skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you're missing is that it's not about compute, it's about fun. Pi's are fun, because Pi cluster's have _real_ hardware redundancy and real risk of hardware faults. Clusters of VM's are boring (what's the point of having a cluster then?), and NUCs are too expensive to buy three or five of. Clusters of real servers are even more expensive, and living room incompatible.

Energy efficiency does not matter: First, a Pi costs $5 per year in electricity. For the price of one NUC, you can buy the entire Pi cluster _and_ run it for years. Second, this is home use, not enterprise use. Don't assume the nodes are actually constantly utilized. The numbers are a lot less unfavorable for the Pi when you look at realistic workloads, by which I mean idle (~4W/Pi vs ~11W/NUC).

I object to calling it "running clusters for no reason". Hands-on experience, fun and motivation are perfectly valid reasons. And this is extremely cheap as far as specialized hardware goes. Please compare with professional training approaches (run 19" servers in lab, or rent EC2 instances), other hobbies (e.g. horseback riding), or professions (e.g. aviation).
iOS 15.4: notifications finally arrive for PWA web applications
No I mean, it's literally a coding exercise ala,

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/python-program-for-word-guessi...

I'm not sure where NYT is doing here. It's not like the idea can be patented, and the popularity has not been proven anything other than a Twitter fad. It's the next Sudoku - it's already been cracked to be absolutely brain-dead simple to cheat.

McDonalds is a weird analogy to bring up, as the end product is absolute lowest common denominator trash food.

But yeah - all the best to Mr. Dan - lottery ticket printed out. Users as the product and all that.
I also stay away from second person:

"what led to you thinking that?" -> "what led to that thought?"

My preferred version: "what was the motivation for choosing that?".

It's especially helpful on a team working with legacy software. Because the root cause can sometimes be a historic team decision, no longer attributable to anyone on the current team. Where "led you" can result in the "oh it wasn't my idea" responses, rather than "I think they made that decision because ..." responses.
> Surely Wordle is a passing fad

I mean, I do think games come and go, but I think Wordle is some really solid design. It's paced and measured and feel like a mature experience, even though it's new.

NYT could absolutely clone the gameplay - it would be easy - but I think they would rightly be hounded by people attacking them for stealing the game. Instead, they settle on a reasonable (but low) purchase price that probably includes some consulting on how to expand the game, get the blessing of the original creator, and have a feel-good story about adopting and expanding a game people like.

Like, this is a good fit for the NYT "word game collection" brand, but because of the popularity they have to be careful about how they integrate it. I'm sure they paid a bit more than they wanted to, but not actually too much more than it would take to develop a clone, and what they really pay for is protecting against bad press. Seems fine to me.
> Figma makes use of a low-level C++ library called Skia for 2D graphics rather than building their own graphics engine

This is not quite right. The bulk of Figma rendering is Figma-custom GPU code. It's true that Figma uses Skia, but only for some specific graphics algorithms in Skia, not as a general purpose rendering library.

Source: I work on this code.
Can't you just do literally nothing with the money? I think my "being rich" dream is just having my current life but instead of working living off the interest.
A SwiftUI-compatible framework for building browser apps with WebAssembly
I always thought star treks idea of the holodeck would lead to the end... I think just AR/VR might doing, combine that with AI or some goods meds, Yeah definitely can see that..
usually my local MICROCENTER has them in the locked glass cabinet, I peer in and I notice the price. "$99?!? Guess they better keep them locked up, then!" You can buy an entire used Core i7 personal computer for $99.
I don't think it's a single person. I'm pretty sure it's a group of people connected to the old cypherpunks mailing list.
The author isn’t saying it’s a “cure all performance solution.” The quote you copied uses cautious language like “almost always” and “results do vary.”

The author also cites real world apps that have switched to WASM and seen big performance gains (Figma and 1Password), which is much more compelling than the benchmarks you shared.
> someone incompetent or malicious is involved, which is most of the time

This is interesting, I'd love to hear what percentage of the time this is for most HNers here. I've definitely had some "incompetent or malicious" managers but it's definitely not more than 50%. Is my experience uncommon?
Sometimes, often even, there just isn't anything that needs to be said. I feel the same way about standups and 1:1s.

Meetings should be treated like investments: by spending the time of the participants, are you going to reap the rewards of time saved in the future?

Sometimes there is information that does need to change hands, often there just isn't, and meetings take away considerably more time than they take by breaking people out of work that isn't always easy to pick right back up.

Meetings are often just babysitting for managers, keeping them entertained and engaged when they don't have anything better to do (or preventing them from doing the things they need to be doing necessitating hiring more managers who make more meetings and result in less time available per person)

So many standups and 1:1s I've been in have just been an exercise in all parties thinking of something to say because it is presumed stuff needs to be said.
Where did Omicron come from? Three key theories
I can believe they don't have an extensive GitHub... but if they can't use Git they must have either only had a few jobs that all used something else(That's fine, just uncommon), or be in a specialist industry that doesn't use Git(Also not common), or they don't know VCS at all.
The crypto and Gemini communities are fine doing it (for better or worse)
I would guess he has an earnout and will be a nytimes employee for a few years.
And how is the data going to reach the "unshackled" WASM in the browser, for example? I'm not aware of any way for the web page to interact with WASM other than through the JS land with the said overhead. The article explicitly mentions usage inside the web page and presents WASM as a performant alternative.
I am surprised there is no isolation schema for binaries. WASM may look lite and fast compared to Docker, but its still painfully slow compared to AVX or Neon enabled assembly.

We went from VMs to Containers. From Containers to WASM. Now, I guess, we just need to learn how to properly isolate simple binaries.
I don’t know whether or not this is true, but I’d imagine that’s the only quick way to get a rough estimate, before unbiased population-level statistics can be gathered.
The problem with this is it presupposes you have some actual chance of winning. You don't, no one splits $0.
Pretty much all drivers licenses, ID cards and passports have a picture on them, so it's not like we don't use pictures for identifying people. The only problem I have with the proposal is letting a private company collect the pictures.
People are scalping anything with a name and a value. Unifi $40 cameras are being scalped for 2x.
It was a direct reply to "DevOps too".

I asked for examples. I replied to that response stating that I'm already DevSecOps. Not sure what else they would be looking for. If they had additional info, maybe they should chime in.
> Opinion: Mandated lane keeping and other lane keeping/self driving safety garbage is papering over the failure of the human race to govern itself.

When you're done riding that high horse, could you come up with a plan to actually make it stop? Preferably one that can't be dismissed as papering over the failure of the human race to govern itself like self-driving features, or dismissed as an authoritarian power-grab like putting fifty times as many traffic cops on the road, or dismissed as a dream like leveling LA and starting over from scratch with a bike-friendly layout.
When I go to the grocery store, I use the old-fashioned checkout, not the self-checkout. Yeah, the self-checkout can be faster, but I'd rather interact with a human than with a machine.

And if you want to medicate me so that I think and feel differently, well... you'd have to imprison me first.

I need human contact, not just something to take care of me.

And, we didn't just have kids to have someone to take care of us. We had kids because we wanted kids. That human life was worthwhile, and so new humans were worthwhile.
Not to mention you can often get a refurbished mini PC on Ebay cheaper than the higher end RPi's. I've seen a lot of people have switched to them for their projects. Only use a Pi now if you really need low power, small form factor, or GPIO pins. And often the GPIO case can be tackled with an esp8266 or something similar. The niche market the RPi and other SBCs used to fill is definitely shrinking.
There's a maximum size cap on HN titles, which when combined with the mandate to not editorialize titles means that it's not uncommon to see words expressing vague magnitudes removed.
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I have main computer direct to lefty and a switch to go between multiple PCs (including main) on righty, do a lot of tinkering, programming, and stuff so the main might be videos or docs while the secondary is being worked on or visa versa.
> Maybe you should educate yourself about...

This tone isn't helpful and it's not the tone we expect in hacker news.

Additionally, the parent commenter talks explicitly about genocide, not wars. And I don't think the particular displacement you're talking about compares to systematic displacement and genocide in some cases of the native americans
You probably want a layer 7 firewall that only allows HTTPS traffic to/from the internet to your terminating proxy.

Stuff that doesn't obey the system proxy (or a few of the other pitfalls e.g. HPKP) will break, but at least you'd be aware of what's not allowing itself to be intercepted.
If only every human was an island. Unfortunately we all pay for the gambling addicts.
This why I evaluate future coworkers (interviewer or interviewee) on the speed at which we can align mental models. I have worked with some great engineers with whom I felt like bashing my skull in trying to get them on the same page, and some very middling engineers with whom I was immediately able to understand. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I would rather work with someone I can communicate with than an unapproachable great.
I honestly can't believe I'm having the chance to contribute with this right from the start
Large corporations can have a lot of hysteresis. Once someone is hired, it can be quite difficult to fire them.

Even the "90-day probationary" periods are not really useful. I think the only thing that they do, is if the employee quits before the 90 days are up, then they have to pay the company back for all the expenses incurred by the company (I had this happen to someone we hired. They were not expecting that. Too bad. They were actually very good, and dumped us for a job in a location they preferred. I felt bad about that. I actually didn't hold any rancor towards them).

I suspect startups can be a lot more likely to be able to give someone the boot in an efficacious manner.
> and the observations from the poster might even be inaccurate.

It's a story a friend told me a long time ago. I didn’t and couldn’t fact-check it. The husband’s theory came from the fact she apparently mentioned her husband was also a software consultant.
In the two examples that you give, I don't think there was significant censorship of the initially-contrarian viewpoints ("masks are likely enough to protect against SARS-CoV-2 that they're worth a try", "the vaccine is highly effective against death and serious illness but much less so against infection long-term"). Perhaps in part because of that open discussion, those viewpoints indeed quickly became the mainstream.

I was thinking more of stuff like the origin of the pandemic. It's far from proven, but I believe it's entirely possible that (a) the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic originated from reckless virological research; (b) if this research continues, then new pandemics will occur by similar means in future, with similar or worse mortality; and (c) the only force likely to prevent that is public outcry against continued funding of such research. For about a year, discussion of this possibility was grounds for a ban from Facebook. It's only thanks to the huge reputational risks taken by a small number of researchers that this topic has now entered the mainstream. Without those few dozen people, we could easily have landed in a world where that topic remained forbidden indefinitely.

Closer to the Malone case, the BMJ published an article alleging improper conduct by a contractor that conducted some of Pfizer's vaccine trials. (For emphasis, they're not saying that any of these allegations, even if true, would mean the vaccine is unsafe. The point is to expose and correct localized procedural failures before they become patient safety failures.) Facebook marked this as "partly false information", and indicated that users who shared the article would see their posts deprioritized. This has been widely publicized, and Facebook hasn't changed its position.

https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/376/bmj.o95.full.pdf

So if the vaccine were actually dangerous, then would I ever find out? (Again, I strongly believe the vaccine is safe; but I'm asking this hypothetically.) I think I still would for now, because the censorship on the major platforms isn't complete, and I spend enough time on other platforms that they don't have total control anyways. It's not a comforting trend, though.
Thanks jrubinovitz! We tried to make it as easy as possible to do the right thing (QA + code review at once).
went back and watched the video. actually only 20m and totally worth it.

i'm left with a few big questions:

1) how can you have query privacy and zone privacy in the same system? seems like query privacy would open the system up to dictionary attacks at least; with a possibility that depending on how the dht is implemented, perhaps even high performance locally distributed dictionary attacks could be executed?

2) the issues of economics and property rights (as well as invested parties in the economy of name sales and registration) seem like they could collide with the technical goals with something like this gaining traction, has there been any thought given as how these political/economic concerns could be addressed?
Soulbound NFTs
Really? What price would you put on it?
So some other points.

Some Sex lubes can make it easier for infections to get into the body.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_lubricant#Water-based

Thing is I wonder if a higher vitamin A and zinc intake can help because all epithelial cells need retinol (vitamin A), zinc is needed to move retinol around the body as Retinol Binding Protein (RBP) for epithelial cells. Alcohol can reduce fat soluble vitamins stored in the liver which can then reduce the VitA stored in the liver, you see this most easily with alcoholics and hypovitaminosis A, but even short term binge drinking can reduce levels enough to increase risks of transmission which probably explains man flu!

I found a cadaver study where they measured vitA content in the livers of dead people but didnt say how they died, knowing that you can die from ingesting too much vitA in one go like some arctic explorers did when eating polar bear livers decades ago and died. In order to get the highest amounts of vitA seen in some of these cadavers, you'd have to consume 30,000ui of VitA every day for at least a year without your body using any! Thats a lot of Vit A!!!

Anyone who paid attention to the Ebola outbreak in Africa a few years back, may remember that some viruses like Ebola can hide in parts of the body where the immune system can not go, namely the eyes and the testes and sometimes the brain, so they may have remembered that blokes testing negative for Ebola but previously had it, could still be passing it on through semen.

The thing with HIV, its typically passed through anal intercourse, not vaginal where there is sufficient lubrication, but its passed more frequently in Africa because they have a tendancy to have dry vaginal intercourse, because they actually try to reduce the wetness of the vagina which then creates microtears and sores and then its easy for HIV to get into the bloodstream, just like cuts and sores in the mouth also making it easy for HIV to get into the blood.

The whole 80's govt advice/warnings on HIV were directed at everyone because they didnt want to stigmatise those engaging in non vaginal intercourse.

The biggest risk from HIV is getting it into the blood, like most things which are pathogenic.

Now you can still have a highly effective immune system which can lock down viruses, but there is always the risk it gets into those parts of a body where the immune system cant go and I dont know what they test now a days.
Is DjVu really alive? I remember the days when it appeared, even the viewers were extremely slow on the hardware of that time, but it seems to be practically dead for the past decade.
Point of View and context are some of the most important things in communication. You can't remove point of view and have a conversation.

Some of the hardest work I do is trying to understand what colleagues are saying.
Funny, I remember as a child wondering how my parents knew how to get where we were going. I saw the green lights on the dash (and couldn't see the signal lever from the backseat) and just thought that the car was smart enough to give them directions.
I used to be into cheap computing, Toshiba Chromebook 2 has 4GB of ram, 1080P screen, can buy on eBay for like $40. I've put a Linux OS on it and was able to run a VM inside it ha.
I've seen them in Utah in more rural sections of I-15.
Can confirm, I ran the benchmark in that repo and rather than JS being 30% faster in Levenstein distance it was ~10% slower but both had improved relative to the native score.
These legacy admissions are also the reason most Ivies can afford to do need-blind admissions.
Pointsbet has a bet that pays a linear dollar amount * (winner -loser)^2 - some specified number. And yes, this can be negative and severely so.

E.g. $10* (winning margin squared - 225).

This is not a bet that needs to exist. Nobody is likely to have the data necessary to have a reasonable opinion on this, or to be able to calculate the risk and reward accurately in their head.
Sure, but the desktop market has been shrinking. Unless you are in business, all you need is an iPhone, android and maybe a companion tablet are you are good computing wise. There was a time when your grandparents used Windows, but now they all use iPads/phones.
Gunfire in Oakland Leaves 30k People Without Internet, TV, Phone Services
Yes, because you get hungry. You are using a common fallacy.
This is hacker news isnt it? Doesnt everyone have their own botnet now a days? ;-)
This is a horrible idea and is likely illegal in many jurisdictions.
“This lets me focus on my superpowers.”

The guy just has a very smarmy thing going about him. The whole tweet storm, these odd words, just has a bit of a Travis Kalanick type “slimy valley founders” thing.

Just rubs me the wrong way, can’t explain why. Am I alone here?
No, class war ...is an inevitability. Except the class being fought hardly knows it's at war. To create an equal society requires the classes to rise up and actually join the war for their own souls.

The lower classes are too pre-occupied with survival, the elites have all the control, power, and are the ones pre-occupying them with modes for their survival (shitty jobs to pay exorbitant rents to get enough maybe for an iphone, and netflix subscription) so when you're done working 60 hours per week, you only have enough left over time to focus on distractions rather than a coup against the elites.

The answer is more unions, more worker co-ops, and providing REAL market alternatives to capitalism in the terms of democratic / DAO style companies that give all employees shares based on input, and maybe even shares for consumers who are loyal to their brand... (like a 5 shares per hour worked, 1 share per dollar spent - upto 10k dollars spent/yr) ... then say there's Walmart, and Walgreens, and MCDonalds competitors in the syndicate of co-ops... all the money they earn are pooled, and maybe everyone w/ at least 10k yearly shares gets free healthcare for the next year, and dividends from a pool of 30% of revenue...

These are still capitalist companies in the fact they're ran independently, and created by entrepreneurs they just have governing/managment aspects that give more power to the people who work there... it's a marriage if you will, and one that I think is the only way forward. It provides true dual power, but doesn't require a 'benevolent dictator' which is the evil of communism per se...

Communism always turns to Oligarchy, but apparently so does democracy, however co-op owned companies can run more ethically with more care for employees and the environment, and eventually lobby congress for their behalf which is for the employee's behalf.
> To continue the Java bytecode prior comment, at one point, java was in all browsers of the time

No, it wasn't.

> (i.e. Applets).

Applets required (1) installing Java on the system, and (2) installing a plugin for Java in the browser. The capacity to run them was not built in natively to any major browser.

> However, it lost, and seemingly removed with extreme prejudice with no nods to backwards compatibility.

It progressively lost to (1) other plug-in based tech (Flash), and (2) expansion and optimizayiom of the web platform to make plug-in based tech less needed while security problems of the model became more visible, and finally (3) the rising importance of web browsers that didn't support plugins (which are now dominant even on desktop.)

> Java also enjoys multiple HLLs that target its bytecode

But not C/C++ (or, now, Rust/Go), in which a lot of common code on which native-targeted code in other languages rely is written. WASM was specifically designed with being a target for C/C++, and those and languages like Rust and Go already target it.
It is a sad state of affairs when we're litigating offending tweets.
I know a few Central Coast of California agricultural landowners who have Chumash bedrock mortars on their property, some with pestles still in them. They are unbelievably cool IMHO — when you are around them it's easy to imagine Chumash women working away grinding acorn flour and chatting as their children played under the oak trees however many years ago.

The landowners mostly stay quiet for two reasons: One, who knows what the county, state, and the Chumash bands will want to do this time? Second (and far more importantly), if officials are informed it's essentially certain the locations will eventually leak and open the sites up to thieves and vandals. My understanding is that the sites have been made available to researchers under a covenant to not reveal the locations.

To the second point, one only need refer to the tragedy of Painted Rock:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painted_Rock_(San_Luis_Obispo_...
> Are they buying a brand?

Ding ding ding!

The term wordle is very recognizable and a great way to introduce people to the nytimes games collection, which other than the crossword aren't well known
https://reactionwheel.net/2021/11/your-boards-of-directors-i...
Uh oh, is NYT coming for HN next?
FWIW, this is not limited to Indian or IT companies. Many if not most consulting/banking/law companies have an "A-team" that gets trotted out to woo the customer, and as soon as the deal is sealed, the actual implementation is handed over to the Z-team of fresh grads.