skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that there's a purpose to this diversity. Why do we assume that it is bad to have rank and uneven distributions of qualities in a species, among human beings? Like it's bad to have an IQ less than 180 now? A society is enriched by this diversity because various niches can be filled and concerns taken care of. One guy brings the pot roast and the spices, another brings the napkins. We don't all need to be equal and identical. Why are some people so afraid of someone being more than another? Pride, that's why.

But I would suggest we don't slander beautiful people. Vanity comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes and isn't the exclusive province of beautiful people. There's plenty of vanity in this thread alone, let along HN, much worse than the petty vanity of a 13 year old girl. Vanity affects all human beings.

(Also, those who spend on plastic surgery are either mentally ill (in the manner of bulimics) or probably not in those 10%. Otherwise, why the plastic surgery? Otherwise back to mental illness. Besides, plastic surgery doesn't actually make you beautiful, it can at best make you appear beautiful because it's fake, so you're being fraudulent because you are only simulating beauty at best.)
you can't put a price on the feeling I get when 5-530 hits, and I step outside my home office to see my family and start unwinding for the evening. No wasted time on commute and the options for places to live are endless. Not to mention I eat my own food on my lunch break.

I miss some interaction/bonding with coworkers and certainly acknowledge that "hallway talk" helped clear up requirements but the pros of work from home life are incomparable to the cons. I will never go back to an office
This resonates so much with me. Are you familiar with Paul Graham's: How to Disagree
http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
Thats why the past 2 years of hardware has official win 11 support and win 10 has support until 2025. That cover the corporate end-user hardware lifespan of 5-7 years.
Certainly this inst a coincident.
How the mysterious Havana Syndrome is a 'global experiment in mass suggestion'
Common sense has nothing to do with common law after a couple generations morph any type of sense a law could have made into something nigh unrecognizable. Go digging through case law in different jurisdictions and marvel at the contradictory interpretations that arise. This is why strategic changes in jurisdiction are a valuable part of litigative strategy.
No, it would just have to reach the target interception area in time. That's not quite the same as "catching up", although of course the possible radius within which this area must be located shrinks as a function of speed ratios.

And if by "flies over it", you meant the defense system as "it", that's still effectively point defense. Although this particular situation is unlikely for obvious reasons; the chance that your defense system would be exactly below the flight path of a missile while not being its target is small.
Disclaimer: I’ve never worked with Go, there may be some nuance here I’m missing.

This sounds like dependency injection of test behavior as a substitute for the “real” IO implementations injected in whatever glue code accesses the unit under test. If that’s a correct understanding, it sounds like mocking by another name?

Not that I think there’s anything necessarily wrong with that. And I think it that kind of inversion of control can often produce more robust designs/systems/tests. But I think it’s a good idea to recognize that’s what it is, and that it has similar limitations to other mocking techniques.
I'm interested in why this comment is getting so knocked down?

I asked what I think is a valid question and would like to hear honest reactions from people about my observation.

I feel I have every right to be a cheerleader for Capitalism as my father escaped communist Cuba in 1959 as Castro was coming to power and used the US's system and tons of hard work to create a extremely comfortable life for himself, while friends and family members who stayed there lived rather wretched lives.

He never forgot how lucky he was to be able to get out of there just in time and told me time and time again that the US while having flaws, was by far the best place in the world to live, so my original comment comes from this background.

I don't give a flying fuck if the comment gets modded down, but i would like to know just what in it is so offensive to those modding it donw so I can learn something.
Come on _scientists_...they're obviously petrified Pokéballs.
Unless you're trying to go to space, there really isn't much reason to go this fast in the first place. Even relatively modest supersonic passenger flight has proven to be a commercial failure (good luck to Boom Tech inc... you guys will need it.)

If you're going to space, an SSTO with scramjets would be interesting. But I think if SpaceX's reusable Starship succeeds without that tech, it would be hard to justify the additional complexity and expense of an SSTO built with a class of engine which hardly exists at all right now.
I was reading through a list of Hugo and Nebula award winning books (fairly late in life) when I discovered Vernor Vinge.

"A Fire Upon the Deep" and also "A Deepness in the Sky" were both astonishingly great books.

After that, I started going through his catalog. Can't recommend enough for lovers of hard sci-fi and expertly-crafted storytelling.
I'm interested in how they 'hibernate'/save the state of the instances within the shutdown time limit. I was also looking into this for myself, there are ways of using docker to save the in-process memory a-la hibernate, which would work well with this. But, especially for GCP where you only get ~60 seconds between the shutdown signal and hard stop, I was worried that it wouldn't save it fast enough. I often work on pretty high-ram instances and thought even saving from ram to disk would take too long for 150-300GB ram uses.

I hadn't heard of nimbo, maybe I can read how they're doing it since it's open sources. Does anyone have any idea how they're saving state so fast (NVME SSD disk?)
Because Khronos just cannot move their mindset away from C.

It took NVidia beating them to the ground for OpenCL to ever consider anything other than C and create SPIR.

Then the existing C++ bindings for Vulkan were originally created by NVidia (again).

Now ANARI is yet again a C API, they just cannot move beyond C.
I don't understand the greed of these people. Once you have health care, education, a nice house, a nice car and you can afford to go on holiday, what else do you need?

What is the point of having 10 super cars or a 100 room mansion? Showing off to other shallow people?
Interesting. Where is the source code?
No, cultural colonialism. White wokesters impose their norms on minority communities. I guess we can call non-white wokesters Uncle Toms.
What makes you say that?

I’ve benchmarked both models with NAT and they will do 1G just fine.
The used car market has exploded (as the article calls out) which has heavily contributed to this.

That being said the experience aspect is awesome and I’ve had 3 friends use Carvana to buy their pandemic vehicles with no complaints and nothing but good things to say about the service.
Why would the quality of the announcers or theme music have any influence on an XML feed of straight sports stats (specifically designed to avoid editorializing)?
I don't understand the purpose of having a missile that fast.
They'll find justification somehow. Like needing a security force to respond to various "concerns", or the "increasingly unstable situation" (at that point in time).
Metal and DirectX are based on C++, thankfully.
I'm delighted to see the e-ink displays prices coming down, even though it's coming down a bit slowly.
Agreed 100%. I quite like C APIs. They’re simple, elegant, and can wrapped with RAII or your preferred style.

A C++ API imposes its style on you. Usually badly. Never mind the ABI issues.

Most interfaces could be improved by re-writing them in C. I can’t say the same for the inverse.

That said, OpenGL is a terrible API that is nearly impossible to use correctly. But neither C nor C++ have much impact on its horrifically stateful architecture.
The decreasing cost of renewables unlikely to plateau anytime soon
It simply means that marines, sailors, etc get bent out of shape when you call them "soldiers." In their lingo, soldiers are in the Army.

In common parlance, a 'soldier' is anybody who is part of a military and an 'army' is any and all military. But I would not expect the Pentagon to be so casual with their use of terms relating directly to their affairs.
I made a few million in crypto a few years ago. My wife is submissive and intelligent. Life is very easy and I have no difficulties. I have absolutely no need for external validation. It is like paradise and totally worth achieving.
Metal, DirectX, GX2, LibGNMX prove otherwise.
> In history books, you get a sense sometimes that there were eras in which stuff like this sent people into the streets in rages. In which governments were voted out or overthrown, in which meaningful legislative responses were made. Or, you know, riots.

I think your somberness comes from an idealized, perhaps even fanciful look at the Human Condition. Personally speaking riots and even street demos against this are not what is needed here, but rather a significant amount of Human Capital into opting out of this system and creating a viable alternative.

Your pessimism is a symptom of a much bigger problem, not the source of the illness. Once you realize that you cannot reform this system you will be able to re-direct your energy toward that end and maybe find solace in the fact that we still live in the best time to be alive, if only because the amount of possibilities.
As a CS professor, Vernor was always familiar with then-current computing researcher(s) and practice, then extrapolated into stories.

Hence:
1981 Arpanet => True Names' cyberspace, and lookahead to issues of identity and privacy

1992: USENET => FIre's galactic communication network, with mix of well-informed commenters, flamers and out-of-touch people

1999: smart dust => Deepness' localizers (note presentation by Pister 1997)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartdust

2006: Wikipedia revert wars => battles to enforce augment3ed reality perceptions

As for issues of sensor nets and surveillance, at 2004 Foo Camp, Pam Samuelson and I did a session where I talked about the sensor net technology and she talked about issues of surveillance, privacy, law that were already surfacing ... even years before iPhones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_Camp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Samuelson
More speed = more difficult to both intercept and detect (less response time).

Not sure what the commercial applications would be though.
Nothing can shoot it down (yet).
I think it's just kinda impossible to start one, it's prohibitively expensive to get the factories and equipments running, and there aren't enough people with the know-how of building and operating these things in the world. Not sure if I understood your question, but I hope so
> When you say "overeating", do you mean just overeating meat, or overeating in general?

I mean in general, which includes meat for the purposes of the current context (article). I understand we're not eating for pleasure on purpose, and we're 'wired' to do so, but I think it definitely has to do with morality. Monks and priests do a lot of fasting for related reasons, but won't go into that right now.

> And neither can "stop eating for pleasure" like you admonish in your first comment.

I think we can, but first to clarify, it's not that we HAVE to do it, but rather that if we are to be concerned about the suffering of animals to an extent that we advocate for society to change diets we should first worry about the quantity of food people eat before the type of the food (or at least prioritize it this way).
People can gain lots of calories from carbs and that is a huge problem right now in society. I'm pretty sure people will eat according to their weight, so heavier people will also eat more meat.

And yes, I think it's possible to enjoy food less (or enjoy healthier choices). This is just my observation here, but there is a correlation between weight and how much pleasure people get from eating food. I see ultra heavy people enjoy food in ways I seem to not be able to. It's absolutely an addiction which is somehow being enabled in society, even though it goes against the environment and public health.

> Also, why am I "lowering the bar"? The bar for what?

The bar for what we expect from people in terms of controlling their own pleasure as explained above. It sounded like that because animals can't control their impulses it is somehow justified for humans as well. If that were the case, I implied that it should also follow for cruelty. Animals can't control their cruelty, so why should we? It's the same line of logic. Not sure if that was your point, but some people do make that argument.
Perhaps you should seek out a therapist in order to process your violent tendencies and the subconscious traumas that could be leading towards such behavior.
Probably because other than Intel with their DPC++ "improvements", almost no one cares that much.
Even tough those are very robust models, they can still end up being wrong given some policy (some asset distributed via first come first served or via a lottery to avoid price increase for instance).

The only real definition I see is the equation of exchange which is purely mathematical and not linked to any real world data, but there are probably many other that are definitions and not theories / models.
It uses a mounted EBS(Elastic Block Store) so all the checkpoints, data etc. is already in the persistence storage. This is simply be re-attached to the next spot/onDemand instance after interruption.
This is a great argument for why women should not work for a year or more after pregnancy.
Oh I didn't see much in Nimbo with a quick glance but reading more closely
> We immediately resume training after interruptions, using the last model checkpoint via persistent EBS volume.

Makes sense, just save checkpoints to disk. What I'm doing is more CPU bound and not straight ML so less easily check-pointed, sadly. Cool though, it's worth jumping through hoops for 70% reduction
You may be happy to click here:

https://www.ological.net/author/john/
Of course there are an infinite number of alternatives...I just quickly picked something that sounded decent that tried to make my point about my observation lately that Capitalism was getting knocked around everywhere I looked.

In the last Econtalk podcast that I listened to last night, they discussed the loneliness "epidemic" and the author ended up blaming Thatcher-based Capitalism as perhaps the main reason why people are so lonely today!

I thought that was quite the stretch but imagine my chagrin when here was another spurious back-handed attack on it.
A more interesting issue is the opposite -- many large sites have robots.txt rules that Disallow all crawlers except Google. A new search engine either 100% respects robots.txt with the result that some major properties are completely unavailable in their index, ignore robots.txt in these special cases where robots.txt configuration is unreasonable, or- crawl anything that allows Google to crawl it. None of these options are great.
This is reductio ad absurdum and a clear strawman.
What does hcol mean
The arguably most complex technology of Space Shuttle was SSME. Also, arguably the most important part of LEO rocket technology is engine - as soon as engines matured enough, space era started. Yes, there are gyros and superlight tanks, but Lambda-4S still does illustrate the importance. And hypersonic winged flight problems were greatly decreased in the Space Shuttle case by a "brute force" approach with ceramic tiles.

SSME was more or less repeated in results by RD-0120, and rather soon. I'd argue RD-0410 was more complex. SR-71 engine works in two different modes, and even today is not really repeated elsewhere. I think that shows how awesome the SR-71 design was - especially, but not only, for its time.

I'd appreciate a good analysis of design problems and solutions of SR-71 to decide which project was technically more complex.
In fairness, emergency department is more sensible. They generally aren't a single room.

Soldier to warfighter seems unnecessary.

EDIT: It seems possibly using "warfighter" is more accurate as marines and pilots aren't soldiers?
> replaced the word "soldier" with "warfighter"

Technically, only the Army has soldiers. The non-exclusionary term used to be “men and women in uniform,” but that got tired, so I guess we get “warfighters” now.
Ditto. I’ve been doing a lot of managery stuff during the pandemic and the main things I miss are the water cooler talk that greased a lot of wheels and filled in a lot of gaps, as well as helped new people onboard with many to many learning, but we will cope.

What I would like, as a manager who had to do quarterly planning would be a week a month or a week per quarter for cross functional in office planning. It would help with a lot and probably be enough time in office to fill many of the real gaps being remote has left without being required full time.
I think you're missing my point.

The TFA's claim is that Drepper didn't get all the issues with DLL Hell. My claim is that Drepper did get all of the issues, and addressed those that were not Windows-specific (e.g. per-process COM servers etc.)
Missile interception technology like aegis relies on other ships detection and coordination with onboard defenses in an aegis fleet network.

Faster missiles mean a solution may be coordinated or countermeasure plotted too slowly to have any effect, or to arm things like CIWS countermeasures.

hypersonics, simply put, can sink US aircraft carriers before their protective fleet can take action, effectively neutralizing US presence in a region.
Some is available: (ICIJ document database)[https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/pages/data]
The Java team and everyone else that seats at JEP table is largely the same group of people.
Aspiring to be monarchy, which condones "sacred people" above all others.
https://archive.is/QVfzZ
For me it’s a cost issue, this is over $200… I might pay $100 for it, but this wouldn’t be a must-buy for me until it hits ~$50
It sounds less like this is about remote work, and more like this is about everyone there hating the CEO. And boy does the article do a good job of making him sound like an arrogant, micromanaging prick.
Are you referring to batteries?

Edit: I'm not authoritative, but I can't think off the top of my head of any rare earth metals that an electric leaf blower uses except perhaps in the batteries. But also, there are plug in electric leaf blowers.
Oh yeah I can see how there could be a problem with Amazon there. I don't understand the link to climate change and the pandemic?
maybe, but I guess I would be cantankerous enough to see the goal as preventing google from profiting off your site.
He has a column:

https://www.ological.net/author/john/
Company 2 bought stock in Company 1. Company 1 owns Company 2. Compamy 2 purchased stock that confers no rights or dividends.

The money still changes hands. Once you realize enough growth, you do a stock buyback. those stocks you issued to yourself? poof.

The magic of finance.
I don't think that it's productive to make up snarky names for concepts I don't like.
You're right, I don't remember the terminology well. And yes, I remember edges having these properties as well.

This made me think that graphs are essentially more complex.

With a simple relational DB what you have essentially is a table/mapping/dictionary-like structure. (Even when storage is columnar, the API is still behaving like a table/map/dict.)

With a graph, if we only keep the info about edges, it also becomes a key=>value map, where key is node A & B list/set, and values are edge properties.

But as soon as we try storing info about nodes, this requires a second table.

Wikidata has to make yet another table, with types of edges and nodes.
I think this is almost funny. If it weren't so sad.

https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/7137/files
>It's a bittersweet book, about being a small human in a world where the value of individual creative efforts are overwhelmed by the sheer might of automation and vast collaboration and technological accumulation.

I also hold, strongly and somewhat idiosyncratically, that it would work quite well as a Studio Ghibli/Miyazaki film. (Chew on that for a minute, hahah.) (EDIT: So much so that I did, at one point, badly mock-up a poster for it: https://imgur.com/a/S96hTSV)

RE is phenomenally underrated, not just because of its prescience, but also because of the way that it's simultaneously accessible and layered. It's apropos that Pokemon-like entities show up in the story since, like the original Pokemon games, it's a relatively simple and straightforward story, with some complex thoughts and troubling implications drifting below the surface. I like the tagline, "A novel with one foot in the future," because it perfectly alludes to the nature of adolescence, which describes the setting and also the age (and up) of people who should be reading it if they want to get a glimpse of the times that are fast barreling towards us.

Excusing further Japanese pop culture analogies, I get the feeling that Vinge fans treat it as FFTA to ZOTs' FFT. Which is a bit of a shame, kind of like eschewing 1984 for The Forever War.
Some of those wealthy people are so-called "royals" - paid by tax-payers.
If we’ve learnt anything from the past decade of being online, it’s that the gatekeepers are vital.
> In history books, you get a sense sometimes that there were eras in which stuff like this sent people into the streets in rages.

Read better history books. A bunch of people yelling into the air is not how change is effected.

Really the culprit here is the French revolution, back when things were physically rooted so if you could storm the palace and burn your debt the debt would really be gone. All the French organs of power were located in this city filled with seething people. But that is not the world we live in today. If you storm the whitehouse, you just trespassed on a famous building, you haven't captured the center of power. If you tear down a statue, you just lose popular support, you are not overthrowing anything by attacking the physical statue.

Power is not in buildings and it's not obtained by yelling.

Moreover the resentment of incredibly privileged people complaining that they are not as privileged as someone else is not how you gain popular support.

Yes, envy is still a powerful motivator, but the achillees heel of envy is that it's hard to unify a group of people who are driven by resentment. They constantly turn on each other. It's a very tricky thing, and if you are a would-be Napoleon, then shouting at birds isn't how you convert envy into a stepping stone for power.
So I did a search for the title of his blog post to see what comes up, this HN page is top hit.
Cool yeah that makes sense, makes total sense for ML where you just need to run over epochs, less clear for other workloads.

After looking around I thinking more about CRIU/docker suspend. The google stars aligned and I found this https://github.com/checkpoint-restore/criu-image-streamer + https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/7/contributions/641/atta... which actually seems perfect. I wonder how fast it is

Edit: Also no GPU support AFAIK but https://github.com/twosigma/fastfreeze looks really nice, turnkey. I wonder if I write to a fast persistent disk if I can get higher maximum ram than over the NW

(or, hacking on a checkpoint idea, have a daemon periodically 'checkpoint' other programs so even if it's too slow over 60 seconds, revert to the last checkpoint. Even an rsync like application where only send the changes)