skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well... This is a research project, and they aren't betting the farm on it. It's not even x86-compatible.

And then, it'd require a lot of software rewriting, because we are not used to write for hundreds of threads for context switching is a very expensive operation on modern CPUs. On this CPU a context switch is fast and happens on any operation that makes the CPU wait for memory access, therefore, thinking in terms of hundreds of threads pays off. But, again, this will need some clever OS designs to hide everything under an API existing programs can recognize.

It may even be that nothing comes out of it except another lesson on how not to build a computer.
Our legal structures are due for an update to account for our improved understanding of the impact of cognitive biases. They are easily, and thus frequently, exploited. Irrationality is in our chemistry. I don’t want the human element taken out of the legal system, but better accounted for.
This is right, there's a lot of regulatory capture and cronyism, so it's far from perfect, but the real story is that actuarial tables are not keeping up with 500 year events becoming 50 year events and 100 year becoming 2-5 year events. The pace of change and severity of events is unprecedented and no one can figure out how to keep profits rolling.
Take a look at https://appdb.winehq.org/ for compatibility. Older software (even stuff like MS Office) often works well.
No of course not, I dont make the definitions up, but it still feels like a refugee and hostage situation imposed by business and govt failings.
> We evolve from animals that manipulate the world with their mouths and use their forelegs for locomotion

Technically we didn't. One of our ancestor species did.
Personally, I think using aggregate review scores to make decisions is foolish - and this was true even before user scores and review bombing were a thing. To paraphrase George Carlin - the average reviewer is dumb and half of the ones Metacritic is aggregating are even dumber than that. Why do you give equal weight to their opinion?

My approach: Find someone whose opinion/taste I trust. Make decisions based on the full text of their review. Ignore Metacritc/Rotten Tomatoes/Steam User Reviews like the plague.
Inflation has a lot to do with it - wasn't long ago huge tracks of houses in Florida could be had for $250K - now a lot of those places are selling for close to $1M - if a company has a lot of those, their risk has quadrupled.
My phone is a Oneplus 5T from late 2017, it will probably be fine for another 5 years at least but will probably require a battery replacement at some point. My wife uses my previous phone, a OnePlus One from 2013, still going strong, its 10 year old battery still runs for two full days (LineageOS without Google sh*t draining it).
> The fact that experts are able to distinguish earlier and later variants doesn't mean that this is trivial

So you are arguing with my loose assertion that it is trivial whereas what I should have been more clear about, was that I consider it possible by experts with the requisite expertise.
Fireship is great for providing technical content "with a spoon full of sugar" such as funny memes. What would you recommend viewing or reading next to understand computer architecture at a high level?
A 30 seconds look at river basin connectivity around a place I know gives me plenty of JOSM fodder - highly efficient visualization !
> I guess I use facebook the most

To be honest, Facebook is really low on my list of potential candidates, mostly because 90% of my peers left it for other networks.
They can be a little spectacular when they fail short. My last incandescent (a bathroom light) did it a few weeks ago, exploding the glass of the bulb and popping the breaker for my downstairs circuit.
Tclip: A Pastebin for Your Tailnet
Is there a connection between Rhine and Rhone somewhere? I always get the same color for them. Weird.
One problem I see with this is not stranding chickens outside if they didn't return fast enough; I guess you could count by breaking a light beam, or stepping on a plate.

Second would be adding a good lock to the door -- raccoons are very crafty, and love stealing eggs
You realize that the origin of their changing stance is because they got someone killed, right? It's great to posit that free speech is the best disinfectant, until your principles result in people getting injured and killed. They were warned that the Rally was likely to break out into violence by the city itself but went ahead with their lawsuit anyways.

As a result, going to bat for the Unite the Right rally in 2017 was a massive misstep and resulted in them losing a large amount of donors and professionals working for them. Naturally they would've needed to change or else they collapse and don't function at all.
Sure, but it's not like deciding to make china unfriendly wasn't provoked by china. The US was making legitimate attempt at "bringing china into the fold". Since xi jinping came into power, lots of sketchy stuff has happened on their end that made this strategy less tenable.

For example: being invited to rimpac and then sending uninvited ships (2014)
In my experience, the problem usually is that severity is context sensitive. For example, a external service temporarily returning a few HTTP 500 might not be a significant problem (you should basically expect all webservices to do so occasionally), whereas it consistently returning it over a longer duration can definitely be a problem.
As someone who lived to adulthood before cellphones existed, this behaviour is incomprehensible.

My phone is my agency. I use it to access information, and to communicate.

Why on earth would you subject yourself and everyone you know to arbitrary limitations like that?

My mind is plenty free and I use the tool when the circumstances warrant, and not as a mental fidget spinner.
When their insurance rates get to be unaffordable and/or their homes are destroyed without insurance the complaints tend to shift to being that the government should do something to help them out of the predicament.

I'm 100% fine with an individual choosing to not pay going insurance rates and choosing to live in a risky environment. I'm also 100% fine with that person eschewing the idea that government should be subsidizing anything. I'm 0% fine with such people coming back and complaining that the leopards ate their face.
>Heraclium is on the Bay of Naples and was buried by 30m of ash during the eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii in 79CE.

They are talking about Herculaneum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herculaneum), which when I visited it showed signs of being a serious hoax perpetuated to garner tourist money. They were visibly constructing a city out of whole cloth, under the guise of "restoring the ruins." Very different from Pompeii.
Interesting, it seems like then that the old wives tale—that height, foot size, or hand size—should not correlate with that measurement in men.

According to the literature (RIP my search history), height is weakly correlated with it [1], while the ratio between the second digit and fourth digit is moderately correlated [2]. Weirdly enough, the 2D:4D ratio has to do with bone lengths, but is still correlated with that measurement.

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[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/ijir201153
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digit_ratio
Thanks for the link, as always LWN is top notch. The comments on there are also amazing.

Somewhat a side comment, but for people interested in this topic but new to LWN, an LWN subscription is unfortunately pretty pricey, but the quality does justify it if you've got the room in your budget.
I personally convinced Microsoft to rename GVFS a few years ago (because same name as a GNU project) using similar tactics, just because I thought it would be funny. All it took was front page of HN, a few reddit re-posts, and Slashdot, all driving traffic to a github issue. They went from outright refusing to ever doing anything about it to completely bending over in a matter of days.

Major corporations with their toes in the open source space are _terrified_ of dev communities turning on them.
oh yeah, 10s of millions murdered sooo superficial
McDonalds corp cares whether franchisees succeed or fail. Failing franchisees start cutting corners, which results in McDonalds stores which are run down, with poor service and product quality and this harms McDonalds corp's reputation and bottom line. This is the reason McDonalds corp won't let just anybody start a franchise, you have to buy your way into this game by having at least a million dollars liquid, to prove to the corp that you have enough cash on hand to run the store properly. They also don't let a franchisee put the store anywhere they like, rather they choose and develop properties themselves to make sure those locations make strategic sense for the corp as a whole (they don't want two McDonalds franchises sitting right next to each other competing, driving each other out of business.) Furthermore if you want to be a franchisee you have to go through their training courses, you can't just buy a McDonalds franchise on a whim and gift it to your trustfund son. If you want your spoiled son to own a McDonalds franchise, you need to persuade him to go through their training program.

If Taylor machines were actually a real threat to the viability of many McDonalds franchises, McDonalds corp would make changes. It is against their interests for McDonalds franchises to fail and they already employ several severe and strict measures to reduce the likelihood of failure.

If this system seems overbearing, then simply start your own burger shop, or get a franchise from a fast food brand who doesn't give a shit like Subway. Subway will give a franchise to somebody with a tenth as much money, don't care if franchises sit on top of each other, etc. Not incidentally, Subway has an abysmal reputation for consistency, quality, cleanliness and food safety. McDonalds food is crap, but it's crap in a way that is consistent and safe (in the short term; it might give you diabetes but it probably won't give you botulism.)
High Explosive Radio Telemetry
The well connected politically is the weird thing about this to me.

I think we can all agree that trafficking is…bad. Yet there seems to be this strange political push back against anti-trafficking efforts.

I’ve seen it for years to the point of pretending it’s not even a problem. The recent political reaction to Sound of Freedom, which was not a political movie, is just the latest example.

It’s one of the most worrisome aspects I’ve seen in general “politicize everything” trends.
AIUI emailing hn@ycombinator.com (via the Contact link at the bottom of every page) to bring shilling to their attention is always welcome, and I'm pretty sure dang takes steps if he finds evidence
Try "The Computer Designed To Die In Microseconds"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYdAT0v4DHs (Scott Manley)

https://www.lanl.gov/orgs/padwp/pdfs/2nwj2-03.pdf
Given that at least some other OSs see drivers as 3rd party programs and not derived works of the kernel, I don't see why we should consider Nvidia morally in the wrong. I find it much more likely that they are legally in the wrong, though.
I have a 2017 gas Pacifica, purchased in 2016, and yeah, I would suggest not getting a first model year vehicle.

The PHEV might be nice, but you lose the underfloor storage and can't fold the middle seats into the floor.
I was once accused of mansplaining by a marketing intern. I assured her that if I sounded like I was talking down to her about a technical issue, it was because she is in marketing, not because she's a woman
That's fair. Usually though when I ask these questions, it can provide an answer because it gives the information it needs in the response, it just doesn't want to take ownership of the statement "I guess there were X number of Y."

I can usually get a rough estimate (that definitely makes sense or checks out) but it takes a lot of back and forth.

Most memorable example was getting estimates of cars sold and what make/model. It would say "there were X of Y sold in 2020, but I cannot provide an estimate" only after some back and forth, so it certainly could have told me earlier.
Five Takeaways from Our Investigation into America’s Groundwater Crisis
It's widely known that alphabets use their ability to surveil for disgusting purposes. This will never change.
Answering those questions first requires a standard of value to evaluate the options. HN is a rare site that sets an explicit standard for posts: they should “[gratify] one's intellectual curiosity”.

It’s not a great standard, partly because “gratify” implies a whole set of metaphysical value judgements. But it is better than none at all and can be reasonably inferred to place value on attributes like objectivity, expertise, comprehensiveness, and conciseness.

Should links be swapped even if there isn’t anything technically wrong with the original? Yes, if the replacement is better at gratifying intellectual curiosity.

Is there value if diversity of sources? Yes, but not sources that exhibit obvious bias, are poorly written, or woefully incomplete.

Wouldn’t it be better to post another article instead? Maybe, if both articles are good.
Good faith is an imperceptible standard.
> Isn't McD's fed up with the cost and loss of reputation?

Let's make something very clear here. McD does not concern itself with the woes of the franchisees. Not one ketchup sachet worth of worry. Costs? Not their problem.

Reputation loss maaaaybe.

Taylor gets exclusivity from McD and in turn gets exclusive access to maintenance.

I see other commenters making the point "they are trying to make bottom dollar employees operate a machine with food safety worries". Absolutely correct. Which should be grounds for McD to ask Taylor to incorporate the more user friendly panels and operation.

Now think why McD is not doing that
Rewind your disappointed expectations back to Fortran II in the 1950's, the first Fortran with subprograms. The value proposition was this: if a programmer was willing to help the Fortran optimizer out by avoiding aliasing, the compiler would generate code that was usually fast enough to avoid the need to write in assembly. It was a great deal for the programmer at the time. Fortran succeeded not just because it allowed one to write more productively in a "high-level" language but because its compilers could optimize well enough that there was no significant performance cost to doing so. (And then its popularity allowed one to port Fortran code from one vendor's hardware to another.)
CEO get's golden parachute either way.
What's the aggregate, social effect of living in a state where 9% of prisoners are innocent?
> There's a local group that meets weekly for lunch and sometimes Sunday brunch

That’s obviously not quite the social network I had in mind, but on the other hand those are hands-down the best social networks to be a part of ;)
I don't think you should criticize others just because you've adapted to what is clearly a dark pattern.

I clearly see the "continue reading" now, but I definitely recall the first time I saw this popup not seeing it and closing out of the window because I thought substack was demanding signup.

I have no doubt they've a/b tested the hell out of this UX and patted themselves on the back when first time readers started subscribing at record rates... never bother to ask what this meant for the actual UX.
It's obviously sexist to make the act of a man explaining something inherently suspect. If a blogger or tweeter uses the term I stop reading.
Insurance companies handle this today by either refusing polices on uninsured homes, or pricing those policies much higher.

"Your previous insurer dropped you, there must have been a reason."

And, yeah, when applying for a policy, the questionnaire should include "have you filed a claim for X, Y, Z in the last 2 years?" Auto insurance does this already.
Because the fines are just priced in as cost of doing business. They don't actually change anything.
This really isn't a fair characterization.

https://hondanews.com/en-US/releases/honda-announces-next-st...
Interview question I got once - The Taj Mahal took 27 years to build, if you could work on something for 27 years what would you pick?
Yes, but the "patch pumps" like the Omnipod are small enough you think patients might tolerate 2 of them? Maybe they've already asked, and people wouldn't tolerate it.
That's why a lot of fast food chains don't offer soft serve. At McDonald's scale, their peers that do would be KFC (only some locations?), Burger King, and Wendy's.

For reference, here's a first person report from one of the previous times this was brought up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26938854

Burger King appears to also use Taylor equipment, although not the combo 2-in-1, do-it-all model that McDonald's does.

Wendy's uses a custom machine built by Kappus for their Frosties. [0] [1]

[0] History https://www.wendys.com/blog/history-of-frosty

[1] How It's Made https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oorX3mHgHQs&t=95s
Which western country do you have in mind where it might be worse to be a prisoner than the US?
https://keet.io/ seems like an interesting replacement. P2P has it's hurdles but removes the centralized point of failure.
I'm not this apathic yet, I personally don't (just) code for money. If I just wanted money, I would have become an investment banker.
Because scale and intent matter.
Champion-level drone racing using deep reinforcement learning
If there’s one broad consensus in American policymaking circles today, it’s that global supply chains need to become less dependent on China.

I agree, and the other way, in many BRICS and other countries, there is a broad consensus that global economies need to become less dependent on US Dollars.

Both efforts at decentralization and lessening concentration of power are probably going to lead to new good results, as hegemons are forced to compete rather than enjoy a near-monopoly worldwide.
Complete disrespect for the end luser is nothing new with Microsoft.
everywhere I’ve seen it implemented scrumm is not at all the opposite direction - it’s just waterfall with a two week scheduled whipping meeting.
So? That's what they do at that institute.

The only reason that that bat was far away from where it was first found in humans is simply because we haven't found a better sample, yet. This was iirc a sample taken long ago, so there was plenty of time for migration. Bats fly insanely long distances and can have multiple roosts.

What all lab-leak theory adherents seem to forget: if the Chinese really had ready access to the very earliest strains of COVID they could have easily falsified evidence of where it originated. The fact that this hasn't happened is - especially given what is at stake here - pretty good circumstantial evidence that they not have access to that strain.

I suspect it will take a long time (years, maybe as much as a decade) before the whole picture will come out and if not then too bad, it will be one of those things we'll never know. Which is entirely in line with expectations, and with the historical record of other discoveries like that. In the meantime: speculation is pointless. Either you have evidence or you don't.

And [] do not confer any special insights unless actually accompanied by a citation, preferably of something that is not written by the same author.
I'm not sure if this transitive common carrier approach makes sense.

Wouldn't that mean that every company that used telephony, railroads, airlines, or shipping would have to be behave like a common carrier?

I'm not sure what the correct balance is but I don't think it makes sense to force common carrier status to propagate in the way you seem to be suggesting.
It could also be cooperative scheduling with a watchdog with task killing abilities (like we have for memory usage, it's effectively cooperative + OOM)
I'm not sure if female social capital in gorillas is the reason for the shorter penis size. Because in other primates, like bonobos, for example, where females predominate and have lots of choice, penis size is still small.

I think the main reason why is because sex is used in humans for pair-bonding, and many human cultures have much more monogamous lifestyles—raising children together for example. Sex in humans is less for procreation than in monkeys, so larger penis sizes became more adaptive.
It's called heroicgameslauncher, runs on Linux and works with GoG.

https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher
You're right - there's an extra step. Most of the worst, most toxic shitholes on the Internet are not just unmoderated Nazi Bars, but actively moderated to silence the people telling the Nazis off. Nazi Bar explains the decay of USENET and 4chan, but not, say, Parler. Parler editorializes the shit out of their algorithm and website and actively bans left-wingers that might interrupt the perfect far-right echo chamber they want.

Major social networks don't do this, but they do actively boost things that create engagement, which is something right-wingers are very good at manufacturing. They use sockpuppet accounts to do that. This means that the underlying amount of toxicity on the Internet is not fixed - i.e. these forums not toxic purely because everyone else kicked them out and concentrated the toxicity, and we can't just disperse the toxicity. Dispersing the toxicity creates more toxicity.

Also, the forums you remember from decades ago were likely way more moderated than you remember, and probably run by people powertripping as hard as Elon Musk or Spez. The difference was that you could just leave without consequence and never come back. You don't have that luxury with Facebook or Twitter.
it's already happening at scale, there was a 60 minutes segment on this recently https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-being-targeted-by-grandpar...

The "ethical hacker" shows them how to use an AI to spoof the 60 minutes host's voice, then use it to scam a 60 minutes employee on camera, in real time. It works.
I don't really understand the argument the author makes about Mexico exporting cars to the USA while importing car parts from China, in terms of dollar amounts. Wouldn't it be better to ask what material percentage of a car manufactured in Mexico consists of auto parts made in China?
Google Maps is good for that on my phone, in my area.

The transit provider also recently introduced mobile fares, so sometimes I use my phone to board (QR-based.)

Unfortunately, there is another fare overhaul coming, whereby they will make fares account-based prepaid, and mobile fares will be mutually exclusive with the linked NFC card option. So unfortunately I will need to ditch the mobile fares entirely, because I do not wish to be constantly tethered to my mandatory smartphone if I simply wish to ride a bus somewhere.
There is one pro-decoupling argument to be made wrt the Chinese-owned factory outside China. This factory while owned by China is not under Chinese jurisdiction. If China pulls a Putin this factory is much harder for them to switch off as part of sanctions.
Are you also a professional Astronomer that can accurately vet his claims and research?
It's not like Google doesn't use all sorts of sneaky tricks to get people to use Chrome anyways.

In gmail I often get a popup telling me the recommended browser is Chrome.

On the iPhone, my gmail and google maps apps pretend to ask for my preference on which browser I want to launch, and then conveniently forget my preference every so often.
“Is There a God?” By Bertrand Russell
> Turns out that the LOS between the wifi dongle and the AP went through the roost, and chickens absorb enough wifi signal to drop it off the net.

That sounds like a chicken motion detection system to me.
Re "A nag-free test mode makes a lot of sense for the engineers testing the cars. I don't see anything wrong with that."

I think you meant "A nag free test mode for lab bench and test track use..."