skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not the fear of death that is the tell. It's the attempt to fix it through money and technology.

What I have read of Jeff Bezos reminds me somewhat of the fictional Walter Faber, the main character in the novel Homo Faber by Max Frisch. [1] Walter starts an affair with a much younger woman partly in an effort to recapture his youth. Controlling the world through technology is a leitmotiv in the story. To the extent his motivations are similar, Jeff Bezos is certainly far from the only real character to express this idea.

p.s., I recommend Homo Faber very highly. Along with Faust by Goethe it is invaluable reading for anyone interested in technology and the human condition.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_Faber_(novel)
If you can make NYC/SF money and save/invest a portion of your income, you can retire and do significantly better elsewhere. You can't do the opposite.

If you can have a decent lifestyle in Ohio on 40k (big if, when you factor in retirement planning) you can still fundamentally never leave Ohio.
They might have a play at being affiliates for sellers of the original material. I suppose a link is an ad, but its also somehow a less dubious way to monetize in my mind.
I would be soooo happy if OSes were just absorbed by databases. The file system is just a heirarchal key value store: genius! Let's make it untyped so you have to parse everything manually just to interpret it: not so great.

Yes I'm saying the Unix file system is a worse mongodb. Please at least give me a postgres or something.
Warehouse AGVs using this since 90s. I can imagine the creating of the reference points or maps for public use would need an OSM type of crowdsourced content.
I confirm that several things said in above comments are true.
I tried once to ask reddit's Anthropologists about what cultural artifacts are affected by genetics e.g. how lactose intolerance can affect a local culture. The question was apparently racist and then taken down.

What's weird, is that if you believe in equality , you 'd WANT to know the genetic determinants of anything, so you can truly equalize it with genetic engineering.
In reading through this on the surface, it appears as though there is a mix of trust relationships that pre-exist, and credential issuances that occur on the fly. Also, it also appears there is no privilege tiering aka, enterprise access model, applied to the example. Did I see this wrong?

I'd be interested in seeing what credentials in toto are there, and which ones are ephemeral, and susceptibility to lateral traversal.

Could you respond on the merits of the critique?
Who cares about CDE, the classical UNIX desktop, as in the way that BSDs and GNU/Linux keep pushing for the old days with their fragmented stacks.

macOS, although a UNIX, follows the same ideolagy as NeXTSTEP, where UNIX compatibility was a means to bring software into the platform, and that was about it, GUI software was to be fully taken advantage of Objective-C Frameworks.
The courts have a hard enough time with important truths like whether somebody killed somebody else. They're already busy; why should we load them up with trivial questions like whether COVID-19 was manufactured in a lab or not, and doubly trivial questions like who believed in particular answers to those already-trivial questions and when?
I wrote business backend server that calculates various things and returns results as json. It serves in average up to 5000 requests/s for about $220CDN / month. Architecture - single executable written in C++ () running on rented dedicated server from OVH. 16 cores, 128GB RAM and couple of SSDs.

It can do much higher requests per second wise on simple requests but most common requests are actually heavy iterative calculations so hence the average of 5000 requests/s
Enertia Services Are Second to None and Best in Class
How is Rust cost more memory than C again?

Also as shown by TechEmpower benchmark, in "webdev" field, C/C++ doesn't have proper/official driver to Postgres with pipelined support, thus even lose to Java in the fortunes benchmark.

Nowadays, they are using a fork of libpq with batch API that has not been merged for 6 years in order to compete.
So, lacking of good library support in "webdev" field will put C/C++ at extreme disadvantages compare to other "webdev"-friendly languages.
I can’t prove this a priori, but I think like the line would be pretty low in a vacuum. It’s hard to tell in the real word though, since we have so many compounding factors in people’s educational careers that affect their abilities.
Environmental covers a lot. A mal-nourished homeless person probably cannot learn algebra - they would have much more immediate concerns to deal with.

However that feels really different from saying a not insignificant portion of the population, inherently cannot.
I worked with them and had meetings with them in person. SSO and TLS were Enterprise-only features, and enterprise pricing was percentage based. It was insanely expensive.
Good luck with that. I’m sure Eastern Europeans really care about your federal laws.
> and there's less of a language barrier, where not none.

They are working hard on eliminating the language barrier.
The link says that it's partly false because it's an infrared sensor, that doesn't detect any skin color and isn't biased by virtue of not really making any decision. It just dispenses soap when the infrared sensor gets triggered. The problem is that according to the article black skin does not reflect infrared radiation very well (no idea if that's true, but that's the claim here) meaning it's more of a physical limitation than a "defect" as can be argued in the case of AI models.

But the article also says that a counterargument could be that the existence of machines that aren't very suited to a big part of the population can be seen as proof of some latent Racism (to be more accurate, discrimination is closer to what's used in the article) whether intentional or not.
But what is the question?
I wonder if you are equating "can't" and "lack of intellectual fortitude" with "aren't truly motivated to do so."

Considering that a small percentage of careers require more than basic algebra/geometry/statistics, it's not hard to see that math has a "why should I learn this?" problem more than a "am I able to learn this?" problem.
Does any distro actually ship this protocol or it's just an optional kernel module?
Accepting an inevitable death with dignity and grace is great and a blessing, but when we've got other options, we take them. I go to the doctor when I'm sick, I get vaccinated when there's a plague, I'll let surgeons cut me open if something is going very wrong inside, and if there were a magic "stop aging" pill, I'd take it, and I suspect you'd find nearly everyone else would indeed have that kind of ego.
Wut? Are those the only choices? Is there nothing in between? Lay off the drama. I don't feel like my degree was useless (and I'm not even working in the field I got a degree in) and I certainly didn't graduate with crippling debt.
"Eighth Megs And Constantly Swapping", back when a decent workstation had 8 MB RAM.

Guess even Emacs has managed to put on some weight since then. :)
I think time well spent is a huge factor to anyone success. Most pro athletes, chess champions, musicians, artists, etc, picked up their hobby at a young age in most cases, and just stuck with it until adulthood and enjoyed the compound effects of having a teacher or coach spend time with you multiple times a week for decades.

I think you can put anyone in that environment and they would become elite in whatever you push them into if they stick with it. On the other hand when you look at people that have bad outcomes in life, they generally don't have any good role models or much parental presence in their lives, and that seems to be a much stronger factor than genetics in terms of finding success in this world.
Have a look at hubski.com, it uses a similar method.
Articles refer to the rear motors as DC similar to the DC motor used in the leaf. Here's an example:

https://www.motortrend.com/news/electric-cars-explained-gear...
I don't think the issue is that they "have a tendency to believe in things" so much as they are among of group of people who've voluntarily associated on the basis of shared beliefs. Looking through the article identifies other groups like immigrant communities as other popular targets. The hint is in the "affinity" part.
Maybe because they enjoy the interesting domain and challenges of the area, look at a project like Dolphin for example.

Also, some people hold the view that things like information, media, code can not be “stolen” in the traditional sense, so that further reduces any qualms about associating themselves with it.
Sperm banks select highly-educated males (i.e. recruiting at Stanford and Harvard) for sperm donors, so it seems obvious that most people know there is a hereditary component.
Who can I sell my app to for $1M+?
I'm the founder/owner of an app called Cuff: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cuff-video-chat-make-friends/id1514536428

and I'd like to sell it for $1M+. Wondering what the best place is to find people interested. Currently a fully passive product with 99% profit margins (only some server/hosting costs).

I'm wondering if I can ask for a large premium because of the very passive state of the app (produces $4k a month passively, all traffic organic).
Anthropology split into science-anthropology and deliberately-rejects-science anthropology a couple decades ago. As I recall, there was a specific meeting of a society that was the cleaving point. For instance, biological anthropologists tend to actually do science, while cultural anthropologists tend to do work that does not rise to that standard. It's too bad that it takes insider knowledge to tell them apart.
"The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point. Frequently the messages have meaning; that is they refer to or are correlated according to some system with certain physical or conceptual entities. These semantic aspects of communication are irrelevant to the engineering problem."

- Claude Shannon, A Mathematical Theory of Communication

Everything is inherently a stream of bytes. You can use programs that interpret them as typed data or newline or null-delimited arrays all you like.
Isn’t that already true of various MikroTik 5 port boards, as well as the Ubiquiti EdgerouterX?

Both of which are a similar price point, and include a case by default.
Good luck with what?
I guess you basically run a load test of randomized or usage weighted list of API endpoints for increasing number of synthetic users and see when things start breaking. Many free tools help run these tests from even your laptop.
A lot of this is driven by narratives—A narrative that college isn’t worth it anymore. A narrative that (white) men are uniformly privileged and life is just easy for them. And a narrative that those men aren’t wanted by society any more.

I’m not convinced that all those men need to go to college, but they clearly need something. They need to feel like they’re part of society. Nothing good can come of an entire generation that feels lost, without purpose, and unwanted.
Not just you, but if it works for them, that's completely fine.

But there are many ways to achieve 20K RPS without this type architecture and especially without k8s, for less than $1,500.
As a scientist who thinks professionally about things like culture, behavioral genetics, and psychology, I can say: the idea that there /would not be/ humans who cannot learn calculus is the one that is hard to believe.
The article is low at content. So I'll try to condense it:

- Don't play (or make big decision) when tired, stressed or distracted

- Thinking in probability, not in winning or losing terms: EV = Probability x V -or- EV = SUM (Pi x Vi)

- Process is more important than result: if you did everything right but still lost, you're fine. Don't dwell on your losses, move on.

- You can increase your winning significantly if you get trained. There are probability cards to study Poker, buy them.

I'm not interested in people in the story so I didn't summarize them.

PS: Woman can win at poker, too if that's not obvious.
I got corrected last time this topic came up. I originally thought Messages was part of the OS and not a pre-installed userspace app. However, if it's in userspace, why is it such a vulnerable vector for compromising the phone? Is there some privilege-escalation component to this that I haven't read about?
httpdito is nothing if not consistent in its performance. It doesn't have enough state to have many ways to perform well at first and then more poorly later, or for that matter vice versa. (Not saying it couldn't happen, but it's not that likely.) Linux is pretty good about consistent performance, too, though it has more state.
I do not necessarily agree with the original post’s statement but this response seems confused to me.

Few female applicants to trade schools is consistent with the original statement. If it is societally unacceptable for a woman to be a plumber then I would expect women to act as any rational agent and factor this in when planning their future career.
Fish becoming addicted to methamphetamine via drug residue in wastewater
The term “toxic masculinity” does not and is not intended to imply that masculinity itself is toxic.
You can just fork multiple threads that are each their own server, and then do communication over thread safe queues to workers in other threads.
Well, the disappearance seems legit... https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/07/world/asia/china-whitney-...
I don't have a degree and am from US as well. In most my jobs, I am usually the only one without it. In Europe, it's even more rare, (majority of colleagues have PhDs). When people find out I am not educated, they are not happy about it, initially.

People can be really mean, especially when you aren't "smart". I had to read a lot about a lot of things just so I could go to lunch and participate in the chatter with coworkers.

But, not getting a degree never blocked me from getting great money or any position, I just had to work hard for it, always had to prove myself, earn trust. It's life on hard mode for sure, but not a blocker.
No, some people are so stupid that they will never be able to do tasks much more complicated than e.g. sweeping the floor. You are trying to conjure a vision of the world that is comfortable to believe, but that vision does not reflect reality.
OnlyFans, models, successful real estate agents, certain categories of social influencers
Well how do you know that the image recognition error is a fault of the ML algorithm (because we can’t capture how organic minds learn, as you are suggesting) and not of the learning sample?
I can also recommend his podcast at https://inteltechniques.com/podcast.html

The last episode was about securing a smartphone (232-Anonymous Phone Update Part I)
> we need to use less energy all around

Why is that?
I became a FAANG Staff Engineer in 5 years
> I don’t think any algo should be in the business of labeling any people period.

You’re proving my point. What you’re saying is that we should stop any algo from categorizing anything just to avoid a 0.00001% of hurting someone’s feelings. People like you are going to bring back the dark ages. Go back to Twitter.

Can’t we just treat these incidents as bugs and fix them instead of just fueling the outrage machine?
Instead of asking "How can I get some participants from Hacker News?", why not ask "Who is out there to serve that doesn't like HN, SlashDot, etc?"

There are a lot more people in the second group.
“The binary meaning of the kilobyte for 1024 bytes typically uses the symbol KB, with an uppercase letter K.” [0]

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobyte
> China has a vast hinterland of rural Chinese, much larger than the Phillipines or Vietnam could supply

Whose fertility has for the last several decades taken a historically massive hit from one child, sex-selective abortion and the policy of taking young rural women to single-sex urban dorms to provide their once cheap labor. A rural region with increasingly middle aged farmers with a rapidly shrinking highly gender imbalanced youth is not a recipe for medium to long term abundant labor supply. Certainly, China’s economy is a profligate debt fueled fever, however, their biggest bill coming due is the demographics.
As a somewhat progressive from the US-perspective (so: European, living in Germany) I don't recall saying genetics didn't impact things. Genetics is just not a lever I am willing to pull in order to influence things. As some of you might recall, the last time Germany tried just that it went into the direction of ultimate genocidal horror. Also there are much more low hanging fruits with a bigger impact on a societies wellbeing (tackling monopolies, corruption, reorganizing work spaces etc.).

The reason why people on the left defend against the notion that genetics are everything is because this is the thing fascists use to divide people and make them kill each other. So cool — genetics matter, just like education, nutrition, social situation, security of ones environment etc — but what do we do with this? Argue that some people do rightfully suffer because they chose to have been born into the wrong body? Try to weed out the bad genetics? Who will decide what is bad genetics? The aryan master race? People of color?

There are so many other levers we can pull I don't think we need to bring genetics into it from a political improvement perspective. When we think about healthcare that is a different topic.
> Chia has somewhere between 300K - 400K full nodes operating on the network. That is objectively more decentralized than Bitcoin that has somewhere on the order of 40K - 80K full nodes the last time I checked. So I would say Chia is the most decentralized network I currently know of.

And Amazon has millions of nodes. That doesn’t make them decentralized.

We have no idea who owns the nodes, or what the concentration of ownership is for the top X%
I wouldn't put too much weight on it...she's got to say something about racism because of her social environment, so she chose to say something empty and meaningless so she wouldn't have to say something obviously false.
Honestly no. Most people say i can't do X when really they mean, i've decided that its not worth the effort/i dont want to.

If you were arguing that math comes easier for some people than others, sure that's strong evidence. If you're arguing that they are literally incapable, and no set of curcumstances would allow them to learn - that is a very different claim and needs very different evidence.
Just the usual gripes about systemd which get perpetuated by people who don't bother understanding the thing they're annoyed about. Sadly you could say the same thing about pretty much any topic on the internet these days.
I was being snarky about the quality of the information, but the privacy issue is the important one.

If the key variable is the search engine, then, yes, you probably don't want to be feeding details of your possible mental health problems into Google. Maybe DuckDuckGo would be preferable. Once you've put your symptoms or diagnosis into a search engine, where you end up is going to likely not be the main issue. If you type, say, "autism spectrum disorder" into Google, Google will make certain assumptions about you regardless of whether you end up clicking on a Wikipedia link, an NHS.uk link, some academic paper on bioRxiv, or a TikTok video with someone describing their autism diagnosis.
Ponzi schemes have a fairly specific definition, social security is just a tax that we pretend is going to yourself when you get old. In reality it is just a tax paid by workers and some amount of the government's budget is used to pay retired people money.
Not to rebut an absolute.
> they also designed the USB-C port in what has to be a completely noncompliant way so as to keep any keyboards (or most anything else potentially useful) from working

I'm curious what that means. Is it a USB-C certified port? If it is certified and has USB host or USB-OTG on the logos, then it better work otherwise they'd fail compliance testing. If on the other hand it is just a USB-C connector for charging and for client mode, then that's normal. Most low end devices don't have a USB host controller and therefore can only be a USB client (like a thumbdrive) and thus can't connect to another USB client like a USB keyboard.

> There's something oddly hostile about e-ink device companies.

What are "e-ink device companies"? You mean like Amazon? Are they hostile?
You'd be hard pressed to run into memory issues with nim or go, to list the easier languages to write.
I think it makes sense to test from the server itself because otherwise I would test network infrastructure. While that is interesting too, I am trying to figure out what the server (VM) can handle first.

I just tried Apache Bench:

ab -n 1000 -c 100 'https://www.mysite.com'

Concurrency Level: 100
Time taken for tests: 1.447 seconds
Complete requests: 1000
Failed requests: 0
Requests per second: 691.19 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 144.679 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 1.447 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)

Wow, that is fast. Around 700 requests per second!

Upping it 10x times to 10k requests ...

Requests per second: 844.99 [#/sec] (mean)

Even faster!
There are more details in https://lwn.net/Articles/864184/. I already forgot why it's necessary, but I know the article explains it.
I would love more collaboration between operating systems. There should be more layers with standard interfaces.

For example BIOS used to be a driver layer back in the day, providing simple API to underlying OS. This concept should be expanded. I don't see no reason for every OS to rewrite those drivers again and again. There should be some standard for common device APIs, like disks, keyboards, mouses, GPU and so on. I should be able to buy an Nvidia GPU, download and install UEFI driver and it should provide Vulkan API for any underlying operating system, Windows, Linux, OpenBSD, ReactOS.

Another example is file systems. All major operating systems are very similar when it comes to file systems, at least from the user PoV. Yes, there are Windows ACLs, Linux permissions, but it should be possible to abstract those away enough. So Windows could install its latest Windows 11 NTFS driver into UEFI and Linux should be able to just use it to access NTFS safely, without any gigantic efforts to reverse-engineer and reimplement everything from scratch.

At one point I thought about virtualization being an answer to those demands. These days you can write completely virtualized operating system which needs to implement virtblk, virtfs, virtio-* drivers and run it on any host operating system with perfect driver support from manufacturer. GPU is not there, but I don't think that it's impossible to implement. Of course running a full-blown ad-ridden Windows 11 just as a hypervisor seems like not the most elegant solution.

Unification will not play nicely with new progressive features like BTRFS, though. That's something to think about as well.
The vast, vast, vast majority of the consequences of doing science like this have been positive. We are only able to sustain so many humans on this planet because we have bothered to understand stuff like this. You can't selectively understand it for plants and non-human animals, but not for humans. It is obvious to everyone that the same basic principles apply.
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I've made my own tiling WM for Windows (non-free): https://losttech.software/stack.html

But it does not work like i3. You predefine the layouts (which can be dynamic).