skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FreeBSD has superior:

- package management (pkg & ports)

- file system (native ZFS)

- instrumentation (systat & dtrace)

- documentation (handbook & examples in most man pages)

- event notification interface (kqueue vs broken by design epoll & inotify)

- license (BSD, no GPLv3 at all)

- stability (POLA)

- quality control (no shellshock, no dataloss on fsync)

- network performance (200gbps TLS encrypted traffic on a single socket at Netflix, millions of open connections per server at WhatsApp)

- scaling (there is no cliff when resources get saturated just a bit of a "back pressure")

It adds up to the point where I see some companies keep their use of FreeBSD secret as a competitive advantage.

On the other hand I really like what Alpine Linux is doing.
The press freedom index places Burkina Faso, a country that bans journalists from visiting displacement camps, higher than the US, so I'm a little skeptical of its findings
No, people fixate on free speech because no other right even makes sense if you don't have free expression. It's the foundation for our democratic society.
Don't even bother with this list if you live in Europe. Even a waiting staff with zero education makes more money in Europe than a software developer. So if you lose your job, you will be glad making more money and have more fun contacting other people than sitting all day long at a desk for a penny.
> So it's normal to demand the identities of a blind review panel?

It seems reasonable to ask "wait what blind review panel" when one appears out of thin air.
I worked with several academics and corporations as a contractor building their simulations. I’ve also read a lot of papers as well, etc.

Like most simulations, they pretty much only can match reality so closely. for instance, we don’t have many long term measurements, so we make (educated-ish) guesses. Academics also repeatedly run their models, tweaking parameters to get the results they want. Frankly, I don’t trust any research using simulations, after being paid to work on environmental, biological systems, simulations for drones and machines (trucks, construction, etc). (Drones and other machines at least had a way to quickly test).
Tesla wouldn't be using the 4680 in the model Y if the 4680's status was in doubt.
Unrelated to the article, but the author linked to his novel and I grabbed it and have been rather enjoying it on this lazy Sunday.
https://www.amazon.com/Revelations-Novel-Erik-Hoel/dp/141975...
TBH, I usually end up having to use Google to find something I read in the past on HN; I try the search every time but usually it can't find what I want from what I can remember
Remote work is not a mental health panacea. Working from home (further) blurs the psychological distinction between being and not being “at work”. This can be surprisingly difficult for many people to notice, let alone deal with in a healthy way. How many of us have found ourselves struggling to carve out the time to shower in a given day? I’ve commiserated about that struggle with multiple coworkers over the past year. This is just scratching the surface of the surface of the difficulties of remote work.
Basically this. And then a lot of people forget that both of those possibilities are, well, possible.
Is it really working, though? Has there been a push in China (or other country connected to the global internet) for more democracy?
Researchers have done studies which have found a substantial number of excess deaths in the Covid era. So while Alameda may have a lower death tool overall throughout the country more people have died of Covid than have been counted as having died of Covid.
Why would China care about starting a war? The UK had no problems defending the Falklands from Argentina.
Do other "fun" things, learn to sail, learn to fly a plane, learn to cook
Are you defining “side projects” only as software efforts?

It’s a great big world outside of software/tech.

I have loads of side projects, er, hobbies that have nothing to do with software/tech/startups.

Many of them are best done outside.

I joke that one of my hobbies actually repels tech.
My understanding is that the VideoCore architecture was initially designed as more of a "media codec coprocessor", and was incidentally able to grow enough matrix math throughput to be pressed into service as a GPU.
Yes me too!
The concern with these sorts of strategies is that you might discover the problem quickly. Say for instance if the stock you shorted doubles in value and you lose all your money. Even if there's only a small probability of that happening in a given year, going bankrupt by definition negates all the gains you got previously. Worse still, when you short stocks it is actually possible to lose more than your entire investment so a strategy can work amazingly 99/100 times and still have negative expected value.
This is such a strange comment to me. It's not got a particularly sinister design that means it is more addictive than many other games out there - as far as I can tell from what I've played of it anyway.

I don't think you can blame the game for anything that happened to you and I hope your next relationship goes better.
It criticizes the statement by Keynes that savings leads to depression due to underconsumption and thus there must be regularly monetary stimulus, meaning expansion of government borrowing and hence, the money supply. Hayek was a proponent of the gold standard and fixed money supply at this time and the Keynesians promoted fiat money and a flexible money supply and monetary policy.
Some pretty wild unsourced claims masquerading as facts.

As with pretty much any energy source, (including wind, solar, gas..) nuclear tends to get cheaper the more you build. You can look up FOAK vs NOAK and note the curves. Not sure what you're referring to re difficulty of increasing %share?

How are you measuring "fuel rod lifecycle"? And how does that possibly comparable to "$/kWh solar"?

Here's [0] a good source for some facts. You should note that accounting for the whole lifecycle of mining/processing/operating/defueling/decommissioning, nuclear is ~1/4 of the emissions of solar. And this is only considering electricity; we still have 2-3x the kwh to source for our heating requirements. You're suggesting we get that all sorted with solar & wind too?

0 - https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/energy-and-the...
Did someone perhaps write "why not simply" to OP recently?
Well, Latin is an exception, being one of the “dead” languages (which no longer evolve).
I wholeheartedly agree. There is certainly a correlation between seniority / scope and leadership. And, as you allude to, it is a positive one. My point in #1 was that they are separate entities with their own unique characteristics and I just wanted to emphasize that (despite the fact that the author of the original post has included some relevant leadership expectations in the list).
Apple doesn’t make money from free apps, so they have no financial incentive to turn the other cheek with respect to them.
Best Shoulder Exercises of All Time
Document references and footnotes: how do you write yours?
At this point, I think the NRA exists only to act as a foil for gun control groups. I have donated to both of the groups you mentioned as I think that they're both lightyears ahead of the NRA when it comes to actually doing anything.
This hardly qualifies as "lots of speech".
>The 3-microsecond long pulse of light would normally take only 0.2 nanoseconds to pass through the chamber in a vacuum. But when passed through the specially prepared chamber, light emerged 62 nanoseconds earlier than it would have had it passed through the chamber in a vacuum.

Am I stupid or does this not make sense to anyone else
If 'free speech' is a 'dog whistle' what would be a viable alternative to get the same ideal, without falling afoul of a shift in the 'dog whistle' goalpost?
The second point is a good one.

My workhorse desktop is rarely connected to the network. It has dual monitors, and both monitors are shared by another computer that is connected to the net. So it's easy to switch either screen from workhorse to web browser or whatever. I can't cut/paste between them, but it doesn't hurt that the sneaker net is in the same physical location and even shares the same screens. I rarely need to do that anyway.

When I'm working on my laptop, I simply take what I did for the session and thumb-drive it to the workhorse later.

The workhorse desktop is my "de facto" source, so it is the only one I bother backing up.
Yeah that's exactly what I'm saying.
It stands to reason that an especially large volume of abuse will originate from the most populous country in the world. I don't think that's a reason to cut them off from the global Internet. If it's true that their government is already oppressing their own people (I don't know what's truth and what's propaganda), then the rest of us shouldn't make it worse for those people by cutting off whatever outside connections they manage to have.

Also, I'm generally bothered by comments like this one that stir up the general human tendency toward xenophobia. We should be fighting that tendency within ourselves, not fighting the out group. Whichever group of people we want to demonize, we should remember that they're people just like us. We shouldn't punish the majority of them for what a minority are doing to us.
Since nobody else answered you, yes, the falling rain creates the observed Doppler frequency shift. This guy must have some pretty good instrumentation to be able to accurately detect a 700Hz shift in an X-band carrier.
Something was definitely lost in translation.
DC Metro Police were also there

If I find the quotes again from officer(s) interviews I’ll link you
3.5 billion for every DARPA project is a hilariously low number. DARPA projects are famous for having low budgets, completing under budget, and completing under time. It has an extremely worthwhile return on investment.
I immediately thought of that Bones episode where a computer is set on fire because a bone put into a scanner had some kind of malware embedded in it. The future is now.
> China would stop bribes

What are these bribes you talk of? Can you provide sources?
Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com/

Amazon has already solved a lot of the problems you will encounter. It will be cheaper to use their offerings rather than re-invent it all yourself.
"Desperate" doesn't imply "legally innocent". In particular, China has an abundance of desperate people (I won't remark on its political system), so punishing the desperate in this case probably won't move the needle.

Further, and I say this as someone who prefers to err on the tough-on-crime side, it's unjust to punish the desperate when the wealthy are pulling the strings, raking in the profit, and bearing none of the risk.
> For free speech to be a reasonable thing to priorise over other things you have to have some more fundamental rules of society in place. E.g. fighting for free speech during the rise of the nazi party in 1920s Germany might sound like a noble thing, but once the Nazis whos speech you defended are in power they will shoot you at your doorstep for defending that of their enemies.

Do you mean the actual summary of what happened in the US over the past 50 years ?

"These Rights were convenient at the time we were a minority, but now, we are in power, they are in the way of our ideal utopia."

> I'd rather loose the right to utter certain inflamatory phrases than loose the right and the possibility to vote the next government out of office in a fair and representative election.

And that's why the 2nd Amendment is protecting the 1st. (and all the subsequent).
I describe her books as Harry Potter meets game of thrones meets Thomas the tank engine. (In a good way)
$3~4B is indeed quite big budget. However, it's dwarfed by big tech's R&D budget. FB alone spends $20B+ each year.

I guess one key difference is that unlike FB, DARPA money doesn't need to be confined to make quick and visible returns, thus they can focus on more long term problems.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/FB/facebook/resear...
Wow, these formal specification tools is something I always wanted to look into but the learning curve seems steep.

Having a specification which is guaranteed to be correct before implementation begins is a programmer’s wet dream.
creating a new service in Erlang.
Let’s see anyone firing at US Navy destroyer.
_An incomplete list of skills people need, beyond just adulting_

1. How to run a meeting, and no, being the person who talks the most in the meeting is not the same thing as running it

2. How to propose a solution, take feedback, and drive it to resolution, in a reasonable period of time

3. How to mentor an early-career teammate, a teammate, a new manager who needs advice

4. How to indulge a superior who wants to talk about stuff that they don’t really understand, without rolling your eyes or making them feel stupid

5. How to explain a concept behind closed doors to a person too embarrassed to openly admit that they don’t understand it

6. How to influence others to use your solution instead of their own

7. How to get others to do something for you by asking for help in a way that makes them feel appreciated

8. How to lead when needed, even if you don't have direct authority

9. How to get others to listen to your ideas without making them feel threatened

10. How to listen to others’ ideas without feeling threatened

11. How to give up your baby, that project that you built into something great, so you can do something else

12. How to teach others to care about the things you really care about

13. How to communicate with others that have shared vested interest

14. How to help superiors feel comfortable investing in long term goals

15. How to accomplish small things that lead to larger things

16. How to craft a proposal, socialize it, and get buy-in to execute it

17. How to repeat yourself enough that people start to listen

18. How to pick your battles

19. How to help someone get ahead in life

20. How to get information about what’s really happening (how to gossip, how to network)

21. How to find interesting work on your own, instead of waiting for someone to bring it to you

22. How to tell someone they’re wrong without making them feel ashamed

23. How to take negative feedback gracefully

See what I did there?

(edit: formatting)
By attributing less weight to the imprimatur of peer review.

It's a sign that something might well hold up, but it's not definitive. I think people know this about their own field, and then immediately forget it when dealing with another field.
> Raising children at home. In the near future an idea will arise that trained professionals will be better to train children as they grow up and parents would provide more value to society if they continued to work and not had to spend time with their children.

Separating parents from their children is an idea from the recent past; no need to invoke the near future. It was a policy element of various communist societies including Israeli kibbutzim.

It is staggeringly, tremendously unpopular. There is no need to fear it taking off.
That's what the urban legend tells. Yes, USSR splashed gold left, and right on fancy things from the West, including the Moscow metro, but it wasn't US factories which played anything in USSR's WW2 preparations, or anything.

USSR wasn't any kind of industrial giant by the time WW2 started. That's a purest propaganda myth. Stalin was terrible in running the economy, probably even more than any subsequent USSR's ruler. Sputnik was possible mostly thanks to post-war short growth spurt resulting from undoing Stalin's biggest economic blunders.
It does not require CORS (cross origin resource sharing), it requires COEP/COOP.
Even if it’s not 90% less maintenance cost, I can tell you in the 2 years since I’ve owned my Model 3 (20k miles) I’ve brought it in for maintenance items zero times. In an ICE car that would have been like 6 annoying oil changes by now? That’s more than enough to convince me.
Can journalists visit Guantanamo?
Which maritime zones do you mean? From what I’ve read China is only in maritime zones directly around it, with some ships as far west as Iran to protect trade routes from pirates.

Are you referring to something specific?
Don’t have stress. It’s that simple. No idea how you’d fix it though. (And IMO long periods of tedious work counts as stress too)
But if the gain-of-function research really is high-impact in the sense that is valuable to society, isn't it a good thing that incentives push scientists to work in this area? It would be an example of careerism "impact" lining up with actual impact; i.e., the system working as intended.
They are not the most connected country, but a long shot. Why isn’t India no. 2 by your logic? Stop apologizing for unacceptable behavior from a country that openly purports to become “the superpower of the world”.
> Of course in the end Cicero was silenced by those who were taking power.

The conflict between Cicero and Mark Antony is a splendid case study of influence versus power and how that conflict ends when power chooses to play its hand.
It depends on what you're asking about. I remember an older engineer asking me what the term "amortized analysis" meant and that made me write him off as someone who doesn't know basic CS concepts (he was still a great product engineer, but I never once went to him for technical help afterwards).

In hindsight, I guess it's sort of forgivable given his age. The topic probably wasn't even invented yet so he couldn't have learned about it in school.
Letters of Marque and Reprisal.[1] This is how the early U.S fought the Barbary pirates in the Barbary Wars[2] in the early days of the republic. This power is actually authorized explicitly in the U.S Constitution.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_marque

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War
Not at all: functionally, there's a meta-gaming thing that goes on where 'free speech' is treated as sort of antifa Kryptonite. It's not being argued in good faith at all. It's a tactic.

You'll find that the same people making a big noise about 'free speech' will do everything they possibly can to suppress and conceal the speech of those who are calling 'em out for arguing in bad faith… because they are arguing in bad faith, because they have absolutely no intention of furthering free speech. It is purely a tactic.
Yeah it's true they don't always fully exhaust resources, but I wonder if the fact that such a large percentage of these worlds (comparatively to western fantasy worlds) are seen as 'well this is all gonna be gone soon anyway whether through natural effects or the actions of another bad actor so we may as well just abuse these resources anyway' doesn't reveal a slight bias compared to western attitudes.

One could perhaps look at the behaviors of Chinese tourists at buffets as another example: https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/976211.shtml

But it's just a curiosity since as you say, it's not a representative sample and it's just a genre of fiction, not some real psychological / sociological study.

I've also heard the explanation that this particular behavior could be a reaction to recent history - in particular the famines that China went through in the 20th century. People still have through direct experience or through their recent parents of grandparents that experience of literally starving.

half-d? = half dimension / pocket dimension? don't know what half-d is.
My guess is that for some definition of "emerged", the three microsecond-long (3000 ns-long) pulse emerged 62 ns early.

Most of the results like this involve some sort of anomalous dispersion and careful definition of the term "emerge". Relevant keywords you're looking for if you delve into the work are "group velocity" and "phase velocity".

TL;DR: Details. They'll matter in this case.
There's an interesting analysis here: https://www.rootclaim.com/analysis/What-is-the-source-of-COV... that concludes with 80+% probability in favour of the lab leak theory.

It's still based on indicative evidence rather than definitive court-of-law evidence, but it's a good systematic attempt and makes me personally believe that the lab leak theory is more likely than not.
Do they? That would imply a model where the neighborhood watch is free (encouraged, even!) to own guns. My sense is that the collective rights people believe the police should be allowed to own guns, but certainly not local volunteers.
Just to be clear about your argument, you’re saying that’s a bad thing? Is it wrong for a company to protect revenue—and remember 70% of revenue goes to the developer—from loss due to piracy?

There are plenty of valid reasons to object to Apple’s revenue model, but the avoidance of piracy seems like a bridge too far.
It sounds silly but have you considered getting a dog? They’re extremely healing in many ways.
> I chose uniformly distributed returns with a wide range to make the reason against this calculation very obvious.

The uniform distribution is a pedagogical choice, to explain why OP's average return calculation is misleading.
Use Active Directory? Reduce your domain admin population to zero. Use a privileged access management to enable elevation as needed.

https://ericalexander.org/post/devops-and-ransomware/
Thanks for your service. Now it will get even more traffic as I realized the existence of the site!
You know there's a difference between any random dealer and the manufacturer, right?

This is like saying you refuse to play any game in the Call of Duty franchise because GameStop charges $70 instead of $60 for it.
https://prometheusfuels.com/
Don’t underestimate the value of lying on the couch. Also consider a hammock. Very peaceful.
True. We also need to keep soldiers from moving into our homes.

More seriously, the ACLU has always faced an identity crisis and a consequent PR problem.

If the ACLU embraced all civil liberties, wouldn't you expect more Bill-Of-Rights-T-Shirt wearers to be more supportive?
Everyone has blind spots. I have a PhD in computer science. I wouldn't think any lesser of someone's technical chops if they weren't familiar with the term, so long as they quickly understood it when explained.
The Six Revelations from the article:

Improving the performance of the parts of a system taken separately will not necessarily improve the performance of the whole; in fact, it may harm the whole.

Problems are not disciplinary in nature but are holistic.

The best thing that can be done to a problem is not to solve it but to dissolve it.

The healthcare system of the United States is not a healthcare system; it is a sickness and disability-care system.

The educational system is not dedicated to produce learning by students, but teaching by teachers—and teaching is a major obstruction to learning.

The principal function of most corporations is not to maximize shareholder value, but to maximize the standard of living and quality of work life of those who manage the corporation.
Money, politics, and quite a lot of persistent effort.
I mean, if their government doesn’t stop, and often even encourages the behavior, what are we supposed to do? Just roll over and show them the other cheek?

I agree you don’t want to cut them off, but on the other hand, I don’t want 90% of all global malicious traffic to originate from a specific country.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10917523/
The nature paper is probably a better link thank optics.org, this is a few years before the demonstration, however it has the same claim of 300x speed of super-luminal (faster than light) group velocity.
Seems ignorant to me, but what do I know? I've never studied or used amortized analysis either.
There are limitations, but yes.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas...
I would also personally draw a line between access to a military prison and what is effectively a refugee camp
This doesn't seem realistic.

Men, most who don't wear cosmetics, don't spontaneously stick their faces against ant hills. The women who don't wear cosmetics, either, don't seem to cover their faces in ants.