skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think societal-collapse is in the modern Zeitgeist, not specific to HN though.

Like someone on the docks watching cargo being loaded on one side of a ship, anyone paying attention to the increasing imbalance between the have's and have-not's is anticipating that this will not end well.

(And paying attention to this maybe is more the HN crowd?)
Why can't we find enough Data Engineers?
That is how I read it. This is intended to be paired with cproc, a c compiler that uses QBE for it’s backed. QBE outputs assembly not binaries, so an assembler could be used to assemble itself as part of that toolchain.
Maybe it’s just my opinion but there is a world of difference between being forced to work on a factory floor for 16 hours without a break and “The company didn’t denounce…” or “my company is making me return to office…”

Perhaps they have other grievances but I guarantee they pale in comparison to what the labor movement worked to solve years back.
To be fair, unlike Tether, the Bank of Scotland actually does hold actual cash worth the same as the notes they issue.

Also, although these banks have permission to issue notes (whereas if you went around issuing "bank notes" you'd likely get arrested) the notes aren't necessarily worth anything except in the sense that you can assume the Banks will give you Bank of England notes for them if it came to it since they're required to hold those.

They aren't legal tender (Scotland doesn't really bother having legal tender laws anyway) and retailers can choose not to accept them if they want. You won't have a problem exchanging them for tourist stuff in Edinburgh or buying a fish supper in Dundee, but good luck getting some random corner store owner down South in Cornwall or Essex to accept them - even though these notes are in some sense worth the same as Bank of England notes, there is no law requiring retailers to accept any notes and so they might just tell you to fuck off with your weird-looking money.
You should qualify what "more fake" means and how.
you'll find in the sub-$1000 laptop range you'll get something that is literally twice as fast

That's true, but it would require some combination of major compromises on the SSD, RAM, hot swappable battery, build quality, form factor, and keyboard/trackpoint. I'm almost never CPU limited in my day to day workflows, even on a 2nd gen i5, and I have cloud resources available when I need to do something CPU intensive like model training for work. It's a tradeoff that isn't right for everyone, but those other factors are far more important to me than the CPU.
They are dancing around the fact that ivermectin is indeed a 3CL protease inhibitor, despite that the molecule is very different from the new anti-virals being developed, and despite that 3CL protease inhibition was not primarily what made ivermectin an anti parasitic.

That’s how you know these fact checks are bullshit propaganda. They obviously did their research, but they will discuss everything short of the thing that will actually give credence to the claim being fact checked.

It doesn’t matter that the primary mechanism of action of ivermectin is different from the thing that makes it anti-viral. It doesn’t matter that the molecule looks very different from the new antivirals. These are not important and are just distractions from one simple fact:

the new antivirals work by inhibiting 3CL protease, ivermectin inhibits 3CL protease too.
> What I never understood though is why did Microsoft (or anybody else) invest in all this activation bullshit anyway.

I relate this to the adage "locks are to keep honest people honest."

Similarly, bypassing a valid license has to be just hard enough that people have time to think about what they're doing.

To push the metaphor a bit further, someone is more likely to try the credit card trick to shim a door open (type in a fake or shared serial key) than acquire lockpicking tools (download a crack).

There's probably some convenience factor there as well...
They should just install a physical off switch for the battery, along with physical switches for the camera and networking.
Then don t ask for respect or trust from the average Joe. No "trust the science" for you
An exceptional trackpad. I heard windwos laptops are coming close to the Macbook trackpad, but I've gotta try it first.
Sometimes DRM, like Denuvo, gets removed with a post-patch after it got broken because it has a performance impact and the pirated version runs better than the DRM one, while the initial purpose of the DRM (ensure no piracy right after launch) has been fulfilled. I call that pragmatic.
What the...?: [1] Artworks of Max Ernst are not aviable in your country on copyright grounds. https://i.imgur.com/LHeQimw.png
Stop reading/watching the news or checking your phone in the AM or even for a whole 24 hours.
One that DOES NOT have those ridiculously small up and down cursor keys. So many modern laptops are like that now.
Recursive Internetwork Architecture
Part of the problem is that these people don't like being treated like idiots, and we've now got governments all over the west talking down to them and denying them the right to earn a livelihood, and a bunch of inner city midwits with useless degrees very openly calling for their exclusion from society or even genocide in some corners of Twitter.

There is a very loud lack of respect from all sides of the equation.
Saudi Arabia has the fifth largest military budget in the world. They spend more than Germany, France or the UK. Their training and readiness probably isn't nearly as good, but to say they have no military is ... odd.

More to the point, many nations sell oil for non-USD. It's quite common. Further, the oil trade is a small fraction of international USD movement. The idea that the "petrodollar" is a major factor in international politics is... unlikely to be true.
How Adobe became Silicon Valley’s quiet reinventor
I can remember when a lot of widespread network platforms were niche. Twitter and post Twitter started this VC instant popularity expectation.

I don't mean to advocate for Mastodon or anything else in particular, but these things sometimes have a way of being niche until they're not.

I also think part of the parent's argument was that in encountering obstacles like this, groups of nonprofit institutions such as art museums could leverage their position to promote decentralized systems, rather than simply throw up their hands and go with a sensationalized move.

Then again we are here discussing it. But then again if they banded together to post on some decentralized platform we'd probably be talking too.
I have to admit the diagram is a bit misleading.

The core idea here is called chunk: https://github.com/doyoubi/undermoon/blob/master/docs/chunk....

Each proxy always runs in front of 2 Redis instances.
Each chunk consists of 2 proxies and thus 4 Redis instances on 2 different physical servers. And each Redis has its master/replica on another half part under another proxy inside the chunk. So master and replica are always not in the same physical server.
Chunk is the smallest building block of a cluster so the Redis instances number is always a multiple of 4.

We designed it in this way because we came up with an algorithm to balance the overall workload based on this chunk structure: https://github.com/doyoubi/undermoon/blob/master/docs/chunk_...

For the second question, the proxy here is just a way to add additional features on the top of Redis without changing its source code. I would say it's a server-side proxy while envoy focuses on the client-side features.

And yes, it can handle failover transparently for clients.

In Kubernetes, the metadata is stored inside a ConfigMap, which is based on etcd.
#2 is just rotten, especially if the grant expires.
Yeah, although at least with films you know it is make-believe. The real stuff is also pervasive on social media and that can be terribly damaging for a young person to stumble upon. In my opinion, more so than stumbling upon even hardcore porn. Arbitrary censorship is worse than either totally locking down everything or being completely open. With the latter two you (as a user/consumer) know what to expect and can be prepared.
> No one is a naturally good baker.

While baking/cooking may not relate to physical genetics, it is definitely linked to creativity and such. Not everyone can be a Masterchef.

> I don't think that's true. The difference between two cakes is down to who baked them, not the price.

It is true? Everything you listed are things that are influenced by both the baker and the price. Not everyone can handle the stress of managing multiple high-end event deliveries while fulfilling the nuanced needs and quality expected of a 10k cake vs a 100$ cake, and so on.
These are not stupid people, they must know basic stuff like money being worthless when society collapses. Before posting this article I read a whole bunch on the same topic, here is an interesting quote from another one [0]:

> "This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from the angry mobs. But how would they pay the guards once money was worthless? What would stop the guards from choosing their own leader? The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers — if that technology could be developed in time."

[0]: https://onezero.medium.com/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0...
America was founded by Protestants and it shows. Nudity and sexuality is basically the most cardinal sin, above any type of violence even.

As someone outside the Anglo Saxon world I’m amazed how Puritan it is. Like seeing a nipple or kids seeing a nipple really isn’t the end of the world. But Americans can’t even get over public breastfeeding.
yes - I worked in a computer-aided chemistry company as software engineer in California in the 90s. The culture there was from the 80s, but the scientists were very hard working! (scientists may not write very good code but you know, they can write a lot of it! athlete/scientist was common in my group). I was making pretty good money and my father wanted to see where I worked once. So I used my badge to walk in with the two of us, to a ~10 meter x 16 meter open room, with about four glass walled offices on one side and the rest of the area with cubicles.. maybe two dozen or more.. some of the cubicles were "big" with a table, some medium, and then a number of ordinary ones. I was used to it, but as a male, I could see over the cube walls while walking, whereas shorter colleagues could not. Other small things about it at another time.. (some offices at Apple Inc, Cupertino were also laid out like that -- maybe they got it from their HP-imported managers).

My father was silently aghast.. he was actually startled by seeing everyone in the room like that.. all the commotion. It had never occured to him that people could be arranged like a lab rat-maze (which it was really).
Ask HN: Laptop Buying Suggestions and Advices
Hey!! Can anyone suggest an apt laptop in medium budget( under 30 thousand Indian rupees or 530$ USD) with specific priority on processing speed, battery Power (Both in terms of backup and recharge time) and somewhat decent screen quality??I'm a student and I'm viewing to learn ML and also I want to use it for reading my academic textbooks and the related works as well... Please suggest me on for any others priority features as well to look upon!!!

Budget: Under 40 thousand rupees or 530$ USD
Confronting the Supply Chain Crisis
I tend to find swag somewhat wasteful even under normal circumstances, but over the past 18 months or so I've gotten a bunch of team and speaker/attendee event swag individually mailed to me and I feel a bit of guilt given that pretty much none of it is anything I remotely need. And, in many cases, will ever use. (Some is nice though so I hesitate to say just get rid of all this sort of thing.)
They could although it's more likely, given their own pie charts, they didn't receive any US dollars for printing their coin over the past 1-2 years and instead loaned (i.e. commercial paper) USDT out. These loans are also significant in that they put Tether in the top 10 commercial paper holders in the world, but not significant enough for others in the top 10 to know about them or do any business with them.
On Canva's Shift Upmarket
so while things are going good they give us a bunch of their money, and then when things go bad they come here and we can kill and eat them!
> Instead of leading us

Why should they be leading us? The only people who should be allowed to "lead" are democratically elected officials. And even then we should be very reluctant and very critical of any of their abuses.

> Compared to the elite statesmen of old, who are these pretenders?

Probably about the same. If anything it's a bit better now because we can at least see how petty, arrogant, callous etc. these people actually are.
A former coworker of mine was a professional pastry chef before she switched to software development. She said the salary ceiling was quite low (40k-50k in a hotel) which is one of the reasons she moved. IIRC, she’s now writing software for a major investment firm, making bank.
The crazy, crazy fact:

Fatalities 36 (13 passengers, 22 crewmen, 1 bystander)
Survivors 62 (23 passengers, 39 crewmen)

Looking at the video, you certainly would not expect two thirds of the people on board to survive the hellish fire.
TSMCs post-pandemic future in a world short of chips? New factories more revenue
+1 for filters and folders.

Then either Do, Defer or Delegate.
"That people find this level of ludicruous confusion and complexity acceptable is mind blowing. And, to think that there is a whole generation of developers to whom this is the baseline of writing software, who think that this is normal, is genuinely painful. That there are people who knowingly perpetuate such complexity in software development in general, is painful. That reminds me of a developer that I spoke to who only knew how to deploy a static website via a “CI/CD” system connected to a K8s cluster. They did not know that it was possible to cp or rsync an index.html file to a directory on a Linux system running a web server. They were unable to even visualize that fundamental concept because CI/CD and K8s was their baseline."

Slightly orthogonal to the point of the article, but I've had some firsthand experience with this particular insight. I was talking to someone who was deploying a complex application via CI/CD to a cluster and was frustrated about some performance issue or other. This after much fribble about the pods and the cluster state and the load balancing and so on. I opined that maybe the problem was the application itself, since symptoms of that had persisted before the deployment, and asked if they had done any profiling. They said, "What's profiling?"
Toys don't generate negative attention. The biggest toy buyer in the tech industry was Paul Allen.

He collected planes, sport franchises, yachts, guitars, drumkits, Ferraris, Porsches....

Enjoying time buying toys signals the world that you are human, whereas people are really intimidated by robotic figures like Zuck, Musk, Gates and Bezos because they think they'd only rest and enjoy life when they managed to subjugate the entire world.

Everybody loved Paul Allen, instead.

When you start purchsing toys you signal society that your trajectory has reached the apogee and now you enter in consumption mode to hopefully die without any asset to your name after some "really good innings".

You get the good innings and society gets wealth redistribution which can be accelerated by discriminatory pricing given that everybody knows you re a billionaire and you are short on time, not money. Which is exaclty what happened to Paul Allen
Luckily, there are laws against monopolies. I don't see what you mean by Facebook currently having a monopoly, because Facebook is not the only social network.

Given the fact one of their main competitors is Valve, I don't think you have to worry about them destroying their competition financially either. Facebook isn't even really competing with them, FB is going for the low end market.
'It's our stuff': consumers wage right-to-repair revolution;
Laws in Europe are different in the US. I used to work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where I published the entire collection online. I got calls from colleagues in Europe amazed that we didn't worry about kids seeing stuff they shouldn't. We think the US is puritan but the decision that anything with merit can't be judged obscene actually protects us.
Awesome, thanks for the suggestion!
FDA Permits Marketing of E-Cigarettes, Marking First Authorization by the Agency
Malware botnet gang has stolen millions with a surprisingly simple trick
*Kapton tape, presumably.
A capstan is an interesting thing though: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capstan_(nautical)
Say goodbye to your cat...nevertheless, it could be a useful device under certain circumstances.
Many of the plots are true, but of different characters or different locations.
Not sure you are trolling or not, but I will bite. One of the very RAM intensive stuff I'm doing with my laptop is that I am using many VMs in GNS3 set up for networking simulation with Linux VMs running Quagga, LiSA, etc thus the more RAM I have the faster and smoother the simulation.

Why so many people go berserk when you say you need more RAM? The new workstation CPU from Intel namely W3300 can support up to 4 TB RAM, RAM amount of 128 GB is practically peanut compared to that.
Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink
Mimeographs Transformed Information Sharing in Schools
Poor folks try to prepare for bad things too, but no one cares about their gardens and fish ponds. Possibly their landlords and HOA's.

Most such seem to be: We'll look ahead and plan for the possibilities that don't scare us too much.

Preparing for a time of hungry, angry, wandering people could scare the neighbors, too, of course; so some just don't talk about it.
> But Americans can’t even get over public breastfeeding.

Highly regional / generational.
If you refer to that z somewhere, depending on its value and use it might exist as a separate value in the executable, as part of one or more instructions, or not at all (e.g. if you use that z only in if(z) phrases)

> This ain't right.

That’s an opinion that’s not universally shared.

One could similarly write

These refer to variables that can be changed in memory when the program is running:

int a;
extern int b;
static int c;
volatile int d;

And this refers to something that cannot be changed at runtime:

const int z = 1;

This ain't right.

or variations on that theme with unsigned, values vs pointers, int vs long, etc. In all cases, that “this ain’t right” doesn’t logically follow. Why would yours?
1. 4 USB-C ports minimum

2. Thunderbolt on both sides

3. touchpad as good as Apple's

4. Built in cellular
It's been a long time since the unique and slightly bizarre Kai's Power Tools: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai%27s_Power_Tools
Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News IRC channel / Discord server?
But industries are always joining some of the mega-union because they have most effective lobbying, I will quit before I join aflcio or similar.
Unstable in NixOS is nothing like the horrors that wait in Fedora Rawhide and Debian Sid.

NixOS benefits from the fact that it has unit tests and that all packages are built in a consistent way across all packages.

Archlinux is a bit more stable then NixOS unstable, but not significantly so. But more importantly if you do somehow manage to update to a broken build, it's take less than a second to roll back to exactly where you were before hand.
1. No soldered ram or disk.

2. Bulky, heavy with 17" screen and good cooling.

3. CPU has to be XEON with ECC support.

4. Lots of USB-A ports and other ports (HDMI, etc).
No, it's about delivering products faster or prettier.

There are fields where squeezing every tiny bit of performance matters — media compression, 3D software (including game engines), data processing, hardware.

Engineering is not art, it's about building things that can be useful.
And then there's Goya[1]. Not necessarily pre-school appropriate either.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Devouring_His_Son
For prep work, you can store pizza dough as little balls, or pre-flatten them and put them on racks, freezing many more pizza doughs than bread doughs. Preparing a pizza crust is as easy as using a press, but to make consistent bread you need a complicated machine that's annoying to clean. Bread also needs a proofer if you're serious about mass producing it, hence needing more space. Otherwise you can enjoy handcrafting your bread and cultivating yeast, which is another art and science all to itself.

While less pizzas fit in a pizza oven than bread may fit in a bread oven, it's easier to prepare pizzas, easier to hire for, and people pay more for them.
You can pre-order Microsoft's official Xbox Series X mini fridge next week
Exactly. When Visa and Mastercard started millions started using it and almost 93% of businesses started accepting cards in the first months.

Nobody uses Bitcoin, only 1 small country
The claim was that beige was the color of hardware (accompanied by a link discussing this claim). Portrait displays have never been very common (TVs were always landscape). This feels like a particularly picky bit of nitpicking.
Do Canon printers in the EU have this problem? I would think customers would be able to return them as defective.
You can’t call a conclusion a lie because you don’t agree with it. A lie implies falsehood, where you’re just saying, “I don’t agree that this situation where raising the minimum wage of a small towns core business didn’t have negative impacts can translate to a larger scope of a whole state, because I don’t believe that’s how it works”. It’s on you to show the opposite.
Customizing Flutter Lints
The TDP of the M1 is between 15 and 20 Watts: I use one third of that with Intel...

Crunching some numbers, some benchmarks seem to place the M1 as three times faster. Through raw numbers, the M1 seems not much more "performant per watt" than the Pentium Silver - only slightly better. And, for a laptop, the importance is (in general) more on energy efficiency than in speed.

Edit: danieldk rightly noted below that TDP is a "high load consumption estimate". Official data for the "situational" consumptions are a bit harder to find.
Whatever it is, I’m definitely not interested in “dictating” what other people read or share.

Instead you can argue against it (like another post pointing out Mao’s hypocrisy) or promote alternatives. I’m willing to risk a few converted fascists.
A day in the life of Lloyd Squires, Vermont's 'best' bagel maker

https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/life/2018/11/19/ll...
The point is, you can be handed 1) the entire source code of the PRNG, and 2) six outputs from it, and it's impossible to know what the starting state of the PRNG was because six outputs could have come from many different starting states. You could brute force every single starting state and find every one that would produce those 6 outputs but it still doesn't let you know the next value.
'Citizen' app sent staffer to livestream Capitol riot undercover
Exactly. And this is not due to the fact that they are the global powers of enough strength to be a big opponent. /S
Yes, that is why, but they are wrong.

A better framing would be to focus on specific problems: "Facebook owning both facebook.com and Instagram and both Messenger and WhatsApp give them too much market power in social sharing and messaging, so Instagram and WhatsApp should be spun back out", "Amazon should not be able to use sales metrics of other platform sellers to inform their own product development", etc. Identify market issues, figure out regulatory language that speaks to those issues.

But "big companies are monopolies that must be broken up" is unhelpfully reductive.