skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which one will? You can't bring a lawsuit unless you have standing. Does Oracle want to sue? I kinda doubt it: if they did, they would have done so by now. Is the Linux Foundation going to sue? Why would they?

Who exactly would stand to gain from keeping ZFS out of Linux, and would be willing to spend a ton of money on legal fees to do this?
Make a request. It it fails, try in 1 sec. It it fails, try again in 2sec. If it fails, try again in 4 sec. etc. That's exponential backoff. You can also randomize the delay a bit so that if the problem is on your end (so everyone started failing at the same time), you don't get ALL clients retrying at the exact same times.

This is better than trying immediately when it fails or after a set delay. If it hasn't been working in the last 10 tries, why would you expect the 11th request to work. Just wasting resources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_backoff
No they're not. The kernel is under pure GPLv2 with a clarification that using standard system calls does not create a derivative work of the kernel. There are no additional exemptions.
Ask HN: Stress/Load test from different geographical locations
I have been trying to find a solution to stress test a site for one of my clients. I want to be able to stress test the site from different locations across the globe i.e. Europe, US and Asia.

Searching on HN did not show any options that I can use, some of the results recommend solutions that can be installed locally (jMeter, locust etc.) to test[0].

One of the options is to fire up VM instances on AWS or GCP in different regions and us Apache benchmark or locust or Jmeter and then test but this does not seem to be the most optimal solution.

How do you test your website/app from different geographical locations? I am looking for recommendations/solutions. Thank you.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11504454
I have a 6G Nano. It has a great UI but the physical buttons are really fragile. It cost me less to get a new dumb phone plus a SD card than is would have done to get the Nano repaired.
VueJS, ASP.NET MVC, C#
> When we talk about female CEOs she is rarely mentioned but here she is in probably one of the most technology intensive industries with a company that was clearly floundering and she has led AMD confidently out of the woods into a position of strength. What a performance.

This. It seems amazing to have a technical CEO (she has a PhD from MIT) who also has management and turnaround ability.
you would be surprised on what CPU hardware many, many corporate devs have to work on...
I can see the descendants of bitcoin millionaires starting a cult and referring to their founder as the prophet of profit.
Do some people treat it as such? Yes.

I’d argue that there’s no expectation of it however (unlike Ether) unless you call generic assets (via appreciation) a security.

If so... Baseball cards are a security. Which they are not.
What’s After FinFETs? Industry working on next-gen transistors
I can find several other examples of games that are "incorrect" in much the same way, and I don't just mean Sonic knockoffs. Doom is pretty much a seminal moment in game design, and it looks nothing like the "ideal" design of Mario. I think the game design principles that are being tossed around here are very, very far from being universal.
The only bad direction I can really think of in public education is teaching things that are not based in fact (ie, creationism), I'm not sure what bad directions OP is referring to but my guess is they would relate to things most of us would actually consider to be very good.
AFAIK Spotify doesn't have offline play on the Apple Watch
Please have a look at https://schleuder.nadir.org/docs/#an-email-hub-for-groups about the context here of remailing.

So correctly it should have been called resending.
Because insulting someone and stealing millions of dollars are equal somehow?
ISRAELI DELEGATION LOCKED DOWN IN AMMAN EMBASSY AFTER STABBING ATTACK
I must say that i find it highly ironic that the likes of Facebook and Google have in recent years been introducing lite sites and apps for the third world. Site and apps that in the process rip out most of what the rest of us want to see gone as well.
It's still a big event in that all of the exchanges have had to take a stance on the fork. And there will be an initial competition between the two forks, like with Ethereum and "Ethereum Classic" (in that case, the new fork actually won over the unchanged version).
That's a cool interview. Reznor has always been ahead of the pack in trying to understand the changing of the music business and trying out stuff. He has a lot of insight on that as well as the creative process. Not to mention he's still a fantastic musician and songwriter and NIN a fantastic band.
I grew up in a developing country, for a long time my computer purchase decisions were overwhelmingly driven by price. Cheaper SKUs see far greater diverse use than you suspect.
If the company who own the mall have their name over the shop door, have their workers inside it, process the transaction, have their name on the receipt, have their name as the receiver on the bank statement ... then yes, that company should not escape penalty just because they own the mall too.
This is the same thing that I do. I wrote about my setup in my blog [1].

Basically grab RSS for most things I read.

Use node-red to create RSS feeds for things that don't have one, or use node-red to pre-filter feeds, as well as for downloading full content for offline reading.

I read Twitter with RSS. I haven't got time to turn Facebook into RSS yet, but hopefully at some point.

[1]: https://www.dannysu.com/2016/12/29/huginn-to-node-red/
Basically, except there's more risk involved and a shorter horizon
It has special meaning to people frustrated with the stubborn refusal from bitcoin-core to raise the block size. Bitcoin has two major factions, and this is more or less a peaceful way for them to split out.

I'm hoping it decreases the overall level of conflict, as both groups will be able to get what they want here.
Internet connection? It's under 128kbps, less than a 2 channel ISDN link.

And for someone that cannot afford a 100$ drive every 5 years, toss the old blocks after saving a checkpoint and just keep the last X months plus UTXOs?

How does this improve with offchain transactions? What's the point of validating the blockchain if it's no longer a peer to peer network? That can't be any better than validating from checkpoints.
this is really great. never knew this existed, thanks for sharing.

no frills, quick page load on mobile, just right.
It moves differently in different browsers for me. And neither instance seems to actually make physical sense.

In Chrome, the fourth box from the top starts sliding when it hits the floor, pushing the box to the right clear off the floor box. Every box eventually slides along the floor and falls into the pit.

In Firefox, the fourth from the top stays put. It never pushes the box on the right, though all the rest eventually slide into the pit.
What if a company like Amazon bought Twitter? They could also charge for accounts. Something like more than 100 followers you need to pay.
From a strict ledger of transactions metaphor of the blockchain they could be joined without double value but it'd require that all blocks from both chains were strictly disjoint sets of transactions and no account overspent when combining both chains. On a more real technical level though the protocol doesn't have a way to have two parent blocks even if the two chains satisfied the conditions to avoid double spending.
Web Bluetooth too.
Because web apps are certainly very good at protecting privacy.
Elixir/Phoenix is just delightful, and I'm feeling really comfortable in both. Front-end is my weakness, so probably something popular like React would be good.
This should be very interesting.

It's quite possible that this fork is negligible for awhile. But because parties such as Core will likely refuse to let the segwit2x part of segwit happen [1, many others], if the miners follow through on their promises, then this could be real entertaining to watch if the larger miners start switching to BCC during this later period.

Just like when ETH split into ETH and ETC, it seemed as if almost everyone dumped their ETC coins as quickly as possible. But contrary to what most predicted, the chain ended up having real value. It seems like quite a few Bitcoin holders are planning on doing this as well, although many are being more cautious this time around and holding their BCC instead.

You don't want to sell your stash of the next Bitcoin, just in case you're wrong. These things are impossible to predict for normal investors.

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Segwit_support
Right, the point is that his manager consistently beat the market (even if by a small amount). Not that I knew this before just now.
I've made a similar bug before. Had an animation that moved a div around on our page for some seconds. Some adblocker decided to remove that div. The script then failed to grab that div for the reminder of the animation, 60 times a second. Since we logged all errors to backend, this resulted in hundreds of ajax calls, making the affected browsers kneel.

Backoff/rate limiting/setting an upper limit, and handling the missing div were solutions.
By managers I mean professional portfolio managers.

Individual investors pretty much all do worse than market.

EDIT: obviously that means there is skill involved. But it seems that professional managers are close enough in skill that luck is the dominant factor.
Thank you for the response. Could you see this affecting sellers in secondary markets? Most that purchased DAO tokens likely went on to sell them in secondary markets. Would their role as a seller be applied to Section 5?

I think these are also important questions to consider. The valuation of a token is affected if you can't later sell it without commiting securities fraud. I really hope this is not the case.
Cool. Didn't know that. I was leaning towards picking up a Garmin Fenix, but this makes the Apple Watch a bit more compelling. Still not sure I can deal with the frequent charging. Hmmmm.

Edit - nevermind - looks like only a single playlist can be synced. That's a pretty major flaw in the system.
powerlines buzzing
You can set a separate nickname for each server.
https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/219070107-S...
How much would an insurance company pay to fix high cholesterol, diabetes, cancer etc? I know people spending close $10,000 a year on cholesterol medication. Diabetics' insulin can cost $500 (I don't know how long this lasts), plus the other blood monitoring costs and costs of other complications. Cancer treatment is not cheap but I don't know how to look up the costs.

All of the above costs are mostly covered by insurance, but if you work them out, a $100k treatment can pay off in as little as 10 years.

Of course there is a difference between ensuring someone's kids don't have a condition and fixing it in someone who is already alive. Will parents make this choice even if insurance pays for it?
Show HN: Eclipse Events – Find events near you for the Solar Eclipe
Very cool simulation.

Would love to see it with inter-agent communication between rounds, where those you cooperate with tell you who cheated them.
I never quite understood the complaint about having to learn a new tech stack to write native apps. As a native app dev, it feels kind of like getting angry that your skills in motorcycle mechanics don't transfer to building rockets.

And this complaint practically always comes from the front end web crew... every other type of developer I've met has zero issues with learning the technologies relevant to a particular platform.
It's awful

Twitter used to feel like a good party, with a great range of people with stories and opinions and hopes to talk about. That's definitely over now.

I'm really enjoying mastodon.social though, it feels like how the internet used to
I think the parent is asking is it a "high chance" or a certainty? At least I'm asking that now.
We're heavily dependent on AWS, and haven't seen any issues yet today.
Currently starting to build a native macOS/iOS/watchOS productivity app, therefore picking up Swift.

I'm coming from web development - and feel a bit stuck on how to layout things with Xcode / Swift. I'm not convinced by the graphical way to build interfaces provided by Interface Builder / Storyboards, as they feel quite limited in terms of precise control, dynamic layout, no duplication and use with VCS.

Optimally there would be something like React to build interfaces declaratively.

Does anyone have some insight into this topic?

(Also: why are variable declarations so implicit in Swift? When importing a package all its exported variables are avaliable within the file, making code really hard to read in my opinion.)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think a compiler that doesn't do link-time-optimization has to assume that the _spinlock() function can write to mutexp (e.g. through a global variable), and therefore it cannot reorder anything around it.
Right, but the parent's argument is that web notifications are a way to avoid installing a native app.
>> If someone in Greece had, while sitting in their bedroom in front of a laptop, hacked into a US bank and stolen money, would you be surprised if the US wanted to extradite and prosecute?

I'm certainly not surprised the US wants to prosecute, as it seems to want to apply US law to the whole planet.

But I am surprised the in some ways that the system allows it - that person never left Greece. What if the action was something illegal in the US but perfectly legal in the place they are sitting? I don't see that the crime necessarily takes place overseas when what they are really doing is sitting in a room, sending electronic signals from a machine.

>> The idea that "on the internet" is a magical stateless realm has only ever been an idea in the minds of naïve geeks. It has never been reality.

That's not what I'm saying, it's not a stateless realm, but actions taken were not taken in the USA.
I wouldn't be a bit surprised should a serious religion spring up that worships the concept of a GAI, and in fact may as a part of that worship, work toward implementing it.

I am really surprised that Mentifex hasn't started such a cult himself already!

/or maybe he has, and it's a cult of one member only...?
The west has been very anti-eugenics for over half a century at this point, but I agree it isn't very historical. That being said, there's a big difference between genetic editing and abortions of fetuses with genetic disorders (which is what I assume you mean by "convenience abortions").

A lot of people are scared of GMOs, even if it's just a simple alteration to a plant. I doubt that genetic modification of people will begin in the west without significant outcry and pushback.
Though you can have a different nickname for each server: https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/219070107-S...
Managing Product Managers – Take a Step Back
1tb drive = $50. 1 year of data costs about $16.

> I understand the reason for a larger block - it seems like it's pure profit for the miners

Bigger blocks = more supply. Wouldn't the cost go down?
As for battery; my wife just got a Series 2 and she often goes to bed with it at 60%+ charge but I guess depends how heavy a user you are.

Personally I'm waiting for another month or two to see if the next generation has enough to make me take the plunge.
JS/Mithril.js - love its relative simplicity and easy to navigate codebase.
It's true that decentralization will decrease if/when Bitcoin nodes require significantly more resources to run. But LN isn't good for decentralization either. Most big blockers want to maintain decentralization as well, they just think that it's better to try to scale the blockchain instead of scale via third party companies.
> Higher sample size means lower variance:

That's for a single population. If you are trying to compare two populations, you have two empirical means and two variances. When you do a t-test [1] to compare your measurements, the test statistic has a variance that is approximately computed as

variance = variance_1/sample_size_1 + variance_2/sample_size_2

Adding more samples for only one of the populations means that this half of the sum vanishes, but the other half remains unchanged, thus guaranteeing that the variance never drops below a certain threshold.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student%27s_t-test#Equal_or_un...
Indeed, navigating any discussion on Twitter feels like a complete mess. Imho some quirks it has in a browser are really annoying, like closing the conversation you are looking at when you click somewhere outside of it.

Happened to me plenty of times that I misclicked and closed a discussion which I had been very deep in, so I had to open it again and scroll&click my way back to where it originally closed, way too much wasted time over a simple wrong click.
Because it may be more precise to label it "philanthropic investment."
It seems like there are only issues on US-EAST-1
He owns Washington Post which has the "Democracy Dies in Darkness" tagline.
I always thought that was a weak argument. There are currently 8403 nodes online if I believe https://bitnodes.21.co/, that's not exactly impressive. If a big miner wanted to take over the majority of the nodes they could probably afford to just spawn spawn 10 thousand nodes.

Not that it will do them a lot of good, what matters most is what the exchanges and other important economic entities handling bitcoins consider "the real bitcoin", having a majority of nodes won't do much.

There's simply not enough incentives for Bitcoin users to spawn a node so most people prefer to use a light wallet.

Furthermore ~400GB per year is not particularly insane, you can get a 6TB drive for less than $200 and that'll be enough to store more than 15 years worth of blockchain.

As for bandwidth it amounts to less than 14kB/s on average.

>there could be millions per second if micropayments do take off, and that will most likely happen via the channels as described in the lightning docs

Maybe, but I'm a bit surprised that so many people believe that LN will be successful when we have so little data on how it'll actually work. But I'm going to repeat myself, I already explained my concerns here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14759965 (with some insightful replies).

In particular I can't really imagine how LN could reach a Visa-level number of transactions without having a few mega "nexus nodes" concentrating most of the open LN channels. That would give those nodes some power as they could decide who they pair with (which channels they open) which would be a big blow to the decentralized nature of Bitcoin.

The idea that every bitcoin user would each end up having a handful of channels open and we'd keep routing around the graph (with all the balancing issues it involves) to pay everything seems rather optimistic and aligns poorly with real-world incentives.
DOJ files brief arguing federal law doesn't protect gays from discrimination
I should have been more specific. Try this in Ruby, Python, PHP or Javascript: 0.1 + 0.2 - 0.3 . You'll get an approximation in most languages but only Perl 6 returns 0.
Source: it's obvious? John The Ripper implements the attack? You can trivially implement the attack yourself? This is literally a Cryptopals exercise?
Lets keep the blockchain protocol in the mind for a second. Now, given that bitcoin is born due to some problem with banks that the creator felt, what can the banks do at best?

They can create a bank that cannot control printing of money by cryptographically publically proving the held amount and all transactions, backed by proof-of-work as a proof that they are revoking the rights to change their own books. How would such a bank look like?

It would look like BitcoinCash(currency)+Viabtc(interface of the bank)+Bitmain(guards)+this particular dev group(sales) all of them owned by JihanWu. This is a prelimn form of the ultimate bank of the future. Epitome of centralised money.

Will it succeed? Well for most people when they are asking this ques they are asking "will it rise in price?". Well I know there are shit ton of shitcoins that trade in the market, and this here is something that is the best form of something historically considered useful vs a group of people who are saying history was wrong and wanting decentralization but this group feels lost in this group noise of speculators.
Related, I posted recently a step by step guide on moving bitcoin out of an exchange (like Coinbase) to your own wallet.

https://hackernoon.com/how-to-move-money-from-coinbase-to-yo...

Here is why you need to move from Coinbase to your own wallet before Aug 1st: https://keepingstock.net/move-your-coins-out-of-coinbase-to-...
A GAI? What is that? Do you mean Gaia?
I think the SEC's position is that, for purposes of securities law, some cryptocurrencies are securities and some are potentially not. Presumably, it'll turn on the Howey test noted in this thread. Whether it counts as a security for tax law purposes is probably orthogonal.
The world population in 1940 was about 2.3 billion, so WWII killed around 2% of everyone alive. Compare with the An Lushan Rebellion, which killed somewhere between 13-36 million people at a time when the world population was only about 200-300 million, killing 4-18% of everyone alive.
No idea what destructive updates are, but determinism is when you can run multiple times in multiple environments and get the same results
You are confusing intelligence/wisdom with empathy/ethic.
This, coupled with Trump's banning of trans people from the military, is disgusting.
I have been running a 1800X on Arch Linux which has been rock solid, using 32GB of ECC memory and very compile heavy workloads. Might be a bad board?
And messages still work, unlike on the m. version.
The incredible secret history of the radio
gedit is no longer maintained
the Breadth just means they are a conglomerate. A new age conglomerate. Breadth has nothing to do with monopoly.
There’s no such thing as a web page: The problem with software metaphors
I don't think there's anything in self-flying aspect that significantly affects the per-unit marginal cost.

It's obviously a hard tech to get right, as shown by many companies failing, but a drone with shitty self-flying or no self-flying has pretty much the same hardware and manufacturing costs as a drone which can do that well; the main difference is in software and R&D capex which doesn't really affect the market price as much the per-unit economics.
Scala, http4s, Cats + Monix
Anon users are the worst part of twitter. They should be completely banned. HN doesn't have this problem because it's sufficiently niche, but the Nazi trolls and other assorted idiots have to be dealt with on twitter.
This is contrary to successful programs such as Weight Watchers etc. I will have to do a bit more research into this as it seems against all logic as well.
> It's under 128kbps, less than a 2 channel ISDN link.

How long would it take you to download the initial data? I don't think a 2 channel ISDN link could ever catch up.
It's the Rails job market driving this change, not hotness.
Maybe General AI?
Not...really. You can do some playlist-like stuff, but not really. It isn't there yet but it is definitely on the horizon. Not hard to imagine an Apple Watch talking directly to your AirPods and skipping the phone at a point in the future.