skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A megabyte of ram on a machine with only a 16 bit address space gets a bit silly. Do you really want to manage 16 memory pages? These aren't multitasking machines, what are you going to do with that ocean of memory you can't access without faulting?
> Two guesses as to where the folks who implemented Kubernetes hail from (as in: which programming language

Go, obviously, though from their rationale article they “love” C/C++, Java, and Python, too.
Who are they hurting by believing that the Earth is flat?
> plenty of flamebait on HN - especially "cultural" flamebait. Some of which the moderators actively participate in

could you provide a link to an example?

> people don't like to think

solipsistic flamebait, and a universal negative you can’t possibly prove.

I leave showdead on while browsing hn and can tell you that the vast, vast majority of killed comments i’ve read are absolutely vulgar, or at best wildly off topic and really not worth the time it would take each individual to evaluate them, because we all have limited time to spend on hn and the opportunity cost of missing other, better comments or creating one of your own would lead to intellectual bankruptcy in this site. i leave it on because i’m curious about moderation outcomes here and about the entire distribution of thoughts going on in people’s minds (well, at least those people that’ve found their way to hn)… is that not “thinking” enough?

have you considered that a position of “no moderation” is in and of itself a moderation strategy? anarchy can be dystopian, too…
It's more anachronistic than that.. people don't really use that much paper anymore that they need paperweights.

Maybe a keychain ornament.
>There is a big difference between thinking for ourselves and the sort of broad rejection of expertise we are seeing, especially in the US.

There's a current trend with labeling people who disagree with your narrative as 'rejecting expertise'.

People aren't rejecting expertise. They're following different experts than the one's you approve of.

Descarte's, maybe you've heard of him, rejected the expertise that the sun revolved around the Earth despite all of the mainstream experts disagreement.

This pattern has repeated countless times throughout history: labotomies, thalidomide, antiseptic procedure...that's just science...god knows the number of people executed for going against the expertise backed narrative that a dictatorship is not an ideal form of government.

The problem with 'trusting experts' (which is a classic logical fallacy)...is WHICH EXPERTS?

At the end of the day it's all a narrative and you pick the narrative you wish to follow backed by the experts that support your narrative.

It's disengenous to claim otherwise.

And that's literally a politician or leaders job is to sift through all of the experts and all of the other bullshit and try to pull a good decision out of it.

And as a human being, that should be your job as well.
This is a FCF play[0]. The lower your COGS, the more FCF it generates every month.

[0]https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/va...
Tell HN: Y Combinator jobs sign in button broken
I get a file not found error when clicking "sign in" on ycombinator.com/jobs
Yeah, I was just wondering if hospitals actually have a way of getting away with this, as families never check for their loved ones body.
I didn't know that - especially about "LTSC" for feature updates. Thanks for correcting me.
The only way to avoid co-mingling of inventory is to buy Amazon Basics products because they are clearly marked.

This gives every non Amazon brand a massive disadvantage because they will be associated with scams.
Sure. A singularity is your theory crashing with a "not applicable in this regime" error. It means you need a better theory, in this case of how gravity behaves at high energy density. One possible take on it is fuzzballs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzball_(string_theory)
This isn't really a metaphor or an analogy. Modern scientific leaders and religious leaders both act as liaisons between the public and knowledge. Scientists tend to produce a lot more useful knowledge, but the issues faced by both are the same. It's obvious they both end up developing similar patterns for resolving communication issues.

The parent noticed this similarity because both are in the same business.
I mean, very often "shared data" is fake news because we know that studies on politically charged topics are under intense pressure (via funding or public lynch mobs) to come out a particular way. In the past two years studies on crime rates by race, illegal immigration/amnesty, and many covid related topics have all been shaped by this.

And remember, the way most people are finding out about this "shared data" is via the media that just got done spending 4 years accusing trump of being a russian agent. So, they're biased or they're liars. Hence the skepticism.
> I'd love to have a look at the original publication that the USGS used when it decided to create those signs, but its buried so deep under partisan schadenfreude that I can't find it to even analyze it.

Don't you and the guy you responded to want the same thing: answers from the scientific community? You can criticize the right wing news sources all you want... the existence of the signs saying the glaciers were going to disappear is pretty indisputable. Clearly, someone at some point had enough belief in that prophesy that they made a sign.
Store brands for stuff like bread, etc. are not only bought from the same manufacturers as the "real stuff", they show up on the same trucks and are faced by the employees of the same distributor.
ByteDance-Backed Manner Coffee Weighs Hong Kong IPO
It's not that it can't be found but it's a difficult thing to prescribe to other people. Reading the title I immediately thought of a number of easy jobs that I've come across. I have no idea if any of them would be interesting or not-frustrating to you though.
This. Most jobs are bullshit jobs. Sounds awesome but they're paying you for something -- if its not output its to get dumped on.
This is all part of the temporal war. The Windows 20 faction is manipulating the time line.
I haven't seen this comment yet, so here we go.

I live in a rural community of about 15,000 people, attend church, and sports for my kids and generally spend a lot of time with people in the community. These are people who don't trust the science.

They aren't stupid, they aren't uneducated, and they mostly aren't believing radical misinformation. There are two really important things to consider though.

1. They don't have experience with Science or Statistics. Outside of a high school classroom 20 or more years ago. [It's easy to get through college without any meaningful science education]

2. They have been screwed by the medical system, government, and economy.

Their decision making and behavior is primarily driven off of their intuition and second hand information from people they trust. The vast majority of unvaccinated people that I know don't believe in microchips or that the vaccine will kill them. They just think they don't need it cause they aren't at risk or because they have already developed natural immunity.

Some of them are right and some of them wrong. They are just people and doing the best they can.
About the only thing I find addicting on my phone is checking the weather everyday. My working hypothesis is that many people want to waste (or spend, call it what you want) their time on their devices, so they install applications that will help them do so.
You’re not alone in this.

You can be alone in this in the tech bubbles where developers suggest mums use Kubernetes to run their knitting blogs and complain why they can’t run Docker on their iPads.

Outside of this, while Apple has a financial incentive for the status quo, they also care about customer experience (we know Apple is laser focused about this even in the pre App Store years and decades). And on the whole, sideloading will do more harm than good.
In common parlance it usually means “is disgusted by” rather than the traditional “is afraid of”.
If it's successful it won't get a name, it won't be a "thing," it will just be the new normal.
Fast character case conversion (or how to compress sparse arrays)
Are there particular things you look for, or that those jobs have in common?
It's not, and that's why decryption of unknown ciphertext is even harder
Another one is storing pans in the oven, then forgetting the pans are there and preheating it.

whoops.
IIRC it's a size and power thing. You can emulate most of what a ring laser gyro does with good accelerometers and that's the better choice for most devices needing long battery life and compact size. Ring laser gyros (while small) are not that small last I checked. A quick google shows you can get them in about the size of a pocket watch. So potentially a good case addon for those that need it without the cost/power usage issues that would hit those that don't.
Besides analytical skill, people also posses intuition which is a valid tool to interpret the world. A wife that is cheated on by her husband, intuitively knows that she s cheated on even though she has no proof. She might see the unusual behavior of her husband, the fact that he s secretive doesn't give her attention as he used to or comes home very late. She might even confront him about this only to be met with a lot of logical explanations and alibies(I had to work till late, I went on a teambuilding trip, etc). His reasons might be completely rational and logical but she knows something is wrong. He might even attempt to make it seems she s the hysterical and crazy one while he s the rational and calm guy. See where I m going? Your friends and family don t contest "the data",they couldn t do this even if they wanted. But they have serious reasons to believe something s off. Their intuition is telling that. They might not have the data, only a feeling. But that feeling is strong. They don t deny your good intentions,it s just that you made yourself the defender of a certain conclusion.They have an issue with the mainstream source of that data, with the government and the the industry behind, which academics ar legitimizing through skewed papers, paid research, etc. I suggest to take their skepticism more serious, since even I, from the other side of the world, can see they probably they are right. There is definitely something off and skepticism is reasonable these days.
I keep hoping they’ll use this for teams. The mobile app is so much more performant (not sure if that’s react native?) and RN for desktop works well but needs more features
OMG: Oh My God! (2012)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2283748/
Gosh, I feel slow.

Everyone is commenting how neat this is and all I got is some dots that follow my line? Then I tried to clear all frames and now it just draws a fat blobby line that doesn't move anymore?
Given the tiny drawing area and the insanely thick brush, you're lucky you got something as coherent as 'tree'
I feel fairly strongly that r/politics is fine the way it is. If you sort by controversial, you're still free to peruse uncensored dissenting opinions. Sure, there may be some astroturfing and sure, the articles may be cherry-picked, but the sub overall is welcome to healthy debate.

Contrast this with r/conservative, where > 50% of threads are locked to members only where membership is gained by demonstrating that you only express right-wing opinions (I'm not making this up). Even further, you can still be banned as a non-member for expressing views too far outside right-wing orthodoxy. r/politics seems like a shangri-la for political debate in comparison.
Show HN: Download videos, but only the parts you want
This article mentions protections will be expanded to reporters and activists, and I’d like to know- what does Facebook consider a reporter? What does Facebook consider an activist?
Imagine a GPU based on 512 of these, with each unit responsible for rasterizing a 128×128 pixel subsection of a 4K frame.
> These aren't multitasking machines

Why wouldn't a faster machine with more RAM be a multitasking machine? (Obviously without extras you are limited regarding security etc, but plenty early multitasking machines didn't have that)
I don't think Microsoft is concerned about ISA extensions for third parties. Apps can use function multi-versioning to support beneficial ISA extensions. I think they're more interested in ISA extensions and CPU features for first party code. They can enforce protections in drivers, kernel modules, and services.
This is one of the biggest releases for inlets so far, which adds monitoring and metrics support with a new status command and Prometheus instrumentation: for a more detailed write-up with more info on the metrics see: https://inlets.dev/blog/2021/08/18/measure-and-monitor.html

How does inlets compare to other tunnels? https://inlets.dev/blog/2021/07/27/monthly-subscription.html
Why do I feel that whole review culture is entirely broken. How could a battery receive 5/5. If it works and contains perceived average amount of charge it deserves exactly 3/5. And that should expected experience for most consumers...
Mattermost 6.0 Released – Combining Channels, Playbooks, and Boards
> It is simply another stimuli filtered through your normal senses going the normal routes.

So is this:

https://www.thoughtco.com/the-giant-jewel-beetle-1968152
> I don't quite know why they made the choice they made.

It was mostly technical one. Piper itself is a distributed file system which has significant incompatibility with git's internal model and git didn't provide a good extension model to hack with. So to provide deep integration, forking was the only viable option at the moment.

Perhaps the equation might be different now since MS did some contribution for their own use and git maintainers have become less reluctant to accept features for monorepo use cases, IIRC. Still, it's harder to retrofit the existing distributed file system into the core git object model than to develop a new one designed with that in mind.
> Most scientists do not set out to willfully participate in bullshit.

Probably true. But “scientists who seek political power” is a different set. See, Fauci
This is overgeneralising. There are plenty of jobs and bosses that this doesn't apply to. In most cases your manager is also a person who's doing whatever they can with what they're given, not some entity that exists for the sole purpose of making your life miserable.
How to Deal a Micromanager Boss
Visual Studio moving to native macOS UI
Ask HN: Is continued globalization sustainable for planet earth?
I can’t help but wonder if more (not completely though) self sufficient cities would be a good thing for the planet. Are other people thinking this too? Are there drawbacks that aren’t apparent from the surface? Is it just an unrealistic/utopian thought?
What I find interesting and somewhat unfair is the practice of allowing Amazon marketplace resellers to list every product of every other brand (even Costco snd Target house brands) EXCEPT Amazon brands.

So really every other brand has to contend with counterfeit or at least pricing arbitraged products being listed against their brand on Amazon, except Amazon.

That seems to give Amazon a monopoly driven upper hand and is materially different from what other marketplace platform players are doing.

To be a fair and transparent marketplace platform and avoid anti-trust litigation - Amazon should be allow resellers to price gouge and counterfeit Amazon brands as well.

[1] Kirkland and Target T-shirt on Amazon available from a variety of price gougers and potential counterfeiters

https://www.amazon.com/Kirkland-Signature-Mens-White-Large/d...

https://www.amazon.com/Goodfellow-Co-Standard-Lyndale-T-Shir...

[2] Amazon Essentials T-shirt on Amazon only available from - you guessed it - Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Essentials-Regular-Fit-T-Shirt...
Decimal mode is nerfed on that version, plus some other changes. But like with the 6510 mentioned above, the design could be adapted to match.
All right, that's it: No more commenting on Hacker News.
A great example of "moving the goalposts."

"Educating [the] population" and "building basic infrastructure" is something we're doing a pretty shoddy job of in the U.S., so the attempt to minimize the significance is pretty disingenuous.

What's your criteria for a nation to "actually prosper?" Hyperdriven, rampant, and mind-numbing consumerism? More millionaires? At the expense of the laborers of which colonized nation?
Rather than force my preference on their IT hardware people while they're still dealing with knock-on effects from a pandemic, the laptop my current employer provided runs Windows because that's their default.

A few times per week, Windows will inform me "Your speakers aren't working" or "Your microphone isn't working". Notice that this is deliberately vague as to agency or cause even though of course they couldn't detect if the actual problem was that the physical microphone or speakers wasn't working. They know it isn't working because their driver fell over even though they don't admit that's the problem. As a result rebooting the computer usually fixes it.

Now, I happen to own a laptop by the same vendor, into which I can plug the exact same devices, and on that laptop these audio devices work reliably even under Windows (which is installed to run some games). But "it works on some hardware and not others" is exactly the sort of poor user experience Linux (and *BSD) audio gets dinged for...
Does Amazon even have a viable competitor (even a small one) at this point?

And were one to try to start one, how would that even look?
> There is a known connection between sunlight exposure and serotonin release so it seems like a reasonable explanation to me.

Indeed, but I guess what I'm saying is that the feeling you experience isn't further evidence that it's serotonin.

Your connection between the feeling and it being serotonin is purely based on the studies that have been done. Those studies are the evidence. The qualitative feeling we get doesn't add to the body of evidence.

That is what the original author was arguing against. People arguing with her online saying "I feel a dopamine rush, therefore it's dopamine that I'm experiencing. You can't tell me it's some other neurotransmitter."
TLDR: COVID has both a higher actual body count and a much higher potential body count along with asymptomatic transmission that makes masks which we have every reason to believe decrease transmission by decreasing the amount of fluid breathed out and thus the amount of virions spread through the environment even when cloth masks are worn imperfectly. Models of both chance of transmission and severity of disease decrease with dose of infectious particles.

The utility of preventative measures is defined by an estimate of the relative utility of mitigating vs not mitigating.

Covid is widespread in the community, deadly, very easily transmissible, and transmissible by asymptomatic carriers. This means the single most effective measure we have to avoid spreading illness, simply staying home when we feel ill, cannot and in many cases will not be practically effective alone because people wont practice it.

A mask lets someone who doesn't know they are contagious decrease the chance of spreading the disease in that time frame and it forces immoral people who go to work with their coughing and blowing their snotty nose to at least keep some of their mucus to themselves.

With various mitigation measures we have still lost over 700k people. There is every reason to believe that had we treated it like the flu which we callously spread by not even staying home when we are ill, not bothering to get vaccinated or mask we would have lost 2-3 million people based on the fatality rate experienced by individuals early on not to mention the challenged that would have been faced by our overwhelmed health care system. This is not even to speak of the long term damage to the bodies of survivors.

There is a tendency in those who complain about current health care measures to compare our costs despite countermeasures with the callously unmitigated costs of lesser challenges like the flu. As costs have mounted this becomes increasingly unreasonable as even the mitigated total grows much higher than the cost of something like flu.

We don't make everyone mask up during flu season because the ugly truth is we are ok with killing 50k mostly old people in flu season. We make this choice every time we go out of the house knowing we are sick and work sick knowing we will infect 5 more people who will infect 5 more people and so forth.

By contrast even with drastic mitigations in many case we still lost 350k in 2020 and will probably lose over 400k in 2021.

We have established that in the realm of infectious disease COVID is notably different from the next worst competition.

One could easily argue that behaviors like bad diet lead to as many unnecessary deaths but infectious disease unlike bad diet is something that the vulnerable cannot mitigate. Nobody chases you down and stuffs double cheeseburgers down your gullet but someone may silently exhale death while you all shop for your groceries or work together.

Thus the reason for our elected representatives to on our behalf to set ground rules to protect us from our fellow citizens irresponsibility.
Doesn't HN have a policy against titles that are pure editorializing of the source?
The problem you’re highlighting is a simple design issue.

My problem with progress bars is they are usually nonsense estimates based upon random programmer choices.

I know former MSers who worked on progress bars for old Windows versions. Specifically I remember them saying the progress bar for copying files to USB was estimating how long until a USB hardware buffer was clear, without any idea how much more data there was intended to be jammed into the buffer once it cleared. Buffer would immediately refill and increase the wait time.

Given how slowly Windows deprecates code, who knows what subroutines any given progress bar is relying on.

They’re nonsense features meant to soothe users who seek progress. They don’t need to be interesting visually. I’d accept a simple countdown that made sense.

I’m hoping manufacture of application specific chips takes off. That we embed a 3D engine into silicon and this “software engineering is life” mind virus can go away.

We simply did not do it that way before because we lacked the manufacturing capabilities.

If manufacturing hopes and dreams of colleagues in the chip biz come to fruition, software is on its way out as a routine part of developing new technology. But I mean they’re biased; attention on hardware versus software makes them more valuable.
The Dust That Measures All Our Time
My friend worked as a software tester/QA at Crossover and the article is accurate compared to what my friend's experience was.
I thought the problem was that in the thin air, the rotors have to spin much faster and the tips go supersonic.

Would rotors with large surface area be how those helicopters work?
MosaicML Explorer: Train ResNet101 4x faster with algorithmic methods
The '70's, '80's? Of course this is a matter of opinion, and yours is different from mine. Would you at least agree that there is less of a free speech ethos than there was 10 years ago? If not, it may just be an issue of whose ox is being gored, if you follow me.
The Challenge of Algorithmic Autopoiesis
Why are there mass firings of nurses for refusing to get the shot?