skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a matter of what it is in Buddhism, the term doesn't refer to an existent thing as it is, THAT is the problem. It's used only by those who don't perceive. Let me give you an example. Think of a mathematician who knows their shit. Now think of that mathematician using an ambiguous term that lacks rigor and therefore introduces inaccuracies in a range of cases. A lay person who doesn't understand the term may use it easily but the mathematician in the other hand finds it very hard to use such a term. The reason is merely that they can realize it's not true.
I started playing around with Elixir a while back and find it really fascinating as a language.

I've been a Scala dev for years and I gradually learned FP by moving from Java to Scala, but in the case of Elixir, I've only barely looked at some Erlang previously.

Would you say Elixir has done a better marketing job of being accessible to developers?
Yusuke Endoh's "Best Use of Python" entry is a memetic masterpiece
The article is explicitly saying that green threads are better than callbacks, promises/futures, and async/await, yes. It is definitely making a comparison between those two styles of implementations, and it is saying that (what you call) shared memory multithreading is better than callbacks.

I want to point out though that the article is not claiming OS 1:1 threading is better than async/await/callbacks. OS-level 1:1 threading is too heavy, and it's obvious that many programmers reach for callbacks to handle high concurrency evented I/O. The article is claiming that languages that allow a blocking style of programming via green threads (to still get the same high concurrency) allow a more natural way to program.

Your point was the article was one of "the most inadequate articles on concurrency ever written." I agree. It wasn't trying to be a complete article on concurrency. It says nothing about the actor model.

Then you said it "Even managed to claim shared memory multithreading as superior to all other concurrency models." The article doesn't talk about all other concurrency models. It only talks about the programming styles that "shared memory multithreading" is better than.
This is very true, I've found. I have more in common with people who also have small children; together we easily have things to talk about.

I'll sit and have hours-long conversation with other parents of my kids' friends'. Pretty meaningful conversations. I'm not even entirely sure of their names.

My lifestyle is already shifting me out of the no-kid lifestyle (and therefore friends who don't have kids) by default.
I'd like to push back on "Google and Facebook actually can know the audience better than the content creator".

This is the idea that has powered online businesses in the last 10 years, but I'd argue that just because conceptually Google can know me better than NYTimes the raise in ad blockers has shown that the ad distribution ecosystem doesn't really know their users that well.

I must be living in a very different world from the one where "Google and Facebook ads are so effective" that no other strategy is possible.
That seems to follow. Subjectively, meds that boost my visio-spatial skills seem to also help my temporal perception/planning as well.
I don't think it is. I don't use ad blockers, but I also don't come back to websites where I've had a bad experience. If you do something hostile, like auto-play video, I'm gone and I'm not coming back. It makes for a fairly serene web browsing experience.
It is absolutely worth using a different browser on mobile.

Firefox Focus makes a great "default browser" for opening random links from apps, as it's always in incognito mode, very lightweight, and supports content blocking. Only real downside for me is that you are still contributing to webkit dominance, as it's chromium-based. Full fat Firefox on android is great too, though.

As a fully featured browser which supports extensions and has a good UI, Samsung's browser is astonishingly good and I believe open for anyone to use now, though again chromium-derived. I fear at this point the battle may be lost for alternate rendering engines on mobile, though.
Many on that list are Jewish so that could be a reason.
I'd like to see your readme expanded with some figures:

* Processing speed - that is, how long does it take to do that word count example on a nontrivial dataset? Something that takes hours on a local machine, vs minutes in map/reduce. Comparing local to this to e.g. Hadoop or Google BigQuery or whatever viable alternative there is.
* Cost. I think that's probably the biggest factor here. I don't get the impression that Lambda was intended for big data or highly resource / i/o / processing intensive operations, but, I'd love to be proven wrong.
* Actually, mostly just cost vs performance.

I mean it's a neat idea but if the serverless benefit is outweighed by difficulty in setting up, cost, performance, etc compared to dedicated big data solutions it's going to stay a proof of concept.
Why do you think this increases as value? Back before targeted advertising, if I saw an ad for a kitchen gizmo on a reputable publication, I would know that the maker of the gizmo was serious and cared about the publication. Now the the ads are targeted, all I know is that the maker paid a shady ad network a couple bucks and I got caught up in their profile.
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Why trust expertise as such? If an expert can't give a convincing argument for their claims, why believe them?
Do both. Life is short. This is YOUR life not others.
And there are examples.
Jack Dorsey Twitter and Square
Carlos Ghosn, Renault and Nissan
Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX
Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway and Salomon Brothers
Steve Jobs, Apple and Pixar
Deion Sanders, National Football League and Major League Baseball
Bo Jackson - same
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The problem with this they can take that back as easily as they gave it.
It's all just pattern matching. I would posit that the same neurons that imagine the future, also assist in imagining areas outside of ones' immediacy. Qualia are related to information sources that are orthogonal/uncorrelated.

Try this experiment and see how you fare. When you're in the shower, imagine that the feeling of the water (preferably cold), is like being in the middle of a fire. Imagine being bathed in the flames. Try to associate "wet" with smoke, dancing flames, no pain in any way. It's surprisingly hard but possible. It almost puts me in a meditative state when I try this unintuitive association excercise.

Anyhow, there are learned separations between observations and qualia. I think the one between time and space is such -- learned, not so much due to actual specialization in the brain's anatomy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaneron
Not sure if I'm in to equating charity with failure or mistakes, but I suppose it's better than a complete lack of charity.
I think it was more than a couple of weeks. Also before the fork the maintainer was asked multiple times to allow other contributors to become co-maintainer to reduce the bus factor.
Firefox for Android, paired with uBlock and PiHole/DNS66 makes for a great mobile web experience.
Ask no one but you.
My 2 cents, do it.
This is you, not other people.
And there are examples.
Every CEO of GE or other is running 20 firms.
Plus...

Jack Dorsey Twitter and Square
Carlos Ghosn, Renault and Nissan
Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX
Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway and Salomon Brothers
Steve Jobs, Apple and Pixar
Deion Sanders, National Football League and Major League Baseball
Bo Jackson - same
Nice! Always thought this would be cool. Few thought questions though: how do you get things like consistent hashing? Spark for example can shuffle data somewhat efficiently by sending the data to the right node / getting data from the right node by the hash key, right? How in a serverless stateless world you call a specific Serverless function instance? Assuming it can’t be done, arent you losing performance gained by data locality? Eg data has to be saved in a massive and efficient key value store? Isn’t it much slower than spark’s in memory / data locality (bring the compute to the data and not vice versa). Would love to see benchmarks on this. This is the future IMHO... well done.
There have been attempts to render ads with the page. For example, Facebook and some news sites do it. It's just that it is bad UX to not clearly mark ads as ads. When Facebook launched sponsored ads and posts embedded in its feed, it was only a short while before DOM-manipulating ad blockers could block it because Facebook had to mark those "posts" as "sponsored".
If I recall correctly, that one was about developing a better filament. I believe the winner was carbonized bamboo fibers. And the filament was the only part of Edison's initial bulb patent that proved to be novel on later examination.

The most lasting contribution Edison made to the light bulb was the screw-in base, with one contact at the bottom and the other in the shell. But even then, there were a lot of alternative designs, as Edison was a real ass when it came to licensing.

But he didn't brute-force far enough to develop the tungsten filament, did he?
The gen server simplified (how it works)
But not the majority (I've actually counted and it's 4/16) and definitely not the majority from this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_scientists

Also, I forgot to include philosophers... a very scary concept, considering the caliber of German philosophers (Kant, Nietzsche, etc.).
Comparison between softwares like f.lux, Iris and Physical blue blocking filters
i don't get. If u have no internet connection, then the only way to copy an image is via tar file. Its that simple!
And let us not forget the educational masterpiece that is "Cunk on Britain".
Interesting, have you ever had depression? Depression has been linked to low hippocampus size[0]. Would be interesting to see how the drug mentioned by the article affects spatial reasoning and sense of time.

[0]: https://gizmodo.com/5874433/the-pill-that-could-cure-depress... (I once read about a differently-named drug which increases hippocampus size and treats depression but I'm unable to find it now)
We admire the Beckhams and Kardaishins though, so all is not lost.
Its very important to look at life as phases. I think almost every one will go through at least one cycle of fail, struggle, rise, plateau. Sometimes there could be only one of such cycle all life, sometime they could be several.

Despite your best efforts you will fail, falter and struggle. And sometimes, without doing anything at all you will win a lot.

The best case scenario for people would be to have the failure stages early in life and success later so that one can have the maturity to handle things, save up and retire with new acquired wisdom from failure. The worst would be to have early success then failure all life.

Regardless you just have to keep trying.
Ask HN: Creating a Mastodon Instance for My University Society
Good Day,

I recently started a society in my university dedicated to cyber security and hopefully grow into a hacker space.

I want to kick off the fall term by hosting a decentralized social network like mastodon. I am currently learning Vue and looking for an internship this summer.

Any advice on how to approach it, what should i learn and should i even focus on this. I personally dislike twitter and i think the more decentralized social networks such as mastodon should be encouraged at colleges and universities.

Location: Canada
In alot of industries and examples, only when competition is introduced does innovation happen. E.G. Manhattan project (hitler can't build the bomb first), Apollo (A rocket is just a bomb delivery system, Russia can't have dominance). These examples are on a governmental scale, but the same thing happens in industries where startups are fighting to compete against entrenched competitors. I truly believe having a "nationalistic" mindset when it comes to technological advancement is the best way to develop a "humanistic" world. Innovation, technological advancement, and a higher standard of living for all spring forth from competition and necessity.
Oh man, that reminds me of the time I tried to get Operation: Weather Disaster (ah, nostalgia!) running on a "modern" computer (win98 or xp, vs the intended '95 I think). After much foolery with compatibility settings, I finally got it to work, and it played great... until the final boss fight. It ran so impossibly fast that I would have to be one of those reinforcement AIs to actually succeed. Must have been tied to clock speed.
I see even less evidence of that from our politicians.
> Movie DRM works because HDCP decrypts the video on the display.

No, it doesn't. The movie is decrypted on the player, uncompressed, and encrypted again with HDCP for the display.
Solution looking for a problem.
Yes, in the major tech companies very few people will elect to stay W2 contractors if given the chance to convert. Most would prefer full time positions.
The USB hub pictures made me giggle. I've had to fit USB hubs in some odd places, but never had to chop one up quite like that.
There is even a quote on Hilbert's page:

About a year later, Hilbert attended a banquet and was seated next to the new Minister of Education, Bernhard Rust. Rust asked whether "the Mathematical Institute really suffered so much because of the departure of the Jews". Hilbert replied, "Suffered? It doesn't exist any longer, does it!"

Not sure that fully explains it, but its a sad and tragic loss nevertheless.
Intellectuels are rarely from working class. Of course it's possible but it's way easier to achieve higher studies and a PhD and a carrer in academia by example when you don't have to worry about money or working. And thats not about only money but education too. Class, in fact.
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In the article we have a portion of society acting in their view of "justice".
This is terrible advice. Those examples are all very established.
Or better yet add Decentraleyes for local CDN emulation.
It's not that you should want that specific persons respect, it's that you should want a person who respects you instead of one who doesn't.
While Redshift is only command-line for some operating systems, Iris has UI for both Windows, macOS, and Linux

Here is a comparison between Iris and f.lux
https://iristech.co/best-alternative-to-f-lux/

I will do comparison between Iris and Redshift also soon :)
I'm honestly not sure how true this really is. I don't do anything intentionally to screw with advertisers, aside from standard ad blockers, and the targeted ads I get from things which aren't ad blocked are just... eh?

I give Google a tonne of data, they know everything I search for, they know where I live and where I shop, they know how long I spend in a shop before buying something through android pay, et cetera. My targeted ads are still just junk.

Ads for websites I've visited because I've done work for them, products I've already bought, and stuff that seems completely unrelated seems to make up 99% of it. I guess the first category works as a "let's remind people the things they've used exist" in a coke kind of way, but why have Google been able to trick people into believing that this is 'effective targeted advertising'?
Wasn't it Freud only 100 years ago who popularized the modern usage of the word 'ego' as everyone uses it today?
I'm curious why you need to pay for a load balancer when you're running this as a service just for yourself. Sure it could fail, but it's not something critical and a LB just seems like unnecessary complexity/cost.
Austrians do not "keep predicting hyperinflation."

A few fringe Austrians (only one with academic credentials) have mentioned hyperinflation as a possibility. An additional few Austrians suggested a high possibility of something like 7-10% inflation, which was still controversial among Austrians. Of the Austrians actually active in academia (which is a higher number than many would guess), I can think of one assistant professor who predicted rising inflation.
One major theme running through this article is the idea that smart people should know what's good for us, and organize society so that we get it. I've never understood how they are expected to actually do this: wouldn't they always prefer to figure out what's good for themselves and then organize society so that they get that?

Try as we might to find a good crowbar to pry democracy off of our representative governments, we can't forget that the "will of the people," however misguided it might be, is the only thing that reliably includes not ruining them as a priority!
> They are even going to approach google and ask them to introduce new API's that allow us to determine if browser really chrome or just chromium, so that we block chromium.

Anyone told them yet that Chromium is open-source, so distributions can just flip that bit in the code?
It's cringey to self evaluate over bringing a simple issue to management? TIL.

There's a good chance that their criticism may be warranted despite the way they presented it and your sensitivities.
Post your idea here, with an honor-based ask for a seat at the table/retainer in exchange for contacts to get it off the ground once you've vetted that you are not dealing with clowns. You could be nicely surprised. True innovators are in this together. Cheers.
That's just not true (or rather not the only reason). The Gogs maintainer went away for months with no sign of life. He also was the only one with write access to the gogs repository on GitHub which often resulted in no progress for months because of his disappearances.
They are probably detecting that some ad/tracking cookies are not being set... because by default in FF tracking protection is enabled.
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Systemd has become quite popular among Linux distros, but it's not universal; plus Linux isn't the only Unix system around; and there's more to operating systems than just Unix.

It's also not just a matter of time before everyone switches over, since there's been backlash against systemd and competing projects have either started up, or gained more momentum (except for upstart, obviously!).

One of those alternatives is the "dmd" init system, which seems to have been around for a while but has recently been rebranded as "GNU Shepherd". Shepherd follows the "do one thing well" philosophy, so it only manages daemons. If shepherd users (e.g. GuixSD) want to run scheduled commands, they'll need another program to do that (i.e. a cron daemon), and GNU Mcron looks like a sensible choice since all of these things are configured using Guile Scheme.

As a side rant: I dislike your use of the term "legacy" for something which is actively maintained and gaining users. Usually "legacy" refers to something which is either abandoned, or where the maintainers recommend against adopting it (e.g. "that's our legacy API, use this other one instead"). I think the word "traditional" would work, when talking about cron in general; although Mcron in particular doen't look like a particularly traditional cron (since its selling point is using Scheme for config!)
What are the patent issues? Intel probably doesn't have patents in China, so a Chinese company could make its own x86 chips for use in China.
Ah, the old "single mums are to blame for all social ills" line. Classic.

Incidentally, if you really think that Britain's burgeoning peasant underclass is the fault of self-impregnating single mothers you've been mislead; I suggest you change newspapers.
Yup. America's intellectual prominence owes a lot to the Jews (and others) who flead Germanic countries during ww2. Goedel, Einstein, Von Neumann, Fermi, Bethe. And countless others who refused to stay silent as their best colleagues disappeared. America feasted on the output of those people and their intellectual progeny. Meanwhile, the great German faculty were (in some cases literally) decimated.
It's also spoken slower when you reach you 40s (I'm also French). A young man might be called Monsieur but it's said really quickly like there is no reverence.
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Can they though? China isn't some totalitarian dictatorship that some of the west seem to think they are. If they ceded this 'business as usual' measure, it was because the jobs, investment, and technology that results is worth it. China likes Tesla, and alternative energy. Their alternative energy investments have been substantial for a number of years.
In Chrome I can type Ctrl+L You <TAB> <Search Query> <Enter> to search YouTube. Chrome figured this out on its own by learning that when I type "You" I usually mean "YouTube". Ever since then that behavior has been very predictable for me. Why would Chrome learning what sites I usually play video on be any different?
Didn't he come up with a custom image compression scheme? Or am I understanding this wrong?
> Edit: They are even going to approach google and ask them to introduce new API's that allow us to determine if browser really chrome or just chromium, so that we block chromium. And a DRM for website instead of only video DRM that exists, so that user cannot view source code, and no extension can block the ads. Other publishers are doing the same thing. Expect new DRM for HTML5 too.

That's why we need to educate users, just like we're doing now about Facebook. They need to understand that this is the worst scenario possible for the so-called "world-wide web".
Aside: StaticObject.com has the creepiest robot picture. I'm pretty sure that guys nipples are in danger.
I used to take pet sit for two parrots. One African Grey and one Jardine.

The Jardine was so friendly and chill. Would hang upside down on my finger and loved being rubbed.

The African Grey was dedicated to causing as much trouble as he could. His favorite trick was imitating the sound of the cat jumping on the piano so you'd yell at the cat.

The old lady who owned them died and they ended up willed to her kids. I can't even imagine inflicting that on anyone.
I've yet to meet an economist who doesn't accept bounded rationality (as opposed to the idea that people are perfectly rational).
The most important question is how AWS costs scales in relation to number of users. Specifically, here are the questions that I would ask:

(1) What is the range of variable cost per user? Can you pass variable costs onto users? For example, if one of your power users is consuming 500gb of space in your DB, are they paying for the 500gb of space, or are they paying the same as your customers using 0gb of space?

(2) How do storage/cloud requirements change with an additional 1 user, 100 users, 1000 users?

(3) Is your monthly revenue per user greater than your monthly cloud cost per user?

(4) If you gained 100k users tomorrow, would you go out of business this month?

(5) Do your costs scale linearly with number of users?

(6) Are your capacity requirements generally static and predictable on an immediate (daily, weekly) basis? Or do you have large spikes in traffic?

Generally speaking, the advantage of the cloud is elasticity; you provision capacity on demand only as you need it. If you are running instances 24/7, you are almost definitely losing money. The first cost saving measure I would look into is moving core, basic infrastructure onto dedicated or colocated servers.

By "core infrastructure," I mean the predictable capacity that you always need. Keep that in one place with a low fixed cost. Any extra capacity you need, use the cloud.
IMO except for highly priced products, paying once for software does not entitle you to support unless it's the user forum/SO type. John Doe giving a company $50 three years ago does not give him the right to email people at the company asking for tech support.

Many many companies still allow this, but I think if you want support you should be paying a support fee (e.g. monthly subscription).
Interestingly, where I'm from (BC, Canada), it's quite common to give distances between cities in terms of driving time.

"Oh, Kelowna is about 5 hours away."

Is this expression common anywhere else?