skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those statements are technically true, but I’m not exactly sure what you’re trying to say. There’s nothing flawed about observational data that ignores the inner workings of the system, that’s how all of science works. Like you say, it’s physical observations. There’s nothing flawed about measuring wattage output of exercise while keeping food intake constant and noting that most humans lose weight under such conditions, or of keeping caloric output constant and increasing caloric input and noting that most humans gain weight.

> it doesn’t work or not, it’s just a concept, an observation like a law of physics.

It works as a tool for weight loss. It works for exactly the reason you state, because it’s primarily an observation of physics. The only way I gain mass is via my mouth, and the only way I lose mass is via energy expenditure. If I want to control mass, therefore, tracking and controlling my input and output is more or less guaranteed to work. For sure the input output responses might not be perfectly linear, but that’s expected and not a ‘flaw’. The weight response to calories also can’t be reversed or flat, due to physics, it must be highly correlated, right?
Microsoft is still kicking themselves that they didn’t think about making internet access a subscription service until the XBox, this will be the first step toward making windows a subscription service, since at this point they can’t do it just for the internet.
Market share as in usage, not shipment.
Those were actually some of my favourite drives cost wise ... -after- the problems happened.

Turned out at least on the ones I had that it was always the outer edges of the platter that failed, so a (from 20 year old memory, may be wrong) 60Gb Death Star if carefully partitioned out to a maximum of about 58Gb ran absolutely beautifully and you could get them dirt cheap because (understandably if you weren't a crazy person like me) almost nobody wanted to touch them at that point.
> Speaking slowly and loudly in english at someone in a small french village asking for the bakery isn't something that we should mourn losing.

So don't shout then, and god forbid, maybe learn some French?

English isn't my fist language, and yet here I am talking to you.
HBD HN! Thanks for the amazing 15 years so far, sounds corny but I'm not sure if I'd be in the same place today without you.

Love this place, thanks to all for making it possible. Let's keep it great for at least another 15 years.
Games may have gotten better on Linux, but that’s not the case with some programs. Usually riddled with obnoxious DRM that throws a fit in a VM or wine like program. That and nvidia woes are the only thing stopping me from using Linux.
Apple devices? So what, they can learn to become good consumers?

Get them on Linux or a BSD and explain their purpose and value.
I can certainly see that, as a tool to use occasionally for critical, complex bits of the system. Or even as a team-building exercise.

I had the impression some are advocating it as a default way of working though, and that seems so alien to me
BSDs pretty consistently perform at the bottom of most performance benchmarks I've seen, when compared to Linux.

NetBSD appears to have embraced a niche as a research OS, not sure about the other distros.
Yes, actually it is negative, due to the emissions and waste involved in setting up energy production in the first place. That negative has to be offset by using the energy to do something useful.
anecdotal but I have that set and it almost "always" never works.
> I think Rust's primary value proposition is expressiveness. People enjoy writing Rust, because they can represent complex ideas with few LOC. Safety is a distant second. It's a language for enthusiasts, not products.

What nonsense. Companies across the board are adopting Rust not because it has some hype behind it, but because it solves real problems, like memory safety and performance.
Civil Asset Forfeiture is not freezing assets, it's seizing them with intent to forfeit them. The grand jury never returned a true bill on Nelson and expired before any charges were brought against anyone. This was a shakedown by the FBI of someone who probably didn't commit a crime but as near others who did commit a crime. Honestly, this whole thing should have been a contract dispute in civil court between AWS and Nelson given the information that has been released in court filings. Nelson's contract didn't prohibit moonlighting and as far as Amazon and the feds are concerned, neither have shown any evidence that Nelson took a kickback of any kind.
As you say, it’s amazing what you find when you review your work. I’m currently trying to implement a checklist system for reviewing work to get output quality up.

I’m consistently disappointed to see what I have done. Having worked at places where the solution was to tell people off when they made errors, that doesn’t work.

People then just watched their manager make the same error and took pleasure from the situation.
There is not a human right to assemble and protest if that assembly and protest infringes upon the human rights of others.

And if you're using legitimate funds to infringe upon the human rights of others, the government has every right to stop you from doing that.

We take the perfectly legal crowbar out of the robber's hands when they use it to pry open home doors, so we also take the money out of the protester's bank accounts when they use it to infringe on the rights of others.
I think they're asking if, upon submission, HN could request an IA snapshot. That way the nearest snapshot will be from the day of posting and not some unknown time
Who is the repeat offender in this situation?

The scooter company who provides the scooters?
The scooter renter who drops the scooter in semi-random locations?
The city who built the sidewalks?

It seems like you are targeting the scooter company when it may be the users who are being careless. I’ve seen a lot of scooters left in the way when a reasonably clear area was just a few feet away.
Good lord. I'm blind, walk with a cane. Let me tell you the number of times I have to walk around someone parked on the sidewalk, or in a residential neighborhood find someone has their driveway filled with cars so I have to walk out in the street to get around, or someone's doing yard work and has stuff scattered on the sidewalk in front of the house or...

Where's my law-abiding help to deal with this? It kinda just feels like somebody's got a hate on for scooters.
I also hope all of Switzerland would do this. Downgrading from fiber to ADSL is ok, but was definitely not fun.
This is fantastic! One question I have is how I compare two specific colors. I can compare teal-900 to green for example, but I would like to compare specifically green-400: is that possible?
I always disagree with opinions that 10+ year old games shouldn't be remade or have a successor because they're "tired" or have "been done".

It's just a viewpoint that's incredibly out of touch with the actual game playing audience. The vast, vast majority of players don't know about and will not touch something that old. A game like Dune II that's nearly 30 years old might as well be buried in an ancient tomb, from a standpoint of its accessibility and likelihood to be discovered.

As to the other criticism, against "rally local villages or force them into submission"... this just sounds like you could play as either an Atreides (woke good guys, joining up with locals to fight imperials) or Harkonnen (evil colonialist) archetype. You know, choosing sides and having agency, the thing games exist for. You could shift the theme more, but this is presumably trying to somewhat follow the story of Dune.
You don't know me. Me saying scooters are dangerous does not, in any way shape or form, imply that I think cars are safe. They are death machines that I would also very much like to see gone.
Interesting read, not sure why you compared only these two though.

There are a plenty of other solutions and Docker is actually many things.. You can use Docker to run containers using Kata for example, which is a runtime providing full HW virtualisation.

I wrote something similar, yet much less in detail on Docker and LXC and more as a bird-eye overview to clarify terminology, here: https://sarusso.github.io/blog_container_engines_runtimes_or...
The advantage is actually pretty simple and I think this article overcomplicates it.

The Rust community considers safety violations to be the language's fault not the implementer’s fault. In C++ if you violate the language spec then you’re and idiot who just blew their foot off. In Rust the people responsible for the project take it upon themselves to make sure that nobody blows their foot off. If you happen to cause UB in safe code, the community says “oops yeah we messed up how do we fix that”. This is a huge difference and the article alludes to it but I don't think the author states it clearly enough.

Rust’s “hole problem” is that it forces developers to write safe code (conform to the language spec) up front which ultimately saves time and money. Developers are the audience and they want the best tools. Users want a hole (often as a means to an end, sure) and don’t care how it gets there; developers who make holes all day want the hole in the wall and not in their foot as frequently as possible.
> The target cost for starship is $2M per launch for a much bigger payload. If they achieve that (but even if they arrive to several multiple of that) Falcon 9 is dead. It’s as simple as that.

I wonder if that is entirely true.

There may still be a market for smaller bespoke launches that SpaceX won't want to cede to competitors (though this depends on the cadence of Starship launches, the latency of getting a payload included, and so on), and SpaceX may benefit from keeping F9 around as a platform that allows further iteration on the engines (though this depends on estimates of the increased risk for Starship launches that have a mix of engine versions).
I'm waiting for mine to be installed.

Does anyone have thoughts on appropriate hardware/software? At the moment I'm just running a Linux machine as my router, using standard nftables for NAT and firewall, but I'm curious what others think.
> – New Reddit, please show me this thread with 14 comments

> – Here you go! Here’s the first four comments.

> – …

> – You’re welcome.
PoC||GTFO 0x21 [pdf-ish]
My two cents: kids can not do this on their own, and the comparison to drugs is apt. I think as parents the goal is to teach the kid the risks and the importance of limits, and then help them over time learn to manage it on their own (i.e. as they mature and show they're able to do so).

Working backwards, at some point they are going to be on their own, and if up until that point they are entirely leaning on the fences set up by the parents, and/or don't understand the 'why' behind those fences, they will fail badly.
Vast majority of federal cases are plea deals. Frozen assets, stacked charges, potential for long jail time are all pressure designed to make you accept a deal
But if they seize the assets through civil asset forfeiture, then they're not frozen, they're seized. And that's what happened here. When assets are frozen, they can also still be used to pay for reasonable lifestlye expenses such as housing, childcare, food, transportation, etc.
Yes next release we are planning for that. Do you think that would be a great mover?
This is unfortunately not true. Inertia is a huge problem.
Nowadays money can be accused of a crime, and isn't innocent until proven guilty
You are right that there is no comparison, and I haven't made one. Scooters are safer than cars, but me wanting them gone does not mean I want those people to be driving instead.
It's not the technologists. It's the market. Humans are well, um, human. Quirky, unpredictable, fickle, etc. A UI / UX that tests well with a dozen or two people might flop once the market gets to it.

And then of course, expectations evolve. It's less churn and simply life and humanity.
I haven't looked at the patent in detail, but in my experience as a former patent examiner, likely the claims cover some new detail missing from the prior art. You need to look at what was claimed to know what is covered.

Take a look at claims 1, 19 and 20 to see what is covered: https://patents.google.com/patent/US11234023B2/en

The application received 3 rejections before allowance, so it's not like the USPTO rubber-stamped it: https://patentcenter.uspto.gov/#!/applications/16456602/ifw/...

I'm not familiar with this technology and don't have time to take a closer look. But if I were to take a closer look, I'd check out what the examiner wrote in their allowance (Notice of Allowance and Fees Due) to see if they identified a specific feature that makes it patentable.
Instagram users are, or will be, parallel TikTok users. If you are up tight about adding users this is a panic situation. In real terms it's not a concern to anyone but Facebook and TikTok. Users just shrug and use what interests or benefits them. Facebooks business model is quicksand because if they leverage users to enter another market welcome to antitrust. They could do payments and a million other things but social it is because that's what created the beast. They dominated a market that has no costs for users to walk away from. Customer value proposition is/was thin.
> No, Go is "simple" but big Go codebases are not going to be simple.

Can you expand on this? I actually lean towards the same belief but wants to hear your reasons.

Can any gophers suggest one or more exemplars of simple big codebases for us to test our beliefs on?
> So ignoring the main point of Rust, it's (mostly) what C++ would have been...

"And the sanitation"

"Oh, yeah, the sanitation, Reg. Remember what the city used to be like?"
> The end value provided by Rust to its developers (and thus to their customers and employers) is less time arguing linguistic minutia and less time wrestling with a managed language environment, and more time focused on what actually matters to each of those developers (be it business logic, or family time).

Hm, interesting that this boils down to a wholly unsupported claim.

Part of it isn't even coherent to me. In my experience arguing linguistic minutia has nothing to do with programming languages (or any specific domain) and everything to do with personalities and social interactions.

As for spending less time wrestling with the language environment, I suppose that very well may be true. But it may very well not be true. Here it's an assertion without anything backing it up. It certainly seems possible to me that another safe language (e.g., Javascript) may win in this area.
> You also want something better than cat5 for home wiring.

For 25Gbps? Or are you meaning for the 1gbps you have? If the former, of course, but otherwise Cat5e can handle 10GbE if you have good connections and the loop length isn’t too long.
Indeed. Similarly to how a game like Crusader Kings or Europa Universalis is great partly because of the lack of exploration.
Pretty sure most FAANG companies don't list salaries on their open positions. You can find that info through 3rd party sources like Levels.fyi though.
The experience I had with this was related to a seed round, where the multiple they were taking a bet on in a seed investment would be akin to that of the expectation of a venture round (10x-30x+) over 5-7 years.

I'd be interested in the later stage VC case for investing in a defense startup whose main out is to be acquired by a behemoth that has all the regulatory, support, cleared staff, and certification facilities to get on the necessary procurement vehicles to realize revenue.

Speculatively, without defense contract revenue, the acquisition math seems like acquihire numbers and some IP, which is in the low mid eight figures range, so it implies a ceiling on the best case for a $5m-$10m VC investment unless you have the most valuable patents on the planet. That said, a "breadth first" fund (my word) that puts small amounts in at early stages may want the exposure and participation for other strategic reasons, such as the ventures arm of some defense contractors having a mandate to bring startups in with them on their large bids, or a fund with other portfolio companies who would also benefit from the defense oriented tech and access to your channel.

My experience is (n=1) limited and speculative, but I've also worked for security and cryptography companies where the procurement vehicle thing was an issue, and have to think this through a while ago, and that's what I can add. Please don't let me mislead you, etc.
> fiber is quite future proof

To give an example - OS2 single-mode fiber is the standard fiber for contemporary datacenter deployments and I assume also for last-mile deployments. It's super cheap (less than 20cpf for indoor cable, whereas cat7 copper is closer to 60cpf), has an insane range (a standard $25 fiber PHY can operate with a cable from 0m-10km), and has an insane bandwidth limit (it's currently used for everything from 1gbps to 400gbps).

If you're wiring a home today, I would 100% use OS2 over CatN unless you also need PoE.
These are the comment threads I love HN for.
LTT Labs could end up being like BuzzFeed vs BuzzFeed News where a site famous for its clickbait, inane quizzes, and half-assed listicles started doing serious investigative journalism.

If you told me ten years ago that BuzzFeed's news site would end up winning many prestigious awards including a Pulitzer Prize I would have thought you were joking.
Justifying your position with your anecdotal point of view is not convincing at all.

What’s your case for the number of reported deaths and incidents of cars vs scooters?
I appreciate your feelings. I responded this way because the first comment I responded to which says "I will never visit an Arab country" and "it was pretty much the same everywhere" should have a better analysis before he/she cancel entire countries this way. I am sorry for what they have experienced, but we need to be honest if we want a change to this mad world.
Ah, so this seems to be tied to the setup Go uses for trying out betas and release candidates.

Is that the correct reading?
simpler on paper sure. definitely not easy of course
Fast and improved two-stage mechanical oscillator. (Oct 31st, 2021)
Yep, and then it becomes the "default" design, so that the desktop site looks like the (bad) mobile one, but blown up really big.
That's an unnecessarily cynical generalization. Sure, maybe the leaders of the companies creating these things are profit-motivated, but is that really true of the individual engineers and designers who created it?
The kinds of companies that oppose transparency do not deserve our assistance. It’s a form of boycott: fuck them
The measure of VC is growth and if you are a component to larger systems or programs you will inevitably be throttled. If you are a platform and can own the end to end then you should take VC capital and invest heavily in well connected BD's that are known by the PM's and have a nuanced ability to navigate the orgs.

Palantir (who is end to end) has opened up VC appetites for defense and you see a certain signaling pattern to the VC backed defense start ups vs the traditional small defense business upstart.

I work at a "start up" that develops a component so we took a strategic investment from a defense contractor and that has enabled us to develop core technology and grow commercially while being patient with the arduous cycles of programs.
Facebook misled investors on scope of misinformation problems, whistleblower say
I agree that patents are unrealistic in the modern world.

Frankly, it seems that most (nearly all) patents have only a trivial amount of money invested to create the idea, other than what the patent lawyer costs. For example, "playing checkers --- with a computer" patents. Ending all patents would not slow down innovation at all.

There is one exception, drug patenting, where billions are spent developing a drug and getting it approved.
You passed 20 scooters blocking your path in a 3 minute walk?

I lived in SF when the scooters first appeared. Maybe it's gotten worse, but I thought they made you prove you parked it somewhere legally with a photo. So I would figure at least the majority aren't just blocking the sidewalk.

I'm not saying they aren't misplaced a lot and that it isn't a problem. I'm just saying there's no way every 10 seconds you're climbing over a scooter on your walk (20 in 3 minutes).
did they contribute anything back?
The complex numbers ℂ have an extra symmetry: complex conjugation. Objects which respect the full structure of ℂ have to respect this symmetry, which leads to overall nicer behavior.

For example, if a complex function 𝑓 is differentiable once then...

· It's differentiable an infinite number of times (smooth)

· It has a Taylor series approximation at every point (analytic)

· If γ is a smooth closed curve in the complex plane then the path integral over of 𝑓 around γ is 0, i.e., ∳ᵧ𝑓 = 0 (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy%27s_integral_theorem)

· The real part of 𝑓 viewed as a function of ℝ² is harmonic (likewise for the imaginary part). This is a result of the Cauchy-Riemann equations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy%E2%80%93Riemann_equatio...

· The residue theorem is very powerful and can be used to prove things about non-complex functions/integrals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residue_theorem

The list goes on.

Historically, complex analysis developed about 30 years before vector calculus as we know it today.
> I'm sure you'll likewise approve when the next conservative administration uses these emergency powers to deprive Black Lives Matter protesters (or indigenous rights protesters or whatever they have up there) and anyone who supports them of their access to banking and insurance, right? Because the BLM protests were a hundred times more disruptive to commerce, which appears to be of paramount importance to people like you.

I have no problem whatsoever stopping any protestors who are doing what this group is now doing. Their message does not matter.

> No, the government is empowered to arrest the trespasser based on reasonable suspicion that a crime is taking place. And that's what they do.

Exactly, and there's a reasonable suspicion of a crime taking place here, so we're in agreement.

> No, the role of the court is determine whether a crime has been committed.

Semantics. The role of the court is to sort out what happened later, not to immediately intervene in a given crisis situation.

> Which is exactly why the twitter thread points out that the only correct course of action in a country with a functional rule of law is to arrest the protesters/trespassers, remove their vehicles from the streets, charge them, and follow the established due process under the law to determine their guilt and punishment. It appears the first step of this process is underway as we speak.

Yes, and part of that first step is to deprive them of resources they would use to resist, which is exactly what is happening.
Rodin's Sculptures Are in the Public Domain; 3D Scans of Them Should Be, Too
Title shortened from "Auguste Rodin's Sculptures Are In The Public Domain; 3D Scans Of Them Should Be, Too".
Hehehe. But how do you know who is underpaid! The same question I was asking about Cook applies to every employee. ...But it feels reasonable to impose at least a somewhat higher burden of proof when someone is about to get paid such a large multiple of the average
Meanwhile PL design (in particular memory safety) doesn’t impact cybersecurity? That seems to be the indirect implication (going by GP).