skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but it's never going to reach the "climb in, sit down and go" ease of a sedan.

For someone fluent in command line usage, this is very wrong. I'm 10000x more productive in a terminal and X Browser session than on windows, and almost never need to look things up (and when I rarely do, it's on man pages, not web).

But otherwise, I don't disagree. I'm not trying to convince windows users to switch to Linux (unless they're devs, in which case they will suffer professionally if they don't).

For most regular users, I recommend Chromebooks these days.
What do you think is easier, for Amazon to fix their ratings system or for a competitor to implement the worlds most sophisticated vertically integrated logistics operation? If customer really start caring, they will fix it.

The ratings thing is a blip for them. Only sophisticated customers are aware of it... and sophisticated customers are the exception, not the rule.
I should clarify it isn't blocked in the traditional sense.

It loads a benign script that pretends to be GA but doesn't touch Google servers at all, to avoid breaking sites that expect GA to be available.
Have you tried that? I see some servers nagging me about that, but never tried.
This feels brutal and mean to read. It seems that you're telling me my feelings, preferences, and way of being are invalid. Not only that but that I deserve what I've experienced because I have not overlaid my sincere core with the model proposed to me.

The world is often structured to heavily advantage highly social individuals. You're right that being less social or even asocial can bear a large accumulative cost.

Still, many of us live in our ways because we've followed our feelings and sensations. Trying to mold to the ways of interaction and time allocation according to the norms of a population that feels alien is wasteful. Instead, I spend my life exploring into less socially determined ways of being that seem a more functional and thoughtful in my experience. They're customized to me and feel great.

In fact, frequently some of my more social friends express a sense of relief and comfort when spending time with me.
It feels more emotionally clean, whole, and loving to them. They love it but the population didn't teach them how to be this way and they also don't know how to navigate the divide to try living in this way more broadly. They appear to recognize it's unhealthy but also be tied to and habituated to the way of things so that psychologically bridging is too great an effort.

Being an introvert is definitely no easy way out. Extroverts tell me there's something wrong with me in lots of little ways and have excluded me regularly from the little clubs that form which has reduced my career trajectory and the rewards I receive from society (though I have still become greatly rewarded). Most concretely, I suspect that I would have had much more capital funding available for my passion projects if I had been more sociable. I would also suggest that the world would be a better place to live if I had received more funding but that's highly speculative.
> We can spot this because they tend to come from big cloud data centre locations when doing ip to geo mapping.

Of course, you can do that with server side logs, so in this case client side is less accurate:)
Maybe. Looking at the screenshots makes me feel like it’s 1 I’d played but it’s very possible I’m conflating the two.

Either way, I have fond memories of it.
Very cool post. Thank you.

This article, and its many links, are helping noob me learn how to ask about I/O perf.

TechEmpower benchmarks HTTP servers. While contestants continue to improve, I've long been curious what the theoretical fastest HTTP server could be. https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

Basically, an update to the "C10K problem" for the year 2021. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C10k_problem

A bit like how Daniel Lemire initially thought about parsing JSON. Paraphrasing: Why can't a JSON parser run at wire speed? "Parsing JSON quickly: early comparisons in the wild"
https://lemire.me/blog/2019/03/02/parsing-json-quickly-early...

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Also, I really appreciate including the sound and cooling considerations. It's just great seeing the process of system design accommodating (balancing) multiple goals. Bravo.
Google displays Wikipedia page Ahmadiyya Caliphate when searching for “Caiphate”
Thank you. I got about 50% down the website marketing fluff and noped out. HP needs better copy.
I think that ship sailed. don't know a single person who is happy with amazon. only thing missing is a substitute
Conversely with all these attempts nobody is able to get a better ion battery _still_

And even Nasa had moved away from sorting liquid hydrogen and using it as fuel due to its crazy dangerous properties of being stored. This is not helium it effectively _eats_ the high pressure metal containing it.

And again we reach a stalemate that we would have avoided 30years ago if we had just invested in nuclear.

Nuclear is NOT perfect. No solution is. But its an excellent fit to the problems we as a species are trying to solve.
Yeah. This article is from 2013, and online shopping has increased a ton since then, especially during the pandemic, so I be the learnings from this are outdated. Certainly the data is.
As you add more drives, the odds of failure go up. It’s N drives all playing Russian roulette independently. With enough drives even raid 6 is not enough.

People use RAID 10 because single drive failures are cheap to replace (you copy one disk to another) you can survive some two drive failures, and the logical arrangement is simpler - it’s just stripes where each stripe member has a duplicate.
This is great! Awesome writeup w thekind of details that are sometimes opaque and hard to find documentation for. I recently deployed a NextJS app using Serverless framework (and serverless-nextjs), so Lambda@Edge... looking fwd to playing more with compute at CDN edgein general (eg fly.io). Amazing how easy it is, esp. as someone who came into webdev in 1998.
Grocery stores, Walmart, Target, etc have an equally sophisticated logistics system. After getting one counterfeit product from Amazon I shifted all of my purchases of kids products (diapers, lotion, sunscreen, etc) to brick and mortar retail.
I was taking about devs above, since we're on hn.

And good command lines, like propeller configured bash or zsh, have better discoverability than most GUIs.

But sure, I point non devs to Chromebooks, Macs, (or windows if absolutely necessary).
> the standards that you are using is incapable of inferring presence of emotion in animals

I'm not talking about emotions in and of themselves, I'm talking about the conscious experience of emotions. In humans, we perhaps conflate the two, as we can have no concept of anger or joy without the ability to self-reflect on our experience, comparing our thought patterns and physiological sensations to past and possible future, and reasoning about why we're experiencing an emotion.

Now, what is it like to experience an emotion without being able to self-reflect and consciously know that we are experiencing an emotion? The external manifestations do not go away. We can still infer the presence of emotion, we just have no way to know what the conscious experience is like. It's not a question that can as yet be answered by science, so any conclusion one way or another cannot be scientific.

Just as we can infer emotional states in animals by their behavior, we can infer their lack of self-reflection by their lack of behavior we would deem "intelligent", at least compared to humans. And so we do not hold animals to the same intellectual standards. I am only suggesting that this lack of self-reflection and ability to reason would have profound effects on the conscious experience of emotions, even when external manifestations derived from them are similar.

(Perhaps a can-of-worms digression, but this is also related to animals having Free Will and moral culpability for their actions. We generally do not infer the presence of evil in animals, for instance, regardless of their behavior, nor discipline them beyond Pavlovian classical conditioning. It's not a scientific matter; all we can do at the moment is guess.)
> This implies that in 2027, Amazon’s annual sales will be just a bit less than 10 percent of GDP.

The author is using 2021 GDP numbers to compare to amzn's projected sales in 2027
Yes but with a sufficient carbon price, green cement will be cheaper than traditional, hence more profitable to use.
Didn’t you see in the previous video that he is surreptitiously leaving bags of dirt at pubs and in grocery stores? There was even a flyer behind him at one point. The neighbors will never know.
What were the long lines for?
Övdalian diverged from Swedish and other Scandinavian languages quite a while ago. You can tell this from the voiced dental fricative, 'ð' (the 'th' in 'the' and 'father'), which is present in only Icelandic and Faroese, and the 'w' which is still pronounced like a 'w' in words like 'wattn' (water), 'warg' (wolf), and 'will' (to want), unique among modern Scandinavian languages, and indeed Germanic languages as a whole apart from English.
Great. Speaking from first- and second-hand experience, the FDA is way more loosey-goosey than people think as long as you’re paying the right people.
There is this guy [1] Dashrath Manjhi spent 20 years digging 110m long tunnel through hills to reduce the travel distance from his village after his wife died.
Apparently he used only used hammer and chisel

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashrath_Manjhi
First of all, none of this matters if the resulting code isn't distributed in some manner. For an internal app, for example, none of this matters.

Secondly, it's pretty much obvious that fairly trivial (and, frankly, probably not so trivial) code snippets are reused/reworked from various sources all the time. This makes it hard for me to see Copilot as this new and existentially harmful thing.
An equivalent question:

If you had $2T in cash, and you were to buy all of Amazon's outstanding shares, taking it private, to own it forever, earning your money back from the company's profits year after year, after subtracting all amounts reinvested in the business -- in the same manner you would do it with, say, an apartment building, would you ever recover your $2T investment? What kind of annual return do you think you would you earn over the remaining life of the business?
>> but copy pasting gpl code straight into your codebase is a copyright violation unless you can prove

This is not true. The copied code needs to be distinct and uncommon; a tiny snippet is very unlikely to meet this requirement.
> he barely pays taxes - as a simple example of how wealthy people use their influence to distort social systems

That’s an innuendo right there.

Even if you are right that there are wealthy people (which ones?) Who have ‘distorted’ social systems (‘distorted’ from what ideal?), it’s innuendo to imply that Musk is somehow doing this, unless you have some specific evidence about his actions.

The tax system may or may not be wrong in some way which we can discuss, but that isn’t about Musk and his businesses.

Casting ‘billionaires’ as a group as all somehow bad in this way is a meaningless way to think about this. Frankly this is just political disinformation aimed at creating animus towards people rather than solutions.

A parallel would be a statement like “Activists lies harm our political discourse and increase polarization”. Equally just innuendo, and equally meaningless although superficially ‘truthy’ looking.
> For that, I think Functions-as-a-service makes more sense.

For internal documents I've written, I position FaaS as one category of Serverless services (which includes others like Database as a Service (DBaaS), etc.).
I describe the relevant UEFI option in https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2021-07-10-linux-25gbit-... :)
I'm fairly certain that it is impossible to unsubscribe from Nextdoor. They constantly invent new lists and auto subscribe you to them.
Anecdotally I have found businesses are miraculously efficient at things that benefit them (signing up for things, transferring money into banks, making payments) and need “extra time” for anything that is a problem for them in any way (processing “unsubscribe”, issuing refunds, transferring money from banks, cancelling accounts).

I feel like the only solution is a law that simply requires businesses to make it equally easy to do something as it is to undo it (especially for things like being able to “click here” to enroll but “on hold for 45 minutes” to cancel...give me a break). Some states are getting there.
Liked it very much. Some of them pretty obvious, some of them not.
Kugelblitz (Astrophysics)
This isn’t really true because pumping heat requires less energy to create the same differential than generating, and most homes are heated by generation.
I’ve been using Apple Maps exclusively for the last couple of years.

I find it to be better, but there’s a major caveat that I primarily use it in the Bay Area.

Outside the bay it’s worked for me too, but it’s just rare that I test it in that way (where failures are a lot more likely).

UI is much nicer and app performance feels way faster too.
Meals by Wheels: UK Drive Thru Boom
I too speak three(four) language at absolute native level and three (two) at conversational level. And one at a beginner level.

Some of these a polysynthetic languages, others are agglutinative. Two are tonal, and one doesn't have an alphabet.

No here is the thing: none of this has affected my identify at all, not even in the slightest. Same person: just different sounds for things.

Presumably my testimony counts as well.
Occupancy of things like grocery stores was limited, but people still needed to go to them. Many had long lines out the door. (Reference point: suburb of Boston)
Aren't 60w lightbulbs still around?
I am one of those subscribers and while I feel the same many times, I can't find any better source of general information than the NYTimes. Any suggestion? Where do you find unbiased information nowadays?
Yeah the article doesn’t make sense. It seems to assume exponential demand increases without the same increases in pay.

Crypto-mining of any kind doesn’t work that way.

Either the article/backblaze is wrong or Chia as a whole is going to quickly collapse.

> To quickly understand what costs would look like, we used our standard pricing of $5/TB/month as our effective 'cost'

Price is not cost! Far from it (I hope).

Not sure why backblaze used ssd numbers when you can run cheaper magnetic drives:

https://www.reddit.com/r/chia/comments/odox2x/working_on_my_...
I'd like to think that was accounted for in the analysis.
We can compare children infected last year when other strains were dominant, with children infected this year in UK (likely to get the Delta variant).
I for one, would like to attend thie SETI Symposium , attendance at which is one of the items funded:

https://sites.psu.edu/setisymposium2021/
I've seen 4 other studies that say the exact opposite.
While he does maintain a persona for the channel, it not all fake, He is fairly transparent about some of these things he did mention about permissions etc, his behind the scenes videos show a bit more usually.

I would say it is more artistic license in the story he is saying rather being artificially synthetic.
I really like your way of thinking. Would we take any growth into account?
Yeah, I’ll probably turn off some fans to see how the temperatures react. That’s for some time in the future, though… :)
Thanks for this one. Makes perfect sense.
It's using OS level TTS, you don't have the required language packages installed then and it falls back to the installed system default which in your case seems to be English.
I’d love this as part of browser plug-in to modify third party sites and have the changes persist.

I’d combine it with the ability to completely hide elements… The combination would be killer for removing cruft from frequently used sites and web apps.
What’s the other option? Google is the only internet map ever? Or no other internet map can ever release anything until they have perfect global coverage?
> The drug in question, Aduhelm, was approved by the agency last month and has caused an uproar in the scientific community. Three of the agency's scientific advisors resigned following the decision.

Is this sort of thing common? Seems like an investigation is definitely warranted if this type of resignation is a rare as I would imagine it be.
So don't pay your carbon tax into the general fund. Pay the revenue out as a dividend, equal amount per capita. If you emit less CO2 than average you come out ahead.

Poor people tend to emit quite a bit less than rich people; they buy less, ride the bus more, live in apartments or smaller houses, etc.
Same. Rude and disrespectful marketing is a kill file offense.
> Introverts aren't disinterested in society - they just like to experience it differently to extraverts.

Depends upon the introvert. I have very little interest in society. I don't mean in an academic sense, but I mean I cannot stand being in a bustling city or anywhere where there are a lot of people. It actually makes me feel lonely. Having no people in public places has been mostly a relief to me, honestly.
The fact that it's technically possible doesn't mean the banks will enforce it. The reverse is also true, if we do not offer the flexibility, someone else will (since it is technically feasible). However, most of the central banks we've talked to are looking at negative interest rates above a certain amount, not for all digital cash holdings, to discourage people from hoarding it.
ClarkConnect, oh wow, there's a name I haven't heard in ages.

I'm flashing back to all of the various small-office firewall appliance distributions from that era. ClarkConnect, Smoothwall, m0n0wall... there were others that I'm blanking on.
I am using a similar approach using NotePlan. Especially with it support for templating and command palette. Combined with the plugins support I have a nice approach going for creating daily notes and meeting minutes
This gave me an uncanny feeling... quite interesting.
A certain furniture store in the UK was known for always having a discount and they got round it by having the products at full retail - for the minimum required time (60? 90 days?) - at a shop in the tail end of nowhere. This shop operated at a loss 100% of the time, but since it was part of the same company (which discounted everywhere else) the costs were written off.

Technically speaking, the sofa on sale in a retail park was on sale because it had been available at retail.
Flexible fab can help chip shortage by slash time to design and make a chip
Tooth loss associated with increased cognitive impairment, dementia
ByteDance to End Weekend Work
This guy seems to be a believer in "punching down" humor. He's doing it under the guise of tough love to help people, but he's clearly enjoying it way too much. This is a vile video; I sure hope you've not ruined my youtube suggestions by getting me to watch this.
Source? Genuinely surprised to hear Google had the superior privacy policy.
Personally I think there's no such thing as an unbiased information stream/newspaper. What stories you promote/ignore and how you frame them is a source of bias and it's impossible to avoid as you or any algorithm simply must make editorial decisions. To paint with a broad brush NYTimes is probably the best source of the American left's perspective, WSJ is probably the best source of the right's IMO.
What makes this product an “edge” database?
This is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time.
The main reason that the analysis is flawed is that Amazon just funnels their profits into R&D which hides it in plain sight. Last year they spend 45 bn USD on R&D which is 10% of their total revenue and double their profit.
I never heard of it, but it’s apparently good enough to be baked into RHEL

> The Red Hat Customer Portal product documentation pages document how to use the “web console” (another name for Cockpit). While this is specifically for the version of Cockpit that ships in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the interface and its usage is similar on other distributions where the Cockpit web console exists
I’m not looking to downplay the virus - the initial downplay came from Vox and the NYT (journalists, not scientists - but often pretending they’re delivering scientific consensus): https://medium.com/@balajis/citations-for-the-recode-handsha...

They also framed virus fears at the time as racism and complained about border closures.

The “masks don’t work” arguments came from scientific authority though.

Same with “not transmitted via the air” and dismissing the lab leak hypothesis.

I’m not arguing with a partisan position - partisanship is what lead to a lot of dumb positions from scientific authority (and politicians too obviously).
Same here, been using it for a few years in the Bay Area. The main reason I prefer Apple Maps is that the user interface is vastly better, especially in a car with CarPlay. I’ve used it on long road trips in the US as well, but I will often do a route sanity check against Google Maps in areas I’m very unfamiliar with.
That's not entirely true. SFP power consumption depends on the type of SFP. A 10Gbps DWDM SFP+ might draw 1.8W of power. The why for this is actually quite interesting: the lasers used in DWDM SFPs have much more stringent requirements for temperature stability to ensure the light emitted doesn't drift out of spec. In order to achieve that temperature stability, they use a built in peltier to pump heat away from the laser and control the temperature. They're quite the marvel of modern engineering!
How to Check CPU Compatibility for Windows 11
Being an introvert doesn't mean you don't like making eye contact or most of the other things that youtuber is saying.
> Only sophisticated customers are aware of it.

It doesn't take an extraordinary amount of "sophistication" to notice that the products that you ordered are cheap, broken and/or counterfeit trash when they arrive. They don't deliver any more quickly than anyone else anymore either. Unless you're on Prime; I think they prioritize Prime.
Why not? Every one needs a hobby.

Another benefit to Stapelberg's noodling is setting expectations.

Imagine you're bootstrapping a municipal ISP or mid-sized org. Dealing with vendors and products for the first time. What's reasonable? Who knows? Having these projects be a reality check is awesome.
Everything we have discovered so far indicates that entropy is inevitable.
Personally, I think worrying about optics does more damage to the optics of science than not.
There's a decent references section at the bottom, and having watched the talks and briefly scanning the Firecracker paper referenced, they do back up the writer.
Nanofiber membrane makes seawater drinkable in minutes
It's actually quite simple - an offline solution is technically incapable of reporting your spending patterns because ... well ... it doesn't connect to any network. It's the same as physical cash really, your banknote cannot report where it's been since it does not connect to anything.
Isn’t that a bit of a silly question?

The share price should reflect future earnings. If you are a shareholder, you believe that amazon will continue to grow and that other people will continue to value its future earnings higher than the price you purchase at.

Amazon’s strategy is not (solely) to make a profit. It’s strategy is to invest in growth, sometimes in such a way that makes a loss or scant profit, to dominate markets in a way that gives them sustained competitive advantage.

If you bought Amazon and asked them to switch to simply profit making, then they could can a lot of the future growth stuff to get your trillions back. Comparing them to an apartment building which can only grow in line with a wider market (ignoring subdivision of apartments etc) is just a weird false comparison in my eyes.
Thay has been my favorite thing about lockdown. Instead of having to sit at a desk during downtime I could actually do other activities that take my mind off work when I need it.