skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it matter? This is an old belief told from one generation to another. And in the instance of my family, it certainly turned out to be true.

Later that summer, during an especially hot and bright night (it's midnight sun where I come from because it's above the Arctic Circle) I saw that grouse on the tractor road further down the fields of the farm. It silhouetted in the midnight sun. It surprised me to see it standing in the middle of the road like that, like it was mocking me, so I got angry and chased it off the property.

It went off into the property of my grandmother's sister. And later that year, also she died.

But look, there's probably a reasonable explanation for it. When farmers grow old and sick, they often move away from their cabin, and in with their younger family and children further away, who take care of them. So when the house becomes derelict, wild and otherwise shy animals dare to move closer. But of course, old people would only move away from their farm if they were in a bad shape. And there's your omen and the logical explanation for it.
In enough generations, not one atom of your descendent's DNA will be specifically yours. The impact of your parenting will be diluted. The time spent on parenting shuts off an infinity of other options. I adore my children but the ways we enrich our culture and those around us matters just as much as our kids. And besides, why should a well-lived life look the same for him as for others?
> 99% latency actually matters a lot.

It does, but the numbers are not too far. It's 3.5ms for Java versus 2.3ms for C++.

Even when running a lot of requests when 99% latency becomes the average one, that's like 1 millisecond difference, way under typical user's network latency.
Farmers in Wales are pretty canny and they have some unique advantages due to the hillyness. Leasing out land for mobile towers is one option, as someone said above, but I've also seen them group together to build small hydro power installs in their streams, or set up solar panels, and sell that power to the national grid. Sheep are pretty much all you can raise due to the geography of the place.

Wales is poor, outside the cities. You can still buy a house for £10k here (it'll be shit obviously). He'll likely get some subsidies and his pension now too, and I imagine he probably trades for some of his food. Eggs for fish, that sorta thing.
> Indeed, but is relevant? If you have a machine with average memory installed, both are fine.

The whole point is that you don't. You literally pay for the memory your application requires, proportionally to the amount of memory. The difference in the resources required to run is around two orders of magnitude.

Let's put things in perspective: in some platforms such as AWS Lambda, you are charged per memory used per second.
Sure, it's up to you what you optimize for. Easy and fast to scale vertically or better numbers in terms of latency/through-output? With the former, go for cloud. For the latter, go for dedicated. Want best performance for each buck spent? Again, dedicated.
Perhaps the courts could force component manufacturers to release the basic specs anyway, regardless of any agreement they may have with Apple. That way they would need to choose between complying and produce documentation on request, or have the component banned for use.
The Dell Precision laptops still have sodimms and M.2 storage, not sure about WiFi.

The idea for upgrading the CPU is that you replace the whole motherboard, but keep everything else.

Yes, the screen is easily swappable. The bezel is held in by magnets and the screen is held in with just four screws. Keyboard is replaceable and quite modular as well as the shell, keys and PCB are separate parts. The power jack is also replaceable. Actually, the whole I/O consist of four modules that you can swap out as desired (and a dedicated headphone jack), so you can decide how many USB-C, USB-A, DP and HDMI ports you want. A dedicated microSD slot is also available.

And no, it doesn’t look hard at all, the whole design is very straight forward. Which makes it all the more surprising why it took this long, but I’m glad someone finally makes it happen.
Looks great! The only real complaint I have is that I can't tell which links will open in a new tab vs which ones will work within a tab.

Oh and I found a typo in Safari:

> In the last sever days, Safari has prevent 66 tracker from profiling you.

I'm assuming that should be seven.
That sounds good in theory, but in practice it is the other way around, the worst students needs purity the most. It is well known that word problems are much harder for students to read, learn and solve than pure problems. Only really good students do well on word problems, the students who are less good at abstractions do the worst at them.

Or do people here really think that nobody has ever tried to make a math textbook with lengthier names and descriptions? It isn't used since it doesn't make things better, it makes them worse.
I don't think the "powers that are" would care much about what this dude does, they probably have a lot on their plate already.
Yeah that was an offensive way to put his point for no reason.

It's also a failure of empathy on OP's part - we look at the world through our own lens but we should at least try to look at it through other peoples before accusing them of choosing "lobotomy".
We outlawed segregation so all those people who wanted it immediately realized they were wrong, racism disappeared, and we all lived Happily Ever After. Or that’s the way the Disney version goes anyway.
Think miles per person per day. More dense means everything is closer.
Yeah, sure, that's one use case, to run it on AWS Lambda. Everyone does not, and if you really care about latency/throughoutput, you won't be anywhere near Lambda, and probably not even on AWS or any "cloud" for that matter.

Paying for the amount of memory you use down to the MB, is hardly something everyone does, which makes it weird that you are now the third reply that assume this runs on AWS/Lambda.
I don't think you can cut a String exactlyu to the circumference of a circle of a certain radius. It will always be longer or shorter.
I prefer <TRIBE_DESIGNATION>. The other tribe is wrong sick and cease to be. :D
China has sub-replacement fertility too.
The first thing I thought after reading was that it's no wonder he's so happy and content. He's been literally doing dopamine fast for years.
I get what you are saying about incentives. You can’t really lay the blame for mass movements of people at the feet of individuals.

I think that the biggest contributing factor was (1) Google’s successful execution of an ad based revenue model for the internet and (2) the launch of smart phones, and (3) MBA-ization of the valley - a shift in culture and mindset from R&D to operations.

We all saw something similar in the 90s. It self corrected during the recession. While the recession wasn’t great, the early part of the recovery circa 2004 was amazing. I hate to root for anyone to lose their jobs. I would rather companies relocate people.

The next boom will most likely come in crypto / blockchain after the price of Bitcoin crashes and the hucksters and hype die out. Biotech after that.
There's a lot of bats, caves, and viruses. Virologists find new viruses all the time, why would you expect that they have surveyed enough that the fact that they haven't found a particular one is evidence it's not present?
Is it really? The guy is making a living thanks to his own personal project and it's bad he's not a millionaire, especially since you note his revenue might not be limited to his Patreon only?

He might earn much more in the golden handcuffs of a FAANG, but his is a pretty incredible scenario by all metrics, especially if you consider the reality of the whole job market, not the SV niche making millions a year working at Google & co.
If I am already using Lambda because of infrastructure management costs, it is always nice to reduce my bill by using less memory and/or improving response time.
In 2021, Go is supposed to have GC pauses on the order of several ms at worst. Not 40 ms. So it kind of is surprising, something seems to be broken there. I'm wondering whether this isn't a limitation caused by forcing a single core operation, the runtime might not be designed for that.

EDIT: Someone else noted (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27085507) a discussion on Reddit where a <5ms latency was achieved in 99.9% cases, so perhaps this is indeed a subpar result.
AFAIK It is far from being usable benchmark in real world.

Why isn't teh SDK/Language major versions not mentioned in wiki page ?

Am I making mistake in reading this .... As the number of CPUs increases req/s and latency does not change, except for few java and rust readings. Network connections and IO isn't seem to scale as number of CPUs increases ?
Telegram still, AFAIK, has no way to backup or transfer E2EE conversations, and no desktop support for them either. Those are non-starters to me.

Your encrypted conversations are stuck on the device on which you set them up with no option to change phones, continue a conversation on a desktop, or re-install the app. As a result, most people that communicate with me on Telegram use the standard non-E2EE conversations which makes it about as bad as (if not worse than) WhatsApp, privacy-wise.
> If you're out after performance you wouldn't use AWS Lambda or even AWS at all.

That point makes as much sense as complaining that if you were after performance you'd use a Formula1 car and not a Tesla.

People who live in the real world and have to do real work need to use real world tools, and one of which is AWS Lambda.

Let's put things in perspective: would it make any sense at all to advise a company to not only rewrite a whole application stack from scratch in your pet performant language but also jump head on to some boutique service provider? I mean, who in their right mind would get accountants involved in a goal to shave a few milliseconds over a few gRPC calls? Is a suggestion to improve performance expected to be considered even sane if it requires rewriting everything and change shop?
They are not rich, but they do have way less stress then the city dwellers. And if stress is to be considered the one thing you do not like, they spend way less time in situations they do dislike.

Unless they go into debt. Then the bank owns them and the farm, and the debt turns into stress and you have the city experience, out in the great outdoors.
It's a different audience, partially age dependent.
Happiness is a terrible word because there are different kinds.

I think contentment is closer to what he's found, his world makes sense in his context and is comfortable and familiar.

Happiness is what you want when you are young, contentment is what you get if you are lucky later.

I think that is how it should be, it's a good progression since too much contentment when you are young would have made me less driven and been less driven wouldn't have helped me reach a point of contentment in my late 30's.

I have a partner who loves me and I her in return, a stable job I enjoy, money in the bank and time and money for my hobbies - it's not euphoric happiness but that never lasts, contentment can.
Not in that context.

Anything must be done with authenticity. The book is really clear and even addresses that you simply can’t do it all the time. It illustrates the need to take the time to build relationships and, critically, listen. Don’t fake it.

Avoid any “SparkNotes” version of this book. It deserves a full read/listen. Although it’s decades old it is pragmatic and touches on topics like social proof and network effects before they were mainstream.
Earth doesn’t care about country boundaries either. Average person in US contributes more CO2 than average person in China.
It vaguely reminded me of SCP-3001: Red Reality. Then again, I'm sure you could find anything with a red object and make some kind of connection.

https://the-scp.foundation/object/SCP-3001
People interested in the Alan Cross content might also like the five watt world short history videos. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5OAMxnvhTyc3rjgpY6u8cA
And just think of all the things that will be turned into crimes once people lose the ability to rebel.

Cash is a check on centralized power. An important one.
I know a lot of people who have projects with 500-5000 stars and zero sponsors.

Realistically the prospect of living off open-source development on github is as likely as living on sales as a book author. It happens, but it doesn't happen easily or often.

If you run a super-popular project you might pickup a sponsor or two, but it seems that the odds are low.
I only see Signal and Telegram mentioned in this thread. What about Threema? Is it any good? https://threema.ch/en
SpecBAS: An enhanced Sinclair BASIC interpreter for modern PCs
I'm not dwindling others experiences against the vastness of the universe. I'm merely pointing out the absurdity of the parent comment that somehow elevates the meaningfulness of having kids over building a stone wall. My position is neither is any less or more meaningful beyond individual experience.
From this perspective (Kendi, etc.), it is very much not the same as racism and is not just "racism" being rebranded. The term "anti-racism" really only makes sense when you consider this dichotomy using the more specific definition of racism.
I have another phrase i like to search for, "pedagogical introduction", e.g:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=peda...

https://arxiv.org/search/?query=pedagogical+introduction&sea...

Many results are still to advanced but still this gives me insight into a lot of new topics.
Patrick Volkerding, BDFL of Slackware, must be fairly close (or at least I hope he is). He started a Patreon late last year which has built up to a steady monthly stream of cash.
> ...not one atom of your descendent's DNA will be specifically yours.

Ignoring the fact that you are probably not correct scientifically speaking, I think that the constitution of your descendants is figuratively, symbolically, if not scientifically, yours (please pardon my English). It's yours because you played an entirely crucial role in creating this lineage. Whatever path it took after your role in it, that path was shaped by your involvement. You don't have to believe in the spiritual importance of lineage to acknowledge that your actions, and simply being, have some important, significant impact upon it. I find this outlook a bit too modern and nihilistic for me.
> Yeah, sure, that's one use case, to run it on AWS Lambda.

It's not an edge case. It is a clear and irrefutable example that you pay for the memory you use.

Let's be very clear here: when you provision a VM anywhere in the world, you have to pick how much memory you require. You are charged for that memory, proportionally to the memory you require. If your app requires over 100x memory to run, that comes out of your wallet.
Hologram experts can now create real-life images that move in the air
As a keeper of goats, the answer is always “they eat whatever you don’t want them to eat”.

Goats and fences don’t exist in the same quantum state unless observed.
As long as living standards are lower elsewhere, you can just get replacements from other countries. You spend less this way as well and don't have to raise and educate people. You can also call people racists if they don't like it.
A statement can be inaccurate or incomplete without being a lie.
To me this sounds a lot like that he's built himself a solid foundation in evading critical thinking about himself, possibly to avoid a more serious psychological harm which he thinks he may face if he looks at the bigger picture.

He compares himself to the animals: "They never ask for anything different for supper".

> "People might think I’m not experiencing new things, but I think the secret to a good life is to enjoy your work. I could never stay indoors and watch TV. I hear London is a place best avoided. I think living in a city would be terrible"

As a bachelor, how will he know what it is like to look into the eyes of a loved with whom you form a new family? Without watching TV, how will he know that movies like "Up" (Pixar 2009) or series like "Breaking Bad" are well worth spending their time, without incurring a dramatic time penalty in your life? Take the TV out to the porch, if staying inside is such a pain. How can he be sure that a visit to the British Museum in London isn't worth the effort, or time, or whatever he thinks that speaks against it? Will he find laughing people in the cafes of the city?

All of this feels like a "too afraid to discover" that he disguises it as a "secret to a good life". Not a happy life, but a good life. His sheeps make him happy. Like his spouse or kids could make him happy, or a trip to the city or watching 40 minutes of TV once a week. Or a delicious steak. Or riding a bike on a trail, if he weren't so old by now.

I wonder if the Welsh radio station has told him about the current dilemmas which AI is confronting us with, or if he thought about where and under which circumstances all this gear he owns to exercise his role of a farmer has been developed and produced and if his lifestyle, if applied to everyone, would have made it possible for this gear to exist.

It's OK if he decides to eat the same supper every day, if he prefers not to live with people, but to me this feels more like an elaborate thinking system designed to avoid something which would cause him pain, which doesn't cause pain to others.

Sure there is a lot to criticize about our modern life, and many people aren't happy living in the city and with their day to day jobs, or with their family situation, but he has built himself a very tall wall in order to be shielded from him being possibly affected by these problems and calls it a good life. Not much of a difference to a suburban man who tolerates his job, hates his kids, but has the biggest amount of fun when he jumps into his glider on the weekends, watches his favorite TV series at the end of the day and loves to go jogging every day for an hour. Or have a beer with a friend.

At least his sheep are among themselves, maybe some of them enjoy spending their time together and are glad to get anything to eat at all. But how would he know, if he's just happy pretending to be a fellow sheep and calls it a day.

Then again, there are comments like the one from telesilla.
In what concerns C++/WinRT, doing great, assuming that you enjoy editing IDL files without any kind of Visual Studio support, manually copying and merging files, and that the team had waves any complaint how the tool is lacking versus C++/CX to the miraculous day when ISO C++ gets reflection support.

Really, ageing MFC feels more productive.

I don't know, maybe at BUILD 2021 they will announce something, there is always hope.
Why does California have to be ideal to build a fab? A fab in California seems like one of the most worthwhile public works projects I’ve heard of in awhile.
Top U.S. pipeline operator shuts major fuel line after cyber attack
That that didn't generate more of a hubbub back then and seemingly didn't stay in people's memories for long is a real mystery to me (and a great boon to Apple!).
Kotlin runs in JVM and should get the same benefits from live profiling and JIT compilation.
I don't know what specifically you are referring to but, the sun is going to be a red giant in 4.5 billion years, earth cannot sustain life. Deep into the future, all the stars will eventually burn out and there will be no more new ones born. The night sky will be dark. The only radiation emitted will be black holes slowly evaporating on a time scale so huge we can't even meaningfully comprehend it. There is no energy to sustain life. Then there is the heat death of the universe to look forward to.

Humans might survive past earth, but oblivion will come for us all the same. We just get to play around in our little imagined worlds of purpose and meaning a little longer all to no avail beyond living one's life.

And that's all any of us can really do, chose how to face existence knowing there is no grand scheme in which each of us is some how important or matters. Choosing to live is equally as valid as choosing not to. We are evolutionarily engineered thinking emotional machines where certain states make us feel good(love, friendship, self actualisation food...., accomplishment) and certain states make us feel bad (sickness, loss, pain...)

All we can do is live a life we are happy(good state) with, be it building stone walls that last or having kids and raising them.
Praise be to Godwin. There's always one, and often several.
> People who live in the real world and have to do real work need to use real world tools, and one of which is AWS Lambda.

Another real tool is dedicated servers, something people used before "cloud" and something that people who care about performance still uses. AWS even offers dedicated servers themselves, so not sure why you would need to involve any "boutique service provider". Otherwise you have OVH, Hetzner and a range of others who compete well with AWS on dedicated instances as well, neither I'd say are "boutique".

> rewrite a whole application stack from scratch in your pet performant language

Not sure where this comes from, which one of these languages are "pet performant (SIC) languages"?

> who in their right mind would get accountants involved in a goal to shave a few milliseconds over a few gRPC calls

Hmm, unless the accountants are involved somehow in the API design (not sure what you're building), I don't know what the accountants have to do with anything here.

In the end, AWS and Lambda absolutely does not fit every use case. Depending on your use case, and if it's important a few ms here and there, you chose different solutions. Since this benchmark is about throughoutput, I thought we were discussing the use case of needing the best throughoutput, otherwise this is all off-topic. And with that, I'm just sharing that if that is your focus, you would probably not be using Lambda in the first place, as you'll get very shitty throughoutput and you have to pay a lot, compared to other mature solutions for this that we already had for many many years.
But I think the new policy changes allow WhatsApp to read business messages. So be weary. Also I think you gotta accept the new terms to have WhatsApp Business.

There's Watomatic. Author claims it doesn't connect to internet even though it has full network access permission, so idk about it. But the code is FOSS. It's on fdroid too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26153963
Learn React by Building a Twitter Clone
Remote Attestation [of untrusted remote devices]: A Literature Review (2020)
How much, how long, and what type? You’re not being scientific about it at all.
Really? What i see on HN is on average pretty libertarian ( right-libertrarian, aka anarcho-capitalism) compared to most other platforms.
This is mostly for legal reasons and the "for X" where X is a trademark is a common theme. (just look at Google Play store "for Twitter" or "for Reddit").

Looks and sounds weird though!
Coming from the "actual" country side, Richmond Park and Hampstead Heath feel like parody of nature for me. Don't get me wrong I like to go cycling and see the deers in Richmond but I've never had a feeling of being really in the nature. Too many people, too many cars around. Hampstead Heath is bigger I've been a couple of time only, but I remember how poor the soil was at places because of how many people walk around.