skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like just enough to be nice, and not nearly enough to move the needle, to me.

I guess that’s why I think it’s great.

If it was a smaller token amount, it would feel sad.

If it was more, it would feel exploitative (like a number of people in this thread already said).
I don't know ... we used to interleave our hard disk formats because a hard disk could stream data faster than an i386 CPU could ingest it, and there was plenty of database research done prior to 1990.
My company buys a math library. It's normally licensed per-core, annually, with a license key that expires and makes it stop working.

We eventually worked out a special deal where we would pay for 2 years at a time in advance, and get a version without the stupid expiring key.

The library vendor trusts us to account for the number of CPUs we are running it on and self-report. We don't abuse that trust.

The alternatives are:

1. Writing our own math library. We estimated it would take a man-month to get it usable, but we might spend years in corner cases.

2. Paying someone to improve Octave. Probably similar to case 1, but we would feel good about our contribution.

3. Very expensive alternatives.
"I will buy whatever you're selling to make this stimulus stop, please."
Back in 2005 or so, I had a friend who was working at Amazon. When he told me he was ordering things like toothpaste, I could hardly believe it. His apartment was in easy walking distance of a drugstore, and I thought him ordering toothpaste from an online bookseller instead was insane. Little did I know he was living in the future.
Did you look at PouchDB for data storage? It's designed for replication, has built-in JSON import and export, and their are encryption plugins.
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Thanks to David Reich and others like him we know for a fact the invasion theory is true due to genetic evidence.

Modern Europeans really are descended from asian warriors, the battle-axe culture[1] (or corded ware culture if you want it to sound boring), who exterminated the old indigenous Europeans about 4000 years ago.

[1]https://popular-archaeology.com/article/the-battle-axe-cultu...
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Carefully does not look at Steam/GOG libraries with hundreds of games
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What is the specific threshold that would (supposedly) prove to you that The Guardian is toxic?
> Quadratic voting “is the one vote pricing rule under which voters who intend only their own gain are led, as if by an invisible hand, to advance the interests of society,”

What's so special about n^2? I'd suspect n^phi is optimal.
Or perhaps we can just let them fend for themselves and if they end up living under an overpass until they die of something entirely preventable, well, to paraphrase a Firesign Theatre skit, "that's their thing."
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Let's take a look at the throughput of a server hard disk vs. a typical server CPU:

https://serverfault.com/questions/190451/what-is-the-through...

https://www.anandtech.com/show/9185/intel-xeon-d-review-perf...

Now, that 45.8 GB/sec can't usually be fully utilized by the application, but it's a lot higher than the 200MB/sec of the server hard drive.

There's also the complication of RAID, max memory fetch rate of a single core, etc. And the fact that the database has to do some processing besides moving data around.

But it seems to me that server CPU bandwidth of the last generation is significantly higher than spinning disks.
I wish I was rich enough to view getting a bonus of $20.00 an hour for fun-time work as being more offensive than receiving nothing at all.
In strength training, flexibility is very important. It is often the root of poor form that leads to weaker lifts.

The first thing a good strength coach will do is figure out your current range of motion and address how that's affecting your major lifts.

Moreso, poor flexibility can lead to injury and long term imbalances if you don't get them sorted before making big gains in strength. Like building on a lopsided foundation.
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Looking now I think it was much longer ago than I recalled so things could have moved on considerably, but I think what I was recalling was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2601347 .

Also I hope that "pointers" pun was intentional!
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It appears that the people who pay the bills (advertisers) don't want that sort of platform. And the people who do want that sort of platform are unwilling to pay the bills.
Why is nutrition and fitness so divisive? My most controversial comment on HN was bringing up that nearly everyone's metabolism is the same. Everyone wants to think that obesity is caused by having a slower metabolism. It's not.

Every single "buff" person shown in this article, is on steroids. People have a really hard time accepting this, they really want to believe that if you work hard enough, you can do what they do.
> Financial Times have a very strong bias towards liberal economic policy

Economics itself has a strong bias towards liberal economic policy. Would you call "Nature" biased for not giving creationism a platform?
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> Just say things like "right yes" or "wrong no" and I'll understand.

Those have the same problem, don't they? I think you think you're replacing the positive/negative with right/wrong, but you're actually replacing the true/false. So, if you get a "wrong yes" result, is that "yes" supposed to be a good or bad thing? It's still ambiguous.

Maybe "true good" or "false bad" are better...

Then again, if both results are neither good or bad, then which is which? Maybe true/false positive/negative is indeed the less ambiguous. You just need to be clear on the question that's being answered. "Is there cancer?" "positive" means yes, "negative" means no.
Since it is wikipedia, anyone can join, read the arguments pro/contra and defend her:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...
Bribery would be more rampant than it is now. With no career aspirations to keep them in line, unethical people would take the lobbyist money and run.
Re: Alex Honnold

Climbers in general have a really lanky build. They are basically carrying their bodyweight up long walls so being bulky is definitely a disadvantage. That's not to say that some climbers aren't extremely muscular. But, for example, Adam Ondra is probably one of the strongest climbers ever and he doesn't look absurdly muscular.
Is TypeScript the only language your company needs?
Thank you for putting the record straight. All Europeans were descended from India/Asia, yet they fight Indian culture.
> You’re suggesting that online services have no sanctions whatsoever, because you have faith that the justice system will be enough of a deterrent?

I'm questioning the premise that "speech deterrence is needed at all, or that it's a good idea even in principle.

If you're not inciting violence, which is violence and so against the law, then what justification is there for censoring speech? These companies that provide free services are censoring for optics, with a purely profit-motive to placate advertisers. This motive will not discriminate solely against hate speech, but anything even remotely controversial will eventually be censored, and these services will become the same bland pablum we've had on cable TV for decades, reducing the rich and diverse tapestry of online content we've enjoyed for decades.

Furthermore, considering how influential social media is, by encouraging this type of censorship, we are creating new social norms whereby large corporations are now essentially permitted to overtly meddle in our elections. Where's the oversight for this? Already considerable evidence exists that conservative viewpoints are censored more widely.

The motive on the part of activists pushing this is that the internet is "spreading hate", that it's led to an increase in radicalization and violence, etc. Except there's precious little evidence this is the case.

Studies actually done on radicalization [1] show the internet increases opportunities for radicalization simply because you're exposed to so many diverse viewpoints, and it creates an echo chamber effect because you then follow only the sources that reinforce your bias, but they do not find evidence for accelerating the process of radicalization, for radicalization without physical contact, and for self-radicalization.

The narrative spun is that right-wing terrorism is increasing in the US [2], therefore the echo chambers from these internet sites is at least partly responsible. Except that doesn't explain why the US's rates are rising while the rest of the world's rates are falling. This speaks to local circumstances driving the increase in violence.

All in all, there seems to be considerable danger to encouraging these corporations to make up their own rules and censor without oversight, and there are few upsides that I can see. It might make some people feel like they've "done something", but there's precious little evidence that these measures are effective or even necessary.

[1] https://www.rand.org/randeurope/research/projects/internet-a...

[2] https://qz.com/1355874/terrorism-is-surging-in-the-us-fueled...
Since the federal offense in question is not called a misdemeanor in the law and carries up to 2 years penalty I fail to see how it fits the definition you quoted. Also most cases are not punished by reprimand or short arrest either. I understand that left is pushing the idea that it's as serious as parking violation at most but it takes just few seconds to read the actual law and few minutes to research how is it enforced in practice to realize how inappropriate this comparison is.
Don’t all companies become IBM at some point?
What's the difference between a societal issue and what you consider to be a SJW issue?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis

The clathrate gun hypothesis is the popular name given to the idea that increases in sea temperatures or drops in sea levels can trigger a strong positive feedback effect on climate: first, warming causes a sudden release of methane from methane clathrate compounds buried in seabeds and seabed permafrost; second, because methane itself is a powerful greenhouse gas, temperatures rise further, and the cycle repeats. This runaway process, once started, could be as irreversible as the firing of a gun.
What about compute resources needed?
Thanks for that! It's interesting that Argon-16 (and its replacement) are located in the service module which is jettisoned after the deorbit burn.
Why would it be flagged?
I think there is more than anecdotal evidence to support this - https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/magazine/how-yoga-can-wre...
I guess I was thinking more of aesthetic beauty. Truly there are deeper and more lasting forms of beauty to be enjoyed in the world. But our brains are drawn persistently to images, and I don't necessarily find anything wrong with that. I just think that the overload of stimuli from social media especially Instagram can be damaging to the scope of enjoyment we could get from the real thing in real life, which would arguably be more fulfilling.
fbcoin.com goes to a Chinese site.
In our research, we show that the fovea observed many times in biology may be an emergent property that emerged from an attention system:

https://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2017/11/09/learn-to-attend-fo...
I’m not sure I’d consider this a better approach. If everyone used tidelift open source would become a popularity contest, and basically about the money.
> power density is inversely proportional to half-life

It's not that simple. The energy per event varies by orders of magnitude depending on the specific transition (even within given particle decays, the energy of the emitted particle varies), also the number of atoms per volume or mass varies depending on material.
A quick search shows data integrity lawsuits do happen: https://www.healthcareinfosecurity.com/1-billion-lawsuit-foc...

But I'd like to hear from engineers who have seen write skew bugs and other transaction anomalies cause business issues.
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yea I am not debating aryan invasion theory( can of worms) only mentioning the fact that tribe being called 'aryan' doesn't imply they are mueller's 'aryans'.

Sanskrit word arya has nothing to do with aryan invasion theory.
Once again, the statement was unqualified, "no one has the right to..." And once again, my link literally proves this statement to be false, because as you just admitted, at least some people do have that right.
The problem is that a merge increases the centralization of power and the ability to abuse that power with impunity. ICE was only formed 16 years ago as this sort of centralized organization. That is different than going via multiple separate entities, each of which have their own checks and balances, oversight and even internal politics that make it less likely widespread abuse would pass all the links in the chain untamed. That is gone.

The difference in 'effectiveness' is sort of like the difference between the reach of the LAPD intelligence arm vs the CIA.
> Climate change is a "solved" problem, but the solution isn't something I would want to live through.

The good news is, unless you are part of the lucky 0.01%, you won't have to live through it!
Mueller's theory was very fake & driven by his own nefarious agenda to put down any greatness that may have come out from the Indian subcontinent. Iranians were Persians, nothing to do with "Aryans".
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Hah, as I wrote my previous comment, inserting a caveat about Canada ran through my mind :)

My point still stands for most of the rest of the world, though.
How about including given names with everything named after one of the many Bernoullis?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoulli_family
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A big difference between the past and now is that in the past, politics was a very minor part in American life.

Outside of wartime, the federal government was something you mainly interacted with when going to the post office. If the national politicians hated each other, it made for good gossip, but didn't affect daily life much

Today, it is involved with and regulating most aspects of our lives, and federal government dysfunction is a much bigger problem.
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STAR voting has the added benefit of simplicity and being possible on paper ballots. This quadratic system has neither and would be rife with errors, confusion, and likely fraud when used among people who don't vote for a living.
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And their quality has plummeted the past few years. I had an AK that could out-shoot my Rem 700 no matter what I did to it, and my 870 would only reliably eject Remington brand shells. Sold both, will never buy Remington again. Really a shame. Both of those were excellent guns back in the day.
At least they are 'required' by law to state that a post is an ad. So a step on the right direction.
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IBM would make more sense than Google. Despite the topic of TFA, almost all of GitLab's ARR comes from their on-prem offering not their SaaS offering. IBM is much better positioned to sell and support on-prem software than Google. IBM is also a long-time player in SCM, and despite being legacy their Rational products still have a big footprint in enterprise. With some integrations and migration tools an IBM-owned GitLab would have a huge installed base to go sell Git modernization to.

Another possibility would be Broadcom, as CA has a number of adjacent products for the software development lifecycle.
It turns out that merely repeating the name of a candidate over and over again alongside some platitude or glittering generality is remarkably effective in gaining voters.

But TV ads are expensive, hence the several million dollars each candidate spends every election cycle.
I imagine if Trump demanded another presidential election, the electorate at large would say "Sure thing - we'll hold one in four years."
Genuinely listen, even to people who disagree with your strongly held opinions. Listen to really give their position a fair hearing, not just looking for something to argue with. This has several benefits:

- You could actually be wrong, even if you don't think that's possible. You might learn that your position is mistaken.

- You might see that the other person's position, while you still don't agree with it, is still not as nuts as you thought it was.

- Even for a position that you totally disagree with, you might learn how to better refute it. You might even learn how to more accurately state it in the process of refuting it. (It's always better to refute something that your opponents recognize as their real position, rather than a strawman.)
You seem to be confusing two different rights.

The right to Internet access is not the right to say whatever you like on the Internet.
It's not overblown for four core reasons.

1. These families are often permanently separated. In the process of separation they do not keep any records or information needed to unite the families back together. I shouldn't need to offer a reason why this is incredibly barbaric.

2. These families are often denied due process of law. In addition to using legal gotchas to ensure even valid applicants violate the law such as moving ports of entry to ensure they have to illegally cross the border.

3. The conditions that these immigrants are held in are barbaric. Children are denied the care they need and are abused, assaulted etc because there is zero oversight on the detention centers.

4. You're literally giving up all of your privacy rights [1] for the sake of potentially catching a non-citizen. You're allowing the government to massively overstep it's authority and the end result is generally a Bad Thing for your own rights.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19815300
Now, can Microsoft port the UI half of VSCode to iOS so I can just jack into a server from my iPad and keep working? If they've really separated the two parts as much as they claim, it should be possible.
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I assume the IO you're talking about is (/was) sequential. And DBs are specifically engineered to sequentialise their IO (e.g. clustered indexes).

But even if SSDs do blow HDDs out the water on sequential IO, it's on random IO that the difference is most stark, the cost difference between sequential and random is much lower on SSD than on HDDs, and both random IO throughput and random IOPS shoot through the roof relative to spinning rust.

An SSD might be an order of magnitude better than an HDD on sequential IO, but will often be 2 or 3 on random IO. That means the loss of throughput from sequential IO to random IO (while still there due to commands overhead and the like) is much, much, much smaller on an SSD than on an HDD. And the story is similar on the latency front, an HDD might have a command latency in the low tens milliseconds, an SSD in the low-mid tens microseconds.
For example, Alex Jones didn't actually cause that harm did he? If he didn't actively incite his fans to harass those families, is he responsible for their harassment? He's being sued so I suppose we'll see where the liability lies, but a lawsuit is exactly the proper response here. Why should his speech also be censored?

People seem really fond of jumping over a lot of steps to blame people for their indirect influence apparently without realizing how accepting this sort of argument makes us all culpable of fairly heinous crimes.
> Something happened in the last twenty years or so that increased our polarization.

This has happened all over the world. The obvious major thing that's changed is this thing right here: The internet.

Social media has replaced "mainstream media" as the source of our news and our opinions. And so we have a new opinion landscape.
This can be gamed easily by running N-1 clones of any given candidate, where N is the total number of votes allotted.
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As an active subscriber, I find Prime very frustrating, the plethora of different benefits on offer sounds amazing. However, in practice Video doesn't have the shows and movies I want to watch, Reading doesn't have the books I want to read, Music doesn't have the music I want to listen to and shopping still takes two days to arrive (to one of the biggest cities in the UK). It seems every time I want to watch a movie or a tv show or read a new book I go through a ritual of checking if it's by a stroke of luck available on Prime and only to end up disappointed.

It looks to me like they went with something very similar to the 24h gym model - all these benefits which you don't end up using.
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Buyers searching for yield. Take a look at the current state of covenant light loan and leveraged loan markets. They assumption should be based on the winners paying for the losers, just like in VC, but it isn’t clear that the yields are high enough now to make up for it.

Consider the alternative for where people can park their money - sovereign debt paying effectively zero paid for in an inflationary currency.

There is logic here. It isn’t great, but it’s there.
Tons of people arguing one way or another here. Does anyone have actual statistiks on reliability og different cloud providers across different zones?
1. End "winner-take-all" allocations of electoral votes

2. Any party that gains the minimum population/electoral vote (Wyoming puts that at ~200k) in any state is guaranteed at least one electoral vote in that state

3. All remaining electoral votes are allocated proportionally based on general election votes

4. If no majority winner exists, the party with the least number of electoral votes casts their vote to other party/ies and this repeats until a winner obtains 270.

Wouldn't this remove the spoiler effect, function within the current voting system, and off-set any perceived difficulty in rank voting to the actual parties?
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It feels like the sales are hard to predict have something to do with guns in the US being ... almost borderline fashion items in terms of how people decide things.

Like there's a lot of discussion about usage and practicality among gun enthusiasts, but when they buy their 3rd or 6th gun ... I suspect the decisions are more about difficult to predict things and whims.

It is a strange market.