not get the echo chamber's approval, you are downvoted and cannot reply.

What's the conspiracy?! Its a fact.

But yes - it really does mean that my views are suppressed. I cannot reply to others as I would like.
Agreed! But, I think very novice cooks should rigorously follow recipes, learn what a good result is across a wide variety of dishes, then learn how to substitute things or change up recipes. Or rather that's what worked for me.
In extremely small companies that are very technology driven (yet often pretty traditional in terms of the problem they are solving) you can find much of the same. (I work for such a company)
Users like these are why maintainers of open source software are burning out.
1) Oracle also provides Cloud infrastructure. And Larry Ellison has hosted fundraisers for Donald Trump. Perhaps Parler should talk to Oracle.

2) Smaller providers like Digital Ocean are in fact not reselling the larger services, but you’re right that folks like Heroku are based on AWS.

3) They all have the right to speak. But private enterprises also have the right to decide for themselves if they want to do business with them. That too is a freedom of expression. It’s unclear to me why you think the far left or far rights freedom should supersede the moderates freedoms.
> Infinite scalability is also a curse

This was the key sentence, I think. This type of problem actually shows up in other domains as well, queueing theory comes immediately to mind. Even the halting problem is only a problem with infinite tape, and becomes easier with (known?) limited resources.

When you have some parameter that is unbounded you need to add extra checks to bound them yourself to some sane value. You are right, in that the parent failed to monitor some infrastructure, but if they were in their own datacenter, once they filled their NAS, I’m positive someone would have noticed, if only because other checks, like diskspace are less likely to be forgotten.

Also, getting a huge surprise bill is a downside of any option, and the risk needs to be factored into the cost. I’m constantly paranoid when working in a cloud environment, even doing something as trivial as a directory listing from the command line on S3 costs money. I had a back and forths with AWS support just to be clear what the order of magnitude of the bill would be for a simple cleanup action since there were 2 documented ways to do what I needed, and one appeared to be easier, yet significantly more expensive.
Really? Most Americans I know require everything spelt out to the last cupful. And where else could things like https://soylent.com/ ever have gained a foothold?
Great Essays of Life Advice
How frequently do you rebalance the portfolio?
The 1000 mile lead ended the day they sold their first car and revealed any and all novel things about their tech to the world.
Okay fair point. But sadly that holds for most companies. There are remarkably few of them that do not sell or provide support on FOSS to big governments that in turn do all kinds of nasty things. How can we change this, if at all? Isn’t it part of capitalism?
Educational settings are one of the worst places where insidious terms crop up. You often simply don't have a choice.

I'm a volunteer firefighter and was registered by my department to take a course with a government-run institution to upgrade my certification.

A while back that institution began using Blackboard - a Netherlands company - for all learning materials, whose ToS [1] includes a clause where I must agree to defend and indemnify Blackboard from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or debt, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney's fees) arising from my use of and access to their product, as well as any other party's access and use of the product with my username or password (which I contemplate could occur if Blackboard or the institution were to suffer a data breach).

To read the textbook (only available online) there was a similar ToS from yet another third party. You can't access any of the material without explicitly agreeing to both contracts.

I was uncomfortable with the clause. For one, I didn't understand why my interaction with my local government institution required me to indemnify two foreign companies with whom I have zero relation (and didn't want any).
Before "cloud services", the institution would have contracted with the vendors themselves to buy the platform, then presented their own contract to me (which is the right way to do this, and which I'd be fine with).

I deferred accepting, and reached out to the institution to find out if there was some alternative way to obtain the materials (e.g. in hardcopy). I spent months trying to find alternative arrangements, but the bottom line was nobody cared.

I showed it to a commercial lawyer in the department who agreed the clause is nonsensical and he expressed some choice words for the institution foisting this upon its students.

I give of my own time and volition do firefighting and rescue (and love doing so!). Nobody was paying me to take this course.

In the end I wound up hitting the Accept button, with a deep feeling of having effectively been bullied into it.

Compared to some of the other ToS's I've seen out there this one was comparatively mild. I can only imagine how parents must feel when such garbage finds its way into their kids' learning environments.

[1] https://help.blackboard.com/Terms_of_Use and https://tosdr.org/en/service/2230
That would give developers too much power and make them non replaceable/interchangeable.
You can't moderate a platform if there's millions of people posting and only a handful of moderators.

Remember, AT&T is also incapable of stopping criminals from conspiring using text/telephone messages...and based on your logic the Feds could just shut down AT&T and blame AT&T for being "complicit". No obviously that's moronic. Wake up and stop giving our rights away. Eventually you're going to loose your own.
Any tips on the frequency of rebalancing the portfolio?
I know very little about Scuttlebutt, but supposing, say an ex-president decided to start using it. Would it be able to handle the level of traffic this might generate?

I realise it's decentralised, but would that, for example, at some point require every one who were to get on Scuttlebutt to download on 80gb file in order to get started?
Really they're utilities.
I mostly agree with what you say, but:

> People could eat relatively healthy if they wanted to, but they don't. [emphasis added]

It's not an issue of want. I've lived in a near food desert. I was in a relatively well-off part of a very poor part of town (many people lived without cars, high unemployment, etc.). The local grocer had god awful meat and produce (produce would spoil in 1-2 days of purchase, meat wasn't much better). To get good food I'd drive sometimes 10+ miles away and get, for the same list price, much better quality meat and vegetables. I wasn't breaking the bank, but I had access to a vehicle and the time to take to go make the purchase (the local grocer was only good, for me, for staples like dried beans, rice, and flour). The others living nearby without a car, or without the time/money to dedicate to that extra trip for groceries had to subsist on what was available locally, which meant often some very poor quality foods (with regard to health outcomes at least).

Otherwise, I agree that good food is not expensive. I saved money and got healthier by spending less on food (chicken breast and ground beef at $2-3/pound, catch on sale days and freeze; rice and beans cost maybe $10/month as a single adult; a few key vegetables and fruits cost $5-10/week).