skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frontend framework they use (NUXT) uses code splitting [1], which means that:

- first request is fast, because you only need to download chunks required for a single page/controller (and you prefetch others in the background)

- changing some parts of codebase requires to re-download only affected chunks, instead of the whole bundle

[1] https://www.telerik.com/blogs/what-you-should-know-code-spli...
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It’s hard to measure economic consequences when it involves people not doing things there. It hasn’t resulted in many companies leaving China but it certainly hasn’t made it any more welcoming to foreign capital and workers.

The image of China being a place for international business has really took a nose dive over the last few 5yrs.
This article should do a better job of explaining how Minikube is a "drop-in replacement for Docker Desktop". After installing Minikube, you won't just be able to run `docker` commands (`docker build`, `docker run`, etc.) on the terminal like you would after installing Docker Desktop.

You need to download the Docker client somewhere, need to configure this client to point to Minikube's remote host (`minikube docker-env` helps here), and some Docker commands won't work the same (--publish, --volume).
Cold Comfort: The Promise of Nihilism
To be productive in VSCode, you don't need to know any shortcuts or do any tutorials because it can be used completely via the gui. Doing 19 lessons on VSCode shortcuts is akin to doing an Emacs course, not a tutorial.
> The report even says that the used drives are bought in bulk, renewed later on, and sold as brand new domestically or in China, where the demand for these drives is still very high. So it's probably only a matter of time before these renewed SSDs appear on the Chinese market, and naturally, filter out to other markets like the rest of Asia, Europe, and the U.S.

This confused me a bit; where is "domestically", actually?

The linked article fails to mention it but the original report is from the perspective of and looking at Vietnam.
Zero-Trust RDP and SSH Access to VMs on Google Cloud
There's already a popular national park in that location?
But the sibling thread doesn't seem to have additional sources. My point was that this BBC article we are discussing leaves a lot to interpretation and I wish it was more informative.
> and heterogenous computing is a bigger deal than most realize

Including Intel, apparently. I still think they were heading in roughly the right direction a decade ago with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(microarchitecture), but then they they seemed to just... kind of give up on it.

These days if I hear rumors that Intel might be about to do something bold, I don't hold my breath. I'm not saying they definitely won't find a way to recover from this current stagnation, but I've been disappointed enough times now that I'll believe it only if and when I see it on shelves and in real world benchmarks.
It will never happen. The talk will keep going, but it will never happen. In the case it does, it would be over Taiwan, not over a writer. I know people want to think human rights' are important (to their governments), but the governments would never place too much value on human rights in their calculation. (Taliban being the example)

Cutting business ties is a playable card, but not over this. China knew. If you were the president of a country, you wouldn't either. There is too much on the table already to just give it away.
There is no shortage if you pay enough.

This is also known as inflation.
You open by saying MS hasn’t found a better way to sell Office, but then do mention 365 aka the new way to buy Office.
I did not say you have to build it. (Did I?)
> Twitter's a good example.

Mike Cvet's talk about Twitter's fan-in/fan-out problem and its solution makes for a fascinating watch: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/WEgCjwyXvwc
Straight from Xi... much more coming:

“The United States is more aggressively waging a color revolution through the fifth column within China. If this time, we still have to rely on those big capitalists as the main force of anti-imperialism and anti-hegemony,” China will not need enemies to fight. “It will fall first by itself,” just like the Soviet Union back then. That’s why China is reforming the “capital circle” and the “entertainment circle.”

http://chinascope.org/archives/27497
I'm sure this guy could have written a whiny, scornful article at any stage of mankind's progress.

"Earth rotates around the Sun? Who is this Galileo, a Sun-worshipper??"

Lucky for him, in this timeline he survives to adulthood to write his Substack blog, rather than dying of polio, smallpox and/or the plague. He lives beyond the wildest dreams of a pharaoh and takes it utterly for granted.

New Pharaohs indeed.
I feel like the subscription system takes too much manual upkeep that the average user is not willing to do. If I look at my subscriptions list there is stuff I haven't paid attention to for 5+ years because its too much effort to bulk unsubscribe. But the youtube front page picks up on this and just never shows me any of it.

The algorithm does a decent job of showing the stuff I have been interested in recently over just a simple mix of my subscriptions.
Whose speech are you going to outlaw: the creator or the repeater? Who decides what is "misinformation"?
I wrote something similar, except instead of providing a library (which Libwebsockets already does a fine job of), I created a server/framework accepting shared objects as backend plugins running as dedicated threads interacting with spsc lockless ringbuffers. In other words, more or less the inverse of a library: https://github.com/wbudd/ringsocket

I haven't been putting much time into it anymore lately, but I intend to create a bunch of language bindings for it soon so you can write plugins in other languages too such as Python, C++, Rust, etc. Should be interesting.
We use zalando's spilo image and its patroni operator for many years.
Not only has the extensions, but everyhing configured and 'turn key solution' for both k8s and simple docker if you like. We compared many options which are listed in this thread and this came on top from both architecture, operability, popularity, etc. Works on both k8s and ocp.
We also use pure patroni (non-docker) with vms, also a great

LATELLY, one may want to look at yugabyte and cockroachdb - they have wire compatibility with pg protocol. Depending on the way you use pg, it might be a much better choice for you. It's cloud native, have enterprise support, etc.
Does AI make better investments than angel investors?
TikTok is also absolutely filled with pseudo informative content which looks exactly like this but the statements and numbers are complete garbage. Because the platform does not put much weight behind users and names, this stuff is just as prominent as the real content.
So one thing was addressed in the article that is a fundamental axiom of your argument, which is that historical curves are not laws of nature. You have no reason to believe that this is actually exponential growth into the future.

On a note addressing your population growth numbers, I just want to say that your numbers demonstrate that you are very unfamiliar with population growth dynamics and you should research the topic more. Those numbers are impossible and not going to happen (on earth) in any scenario whatsoever.
OpenStack, VMware and all the rest should go through a process that audits and certifies them like what is done to transport systems on and off the ground while not getting in the way of step level improvements introducing innovative new nicer things.
I'm pretty confident government disapproval has little to no affect in western culture or at least in modern American culture. In fact i'd argue disrespecting authority is part of the west's culture. Break the rules, be my "partner in crime", etc... Those are much less part of Japanese culture.
A couple past threads:

Silence Is a Commons (1983) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26007100 - Feb 2021 (31 comments)

Silence is a Commons (1983) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5402711 - March 2013 (2 comments)

Illich-related:

Deschooling Society (1970) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23821855 - July 2020 (195 comments)

Deschooling Society - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21578620 - Nov 2019 (1 comment)

Tools for Conviviality (1973) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21512587 - Nov 2019 (6 comments)

Deschooling Society - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13408250 - Jan 2017 (1 comment)

Deschooling Society - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=285107 - Aug 2008 (45 comments)
Okay, so you need a $20 billion factory to put out 256-core behemoths that power servers with terabytes of RAM.

But if you're GM, you don't need the latest Xeon. You need a 100 MHz single-core microcontroller, that normally sells for $2 to a hobbyist ordering a single chip, but probably something like $0.50 if you're GM and you order a million.

GM would probably happily pay $20 for that microcontroller if it's holding up a $40,000 truck.

If those microcontrollers cost 0.1% of what a Xeon costs, shouldn't that mean, to a first order of magnitude, the factory that produces a 100 MHz microcontroller should cost 0.1% of what the factory costs to produce a Xeon?

How slow / expensive would it be if you wanted to set up a factory to pump out microcontrollers for GM trucks instead of Xeons for Amazon servers?
I would try to solve the worlds' plastic problem. As most of us know, most plastic ends up in a landfill. I think we need to be conscious about what happens to our purchases after its lifespan.

At the end of a tree's life, it is decomposed and turned into fertile soil that will feed future generations of the forest. This is a sustainable cycle.

I think we need to develop a plastic alternative, say X, that can be used to make products such that at the end of the products' life, the product can be converted back into X. Then, X can be reused to make new products creating a sustainable cycle.
There is no need to formally demonstrate. The veracity is clearly not in question. It must be true, due to the existence of the article we are commenting on now.

If you want to argue for the general case, you can simply prove the negation is false. Since it is incorrect to say that a network trained with a tiny percentage of possible inputs will never misclassify, it is true that a network trained in such a way will eventually misclassify. This is bolstered by training any network and seeing they always will misclassify something.

> Yes they did, I said that.

You didn't say that. You said a misclassification would happen on some inputs. That is different from saying on these specific inputs.
DC is any current that flows consistently in one direction. AC is current whose flow direction switches back and forth.
This software is working as intended. Its supposed to be a screen. Its doing that well. I know this sounds crass and crude but that is capitalism for you.
Please. I don’t want social features in my video library app. I unsubscribed from YouTube since I can’t remove “shorts” from the interface. I’m not going to pay for them to lobotomize me…
If they're superhuman, all those details might be as easy for them as scenery in a model railway.

More convincingly though, if leaves didn't behave that way, the entire rest of the world would have to be designed in a consistent way. Fluid dynamics would have to work differently - and consistently with everything else or we'd notice.
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Why marketers need to provide the information customers appreciate using the appropriate channels, customized to their individual journeys, and in the context of the customer experience
New Details Emerge About Coronavirus Research at Chinese Lab
Except the courts have failed to hammer them out due to apparently no one having standing. Even the government itself is apparently no longer allowed to bring anti trust complaints. Legislatures have been ignored recently with executive departments overriding even the federal supreme court in their attempts to exert control.

And we all know how large swaths of goo voters and a surprisingly high number of democrat voters feel about the integrity of elections.

Regardless of your views, this is a slow motion trainwreck
Solar/wind with plenty of storage is the future.

At the moment, generating-capacity without storage is equally as useful as with, so putting money into storage now would be wasteful, vs. getting correspondingly more absolute generating capacity online: each panel added displaces an exactly-known rate of carbon release.

Storage costs are plummeting even faster than solar generating capacity, so the longer you put off building out storage, the cheaper it will be when you do. By the time solar generating capacity is large enough that its variability could be a problem, storage will be mature and cheap, and storage buildout will ramp up. In the meantime, just a small amount of storage can take away all the profit from gas plants.
That legitimacy is only granted via democracy is a very new concept. Even the coining ancient Greeks had trouble with it, and it definitely did not emerge quickly during the Neolithic revolution when governments were created at all.
Maybe someone on the team really likes leaves. Fallout 3 only has so many beards because one artist got a whim and cranked them all out.
The author's bio reads "A fellow primate who wonders why we ever came down from the trees."

I get the impression he unironically is asking that like a Douglas Adams character.

"Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake coming down from the trees in the first place, and some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no-one should ever have left the oceans."
> Racist outcomes are still racist regardless of whether there's a guy in Klansmen robes at the steering wheel or not.

Yes, I understand what systemic racism and implicit bias are, your condescending snark is appreciated.

Anyway, it's not racist because the result is not the product of implicit bias or systemic racism, it's a software bug that would have been possible no matter who was working on this software. As I wrote in another comment: the whole point of ML is to adapt to what is effectively an unbounded set of inputs, pretty much by definition there will be cases where even a team of 100% black people will train a model that, given the correct input, will fail in ways that particularly affect black people.
This looks nice. The price point is good too. Will definitely try it out. Cheers
I wanted to start a discussion about how to estimate the number of requests a given server can handle per second. So when I read "x requests/s" I can put that into perspective.

But it seems you think I wanted to start a dick measuring contest?

If your question is genuine: I would serve images via a CDN. The above timing is for assembling a page by doing an auth check, a bunch of database queries and templating the result.
So...It Has Come To This...

https://xkcd.com/1022/
> Everything you didn’t like about tennis is gone

Can you elaborate? The physical toll tennis takes on you?
I found this looking for a comparison https://la.utexas.edu/users/hcleaver/hmconillich.html
I like the simplicity of paying for it and knowing it’ll work everywhere without having to deal with work arounds. (I watch on at least 5 different platforms)

I don’t mind the price - I love the straightforward model.

I watch a ton of YouTube and want to support the business as well as creators (they get a cut of the subscription).
I think enterprise and more optimize for business flexibility and ability to A/B test very rapidly vs a finely crafted piece of efficiency, for better or worse. The people behind this probably do this for their day job, or are teens that are about to do it for their day job.
> Free speech is hardly the only value in a democratic state.

You're making a straw man argument, I never said it was the only value. Still, a democratic state can't function without free discourse.

> The First Amendment protected Internet intermediaries from obligations to censor

Not exactly. While they would not be forced by the State, people could still sue them for the content. This is why section 230 exists which allows providers not to be liable for content posted on their platform provided they do not select content unless they do it under the Good Samaritan clause (offensive content, criminal content, etc.).

> while at the same time rebuffing efforts to impose stricter privacy obligations on Internet enterprises

Unauthorized publishing of private information was never 1st amendment protected speech, what are you talking about?

> The First Amendment thus created the business model of new media, permitting it to publish vast amounts of speech but not be held liable for that speech

Again, see section 230.

> while at the same time earning income through advertising based on personal profiling

which again has nothing to do with the 1st.

> For the first time, individuals could now speak to the nation—through YouTube, Twitter.. profiting from lies is now a viable economic model.

Snake oil merchants existed way back and the democracies thrived all the same. Magazines, journals, public discourse, universities, books... all existed way back. Really, you should read old magazines from the 1920s. I personally have one from 20s where Nicolas Tesla made some outrageous claims complete with ads that sell complete BS. Making a profit out of BS is nothing new.

> It’s a threat to democracy and undoubtedly will be its undoing unless we censor.

This reads like a the beginning of a dystopian movie. A least the cat is out of the bag I guess.

The problem is, the people with that kind of power will use that same power to stay in power. This always happen; even if they are elected. Censorship never led to a better society.

Also who the hell is "we"?
In fact north Korea has mandatory voting
According to TechEmpower benchmark, C# and Java perform better in some tasks than C/C++ [1]

Even in categories where C/C++ are more performant, other languages are not that far behind.

If at all possible, we should not use memory unsafe languages for anything, especially something exposed as a server. No mater how careful you are, and with all the tooling available, majority of exploits in popular software happen due to memory unsafe languages.

[1] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r20&hw=...
El Salvador will adopt Bitcoin as legal tender from today
Your source disproves it. That is, the BBC article links to https://sgp.fas.org/othergov/doe/lanl/docs1/00329010.pdf which says:

> It is shown that, whatever the temperature to which a section of the atmosphere may be heated, no self-propogating chain of nuclear reactions is likely to be started. The energy losses to radiation always overcompensate the gains due to the reactions.

It then goes on to point out that if considerably more powerful bombs (over 1,000 cubic meters in size) were exploded, then the energy losses to radiation isn't enough .. but that's okay because:

> energy transfer from electrons to light quanta by Compton scattering will provide a further safety factor and will make a chain reaction in air impossible.

That's about as definite as you can be that there would not be a possibility.

Note also the comment "the policy should be adopted of exaggerating the dangers at any point which appears at all questionable."

In the BBC article, "the scientist who freaked out" is the President of Harvard, right? From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_B._Conant he was a noted PhD chemist who was the chair of the National Defense Research Committee and present as a dignitary. He does not appear to be someone who understood the physics involved.

Additional, the BBC article quotes philosopher Toby Ord as saying "we were creating temperatures unprecedented in Earth's entire history".

This is bunk. Meteor Crater in Arizona had an impact energy of ~10 megatons - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Crater . The Chicxulub meteor was about a billion times greater - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater#Impact_specif... .

Now, this is total heat, and the quote says "temperature". (Earthquakes release a lot of energy but over a large area, so the temperature isn't hot.)

Cosmic rays regularly hit the earth with much higher temperatures, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh-My-God_particle .

> there also was no evidence that any elected representative was told about the risk

Conant clearly had heard about this risk consideration. Why didn't he tell Roosevelt? Perhaps because no one thought it had even a minuscule chance of being possible?
That's actually 2020, when he lost. In 2016 he got less than 63 million votes.
I just want to say I'm glad to see someone talking about economic growth and distinguishing between economic growth (what you call "natural growth") and the push for stock prices to go up ad infinitum. Too many people that get involved in discussions like this don't seem to understand that distinction, and I think you're on the money with regard to the effects of the latter.
BRL Cad, but it is public domain not FOSS.

https://brlcad.org/
I can't help but think about what happened with graphics APIs - the older ones (DX9, OpenGL) held your hand more, and the new ones are super bare metal and not written for the faint of heart. I think most would agree this is better though; for an application developer you can simply use a much higher level library built on top, and for the library/engine developer you have a lot more power and control. The old APIs were in an awkward middle ground of not being particularly easy to use, but also not being nearly low level enough. Nobody was happy.

I think modern OS stacks are in a similar boat, at least Windows and macOS. True low level control is kind of a pain, but the OS libraries are not particularly pleasant or high level enough either. So largely things like Electron or Qt are acting as the defacto OS anyway to varying degrees of success but undeniable levels of resource waste. I wonder if modern languages and tooling and such are advanced enough that the OS should become more primitive and minimal. In a way it feels like we're moving there anyway with web tech becoming the defacto user space and toolkit. That's fine, but god if it wasnt all built on 50 layer of cruft our machines would be screaming fast.

Smalltalk, if you get a chance to use it, really does act like its own OS in so many ways. It's great as a programmers OS really, although it doesn't really hit the right notes for average use. Still though, if someone had the urge to build it I could easily see a smalltalk based userland built on like a linux kernel (with no gnu user space) being a totally viable thing.
He should take a plane to the Congo and give it a try. Maybe a sympathetic pack of chimps will take him in.
Users flagged it. I think it was good to vouch for it (which unkilled it) - it's a good article. However, HN users (and especially submitters) should be aware of this guideline:

"Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity."

Our software looks at submission histories and starts filtering own-site submissions if they're too big a portion of the account's behavior. Users often do this also, via flags.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Headline seems clickbaity?
TSMC is one of Taiwan's biggest strategic assets, they will never manufacture the most cutting-edge products offshore.
Taiwan didn’t start as a US backed dictatorship. Truman had pretty much given up n Chiang Kai Shek until China crossed over to side with the North Koreans during the Korean War, making the USA much more interested in supporting the ROC again. One can easily say that China traded Taiwan (which it surely would have been able to take back without USA backing) for North Korea (which probably would have been folded into the ROK without Chinese intervention).
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