skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think Linus would be more of a Zig guy.

I think he'd just prefer to keep using C but I could be wrong. It feels like he is definitely married to C. If there was another language I felt he would adopt, it would of been Go had Go not adopted a GC.

You can learn the standard libraries of both and 10 years later they still are mostly the same. It is pretty commendable.
You just described one of the key ideas behind unikernels ;)
Not to mention water itself is horribly corrosive. Pure water will strip copper pipes. That’s the real reason fluoride was added to tap water:
1) it was cheap
2) it was safe to drink
3) it kept the water from eating the city’s pipes.

We had a city in Illinois do whole city RO and advertise the cleanest water in the country. Well it was the cleanest water going into the pipes, but if you own a house in that city the water coming out of your tap is full of old pipe!
We don't do leet code or coding tests. We do talk about projects they've worked on in the past - either academic, professional or personal - whichever they're most across.

Again, what I'm saying is despite all this most candidates still don't have anything they can talk about because they're disinterested in IT and doing it for a tech salary. You don't sound like you fit that profile, but most candidates that we receive wouldn't be found on HN anyway.
We already do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonicotinoid

These compounds are arguably partially responsible for the issue of colony collapse disorder.
Although tbh I’ve never seen accessible public transit in the US.
I'll consider writing a blog post on it but long story short, it's very stable and hands-off when using a managed service. I started off with some DO droplets when I first launched my business and adopted k8s around v1.6. It was a little rough back then but now I spend maybe a few hours a month max on managing my clusters, mostly just upgrading the nodes and core components (cert-manager, nginx-ingress-controller).

I fell in love with it because of the dev and ops experience. Just the shift of perspective from pets to cattle is a big improvement. Deploying via sftp is simple but k8s really helps me with the other aspects (monitoring, logging, scheduled tasks, TLS cert mgmt, blue/green deploys, multiple environments, etc) of managing apps that my clients use regularly and depend on. It's nice having one API platform that can handle all of this and feels more like assembling Lego blocks instead of bespoke solutions for every project.

Hope that gives you some insight!
Given the cynical application of laws and their moderating charter exceptions in places like Australia and Canada over the last few years,

Examples? You can’t just make extraordinary claims without extraordinary evidence.
> Tons of local people will come out against denser housing and against public transit and against protected bike lanes,

This is true in almost every city in the world. But not because that “what the people want”, but rather only those who hold very strong opinions ever bother to turn up to planning meetings. Most people only have strong negative opinions about public infrastructure, especially public infrastructure that’s seen “take something from them”. Public infrastructure that works well is mostly ignored, with the vast majority of people being entirely indifferent to changes to the infrastructure. Unfortunately it means that making any attempt to improve infrastructure, where that improvement isn’t “more of the same please”, is difficult because the only people who hold strong opinions are experts who have studied the problem, and people that hate change. Which, as it happens, is exactly the mix of people you say are in these meetings.

If you want to get a real understanding of peoples views on walkable areas, bike lanes etc. you need to build it, then survey the locals a year or so after the work has completed. Only then can you remove the selection bias seen in city meetings, and also remove peoples initial dislike for change, before they’ve had any opportunity to realise the positives brought by that change.

It turns out, that if you actually do all that leg work, most people like being able to venture outside and do things, without getting in a car and driving first.
It is definitely a very interesting application. It could be especially useful for identifying and finding missing citations (using a retrieval transformer perhaps).

A well designed system could discourage and flag potential plagiarism in the generated content.
Apparently the author has never heard of Polonium-210, arguably the deadliest substance on Earth. what makes it so deadly is it has an extremely short half life (~138 days) and releases almost all of that energy as alpha particles.

How leathal? Roughly 6.8 trillionths of a gram [1].

Luckily Po-210 isn't a huge danger because of the short half life and it's really only produced by governments in very small quantities. But the point is that any alpha particle emitter ingested is potentially a massive health risk.

And what happens at an accident like Chernobyl? It scatters a ton of dust over a huge area that consists of many radioactive isotopes, some of which are just toxic by themselves (eg Caesium) but also some of them are alpha particle emitters. That dust gets into the food chain.

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/palestinians-arafat-swiss-po...
So much wrongness to unpack here.

1. Part of the way we built around cars is exactly the kind of zoning that resulted in super spread out, super low density living. This isn't an accident of geography, this is an intended outcome of these government regulations. This is also fixable over time through rezoning.

2. Even with minimal changes to existing zoning, biking would be highly practical for many trips for many, perhaps most people within the US, with good bike infrastructure. Most Americans don't live in rural areas, they live in urban or suburban areas. There are usually some things within bikeable distance of a few miles from where people live, there just aren't good bike lanes or paths to get there.

3. As Germans would say, no bad weather, only bad clothing.
This is a perfect example of the type of blatantly ignorant (in the real meaning) message common on Reddit. The confidence with which you’ve just spoke out of your ass is astounding.
Driving is subsidized in many ways. Gasoline taxes and registration taxes don't fully cover the cost of road construction and maintenance, so the rest of the money comes from general revenue at the municipal, state, and federal levels of government - property taxes, income taxes, sales taxes. Parking lots take up a lot of land but pay much less property tax than residential or commercial buildings on the same plots of land. Sprawl causes everyone to travel farther, even people not in cars who didn't ask to sign up for this development pattern. Crashes resulting in property damage and personal injury/death are not fully compensated for by drivers or insurance; every time a driver hits something, both the driver and the rest of society lose together. Paved surfaces increase the amount of flooding during rainstorms, a cost borne by everyone, even those who don't drive. Noise, tire dust, polluting gases, and oil leaks affect everyone.

See also: https://tuftsdaily.com/opinion/2011/11/01/editorial-end-park... , https://frontiergroup.org/blogs/blog/fg/opposite-just-subsid... , https://frontiergroup.org/reports/fg/who-pays-roads , https://usa.streetsblog.org/2019/03/06/heres-how-driving-is-... , https://www.google.com/search?&q=how+is+driving+subsidized
I feel like this thread's title is editorialized (and click-bait). It got me. To be fair, maybe it hit a character limit.

The actual title:

Children and adults should avoid consuming animal products to reduce risk for chronic disease: NO

You mean switching to a diet of twinkies won't reduce my risk of chronic disease?
Local governments are clearly failing protecting their own citizens if they are having to resort to this. I blame the government and its lack of accountability.
Nicotine itself alone is not that addictive.
Mechanical solutions tend to be slower and also less reliable (more moving parts = more points of failure)

Aviation would just cease to function, nearly every commercial airliner is heavily dependent on computer control, to say nothing of things like the reservation systems that are also very complex (pricing flights is a very complex use case for algorithms)
Cars are popular because they're both useful and enjoy extraordinarily strong government support going back decades, both in explicit funding and also in regulatory policies. It's no surprise that the mode with the deck stacked in its favor managed to win.
Not necessarily. No potatoes, bread, pasta would be easy as a vegan
Definitely didn’t think of that. I had seen this trick in a pitch deck a few years ago and just added a scraped version of the comparison here for laughs.
Completed construction, unless you count all the equipment installation that will last until 2024.
Lol. Famous last words. IMHO K8s is a trojan horse from Google. They are irrelevant in the cloud space and are trying to stay in the game.

K8s is not Borg. Not even close. It's a toy that has limited use.

The revolutionary tech is the Linux kernel features that enabled containers, overlay filesystems and docker image format.
The difference is that a clinically recommended vegeterian diet would be rich in nutritive foods high in fiber. The recommendation wouldn’t just be to not eat meat and, like, eat all the processed sugary junk you want.
https://www.npr.org/2011/01/17/132942461/Star-Treks-Uhura-Re...
Or Harvard…
> How male dominated is your workplace

Every job I've had is male dominated.

> and does it bother you?

No, because all the places I've worked at included mature coworkers who know how to act professionally in a workplace, especially toward women, who are often the minority but still have equal say and compensation.
The Rant [video]
People don't like their existing, crappy public transit, sure. The whole idea is to get good public transit instead.

Americans who take the train in Tokyo or Seoul find it to be just fine. Ditto for Americans biking in Amsterdam or Copenhagen.
Differentiable programming from scratch
Here's one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32299244
I’m 50 and I didn’t find the text very readable, it’s tiny and cramped and really not written with even a tenth of the care that someone lettering a comic by hand would take.
As I understand it: No one in law or government has any attachment to the idea of freedom so they view restrictions on it as costless solutions to their problems. Thus “Well, if you don’t like it, sue us.” Us being the government.
Pretty serious overstep of rights - hopefully these kinds of restrictions don't pass muster when they get challenged. It's ridiculous we can impose this on someone who hasn't even been found guilty.

I wouldn't take this as representative of Australia as a whole though - In many other respects we have excellent institutions and strong rights.
Public domain POSIX make
I don’t think the official one has an API yet and I did try some of the open source models but their output was too slow. Even the company logo that we generate right now takes 20-25 seconds :(
It's the NSW government that passed the shitty authoritarian laws that caused this. Any guess which party runs that state?
Maybe look for the Vajont dam disaster, to see what could be
Yep, it's a sad state of affairs that if one lives in these neighborhoods, ones choices are to put out these blocks or to have one's street become unlivable
There have been a lot of things done in the USA to make unions worse. Such as the Taft-Hartley act which placed significant restrictions on union power. This isn’t the fault of unions but of state power meant to weaken unions as a concept. Whatever flaws there may be with unions in practice in this country, I believe they still do offer an opportunity for workers to directly advocate for their needs in a way that has real consequences for an employer who tries to trample them. This is what Amazon is opposing. If you have an issue with how unions are implemented in this country, complain about that. But don’t misunderstand the value in workers rights.

> What workers' rights are being violated when Amazon decides who may or may not be a future employee at an Amazon warehouse?

You can try to distill the action in to its parts to rob it of its meaning. I could say “I’m merely holding this pointy object and moving my hand forward? Surely I should have a say over how I move my body?” But you would know you’re being stabbed all the same.

I don’t know why you want to pretend like Amazon’s efforts to crush unions are valueless. Workers are human beings who deserve some control over their workplace. Amazon is trying to prevent that. That’s what I and many are calling out as wrong and worth opposing.

EDIT: By the way the issue is not just about amazon’s hiring practices. I am referring to the wide variety of anti-union tactics Amazon is using to interfere with labor power. Take the point of this article. Amazon will try to make donations to sway political power in their favor so they can continue to get tax breaks without unions. These individual actions can be imagined as devoid of context and valueless, but the point of this action is clear: Amazon does not want its workers to have a say in their workplace.
The company logos are indeed being generated using Dall-E mini!
You think if you went back to 1990 you'd see all the kids engrossed in their walkmans, books and newspapers like zombies?
Yet you can be sure that some will still complain about the lack of atmosphere.
I just checked and I still have some older servers running 2.6.22 from almost 10 years ago. I like the saying: if it ain’t broke don’t upgrade it.
> To claim that avoidance of animal products is required to prevent chronic disease is not supported by evidence, makes little sense from an evolutionary perspective, and distracts policy makers from common-sense approaches to achieve adequate nutrition.

Makes enough sense to me. Ive been eating way less meat and feeling pretty good. But it's hard to muster the motivation to make that last push to no meat. Especially not with the existence of Taco Bell...
That’s an interesting, theoretical point. The containment structures around a nuclear plants are designed to withstand forces more powerful than even advanced artillery, so there’s really no chance a stray rocket breaks the structure. A concerted effort is a possibility, but it’s not a tactic we’ve ever see used so far and I think the strategic value of doing so is limited. If an adversary had a fully subterranean power grid, maybe an attack on a nuclear plant could make sense, but that’s hypothetical because most energy infrastructure around the world is not protected in anyway.

But another takeaway from the current conflict is how incredible nuclear is at shoring up energy security. A nuclear plant can easily keep 18 months of fuel onsite as required storage space is trivial. A 2 or 3 year strategic reserve of uranium would likewise be a trivial project.

Meanwhile other base load sources like coal need dozens of rail cars worth of coal every single day. Gas needs a pipeline or again daily shipments of LNG.

So now Russia has cut off the gas and energy costs in Europe are exploding and they are having to build out tons of new LNG infrastructure.

Russia can basically turn the heat off in Europe because they under invested in nuclear power.
A lot of comments here about the complexity. But a takeaway from the article is that driving a car is different from repairing it.

We are a startup, had zero knowledge of k8s before. Without GKE, we would have lost days and days of work to imitate parts of k8s on VMs.

Scaling up and down, everything as a container (even cron jobs. Otherwise we had to keep a vm running and use some scheduler).
GKE has been a massive advantage for us.
The complexity bits may be true for someone managing a k8s cluster. Even with just 3-4 services, managing everything as cattle has been amazing.
When I first started reading this I thought it was a fictional dystopian story to warn about the future. But this is now?!
I identify as an omnivore, if not a carnivore. If you deny me access to fish and meat, maybe we should make all lions switch to a vegan diet too?
By eating food that doesn’t contain animal or animal produced content.

It is possible to have a high protein vegetarian or vegan diet, although it does require planning and effort.
Why do you think so? In my opinion it makes debugging, deployment and keeping the architecture clean much easier.
I think 10% is low, if anything. Something like the superblocks in Spain would be great.
How do you engage with them? The vast majority of people ignore my messages there.
i dont know man, as a non-american, why do you consider your constitution with so much regard as being bulletproof? cant your government just change it? like any other governments do? whats so sacrosanct about it?
> how significant RUST would be for multi-arch linux

Er, isn't Rust's list of target architectures a subset of Linux's? Maybe after the Rust GCC frontend is prod-quality it would at least not be a regression (outside of architecture specific drivers)...
1 and 4 are linked.

Fit able bodied workers willing and able to put in a full day of hard labor have more options and are therefore more expensive. Aka if you get laid off of a 25$/hour construction job you might temporarily work at Amazon while looking for work, but you’re not staying for years. Amazon workers may therefore be under paid for their capabilities independent of industry norms.

5. Double the workplace accident rate of the rest of the industry also plays a role. You don’t just lose workers directly as people also quit out of fear for their health.

6. It’s in part a seasonal job. Amazon doesn’t need or want a steady workforce and can play with their quotas to lay people off without paying for unemployment.
Need to ramp up the content filter for sure. There’s one in place already that’s recommended by OpenAI but clearly not working well enough lol
Wow, interesting. Though my math comes out to 6.64 (== 100*(.5*0.81)**3).

https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20220223000644
Nicotine-derived compounds are already widely used in agriculture
I should stop bringing my smartphone to the shower!
Well put. Unless you're on bare metal with a cetain scale k8s just adds an abstraction layer on top of whatever primitives the cloud provides.
I could be completely wrong on this one, but Pascal not caring about case would've made it more available on machines where lower case was not available, but taken for other needs (like cyrillic). Not sure if it would've made difference (given the COCOM and Eastern Block), but my Apple ][ clone had cyrillic instead of lowercase letters...

Or maybe my memory serves me wrong, and lower-case latin were not cyrillic, but somehow that's what I remember (was long time ago)...
Paper is here:

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03701250v1

- Direct link to PDF from link above:

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03701250/document

* Note: The blue boxes are the prompts, settings, and “First prompt output chosen” — means authors select first suggested output by GPT-3; third output chosen appears to be the highest.
There's a difference between cars only being used for delivery and everybody going around in a car by themselves. It's like the equivalent of a bus.

Do you think that in places like Hong Kong or New York that there are no delivery vehicles?
If it's truly not broken (especially no security exposure), then sure, but that's rare, and Linux is good enough about backwards compatibility that there's generally no reason not to use a newer kernel.
Indeed, the first solution to every problem should be one size fits all and involve the implicit or explicit threat of imprisonment or death.
https://archive.ph/aCih1
FPGA you can actually buy ($18 for this board on aliexpress, $20 ebay), with 1.2Gbit serdes blocks and 2560x1440 40fps HDMI IP block (2Gbit if YUV, 3.5Gbit if they mean RGB, typical Chinese documentation means you never know).

Cheapest GW1N-1 (still 1Gbit serdes) boards are $10 on ebay, meanwhile you cant really buy anythink Xilinx/intel

Reminds me of ESP8266/32 selling for peanuts with huge volumes available while people hunt for scalped overpriced STMs.
I wrote my own web-based "scratch notes" program to aid my daily research activity with tons of quality of life features suited to my own workflow (autosave, autoscroll while typing, image paste, ergonomic fonts).

I have been using it everyday since i first developed it in 2018.
Who's expecting a decline in construction demand in China? I think I've heard this a few places, granted, but have they really built up enough for their whole population (that would want it)?
* Completes construction of the building shell. Next step is all of the electrical, sewage, HVAC and related infrastructure to build the clean rooms inside, and then only once that is done, start bringing in fab equipment.

So it’s quite a ways away from being operational.
The truth is probably more similar to (meth)amphetamines. Class 2 drug, very classic stimulant that you see junkies ruin their lives over on the street. Not even legal to prescribe at all to people in some countries.

Vast majority of ADHD people that it is prescribed to (like %99+) do not get addicted to the medication, and often forget to take it. It's the people just trying to get 'high' in general with doses way beyond the medical cases where it leads to addiction.

So yes, it's probably pretty addictive if your using it in a way thatleads people to get addicted to it, and not if your not using it in a way that tends to not lead to addiction.
In peace time CO2 emissions from nuclear are at the same order of magnitude as hydro. Similarly, the number of deaths per twh produced is also similar to hydro. Both are at least an order of magnitude lower than coal.

A hydro plant can be attacked in a war situation just as much as a nuclear plant, so I don't see how that should be weighted as highly as you seem to imply. In fact, I'd argue that energy dependence on nations such as Russia are a much higher risk to geopolitical stability than nuclear power.
You might want to brush up on the concept of economic "externalities," and also how transportation funds are raised and the shares of funding different transportation modes receive. After that, I bet you'd have some worthwhile things to say on this topic.
Well they did block free movement in the country for a few months, not really sure how legal that was tbh.
You mean bail conditions? It’s very common to have your communications be restricted with certain people and you may be restricted from entering certain geographical areas. How is this overreach?
How did people ever manage to do anything before k8s?

I'm going to make the claim that a load balancer + asg + basic networking setup is all you need in 95% of cases.

Learning how to package services and have them run anywhere? A lost art.

Cloud agnosticism is a red herring. No matter what you do today you are not cloud agnostic.
Batteries are more "inertia" than any rotational generator could ever hope to be. Inertia is only a concept because the grid has traditionally relied on rotational generators (which do have inertia). It's by no means necessary for the functioning of a power grid - isolated inverters don't need it, nor do portable rotational generators.

It's useful in traditional grids because we didn't have electronics that could more or less instantaneously respond to load changes - they had to rely on spinning generators instead.
Is this a serious concern? That there will be some kind of civilization in 10000 years that:

1) has lost all records of current generations

2) doesn't know about nuclear waste disposal sites and radioactivity

3) is still advanced enough to dig several hundred meters into hard rock

4) for no discernible reason digs up the entire waste disposal site and then what? contaminates their excavation crew?