skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I love the amazing engineering that goes into getting a helicopter onto Mars, the pace things are tried at is frustratingly slow. While I'm sure in part it's to ensure nothing goes wrong/not risk it, can someone speculate as to why it takes so long to get to a basic test flight? Surely all the SW and HW issues were well tested before launch, so why does it take weeks to be ready to fly after landing?
Yes, you would. The CPU and memory overhead of multiprocessing for this application is why we ended up migrating away from boto3 and to the AWS Go SDK for this specific purpose (https://github.com/chanzuckerberg/s3parcp as I mentioned in another comment). We still use boto3 in other areas, but for maxing out the network connection, golang is far more scalable.
The unspoken fact is that the people who make the decisions about adopting EHR are very conscious that 'he who controls the information, controls the reimbursement'. There is no way on this planet that a hospital will hand over its data to someone who could actually make sense of it and make them look bad. The outrageous and inconsistent bills they send to the uninsured compared to the deals they cut with insurance companies run by their buddies would look bad. very bad.
Nearly 40% of U.S. Marines have declined Covid-19 vaccine
I don't think people in the US understand what the rest of the world is going to do if the country thinks it can get away with covid19 being endemic.
Introducing nft_ptr
I have a fundamentally different view of this: I don't want people advertising to me at all, and I am perfectly fine -- happier, really -- if I "miss out" on buying something I might like because I didn't "get to" see an ad for it.

Advertising is psychological manipulation at its worst, and we'd all be much better off without it.
Request HN: Dark Mode
All i would request HN for is the dark mode button. I find myself reducing my phone brightness too often while browsing in the middle of the night. It would be a worthy addition for a comfortable browsing experience if accepted.
You misread me, I specifically referred to the older variants as widely used, in contrast to the (somewhat) newer, more developed ones.
So I have alcohol a few times a month when I go socially with friends and now I'm an alcoholic. Hokay then! Is that why alcohol (whiskey/vodka/rum) sits on my counter for literally months (couple of years?) before completely consumed? That definitely seems very addictive of me.
Passive trading is the only way to beat other players with more resources and information than you. As soon as you become a market-identifiable active trader, your behavior will be monitored and reverse-engineered. More power to retail investors to play along with the big players, and increased media hype --driven by vacuous memes and unclear-value-adding cryptotech-- giving more interest, only will unfavorably balance towards to the bigger players.

I think the resurgance of retail stock trading in the last 2 years or so, is not due to the uncertain economy (again, only big players really benefit from market uncertainty), but because there really were few other places to put your money (negative interests rates, high gold prices, impossible real estate market) and the Fed printing money and keeping the market from collapsing, led to a fairly certain economy, where the Fed would garantuee your losses, but you could keep the wins. This top-down manipulation was obvious enough to trickle down to retail investors using RobinHood.

In smaller, emerging, markets, quantitative active trading has become very competitive. Some markets, still profitable to active trading, are now beaten by a "mindless" passive trading strategy. Like stocks, it makes little sense anymore.

Wallstreet bets is a non-regulated pump-and-dump group, in the upper echelons ethically worse than the owners of the biggest hedge funds (who won't take profit on some plays if they know it causes long-term damage to the economy, the economy being a matter of national security). The GameSpot play made a few of those a millionaire, lost the college funds of people too late to jump on the bandwagon, and done damage to the degree of billions, when hedge - and pension funds had to withdraw from solid businesses such as Google and Amazon, to cover the losses from this memetic war. You can also state that the drivers of the bandwagon, were doing a passive strategy spanning years. It is the active trading of the bandwagon that made their strategy worthwhile (and not a poorly-informed play based on nostalgia and potential).

Numerai also is a passive investing (3 weeks+) fund. They are not that different from a hedge fund buying prop data.

I do think the article is interesting, and adds information on a new emerging trend. But it also reads a bit too kind and objective, like a music journalist describing a new album she isn't a particularly personal fan of. Subtleties will be missed, while the overal picture still is objective and correct to the quality.

As an investor myself, both active and passive, I progressed the most when I learned how the game is played at the top level. Active meme traders should do well to investigate these top players, just like these top players are studying them. RobinHood's order book is fed to the top players. They stand to gain by promoting this active retail trend, and taking near-certified profit on top of these predictable low-information emotion-driven masses. Buy things like Tesla or social media technology, which you as a 20-year-old, see using in 10 years. That's the way to beat the 35 year old senior Goldman Sachs analyst.
And many of their most successful products were 20% engineer inventions.
I think it may be best if there's a wide variety of battery capacities in phones, rather than a raised minimum capacity across the bar.

If battery power is universally plentiful, you'll get something of a road expansion effect where developers simply take advantage of cheap power and bloat apps to fill the added capacity, returning you to square one with phones struggling to last a day.

So with that in mind, the best case scenario may be for manufacturers to keep their current thin models but also introduce new ultra-high-capacity models, so apps are optimized reasonably well and users can take full advantage of the extra capacity.
I believe it was the discovery that people were contagious before they showed symptoms, plus the specter of overwhelmed hospitals in other countries, which led to the restrictions that we are seeing.
> they’re the only ones who can use FLOC

It is available to everyone:

cohort = await document.interestCohort();

See https://github.com/WICG/floc

(Disclosure: I work for Google, speaking only for myself)
This list is quite similar to what Amy Hoy talked about in her 30x500 course
I think it was done "right". The longer ago you go the less robust our documentation of it so compressing sparse records to make it more navigable is way more usable than vast swaths of empty pages of scrolling.

I also appreciate how they aren't really connected to each other to suggest a linear timeline of events. Nobody had infinite comprehension of all historical knowledge and simply hoisted themselves upon the shoulders of everything that came before.

Reality is super messy. Almost as messy as a jumble of people on a screen
Awesome. When I noticed the Unity plugin, I came here hoping there would be somebody asking about Godot. Thanks for the link!
New York is very far from the place I envisioned such a program operating. I was thinking about helping nature or farms reclaim remote and sparsely populated areas that no longer work in an era of specialization.
The Marines are full of overconfident males with big egos. Kind of expected
If government spent 1/100ths as much on developing decentralized infrastructure as it does on social welfare outlays, I've convinced it would do far more to reduce to income inequality than it's doing now with all of its redistributive programs.

And I believe government is ideally suited to fund the development of this technology, because it is the only entity that can capture the gains of open source adoption.
> One might argue that you are then not entitled to view the content on ad-supported pages as well.

Then they shouldn't serve the page in a way that it can be viewed without also viewing the ads. Ad-blocker-blockers are a thing, and I am happy to close that tab and never visit the site again when I see one.

> They‘re literally paying for the content you get to view for free.

Hopefully someday they'll be forced to find a business model that doesn't include destroying the privacy of their website's visitors.
google 'residential proxies for sale' if you really want to do this, the big content sources are getting pretty good at distinguishing between last mile ISP blocks of dhcp customers and IP blocks that are announced in a colocation/datacenter environment.
> implying that everyone else is not against fascism.

Weird how you take them opposing fascism and you doing nothing about fascism to correctly conclude that you're doing nothing about fascism but then baselessly blame them.
Spotify explains how its voice assistant uses your data
The latest Kubernetes release 1.21 which was announced a couple of days ago actually uses systemd inhibitor locks for the kubelets:

"The kubelet attempts to detect node system shutdown and terminates pods running on the node.
Kubelet ensures that pods follow the normal pod termination process during the node shutdown.
The Graceful node shutdown feature depends on systemd since it takes advantage of systemd inhibitor locks to delay the node shutdown with a given duration."[1]

[1] https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/architecture/nodes/#grac...
Huh? We use silent pushes all the time to sync stuff. Works great.
You mean the arbitrary process that lets through absolute garbage clone apps everywhere, but blocks extremely high quality open source software because it can't control and monetize it?

Yeah, no thanks.
“Making of a manager” by Julie Zhuo was great read for me. It covers the transformation of individual contributor to a manager. Well written. Give it a try.
"A combination of illusory superiority bias—the belief that we are more financially savvy than we actually are—and a culture of financial optimism leads most retail traders to believe they have above-average trading ideas and strategies."

Um, yes. Retail investors as a class lose money.

Remember, you're betting against people for whom this is their day job, work in a business that drops the losers, and have far more money than you.
My M1 MacBook Air unexpectedly gave me a battery low warning today after probably 4 hours of use.

I quickly checked Activity Monitor and Dropbox was not responding and using huge amounts of CPU. Yeah. This is a problem.
Former binge drinker here. I quit drinking about 20 years ago, don't miss it a bit.
I'm in the USA. Can you elaborate?
LFU Redis implements LFU Cache algorithm using Redis as data storage
Exactly, this is disingenuous to say the least. To measure the danger a drug poses it should be comparing the drugs effect per user, not multipied by how popular it is, or at least show both charts together to remove any doubt.
I don't care, at all.
Different people have different ways of learning and working. Some people build a bunch of stuff. Others build toys, others may just focus on their primary jobs and don't have a portfolio of things they can share.
> VyOS is debian arm based

not to quibble too much but I think the bulk of vyos development takes place on x86-64 and the standard build-your-own-install ISO guide is for x86-64. Though it certainly can be compiled for various types of arm CPU.

this is because if you want things like eight or ten 10GbE interfaces, or eight 10GbE and four 100GbE in one server, the only economically viable and fully stable platform for vyos right now is x86-64.
I use a Chromebook as my main computer and development system. No other real option. Chrome runs fast and reliably on ChromeOS.

On my iPad and iPhone I use Safari.

I mainly do web development. Anecdotally I hear about more problems from Firefox users than from Chrome, Safari, or Edge users. Sometimes that's not a problem with Firefox but it does seem to exist as the outlier.
Flash back to a few days ago when my Macbook rebooted and started the upgrade/patch process soon after a Zoom meeting ended. Lost 30min of work then went into a boot loop

Suprised me - I didn't know MacOS did that. Happened to my boss as well
It's interesting that the post and at least one comment has mentioned intermittent outages. I understand that this is a beta product however can anyone speculate what might be the cause? Is it because there's no yet enough satellites in the constellation or is it that the rotation of the constellation is still be tuned or something else?
Oh, please. Tell me you've never fast-fowarded or muted the TV or changed channels during a commercial. Tell me you've never been reading the newspaper or a magazine and skipped reading the ads.

I'm not really sure what crowd of us you think claims that ad-blocking is "morally responsible". I certainly don't see it as a moral issue at all. I just don't want so see ads, period. I think they're psychologically manipulative garbage, and I don't want them in front of my eyes, infecting my brain.

If someone wants to publish something behind a paywall, I'll pay if I think it's worth the price. If someone wants to put up an ad-blocker-blocker and refuse to serve that content to me, that's fine too; I'll live without their content.

If a server is going to send me bits over the wire, I am going to decide how I view those bits, and which bits I do and do not want to see.
And this is what it looks like the the CCP needs to take down an overzealous businessman. It’s not a traditional make him disappear in the night. It’s a slow devolving of his assets via fines and state directives. It’s been interesting to watch the CCP dismantle what was it’s arguably biggest capitalist/communist success story. Sends a pretty dire message to anybody thinking they can grow bigger then the CCP.
It reminds me of the investing environment just before the big crash of 2000. I remember going to my bowling league and hearing some guy talk about how he had just quit his job to become a full-time day trader. Apparently he'd been making money at it for months and figured he was a financial genius.

We quickly saw that wasn't really the case.

I believe in the Boglehead philosophy..
Quantum Computing Hackathon
Thing changed. Back in the day they would have been told to show up to be vaccinated.
I agree with you mostly, that there are spaces where active can make great bets. But this particular example isn't quite true. Passive Index funds are not automated 100% and have discretion on when/how closely they track the index. They DO have to try and track the index, but that doesn't mean they have to own every stock IN the index, nor does it mean they have to buy X stock tomorrow, regardless of price.

source: Any prospectus/annual report of a large index fund, such as VTI.
Love the "(from those criteria)".

It's pretty easy to drink 3 cups of coffee and not come anywhere near overdosing on caffeine. And then after that you can drink 3 more. And then after that you are probably sick of coffee, but go ahead and drink 3 more if you really want.

How's the recreational dosing of GHB go?
Full rewrites are usually almost always a disaster. I should know, I've done a few on side projects. This case was a dramatic example of that.

> For 100 micro-services to make any sense at all, you need to have at least 200-300 developers.

Yeah, at minimum. I think these guys were running at least 2 microservices per developer. That made no sense to me.
Thanks I did miss Perelman. I don't think I missed others.
You're all trying to solve the wrong problem. It's not the one big server. And it's not the human institutions in the trust pathway.

- It's the economic system that forces them to view you as a monetization opportunity. And destroys the principled ones who refuse.

- It's the economic system that allows them power over you without your having any democratic control of that power.
While going through the interview process for a government-owned agency tasked with developing IT products for my city, I was told that as per regulation I had to pass some kind of test organized by a third-party HR company.

The interviewer explaining that to me was like "we're sorry but you'll have to go through this test even though it's annoying, but that's the rule and we all had to" (big red flag).

So next week I went to that HR company expecting some kind of technical/programming assignment (it was a Python position). Instead had to take part in some weird theater play in which I was playing as a clerk at the municipal office. I was given 30 minutes to study documentation about an imaginary new regulation (related to noise pollution IIRC), and then some actor entered the room and pretended to be a stubborn and angry citizen complaining about that regulation.

After that confusing and embarrassing experience, I tried to explain that I didn't understand the point of this thing since I was applying to a programming job with no customer/citizen-facing component. But they were adamant that it was relevant, because it was a government job, and apparently everybody in government is a city clerk.

The full thing went on for 3 hours (I hadn't been informed it would take so long). As a compensation for my time I was given a tuna sandwich (I wish I was joking).
Where did you get the movie info? Just imdb? A lot more than 500,000 titles on there!
Interesting. I agree on the ineffable quality of bay leaves, but asafoetida is exactly on the opposite end of the spectrum. It has a very strong pungent smell and taste. But it does come diluted with gluten (wheat) so maybe your particular brand has more gluten than usual?

Also it's probably worth pointing out that the bay leaves used in Indian cooking is different from bay leaves used in Western cooking, so beware. Indian bay leaves have three veins coming from the central vein on them.
The IPv6 dream already removes any need for NAT and allows a great P2P experience for everything. I think the problem is we have kind of grown to like and assume NAT and building little 'protected' pockets of the network we can trust. Perhaps as easy to use and trusted VPN tools like Wireguard get more common we can learn to live with an IPv6 wild west.
I spent a year studying maths at Oxford (from North Carolina) and my God could the British students drink. At no point ever in my life could I get thru in one night what they drank night after night. And I like a good beering night with my friends as much as anyone.
In the interest of clarity and humility, I carry the baggage of having a very large anti-executive/administration/overhead bias.

I was trying to speak for general sentiment before, which was dumb of me.

Let me attempt to clarify my personal thinking: if for example there was a Patreon where I could give money to Mozilla engineering salaries directly, I would proudly pay $10/month. I would be willing to wager that many others would as well.

If orgs want good feels and a write off, sure 501c Mozilla donations, but let’s go beyond all that.

How about a Mozilla Security Patreon?

How about a Mozilla Rust Pateron?

My point is that there is so much good will and money, just on HN, for Mozilla engineering... can we come up with ways to fund engineering directly?

I realize there needs to be a CEO, etc, but there should also be a funding structure to pay you and your peers more, directly.

Edit: I am just using Patreon as an example of direct creator funding, other mechanisms may be more applicable.
Most I know don’t trust the military due to the anthrax vaccine fiasco.
> Auckland Airport represents the vast majority of all international traffic into New Zealand, and not just flights.

Yes - and that is a hell of a lot for a small place. It’s comparable to something like SFO, but at the far end of the planet. But yes, the scale is small by international standards.

> the difficulty of NZ's response was enormously easier both absolutely and relatively given the nature of NZ's geography

This helped, but there are a lot more islands that have done poorly. I’m not sure that it was enormously easier, but the few week we got were key.
In terms of getting governments to move fast, NZs government moved far faster than one would have expected, and the advantage gained by the short delay due to geography undoubtedly saved us a lot of deaths. We were on a vicious exponential growth.

> NZ has a lot to be proud of in its response, but no reason to be smug.

Absolutely. My view is more one of horror at the considerable reliance placed on gut feeling, belief systems and hope rather than science and cooperation.
I have one and it's really light weight and prone to tipping over, it was only used for five minutes during the initial setup. Based on some people who found the serial pins and watched its booloader it's based on a customized openwrt, the circuit board is pretty basic.

there's some good shots in here of the router removed from its enclosure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObCTB8ol3Ng

it doesn't seem much more complicated to me than the PCB of something like a mikrotik hap ac2 ($65), based on simplicity I'd say it's like a $40-50 router BOM, max.
Surely you can just draw an extra window on top of all other windows?
You're kinda making my point. None of these are actually contributions to mathematical research. A computer program is not mathematical research, nor are field equations in physics. Which is not to say that they are not noteworthy achievements, but it is to say that they are not achievements in mathematics. These three made contributions in other fields. I am not saying they don't deserve fame in the fields of physics or computer science or literature. They certainly do. But they deserve no fame in the field of mathematics, anymore than Morse deserves fame in the field of computer science, or Gromov deserves fame in the field of literature (but he did write books!). The only person in your list of three who could even be called a mathematician was Dodgson, but his contributions are not considered noteworthy enough to make any kind of timeline.
"It’s not a traditional make him disappear in the night."

Well, they also do that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiao_Jianhua
It's pretty wild how small his offense was too. Very subtle veiled criticism of CCP fiscal policy, and now he's being completely dismantled.
Well not being able to travel to other countries at all. For one.
https://github.com/BrianHicks/nix-script

This was on HN the other day. Nix allows you to crunchbang a `nix-shell -p` kind of expression.
When I was a young adult, the rule for meals or other food events for the Episcopal Church in North Carolina was if you serve alcohol you must serve an equally attractive non alcoholic drink. I.E. not water/three cool beers/2 wines, but you know equal. I follow that principal myself and it seems right. It also helps people from drinking a bit then a bit too much, if they wish.
This is hysterical.

The Chinese government is their key partner, and is mainly responsible for their actions. They direct the company and then get mad and fine the company.
Dijkstra and Scholten are two huge misses.

And of course there’s the ever invisible CS Peirce. Not to put too fine a point on it, but burn in hell in the circle reserved for traitors Simon Newcomb.

Einstein is probably the most famous fraud of the 20th century. Strange how many people don’t realize he plagiarized his own wife.
Do you work in a particular subset of the industry, or at a particular company (that I should seek to join, if they have competent management)?

Yes, I work exclusively with software companies, mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Your brain is decentralized though. Your eyes, nose, mouth, skin, muscles, sexual and digestive organs, all not just dumb peripherals.
Right, but TFA wasn’t about those canes.
There is a microphone: https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/9250972?hl=en