skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it demonstrated its quality early on

I find that slightly revisionist though I suppose it depends on your definition of "early on".

To my recollection etcd had a very rough patch early on until they overhauled their raft sub-system. Hashicorp caught some flak at the time for giving the raft implementation a hard pass and writing their own. Go ecosystem fragmentation was particularly bad and a very hot topic at the time. I believe that etcd's new found stability and subsequent track record after the new implementation vindicated Hashicorp somewhat.
Quite arguably the job of an 'influencer' is to scam people.
It's the unavoidable up front subsidy envy. That, and fears of statist controls obligated by unimaginable risks. The actual risks experienced being lower except when corporate greed behaviour goes Fukushima.

Actual power cost and deaths per gigawatts? Unbeatable. I used to hate on nuclear, I changed my mind. End the lawsuits and let's get building again.
Inter-AZ latency is going to matter more for conditional writes. I'm disappointed to find LWT so far out on Scylla's roadmap since preventing conflicts is a showstopper for correctness and we found it to be Cassandra's weak point in scaling.
Only if your language supports dependent types.
Ah, is this open to the public? Where is it being held?
It was always that way. The only difference is before the machines were so primitive that it wasn't an explicit decision on the designers part.
You're thinking too much in terms of modern debt. In ancient (and not-so-ancient) times, the ordinary peasant always owed something to the landowner/sovereign for the privilege of dwelling on their land.

Sometimes, that debt would be higher than what could reasonably be paid back and so the debt would accumulate.

In other words, they'd rig the game from the start and then loosen the thumbscrews along the way.
How is this on the frontpage of HN with only 4 votes? VC bias?
Reviewing editors are not editors -- they're more like reviewers on retainer. Reviewing editors exist specifically because the professional editors at Science will often be handling manuscripts they are not qualified to understand.

The parent comment was about $prestigious_journal, not the central example of a scientific journal (which I agree is an academically edited specialist journal).

In my experience, al least the top 3-4 tiers of Springer/Nature journals are professionally edited. I doubt Elsevier is any different. It only gets worse as the publishers continue to generate new branded specialist journals and mega-journals trading on the prestige of the flagship publication.
The Obama family has not had a single scandal.
> our disgust with the policy

a prediction: the next US president (almost certainly a Democrat) will continue these policies or other very similar policies. the next president will not suddenly "lighten up" on China.
This is a kludgy way to get DynamoDB to leave your table split across more shards, even after you dial it down to the capacity you need.
I would have had your perspective except that a few months ago I came back from vacation to find that my hot water smelled like windex. The apartment complex flushed my hot water tank, a whole lot of black sludge came out, and my water has been fine since. I assume that not using the hot water for a few weeks caused everything to collect in a concentration high enough to notice, but it makes me cringe to think of how much low level of windex-smelling stuff I drank previously. (Fortunately my hot water takes a minute or two to arrive, so I probably didn’t consume that much just because I didn’t want to wait long enough.)
The money isn't created from "nothing" - it's definitely real money from real people's savings accounts.

The difference is that on a large enough scale, you can make a $1 of real savings circulate as though it were $1.50 or (probably a lot more) of circulating currency and there's huge benefits to doing that (when it's backed by real productivity).

The source of things like the 2008 collapse was the dark side of that - trillions of dollars debts, backed by no possible amount of productivity that could repay them (and tons of fraud allowing these to exist on the books).
Sketch allows anyone more access to really fuck up a design. Looks good, some of the plugins/extensions are top notch but overall, it took the best of ideas from inDesign and Illustrator and bastardized it and somehow people believe it's better. It's different, it's new, but it's not better.

It's good for agencies and freelancers. We use it in corporate just to get the agencies to give us something better than a PDF.
My router is a PC Engines APU2 running pfSense.

When I signed up there was no installtion fee, and no problem doing a self-install. But this was years so, so I have no idea if things have changed or not.
You didn't know Firefox supported extensions? Chrome still doesn't support extensions on mobile.
The only way the sun could be powered by gravity would be if it were gradually collapsing. If the radius of the Sun is constant, no gravitational energy would be released. In this situation the pressure in the Sun is not a source of power, any more than the pressure in the tires of your car could be a source of power.

This was actually the theory of how the Sun was powered, a century ago. This caused problems, since the maximum age of the Sun under this scenario is just tens of millions of years, and the Earth was clearly older than that.

We now know the Earth is 4.55 billion years old. The Sun cannot be powered by gravitational collapse, or it would have stopped shining long ago. The pressure and temperature of the core of the Sun set up the conditions in which fusion can occur, but they are not the source of energy that is powering the Sun.
https://www.reddit.com/r/keto has 910,000 subscribers who will give you mountains of anecdotal evidence backed up by their lab work and tales of their doctor's astonishment.

If you aren't a DIY type, this medical services startup doing it professionally...
https://www.virtahealth.com/

Keto's not for everyone and not everyone needs it, but a substantial about of people in the sugar-addicted USA would benefit.

It solves a wide variety of seemingly unrelated issues from joints to plantar fasciitis to skin problems.
> People could self-sustain much more easily in the past.

Why? Why has the ability for debt-free self-sustaining decreased?
Hackers breaching US Navy contractors tells us one important thing: That the US Navy is not doing adequate due diligence on the firms it allow to be contractors.

This story is part of the campaign to present China as an unethical, capable adversary and threat. In reality, China wants to trade peacefully with the US and the aggression is nearly 100% on the US side and is meant to garner all the benefits of threat-oriented chest pounding for US politicians.

The #1 rule of being a citizen should be "don't let them tell you who to fear or who to hate". Sadly, the NYT, Bloomberg, and the WSJ are all telling us to hate and fear China, when it's obvious that the US has domestic political motives in mind.

In the US, leaders need an enemy or the conversation might turn to things like "why do we have poisonous drinking water?" or "Why has there been a trend of downward mobility?" or "Why didn't anyone get punished for Snowden's revelations or for the lies that led to the Iraq war?"
Correct. The primary error is that corrupt "shadow tables" used by the FTS3 full-text search extension could cause RCE. The fix for that specific problem is here: https://www.sqlite.org/src/info/d44318f59044162e

The new SQLITE_DBCONFIG_DEFENSIVE features is more of a defense-in-depth, designed to head off future vulnerabilities by making shadow-tables read-only to ordinary SQL, along with some other restrictions. If you have an application that allows potential attackers to run arbitrary SQL, then the use of SQLITE_DBCONFIG_DEFENSIVE is recommended. It is not required. We still consider it a serious bug if somebody is able to find an exploit even with SQLITE_DBCONFIG_DEFENSIVE turned off. But that setting reduces the attack surface, making future bugs less likely.
I think the reverse definition is just as silly... Calling a JPEG parser vulnerability an RCE just because some online service is using it in a way that can be exploited remotely. By that definition, any bug is an RCE, since I can just set up a web server to run that program.

I think a better way of looking at it is that it's an ACE Vulnerability in the e.g. JPEG parser that causes an RCE in the Online Service.

Or, in this case, an ACE vulnerability in SQLite that causes an RCE in Chromium.
Please somebody with some back history, discuss the old NATO summer schools held all across Europe even in comecon economies (from memory) not for whataboutism, but to clarify the differences.

I recall reading about stuff in online learning, other fields. It was the army, engagement in education, inside notional future enemies, sharing ideas.
You say "You seem to blame this squarely on the faculty, and yet faculty have the least amount of freedom when it comes to publication venue"

I assume you are referencing this

> If UCLA were serious it would simply walk from the negotiation.
THAT would send a message to all parties. It might actually spur some action on the part of faculty to get off their collective backsides

Then you suggest "Concerted action at the national and international level is required".

Who exactly is supposed to be responsible for organizing national and international action and to do what exactly, disband Elsevier? This is not a practical suggestion. A practical approach would be for the institutions that pay Elsevier for access, i.e the faculty/admins to get better organized and get better at negotiating.

asking faculty to consider the mere act of not reviewing (much less not submitting papers to) these top journals is a third rate negotiating tactic. A strong negotiator would simply walk out at this point. That would send a much stronger message.
Agreed, no clickbait title like a single-word non-explanatory title on the front-page top 10. It will definitely get more clicks than the title you proposed.
I wonder if it’s things like this that make people feel like their tap water isn’t safe and then they buy bottled water or “natural” or “raw” water, instead of understanding that tap water is pretty safe. By historical standards we have superior water, compared to most of history.
Portable and lightweight cross platform application development framework
Near Miss: The Solar Superstorm of July 2012
No, my older brother joined and it turned out we we're half brothers, which lead to the truth.
Federal judge says ACA must be thrown out
I know that you’re being sarcastic, but please don’t, because you may confuse someone who is genuinely curious.

Silent Night is in the public domain.
When people will start realizing how fragile is actually every project from Google. In the end it's built by humans, remember past week about kubernetes and consider the fact that Google pays thousands of dollars to white hackers who helped them in the past.
Uncovering What Your Phone Knows
Yep, already found him. He passed away 20 years ago, but I discovered I have a couple half-siblings still alive, and lots of half-nieces and nephews.
> A fusion power plant, it estimated, “could use only 5 kilograms [11 pounds] of hydrogen to generate the energy equivalent of 18,750 tons of coal, 56,000 barrels of oil or 755 acres of solar panels.”

Translation: The coal industry, the oil industry, and the solar industry do __not__ benefit from fusion. Using history as a reference, it's fairly safe to presume they will use their influence to sway any decisions in their best interest.
Again do you understand what dynamic equilibrium is? We have awarded a Nobel prize for this, a star is powered by fusion which is maintained by gravitational collapse it collapses to the point where it achieved a hydrostatic equilibrium between the force of gravity and the outward pressure of the fusion reaction that wants to blow it up.

If the fusion reaction overcomes gravity it expands until fusion stops, if gravity overcomes fusion it collapses again until another equilibrium is reached by either fusing heavier elements or through degeneracy pressure, if that cannot be stopped then we get a black hole.

>The Sun cannot be powered by gravitational collapse, or it would have stopped shining long ago.

The Sun isn't powered by gravitational collapse, it's fusion reaction is maintained by it, just like we must maintain a fusion reaction by having the right pressure to allow for proton fusion in the first place and countering the radiation pressure from the fusion reaction which is why we need to constantly supply the reaction with energy to maintain it.

The fact that you still do not accept this is simply mind boggling, consider reading up on hydrostatic equilibrium and stellar nucleogenesis.

"An interstellar cloud of gas will remain in hydrostatic equilibrium as long as the kinetic energy of the gas pressure is in balance with the potential energy of the internal gravitational force. Mathematically this is expressed using the virial theorem, which states that, to maintain equilibrium, the gravitational potential energy must equal twice the internal thermal energy."

Ironically enough this is exactly with what you've tried to counter my initial post, gravity doesn't go away it is what is keeping the reaction going, if you turn off gravity the gas would cool down due to the expansion and all fusion reaction would stop, but as long as gravity is there the reaction will continue until there is no more fuel to fuse.
his last C compiler was called 8cc
Make no mistake, Huawei is in fact a security nightmare, and that is true regardless of whether or not corporations (with no government ownership, and are both in fact foreign owned) are going to be opportunistic about it.
Ask HN: How to inspire a 3 year old to love math
My daughter is almost three and I want to cultivate her interests in math. I've been trying to play some counting games (one apple two bananas kind of thing) with her but she shows very little interest. Do people have more ideas or resources as how to do this? Thanks
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I'll wager you also haven't had chemical burns to your scalp, either. Weirdly, there was just a thread on Berkson's paradox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18667423
> asking faculty to consider the mere act of not reviewing

But do you not think that a mandatory "DO NOT REVIEW" is authoritarian and heavy-handed?

If you are negotiating GitHub licenses, you will mandate that your employees do not contribute to open-source GitHub?
It was a lot of fun watching the project and community evolve. I think you and the team did an excellent job. I remember a huge spike in users around when discovery.etcd.io launched. It was really a game changer for us building large-scale multi-data center telecom systems. I still remember bootstrapping the first cluster in a 24 data center test and having things blow up, particularly in higher-latency environments (cross-DC)

Fast-forward 4 months, the project had grown and scaled to support the influx of new curious devs and use-cases that stretched the bounds of what was possible at the time. At the end of the 4-months, we had a 128 node cluster that stayed up for years and still powers all of the emergency notifications in a few states in the US!
My family's modified rule was the ability to play off of used multiplier tiles, leading to fun with super high scores. Always a thrill to have a word take up one entire edge of the board while reaping the extra multiplier(s).
No I haven't. Seems apropos. For some strange reason, the description reminds of of Erich Maria Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front," which doesn't have much joy in it.
Funny how these old tunes are sung by our 3 year olds. I wonder how old ring a roses is now.
I recall a similar experience after cancelling over the phone.

I went to the store to return the box and they said I'd have to take a number.

I said "Nope, here's the box I'm returning, we're done here". Took some pictures and got the F out.

Returning something shouldn't take more than 30 seconds. And it wasn't going to take more than that for me.
PHD in physics. Aha. Maybe that helps. He knows why the snowboard does what it does and goes where it goes.
https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/08/02/parsing-expressions...

Precedence climbing is also (intimately) related to Pratt parsing, and there's a useful series of articles about the two here: https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/03/31.html
I'm not a fusion scientist either :) But I was fortunate to sit next to one in a bar in Princeton NJ a couple years ago. The gist of that conversation was in sync with what you said.

Long to short, it's close. Money could help accelerate the research into the necessary details.
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"In the UK, you can order a photocopy of any journal paper via inter library loans. These often come from the British library, which has everything. I’d assume elsewhere similar solutions exist."

I'm sure I saw a device called a scanner somewhere. It seemed to transcend the worlds of paper and electronics.

I'm also from the UK and am old enough to remember life before "Brentrance" (newly minted term by me - meaning should be obvious) This issue of publication freedom is way more important or at least comparable, to Brexit in my opinion.

I'm not too sure what the perfect knowledgebase would look like but it probably is not the current one. For me it might be something like a curated MediaWiki (the software behind WikiPedia) - for me the killer feature is that an article in a wiki is just text and a few formatting hints. Text is first, formatting and other distractions come second.

I studied Civil Engineering in the UK around 1990ish. We had lots of closed off sources and refs (ISIS and others - from memory) - rubbish!
"excessive consumption" based interpretations of environmental policy have done more damage to the cause of environmentalism then anything else.
Buruma deserved to get fired because he had no idea what he was doing or what his magazine's audience was.
Ask HN: How to release a free ebook online?
I want to release a free ebook online. Where should I published it?
It's a tricky problem. The suggestion at hand was UCLA walk from the negotiation. Would that mean faculty at UCLA are given a mandatory "DO NOT REVIEW" order? I would have assumed their free labor would still be most welcome, especially from experts.

If UCLA walks, that would possibly cause other universities to follow suit, and I bet Elsevier would come back to the table with a better offer.

The way I see things, the universities are not organized at all and are being taken to the cleaners because of things like this. It looks like the people doing the negotiating on behalf of the faculty are in way over their heads and don't even realize how the game is played and are being out maneuvered at every turn by a savvy, massively powerful corporation for which this is pretty much all they do all day, every day.
Regarding commuting, replace “San Francisco” by “anything within one hour of San Francisco at commute time.”
Math from 3 to 7: http://www.msri.org/people/staff/levy/files/MCL/Zvonkin.pdf
I believe, based on the contexts I've seen the term used in, that a reputation market just means the competition created between market providers to gain a better reputation than each other, due to the competitive advantage that having a superior reputation provides. There doesn't have to be explicit quantification of reputation, like Reddit/StackOverFlow points, to qualify as a reputation market.

Reputation obviously has a huge impact on market success, and this effect leads to high quality providers dominating the market overtime.

Probably the best example of this dynamic is eBay. The vast majority of trades are not fraudulent, because consumers rely on the seller ratings as indicators of reliability. Most top sellers have something like 99% positive ratings. The market is pretty much totally unregulated, yet very reliable.
Qi is too sweet to relinquish.
Asset values are not static.
e.g if you borrowed $100K for to buy your $110K house 10 years ago, you may have $86K remaining on your mortgage today and your house might have appreciated to $134K.
That wasn’t the 80s Silent Night movie I had in mind

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Night,_Deadly_Night_P...

It expertly straddles the line between “so bad it’s good” and “so bad it’s bad”
Yes, I am intentionally not looking at the types, because that's something that might not be incredibly apparent in C++ (or C).

We're violently agreeing at this point. Yes, in C, this problem does not exist, because operator overloading does not exist.

In C++, what `A+B` does is ambiguous without knowing 1) what are the types of A and B, and 2) what are all the possible `operator+` overloads that exist which may operate on A and B. It's a hidden complexity which doesn't make potentially expensive operations apparent, and kernels and VMs hate that kind of thing.
And for those wondering about the odd consonant combo at the end, it would properly be written Meḋḃ, where ḋ~=y and ḃ~=v
It may work at the price of 4x which is already 7x higher, resulting in 28x total.. not to mention the hassle. Man, give us a try.

Seen your comment about LWT, agree.. We knownly chose the first make MV/SI great before committing to another big feature. Glad to say that with Scylla 3.0 release this month we'll finally get LWT done
> The name "LLVM" itself is not an acronym; it is the full name of the project.

What happened to Lower-Level Virtual Machine?
I'm rewriting 9cc with Rust from first commit.
https://github.com/utam0k/r9cc
They are lawyers who personally do our training and put together testing material based on that training.

To me that trumps a non-lawyer’s interpretation of a non-legal web site.
I think you are misreading the situation. Rather than a weak move, this is a small step in a long march. They are killing Elsevier but slowly enough to avoid disruption.
> Please, no, don't use ... when distributing your code

FTFY. It's fine to use them for development, but a major pain in the ass if you are distributing your code for others to compile (looking at you, google).
>Having a lot of disposable income helps, too.

It's not that expensive unless you have to travel far enough warranting an overnight stay. I was able to afford decent equipment and lift passes from working a cashier job in high school. You could buy used equipment for a family of 5 for under $1000. Check out craigslist in some mountain towns, you can find higher end equipment that's a only a few years old for dirt cheap.
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> Don't use products from startups with unknown, dubious business models that are clearly subsidised by VC money until they "figure out how to monetize".

This is why I tell every startup I talk to (not that many, to be fair) to charge as soon as they possibly can, preferably in the first months after launch (b2b of course, consumer is a different beast).
This deserves more upvotes. This is the most succinct, tangible explanation I've come across recently.
So who is it?
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As far as I know, the US is making noise about it. I don't know if any real changes have occurred.
If you sign an NDA with a company then violate that NDA by whistleblowing, you are protected under US law. Snowden has no such protection.
I don't know, I have a hard time finding sympathy for this.

I've paid many thousands of dollars towards courses to get my degree from a top university and most of them were awful. As with any university, there's of course no way to get a refund or make any public complaints that would yield an outcome.
I dont think either Sprint or T-Mobile have any Huawei gear in their network anymore, Sprint got rid of theirs when they migrated from WiMAX to LTE.
If, like me, you asked "what is backplane?" Here you go: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/backplane