skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was going to leave a similar comment, you've done much better at expressing my own objections to the OP. I've tried to upvote you but I don't have very much karma (not sure that that matters?). Sorry to see this sort of thing happen on HN too :(

It would be great if the people who are downvoting you would tackle any of your bullet points.

We are certainly descended from animals, but we are also wildly unique from anything else we've ever seen in the biological world, past or present, mostly due to our cognitive capacities for art, science, morality, math, language, you name it.

Our capacity for language (and its core property of digital infinity) alone, as pointed out by Chomsky, doesn't seem to have an analogue anywhere in the biological world down to perhaps the level of DNA.

That's a great puzzle and mystery, we shouldn't run away from it but rather we should embrace it with humility and awe.
‘Irresponsible’: NASA chides China as rocket debris lands in Indian Ocean
If you buy something directly from another country then you are both a local customer and an importing entity. I bought some electronics from Hong Kong recently and had to pay 40% again when it entered the EU. There aren't any local businesses who make these things.
I don't know what happened to me, lately I'm becoming more and more fascist. I thought you should pay where you live but I apologize. Clearly not paying taxes was with the best intentions, for a better world.
I would say nothing, except maybe for how many mentions it gets in HW-review articles.

Unless you are in numerical HPC or kernel programming, you do not need to think about NUMA, but it is not black/white, it is a slope.

Varnish tries to do certain things "NUMA-friendly", without actually being "NUMA-aware" as such, and the kernels seem to do a really good job with that.
No, that would be silly. They're stored in separate databases with different passwords.

If I was really paranoid I'd keep the TOTP database on a separate device but, frankly, I don't anticipate being the target of a motivated attacker so that's more than I feel is necessary given the threat models I'm concerned about, those being untargeted hacks (service breaches, driveby attacks, etc) and social engineering.
Many things. In CS, gossip-protocol based DB systems. In chemistry and physics, phase transitions. Many processes like nucleation/crystallization during freezing are very similar.

When simulated, the code generally resembles cellular automata. Look up Ising model simulation if you want a better understanding.
Perhaps “arrogance” was a better word for the OP to let you to chew on? Can you vet that definition for us too?
> There are a dozen free software apps to do that.

Put your links when your mouth is. :)
There is a handful of interactive simulations for qubits. I don't know any other interactive simulation for quantum many-particle systems.

> It's basically just linear matrix algebra with complex numbers.

It always has been. For Quantum Field Theory it gets much more complicated, and classical simulations are way to slow to simulate most systems. Quantum computers (or even quantum simulators) are likely to change the game. Anyway, being able to simulate does not result in being able to visualize in a meaningful way.
I assumed it was n-jinx for years, until I happened to discuss it with a colleague.

Same with Apache, since in Europe it typically gets pronounced appa-sha (as it would be in French)
Is the field of web development dying?
Usually there's a new technology like react and then there are some alternatives like vue and angular, and they have clear differences.

There are already a bunch of python shell libraries and I want to understand what are the differences of this alternative, maybe there aren't any and it's just a clone.
Starship Troopers actually has highly visible satire. You don't need to dig. You don't need to go read the novels to try to find it.

GW could make the satire much less subtle. But I think it would sell more poorly.

You are correct that the actual universe, if you really dig, portrays the imperium as truly terrible (and everybody else). But if you look at the minis, the rules, the boxes, and the art it really seems like the imperium are good guys resisting evil.
But its funded by the tax, ergo it literally is their tax money at work here.
I didn't investigate too much when I was hit by this, but apparently it's because these kinds of goods suffer from wear. Now obviously, it doesn't make much sense to allow a manufacturer to advertise 10k hours for a lightbulb while only offering 6 months of warranty, but here we are.

For a laptop battery I might have put in more effort to dispute with the manufacturer, but for two ~5€ lightbulbs I just couldn't be arsed.
How much of that is the APU? I’d imagine the bottleneck would lie with manufacturers using the cheapest panels and digitizers they can.
> I've since stopped using pfsense

I find myself in the same boat. What do you use/recommend instead?
Thank you!

Yeah, there's a lightweight pruned node running on the back end that supplies all of the transaction data and mempool statistics.

Sizing based on byte size is a great idea, I'll think about adding that as an option.
Whats wrong with Peter Baker?
I didn't put enough caveats, I should have said, "the viewpoint that I think phk is trying to express _in this article_ ..." :)

You have written enough publicly that we could probably cook up a GPT2 level simulacrum with your posts. Useful for code reviews, discussions, etc.

Aren't we saying the same thing? The RAM is there to support the disk and the disk holds the data (the asset), so your article is disk centric. If disk was fast enough, there would be no ram. The ram is just a tool to support a latency target.
The few times I was able to read something without the annoying paywall jumping in my face, I was disappointed and disgusted with the quality of what I read and the asinine opinions offered. I too abhor the NYT.
But of course he didn't squash it, because he loved vendor lock-in and walled gardens.
With those gimmicky features there's also only a slim chance that anyone is actually using them because it's often hard to impossible, especially for people with less interest in tech.

For example, in a large company like Samsung some product manager might show up and require that users of the food scanning feature have a Samsung account. Now you have to register for a Samsung account on your fridge, but the embedded web view is being redirected to a new thing with 35% heavier Javascript which doesn't really run on your fridge anymore and that's the end of that.

This example is made up but it wouldn't surprise me if things very close to this have happened on these fridges, and they definitely happen all the time in consumer electronics.
Telegram runs on qt: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop#third-party
So it seems blanket tariffs are as bad as blanket free passes to imports.

The solution to me lies somewhere in between. I don’t understand why in the US we decided that using our youth to part time flip burgers and serve at restaurants is a better investment to our economy compared to having factories that make widgets, even if they are more expensive than Chinese widgets.
Logically, it should have twice the verticals of pi, i.e. four.

We could arrange them in a square shape.
In my anecdotal experience Windows/PCs require decently more ram than OSX/Macs for the same perceived performance. My Macbooks were always fine with 16gb but I had to upgrade my Windows machine to 32gb despite using the Macbooks for much more involved workloads.
Complete side-tangent: as a British-English speaker living in the US I have just about grown able to tolerate the American pronunciation of ‘herb’ with a silent H, so it doesn’t jar me too much when I read a text that says “an herb”.

But I haven’t encountered enough scientific spoken American to have developed an instinct for whether or not Americans actually pronounce the ‘h’ in ‘herb-‘ words like ‘herbivore’ or ‘herbaceous’; so in this text I was a bit thrown by encountering both “a herbaceous plant”, and “an herbaceous plant”. Wondering whether this is situational pronunciation? A variation on the hyper correct ‘an precedes words that start with H if the first syllable is unstressed’ rule that gives you “an hotel” and “an historic event”? Just error?

Can anyone enlighten me?
Wow! That's a neat trick
I don't speak French at all, but it sounds funny to me that the École is both Normal and Supérieure. Like, make up your mind, school!
> For all the hooplah about smart homes and Alexa and Thread and blah blah blah…most people have dumb lightbulbs, dumb garage doors, and dumb fridges.

For now. The profits to be made on microtransactions and subscriptions from internet-requiring features are too gargantuan to pass up, to not become the new norm. And, of course, unblockable ads and tracking.

A fun recent example is a motorcycle emergency vest that stops inflating when you stop paying the subscription. An outlier for now, but the average tomorrow; The slope is real and it's coated with vaseline.
A student project is digitizing the Indian subcontinent’s community cookbooks
Huh, I always thought of it as "the featured article". Maybe I should stop using it if it's actually that aggressive.
I agree it's a sovereign nation's call on what to do, but it seems like improving the lot of everyone who buys food (10s of millions of people) is something I'd be more inclined to do than to ensure that farmers (10s of hundreds of people) who are demonstrably uncompetitive continue to have a path to profitability anyway.
Your link doesn’t seem to point to anything.
Responsible and Effective Bugfinding (2020)
If it's added complexity for no fundamental improvement to the device then I'd agree it's bad. I find that avoiding buying devices with "smart" in the name eliminates most such designs... i'm starting to worry about the availability of dumb cars in the future though (consider that dumb cars are packed full of microelectronics and sensors that do a fantastic job of managing the engine, they work more independently, simply, almost mechanically compared to the "smart" bits).
This is a fun question, one I faced at your age a quarter century ago and I had an additional deficit, which was that I had no college degree. At the time the web was just heating up, so I chose to write a free Web server. It never went anywhere, but learning the basics helped me get a job at Microsoft, which was the one of the FAANGs of the time.
The true achievement is not the capability of the rockets, it is the huge reduction in cost compared to government contracts. This is even excluding the reusability.

The development costs for Falcon 9 v1.0 were approximately US$300 million, and NASA verified those costs. If some of the Falcon 1 development costs were included, since F1 development did contribute to Falcon 9 to some extent, then the total might be considered as high as US$390 million.[14][2]

NASA also evaluated Falcon 9 development costs using the NASA‐Air Force Cost Model (NAFCOM)—a traditional cost-plus contract approach for US civilian and military space procurement—at US$$3.6 billion based on a NASA environment/culture, or US$$1.6 billion using a more commercial approach.[15][14]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9_v1.0

Cited from https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/Section403(b)...
It kinda ruins Euler's identity.
I've just started completely ignoring reviews on Amazon. I can send stuff back if it's not up to quality (UK - I realise the this may not apply globally), so it's not worth my time trying to determine what reviews are/aren't real.

Amazon still ends up getting my custom as many other sites have more awkward returns processes or are not competitive on price.
Maybe we have both? A price hike won’t necessarily fix a shortage, right? (Price hikes didn’t exactly fix n95 mask demand, for example.)

The video in the article explains that the auto industry stepped out of the queue by cancelling all their orders. Now demand is high and they want to cut back in line. So this story about auto makers is taking advantage of a loose and slightly misleading use of the word “shortage”. It implies there’s only a supply-side shortage, when in fact car makers dropped demand before and are now spiking demand.

Plus a chip fab can take months, and I have no idea what the lead time on ordering one is, but it’s probably not zero, right? Especially with other customers in the queue. The process of ordering fuel is somewhat different and doesn’t need to serialize the buyers.
Checkout TCP_REUSPORT_LB_NUMA on FreeBSD.

It will filter incoming TCP connections to listen sockets owned by threads bound to the same NUMA domain as the NIC that received the packets. This is part of the Netflix FreeBSD NUMA work described here https://papers.freebsd.org/2019/eurobsdcon/gallatin-numa_opt...

The idea is that you can keep connections local to a NUMA domain. We (Netflix) have a local patch to nginx to support this (basically just setting the socket ioctl on the listen socket after the nginx worker is bound)
But important thing to understand is that phylogeny isn't just some arbitrary classification scheme -- it is dealing with the actual world and its history. It's an interesting observation about the real world that things people call "trees" evolved independently.
Also assembly houses are way backed up
Which phone is that?
My iMac w/ 32GB of RAM hovers at 50% and never goes higher even when doing more intensive tasks.
The common use case is to want to set the time so that it runs not right now but later - either because for noise reasons, or so that it finishes when you're back home to unload.

Also, of course, there's the "internal scheduling" of various different activities that the machine is doing; you can do that mechanically but IMHO it's simpler now to do that with a cheap microcontroller.
For me it's like separation of concerns. Give me a TV with good picture/sound and a good selection of ports. If I want a smart TV I'll stick a Chromecast/Fire stick in it; if I want a metrics displayer I'll use a Raspberry Pi; or maybe I'll use it with a games console. I'd prefer not to pay for smart features If I'm not gonna use them.
My wife just needed to get a new car, and the salesman was complaining that just as demand was starting to increase the chip shortage means they're barely getting any new ones in stock.

And of course the popular models are the ones that are selling out the fastest, meaning people are holding off on purchases because they can't get what they want. My wife's was one of maybe 8 in the entire state that had the features she wanted. Even that one we had to wait about a week because it was in transit from the factory to the dealership, and the other ones in the state were at dealerships a bit further away.

I know car salesman don't get a whole lot of sympathy, but they still need to make a living and that industry got hit hard by Covid, and now is getting hit again.
It's because of the "Hey there! I'm a dragon lost in human world" text I think.
In software you should be familiar that exposing a debugging interface can be a 10 minute job. Exposing a public service can be a 3 month job. And not just for developers, but also for documentation writers, marketing, legal, and so on.

If you're an expert, then you can hack with the debug interface, many enthusiasts do things like that with their devices.

And if you're not an expert, you don't want, you can't, and you'd never need to script your washing machine.
Why cant arrests be made during the cash out process. surely it cannot be that hard to trace some of the money
I think the unspoken part is the new manager do not have the clout to push back users/stakeholders, both due to being new and the team having already lost trust of its users/stakeholders.

Adding more people may not be the only option, but pushing back demands or changing the wider organizational dysfunction is probably not even on the table.
Yeah, it is (though the subjectivity might vary).

Take a deck of cards, say, a pre-ordered one (technically, you know what microstate it's in) - so let's say that its "disorder" is "zero", and your entropy about it is zero.

Now shuffle it face down really well, now both its "disorder" and your entropy about it is pretty high (it has a specific microstate that you don't know, and the ensemble of all potential microstates form a macrostate).

Now look at this shuffled deck face up again - it's "disorder" is still high, but now your entropy about it is zero again, because you know what microstate it's in.
It is. Taxes are slavery. Not paying them is better for everyone.
16 not enough here: I'm closer to 20-24 because mostly of lots of browser tabs and switching between projects, rarely because of heavy stuff. 32 would be comfortable today, and 64 would be future-proof (my 16GB is 6 years old now and I plan to keep the next one as long!).
Perhaps https://opnsense.org/ ?
The edit was simply because I know on what kind of discussion forum I am right now and in which direction it leans. While I agree that I shouldn't have had to make it, I just wanted to be ahead of the likely fallacies that would be thrown against me.
I think this comes down to the right tool for the job.

If you have a lot of programmers churning out code, languages like golang makes it harder for them to make mistakes, sometimes at the cost of performance, but 99.9% of the time, performance does not matter.

If performance matters, there is no better language than C to bend the hardware to your precise will, but that comes at a cost of programming difficulty.
Just to add on to this (because I think it's interesting)... the Engine Computer (PCM - Powertrain Control Module) does so much! Just to name a few:

- Coordinates the engine and the transmission for smooth shifts
- Holds a gear while the engine is in the power band if the throttle position meets a certain threshold
- Makes diagnosing complex problems much easier, even remembering data so it can be diagnosed when the problem is not happening at the time you drop your car off with a technician
- Shuts the engine and fuel pump off if it receives a message on the vehicle bus that an airbag was deployed
- Can advance or retard ignition timing depending on the grade of fuel you put in the tank
- Reads/Adjusts combustion parameters thousands of times per second on each cylinder (prioritizing fuel economy, power output, and emissions depending on the situation).
Waymo also has actual robotaxis.
I think I understand your point: we don't define existence per se. But here we only need to define the existence of the value of a property. And we define it by saying that if the we can predict the value before measuring it, then the value "exists". Take it as an axiom.

When I said "the very value of the entangled properties does not exist locally" in my first post I meant that there is no way to predict the value (or of consistently assigning a value to the property) before performing a measurement.
> then the sales numbers will tell manufacturers not to make that model

Doesn't really matter... if Fridge with a Screen makes 4x the profits or simply has a recurring revenue per unit where Fridge Without a Screen does not, then the market will become purely Fridge With a Screen.
Biters effectively do this though it’s technically entirely deterministic - and you can build a defense strong enough to make it not an issue, but that’s quite involved.

The most common “production” disasters are caused by an oversupply of one item, which stockpiled, and you go into under supply but don’t notice until you’re off doing something else (and that can cause critical self-defense mechanisms to shut down at bad times).
This is all based on windows. I use kubuntu, 20.04. have 12 GB of ram and right now with total of 222 processes, firefox and clementine open, I use less than 2 GB of ram. so, no, not if you want to run some decent linux, but hey if you wanna run windows.
You might be onto something. Keep in mind, though, that you will need to come up with a policy for quiescent data. You will be responsible for storing people’s data and security for it, even when they aren’t paying. I think that may run afoul of GDPR requirements that you dispose of data within a certain amount of time (I could be wrong there, since I’m not European and don’t follow that too closely).
Or BMW’s attempt to sell subscriptions to CarPlay and heated seats.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/34547/bmw-is-planning-to-sell-...

But still…that’s high-margin subscriptions on top of a high-margin product. I am, currently, skeptical we will end up with low-end Internet of Shit for everything, because running that subscription service requires a big up-front investment that’s hard when you’re selling, I don’t know, toaster ovens.
They worded the teacher decapitation by an islamist in France as "French Police Shoot and Kill Man After a Fatal Knife Attack on the Street". They chose their side (hating on my country), I chose mine, which involve not reading nor trusting what they write.
> They haven't bugged me for a while now, but that's likely because now they're going to try to force me to give them a phone number.

This and your other reply in this part of the conversation are purely paranoid speculation.

Frankly, if you're this concerned about Google's nefarious intent, you should get off their platform. They probably already know a lot more about you than just some random phone number.
I'd add Liquid? It's used by shopify and there are various implementations. I use liquidjs: https://liquidjs.com
Wikipedia is up (2001)
After sight-reading through the piece a few times you can generally start writing down the fingering on the score. Keep a pencil handy.

It's a bad idea to finger on the first play or the first day because there's a risk of premature optimisation. It doesn't take much analysis apart from one or two specific problems. The fingerings I end up with usually vary somewhat from the editor's.

But the OP is correct, once you've got a fingering, you have to stick to it, even if it's suboptimal in places. It's your fingering, and if you change something after 200 repetitions there's a danger of slipping back into the old pattern and stumbling.
As a kind of extreme example, I've gone off and duplicated a whole computing stack because I think C is the wrong abstraction. For example, the way signed and unsigned numbers are defined in the C standard really over-complicates simple programs. We often don't care about portability in these days of instruction set monoculture.

Here's how I render the silhouette of the Mandelbrot set using fixed-point math on my computer. Each statement translates to a single x86 instruction. To detect overflow in a computation I don't perform more computation. I just use the processor's overflow flag, which C "abstracts" from me.

http://akkartik.github.io/mu/html/mandelbrot-fixed.mu.html

Main project page: https://github.com/akkartik/mu
Check out https://hotwire.dev
There's nothing particularly special about factories that says we have to have them just because it's more romantic than a services economy. And we do have many kinds of manufacturing, as does Europe - we create many of the pieces that are then final assembled in China.

The specific reason is we had a run of bad economics for a few decades where we pretended industrial policy didn't exist, and we didn't read How Asia Works.