skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Filesystem design and operating system design is full of these kinds of questions.

From Unix and Windows we are used that we can insert and delete the end of a file and that we can read, write and seek anywhere in the file, but a filesystem could potentially do much more: Inserting/deleting at the beginning or inserting/deleting in the middle.

Deleting at the beginning of a file would be handy for queues or logs and inserting and deleting in the middle is a common operation for text editors.

There are even more questions you could ask:

- Why not have tabular files that allow indexed access?

- Do we need hierarchical directories or do we need directories at all?

- What about adding tags to files?

- Why having a filesystem at all?
BBC CBeebies and CBBC is pretty goodd for kids programmes.
Facebook doesn't allow you to sign up unless you're 13 years old, and isn't in the 'kids' category of the App Store, so this is not applicable.
I'm more tired of walled gardens than of random apps on the app store.

I block advertising and tracking networks on my device by HOSTS file which you can only do on a rooted device. It also blocks "legit" ads.

I will _NEVER_ buy a locked device. Period.

Some of my favorite open-source apps for Android (which contain no tracking and no ads) can not exist in a walled garden.
The Bloom logo is almost the same as the google cloud logo just folded differently : https://yt3.ggpht.com/a/AGF-l79_dlSqckoEPCco9JxnGmDLrq-F10w0...
Believing every slippery slope to be a fallacy is itself a fallacy.

The same goes with conspiracy theories. They aren't all wrong!
That's absolutely the case: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/congo-s-ebola-response-th...
I never understood this argument.. you don't go to work to socialize, you go there to get work done.

I am of course respectful and cooperative with my fellow coworkers but my relationship with them ends at 5PM.

I personally find the offices that push for forced socialization quite frustrating.

After working remote for the past few years I love the fact that I no longer have to commute, am in charge of my time, can eat what I want , have better sleep, can exercise and have the luxury of actually getting work done.

Not to mention remote work majorly helps people with kids / newborns and also caters to women who need extra comfort during pregnancies.

When I was working in a big office, I actually had to arrive early or stay late to get work done (I'm not kidding), because those were the only non distracting hours.

I suspect the reason why most companies are not remote is because they rather keep a tight leash on their employees and celebrate the butt in chair "work" rather than trusting them with actual work.

I doubt I'm alone in this.
Adults can't really make that decision for analytics though. Most iOS users that don't use facebook have no idea that facebook has all of their data including their location because third party apps are using facebook's analytics SDK, for example.
Location: Philadelphia, PA Suburbs

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I'll agree with you for sure no objective metric for quality (that is broad enough to capture a satisfying amount of what we mean by quality).

I do think user experience/expectation bugs are very language dependent though. First you have the quality of the String and Datetime libraries. Ruby has all kinds of high quality string functions that are a source of pain and bugs in C.

Say your project wants to display the different between two datetimes as "5 minutes ago" or "last month" (in several languages). Saying "1.27 days ago" is correct to an extent but also not pretty. There exist high quality libraries for this, but not in every language, and a lot of devs would stumble on this feature.

The other is UI creation, I would say it is easier and faster to create a really nice UI with HTML/CSS/JS than with native Android. Maybe I'm wrong on this example but I bet there is a pair of UI frameworks where this is true.
I'm breaking with my usual rule of not commenting on downvotes, this only seems to happen with historical topics, to say that trying to make a distinction between the Aryan supremacy of the Nazis, as weird as the details would sound to a 21st century mind, and the racists of our day, is just a distinction without a difference. You see the exact same mentality, the exact same sorts of arguments.

If today's white supremacists found power, they'd look exactly like Nazis. The enemy might be different, but the mindset of fighting that enemy would be exactly the same, and the white supremacist suddenly finding power would find no other example to take heed of than the Nazis, so we can pretty much almost assume that that's what would happen.
No problem at all :) Thanks a lot for the info. I am actually looking for such realistic views about things to set a clear perspective on how to proceed forward. Will definitely look into that!
How Structuring Logs Makes Anomaly Detection Work
Show HN: Memento – Real-Time Distributed Database (Mnesia) in Elixir
CPU Timeline in Web Inspector
US to label nuclear waste as less dangerous to quicken cleanup
Pretty status quo for most Food Science publications it would seem. Eggs bad! Eggs good! Eggs bad!

Of course GMO Wheat, Soy, Corn and the increased intake in Fructose in general along with refined seed oils are probably all at least in part to blame about the general state of health in the world.

Now that we've generally solved the issues of famine, we need to work on healthier foods... of course corporations aren't aligned with such concerns.
Grid seems so natural. Why did it take 25+ years of css standards to get to it? Is it only natural in retrospect, having slogged through all the troubles of other css layout systems? Was there some long running bias against table-like things that prevented people from seeing the way?
The Problem with ‘Sharenting’
Sunset for Oil Is No Longer Just Talk
The distraction aspect is what really gets to me; cancelled my NYTimes subscription after these bright red / orange advertisements loaded all over the page, where the content I was interested in was the bland black text over white background. Couldn't even read the headlines without naturally focusing on the bright red advertisements.
It's apparently a thing now:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5233
Apple makes hardware.

I think what might be more accurate is something along the lines of G Suite. Though, without email, it still might not be the best comparison
This is discussed in TFA and a number of problems with this "just do" solution are pointed out.
Pretty sure they've deliberately kept it out on principle: better to encrypt swap, ensure permissions on core files are strict, etc, rather than hope all applications correctly set MAP_NOCORE on every bit of sensitive data. Sounds like it just became too inconvenient to avoid, though.
Another gem from back when the internet was fun:

HTTP Status 418: I'm a teapot - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/418

Wasn't there also a protocol for checking vending machines for cold drinks?
"What kind of swallow?"
Facebook “official” outs uploader to journalist
Your perspective is correct. Hindi has been imposed only recently after Independence and there have been protests/movements pre-Independence too. For eg: None of my uncles/aunts or my grand parents generation know Hindi. I learnt it (or had to learn it) only because of school policy , not personal choice.
Could this be some kind of automoderation perhaps related to this recent announcement?

> “First, the ban on supremacists will remove Nazis and other extremists who advocate...”

https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/5/18652576/youtube-supremaci...
I don't know them well enough to compare. Haven't been coding in a while. Best resource on Ada to do that comparison is Barnes:

https://www.adacore.com/books/safe-and-secure-software

SPARK is a subset without pointers that feeds information about the program into solvers that prove absence of common classes of errors like overflows and divide by zero. Inspired by Rust, recent work is adding pointers. Praxis' Correct-by-Construction defaulted on Ada with SPARK saved for most critical stuff, esp safety- or security-enforcing.

Right now, Rust is mainly ahead of Ada on dealing with the pointer safety and better safe concurrency. Ada's Ravenscar aimed for safety but was restrictive. That's my take.
Rough draft MSF module too dangerous to release – maybe after first mega-worm?
Of course you can do it yourself; but the point would be to have a standard API (like files are a standard API) for interacting with such on-disk vector-of-extents objects, such that one program could write them and another program, written by a different author, could read them back.

The simplest obvious use-case for pure vector objects: storing Unix text-based file formats as vectors of line-length extents, rather than a single byte-stream. wc(1), head(1), tail(1), etc. would now be O(log n) operations. Any parsing operation that can proceed separately for each line (like the context-free phases of syntax highlighting... or like grep) could be parallelized. The .mbox file format would be relevant again. This would essentially do for Unix what record-orientation does for z/OS—while keeping things "Unix-y."

Another powerful use-case: concatenation. The direct ability to manipulate extents means the ability to compose sequences of extents together into new files, without having to copy the underlying extents. So you can download some large document in parts (either because it's explicitly chunked, ala partial RARs; or because you used range requests to retrieve the file one chunk at a time, perhaps in parallel, as in HTTP or BitTorrent) and then just concatenate the chunks back together in O(log n) time. No need to pre-allocate a file, target your chunk-writes, and keep an external index of which chunk-jobs have succeeded. Just keep a downloads directory and concatenate when you're done.

It's funny; modern filesystems have the theoretical capacity for many operations like O(log n) concatenation, but they only bother to expose one or two (hard-link, and sometimes copy-on-write clone/snapshot). Filesystem authors are seemingly unimaginative and conservative where exposing new APIs is concerned; I wouldn't expect them to ever directly expose the ability to O(log n) concatenate files. But if they exposed a vector-object, it would give you these features for free!

But maybe that doesn't seem useful enough. Let's add one more feature: give the ability to store a "table of contents" with this vector-object, i.e. a labelled interval tree where the extents in the vector are the leaves.

Such a filesystem object would entirely obviate specialized tooling for container/record file formats; rather than mkvtoolnix(1), or avro-tools, or LevelDB, you'd just need a program that took the raw byte stream of one of these container files as input, and spat out a labelled-interval-tree-extent-vector file-system-object representation. You could cd into it, put things in, take things out... it'd seem a lot like a directory. But it'd still fundamentally be a file, in the sense that it'd still fundamentally be a bijection with a seekable byte stream. (Unlike actual directories, where dirents have no standardized collation order; where there's no obvious semantic answer for what part of the "content of a dirent", if any, goes into a treewise cryptographic checksum; etc.)

Certainly, though, if you had this type of object in your filesystem, you could implement your filesystem's directories in terms of it.
Business is not about fairness. Largely, it never was.

It was always about power: the power of local monopolies, the power over workers, the power of unions, China, laws like the minimum wage, capital, etc.
Self host in multiple locations - either datacenters or cloud providers. Its the only way to be sure.
A Master's Degree seems most useful in two cases:
1. to change field if you made a mistake with your Bachelor's, or
2. to enter the US after getting a Bachelor's in your home country.
I think that's ok, most everyone installs homebrew
Thank you for this.

I remember my first reaction to the Neural ODEs paper was to tell my professor that they forgot to mention the parabolic PDEs case (through SDEs).
My perspective is you make your own luck - and really you are making a lottery ticket with probably much better odds than a real lottery ticket, and other upsides (if you fail you gain experience). But it's still a lottery ticket so it is not always useful to disect someone else success and say "oh they woke up at 4am every day, so I'll do that to be successful" etc.
Personally, I'd love to see "what they're fed" labels for eggs and dairy products. There are definitely different characteristics and nutritional value in the products from naturally fed animals and those feed product they would never eat in the wild.

I mostly notice wrt soy fed chicken eggs and dairy myself, but can definitely tell the difference. Butter, and meat not as much beyond flavor.
The good ol' days. Reminds me of this gem; a book review from 2000 of the book Ping The Duck on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/review/R2VDKZ4X1F992Q
Hindi has been imposed in South India, only recently after independence. For eg in Andhra Pradesh where i come from, my generation learnt Hindi only due to School policy, not personal choice. None of my aunts/parents generation, leave alone grand parents know Hindi.
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Berries iirc are particularly sensitive to various pesticides, more so than a lot of other produce. It's one of the few products I will seek out Organic over not, when I have them.
Johns* Hopkins.
Sorry you had to experience that. It is not uncommon from talking to lots of people in this situation.
There are a few OSS projects that do this. I am not sure how well they integrate with mobile apps though.

https://matomo.org/
Kik legal department is playing dumb to get billable hours, there is no other explaination. They will drag this out but SEC will probably ruin Kik in the long run
That's a really powerful effect. Is there a direct link to the demo somewhere? I only see embedded videos, even in the PDF.
This will not change a thing. I still have to see a kid which plays games from "Kids category". So no Minecraft... no Terraria...
I didn't even notice this one haha

So to be clear, yes as the title mention, Google was a source of inspiration (especially their material design documentation), but foolishly copying is not our goal :)
Thanks man that is awesome.

You are right that I just haven't NEEDED it and without that I don't tend to grock things.
> I'm surprised that they haven't expanded into rowing, seems like an even better fit.

I'm just gonna drop a shameless plug here and note that I recently joined the team at Hydrow; rowing is our business and our machine feels really good--the quality of the product was a nontrivial part of why I signed up.

https://hydrow.com
Probably what they mean is that she has a parasocial relationship[0] with the instructors i.e. she knows the instructor but the instructor does not know her.

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction
Forensic analysts must use read-only adapters to clone hard drives.
>Are you banned yet?

Who, me? Never.

>So you think the uninformed conversations occurring in a video entertainment cesspool are more impactful than the discourse between the engineers, founders and investors that actually built, maintain, understand and operate these platforms on a day to day? That's totally absurd. You're so hung up on popularity that you seem to have lost sight of relevance.

Each of those people engaging in uninformed conversations gets a vote that matters just as much as the vote of the people that built these platforms. I don't think many people are overwhelmingly concerned with making sure their message reaches the tiny number of people on this site.

>So in summary, if the site isn't a top 10 alexa ranking you regard it as politically unimportant.

I regard websites as being unimportant as far as this topic goes if they're not one of the most popular sites for people to participate in the public political debate. Banning an ideology from being espoused on HN isn't going to make people that subscribe to that ideology feel like they're being prevented from peacefully advocating for their interests. Banning that ideology from YouTube, or Facebook, or Twitter might. Banning it from all three almost certainly will.

>No, I'm demonstrating that YouTube is primarily and overwhelmingly an entertainment platform

What I'm trying to tell you is that I don't disagree with that statement, but that it doesn't matter.

>and your attempts to suggest that it's so important to the fabric of political discourse that YouTube should not be allowed to ban people is not supported by the evidence of the activity on the platform.

I've explained what I mean by substantial/important, and why I think YouTube qualifies. You keep saying it doesn't qualify because there are other videos on there and/or because the quality of discussion is low, but that doesn't address my argument.
The Fly-Ball Revolution
There is no problem about jsnell posting that. I just want to know what all the complaints about Apple (Amazon, Google, etc) is about. Why would it be wrong for Apple to do everything jsnell predicts?
Nail on head. For the majority of people, if it makes them feel afraid, threatened, confused...then it is something to be ignored or attacked. That's a sad truth I have learned through this experience. The empathetic and caring people are, despite most people imagining themselves as one, are not the majority by a longshot.
I have a side business dealing directly with the yoga and spin industry and I've never heard of this. Can you point me to an example?
This, and more, has been tried on mainframes. When you could not afford to install a free RDBMS with a click of a mouse (the mouse being not available yet, too), you could really appreciate record-oriented files you could use as a database, and even have indexed access to the records.
After all the feedback I think a better comparison would be Apple.

I used 'Google' because it's really clear for everyone how this company is shaping the world (for the better or the worst).
As you read bytes from the start of the file, they'd be deleted. You were allowed to have a concurrent writer appending to the end.

Also known as a named pipe.
I would be much more impressed if it said “Apps intended for kids may not include advertising or analytics”

As it stands now it seems rather empty and in relation to recent news something that could fuel the anti-trust talks.

Edit: considering that the law of my country states specifically that you can not target kids with ads, I wonder how apple will handle it since they now obviously have a method of tagging apps targeted at kids.
It does not assume from the outset that there is no determinism. It sets bounds on the types of results that you can get with deterministic local variables. Those bounds are violated in the real world. Hence, the universe is either quantum mechanical, or there exist hidden nonlocal variables that give the illusion of quantum behavior.
This is pretty cool, but I'm still confused on what data you used.

By my data, do you mean data from Google Android Device Configuration Service?

If you're logged into Chrome or GSuite tools from desktop locations, I just wonder how useful the data from those other products would be, if it even has location data.

I'm downloading my data archive to check it out...
Type information generally isn’t used when doing property testing in Elixir, and Python has a very mature library too (hypothesis). If there’s a difference in popularity, it could just be culture. The Erlang/Elixir community is rather fanatical about reliability.
Did the poster imply that their test was the be-all and end-all of error tolerance in common-use compressions systems? No. Then why did you assume that they did say that, and then write such a useless comment
>> To give you an idea of how few people are actually paying up front for kids apps: My PlayHome is currently ranking at 20 in the USA Paid iPad kids category. That means only 19 apps in the entire app store are selling specifically to kids using the upfront paid model on iPad are more successful than this. How many USA daily sales is My PlayHome getting on iPad? Around 50.

Is this a "long tail" issue? Granted 20th isnt that long but perhaps sales are concentrated at the top few spots?

50/day is still great. about $72k/year gross. THats not huge, but thats still quite a bit
I love it when a new generation finds all the fun RFCs.
+1, thank you for clarification.

Just didn't had time to setup it before launching.
Am I the only one who really enjoys shitty YouTube comments?
Aliens I can understand. That would unmind quite a few things (e.g., religion). But bigfoot seems pretty harmless. Unless of course homo sapiens would finally be forced to admin how fond we are of violence, killing, etc.
I'm not qualified to answer that.

Me personally, yes I would. A linguist, I can't say, would perhaps depend on each word and when they became part of the language.

Hindi is obviously derived from Sanskrit and other languages. However, Hindi and Urdu are quiet different. Give a word and in most cases most people will be able to tell if it's a Hindi word or an Urdu word.
Considering we actually have internet connected teapots now, I wonder if any mass market products have implemented this.
Look at it from the company's viewpoint. Giving you any feedback other than 'not a fit' is risky with basically zero gain for the company.

Many people don't take feedback well, some will attempt to argue or enumerate via a review site the details on why they believe the company made the wrong decision.

Any feedback has some risk of being construed as discrimination. The accusation alone can have huge negative impact on a company's reputation. Better just not to risk it.

Sometimes feedback can leak company info, IE we're looking for a candidate with more experience in X because .. left or we're starting work on Y product. This is also a risk esp. in the not unlikely event that the candidate ends up working for a competitor.
Like the giant wealth transfer to elementary and high schools...?

As the child of a couple teachers, I can tell you they're both still waiting on this wealth transfer you speak of.
>How do we know the bees don't simply use a learned lookup-table?

Perhaps by reading the freely available original paper[0], where we find that the bees were tested on samples with randomized positions, and which included shapes previously unseen by bees.

So the bees aren't using lookup tables to count.

We all, though, use lookup tables to map numbers to single digits: that's by definition. The digit 7 represents this many objects: * * * * * *; you need to memorize this after you learn to count.

The experiment doesn't establish the bees' ability to parse decimal notation (mapping numbers to character strings).

[0]https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2019...
If I were sitting on a thing that could decrease bugs 1% I'd be really excited. The only reason this looks like a paltry reduction is that it's hugely expensive and difficult to change languages midstream. This is evidence against a shop retraining C++ devs in Haskell (which I'm sure someone somewhere wants to do).

But if it was something like switching editor fonts? I'd do it for 1%.
Considering I learnt this week bees have been shown to understand numerical symbols to the point of accociating them with quantity, using bees might be getting a little too close to Turing Complete for my liking. I mean, we all know how badly that turned out with PDFs, right?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20103292
I would assume that a factory reset would take care of it. Otherwise you couldn't sell the phone to someone else and revoke your ability to find it.