skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- SSH. Maybe not in terms of performance or efficiency, but before SSH, we were using telnet everywhere and just sending passwords in plaintext all over the internet. Plus, you could give someone your public key and they could give you access to a server instead of the "here's a temporary password, change it as soon as you log in" approach.

- Perl. This was at the time when the other languages available to me as a student were Java or C (mid to late 90s). Those were fine, but Perl definitely felt 10x more productive for me for the things I actually wanted to write. Plus CPAN was the first directory of libraries/modules that I'd encountered of its ilk.

- VMWare/virtualization. We used it for an Operating Systems class so we could learn by actually writing Linux kernel code and running it on a VM. This was huge at the time. Friends at other schools taking Operating Systems had to work on dumbed down simulations and "teaching" OSes. Before VMWare, if you wanted to work on the kernel, you had to have spare hardware and a lot of patience for re-building your system when you did something stupid. With VMWare, you could just restore from a good snapshot and try again.

- apt-get. Coming to Debian from (old, pre-yum) Redhat, being able to type a command and reliably install pretty much anything was a huge improvement over untangling RPM dependencies. Even RPMs were a pretty big improvement over manual compiling or Windows-style installer wizards.

- Numpy (or "Numeric" as it was called at the time). Vector math in clean Python that was mind-blowingly efficient. The only other option that really balanced performance and high level accessibility was MATLAB, but that wasn't suitable for using in an application.
I am definitely interested in a streaming backup solution. Right now, our application state is scattered across many independent SQLite databases and files.

We would probably have to look at a rewrite under a unified database schema to leverage something like this (at least for the business state we care about). Streaming replication implies serialization of total business state in my head, and this has some implications for performance.

Also, for us, backup to the cloud is a complete non-starter. We would have to have our customers set up a second machine within the same network (not necessarily same building) to receive these backups due to the sensitive nature of the data.

What I really want to do is keep all the same services & schemas we have today, but build another layer on top so that we can have business services directly aware of replication concerns. For instance, I might want to block on some targeted replication activity rather than let it complete asynchronously. Then, instead of a primary/backup, we can just have 4-5 application nodes operating as a cluster with some sort of scheme copying important entities between nodes as required. We already moved to GUIDs for a lot of identity due to configuration import/export problems, so that problem is solved already. There are very few areas of our application that actually require consensus (if we had multiple participants in the same environment), so this is a compelling path to explore.
I’m talking about computers here though, not parts. Spec for spec, is an Apple computer really 2x more expensive?
Agreed, at $8,400/yr I feel like I might as well just pay my devs an implement something like introjs. Granted, not as powerful, but still.....

I did immediately think to myself that this was a needed product when I saw.
EFCC gives bankers three months ultimatum to declare assets
If your property value doubles and you lose your job, why wouldn't you sell your property for a massive gain, take that money and buy a new house somewhere cheaper, thereby avoiding the tax issue entirely? Seems like a situation where you want to have your cake and eat it, too.
Interestingly. I was watching some interviews with the founders of 3DFX, and when asked about why the company died, their straight answer was: because they bought a fab.
I was thinking the same thing as I read this. Keep in mind, these examples are meant to illustrate how Actors work, not how to write good banking code.
Which is really the absolute best outcome:

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2021-Mar...

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2021-Mar...
This was emacs 27.1 (which is the version in the Arch repo).

I can install native-comp via AUR. It'll take some time.
Can you provide some examples of apps Apple has removed? Because, counterexample, Telegram is licensed under GPL and is has not been actively banned from the app store.
1) Emacs. When I was growing up, it was per-language IDEs for development. There was Visual Basic, Visual C++, Borland Pascal and C++, etc. Emacs was an editor that, to a certain extent, understood every programming language out there, and could be taught new ones using Lisp. It took a long time for me to learn Emacs Lisp and understand the true nature of this power, but saying 'M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead' for the first time gave me a glimpse of it.

2) Framework. The best way to understand this 1980s "integrated software" (as office suites were called in the 80s) is as "Emacs for the office". Usually, until Microsoft Office, integrated packages offered cut-down, entry-level versions of a word processor, spreadsheet, rudimentary database like a cardfile, and maybe a telecommunications program. Framework was different. It was basically a self-contained pseudo-GUI, in which documents and spreadsheets were represented with the unifying metaphor of a frame. Each frame, drilling down to individual cells in a spreadsheet which themselves counted as frames, was addressable, and frames could be nested, allowing for compound documents containing word-processed reports, spreadsheets, imported database data, and even graphs and charts. And, much like Emacs, it was scriptable in a Lisp-like language (though Framework's language had a Lotus-inspired @function syntax). Every frame could have code associated with it that responds to events. It was so powerful, it was marketed as an executive decision making tool, not a productivity tool for office drones. It was WAY ahead of its time for 80s software.

3) The Video Toaster. Professional grade video effects in your bedroom studio. Perhaps single-handedly turned amateur video from "home movies" into actual productions. In an era well before YouTube, when video was still analog and equipment was prohibitively expensive. With LightWave, it also gave you an inexpensive option for the then new and hot technology of 3D CG. Required an Amiga because of course it did; what else could handle all this?

4) Tcl/Tk. Still to date, the fastest way to author a GUI, as it was in the 90s. I would take entering a few lines of shell-like script to lay out a GUI over the (admittedly powerful) form designer tools in environments like Delphi any day, just due to the rat wrestling involved in the latter, and the fact that Tk's layout options do a much better job of placing widgets in various window size and configurations than I could manually in the form designers back then. And recently I tried to put together an Electron app with $HOT_FRAMEWORK_OF_THE_WEEK, and spent several hours figuring out how all the pieces fit together. With Tcl/Tk, I said 'sudo apt-get install tcl tk' and was prototyping in wish immediately after. Tcl may be a crazy-pants stringly-typed language from space, but it's still the best thing for throwing together GUIs quickly.
Fair, I'm sure it doesn't seem like it but I really don't want to argue. We're obviously reading that comment differently.

Cheers.
Assuming that exponential growth will be steady is a very risky assumption. Where's my single-core 100 GHz CPU? Moore's law says we should have that by now.
True, even with snow tires, it was safer to just stay home. Too many people who think AWD fixes snow or think they can drive well enough to take their Corvette out in a blizzard.
Anything particular reason you're worried about extra mRNA fragments? mRNA needs a initiation sequence in order to be translated into a protein, which only exists at the front. It also needs a polyA tail to maintain stability or it would just degrade. Random fragments don't do anything on their own
It's not a miracle, this programmer was just smart enough to see something that nobody at Rockstar had seen. Or nobody in the engineering org cared to look. These could both be good reasons for somebody higher up to hire a "star consultant", no?
On positive note, I really think we need alternative to LinkedIn, wish you all the best. Some of the things and criticism are spot on but it is welcome to have people thinking on how to improve this area.
Morton Salt has whitewashed that part of their history. I know it because I lived it. If there wasn't a Harvard case study there should be.

Some of the employees sued though my father chose not to be part of the lawsuit because he had moved on. The company lost the lawsuit but I can't find any record of it on Google. I don't think that was a coincidence ;<).
You meant NVidia Quadro/Titan workstation performance?
It's still around: http://www.experts-exchange.com
Python (coming from the C/C++ world), amazing productivity gains for basic stuff. Sure, there was Perl, Awk, etc, but I didn't learn those

Zsh/Oh-my-Zsh (from Bash)

Virtualization. Making it practical to run 2 or 3 different OSs on the same machine has saved me countless hours. Docker is good but it's a smaller step
Why bother showing up at the Olympics in person? We can just watch it on TV right? :p

But to refute more directly, the unplanned interactions with other visitors, being able to talk directly with makers who built the things you’re seeing, the viral sense of wonder; all are good reasons to have it in-person.
Lmao, Linux package managers allow applications to _install_ custom repositories. The update mechanism is a solved issue.
Does anyone else think that maybe the whole gamestop "rebellion" is just part of the snake oil? A lot of institutions will ultimately make money on the backs of those GME investors. I feel the only way to win at investing is to just throw your money into a diversified portfolio and then go live your life. Unless you really, truly, like looking at magic money graphs all day, I think the only winning strategy for investing is to play it as little as possible. Hard to argue with the author on this one.
Yeah, the answer in this case is that there was some low hanging fruit he was able to find. There's not always a simple solution to latency and performance problems.
Awesome! Thanks chdaniel. Happy to give you feedback. Check back in a few.
Pre-covid, Global wages and employment levels have never been higher. Global poverty levels have never been lower. Either way, I don't disagree that AI will replace some jobs, I'm just not sold on the horse story.
Yes, that's a good point. I have two Rails sites (side projects) and I've never worked with something so finicky. Something always breaks, and after every OS update I habe troubles getting my dev environment back up. I can see the appeal for Docker there.

But with all my other stuff this is really not an issue. I have a few small services written in Python, and some old stuff in PHP, and that stuff is so easy to run and deploy on pretty much any OS, and adding Docker would just add pointless complexity.
Show HN: A lightweight movie streaming platform for aspiring indie filmmakers
World fairs were possible because labor was cheap and the west was rich.
Not even Wikipedia asserts that the experiment proves anything. And even if it did, the burden is on you to prove that "fairness in human relations" is relevant to this thread.

That's exactly why I said:

employee / employer relations are not "human relations"

Since that's what we are talking about - I'm asking why this is relevant.

But since you responded with smug condescension, it seems like your more interested in implying that I'm stupid (don't understand) and you're clever (I can tutor) than responding in good faith.
> Since AIs are smarter than humans, why bother teaching humans at all? Unless there is a point where a developed human brain could outsmart the AI, it seems to be a waste and emotionally guided.

The obscurity for the definition of AI is precisely what drives this. The term AI is so vague among tech circles that I find the term basically laughable at this point.

If we're talking about sentient AI, then none of these concepts matter. We'll have WAY more interesting problems to deal with.
Agree, that the messaging can be improved. However, for now it's easier to state "zero cost" than to use "revenue sharing."

Also, at this time, the service is zero cost. We are launching so that people might interact with the service and provide the type of feedback you are giving us. Any startup is, in many ways, a giant experiment.

We are looking at many different revenue models. However, we will not go with the traditional model we see today, where "we" are the product. We feel just as strongly about that as you do.

We are confident that better revenue models exist, that can support our service, without spying on our members, selling out their personal information or placing arbitrary monthly fees that are inconsistent with the value provided.

Not to "hate" on LinkedIn, but we are interested to explore other ways to build a marketplace that makes it easy for buyers and sellers to interact.
If the rate $5/hr is inherently exploitative, then how can a person not capable of producing more than $5/hr of value ever be employed?
If you like that you should try the fish Shell.
Not great for automation but amazing for general use.
That starts it small, but doesn't necessarily keep it small. For instance, if n is 1000 and the mod is 1001, we still end up with 1,000,000,000,000 as an intermediate value before the final mod 1001. That's not too bad (fits in a 64-bit integer), but it's easy to see how (with different exponents or bases) it can still blow up. The second python example in GP comment keeps it small by making use of the mod as it steps through the exponentiation, not just at the start and end.

EDIT: What I wrote was more about the general case. In this specific case, the largest number we get after modulo would be 14, and 14^4 is only 38,416 so it does actually stay small for this specific instance of the problem.
Kind of like this?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/
Wrong mode of thinking. The problem is that there aren't enough alternatives. If you want an economy that is fair for workers then you need more jobs per worker so the worker can choose the best offer. That also means you want more employers, including the Jeff Bezos types.
What exactly is the role of the blockchain here?
Yes, a bit unfortunant, and I did the same thing. Being a non-american I thought she was a congresswoman as well. But it's such a minor detail and in the end no less, that it shouldn't detere from the main point of the article
I understand that pretty much the only difference between
$3000+ "professional" GPUs that get certified for AutoCAD and other workstation systems are identical to $1000 "gaming" GPUs, just with a different on-card BIOS/firmware and e-fuses. I remember ages ago that people were able to simply re-flash their ATI Radeons into FirePro cards and that unlocked higher performance in some applications.

Same thing with Cisco switches for port-unlocks and Tesla cars (EAP and FSD are just software features, assuming you have HW2+, and rear heated seats are standard, just not activated unless you pay to enable it if you didn't get the cold-weather package when you ordered it).
I found there were a bunch of good nuggets of practical knowledge that I didn't know and were very good to learn. In general, the lessons are practical and aren't "fluffy", even for topics I thought might be (like generating startup ideas).

The biggest takeaways for me were:

1) Find people with a problem and have constant communication with them (while solving said problem)

2) Launch early and often. MVP can and should suck.

3) There is no "one big release". This one was super valuable to me because I always thought you basically had one shot to get traction and you failed if you didn't. Realistically, if you do rule 2, you have ample opportunity to continue changing/growing/launching.
It's more complex than that because not every black person is equally likely to have an encounter with the police. There are studies that suggest that if you control for encounters with the police, blacks are just as likely as whites to be killed by the police. Half of violent crimes in the US are also committed by blacks. This is definitely one of the consequences of the history of slavery and segregation. Nevertheless, given that blacks commit 50% of violent crimes, it should be expected that the percentage of people killed by the police who are black, will be higher than their rate of representation in the general population.

There ARE also videos of whites getting killed in conditions just as tragic as e.g. George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, etc. But they go largely unreported in comparison.
> would we have a world without waitresses, warehouse workers, low wage jobs?

The latter is impossible to answer since "low wage" is relative, much like if everyone had millions of $ for every $ they owned, the currency would simply devalue.

That said, in a nation full of skilled, competent workers, the nation would be more productive overall (more "fruits" to go around), and more competitive abroad - so it's not a zero-sum game in that sense.

> waitresses, warehouse workers

I couldn't care less if waitressing disappeared, I prefer self-serve places; what value is lost?

If no-one wanted to be paid low wages to work in warehouses, either a) warehouse worker wages would go up, or b) an alternative solution would be found, or c) the business is no longer viable and collapses.

> can be blackmailed into doing the bad jobs

and even the people with good jobs probably wouldn't work if they weren't paid. In that sense are they blackmailed too?

> If nobody could be forced to take shitty jobs, how would most of the current industries exist?

By paying more for those jobs, or replacing them.
Alternatively, by those industries not existing.

Do you think most industry cannot exist but for the subsidy of paying low wage

Can you give me an example of a healthy industry were the most critical workers are low paid?
The Return of Fancy Tools
Yes it is amazing, EVEN for the lower end E series.

I bought one, and didn't like the keyboard. Send to a relative overseas. Months later the Mobo died a few weeks under warranty. Called HP and told i was overseas. They provided a local support number. ship by local post. upgraded new mobo. no charge.

This was a non-business $300ish laptop.

sadly, their shopping experience is abysmal like every other PC manufacturer :(
Any libraries in the Maven repos that rely on JNI have to include platform-specific native libraries for each platform. For example, anything that uses Unix-domain sockets, which weren't supported in Java until this very release.
With the amount of sophisticated open source 3D printers and the amount of outrage at such a change, I have to wonder why there isn't as much of a market for an open source cutting machine in the same price range. Clearly there's a lot of interest, and I was once dependent on a Cricut myself. It sounds like there's more investment being put into hacking Cricut's existing devices to be open.
You can get what you need done and working in C++. The trouble is, it's harder to do and the result just doesn't look that nice. A simple example:

C++:

typedef struct S { int x; } S;

D:

struct S { int x; }

There are a lot of things like that, and it adds up.
It's an amazing spin, attempting to move away from the point of contention which you can't defend. This type of rhetoric hooks poor unhappy/angry people right in. All just so you can make some quick cash.
Don't pretend that crypto will even attempt to solve any of those issues. It's yet another method to transfer wealth out of poor people's pockets.
> “Because hostility takes a toll on the recipients (us), I'm curious if what you're getting in return is worth it.”

We aren’t the recipients of the hostility; Netgate is. I feel no hostility directed towards me when reading anfogoat’s post. In fact, I thank them for openly expressing their disdain towards Netgate here, as it gives others like me more information to look into and come to our own conclusions on.
I managed to snag my (very common) italian last name. I get a flood of messages every day. I both love and hate my account.

I don't even speak italian!
Picassa was the best thing miss it so.
I can't get myself to agree with this.

Indeed, it's true, horses don't create demand, but neither do unemployed humans.

Our economy isn't centred around humans, it's centred around capital. Unemployable humans are as useless to it as horses, as they can't exchange their labour with capital owners (or become capital owners themselves).

Unemployable people might want more, but will they get more? No, they won't.
If that was the point parent was making then I agree as well, there would indeed be no useful role for humanity.

> Importantly, the AI's of The Culture like humans and want to promote human flourishing

Yes, perhaps this was what I wanted to highlight, that even if we are to end up in such a situation, it could be beneficial.
Raytracing (RTX) is largely a software thing, although real hardware got added to improve ray-triangle and ray-AABB intersection performance.
> Ψ

Ψ is naturally found in tRNA, so its not really something to be concerned about.

Edit: scratch that, confusing pseudouridine with 1-methyl-3’-pseudouridylyl
> They are in fact employees providing content for the platform. From that perspective, Spotify should be paying at least a minimum wage for every artist signed on to the platform

the solution would be to remove all indie artists, and most of the rest too, and only keep the top 1% of pop/rock musicians.
So why not make a substantial post on the topic, rather that name-calling? I consider that pretty lazy.
It's a bummer that while he starts out talking about a global revolution that will profoundly affect all human beings, he smoothly transitions into tax policy opinions and suggestions that, in a best case scenario, will affect about 3.5% of human beings (Americans).

Most of the world is not American, and for every American, there are around 19 people who are not.

> If everyone owns a slice of American value creation, everyone will want America to do better:

Americans say "everyone" when they mean "Americans". "Everyone" is actually 20x larger. (In a section on inclusivity, no less!)
sorta similar to cars that can get over the air updates and suddenly accelerate from 0 60 faster then before...
I'll take that bet :)

This post is on https://news.ycombinator.com/invited, a partial list of posts given a second chance at wider visibility by the mods.

Here's some background info:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20508960

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19774614