skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many a times a workstation ATX board is necessary only because you want tons of RAM. All the card space is essentially wasted PCB.

Since Threadrippers until very recently didn't support RDIMM, you could only put 256GB in them -- but even for that little you needed eight slots. Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/6icdyo/amd_threadrippe...

It was the TR Pro last year which finally started to support RDIMM. No one released an mATX version though, pity. The earlier platform did have an mATX version but only four DIMM slots, kinda pointless there.

(My laptop has 64GB RAM, so I do not think 256GB on the desktop is unreasonable.)
Oh, come on. What else would that be? Some crazy stuff like Soviet style forced relocation as a hyperbole for „don’t touch my private jet“? Einfamilienhaussiedlungsverbot?
Fascinating. I hadn't considered this. Humans like central authority, and if dictators and monarchs were fair there would be no democracy. Extrapolating on this thought, could a democratic blockchain work? I can't even fathom "how", but some sort of ability to elect an entity who votes on your behalf. With an opposition, etc...
These are difficult to understand concepts imo. I have written an annotated implementation of a simple reactive system (you may want to run it through Prettier if that's your thing): https://github.com/fabiospampinato/flimsy/blob/master/src/fl...

A signal is basically a function that you have to go through to read and write a value. In the case of Preact the function is split into getter and setter assigned to the "value" property. The interesting thing about signals is that they can tell their parent computation to re-execute, automatically, without any manual dependency array.

A computed is a signal generated from a function rather than a primitive. So like the function that generates the value is re-executed automatically whenever any of the signals read inside it change.
As someone prone to having 3-400 tabs open at once for months on end, no you don't.

I'm at the point of wanting 32-64gb of memory these days, but only because I like messing with huge datasets.
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Ever read "Daemon", I love the concept of d space
You're conflating Switzerland's social pension with the Swiss health insurance system. Swiss pensions do not subsidize the cost of healthcare delivery, and are not used to cover health costs at the point of service (for real or alternative medicine). The payment of healthcare at the point of service is facilitated by a fully privatized industry of insurers.

Salary deductions pay for subsidies to lower income beneficiaries to purchase the same private health insurance (KV) as everyone else. This is more or less identical to the US's ACA, and in fact the ACA was modeled after the Swiss healthcare system.

The one big difference between the US's ACA and the Swiss healthcare system is that the ACA also included an employer mandate and stimulated a regime in which the majority of working-age adults receive their private health insurance from their employers as opposed to the individual market, which is not how the Swiss KV works.
dumb, there is a gold member quote in here.
> Just don't abandon anything quietly; acknowledge it on the board, communicating to everyone immediately we're not doing that anymore.

Even on personal projects I try to not remove TODO's or tasks without writing why it is no longer a goal. The amount of knowledge that is thrown away in many organizations or by people by discarding tasks without saying why is astounding, the why for discarding it can be as productive as a task completed.
But you are also implying that all for profit companies are bad actors, which just isn't true.
I think most Web3 shills fall into one of two buckets:

1. People treating it like a Ponzi and are just trying to avoid holding the bag.

2. Non-technical people that have no idea that databases have existed for decades.

All it takes is a basic rudimentary analysis of most Web3 "solutions" to determine that they're entirely overengineered and unnecessary. Everything about Web3 is a solution in search of a problem.
im not mad.
Last I checked some >30% of the population were already on Medicare/Medicaid. You already have the "socialism" healthcare.
> the moment we let the free market start making phones.

Egads, are you suggesting we shouldn’t have done this?

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I guess that you don't know that, for example, if you get operated of a congenital defect in Switzerland, the bill goes to the SVA instead of to your private insurance (and so on for specific cases)

I am not conflating anything, you have a superficial understanding that makes you think it is privatized. If you dig into the spending public & private and the actual details you would see that Switzerland is not privatized as people generally think.
Spinny hard drives have a master record file that tells the seek heads where all the parts of the data lie on the magnetic material.

It takes time for the read arms to move back and forth to literally read the data on the sector indicated by the master record file, and defragmenting the drive helped minimize that by moving the files around to be a linearly arranged as physically possible given the sophistication of the given system.

SSDs also have a similar master record file, indicating where all of the bits of the files are located on the flash memory in the hard drive, but since it makes at most the most atomically minute difference in seek times for the controller to read the data from those sectors (since there is no seek arm that has to physically move to the physical location nor any delay waiting for the spin of the disk to reach the correct location for the data read to begin) then file "fragmentation" has the most negligibly minuscule impact on file read speeds or drive performance, and given the dramatic increase in destructive writes that a file defragmentation would cause on an SSD, it should be avoided under any regular usage.
Well I guess there is now limited ways for someone to evaluate for themselves on whether KF was posting horrific content without significant moderation. Guess we at least have Taylor Lorenz to tell us exactly what is going on here in a full and unbiased way.

Someone here at HN at least posted this link which told more of the story than I have seen anywhere else. Also search the HN archives (for now at least it seems) for interesting discussions on KF prior to these latest events.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32720162

Sorry but this feels like book burning to me.
I don't think you're going to have much luck convincing your organisation to adopt a centralised service. Simply having files is as close to free as possible, while even a self-hosted centralised service will have a significant cost in terms of service time and administration. That's probably why they're so against change.
Is it getting harder to self-host? Yes. Impossible? No. Most senders just find it easier to pay for it.
I'm referring to the majority of working age adults.

Even the US uses Medicare for certain congenital diseases as well (as well as end-stage renal disease).

The Swiss private KV system accounts for the vast majority of health expenditure, even more so than the US where half of health expenditure is nationalized in Medicare and Medicaid.
That's fair, what you wrote actually echo what I thought as I was coming back: that I loved every second of it yet I'd trade the architecture, lively arrondissement and culture for my much larger apartment any day if I had to pick.

That being said, I've yet to see a city where people downtown don't live in small apartments so I suppose some people are just fine with it.
This is exactly what I was thinking. This is perfect for BQ. Google might do this internally anyways for their healthcare efforts.
Could you post some good links you read/browsed? Google is providing too much junk and difficult to reach any high level conclusion.
I had a similar response when reading "React adapter allows you to access signals directly inside your components and will automatically subscribe to them."

I don't believe this is worth it. The implementation is fairly dangerous and fragile as you point out, all in order to simplify something fairly clean/reacty such as `const value = useSignalValue(signal)` into `signal.value`.
Deep reactivity can be implemented on top of the provided functions, I have a version of that for Preact that doesn't seem super broken here: https://codesandbox.io/s/sparkling-cherry-bn9bu5?file=/src/i...
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Yeah, it seems like a lot of effort to do things in a fragile way when regular hooks are capable of getting similar results in a standard way.
It’s remarkable how SBCL has basically surpassed its parent CMUCL. I recall when the project was first starting a number of performance optimizations were sacrificed because the code was hard to understand and would only compile with a sufficiently recent version of CMUCL. Last I knew you could compile SBCl from source using an interpreter like CLISP.
> all in the same process where the plaintext HTTP requests and responses from very large numbers of our customers reside

The security of this looks very very fragile. Practically any vulnerability may leave the requests of all customers unprotected.

Compare with the common practice of isolating each customer on its own address space or, better yet, on their own VM, requiring a privilege escalation vulnerability (which is much rarer) to eveasdrop on other processes or VMs running on the same computer

edit: now, if you're running each wasm module on a separate process, sandboxed with seccomp-bpf, now that's another thing entirely, and might be more secure AND more performant than traditional VMs
If anyone want's to one-up Weird Al, you can configure an Apple Mac Studio with 128GB of RAM for a mere $4800.

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/mac-studio/20-core-cpu-48...
HotMail (remember that?) started this way.

The founders had an idea for a database hosted on the web(?), and pitched it to some VCs. They had been working on it as a side gig.

Naturally, the VCs asked: did you do it on company time? Did you communicate via the company's email system?

Nope, came the answer. We thought about that and built this email system to exchange messages while we worked on the product.

And the VCs eyes lit up: tell us more about this email system!
Presumably they get annual shipments because that's when the convenient "launch windows" are for Antarctica.
I recently started using Solid myself, and I was initially skeptical about that too. I love esbuild as it’s simple and fast, and distrust all these other slow and complex JS tools, especially Webpack.

But it actually uses Rollup and esbuild by default (via Vite): Rollup for the HTML/CSS and esbuild for the JS/JSX. It works great and it’s plenty fast.
The Sierra Club also wants to get rid of nuclear power.
Benefits of psilocybin microdosing explained by expectancy effects
What kind of lock contention is that? (In Oracle) you'd have to be (a) manipulating the values of a primary key and (b) choosing not to index the child FK column.

Even without (b) I'd be asking "Why are you altering primary keys?" because it pretty much aint a primary key anymore if you're doing that :-)
Is it possible that they intentionally bloated the data to make it difficult to use effectively?
Metric or imperial?
Seems kind of like a waste either way. Crypto was sort of neat years ago, but it hasn't amounted to anything useful
It's easy to say "it's not about the money" when it's someone else's money being spent.
I really think you're wrong to say there's no tradeoff here. Error handling makes code bigger and harder to read.
Just like the door foot things, you’re supposed to Bruce lee the faucet afterwards and turn it off with your foot.
There are fundamental limits there which can’t be avoided, alas.
I can't imagine how unproductive people would be working under all these restrictions. You walk in to the meeting room but can't plug your laptop in to the TV because it's using a usb c cable. Can't visit the websites you need to get your job done because they might contain software you can install on them. Have to wait for IT to approve everything and just sit around being unproductive.

Just so the company can continue to have insecure internal services.
It already did.
Copper is a well-known drain additive to kill roots.
Some version of it may be implemented by America switching to a digital currency.

There would be a central regulatory bank that administers financial transactions and serves as a source of truth while Point of Transaction registers send the data for the plusses and minuses in every non-physical cash transaction event.

It wouldn't supplant the physical dollar in any reasonable time as there are many reasons why such bearer bonds would be useful, but I could see it displacing the VISA/MC/AMEX/DISCOVER dominance over electronic financial transactions in America at least.
And for reasons that aren’t clear to me, the WASM standards people appear outright hostile to changes that would make it easier.
Semantic layers usually go an extra mile beyond just ORM/E-R modeling. It is best thought of as an abstraction layer between the actual physical data system and the consumption tool (usually a BI or analytics app.)

They do things like define KPIs (how do we as an organization calculate "cost of goods sold") and business logic (what is an "invalid" order?), harmonize entities and attributes across multiple data sources (System A calls something foo, System B calls the same thing bar), provide localization options (currency, date formatting) and so on.

It can also do "basic" things like referential integrity, E-R modeling, aliasing columns, fixing data types for downstream consumption, etc.

Usually it is agnostic to the actual underlying data system (warehouse, lake, SaaS API ...)
It's not just a description of the latest set of motherboards having fewer than five PCIe slots. It's a description of the PC expansion market as a whole, including the fact that many things that would've been PCIe expansion cards "back in the day" are now built into motherboards, sold as USB/Thunderbolt devices, and/or available as M.2 cards. The journey of discovery it took for me to realize this was simply kicked off by the dearth of PCIe slots on announced AM5 motherboards.
Yes, the article is about that song. I was trying to make a humourous connection to another Weird Al song.
I wonder if it would be possible / worth it to have the os prioritise one stick and power down the others until reaching some utilisation threshold.
I'd go with weight loss peptides or nucleotides (so injectables), but yeah, this is coming hard.
Hardly, talking about how some narrative is hollow and what would have actually happened is a fruitful source of lit papers. The source material is merely the beginning of that conversation, as you and I are literally demonstrating in this thread.
Well, guess it's time to cancel my subscription and start preparing my departure from Bitwarden...sad to hear this.
SROs were a housing solution for low-income people who were not functional[1] enough to live with roommates, but were functional enough to be able to live alone.

When we got rid of them, many of their former inhabitants ended up on the street.

[1] For an incredibly broad definition of 'not functional'.
Looks like they stuck a conical diverter onto the exhaust end of a solid-fuel Grad artillery rocket.
And you used to be "with it", until they changed what "it" was, am I right?
But another way in which Switzerland maintains its healthcare system with public money is through the -often deficitary- cantonal hospitals/clinics/health care centers (also helped at the municipal level)
Maybe because it’s close to ‘mega’ and all those variants of what used to be mega upload are like whackamole.
This is only true for go 1.17 and above. Prior to that, go.mod wouldn't necessarily list all transitive dependencies. And I don't think this property is actually guaranteed by the relevant specification. The only reliable way to get a "lock file" is to run go list. Unfortunately.
mRNA immunizations. I think we're right around the corner from finding a lot of really great and useful applications for that technology.

20 years from now we should have enough data on its applications that there will be simple treatments and cures for many lifelong afflictions.
US sanction against what? Against USA company?

Do you know how sanctions work?

What kind of sanction is being violated in your opinion?
Even better. Decent presence in international markets, high potential for growth domestically. I'm gonna make a fortune on this.
The money from the sale will eventually go to Russia. This post means nothing. They publicly call the war in Ukraine a "special military operation" - like Russian propagandists. And they continue their activities in Russia, answering questions very rudely
https://dou.ua/forums/topic/39415/
Joke explainer: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act
Fiber arts, mysterious dodecahedrons, and waiting on “Eureka ”
That makes even less sense given the trend of game streamers leaving it for YouTube.
A couple of questions:

1) Will this decrease gas fees, which make using Ether and its ecosystem completely unusable?

2) Does proof-of-stake mean that the richer people in the ecosystem have more power?
Google is such a behemoth it is taking over adjacent words
FCC Does Bare Minimum – Asks Wireless Carriers to Be Honest About Location Data
That is not at all what your link says.

"90% of the nation's $4.1 trillion in annual health care expenditures go to people with chronic and mental health conditions"

Obesity is $173 billion, diabetes $327 billion.

We could certainly do much better, but blaming health care cost on metabolic diseases is disingenuous. Diabetes cost is roughly the same percentage of total expenditure as it is in other industrialized nations. (I didn't check obesity)

It stands to reason that really, the problem is the size of the pie, not the size of the slice.
Ok, well I'm just alluding that there's probably source material around certain differences. I wouldn't mind short-haired elves, but personally I'd want some justification that makes sense within the story since it deviates from what is previously established.
If a planet with ten times the surface gravity of Earth had an intelligent species like humans that had evolved to tolerate acceleration equal to a multiple of their surface gravity for a given time, perhaps that would open up additional launch possibilities such as a rail gun.

For example humans accelerating 4g for 2 minutes over a 5,000 mile track would only achieve 10,000mph. The extraterrestrials accelerating 40g for 2 minutes over a 50,000 mile track would achieve a speed of 100,000mph. Here the larger circumference of their planet might also help, or the density of energy they dealt with on a daily basis would influence what type of launch facilities were feasible.
Public knowledge is not the same as common knowledge, I agree.
None of it is.

Examples of things that would be better would be syntax for reference dereferencing. E.g., in SQL-like syntax:

SELECT user->home_server->OS_version.version AS v,
user->home_server->OS_version.is_obsolete AS obsolete
FROM users
WHERE name = 'whatever';

or

SELECT user->home_server->OS_version.{version, is_obsolete} AS {version, obsolete}
FROM users
WHERE name = 'whatever';

where we don't have to join to the home servers table or the OS versions table, and also we don't have to repeat ourselves too much.

Where the relations are not 1-1 then an array_agg() aggregation could be inferred, or some alternative aggregation could be explicitly given:

-- this would be an array of {name, type} values
SELECT g.members.{name, type}
FROM groups g
WHERE g.name = 'whatever';

-- ditto
SELECT g.members.{name, type}.array_agg()
FROM groups g
WHERE g.name = 'whatever';

SELECT g.members.name.count()
FROM groups g
WHERE g.name = 'whatever';

Now all that would be fantastic.

Tinkering with totally different syntax where the shape of the query looks just about the same as in SQL seems like a dead end to me.
I think the evidence is not so clear, it seems circumstantial and situational on what humans prefer. Humans invented the internet and email which is extremely decentralized. Datacenters are centralized but edge computing is decentralized. Constitutionalists across the world preferred dencentralizing powers of the central/federal governments to a certain degree. We like decentralizing supply chains to reduce risks but also centralizing them for reducing costs (supplier-to-supplier logistics). The world is literred with examples from either end of the spectrum.
The difference (as I understand it) is that you don’t need to list your dependencies as you would with a hook, and you can call it anywhere. I find this approach conceptually simpler than hooks.
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Your family must be very different than mine! (and coworkers too:)

I Have frequently heard phrase at work "you plug into here to get wifi". My family and in laws absolutely positively do not understand the difference between wifi and internet. In particular, the idea that they may be connected to wifi but not have internet is an alien, incomprehensible notion.

It depends who you hang around with. Computer professionals understand the difference. Most others do not as they don't need to - empirically, to majority of population, wifi IS internet (as opposed to cell phones, of course, which use "data":)
Whenever I had serious programming work to do I got OUT of the office.

When my last employer decided to go to shared cubes to reduce real estate costs, my cube mate was a gregarious massively distracting personality.

Shared cubes = one employee for the price of two.

Later on I saw open tabletops with rows of employees - works for call centers - not for devs.
> > Heat pumps don't go where the furnace is.

> They certainly can.

I am responding to what you said.
> The difference between volatile and non-volatile memory is in whether the data is lost when the system loses power.

I'm aware. This is a feature for me - I disable suspend/hibernate/resume functionality. I don't want hiberfile.sys taking up space (irrelevant in this scenario, I guess) and I certainly don't want programs to reopen themselves after a restart, especially if it was a crash. If all storage were nonvolatile, OSes would behave as though resuming from hibernate (S4) all the time.

> that memory will be reclaimed [. . .] when the app is closed.

Again, I'm aware. I'm glad you've never had any sort of crash or freeze that would prevent closing a program, but it does happen.

OSes would need to implement a sort of virtual cold boot to clear the right areas of memory, even after a BSOD or kernel panic. Probably wouldn't be that hard, but it would have to happen.
> if we're spending 20% of GDP on something other countries accomplish with 10%, then that's a huge waste

I don't think that money is necessarily a waste if it goes back into the economy one way or another. There are very few things that are actually a waste, one example is probably flying first class or private jet. If you literally burn money then it's clearly a waste. A part of me thinks the huge cost of healthcare is contributing to more R&D by the big pharma and possibly the reason we're seeing RDNA breakthroughs. Yes a lot of that money also ends up in the pocket of people running the show, but they most likely then invest it with a Blackrock which in turn pushes the money back into the economy in form of private equity, VC funds, etc. For the record I don't like the high healthcare prices and wish US was more similar to other countries in this regard.
The link you posted says that the 90% is to treat all "chronic and mental health conditions," which is a much larger grouping than just obesity/metabolic disease.
Vat food.