skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Returning an error is basically saying "I'm not available", because there is no guarantee there is an alternative.

Your example can't deal with there being no path at all between V1 and V2. So even the client can't reach V2. In that case the entire system V is unavailable to the client.

Availability in CAP is about being able to reach a node, but not all of them and because of that the system doesn't function. I guess killing a node when a problem occurs can be argued to defeat CAP (all the nodes that are up can reach each other), but it definitely doesn't improve the situation.

Also what does you system do when V5 out of a 5 node cluster crashes? Do the nodes V1-V4 kill themselves, because they can no longer reach a higher ID node?
It is always weird seeing people talk on twitter as if they were having a private conversation.
"to push even further, how would one imagine an alien language where the organisms do not speak through mouth-like organs?"

That's the basic plot of Arrival.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2543164/
Those are the dead ones.... it's all survivorship bias when it comes to the Ninja market. It's a rough market.
Well for an outsider they are what they are, same as various branches and sects in christianity. In fact, most conflicts in human history look plain stupid for an outsider, but this happens when emotions and passions dominate the decision-making process
I set my default privacy policy to private, problem solved.

If you have to set it, then it's not the default. That's the point of the article: That Venmo exposes personal information by default.
damn lets upvote this. This horrible company needs the bad PR.
If we can balance the L1 cache eviction rate for the extra cores (since L1 is not shared), memory bandwidth pressure will be lower. These monsters also have a lot of memory channels to address memory hunger.

I still think we can push the envelope a bit further for most common desktop software.
A good intro by Rib Pike for those who’d like to learn more about parsers/lexers
https://youtube.com/watch?v=HxaD_trXwRE
Good systems are resilient to bad leaders. See the Roman Empire or England for example, neither has any shortage of bad emperors/kings and both avoided violent regime changes or subjugation by a foreign power for many hundreds of years (and counting in England's case)
Medium = YouTube for textual content.

What do you expect?
Check news about games here:
Contact the financial ombudsman, they will be able to help, and in a lot of cases they side with the consumer. http://www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk
> What I don't understand about Twitch is how anyone has time to consume this content.

Who has time to write comments on an anonymous forums? Who has time to watch TV? Listen to music? Who has time to watch a couple of men kick a ball around? People make time if it is something that interests them.

> you have to sit down and watch for hours every night

You don't have to. You could just check in for a few minutes while you are eating or programming or cleaning or anything really. Also, many streams are available for viewing "offline". You don't have to be there for the stream. You could watch it later.

> Who does that?

Tens of millions of people?

> I imagine it's mostly students and single young professionals.

Probably. It's usually the younger generation that adopts tech and then slowly the older generation follows.

Not sure why you are so shocked? What's the difference between twitch and TV or watching the world cup? At least with twitch there is interaction via chat.
There is a company, forgot the name, but I’ve seen the owner chime here on HN.
The undeniable business case for meditation at work
I agree with you and GP in that I'd gladly take on less coding and focus on delegation and mentoring which I'm finding I really like. However, it seems the founders see me sort of as superman of all things tech. This means, that I'm stuck for now in both worlds. It's a bit claustrophobic but I feel that many people must be in this boat with me.
Japan is a very efficient / clean place. Their Ninja body disposal teams are exceptionally efficient. The people are very polite too, after killing an opposing Ninja, they call in the location of the body immediately.
> Don't mention the Armenian genocide.

Also don't be Jewish.
>of the century.

How many more recursive understatements before we hit a base case?
The problem is confusing. You are looking out on different sides of the graveyard, so you know there is no overlap in statues, and the caretaker informs you that the total number of statues is either 18 or 20. So you know your friend can only see either 6 or 8.

I agree it's not super well-phrased though.
Show HN: Glycemic load calculator
The PID cycle that controls the rotors, even on racing drones, relies on the gyros to provide the feedback potion of the PID loop. That feedback is "what is the current yaw, pitch, and roll of the drone".

Even in acro mode (which is more accurately defined as "the sticks determine the yaw, pitch and roll rotational velocities"), the gyros are used to measure the actual rate of rotation so it can be matched against the requested rotational velocity.

Positional stabilization, something you see more in the higher end drones, have an additional PID loop that takes input from the gyros, accelerometers and even GPS to determine the input to the underlying control PID loop.
busted w/o js
I like iTunes as a music player. I've never seen another app that tempted me to make the effort to switch.

There are a few warts in its other tasks (which should be spun of into another app), but once I switched to iCloud syncing for my phone I stopped seeing those.
For profit and centeralized. Hard pass.

Is this the next Ello?
That would be a solution if it were not for the 24/7 reliance on Slack for almost all team communication. I really really hate Slack-like in-your-face-all-day interruptions. It's hell.
Ask HN: Any programmers living “off the grid”?
I wouldn't blame yourself too hard.. Amazon has strategically made it very easy to add items to your lists (bookmarklets, chrome extensions, etc.) while offering _no_ supported way to get the list back out.
Fun fact: both books have precisely the same content
I thought I did a good thing :(

The use of their / they refering a single person doesn't come naturally to me as english is my 2nd language and we're taught its plural. (it can indeed be used as "third person plural singular" according to oxford dict.)

Since its the "least bad" (to my ears) of the gender-neutral pronouns on the wiki page I'll try to use the "they/their" instead.
It would be great to know why the Linux drivers aren’t as good as the Mac touchpad drivers. I have little experience with Linux input drivers, but significant experience with the Android touch input stack (including a fair bit of experience hacking the Synaptics touchscreen drivers). Is it a matter of (1) the drivers themselves failing to provide good raw data (finger positions, update rate, positional accuracy, etc.)? (2) A matter of the drivers/userspace stack not decoding motions into useful gestures accurately? (3) Or a lack of support from normal applications or the window server for touch gestures and touch inputs?

In kernel space there’s definitely a lot we could crib from Android to get started quickly - since that’s the low-hanging fruit I wonder if anyone’s already done it. The userspace stuff is a totally different affair...
For the French Revolution, the King refused to used the army against the people. And the revolutionary had the support of some of the rich and powerful
not sure why everyones complaining about performance, it seems to work fine on my macbook air. Plugins perhaps?
And (roughly) Acro mode needs a gyro to control that the rotation matches the user request, whereas self-leveling needs an accelerometer too to figure out where "down" is.
Again, I don't think that this is really hyperrealism anyway and am a bit confused why it's being labeled as such.

The dismissive comments here are confusing because it seems there's a rush to say "it's not that impressive." I think at minimum it is technically impressive for someone that age. Prodigy? Perhaps not, but it's noteworthy that he's done this at this level.

Art is of course always going to be a subjective discussion, so I don't see much point in arguing whether this is "good" or not, but I can say that personally I found the moments and poses evocative enough, which is not something I experience with any given piece of art. It's in the eye of the beholder, of course.

But they resonated in the way that unique moments in life get cemented in your subconscious, only to be plucked out by others who feel and experience and finally commit them to some medium to share.

If this is indeed his work I'm impressed given his age.
These are all Indo-European languages; English once had forms of "you" like this: thou/thee.
Maybe We Need a Lost and Found for Nukes
Google Chrome Testing Infobar Alerts on Data-Heavy Web Pages
For the same reason I use an ad blocker. I don't care if they don't want me as a reader. What matters is that I want to read that content.
It's "default" in the sense that it applies by default to all future transactions.
I also had some sinus issues that likely contributed.
I really did have the headphones on for at least 8 hours a day. Then going home watching TV, not getting enough sleep. I'm guessing it all added up.
I hate to be negative, but what makes you think you can do in two months what Microsoft has failed to do in several years (Microsoft's Precision Touchpad is still a ways away from a Mac touchpad).
Zoox and Its $800M Robo Taxi Dream
Might be a silly question, but how do you even know he bought insurance from Insure and Go?

You’re awful quick to want to shame “this horrible company.”
There is definitely room to improve how often and efficiently desktop software utilizes more cores, but I don't expect it will be common that ~32 cores gets you much gain over ~8. But when you do have a workload that can benefit, like if you know GCC will compile a huge c++ project linearly faster up to 32 cores, then it is VERY welcome!
No. The key that unlocks a "keyless" deadbolt is the code that one types in.
"Pared" down.
Perhaps we just need more people to which I can delegate work. I love designing big architectures and also mentoring junior developers. But then also doing a lot of the work or jumping between 5 projects to bail a junior out is spreading me thin. So, we'll see. We ARE hiring more people so maybe I just need to be patient.

Our founders do all the client management, we have a product manager who deals with the WHAT, and I deal with the HOW, with 4 developers under me hopefully as means to implementation.
Weird, that's not what it gave me when I clicked originally, I doubled checked. I see it now though.
I'll recommend Zero AM (https://www.roastedbytes.com/zeroam/)
I don't get it. Who is asking for another Facebook? Except for a few vocal minority carrying on over privacy and decentralization, none of which will even bother. The rest of the world doesn't care, Facebook is there for them already. When everyone inevitably tires of it, they'll move to a new idea, not another clone. Facebook knows this, that's why they continue purchasing upcoming services like Instagram.
No. I prefer the Thinkpad nipple and sad they added a touchpad as it just gets in the way. I wish it was a BTO option to have the nipple only or touchpad only, or both.

The nipple on every other manufacturer I have tried isn't even usable. The nipple on the Thinkpad is god like. I used to hear of designers prefer it for Photoshop editing back in the days before Lenovo.

That said, I am using a MacBook Pro now with macOS and have been for years because I tend to spend way too much time tinkering to get things perfect.
Doing it for say drugs in a sewer would seem to be a much harder deal I would think. You gotta come up with a better excuse than say a car stop.
We have seen timeouts between EC2 and S3 and we needed their team to do a packet capture
What kinds of social interactions or behaviors would encourage honesty, openness etc?

While I commend their enthusiasm, I don't think the audience they (or any large social network) needs cares a lick about privacy, openness, honesty, or goodwill. If they did then Facebook & Instagram wouldn't have 1+ Billion Users, not to mention Twitter, Reddit, Twitch, Baidu etc etc.

People want to engage with a product that is interesting and suits their social/personal needs more than anything else.

While I agree with most of what you said, "But if a social network pledged to only allow posts that are positive about things, or actively banned people for spreading lies, that would be totally different. ", I disagree with this line.

Heard of Imzy? Who is the police for stopping the spread of "lies"? I take a more Libertarian stance and think we need the opposite and rather less censorship, less thought policing, less handholding, but within a context of a set of rules.
Similarly Flask was also a joke at first. And now a pillar.
Can anyone chime how this compares to nginx and openresty? Probably a dumb question , but I hope to gain some insight
I feel very, very strange that payment processors can act that way. It's not the first time I hear about such things, other times it has happened with Paypal or Stripe.

I mean that's some users' fault, isn'it it? Isn't it the job of the payment processor to identify and handle problem users and crooks? What am I paying them for? I don't really understand how they can boot customers, _and_ boot them _without an explanation_. They should need at least a ruling from a judge. I can understand if my audience is "risky" and hence I get no discount on fees and so on, but this behaviour is unacceptable and - IMHO - it breaks business freedom and (potentially) competition.

I don't know if it's the same in the US, but in Italy, as an example, a "real" business operating in brick-and-mortar locations is considered a "public place" (pubblico esercizio) and it can't refuse its services to people that can pay for them (barring some legal limits, e.g. selling alcohol to kids or to people that are already drunk). I think that in a ruling some years ago those rights were extended to online shops and activities. If you want to give services to a restricted audience you can create a "private club", but then you're severely limited in what you can do in marketing/advertising and such.

I really think the same should happen for internet activities. This is blatant - albeit algorithmic - discrimination.
Or by a system of giant arrows on the ground

https://www.citylab.com/life/2015/02/why-is-america-dotted-w...
I agree that network growth is essential in this case, but burning investor money is not THE solution to this need. There are better solutions to achieve that level of patronage and exposure. They'd have to innovate for such ways though.
For example,

Let the early users generate badges that they can list on current social networks so that they can brings their friends in.

Incentivise quality content by directly adding up to one's storage/other limits. Example, if 1000 users like your post, then you get extra MB for your photos or some other benefit.

Let the influential/early users(who bring many of their contacts into the network) have first dibs at new features that makes them feel cool.

or any other marketing strategy that people write books about :-)
'C' Hyper-Reference – CHaR
I'll go further and say that if there is a system, it's precisely to be resilient to bad leaders. If leaders can effectively lead, why have a system over them ? e.g. a system that works when everyone acts out of good will is redundant.
Also something's stealing focus so that keyboard navigation doesn't work. We are probably not the target market though.
I switched to this: http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/

Now, if I could just find something as brilliant for this Surface Book 2.
never heard of it, thanks
> I always wonder when I buy insurance, if I need it will they actually pay out.

I think that's every insurance purchasers worry. The insurance companies have people who work for them to look for ways to deny your claim. But if the claim is straightforward, obvious and well documented, they will pay out unless you are dealing with unscrupulous insurers.
Ask HN: Do you have examples of larger companies using static site generators?
I'm currently looking into the viability of using a static site generator (GatsybyJS) to provide a PWA-type experience for a multi-locale CMS driven site.

The content will be maintained using a CMS, and the site will be regenerated and re-deployed on each publish. Any transactional requests will be serviced by a custom API-driven backend system.

Aside from performance and scalability advantages, I like the extra layer of security provided by removing dynamic-access to the CMS. I also like the level of control provided by combining code and content within each discrete build artifact.

In order to help make my case, it would be really useful to reference examples of larger companies that have successfully used this approach. Conversely, any stories about why this approach could fail would be equally useful.

Best

Luke
If someone isn’t aware of this they are not my preferred peer.
Lojban is so big, you could create different cultures simply by omitting or making mandatory different bits. This group doesn't use rafsi but evidentials are mandatory; that group doesn't use any of the time-space marking but the other does, etc.
It'd be funny if the puzzle was to count graves. Then you would answer 20. Either there are 20 and you're right, or there are only 18 so the caretaker digs 2 more for you and your friend, so you become right.
that feels like the single worst comment thread on HN

starts woth 200 comments of pundits going back and forth between "everyone I know" and "nobody" uses this app

then clueless ppl trying to defend that this app is the only way poor colege students can properly pay a bar bill with friends if they were not drinking, as the only alternative in their universe is spliting the bill equally, as if money or credit card had minds of their own or something.
Israel would not work direct with the Post/BBC. It's pretty amature hour to do so.

What about Tunisia, they share the mobile network, friends, but not happy about Qatar funding terrorists.

I think it would be unethical for the Post to have worked with direct enemies of Qatar and not mentioned it.

Their article doesn't say it's an enemy state, unlike the BBC.

UAE have hacked Qatar before (Or outsourced it), but this is different and I can't see UAE working direct with the Post.
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You should check out Thorsten Ball's interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com. I went through the former - it's amazing. I'm eagerly awaiting the release of the latter.

It walks through the creation of an entire interpreter from scratch using just core Go packages, including test coverage.
Hey, You Cloud Celeb
Now do that for the GPU.
This is why it's important to read the policy itself, not just the marketing materials. Usually they have the specific details of what you have to do and what you're entitled to receive.

The insurer definitely didn't handle it well but it would have gone much smoother if the expectations were properly set by reading the policy.

The travel insurance that comes for my credit card for example makes it quite clear that you have to contact the insurer as soon as possible after an accident and that in most cases, they'll opt to have you repatriated for care in your home country.
I've long been wondering why anyone would require (or accept) workin hours so inflexible that they force the employee to be stuck in traffic for some of the precious off-time. It might have made more sense way-back-when most work was mechanical, oriented around production lines or such, but for a society mostly consisting of office jobs, flattening out the rush hours seems like a total no-brainer to me.

Being in academia I'm lucky to have pretty flexible hours, and just going half an hour before/after peak hours really saves time or (in my case, since I commute by bike) nerves.
> setup handled via a curl-to-bash of mine gets me exactly back to where I started, down to the sessions..

Wow. I'd love to know more about that.
"it has been found that people who had watched promotional exercise videos tended to consume more calories than they would normally, despite having not done any exercise themselves" https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/the-running-blog/20...
The kaymak and honey combination must be my favorite breakfast. Once I pop, I can't stop. Makes me wish I lived in Turkey just for that.
possibly, but what consensus is used ? PoW (stars power the "mining")? or DPoS (controlled by God?) ? Are dark holes orphaned forks ? Is that why we can't change the past because of it's immutability?
:-)
How big of a problem is that, really?
ZTE, Tariffs, and a Chip Strategy
I think this is the disconnect that (some) older people have. I resist using any platform that exposes my private life like this. And my private life is utterly routine, I "have nothing to hide" but I still don't accept it should be normal that everything is public.

Younger generations might just be conditioned to see it as normal. That's worrisome to me, but a good illustration that humans adapt to whatever culture they're raised in. If you grow up in a glass house, it's just the way things are.
just to make it clear .. this is a promo...
"Chapter 1" is over 400 pages. :)
The shorelines were likely rendered by in-house fluid dynamics simulation, and, likewise, the surface structures of the stones, sand and barks likely use in-house shaders which are far more advanced than what's implemented in non-commercial, non-in-house renderers. The Pbrt render also lacks aerial perspective:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_perspective
It really depends. The question really should be, "Is Perl 6 fast enough?" For my purposes, the answer is almost always yes. I can imagine some applications where the answer would be no, but then I would probably be looking at C/C++ for a solution, anyway. Language bench-racing has really begun to look counter-productive to me.
Homebrew is the best thing about macOS
Your public library and services like Overdrive are "NetFlix for text".

NetFlix for text != zero curation, NetFlix curates their selection.
My wife says I shouldn't teach my kids coding
Same like Hackintoshes, right?
I mean, I made that number up. What I'm saying is, if you always pick the offer that provides the highest salary, you will get that salary at the expense of all else.
Not even a little bit but that's a fascinating device.

The hearing aid you linked uses light to activate a transducer that's been placed against the tympanic membrane (eardrum). It could have used a wire, radio waves, whatever.

This technique is a combination of a viral infection that transfers light-sensitivity genes into the inner ear and a surgical implant that produces light in the inner ear modulated in response to sound.

One is an externally worn device and the other is a combination of surgery and viral gene-editing. They're "akin" in that they both use light as part of the system. Well, I guess they also both use devices made from baryonic matter.
I can recommend the book writing an interpreter in Go. It requires some basic knowledge of the Go programming language to get started.
I work somewhere where i can use emojis and fight for not using them cos they are distracting and don’t add value. If you red scientific paper full of emojis would you take it seriously?