skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correlation is not cause.

The problem is, most journalists, who filter / rewrite the study press releases don't understand the difference.

Sometimes, frankly, I'm not so sure some who publish such studies understand the difference; or if they do they don't care and publish anyway for the publicity.

File fake science next to fake news. It's real.
I just lost 10 minutes reading your whitepaper, and your claims are quite bait-clicky.
Yes, your blockchain will be "instant sync", but only for light clients. Just like with any other blockchain, you still need full nodes that stores every transaction, to serve all the light clients.
Light wallets are not new in this space, so I wonder what's the innovation in your proposal, apart from using bleeding edge tech like zk-SNARK.
I've undergone CBT too and it always felt like quackery to me. The point of CBT seems to be to get people to accept their shitty circumstances instead of actually fixing things. Psychology is the new religion. Instead of saying "accept your shitty life, you'll be rewarded after death" they are saying "you think you have a shitty life, but you just need to look at it differently".

CBT felt like an exercise in self-deception to me. The 'bad thoughts' are a result of the shitty circumstances in life, so shouldn't we be working on those instead of trying to convince myself that shit doesn't stink ?

I strongly believe that 99% of people who visit a psychiatrist could be cured by just handing them 20 million dollars. That would return a persons freedom and remove a huge amount of stress-factors.
A virtual game is not necessary "defined". Minecraft is a very abstract game.
WeWork's history of firing any employee even hinting at collective bargaining or discussing employee rights in general is well known.

Whatever happened with that unpaid overtime lawsuit they got slapped with?
Mildly OT, as you’re a blind tennis fan, have you ever tried the adapted version of the sport for blind and partially sighted participants? If not, and you’re interested, I might be able to point you in the right direction depending on where you’re based.
Sure — but, given the proof by contradiction, the examples would then illustrate the trade offs that the theorem forces.
Everybody's guilty secret? Occasional awareness of not having read the article then adds restraint to active participation in on-topic discussions ("I might make a fool of myself for not having read TFA") that is absent in the inevitable off-topic subthreads, hence more participation there. It's amazing that hn is still so good despite all this!

Back to the original topic (no article to not read in an "ask hn", it's safe) : an exception are stories that reach a very high number of posts, that usually means that:

a) TFA will be something I should not completely miss, even if it's just another Macbook announcement

and b) the comments that might be interesting to me will be buried, I won't bother finding them unless the topic is something I specialize in

Therefore, if comment counter at 300 and up, straight to TFA
I wish people stopped messing around with scroll.. This website is a pain to navigate with javascript enabled and cannot be navigated at all with javascript disabled (overflow hidden, need to hack css too to make it bearable).

To see such poor UX on the website of someone developing an OS is a red flag for me.
Gawker Is Dead and Deserved to Die (2017)
Cache Speculation Side-Channels	(2017) [pdf]
The problem with the software eating up space is partially that Android itself seems to assume a ton of storage space as soon as you go beyond Android 4. I had an HTC Desire that I had to get rid of simply because the Play Store kept upgrading itself and eating up all remaining storage
It might be a long time before we know. The fact is the body / brain is exposed to a lot of chemicals and compounds that have __never__ been verified for safety - either alone or when combined with others.

At this point there are simple too many of these and the combinations even larger.

_If__ such things contribute to anything, we'll likely never know.
Google’s Spanner database is very likely an example of overcoming CAP. There’s more details here: https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub45855. From what i’ve read, Google is able to do this because they control the physical data transfer infrastructure (the nuts, bolts, cables) which in many cases is the reason why CAP is defeated.
>You can use coroutines to implement generators

Yes, and threads as well, so back to my original question.
Currently displaying "Error establishing a database connection".
is CA even possible in a distributed system though? I mean, it’s not like “the network never fails” is a design decision you’re allowed to make (short of removing the network altogether and therefore not being a distributed system at all)
Funny I built the same kind of distributed timeseries system for Digital Ocean, called Vulcan. Also did a few talks on it. It was based around prometheus, I've seen at least 4-5 other major ones that are in production at different places, like Heroku has their own internal one also. Go seems to be the leading language for these next gen databases.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=likpVWB5Lvo

https://www.slideshare.net/MatthewCampbell7/distributed-time...
Most of this stuff would not pass a design review at Amazon.

Anything that requires a fleet of (relational) databases to ensure consistency will not work on a global scale.
East German Doping Victims Die 10 to 12 Years Earlier – psychologist
The point is that eventually it's found out that there aren't any. They're all snake oil.

Usually companies find this out the hard way, with catastrophic loss of business data.
A generic object model will be a poor fit for many languages. I hope they keep it simple and low level and don't build in an object model. I'd rather have low level features that let you implement your own GC than a built-in object model. If you have zero cost exceptions and multiple function entry points you can implement your own GC, and coroutines and various other constructs without any more overhead than if you were compiling directly to machine code.

Basically, zero cost exceptions let you unwind and capture the stack while not slowing down the common case, and multiple entry points let you build the stack back up without compiling a large amount of duplicate code. This gives you arbitrary stack manipulation without explicit stack manipulation support in the VM. It enables features that usually require special VM features, such as GC, coroutines, lightweight threads, (delimited) continuations, effect handlers, C# style async.
Some professors take as a badge of honour to pass only the bare minimum of students they can get away with each year, at least in Spain. If there aren't enough passing grades to reach that legal minimum, they just give everyone from a certain grade up a 5.0.

On top of that, there are no limits on how many times you can retake a class, it is not unusual to be stuck with the same class for three or four years until you manage to pass.
>With coroutines you know when your task switches.

Yes, obviously.

>That makes resources sharing and error handling way easier and predictible.

I am actually not so sure about that. With threads, you code knowing fully that your code can be pre-empted anywhere. It's uniform and simple. With co-routines, you have to think about the additional logic of when to yield, and that's very distracting. As a matter of fact, I tend to create more deadlocking code in a co-routine environment than in a threaded one, because - among other things - I'm permanently tempted to get clever.
many wordpress themes do that, go figure why.
Here's my reading list so far:

1. Principles of Likability: Skills for a Memorable First Impression, Captivating Presence, and Instant Friendships

By Patrick King. I struggle with soft skills so I found it insightful without being shallow

2. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

By Stephen R. Covey. I think this predates the previous book, and it's not a "read once then forget" type of book; it's about continuous self-improvement. I got a lot from it, didn't enjoy the religious/spiritual overtones but I will come back to this one

3. The Algorithm Design Manual

By Steven S Skiena. I'm halfway through; I found the first chapter dense but the rest are very approachable (go figure). I don't have a CS degree so it helps to see problems classified into "this or that problem can be approached with X algo"; some of this stuff I've worked through already but now I have a name for a lot of these things. Definitely highly recommend this if like me you don't have a CS education and occasionally wonder what the gap is between you and CS graduates (IMO not much unless they really grok graphs). I wish I had read it the second year of my career, but better late than never
Skill is the pont, there are skilled and unskilled jobs in both white and blue collar jobs. Difference is that white collar jobs require some level of cultural sophistication.

But you are right with very skilled machinists, one of my relative makes as much as senior developers or even some CEOs by tendind lathes and similar machines. As with software development you just want to be in shops that are doing stuff with high margins.
it's certainly full of dimensions. I may be a ideal-extremist here, and business probably doesn't like being overly cautious, but at least that would be a vehicle I'd trust no to endanger anybody (in or out), even if it looks underperforming compared to autopilot~.
https://www.linuxfoundation.org is mostly unusable with a touchpad on linux on chromium because they are using one of those smooth scrolling scripts.
Waymo is taking their sweet time, Tesla is aggressively talking about autopilot. Far from Zero.
Minecraft and imagination are two sides of the same thing. People with no imagination put Minecraft down very quickly.

It is a sandbox afterall.
If were to Apple or Google block wasm on iOS/Android then it's momentum would slow down significantly.
This is a really beautifully done website. I love the explanations and they make sense. However, I think there is a flaw in the proof.

Assume for contradiction that there does exist a system that is consistent, available, and partition tolerant. The first thing we do is partition our system. It looks like this.

We assume for contradiction that there does exist a system that satisfies CAP. But when we do that, we know nothing about what that system looks like. We cannot just say our system "looks like this". Our assumption did not say anything about the topology. So this proof does not hold formally.
Not sure how the second sentence follows from the first here ...

As for context switching speed, you may well be right, but I was under the impression that thread context switching in Linux is really cheap these days, almost as fast as userland coroutines.
I am about your age, and purchased the very first, original e-ink Kindle (with the free Sprint downloading and memory card slot).

However, I consistently buy "used" books via Amazon and other means, especially technical books.
I found that following humor blogs about certain specialist area's also help a lot with the osmosis. One example is DBAreactions. I'm Dev/Ops, so naturally I have to touch on DBA tasks but not enough to get fully involved in the field. Following the humor blog and sometimes stumbling upon a joke I don't get tells me there is some knowledge that must be so common (ie important) in that field that I miss. So then a task arises for me to learn to laugh at the joke.
also a wordpress theme ! (salient)
Sounds like the assumptions of newer versions of Android and the ecosystem may mean feature phones like the Jiophone (running the FirefoxOS successor) can be competitive on the basis of the hardware and software actually being in step with each other.
WASM runs directly on V8, which runs natively.

Bytecode runs directly on the JVM which runs natively.

I'm not seeing how eithers closer to the metal.
It would certainly make "application level code" more portable (which is still a big win) but some sort of OS specific library still needs to talk to the filesystem, network, etc.
Frome google cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps...
So you are saying that to show that less is the best you can do would be the next step, and by extension you could ommit the first step and go directly to show cp or ap was optimal. But showing the contradictiin us what motivates the first step. Going the other way around, "thus cap is not in the set of optimals" shows less and begets the question.
I don't usually carry a compass with me in the city but I should. The feeling you described exiting a metro is indeed one of the okay confusing I've felt in my life. But that might be because I usually have a very strong sense of orientation and loosing it is unusual.

That being said, I think it's kind of becoming a dying art to orient yourself by compass and cardinal points. Most people have a hard time thinking in cardinal points and don't seem too interested in fixing this. But that is a shame since directions such as "go right" are too relative to your reference point to eliminate confusion.
A Changing World: The Future of the Energy Industry (audio)
UK security researcher Hutchins makes renewed bid for freedom
Not trying to be a buzzkill, but how (from what I can see from the Google cache), is this different than LineageOS without Google Apps? Or the recently mentioned CopperheadOS which already has ROMs available and supports commercially available devices..? https://copperhead.co/android/
>coroutines will use your resources a lot better

Maybe, but I'm not actually sure why. Worker threads are pretty darn cheap on modern OS's.

Also - may it's just me - but I've always found co-routine based apps harder to debug: your stack is a weird tangle of unrelated things and figuring out what's going on is harder than with threads.
It almost seems like city centres are not finite. Who would have thought?
Like you are not already dealing with them on Amazon and Ebay?
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Here is what happens, when he falls through ice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px5uQuRT3EE
More than half if that is what you want to say.

In a private insurance model, ½ is a lot. I suppose it can be fun to act all astonished that the US has a private insurance model.
The jist of the argument is that no DB gives 100% availability. That makes no sense. What if my client can't talk to anything? I'd still have to return a value.

So instead we talk about high availability. All sorts of things cause downtime besides network partitions. If the network is reliable enough, then you can still achieve high availability.
Copperhead is dead. See recent drama.
For your like on language check:

Surfaces and Essences by Douglas Hofstadter
&
Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff
Now that's perverse... It seems like our short-sighted vision is screwing us in realms of both finance and education.
High five from #1 ;)
>Does this mean that Spanner is a CA system
as defined by CAP? The short answer is “no” technically, but “yes” in effect and its users can and do
assume CA.

>The purist answer is “no” because partitions can happen and in fact have happened at Google, and during
(some) partitions, Spanner chooses C and forfeits A. It is technically a CP system. We explore the impact
of partitions below.

...

>Conclusion

>---------

>Spanner reasonably claims to be an “effectively CA” system despite operating over a wide area, as it is
always consistent and achieves greater than 5 9s availability.

From the paper
> If everyone can finish University, then having a university title becomes pointless!

If everyone has access to a shovel, or a computer, does having that thing become pointless?
Yes, we're working on it right now (meant to say "Oracle and SQL Server are in the workings" above).
How would one enable this in Visual Studio?
One way is to list your hobbies and rate the frequency you’ve spentntime with each. You’ll quickly find you spend more time with one or two. Which then you could focus on.
I doubt it, he's 1.5 years old.
Beer might be a bad example, isn't alcohol generally very expensive in Scandinavian countries? (Though indeed cost of living is probably on the higher side)
>Here's a chart showing apk bloat for popular apps over time

What the fuck did Google add to Gmail in 2016?
I have a similar experience with a mix of therapies I've undertaken over the past few years.

The main ones I've used are NET, kinesiology, EFT/tapping and holotropic breathwork, and a bit of Erickson hypnotherapy.

I've been aware of NLP and dabbled in it a little about 10 years ago, but ended up finding the abovementioned approaches more effective for my issues.

But they seem to work at the same level; like NLP, NET and kinesiology focus on finding incongruence in the body and mind, and undertaking a learning/healing process to enable transitioning to a state of congruence.

After 6-7 years of this work, I've almost completely overcome chronic fatigue, anxiety (social & general) and depression, as well as several other symptoms I can now recognise in retrospect (possibly a combination of borderline/histrionic/narcissistic PD symptoms).

There is some research indicating the effectiveness of NET [1], but it will have a hard time gaining mainstream acceptance given its origins/professional associations and the specifics of the treatment.

It's also super-hard to do a full-scale trial for these kinds of treatments, as it's very difficult to assemble cohorts of subjects with similar enough symptoms, and the it takes years for really profound changes to happen. So it's hard to imagine who would have the funds and the timeframes required to undertake the kind of study that would be necessary to properly test this stuff - not to mention who would have the incentive, given that there's no drug patent pot of gold at the end.

Yet year by year I keep doing these practices and my life keeps getting better, while I watch on as other people I know keep persisting with conventional psychology and psychiatry, without a whole lot of success beyond the superficial.

I've come to understand enough about what keeps the status quo in place to no longer be frustrated by it. My approach now is to share my experiences with whomever is interested, and trust that those who need/want to know about will take notice give it a try when they're ready.

Enough people have given these techniques a shot and gotten great results that I'm optimistic that more widespread acceptance can happen eventually, somehow.

[1] http://www.onefoundation.org/current-research-updated/
I quite entertained the same point of view of the author about semicolons. The best use of them is when they're used sparingly, hence carrying more precise weight and meaning.

Now there is something quite peculiar about that punctuation mark's naming, which has some dissonant trait of causality (what colons are used for), and always found the French name "point-virgule" (period-comma) much more apt.
Spanner is a CP system. Nobody can overcome proven theory that CAP is impossible to achieve all at once.
The use of generators does not imply concurrency, and that's why the use of threads for this purpose is considered overkill (threads require relatively expensive kernel involvement).
JVM yes, but when Java web apps were popular, there was a communication layer between the JVM application and the JVM support plugin, and then between the plugin and the browser.
If you make 50k, have a child, and have a student loan, your marginal tax rate becomes 62%, that's 40% (income) +2% (NI) +9% (Loan) + 11% (child benefit reduction). I don't think that's progressive, I think it's excessive taxation.
see the source code of: https://hackurls.com/
You must be living under a rock then, because Amazon has sold millions of kindles. They are not all kids buying them.

Kindle causes me to read far more than I would otherwise. A few reasons:

- Hundreds of books fit in a space smaller than a single physical book

- Can read at night without an overhead light bothering myself or anyone else (and without blue light!)

- Can travel (and/or move houses) without books taking up space

- Can download a new book in five minutes vs going to the store or waiting for a delivery. This makes it much easier to start books

- Can come back to a book I bought three years ago while living in a totally different place

Getting a kindle was the best decision I ever made in terms of encouraging myself to read.
It is written in Go. That alone makes it safer than an unproven web server written in assembly.
It's not that uncommon. Many Swiss cantons have a progressive wealth tax. France used to have one but it's now limited to real estate holdings.
A bit more precisely: Jepsen denies or doesn't a small subset of those claims.

It can't prove strict acid because it only observes behaviour it can observe. There are code paths it won't see in practice, so the best it can do is refute.

It also can't refute acid as a whole. If you look at the reports, they usually check the very basic behaviour - simple sets and gets. While that can tell you a lot about the system, you can't say it will generalise to complicated joins, multi-row operations, backend plugins, etc.
WeWork doesn't really have the best history as far as ethical behavior goes.
Norwegians even travel to Sweden just to stock up on alcohol, and booze isn't exactly cheap in Sweden.
Vancouver, though it is expensive as hell, really is a great city to live in, I loved my years there (originally from Paris France). Could use some additional sun, but they're great at making grey skies and drizzle bearable those Canadians.
Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra [pdf]
Why did this project choose such an unsearchable name and cripple its own acceptability? Can't search for /e/, can't search for 'e', 'e os' refers to some entirely different OS...
It could also be a national divide.

I pretty much abandoned paper books when I got a Kindle on a vacation. Many years later, after moving to a country where I can find any book I want delivered to my doorstep in 2 days, I abandoned e-books and audiobooks.
>It almost seems like city centres are not finite. Who would have thought?

Did you get your sarcasm backwards?

finite -> infinite ?
I read an account elsewhere that claims that they were transported strapped to stretchers the entire time, including underwater, and that furthermore they were sedated (but conscious) to reduce probability that they would panic while being carried underwater.

Trip of a lifetime.
45mm isn't that thin, is it? As a kid, I always learned that ice had to be at least 5 cm thick. This is only half a cm less.
Ask HN: Have you adopted standardjs?
Kodak saw what was coming ahead of everyone else (they owned the digital camera field from the mid 1970 onwards), but it did them no good. The problem was there just is not as much money in digital photography compared to chemical photography.

Kodak is a classic example that no amount of foresight will save you when the entire industry changes underneath you.
Amazon is hanging itself with its own rope here, and leaving the door wide open to places like Wayfair. We need more focused, curated, and transparent shopping sites. I am buying MORE tech from Best Buy these days, because they've done the curation. No matter what the reviews say -- and they're basically all useless, at this point -- BB isn't going to carry a turd that has a high rate of return on their precious shelf space. And, if that does happen, a physical return is even easier than repackaging something and dropping it off at the UPS store. I hope others follow in the wake of the mess that Amazon has allowed to fester, and capitalize on the opportunity to be more trustworthy.