skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is very cool. But calling it the "oldest song" is a bit of a stretch. Maybe one could call it the "oldest song in history", since it is the oldest song we have found written down, but certainly not the oldest song of all time.

At least according to a Netflix documentary on India, there are some brahmins outside Kerala that have been chanting the same song since before the invention of speech. The claim is that the chant makes no sense in any linguistic or even musical tradition and is more closely related to birdsong, indicating a pre-oral genesis.

I think this particular example is a bit far-fetched, but it's not outside the realm of possibility for an older, oral-tradition song to have survived, in some form, to the present day.
My feeling is that most of GNU manuals in texinfo format are borderline useless because the structure is simply wrong, the random jokes are somewhat tangential issue.
> “Unless there is a mass migration from urban to rural areas” -> I expect this to happen, and it would be great.

UBI does open up possibilities for rural communities, but the cultural trend has been the opposite for a long time. I don't see it reversing quickly.

> I also disagree with your premise, because elasticity of demand for housing isn’t zero, even if you assume zero regional mobility.

It isn't zero, but it is very low. Existing house owners fight tooth and nail to prevent higher density zoning. And new construction is slow to respond even to very strong pricing signals.
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The point I was trying to get across were the different conflicting conceptions of value and how one is shortsighted.
Hidden Structures of the Mandelbrot and Julia Sets
I definitely am more troubled by actions against people than words against people.
That sounds true but the evidence shows otherwise.

Women in the 1950s were mostly lean and did almost no exercise.

Look around at the people who are the most physically active today (day laborers/construction workers). They’re active all day, and yet most are still overweight.

It’s not about activity, it’s about consuming quality food to fix your hormone levels.
> This is the question and I would disagree. Hiding the asynchronous nature of any given function is a dangerous illusion.

I understand where you are coming from. However, in my experience, it's "turtles all the way down". Pre-emptive multi-tasking, NUMA, multiple CPUs, CISC, all add their level of asynchronicity to your program execution whether you are aware of it or not.

The right answer in this case is "hiding the nature of async under the hood". Yet, we've seen in a few cases recently, e.g. the recent CPU bugs, where this isn't entirely possible.

> ultimately lead to programs that are difficult to reason about and often don't perform well because developers lack any real control over concurrency

My experience has been the complete opposite. It's hard to make complex parallel programs and reason about execution, but concurrency primitives like fibers and reactors are a negative overhead abstraction which makes code simpler and easier to understand and therefore allows us to do more complex things with the same cognitive potential.
I was predominantly thinking of Hugo Chavez & Venezuela. Maybe I am not understanding his positions, but he was extremely left-wing (at least in the American context) on almost every issue except abortion. IIUC all countries in Latin America with the exception of Cuba & Uruguay have really bad abortion rights records. Maybe the left supports abortion rights, but at the least, it's not been enough support to effect changes to these laws.
My carriage returns were absent on the original post which I could not update. This should read better ;-)

The CDC is actually harmful with the misinformation and test suggestions they provide. I have Lyme, Bartonella, Mycoplasma, at least from 1 tick bite. Western medicine does a horrible job at analyzing the symptoms, testing, educating and treating their patients. The labs are pretty unreliable as are the antibody requirements for + test.

It's very common to get more than 1 infection from a single tick bite (CDC says it's not). This greatly complicates recovery. The study that the CDC relies on suffers from a small sample size and heavy selection bias (see uptodate.com).

Ticks can transmit multiple bacteria in less than 30 minutes depending on circulation and host.

CDC recommended tests have a false negative rate approaching 60%. ELISA does not even have repeatable results from the same blood sample. Western Blot ignores 2 Borellia specific antibodies (31,34) that were part of a problematic vaccine in the mid 1990s.

Vaccines are improbable given how the bacteria can adjust its outer surface protein (triggering antibodies) and its multiple forms (spirochete, biofilm, round body).

The CDC treatment guidelines are bullshit and usually result in a relapse 4+ months later as low energy, headache, sore tendons, brain fog, arthritis, heart, etc symptoms. Thus most people are unsuccessfully treated with short term doxycycline, steroids (make it worse), anti-depressants, MS treatments, etc... all expensive pharmaceutical treatments that fix some symptoms while hurting the long term health of the patient without every discovering the underlying cause.I've gone through part of the CDC treatment before educating myself and realizing it was mostly bullshit. I know a number of people that have had similar difficulties.

A healthy immune system combined with prolonged pulsed herbal medicines(TCM/western) and/or multiple pulsed antibiotics (hard on GI and its immune function) seem to be the best treatment option.

There are number of bacteria in our natural environment that our immune system eventually cannot fight off. Many of them result in things like MS, Alzheimers, arthritis, heart damage, etc.

Medical science needs better testing of immune signaling (cytokines, chemokines, etc) before and after treatments. Most labs cannot test for many of these and insurance won't cover it.

Labs like igenex, fry, galaxy, dnaconnexions, etc have much better procedures for testing and will look at all specific/shared antibodies than common labs. For example, 41 is an early Lyme antibody shared with Chlamydia. The CDC requires 3+ Lyme specific antibodies to make a positive (IgG and IgM).

Reading "Healing Lyme" by Buhner gives a scientific overview backed by a ton of research that the CDC ignores. 12) ilads.org is comprised of doctors who actually treat Lyme and deal with patients ...
We also use Fail2Ban like a poor man's Web Application Firewall - for a Rails app you know you'll never have legit traffic to anything 'cgi' or 'php' or 'exe', so crafting a couple of regexps to match those and then ban them works well.

We use CloudFlare so we feed the IP bans into CloudFlare's firewall through their API as well as local IPTables. (We also use CloudFlare's WAF - we like redundancy in our paranoia.) If you had more demanding requirements you could look at mod_security for Apache or Nginx.

We also implement rate-limiting using Fail2Ban, which helps to trip the dumber automated scans.

Every time Fail2Ban blocks an IP address, it emails our admin team with the matching log entries and a whois on the IP address, which we then eyeball to make sure there's nothing weird going on.

TBH, easily 90% of the IP addresses we block got caught looking for 'wp-admin/admin.php', which is probably a good reason to never use WordPress.
Hi OP, I am the person that made the most recent changes to the AWS Labs refarch. I had been working on a golang version and wanted to clean up the python one. Sunil the original author used the AMPLABS benchmark to calculate the results table. I was planning on updating it with the 1 and 5 node test. Would be happy to include Corral as well.
I've actually never gotten to play real Zendo, but you can make up your own class of koans, like Lisp programs or regexes. Maybe the real-worldness of arrangements of pyramids does give them more of a Zen feel?
No it won’t if you eat a ribeye for lunch every day you’ll be hard pressed to lose weight unless you are The Rock.

If your goal is to lose weight tracking calories is by far the most important factor in achieving that goal.

You can’t just say eat meat and veggies and expect people to lose weight without enforcing a caloric restriction.
"science spending" doesn't include business incentives in scientific fields nor research underneath the military. A boost to the semiconductor industry directly would also not be considered science spending.
Pregel: distributed graph computing explained (2011)
I don't get this. And by "this" I mean probably your entire worldview, but also whatever led you to make that comment. Here's how I see this situation:

People who actively maintain a project, and have done so with success for many years, notice something in the documentation that they think is outdated and perhaps a bit tasteless, hold a reasonable discussion about it like adults, and make a decision.

Someone who's at best an inactive emeritus contributor sees this and gets so worked up about it that he decides to risk severely alienating the actual technical contributors in order to override their decision in favor of his personal politics, and when asked to participate in the project's usual decision-making process pulls a Louis XIV ("le projet, c'est moi!") and invokes absolute authority while expressing an unwillingness to listen to any contrary opinions or arguments, resorting to clichéd insults about "trigger warnings" and such.

If you really feel you must argue that one of the parties involved here has "thin skin" (and I don't understand that, either) I do not see how you can, with any rational basis, come to the conclusion that it's the first group. I also do not see how there's anything admirable in the second person's response or actions.
If you do have 8 kids, that's amazing. I have 5 myself and most of the time I feel more like a zookeeper/riot policeman than a dad.
My girlfriend and I decided in January that the trade off is no longer worth it. Now it’s just about timing.

While I hear what you’re saying, I’m musing more specifically on what that function looks like. I understand “it will continue as long as it can” but looking for a less rhetorical answer.
Probably the two most obvious architectural differences are that a) Flutter paints every pixel on the screen, whereas React Native uses

Why is it bad that a framework uses native components?
Technically correct, but most people don’t overeat when consuming whole foods — just like they didn’t before the 1950s.
Glad to know that a vaccine was pulled out of market due to safety concerns...Another one that followed the same was the
Rotavirus Vaccine [1], even after it was found "safe" during trials.

1. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4843a5.htm
Dollars aren’t virtual? They only hold value cause we believe they do. We make up however many we need.

More “name on a piece of paper means I win!” nonsense

Humans are bizarre
I can see where you’re coming from. Repetitive formulaic content can definitely contribute a lot of noise on sites like this.

But, I think these articles are not the result of formula or even a superficial trend. I can’t imagine what the motive would be. Until further notice, these articles seem to mostly be coming from a place of genuine concern.

What if the reason we keep seeing the posts is that the problem is simply that significant?

Speaking from a more personal perspective, I am surprised that the problem continues like it does. It seems like the exact sort of societies are built to prevent. It can ruin livelihoods, can happen to anyone, at any time, the causes are blackboxed, and there is almost always no recourse.
Top-down vs bottom-up depends to some extent on what you enjoy, vs what you need to be patient about. With our top-down approach you do get to all of the 'why', but only after understanding 'how'. So it's good for people who want to get started doing stuff right away, and don't mind waiting a bit to understand the details. It means you can start experimenting and building a good intuition for training models, which I believe is the most important skill for a practitioner.

On the other hand, with the bottom-up approach of Andrew Ng in deeplearning.ai, you start with a lot of 'why', and later on get to 'how' (although in less detail and fewer best practices than we show). So it's good for people who want to understand the theory right away, and don't mind waiting a bit to understand how to use it.

A lot of our students did Andrew's course after ours, and many did it in the reverse order. All have reported finding the combination more helpful than either on their own. When we describe 'why' it's mainly with code, whereas with Andrew it's mainly with math - so which you prefer will also depend on which notation and framework you're more comfortable with.

(But I promise - you do get all the 'how' with us, particularly in part 2! Our students have gone on to OpenAI, Google Brain, and senior AI leadership positions at well known startups, as well as writing and implementing new papers. Here's an example of a student who just implemented a paper that was released within the last month: https://sgugger.github.io/deep-painterly-harmonization.html#... )
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Remember that was $40k... but presumably not in Soviet rubles.

For closed economies (e.g. the Soviet Bloc), foreign reserves were non-trivial to acquire.

That said, it's still a bargain. But that's why every country has spies!
Python docs are very good and professional, but somewhat chaotic unless you have pretty good grasp on what belongs where.

Just last friday I tried to find authoritative definition of the leading underscore mangling behavior in the docs and was not able to do so.
Been a while since I've watched "Das Boot", but IIRC, there's a scene in the movie where, initially on the surface, they have a taught string strung across the sub. Then, as they dive, deeper and deeper, the taught string relaxes giving a rather frightening visual insight into how much the hull of the boat is compressing.
I’ve learned that at the very least to ensure that everything is being properly backed up and that the restore works. Testing this regularly puts my mind at ease that even if my site, application, whatever gets destroyed, stolen, etc I can bring it back to life in a very short time. It’s very difficult to ensure that something is 100% secure (not even sure if possible since the major players like Twitter make mistakes). Of course, this doesn’t solve the issue of data being taken but that’s why it’s important to understand the data you actually store and if you truly need to store it or if some could be handled another way.
A Brief Introduction to the Linux Graphics Stack (2014)
The kid was crying out for a math education!

On a serious note, you may be right in that it's a simple call for attention, but at least with my kids those are the opportunities for the best instruction, because the kid is usually bored, curious, and wants attention. If you give said attention, and answer questions in a way that they can think through and reason about, they will grok stuff you never expected.
>All routers have some way of finding out the IP leases.

Sure, with 1001 ways of accessing a router's IP leases table varying depending on the manufaturer, user names and passwords, whether anyone has changed the password, where to click, interfaces, apps, avahi daemon, nmap, ipv6, temperature outside, God's mood, and another 1001 ways of screwing it up even you know how it's supposed to work. Try to explain to a non-tech friend (even a relatively IT savvy one) how to find the IP of the Raspberry Pi on the local network and you'll understand why it is a bad idea. If you have client isolation, which some routers and setups have, you're screwed, too.

It's so bad that Google has to have a dedicated app just to find the IP of the Raspberry Pi on the network - I'm not kidding [1]. And that's supposed for the people who are courageous enough to try programming a Pi.

Yeah technically you can do it, but if it's so stupid and flaky that you can't rely on it, then can't be counted as a method to do something.

1: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
A good point. I don’t know. I’d love to learn more about how this happens in practice and what the driving forces are.
Be wary of shared SSL. For example, sites on Cloudflare often share SSL carts but are not owned by the same person. You may have to blacklist certs with Cloudflare CNs to avoid false positives.
Highways are so expensive that cities are tearing them down
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While it monitors SSH by default out of the box, people here are talking about creating custom filters which will monitor their Apache or Nginx logs. (Although, that said, we also have it monitor our non-standard SSH port with v. aggressive blocking rules, even though it's also behind a firewall. Defence in depth, and all that.)

The documentation isn't the greatest, but this page explains the concepts well enough and was easy to find using Google.

https://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/MANUAL_0_8
That is exactly how I get my many, many clients to lose weight — eating meat and veggies naturally causes people to reduce their calorie intake by increasing their feelings of satiety from the foods they’re eating.
So if someone said that they wanted to kill the President (not being political this is true no matter who is President) how fast do you think you would see government agents knocking on their door?

Why should a private citizen get any less protection?
Not true if you bring your own disk encryption keys. AWS also allows you to bring your own keys.
Citizens of a country usually sort of own the country, if you read the local constitution.

They are more like homeowners, entitled to protect their land with deadly force.

Tenants are more like tourists: they are welcome as long as they keep paying.
Why do you think so? For compute (non syscall bound) it should be native speed (just like a VM). For syscall-heavy operations it will depend on the syscall and how it's implemented and the backend processing.

For example, if you call lots of syscalls that are fully implemented in gVisor (does not rely o an external backend/service for completing them) that happen to be implemented inefficiently in gVisor (because they aren't top priority right now/not a lot of users rely on them being fast) vs the same syscall being already optimized in Linux then obviously there will be a lot of difference. But if calling syscalls which need an external service (ex. network/storage) to complete the request, then depending on the latency of the external service the processing speed difference of gVisor vs guest Linux kernel may not matter.

It really depends on the workload, there is indeed potential that some workloads will be significantly slower with gVisor, all other things being equal, but it doesn't seem to me to be a general thing.
Agreed with RMS in spirit

Disagree with his application in this context

I don’t give a damn about your politics when I’m trying to solve a problem unrelated to them
I reposted and this time the format took. I agree on the politics. I paid for multiple tests out of pocket. In one case to prove to my functional medicine doctor that I had Bartonella as well (the classic striped rashes were apparently not enough evidence for my primary or infectious disease doctor and the fact that I had a known tick bite).

One vial of blood for a PCR test to a local lab that the insurance covered (negative).

One vial of blood to Igenex for a FISH test (positive).

I had multiple rashes (spotted and striped) so I was over 90% sure at that point. My primary care doctor apologized and admitted that the CDC data seemed faulty. The infectious disease doctor never got back to me. Herbal (TCM/Western) is helping, but it's not quick. I believe pulsing treatments working with the human immune system offers the best approach these days.
Should You Let Your Kids Play Fortnite?
I think the simplest solution is the correct one: because politics. Consider how many ideologues flip-flop over similar situations when "their" side is the victim. For example, Trump and Cambridge Analytics vs. Obama's campaign and Facebook. At the end of the day, it's people making these decisions and movements, and most people are not well-trained in ethics.
The oncoming traffic doesn't stop until the light turns red. When the light is yellow, they're actually more likely to _speed up_ in order to "make the light" rather than stop. So when the light inevitably turns red and you're in the middle of the intersection, do you either:

a) Just sit there, in the middle of the intersection, blocking traffic.

b) Attempt to back up, hoping there are no other cars behind you in the left turn lane blocking your path.

c) Continue through the intersection.

Unless the law says "never stop in the intersection in the first place", I can't imagine it enforcing any option other than c.
Great read. Interesting to see how many total copies were sold for a book in this genre.
No, how you make your clients lose weight is by restricting their caloric intake that’s it.

The fact that’s is more easily achieved by saying that you can eat 3 chicken breasts a potatoe and a bucket of kale a day than 5 large cookies, isn’t exactly ground breaking nor does it have anything to do with what humans evolved to eat because we’ve been eating processed sugar for far longer than we were eating meat.

In fact scratch my first comment that started this I would rather see a menue that is at or over your daily caloric requirement which magically makes you lose weight.
It's probably AWS Fargate, part of the Elastic Container Service. But even then, it's still now a vendor lockin of the past, if you got your services deployable via containers you're 90% there to running your own Kubes cluster to launch them.
Hence my skepticism. Someone who doesn't know how to engage with engineers is someone I don't have any interest in engaging with, either.
Because NIMBYism, height limits, and single family zoning over most of the landmass still exist, and have much stronger effects.
I am a firm believer in candid feedback; I talked to multiple people taking fast.ai and all of them took it as disturbing the flow of lectures. I really like fast.ai, it's an excellent hands-on course, so please don't get offended.