skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your throughput calculation is based on a single port 100GbE NIC working okay at full duplex bidirectional line rate in a PCI-E 3.0 x16 slot, which is true. Let's say that we budget 220-230Gbps of throughput per optical transceiver, such as if you were to max out a 100GbE link both directions with iperf3 for testing. But the intel X820 card has two ports on it, so your bandwidth needs are going to be in the range of 500 Gbps.

also, cumulative number of pci-e 3.0 or 4.0 lanes in a system is a big consideration if you want to have, for instance, four dual-port 100GbE NICs all talking to one CPU. Or some mixture like three dual-port 100GbE NICs + one or two 4-port 10GbE NICs.

Where the lower end of the Intel server CPU offerings really falls flat is not having anything close to 64 or 128 PCIE lanes at a reasonable price.
Is “social awkwardness” a direct link to Asperger’s?
> world's fastest key value store

Where can I see the data for this comparison? A quick search only brings up benchmarks of this db against itself on different VM setups, and the site doesn't link such a thing from anywhere I've thought to look yet.
> You can't do iterative development, since most changes require recompiling from scratch...

Huh, did they break something to cause this? I see no reason why this would be true for most things people want to work on (certainly if you edit files in "base" you are going to have a bad time...).
in the worst case, if you can't find a service company you work as an independent contractor and pay everything yourself. figure out what it takes to get insurance, retirement funds and what ever other payments you want/need to make and ask your local tax office or an accountant how you can make those payments. then factor all that into your salary/contractor fee.
No, “square” is the more crude analogy (there’s a lot more to “multiplication” than you might be familiar with in the case of numbers), and “double copy” is more natural. Don’t ask for a simpler explanation because the actual story is not yet well understood — after all it’s active research, so scientists are still groping in the dark trying to figure things out!

Nobody is trying to intentionally obfuscate anything; the authors working in this area deserve tremendous credit for their sincere and sustained (decade+) effort in trying to elucidate the structure of gravitational interactions. Please don’t go around slandering them just because you don’t understand what’s going on.
> In the latter, consistency, pests and disease become more complex issues to deal with.

> There are many good reasons, BTW, why farms don't grow perennials and engage in mono-cropping, or use herbicides and genetically engineered crops instead of no-till.

But sometimes the pests and disease are caused by these same practices, right? Like, I'm aware the Cavendish banana we all eat is very susceptible to a fungal disease that is slowly spreading around the world. Because we produce so much of a single variety, where all plants are clones, a single disease can be highly disruptive. If production was evenly distributed over many varieties, and if plantations had banana plants separated by other useful crops, the whole system might be more resilient.
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Interesting. I’ve only seen a few of Nas’ videos (which I liked, despite the slightly exhausting delivery). I didn’t know he worked for the UAE government, and I agree that should be kept in mind.

EDIT: The criticism in [2] is objection by the antisemitic BDS movement to NAS’ refusal to demonize Israel and his attempts to bring people together and promote peace and mutual understanding. It is embarrassing to their narrative when Palestinians like NAS point out that the Palestinians who stayed in Israel after its founding became full members of its society, served in its parliament, and that there is no “apartheid”.
Just be aware of all the blood that has been spilled in labor struggles around the world in the past and present (as we speak people are dying at the hands of the Colombian state authorities for this struggle).

People fought hard for our rights to free time. People died for this right. If your work makes your company more money, they should pay you. They shouldn’t reward your hard work with something vague like job prospects and opportunities, no they should pay you overtime with money. If you work more then 40 hours a week, you should get your extra hours payed in overtime (not less then 90% of your base wage). If they don’t want to give you that, you are being exploited by your bosses.

Do know that you can practice your skills and get your fair share for your work. Don’t let anyone exploit your work. You’re worth more than that. Solidarity.
The author uses a small subset (positive psychology and its nebulous definition of happiness, although the he doesn’t address that those psychologists do define that term) of psychology to denounce the whole field as “not science.”

String theory deals with measurements that are mind-boggling small to the point where experimentation is impossible. String theory cannot be tested in a lab or in any sort of tactile experiment. Experimentation is a critical piece of a science and so since String Theory cannot be tested with the scientific method, all of physics is not a science.

Of course that argument is absurd and so is this article.
> Any data to back this up? Note that there is a difference between "always better" and "generally better".

Maybe I should clarify again that I am talking about "basic" safety features like backup cameras or blind spot monitoring. My parent was talking specifically about the intelligent rearview mirror some trucks have.

These things, by definition, see more than the driver because of where they are placed. It is physically impossible for you to see what is behind your rear bumper, so having a camera that can see it is strictly better.

I can't make quite as strong a claim for the more advanced safety features like automatic braking and lane departure warnings, but the data says cars with these systems are safer on average[1].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/advisor/car-insurance/vehicle-safety-...
> I know it’s an anecdote, but it’s still data

That's useful if it's about a subject where there's no studies.

But this is whether exercise improves quality of life. There's no shortage of studies about it. Implying that a single anecdote is still data is the bad kind of technically true.

I would link to one of those studies, but there's too many of them and I admit I don't know what to choose.

https://scholar.google.com.sg/scholar?q=physical+activity+qu...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01674...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00917...
The article is really about what you do a top 8% income once you've paid for the basic expenses of life. You said "Invest as much as possible" - the article is about the choices you might make there.
fold is a library function that is very general, and would be built-in in most other languages (if it existed at all). You wouldn’t write most functions like that.

A long variable name only makes sense when the variable is specific. In fold, you have “a function”; nothing else can be said about it. And since working with “a function” is very common, Haskell programmers have converged on a shorthand for it: f. Sure, it’s harder for an entirely new programmer to understand, but every language has practices like this that need to be learned: take “i” in a for-loop in C.
Yes, my dad, a pharmacist, told me a drug just have to be a little bit more efficient than a placebo to pass certification, and he sells homeopathy all day as well (while calling it a scam), because it does relieve people of their pain...

Acupuncture, which is having someone dancing around you while touching you, is like everything: find something cheaper and more efficient to solve the same problems and we wont see it anymore.
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Two other (related) systems with Forth in ROM were produced by Micronique in France:

Hector HRX (1983) https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=142

Hector MX (1985) https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=169

The Hector MX also had BASIC and LOGO in ROM.
I'm 59, and pretty darn happy.

I get aches and pains from everything, though. My back is still aching from weeding a week and a half ago.
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Housing prices are not driven by scarcity, they are driven by financialization of our economy.

There are multiple cities in England where population has decreased but house prices increased. During lockdown 700k people left London, but house prices kept going up.
Some other threads from that site:

An Economic Analysis of Ethereum - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25811356 - Jan 2021 (111 comments)

The Fraying of the US Global Currency Reserve System - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25558573 - Dec 2020 (17 comments)

The fraying of the U.S. global currency reserve system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25407583 - Dec 2020 (344 comments)

Banks, QE, and Money-Printing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24978567 - Nov 2020 (235 comments)

Why This Is Unlike the Great Depression - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22890151 - April 2020 (2 comments)

How to Win a Currency War - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22837518 - April 2020 (60 comments)

The Global Dollar Short Squeeze - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22828991 - April 2020 (211 comments)
Nassim Taleb suggests that it's not an outgrowth of religion.

[n] https://medium.com/incerto/religion-violence-tolerance-progr...
Seems like a solid, albeit somewhat dry explanation of inflation. I love concrete examples of how inflation impacts people’s lives, and there are a few that really helped clarify my understanding of inflation that I like to point others to now.

1) https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/12/02/458222801/epis.... A great Planet Money episode about how Brazil combatted hyperinflation by just replacing their currency.

2. https://slate.com/business/1998/08/baby-sitting-the-economy..... A Paul Krugman Slate article about a 1978 journal article that uses the example of a babysitting coop to illustrate the way that the monetary supply can have ramifications on the real economy.

3. And the Money Kept Rolling In (and Out) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1586483811/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_.... A much longer read, but this is book about the economic crisis in Argentina is one of my favorite economics books, and also teaches you a lot about the international monetary system as well.
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>> the Space Communists, or the Space Bdsm Rapists, or the Space Super Spreaders, or the Space Insects That Only Like You For Your Biomass, or the Space Cockneys That Only Want To Fight, or the Space Zombies That Sort Of Kind Of Still Worship Undead Gods They Toppled?

Beep bop I'm your friendly translation bot (no I'm not).

Space Communists --> T'au Empire

Space BDSM Rapists --> Emperor's Children (devoted to Slaanesh)

Space Super Spreaders --> Death Guard (devoted to Nurgle)

Space Insects That Only Like You For Your Biomass --> Tyranids (Shoot the big ones first)

Space Cockneys That Only Want(s) To Fight --> Orks

Space Zombies That Sort Of Kind Of Still Worship Undead Gods They Toppled --> Necrons

Aren't we missing someone? What happened to the Space Manowar Fans (World Eaters) or the Space New Age Goth Hippies (Thousand Sons)? Personally I rather dig the Space Sisters of Mercy Please No Not the Flagellum (Sisters of Battle). Or the Space Boris Johnsons (Harlequins) etc etc.
Contrarian view: we have never worked less, but our work has less meaning, so the psychosomatic pain per hour is higher:

https://ourworldindata.org/exports/annual-working-hours-per-...

In the past most work was directly tied to feeding your family.
Okay, "You don't know what you're talking about." :) There is a clear judgement on your part.

For me my own recent DK-moment was I'm learning a foreign language and in a shop asked for a simple item with a simple phrase, sure I had it right. They had no idea what I meant and I got angry because I thought you were just trolling me. Relating situation to a friend who let me know my accent was just wrong, so hard to understand. What got me is sometimes my accent good, sometimes it's not, day by day. But I was so sure, because my level is quite low. Haha

For you, with your judgement, you don't know whether it's true or not they are in DK, additionally you yourself may be mistaken in your JS criticism, it could be you that has DK, and they are correct.

Also, "You don't know what you're talking about.", OK, so, " this is how it works": generally when you criticize someone as doing X, and then backpaddle on pushback to say you do the same, you should recount a specific instance where you did X "and quite badly" because that shows you're genuine, and willing to be vulnerable, as you have tried to make the other person vulnerable by invoking the criticism you, by that omission, seem reluctant to invoke upon yourself. :) ;p xx

For me, a recent one where I didn't do that was a friend was telling me about their job offer progress, and salary negotiation. They wanted Y, but didn't say, and company was offering less. I told them how they should just ask for what they want, and try to get it. Friend pushed back, and got upset. Fast forward to same friend, next job offer, this time I shared a story how I hadn't pushed for my preferred salary in a previous job, then told how I felt not enjoying the job and feeling I was not getting fair reward each work day. Much better conversational outcome, friend more receptive to advice this time. Friend ended up with high salary they were happy with.

Better yet lead with the story of your mistake, tho that's hard to do. Either way, sharing your own makes you seem more credible in trying to bring someone up not put them down, shows you speak from experience, and engages someone emotionally into feeling for you rather than just being defensive :) ;p xx
"You are the slave. You are at the mercy of your next paycheck and the mercy of your employer."

That is a set of keywords that tells you to bail out: "slave, mercy(2), paycheck (salary for me) and employer". My spam scanner will take a dim view of an email on these lines.

What the article fails to mention is that you need expertise in each investment area. Clever Sam knows about lucrative websites. He knows about the finer details of vending machines and beach condos. Crikey, clever chap. This article stops short of Sam owning huge wodges of GME bought last year at $15.

If you are an expert in something and can make money from your shrewd investments then great. To succeed like Sam, you will need to become an expert about a lot of things.
C++ was incomprehensibly complex back then too. Comeau was the only vendor that even pretended to offer a conforming compiler.
> While this is epic fantasy, it's _not_ at all grimdark. Bad things definitely happen, but it's more hopeful and humane than something like Malazan or Song of Ice and Fire.

I will always read anything recommend by a person who uses Malazan as a benchmark.

Purchasing this book right now.
AFAIK Obj-C was based on the ideas of SmallTalk (with objects receiving messages), but mixed with C syntax.

Obj-S (originally Objective-SmallTalk) is a Smalltalk on top of the Obj-C runtime.
I stopped reading when the mentioned Meyers Briggs over and over again. Might as well throw in horoscopes and skull measurements.
Corning has a huge plants in Hefei, and in other parts of China. All uncut GG I saw had "Made In China" on its packaging.

> good? not really sure what you trying to say. companies will always go to the low labor cost countries.

The point I wanted to make was exactly that they don't, even with US lower taxes added to that.
IDK about even 32 for my self, with wfh lately work feels so streamlined, a day of work is only like 4 hours of focused work. The rest of the day is just being available, so i can help other people with their 4 hours i guess lol
Completely agree here. As an introvert, wouldn't one be happier being around _less_ people? More so, I'd beg to argue creativity isn't a uniformly measured trait. An introvert expressing their creativity (i.e. through a personal project for their own satisfaction) is way different than an extroverted person running a business to express their creativity.
> though I very much doubt it's exclusively Christian in its origin

You should see the Japanese go at it. I hear the Chinese are every bit as bad (996). Not many Christians, there.

The Japanese take a certain pride in it. I feel that their efficiency suffers, and burnout is a big problem, there.
These lists need an asterisk for companies that do location based pay, so we know to ignore them.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Psycho

I think this is a pretty clever meta comment, but for those who don’t know, it’s a quite graphic book. I never had the stomach for it.
Yes, although they usually phrase it "social difficulties." There are various lists of the characteristics out there, and this is on every one of them.
I find Richard A. Steenbergen gives a good practical introduction and talks about some of the challenges. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXvUziCmbJY
I've been really curious why Amazon can't implement sort by exact price.
if i am in the european union, and i work for a company outside of europe, isn't all that my own responsibility? i pay taxes, insurance, retirement funds out of my own pocket, and i just need to factor that into what i am getting paid.

the only complication is that i have to figure out myself what and how to pay.
You're misunderstanding what I mean. Very uncharitably, if you think I somehow missed the fact he's delivering astronauts to the ISS and delivering cars. For god's sake, I agreed with you that he's very effective! You're seeing a much more "extreme polarized" statement that I wrote.

I'm not saying every single thing he says is BS, like he's going around saying the sky is green and up is down. Just that he says a whole lot of shit that isn't true also.
For most people, the first one is simpler. The second seems simpler to us as we've used functional languages, but there's a lot going on there. What is map? It's a function that acts on a structure using a function, ie a higher order function. What is (+ 1)? An anonymous function that will be used. Contrast this to the more natural idea of, for each item in the list, increment that value.
The link isn’t loading for me right now, so I’ll just add to the appreciation for Hobb. I’m currently reading book 13 (4th in the Rain Wild Chronicles). They’re all great!

I picked up The Assassin’s Apprentice while looking for something to fill the Rothfuss void. I was instantly hooked. The tone and the pace was just right for me. I really like that they are so character-driven, deeply exploring the characters’ emotions, history, flaws, etc. And she’s great at having the plot build and build until basically everything is going wrong, and then she delivers a super satisfying ending.

I usually take a short break between each tril, but I might just go straight into her last batch after I finish this book.
Defining science without reference to the scientific method sounds far more concerning. 'A discipline that uses the scientific method to investigate hypotheses' doesn't seem like a loose definition to me, and it definitely doesn't allow phrenology.
It's absolutely commonplace for newspapers to publish op-eds. In fact, I'd be more surprised if any particular newspaper didn't do it.

In print, it's usually not a source of confusion because the op-eds are on their own page or in their own column that has "Opinion" or something in the heading.

This is something that the NYT's website should try harder to emulate (or it should provide some other sort of visual differentiation between reporting and opinion contents), but "diluting their brand" is a quite extraordinary claim.
If you believe that post scarcity is possible at all, you might consider that space colonization is also possible, but that brings about new significant requirements and needs that our economy will have to meet. Personally I think our civilization's ambition needs to expand so that happens. If we are still putting the "American Dream" as a goal when that can be built and satisfied cheaply by automation, then our goals need to change. A post scarcity economy would be able to meet today's American Dream easily and with little trouble, and yet we can't shake the mindset that you have to earn it because that makes it mean more or something.
'No legitimate reason' for everyday public use of encrypted platforms
So is this like an April fools day thing or something? This can't be real.
The medical field could really use an overall authority that can force them to adopt safe practices. We treat truckers getting enough sleep as a higher priority, as a society, than surgeons.

Another thing is hospitals adopting air industry style checklists, which doctors fought tooth and nail as 'insulting'. Despite every ounce of evidence massively pointing toward this saving lives.
> Launched the Android app two months late.

I would argue more like 5-7 months late. I heard the Clubhouse hype back in Aug / Sept, and the peak according to Google Trends was at the beginning of February. Their ultra exclusive marketing tricks were cute, but I think we'll that they were a bad decision in the long run. Twitter will eat their lunch.
Electric Vehicles to Drive a Lithium Supply Crunch
I don't think crumbling infrastructure has a lot to do with government waste. It's mostly poor prioritization; using funds that should be set aside for maintenance to build new things instead. New projects capture the imagination, maintenance is something that magical fairies do while everyone is sleeping, or something.

This is more of an intrinsic flaw of humanity than something that has an easy fix. Reality and the version in our minds don't align. Privatization isn't the answer: private companies let their infrastructure deteriorate to the point where it kills people all the time. We even rely on the government to prevent this, and get upset when they don't catch every case. Making the government go away, or underfunding it to the point where it's impotent, probably isn't the fix.

There isn't really an easy answer to society's problems. If there was, we'd have already implemented it. Now we have to deal with the hard problems, and we probably have to do that as a collective. The problem is too large for one benevolent visionary to magically solve.

Something that I think of one of HN's blindspots is the general inability to think past what one person can do alone. We sit in front of our computers and make stuff, then we go to work and make stuff that's almost the same, but it takes 10 people to do only 10% more. That's probably another intrinsic reality of the Universe -- to do a project twice as difficult takes maybe 10 times or 100 times as many resources. That's because communication scales poorly, like n! That's why every successful project management book tells you to cut scope; doing a harder project involves adding more resources, and adding more people to the project has dramatically diminishing returns. But the government can't cut scope, so they have to bear this communications cost. It looks like inefficiency, but it's more like an immutable law.

Keep this in mind while you pontificate about how having a society is akin to robbery.
"Starting to have consequences"? The situation is absolutely dire. Shelves are empty; common parts like DC/DC converters have lead times of 52 weeks. Maybe big companies who can afford to hoard parts are fine... the small ones are absolutely screwed. You can't even get enough parts to build prototypes. I'm in the position where I have to cannibalize rev A boards just to be able to build and test rev B boards.