skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was meant as genuine constructive criticism and a plea to do better. They have more traction than most people to morph docker into something that comes close to its predecessors in efficiency. Somehow replace their fragile layer caching strategy based around diffs of the entire filesystem, with something that understands the OS and language-specific packaging systems being used inside the containers, and can therefore at ~least cache the package downloads. We desperately need a better, more efficient package manager, and Docker has been a huge setback; it has become normal for CICD to rebuild your image every time you touch the code, and pull down practically an entire linux distribution every time. I know you can do better with docker caching if you put in enough consistent and dedicated engineering effort into how you structure things, and set up local apt and pypi mirrors, etc... but that's the default behavior, and none of (admittedly very small number organizations) I've worked at have had the organizational capacity to really get past it. I don't know if we need what they're building, but we absolutely need a much more efficient new version of Docker with an easy migration path. Indeed they may be the ~only people with traction to resolve this, since in the current climate as soon as someone introduces a new package manager with more efficient dependency resolution or caching (i.e. nix, poetry, cargo...), people just stick it in their Docker container and break the caching anyway.
Thanks! And it turns out submitting here is embarrassing like every other form of usability testing. You managed to bring my attention to the fact the intro section on that page wasn't rendering. Thanks again.
tl;dr I imagined a story with myself as the main character, and now I'm disappointed because the story is not real
He is taking resources by not properly attributing work, actually. One of the big criticisms of NKS was the lack of a real bibliography and there was the whole Wolfram v. Cook debacle on top. As I recall, the book still doesn't credit cook for the proof.
I am finally having to deal with Kubernetes, and the only thing positive I can say is that I miss WebSphere and WebLogic.
There are two Stephen Wolframs: the one who makes useful software (Mathematica, Wolfram Alpha), and the one who fancies himself an academic. His success in the former lets him avoid humility in the latter, and this conflict is where the problems come in.
Nothing special for mine[0], serves more as an online business card with some links. The domain contains my full name and I also have a very similar e-mail address (replace the first dot with @). It's just plain HTML with some JS to switch the hello message. Source is available and I have a job that gets triggered for every commit, deploying it to Gitlab Pages. I just update it directly on Gitlab[1] every time I need to and it's up.

[0] https://rafael.keramid.as/

[1] https://gitlab.com/keraf/personal-site
Thank you. Year did not fit in the title anymore.
You realised it just in time!
Initiator of the project here. Let me add a bit of context: The goal of cascade is to explore and map graphic possibilities offered by the DOM and CSS to sound (positions, nesting, animation, dev tools editing…). That explains the weird results, it is an experimental project mixing live-coding, sound notation and love for web standards, that will never sound like commercial music, as the limitations are important and fundamental to the exploration. This video shows several demos, illustrating my point : https://peertube.swrs.net/videos/watch/33e7c76d-775f-4e1b-88...
It's attempting to come up with a new way to model observable physical phenomena. If that's not science, then neither are Feynman diagrams, complex numbers or even calculus.

Whether it will prove useful like the above models still remains to be seen, but calling it "not science" seems ahistoric. Let's see if they can evolve the theory to the point where it can make novel predictions. If it never makes one, then the model is not useful. If it makes one but is proven wrong, then at least it will be wrong (rather than "not even wrong"). If it makes one and is proven right, then we will have made a big leap forward in our understanding of the universe.

I'm ok with either of these outcomes, but I don't get why anyone would want this thought experiment stopped before one of them is reached.
His (de Hond) reputation is abhorrent as he did a complete made-up witch hunt for his personal prime suspect in the Deventer moordzaak, of which he was way off and never really apologized to damages he caused to the victim that he created.
He is not just "creating a research institute". He basically claims to have solved all of science.

Case in point: Yesterday he streamed a "History of Science and Technology Q&A" session. [1] Is it about the history of science and technology? No! It's a sales pitch for his new institute! As if he is the singularity that all of science and technology have culminated in. So obviously when talking about history of science and technology all you need to talk about is cellular automata and Stephen Wolfram's role in it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEMFxPWzVU8

Watch it, it's enlightening.
Nice, I did the same, but in 280 characters :-)
https://blog.nyman.re/2020/10/11/introducing-piss-a.html

I like your write-up of yours, re-reading my post I realise it’s severely lacking examples. Going to take som inspiration from you and update my post so it’s a bit clearer.
> Which governments specifically?

Erm, the US and UK ? Their handling has been dire.

We all remember Boris Johnson going on TV and when asked about the images coming out of Italy said "Well, its nothing to worry about, you'll have to just take it on the chin".

Every man and his dog could see the slow car-crash coming. First China, then Asia, then Western Europe... the statistics and TV coverage was all there for everyone to see. But the UK government was in constant and total denial until the hospitals started clogging up.

And even when the UK government finally admitted it, their handling was truly, truly dire. Constant failure to act, constant acting too late, constant u-turns, throwing 40-billion down the pan on dodgy contracts.
https://jsdevtom.com
The US has an outsized influece on the WHO. Dominating the whole institution from finance to its people.

At the time of the outbreak, the US administration was under a populist leader who saw the virus as an almost personal attack; emphasizing that mask wearing, and the implicit recognition that the virus spread by air, was a political symbol directed against him.

Funny how people forget this.
> Governments who "didn't want to create a panic"

Is that supposed to be a quote? It doesn't seem to be a quote from the article. Not creating a panic seems to be a sensible thing to do in most circumstances. You want people to react with appropriate concern to risks, but not behave irrationally.
That turns out to be a fairly small number of people.

The percentage of the population who looked at the video coming out of China and concluded "Shit, this could get bad, I'd better do something" was tiny.

Without government leadership, most populations default to a kind of bovine "I'll just carry on because I don't like change" inactivity, with a strong "How dare you tell me what to do!" tendency among the Dark Triad fringes.

In fact we're still there even after millions of dead.

The tragedy is that a no compromise planetary policy of short full lockdowns, a total ban on non-essential international travel, and aggressive testing/tracing could have ended Covid within 3-6 months.

But our economic systems aren't designed to handle that contingency, so we're dealing with much higher levels of personal and economic harm instead.
My problem with Wolfram is that every time I hear him talk or read him, I end up spending 15-20 minutes and come out the other end confused.

I studied physics in my undergrad, I have a graduate degree in math, I've shipped large features on planet-scale systems. I'm no genius, certainly nowhere close to Dr. Wolfram, but I don't think I'm far from your average HN reader in reading comprehension ability.

I've read 35 paragraphs in a post about founding a research institute and I don't know what was said there that couldn't have been conveyed in two or three paragraphs instead.

It is my default opinion that people who use lot word when few word do trick do so to cover up the fact that they have very little content of actual value. That might not be the case with Wolfram, who has quite a track record, but to me the burden of proof is still on him.
That hasn't worked well for me. I'm too busy starting new things.

On the other hand, while I've got a lot on the go, I do eventually finish things, so winning I guess?
https://danieljanus.pl

Made with a bespoke SSG: https://github.com/nathell/nhp
Masks (N95 or equivalent) are useful because they filter out the virus.

Closed spaces: ventilation or HEPA filters are necessary.

Think of cigarette smoke: if you can smell it, you’d get the virus
Complaining about bitrate and comparing that to animals that a motive with complex sensory organs is pretty weird. There’s certainly no evolutionary pressure to develop a high speed computational system, but that doesn’t mean a slow speed one couldn’t work.
Highly recommend checking out the Wheel of Life[1], to help you understand the different areas that contribute to happiness, it's never just one thing. Writing down what you think will get an area to a 10, envisioning it, then seeing if you feel that would feel like a 10 is a great way to uncover where you may be overthinking what gets you there before doing all that work.

Gratitude should also help with each area that you feel is fulfilled, otherwise you just never have enough

[1] https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newHTE_93.htm
Mind expanding about the "two remote jobs" part? As an internal your contract likely prohibits you from taking another job, and as a freelancer you're billing time. So I don't see how that would work out without screwing the company or forgoing all your free time.
https://mateuszbuda.github.io/
Bolt Acquires Crypto Payments Startup Wyre for $1.5B
No there are not. The 2T market is a ponzi, you're right. /$
Unfortunately many of the self-driving cars will be robotaxis with camera systems watching the riders.

If anything, it'll increase the police state.
I agree that there are elements like this that make intuitive sense.

What I am saying is: After at these years on military/boardroom slides... what does Dunbar's tell us? How has it influenced how we do anything?

What should or shouldn't be organized in smaller/larger groups? How?

It just feels like a lot of popular social science tidbits give us a great introduction with no follow through. What was the point of all those slides?
>This panic over accomplishment must be a cultural phenomenon.

Economic pressure. Look at the housing market and the dystopian reality of our political processes, social divide, etc. -- TONS of people feel like they need to become free by means of economic accomplishments. This is even more so the case in countries without universal healthcare etc.

It's coming down to Maslow. If you work in tech, chances are you're smart enough to have and smell opportunities. People who don't have that opportunity because they are occupied with family or day-to-day-jobs can be content with less, just because there is no material dream to pursuit, or because they have other intrinsic goals (art, social connections [...]). The rat race we're forced into drives people mad, and we can't really blame the people. It takes a lot of mental progress to dig yourself out of that. Highly (!) intelligent people, think the top 1% of the chart, may be otherwise occupied, for example by the drive to contribute to scientific progress, but the top ~10-2% (I'm just throwing numbers here) feel trapped in material pressure and forced to "make it", where "it" isn't an actual target other than economic freedom.
> We all remember Boris Johnson going on TV and saying "Well, you'll have to just take it on the chin".

You remember wrongly. He said we considered taking it on the chin, but decided against it.

I think Boris has done very badly in his handling of the pandemic; given how many bad decisions he made, it's strange that people seem fixated on this thing he didn't say.
'How about thinking about it with common sense'

Common sence is a mythl

Thoughts think themselves, you are an empty vessel and they arrive in your mind by magic, and you have no real idea where they come from. All you do is react to them in one way or the other
Ask HN: Have you ever switched cloud?
Has anyone ever switched clouds from one service provider to another (e.g. AWS to Azure or vice versa), partially or entirely?

If so why? They all offer almost identical services. Do small (but maybe significant?) differences or unique products (e.g. Spanner) make such a big difference that it has swayed someone to switch their cloud infrastructure?

I wonder how much these little things matter and how such a transition (in partial or as a whole) went along and how key stakeholders (who were possibly heavily invested in one cloud or felt they were responsible for the initial choice) were convinced to make the switch?

I'd love to hear some stories from real world experiences and crucially what it was that pushed the last domino to make the move.
According to [1] (which cites [2], page 9), British infantry etc have an average 4,600 calorie intake.

[1] https://militarymuscle.co/blogs/studies/nutrition-for-milita...

[2] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
'I was at a hospital where there were a few coronavirus patients and I shook hands with everybody,' the prime minister said on 3 March 2020

He back visiting a hospital, howwever this time as a patient in the ICU within a month.
Yeah but if older you had actually told younger you to relax a bit, would you be where you are now talking about how things are going well, or would you be like OP in the linked article? Sure it is true that opportunities usually never come from the places you are searching, but they don't come at all if you aren't searching.
They continued development on many of the open source and make them proprietary again them requiring forks to lots of projects. And those projects actually did continue internal development, it would be different if they just stopped all development.

And even without that they suck as a company and it sucks to be their costumer for the most part.

Even if they release something open source its often a license that prevents anybody else from doing much with it.

They are pretty much one of the worst tech companies in the world and pretty much most people agree with this.
By saying:
It was a FAULT to knowingly make a false statement

Fault as in: someone should pay for it.

Definitely NOT a “honest mistake”

The WHO is doing damage control.
Is milk being on every relief menu a sign that people had a derranged love for milk? Or just the strength of the milk lobby?
> Well actually they first said “no way I’m taking Trump’s vaccine” and then flipped.

Who is "they"?

I've heard people, such as Biden and Harris, say they didn't trust Trump to give correct vaccine information and would make their decisions on when to take a vaccine based on what doctors say.
> if tomatoes were taken to europe only after Colon's famous trips... how come Italian cuisine is famously known for it's tomato-based pasta sauces?

What's your question? Why are Canadians known for speaking English?
Well, can you tell me if you got accepted into a college based off the size of the letter you got?
I'm sorry to hear about your mother.
Yes, the above approach is exactly what I advocate we should avoid.

"you are an empty vessel and they arrive in your mind by magic"

Whatever: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_paralysis
I think a stream format could work if it was heavily focussed and structured. The main developer of SerenityOS [1][2] I know streams the work they do fairly often, and aims to keep segments within an hour, and focussed on a single issue. I think an ideal structure would be 1 hour of focussed work, where you explain what you're doing, followed by a Q&A session where you could go into detail about the decisions you made.

Typically with most programming streams what happens is you watch people silently mash the keys on their keyboard, whilst listening to music, and occasionally talking to themselves about what they're doing, and not really imparting that much knowledge or interacting much.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/AndreasKling/videos

[2] https://serenityos.org/
By the same metric, humans only know statistics about photons and pressure waves, which obviously has nothing to do with actually existing objects. I don't see why we should call our statistics "intelligence" and the network's statistics "statistics".
My Old school site https://tfe.eus/ :)
Yep definitely. I've recently used it a couple of times when talking about alcoholic drinks - mulled wine when I've messed up the proportions (it was a little too spicy), and when trying to briefly summarise a difference between two particular whiskies (one being a bit more spicy than the other). I guess it's unambiguous in these contexts though.
https://www.louiscordier.com/book/
Some ideas/musings I had from Bipolar manic episodes...
Some time ago I stopped debating the definition of "unit" in testing, and instead started focusing on whether my tests were fast, reliable, and provided a useful signal about the health of the system when they failed. I've been much happier since then.
> However, the court held that it was improper for the defendants to remove the Commons Clause, and therefore the defendants’ claims in advertising that its ONgDB software was open source was false advertising.”

So the headline was misleading. OngDB was licensed under an open source license (see https://opensource.org/licenses/agpl-3.0) but OngDB did not have the ability to license the software in the first place, because the court says the AGPLv3 licenses grant to remove additional clauses is void.
They are pushing news, podcasts and all kinds of stuff.
Huawei's chief scientist on machine translation
> What is also interesting is that while strace seems to report much less overhead in "./empty" compared to /bin/true

That's because it reports an error and does not actually execute the file.

>strace: exec: Erreur de format pour exec()

`strace` uses one of the exec()-style functions that don't automatically invoke a shell here. And if it did, it would invoke an entire shell (/bin/sh, typically), which might have more overhead.

----

You need to be very careful when measuring this, because what happens is that a shell executes the shebangless empty file.

If you try launching it from e.g. a C program using execlp(), it will have to first start that shell.

If you try launching it from e.g. bash, it might directly run that in-process or at least after a fork() or similar, skipping some of the shell setup.

So the overhead might depend on context.
It's so frustrating from the other side. I've lost business to bigger companies because of size. Twenty years later and I am still supporting that software whilst the bigger companies walked away years ago.
https://www.ericzheng.org

I've enjoyed seeing everyone else's, so I figured I might as well post my own...
Semi-related, besides TCC, are there any other C-ish compilers that are easily ported to a new ISA any of you can recommend?

Been playing with FPGA softcores, and while writing a compiler can be fun it kinda detracts from the main project.
That is one of the most impressive sites I have seen in the last few years. I am just blown away by what is technically possible.

Thanks for showing me that we live in the future.
Nice! I’m looking for ideas to reduce LOC, but I’m resistant to learn template systems: either too complicated or don’t support markdown.
Woah I used to use this site a lot! I always wondered how things worked out for them
Unit Tests are still underrated in my experience. It pains me when I see developers testing their functionality end to end, manually. Discover a formatting error in their input, then do this again. When I was working in the office I could see that easily 90% of a lot of developer's time is spent like this. Then I showed that a unit test can discover this, people are still in denial, that it was just for this small error. But software development is a lot about nitty gritty details. And unit testing fixes this.
I guess, but there were loads of things about this disease that made it stand out right from the start. The bad timing (before chinese new year), low lethality, high transmission rates, high asymptomatic rates, all made it pretty clear even to non-experts that this was going to be a really big deal.

Certainly, after the outbreak escaped China, the only thing I remember finding surprising about the pandemic was how badly the West handled it. A lot of people had exactly the same takeaway.
That blog post is complete nonsense. You can't look at graphs of when mask mandates were introduced and then lifted, because you can't isolate cause and effect. Mask mandates tend to get introduced when cases are going up, and removed when cases are going down.

This would be absolutely shredded in a scientific paper, which is why it's a blog post rather than part of the literature.
I work in this space: most "cool" ML is useless, and stakeholder are very skeptical of new modelling techniques. It is a long slog of EDA and finding actionable causality. Deep learning, modern reinforcement learning... are not the best fit here.

However I have seen CV and NLP useful here and there... but it is not the bread and butter.
I went from Digital Ocean to AmazonWEb Services. Mainly to get familiar and train on the platform.
What's wrong with the current theme? I quite like the simplicity. It's easy to navigate and read and it doesn't feel bloated like a lot of websites do.

The theme does what it needs to, so I'd only change it if you want to make it more fun for _you_, or make it feel more personal to you -- and in that case it's 100% personal what you go for.
Do you know how App Runner compares to Elastic Beanstalk?

There are so many AWS services these days I have no idea what to use half the time…
> Or is it simply that the domain experts are overwhelmed with noise

We have learned that while medical doctors are domain experts in treating diseases, they are not domain experts in how infectious diseases spread around. Some doctors follow the front lines of science, whereas other doctors refuse to update their knowledge, and stick to what their old textbooks say.

And we have learned that when it comes to airborne diseases, even epidemiologists are not domain experts. Epidemiologist are more trained in statistics and abstract mathematical models. With statistics, they know how to observe epidemics. With mathematical models, that can make bad predictions on how the epidemic progresses, but these predictions turned out to be wrong more often than not. Now nobody makes these predictions anymore, they have lost credibility.

But they are not trained in physics to actually understand the physical mechanisms of how the virus can spread from one person to others.

And that public health is also a matter of economics and engineering, and again medical doctors are not good domain experts here. Medical doctors can advice you not to drink dirty water, but population scale water hygiene is a matter of civil engineering. If we want air hygiene, we have to turn to engineers.
Interesting. I've always been confused by "accentless", and since I had only heard the term used by Americans, had always interpreted it the same uncharitable way as GP. Your interpretation makes much more sense. TIL!
Wow. What a great list. I really loved it.

Here my two (German) sites:

- https://schriftrolle.de (personal site)

- https://moorwald.com (freelance side-gig)
It scales just fine. There are thousands of viable locations. Far more than we need.