skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with your first paragraph.

But you are discounting the rarity of productive labor and the value of R&D. Yes, we have serious vices in the US with our spending on frivolous pursuits, but at the same time we're doing incredibly ambitious things. If we undercut the profitability of those ambitious pursuits, we lower the number of ways to get funding to those enterprises. In the face of low payoffs for big ideas, you just get all that effort put toward more apps to book a masseuse for your dog.

Wealthy people pay to have their problems solved, so undercutting intellectual property just directs more high achievers to cater to 'first world problems' rather than chasing big ideas.
That's even worse. Because the issue on iphone is regular encounters with pages being corrupted (as in, split in the middle).
I have been reading some of your back comments prompted by your comment about organization policy on my white house fire story and I think you should write blog posts

it's clear you think really deeply about things I think you have a lot of interesting stuff to contribute. And you've had an interesting intersection of experiences and combine that with your good analysis and insights often seemingly to me not obvious, and your easy to read writing style, I think you'd make a really good sort of writer that people would love to read about all kinds of tricky issues so I hope you take up blog posting and share here!
You don't happen to know a good translator..? I was going to try the Garnett version but now I'm having second thoughts.
Are you saying medical help is _always_ forced on you?

I understand if you are unconscious, you can't decide, or in a coma. But what if you are lucid and asked by a doctor if you want a procedure or not?
Mr. Bezos needs to learn to walk before he can run.
> Every time I’ve seen a company bought by private equity, it spells the beginning of the end.

I regularly work with PE firms.

You can't paint the whole industry with one brush stroke. I've seen more than a handful of companies get bought by PE to become very successful for everyone involved (PE, management, customers)...and the opposite.

That being said - it's very common to see companies in the large cap space ($5B~$10B in enterprise value) to be repositioned to match the market dynamics or financially engineered. While you might have had a poor experience, the rest of the market may have been willing to wait in 15 minute lines for $10 bottles of water.

If you disagree with PE, the easiest way to "stick it to them" is to vote with your wallet. Simply stop going to Sea World and you'll see PE change their tune pretty quickly.
Can't you just render text to a canvas element then crop the canvas? That results in the exact bounding dimensions you need.
> X86 tax might be 5%

A consistent 5% win is pretty huge for certain industries.
oh awesome, thanks! Now if only there was a way to also make it default to searching for filenames instead of text contents.
I stumbled upon a talk from GRCon18 a few weeks ago where they did this [1], though on a much more restricted testcase.

Find the idea interesting, but I'm curious how resistant it is to attackers who know you are using it / how you'd design things to make backdooring in a way that isn't noticeable hard.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDGzc_4wcjM
The big one:

you don’t want to assume anything. Don’t assume. Stop assuming. Stop guessing

He goes on to explain this in much more detail and I can echo a lot of this from my own experience. I too have been "the new guy that asks too many questions, we wanna be done with backlog maintenance already!".

I've also had this experience in some consulting gigs before where they asked me to help out with something "because don't you know SSL?". "Sure" I said (coz yeah, I had set up an self-signed cert for my home server once ...). All it took was to get the developer that had been stuck for a day to get something running (don't remember any specifics) to actually take a step back and check all the assumptions he made. I basically just asked him very simple and basic questions about the problem and whenever he told me that he'd checked something, I made him show me that whatever he claimed was true. Sometimes it was. One time it wasn't and we found the problem. Once we had rooted out the assumption, it was easy to fix the actual problem. More than a day of a highly paid senior developer wasted and figured out by the "dumb rookie consultant". Sounds a bit like the recent story about "asking dumb questions" ;)
The judge that issued the warrant would order Google into court and administer hefty fines for a few days. if they still refused the court could order arrest warrants for executives of the company until they comply.

it never ever goes this far
Firstly, thank you for answering. I think most people would be too defensive (devs are a touchy lot:) to bother or just dismiss my sincere question. I'm going to disagree though (quite gently, I hope:)

> Functions are first class.

Always a good thing to have in a language but I struggle to think of a language that doesn't have this now. Java has it, C#, Python… if a language is being developed and didn't have it then now it does, right? Perhaps C doesn't - I checked, functions may be passed as arguments but does not allw nested functions, but it has callbacks so a type of closure is possible… hard to tell. Still, I'd say not using C was an advantage!:)

> Async i/o by default

I'm not sure which languages this gives an advantage over?

> Familiar syntax

I don't think this is an advantage, most languages are much of a muchness, and there are some serious footguns that still lay around in JS. Is `==` familiar? No, that's a footgun. Automatic semicolon insertion (ASI) rules? No, they're another footgun. Are fat arrow operators familiar? Doubtful. The new backticks? They're the other way round to what I'm used to.

Certainly though, it can be picked up quickly enough.

> There are packages for anything you can think of

This is definitely an advantage over some newer languages, but over those in major use, it's not. Still, the way packages are installed and handled is… eye-opening. That wheel has been reinvented several times, and it still looks wonky.

> I even like it's single threaded nature

Sometimes that's a good thing, true, but it's not an advantage to have it set that way all the time.

> TS is also one of the best type systems you can ask for

I haven't used it, tbh, but I would say that an optional type system (it's optional in that you don't have to use TS, I don't know if it's optional once you start using TS, that would be better) is a definite advantage over some languages. It's not baked in though so that's half a point.

I just don't see it. I think the driving force of the move to Javascript everywhere was because devs were tired of learning at least three languages (JS, something, SQL) and not being very good in all three (usually poor at SQL) and thinking they'd get more control by kicking out the DB guy who'd stop their bad ideas (because they didn't know SQL) and they could become an expert in one language to rule them all. Companies love it because of fungibility and more new devs tend to start with Javascript than anything else.

Perhaps I've just got used to keeping several languages in my head?
The GPU is exceptionally bad about certain things - probably in the driver - but turning off texture animations in Minecraft cooled the computer down tremendously.
They might be voting you down because it looks like you may not have read my entire reply. I specifically noted the caveat of endangered species and a Dr. Title being used by people who should not use it as situations that probably justify a ban.

I think we likely agree on these points, but perhaps not on the surrounding ones which don't have significant harm outside of parting foolish people from their money.
On-Device Panoptic Segmentation for Camera Using Transformers
xeon branded workstation laptops aren't using Icelake-SP or similar server chips, they are using Tiger Lake-S or Ice Lake-S or Skylake-S client chips.

They are what would previously have been branded as "Xeon E3" series chips - on the desktop platform they used to share a socket and be drop-in upgrades with consumer desktop chips, because they're basically the same chips with "enterprise" features like ECC turned on.

An example would be Xeon E3-1285 v3 - which is basically the same thing as an i7 4770.

These products are nowhere, nowhere near the M1 Max. They are consumer laptop chips with ECC and vPro turned on.
"enterprise grade" covers a a much larger spectrum of uses and needs with regard to features and stability than non-enterprise grade, making it kinda hard to answer that generally.

They offer VMs, containers, managed DB instance offerings, block storage, multiple regions and datacenters, load balancing, etc. They have an API to control all those things, and modules available in many popular languages. But that's basically what many people consider table stakes for a service like that, and indeed there are competitors like Vultr and Upcloud that offer the same.

Will any of them have quite the same level of offerings that AWS or GCE or Azure offer? Probably not. But for a great many people what they have is all the enterpise level stuff they'll need or use, and it is decidedly easier to just start up a cheap linux VM and take care of it on one of these services compared to AWS or GCE or Azure, so if what you want are somewhat manually managed cloud VMs, I highly recommend one of these services over one of the big names.

I've used all the services named, and I still prefer DO for just throwing up a cheap $5-$10 VM for personal stuff, or to spin up a temporary VM for testing something out. On DO that's a couple second process when you do it manually by clicking around.
The Zuck wants to understand the human experience. It has achieved sentience.
The universe became conscious in the form of man and asked ‘who made me’ so it’s the universe arguing with the universe about a creator :)
Building from scratch isn't "easy". They still buy a lot of their components off the shelf so they do need to interact with vendors so they can benefit from the economies of scale on the PC side of things.

Yes, they can optimize a lot of pipelines but this goes both ways. E.g. they had lightning connector which was good. USB-C beat the pants out of it and now has a much better eco-system. Apple is stuck with their sub-par connector for phones and an unclear strategy (USB-C on macs/iPads but not on phones and low end iPads).
I know that QnX is widespread, but far more devices run Android than QnX. It's a bit of a philosophical debate whether the software that runs most smartphones "runs the world" more or less than the stuff covered by QnX, but I'd say that's its a bit of a stretch to just give the win to QnX :)

But you're right, QnX is the one (probably the only?) micro-kernel that has seen widespread adoption. Almost all of it has been in the context of embedded systems, which doesn't invalidate the substantial success, but it does leave QnX as the exception that proves the rule. It also leaves QnX as yet another example of the general failure of microkernels as general purpose computing platforms. QnX design is excellent for the contexts where it is deployed, but there's a reason you don't run it on PCs, tablets, data crunchers, smartphones and many other sorts of computing contexts.
I don't think I am. Your original point was that your name was "unpronounceable". I don't believe that to be true.

Your name may be difficult to pronounce for native English speakers, but it's not impossible.
I didn't say anything about withholding information or forcing anyone to do anything.
I wonder if the car supply crunch will help them or deter them. I don't see demand being an issue as they can adjust their pricing and terms easily since they have VC capital.
This is a fascinating take. I consider all the advanced math that is needed for a CS degree unnecessary gate keeping. I took several years of calculus to graduate, and while I still grok the concepts somewhat, I by no means mastered any of it.

It doesn’t feel necessary at all where I am now.
The dictionary packaged with OSX defines it as "more than two but not many", and the copy of an old edition of Webster's that I installed also defines it as "Consisting of a number more than two, but not very many". So we're probably looking at at least 1000x.
The tunnels between carriers could be encrypted. They don't _have_ to be. The LTE S1 link (eNodeB <-> packet core) may not be.

Like, if your eNB is a picocell or feeding a DAS, it probably is doing backhaul over IPSec over internet or dedicated circuit, but if it's normal carrier network, likely not.

ref Page 37 of https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.S...
Of the sticker? Very clean, because the adhesive is built to stick together like a command strip.
I'd guess the analogy the government would make is that it's more similar to a DUI checkpoint. They're searching everyone (or a random subset) of everyone coming through an area.
I was randomly curious how long it would take to render a full movie at the quality of that forest image, which absolutely blew my mind.

At 24fps, a 2h movie has 172800 frames. 21,970,310 M1 seconds or 8.5 M1 months. Which is less than I was expecting. The rendering seems to scale linearly per core too.

Presumably bad math or a lot more rendering complexity for the pixar super computer deploys?
I know Cato" and other Anti-Federalistis published anonymously (or pseudonymously, as the case may be) as well.

My point was that anonymous political speech in the United States has a long history.
Vaccine passports in Scotland an “unmitigated disaster”
The smaller the transaction amount, the larger chance that the dealer is going to have an addiction of their own. It’s easier for one wholesaler to sell to an addict (or several) that distributes small amounts to a bunch of other addicts, vs taking on all the volume yourself. Addicts usually know other addicts and have a strong incentive to sell, they need cash every single day.

I doubt you’ll find a source, but the number of users distributing small amounts is probably larger than the amount of people pushing weight (who usually don’t use)

This is based of my experience buying heroin in a mid-sized US metro area, fortunately far in my past. One without an open-air drug market, so deals were done in cars or alleys.
I should have (and did) know better. Thanks for the reminder.
Did you look into https://ditto.live/? Its and off-line first db too. I never used it but looks very interesting and would be interested how it compare to the technologies you picked
I'd consider stingrays one of the least useful tools since they require logistics: you need to have one installed somewhere or have logistics to deploy them quickly to an area.

If you aren't careful, your target could become aware of their presence.

If you are pulling data from the carrier, there's less logistics involved and your target shouldn't notice unless someone screws up.
Author here.

I am using RxDB with Capacitor (iOS and Android app).
You can use the SQLite based pouchdb adapter with capacitor. It keeps your data and is (sometimes) faster.

Here [1] I have documented a whole section about how to use RxDB+SQLite in Capacitor.

[1] https://rxdb.info/adapters.html
It seriously harms the black market for these drugs. Opioids are an escalating addiction so new users are simply less profitable. Eventually illegal opioids can consume an almost unlimited budget, but shift heavy users to government supply and suddenly it’s a much less profitable business.

The Swiss are roughly 1/10th as likely to use opioids as Americans and of their users ~85% are in rehab. Relatively speaking it’s a tiny illegal drug market.
I was a frequent lurker at /r/nonewnormal and I agree with your analysis - dissent from the mainstream opinion that lockdowns and mandates are good, but more of an opinionated criticism than anything banworthy. The moderators put a great deal of work to keep it civil and non-partisan, and their efforts were completely destroyed when they were kicked off Reddit.

Some /r/nonewnormal participants went to Ruqqus, some went to communities.win, but the racist and anti-semitic posters on those sites kept trying to subvert the existing positive culture and it wasn't fun browsing there.

Anyone who can solve the the "less echo chamber than Reddit but less racist than Ruqqus" hosting dilemma stands to gain a large audience.
We'll get a live test of this very soon - Zen4 is going to be going head-to-head against Apple A16 (Apple's next core architecture) on TSMC N5P next year.

Does anyone expect x86 to close a factor-of-6 perf/watt difference? (from Anandtech's M1 Max preview) A factor-of-2-to-3 IPC difference? And that's just A15, not against the next-gen A16.

Node makes a big difference, it doesn't close up a factor-of-3 IPC gap in a single node though, that's facially ridiculous. Name a full-node shrink+architectural step that has tripled IPC in the last 10 years. Now name one that has done it while cutting power in 1/6th.

At that point we will see the goalposts shift again and it will be "well, x86 could do it if they wanted but Apple is just more willing to spend more transistors..."

Fact of the matter is the x86 makes it very difficult to spend those transistors efficiently - otherwise it already would have been done. If it was such an obvious gain to just spend those extra transistors, then surely AMD would have done it, if nobody else.

Everyone acknowledges x86 has some problems, but the other thing is that they've already mostly played their hand trying to fix those problems, the known solutions like instruction cache have mostly been exhausted at this point. The idea that AMD and Apple can just triple IPC at a whim but they've chosen not to do so for some reason, is facially ridiculous.

I know what Jim Keller said but the math just doesn't add up on it for me. OK, full node shrink, great, even if that doubles your transistor count at iso-power, or even doubles it at a little less power, that doesn't double your IPC let alone triple it, and it doesn't close a factor-of-6 perf/watt gap.
I never understood the lack of ability to select from the color palette. I saw it in way too many places. Why would you not just allow me to fucking pick any color I would like?

You can see this kind of trend in software that has to do with organization of whatever. You can pick between like 8 colors for your folders, for example, or labels. Like... is it too hard, or what is the reasoning? Laziness?
I've had various Pi models over the years starting with the original and I've never gotten a power supply with it. You must have bought a bundle deal, which could mean a good or bad one depending on the seller..
Historical Financial Information About Public Companies
You aren’t the person I asked. From your previous comments, it’s obvious that you want MacOS to be more like Linux. I was curious if there are other reasons someone might have.
Why didn't he just do that last time?
I was waiting for someone to mention this as I scrolled from the top to bottom... I have been implementing Drupal consistently since v4.0 and despite it's increasing footprint, I haven't seen anything it really can't do as a CMS and web app platform.

No code on Drupal isn't exactly pretty, it requires a lot of CSS work to look good, but out of the box it's reliable and quite secure and robust. I've also implemented it in some of the most secure settings without problems over years. The ke to stability is scanning code prior to deployment for outbound requests, not building/adding what isn't needed or used, applying updates on time, and designing and maintaining a secure architecture (zero trust if data value warrants it).

I have built a lot of cool and mission critical things and sites with Drupal, and I'm very thankful for finding it years ago. v7.X is still my fave, the modules were so much more thought out and available for it, and still are. One of the best aspects of building with it is that the community never really turned into a money factory for modules like Wordpress did. As far as downsides, the hardest thing is debating other developers on why it should be used over other frameworks or instead of a custom app without burning up valuable project time. As a testament to Drupal's reach, it's implemented on many key web sites to this day, all you have to do is google it.
Most medical research results have difficulty passing the decade mark. This one is surprising as it "failed" so quickly. That raises more questions on the publisher. Was it peer reviewed? Was the peer review process gamed or tainted? These are transparency questions the scientific community needs to know. Where there citations to it? Were their references tainted as well?
Just by saying “absolutism is bad” your post doesn’t explain why you are against free speech. The problem with anything but a simple rule for free speech (with obvious exceptions for threats, malicious lies, danger etc) is that it becomes a litigation, which is often a power struggle about who can manipulate the rules best, or a political struggle where one group captures the means of adjudicating speech.
You're confusing statutes and the law. They're not the same thing. Just like a regulation isn't a statute, but it is the law.
While I do understand where you're coming from I don't see it as an impossible problem to automate. An automated system can instantly set the collective to the perfect rpm for autorotation, and can do it much quicker (and better) than a human. Especially on something like an R22 or R44 with very low rotor inertia.

In a smaller aircraft, you're relying a lot more on your forward momentum (i.e. forward airspeed) to cushion your landing, whereas in a larger helicopter the rotor inertia has enough energy such that you can place it straight down on pretty much any flat surface the system can find. Garmin already has something called Smart Glide for fixed wing aircraft where it calculates engine out trajectories, and so I don't see this as something impossible with a helicopter. Especially coupled with a wire strike cut (basically just a sharp knife sticking out of the front of the helicopter that just cuts any cables you run into).

I'd think given the use cases for some helicopter flights (e.g. sightseeing tours) where you're typically in VFR weather there's certainly an opportunity to have automated flights. I agree we're not there yet, but I don't see it as impossible in the near future.

(I mainly fly fixed-wing, but I have about 50 hours in an R22)
IAC promise was ease of re-creation. [My anecdotal] Reality shows that's not really the case. IAC automation helps to create 'easy parts' and to delete _everything_. Creation of hard pars, the ones which involve state is still a problem. After many ears of using cfengine/chef/puppet/ansible/terraform I can say those tools don't help much with solving infra complexity. Early arguments were that 'nobody understand those shell scrips' or 'know manually edited configs'. Now the same shell script live inside container 'sidecars' and do 'pip install' from them and instead of manually altered configs we have k8s annotations with unpredictable 'far reaching' inter-references.
The thing that always had me shaking my head in that saga is that Carmack tried to get Zenimax work on VR but Zenimax had no interest before Facebook entered the picture.
I think we're proving over and over that scaling education is not possible.
The function row wasn't replaced by the touch bar, the screen just grew to envelop the keyboard!
Is it normal to render using a CPU? Shouldn’t this test be done against GPUs instead?
Flu hospitalization rate is a bit over 1%, and average a week stay. COVID19 is worse, but not by nearly as much as people seem to think.
This is how The Gray Lady became the paper of record.

The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History

https://www.amazon.com/Gray-Lady-Winked-Misreporting-Fabrica...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_of_record