skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> RIP Firefox OS. :/ It might be a little challenging to base on a platform with not a lot of future support.

Yeah, it would've been nice if more apps for Firefox OS had been built, but it's also just web apps, and those are alive and kicking. For example, the Strut presentation editor is a web app which I ported with very little effort.

> I'd want to see something someday like where I log into an OAuth for Google Drive and it auto-imports all my crud.

Good idea, thanks. It seems Google Drive has an API with which you can export documents to HTML, so it should be possible to build.
Cooling and warming by a few degrees can happen in much less time, possibly just a few centuries - see Younger Dryas.

Which, from what I can tell, should make us more worried, since it shows how drastic and unpredictable the climate can respond to changing conditions, like greatly increasing the carbon in the atmosphere.
Huh, funny thing. I had to use a heavy-ion collision
simulation program written in fortran, which had to be
compiled using a certain compiler implementation (1).
After a 2-3 weeks of debugging and trying different compilers
in vein, my supervisor had put me on a phone with a guy
that was more successful than me and told me which
fortran compiler to use.

(1) Each compiler gave different results: compilation errors,
code that goes in an infinite loop.
In Conversation with Apple CEO Tim Cook – The Oxford Foundry Launch
That's nice to hear you say, because I am making a package manager, and I find nix inspiring :p

I keep trying to convince myself that someone's already done it better, and there's no point, but then every solution I look at doesn't seem to be good enough.
THE OPTIMAL COLLECTION OF SEIGNIORAGE ... - Harvard University, Mankiw and Miron, 1987

There are pdfs available online

This paper is just epic bullshit that defends the Fed's existence.
Pytorch-Sepconv: A Video Frame Interpolation via Adaptive Separable Convolution
What I don't get is why someone doesn't make a superb template library with C++ that hides the restricts; it would make writing performant codes in C++ easier and you'd get the host of what C++ has to offer
Let me clarify. All the VFS caches are above the md driver. The cache we care about, the buffer cache, is not below the md driver.

You'd need some kind of cache below the md driver to cache "metadata relevant to the SSD innards". Since there isn't one therefore there can't be a penalty due to caching to switch between SSDs in a mirror. That answers your question.

But since you want an insight, here's one for you. There is no "metadata relevant to the SSD innards" available. The md drivers do not have this information. I wish they did. When I was still playing with the md code I'd love to know the block and page sizes of the drives. But that information is two bytes. Not really something that would need a cache.
Genes for Skin Color Rebut Dated Notions of Race, Researchers Say
Help test out ThinLTO Another feature aiming to reduce Rust's compile times
I makes no sense for people to have moved to C for things that have recently appeared in Fortran. What are the features they've been missing which have appeared in Fortran in the last 10 years?

So why is NWChem being re-written in C++, and what relationship does that have to exascale? Richard O'Keefe said 10 years ago ago "Why not start by rewriting the Fortran code _in_ Fortran? Fortran 90 is a very pleasant language." (NWChem is just in Fortran77 as far as I remember.)

I work in HPC, though I don't write numerical code these days, but I'd definitely prefer to write it in Fortran than C, and I'm not clever enough to use C++. I'd also much rather maintain typical scientific Fortran.
Well said, and "If you are, you are a pariah and banned from both sides..." is where I lie. The depressing part to me is that I get the sense the majority of HN commenters believe they are above all this. (Furthermore, the HN comment frequency throttle seems to become suspiciously aggressive depending on one's political persuasion. All in my mind though I'm sure.)
What do you mean? The same button is there in the Control Center.
I have often wondered how much library acquisitions shapes the population who uses their resources, which is relevant since the books that they discard are heavily influenced by circulation.

I rarely even use my local libraries since they only offer a smattering of titles on most topics, with the bulk being dedicated to recent (and usually popular) releases.
Hey, thanks for the shout out :)

In terms of resource-hungry-ness, while we haven't done extensive benchmarking on memory & CPU against InfluxDB, we should compare fine on those resources. The one area we do fall behind is disk usage, but with ZFS or the like we can close the gap.

Thanks for the support! Hopefully we can get it on RDS soon.
You haven't defined what you mean by "single occurrence"? To me being low one month, or during a two months project can be a single occurrence, but that wouldn't lead to a "bad perf review" (at least not in my team). Being clearly underperforming for a complete year without changes after setting up intermediate goals for improvements is not a "single occurrence".
When a Sr. Staff which is less productive than other junior engineers, and requires the same level of guidance, something isn't right.
Paul Graham: What You’ll Wish You’d Known
Genuine curiosity: what dialect is that? I live in the US and have met people from several other English-speaking countries and I don't recall ever having heard that sound from any native English speaker. (I'm not saying I don't believe you; I'm just surprised).
Well, ...

https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.05929
This essay is an opinion piece: It claims that little accidental complexity is left and most software complexity is essential. It does not really establish its claim that the complexity is essential, yet the entire premise rests on that.

I find that proposition preposterous: I believe almost all complexity we deal with in software is accidental.
For anyone wondering why airlines are retiring the 747 this Wikipedia section summarizes it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747-400#Retirement_and_...

Summary: Old, inefficient, less need for jumbo jets. Everyone's either buying smaller or migrating to the modern Airbus A380.
For me, over the last 80,000 miles, about 85% of the operating costs were gas.

I did think about that, and I have. I briefly considered getting rid of my car to eliminate the cost of insurance and renting a parking space while working from home. It was at best break even to match my then current behavior with public transit and taxi-equivalents.

It seems about 40% of Caltrain is not covered by fares.

It's hard to find numbers, but it seems like as well something in the neighborhood of half of road costs are covered by gas taxes.

I'm trying to make the point that these costs aren't hidden and don't come from magic places, they seem to be real and Caltrain seems to be very inefficient compared to what one would expect.

One would expect a train capable of carrying hundreds of people would be orders of magnitude less expensive instead of being more or less at parity with one car per person.
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MIT Turing laureates propose creation of School of Computing
Good interview of author in ‘Layovers’ podcast - http://www.layovers.to/podcast/060-nbo
I mean a cheaper passenger vehicle like Uber. (Obviously cheaper rail can lead to fewer miles driven.)
Even small companies use software that costs multiple thousands of dollars a year.
I found the model is good at capturing the statistics of the underlying text - it's quite good at producing stories that "sound like the original books". However, coherent reasoning is still in such models.

One example is "... She is a man....". These outputs clearly breaks proper reasoning constraints (and common sense)
Of your list of 91 founders (double-counting those with two companies listed), only 7 were 45 or older, and none were older than 56.

19 were in their 20s

55 were in their 30s

14 were in their 40s

3 were in their 50s

The median age of an American is currently about 37.8. 24 founders on your list were older than that, while 67 were younger. (Some on the list perhaps not Americans, but the median is just for illustration.)

So while it's hyperbolic to say it's all about "kids in their garages," it's also clear there's some truth to the "young founder" meme.
OP here. I disagree with everything you said.

> having your kid looked after for 5 days2-2,5k CHF / USD per month!

Yes but only when your kid is 2-3 years old. After that kindergarten is free. Superb elementary school, high-school is free; and on top Uni-Zurich and ETH, the MIT of Europe, is also almost free (costs like 500$ a semester).

> Besides that, you will need to leave your shared apartment and go looking for one with at least 4 rooms. That'll easily cost you 2.5k-3.5k per month.

Why? You're probably referring to some regulations. Well, if you have a wife and one kid, you can legally even live in a 1-bedroom apartment (formula for legal limit of grown-up people per apartment is "# of people = # of rooms + 1" - source p. 29: https://www.ekm.admin.ch/dam/data/ekm/dokumentation/material...)
The blogpost just highlights one nice aspect of it, there's more though:

- The really powerful NixOS module system, which let's you specify your system declaratively and rather simply: Which programs should be installed, what systemd services should run, use grub for booting, allow this ssh key to login to this user, enable the IPFS daemon, etc. All options (for the 17.09 release) are available here: https://nixos.org/nixos/options.html

- System generations: Upon changing an option in your system config, you run `nixos-rebuild switch` which will build, activate the new system and add it to the system generations. All of these are bootable from your bootloader! So if something breaks miserably, you can just rollback to a previous one that worked. New kernel breaks on your hardware? No problem, just roll back.

- If you have a new nixos machine, you don't need to run a bunch of odd commands to have it set up. Since the config is declarative, everything you set up is right there, and all you need is a `nixos-rebuild switch` to make it work.

- Wanna test some configuration but are too afraid to use your machine? Just build a VM with it by doing `nixos-rebuild build-vm`. Like with everything else with nix, this fetches all dependencies, no need to install them manually.
A russian "kh" ? That sound is spelled "х" in Russian
Thank you for such a detailed answer!
I'll get in touch you tomorrow then, for sure :)
We're talking about RAID1 here, so multiple SSDs. I'm saying you don't want multiple disks to fail in rapid succession, which is what you'd maybe get if you exactly equalized the wear on them.
For every nth performant, tested fortran code, there are 2^n goto ridden legacy codes.
Right, in the US, you can deduct mortgage interest and property taxes to lower your taxable income.

There is a mortgage cap of around a million dollars where the deduction ends, which is only relevant in a small number of real estate markets like California, Seattle, New York, and so on.
How does this compare to firejail?
I think this just shows how scientists don't understand programming. Pretty much every 'advantage' listed for Fortran over C++ could be added to C++ in an afternoon. C++ is an extensible language, you can define your own types and operators, so all the examples can be easily implemented. For some of the examples it's just sad that they were brought up. For example, 'you have to write a loop to allocate an array' should say 'you have to write a function one time to allocate arrays and never write this loop again'.
That's the usual approach which has its limits. I am specifically curious about discrete domains. Look at it as at mixed integer programming - yes, you can estimate solution using linear programming, but that estimate is usually useless. Having a specific method for mixed integer programming usually yields far better solutions.
> e.g. importable data using real spreadsheet files is much more reliable than CSV, and easier for clients to generate.

It can also be more a pita since cells can have different formats.
This works best in lenses that have zero vignetting, like the purpose-designed Minolta/Sony 135 STF and the new FE-mount 100 STF.

By comparison, the Fuji 56/1.2R and the Laowa 105/2 with apodization filters lose the effect in the corners where the vignetting cuts off the soft edge of the blur circle.
How much of this was due to fuel efficience, shorter range flights (vs fewer longer routes). I dont deny squeezing seats is a good way to amortize costs, and i am ok with thwt, but i am not totally convinced.
As far as I aware, there isn't a tracker. This is where they are reported though: https://www.postgresql.org/list/pgsql-bugs/
You realize that there are a lot of fixed cost overheads, right? Surely the cost per mile from SFO to LAX is already much higher than what you quoted for SFO to JFK, and it's reasonable if local transit is even more expensive per distance.
Via (and Chariot) have to be booked in advance, which is really different than bus/peseros service.
The parent said dumb kids in a garage. I think I extrapolated the correct meaning from that. It's referring to the myth about very young founders.

Like I said, even 28 is not a kid or young adult (eg 16-22). You're spitting distance from 30, and most of those companies I listed were founded by 30 somethings (~35 is not barely into adulthood). It's reaching. Founders like Jobs, Zuckerberg and Gates fall onto that very young list, few others do. Add up the average age of the people I've listed.

> and a lot of companies that started with one person writing some code on a computer.

That describes few of those companies in fact.

For every famous very young founder, there's a lot more counter examples:

Markus Persson (30, Mojang), Craig Newmark (43, Craigslist), James Goodnight (33, SAS), John Sall (28, SAS), Diane Greene (43, VMWare), Mendel Rosenblum (36, VMWare), Bill Coleman (48, BEA Systems), Evan Goldberg (35, NetSuite), David Sacks (36, Yammer), Jack Smith (28, Hotmail), Sabeer Bhatia (28, Hotmail), Chad Hurley (28, YouTube), Andy Rubin (37, Danger; 41, Android), Rodney Brooks (36, iRobot), Jeff Hawkins (35, Palm), Niklas Zennström (37, Skype), Janus Friis (27, Skype), David Bohnett (38, Geocities), Bill Gross (40, GoTo.com/Overture), Subrah Iyar (38, WebEx), Min Zhu (47, WebEx), Wilfred Corrigan (43, LSI), Joe Parkinson (33, Micron), Aart J. de Geus (32, Synopsys), John Moores (36, BMC Software), Vivek Ranadivé (40, Tibco)
I don't understand why the implementation language of low level libraries should determine a high level language that uses them. In what way are C libraries inaccessible from Fortran, given that it defines interoperability with C?

I'm afraid you need a 10-, or preferably 20-, year perspective, not a week.
I used to fly these every two weeks, KL691 and KL692 the flights between Schiphol, Netherhands and Toronto, Canada.

Then at some point they moved to 777's, and even though it was a nice plane and far more modern the 747 almost never had a turbulent ride whereas the 777 trips were far less comfortable, especially the red-eye return flight rarely was smooth enough that I could get some sleep.

Retiring the 747 was one (small) factor in the decision to move to Canada. I flew that flight so often that I knew most of the flight crew by name after a year or so, and quite a few of them would recognize me.

It's a magnificent aircraft and the most impressive bit to me is that it was designed mostly with slide rules and other old-fashioned gear.

Also, this is the only time I've ever gone faster than 1,250 Km/h groundspeed in a regular jet (and that probably wasn't even close to the record). Trade winds really helped there but still, it was incredible to see how fast we moved over ground (or rather, sea).
I was hoping to see analysis of few features and their performance under various constraints.

In the end, felt like click-baited
$8 for a beer in a lot of places these days, $15+ for a cocktail. Another reason the bar scene in expensive cities is pointless. In small towns, a beer can be as cheap as $2 or free if the beverage vendor rep is passing out samples (ie whole bottles of beer).

Big-box stores for beer by the case and make your own beer.
It apparently works in WSL [1], so Windows needn't be an issue.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/64xyd7/nix_package_m...
For Prop 13, the assessed value will go up at the inflation rate, capped at 2% a year, from the purchase price. So after thirty years your assessed value be about 1.8 times the purchased price. New taxes can also be added either as a percent of assessed value or a flat per parcel tax. This still produces what you described in (5) but not quite as extreme. Although you did not mention the kicker that Prop 13 allows the low assessed value to be transferred to descendants for a, "let's build a landed aristocracy like old timey Europe" vibe.

Here is a photo of one of these tear-down remodels in La Jolla near the beach[1].

[1]https://njarboe.com/images/LaJollaTeardownSmall.jpg
No PR nightmare is bigger than loss of headphone jack - I imagine lot of people had great and expensive headphones that are no longer usable directly. Apple seems to survived that.
For all kinds of socket animals: you write HTTPretty-ish, you run Mocket
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15389113
Not when it works well. I live about a mile from work. My kid goes to school perhaps 2mi from home. Mass transit has made it very easy for my family of three to downsize to one car. (We are not means-limited. It's fantastic to not have the extra crap to deal with from a second car.) When there's a thunderstorm or excessive ice, or I need to get home faster for whatever reason, the bus is great. But: I happen to live right off of a major bus corridor, so there's a bus every five minutes or so.

We use Lyft to fill in the gaps if something comes up that requires both adults to drive somewhere.

Mass transit plus a little bit of easily-available ride sharing _can_ be significantly better than car ownership. But...
Boeing is still selling 747-8, but most are sold as freight variant. It hasn't sold a single 747-8 passenger variant to major carrier in 5 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747-8#747-8_Intercontin...

But the death of 4 engine plane trend continues even for A380.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Airbus_A380_orders_and...
Yes I recommend the nix pills they are really awesome and how I learned Nix!
And yet 30 years later the predictive claim has held up.
Dearest me. I hope you're not under the impression that the performant part of your ML code is written in python. Python is the interface to a C++ libary in tensorflow looking at its repo on github. I don't use tensorflow, but if it's anything like numpy and scipy, they are interfaces to C libraries which are extremely performant. If the question is why can't a CFD be in python...and the answer is well, I don't know if anyone has tried it due to your point 1).
Do you use Windows 10 Creators Update on production? It needs to work on Windows Server 2012 or no dice. Maybe Nix will be an option in 5 years when companies upgrade their servers, but that's not an option now.
It is an inferior good in that usage decreases as income rises. But in some locations, mass transit (especially subway) can be a pretty good alternative to congested surface streets--especially outside of rush hour, not carrying luggage/groceries/etc.
Psilocybin produces enduring positive changes in psychological functioning
A good bug tracker makes it easier to track status and priority. The ironic thing about the blog post is that it is certainly possible there is a 14.5 year old bug in Postgres, but how would you know? Who is going to go look at 14.5 year old bug report emails and try to figure out if any of them are still open?
sources?

my colleague recently took a ~79 mile uber from one airport to a location 1.5hr away, his Uber cost was <$88.
I wonder if the increase in turbulence was due to climate change.
Of course it isn't which is why ML isn't used by us in the computational community...yet.
Single implementation > standard clusterfucks. Look at Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, Php, etc., vs. CL, Scheme, C, C++...
“Venture Capital for the People”: Making the Case for a Basic Income
Although other people have different opinions to me, I don't really see Nix as something for the desktop, but for development, deployment and server software it's a killer solution for me.
You should install CityMapper: it is a very smart app that supports public transit in major cities, integrates with Uber/Lyft, bike sharing programs, etc, and even knows how to combine rides (e.g. plan most efficient ride that is part subway, part Uber, etc). I never check timetables for public transit, as the app shows GPS-sourced arrival times for buses in its route planner. Plus it can send a tracking link to your friends so they know when you'll arrive.
IIRC, Switzerland actually has some on-demand minibus routes. Basically, you have to call a number N minutes in advance, and the minibus will show up. This could easily be appified as well (and maybe it already is today, it's been a while).
Apparently my writing was terrible, since two people misunderstood my point, for which I apologize, although I still struggle to say how else I could have written it.

My points are that you can't re-industrialized if you never de-industrialized, and also that any employment gains from "pulling back" some industries (using tariffs or similar) would be short lived for the same reason that the current US industry is shrinking employment despite continuing to grow. Like the videos I posted show, there's a big difference between the number of employees you hire when you have to pay them 1x or just 1/16x. I'd be surprise if most "recovered" jobs lasted a decade.
2017 and my dude still trying to sell consulting by applying the old emacs vs vim strategy. I usually defer to facebook using thousands of mysql and other big companies using way more instances of pgsql for day to day advice. Maybe next time, with a better blog or a matrix with some effective info noting the experience you guys have managing/developing against it. Also the patch for MySQL would be appreciated, why it did took you so long ? xoxox
The entire title (which was too long to submit) is:

Psilocybin-occasioned mystical-type experience in combination with meditation and other spiritual practices produces enduring positive changes in psychological functioning and in trait measures of prosocial attitudes and behaviors

From the abstract:

"[B]oth high-dose groups showed large significant positive changes on longitudinal measures of interpersonal closeness, gratitude, life meaning/purpose, forgiveness, death transcendence, daily spiritual experiences, religious faith and coping, and community observer ratings."
Changing a delivery in 2017, with UPS
I use Python for most things and write C extensions which can use OpenMP or CUDA and which are hooked in via Cython for the slow parts. Find this works well, although it can lead to you duplicating things unnecessarily sometimes (needing a C function to be callable by Python requires you to write a wrapper for it).
You can do this in postgres as well, with something like:

begin; alter table t2 disable trigger all;
insert into t2 (t1_id) values (20);
alter table t2 enable trigger all;
commit;

Setting constraints to deferrable/initially deferred[1] is probably a nicer way for any non-insane thing you're trying to achieve with such, though :)

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/sql-set-constrain...
I'm on Ting, CDMA (Sprint) and neither link worked. Not found errors.
This tool is lighter-weight than firejail. nsjail seems to be a thin abstraction over Linux namespaces, while firejail contains profiles for common desktop applications and some X hackery to enable jailing of GUI programs.
Cramming features into LTS kernel releases