skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
maybe another reason to have sock-puppet cutouts for everything. Maybe we shouldn’t allow the gov’t to sanction speech in the “1st" place, heheh.

Maybe it’s not the Russians that are the problem...
All things show up at scale in production at Google.
I'm not sure that actually works on that machine, the intel specs list 32G max on the chips, which likely if its like some of their other designs caps the individual DIMM channel capacity. I've gone over the lenovo recommended RAM configs before when the intel spec supports it, but intel has been enforcing capacity limits on many of their parts (presumably in the low level binary firmware blobs which refuse to train DIMMs which otherwise might work) for the last few years.

Even so, if you get it working, its the equivalent of 1/2ing your ram bandwidth.

PS: what you probably want is a T480, same generation little thicker, with both ram slots, and the extended battery if one wants a beefier version.
Am I the only one who thinks the touchbar isn't that bad? I have a MBP that has the touchbar and a real escape key. I'm a little sad they ditched the touchbar, I wish they had kept it but put it above the row of function keys. There are some things for which it's handy.
GNSS signals help map sea-surface topography
I've been around for a long time and I haven't seen a PL with this much momentum since Java was launched. Inertia is real, but the benefits over C++ are undeniable.

Bootstrapping seems a silly thing to be obsessed about as C++ will be around forever still, but it obviously can be bootstrapped if that becomes important.
Wait, you switched to part time work entirely to listen to podcasts? That's so interesting to me
Ha! see, like Marmite and Vegemite, they cause more polarization among consumers than US Republican/Democrat politics do among voters.
Getting the kids into structured, college-application-fodder activities early enough, so that the kids can get into Stanford and get a job that pays enough so they can repeat the cycle of abuse, err, pattern of success with their kids.
OneWeb has entered into an agreement with ISRO for their satellite launches
I dread the idea of having to navigate the current US healthcare system in circumstances like that.

One drawback that occurs to me about the idea of projecting lifespan/healthspan is that with the data you'd need, you get into PHI territory pretty quickly right?
That’s right. Currently the auto invalidation is somewhat of a blunt instrument in that it will blow away all cache data related to the table(s) as default. That approach favors consistency over performance, but is also a natural fit to some query traffic patterns. You can also switch it off if you so desire. The next iteration that is imminent for release can be much more surgical, invalidating based on more of the query details.

Connection pooling docs are coming soon as part of the feature early access launch. Feel free to drop me an email and I can let you know when its released. Im ben at our domain.
How many people speak Greek these days? A lot more people hear "your butthole" than "the sky" when they hear that name.

Besides the 'coolness' of associating with the ancient Greeks, the naming does not have much to do with today's world.

Not that I advocate changing it but the choice of language seems pretty arbitrary too.
The Death of Company Culture
Good old Atlantic Rim movie.
I paid my student loans off recently, as I didn't expect the pause to get pushed back again, so I acknowledge I am biased here.

What other loans should the government be forgiving for people's poor decisions? Should the government have paid off all mortgages in 2008? I'd say people that bought in the years or months leading up to the housing crash didn't make particularly bad decisions either, yet I personally know a few different families that never recovered.

Some people drop out, and I agree that those people should have a way to lessen the burden of student debt, but I don't know that people who choose degrees with low financial value should get a free pass more so than people that take on any other particular debt.
see this thread from a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31074881 , it was also about desiring linux support.
Somatic Evolution: Cells compete with each other in the tissue ecosystem
I wonder if they found any bugs in the C99 version due to Rust's "memory/type safety" and all that?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31097578
The concept is cool but it signal a problem: ladies and gentleman we need classic usenet + classic web. So a place to discuss, instead of "commenting blog posts" (on sites that are not anymore blog anyway), and website to publish nice stuff often emerged from usenet discussions.

Actual "comments" serve the Big of IT need to steer conversation (selecting the discussion topic via posts) and elicit people response on them (comments). Not a good thing for the society. Surely that's does not apply to such extensions BUT the fundamental issue remain. Please think about it, make people aware of it. We have all the tech needed to resurrect and modernize past glory, correcting also some issues they have (like adding modern antispam filters (like simple dbacl) instead of inefficient killfiles) instead of trying improve something that's happen against people interest...
The so many votes are because we all want to dig our own tunnel now.
Hm. Not a perpetual motion machine. And that fish appears to be tethered - when it turns sideways it re-orients just like its on a thread.

So maybe it expends very little effort, but not zero.
Uh, not if you're a Vegemite eater!
I just search coffee on google maps
I use a console for gaming and a Mac for a daily driver. I never really got into PC gaming, though, I've always felt like the console experience was better. At least for the games I enjoy playing.
You're missing the point of the PSLF. It's intended to provide incentives for highly qualified people to choose public service rather than go into lucrative careers. These are considered "useful" careers, but they don't pay well. For instance, I currently work as an individual contributor platform developer for the US Air Force and I make more than the 4-star chief of the entire Air Force, yet presumably he has more of an impact on the country at large than I do. I believe the president is the only federal employee with a higher salary than me. The purpose of programs like this is to make sure we still have people willing to work for the government at all, given everything else they need to give up to do it.
Le Corbusier-style tower blocks never happened in Paris, but they were built all over the US as part of "urban renewal" projects, and there have since been multiple generations growing up in those structures, to become nostalgic for them if it were ever going to happen. It hasn't happened yet.
Also adding 1.75 trillion dollars worth of debt which taxpayers who paid off their loans are now on the hook for.
I'm a little salty I didn't pick up Netflix puts last week. It was in my to-do list...

Anyway, for quite some time and especially in tech stocks, growth has been consistently prioritized over value. This is pretty easy to justify when borrowing interest rates are low, and of course, there is significant correction when those rates increase. That's what's happening now and will continue to have pretty broad implications.

Famed investor Michael Burry liquidated a lot of his portfolio late last year[1]. I'm not much of an investor, but I followed him into GME right before the big upswing, which was nice. If I had to pick somebody to mirror trade, it would be him.

[1] https://seekingalpha.com/article/4470087-michael-burry-of-th...
3JCN Music Notation
This attitude, as stated, is one of the fundamental evils, I think (the implication being "If I can't have it, nobody can", or, in this case, "If I didn't get it when it was relevant to me, nobody can"). In this case, the core grievance is valid ("I think there's a better way to address the problem"), but this expression of it makes the problem into the super common "us vs them" where "them" is defined by the terrible cultural obsession with the concept of "deserved" punishment and personal responsibility in an unqualified, absolutist manner ("He committed a crime, he deserves anything that happens", "He failed to pay a loan, he deserves anything that happens", "She had sex, she deserves anything that happens", etc).
Just to add, Singapore is quite unique in that it has like 85% homeownership (most of it government housing) and there are virtually no homeless people
>Everyone knows where the real blame lies and rather than bitch about being inconvenienced by the response, the open source author should direct their anger there. Yes, "innocent" Russians are getting swept up by the response and that sucks.

Do you mean “Ostracize Russian citizens individually as a proxy for ostracizing Putin?”
I have gotten good at automating simply because I cannot do any manual process 3 times in a row identically, even with a checklist. A buddy-system checklist (someone else has the checklist and reads them off to me as I complete each step) will allow me to do it error free most of the time (to the point where repeating 3 times in a row is probable), but that doesn't make sense for most things I do on a regular basis; it's not like I'm flying a passenger airliner or operating in a surgical theater.

Here's an actual example of me trying to fill up the water glass on my office desk from the water filter in the kitchen; I have not developed a check-list for this; checklists reduce my mistakes, but do not come even close to eliminating them. This happened on Monday, but similar things happen all the time.

Attempt 1: Left the water glass on my desk

Attempt 2: Filled up the water glass, took a sip, placed it down on the counter, returned to my desk

Attempt 3: Picked up the water glass, took another sip, placed it back on the counter, returned to my desk

Attempt 4: Notice that the water glass is now 1/3 empty (2/3 full?) so I top it off and now finally remember to take it back to my desk.
Check out sampling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_(statistics)

The basic idea is this. You know Canada has certain demographics. A part of the population is male and female, of a certain age, of a certain income, etc. You ask everyone in your survey those questions, as well as the things you want to understand, and then you can use some techniques to match your survey to the rest of the country. From here, then you can estimate what the entire country thinks about given just the survey.

As one can imagine, the process of matching called undersampling/oversampling matters a lot in practice.
Those things existing 30 years ago, but ... not in the areas I was walking around as a kid. People moved away from those places back then.
This is brilliant! I wonder how they police it? Is it simply a limited time access to the internet?

Important to note that the second feature they list is: "comfy seats." It seems that many coffee shops try to fight the over use problem with uncomfortable seating.
Oh yeah, that seems about right. I haven't been back there in 15 years, but when I lived there I encountered some oddities like that (as an American), and that fact sounds familiar.

I was also a bit stunned when I had ketchup there, because it's different from American ketchup. Much sweeter, not much vinegar, if any. The hotdogs were also different. When I went to high school (i.e. college) there, one day they had "American hotdog day", and they were like no hotdog I had in America. They were more like those red hot link sausages (which I've never seen anyone eat in America even though I've seen them in grocery stores). So that with their own version of ketchup made for an interesting experience, and was a neat allegory for how different parts of the world see each other.

Great place, that NZ. I really do miss it. Maybe I'll go back once once they finally chill out about COVID.
You should put him in touch with the guy who won't stop digging a tunnel from the other front page thread
The crypto world is full of serious, borderline genius innovation as well as scammers and lies. I don't know why people can't accept that both can be true at the same time.

What percentage of emails sent in the world are legitimate vs spam? I don't think in principle we care about the volume of BS, we only care about how easily we can filter it out from the genuine stuff. I think over time our ability to do that will get better.

Once crypto as a platform has more useful products, it'll be more obvious that it's worth it to put in the work to filter out the BS. For now, I can see why it's not so obvious. But don't be disappointed that you didn't get in early.
> what is the resistance to a welfare state?

I don't believe it's sustainable. I don't believe it's sustainable here, and I don't believe it's sustainable there either (in fact, as far as I can tell, we've starting to see the cracks in the European welfare state for a while now). We have some welfare state-like programs here - social security, for example, is supposed to provide guaranteed retirement income to the elderly. Both of my grandfathers lived on it for decades before they passed. My father collects it now, but it's not enough to survive, even at his meager standard of living, so he works as a security guard at 72 (and yes, I've offered to let him come live with me but he's too proud to accept). I don't believe that there will be anything left over when I try to collect it in 20 years. If it was actually free, there wouldn't be any reason to be upset, but my social security payments are far higher than what I contribute to my actual 401(k) retirement plan that I do expect to be able to live off of when I'm ready to retire. The welfare state takes everything and eventually provides nothing.
Thanks for looking at our docs in light of your problem domain. That's way beyond what I anticipated, and much appreciated!

We haven't put a lot more examples into our SDK docs lately since we've been working more on our routing engine and cloud offering. Now we're getting back to more foundational questions like "what should our solver be?" and "how should model formulation work?"

Hop started off as a decision diagram solver, but even internally we strap a lot of different techniques onto it. My hope is to support those patterns better, which is really why I posed this question.

I'd be interested to know: what made the process of converting business logic into solver-speak painful?
If founders treated investors the way they treat employees
Thank you!

You're right, I'll add a username password login method soon

No you don't have to be logged in.
You can check into a place by clicking the button in the bottom right corner.
This starts a speed test and review form.
The results will be shared with other people.

However, you can add places without checking in when you are logged in.
Would you say that dumping disinfectant in a petri dish is just selecting for bacteria resistant to disinfectant? If a mutation arises that prevents the sex selection process then sure, the mosquito populations can recover. But whether such a mutation arises before the species is wiped out is an open question. And we can put multiple different gene drive mechanisms into the males requiring multiple simultaneous mutations to evade which aren't selected for until all are present, making the chance of such an evasion as unlikely as we need if we're willing to put the effort in.
Because unsecured loans are awful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31099683
I wonder if the person you're replying to is secretly a human.
Kind of low on technics, describing how it works. There is one gem:

> Interesting facts: Licom, unlike others, verifies every submitted comment. Every comment is signed with the ED25519 key which is generated during registration.

Worth noting that there are official annotation specs from a w3c working group! Not a lot of implementers alas. Theres three specs, a core data model[1], vocabulary, & protocol. Personally I imagine talking the data model & maybe vocab or some of the vocab, and rebasing the protocol.atop ActivityPub or whatnot.

The need to find other people's comments is an interesting additional challenge. This site seems to just use a centralized service... done. It'd be great to go further.

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-model/
Everything appears sharp? I had had issues with Ubuntu and fractional scaling a while back with blur, but I'd elated if this is something that's been worked out in wayland. Come to think of it, wayland may have been fine, and xorg was the issue. I'm forgetting at the moment.
The new M1 Mac’s really are impressive. I suspect I might be similarly impressed by the latest AMD chips with 8 cores, but quite a lot of my everyday workloads are seeing 5x-10x performance increases over my previous 2015 MacBook.
Yeah understandable.

We all have our own requirements that change up our own decision.

For example i CANT stand large laptops. 12.5-14" is my max. That excludes a lot of options though.
> None of the threads seemed to have a consensus

That probably answers your question ;-). Along with the fact that you found multiple previous discussions. There is no consensus to be had, everyone will have their own particular definition of 'good' and the variance is so wide that you'll just have to figure it out for yourself.
Not sure if I would call it "new". Swimbaits have been around for as long as I've been fishing (several decades).

However there is definitely way more advanced ones then when I first started fishing.
Meet woman behind Libs of TikTok, fueling the right’s outrage machine
I did mean Cray but thanks for the assistance!
Well, I guess the (somewhat cynical) calculus most politicians/bureaucrats make is that however many people become ill in the long term, it's probably less expensive than lockdowns (even if lockdowns are less expensive than health system collapse and mass death).

As much as the long term health implications of covid are unfolding, so to are the economic effects: we're in a really weird and volatile economic situation, and things that move the needle on basics (food, fuel, etc) kill a lot of people.
Readable link at work: https://www.teddit.net/r/Advice/comments/u3qipy/how_can_i_ge...
A huge part of it is talking to neighbors, even if just a little bit. If you see "Suzy's kid" walking down the street you're much less likely to freak out than if you see "unknown kid".

But the easiest is to just move to somewhere where people aren't as freaked out.
I would say, considering all the facts, Oxitec has been the least irresponsible and most thoughtful of companies addressing this and I believe they've earned their chance at this point because nobody has been able to come up with a solid prediction of negative outcomes that was accurate. This isn't an existential risk and it's worth the experimentation.
That's not a new idea at all, unless there's a specific development that I've missed. Jointed and/or flexible swimming lures have been around at least since I was a kid and I'm pretty sure the ones my dad used were old already then.

My favorite lures though were the frogs, which had rubber bristles on the back which would pulse when pulled through the water to simulate a frog's legs swimming.
Sigh ...

You are a teacher and have two kids, A and B.

Kid A is the ideal student, never gets in trouble, always send assignments in time and comes out really well in all tests.

Kid B is the complete opposite and is basically a mess (for whatever reason).

At the end of the school year you decide to give both students the same grade. You (could) justify it by saying that this measure is going to motivate Kid B to behave more like Kid A.

Nice, but, how do you think Kid A is going to feel? What if, instead, it makes Kid A behave more like Kid B onwards. You don't want this to happen.

See, https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12913-envious-monkeys...
To be fair, eliminating human deaths is absolutely terrible for the environment.
That's fair, but I bet you're not using a static site generator to produce your PDPs. (Or, if so, I'd love to read an engineering blog post about it! Static PDPs would be a solid optimization in a lot of ways, and while I'm no longer in a role where that could be directly useful, it'd still be interesting to find out what challenges a team overcame and how in the course of getting there.)
I'm confused. I'm not fear-mongering at all. I'm on the opposite side of fear--optimism. This is akin to a proof of concept with this mosquito species. It is likely the learnings will translate to other mosquito species. I have not stated I _want_ to eradicate this or the other species, merely that we theoretically _could_
I highly recommend you just start buying laptops (plural), install different Linux distros on them, see how they work, return them if they have issues. There's just too many weird combinations of chipsets and hardware configurations and power profiles etc etc. You will spend all of your time looking for "good hardware for a good price" and end up with crap Linux support.
On the subject of “open source ideals” that you’ve mentioned in your post… tangentially related, I admit, but I’ve often noticed Russian use of Western liberal principles against the West itself, and then when the limit is reached and the West is forced to react - gleefully pointing out the West’s alleged hypocrisy. “Ahh, see - they muzzled our state sanctioned and financed unconstrained hate propaganda - so much for their famed freedom of speech!”.

Were the West to fail to react - that too would then be just as gleefully celebrated as how dumb, or naive, or lazy, or weak the West is.

Nothing is without limits and rational people understand that for us all to enjoy some of these ideals - it is necessary for all participants to make a good faith effort to uphold the founding principles.

I think Russia will suffer the consequences for decades. After the hostilities end - the litigation for war crimes, compensation for victims, reparations etc will begin. All under the climate of relentless sanctions and general pivot away from economic cooperation with Russia.

Expecting that meanwhile all this is happening - everything will remain the same in respect to services rendered by Github seems to be a bit tone deaf.

TLDR: to see this HN topic in context, one needs to read the news covering events in Ukraine. It’s not arbitrary, but an unsurprising consequence.
> are being forgiven under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, created in 2007 ... nothing to do with current debates around loan forgiveness

Well, FWIW, I'd never heard of that program before now, but I'm not super happy about it, either.
...But you had to dilute it with extras, that's cheating!

True 'native' eaters like me spoon it straight from the jar! No problems.... ;-)

Edit: shame there's no image posting here or I'd demonstrate (squirm factor).
Eventually they will merge with another company I think to solve this problem.
Student debt is massive, yes, but why are so few people asking where that money actually went? A cursory search says student loan debt is roughly $1.6 trillion dollars and there are around 4,000 to 6,000 colleges/universities. This is a rough number and the actual amount depends on your criteria, but the gist is that you have a ton of money flowing into a relatively small pool. Yes, I know not every dollar of loans goes to the school, but I really have to beg the question on what these institutions have done with all this money.

Seems like any discussion about forgiving debt should involve going after some of these universities themselves.
Which is still not accurate, most “registered developers” aren’t “paying developers”.

If you have a company with 100 iOS developers, you only need to pay for one account that has permission to submit an app.

If you are exclusively a Mac developer, you don’t have to pay anything unless you are submitting to the Mac App Store.