skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to think about it, I suggest that you keep a “library” of classic experiments in your head.

There are experiments that show that light is not a particle (in the classical sense) and other experiments that show that light is not a wave (in the classical sense). Quantum mechanics is the result of trying to find a theory consistent with both sets of experiments.

Originally, the double slit experiment was seen as proof that the wave theory is correct. So if you want to challenge your wave theory, look to different experiments. Wave theory of light was predominant from the mid-19th century to the emergence of quantum mechanics in the early 20th century, so I would focus on science from the early 20th century, such as the ultraviolet catastrophe and the photoelectric effect.

Consider the photoelectric effect. If light were a wave that carried energy, this wouldn’t explain why an equal amount of energy has a different effect depending on its wavelength. The quantum explanation is that one packet of light contains a different amount of energy, which depends on wavelength. “Light is a wave” kind of falls apart as a theory, because it is unable to explain this.
If that is your idea of Own OS I am happy for you.
I could imagine a backup solution being built on top of that free storage. Uploading encrypted blobs of data.
> I'd rather have 200k in a diversified portfolio that earns me 5k a year

From a financial point of you a difference is that to do this you need to have 200k cash, while you can borrow most of the money to buy a 200k house.

There is a leveraging effect when investing in property.
I believe this too but oh boy does Trump often put me on the spot.
With such a motto, you'd expect them to practice sprinting a lot, but curiously, I've never seen that happen!
Funny how history repeats itself.

Nokia had logbufd on their linux devices (N770/N800/...) to prevent NAND getting abused by constant writes. They realised very early on that writing logs during runtime is essential for debugging purposes but also that it would kill the internal flash in no time at all.

With tmpfs backed log partition, you still need active log rotation. Logbufd was an in-memory ringbuffer that listened on the standard syslog socket, and if you spewed too much logs, you only killed your own ability to go back in time. If you fill up tmpfs before rotation gets a chance to rescue you, you will break all applications that don't handle out-of-disk-space gracefully.
> When no one wants to make a suggestion, propose the worst possible one you can come up with.

And watch in horror when everyone agrees to it because nobody cares as much as you do.

"Write the whole thing in 1960s-era COBOL? Eh, fine, no problem. Good idea, bhntr3."
I have no idea what you're talking about. Honestly I think you're a bit out of touch with how people use the internet today.

I've got two monitors.

I've played an MMORPG before where I have a YouTube video playing on the other monitor.

This has been possible for probably 10 years.

Also yes. People live in homes with other people either as a family or house/flat sharing.

Who all use the internet at the same time.

What if they all want to watch 4k video in their room? Whilst their consoles (Nintendo Switch, PS5 or Xbox Series X) are downloading games/updates.

If they want to maintain 4k streaming, they're going to need a fast download speed.

Google Stadia, Amazon Luna, Nvidia GeforceNow are game streaming applications, they require good throughput in addition to low latency.

Low latency requires an uncongested connection.

What if they work on photos and videos in the cloud? They can load them up faster to work on. Rather than requiring a signifant local storage.

Especially if they have symmetric upload speeds.

100Mbps+ is clearly beneficial.

You're conflating your lack of need for fast internet with everyone else not needing it.
Do you have a source explaining the issue a bit more? I haven't found anything and don't exactly understand what you mean.
> Kudos to that student for asking the hard question and for framing it so politely. I had stripped away that decorum and exposed the raw nerve.

Yet you immediately pierced through the politeness as you call it, and embarrassed the student.

But kudos for being so polite about said student whom you clearly have a low opinion of.
I am sure the Nazis told the Jews there are plenty of opposition voices (government controlled ones) as well in the 1930s.
I actually came up with this myself just playing around with NetBSD. You will probably not find anyone advocating disabling swap. I do not run X11 anymore. I stay in VGA textmode. Doubt anyone would want to do exactly what I do.
NetBSD users tend toward DIY and each has their own preferences. If you study how NetBSD's install media are created that will teach you almost everything you need to know. Happy to walk you through it though if you want to try NetBSD.

Chromebooks are claimed to be 100% safe from certain types of attacks. The developers came up with this silly "whitewash" gimmick. Their motivation for a disk-less-like system is to force users to store personal data in the cloud. Ugh. Well, the disk-less systems I have been creating for recreational use long before Chromebooks existed are just as safe. Probably safer because I do not use a graphics layer or a web browser with Javascript interpeter.
Not sure which one you're referring to, but esbuild (Golang) and rome (TypeScript) are also mentioned, probably because either dev-influencers on social media have been raving about them, or they have sufficient enough JavaScript code in their project to show up for the authors search.
>kill count Bush doesn't win this one

True, Trump was probably the most peaceful president since the 2. WW for the rest of the World. But he definitely stole the "greatest Fire-starter and stupidity talker" from Bush.

BTW: If he could make the thing with N. Korea, he would probably be reminded as someone like Nixon (not directly good but for sure not a abomination)
Camera vendors are perfectly capable of storing a lot of metadata in the jpeg encoded image itself, in an steganographic way. If you want to really be sure, crop your image to a position that is not multiple of 8 on any direction, then scale it by a factor very close to 1, add some noise, and re-compress it again. Some steganography is yet robust to that, but only the really fancy stuff.

Anyhow, if your image shows recognizable landmarks with shadows, then it will be feasible to recover the exact point of view and the time of acquisition.
> But if you wrote that on a site hosted on AWS, there is nothing in principle from Amazon taking the platform down. Politician Y calls his buddy Jeff Bezos, and fwoomp! Gone. This should be concerning.

Why should it be concerning at all? There are a few thousand other hosting providers they can go to.

The slightly stronger argument seems to be that the people making these death threats on Parler should not have been banned from Twitter/FB in the first place. FB/Twitter have far less competition and most of their value is in the network effects they've established.

The tech giants should absolutely be broken up/more heavily regulated, but I think there are much better examples of why than Parler.
Idris 2 version 0.3.0
Interesting. I am pretty sure that it's not a case of individual failure. It has more to do with organizational structure.

Most of the low hanging fruits can be picked by one individual. Instead of trying to pick more apples from the same tree people should make sure that there are not too many people assigned to the same tree.

The article confirms my idea:

>Look at your current profession. Are you in a position to create substantial value? If the answer is no, move on to a different place where you CAN.
I remember another anecdote about Bush:

"[..]Professor Thomas Römer, an Old Testament expert at the university of Lausanne, was rung up by the Protestant Federation of France. They asked him to supply them with a summary of the legends surrounding Gog and Magog and as the conversation progressed, he realised that this had originally come, from the highest reaches of the French government. President Jacques Chirac wanted to know what the hell President Bush had been on about in their last conversation. [..]"

Source:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2009/a...
They only say the name of the group when they have a comfortable majority.
It's HN policy to not keep misleading titles. "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait" [1]. Flagging things that do not meet it would seem reasonable to me.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Text is a 25 x 16 grid of characters on my phone. Luckily I read it first on my computer. Reader mode does help though.
That is such a common problem when standardizing, I've started to force my clients to have at least one person of each entity in project teams.

Often the biggest entity will end up accidentally forcing their practices, sometimes sub-optimal, to entire organizations, simply by having the manpower to show up to meetings.
And by doing that you allow a competitor to emerge.
You are free to do that, however note that there are more than enough companies willing to jump at the opportunity...
How is it being killed off? You might have to pay a bit more tax (either before as part of employer NI, or after), but £650/day isn't an abnormally high rate.

I was looking at the following job last month which was advertised at £200k

Software Engineer needed for award winning tech focused hedge fund run by passionate computer scientists. Sells Flexible hours/work options Technologists only report to technologists Programmers treated as top commodity so ‘spoiled’ Very friendly/collaborative people Cutting-edge tech Multiple greenfield projects No red tape Beautiful offices Small team size in a growing company so able to make a significant impact Role Build and optimise new cutting-edge platforms to back-test, research & trade quantitative strategies Predict models to automatically invest, design and develop trading platforms Performance optimisation & building robust intelligent solutions to problems

And this one at £150k

My client is a specialist quantitative asset management company that takes pride in having a distinct culture and approach to working with technology. With a tech driven and relaxed feel in the heart of London. They are looking for an outstanding Low-latency Network Engineer. The successful candidate will be a key engineer in the company and will be designing, building and managing critical network infrastructure and automating all work.

Now sure, not everyone is paid those, but not everyone is paid $500k in america either. trcollinson was a on a gross of less than $200k as a contractor. Based on his hours that's $800 a day, or £586 a day, or £660 a day if you include Employer NI.
Pretty much every professionals' pay is proportionately lower.

Doctors are paid around a 1/3 of what doctors get in the US

Nurses around half

Lawyers vary, but quick googling suggests it's around half to third

Finance, insurance and real estate pays waaaay less

Store managers at Walmart get about twice as much store managers at Lidl Europe

The skew in upper management pay is even higher

and on and on...
GORM is nice for beginners because it's pretty easy to get started with, but in my experience starts to fall apart when you need to do anything more complex or start to scale up. I've had good experiences with SQLBoiler [0] on the other hand. I haven't used it in for anything in production, but it's been a breeze to use in a couple of personal projects, and it handles complex SQL queries much better compared to GORM.

0: https://github.com/volatiletech/sqlboiler
Digital Lending Startup Blend Raises $300M, Valued at $3.3B
I can get into the nuances of it, but honestly even on surface level, just the single point that my Health care is not linked with my job gives me infinitely more control over my life.
Just with Drones, everything else i unpopular ATM.
I hold a position that many a newborn infant is already successful and that even many self-made men have done so in a field that does not require high intelligence.

I'm fairly certain that being a high-paid world class figure skater does not require high intelligence.
I haven't, roam was the first tool of that class I tried, liked it straightaway and saw no reason to look for alternatives.
Just like lockdowns and mask wearing.
GUI fuzzing is a thing, yes. I've seen it mostly on mobile apps but I'm sure you have it for other type of GUIs.

Example of tools: https://www.fuzzingbook.org/html/GUIFuzzer.html
Hard disagree. V100s are a perfectly valid comparison point. They're usually what's available at scale (on AWS, in private clusters, etc.) because nobody's rolled out enough A100s at this point. If you look at any paper from OpenAI et al. (basically: not Google), you'll see performance numbers for large V100 clusters.
Don't be a WAIS guy!
In quantum mechanics, it's a wave function. Wavelike, but not a wave; particle-like, but not a particle.
Dwarfism [skeletal dysplasia‑like syndromes] in wild giraffe [full paper]
Yeah that's probably the wrong way to express it (hadn't had coffee). If I get $N pay rise, it's only a $0.5N net pay rise, which makes it much less attractive.
Nationalistic drive is a great way to convert "that politician took away 2% of power from this politician" into "that nation offended our nation!!!1one1!" without any new facts happening. It's especially important within a democracy, because war would need huge popular support - and that support needs to be manufactured by media by pushing any emotional buttons available.
If you can be a criminal before you are convicted, aren't you de factor guilty until proven innocent? I'd say that "being a criminal" doesn't have a lot of meaning if it isn't meant as in the eyes of the law and hence you should be innocent until proven guilty.. or do I misunderstand?
Your argument about employment falls down because the law doesn't prevent them from reacting to things you do.

If you go on TV and call the CEO a pig fucker, I guarantee you will face some consequences.

If you go on TV and call the President or Prime Minister a pig fucker, you may also face consequences from your employer, but the government (in countries where a concept of free speech applies) can't do shit about you saying that. They may decide to look more closely at your tax filings, or immigration status, or what have you.
Implementation in J of a more general form of Conway's Game of Life.
Ireland does not have low taxes for individuals compared to continental Europe.

Even compared to Sweden, personal taxation is comparable for high-earners, although Ireland's much more progressive and redistributive scheme results in lower taxes for low-earners, and thus a smaller tax base.
Agreed — and you would do best to not compulsively classify properties into “good” and “bad” and reason from the assumption that a “bad one” can be used to offset or argue against a “good one”.
Absolutely not. Trump would have made a terrible mess, even worse than W. did.

My point is more than the US can recover from this, recovery from Iraq was and is much harder. The dead will never come back to life and the region seems to be permanently unstable. My comparison was between a potential criminal who could have committed great crimes to one who actually did.
Goodbye cars, hello colour: the great reinvention of city intersections (2018)
You would instead buy a used 1080 (no ti) for similar performance.

The special thing about the V100 is that it's driver EULA allows data center usage. If you don't need that, there are other much cheaper options.
Yes exactly. Typical far right / extremists tactic, disguise their discourses as well accepted democratic ones. They say they want to protect free speech, etc, but in fact are only pushing for their own definition of free speech and will be very quick at banning any other speech that are not according to their views/laws.
Well, I am from Europe...

I disagree. :)
You mean in Munich, right? Anywhere outside of Munich €100k is a really high salary for a software engineer. Not impossible to get, I know of a few companies that offer that kind of compensation or even higher and are located in Berlin (though all of them have their HQ in the US), but that's very high income compared to the rest of the market.

In any case, the point is that with €100k/year you can really have way more than a decent life. More like a very, very comfortable life.
Is that what we've learned here?

It seems more likely that we've learned that if I said that quote -- and then I personally tried to hang the politician by his thumbs and got caught because I'm a cartoonish moron. Then, when charged with attempting to hang the politician, I said "I was just joking" even though I had some hanging equipment and I was in a giant mob full of other people all chanting to hang the politician and many of us had guns and anyway I also broke into a locked building to do the hanging -- and then it came out that large swaths of the content on the same site was people making those kinds of threats, and then it came out that the site operators didn't care to remove the threats because they had a moral opposition to moderation, and then it came out that AWS had contacted the site owners many times to implore them to remove other illegal content, and then the site operators, rather than removing the content, gave press interviews where they boasted how they were invincible and didn't care if AWS took them down... then it's probable that AWS would take the content down. And this doesn't concern me at all. Lock me up, in this hypothetical, and lock up the people who enabled me.

I ran a legacy website that once got spammed. My host contacted me because one of the spam things was an ad for a website hosting stolen credit card numbers. They gave me 24 hours to take down the content. This isn't because they're censoring math and they're using their monopoly power to prevent numbers from being posted, it's because stolen credit card numbers, provided for the purposes of credit card fraud, are illegal and they didn't want to do business with me if I wasn't willing to remove the content.

And I also don't see a further problem with using the posture of the site operators + the site itself to make a judgment call about whether the content in question is an aberration or intentional. If someone posted a magnet link of pirated content in Hacker News, I wouldn't presume per se that Hacker News was a piracy website because I can facially see that the site is general purpose, and also because I can see that the site has a general moderation policy that signals it is willing to comply with legal requests. But that doesn't mean that ThePirateBay can credibly argue in court "We had no idea our site was used for piracy, and if you ban us, you have to ban Google, because they crawled us."
That could be true but doesn't seem unusual for an American president - most of them have broken "the laws of war" in one way or another.
Fail2ban protects more services running on a server than just SSH.
Yeah, with a small screwdriver.

See https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54468207.
Now I have to wonder why no other vendor (who are all moving in the direction of SoC, including Intel and AMD AFAIK) thought of that.
3) Is largely not true, the EU is largely heterogeneous when it comes to personal bankruptcy laws. The fact that unsecured consumer loans are as cheap as secured consumer loans (e.g. car loans), in many EU countries, shows that it is very to get rid of debt permanently. In the country I know best a personal bankruptcy means that you have to keep paying your debts for a period of 5 years before they are forgiven. During this time you must live on $500 per month (excl. rent) the rest goes to the creditors.
FedNow is a while away. RTP (Real-time payments) from the The Clearing House is already doing it. They have appx half the DDAs (bank accounts) in the US covered. Another year or two they will have 80-90%
Also Push to Card and VISA/MC Debit are real-time payment systems i.e. 7x24x365 where you can pull or push money to the bank account linked to the VISA/MC branded ATM card

Bottom line: Fednow may be too little too late
And yet Netherlands has the highest wealth inequality in the world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_eq...) so one could interpret this cap and the cultural attitude you described as pretty much a scam by the capital owning class to maximize their returns.
> Increase taxes on alcohol

Illegal production of homebrewn alcohol is a thing and has been for centuries. Raising taxes at will does not mean that everyone will, unhappily, continue to buy expensive alcohol in the store. There is a limit after which people will start to produce their own moonshine, which is less safe than whatever you buy legally. Or start drinking various chemicals that resemble alcohol. (Window cleaner is a big hit.)

The problems with War on Drugs translate neatly to any possible War on Alcohol as well: the black market will kick in once it has a good business case to exist, and all sort of problems will come with its emergence.
What gives you the impression the author doesn't also make things?
That’s not premature optimization:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_optimization#When_to...

If your code can execute 10x faster without jQuery then the optimization is not premature. If a developer takes twice as long to write any code the problem isn’t optimizations at all.
> especially bearing in mind most of the factories are in Taiwan

Zyxel, Asus, and other manufacturers of networking devices (with backdoors of course) are also there.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/01/hacke...
Neither does the Steam application (on macOS, not on Linux AFAIK). Thanks to that I could start to live without it. ^^
The European tech job market is plenty competitive, especially if you're not looking just at money. I gladly moved to Germany from the US, taking a lower salary. I have never had less stress.
except you can only upload 750GB a day without somewhat workarounds
Just a minor FYI: you absolutely don't need to work overtime to get over 100k€ from German customers as a freelancer.
The "random note" function sounds really neat
Cool plug-in!
My impression is that in Europe software development tends more often to be considered a cost center, rather than a profit center.

At its core I suspect this difference comes from the fact that after WW2 Europe lost its place at the cutting edge of scientific and technological development. There are still companies and universities pushing the boundaries, just fewer than before (due to the massive brain-drain caused by the war). In turn, European companies often tend to play catch-up and they more often need competent executants rather than independent innovative thinkers. Competent executants are cheaper as they do less significant work.

To this you of course have to add the social security, shorter office hours, longer holidays etc. that you get in Europe, but maybe not so much in the US.
Yes and no.

But today all the advance financial tools are making money into a clay, and people wielding those tools can shape it however they like.

Reading about relation of USD to european currencies back in post war (pre- and post- Bretton Woods system) was eye opening to me.

But without those 'tools' money, while still fairly virtual were more concrete. Coins were made of valuable metal, you could take it and melted it down.
Has anyone properly benchmarked virtualized Linux? I'd be very interested in those compile times (let's try the Linux kernel as a standard benchmark).