skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Netty is a super complex and also super poorly documented project. I did weeks of exploration and found these JVM args:

-Dio.netty.allocator.numDirectArenas=0
-Dio.netty.noPreferDirect=true
-Dio.netty.noUnsafe=true

work pretty well for us on any HTTP server. They slightly reduce performance as HTTP pool is weaker, but deceases memory usage by 25-40%, also eliminated one of a few memory leaks in an older version of KeyCloak.
Is that a US thing? I've been using both in Europe and Hertz seemed better, but also more expensive.
I recently powered on my model 1 B for the first time to see what it was like.

The Linux desktop experience on this single core device is horrific.

What is MUCH more impressive is RiscOS on it. It flies. The whole OS is written in assembler. It's fast. It's a what-if of computing. https://www.riscosopen.org/content/downloads/raspberry-pi if you're curious to take a look.

Curiosity of RiscOS aside, those single core 700 MHz devices I would only advise using them in terminal mode, no desktop, whether Linux, FreeBSD or something else.
pretty neat. I wish it would tell you an approximate terminal velocity for the mass of your asteroid.
Why don’t we just ban drinking altogether then? And while we’re at it, if you’re irritated about something perhaps just keep it to yourself. Society doesn’t have time for discontent or deviation from the norm.

Good lord.
Agreed, but there are some levels of study where open-book just doesn't work well.

I think it would be hard to ask any kind of pre-college mathematics questions that don't become incredibly easy with an open book. The other challenge with open-book exams which focus on deeper understanding and reasoning is they still require understanding fundamentals to be successful, so how do you test for fundamentals?
That seems to be assuming facts not in evidence, though. Did Hertz decisionmakers continue operating the system after having been notified it was giving false positives? I tend to agree that sounds like criminal negligence. But nothing seems to be alleging that anywhere.

Flipping it around: would you feel comfortable calling the police to report that criminal negligence? Or would you be worried about getting in trouble for a false report?

The system is tilted towards non-prosecution, and for some very good reasons. No one's going to jail here.
> All they have to do is

Well, you basically list major problems we have with Windows in general. 11 is not that different from 10 in that respect. So it's hard to say "the direction it's going in is the correct one" - I understand why they are pushing this stuff down our throats, but they are not winning users. Whoever can switches away.
Also, I'd imagine the people who were smoking when COVID started being a thing were smokers well before then.

So whatever factors make smokers less likely to contract COVID may be because of some of the long term effects of smoking. So picking up smoking isn't necessarily going to make you immediately safer.
> But, it's your head man and as an adult you should be able to go helmetless if you so choose

The reasoning behind wearing an helmet on motorbikes is two fold:

- there are a lot more chances of being left disabled by the accident than dying, which is something you might not have thought about, but when you're disabled suddenly it's not your head anymore, you depend on other people to take care of your head and the rest of your body. There's a cost involved in severe head traumas and the monetary one is by far the less important.

- your head splattered on the asphalt is something other people might not want to watch. Some people might be even traumatized by that view. So please if you really want to risk it, do it when you're alone, in the middle of nowhere. Because you can still do it, you won't get arrested if you do it, simply fined.

but the real reason why I do not understand this "easy rider" alle cozze argument is: helmets are super cool! If professional bikers wear it, then why not?
This has really strong Cowboy Bebop vibes. The space stations look very familiar.
Pretty sure your gut reaction against the punishment is good argument that it'd deter someone from doing the action that yields said punishment.

Meanwhile we do the equivalent of charging a $90 penalty for a crime that earned $100.
Linux has a standard protocol (dbusmenu) for exporting menu structures supported by most common app UI libraries, and environments like KDE's Plasma use this to offer a global menu bar option, too.
It’s flying bus that a) can be rather easily converted to a missile, and b) is sealed until it touches down so any craziness is locked in for hours possibly.

I’m more comfortable as a flyer and as someone who’d like to do business in the US if I know that there are air marshals. Surely this pays for itself this way, especially given the ever increasing accessibility of air travel. I say this an American who knows how crazy our population can be.
I don't see their methodology but this sounds absurd. Half of UK's citizens have experienced identity fraud? Highly suspicious numbers.
It doesn't have to be "effective", it just has to be more effective than not locking people in cells. If you're advocating for something else, you should be arguing its effectiveness over locking people in cells. "Effectiveness" doesn't mean anything outside of a comparison to other options.
Nitpick: Peking is not a romanisation, it’s the Cantonese word for Beijing butchered by English accent.

Likely relating to many early interactions with China occurring in the Guangdong region.
All copyrighted material, I don't have links to the actual works, but some books that come to mind that I would have enjoyed much more if their were 20% of pages:

- The courage to be disliked (Ichiro Kishimi)

- The simple path to wealth (J.L. Collins)

- Peak (K Anders Ericsson)

- Happiness (Matthieu Ricard)

- Clean Code (Robert C Martin)
That's not true, I installed Win 11 on a 7 year old laptop (soon to be 8) without TPM, for my parents, and it worked just fine.

If you do a USB install, the TPM requirement is a soft requirement that doesn't need to be fulfilled for Win 11 to install and work.

Try it.
Another rôle they play is a kind of out-in-the-open corporate espionage. You pay them to come in and tell you what the "best practices" are in your industry (i.e. effective new things your competitors have been doing since the last time they came to visit you—and they'll learn some new ones from you to tell your competitors, next time)
Never heard that, nor did Google return anything obvious, so there you go!
The difference in US law falls under the Posse Comitatus Act[1] (which has been repeatedly expanded over the last 150 years): the government, by law, cannot use military forces for domestic law enforcement.

I'm no particular fan of the US military (much less the police), but the practical and historical distinctions between the two are substantial: one is the professional military of a country, and the other is a professionalization of antebellum slave catching posses.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act
The link is for persona 3?

The corrected link: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/12/dwarf-fortresss-graph...
Non-paywall link: http://archive.today/FOANs
> With an "AI" bot, the "strangers" are faceless people who curated the training sets and wrote the obscure statistical algorithms.

I think this is a feature over:

> I can still stereotype based on their appearance, background, accents, etc. and apply whatever mental adjustments as taught to me by my societal upbringing.
Hans Niemann Is the Bad Boy of Chess. But Did He Cheat?
It might be possible to use ChatGPT model itself to calculate probability (perplexity) of a given text according to the model.
I'm talking about a fresh out of college grad/undergrad.

Managers charge 400-600(mind you 25% on top of this is for travel).
beijing is a city in china

the term 'peking duck', much like the more common spelling 'beijing', are based on romanizations of the name of the city of beijing, china, which is a city, and not a romanized name for itself

bringing up the fact that 'beijing' is a different kind of romanization is only useful if the audience needs to be educated on different kinds of romanizations, which is the point of contention between the author of the duck article, Preston Landers, and 'mc32', which is four ascii characters, and not a person
> I've always been hesitant to use them for anything important because they've historically been known for very aggressively shutting down your service if their automated systems detect e.g. suspicious traffic.

Yep, that's the fault of Hetzner that prevents them from being used by many startups instead of AWS, Azure GCP etc. AWS is very tolerant of what is being done on its network, for example. Whereas a startup that uses Hetzner services will have to make sure that their use case is not prohibited by Hetzner. Moreover, they would have to be vigilant to keep following the changes to Hetzner ToS and practices to avoid getting disconnected out of the blue one morning. With restrictive German laws and increasing Eu regulations, that is a major liability for any startup.

It would be great if Hetzner had a full fledged US subsidiary that was subject to US laws - one that didnt have to get burdened by German law.
If they’re already breaking the law by firing people, why would an order to obey the law impact anything? Obeying the law is already a requirement?
Cool != Useful. =)
> While it took way way way too long for the scientific community to recognize airborne spread

I would make that more specifically as referring to the Western public health establishment, especially the CDC and WHO. Actual scientists were comfortable saying recognition was overdue fairly early on, reaching the point in July 2020 where a large group published an open letter:

https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/71/9/2311/5867798

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00925-7
You might, but the central banks don't! It's a recurring theme in published research papers by economists and by the central banks themselves. It's called "breaking through the zero bound" on monetary policy, or "removing the effective lower bound". The tone in these papers is universally that this would be desirable for the central bank, but hard for the public to accept.

For example from the Fed: "The Case for Unencumbering Interest
Rate Policy at the Zero Bound", https://www.kansascityfed.org/documents/7033/GoodfriendPaper...

> With these advantages in mind, the final portion of the paper describes in detail three methods by which the zero bound on interest rate policy can be unencumbered completely. The three methods in turn would: 1) abolish paper currency, 2) introduce a market-determined flexible deposit price of paper currency, and 3) provide electronic currency (to pay or charge interest) at par with deposits.

Or the Bank of Canada's paper, "Is a Cashless Society Problematic?", https://www.bankofcanada.ca/2018/10/staff-discussion-paper-2...

> a cashless society could open the door to the prospect of negative interest rates to a greater extent than is currently possible. Most central banks are obligated by law to supply cash to the general public. To the extent that the economy becomes cashless, a central bank could request a change in its governing legislation to remove the obligation to supply cash to the public on demand (which is a significant step). In that case, in the absence of cash and of an obligation to supply it, a central bank would be able to lower interest rates to a more negative level than is currently possible to achieve stabilization or price stability goals.
I don't share any of the nostalgia about old Macs most of HN seems to have. They weren't around me in my childhood, and even trying to get anything meaningful done on classic MacOS in the modern times on an emulator is an exercise in frustration because of how poor the support for Cyrillic characters is.

But! I do have a similar feeling about old Windows versions. The UIs of both the system and the applications were denser (not yet ruined by the existence of touchscreens) and much more thought out. They actually felt like extensions of your mind, not something you have to fight all the damn time.

Two things frustrate me immensely about modern computers: the dumbing down of everything, and the insistence on using touchscreen-inspired UI controls and patterns where they don't belong. The third thing, that kinda encompasses the second one, is the erosion of affordances. Is it a label? Is it a button? Is it a text input? You never know!
That's still risky. All airlines (in the US at least, possible legally mandated) have a policy of not allowing people to drink their own liquor they've brought on board. Get caught, and you're in for a bad time. If alcohol were banned on flights entirely, I imagine the consequences for sneaking a drink would get worse.
Yes, this one surprising realization I came to during the pandemic. I habitually cleaned my ears before leaving for the office. When I needed to WFH, I stopped cleaning them because the habit had been disrupted. There was a lot of wax at first, but now I have just the right amount and never need to clear them.
anyone else remember Copernic Summarizer? I miss that. When are we getting a self-hosted "GPT-Alike"? Is it something that "federated search engine" project from a few years ago could aid with training?
there were no deployments near 11/10, according to that graph - they also say in the blog that scala2 could go for two weeks without restart, so theyre presumably aware of some sort of memory management issues they're just okay with it.
american here, and that seems as weird to me as it does to you
> Retribution isn't part of the system.

On what authority are you making this proclamation?
I mean, it’s the same reason you can’t find a great mission burrito in Paris. Every city has its own food culture.
At some point you also run up against the virus vs immune system endgame: it's evolutionarily inefficient to optimally outwit an adversarial system.

Usually there exists a local maximum where you obtain most of the value with less-than-full effort.

Sadly, the centralization of search directly cuts against that. I.e. outwitting Google search = $$$$ vs outwitting 1-or-4 equally-used search engines = $. :(
Could a web designer refuse to create a site for an inter-racial marriage because they don’t believe in miscegenation?

Is web design considered a public accommodation under the law?
> McKinsey is going to ruin the psychology of a bunch of LGBTQ people with 80 hour work weeks while they union bust foreign nations.

Do the 80 hour work weeks not ruin the psychology of non-LGBTQ folxs?
Peking is the Cantonese word for Beijing
Yah, I'm done with windows on personal hardware. I was late to 7, and refused to run 10, rather switching to KDE on a number of machines.

MS didn't learn the lesson that apple taught them, about how a desktop interface doesn't work well on small screen devices without keyboard/mouse. Instead what they appear to have learned is that small screen UI's designed for touch should be used on desktop systems with screen real estate measured in 10's of square feet, and where the primary input device is a keyboard followed by a mouse.

And its terrible. People complain because it sucks. Not being able to figure out which window is active because they removed most of the visual active/inactive window hinting, not being able to find more than a couple dozen programs works great for a work computer where your day job involves sitting in one of a small number of applications all day long, but fails miserably for any other use case. Even android/iphone can group program/icons by function these days (and have you seen anyone under 20's phone screen? Those kids have 100's of applications installed).

And yet the past 10 years of MS "advancements" are largely things people either didn't ask for, or are reversions of things that were possible in older versions of the OS. Sure the task manager can now display network utilization, but you can't figure out if the window your typing in is active until you realize that you just typed your SSH key unlock pin, into slack. And don't get me started on the scroll bars, the new control panel UI has the same abominable f*ed up scroll bar situation as most web apps, and it still can only do about 1/2 of what the old win7 control panel could. You have to try and scroll it 1/2 the time before you can be sure there isn't more information below the bottom of the window. Its just one user hostile change after another, and they add up... over and over. until it feels like the entire point is just to screw around with people.
I would say call that tangential. Properly functioning batteries that are undersized are a battery life problem. A malfunctioning battery that cannot deliver enough current for the CPU at full power is a different problem. It could be argued that the smaller battery would degrade faster due to more cycles, but I don't recall whether there was general dissatisfaction with battery life on the 6S or not. I expect the battery on the 13 to be bigger because I assume (with no research, admittedly) that the SOC and screen both take a good bit more power than the equivalents on a 6S.
Gotcha. I was hoping there was a primitive subghz protocol. That would be fun.
We give a lot to feel safe / for security theatre, not surprised at all.
Is this where our "September 11th Security Fee" goes? UGH
I agree. Design updates in email clients are not that important - unless it actually also improves usability. Unfortunately, most apps just want to look fancy, not focusing on functionality.
> "I don’t measure or actively mitigate carbon dioxide; however, we do run particulate filters 24/7."

this is the right order of concern. pollution (particulate matter) is much more damaging to our tissues than CO₂, which is basically inert in comparison (e.g., people die of smoking, not working in a stuffy office). life evolved alongside CO₂, but not so much alongside NOₓ, SOₓ, CFC/HFCs, dioxins, and the like. but in every thread about air quality, the majority of the discussion is on CO₂. the mediopolitical narrative is driving hard in this direction, to our detriment, as plainly evident here.
Do you have examples of executives being jailed for NLRB notice / consent decree violations?
> (...) early-stage startups (...)

> (...) efficient market hypothesis (...)

Classic case of "just read a new idea and I'll apply it everywhere".

In addition of everything else wrong with this post: No, you can't reach reliable conclusions about startups by reaching to efficient market hypothesis.
Because I wanted hardware that's already been tested end-to-end with not only linux in general, but the distro & version I'm using (Fedora 36).

Using the same hardware that Lenovo ships with linux out-of-the-box, as well as the same hardware that Red Hat employees use, is worth more to me than a couple of extra performance cores. CPUs have been "fast enough" for my use cases for years.
I never learned about electronics basics in K-12 in the West Coast US. We learned classical mechanics physics, chemistry, and even basic CS, but no electronics at all. Closest was galvanic cells in Chemistry. Not even ohms law. Coincidentally, one of my major interests is in electronics.
This is a problem only if you can't think critically. In that case, there's a problem AI or not AI.
For those who like this type of game, I'm working on a city builder heavily inspired by Dwarf Fortress. Demand will be much more granular than traditional city builders (e.g. specific business/service needs and building the appropriate buildings for them).

You'll be able to see the interior of buildings and design the buildings as you please, save them as blueprints, and be able to plop down duplicates.

You can find progress updates on: https://www.reddit.com/r/Archapolis/

Or a few video logs at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUYLstskSLNcSkFg1giTBtQ
>Mandatory helmet laws do not prevent people from riding bikes. Just like mandatory seat belt laws did not prevent anyone from driving cars!

This is an absurd comparison.

Mandatory helmet wearing makes bike-sharing programs almost completely unworkable. In my city, I see more people riding bikes from bike sharing programs than I do riding privately owned bikes.
Here's a silly answer, where it acts like it's asked a question in a political debate. The first sentence doesn't address the question at all.

"What Cryptocurrencies are there?

Cryptocurrency is a type of digital or virtual currency that uses cryptography for security and is generally decentralized, meaning it is not controlled by a single entity. Some examples of cryptocurrencies include Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin. There are many different cryptocurrencies that have been developed, and new ones are continually being created. Some cryptocurrencies are designed to function as a medium of exchange, while others are created to provide a specific service or function, such as a platform for smart contracts. Because the field of cryptocurrencies is constantly evolving, it is difficult to provide a comprehensive list of all the cryptocurrencies that exist."
That still seems low for any big4. Those were numbers I remember seeing 25 years ago for large consultancies personnel.
Hitting things other than cars is what helmets are good for. If you are in a bike-car accident no helmet will protect you - you need a several ton cage around you if you want a chance. (motorcycles face the same issue). However there are a lot of things other than cars that you can get in a bike accident with, and most of those are things where helmets are helpful.
Fitness levels accurately predicted using wearable devices, no exercise required
AS someone who has both read the book and interacted with "big 4" names a few times this is going to be one of those "underrated" comments you sometimes see here.

At my previous place of employ they made some really terrible decisions which ended up costing a LOT of money later.

Their response was classic "the design was vetted by McKinsey"..

No.. you sent them what you wanted to do, they told you what you wanted/needed to hear and now you are deflecting your decisions.
They plan to integrate Firefox Sync with Thunderbird (android and desktop)[1]

[1]: https://developer.thunderbird.net/planning/roadmap#firefox-s...
Mid 2020 I was asked to port an app away from Silverlight before it hit EOL in Oct 2021. I wrote the original app in WinForms in 2003. Having experienced Win32, MFC, ATL, WinForms, WPF, WinRT and looked into WinUI I decided to pass on it.

ANY other UI technology is probably a better long term bet than anything Microsoft come out with.
> Providing services to the crypto community probably makes you a huge target for cyber attacks and all kinds of fraud

What will they do when a new form of fraud or a more potent way to do cyberattacks targets another online activity? Like ecommerce? Or blogs? Shut down all ecommerce sites? All blogs?

I find such measures as foolish as blocking port 25 - it works until the attackers and the software they use update itself to abuse the same thing in another way. A temporary relief that just complicates things.
Do you feel the same way about rape or murder as you do about direct abuse of the justice system by the powerful against the weak?
The data is the data.

If the data that agrees with you is "good data", and the data that disagrees with you "needs to reach a higher standard", that is how inaccurate beliefs get entrenched.
Many companies in South Florida (for example) ask trivia questions about frameworks or programming languages when interviewing junior/mid software devs. Many just "trust" you if you come from another "known" company like Ultimate Software, Akamai, etc.