skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gas app cut its Redis Engine CPU Utilization by 80%
Call of Duty and realistic should not be allowed in the same sentence. Utter non sense narrative glorifying war and conflict. Many kids these days are stupid enough to get themselves recruited, after growing up with these games and having been fed a twisted picture of reality.

Shows you how our moral compass is based on nothing but thin air, when society thinks shit like that is fun and cool, while games depicting a naked human for example is completely unacceptable.
Also highly recommended from the same podcast: the episode on the Han Dynasty. Chinese history is such a fascinating and underexplored topic in "the West", most of what's in that episode was new to me.
I mean starting and stopping a container won't work anymore if you use a container orchestration layer (e.g. K8s).
I have a family member with MS and it’s completely debilitated them.

I completely empathize and totally get why alternative treatments should be investigated.

It’s just a super tricky problem because everyone experiences MS differently and it’s non reversible nature makes it super scary.

I too wish modern medical could better help. So maybe Ashwagandha is it, just please have that conversations with your doctor.
Alternate headline:

"Colleges that ditched admissions tests have to actually holistically evaluate applicants rather than reduce them to two numbers"

No doubt that it's more subjective and more difficult; human beings are complex, multi-dimensional entities and I find it sad that in many of these selection processes, they are reduced to a few numbers for the sake of low effort filtering.
Yep, RISC is really a KISS CPU, paired with the attempt to draw the maximal advantage from the potential strengths of the underlying concept. And it turned out pretty nicely imho.
Do Americans stay friends with their exes?
You are absolutely missing one of the primary points of US universities, which is to maintain a social hierarchy.

I mean, if you just want to learn stuff and get a good education, there are loads of resources where you can do that, often for free or near free. College is about much more than just learning new things, and if that's the only framework through which you value a college education, you'll be doomed to misunderstand the institution.
Hey, I appreciate both of you; I wouldn't characterize the parent as unethical, he seems like a real person with a story, on the surface I have doubts it could work for me, but I won't rule it out, if only I had the financial means to try. You're not entirely wrong about your assessment, when I first got diagnosed I was quick to believe anything that would promise help, and even followed through with some (pricy and ineffective) treatments like CCSVI procedures (which were even discussed here on HN back in the day).
Scientific institutions in the United States have largely been captured by the investment-corporate sector. Basic R&D results produced with federal funds end up in the hands of corporate entities due to the exclusive licensing (Bayh-Dole) rules implemented in the 1980s, and this also means these corporate interests have reduced their own internal basic R&D budgets relative to past eras, instead relying on the federal funding system and the university research departments for this task.

As a result, every tech department in the US university system is packed full of scheming federally-funded startup types, whose goal is to get a patent, transfer that patent to a small company which is then bought up by a corporate major, and then the professor gets a small percentage of the royalties. Federally-funded entrepreneurs of this kind and their facilitators are the people who run most university administrations these days. This merger of the academic and corporate worlds is the fundamental reason for the phenomena described in this report.

The solution is pretty simple: eliminate exclusive licensing of university patents, such that anyone can use them for product development for a small flat fee. This would have the beneficient effect of encouraging corporations to move funds back into private research labs, as that's the only way they could ensure an exclusive patent period.
"organizations don’t suffer pathologies; they are intrinsically pathological constructs"

This rings so true, in my experience. Sociopaths at the top also seems to be the rule rather than the exception.
I really used to buy into this mental model. There are certainly some points that seem to correspond to my lived experience.

At this point though, I've been through each of the tiers and have never been either cluelessly obsequious nor a sociopath -- so I have my doubts that the model is worthwhile despite being a good laugh!

For those that haven't read it:

- Tier 1 - fresh younguns or burnt out talented people who are there for a check (there is a lot of discussion regarding this tier). GOT reference: Sam Tulley

- Tier 2 - middle managers -- clueless, "true believer" types. GOT reference: many! Eddard Stark, Tommen Lannister, Jaime Lannister

- Tier 3 - sociopaths: bosses at the top of the hierarchy. GOT reference: Tywin Lannister, Joffrey Lannister
Wow! Did not know this, guess I’ve got a couple fixes to make…
Yes fair! Sorry about that; I was focused on the comment I was replying to and forgot about being fair to you; I've now edited my post to change "without understanding" to "without bothering to integrate with" (and some other changes); hope it reads better now!

And as I said, doing things one's own way with the primitives is perfectly fine… I too have participated in my share of TeX perversity and doing things it wasn't designed for (example: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/403353); I guess it's one of the things that attracts people like us to such an old system. :-)
Yeah — but saying that plainly doesn’t give activists control of scientific funding to increase their fiefdoms.
I suspect that even in 50 years there will still be people pointing out their modern equivalent of inaccurate lighting and saying how it breaks the illusion.

In my decades of watching technology, those voices have always said things with the same tone.
> For example, most monetary transactions are settled to the nearest penny.

Settled, yes, but all kinds of financial operations require higher precision. IME with payment processing the backend calculations and account balances were done to a thousandth of a cent. It was a common point of confusion because when clients were billed for their processing fees they usually ended up with a fraction of a cent balance that couldn’t be billed and stayed on their account. Every couple of months those fractions of a cent would add up to a full cent and their detailed billing breakdown would include a 1 cent charge in the “other” category that would drive them crazy. But of course financial calculations usually don’t use floating point anyway.
One analogy I could make is photorealistic pencil drawings of the Joker or other pop culture characters. It takes astounding skill, and you sound like a dick for being critical of the author, but the end result seems... pointless, somehow?
The conclusion from such dietary changes always seems to be that being more conscious about your food is key. High quality ingredients, no pesticides or enhancers that are meant to make crap taste less crap. Then in the end it doesn't matter whether you go carnivor or vegan or whatnot. Just don't eat everything deep-fried or full of refined sugars.
It's all about margins. They want to squeeze teachers and get minimum-wage adjuncts to teach 1st years. At the same time, they want future rich people to be students, so they will donate back.

Harvard, MIT, and Oxford have no problem finding future rich people. Random schools can't compete for smart people, so it makes sense for them to try to find prospects based on alternative criteria.
Real estate is one of the most restricted property types in most places.

Don’t believe me? Start building a gas station in your driveway and see how far you get.
Company hierarchy: Sociopaths at the top > Clueless middle managers > Losers at the bottom.

That's a bleak view, but I've worked in organizations that fit the model. To think that this could be the norm.. What if the model could be applied to human society in general! With such power dynamics, no wonder we seem to be barely hanging together with tense, mutual disrespect.
How a Single Human Hair Nearly Halted a SpaceX Launch
xkcd is just a comic, not a tool for reasoning.
The power connectors got better -- from the standard DC barrel (weak) to a hybrid RCA/headphone jack thingy (stout, but rough on the cord) to the magsafe, where now it's just the cables that go bad.

The ports got better too -- I killed a couple of the old RS422 serial ports on the duo (printer/modem port), but none of the USBs have ever gotten knocked off the board. At least with the duo, the dock connector had a big physical latch separate from the massive electrical connector.
I think these are good pieces of advice, though I'd also add reaching out to trusted friends, family, and/or partner(s) to tell them about the situation

Something like "I think I have a depression. I want to get better I need support to do that. Could you help me by being a body double/help me clean my apartment/whatever?"

Involving other people creates accountability, which can help with the motivation on rough days

Finally, I'd also recommend seeing a mental health professional to determine if it's necessary to get treatment (which could be cognitive therapy, medication, or a mixture of both)
Funny story: I got deja vu working along the Seine in Paris due to first experiencing it in Battlefield 3.

That came out ten years ago! At a glance, this looks like it is using ray tracing, which is a big improvement in rendering.
Any system of ethics which obliges you to disregard your own wellbeing is a death cult. Are you ethically obliged to throw yourself in front of a trolley to save several other people? If you think so, you've been indoctrinated into a death cult.
I wish there was more budget available for virtual tourism. I may just buy this CoD so I can (eventually) mod it and walk around Amsterdam in VR.
I could have seen this is where this was going.

You have zero clue on how the systems we have today originated. Yet you want to hypothesize on what a made up world would be like if we didn't teach certain things.

Answer the first question: Are you suggesting society change while arguing at the same time a person cannot change?
Typically about half my applications stop working, they crash on launch. Or sometimes the machine won't even finish booting -- I'll get past the decryption password entry, it'll mount some things and then spew a thousand lines of "BPF: Invalid name" error messages and just stop there. I found if I hit Enter that I was sitting at a prompt, already logged in, but couldn't figure out what to do from there.

However, I'm an old DOS nerd so mashing keys on boot is one of the first things I try. Pop has a bootloader that let me revert to the previous something, I guess that's an older kernel? And that loaded right up and got me into the GUI and all my apps worked and everything. So from there I found the "incomplete upgrade" support page, ran those commands, and rebooted again and tried the newer kernel again, and it came right up, all fixed.
Lots of non-sociopath CEOs in the small-medium business scene. Go look at the MicroConf crowd some day, bunch of good people right there.
Thank you. How do you stand out from the competition and find well paying and stable work?

I'm having a hard time finding places that value high-quality copy and are willing to pay for it.
It would be ""useful"" if the malicious government isn't the one with jurisdiction over the target. Put something on their computer that is illegal in the target's jurisdiction (obvious example: child porn), and "tip off" the relevant authorities.
There is plenty of evidence to doubt the whole "holistic evaluation" line of thought, which is often a tool for subtle discrimination. And pretty much all of these schools already did "holistically evaluate" students; test scores were just one part of that evaluation.

Besides, at the end of the day everything boils down to a single number - applicants are ranked and those that make the cutoff get in, those that are below the cutoff don't.
International trade is cheaper and more predictable, so there's a lot more of it now.

The economy is just bigger than it used to be, which means it has more room for complexity to live in.
I'm curious about this. Does just being near a space heater work? Isn't all heat infrared light?
Doesn’t bother me. Sometimes for calls I’ve put it in a stand at eye level
I'm not sure I believe this just from the video. Was the video supposed to be posted as proof that this happened?
As a hobbyist game dev one thing I've (recently) learned is that optimizing performance is paramount in video games. Running at 60 FPS you have a budget of 16 ms per frame (VR requires 90 FPS minimum else risk VR sickness; ~11ms per frame). Any scripts and anything you want on screen needs to fit in that amount of time. It's a big exercise in smoke and mirrors.

I'd love to know what optimization techniques are used so that those precious CPU/GPU cycles can go to those good looking things.

Side note: being absolutely forced to optimize the heck out of games as an essential practice gives me a much greater sense of performance characteristics in my "real" job and also in leetcode.
I'd be interested in hearing the perspective of a video game programmer, because from my own intuition as a layman, it sounds as though making realistic model movement is an order of magnitude harder than working on the environment alone.

At least, the fact that this game has familiar human movement tropes that resembles decade old games sounds like a testament to that.
I love red light therapy (I have an combo red/infrared light that I sometimes use), but nothing rivals the sun. I have often thought that if I could move somewhere on the equator I would probably do much better, energy-wise. I don't think it would affect the long-term brain issues I mention much though.

I have started a very high dose Vitamin D protocol (Coimbra), 2 weeks ago. I need to find a doctor to supervise it as the dosages are truly immense but it's the only thing available to me ATM that gives me some hope.
Fascinating that political sociology invalidates known plumbing technology.
"deprecated DNA" seems a good fit ;-)
Why are any comments listing criticisms of the realism of this video being flagged? This is not what I would expect from Hacker News and is very worrying.
This is an interesting video about how hard it is to effectively animate just one small aspect of human motion: walking through a door: https://youtu.be/AYEWsLdLmcc
It look like an architecture renders from 2010. The last 3% will never be shaved off because we're not using the right techniques. CGI in star wars are realistic, as in you they can fool 99% of people even when paying close attention. Video games are realistic if you glance at a video of them from 3 meters away while being busy doing something else

I guess it depends on your definition of realistic, I'm a photographer, everything screams "fake" in these supposedly "realistic" games. Some of them are artistically pleasing (rdr2, tlou2, &c.) I'll give you that, but everything is off, the lightning, the camera movement, shadows, reflections, depth of field, motion blur, textures, ...
I could easily view /r/watchpeopledie or similar subreddits. I'm really not easily shocked.

Threads really shocked me. Nuclear war should not be threaded lightly.
https://www.marriott.com/travel-experience/extended-stay-hot...

Seeing prices around 3K depending on a city, so yea.
Currently the traffic enters BQE on one local street and exits it most likely far away.
When BQE is removed, the traffic will go through a lot of local streets, increasing noice and air pollution in residential areas.
In that case society and government were widely opposed to helping and considered the plague a positive and much-deserved thing. There isn't the same level of stigma around MS.
far from a shortage, there’s a surplus of phds in almost every discipline. despite charging the highest tuition ever and sitting on massive endowments, the mbas in university administration don’t want to have to pay for them
The fact it was a pubic hair makes it all the more baffling.
>This is why Sundar is a nice guy but shit CEO.

Sadly this was not the sentiment at the time when Google announced their new CEO.
Thanks for the explanation, I'm not terribly familiar with the case so my point of view is not so refined.
Ah yes, Sergey Bubka [1] or Armand Duplantis [2] style...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Bubka

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Duplantis
I recommend disregarding the terms ("sociopath", "clueless", "loser") used in the article, they're unnecessarily cynical and iirc originally used as a joke. This article takes a basic idea about corporate structure (something like "in any company, some people chug along, some people work hard, and some people are in it to win, and they have the following dynamics") and makes it sound awful using loaded language.
Thank you. I hope you do better, it's heartbreaking how things can change with this.
I'm sure North Korea and many Asian nations think Japan didn't pay a heavy enough price for their attempts at imperialism.
Access to food sources, maybe? Compared to most terrestrial game, fish are easier to catch and provide a plentiful source of protein.
I have no idea why he’s being downvoted.

Redlining is literally a form of zoning where the explicit law is “I don’t want that person in this neighborhood”

When that became illegal it turned into you can’t build a certain type of housing in this neighborhood. It’s not coincidence that the type of housing that was banned was the type that certain people could afford.
When you have health issues, for a seemingly difficult diagnose, and you call for an appointment to your doctor you ask how much time it will take to properly diagnose you? What is this your non sensical reasoning. Another example: does any movie director ask his actors how much time it will take to do a scene? Is that the job of an actor?

Keep comparing apples to oranges and we will turn Software Engineer like any other menial job. We all know it there are a lot of unknowns, like health issues, that need to be evaluated before formulating any opinion about estimation.

Stop with non sense about estimation.
This is the one semi-reasonable retort presented here. Let's say that Twitter does go to something like "all legal speech is allowed on Twitter" policy. What happens to their business?

Well, nobody can predict the future.

Maybe their business prospects instantly crash and burn.

But I think that Twitter is the unofficial brain of the planet and there's no alternative for all of the grifters out there. Celebrities, journalists, and corporations might talk a big game, but would they walk the walk? They would have to be willing to go without the network of attention they've built up.

The question might become, "Can Musk mentally withstand a few days/weeks of intense derision until something else hits the news cycle"?
Better idea. Progressive property tax. You don't have to track vacancy, just ownership.
Could you not do this? Medical vacations are a thing—and for precisely this reason.

> More concretely, are you suggesting that US and European doctors are ignoring science about MS and just take the money? And the Mexican doctors at this clinic somehow magically have a cure which the rest of the world, at least the western world, ignores to ... enrich themselves?

I guess you’re too young to have experienced having or to have known someone having an ailment that had a wide variety of ways it was understood and treated.

What a disgustingly rude post.

Maybe you don’t have the experience, but emphatically yes, doctors in the US at least WILL take your money without knowing how to alleviate your issues.

Do you not know how copays work? Do you think physicians say, “Oh, sorry this is beyond my expertise. Here’s a refund for your time.”

No. They’re getting paid.

I know it sounds crazy but there’s this phenomenon in life where people have different abilities and knowledge. It has nothing to do with what nation you live in either.

> One of the huge red flags is the hush-hush "I'll send you a mail" Why this secrecy?

Yuck. Like a preteen who can’t handle a private conversation.
Oh man, I don't know how I messed that up, it's mush_room_hn at proton.me not protonmail!
While at it, please also add the references mentioned in this thread here that this herb poses a risk to those diagnosed with MS including a big warning. This is entirely missing currently, and since you are aware of it, you are purposely misleading your audience to make a buck. Yes, that's immoral in my book.

(Part of your purported honesty would obviously be to inform your readers that ordering through your links will give you cash kickbacks.)
It looks incredible.

Although this beautiful recreation is missing the endless tourists aimlessly walking on bike paths and the very loud conversations between Dutch people (their talking volume is what many of us consider yelling, but that's just normal).

Once we get VR headsets that are maybe twice as good as the best now, and we have high quality simulations, the scifi stories of people choosing living in unreality seem more plausible.
This discussion got me thinking about all the pheromones we emit, but can't really sense anymore. I wonder what sort of information are we constantly spreading that essentially no one is picking up. Or maybe we are, but only on a very subconscious level.
The Uros people moved from land to fabricated islands on Lake Titicaca to escape Incan conquest. The Aztecs created islands to have more productive farmland. Likewise the Incas when creating Cusco in a marshy valley.
Another point: if we try to go into that deeper we might wanna compare maybe these three approaches:

1.) Wynn Bruce who set himself on fire in front of the US Supreme Court in April 2022

2.) Activists gluing themselves to the street using superglue

3.) Teens throwing Campbell's tomato soup onto a Van Gogh Painting which is covered by protective glas.

The first two are a much clearer expression of desperation than the third one. The third one might be much more memorable because it is a good story and the people who need to hear it are probably not that much into the arts anyways. That means the third one is probably the most effective at communicating the goal and will weirdly enough stay in our minds longer than the guy who set himself on fire.

Yet you have to respect someone who so deeply cared about the planet, that he gave his life without screaming just to wake us up.

One truth is, that not everybody is capable of going down every road. For this man setting himself on fire was the way to address the problem that faces all of us – even if he could have used his life in more boring, but maybe also more effective ways. For the teens it was a very clever move involving tomato soup. For these activists in their isolation, it is gluing themselves to the street in front of the machines they perceive to be part of the problem. All of the three had the goal to break the regular flow of our lives with something that should make us listen.
Ahh yes how could I forget MagSafe. That was a huge improvement.

I’ve seen some people modding old thinkpads to use USB-C for charging instead of those old barrel connectors that love to get loose over time and break. I wonder how practical it would be to do that for pre-MagSafe PowerBooks/MacBooks.
[OP here]: It's too late to edit the message but if mods could pick it up (or anyone reading this), my email is actually mush_room_hn@proton.me not @protonmail!
Sometimes it's as simple as your chakras being out of alignment.

Sometimes it's more complicated though.