skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank to Open Source that, it looks a great project.

Could a LogDevice give a bit of informations about the scale they use that at facebook ?

- How many record this thing can injest per day ?
- Any limitations on the maximum number of storage nodes ?
- What would be your maximum and advise size of record for a production usage ?
- ZooKeeper seems to be the center point used as epoch provider. Did you encounter any scaling limitations or max number of client due to that ?
i disagree. i am more of an introvert, but travelling alone let me step out from daily behavioural routine and discover my extrovert side.
> ...modifying the voting process would be too expensive, too unwieldy, and, in the end, not worth it.

Wow. Government saying that securing a functioning democracy is “not worth it”. Those people need to be voted out of office stante pede.
No, this page is a lie. apple will not repair 4, they will sell you replacement 4 (all data you might had on yours is gone).
Edge cases ...
Indispensable Remedy: The Broad Scope of the Constitution’s Impeachment Power
> EDIT I'm just going to add this in because it just doesn't sit well. It shouldn't acceptable for leadership in a workplace to stand up and express pain and dismay at the outcome of a democratic process.

Isn't this exactly what they do whenever they lobby to change an existing law?
> Unfortunately, the attractiveness of becoming a U.S. citizen is waning

I don't think that's necessarily true. Despite the politics and rhetoric of the current administration, just today the front page of the NYTimes ran an article titled: U.S. Has Highest Share of Foreign-Born Population Since 1910 ( https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/us/census-foreign-populat... )

The article opens with:

> The foreign-born population in the United States has reached its highest share since 1910, according to government data released Thursday, and the new arrivals are more likely to come from Asia and to have college degrees than those who arrived in past decades.
My best interpretation is that you feel that people wrongly assume that if they don't accept tracking they will loose access to their services.

That unethical companies tries to push that view isn't particularly unexpected. But that doesn't detract from the massive success it has had in imprinting the notion that personal data must be treated with respect and comes with responsibilities. This is a game changer.

Also now, for the first time, if you are in the know you have something you can do.

I'd really like to know how you would have done this.
Show HN: Squadpanel, show who is who in your organization, event, group
That's a recent part of it. Pocket integration, removal of about:config entries, moving to WebExtensions so that the user has less control over their browser both in terms of appearance and function, changing the appearance in a way the user has little way of altering to a more functional display, now removing Bookmark Descriptions, using random non-user-audited data transmitted from random Firefox installs to determine the focus and goals of the browser, etc.
HHVM and the work of Hack is what made PHP Great again. ( Or more like bearable )

PHP 7 along with laravel can get you some insane development speed. And I argue Hack, and PHP7 is actually want made PHP's downfall stabilise. The community saw their ecosystem has a way going forward and more improvements to come. Rewriting your app in different languages and frameworks is hard, no sane person wants to do it.
Bro... 150 minutes, 3 times a week? You're alreday on the G.D. ironman regime, using extra time, and doing it in a grueling fashion aimed at leaving you depleted, too. No wonder you don't have daily time!

I don't know what your goals are, but: getting slim is 95% diet... Sourcing calories from diet is almost always cheaper than on a treadmill. Seriously. Generally slow and steady is the way to get it done, too much too fast makes rebounds. Low-impact exercise with constant wear is also a lot for joints...

Lifting heavy weights is much better at burning fat than cardio. It builds fat-burning muscle, and increases your fat burning across every hour for a long period post-workout. It's hormonally optimal with avout 45 minutes of effort. 3 x 45min would save you over 5 HOURS of gym time every single week. You could learn Chinese in half a year with that kind of investment. Smart training means smart recovery, so the goal should be feeling worked, but never drained. Weight lifting can do that well.

Grinding ourselves down in the gym is a moral desire, but athletic development is about simple progressive stress and recovery.
For all of these reasons I chose to "work for myself" (product design consulting) nearly four years ago and haven't looked back since. I work very hard, but am able to create for myself a career and work/life balance that no other company could ever provide - my own.
or a tiny js file that anyone can add to header, that upon document loaded replaces ALL images, videos, text in quotes and anchors with black stripes with red "451 unavailable for legal reasons" spans. Upon clicking this should open in a new tab a website with information on what is this about and what can be done about it.
I'm sure I'm repeating voices here, but I'm really sad. And the article also mentions Mailbox too which I used before and moved to Inbox because it had a similar interface/structure. I love grouped archive/delete, I love pins, I love snooze. Inbox, I feel, is the only sane way to do email.

I don't know whether I want to even adopt a new product again, from anyone, and integrate it into my workflow. I've had Astrid (to Yahoo(?)), Sunshine Calendar (to Microsoft), Mailbox (to DropBox) gone and now it's Inbox.

Maybe it is time to vote (and ask devs/companies to enable us to) with our wallets. I have Todoist and trying out Notion, I really hope they don't roll over soon.

Now I kinda understand people who want to roll their own tools for everything.. You don't become dependent on others for what is important to you.
How do you lose a class in a programming language?!
To be fair to UKIP that was the Tories job. UKIP had ?one? MP and have never been near to government. The Tories called the referendum. They were in government. The Tories should have been ready to govern. They should have had plans in place.

Disclaimer I am a remainer and dislike UKIP as much as anyone.
Ask HN: Which tool for generating aesthetically pleasing C++ reference docs?
Doxygen output is not exactly beautiful or state of the art. Tools that take doxygen XMLs and convert them to something visually pleasing and usable seem to be a mixed bag.

Are there any great projects you'd recommend?
This video presents as if the leadership is coddling a room full of kindergartners sad over the loaner class pet going home. Company full of children.
javascript has no type hinting, there's typescript but tons of people use plain javascript. Same for python (tons of code was and is being written without hints).
The same goes for ruby.
Is this a joke?

dlz:

#!/bin/bash
f=$1
x=${f: -3}
if [ "$x" == "dlz" ];
then
lz4 -d $f - | tar xvf -
else
tar cvf - $f | lz4 > ${f%.*}.dlz
fi
I do this. What brought it on for me wasn't really phone addiction, but the notifications were seriously interrupting music playback, or typing email/etc.
So, now if someone calls it rings. If I get a text, it vibrates. No visual banners/etc. Phone stays in my pocket most of the time, battery has lots left by end of day :) good luck people...
The article:

> Fully useful quantum computers have the potential to reach computation speeds that are orders of magnitude faster than today’s supercomputers.

It's not talking about the present, where IIUC quantum computers are basically useless for anything but research, not performing as well as classical computers because of noise and shortage of qubits.
Ad blocking just makes the internet better in every way.

Even an asshole like me will remove ublock origin if websites start to self-host ads. But they won't.
RMS is right. Long live RMS. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
Yeah, at a previous job we used Hack around the time PHP7 was released and switched over to PHP7 pretty quickly.

Performance and type checking were the only benefits over PHP5 and with those (mostly) gone, you were just left with all the downsides like all the good tooling for PHP being incompatible with Hack and, and general compiler/interpreter errors that were never getting fixes.
It lacks reasonable audit capability. Paper ballots can be inspected and recounted; tampering and ballot stuffing can be observed. Tokens in a particular bin can't be audited in the same way.

And it may also lack anonymity--unlike the folded paper vote, you could be observed putting the token into a particular slot.
"Fake news" has lost all meaning in the intervening years, but at the time, it is hard to remember, we were concerned about essentially phishing websites that made themselves out to be (say) CNN, but were not.

As others have said, evaluating trust on the internet using computers (call it AI or not) is literally Google's core competency.
I think a lot of people had prepared articles, packages etc for the 1.0 release - and now they're slowly getting released ;)
If you're a Julia developer, the release definitely motivates you to put in the extra work and try to release your material around the same time!
A society that can't prepare an election with analog ballots -- be it ballots or pebbles -- is a democracy in distress.
"People in the States and generally speaking in Western Europe tend to forget how much communism (Bolshevism as it was called back then) was seen as a threat after WW1."

Because it really was, Europe was pretty lucky that Soviet army was defeated in 1920 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Warsaw_(1920)] before it managed to go further to the West - that was the ultimate communists goal, as they wanted to spread revolution across whole continent.

In that way not only Eastern and Central Europe countries would experience the fun communism brings: poverty, inequality, secret police murdering opposition members and priests, lack of freedom.
I would have liked "Hack" to be some play on "PHP". Maybe "HPH". PHP++ or PHPPP
HHVM can be more experimental than PHP so there's still potential that new features in HHVM get considered and merged into PHP, kind of like Fedora/Redhat or Neovim/Vim
The problem is when they become involved in political issues that are unrelated to their economic activity.
I find it reasonable, even somewhat logical, to label racists, sexists, homophobes, trans-phobes, immigrant-phobes, xenophobes, anti-semitists, islamophobes, etc. as monsters. Don't you? I'd be interested to hear why not?

Personally, anyone who is actively seeking to enact hurtful policies against targeted individuals who have committed no crimes and shown no treat, in order to benefit themselves, could be logically qualified as a monster. An atrocity is defined as a cruel act. In that sense, if you support and encourage such acts, it seems appropriate to label you a monster.

This has been true for most of history. At least with today's common morals, it seems to hold that historical act of cruelty are deemed as enacted by monsters.

And marketing wise, republicans seem to have greatly associated themselves behind such people and policies. It's unfortunate if you fall in the camp only for everything else. Like say you just support gun rights, small governments and pro-life, because you truly believe that is best for everyone's livelihood, success, stability, prosperity, safety and happiness. Yet condemn and disagree firmly against acts of cruelty towards innocents. You might have people wondering why then you'd be willing to compromise one over the other, and question the truth of your condemnation.
Maybe. Maybe not.

From what I read on the topic, it's much more complicated. People have plenty of typical-female or typical-male parts of brain slushed around, generally people tend to have the most of them that correspond to their gender (IIRC you can guess gender/sex correctly about 80 or 90% of the time by looking at the brain).

It may contribute along with other factors for the cases where the brain does express gender dysphoria.
I've used Trips for years without Inbox. It's an app you can download on the app store/play store and it still automatically creates trips based on your Gmail inbox
Can you give an overview over the difference to eg Apache Kafka?

It seems very similar.
Yes, a much earlier period that ended in the distant past of 1998. Sectarian violence is now limited to pubs and football matches rather than high explosive.
Scribe doesn't really make decisions about that, it doesn't store checkpoints for readers. Readers are commonly more-than-once.
But that's still with an ancient GCC version compared to a newer Clang, right?
I think it depends on whether the improvements facebook hopes to achieve by dropping support for php outweigh the drawbacks of losing 3rd party package compatibility
I quite like this approach, but haven't had a chance to try it in production yet. It seems to be performant and convenient, the biggest cost being extra bytes.

In general, immer plugs in nicely to a lot of contexts, such as redux. Here's another example of how it works with tiny-atom: https://qubitproducts.github.io/tiny-atom/using-with-immer (disclaimer: yet another state management lib, which I wrote).

An alternative approach to immer I've been using in production is http://zaphod.surge.sh/, which is more like an immutable lodash.
For a bit of context, Lucee is the evolution of Railo, which itself was an open source rewrite of Coldfusion after Adobe basically stagnated development.

People have a lot of hate because, Coldfusion, but actually, they got it to a really good place. It has a lot of stuff baked in, so you can configure everything like dB connections, mail settings etc outside of your app and they’re available without any messing around in your code. CFML is actually a pretty clean templating language and everyone had switched to “cfscript” for the actual code. Also, it was relatively fast, and you could plug in any java classes you wanted (and even load them dynamically).

My point is, don’t be too quick to judge. This is actually a good bit of work that came along after it’s lineage had fallen out of fashion.
But this is also basically just a political opinion - some people agree that it is "toxic", others not.
In the EU how successful the abuse is does somewhat matter. The EU doesn't like it when you have two monopolies and use one to reinforce the other. They're generally fine with leveraging one to get an advantage in another market space as long as you don't fall in the above category, ie as long as you aren't a significant portion of the market.

I do sort of agree in this case because it creates more competition in the market (ie Chrome vs Edge) which is healthy.
Swift 4.2
The USA has no functional political parties. The Republicans won on a zero integrity populist gambit that is betraying its voter base and the ideals of the party with every stroke of his pen and typed character.

The Democrats are so mired in their internal politics and fear of having and identity they produced an agenda and candidate so weak they lost to a senile compulsive liar.
The amount of great quality open source projects dein Facebook just keeps growing. I really like the consistency guarantees:

https://logdevice.io/docs/Concepts.html#consistency-guarante...

And it uses RocksDB under the hood:

https://logdevice.io/docs/Concepts.html#logsdb-the-local-log...
Will the Trump infrastructure plan rely on tolls to pay for it? Interstate tolls
I had the exact same thought but I didn't want to muddle my main point with it.

The immediate alternative that came to my mind is trucking. I have a relative who pivoted from factory work into trucking and working with heavy machinery in his 50's, after the factory jobs dried up. Though he definitely had hard times, it is certainly doable and beats dying or getting crippled working for pennies.

Though far from a cushy job, trucking seems comparable to fishing (e.g. you're away from home for a long periods, doesn't require much education) without the danger and backbreaking nature of the work.
China is well on its way reversing the roles with the US where the in the past the US was supplying knowledge and technology their way, it is increasingly the other way around. They have less and less need for US produced research and technology since they are able to do much of it under their own power now. Some time soon, they will out pace the US GDP as well.

US universities have been running for decades on foreign grad students (many of which are Chinese). At the same time the US education system is not producing a lot of domestic talent at this point. Not surprising given years of under funding, budget cuts, the excessive cost of getting educated, etc.

The fix is simple: invest, spend, nurture instead of divest, cut, and kill. Modern economies are primarily knowledge driven. Not investing in that is bad for business.
Ah, well, not to put too fine a point on it, but search engines don't even come close to rating every new page on the internet in real time.

There are like days of lag, in search engine results, unless you eagerly, eagerly, eagerly force your way into strategic points of the existing index for each independent search engine, separately.

Nevermind DNS replication, which is it's own beast. So, from domain registration, to DNS replication, to getting listed, to becoming relevant (which requires all kinds of meta tags and dom restructuring for crawlability, plus roll-your-own-site-maps, and so on), to being recognized as a reliable source of information, such as press releases, before we even get to news possibly going viral?

Well, news actually doesn't even go viral without humans in the loop. I mean consider how viral a high karma rank gets you on hacker news? It's just enough to get 10K eyes on a site in unison, to overwhelm a non-load-balanced server. And that's the voting of users doing all the work.

And then to include heavier social sites like reddit, twitter and facebook in the mix? That's almost purely human opinion performing the ranking factor. The attention of the users closes the feedback loop, and the chain reaction can strap a booster rocket to notoriety.

So, I'd almost say the really real time (like viral real time) stuff is almost only humans doing the work, and the robots are just there for the chatter threshold tripwires.
If the solution were technical we would need a combination of 2 and 3. Distributed hidden services. Is this even possible?

The problem with technical solutions is basically Child Abuse Images. I am a big believer in freedom and privacy. I am also a big believer in protecting children. Many people understandably prefer protecting children to seemingly (to them) abstract concepts like freedom. Any technical solution needs a method to remove certain content - and as soon as such a method exists people will want to abuse it for political reasons.

The solution has to be political not technical - somehow we need a political situation where basic freedoms are respected. This can only exist as revisions to countrys' constitutions. Simple laws protecting freedom are too easy to overturn. And we can't carry on resisting re-heated versions of the same stupid law every two years.
Amazing! We had lots of operational issues because of the coupling you mentioned.

One question though: will Presto support querying from LogDevice directly? :)
Very true, especially as type hinting for properties looks to be coming in PHP 7.4!

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/typed_properties_v2
If there is a contemporary personification of Evil, that is Kissinger. It's not about "traditional republican values" either. As far as I can see, both your big parties are a continuation of Kissinger's policies.
What IS going on with DRM? Edge is the only windows 10 browser that will play 1080p Neflix and possibly Amazon..
So many people say trips was the killer feature - but for me, that was just cool. Snoozing emails to inbox zero. That was my entire system.

Do it now, or when am I most likely to be able to do it?

Cognitive load is a real problem, why would anyone want to see an email that they can do nothing about, above one they can deal with now - and if you just put it in a folder... you have to check that yourself. That's ridiculous. It should remind you - say I'm waiting on package tomorrow before I reply - I shouldn't see the email, or think about it until after the package comes tomorrow. I certainly shoudn't need to remember to look through a custom list, in order to see it.

Google literally revolutionised email, and are now deprecating it - when half the problem was that they rolled it out in a separate and confusing way... Please bring snoozing to Gmail ASAP or I will be so sad.
Interestig fact that Wikipedia runs on hhvm! But I guess since php7 appears to be as fast if not faster nowdays then it's probably the right move anyway.
Canada had a pro-business conservative government up until a few years ago. I don't have the numbers to say if any inequality curve was flattened or not, but if something did happen it seems very unlikely it was a result of policy.

Denmark and Canada also share a property: They are small (population-wise) nations with heavyweight neighbors. Any effect you see is likely to be totally confounded by interactions with those neighbors. E.g. Canadian billionaires may tend go to America, so Canadian inequality "falls". But obviously this isn't doable for the world as a whole.
Study shows two-thirds of U.S. terrorism tied to right-wing extremists
>The EU is sick and tired of people sharing their opinions

Why the EU specifically? I'd say, most states and groups of states have this attitude nowadays.
More people are learning German in the EU now, and now there is also Brexit, which removes English as an official language there. Simultaneously, the role of the UK as a trade hub will be heavily diminished. I would not be surprised if in 50 years German surpassed English in the EU.

China is heavily investing on Africa, so I would not be impressed if Africans start learning Mandarin more actively than they do now. African population is the one experiencing the fastest growth at the moment.

In the Americas, I would expect things to remain more or less the same.

Historically, the Chinese have been very hermetic when it comes to foreign policy. Chinese yuans (RMB) are not as liquid as dollars, and that seems intentional as they want to keep tight control of their currency value. But they do seem more expansive recently... opening overseas military bases in Djibouti, etc.
Why not just take a screenshot, i dont get it.
And they thread properly. Unlike Gmail's bastardised 'We munge your subjects and think these are related'.

I considered implementing the Mutt threading algorithm in a browser extension for GMail. It's one of those "If I ever have less to do, I'll give it a shot" ideas that will never get done :)
I have been thinking about kinds of citation rates that distinguish between "trendy" journals, ones what attract lots of citations relatively quickly, and "deep impact journals", where papers published tend to be cited a long time later.

Given this classification, you can weight an individuals impact factor by a factor representing how trendy vs deep the venues citations appear in.
For something that needs to be as air tight in term of security as a browser, I think it is irresponsible to disable automatic updates.
Ask HN: for iPhone photography, should i go X (refurb) or Xr
X > Xr because of dual camera vs single

or

Xr > X because of chip a12 & software (variable depth of field is awesome)

I assume price will be ~ same. I like the X finsh, but Xr will have more support in time & better faceid

Anyways X (refurb) or Xr ??

P.S: i do not wish to pay max premium, so Xs not a possibility
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