skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PG has turned a good profit selling the same pile of bullshit to two generations of CS grads and wannabe entrepeneurs now. I always thought the subtext was "and if you're really lucky, I can be your mentor/investor/boss and tell you why you're not trying hard enough." Nice to see he's still hustling too.

It always struck me as selfish, pompous and sanctimonious all at the same time.

He silently banned me from this site in 2012 for saying roughly the same thing - basically just made anything I posted invisible to 99% of others, so, yeah. Work harder, slaves!

[edit/addendum] The ban was never told to me. It was a hell ban apparently decided without consultation b/c he felt insulted. So for years I would post stuff and not know why almost no one saw it. Sneaky. As a sysadmin I wouldn't do that. Meanwhile, all his pseudo-self-help motivational speeches added up to one thing: Gaining authority and power over kids who were desperate to get a tiny bit of backing for a great idea. Money played a big role and everyone supposedly knew what they signed up for, but the personal power dynamic and control issues have always been near the surface. PG fronted as the ultimate "angel", but his interest in making money let alone helping anyone always appeared to take a backseat to having power to manipulate children's emotions and form a cult of personality to pander to him and sing his praises. All HN is essentially an outgrown version of his ego.

You have it right. Don't fall for this crap. It's just another iteration of the old company line, retreaded for the renter/gig generation - work hard til you retire, hope for a cash injection, then die early please. Nothing wrong with hard work, but you're right, it's better to spend your 20s living life. And question the source. [/edit /rant]
*Veritasium. His tag line is "An element of truth", since "veritas" is Latin for truth and most element names end in "ium". I recommend the whole channel!
And that's actually a benefit for the tax payer!

It's notoriously hard to fire public servants, or shut down underperforming departments.

It's comparatively easier to shut down an outsourced project, or switch suppliers.

(Alas, not easy enough; and the organizational skills required to win government bids are different from those required to actually deliver quality.)
Seems you got Amazon's attention. Both links are broken and searching for Amvoom Klein Bottle results in nothing relevant.
> In any language with any concurrency support there's a point where you spin up a bunch of threads to do something.

No, that's not true. Think javascript (and I hate javascript): you can do concurrency even though you literally don't have a way to spin up a thread in the browser.
> No idea why you would say that.

I was focussing on foreign policy and geopolitics, which really hasn't changed much since before the PRC.

For instance their policy in the South China Sea is not something dreamt up by the CCP. The "9-dash line" predates the CCP and the PRC. It dates back to the ROC and as such is still the official policy in Taiwan as well (they keep quiet because they are too weak and don't want to piss off neighbours).
What's happened is that China is no longer weak and is now able to reassert itself. In a democratic China it's almost certain that nothing would change in the South China Sea, and that has the full support of the Chinese public.

> Whether this results in closer cooperation with the west

This would not because, as I mentioned, the political regime is a red herring here. The antagonisms are caused by China's growing strength and power. China asserts its interests, which are not aligned with the West's. This is not caused by the CCP, this is the profound geopolitical reality.

What's happening is that a superpower that is not Western (in a general sense of European, Christian culture) is appearing, this is more profound than political regimes, which are actually quite superficial. This has not happened for centuries. People have been conditioned to believe that everyone will align with the West and that being a democracy means aligning with the US, but why would that be? That's just propaganda dating from the Cold War, really.

> it can no longer afford to focus solely on middle/upper-class growth due to the need to appease the majority of the population still living on low wages

They are already doing a lot to "appease" the poorest. Economic growth has benefited them a lot and the government is also doing more to alleviate growing inequalities because they know very well that they have to. They are certainly not focussing on "middle/upper-class growth".
Possibly Ghandi and India's independence? I would expect if British were still a major global force after WWII and were willing to project it, there would have to be a (successful) regular war for independence.

This can be probably applied on a lot of other former colonies.

Also, former Czechoslovakia in 1989 - the loss of communism. A lot of people back there think mass peaceful protests finished the era. But the fact is, the army declared 100% support of ruling communist party, and they would go with tanks to major cities if ordered and crushed the crowds. After shooting would start, there wouldn't be protests anymore, possibly civil war but highly asymmetric since civilians were not largely armed).

The reality is, eastern bloc was disintegrating due to weakening Soviet influence and its own incoming dissolution. This was in place for last 5 years and top folks knew it (albeit news blocked it all for common citizens to keep things quiet). Once the puppets lost the puppeteer, they didn't feel so confident (which is great, no need for another Yugoslavia back home).
DocC is also static. It just requires some simple URL rewriting. It could probably even done by putting Cloudflare in front of of GH Pages.
A very large number of open source projects use a workflow similar to the author: Source code on Github, documentation on Github pages.

If a new tool doesn't work with that setup, nobody will use it.
Not a 9/11 truther, but there are some incongruities around official accounts of 9/11, for example the accounts of why CIA staffers actively blocked the FBI from being informed about the activities of future 9/11 hijackers, as discussed in the documentary "Who is Rich Blee".

There's a morass of conflicting stories, but if you're interested you could start with a close look at [1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfreda_Frances_Bikowsky
Or just use a hardware firewall upstream of the device, which is what I do. My iPhone doesn't have a SIM in it.
The UK is full of these in holiday parks, either as homes for middle class retirees downsizing to a nice little community in the country (the economics aren't quite as impressive when you consider the annual charge for the park land and facilities...) or as holiday lodges, including holiday lodges exclusively used as summer/weekend retreats
Technically these are all "mobile" but they won't move after delivery.

examples: https://www.tingdene.co.uk/residential-park-homes/our-homes
I think the flat pricing model might be a marketing gimmick...

As bandwidth gets oversubscribed, the 'fixed price plan' becomes the basic service tier, and he can charge extra for 'speed boosts' that make it faster. This then becomes a self balancing market - the more users there are in a region, the more will have to pay for boosts to get acceptable speeds, which effectively increases the price and makes some users consider other competing services.

Each 'speed boost' could cost $100/month, and be sold as 'it's just like having two starlink accounts and having the speed of both combined'. The dish could be color coded (white, bronze, silver, gold) to indicate 0, 1, 2 or 3 speed boosts as a status symbol.
Well, cmake ain't exactly my favourite piece of software either.

And, yes, switching an existing system is a different proposition from starting from scratch.

Though see what the Neovim people have been doing to remove some of the accumulated cruft from Vim, if you are interested.
It is often claimed that the Germans didn't believe Enigma could be broken, but that's false, they simply didn't believe anybody would put the work in and it was indeed a lot of work.

Trying to guess what your enemy is thinking is crucial yet very difficult work in a war like that. In "Most Secret War" R.V. Jones provides excerpts from some of the documents he wrote trying to do exactly this, based on what he believed his German equivalents would or ought to know e.g.

"A representative from Rechlin might point out that even if they could not go to decimeters, the use of frequency modulation with the present system might provide some immunity from jamming".

[ This is referring to the Germans' previously successful radio direction finding for bomber aircraft, which by this point the British are jamming. In the "fog of war" some German pilots believe the signal isn't jammed but "bent" sending them off course, in reality the British never developed the sophisticated calibration needed to actually do this, they just jammed the signals with powerful transmitters, but doubt set in anyway ]
But I believe "good data scientists" are usually PhDs with a few years of experience.

This is the same argument that says only people with CS degrees can be good software engineers. That is provably wrong because there are good software engineers who don't have CS degrees. Good data scientists are just people who can do data science well. That's the only valid measure. Having a PhD and some years of experience increases the likelihood of that being the case but having those things doesn't automatically mean someone is good, and not having them doesn't automatically mean someone is bad.
Unless you want to make a change or fix a bug, that is.
> Let's hope they don't go the marketplace route while chasing growth.

I'm already hearing complaints about how B&H "isn't what they used to be" because they're selling much more than their original scope of audio visual equipment.
> I think there is no real distinction between drug store and pharmacy in English, but I'm not sure.

This is... oversimplified, at least. I'm sure usage differs by region, even within the United States, but where I am a "drug store" is a convenience store which either contains or historically contained a pharmacy (in the latter case, there appears to be a decent chance the store is an historical soda fountain/cafe). A pharmacy is a place where one buys prescription medications, often only being a section/counter of a larger store. I would never use the terms interchangeably: one does not buy household goods at a pharmacy, nor does a place become a "drug store" by the filling and sale of prescription medication.
Well, among tools conditional probability is kind of the one ring to rule them all. Just give me some samples from P(plan | goal) and “things like taking action, planning, etc” are trivial (or really, part of the sampling process).
> allowing people to contribute to rustdoc without having to install npm

In the meanwhile, the crates.io team doubled down on Ember to attract front-end developers while presumably alienating a lot of other potential contributors.
McMaster is also typically not cheap. Their claim to fame is that they deliver really quickly. We can get stuff from them same or next day about 95% of the time. For slightly slower delivery but better pricing, Zoro Tools has much of the same stuff.
That is why the Samsung Note series was the only thing that I see as a possible alternative to paper. (Paper is still king in my everyday life.)

Steps you need to take to write down a note with a Samsung Note:

0. Have it and screen off is fine.

1. Pull out the pen.

2. Don't press any buttons, just start writing on the display, the UI will awake when you go near the display with the pen tip.

3. Put the pen away. Note will be saved and screen will shut off.
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> the artist I assume is using paints and mediums developed arguably over thousands of years, at great cost.

And they went to the store and paid money for those things.
The problem here is GitHub Pages doesn't support path-based SPA, i.e., it doesn't support rewriting non-asset URLs to site index. I won't argue for or against using an SPA (without SSR, too) for documentation, but this is certainly one of the most annoying limitations of GitHub Pages in 2021, generally speaking.
I'm wondering why most of the comments here are not discussing the content of the article but rather the general HK protest.

Most of people in China understand the value of rule of law. And we never deny that the environment there is far from any democratic western society. But if you read the article and are the readers of the mentioned media outlets you would agree a bit that those are a little dubious (Post852, Winandmac Media etc, Apple Daily included). It's definitely not good to have a sweeping ban, but pretending all non-mainland chinese media is pro democracy and liberal values and not populist (sometimes provocative and radicalised) to attract viewers is a little naive in my humble opinion.
How does ARM solve the splitting of the memory? Just have "number of cores" x "amount of memory"?
Education is long overdue for disruption, so whatever moves the needle even a little is huge in my eyes. And it's the first Lithuanian start-up that I know of to be a part of YC, congrats, this is a great win!
The number one thing that distinguishes conspiracy practises from conspiracy theories is how boring they are.
I'm idly curious why you need to use replicas in a workaround context, and why arbitrary filesystems are a problem.
I think misrepresenting data that explicitly states it can not be used to make this conclusion, to come to this conclusion is not a fair point and works to propagate vaccine conspiracy theories. See my other reponse with details from VAERS about not using this data to directly determine vaccine cause of adverse effects.
Interesting point of view, never thought about the irish liberation, even though it was a recent development.

My opinion is that the fear of marxism permeating the civil right movement (especially the BPP) and starting to reach the Latino and disfavored white people (the "rainbow movement" if i remember correctly) did strike fear into the US government (hence the assassination of Fred Hampton, who really started this). This fear allowed to Civil right movement to be successful, because ethnic tension, while useful to exploit a minority, is not worth the danger to the social order.
The letter seems intended to convince residents to pony up for necessary repairs.

The engineer in 2008 warned that the damage would increase "exponentially." The engineer from the 2018 report was put in charge of overseeing the repairs in 2019; and it seems like the repairs were planned, moving slowly. How much of this 3 year delay is because of HOA politics?

There was some indication that the damage was potentially worse than it appeared:

>Also, when performing any concrete restoration work, it is impossible to know the extent of the damage to the underlying rebar until the concrete is opened up. Oftentimes the damage is more extensive than can be determined by inspection of the surface.

Does this letter demonstrate negligence by the engineering firm? If the damage was that bad should the firm have contacted the city? Did the residents contribute to the delay?

A haunting quote:

> A lot of this work could have been done or planned for in years gone by. But this is where we are now.

The letter from April:

https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/miamiletter0628...
Hi Cliff,

First of all thank you for being you. I read about you week ago and then I went into a massive youtube binge of your videos. I had a bad day and needed a distraction and seriously your videos were uplifting, funny, educational and so binge worthy. Great stuff, highly recommended to anyone. Wish there would be more of them.

From ecommerce perspective, don't care about amazon. I wouldn't say that for most business, but I am sure most of the clients buying from you actually know you as it's hard to search for klein bottle without without you popping up. It is first result above amazon in my google search and I would assume most of the sales on amazon were actually coming from people that first seen your website and just wanted to quick checkout.
I think trickle by trickle we are learning that it didn't just happen completely unexpectedly. There were many, many ignored warnings before something as big and complex as this failed.
There is no world democracy though. It's so many representation levels that it devolves into a few elites.

Militaries are not democratic either.
How do you ask good questions?
As of this writing, it has been three days since the Icelandic newspaper Stundin broke the story that a key witness in the US government’s case against Julian Assange had fabricated allegations against the WikiLeaks founder. And yet, somehow, Assange is still in prison.

He's still in prison in part because he broke bail, and is still subject to legal process. This new evidence is good for his defence to the underlying attempt to extradite but has no bearing on his breach of bail.

Evidence has to be presented in court, and weighed. It isn't magic. It doesn't instantly open locks. The machinery of law is slow.

I don't want Assange in jail. I just point out, this kind of polemicised writing just invites critique.
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Yes, database rights in the EU/UK sense are an oddity in IP law. They look a lot more powerful at first glance than they have proved to be when tested in court, and they only last 15 years.

They might be useful for something like stopping someone who is in a jurisdiction where they apply from scraping your site to download a database you spent significant money collecting. But that doesn't help you if whoever is scraping your site is based somewhere else, which includes most of the world.

I wonder whether database rights would actually hold up for something like OpenStreetMap anyway. Is OSM generating new data in a creative process or investing significant effort in collecting data that existing sources? If it's the former then copyright probably does apply but database rights probably don't according to CJEU case law. If it's the latter then it's probably the other way around.

Whichever is the case, relocating your whole legal entity to the EU because of an issue like this might be a rather extreme reaction, and from the report it appears the decision here was made on the basis of many small factors and not just the issue of database rights.
what do you mean by "splitting of the memory"?
> using a live human to express a protein that we normally never do is a bit of an ethical problem due to the associated risk

Wait, so are you saying there's an ethical problem with triggering the expression of a strictly viral protein known to cause damage in and of itself?
> Obviously there's a lot to work out, but philosophically, I like the idea better than introducing new jurisdictions of regulatory power, especially when the relief sought should already be attainable under the public contract made in seeking government enforced IP protection.

Putting your code into escrow does not imply it's going to get audited or that it was developed under somewhat reasonable conditions (aka with code reviewing and testing).

We have seen way, way too much damage, to the tune of billions of dollars and everybody's personal data ending up in hacks "thanks" to shoddy software now, it's a matter of national security to create ad enforce regulations.

Maybe we can create exemptions for small companies and startups, but as soon as you hit 10k users in general population you should have at least basic security processes implemented.
> "There are so many projects on GitHub – pick one you like and see how they did it." But most successful projects are quite large; where do you start from?

I'm working on a slightly similar project motivated by this problem: how do you learn from established open-source projects - most interesting ones are too big, too complex, to hard to get started with.

So I'm compiling a collection of interesting code examples from open-source projects and explaining/annotating them. I'm trying to pick examples that are:

- Taken from popular, established open-source projects.

- Somewhat self-contained. They can be understood with little knowledge of the surrounding context.

- Small-ish. The can be understood in one sitting.

- Non-trivial.

- Instructive. They solve somewhat general problems, similar to what some other coders on some other projects could be facing.

- Good code, at least in my opinion.

I'm planning to share it in a few weeks.
rfkill is potentially coming from laptop_mode, it's a power saving thing. Annoying as all hell.

Surprised Lenovo get it so wrong here when ThinkPads have always worked pretty well.

>This is definitely not a new hardware nor it has some strange spec

I don't think this statement applies at all for laptops. The things in the laptop that are randomly crap to work with aren't gonna be CPU or GPU, they're gonna be brightness controllers, fan controllers, extra buttons...
I love it when the veil slips and 'open source purists' show they are really about it just being free.
Issue is not writing code. Its changing, evolving or maintaining it.

This is the problem with things like Spreadsheets, dag-drop programming, code generators.

Its not easy to tell a program what to change and where to change.
We seem to have this pattern everywhere. Any warning signs about potential problems that could potentially endanger human lives get ignored to save costs.

Probability of every single accident is just too low, fix too expensive, and people in charge just decide to ignore it or postpone action.

Bug, guess what, there are too many cases of those single low probabilities, so something somewhere has to happen, it's just what and where.
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Esbuild (replacement of webpack and babel for js transpiling and bundling)

Postcss + Tailwindcss (for css bundling)

Eslint for linting

uwebsockets.js for high performance http with websockets (alternative to express fastify koa hapi and ws)

Stay with react or vue if you're comfy with it. Preact svelte etc have their own set of bugs too, pick your poison.
I recently skimmed through it, for maybe 30 minutes, but it reads like an introductory text. Maybe useful if you've never heard the terms "replication" and "sharding" before, but not all that useful if you actually have to build a scalable architecture and you don't want to shoot yourself in the foot by designing something that's either too complex or that's going to fall over the moment traffic doubles.
Either they have played around , experienced a similar issue and went on to discover more, or maybe from inside. I think it's the first option, though.
Also: "-exec grep {} \+" will be a lot faster if you have many files, and you will get the actual filename too instead of just the line number which is what the comment says it should do.
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Don't know why you're down voted. I've looked into my fair share of tiny houses and vanlife builds, and they all have one thing in common: it's either amateuristic (don't get me wrong, I love it, but the quality and looks ain't there), or it's superdeluxe comfy/beautiful and completely forgetting about all the hassle around it. I mean, one needs land and permission to put a 'house' somewhere.

There seems nothing in between. So now I'm looking into bicycle caravans. One can just put 'm in the woods, nobody finds out (and if they do, so what), it costs basically nothing, you can fix it yourself, etc. I might post my current bicycle caravan project to HN soon.