skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure that Nietzche got the Stoic philosophy quite right, but his words address a strain of thinking that absolutely does exist. One which considers the natural world an almost sacred good, a model or standard which humans fail to live up to, instead wallowing in our industrial creations.

One of the best meditations on this view of the world, which is neither unfair to it nor, ultimately, particularly kind, is Annie Dillard's "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek". It is non-fiction, but undoubtedly counts as literature, and won a Pulitzer prize in 1975. It meditates on precisely the fruitfulness, desolation, and transcendence in nature.
On Apple's platforms you can get this with a background NSURLSession. It lets you express concepts like "Download this URL at a convenient time, preferably when the device is plugged in and connected to Wifi" or "Start downloading this now, but keep going even after this app is closed."

It's definitely more work to figure out than regular foreground URL fetching, though.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/url_loa...
Just wanted to say this is a super insightful reply! Thanks for taking the time to share.
“while that is a small fraction of users, it still represents millions of users who couldn’t receive or send email. As Gmail users ourselves, we know how disruptive losing an essential tool can be!”
>After all, how can a society dictate how its citizens are allowed to use data and interpret it – if that data is already placed in public view, by a public body, such as a court?

I’m totally flabbergasted at how public domain is now not only censored, but sharing of it is punishable by prison time...

>This seems to be like giving someone access to a public library, but banning them from reading certain books that are sitting right there on the shelf for all to see. This is a sort of coercive censorship, but of the most bizarre kind – as it’s the censorship of justice’s own output.

The phrasing of the law is more close to being allowed to read important books about historical events, but you are forbidden to summarize or think about the conclusions of said events and share your findings. I can’t seem to think of another way to rationalize those who approved this into law other than the judges simply didn’t like the public knowing ‘how they think’. What a truly bizarre verdict.
Not anymore. We had some - even deadly - accidents the last few years during summer, caused by cheap construction material and layout. Caused in turn by choosing the wrong kind of competition between contractors by governmental (the Autobahn's owner) entities.

Here some links (in German, but the pictures should demonstrate the issue sufficiently):

https://www.tag24.de/nachrichten/blow-up-deutschland-todesfa...

https://www.google.com/search?channel=crow&q=autobahn+hitze+...
I wonder whether that's GDPR compliant. If I give you permission to contact me on me+alias@example.com and you strip off +alias and then contact me on me@example.com, you've inferred data about me I haven't explicitly given you. One could argue that's in a similar ballpark to running a geoIP lookup and then sending me mail through the post.
"Configuration change" has become the "dog ate my homework" of Silicon Vlley.
to be fair, background tasks can also be really cool.
for example voice com. which does not need your phone to be awake anymore... like discrod currently does...
Unfortunately, in the real world config changes are hard to test.

I'm not trying to suggest that I know what the answer is and it's simple, just that config does need more work, it now seems to be the point of failure for all these big networks (rather than hardware or code changes). These big providers seem to have almost entirely tackled hardware changes and software changes as causes of outages, and configs have been exposed as the new point of failure. That will require rethinking how configs are managed and how they are applied. I'm not talking about 100% test coverage, but failure recovery.

The article does suggest that config was the root cause:

In essence, the root cause of Sunday’s disruption was a configuration change that was intended for a small number of servers in a single region

What I'm suggesting is that what google (and Amazon) has for configs is not good enough, that the root cause of this outage was in fact a config change (like all the others), and that what is required is a rethink of configs which recognises that they need an entirely separate control plane, should never be global, should not be hard to test etc.

Clearly here, since the bad config was able to stop them actually fixing the problem, they need to rethink how their configs are applied somehow. As this keeps happening with different config changes I'd suggest this is not a one-off isolated problem but a symptom of a broader failure to tackle the fragile nature of current config systems.
No they are not
"from a development standpoint, MacOS still seems way ahead of Windows"

Sorry but have you heard of Visual Studio?
> IDLE support is incomplete and experimental. Bugs may be encountered.

That's not "have IDLE support".
Latencies bellow 16ms require a refresh rate higher than 60Hz.

For 9ms you need at least 90Hz. Don't know many who do that. Specially if you take in consideration the battery hit that the faster update rate requires.
I've been at Close for the last 6.5 years and it's been the most fulfilling job I've ever had.

1. The engineering/product problems are challenging and fun.
2. The leadership (and the entire team really) is very supportive, focused on sustainable growth, and provides a lot of opportunities & ownership for each individual.
3. We've developed a remote culture that just works™️.
Dunno about US experience, but for someone coming from Europe like me favelas that I've visited in Rio surely left impression of very dangerous places - and I grew up in Serbia in 90s, been through wars and all that shit and anarchy, and had my share of street education. Now, it's quite possible that they have less crime than some other neighborhoods, but that's just because gangs keep a close grip on their territory. As long as you play by their rules you can live your life sort-of normally. Problem with living in such surrounding arrises when you're forced to go against them, as there's no law to protect you, so you're fully at their mercy. That's a HUGE difference from Santa Monica or Beverly Hills, and much more like living in Somalia.
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I can cancel the fixed contract any time. e.g. when I need support I buy a month of basic or business.
Current visa rules make it very easy to stay. STEM graduate students on an F-1 visa get a whopping 36 months of employment authorization in the US. Look up OPT extension. That's 3 years they can apply to get a H-1B.

In fact, getting a M.S. from a mediocre U.S. school is a popular method young people use to immigrate.
> linked update

Where?
The 200 gb/s network adapter that you linked are 4 times slower than 100GB/s.
The parent comment wrote explicitly 100 Gbyte/s.
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>Windows Exploitation Tricks: Abusing the User-Mode Debugger

...and...

>Nothing I’ve described here is a security vulnerability, but the behavior is interesting and it’s worth looking out for cases where it could be used.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding this newfangled internets but isn't exploitation generally synonymous with security vulnerability?

JFYI, for anyone who's interested, the equivalent debugging API methods in .NET could be found in ClrMd[0] but it's as unyielding a beast as the native methods.

[0] - https://github.com/microsoft/clrmd
And all the other afternoons that you spend in the future when you cross that border inbound.
> ‘Error: We love Apple and anonymity but we require a real email address to prevent fraud and to properly secure your account. Please enter your real email address.’

GDPR would probably want to know specifically why you need someone's real email address.
> we remove them on signup.

But why?
Chromium Issue150835 Support programmatical copying of images to clipboard fixed
Is an imperative API available as well?
I have thought it through. There are multiple major papers that are published each year that purport to show an advancement, but fail to demonstrate that advancement under different random parameters.

This was a major topic at NIPS 2017, yet doesn't seem to be important enough to address.
I'd recommend to always use just POSIX shell syntax, or at least be aware when you're using bashisms. Bash additions don't buy you much, yet make your script unportable. And using bashisms will get you actually in trouble in practice, since Debian uses dash as default shell, and now Mac OS is using zsh. Considering that shell syntax development has practically ended in 1993, relying on bashisms just isn't worth it.
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>I am the opposite of you, I prefer all my email to be avaialble offline to me.

Even spam or mails you want to delete before reading? There are dozens of mails I want to delete or put to the archive folder before reading, thus this feature is annoying me. And when I want to backup mail, I use offlineimap explicitly.

Besides, I use mu4e of 3 separate machines, and on each I have to keep a local copy of all my mails, even mails I've read already.
Well, one possible remediation for this particular issue would be to separate the control plane for configs from the network the configs control. It appears this bad config stopped them solving the problem in a timely way, which shouldn't really happen.

But I don't know the answers, I'm just saying config needs work and we should not pretend the problem lies elsewhere. As the article says, it is the root cause for most of these outages now. The parent said:

It’s not that the configuration change is “to blame”.

Which I (and the article) disagree with.
Finally!

Quick demo: https://jsfiddle.net/murkle/asbcgnqf/1/
If it’s 800 gbps then it’s 100GB/s, not 1...
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Alright, if I say I'm a bird and demand that you greet me by fluttering your arms and hopping up and down and bobbing your head I guess you have to do it or you're harassing me.

"Hormone levels count more for "biological sex" than chromosomes do. Hormone levels can be changed easily."

Ummm...wow okay, thats quite a nonsensical statement. Its like saying "Oil levels count more for what makes a car a car than blue prints and you can change oil easily" Ummm..not quite sure how to respond to that.
This is a reasonable approach - a forcing function to require working code (social or otherwise) would be a good first step.
Pipe Dream (instant web app creation package)
Pipe Dream is a handy tool used to create new web projects really fast. By giving it a minimum of input in form of a sketch/entity list it will predict your application schema and feed it into a set of pipes. These pipes will generate all the files needed to get started really quick.

At the moment it's only available as a Laravel package (PHP), but the plan is to make implementations for other languages/frameworks maybe Express/Rails/Django.

Anyways, thought I drop the repo here if anyone is interested: https://github.com/pipe-dream/laravel
Thanks for reading :)
Looks like it works with SPM unless I'm mistaken.
Alternatively, I use a lot for a long while Tydlig. Sadly it has been stagnant for a while (I'd like to be able to save "sheets", for instance). But its interaction mode (akin to a spreadsheet, in a sense) is very refreshing.

http://tydligapp.com
> Yes, it is surprising to see over 3000 illegal businesses in a neighborhood, working under a violent regime.

Out of curiosity, why do you think there would not be illegal businesses in place where many people live and on one hand needs to buy things and on the other needs money?
Use industrial cards.
I've been a happy QFMLWY user for many years. It greatly eased my wrist pain and I feel a lot more efficient at typing. It took me about a month to switch from QWERTY, going cold turkey. I highly recommend it. The drawback is that I'm now not able to touch type on a QWERTY layout anymore. However, I think that's only because I no longer need that skill. I presume that if I had to type on QWERTY regularly, I'd be able to touch type on both layouts.
Did you miss the word “blockchain”?
Am I really a cheapskate if I can do my job just as well on a $1k machine as on a $6k one? The new Mac Pro is overkill for many development workflows.
> We replicate and resell things, we kind of have to,

You clearly missed what I said here.

> Most countries don't produce that much valuable IP in this stage of their growth.

Seriously read that again. Every developed country has started out copying, manufacturing, and then moved up the value chain to inventing. That's how countries develop - Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, and Singapore are some examples of this. And even then ISRO and BARC have had to re-create a ton of aerospace and nuclear research on their own, on account of being frozen out of the international research community for decades.

> Heck we are experts are producing more human beings, than any country on earth

Actually India's fertility rate is only a shade above the global average. So it's middle-of-the-pack on that measure, not a world-leader :-)

> Then we can claim what we always claim, we are the best of the best, put all criticism to rest, join hands and sing Mera Bharat Mahan.

Try to ease up on the negativity, anger, and extreme opinions a bit. Everything is not awesome but it's not all bad either.
And how many people here who claim to use a SAN for sure use a NAS is funny.

From maintaining large image storage FC SANs with Apple xServe and IBM DS for some years this is no fun to administrate for peak performance and I would assume most smaller shops have NAS instead of SANs (no arguing larger shops have SANs as we did driving ten photo studios).
You will have a hard time monetizing without entering the french jurisdiction.
A non-sequitur if I ever saw one.
According to their own marketing the new 18-core model is between 2.2 and 3.7 times faster than the the 2013 12-core model. They don't compare the entry level ones, but I highly doubt it is even two times faster.
and there's also this: https://github.com/MatthiasNickles/delSAT
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Has anyone noticed a lot of ML research into facial recognition of Uyghur ppl?
It also appeared interesting to me, but then I discovered that I already have a nice book from the Rice compiler people:

https://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Compiler-Keith-Cooper/dp/...

And the example of the paper with literate code:

https://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~ckrintz/papers/shared.ps.gz

Still it would be nice if somebody decides to get and also make available the papers or code for which the links are now dead, e.g. those linked from here:

http://keith.rice.edu/publications-2/technical-reports/
5 in Arabic looks like a western 0

0 in Arabic is a dot.
This could be great for battery life, if it allows the system to better schedule tasks that were going to happen anyway. For example, consider a photo app that auto-tags people's faces: rather than running that battery-draining computation while you're using the app, it could run at 4 AM when your phone is plugged in and has been locked for a while.
https://www.thelocal.fr/20181220/french-ban-on-dna-testing-c...

https://www.ibdna.com/paternity-testing-ban-upheld-in-france...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_paternity_testing#France

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/french-men-s-insecurity-over...
Wikipedia provides information FOR FREE yet isn't the subject of an antitrust probe.
Updated comment with source.
Why « belief » ?

They assert it in their values and in responses to interviews about deplatforming, so claiming it’s a belief makes it look less proven than it is.
I smell a business idea: properly sized covers for these monitors
I expect the disposable email will end up in Keychain, and you can export from there. Not the most user-friendly thing, but doable. Well, at least on a Mac.
I find driving on the Autobahn very stressful. The main problem is the width of the speed distribution. You have the trucks on the right lane, often struggling to even reach the required 60 km/h when going uphill, and you have people driving over 200 km/h on the left. When you're stuck behind a truck, you have to be very careful before switching lanes since you need time to accelerate. It's not easy to gauge the speed of an oncoming car in the rear mirror.
Also, nobody wants to drive on the rightmost lane because you don't want to have a truck behind you when you suddenly encounter a traffic jam (especially when the end of it is behind a curve). So the left lane is usually pretty crowded, and often times the distance between cars is way too low for the speed that is driven there.
The WWDC 2019 Platforms State of the Union Highlights
what's dated about an unreleased Xeon? Or the just released Vega II Pro on 7nm?
How credible is this?
Python is coming!
This is a little strong of a statement for me. Sure, the economy isn't a zero sum game, but that doesn't mean that it automatically benefits everyone equally
Cool article! I've made a few very simple pieces of furniture and have always used screws, so I was surprised to see they were the weakest joint. Guess I'll need to learn how to mortise and tenon!
[Not mine but] For the full discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17929608
> Private DNA paternity testing is illegal, including through laboratories in other countries, and is punishable by up to a year in prison and a €15,000 fine.

Felony paternity testing...I have no words.
That's interesting, but you should specify that "private DNA paternity testing is illegal". Testing can still be mandated by a judge.
H1-B provides for a terrible quality of life, and is only attractive if options in home country are worse.
Yes that's true that they periodically check for work to do, but cron is not smart enough to know whether a service is already running - a systemd-timer can base it's timer from the point when a service completes. I think cron just fires up a service unless you build in some logic to check if it's running
Apple taking on Facebook/Google with focus on privacy, but the plan could fail
ILP usually translates to SAT. You can see ILP as a high-level interface to SAT.
iPad Pro refresh rate is 120hz.
While Apple is at modernizing their POSIX userland, they should also consider other ancient software they're using. For example, last I looked on Apple's Darwin Open Source site (about a year or two ago), they shipped a really old and buggy awk (nawk) version.
> Will someone finally listen

I count dozens of startups and virtually every big military contractor doing exactly this for nearly 2 decades now.

Your main complaint here seems to be no one giving you money to try what many have failed at?
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I just spotted Chris on the Planetscale About page; I worked with him at Infomix years ago! I dropped a nite via your site's web form.
Oops. Didn't spot that, sorry. :)

That being said, after re-reading the comment they're talking about adding multiple PCIe cards to a box to achieve 100GB/s of local total throughput.

That would be achievable over a network by adding multiple PCIe 200Gb/s network cards too. :)
Do you believe in UFOs? China hints at test of new missile
So I guess Apple must be feeling what many Apple customers have been feeling for some time? :)
Last time I checked, freedom of thought was a part of article 10.

A challenge through line of EU institutes may well be able to cancel this law.
Apple ships supported, stable packages. Like Debian and CentOS, yes, that means that sometimes you don't get the latest shiny version to play with.
That looks promising! I wish Mutt had a mail account configurator like the one in Aerc. Definitely giving it a try.
A 2 year old should not be watching TV and playing video games.
I rode a bicycle through a long stretch of German autobahn once. Took quite a while to reach a suitable exit. That was very late at night without much traffic though.

That was a Schengen thing. I'd crossed from Switzerland into Germany without any visible border and I didn't know that the blue/green road designation has exactly the opposite meaning in Germany than in Switzerland...
The German Autobahn is infamous in Denmark for this feature. We're spoiled with much longer acceleration/deceleration lanes (with few exceptions).

Still, it's a good rule of thumb to follow when possible.
:) Fair point.
>> You could very easily reach 100 GByte/s read which no network will match.

> High end networking gear already has higher throughput:

100GB/s > 200Gbps

You would need 4x 200Gbps ports to reach 100GB/s, so 2x MCX653105A-ECAT (each 2x 16-lanes) at > $700 each, and pay for 1/10th of a ~$30 000 switch, IOW 100GB/s would cost you ~ $4400, before paying for the storage.

Sure, it could be done, but it wouldn't be cheap, and you'll have used most of the PCIe lanes.
Watch out: it's about "personal identities"... Like name for example. But replacing the name by an id might be ok: it's still possible to build a model for every judge (as a function) but not to link it to a person!

Moreover, please keep in mind that the french system is quite different from the US/UK. In France, Judges are really tighly controlled by the law. In US/UK they're more "free". So this kind of software has more value in US/UK where the personality of the judge matter more
You can’t, that’s the idea. What do you need it for?
Great work! I'm looking forward to using it full time. A couple of quick comments.

1. It doesn't seem to work with when $TERM is set to some non-default setting. (panic: terminal entry not found)
2. When term is forced to xterm-256-color, aerc crashes when the window is resized.
Well, everything is relative - there are a lot of situations where the AMG brakes are not strong enough as well and you crash into someone anyway.
During the keynote they used FPGA and ASIC interchangeably, which one is it?
just wipe the ipad clean and see where the finger smudges happen in combination with finger movements. i was doing this on my dad's htc palmtop as a kid to access the browser
> It's not the editor's job to replicate the results.

They obviously meant the reviewers. Not everyone is intimately familiar with academic terminology.
No, it would not be more efficient. I’ve tried this route and it hands down consumes way more time. Until it’s clear that something will get re-used, it’s most efficient to leave it dirty.

The software types love to sht on researchers for their poor quality code. Yet a few threads over, there’s always a discussion about how more tests don’t make it onto the kanban board (or whatever you guys are using these days) when crunch time approaches. It’s not just us.
No, I ultimately think reliions should be banned as the scams as they are.
Most often (depending on the cycle in the SSD tech generation) larger SSDs are faster (see new PCI4 controllers who need a number of NAND chips for best performance). A 256GB has a high probability of being not the best choice for compilation. A 2018 MacRumors thread shows:

- 256 SSD 1400 MB/s Write 2200 MB/S Read
- 512 SSD 1846 MB/s Write 2500 MB/S Read
- 1T SSD 2500 MB/s Write 2600 MB/S Read
- 2T SSD 2600 MB/s Write 2700 MB/S Read

So this is mostly with write, the iMac Pro I'm writing this on with 1TB is in line with ~2800 MB/s write speed.

But of course this could be very different with the new iMac which might have a very fast write SSD in the 256 GB model.
Makes me wonder. If you're a software engineer at Apple, are you given a $6k Mac Pro and $5k display to program with?