skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's also a good point. EPYC has 2TB or 4TB of DDR4 RAM support.

That being said: its amusing to me to see the x86 market move into the "server-like" arguments of the 90s. x86 back then was the "little guy" and all the big server folks talked about how much bigger the DEC Alpha was and how that changes assumptions.

It seems like "standard" servers / systems have grown to outstanding sizes. The big question in my mind is if 64GB RAM is large enough?

Moana scene (https://www.disneyanimation.com/resources/moana-island-scene...) is 131 GBs of RAM for example. It literally wouldn't fit on the M1 Max. And that's a 2016-era movie, more modern movies will use even more space. The amount of RAM modern 3d artists need is ridiculous!!

Instinctively, I feel like 64GB is enough for power-users, but not in fact, the digital artists who have primarily been the "Pro" level customers of Apple.
And now WhatsApp has hundreds of engineers. Take that to mean whatever you want.
I am not trying to poison the well. I just can't help but observe how often people here post things anti-car and then ascribe all sorts of societal problems under the sun to the fact that the United States is so car-centric. I've also noticed that the car-hostile folks have a tendency to assume malice whenever someone defends the automobile. I mean right now I was just accused of poisoning the well.

The GP mentioned that people here are bike-hostile, but you don't see dozens of submissions from StrongRoads about how terrible bicycles are and how they're responsible for toxic individualism.
I'm unaware of any of those which are zero-zero. The Cirrus CAPS system has a minimum altitude of 400 ft or 920 ft after a one-turn spin, for example. BRS doesn't make specific claims for their system as far as I know but I'd be amazed if it were that much improved over the Cirrus one.
This makes a lot of sense and totally jives with my brief experience of working on a single App Engine app years ago. It felt like an easy platform to spin up a simple web app at first blush, but was actually such a frustrating experience when trying to do a lot of actual simple web app things.
A 25% increase in total effective immunity of the population is...noteworthy.
The original whistleblower got propped up and enjoyed it way too much. To a point their congressional testimony included their take that FB is a threat to national security (I haven't seen anything in their history that would hint they are experts in national security)

They were a Product Manager, not an executive. Their testimony should have focused on 2 things:

* What orders were you given

* Who gave you said orders

Instead it just spread out to 1000 different non relevant areas. Bad/Evil lower and middle management does not make the senior executives guilty

You think zuck personally decided to let domestic terrorists plan a terrorist attack on his platform? Cool, show us the evidence

We're seeing a lot of bad middle management going on in these leaks, but thats far from something that will bring down the whole company
I’m having one of those “why can’t there be 36 hours in a day” moments in life, but I’ve got to publish more about this very soon, so, it’s on the way.

When you combine the story of WhatsApp’s small team / high impact development with the remote work shift of the past few years, it seems that the next cycle (regardless of when/what it is) will be the first that isn’t centered on SF/SV/California. It’s interesting to think of how that’ll affect the psychology of the area.
I would regard your conduct in your examples as unethical but not
analogous to my examples. Your conduct would amount to exfiltrating
someone's private information that isn't intended for distribution,
whereas my examples concern information someone intends to distribute,
albeit selectively. Let such a person implement and fund his own
dedicated distribution channel or find a business model that doesn't
depend on commandeering a public resource. Throwing information into
the ether and expecting to shake down whoever catches it seems
unethical to me.
These designs were probably made several years ago, perhaps when Jony was still working there. Also, he was definitely not the only one deciding on the design. Apple’s designers are now working on the stuff that comes out years from now, everything else has already been practically finished.
Will it host a Hal 9000 computer on board as well?
The Brothers Karamazov is one of the few books I've started but abandoned without finishing. Perhaps it was related to the particular translation I had (I don't remember details of it now), but it just wasn't working for me.

Crime and Punishment, on the other hand, I found utterly compelling, and will probably re-read some day (which is a status few books achieve in my world).
>The specific way they measured the shift — comparing two parts of the same cloud — allowed them to cancel out a lot of noise that was common to both parts. It’s like measuring a sailboat in rough seas. Even as it lurches up and down unpredictably, the distance between the keel and mast will always stay constant. While a clock made of a cloud of atoms can drift due to any number of things — electric fields, magnetic fields, the laser light itself, heat from the environment — the difference in frequencies between the top and bottom of the cloud remains the same. Measuring that difference revealed the effect of gravity. “That’s not trivial to do,” said Andrew Ludlow, an atomic clock expert at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, who was not involved with the research.
Here's the last time Austen answered questions about Lambda School, which did not go well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26948258
I had no idea this book existed.

The best Russian writers (Dostoyevsky, Solzhenitsyn, Tolstoy) were something like Russian chauvinists. They thought Russia -- in particular, culturally and religiously -- was above all other nations. There was propaganda in the 19th century about Russia being the "protector of the Slavic peoples" which the targeted countries didn't exactly want. It's an idea that still resonates both in Russia and among her ex-pats.

Skimming the Wikipedia page, Conrad seems to have taken offense to precisely this. The book looks fascinating.
WTH?

And we wonder why we’re losing out to other economies and have to import skilled labor (not a bad thing per se, where it makes sense) but throwing your own under the bus is malfeasance.
The Pi4 is an amazing piece of hardware. While relying on sd cards is a sure way to get a disappointing surprise, they now support booting off a USB drive, which is amazing. Couple it with even a sata ssd and a USB adapter and you’ll be amazed how fired up it becomes. A Linux without a GUI boots in mere seconds. My biggest complaint really is the availability, especially now. I had to buy one of those mini Intel Atom PCs because I just couldn’t find a Pi4 anymore at a reasonable price.

I run an invoicing tool off mine, PiHole, NextCloud, UPS monitoring and HomeAssistant to control lights and heating in my home.

I have one serving as a controller and monitoring server for my 3D printer that I turned into a chunky little tablet with a 7” touchscreen and OctoPrint.

And another one for backups at the office.
JS is a small language when you consider the core of constructs which are in use today. I'd ballpark JS to be around 80-120 "constructs", which will differ based on how you divide semantic and conceptual units of learning. I'd ballpark Go to be around 80-120 as well.

A junior developer who is just learning how to code will not deal with all of JS historical baggage; they will deal with historical JS when joining a large historical codebase. A junior developer will also not be dealing with the different quirks arising from different browser runtimes. These are concerns for businesses who already have products.

But a Student does not encounter these things while learning and writing greenfield apps. Otherwise we are advocating for a student to learn an additional "learning" language. That sounds ideal for a 4 year university program.
This one particular student sticks with me. He was in his 60s-70s, and had a burgeoning career in IT/Security in the late 90s, but quit his job to take care of his ailing mother around 2001 or so. He took care of her, living off of her reverse mortgage for 20 years, but now she has passed away, and the term of the reverse mortgage ends soon (or I believe by now has ended) so the bank will be re-posessing his house, his only remaining asset. The guy was not doing well. Even though he was quite smart and had C++ in his distant background, he was making almost zero progress in the course. It soon became clear that he was so drained from working 12-hour days at a Costco warehouse (and doing other similar menial jobs) 6 days a week (and still not making enough to even pay his medical bills) that he wasn't going to be able to make any progress. I repeatedly recommended him for a scholarship (because of his intelligence and skill) but I never heard back, and eventually he dropped off my schedule. I did everything I could to give him what he needed to succeed, but ultimately there was nothing I could do. It haunts me. This country is so fucked.
> the Touch Bar. It was introduced in 2016 and… never really went anywhere. A more aggressive set of software updates from Apple might have turned it into something, but that never happened.
> Now it’s gone, replaced instead by a very traditional row of function keys.

Well to be honest I liked the Touch Bar and I used it quite often. On the other hand I never used the "Function Keys".
But why? Why silo
No idea- I always forgot to get a costume ready and just threw something together at the last second. Mine sucked period (one year I cut up a cardboard box, taped the ends together, held up this structure with some suspenders with duct tape, made a "paddle" out of cardboard", and said I was "a man in a canoe". Everyone just thought I was a hobo. I don't recommend this approach).

The important point is to get the OTHER person talking. I can't find it, but there was a comic strip where two people were in a conversation, but one kept talking and the other just said "fascinating! Tell me more". At the end of the strip the two separate and the talker turns to someone else and says "that man is a wonderful conversationalist!"

If you do a search for "being a good conversationalist" you'll find a lot of the advice is centered around being genuinely interested in the other person and letting/encouraging them to express themselves, not what you are saying or expressing.
The Obvious Wins Again: Natural Immunity Superior to Vaccine Immunity
It is treated the same way, at least under the law. People driving negligently can do go to jail for pedestrian fatalities.
Why does MSN allow disreputable publications like the Washington Examiner to link launder via their domain like that?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/oregon-graduation-proficie...
"The slide also shows that AT&T retains “cloud storage internet/web browsing” data for 1 year. When asked what this detail entails exactly, such as websites visited by customers on the AT&T network, AT&T spokesperson Margaret Boles said in an email that “Like all companies, we are required by law to comply with mandatory legal demands, such as warrants based on probable cause. Our responses comply with the law.” The document also mentions that law enforcement can request records related to wearable devices from AT&T."

do you know what this “cloud storage internet/web browsing” data looks like?
It's not that easy to get it unless you enjoy playing in a litterbox. Meats can also transmit but that seems to be a very low likelihood

It's really bad news for pregnant women and immune defective people
Love the name
Servers proxy the message yes but once all recipients (maybe a dozen clients in the worst cases) receive the message, the server can drop the data once and for all. No need to optimize for harder problems like search, caching, or recommender systems.
Anecdotal, but here is my experience: I graduated from General Assembly back in 2015, and bootcamps were just starting to crop up back then. I really liked the experience but it was definitely very clunky, I don't think I learned much about code. My first job afterwards ended up being a support engineer role for a year where I touched code maybe a handful of times, I started out at 55k which I was ELATED with. I then got an opportunity to learn development on the Salesforce platform and took a paycut to 35k just so I can learn the ropes and be 'coding'. This proved to be invaluable experience. 1 year later I moved to SF and I haven't looked back since.

It wasn't really the trajectory I saw back in 2015, but it felt that the bootcamps focused so much on teaching popular JavaScript tools and not really how to problem solve or even the language basics or even what the technology space can offer. I think it is a very tough thing to get right in 3 months(my class length) or even less...
The alternative isn't structures, but in limiting (or principally targeting) solar panel installations to extant built infrastructure.

Note that for numerous reasons that still remains a highly attractive option, including existing grid interconnects and proximity to infrastructure.
I imagine you could do some interesting things with one of these inserted into a PlayStation 5 system, for example.
It is an interesting pitch. So far the two "biggest" companies involved, Boeing and Blue Origin, have yet to demonstrate their ability to execute on more modest goals, much less this giant vision, so it is difficult to take seriously.

BO needs to figure out why the BE-4 engine has been such a challenge, and Boeing needs to figure out why Starliner has been such a challenge. If they credibly re-build the teams on those projects and turn them around, then perhaps that will inform their efforts on something grander.
Anecdotal: I went to an "expensive fancy" private college and I was lucky enough to have parents who knew how to advocate for financial aid.

In the end I ended up with +40k in scholarships as a mediocre high school student, plus a bunch of state grants.

I graduated with <30k of debt, which I paid off aggressively with my programmer job.

I like college. There is a right way to do it as an average student:

- Two years of cheap community college to get the chaff out of the way
- Two years in a better school for the higher level classes.

You can't think of it is a party or 'summer camp' which is an image which is sold to a lot of young people. You are there to learn a skill, improve yourself, and graduate into a career.
Remembering significant digits is not really that important in fintech applications, as you're usually in a fixed-point system that is pinned to the currency (dollar transactions usually down to the cent, handful of arabics down to the millimes, yen cut off at single unit).
FWIW, I greatly appreciate when founders go to these lengths but this happens over and over again. It does not feel significant anymore and rings hollow.
This is a very complicated topic that seems to see a lot of conflation, as it does in this article. It's really hard for a social network to maintain a balance, especially with how many try flooding them with very hard to verify, false information from misleading sources.

On our network, our plan moving forward is to allow our users to verify their identity privately with the platform to earn an "ID Verified" badge while still maintaining an anonymous public pseudonym if they choose. The idea being that others can trust the user is a real person and not some troll (paid or otherwise) while also allowing those that wish to have it to maintain anonymity publicly.

Just to give some insight into how this anonymity becomes a problem. On our platform, I watch in real-time people / actors from outside the U.S. posing as seemingly real people in the United States and posting propaganda. Not the obviously false stuff either. Carefully crafted political BS that is meant to simply move the needle ever so slightly on the desired targets -- arguably a case where anonymity is negatively affecting democracy. There is so much to this I could probably write an entire blog on it, it's ever irritating as someone running a platform but also quite interesting.
That's IMHO how you get something like this off the ground. Make it useful for a simple use-case while offering something of value - in this case the security of Rust. It can then become a preferred solution to some problem and that will bring users and developers looking to incrementally expand it.
How about this one.

>"Yeah, one of those days, I was smoking a joint after leaving my shift as a janitor in a hospital and the police took me. If I hadn't called my cousin Billy in the <next town over> police department and had him vouch for my good character I would be out bail money and a fat fine" - tons of people with LEO connections

The fact that this wasn't obvious says a lot about HN's interactions with government.
The intro with Rita Moreno yelling “Hey you guys!” followed by the theme song brings back a flood of emotion.

Here's a good-quality clip of that (6th season, 1977):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu7qn7c7Gpo
This faq entry https://support.starlabs.systems/kb/faqs/ami-aptio-v-vs-core... is quite misleading.

>coreboot uses flashrom, which runs from the userspace (outside the kernel) and writes directly to the SPI (a small chip where the firmware is stored). Instead of verifying the update, it will allow anything using user id 0 (aka "sudo", "root" or "admin") to write to it.

This is their implementation. Coreboot doesn't care about how it's written. That is not a part of coreboot. You, as a vendor, are supposed to create something sensible.

>AMI ... offers many features, including a graphical interface. ... [Coreboot] has no dedicated interface, apart from a simple boot menu.

This is again a function of the payload. If they use tianacore as a payload, they'll get a similar menu as AMI. It's their job to pick and customise payloads. Coreboot doesn't handle that stuff.
I submitted this largely for this little nugget:

>Since every month has 28–31 days, we know that each month has four weeks plus 0–3 “extra” days. If the date of the first Thursday is less than or equal to the number of extra days, there will be five Thursdays in that month.
excerpt

"You can read the full unredacted document for yourself here":

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.56...
>"If you want to operate a killing machine"

How can I take this seriously?

>"either yield to people who don't operate one"

And I do, where appropriate.
ENaira, the central bank digital currency (CBDC), has rolled out in Nigeria
> The anonymous Twitter account of a citizen holed below the poverty line

The article itself uses Twitter as an example, and doesn't even mention 4chan at all.
Does that depend on which vaccine was taken, which age group, or other factors?

Citations?
"several orders of magnitude" would imply at least 100x or 1000x, depending on how small you can interpret "several" to mean.
This was supposed to be a feature of iOS 13. No idea if it actually made it to production:

https://petapixel.com/2019/07/03/apple-can-automatically-cor...
> WhatsApp provided secure, ludicrously cheap instant messaging across all meaningful handsets.

You can scrap secure from this, the vast majority of users don't care or even know what that means.

If SMS was more secure I 100% would still expect whatsapp to win. Convenience and cost are the biggest drivers here.
> the Romans themselves didn't use them

They did sometimes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apex_(diacritic)
Next headline “DuckDuckGo is used for terrorism”
> They have at least 10 slightly used Dragon 1 capsules that, if they can be refurbished, will save them a lot of money.

I don't think that's how Dragon XL will be built. No need for most of what is on Dragon and the wrong shape.

More likely built with the same tooling as the 2nd stage of Falcon 9 combined with the systems from Dragon Cargo (the new one).

> In fact, I imagine a whole series of different vehicles derived from the Starship design

Agree. There are lots ways you can do it. Will be interesting to see how they do it.

> Engines could be removed and added to other vehicles f

Or just bring them back to earth.
I'd say cats are on equal footing with dogs when it comes to needy. Cats just may not exhibit it as much
I used to work as a technical recruiter and made several hires out of coding bootcamps (though never from Lambda, which didn't exist at the time).

One rule of thumb that we drew after many trials was that, if a candidate coming out of a coding bootcamp did not have a math or science background prior to that bootcamp, they probably would not pass our interview process.

That is, people with a certain intellectual foundation and aptitude can acquire useful skills from coding bootcamps. But people without that aptitude will not obtain it simply because they attended a coding bootcamp.

Separately, while I appreciate that Vincent got answers to questions that many people are asking, the fact that he had to hide his intentions to get an interview with Austen is exhibit number 1 why people have grown to mistrust reporters.

And that's interesting, because often you can't have both. That is, either you accept that corporations lie while the press plays by certain rules of honesty, which prevent them from getting past the smokescreen of lies. Or you support the press in its schemes to penetrate the smokescreen by using deception themselves. But if you support them against Lambda, then you should support them, too, in lying to the institutions you may support, which are also hiding something. Muckrakers need to disguise themselves.

DELETED: A sentence claiming that Vincent runs Coder Pad and has a conflict of interest. I apologize for the error. See his comment below.
I get that, but they've done more than Blue Origin already. It's looking like ULA will go for Russian engines rather than the BE-4 ones that were promised by B.O. years ago, whereas the other companies are quietly cracking on and making decent progress, considering their relative funding and resource. Some of the other companies have made actual orbital attempts too (some very close!) whereas what's B.O. done, a joyride for a few people to just past the Karman line.

SpaceX could send their Starship 2.0 (12m diameter opposed to 9, it was going to be 15m) and turn those into stations, which would seem to be a cheaper and quicker solution
I've been very conservative in uses of automations like that. A couple ancedotes:

The outside lights on the front of my house have a motion sensor. Alone, they turn on to about 50% at dusk, and off at 11:30. If there's any motion between dusk and dawn, they go to 100%, then eventually fade back to 50% or off depending on the time. They also come on (and stay on) at 100% if the garage is open. End result: they are at 100% when useful, and otherwise at 50% don't (annoyingly) shine as much into the front windows.

I also experimented with turning down the kitchen lights when there's no motion. The effective of this was described to me as "What did you do to the kitchen lights?! They just randomly turn off and it's driving me crazy!" -- even not in the room, the lights in an adjoining room turning off unexpectedly was bad. End result: Motion controls removed.

There's also some simple time-based controls. If no lights have been manually adjusted recently, at dawn a couple lights come on (to make it look like someone's home) and likewise turn off sometime later at night. There's also an absolute off at 3am, and again at very early dawn. These have the effect of never coming home to a dark house and never leaving lights on all night.

The best automations blend in so you don't even notice them. But absolutely make sure humans can still control things, and don't do things that interfere with that control or expectations.