skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a lot of church congregations in Korea meet in spaces that are not purpose-built church buildings, e.g., the floor of a commercial high-rise building. I lived in Seoul on and off from 2004 - 2006 and one of the things I first noticed when taking the airport bus into the city from Incheon at night was how many otherwise ordinary buildings had illuminated red crosses on their roofs.
Too bad they couldn't have a couple of them improve that unusable old loan management program that lost them $900M.
Forget about writing code, simply having the ability to compile would be a huge improvement. It's obscene that I have a $1500 iPad Pro with hardware/software perfectly capable of building iOS apps, but Apple demands that I buy yet another one of their overpriced machines to do so.

It's not even about the money, it's the sheer audacity and arrogance that shits me.
Well put, I think you're correct.
Not sure about Britain. But In Canada you can buy a bag of air mislabeled as a bag of chips for $6. Sized have decreased, while food prices have gone up.

Even the state sponsored channel CBC is doing stories on Canadians going Hungary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0llGY9CDrnw
> They are given the power to stop deployment. If they can't, they're not SREs

Google is the only place where this is even discussed. I cannot name any other company that does this. Not Apple, Meta's Production Engineers, Netflix, Amazon's SysDevEngs, Stripe SRE, Uber, Pinterest, and more. This must mean that nobody else does real SRE!
I think Apple was motivated to switch to Intel because of the stagnated development of PowerPC. You may be thinking further back, like in the 90s, regarding Macs that could dual boot into PC
Been programming in CL for ~45 years (well, it wasn't CL back then), and still do so nearly every day. Julia is the first language I've seen in all that time that comes even barely close to the joy of CL, but, they just had to f-up the macros by requiring @s before them. Sigh. I guess it's back to CL.
While I agree with the general sentiment, I think this can be nuanced.

By that I mean that always keeping up with the latest and greatest can be overrated, [0] and actually be quite a huge time sink to keep looking for a new computer and / or new parts, compare them, etc. Sure, if you only buy the latest MBP that's easy, since there's not much to choose from. But it is expensive, and it's not always worth it.

I'd been working all through the pandemic lockdowns on an i5-6500 I had saved from the bin at work. Old SATA SSD from ~2012, 16 then 32 GB RAM. Integrated HD graphics (not the newer UHD).

I never felt held back by it, it would chug along nicely through pretty much everything I threw at it. The only thing for which I had to wait around a bit was Rust compilation.

Then at the end of last year, my work laptop was up for renewal. So I spent around a week comparing models, looking up on intel vs amd, etc. In the end, I ended up with a zen 3 model. While the CPU is fast, in my day-to-day I see no difference compared to the old one. It compiles some of my Rust projects almost twice as fast, but it's still not instant, and I don't wait around for full compiles anyway. [1]

Aside from that, Teams, web pages, etc, there's absolutely no difference in perceived performance.

I get that this is less extreme than OP's situation, but I guess the point is that they maybe shouldn't go to the other extreme and upgrade with each new CPU that comes out. I also realize that up until last year or so Intel CPU upgrades didn't bump performance all that much.

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[0] Yes, some people absolutely need the last drop of performance they can squeeze, by even among HN readers, I think those people are not the majority.

[1] Incremental Rust compiles were still somewhat slow on the AMD, but in the meantime I've found out about mold, which speeds things up nicely even on the old machine.
To be pedantic, the correct URL is technically https://mail.google.com/mail/h/, which then expands in practice to https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/ and then gets the jumble of characters near the end added on which appears to be an everything-compliant cache-busting mechanism. When typing the URL manually the "/" after the "h" is required; "mail.google.com/mail/h" will not work.
I really wonder how much of the hangup is that it's a miserable field for a successful billionaire to break into. The problems are political, regulatory, bureaucratic, inscrutable, and you can't win solely on the back of being "cheaper" and "better".

You have to both REALLY care, and be willing to wade through immense BS to make a profit comparable to selling smartphone apps.
My gmail was great on my commodity 2010 Windows laptop until a couple of months ago, and then it suddenly fell off a cliff. I've tried everything I can think of, but I think Google just messed something up and made it at least an order of magnitude slower quite recently.
I think this myth exists because Google was (is?) famously obsessed with SWE. But if you actually read the SRE books and look at the actual discipline of SRE ("what's the difference between SWE and SRE?"), SRE is quite blatantly just operations management. The website is a power plant, and the SRE runs the power plant. You don't build parts to run a power plant, you use software (as in manipulate/control/operate) to run it. You act quickly when the numbers go out of line, you write reports and control how much power is going in and out, respond to surges and dips, etc.

For whatever reason, Google decided to tell people that the same person who's building the klaxon and the concrete wall and the pipes for the power plant, and the person who's operating the power plant, are one in the same. But that's clearly bunk. Building a part and running a system are completely different disciplines, and anyone who does both will only be half good at both. Humans are shit at multitasking and there's few true polymaths out there. Show me a master programmer and I'll show you an amateur woodworker.

I also don't believe software engineering principles will help you reduce operational complexity. If anything, software engineering tends to either make things either inefficient or subtly complicated. Reducing operational complexity comes from the discipline of operations, which isn't engineering. Non-tech companies have known about these distinctions for like a hundred years. Deming applied scientific rigor and analysis to come up with better practices, but he didn't have to design any widgets to do it.
might be it, definitely wasn't hearing from people as much post-covid.
I tried this with my site and I am pretty impressed with the results. We will likely use this to update our visualizations and hopefully make them more accessible for folks with disabilities! Thanks for this, great writeup!
Thank you for the info.

I learned that Estonia e-residency program seems to be great for this kind of things. Yeah, the US one is pretty "standard".

I am not at this moment. But I think I will be bootstrapping, but may raise fund in the future... Like the one in that article.
Fearing Lawsuits, Factories Rush to Replace Humans with Robots in South Korea
And yet, kids go hungry. This temporary expansion seriously improved the situation. Why go back to the status quo, of kids going hungry?
I love it - this is true startup spirit and kaizen attitude.
Their website presentation tops out at 8.

If I go to their store website it shows me only two options:

- 8 core, 8 core gpu, 8gb, 256

- 8 core, 10 core gpu, 8gb, 512

No indication whatsoever that this 8gb is not fixed. Nor is the storage fixed. But the only way to find out is to try and buy it, at which point I can just turn the first model into the second or something else entirely. Also, none of the presented options is anywhere close in price to the top spec model.

I thought apple was supposed to be good at UX?
Wouldn't it be much simpler for California to do this?
> After listening to Hardcore History's Wrath of the Khans, I think they have been the most evil group humanity has produced so far.

Never forget that history is written by the victors. The Mongol Empire was replaced by the Russian Empire.
It implies a different direction, I suppose. One of constructing a whole from parts, rather than decomposing the whole into parts.

This can be meaningful in cases where the whole changes as part of the construction process. If I wanted to deconstruct the things in soap, I would probably not have a branch for "lye", because all lye has (thankfully) reacted away from the end product. But if I constructed a fishbone chart for the same soap, then lye is one of the first ingredients I would list.

Sometimes looking at the same thing from a different angle helps you realise things you otherwise wouldn't. If you find it does not, then an outline is good enough for you!
So, counter to OC, this wouldn't decrease productivity, would it.
Picolisp has Pilog: https://picolisp.com/wiki/?tutpilog
I've had the opposite experience - my 2011 MBP died (due to dodgy graphics chip, logic board was replaced twice and it still died a third time), replaced it with a mid-2015 and it's been super solid. I did finally have to replace the battery last year for like $200 but it's running Monterey like a champ. Still my primary work machine with no signs of giving up yet.
We need an entirely different entity handling people dealing with mental health crises. The police are not trained to handle this type of situation and for too long we've put them in the situation where they need to use force when other methods are required. Big cities are all mismanaging mental health issues as criminal issues. Until we find a way to offer (and demand people accept) help for people facing these issues, we are going to pay far more in crime and it'll all be ineffective anyway.
I get that but it’s not my point. I’m wondering in general about word choice to minimize collisions
So, in other words you want the newest SE? I don’t see the problem. https://www.apple.com/iphone-se/
I think it's a little bit different in this case. As physics has progressed, one of the things we've found is that the things that seem to actually exist in the physical universe aren't necessarily directly observable. So the wavefunction of quantum mechanics is one of these "real" objects, but we can't see a wavefunction directly. It and collapses any time we measure it, and, to make matters even worse, it's a complex number --- how do you measure a complex number? We can infer the existence of the wavefunction based on various experiments, but we're never looking at it directly.

The centrifugal force, by contrast, is more a consequence of a particular choice of reference frame. Whether it exists or not picks out certain reference frames as being special. But something like the wavefunction or magnetic potential is not directly observable in any reference frame.

That said, one way in which the magnetic field is similar to the centrifugal force is that it is a direct consequence of special relativity. If you look at a stationary electron, you'll just see an electric field. But you can show that if you're looking at that electron in a moving reference frame, you'll see an extra force. We call that extra force the magnetic force.
> I'm assuming stereo is 2-speakers

You can't do stereo with fewer than 2 speakers but even if you have 64, you're probably still doing stereo. (Or you are a movie theater.)

Generally speaking, you can probably achieve better stereo sound with the 4 speakers than with the 2, but this is not always the case. Coming from Apple, I would normally expect the Pro to have higher-end speakers and thus probably sound better.

But I could be wrong, since Actual Audio Professionals don't use the onboard speakers for anything serious.

Also: I'm really surprised there are enough TouchBar lovers to justify its continued existence.
> no more paying comprehensive insurance

Assuming you can afford to replace it on your own if you need to, this one really adds up.
Android's had multi-user capabilities since v4.2 (2013-07).

This doesn't mean that a 1:1 relationship between a person and their phone / tablet isn't the common configuration - I'm sure it is - but it's fair to say that 'the rest of the world' has had this feature for nearly a decade.

As a sibling comment noted, Apple has developed this feature already in their 'the first hit is free' (aka the Education <sic>) version, so at this point it smells a lot like a plain old vanilla-flavoured marketing ploy.
You can almost always do some smart coding and use an rpi for most things
Set Theory and Lisp
Its interesting that Apples "premium line" at the time can't handle zoom, whereas my mid level lenovo ( Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8665U CPU ) has no issues with zoom. Feels like poor design, not architecture issues.
Yes, big Julia fan, although there are domains where Julia might never come, like sysadmin.
As usual with this type of advice, it wouldn’t work that way if everyone approached dealerships like that.
You do realize that the only benefit by having a higher rotational speed is improved rotational latency, right? A 2 terabyte 5400 RPM drive is going to transfer data much faster than a 36 gig 10,000 RPM drive.
As an end user, I already get satisfactory performance with the existing protcols. What slows things down is the neverending gratuitous Javascript and automatic connections not initiated by the user for the purposes of advertising, tracking and telemetry. Even viewing these RFCs in the best light, as "improvements", it stands to reason that end users will not be the ones who benefit most (if at all) from them. It is reminiscient of personal computers in decades past that kept increasing in speed and power only to have those increases usurped by gas-like software developed on the latest, most expensive workstations by software companies aiming to license newer versions, in some cases under agreements for pre-installation with OEMS aiming to sell newer hardware. "Gas-like" because over time it seemed to expand to fill available space. The newer PCs could do more, faster, behind the scenes, but the user experience did not change; for the user, it generally still took the same amount of time to do the same routine tasks. To put it another way, these "improvements" in well-established transport protocols may mean "tech" companies will be better able to exploit end users, e.g., more data collected and more advertising served without performance degradation, perhaps leading to more commerce, but not that end users will be better able to avoid exploitation, e.g. through improved privacy and security from "tech" companies and their advertiser customers.
"Empire" is a pretty solid 1:1 mapping.
Doesn't every scientific paper follow this rule? An abstract to quickly give the key ideas, an intro describing these key ideas in more depth, the gory details for those interested in methodology and repeatability.

It's a great format; I wish most non-fiction followed it.
All machines get extra lives!

- 2004 custom dual boot gaming desktop is running FreeNAS at a friend's house

- 2007 custom desktop survived until 2019 when a power surge fried the motherboard, memory and PSU. I repurposed the case and drives (which survived!)

- 2011 MBP is really one of the best. Replaced the battery, memory and display over the years. Now dedicated shared kids machine because parental controls are super simple for all adults

- 2015 MBP is my personal laptop for freelance work, learning, etc. Will most likely repurpose it as the kids shared laptop after I do a battery replacement. The 2011 will then migrate to storage until I'm sure I won't need things like a CD/DVD drive, SDXC card slot, Thunderbolt port, Firewire, Ethernet, etc.

- 2009 Samsung SyncMaster 23" is still used as a secondary monitor

- 2007 Razer mouse still used today

- 2012 (?) original RaspberryPi is my wireless print and scanning server
This is a much repeated but blatantly false trope.

For life saving care you are strictly better off in Canada, Australia or Britain.

For elective surgery you can probably get it done faster in the US if you have money but the standard of care isn't different. There are in-fact places that embrace even more medical capitalism than the US but with less middleman, lobbying and nonsense - take Thailand for instance, or South Korea. Both of which offer elective medical procedures for less than the US, no wait times, equivalent standard of care served with a side of luxury.

So yeah, utter drivel as usual, the US system is inferior by all metrics and insurance lobbyists have duped conservative Americans into voting for something that is strictly against their interests.

Conservative politicians the world over have perfected the art of getting turkeys to vote for Christmas.
They state they're only interested in group level data, isnt there a way to collect data that is not able to link purchases to any individual.

Theoretically, it seems possible, if the data is never stored against the SSB, but only stored pre-aggregated against demographic markers such as location, age, etc.

If so, wouldn't it be a net win that the government has data to better plan import/export or anything else and maybe make this data public so people can use this data to come up with new businesses in the right locations without compromising individual privacy.
I left Amazon (AWS) after 6 years recently to go go a smaller operation. Happy to share my thoughts over beer/coffee, I am outside Seattle
Which os & version are you running?
No, we don't.

add_numbers() doesn't need ownership of the data, so you would never give it ownership of the data. If you happen to have the data in a reference-counted type you would get the data from it (https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/memry/unique_ptr/get / https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/memory/shared_ptr/get), and pass it to add_numbers(). The data would still be guaranteed to exist because the caller of add_numbers() is going to hold a reference at least until add_numbers() returns.
Slavery and oppression is evil. Genocide is objectively worse.
I'm still using my 2012 13" MBP for works, some things already breaking like the battery is now only last for an hour most and the speaker is damaged I think. So I'm always plugged my MBP to charger and use headset for any audio related activity.

The other issue that have been bugging me would be a slow time when building an app and the constant need to empty my SSD since it only has 128GB to begin with.

But this year I think I need to replace my laptop since I'm no longer able to use the latest xcode on this machine (I'm stuck at macOS Catalina).

Other than that, this laptop can be used for any lighter activity such as browsing, editing docs, etc.
My phone runs games up to ~PS2 in emulation, FWIW.
Have any companies actually done this yet?

I'm a lover of https://notebookcheck.net/ & they have really really evolved some very good scientific tests. I can't think of the last time I saw them say a laptop camera was anything but poor.

My previous everyday-carry laptop, a Dell Venue 11 Pro, a 2-in-1 tablet- had a front-facing 8MP shooter and a 2MP selfie camera. At one point both were indeed available to me in Linux, but I think the 8MP disappeared at some point, somehow. I'd be interested to see if that was any good- the mere fact that it had two cameras is a sign that they kind of gave some kind of a crap, that maybe perhaps the (non-video-conferencing) camera might actually have been somewhat passable. Probably not!
Well, look at what happens in China when industry doesn't need to obey to environmental concerns.

France has plenty of problems with its nuclear power. Germany is moving away from Russian gas, and a lot quicker than Russia would like.
Often recursion is fine and doesn't cause any problems. I just use 'reduce' or 'loop' if it becomes an issue.

I've used Clojure for close to a decade. It's been an issue maybe once. The JVM is absolutely a plus for Clojure.
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As I recall there were not one, but three libraries providing similar functionality — numpy, numeric and numarray. In the mid-2000s I was using all of them for various reasons. It took quite a while before numpy emerged as the defacto standard.

I wonder if there was no adoption into the language at that time as a result of fractured communities and lack of consensus.
Yes. I believe that situation is unchanged from before the announcement, unless I missed something.
> How is this different from trusting all the code in the world that your native apps pull in? And before you say it's all been screened by Apple- there are various widely-used methods to dynamically load code into an app after the fact

The difference is that organizations sign a contract to publish into the App Store, and do so under their legal name. This gives Apple the opportunity to be punitive in the face of abuse. They do not have this ability for the web (for practical and for regulatory reasons).
> If we found alien life on another earth-like planet, could it be possible that it too would have independently-evolved DNA?

Yes, and we already found them. They are called nanobacteria. They are everywhere and they use the 16S ribosome for protein synthesis just like other prokaryotic bacteria.

* [Nanobacteria – propagating calcifying nanoparticles](https://sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1472-765X.2006.01945.x)
* [Nanobacteria: An infectious cause for kidney stone formation](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0085253815465093)
* [Nanobacteria: An alternative mechanism for pathogenic intra- and extracellular calcification and stone formation](https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.95.14.8274)
* [Wired: Are Nanobacteria Making Us Ill?](https://www.wired.com/2005/03/are-nanobacteria-making-us-ill/)

In ~2010, the corrupt central authorities stepped in and said: "ahhhhctually, it's not alive. Let's do a name change: Nano like particles!"
* [THE RISE AND FALL of nanobacteria](https://www.jstor.org/stable/26001845)
* (more stories can be found like this).

These nanobacteria (now known as NLP) are killed by doxycycline and other anti-biotics in the tetracycline family, especially when combined with EDTA to bust up the calcium biofilms.

They are involved in almost every disease that manifests as calcium plaques or stones forming in the body, such as [Kidney Stones](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11342811/), [heart disease](https://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/view/prominent-researc...), [Periodontal disease](https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/01.CIR.0000086781.16...), [prostatitis](Detection of nanobacteria infection in type III prostatitis) and others.

These NLP/NB grow slowly on earth but accelerate in micro-g climates which is a huge problem with astronauts. Hence the reason [there is so much research done on this topic of nanobacteria with respect to space flight](https://www.kidney-international.org/article/S0085-2538(15)5...).

They are also everywhere. For example here's a story about these NLP/NB on a mars [meteorite](https://www.amnh.org/learn-teach/curriculum-collections/cosm...) and also on the outside of the [International Space Station](https://www.space.com/38922-extraterrestrial-bacteria-intern...).

If people find out that the calcification diseases are actually caused by a nanobacteria rather than "idiopathic" (lol) then they might find out that they can cure things like heart disease using tetracycline and EDTA, such as this paper showed here: (Calcification in coronary artery disease can be reversed by EDTA-tetracycline long-term chemotherapy)[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15364120/]