skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The simplified data schema directly reduced the size of data on disk. We saved additional space in MyRocks by applying Zstandard, a state-of-the-art lossless data compression algorithm developed by Facebook. We were able to reduce the replication factor from six to three, thanks to differences between the HBase and MyRocks architectures. In total, we reduced storage consumption by 90 percent without data loss, thereby making it practical to use flash storage."
Great Sci-Fi Technology: “Calliagnosia” from Stories of Your Life and Others
All these wholesome ideas make me feel bad because the name that came naturally to me is crass.
That isn't totally wrong, but I think you drew the line in the wrong place. There are numerous less-known schools that are OK, but a typical community college or liberal arts school isn't going to deliver the goods. State universities are sometimes good.
This is the position of the Google c++ style guide, from which I think Go borrowed heavily.
I think he's referring to not having to explicitly declare if some type implements any interfaces.
Wow, vgo seems pretty reasonable. ...I have to take one of my "damn it, go" complaints back.

Interesting to see their critique of bundler/et el...AFAICT isn't this vgo min version just old-school Maven resolution + semver major version in the import path?

Tools to auto-bump semver by examining the code's own public API would be nice.
Hmm, for an example, in twitter, the popular accounts are one of the strongest "hubs". Their post can influence many "nodes".

I'm not sure how I can relate "self-loops" in my example.
"Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software" by Richard Stallman

> When we call software “free,” we mean that it respects the users' essential freedoms: the freedom to run it, to study and change it, and to redistribute copies with or without changes. This is a matter of freedom, not price, so think of “free speech,” not “free beer.”

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
We have https://octopus.com, which is on the list. And first registered the year I was born. Has an interesting history: http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/text/2011/d2011...

> Respondent Yana Beklova, who at one stage worked for the Complainant, requested an amount between USD 500,000 and USD 1,000,000 for the transfer of the disputed domain name, that the registrant of the disputed domain name sought to hide its identity through a WhoIs privacy protection service, that the Respondents tried to transfer the disputed domain name out of the reach of the Australian courts to avoid legal proceedings after having received the cease and desist letter, that some of the Respondents named by the Complainant have been involved in previous UDRP proceedings, which suggests a pattern of conduct, and that the disputed domain name was registered to intentionally attract customers looking for the Complainant’s website for commercial gain by creating a likelihood of confusion.
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Aren’t they supporting iPhones all the way back to the 5s with iOS 12? That’s way better than any competitor can claim.
I don't think that will fly as a significant number of companies want to be a unique snowflake when it comes to packaging.

My e-commerce startup uses reusable Ikea containers[1] for shipping and reusable Little Bird Bag[2] for local pickups.

In Australia packaging is already regulated to a high degree (you don't hear about it in the media). Next year my company will have to pay an AUD 800 (USD 590) per year fee to the federal government, larger companies have to pay up to AUD 250,000 (USD 185,000) per year. This fee is in addition to other duties/taxes/levies on the local, state and federal level such as e-waste.

While a "highly standardised system" sounds excellent on face value, there will be edge cases that break things. An example that comes to mind is e-waste in Australia.

My company imports many Raspberry Pis into Australia. The federal department of environment saw from the importation documents that they were "computers" and then wanted to charge the company for e-waste. In Australia, e-waste is calculated by weight, and the government stated that an average computer is 20Kg+ (by contrast a Raspberry Pi maxes out at 42 g)!

[1] https://www.ikea.com/au/en/catalog/products/30160964/

[2] https://www.instagram.com/p/Bi_Oa6ygtqR/?taken-by=littlebird...
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> They don’t need to parse all that data; simply the full take of everyone who’s ever searched for Tails, or visited the Tails website, or run Tor.

And what? Retain all their traffic til the end of days? Even if you restrict your selectors to Tor fans, that's still a massive amount of data.
> That sounds intuitively reasonable, until you look at the current situation where every time you copy paste text between programs that support formatting, you have to cleanse it by pasting and copying through Notepad, or it will do the wrong thing.

Yes, that can be horrible. But there's Ctrl+Shift+V for plain text pasting.
That's exactly my point. Stating that seizure is 'very typical' as fact, and if someone says you have no evidence, the retort shouldn't be "Prove it isn't."
FWIW Chrome does have the largest market share of any desktop internet browser. That said, I understand what you are getting at and agree.
At some point... gotta just move on.
I had never heard of this chip. Any good resource to understand this? I am familiar (or was at one point) with 8085/86 architecture.
That's the same as shutting down.
Hmmm, I wonder if the golden handcuffs all fell off at 4 years, and everybody who was part of creating the project and technology has cashed out and left?
Cruising altitude is typically 30k-40k feet.
If you believe that markets are efficient (+ the $100b figure, no idea who made that up), no.
Clearly, by banning break and continue, he was hoping that you would discover setjmp/longjmp.
> Copyleft imposes some requirements on redistribution. It does not impose restrictions on usage at all.

I wasn't saying copyleft imposes restrictions on usage.

The first "open-source" criterion says the following (and note that, like you said, this is a restriction on redistribution and not usage):

> The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources.

We both agree GPL places a restriction on redistribution (namely: that it must be with source code). However, criterion #1 says very clearly that the license can't place restrictions on software redistribution when it's aggregated with software from different sources.

This is a pretty clear contradiction to me. The fact that you cannot redistribute GPL software without source (whether bundled with other software or otherwise) is a restriction on whether/how you can redistribute GPL software, hence it goes against the "shall not restrict" requirement. And there's no exception carved out for "restrictions that require source code to be included". So I don't see how we get to ignore this and cherry-pick what restrictions actually fall under "restrictions"...
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I always disable single clicking in Whonix (KDE). It drives me especially crazy in folder management.
I skimmed over that post. I had to go through it twice to see where they actually were admitting defeat. Was buried in the middle of the second to last paragraph.
I think you're over-reacting.

artificially: by means of human (or in this case programmed) intervention rather than naturally.

intelligently: in a way that maximizes efficiency.
“THE ERA OF HOPEFUL MONSTERS” BY CALEB CHURCHILL
> - Netflix doesn't support HD on linux

True that they don't support it, not true that it doesn't work, thanks to the wonderful people who take the time to fix other people's bugs. https://github.com/vladikoff/netflix-1080p-firefox
Slightly out of context but I want say that Canadians are the most friendly people I have ever met.
Not very well. They had a short span during the hurricane disasters where they got publicity, but they face a lot of the same problems: spectrum, movement, and small coverage areas.
There have been news about most of these. In general, they're all late. SpaceX was the last I saw that publicly stated the problem was harder than they expected, and it will be delayed an unknown amount.
There's a lot of interesting history between the Open Source and Free Software movements, and this is a valuable view of one side of the story. I'd recommend it for people who are interested, though I hope they would also seek out the other side.

However, we're going off topic here. The self-driving download is neither Open Source nor Free Software.
According to our knowledge of the universe.

And if that is accurate, then essentially we ARE alone in the universe. There simply isn't anything close enough - we'll be enveloped by the sun or some other catastrophe before that happens.
Ask HN: What all is broken/frustrating in software engineering
What do you think?
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Next up, public bus footage, if all the ducks become aligned.
Why not since Bloomberg is now pulling numbers out of its ass? A billion MAU with projected $10 billion annual revenue gives a 10x annual revenue valuation. Apple has long surpassed a billion iOS units sold, and annual revenue is $230 billion, give or take, so it should be worth $2.3 trillion. Not bad for an inflation adjusted acquisition worth $654 million.
My experience in learning spans from some self-taught material, to learning and then teaching at university and many years of hiring and managing programmers. The following are my main observations, some which align with your experiences and comments.

The biggest danger with being self-taught is that you probably skip the boring fundamentals material and thus struggle with concepts which are in turn based on basic knowledge. The most common evidence of this is programmers who have learnt one language and then rely on frameworks to do simple things.

Exams which test memorization are inappropriate for most of engineering. The test should confirm that you understand the principles and are able to effectively apply them. For example remembering the arguments to specific API calls has little value because you can look it up. But knowing the impact of using recursion vs a loop in a specific algorithm is critical.

I have come across too many university educated engineers (not just in software) who stopped learning as soon as they graduated. These folks struggle as technological advances overtake them and typically escape into management roles. Those without the ambition to move into management are toxic to team efforts.

My biggest gripe is that many self-taught, self-proclaimed experts suffer from the Dunning-Kruger Effect. As a team leader I resent management hiring such people without the technical team being given a chance to interview them and make an assessment.
What are you talking about - no amoeba is billions of treats old, not are hela cells immortal (the immortality of hela cells is a reference to it being the first set of human cells that could be reliably grown outside of a human. More specifically it is Henrietta lacks who is considered immortal).

All unicellular life survives by growing (accumulating enough of the right chemical components) to replicate its genetic material (RNA or DNA), and then divide. Errors happen during duplication that provide mutations that natural selection can work on. In the general act of existing all these organism accrue broken proteins and waste that they cannot get rid of, these accumulate in one half of a dividing cell, which eventually results in one half of the separated cell failing.

In addition to replication errors environmental stresses can also just directly damage the genetic material which again provides mutations than selection can be applied to.

So yes we can distinguish between Darwinian selection and Lamarckism, as Lamarckism is not actually a thing - the evolution of single felled organisms is purely Darwinian, and can (and has) been extensively studied.

I suspect the misunderstanding here is that meiosis (or is it meitosis? I can never remember which is which) is only notionally a clone. Once you acknowledge that one of the two cells after a split is not necessarily identical to the original you can see a lineage of genetic variation that is the hallmark of evolution.

This is ignoring lateral gene transfer, but that’s essentially an effect of gene survival and statistics.
Why even fall back? The default for something like this should be a torrent as this is exactly what BitTorrent was supposed to solve!
yeah. Maybe if you cooked up Roadkill Wellington it'd cost that much.
TIDAL has openly said that they are using -14 LUFS for normalization while Spotify has said they are using ReplayGain. The other platforms required more investigation, and we're continuing to refine the estimates, but we feel that we've gotten pretty close.
> Rajat Gupta did a lot of damage to McKinsey's credibility worldwide

This claim is correct, but I think we can reference better sources . The SEC complaint [1] "alleges that, among other things, Rajat K. Gupta tipped his business associate Raj Rajaratnam, Galleon Management’s founder and managing general partner, to confidential information Gupta learned in the course of his duties as a member of the Board of Directors of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. The complaint alleges that Gupta disclosed material nonpublic information concerning Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s $5 billion investment in Goldman Sachs in September 2008, and concerning Goldman Sachs’s financial results for both the second and the fourth quarter of 2008. Rajaratnam used the information he learned from Gupta to trade profitably in certain Galleon hedge funds" [2]. Somewhat pertinently, Gupta did not violate his responsibilities to Goldman Sachs as a McKinsey officer, but as a GS Board member.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2011/comp22140.pdf

[2] https://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2012/lr22582.htm
> The speeds are theoretical and plummet as spectrum utilization increases. If everybody replaced their xDSL/DOCSIS/FTTx connections with 4G/5G and utilized them the same, the speeds would be terrible.

The provider A1 in Austria (around 45% marketshare for broadband) uses ADSL for most of its broadband lines, which is significantly slower than cable. A few years ago they merged with the largest wireless provider and now use hybrid-ADSL-LTE modems that use ADSL by default, but which automatically switch to LTE when higher bandwidths are required.

In addition there are several wireless providers (and MVNOs) that sell data flatrates which are cheaper and faster than ADSL. E.g., I recently replaced my ADSL connection with a LTE flatrate for 20 EUR a month that allows 20mbit down and 6mbit up (and almost all of the time it also reaches that speed).

I often hear the argument that LTE would be too congested if everyone uses it. But I can't see any evidence of that in places where LTE is heavily used.
> Vue is not just rendering engine

I did not call Vue a rendering engine. I stated that Ember's closest equivalent is Glimmer. I do think that statement is incorrect on it's face now that you've brought it up -- but I think that's because the closest thing would be ember's `View`, and not just Glimmer because the "View" abstraction is what Vue provides, and Ember's had `View`s long before Glimmer (they just worked slightly differently under the covers).

> The fact that it is lightweight and modular (...) does not make it worse

I did not ascribe a value judgement to Vue. I am a huge fan of Vue and use it a lot in my own projects and at previous jobs. I do not believe it's worse, but the simple fact is that Vue by itself is not comprable to Ember at all. They're different leagues of tools, Vue is a knife, Ember is a swiss army knife. Different problem domains that only sometimes overlap.

> Vue is also its own ecosystem same as Angular or Ember

Yes, Vue does have it's own ecosystem, but they are not the same as Angular or Ember.

> The ecosystem is in fact probably even bigger than any of them now

I don't agree with this. Angular 1 became the defacto frontend framework for corporations -- this spawns a LOT of ecosystem from people working on Angular everyday. Next was React, and Vue is just coming up NOW. I find it hard to believe that Vue has already gained the same amount of mind share as either Angular or React in terms of ecosystem.

Ember on the other hand has somehow managed to not land the lucrative corporation mindshare.
Awesome! Thanks for the feedback. My company just took over a project for a client, and the previous team used Docker, so I will be getting my hands dirty in the new code base very soon. I know the skepticism from developer you mentioned. I know a bunch of guys of that mindset. They want to do EVERYRHING by hand, so they can have "complete control" of everything, or something like that. While I find this admirable, I do not subscribe to this. I just want to develop. The more time & energy I can spend on being creative and building new things the better. I will be happy to let Docker do some heavy lifting for me, and free up hours I would have spent on configuration/ setup, or reading documentation/ stack overflow.
You must mean better in that Apple is still locking you out of hardware you own (e.g. NFC).
Sorry but all items seem invalid.

- Do you move the mouse cursor with the keyboard? The cursor is designed to be used with the mouse, controlling the mouse cursor with the keyboard is slow.

- Every modern OS have menus across the top of the screen. If you think it's a bad choice, you're alone.

- Double click may sound bad, but right-click is worse. Look at non-tech people using a computer, they will double click instead of right-click and run.

- To paste without formatting, you use Ctrl+Shift+V in most programs.
I love Alpine. Its Linux without the bloat and systemd cancer.
I'll def reach out once our application is done, we never considered getting it reviewed before, so that'll be a first..thx evan!

And yeah, as you may have guessed wedding platforms like Joy, Knot, etc. are def in our target channel
We debated between using the word "penalty" or something more neutral, like "score." In the end, we felt that since most music will be turned down, penalty seemed appropriate, though it is a bit cheeky.
I definitely knew this was the case back when analog COs were the norm, but didn't realize this was still true. Seems it is very dependent on PSTN provider (I know SWBell didn't do this for normal lines when I worked there) as some do, some don't.
Would WiFi be better if we treated it like the bus it is instead of treatining like it's switched.
^ how not to be successful
Consider particle decay: it's a fundamentally random event - there is not enough internal structure to suppose the existence of some internal timer, nor is there enough worlds to fill the eternity during which the particle can "choose" to decay at any moment.
Sure. But don’t you guys ever get tired of pointing out the same thing over and over again?
Per one of the articles I found on it, British Telecom apparently set the delay to 3min. The rational (if article is to be trusted) is that customers wanted the ability to hang up one phone and pick up another phone in the same home without disconnecting the call.
But crucially, it is two branches, each evolving classically. It is true that this system will obey the same statistics as a classically indeterminate one, but claiming that it's now a single classical system is disingenuous. It's a great place to sweep the measurement problem under the rug.
The default on Windows 10, Gnome, Unity, KDE and Xfce is double-click to open file. Otherwise, how would you select an file without opening it?
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Aren't these the same? Cloudstore and Firestore are the same product with different branding.
That is a different sort of overlay, a code overlay.

The other example was data, with the compiler assisting by changing local variables to have fixed addresses that get carefully reused for different variables at different times.
artificially: without the hardware actually pointing somewhere else

intelligently: using some context aware optimization
I wonder, is there any science that making conscious decisions could be related to quantum mechanics? The mechanics of both feel similar to me.
Some of his columns (I guess in the NEJM) were reflections on etymology, and then he apparently published an entire book about it called "Et Cetera, Et Cetera".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Thomas

But in light of language change, I'm not sure that using these observations to form an argument -- especially at the kind of distances that exist between PIE and English -- will escape being accused of the etymological fallacy. Maybe if I re-read some of those Lewis Thomas essays, I might be concerned at the size of some of the historical leaps. There's that famous story that a king praised the design of St. Paul's Cathedral as "amusing, awful, and artificial" (although apparently there's only strong evidence for the "artificial" part).

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/10/31/st-pauls-cathedral/
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1) I came from 370 BAL. The sense of freedom from rules was outstanding in DOS.
2) x-windows.
3) print.com true multi-tasking in Ms/pc/Dr DOS.
4) LIM and emm386
Math and science done right
Robust ML
From what I searched, it seems to be the toe of a random person who donates it. Not quite the same allure but still a cool idea.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/sourtoe-cocktail
Correct. Heres a full list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom...
> What are the evolutionary advantages of extreme or chronic pain?

That is a funny question. It is like asking: what is the evolutionary advantage of a broken leg? Sometimes things go wrong and the result is pain. There is no purpose to it; it just happened. Not everything has an evolutionary purpose.

My wife has Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, resulting in malformed collagen throughout her body. As a result, her tendons are too stretchy and don't work well, and so her bones don't align as they should, leading to wear and tear on joints and now incessant pain.

Also, many kinds of failures show up after the typical reproductive window. There is little evolutionary pressure to prevent such failure mechanisms.
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Maybe this? https://www.engadget.com/2018/05/02/facebook-free-basics-qui...

There is also this from 2016 - https://www.computerworld.com/article/3032646/internet/the-s...

So even if Free Basics "sites" were actual sites on the Internet (which they're not), it would be 0.00000005 percent of the web. The real Internet is at least 20 million times bigger than Facebook's fake Internet. It's like McDonald's giving a poor person a free sesame seed and claiming credit for giving them a free Big Mac. The other important difference for Facebook is that Free Basics offers a version of the "web" without any of Facebook's competitors.
They appear on https://www.flightradar24.com/ once in a while. 3 in Northern Nevada right now.
The letters are fascinating and totally worth a read. There's one letter in which he simply says (to his brother, IIRC, and I paraphrase): "a painter must, above all, paint well". It struck me as a very Zen-like observation.
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