skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ... but Google better hope that ad money machine never stops printing.

Right wing governments the world over should be actively talking about how to neuter the political threat of leftists in Silicon Valley. One form that strategy might take on is legal blockades restricting stopping foreign advertisers, which makes sense on a couple of levels and can probably make up a solid coalition.

More than half Alphabet's revenue comes in from overseas and that is a tempting target now no matter where in the political spectrum people sit. There has to be a risk there for Google.
This is a lovely breakdown of positive, constructive feedback. I try to practice this online and in person, likely because of how much I personally benefit from the rare moments where I’m on the receiving end. I believe it’s important for us to motivate and inspire one-another whenever possible.
The Kubernetes API implements patch correctly FWIW. Patching objects in k8s is advisable where possible instead of replacing as it allows the control plane to gracefully update the resources (without downtime).

https://blog.atomist.com/kubernetes-apply-replace-patch/
Not necessarily. Jumping around is fairly common practice for those who seek fast promos in large tech companies, because it's usually a faster track to get up to the higher levels than just grinding in place. It's not all that uncommon to find people who went Microsoft/Amazon/Google/Facebook full circle, for example. And they aren't necessarily unhappy about their past stints. But, again, the recurring theme seems to be that Amazon is the worst of the bunch in terms of hours worked (and work/life balance in general) and career opportunities.
> SMM running secret code on the main CPU

Well, not secret if running coreboot… I'm not sure if coreboot's SMM handler might call into FSP/AGESA though.
In 1980? Not much different to today. The population then was 125k, today it is about 175k.
Obviously. But `croon` seemed to think that windy was was incorrectly, not just ambiguously: "I think OP meant winding and not windy"
> The "intended" way generates a completely spurious merge commit - it doesn't represent a real commit, and rarely do you care about keeping track of merges into a short lived branch which are already tracked on master.

On the contrary, you want those commits for bisection, which is the main reason to have a VCS history at all.

> Most people want a single source of truth workflow that corresponds to the old total ordering imposed by svn or p4.

People think they want that, but I've never seen a convincing case for why. Bisect works better if you use merge. Blame works better if you use merge. And if you really want to see the history without merges (why?), it's one flag to do that.
We're comparing companies that all hire at Amazon scale, at least when it comes to tech talent. If scale was all there is to it, they'd all have the same reputation. They do not.
I believe there are also some boxes under every other seat row that hold the small servers and disks for the thin clients in the headrest.
Sure, theoretically you’re right, but in practice there are thousands of extremely well-qualified researchers being paid to assess such research plans. I don’t know if it’s reasonable to expect that the general public will simply start to evaluate research projects all of a sudden, voluntarily and effectively. There is a huge potential for pseudoresearch to thrive in this model.
Burning Frost, the view from the ground: shooting down a spy satellite in 2008
Probably because it is 10 year old older hardware but thoroughly tested.

Using Chrome/JS/CSS on the latest Ryzen might be neat but when you need to transport 300 passengers daily around there is other sort of concerns then taking up 3 folks to the ISS every 6 months.
Either it's a useless distinction, or general inflation itself is a useless concept... or these are both exaggerations.

I do think inflation indexes, as we have been using them in recent decades isn't quite as "real" as we have been treating it. We over learned lessons from 20th century inflation events... and the importance of such indexes in monetarism... also "unemployment." When inflation is low, price fluctuations noise out trends. General inflation is somewhat theoretical.

We don't understand this stuff as well as we pretend to.
I don't think that's necessary.

But I do think software engineers should agree that updates should always be reversible. And security updates should always be backported yet still reversible.
Facebook officially launches Live Audio Rooms and podcasts in the US
4GB is just criminal these days - running a few modern and/or memory intensive apps like Chrome on Windows in 2021 is just a dreadful experience.

I can't believe that over two decades after x64/64 bit was introduced that manufacturers still think it's 2001 and "4GB is just enough to qualify getting past the 4GB 32 bit limit"...
> but I'm sure it won't be able to open a 1KB text file instantaneously in 5 years

Unless you decide to switch to a modern console-based text editor. It doesn't have to be vim or emacs. There are many other alternatives. One new such (written-in-Rust) editor being Iota: https://github.com/gchp/iota
https://www.reddit.com/r/overclocking/comments/enm8yj/how_to...
> The problem is that kids are being taught to not be friends with each other because of what they look like.

That's always been true, and CRT has nothing to do with it.
It is far where we had to turn the propeller ourselves!
Nice and interesting visit.
Make these messenger interoperable. It is like you can only email to people of your own email-provider, madness.
Vanguard

Norway

Blackrock

same organizations, different union
Youtube interrupted the video with an ad for me exactly at that timestamp, airplanes still need to catch up. So much monetization left on the table. Pilots must be among the most valuable target audience.
Tower for Mac supports undoing (and redoing) all working tree actions like staging/unstaging/discarding individual chunks or complete files, undoing applying a stash, everything. Just hit CMD-Z. The feature is coming to Windows soon as well!

I am the CTO of Tower, a Git client for Mac and Windows.
>You think OP is guilty here, with no basis.

The basis is his public admission that he was guilty, no?
The center of the Milky Way might not be a black hole after all
Never trust strangers on advices to change your cryptographic algos, do your own research...

BTW Ed25519 is not even quantum safe :-)
Whilst I applaud what RISC-V is doing I do find comments like this a bit frustrating:

- M1 machines are 'closed' because of Apple and not because of the CPU architecture. They could adopt RISC-V and the GPU and drivers would still be closed etc.

- M1 is fast because Apple have invested a lot in building an outstanding CPU design team and the economics of their business allow them to fabricate on the latest TSMC node.

- Apple could have locked down the M1 machines much more completely than they have done.

If you want fast 'open' systems you need to work out how to incentivise firms to build systems in this way. RISC-V will not magically get there on its own because its a more 'open' ISA than ARM. In the meantime credit to those who are working out how to get the most out of the M1.
Oh my - reading this makes me feel very funny. I don't think of myself as that squeamish; but anything involving sculls, brains and drilling me makes me feel instantly queasy.

Amazing that this is having a positive effect, but sweet lord .. I find it difficult to even think about.
This.

The tools that do work are ones that add a simple extra function (git absorb is really cool, for example), or GUIs that help you visualise the repository and give you buttons that have the same names as the command lines that they replicate. Tools that try to make things "easier" are just confusing for people who know git, and prevent you ever learning git for real. When I first tried it, github desktop was firmly in this category.

We need to get git itself to adopt some changes - git switch is a good start, replacing checkout's branch switching features. I think that every time I do git checkout branch I should get a reminder to use git switch instead.
Gitlab.com is moving to 14.0 with a few breaking changes
> 2. Git's merge is not smart enough to realize that identical changes in two branches are not actually a conflict. I've often ended up in situations where a small bug has been fixed in two branches which then won't merge without manual intervention. This is incredibly annoying. (To be fair, this is not unique to git. But because git encourages branching more than other systems, I encounter it more when using git in idiomatic ways.)

I agree with your other criticisms, but IME git's branching-heavy approach makes this one easier to avoid: it's natural and easy to create a separate branch for that bugfix and then merge it everywhere that it's wanted. Or to just merge your colleague's feature branch that has the fix on into your own feature branch, if you know their branch doesn't contain any dangerous changes / will hit master ahead of yours.

(If the diff is actually bit-for-bit identical I think it doesn't conflict? But obviously that doesn't happen so much in practice. git merge -Xignore-all-space can be helpful in some cases).
Superman has been a fixture of American culture since the 1940s, yet somehow, despite generations of children donning makeshift capes and engaging in flights of fantasy, we managed to land on the moon.

No one is watching superhero movies and abandoning their aspirations and ideals hoping they get superpowers. People watch superhero movies because they're entertaining, and because they grew up with the characters in comic book form.
Apart from purchasing power, laptops in India are expensive because of high levels of tax (28% GST I think, which would be higher than what Sweden charges). I'm not sure if import duties apply on top of this as well.

The reality is that any laptop with 4GB RAM and a 5400rpm hard drive and running a modern OS won't give a great user experience. ChromeOS on Chromebooks could be an exception, but even cheap Chromebooks have small EMM/eMMC cards instead of 5400rpm drives.

If you have such a system, a lightweight distro such as Lubuntu will probably give you a much better time.

For Windows 10, 8GB RAM + any SSD seems to be the minimum usable configuration.
Doesn't change anything to be honest. Any parasite should be eradicated regardless of whether it is infectious or not.
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Half of purchasing power is way to high. Depending on the product you have only have single digit percentage of increase (you save shipping and you will have more automation).
This is the way you get defect culture on a massive scale. People don't go "oh, man, I did whatever I could to make it. Good on him for his bailout". They go "Why the hell did I try, when I get punished for it?". They then remember this, and over time you have an engrained cultural problem.

This "solution" that I see right now is the short-termist, feel-good solution that comes crashing down in the "not-my-problem-I-already-got-relected" future.

Some might have better choices than others, but you still should be optimizing for the local "best" choice to align with the global "best" choice.
it sat on top of gmail, yes, but felt like a different product. Much cleaner interface, and it integrated things like reminders and "upcoming trips" and things like that in the email feed.

I much preferred it to gmail, and I was not happy when they discontinued it
I dont think this is the only perspective. Without those outsourced industries, the economies of those countries might be worse off and people might have better air and water but face poverty, umemployment and other crises. It'll be better for the West to bring back jobs no doubt.
I've always found the idea of dark matter difficult; without direct observation it's asking for a leap of faith as much a theology does.
I wonder how much pissed off are they on Wirecard, or is it a drop in the ocean for them...
Interesting! On my computer:

- Applications do not gain focus. When a new application is launched, it starts at the bottom of the window stack. I can't even alt-tab to it easily because it's all the way at the end of the list.

- Start menu is a crapshoot. Sometimes it doesn't open when I press the start key (but always when I click).

- Once Start (eventually) opens, Search is a crapshoot. I'm not even talking about documents (although I'm usually better off using git-bash's `find` command despite the search indexer regularly using 30% of my CPU) -- I mean I can't even type half the time. Of which half of that time, the start menu turns white (but only most parts of it?).

So my workflow for using the Start menu is, I often have to mash the Start key 5 or so times just to start typing.

What do I use it for? Mostly launching programs. Eg. last night, I typed Half Life 2. When I type the first few letters of "Half", the correct result shows up. But if I type "Half Life" it goes away because I didn't use a hyphen (seriously).

- Explorer has 2-3 second lags. I don't just mean opening it, I mean every damn operation. The funniest part is, if you have Sublime text open at the same time, you can see that the changes to a folder actually take place INSTANTLY (and Sublime detects and displays them within a few milliseconds of your action in another program) but Explorer, in which you did the action will take another 2-3 seconds to display its own changes. (?????!!!)

If it did all of this on day one I probably would have thrown my computer down a long staircase, but it's been such a gradual deterioration that this is just my life now.
I think you don't see Noah's reply because he deleted that tweet? At least, I can't find the "a long overdue acknowledgement" tweet on twitter any more. So what tptacek says seems accurate to me.
"should be actively talking about how to neuter the political threat of leftists".

That's a lot of bias in just one phrase. I doubt that the libertarians and others in SV consider themselves "leftists". Or that Palantir, JPL, DARPA, which fund a lot of SV work can be considered "leftist".

So yes, having Google as a monopoly on search and advertising is a trust-busting issue, but that's not "right/left", it's good government regulation to maintain a free market in those services.
The soul-soothing poems of ALL TIMES
> It's understood that multi-level security (MLS) is extremely hard to do

Has it even been tried? Given that we do need to protect against info disclosure vulns, even a rough attempt at proper MLS would be way more feasible than treating all programs as untrusted/hostile or all data as equally sensitive.
How Is Long Term Care and Living at Nursing Home?
>SMR is also only used in fairly high capacity drives. A 1/2/4 TB drive wouldn't be SMR.

I thought so too, until I bought a 2TB and discovered it's SMR. It turns out there are quite a few 4TB SMRs, and also 2TB and even 1TB SMRs. e.g.

https://www.truenas.com/community/resources/list-of-known-sm...
Staying on an earlier version is not ideal as some of the later microcode updates actually contain useful errata beyond performance-limiting mitigations. Really wish Windows had an option like "mitigations=off" in Linux.
To slap the server with you hand in case of kernel panic.
So, uh, let's see…

First off, mass. Mass is everything in spaceflight. A rod like that would weigh thousands of kg at the very minimum, likely much more than the rest of the spacecraft combined. Spending the same mass budget for propellant and a big rocket engine would be much more efficient, never mind being useful for arbitrary velocity changes rather than just deceleration.

Second, shape and volume. How would you even launch a km-long rod to space? Not going to fit onto any launch vehicle ever devised. Besides, even at 1g it would collapse under its own weight. Making it telescoping would just increase total volume besides adding complexity – and mass, did I mention mass? Never mind that a collapsible rod is going to have a vastly lower compressive strength than a solid one, making it nigh useless for the intended purpose.

Third, moment of inertia. A long, massive rod stuck to your spacecraft is going to make orientation changes really difficult. And orientation changes are pretty important in spaceflight due to heat management, course corrections, and, well, being in the exact right orientation for your braking maneuver.

Fourth, the concept of a hypervelocity rod falling from space reminds me of something… yeah, kinetic bombardment, aka "rods from God" [1]. The rod and whatever it's going to hit are not going to behave like solid objects crumpling like a crashing car. Stuff at the point of impact is just going to instantly vaporize and result in an explosion likely in the kiloton range, a fried spacecraft, and a big crater on the surface.

Fifth, even if you first decelerate to more reasonable speeds by other means (which is going to take a lot of fuel because of the extra mass (see, again the m word)), a rod much longer than its diameter is not going to nicely crumple into itself under compression. It will buckle, and then snap, like a piece of spaghetti, failing to decelerate much at all but sending your spacecraft tumbling out of control.

~ ~ ~

All that said, there are instances where crumple zones have had a small role in spaceflight, including the the Apollo Lunar Module which included crushable honeycomb shock absorbers in the landing gear struts.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment
Transferring energy from one car to the other isn't quite that straightforward, even though it's something that sounds like it ought to be easy. (The simplest thing would be jumper cables, but there's not usually any easily-accessible high voltage terminals, and the batteries might be different voltages anyways. And you'd want to limit curren, and so on....) Maybe if the new Ford F150's 220-volt outlet becomes a common feature, then charging from one car to anther will be easier (though very slow).

I think the main towing advantage a typical ICE car would have over an EV with extra battery capacity is the ability to shift into 1st or 2nd gear. It's not really an intrinsic property of EVs that they can't have transmissions, but so far the major manufacturers have decided it's not worth it. (The Taycan is a notable exception.)
It has small signatures, small key sizes, and is fast.

Nobody ever claimed that ecdsa/eddsa was quantum safe, it obviously isn't.
>So what becomes of the kids who grew up dreaming of being Spider-Man?

Peter Parker is a science nerd. I'd bet plenty of people grew up to pursue science because they were inspired by the comics.

Also, the people who "grew up dreaming of being Spider-Man" also grew up watching Star Trek, and Star Wars, and probably reading SF novels, maybe playing D&D, etc. This is literally the demographic that was interested in math, science and computers (back when being interesting in computers was 'weird') in school while the "normies" were playing sports and banging cheerleaders and such.
I agree completely, and I'm not even a US citizen. Nevertheless a lot of decisions made in the US have global reach and I find it useful to have a working knowledge of the US political and legal system. Some of it is bonkers, I have to say, but it has reasons (both good and bad) for being so and often these reasons bubble up to the top in SCOTUS decisions.
Scifi novel idea: A habited planet without a sun (these actually exist) with heavy elements and high gravity. The surface unevenness is the best source of energy.
After millions of years of extracting energy from flattening, the planet becomes a perfect ball and all life ceases as there is no energy to be found anywhere.
Scary - I get some strange URL that encouraged me to install some CSS plugin. How do you random those names? Are they only some random IPs?
BTW. some history would be nice, as I couldn't find this server again :(
okay, sure, inflation is a very reductive term, the mechanism isn't hard to understand.

when water accumulates at the top of a mountain it gravitates downward to certain areas and pools or flows from those areas. money is created in a very similar mechanism, when the money pools instead of flows, the issuer creates more money to make it more likely to overflow from those areas. excessive pooling makes investments expensive, excessive flowing makes commodities and services scarce. the issuer tries to moderate the velocity of both by issuing just the right amount of money. of this set of actions that the issuer does (it can do more than just issue money), both cause price distortions upward, where you need more money to buy the same asset or good or service. but unlike rain water, this approach has very limited utility as you are trying to force humans to behave certain ways and many times they just don't want to for reasons they were never asked about.

most of the debate around the word inflation is simply whether the target inflation has been met, because nobody can agree on which assets should be counted and it is a political football that is easy to unilaterally manipulate.
>But growing income inequality has taught us that would never happen.

This is pretty huge non-sequitur. Income (in)equality has exactly nothing to do with post scarcity world or reducing suffering. Just because someone has more than you doesn't mean you don't have more than someone in your position 50 years ago or that you aren't suffering less.

Technology-wise we have focused on computers for so long that they are pretty much as solved as they are going to get, but we haven't made as huge leaps on other aspects. If your goal is to move the us to post scarcity world you have to come up with unlimited free and (relatively) clean power source. After that someone needs to figure out how to turn that unlimited energy into mass. Then someone needs to figure out how to 3D print things atom-by-atom using the previous technology. After that money loses all meaning and there is no longer income inequality.
All I got to say is having a job and a house meant I was able to refinanced my loan to 2.5% saving $165,952.

I feel like the outrage at this sort of stuff is because people with good choices instinctively know if you cut schmuck a break, he might get ahead of you. I just remembered once playing monopoly. One of the kids playing busted out. Or would have but I handed him a wad of my money. Kid who was winning then had a complete meltdown.
It’s not just you: Google App is crashing for many Android users
The day I bought a dishwasher, I invited 8 people for breakfast, 8 people for lunch and 8 people for dinner.

You really don’t need to prewash anything...
Like Chatrubate, but with servers? #sarcasm
Normally tech companies tend to be overpriced, but $880M for 80% of Boston Dynamics (total value of $1.1 billion), doesn't that seem a little low?

Other tech companies can seemingly lose millions, as long as there's an advertising or data-mining angle to the product. Because Boston Dynamics aim to actually create physical products they then get valued lower?
Sprouting creates a huge amount of vitamins.