skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Incredible. This is the sort of thing my non-programmer friends think that my work entails. Thank god it doesn't.
Ask HN: Why don't streaming sites like Netflix use internal torrents?
Their bandwidth is a noticeable fraction of all internet traffic. It seems they could drastically lower their bandwidth costs. This would allow either lower subscription costs (or make a gap for competition).
This is a rather unique take on Go that I haven't seen before. A quick scan of your post history indicates you feel quite strongly (negatively) about Go. May I ask what inspired this particular take, and what language background you have?
Oustanding work!
The article mentions commercial and automobile glass. What about forty year old double pane glass in an old house? On very cold winter days in Vermont I enjoy a kitchen bathed in sunlight. No benefit?
What's this? An advertisement?
I wonder how it is determined which neurons send signals "to" vs. "from" brain. This 80/20 to/from split is surprising.

The reason I'm asking is because sending electrons up a wire isn't the only way to signal with electricity. When the output that was high-impedance suddenly opens up, allowing you to send electricity through, that actually can be a signal to you, that something on the other end has changed.
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This case is about an alleged incident around 23 years ago - 10-15 years before smartphones or IP security cameras were widespread.
The worst job in the world if you hate repetitive music would be working in a shopping mall. For 3 solid months before Christmas they play every Christmas song you've ever heard over and over again.
I will love you for this. really. I can't tell how much time I have lost searching for the correct subtitles, in various languages
Thanks for proving my point...
It seems that ~60 million people are affected by war [1], "only" ~2x as many. So I think that the original point I was making stands: neither slavery nor war are things that humans "grew out of". They both need significant, active effort by people to avoid/contain/resist.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/jun/18/5...
Technically, that isn't true.

Genocide: the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.

Emphasis my own.
Bridging the solder points of the blown micro fuse is a very easy job even if you're clumsy with such jobs (trust me, I'm pretty much a klutz).
It'll be a shame if you just leave the otherwise working laptop dead.
This is akin to bypassing antimalware protection by hosting the malware on your own reputable site.

What are you trying to achieve here? Your entire domain will just end up blocked if you do this at scale, not to mention Google themselves would ban your reverse proxy’s IP because of too many queries (since you’ll be proxying all your visitors’ requests from a single IP).
This and the following three webcomic pages are probably the closest thing I've seen as "internet art" in it's most literal sense. http://www.avasdemon.com/2112.php

Although I guess now it's really commonplace, Patreon and all.
For more obscure movies there are specialized forums where people do that for some bounty (mostly in upload credit) to make it possible for others to enjoy that movie they don’t speak the language of too. Not much different to the question why people spend days ripping music, movies just to share it with others.
When people say “stop buying stuff”, I don’t get it? Should we just let the economy collapse and not have anything of value?

If the “stuff” for example comes from recycled, fairly low emissions techniques of manufacturing combined renewable energy, who care? This is just generalising and it’s not realistic.

Ultimately burning coal for power generation and using oil for transport are the main culprits.

Eating less meat seems sensible, but it’s still not easy either, getting enough protein from a vegetarian diet is challenging for many.
> XML requires special directives to preserve whitespace

Not in what you would consider content: from http://usingxml.com/Basics/XmlSpace: "White space in any other location must be passed on to the processing application, according to the XML specification."
I no longer see the black screen but I still get this error: Loading failed for the <script> with source “https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-35480078-3”.
> (I consciously avoided getting a Gmail account for years until I bought an Android phone which requires such an account, so I understand where you're coming from but this issue seems meh to me.)

Gmail accounts are not required for Android phones. To utilize the Google services on an Android phone, which 99% of people will choose to do, a Google account is required.

A Google account can be but doesn't have to be a Gmail account. You can use any email address to create your Google account.
Climate change has been talked about for decades now, and very little actually seem to be done. What is something you would consider a number 1 that was fixed? (I guess the ozone layer hole was a relative success).
I'm curious about an API also.
I don’t understand how aurora achieves the speed it does with a log based approach. Can someone please clarify?
Between the vested financial interest that are joined at the hip with political interest and the outright refusal of the majority of the population of the western world to make any kind of personal sacrifices to combat climate change, we are deeply fucked as a species.

The "non western / non 1st world" segment of the population have a lot of other things to worry about, such as "how am I going to keep a roof over the head of my family and put food on the table" even though these people often live a subsistence-type living, where at the very least some part of their regular calories come directly from small-scale farming / hunting / fishing, and they experience first-hand the impact of climate change.

As George Carlin astutely observed: "The planet doesn't need saving. It will adapt to the new paradigm, and continue to exist. The people need saving".

I strongly believe he hit the nail on the head, and we should really change the narrative from "save the oceans / forests / animals / planet" to "save humanity". It should be abundantly clear that in practical terms, nobody gives a fuck about saving the environment. Maybe they care about saving their children.

I really think that saving our species starts with eradicating poverty, ensuring that 100% of the global population doesn't need to worry about water, food, shelter, healthcare and education. I don't know what the best path would be to achieve this, but I have a feeling that if we would stop spending on warfare, significantly increase top-level corporate taxation and funnel that money instead to providing everyone with the basic needs, and combine that with a concentrated global effort on researching and implementing truly sustainable energy generation and associated heat removal we'd be off to a good start.

Unfortunately, when it comes down to it, we have not evolved much past the "apes with sticks around the watering hole" stage, so the chances of that coming to pass are statistically nil.
Golang has an announcements mail list. I'm sure than projects that depend on the language already subscribe to it. Surely.
Self-driving car neural network in GTA V (2017) [video]
Show HN: Revu – Review Nearby Places [Android]
I’ve used an app that detects % male vs. female voices speaking in meetings
A Letter from the Anti-Cheat Team
Last time we benchmarked Aurora (~2 years ago) the write speed of Aurora is pretty slow compared to RDS (Postgres RDS was able to achieve 3x write throughput)
Very impressive. Is this compatible with any WASM-compliant language, or just the ones listed? EG AssemblyScript:

https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript

I'm looking forward to seeing some benchmarks comparing native binaries with the same program run via wasmer.
Interestingly, though, it often turns out that recalling "where they were and what they were doing on 9/11" is very often wrong. And that when you're wrong, you're more certain you're right.

Malcolm Gladwell did a very interesting podcast episode on that: http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/24-free-brian-william...
if you want to use python together with dialog to build cli menus, i recommend using http://pythondialog.sourceforge.net/doc/. i've been using it for a project at work and it's very nice!
Don't have children. That will make a far bigger difference.
Technically, it might be even possible to do reverse-proxy for Google Ads (or any other advertisement)
No fusion Beyond breakeven is not difficult, controlled fusion is.
It isn't something they should be blocking, but they try to. uBlock, for example, blocks self-hosted Piwik/Matomo.

But the entitlement of ad-blockers is astounding sometimes: https://github.com/easylist/easylist/pull/900, in which the easylist maintainer defended blocking OpenStreetMap advertising OpenStreetMap events on openstreetmap.org, still makes my jaw drop.
Germany was rebuilt after the war. Humans are resilient.
You are right. The scale of one of the pictures appear to be mis-labeled as 200mm. I believe, based on the other pictures, it should be 200um (micrometres).
Aha, yeah, I read a bit about that a while ago. Is that a spoiler?!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0978764/
Just checked his comments, for someone that despises the language and its developers, he sure has a lot of interest in it. Bizarre
Great guy. Lead reduction probably resulted in a general increase of +5 IQ. Which is HUGE when it's applied to a whole generation all over the world.
Probably just a sidenote and maybe not that relevant, but I think 80s Japan had the right idea of environmental music which was considered as a meaningful part of a location, building or space - regardless of if it served artistic purposes or corporate interests. The reason this comes to my mind is this [1] recently released, utterly fantastic compilation that focuses on this very topic: Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990

Roughly explained in this excerpt:

> "Corporate big bucks and avant-garde music aren’t the most obvious bedfellows — but throw user experience into the mix, and you’ve got a viable cultural phenomenon: kankyō ongaku. In 1980s Japan, as the country continued to enjoy an unprecedented post-war boom, it became the world’s second-largest economy; companies like Sanyo and Muji pumped cash into the arts to enhance the experiences for its consumers."

For anyone interested I highly recommend the physical editions of the release as they include twice as many tracks (digital rights for japanese music are very complicated), some of them very rare and released for the first time outside Japan. In addition they come with a hardcover book featuring extensive liner notes and an essay explaining the circumstances and setting.
However there are digital versions with a limited track selection: [2][3]

[1] https://lightintheattic.net/releases/4088-kankyo-ongaku-japa...

[2] https://daily.bandcamp.com/2019/02/15/kankyo-ongaku-japanese...

[3] https://open.spotify.com/album/0rrRvu7ObcLgxbuGGkx3Rn?si=V5Y...
This was the embodiment of what you call a "limited engagement with limited causalities". The target area was away from civilian population, in a remote area where terrorist outposts had been identified. The flight time was under 30mins. There has been no reports of civilian casualties thus far.
> But here in the paper, it compares Aurora to a MySQL synchronous mirroring setup, which is really unfair, IMO. Why the active primary has to replicate everything over the wire to the active standby? Doesn't MySQL's replication support Statement-Based Replication?

The comparison in the paper is against the synchronous-mirroring pattern underlying RDS Multi-AZ [1], which is the existing fully-managed, high-availability MySQL solution Amazon offers, so the direct comparison is appropriate for existing RDS Multi-AZ users considering a migration to Aurora.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/amazon-rds-under-the-h...
Me too. Custom domain on FastMail. I'm not (too much) worried about AU's search warrants. My original move from gmail was because I got annoyed by the Google approach to everything. This said, if you happen to move the servers in a more privacy-friendly country I'd not complain.
Amazing! It's like we could write once and run everywaaaait a moment...
I can't help but think all the suggested hacks around climate change are a bad option. We never expected that burning fossil fuels would have such a potentially catastrophic effect on our environment. I imagine that many of the solutions will have similar unintended consequences.
You can use a knife to spread butter on your toast, you can use a pistol to compete at target competition, you can use a shotgun to hunt ducks, you can use an automatic weapon to, ummm, get your jollies at a shooting range or whatever (that's not my preferred source of entertainment, but if someone else enjoys doing that safely and it's not hurting other people, why shouldn't they?). You can use boots to walk in a park, or to walk into battle.

There's a continuum from boots thru iron bars thru to assault rifles. (And, I guess, thru to Predator drones and nuclear weapons.)

I'm questioning just where the hololens fits on that continuum.

I guess selling them to the army makes them "for killing", but is it really "for killing" like an automatic weapon (which many people would choose not to be employed making, and would rightly be upset if their boss sprung that on them)? Or is it more like selling iron bars to the army (which even if they don't directly beat whoever we've always been at war with this week to death, are still obviously going to be used in some small or large part to "increase their lethality" (or at least enable it, I suppose)).

Would it make sense for an iron factory worker to get upset his boss lands a deal with the army and sells them iron bars? The feels kinda precious to me. Sure an end-of-the-bell-curve pacifist could object, but I think most people would say that's about the pacifist rather than the iron factory boss. Would that be different if the iron factory boss was already selling sheet iron and iron filings to the army? I kinda feel it would.

Does it make sense to people who work for the company who makes hololens to protest their boss selling them to the army, when that company is already selling other products (Windows, Word, Excel, pretty much every enterprise MS product) to almost every western military in on the planet? Again, at least to me, it feels kinda precious. It seems like end-of-the-bell-curve pacifism, from people who's living has previously been made working from a company who's _other_ products earn profit from the military, but "my project" is a pure as the driven snow and now all of a sudden I've got blood on my hands...
Event based vs. thread based architecture on distributed systems
Which One Is Better – Selling on Udemy or Creating Your ELearning Website?
Except that many reporters and journalist do the same (obviously there are good ones, not claiming yours do) and they end up being in the same bubble. To this add that journalist and media are twitter lifeline, so essentially they can bully the platform as they like.

A great example was the learn to code meme.
On the drawdown website, refrigeration seems to be #1. Afforestation is up there. Family planning too. But supposedly we have to be doing all of these things on massive scale.
"The order-preserving aspect of this new implementation is considered an implementation detail and should not be relied upon"

Early in Go's development, they intentionally randomized the iteration offset to make sure developers didn't become dependent on a behaviour they didn't want to be tied to.

You see this in Erlang also, where iteration order is deterministic (though not based on insertion order), but documentation makes sure to say iteration is arbitrary.

So, the answer to your question is that most people don't want their dictionaries implementation to be tied down due to this feature.
Note that he said "old" as in, probably well past any "use-by" date (that wouldn't have existed back then). :)
I’m sure it would be justified as a pre-emptive strike against people who will become a problem.
Legatics Works with DLA and Herbert Smith to Build ‘AI Microservices’
yeah but Windows support is highly experimental - hmm, wonder why.
https://www.mymoneyblog.com/talebs-thanksgiving-turkey.html

"I have the story of a turkey that is fed for 1,000 days by a butcher, and every day confirms to the turkey and the turkey’s economics department and the turkey’s risk management department and the turkey’s analytical department that the butcher loves turkeys, and every day brings more confidence to the statement. So it’s fed for 1,000 days… "

Every day somebody was able (even accidentally) to start the nuclear annihilation of the whole world (hint: it's not "just a president" who can do that, but many, many more): the complex systems and the war plans are actually maintained in which everything happens in just a few hours.

Our statistics that it didn't happen yet is not a proof that an "accident" (oh, sorry, it was an error!) can't very easily happen any moment now.
Ah, natural languages and their lack of grouping operators.

It's (Beautiful Python List Prompts) Package, not Beautiful (Python List Prompts Package).
Show HN: A Chrome Extension Presents Trending GitHub Repositories in New Tab
Definitely, I have no doubt we would trek on in some way or another.
Everything is faster when you move your data to ebs \s.

Though google has done this for all databases (at least their internal ones) (even bigtable). And some companies say they can do it for nvme & ram.

You just need real-good networking and some type of asic and removing kernel from the path.
BoA is one of the biggest banks, but IMO they are one of the scummiest (on par with Chase). In a former line of work, I met many business owners who had been conned by BoA into a First Data Global Lease at some pittance rate, and if their processing volume ever decreased BoA would hike that lease rate up from $6 a month per terminal to $90+. Quite scummy.
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Reproduction permit auctions are incompatible with the current release of ethics. Also, pensioners insist that growth must not stop while they live out their hard earned sunset years.
FWIW, that part of Kashmir isn't technically another country. Kashmir's unelected ruler chose to remain independent when he had to choose back in August 1947, Pakistan invaded in September and Kashmir then joined India in October.

The border is labelled "line of control" on the maps. What India bombed is in the part of Kashmir-then-India that Pakistan effectively controls but that other countries don't recognise.
Mozilla’s original blog post (found buried in the Twitter thread)... “Bringing Firefox Reality to HoloLens 2”, https://blog.mozvr.com/bringing-firefox-reality-to-hololens-...
"Reader, Come Home" by Maryanne Wolf is a good book on the topic of how new technology influences our reading habits.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35887237-reader-come-hom...
For something open-source like this, look at tikv(transactional key-value (rust)) + tidb(query layer (go)).
No, that's not what's being tested here. It's testing how the server itself handles managing 100k clients connected simultaneously. Most of those connections are idle most of the time -- but that's still a situation that is not trivial to handle. If you think that alone isn't noteworthy, go ahead and build an application which handles that many connections where they all can do non-trivial work on shared resources.

In most web applications, even if you have 100k connections and are doing something on the order of 30-50k QPS on a single database instance, the number of actual queries executing concurrently at any instant in time is probably only about 10-15. This is because most queries are fast. You could have 1000 queries per second, and if they all take ~1 ms to execute, that could still be a theoretical concurrency of 0.
Utilize your skills that you have gained through your experiences. You don't have to be a full time employee! For example, you can even do freelance works on different platforms. You might not get hand full of money at the beginning but, something is better than nothing right?
Another option will be to build a network while working and start consultancy services. Just find the people that needs your help. And, start helping others.

I'm not as experienced as yours (I'm 25 years of old). But, I had suffered from depression as I faced betrayals in my first job at a startup. Then, started from scratch and started focusing on freelance works. I was lucky enough to find some great clients from the globe. One of them even gifted a laptop to me that I'm using to write this comment. Eventually, with the help of my clients me and my wife even started our own startup (still self funded)!
Its been almost 1.5 years and counting...

Please, don't quit. You will never know what is waiting for you! Sometimes you won't find a door of opportunity so, all you have to do is build the doors so that opportunities can come to you! I wish you all the very best.

Feel free to get in touch[1], If I can help you in any way. :)

[1] https://wasi0013.com/contact/
Ask HN: Are latency and jitter still critically relevant in online gaming today?
How relevant are problems caused by latency and jitter still in online gaming? (bearing in mind the increasing penetration of broadband and fixing the latency & jitter effects in-app/game, e.g. by implementing FEC-like controls)

I'm working on building a network intelligence tool and one of its quick byproducts is having the ability to do a quick (network) performance benchmark of pretty much any online gaming server (with the usual suspects like Fortnite and PUBG included) - would this help anyone if I release it as open source?
I can't take this person seriously. They are conflating a historical piece with something that endorses its mild at worst content.

Apparently trying to tell a story within the context of it's time is "misogynistic" and "racist." I fail to see how either could be the case here. Did the coens somehow fail because they had an intentionally weak female character who is being attacked by native Americans? Did no similar events ever occur in history?

The native Americans have a clear motive for attacking the wagon train as during the period of the film the American army was committing genocide against them.

Additionally, the travelers have reason to feel negatively about them as they are literally trying to murder them.

Is every movie now supposed to have strong, wooden characters who faces no challenges nor tragedies? Is that realistic? Additionally, is a film set in a time period inherently offensive because we disagree with the values of that period?

Can we not tell stories anymore?
About the AOL announcement (2005)
The one who created languages
If you're doing this "at scale" then people would notice if your domain got blocked.
> "The order-preserving aspect of this new implementation is considered an implementation detail and should not be relied upon"

Except it worked so well in Python and PyPy that in Python 3.7 it was blessed into an official part of the language spec.