skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You chose the most competitive European economy (besides Sweden), that's not a good representation to Europe.

There are also vast differences between states in the US. If we're comparing I think it's perfectly reasonable to pick places that are on the top end of the scale on both sides of the ocean.

> But even if we only look at NL there are quite a few metrics it falls way short from the U.S: VC raised per capita, exit volume and salaries are all falling short.

I'm not claiming that the EU is equivalent to SV, or the wider US. There is certainly much to love about SV and we can and should do better in a number of areas in which SV is already doing very well.

I'm only correcting the unfounded assumption that some people in this thread expressed that there's somehow nothing going on in the EU. Or that it's a bad place for business, it's really not.
I think you missed the part about Eastern Europe. From the article:

European GDP per head is about two-thirds that of America. The figure has not fallen in the past 20 years thanks mostly to poorer eastern Europeans getting closer to Western income levels.

Would suggest that as the faster GDP Growth came from Eastern European areas offsetting a stagnating GDP Growth from the rest of Europe. Am I not reading this correctly?
Really? I mean he has got compositional chops, but not nearly enough to be considered a great composer. Where I find Cage to be a genius is his mastery of generating unique sonic elements. Like his prepared piano peices, as a peice of music, aren't great : but the individual sounds he coaxes out of the piano are awesome. His works are incredibly fertile grounds for sampling, and I draw a lot of inspiration from his use of texture as a compositional theme.

Like his pieces about cacti : can't remember what its called - but the whole thing is just like goopy, bubbly, drippy sounds. Very interesting stuff to me.
I think his point is that "applying systems thinking" in many cases when at least shared casually like this post, frequently seems like some hand-wave that is extremely porous in its reasoning.

Ie that was a whole lot of formality to deduce and say "other people will gang up on you if you're seen as too strong".

Honestly I'd love to see an example of systems thinking that provides a unique insight that someone wouldn't have otherwise come up with by looking at a problem from more than 2 mins.

An approach for thinking only provides value if it produces something different and better than what an alternate approach would have come up with. Every instance of support for systems thinking has either been used as a justification for an otherwise trivial result, or has been a version of the argument of "this person I look up to uses it therfore it's good". Can noone find an example where it actually demonstrates value?
The original pet v cattle metaphor was indeed inspired by servers, not containers. http://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/the-history-of-...

What makes a given component – server, vm, container, whatever – is not the runtime, but how you deal with it when it gets seriously ill. Pets are taken to the vet or hospital to get treatment. Cattle are.. well, read the article I linked.
My guess is "before present", not sure why you wouldn't use BCE/CE though.
Mike Holmes would.
I would read the opposing position as "you can see better if you look for longer periods of time".
I'm known to just edit the page directly in the console if it annoys me too much. I'm a _heavy_ user of privacy-preserving extensions.
> theoretically they should be better

Lol anything newer is theoretically better?
>If I need GCC 11 and its associated standard libraries and toolchain to build my app, and I need to build that app on CI services that ship an older version of GCC, I need some way to bundle my dependencies for arbitrary compute fabrics. The answer to this is a container. Containers don't "reinvent" static linking, they solve problems that go beyond static linking.

The problems they solve might go beyond "static linking", but are accidental complexity problems that doesn't go beyond namespacing.

With proper namespacing support, one could trivially build "with GCC 11 and its associated standard libraries and toolchain" on a CI service that ships with "an older version of GCC".

Ideally, one would just need a local folder with the GCC11 and its dependencies, and at most an ENV entry for where to pick up deps (optimally not even that, the GCC11 binary should give precedence to the local versions within the same folder by default).

But, no, instead we need to juggle 20 folder locations, PATH and EVN variables, burn-in build paths into libraries and executables, and so on...
I think people have a better idea of their own finances than a trying to infer it
But all services can choose what they want to support. If I want to play Call of Duty I need to put the disc in an X-Box, not a DVD player. If I want to use google maps, I need to load it in a browser with JS support, not an e-reader.
I believe you meant "RDB vs AOF".

Also reading your reply I get the impression that "sync mechanism between redis and postgress" was the bottleneck. Wondering if you can add some details around it and also was this something that can't be fixed by fine tuning redis config, rather than completely removing it from your stack.
There's execv() and other forms. Do they not do the job just as well?
Python is probably the worst example for achieving this...

The fact that "there are many tools to do this for Python" is already a big red warning sign...
Stomping out my son's fortnite and overwatch addiction was obnoxiously difficult probably because of the stupid loot box and skin phenomenon.

He was failing out of school and had lost interest in sports. I put all of his Xbox controllers in a safe and if he wants to play games he has to maintain a straight a average and be playing at least one sport or have a after-school job.

Within about 2 weeks he was back on track at school and is now a straight a student again.

Obviously this is just an anecdote but I don't think he was suffering from any form of anxiety or anything like that. He got hooked on the games and then his brain was just unable to be excited by other things for a long time.

Very few things in the real world are as optimized as the playing experience and overwatch or the social aspects of fortnite.
Everything has an upside and a downside. Eliminating all targeted ads will lead to entrepreneurship being restricted to the rich or the well-connected, which is not only unethical but anathema to me and many others.

I think the way forward is somewhere in the middle, targeted ads with restrictions and opt-outs. Polarization isn't a path to progress.

As an aside, prostitution doesn't have to be the crime magnet it is today (in medieval Europe the Church ran brothels!) And while most drugs are unambiguously bad, some are considered safe enough to be traded openly and very profitably - caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, and now marijuana.
I expect it is bad form to reply to yourself but I've changed my opinion and no longer object to the post title. I think this reply better reflects that than a mere edit...

Not to put words into anyone's mouth but if I imagine what dang or someone else with a similar position might think in response to my post above:

The goal with the title of a post isn't only to accurately convey what the linked content is, but also why it is interesting and belongs on Hacker News and do both of those concisely. And while both the title and content of the article might wander into cliché, framing everything in the context of change, some things that are just plain interesting are included and those are the main reason for it being posted here. I think it is easier for me to recognize that when the post title adds to or modifies the original, pointing at what makes it interesting rather than removing something. But I can see how in this case removing from the article title achieves the same goal so it seems in keeping with the goals of this site.

Oh, and finally I misunderstood the comment about "not part of the diff". I thought dang was pointing at a history of edits to the post title showing he merely chose not to alter the original post title which already differed from the article. I should have followed the link which I appreciate. Though it also makes me concerned about how we can fight the novelty bias it introduces which I think our society and the tech industry in particular suffers from.
Not to beat a dead horse but the difference between “try to design society to produce positive outcomes for people in the aggregate” and “put the onus on every individual to succeed on their own and have no sympathy for the portion that inevitably fail in a moralistic or Calvinist fashion” is also a difference of systems thinking versus not systems thinking.
You misunderstand me; one will not use container queries to load images responsively, responsive image standards will be changed in ways that are informed by how container queries are implemented.
> a company with severe NIH that also likes to rewrite everything every few years.

Like a FAANG? Well at least, the F and and the G do.
I’m not writing a thesis here. Merely providing a counter example to imho a myth that wealth creation needs a weak social safety net.

In goverment policy there is very rarely a closed form proof of any policy - we are almost always stuck with collecting large and small data points and needing to form a policy based on incomplete information and theory. But mostly it seems it’s matched up with motivations and biases - which are worth examining.
Brewdog co-founder apologises to ex-staff over ‘toxic’ working environment
Seems like our current definition of life is way too arbitrary.
Contractors are doing extremely well right now/are in extremely high demand, and I’m pretty sure union membership isn’t a requirement there…
To be fair to Yelp, who could have guessed when any of these services were being made that literally everything would become viciously political in the course of a couple years. You can't even go out to eat now (let alone see a movie or play a game) without it being a referendum on all your social and political beliefs.

You're right though, ultimately this doesn't matter much. Yelp has been garbage for years, so it's not really worth discussion the fun new ways they're garbage.
All valid points. In practice for non-stealth fighter-size targets, (Depending on the software/UI) you can park the radar in a general-purpose mode, and get decent-quality tracks for many contacts. Turning them into higher-quality "weapons-quality" tracks (eg for shooting) taxes the radar more. The more you ask of the radar (More wpns-quality tracks, SAR mapping etc), the poorer its performance.
Show HN: Ockam – Tools for end-to-end encryption, in Rust
Yes, I do know both bands, but I didn't know Slowdive were on BC. Thanks for the tip!
One big oversight in this article is where variants are formed, and that is through imperfect copies in infected hosts.

The more places with uncontrolled COVID, the more risk of new variants developing.
I used to use Joe all the time too. Eventually for work I was working on a lot of systems where I couldn’t easily install it so I moved away from it, but it was a good one.
I can't disagree more. All of the languages you have listed are well known for having complex semantics. This is totally expected of any general purpose programming language, of course. But the Nix expression language, though Turing-complete, isn't meant to be a general purpose programming language. It's a configuration DSL for defining packages. As such, it has a much smaller feature set with fewer confusing semantics.

The Nix expression language is in essence just JSON with functions comprising of the following building blocks:

* Primitive values (strings, numbers, paths, booleans, null)

* Lists and sets

* Variables

* Functions

* Conditionals

* Assertions

* Arithmetic operators

And that's basically it. All of this is succinctly explained in the official documentation[1].

[1]: https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/#ch-expression-language
Sony really messed up by not also targetting MD as a floppy drive replacement.
I am surprised nobody has mentioned one of the oldest alife simulations: Tierra by Tom Ray (http://life.ou.edu/tierra/)
Vitamin D deficiency may increase risk for addiction to opioids and UV light
It's not easy to learn statistics without calculus.
Seems like a bit of a harsh critique to bring all the way out here on hn. Sure it references another Wikipedia page, but on that page external references to the same claim are provided. 'Allpoint pen' could just be internally linked to the relevant Wikipedia page, and the relevant citation brought to the telautograph page? Gp could just fix this on Wikipedia themselves...
Are you saying you'd get pleasure from being inside the mouth of a whale?
They always leave their room after 24hrs and go to the room next door?
Your comment about manipulating raw bytes in C++ is a language criticism, not a criticism of this project.
oh believe me, i can believe it
There are loads of cases where building something in JavaScript is easier than HTML. Because a non JavaScript version of lots of applications means a dynamic server generating HTML. I would argue that building secure, user oriented data-backed applications out of JS clients with backend microservices in the JAMStack style is actually easier than doing it in classic serverside scripting LAMP stack or Ruby on Rails style.
Systems thinking is to strategy as reductionism is to tactics. It's about holism.
Raw speed isn't everything. They are offering performance per watt, per weight, and per battery life metrics that are unavailable anywhere else. Add in display, camera, security and hardware accelerated machine learning capabilities, and there are many, many axes on which they offer unique capabilities.
I would agree with most of what you say above, in my life I have seen the disadvantages you highlight for the white working class (many kids I went to high school fell in this category).

To be clear, I am not claiming disadvantaged white folks don’t have it rough. However, my point is when we take folks from a similar socioeconomic background, being white does confer an advantages in a lot of cases (in western, white majority countries). I would say the majority of the disadvantages for working class whites is not due to their race. Whereas on the other hand, certain ethnicities do have disadvantages due to their precisely their race. Both are disadvantaged but for different reasons imho.

Personally if it were up to me, I would exclude poor working class whites from any notion of privilege as they clearly aren’t. I also think they need more representation in the work place (ie being included in diversity targets rather than excluded).

IMO we need a better term that’s more nuanced and can capture the disadvantages of these groups, but I dont know what that term would be.
Wow. I didn't even know this mg existed and see it's installed already on Catalina. I love discovering new stuff like this!
Cgroups can do the same via cfs
Yes I did mean RDB. Thanks for pointing out.

There were many problems but at the core of it, this was us having redis write huge amounts of data to disk very frequently causing this.

We could not reduce the frequency (product would not allow) and we couldn't find a way to make the writes reliably fast.

I like to believe there exists a possible way of handling this, but point being, our team had no time to find out, how redis works internally and have confidence that the new way won't bring up new surprises.
Why would you trust them to say how much money they need(Hint: it’s always “more”)?

What in particular about the news abroad tells you the US military is underfunded?
Like any position my enjoyment of front end depends highly on the philosophy of the company. Am I going to work with designers and product managers to really put the customer first and craft accessible, enjoyable, and useful ways of customer interaction? Or am I going to spend my time building dark patterns
A mini expose on how search engines are tracking users
I had similar issues with rsync, ended up using some atrocious form of escape quotation with SSH to even get rsync to do its job. Don't get me started on the subject of why Synology still distributes such an old version of rsync on their appliances.
Re-reading the post, it sounds like the conclusion was just “don’t use it” / label it as dangerous. Why didn’t they end up marking the instruction as “can’t speculate this”?

(I can imagine wanting to keep it for straight line unrolled copies that don’t have prediction, but it still seems dicey given that you’d have to write any code with knowledge of the speculative fetches).
I have definitely seen that happen with the PHP blog engine that runs my blog, either with the GD image functions or with the imagemagick integration. Probably something like: Take an optimized image, like an indexed png, load it as raw image data, scale it down, save it in the same format but not optimized. The Wordpress code looks similar.
I am also a father and I had to stomp out my son's video game addiction.
Frankly I don't think it's a major victory for a 28-year-old to have been gainfully employed for a year and still be a loner.
Being an introvert is one thing but not having a social network around you especially in your twenties is a very bad sign.

Too often people think that because their kid is introverted they shouldn't be alarmed by them not having a social network of any kind. The reality is that there are many many very healthy introverts who still have strong friendships with other people. I'm only saying this because I've seen too often people write off their children's bad lifestyle choices as simply being introverted.

I don't think I got so freaked out by video game addiction until working at my last company where we hired a bunch of people from the gaming industry. They were the ones who told me about how many top-notch behavioral psychologist are employed in the gaming industry to maximize the addictive potential of video games.

We can say what we will about exercise addicts but at least they are getting very healthy bodies and the highly positive mental health benefits of exercise. Plus when you're in a gym or if you are running trail marathons you are going to be doing so with other people who don't sit in there darkened rooms for days on end.
Mounting pressure on China about Covid “lab leak” could backfire
Or in some cases implement it so poorly you'd be better off not having it. But hey, let's just check that box anyway.
It’s funny cause lead pipes are still in use everywhere
Your question is a bit tautological. If you're going to claim that the plants' eusocial behavior is emergent, then I'd argue that so is human consciousness. The mere act of comparing them is the definition of "anthropomorphism" -- it's just that we only have first hand experience with human consciousness.
Well the hotel has [countably] infinite-many rooms, so the nth guest moves to room n+1.
Covid, Ivermectin and the Crime of the Century
What a clickbait article. I’m really disappointed. The premise is interesting: win every time using a new strategy. Then, discussion about the concept and preview of the “systems thinking” mentality. Not too bad (although the bathtub example was a pretty weak way to advocate for systems thinking, maybe that’s just me but it seems even in that example to be an overly reductive and not terribly insightful method of thought, but it was enough to entertain the next section). However, during the discussion of the strategy everything falls apart. “Let the other players fight each other. Win the game every time by not participating and hoping to inconspicuously amass an incredible army such that you can take over half the board and then turn the tide in your favor in one fell swoop.” If this fails the suggestion is then to play the meta game and beg for pity. Not a single piece of data to back up the claim that this strategy wins every time. In my experience it doesn’t. It also happens to be the strategy that most every player headquartered around Russia-Asia ends up playing because you simply cant control that part of the board early on. No “systems thinking required”. The author also claims hoarding cards is “safe” and wont trigger other players to consider you a threat to the balance of the system. Well, that’s just naive either on part of the author or requires other players to be pretty green to not account for the risk card factor. In reality, another player also using systems thinking would immediately identify you as a threat because they would be tracking unit quantity flow in and out for the players on the board and using that to inform their understanding of what constitutes a threat. I think that’s the disappointment kinda summed up: this strategy doesn't work in a game where everyone uses it because it depends on your opponents not paying attention rather than you making strategic moves to win the game. The author does not sufficiently incorporate all the complexities of the game and people to yield a solved game.
One of my favorite games of social deduction is Skull. I got the $10 version but it's based on a very old Skull & Roses game. The simplicity is deceiving, which you quickly realize as you have to make meaningful, difficult choices about your bluffs and bets.
> Eusociality typically requires two other conditions. ... And since the ferns spread asexually on shared roots, they don’t actually exhibit an active system of resource acquisition typical of brood care.

> One key question is what defines an individual fern. If a colony can begin with a small plume of strap fronds sticking up from a few nest fronds and then spread asexually on the same roots, perhaps it is a single plant

There is a lot of talk about the amazing cooperation of these plants. And then they say it is actually one plant. Is it interesting if one plant grows different leaves at different heights?
We similarly ditched Risk, or actually, its Italian variant RisiKo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RisiKo!). This variant gives differentiated goals for each player (e.g., "conquer 3 continents", or "defeat the Blue army"), which in principle should make the game shorter.
But it also allows the defender to throw 3 dice (if they have at least 3 armies), making battles much harder for the attacker. In our group we theorized that using d10s or d20s instead of d6s should speed up the game, but honestly we never tried.

Edit: sadly you will have to copy and paste the Wikipedia URL, as HN wrongly believes that the trailing "!" is not part of it.
This is oversimplifying containers and VM by using the house vs tent analogy. Just talking about Docker weakens this too, because Docker is not the only way to setup containers.

> Tents, after all, aren’t a particularly secure place to store your valuables. Your valuables in a tent in your living room, however? Pretty secure.

Containers do provide strong security features, and sometimes the compromises you have to make hosting something on a VM vs. a container will make the container more secure.

> While cgroups are pretty neat as an isolation mechanism, they’re not hardware-level guarantees against noisy neighbors. Because cgroups were a later addition to the kernel, it’s not always possible to ensure they’re taken into account when making system-wide resource management decisions.

Cgroups are more than a neat resource isolation mechanism, they work. That's really all there is to it.

Paranoia around trusting the Linux kernel is unnecessary if at the end of the day you end up running Linux in production. If anything breaks, security patches will come quick and the general security attitude of the Linux community is improving everyday. If you are really paranoid, perhaps run BSD, use grsec, or the best choice is to use SELinux IMO.

If anything, you will be pwned because you have a service open to the world, not because cgroups or containers let you down.