skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Efficiency in coding: inmeasurable. For typical CRUD it's amazing once you get over the hump of setup.

Efficiency in speed: likely very little over just requesting the HTML via AJAX.

As far as scrolling/etc: that behavior is super buggy and I never really tested it. I "turned on" the turbolink-esque behavior as a test but it needs far more work.

In any case, one can just turn it off and revert to regular SSR behavior instead of the AJAX-ey one. I might even do that because, in general, I want my page to show the traditional loading icon in place of the favicon.
Oh shit. This is one of the worst things I can imagine.
Another fascinating and strange book on logic — The Laws of Form — is worth tracking down. Even more strange, the only other book published by the author, under a pseudonym.
Ask HN: What constitutes a “hotfix”?
At my company we are trying to define some new policies and procedures to prevent wild, partly untested code going into production under the basis that it is a hotfix. To help us implement said policies & procedures we are trying to define what requirements must be met before a "hotfix" is to be deployed.

In your eyes (or your companies if they have something alike), what sort of quantifiable metrics do you use to determine if a fix is a bugfix or a hotfix.

- Is this "fix" going to solve a critical production issue?
- Are customers affected, and how many?
- Could/does this fix introduce regressions?

Any ideas / thoughts would be greatly appreciated :)
Who owns / controls the Arctic? Is it within American jurisdiction?
Money can buy happiness is true in the sense of fulfilling a requirement for obtaining the need(s) to experience a happy outgoing life. A person may need an operation to improve their own health and afterwards would be able to seek happiness as the current moment is dread by the variables of requiring the procedure. Further, the person can only obtain the course of action needed with a sum of finances they lack. Another person may fit the same scenario but have the finances and can place themselves on the path of happiness sooner which may be better than later. I see this in the transgender community a lot. People debate it all the time because of discomfort towards the idea that finances are a factor in obtaining vs not in having a happy life.
Right, by "very hard to beat" I didn't mean to imply it was somehow impossible.

Looking at the whole benchmark that that page links to, the difference is within a few percent for the actual searching, but it is also the only software in the author's own benchmark that is even close. The other software that was mentioned in the comment above is some 5x worse.

Nobody is going to change the standard grep for performance reasons.
Can the shareholders block this somehow?
Not sure it is time to run yet, but I enjoy using Ubuntu Mate. Xubuntu is a low mem choice as well.
Or maybe, every story has one of this one basic plot: (1) setup/intro/beginning, (2) stuff happens, (3) things somehow come to an end (for now).
People like comfort, and don't like to change their behavior. That is why. Same reason why nobody was interested in the original Insight (2 door, dorky, 70mpg), but the Prius (just like a regular hatch, 50mpg) sold like hotcakes
As for alternate Linux distributions, I don't know how similar you want to stay to Fedora, but my current setup would surely conform to your stated requirements: Arch linux, with i3 as window manager. I use st as my terminal emulator. All together, the memory footprint is minimal, and it makes my not-all-that-low laptop specs shine far more than a heavier distribution would have.

If you want something similar to Fedora, dunno. I believe the desktop interface is a big part of the memory usage of most distributions, so unless I'm mistaken in that, wanting low memory usage as well as a nice interface is going to be difficult.
> I wonder if this could be taught as a 6 month course instead of having to grind through 4+ years of your life researching something obscure impractical and largely driven by funding incentives.

4+ years of PhD (incl. a track record of solid publications) prove that you have the intellect, motivation and discipline to pull off a multi-year research project, similar to the ones employers expect you to work on when they hire you. It seems like an excellent filter for a research job.
> Any thoughts on an alternate OS

Ubuntu, Debian, Arch? (Or Endless if you want something OSTree/Flatpak-based like Fedora Silverblue.)

> with a lesser memory footprint than Fedora?

Anything not GNOME? Not being (too) snarky — GNOME uses a lot of memory, although I've read they're making some progress recently. Even KDE these days is pretty low in memory usage by default.
> Slack threads are hard to enforce, you can "break out of the jail" easily, often by mistake.

In particular, image uploads (and possibly other attachments?) are always posted to the main channel, even if the message they were attached to was in a thread. Trying to conduct an image-heavy discussion -- like a discussion about a graphical design -- in a thread will just mean the main chat gets interrupted by a bunch of out-of-context images.
Whats the issue with your home not being worth the debt you took on? Obviously it isn't great to have an asset like that loose value, but most people don't change homes very often, so the value of the home shouldn't have much impact on your life until later. Even if the value goes to 0, you can still live in it just as well as if it's value stayed constant.
RIP Red Hat Linux.

Can't think of any company I'd want less to be a steward of CentOS upstream.

Looks like Ubuntu is about to get much more serious consideration for production workloads.
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18321937
Indeed, I have used CORDIC for rectangular-to-polar on a little micro without multiply (and power-constrained by a coin cell). I made a code-generator for this, see https://github.com/markrages/cordic_polar
What about fat bikes? Haven't tried biking in ice much yet, but this winter I want to try.
The top 1% of income earners, perhaps, but not the top 1% of wealth, which largely pays only a 15% long-term capital gains tax.
If IBM has one brain cell left, they'll pull a NeXT/Apple merger and let Red Hat executives start running the combined company.

That is the one path to a real future for IBM instead of its slow decline into complete irrelevance.
An often untold story these days is you still need specialistic domain knowledge and a lot of your own data to make good use of fast.ai’s very clever lessons. Being able to achieve state of the art results with copy-pasting & modding any of the Dogs vs Cats image classifiers out there, eg. from Keras/Tensorflow, fast.ai/PyTorch, PyImageSearch/OpenCV etc, is worth almost nothing without your own business or research case, your own data and your own targets / metrics.
Hearing this, nothong else than a big f word comes out of my mouth.
No, you haven't. You maybe have fallen at 35 kph. That's different.
If a car hits you standing still at 35 kph, that's about the same energy as you crashing into a wall riding a bike at 35. I would not recommend it.
Exactly this; this is also why people with multiple PhDs are incredibly rare (and viewed as odd ducks). The expectation is you've been trained to do "science" if you have a PhD, and thus a second one is redundant.
This is why customer support via phone, with easy to obtain info or a convincing story, is a go-to approach for criminals. Social engineering in the right hands is simply unstoppable against our pattern matching, monkey brains.
Ay ay ay... if this is true then everything from RH is gonna get fatter, slower and more expensive.

Add a bit of WebSphere here, a bit of Domino there and voila. It'll then be ready for 'resource action' (aka layoffs).

Jokes aside, RH is an engineer-focussed business - IBM is an accountant-focussed business. There's just NO way these two cultures are going to work well together.
What if the model were changed to

M + T*Q = H

so that time and quality of the time are tightly coupled. Unpaid overtime that has a high quality might then still pay off (although this is also true in the case where T and Q are additive, just tougher to achieve).
This is even easier to tax dodge because you just pay cash and do stuff off the books.

Regressive taxation schemes don’t take into account the disproportionate advantages that the wealthy get from having sound infrastructure provided by the government.

How does a sales tax properly impact the monopolist who is getting advantages from state sponsored research and educational subsidies?

They also don’t take into account that the wealthy can pay more in taxes without it substantially affecting their quality of life, whereas a poor person it will make a huge difference in their diet and ability to save.

It may be logical on a simple level, but logical at face value doesn’t make it sound public policy.
Which ones and what has been the EPA’s response?
Inspecting Mach Messages in MacOS Kernel-Mode: Sniffing the Sent Mach Messages
Remember when NeXT bought Apple with Apple's money? If there's meaningful Red Hat leadership being put at the helm at IBM as part of the deal, it might not be hideous news. But if it's the usual acquisition, well I cannot imagine more incompatible cultures than IBM and Red Hat, integration seems very unlikely.
Six miles off the Alaskan coast, as per TFA, or the whole of the Arctic?
To better appreciate what NASA does, I think it helps to look at its achievements in a different way. Instead of (just) marveling at the big rockets or the rovers on other planets, consider the amount of paperwork that was needed to do these things. Someone had to get approval to move a large amount of high explosive across several state lines, obtain permission to detonate a large amount of this explosive material in a wildlife refuge, coordinate with foreign military agencies to ensure that "yeah that thing you see on your radar going on ballistic trajectory toward your homeland TOTALLY isn't WW3", and mate with a space station partially constructed by a foreign power with which you have sanctions that limit your ability to exchange technical information.

Even though SpaceX has to do some of this, they get to reuse quite a bit of NASA paperwork.
I'd love to see someone drawing out the graph for A song of fire and Ice. Not only do you have several simultansus character arcs to draw out, but through the story arch they are also discontinuous and mix between being interwoven and separate in quite interesting fashions.
How did you figure it out, did you look at the results of your blood test and do a self-diagnosis from there?
Fwiw, I have found that GitHub/Lab issue work great. Not only do they serve as TODOs but those paper trails (so to speak) become part of the project's DNA and "documentation".

Someone new coming on board has a fairly organized point of entry, warts, bumps and all.
When I moved to DDG, it took me more than a week to tune my searches for it. I was completely trained to the google interpreter and ddg works different. Now I use slightly different phrases, or ordering and it is great. I only use !g for very specific technical searches, like obscure errors.
I think in several cases the cause can be traced to taking multiple courses of ciprofloxacin or other fluoroquinolones which have been known to be mitochondrial topoisomerase poisons for decades. The drugs are super dangerous for public health and should be reserved for last resorts and the medical industry is finally catching on.

If you ruin the mitochondrias ability to reproduce you will develop latent muscular and neurological dysfunction.
That's a positive scenario but I don't see Ginni Rometty relinquishing control voluntarily. The IBM board has given no signs of dissatisfaction with her performance.
Another one, geared toward taking repetition and verbosity out of programming:

https://github.com/hzhou/MyDef

https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/hzhou/MyDe...
When does teaching with comics work well?
Red Hat is a lot more than the distros, isn't it?
Wise Software Choice
Sure, those are the ones having to sell their shares to IBM, but IBM would pay a premium and before anouncement discuss with key investors.
Second that.

Half a year ago I was still at RedHat, and we were joking around with colleagues, that either the big bet on OpenShift/kubernetes starts paying off, or somebody buys us.

We joked that Microsoft under Satya Nadella would actually be quite a good fit :D
“Responsibly developing our resources, in Alaska especially, will allow us to use our energy diplomatically to aid our allies and check our adversaries,” he said in a statement. “That makes America stronger and more influential around the globe.”

We feel that when we swing our dick around, it’s not big enough. This will allow to have a bigger dick to swing around.

I’m at a loss for a less cynical translation.
Following this typology: Man in the hole? The "Master and Margarita" isn't that complex with respect to its basic plot. The plot doesn't tell you much about the story though.
In my experience, LLVM has too much code motion for understaffed projects to seriously consider. When I’m developing small languages my goal is to reduce overall work or, barring that, keep the work constant & get some other benefit. While I always reach for c++ first, I’m under no delusion that it’s a fit language for describing easily portable, easily consumable, and stable API/ABI. For that work, C is the undisputed grand champion. As such, I generally just translate to C. With the vector intrinsics provided by Clang (or GCC), I can still target all the features I need.
How Terry Myerson went from out of shape to fit after Microsoft
I think that would be smart - I emailed a similar idea to a doordash recruiter a while back.

They should use the data from food delivery to find the most commonly requested items and then just have kitchens make “Amazon basic” versions with nice packaging/branding that undercut on price.

I think this could be a new type of fast food take over if done right.
If this happens, I see older engineers targeted by IBM as they have done over the for "cost savings" as part of the acquisition.
I’d love to see some hard evidence on the effectiveness of slack. I’m at least skeptical. I feel like it’s just another channel to watch. Is there any company that got rid of email and is on slack only?
That is assuming it will reach 1.0 soon and has a framework that is anywhere close to Rails. ( Lucky and Amber aren't close )
At this point I'm really wondering what it will take before we accept the utter insanity that is electronic voting.

Even if there isn't a major breach to the point where hostile actors (foreign or domestic) "steal" an election, the confidence in e-voting will inevitably be cast into doubt by the losing side at some point. Guaranteed.

How do you audit or recount an anonymous electronic vote? How do you know if a vote cast is recorded as such? How do you know votes aren't wiped at some point?

There are two basic options that work perfectly well:

- Fill in a paper ballot with pen or pencil marking in spaces for the candidates you vote for. Have a machine verify your ballot.

- Vote on a touch screen. Once done print out your ballot and put it in a box.

In either case you use some kind of paper that isn't impossible to counterfeit (that's basically an impossibility) but it should be hard enough such that it's nontrivial.

That's it. That's all you need to do.

Sure local actors can "lose" ballots, ball stuf and so forth but this all has to be done on a pretty local level. You get rid of any potential vectors like a Russian or Chinese state agency changing the result from the other side of the planet because someone forgot to update OpenSSL on one Linux server or someone clicked on a phishing link on an innocuous looking email.

Apparently we didn't learn our lessons from unreliable voting methods in 2000 (pregnant chad, anyone?) so I'm not super-hopeful.
That probably helps them improve. If I were at DDG I would look at these queries and try to improve the results to match Google.
TLDR

http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_fatigue_syndrome
Welp, there goes any chance Research Triangle Park ever had of being a major tech hub.
Maybe if the bubble were ever allowed to actually just deflate, then we wouldn't be in a state of perpetual worry?

The present feedback loop is straightforward: CPI is an average of consumer goods and the price of housing. Due to technological and economic progress, the costs of manufactured goods are always dropping. To maintain the Fed's stated goal of continual inflation, new money must be injected into the housing market to compensate.

(The same goes for anything else that can be financialized, eg cars)
Mentally Disabled Pakistani Christian Sentenced to Life in Prison – Persecution
'Where shall the regulation start and stop?"

Those decisions already have to be made. 'Regulations' already have to start and stop somewhere.

There are restaurants all up and down my street and people seem to get along fine.
I tend to be more frustrated by having to call a company to handle some basic use case situation that could definitely have been handled by an algorithm, but was just not handled by their app/website.
I thought international law prohibits any country from asserting ownership over the arctic?
Original title: Programmer, Teach Yourself Foundations of ML and AI with these 6 Books

Books:

- Ian Hacking - Introduction to probability and Inductive Logic

- John Kruschke - Doing Bayesian Data Analysis

- Gareth Williams - Linear Algebra with Applications, Alternate Edition

- Matthew Scarpino - OpenCL in Action

- Michael Nielsen - Neural Networks and Deep Learning

- Goodfellow, Bengio, and Courville - Deep Learning
In theory, Ethereum's scaling plan let's it reach 1 million transactions per second: https://www.ccn.com/vitalik-buterin-ethereum-will-eventually...

How that works out in practice remains to be seen.

Recent developments are encouraging for scalability. For example Roll Up is a plan to use zk-SNARKs to create very secure sidechains that would increase the total capacity of a single Ethereum chain to 17,000 tps or more. With sharding, where Ethereum operates 100 chains at once, that would mean Ethereum would be able to achieve 1.7 million transactions per second.
Cheap portabiltiy. Easy use by packagers.

It annoys me quite a bit when someone decides not to use autotools or meson, or other standard build tools. I have a build system set up to build static packages for several architectures, and most of my packages are described like this:

name=some
ver=123
url=https://where-to-get/some-$ver.tar.gz
build() {
autotools_build --some-option
}

And it does the right thing for all packages that use autotools.

If you roll out your own Makefile, I have to figure out how to build the targets, how to install them, whether you use DESTDIR, whether you respect cross-compile options, how to build static library, how to configure your package... and code all this by hand to build() function.

The same goes for my custom Arch Linux packages.

Make the packagers job easy and just don't roll your own if you want your package to be distributed widely.
Guys, this is not just, or mainly not RH Linux. :(

- kernel development

- Ansible

- JBoss (I know HN hates Java, especially Java EE, but it was and is an important factor in enterprise OSS adoption)

- OpenShift

- Ceph, Gluster

All these are in danger, not just RHEL. I don't know about any other company that is large, successful, focuses on the enterprise and absolutely behind OSS. Canonical is way behind Red Hat in terms of revenue (1/20).

Sad.
That seems like it would decentivize being rich pretty dramatically. The truth is that many rich people are the main movers of the economy, generating positive value for everyone (versus rent seeking). If you decentivize being rich you decentivize generating value.

Ayn Rand explores a world where the rich value creators go on strike when people and the government “loot” and plumber their wealth, through regulations and restrictions in her economic dystopian book Atlas Shrugged.

I mention this merely to suggest we could be careful about overtaxation ‘because they’re rich and won’t miss it.’ We ought to discuss the boundary where we go too far and steer very clear of that boundary.
When IBM bought Informix they replaced competent database support with aggressive DB2 marketing droids and presented us with an annual bill sixty times more than Informix had charged.
From my own experience, Gab's founders and public facing opinions seem to support extreme, hateful content in an explicit, non-neutral manner, rather than being a neutral platform that unfortunately must host those things due to its neutrality.
It's the opposite for my region (DC area). Lots of high-quality restaurants that otherwise don't deliver are on Uber Eats, while GrubHub and Deliveroo is mostly bad fast food and pizza.
RH are good at a LOT of things but sales remains a bit of a weak point compared to Oracle and to a lesser degree IBM.

Hopefully the RH guys can bring back a focus on technology to IBM while IBM figure out how to sell it to customers.

PS: so will it be called Blue Hat?
Working for a competing company (Pivotal), I can say that yes, Red Hat does more than RHEL.
"Master and Margarita" seem to follow the BBC post's Oedipus storyline: Fall (rejection of the Master's novel, his desperation, separation from Margarita and internment into a psychiatric hospital), Rise (Margarita's offer from Satan brings her power over the elements, the Master finally gets out of prison and the couple gets back together) & Fall again when they are poisoned and die in disgrace both from Satan and God.
Nobody likes to feel stuck in a house.
> Can't think of any company I'd want less to be a steward of CentOS upstream

Oracle
But there is lunch that would otherwise go to waste. I used to work at a bagel shop.

My mother-in-law used to work full-time for a hospital calling insurance companies to get them to actually pay for claims.
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Do you own an internal combustion engine? Does your Amazon delivery person? Your fire Dept? Police?

We are all complicit
What's the danger here? A spill/leakage, or is there anything else?
use the IBM sales org, with the RH leadership ;-)
Helsinki's MaaS App, Whim: It Reallv Mobility's Great Hope?
"those in charge have basically given up"

Yes but which company's leadership has given up? If this is the ordinary acquisition model, where the buying company (IBM) leadership stays in charge, then I say it's Red Hat's leadership that's given up. If it's the 'buy a company to get an entirely new leadership team' then it means those in charge of IBM might actually understand their dire situation. But I have no idea if they have that awareness.
I was floored when I read the responses to malfunctioning equipment in Texas. "Voters are moving too quickly through the pages." That is a BUG! not user error in the slightest.
Because it's still legal to use a kick scooter on the same pavements. Most countries have the law that e-scoots can be used on the pavements as long as you're going walking speed.
IBM has been very open source friendly over the last 20 years, more so as of recently.
The big boys are always above the law. Illegal wars, illegal anexations, "illegal" murders, price fixing(opec)...you name it. For a law to have any value it has be enforceable. Who will punish US? The EU states can barely agree to take action against Russia.
I'm still waiting for someone to figure out how to make "Etsy for food" work at scale. My guess if/when it happens it will look somewhat like what Uber has i.e. rent licensed "ghost kitchens" to small cooks by the hour and make all deliveries originating from those kitchens.
KDE's memory footprint on boot decreased to 400MB or less.
RHEL is just a small piece of the Red Hat puzzle that is sold to enterprises. In some way Red Hat is an exception -- there have been no multi-billion dollar businesses built purely on open source except them. (Or maybe I have missed something.)
IBM would rather push Spectrum Scale/GPFS over Ceph or Gluster