skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personal sacrifice has really fallen by the wayside especially with the already wealthy. Altruism is probably not the solution though. The most charitable people are those who can empathize with the poor, and that seems to be in real short supply.
I’m sure you’re a reasonable person and could come up with a reasonable tax rate on generational wealth, but I have zero faith that we will elect reasonable people to make these sorts of decisions.
It's not a criticism at your individual specialization. It's fucking hard to get into cancer research at this stage, though if you know the right people, you could maybe help scientists with some simulations or visualizations or whatever other tangential concern that requires JavaScript knowledge.

This is a complaint against the market at large. There is work to be done in things like curing cancer(s) and mitigating climate change, but the jobs are few, far between, and pay peanuts. Meanwhile advertising is a direct social negative (IMO a cancer on human society), but it offers plenty of positions with good wages. The choice thus becomes: take the hard road and a paycut to maybe help some unspecified amount of people you don't know, vs. take the easy road with good wages and hurt an unspecified amount of people you don't know.

This complaint is about the market, and it's essentially the same thing you may say during debugging some algorithm: "I understand the steps it make and they all look good, but the final result is wrong".
I've got a PhD in genetics from Cambridge and I do security development work at Google. I'm far better at the latter, and the skills that I use on a daily basis wouldn't have made me a good fit for the former. These aren't fields where capability in one is equivalent to competence in the other.
We are morally objecting on behalf of the People of the People's Republic of China, who are too stupid/incapable to object for themselves. </sarcasm>
Interesting, if you're a large company that can afford the compute.
I think you are being downvoted for the unneeded name calling.

But the article does not seem to do a great job in terms of accuracy or being able to distinguish between civilizations and empires. E.g. "Mahanjanapadas" should be "Mahajanapadas", and the Magadha empire was part of an existing civilization.

This is apart from the contested dates that the author seems to accept, without citing any sources.
Hi can you be more specific about which tags you are referring to? I checked those tags but all of them have some books. I didn't find any tag in EE with nothing listed.
It might be (as long as we expand that definition to cover tech workers or tech industry aware people in other areas as well). I live an hour North of SF, and even there, if I mention I don't like to use Uber out of principle because of their past behavior and misdeeds, the question I invariably get is "Oh, like what? I haven't heard anything."

Whatever Uber did to paper over what news of their misdeeds reached general cultural consciousness (if any...) seems to have worked for the most part. That's a shame, since I truly believe there should be much harsher repercussions for their blatant disregard of the law over an extended period and the pain and problems it caused to many.

I suspect if the market was working efficiently, Uber would have a lot more problems and be in a much worse position than they are (efficient markets assume good information, and if people don't know what Uber's done, they can't make an informed decision).
Also: Poland, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, pretty much every European nation.

Edit: Seems that GP conflates "nation" and "state". If we're counting continuity of government, they probably only Great Britain is a good example, other countries had undergone many changes, from absolutism, to constitutional monarchy, to non-existence, to democracy, to fascist dictatorships.
I wonder how people working for the dragonfly project are feeling. It looks like the rest of the company hate what they are doing. But if they support censorship, they might not care what other people are thinking.
> Even in the so-called hotbed of biotech where I lived.

Where was that, if I could ask, and how bad is it? A "hotbed of biotech" is an entry on my list of cities to consider relocating to in the near future.
“Apple’s minimalism” that somehow spreads to every single USB cable by every single manufacturer?

IIRC it was a deliberate decision by USB-IF to not enforce any additional labels on USB cables and connectors beyond the USB logo.
And for those wondering, in the UK Rituximab costs the NHS £349.50 for a course. https://bnf.nice.org.uk/medicinal-forms/rituximab.html
On the other hand Atlassian (and everyone else) doesn't pay enough to stop a lot of those local talented grads moving straight to the US.
I'll take credit for stealing well from good people, but no more :)

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you can make a 1000KWH car, and still be much less efficient than a 250KWH car. Range and speed is what matters not KWH. Aerodynamic, efficiency of enerygy conversion, etc.. comes into play.
I tell the truth but it is a sure fire way to lose a job offer, and am trying to kick the habit. Remember modern companies refuse to invest even the thirty minutes in study needed to get you up to speed on tool X with extensive experience in tool Y.
LOL, i just read your dumb stack overflow posts. They are dumb because it really makes no difference. Leaving off the spec is just a bad practice and getting butt hurt because of a "Tip" (not a declarative rule mind you) may not be correct (although I bet if you actually check browser behavior, w3 is probably correct - i'm not about to check 20+ browsers to find out).

In the second post https://stackoverflow.com/a/52355253/1709587, W3Schools gave you the information litterally from teh HTML4 spec. It's hardly W3's fault that it wasn't followed as designd. This is the type of pedantic nit-picking bullshit i'm talking about.

And on your third link, I checked the W3Schools page and it literally says "Note: Only Firefox supports colspan="0",..." Contrary to what is in your StackOverlflow post, I assume you only read the Attribute Values and not the whole page. Blaming W3Schools for your lack of reading comprehension is shameful.

I should probably go back to the first two questions and see what else you just didn't read, but were quick to blame they didn't have the "right answer". People just need to learn to read, imho.
Can confirm. My eldest brother died of it via a blood transfusion. This was during the early days when it was little understood and all treatment was experimental.

The "popular" assumption was that catching it proved you were gay and highly promiscuous, or sharing heroin needles, therefore deserved it. Some of my brother's friends never spoke to him again from the moment of finding out. I think he found other's reactions as hard to deal with as the death sentence.

Mother did her utmost to never mention, and made me promise to always say he had cancer.

That bigotry still exists, and is far too common, as seen in some of this thread's comments.
True, which is why looking at so generally makes it seem paradoxical.

I can't recall where it read it, but I think it's the result of some phagocytic, either auto- (i.e. lysosomes, intracellular clean up) or macro- (i.e. macrophages, a type of white blood cell used from extracellular clean up).

Seems like there isn't a clear enough syntactical delineation between beneficial (exercise-linked) and harmful (disease/infection-linked) inflammation.
The ML algo of Adblock Radio could be used to bypass those video ads. The case of radio ads is a typical example of server-side ad injection.

https://www.adblockradio.com
https://github.com/adblockradio/adblockradio

(Disclaimer: I built this)
This is actually not about abusively using the computing power (I believe you can use it on a 8-GPU DGX or your DIY workstation), but how to use the same number of GPUs to train a larger model with a larger input size. Pipeline model parallelism seems to be a promising method to increase accuracy by enlarge the model/data size, IIUC.
I fear that one big advantage, that tabs kept in working memory, including pages in the back history, makes it very fast, just can't be helped beyond a certain mass of tabs. Tab suspension sure would help with crashes at the limits of memory, but with a small, full SSD only, it's limited too.
Still doesn't solve Spotify's core long term issue : if they make lots of money, right holders know exactly how hard they can negotiate for better fees. Netflix fights that with their own content now, but Spotify doesn't seem to be interested to go that way (and I'm not sure they could anyway).

So they're pretty much trapped into being a barely profitable company that's also milking money to the content owner.
Hi, there is a related article here, if you want to know why I developed PlotJuggler. https://link.medium.com/1pY5Kz3PNU
also, right at the border of continental Europe we had that "russia just annexed a part of ucraine" a couple years ago.

Have people already forgotten that?
And so does YouTube music.
Entire Pantera discography, Pearl Jam discography and many older songs are missing.

It's good for recommendations but the collection isn't great. I'll stick with the much cheaper prime, 15 USD Per year gives you video, faster delivery and music.
Mostly because people who listen to local songs are already using gaana/saavn/youtube, which arguably have a better catalogue when it comes to indie artists and songs in local languages.

And people using Jio already have access to JioMusic/Saavn.
That’s the Australia way.
To get extended functionality, you need to sign-up for a Premium account. This tool need's to be more open in first place as 'fully functional' before it can attract people to sign up for premium account.

The 'collaboration' aspect isn't what will sell this product. It could have potential when they allow creator's and designers to fully explore it first.
I think this is misleading.

I think when tossing out the credence of people such as Wadhington or Jefferson with the slavery problem, there is very little context understood about the cultural norms, science and religion those people lived in.

The problem was that they did not see other races as people as they saw themselves. They saw their lives and societies and thought of them as savages. They further justified their ideology with both religion (which was more unquestionable than say, global warming is today) and scientific racism, which did things like measure brain size of different races.

The slave owner like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson was in some ways like an extreme version of the modern liberal -- seeing the person of color as needing an authority to rule over them and provide them with things like welfare, access to education, etc.

This has nothing to do with justifying slavery or ignoring that extreme abuses occured with such institutionalized imbalance of power. What I mean to say is to not throw away the baby with the bathwater. Some of the Founding Fathers created the greatest society to ever grace the earth and they deserve some credit for their heroic bravery and ideas on liberty, even if they lived in a truly fucked up world and had trouble seeing past that.

Edit: downvote away, I guess
legacy is indeed primordial, that said I get the above idea, maybe make it an indirect asset to unlock after some threshold..
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and yet the largest improvements in life quality have occurred in the last century, when most of the great empires have fallen.
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It's not just about money, it's about the "brightest minds" part. Injecting arbitrary amounts of money to some cancer projects won't suddenly make smart people to come back from making ads, especially if such donations are unsustainable. And you can't plan for billionaires; a Bill Gates is one-in-a-billion fluke combination of skill, upbringing, luck and conscience. For all the good Gates family is doing, you can't base humanity's most important projects on whether or not a billionaire wants to help their fellow men, instead of hoarding it all for their estate, or damaging some market in an attempt to turn their fortune into a greater fortune, or just blowing it all on heroin and hookers.
A lot of people support the dragonfly project, you just don't hear about them on HN (namely, almost every Chinese people I've talked to).
I don't like that model for anything I want continued support for (excluding things that are more or less complete like WinRAR or games).

The problem with the traditional pay once (with paid upgrades) model is that in order to continue developing the software, developers need to be paid every month. So a hugely variable revenue stream needs to be converted into a monthly one. Maybe by being very conservative about spending on developer resources to leave a big buffer.

There's also mismatched incentives, since if all your revenue is from paid upgrades it might make more sense to focus on flashy new features even if the majority of users care more about stability and bug fixes.

There's the issue of how much effort to spend back-porting bug fixes to older versions. Users will rightly be annoyed with having to choose between bugs and an upgrade that (they consider to be) not worth it, so the devs probably have to put in some effort. But then with the old model the developers are putting in more work and fewer users have access to new features, and the total amount users are paying still has to be high enough to fund everything.

These days I'm happy to pay for things I use on subscription (as long as the total cost is reasonable).

Maybe a good middle ground is something like the JetBrains model, where a 1-year subscription also comes with a permanent license for the version at the time of purchase, so you can at least open your old projects.
Right now Rust compile times are still slower than C++, when doing "make all", as everything is always compiled from scratch and crate binaries aren't shared across projects.

Delphi/Ada/D/.NET Native like compile times are still on the horizon.
Compare the evolution of the big empires of the past with the evolution in the last 500 years or even the last 250 years.

The Roman Empire had a water system and concrete to make the Coliseum. Relied on slave labour up until the end. Made a plant that was used as contraception extinct.

Given the time they stood, I'd say their scientific/mathematical progress was nimble.

Egyptian empire: invented geometry, still had slaves pushing stones up to form pyramids.

The Portuguese and the Spanish conquered half the world, but still relied on manual labour and got behind when the English started using machine labour.
the roman political structure was stable between the republic and empires.

and if you accept the claim that civil wars or political discontinuity are enough to split a civilization the graph is still fishy because why is the empire not split around the 160something civil war while egypt was split around ruling dynasties?

it's not much consistent, all in all determining the civilization arcs is hard, but you need some form of hard barrier if you want to use the data in such fashion as averaging or deriving any conclusion from it.
I am from East Africa, and I know dozens of people -- including several close relatives -- who have died from it or have the virus. Ours is a generation of orphans, and chances are 90% that an orphan lost their parent[s] to HIV/Aids. Death, in the council estate I grew up in, was a very common occurrence, and it was usually due to HIV/Aids. Even today it is still a threat; it might be less deadly, but people are hit pretty hard, mentally.

So, I hate it. A cure that can be scaled up will be the best thing ever.

(Some might say that our people are careless and whatnot. Maybe. But HIV's spread is also driven by economic and gender factors, ignorance, and sometimes bad healthcare. A high prevalence rate doesn't help either -- because I don't believe that Africans are more sexual than anyone else.)
Those tissue paper toilet seat covers only really appeared in public bathrooms in the 90s. I still think about how ridiculous they are in the context of HIV/AIDS, every time I see them.
Other nations such as China or Russia have comparable or arguably better cheap labor stocks or natural resources. Then Japan has almost zero natural resources and nearly had a shot at taking over the world...
It seriously scares you?
Great work. Building a distributed database isn't easy at all and takes considerable effort. I'd like to see more on failure scenarios. Here's a few preliminary questions I have (admittedly, I haven't read the entire post, apologies if my queries are answered already):

What is the SLA for durability and availability of the db?

- how are scenarios like edge locations going down for multiple minutes handled? Are the writes lost?

- how many replicas of data at a single edge location?

- Are there limits on the table size (how does one enforce this in a multi-master mode)?

- what's the SLA on replication time to say, at least 50% edge locations, and then to 100%?

Are DDL operations allowed? If so, how are the conflicts handled?

If data is stored in LSMs underneath, how are geo location queries handled? Is there an index/materialised view? If so, how long does that take to generate?

What's the TPS/QPS supported for the KV interface?

- Is there a scenario where a set of operations at X TPS across edge locations might then take a long time to converge globally?

It'd be great if you can list down scenarios where the db can lose write to 'true conflicts' in a FAQ somewhere.

- For instance, what happens in a create-delete-create scenario where a table is created at one edge location, deleted at another, created at a third edge location; all the while when there's writes and reads happening globally?

Thanks.
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putting the EU in that list is fishy and a reminder that Wikipedia is not a reliable source, especially for evaluating contemporary information.
If you've ever been poor or on the receiving end of cult of personality of bullying you really quickly realize in how short supply altruism is in the world.
This is actually exciting. Most sales pitches for secret sauce services are much flimsier and don't ooze the actual technical possibilities and promises that this one does.

So, does it solve the double-spend problem or not? The prose is a bit ambiguous on that.

I don't want to work that out for myself. I want to be told one way or another, and perhaps given some simple examples like "users x and y both want to do z at roughly the same time; depending on several factors like the exact timings and network latencies, there are several outcomes. They are..." etc.

And of course we want to know what kind of realistic throughput and latency it gets, how easy it is to add and remove POPs (and what data gets lost when you do), etc.

Finally, it really needs to commission and publish a Jepsen analysis. Hasn't every database vendor learned how critical that is to winning the programming public's heart?

This seems to be a startup who is going to sell it as a service, and I hope them all the best. The DB world is full of better tech that didn't make the dent it technically deserved (hyperdex, tokudb, perhaps rethink etc) so a new startup has to be both vocal and embrace Jepsen from the beginning. I think HN is ripe for a new darling and whichever company becomes that darling might capture a lot of the ill-informed web-scale-before-we-have-a-customer market ;)
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You’re missing the point. It’s not about whether or not you can pat yourself on the back on your deathbed for not working for google. The point is that if we want to make a meaningful difference to stop google, it takes more action than inaction.

All it takes is for a few good people to do nothing...
Thats the thing though, generations didn't serve in Afghanistan or Iraq. Even if you counted the some ~3 million service members engaged in those wars over their duration of the ~70 million Americans between 25 and 45 as all being in that age group thats 4% of those generations participating in the wars.
> There's a whole generation of Americans who know all about war. In the US, the generation who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, then lived through the Great Recession are about to go into politics.

And a whole nation, in Afghanistan, who grew up and lives in war. Eih, so easy to overlook when it just some news headline.
> The most charitable people are those who can empathize with the poor

I wonder. The most charitable, or most people that are charitable? According to this[1] (which references a paywalled report), middle-class Americans account for nearly two-thirds of charitable giving. That doesn't necessarily mean the rest is from upper class giving, but I think it's a fairly safe assumption (especially given some of the other points in the article). And if the rich are giving, it might be less of an empathy, and more of a sympathy (or even guilt).

Then again, perhaps you meant the most charitable as in giving the largest percentage of their income. Or maybe of their disposable income, in which case, maybe the poor would actually be the most charitable in some areas.

In any case, I think charitable giving is actually a fairly complex topic that might not be accurately summed up as easily as your comment implies.

1: https://www.philanthropy.com/article/America-s-Generosity-Di...
You can literally tell everybody that they might not exist in a different timeline. This thought is neither novel nor meaningful.
Search engines are already censored.
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Nice knowing that, in addition of three failing keys (u, i and o) and one failed speaker, I can also expect the display flex cable to fail. 2017 MBP that's been plagued with problems from the very beginning.
I use Apple Music on Android, in India. (The list of Indian titles available in Apple Music has been impressive, so I am inferring from that there's enough demand to keep the catalogue updated.)
There are other reasons to build your own, especially for those who aren't just running web sites.

One is security. Maybe you don't want to be on the internet, or are legally prohibited from being on the internet.

One is location. Maybe you need to process data at the south pole, or in a submarine, or in a space station. Latency might matter, making even normal parts of the USA be too far away. Your connection to the data center might be unreliable, with outages being equivalent to data center outages, so you'd want your data center local. An example is the Large Hadron Collider, which has a really high data rate.

One is atypical hardware. Maybe you need to run a custom accelerator chip. Even something as simple as SPARC or Itanium might have you running your own data center.
Subaru's do have high resale. People that buy Subarus tend to keep them. Mine is 14 years old, 150k miles, and doing great.
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/better-image-vie... works reasonably well but doesn't have all the features you mentioned.
This is the fully privatized "justice" system that Neal Stephenson parodied in Snow Crash.

Private bail bonds are an almost uniquely US phenomenon. Most other countries either go harsher and keep everyone awaiting trial in jail, or more humane and allow bail on conditions not money. Only America sees it as an opportunity for economic exploitation.

The best way to wither the system would be to speed up court proceedings.
I regret not buying a stash of 2012 Macbook Pros and hoarding them for my own use.

Edit: And iPhone SEs as well
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> did her utmost to never mention

are you sure it was from a blood transfusion?