skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, weird not to see any mention of time pressure. If you’re sitting in some psychology student’s lab and you know you’ve already agreed to participate in their coursework experiment for the next hour, you might spend a few minutes carefully choosing between two very close options. If you’re in a real life situation where you are presented with two very close options, and you need to get home in time for dinner, you are more likely to just decide at random.
Crazy Rich Asians: Some cultural context for non-Asians
I posted this on HN, because I'm genuinely hoping to have a lively discussion about it. I hope the best problem solvers will be able to give their take. I don't know what to make of it, I am frankly in denial.

So please upvote this submission (this will be the first and last time I'd ask this but since it's about societal collapse and the threat seems real, I think it's warranted). I'm not doing it for the karma, I really want a discussion on this with a community that I consider to be intelligent.
You have a lot less problems in a single VM: There‘s (hopefully) a clear path on how to install software etc. and it is easy to understand. If your distributed PostgreSQL operator written by someone fails you‘re out of luck and it will be really really hard restoring your system. With non-kubernetes non-automated solutions not written by someone you may have some docs saying „Update the replication address and restart“.

The way to restore to a running system is much easier in old traditional vm approaches.
What are flying squirrels if not an in between state rodents evolving to fly?
And even the thin mini PCs have fairly low power consumption these days. I got one with dual gig ethernet for $150, x86_64, works great. Similar ones for $100 you could easily hang a few large drives off of.

Install a base OS, then docker compose a few services. Or buy a half dozen and deploy k8s.

Boom, "A cheap tiny personal server self hosting" (with COTS parts).
Hawkins is a notorious con artist with nothing to show for almost two decades of work.
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So Linus wants to use an arm64 to build and test kernel. Why not use AWS Graviton instead? Graviton3 may be slightly less powerful than M1 for single core workloads, but for multicore workloads like building the kernel it's much better suited. In fact, I don't understand why Linus uses a laptop for development. You can easily configure a more powerful cloud instance for the type of work he does. It may be costing more than the Macbook Air M1, but I'm sure the Linux Foundation can afford it.
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Germany is big in Solar, but it should have been increasing not decreasing.

Denmark is good with wind, but should be generating 150% of its usage from wind over the course of the year by now

The biggest thing pro-carbon afficiandos complain about is that renewables require storage. No they don't. If you need to use gas or oil for 30 days a year due to cloudy windless winter days, that's 90% of your energy use with renewable, that's a massive benefit.

Until there's a significant problem for a month or two with excess renewable energy in the EU, and the vast majority of home heating system has been converted from gas to electric, and the same with transport (both cars and trains) then there is a demand for increased renewable production even without storage.

If renewables in the EU had continued the 2005-2010 growth it would be generating 36% of Europe's electricity by now instead of 22%. That rate should have increased from 2010, not decreased. It should be aiming for well over 100%, with excess dumped into electric cars, green hydrogen generation, hot sand, etc.

Renewables need to increase 10-fold across the EU to offset energy imports.

But instead short term thinking won out, as it always does in democratic countries.
This!

I always find it curious how computer scientists end up rediscovering things known for decades, and then get all hyped about it ...
>Bernardo and Arthur, at almost four years of age, are the oldest craniopagus twins - that is twins with a fused brain - to have been separated.

Their brains were joined?? How did the surgeon manage to separate that?

Also, how did the surgeon add the missing part of the skull?

I feel happy for the kids, though the entire procedure of separating conjoined twins seems like literal magic to me.
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I'm surprised yet extremely excited at seeing how quickly all this new info is coming out of JWST. I would have completely understood if they'd taken much longer once at L2, and the interesting results to be far slower and further spaced. What an amazing time.
You don't have to go back to the Middle Ages to find people having difficulty with the concept of zero. A couple of more recent examples from a paper by Eric Hehner (http://www.cs.toronto.edu/%7Ehehner/RPUTP.pdf):

"In the 1991 Toronto phone book, there is a page that helpfully gives the time difference to various places in the world; to the U.K. it says "+5", and to Costa Rica it says "-1". But to Cuba it says "NA", and the legenda explains "time difference not applicable". By 1996 they tried to correct it; for Cuba it says "=", with the same explanation. In 1997 they discovered the number 0 , but they felt the need then, and still do today, to explain that 0 means "no time difference"

"The Fortran language of 1955 had a loop construct, but its body had to be executed at least once; I suppose it seemed senseless to have a loop whose body might be executed 0 times. The error was corrected in Algol in 1958, and in PL/I, and in Pascal, in part: iteration might be 0 times, but the data structure over which one is iterating, the array, had to have at least one element. In Pascal that meant there was no null string. And that put the algebra of data structures back where the algebra of natural numbers was prior to 1930."
https://archive.ph/hT4T4
Very easy to plan in theory.In reality, if you've been at a place like Jane Street for 10 years you mostly likely will only leave if you are retiring.
That’s my sentiment too. The daily hit pieces on TikTok here on HN reads like a desperate US tech sector admitting weakness.
Is there something like Freestyler for Linux?
An order of magnitude faster, but still a few cache hierarchies away from where the actual computing is happening.

But the real dealbreaker was that there are also similar indirections in the other direction. It's just so very, very common in modern architectures to not permanently store data on the first drive it hits. That first level of persistence is usually just some queue log where the write takes a short breath, safe from power failure for the first time, before getting passed on to some more distributed persistence story. Optane wouldn't change this general setup at all, because those layers exist for more reasons than just the power failure scenario. Optane might change implementation details of that first layer, but it wouldn't question the layers. Because optane is only answer to power failure, not to the data center burning down.
Depending on what they do on a NAS, even ZFS might be fine with 8 GB, especially if they won't take advantage of caching (say it's for a media library or backups). Don't know if ZFS encryption can be accelerated on a PI, that may be a bottleneck.

It could also be useful as a ZFS snapshot send target. That uses little RAM and doesn't need ZFS encryption (if your source dataset is already encrypted).

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edit: regarding ZFS RAM usage, the below is from my ZFS NAS, with out-of-the-box ZFS settings:

> free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 15Gi 8.2Gi 7.2Gi 12Mi 96Mi 7.0Gi
Swap: 0B 0B 0B
Are you up to date with the current state of Alzheimer’s research ? Much of it has been shown to be fabricated ie average alzheimer researcher has probably made zero impact.
https://www.science.org/content/article/potential-fabricatio...

Also I said the average researcher, meaning taken from the global population, ie not from a top institute. Jane Street is highly concentrated in talent that produce real results in the world.

The average cancer researcher has probably done more good than the average trading firm worker though.
What is a eurodollar? I thought the prices on the website were in Euros?
Yes, there's Neocities [1], as beautifully demonstrated by a fellow commenter in this discussion [2].

[1] https://neocities.org/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32315422
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Show HN: A simple, beautiful and interactive wrapper of curl
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I built a small programming tool called Ribbot, which is a simple and interactive wrapper of the command curl.

It started off as just a small toy that I built while playing with gum[0], but now has grown into a pretty polished app.

Right now it is in a pretty much complete state and ready to use.

As this is the first time I have written something this big in shell script, there might be some mistakes here and there, so I would love hearing your feedbacks and comments on the project!

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Humans lived centuries without instant messaging. Probably nothing wrong happen if you miss a call.
Yes, it uses ML-style type inference, but that doesn't mean you are literally unable to annotate types, and the compiler is absolutely still doing type checking. I'm sure people like Jane Street annotate everything.

In addition, perhaps a small point relative to the first, but in Ocaml, the arithmetic operators perform no type inference; there's a separate operator for float-addition versus int-addition, and so on. This somewhat limits your exposure to potential automatic type conversions.
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Can you give me an example of something that is “really” a paradox?
I'm happy to answer your question, but I'm not sure what you're asking
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I wonder if this is somewhat representative of what JS workers think, or not ?
> I under understood what problem single-level storage was actually supposed to solve.

Briefly stated, it turns fsync() into a near-noop. That seems like it could be a pretty big deal for some workloads.
That explains why our internet is so slow too. Every bit is 50% bigger so we can't squeeze as many into the pipes.
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This paper by Leslie Lamport might be relevant: https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/buridan.pdf

Abstract: Buridan’s principle asserts that a discrete decision based upon input having a continuous range of values cannot be made within a bounded length of time. It appears to be a fundamental law of nature. Engineers aware of it can design devices so they have an infinitessimal probability of not making a decision quickly enough. Ignorance of the principle could have serious consequences
The comparison to birds is bizarre because they are a public phenomena that anyone can see and study, gender transitions aren't.

>our own experiences with birds

Which is none in the case of gender transitions, or very little for some people. But certainly nowhere near the experience of an average person with birds.

>information provided by people who study birds for a living

Which is not reliable in the case of gender transitions, because those who "study them for a living" have proven themselves to be unreliable and value-laden communicators who either has an ideology to push or are too timid to challenge those who do have an ideology to push. Don't forget the substantial material incentive for diagnosing people with gender dysphoria (months and possibly years of consultation and medical appointments, services and products), if ornithologists were similarly ideological and have reasons to benefit from denying that birds are drones, I would be skeptical of their claims too, until I see lots of birds and study them myself at any rate.

>provide me one documented case of a biological male being diagnosed with gender dysphoria

Diagnosis is medical data that is mostly non-public, so this is an impossible demand for rigor. And yet, here's[1] the next best thing, a celebrated psychologist with a long career in sex and gender research, editor for several journals, slandered and fired because activists are outraged he tries to encourage gender-non-conforming kids to be comfortable in their assigned gender instead of transitioning them immediately. So anybody who doesn't diagnose a barbie-playing boy with dysphoria and transition them is at risk of being slandered and fired no matter what their contribution or position is. I consider this pretty solid evidence for the original claim.

[1] https://www.thecut.com/2016/02/fight-over-trans-kids-got-a-r...
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But it doesn't have to happen at the exact same time? Limit orders exist, no?
From design patterns to category theory (2017)
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I propose this as a thought experiment: Nature has solved this. How? Some lines of reasoning:

#1: The quantum interactions of electrons that are the basis for chemical bonds behave in ways our computers and intuition are incapable of simulating

#2 It's a matter of degree, not kind, and nature is more sophisticated than our computers, reasoning and thought processes.

#3 Nature is magic, whatever you define that to be

#4 When stipulating the degrees of freedom involved (ie from dihedral angles), the possibility of additional information we haven't discovered is being overlooked. Is there a recipe or algorithm that could help?
Like other investment options ... we tend to look at the successful few and assume that they know something special, or have something special. But over time, a few are just lucky and most are not, and we have no way of predicting luck :)
Is there Di2 for MTBs? I'd like to get a new bike this year, but they all seem to be SRAM.
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When the article is about something you're familiar with, you do start to wonder if all HN comment threads are similarly topped by blowhards missing the point.
> Also as a European, less reliance on the US is a good thing.

Maybe, but now we rely on Russia even more than we rely on the US. That's certainly not a good outcome.
They'll have their cost centers in places like NY and London incorporated separately, making consistent losses, and then the arm doing actual trading will be in Bermuda or somewhere with 0% business tax.
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Cool service! I've been wondering about something like this.

The pricing seems a bit high though, considering $8/month could also buy a cheap VPS with more than 1TB bandwidth (Contabo VPS, for example, offers a whopping 32TB outgoing traffic at $7/month.)

Perhaps I'm not the use case or target market, but something like this does appeal to me -- I just don't see why I'd pay for a wireguard endpoint, when I could get a VPS with a public IP and run the tunnel myself.

Sorry if too critical, I was metaphorically "reaching for my credit card" when I read "static IP over wireguard tunnel", before attempting to sanity check the prices.
I’ve used QLC+ in the past which worked well
I'm sure it's amazing for heavily loaded databases but that's a pretty small fraction of computers.

For a filesystem I'm less sure about the benefits. Most of the waiting time I see is for the CPU, even if the information is already in memory. What I need is better code implementing the filesystem, not a hardware bump. And even if you go all-in on optane metadata, you only need to replace 1% of your NAND.

I do think there's some really nice potential, but almost all of what I'm interested in can be done with tiny amounts.
Your salary doesn't mainly depends on the value you bring, that's merely an upper limit. It's determined by how much somebody else who brings the same value is willing to accept.
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> He stated, "I told the mayor very, very directly, 'Look, I'm sure…

Pretty amazing he can actually talk to the mayor over some petty crimes. A luxury the rest of us don’t have.
When did the world became so sensitive? I know I might be downvoted but c'mon! If someone sane can think 'Monkeypox' is a racist name then it's game over.
Yes you can. I used to be a homeowner. Even if the area past the sidewalk wasn’t my property, I was expected to keep it reasonably maintained.

My suggestion:
If debris was left in front of my property irrespective of whether it was within my property or not, I’d get a notice to rectify. If I didn’t within a reasonable time frame, the city would rectify it for me and send me the bill. Failure to pay the bill within six months would simply result in it being folded into the property taxes. Consequences for not paying taxes don’t need explanation at this point. Very effective strategy. Not my fault someone dumped something in front of the house, but how to track who did it? Easier to shift it onto the property owner.

In my case I would simply put up security cameras that are clear enough to pick up license plates. The city would be only too happy to pass on the bill to the vehicle owner of whoever dropped off the crap.
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> 2.5” HDDs that have limited storage capacity (~ 2 TB)

Bonus points for those usually being SMR, which is atrocious if you want to run ZFS and need to resilver the pool.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/western-digitals-smr...
Seems we're arguing about definitions. Currently differentiable programming seems to be this vaguely defined term (I don't get what you mean by smooth substitution), with autodiff being its only (proper) instantiation.

You say autodiff is actually not representative of differentiable programming. But if there aren't any other good examples that illustrate
differentiable programming, how is differentiable programming (currently) more than autodiff?...
While ASMLs machines are a critical element in the production chain of sub 7nm chips at scale however it is far from the only critical component. Reducing all of Taiwan's leadership to be about access to these machines is beyond ignorant.

It is TSMC who integrates the ASML machine into a node. A node being made of dozens of machines performing hundreds of discrete steps with right parameters in the right order. It is TSMC who build fabs with enormously short lead times.
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> that's not common by any means

Pretty common, I second the GP.

> I reboot my iphone once a year.

I wonder how many times per year the phone reboots by itself to install OS updates?
"Make a ton of money and donate it all" is an impactful way to maximize good.

It's also something that people almost never seem to execute, usually it ends with "make money and donate a small amount of it".
If you define "weakness" as "failure to cause the most damage while maximizing surveillance and profit" then yes.
There's a huge difference between "Sure that AMD will rise in value" and "Sure that AMD will rise in value until exactly next month/quarter/year"
> The US is HUGE.

China is huge too. Russia is gigantic. The US was huge before the 1950s too.

The terrible city sprawl of the US is not a law of nature, but specific post WW2 city design policies that could easily be reversed at any time.

> I don't know why cities don't have better public transportation.

It's the same policies. Take the minimum parking requirements: you can't have multiple shops accessible from one station because every shop needs to be surrounded by a walking distance worth of parking. You need to duplicate your entire network because things like corner stores don't exist, meaning there are basically no trips within residential areas. Allocating almost all budget to cars for the last half century has lead to severe loss of experience with designing transit. The Buy America clause says that foreign companies must set up temporary factories in the US whenever someone orders a trainset from them.

There's lots and lots of things, but they all originate with car-centric post-ww2 policies.