skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, naming machines is cute on the one hand, but on the other, once you scale up / out, who will remember that Neptune is from finance and the Pleiades is management? Like with microservices, it's probably better to name things for what they do or where they are instead of coming up with aliases, else you have to maintain a translation table.

When scaling up - hard- or software - it's better to be clear than clever.
A few years ago I redid my attic space with 2 large windows and all-white walls to form a home office with a double desk, a sofa and a few of my guitars.

Pre-covid I had a 28" 4K monitor on each of the 2 desks and I connected my laptop to it. In the first lockdown I ordered a beefy desktop machine and combined both monitors on the same desk. I also bought a mechanical keyboard, a conference room mic, external webcam and new noice cancelling headphones soon after.

Every 2-3 months I switch the whole setup to the other desk, just to have a change of scenery. After this switch I "feel" more productive for a few days for some reason.

The office is 2 floors up and I did not put a coffee machine or fridge in there so I can at least get some of my daily steps on the stairs for coffee/food/toilet runs.
I enjoy cooking, but I enjoy other things more, and time is not infinite. I notice that when my wife and I go on vacation we cook much more and try out new recipes because at the airbnb there are fewer competing tasks or activities. And while I can cook and bake decently, there are some dishes I don't always want to put the time in for, or I haven't quite gotten right yet, or require fresh ingredients that I can't buy within a 30min drive. But the thai restaurant a few blocks away will have fresh keffir lime leaves and lemongrass brought in in bulk every day.
> I don't think that's a fair comparison.... the process of installing involves compiling under the covers, it's just part of installation. It's not the late 90s "compile that driver yourself completely manually" situation.

I don't understand. Do you think I'm lying or something? Because I'm not, and neither are these folks:

https://www.google.com/search?q=compile+new+kernel+site%3Afo...

It's a giant pain in the neck and it's caused by pretty deliberate decisions about Linux architecture.
I’ve just been using minikube. I can just build containers with it or mock up a k8s deployment. Instructions to configure local docker or podman to use it are simple.

With the hyperkit backend it’s pretty similar, just with extra bells and whistles and nothing in the taskbar.

I keep things pretty simple, so there may be cases it doesn’t cover.

If so, then I’d just use a VM. I still use Vagrant a lot for testing non-container stuff. It could be handy there to set up an environment that actually matches your prod setup.
Yeah, my question was why. What is so different about it?
Awesome project, and congrats on your success! Nearly 3k stars in such a short amount of time is an amazing accomplishment.
Well, the Russian are already there.

I don't think anything like the Arab spring is possible there either, but the islamic groups that wander around can do a lot of damage anyway. That was my only thought, I hope they don't manage to do anything.
If that was true, why are only women forced to wear veils? In reality the veils are all about controlling women's sexuality.
HotSpot took 2 decades to get to its current performance, and while its JITted performance is good, for desktop apps cold boot performance is at least as important.
Author was male: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._L._George
> This is exactly what the advertising industry wants

Ads never were problem unlike GDPR.
I don’t understand the logic of waiting so long to launch an already outdated platform when Zen 4 is nearly ready to go. It’s just so late in the product cycle.

I agree that a March launch would mean it would be on Zen 3.
How not? Penicilin alone has a giant impact on the lives of people. What about anti-conceptionals too.
My uncle had Leisure Suit Larry on his computer and I remember playing it simply for the fun of the game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisure_Suit_Larry
By the definition of the word, no its not.

But: Since "crypto" holds no intrinsic value, such as the backing of a states wealth, the actual material value of resources like gold, oil or coffee, or the structural value of a company (knowledge, employees, contracts), all its "value" is dependent on what other people are willing to pay for it, and the money these people have pumped into the system.

To put this in simplest terms: Every cent someone makes from whatevercoin, has to be put into the system by someone else. A house appreciates in value since living space is a scarce commodity facing growing demand...it's sarcity and thus its appreciation in value is a natural process caused by usefulness and demand.

The scarcity of blorkchain "currencies" however, is artificial, and they have no other use than as a token of value for something of actual worth.
I feel bad for the ridicule Jack Ma got after that. There's clearly a language barrier in play.
> Welcome To 2030: I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy And Life Has Never Been Better

Let me translate

“you are slaves and you rent everything. We base your ability to purchase on a social credit score. But we let you rent houses in our artificially limited VR world.”

I don’t make much of predictions like these. It’s ALWAYS a safe bet to assume people will lose liberty. To the point the FED was created in 1913, research why it was created - not just wikipedia, get some books published between the 20 to 60s. When was public education first introduced at scale? When was eugenics promoted in the United States?

The 1910s - 1920s was the beginning of the major authoritarian and progressive movements in the United States. Read about the history of Woodrow Wilson.

At the end of the day, the United States during the 20s was losing its independence already. It was openly talked about on higher-class circles.

In that context all these predictions are really aspirations.

That said, I think the United States is still one of the most free and diverse countries on the planet. Has its issues and can 100% improve. But the same people and families who are part of the WEF are the same families / people in the 1910s - 1920s promoting the same general ideas.
Quite impressed. Would be great to know which resources the lad used for learning how to code it.
Crypto Browser Brave Passes 50M Monthly Active Users
I have a whole blog full of advice (mostly non-technical, some tactical and some strategic):

https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/

You might get better answers if you were more specific with your question, though.
Modern medicin would be nothing short of miraculous from the eyes of someone from 1920.
Interesting that it's only a 1200x1200 jpeg. You can't even make a good print of that for your wall. What's the owner do who displays it? Do they have to contact Beeple directly for their hi-res image that he gives them other rights for making a single print or something?
Respectfully, I think we need to stop with this idea of "You can pick up the basics of Python in an afternoon."

I think it's more specific than that. You can pick up the SYNTAX of python in an afternoon, if you have experience in coding in other languages. If you're also learning programming concepts and computational thinking skills, then it can take much longer. And that's a good thing!

One of the frustrations I see with students is that they think they are stupid for not picking up things as easily as I do. I have to remind them that I started coding more than 20 years ago. They didn't see all of the years of frustration and struggle when I was first learning how to code.

We need to normalize that everyone proceeds on their path with coding at different paces. It's great if you can learn a ton in an afternoon. It's also great if someone learns the same amount in a week, or a month, or a year.
I took the 22% figure from an article that referenced an overview produced by the University of Cambridge, available here: https://ccaf.io/cbeci/mining_map

I see now that their most recent figure has changed to 18.1%.

The electrical power figure was then calculated based on the total global power consumption published in the Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index: https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption/
I don't remember what year it was, but a friend of mine's dad had a bootleg NES cartridge with dirty images on it.
probably just a webview wrapper anyway
It's getting better pretty much everywhere. We just didn't hear what was happening times ago.
Front end folks are more on Reddit/Twitter and the like in my experience.
As my 2014 (!) self wrote:

https://mcconnellsoftware.github.io/java-golden-handcuffs/
You are correct. Currently we are waiting for the issue to be tackled upstream (both on LibTorch and Google's XLA). Someone could also implement a specific Nx-backend for Apple. It should actually be fun but not high priority at the moment.
Plus these designs really only work if you have control over your space. You couldn't install this in an apartment you're renting, where you can't e.g. rip out the carpet. If you're able to install this you're probably not living in a space where this would be a benefit.
Netscape was founded in 1994, Firefox is derived from Gecko (1997) layout code code open-sourced from Netscape in 1998. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko_(software) for some background. I was thinking 1994 when I wrote the comment, but it’s closer to ~25 years if you reckon from Gecko’s birth year of 1997.
This is not uncommon in the West either. A lot of parents talk to themselves by title in the third person to their children, e.g. "Daddy doesn't want to play right now, daddy is working". It's even worse if they refer to each other by a 'parental' name. Just makes me wince.

To people that actually do this, do not erase yourself; you are a person, you have needs and an identity of your own. You can express your needs, not a mythical 3rd person parental figure.
> With crypto, the only thing you give out is your public key

That’s not really true. The service/product provider can and will ask for more details, like name, address, etc - it has nothing to do with the mode of payment.
Formalized verification would say otherwise.
Thanks for this great article! My two cents:

> reason: do something weird and custom

Oh yes please! Previous discussions on this topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28218406 (HTML over DNS)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25620411 (DNS Key Value Storage)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22808121 (Wikipedia over DNS)

> reason: geo DNS

Please don't do this! IP addresses aren't geolocated in the common sense. The good way to get content closer to your users is to announce your IP space from your different locations. Then client ISPs can choose the best route depending on peering policy and number of hops.

If your DNS lies depending on the IP who asks, you're going to have quite a bunch of people redirected to the "wrong" (far/slow from their perspective) server. The only exception i can think of is for split-horizon DNS where your local resolver advertises local IP addresses.
Does this count? Because this raised some eyebrows at the local Apple store when I was a wee teen:

https://archive.org/details/mac_MacPlaymate

Plays right in the browser!

One thing the Mac had above all else available in 1986 was solid digitized sound, and this was no exception, so make sure to turn on sound and, uh, be somewhere private I guess...

Needless to say, NSFW!
"guns" is figurative. They definitely had weapons of force....
Demountable Stadium Set to Host 2022 FIFA World Cup
Every time I visit a forum it really does feel like a step back in time. The inability for low quality comments to be pushed downward makes them very difficult to use.

Modern voting systems aren't perfect either, particularly in the way that they can create echo chambers/hivemind behavior, but it's a hell of a lot better than forums.
The Chad is sinking.
XKCD #37 seems relevant... though I'm not willing to put money on where the hyphen is intended in that acronym.

https://xkcd.com/37/
The module is amazing and actually kinda terrifying: it grafts in a decent bit of xnu, rather than re-implementing all xnu's features from scratch. This is made a bit more sane because Mach was designed to be extremely portable and has a good abstraction layer for manipulating very low-level stuff like page tables and contexts. But it's still kinda incredible. Part of me wonders if it wouldn't have been easier to graft Linux into xnu instead.

https://github.com/darlinghq/darling-newlkm
"If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter."

Refs: https://intenseminimalism.com/2010/if-i-had-more-time-i-woul...
Here's the conversation I responded to:

Article: The money’s gotta come from somewhere. People seem to forget that part.

Response: 4% price increase to get to a living wage. Not $15 sandwiches, just $7.28 instead of $7. Pay your employees. It's that simple.

The clear implication of the response, clear to me at least, is that where the money comes from to raise the employees' wages is revenue due to the price increase. Let me know if you understand it differently.

That only works if the price elasticity is 0. They sell the same amount of food at higher prices and use the money to pay higher wages.

If price elasticity is 1, they raise prices by 4%, they sell 4% less food, and the money for wages needs to come from somewhere else. Could be less profit for the restaurant, could be hiring fewer workers or giving them fewer hours, could be smaller portions or cheaper ingredients, could be the money comes from the bondholders who don't get repaid when the company goes bankrupt.

If price elasticity is infinite, they raise prices and demand goes to 0 and they eventually go bankrupt.

No restaurant would intentionally be operating with prices set in a range where the price elasticity is 0. They would raise prices until it wasn't in that range. The money for wages can't (only) come from increased revenue from a price increase. That was my point.
How did you come up with the name Youki
This reminds me, it seems the author of Dwarf Fortress doesn't use GitHub.

I hope he could gain immortality (you know he's one of the few that deserves it) so he can focus on what's important.
> Getting new cards is a pain, especially if you are traveling.

Well, if you lose your crypto wallet - you lose your funds. Generating a new wallet is not going to solve that. Whereas losing fiat cards doesn’t result in my bankruptcy.
I used to use i, j, and k; but at my last job single letter variables were frowned upon so I started using ii, jj, and kk and now much prefer those for simple loops. Searching for "ii" yields the loop much more reliably and quickly than "i" which is often a partial match to other words.
I've tried different pens and even learnt calligraphy. I was quite good at it, to the extent that people didn't believe I did it. But I don't enjoy writing quickly with pens with no friction.

My preferred writing implement is a pencil. But if I'm going to use a pen, my favourite has always been a simple Bic ballpoint. When I come across any other type of pen, it is a gamble whether it will work properly or not. When I come across a Bic, wherever it might be, I would put money on it working first time with no fuss at all.
how do you even manage to that with a standard mouse?
love what you do, do what you love

cheesy but golden at the same time
Best scheme I've seen for a small fleet of development boxes (hardware, not VMs) was naming them after elements. Very easy to determine the IP address on that subnet.
Top. Thanks!
Oh no that will not do, it has to be descriptive like err, arrayOfUsersIteratorCurrentIndex.
Your code sucks and it will suck for the next many years. Therefore, DO NOT start building a "library of useful functions". Build a library of knowledge, learn how to iterate over files in a directory in sh, bash, python, matlab. Then when you have to do it in ruby, you already know the basics and you can ask questions about what order the entries are going to be returned, will the list contain . and .., can I filter out some extensions etc.

There is a sister theory to the above: never automate things you don't fully understand. Let me rephrase: do not automate hard/complicated things. Automate tedious things. When you are fully confident of doing a thing manually, then you should automate it. Not before.
The world economic forum is largely lead by former nazis and communists. They have openly called for the United States to decline as a power.

I wouldn’t necessarily take anything they say as fact. Lol
The Readme is only about building it. Will be nice a list of features (i.e. what can it run).
In general notes, it is an effort to bring more use cases to Elixir, the Erlang VM, and the ecosystem. But it is an area I have been interested on (back in 2009 my master thesis was actually within Machine Learning). When I met Sean (through the Genetic Algorithms in Elixir book), our interests aligned and we started working on it!
Ah don't be too sad, the website in question has years (decades?) worth of dreadful code to wince at :D
just because something is illegal doesnt make it immoral.

Money transfer across country boundaries is a big use case. Chinese were using btc to get money out of the country which was one of the original big bumps.

the immoral people are the countries that restrict people's ability to move by restricting their ability to move their assets.

The US exerts its will around the world through the banking system. Sometimes for good and sometimes for immoral purposes. Crypto allows good and bad actors to avoid that pressure.
OwnStore is open-sourced now
According to my Ukrainian co-worker, back in 90s Kombucha was known as a horrible traditional delicacy similar to surströmming, hákarl or casu marzu.

And yes, I have had a co-worker who drank weird smelly herbal teas and was obsessed with vitamins among other things. And a different one who had a mug that was covered with thick black crust inside and who insisted that it must never be washed.
JVM is not really that heavy since the Intel released "Core i" series processors. Also, JVM uses its resources well. It's one of the best engineered software artifacts if you ask me.

I really enjoyed using the language back then, and will not hesitate to restart if there's a scenario which would fit the bill to use it.
My Japanese knowledge is even more limited, but Japanese seems to use a persons name in conversation far more often than English. Like in English we would say "it's nice to see you" but Japanese seems to say "it's nice to see Anidiot."

When you're regularly calling everybody else by their name, calling yourself by your name makes sense.
A Neural Network Solves and Generates Mathematics Problems by Program Synthesis
You can have redundancy and horizontal scaling with private servers and still end up paying less than what you would on AWS and the like.

I have some clients who use AWS and others who prefer colo and/or dedicated servers from traditional datacenters. The latter group can afford to over-provision everything by 3-4x, even across different DC's if necessary. DC's aren't yesterday's dinosaurs anymore. The large ones have a bunch of hardware on standby that you can order at 3 a.m. and start running deployment scripts in minutes.
Isn’t this what all advertisers do? I’m sure google tracks some concept of you, whether or not you’ve opted into or deleted your account with them.
https://xclacksoverhead.org/home/about

http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/

https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/comments/qoqm4x/til_reddi...

https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/comments/2yt9j6/gnu_terry...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ideasfortheadmins/comments/2z0eic/a...

https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/comments/6rls1z/curious_a...

https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/comments/en9eka/i_dont_un...

all good for those who don't understand
Ask HN: Recommended Resources on Humanism?
I would be very grateful for suggestions of some helpful books, lectures and podcasts on the topic.
> Something I've noticed about cryptocurrency people is that they are very, very plugged in. The evangelists never have a physical job; always a computer job, and they are always online, and believe in being online to the greatest extent possible. And I think, actually, there is a very obvious reason for that.

This is a very important point, that I’ve also been saying for a while. Crypto is purely digital, almost every application that goes popular is fully digital, and almost no ideas have any connection to the real world. That’s gonna cause problems one day…
Facebook and Google are still helping the FBI find January 6 rioters
AF's Small Telescope Tech Will Help Detect Enemy Sats Sneaking Up on Friendly
After almost 2 decades in the industry, working at tens of companies in two continents, I can say without any hesitation that the best managers are never sadistic.

Within the context of a dysfunctional, fear-driven company, these sadistic techniques might squeeze better performance out of certain workers, but a force of creative, thoughtful, talented, self-motivated workers will work elsewhere. While I have worked in a few dysfunctional, fear-driven companies over the years, I did not see any of them grow or hold onto talent over time. The best companies I've worked at terminate abusive managers if they accidentally hire one. They take kindness and empathy very seriously.
Show HN: Learn Japanese with Manga
The first version of the GIF<->JPEG converter came out in the spring/summer of 1991 (although Wikipedia says in October 1991: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libjpeg). I know this because I built the first version which then got passed to Tom Lane when I changed jobs in July 1991.
Pirn? What do you have against spools of thread? https://www.dictionary.com/browse/pirn

Or maybe you mean popcorn, which, I agree, is a pox at the office with its smell!
Don't worry. They will ask now for help from the state because they had loses (see Lufthansa 2020).
Indeed not the greatest advertisement for their infrastructure, but regardless you have to admit that <$400 is fairly impressive.
Introduction to WebXR Presentation
Congrats to Gilbert Strang on the work of a lifetime: "this represents a milestone for higher education" ;)
The benefit is also realized by you in the process of automating it.
I am aware; I wrote this last month:
https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/16/pop_os_2110_new_syste...

I think you're missing the point here.

It's not "apps are packaged with all their dependencies inside a private directory hierarchy". That is true of both, yes. But it is also true of Canonical's Snap format, and 0install, and of AppImage, and of NeXTstep & Mac OS X's .app bundles. In other words, it is far from unique.

The real difference with Gobo is twofold:

• Most of the others preserve significant elements of the traditional xNix directory layout. macOS in the main OS if not inside the bundles; Flatpak and Snap inside the apps; and so on. Gobo gets rid of it everywhere, top to bottom, from kernel to text editor.

• Flatpak, Snap etc. are just app-packaging systems. Even on OSes which use Flatpak exclusively – and PopOS is a poor example here; better ones are Fedora SilverBlue or EndlessOS, with read-only root filesystems, no package manager at all, and OS updates using `ostree` – the directory layout is conventional. Like macOS, the app directory structure is entirely separate from the OS directory structure. In Gobo they are one and the same.

I wrote about that here, and you may find it worth a read:
https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/03/nixos_linux_os_design...
Documentary about the Lenna image:

https://www.facebook.com/codelikeagirlau/videos/985614161797...