skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The total time to install across 4 hosts was probably 15 mins or so. There used to be a post on the Joyent blog that explained the setup for small scale, I'm not sure if it is still there.
Heh, most systems could fit their entire working dataset in 1TB and never worry about I/O.

Except for logs, of course. Those things are incredible disk space hogs. Also, serialising data to logs can surprisingly expensive. (Our ES logging cluster has tens to low hundreds of TB of storage, and it expires data after roughly 40 days.)
Have you seen recent claims that scientists can detect temperature changes of as little as 1/1000th of a degree in the deep ocean, occurring over a period of several decades? Are you gullible enough to believe such claims? I'm not.
A good friend once told, after listening to me bitch about someone who loved to comment on my work, "You can learn something from everyone".

I spent some time trying to dismiss that before considering that if he was right I'd already missed out on a lot, and that certainly humbled me because when I started looking for it I found he was right.

The flip side to this is sharing what you know when it contradicts what others are envisioning as a result can result in those same others responding with animosity.
NoteStash (Beta) – I would like to know what you think
Hi there,
I have created NoteStash for personal use because I think its a fun project and didn't really liked the note taking apps out there.

Now that I have used it for some time myself and have some active users who like it, I am wondering what you guys think?

NoteStash register is open, so feel free to start using the app.

The mobile experience is not yet the best. But the basics work. Mobile is something I want to improve later on. For me the most important part is that I can edit and create new notes on mobile.

I would like your feedback and opinion.
Feature request are also welcome :D

https://app.notestash.cloud/
Patternmatch on daily habbits? if daily habbits do not resume, and normal social interaction does not happen for n days, no phone acces for 2*n days for you.
thats quite ironic!
Actually it is very disfuncional for me to be in a company that communication skills are ahead of technical.
Thanks. In that case I don’t think there is a contradiction with what I said, if there is no wave function corresponding to the atom (alone). I understood the original comment as saying that the quantum state of the atom during the transition between energy levels was a superposition of the corresponding pure states (i.e. a pure state) and I was objecting to that.
These are probably the people who jumped on the hype train and bought at the previous peak.
This is presumably integer calculation only?
> Code is for how, comment is for why.

Excellent. For interfaces, other code that uses the interface (perhaps even tests) can also help to document the "why".
For a few years my only vehicle was an old, beat up Volvo station wagon. The door locks were damaged and would only lock ~50% of the time. Since I parked the car on the street I would always check to ensure that the doors were locked by pulling on a door handle.

One time I did this as a car passed by and a number of people started yelling out of the car at me accusing me of breaking into my own car and even threatening me if I continued.

Just because a small, cut down clip "looks like" attempted robbery does not mean that it is.
I sold used golf balls, I was lucky to have a golf course just out the back door. You'd be surprised how many golf balls get abandoned just off the course, so I'd go for a walk after dinner when play slowed down and collect the abandoned balls. Then sell them depending on their quality, some of the valuable ones for upwards of a couple dollars.

Scalable in the sense that supply was consistent. To truly scale, if I were doing it today, I would've built a website providing reviews of different balls and manufactures, so your recommendation for an informational blog. But I think the key here is developing expertise in something by being boots on the ground before trying to build something bigger.
Thanks for that video! It was really insightful.
The organisation. Proper nouns are still nouns.
FWIW, macOS has Spotlight Search and it works as a calculator as well. (⌘+SPACE to activate it).
You don’t have to imagine, The Cloud Act directly passed this into law. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act

It’s extremely hypocritical of the US to panic when other countries act the same, and sets up a direct and prominent precedent for all counties to ban American tech.
I was in the process of buying the board when I got the Database Error. Came to check Hacker News and discovered why!
systemic is a better one
This is just willful ignorance.
Ask HN: What's your favorite fact about technology?
Seems like a good thing, doesn't it? More straightforward, plain speaking language.
I don't see how that brings any benefits GDPR-wise.

"required to opt into" doesn't count as freely given consent, so it doesn't change anything; GDPR-wise doing this is exactly the same as simply using the data without asking for the opt-in.

If they're "required to keep the data from every transaction for 10 years for tax purposes" means that they're allowed to use that data for that particular purpose only; GDPR-wise taking data gathered for tax purposes and using it for ad targeting is just as forbidden as "simply" taking data without permission and using it for ad targeting.
Extra detailed tracking of users.
You would be surprised...
steve, think I sent you an email before and you responded, but just wanted to say again the Rust Book is a work of art. Since I read it and emailed you, I completed a fairly non-trivial Grad School project entirely in rust. I took a lot of the shortcuts, but the rust book was an excellent primer.

Best intro documentation of any language I have tried to learn recently.

EDIT for those who havent seen it: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/
It's included by default since 3.3 <https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html>.
Not necessarily. At one point, before the rise of Google, most of my answers to various general knowledge questions would be more or less just a somewhat selective average of things I'd heard and read from sources. I have an educated family and background so these answers were probably "about average" for the educated but still entirely wrong a significant part of the time.

At a certain point in my development, I got in the habit of asking myself "how do I know that" and Googling if I didn't know. Which is to say I think the more intellectually humble someone is, the more likely they are actually verify their ideas through research.

The thing about all this is, it is happening in the era of Google, where if one has some humility, nothing keeps you from learning more (though having a basic background is needed to filter out idiocy also). Pre-Internet, the situation might have been different.
I have a giant dev file (well, 2 really: 1 for personal, 1 for work) that I use as a scratchpad. Anything I work on goes there. Makes it easy to find things.

Monthly I pull out useful things into notes about that topic. Run into a weird problem with spring framework? Copy out the relevant info into springframework.md.
In Quebec, Canada Software Engineer is a protected title and you must be registered with the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (http://oiq.qc.ca)
Bose's Noise Cancelling Headphones 700 Have the Upgrade We've Been Waiting For
I worked at a startup in the intersection of social media and advertising, and the tech was indeed quite interesting. I built the core of a system that ended up storing hundreds of millions of records, with 24/7 data ingestion of tens of thousands of records per second. This was scale that I had never worked with before, and I learned a lot.

At the point in time I joined that company, I was explicitly looking for a job with interesting technical challenges. However, over the course of a couple of years, the tech mattered less and less, and the human component mattered more and more. I quit the job to get out of the industry.

I'm still not sure how to feel about my tenure there. I grew as an engineer and team lead, but I question if I made the world a little worse by helping companies improve their targeting abilities in social media.
> The EPA will bring suit to companies polluting illegally. Why shouldn't a government agency bring suit to companies or cities risking a leak of hundreds of millions of social security numbers, for example?

Maybe at first we could try an in-between solution. I hate to water things down but maybe a scheme like a USDA Prime Beef label[0] would be more likely
to actually pull off?

If there was a NIST Certified logo on one bank/app/merchant/site that asks for personal info, and not another, I would be much more likely to go with the NIST one. Obviously credit agencies and gov systems need to go first.

>In the United States, the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) operates a voluntary beef grading program that began in 1917. A meat processor pays for a trained AMS meat grader to grade whole carcasses at the abattoir. Such processors are required to comply with Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) grade labeling procedures. The official USDA grade designation can appear as markings on retail containers, individual bags, or on USDA shield stamps, as well as on legible roller brands appearing on the meat itself.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef_carcass_classification
That is absolutely horrific.
I don't want to spend my energy learning the special skills needed to deal with things I should have been smart enough to prevent from ever existing.
There's not really a humble way to say this. As an attractive man who has his shit together and makes good money, I have zero issues with dating and if anything I feel more in control of the situation than the women I meet.

The issue is likely that you're not very attractive or you're setting your standards too high for the women you pursue.
Why not consider running an auction in the early years to maximize private funding for operations?
Well there is an effort to solve this with flatpack and snap
Nice, I match ' the other people ' too
Yes. But the RISC-V Vector instruction will serve as the baseline. And further extensions will add register types, Esperanto is already extending them with graphic types.
1989 seems to predate that and the coffee pot wasn't internet connected, it simply sat in front of a camera.
"You seem pretty upset" in this context is basically the same as saying "you mad bro?"

I hate when people say that during a discussion or argument.
Don't worry, it may leave the UK but will definitely stay on planet Earth. Furthermore, it'll stay in our solar system, so there is little risk of something bad happening to it.
This is really funny. So good. I ask all the time, "Who wrote this shit??" knowing it was probably me.
Technology and the Environment
Why a GoogleWalkout Organizer Left Google
Instead of such general and frankly unhelpful statements, would you mind explaining to the previous poster why electronic voting is such a bad idea? It may even generate further discussion instead of just downvotes.
> I'm convinced the only possible savior at this point would be a Superpower aggressively enforcing environmental regulations to the point of going to war over it, but that seems unlikely.

It could feasibly handled economically. I've wondered if a stronger world govt a century or so down the line saying eco friendly or tariffs. I can't speak to liklihood, but it seems feasible.
If one thing to declare that cryptocurrencies will "go to zero". It's another thing to have skin in the game.

If you are so confident then why not open an account on Bitmex, Kraken, Bitstamp or any exchange that offers leveraged short positions? You say you are confident but will you put your skin in the game?
The 20th century culture is what is relevant to changes by the end of 20th century. Thomas Aquinas opinions or Ancient Rome opinions are much less relevant to the outcome.

Are you saying that a men or boy would take "you are like a girl" as a compliment? Or that femininity was something men would inspire to? Because afaik, while the girl who "is like a boy" is breaking rules, the expression is less humiliating then other way round. A boy in pink is more mockable then girl in blue. This alone tilts a lot peoples decisions on what they want for themselves and which wishes they show in public.

Mothers were not powerful except limited power over children, not in the usual "can get her way effortlessly in important things" way. It was not matriarchy for long time. I am not saying they were slaves or something. There were places where female social status depended greatly on number of children. In that sense, being mother was advantageous. But calling it powerful position is a stretch.

But for that matter, it is not like fatherhood was some kind of super powerful position, through it added social status where family was valued too. Father had great power over children, but calling it powerful position is a stretch too.

Yes, there are changes and increasingly more toward pushing men more toward that household works and emotional contributions. That is framed more as duty and work. Less as something men organizations push for as thing-men-should-want. Men do play more with small children or wash dishes etc. But the mass interest for changes in the past was the other way round.

There is difference between "I want better career for me" and "you should wash dishes more often".
"Alexa ! Im scared!"
-would you like me to dial 911?
"No Alexa,Hide!"
-OK, they cant find me now.
Please excuse me, I had a brain fart.
Let's imagine just one example of patching a remote hole in a Windows server. First, you have to stage a duplicate of an old server with a new patch, which can take days. A production environment may need significant development effort just to integrate the patch, which takes days. Then run all tests and QC processes against it, which can take days. Then you can deploy it during a maintenance window. This is 1-2 business weeks.

Now multiply that times 1,000 different combinations of versions of Windows, applications, networks, platforms, and so on.

You're not just patching "servers", anyway. You're patching bare metal machines, hypervisors, AMIs, container images, software packages, plugins, network applications, security policies. Often vendor platforms don't even have a patch available so you have to implement a custom workaround, if one exists.

One could write an entire book about this subject. Please believe me, it's not simple.
USS Chancellorsville and Russian Warship Nearly Collide in Pacific
Signing video would prove it existed in that form at a particular time. Derivative instances could be linked back to the original. Every modification is like a transaction. You would always be able to follow a piece of media back to its original published source. Just imagine any given media stream as an edit decision list containing clips, each of which points back to an asset, each asset being a piece of video with a date of publication.

The aset isn't a single entity in one place, it can be distributed via IPFS or whatever. The earliest known version of a thing is the canonical one for practical purposes. In this view blockchain isn't producing coins for hoarding, but tags for people to locate things on the public graph.
The NSA doesn't obey EU law. The NSA's core mission is to violate foreign law in order to collect information.
Yeah, but it's not like Apple keeps all of the revenue. There are multiple parties bringing value to the App Store. Apple brings customers who are happy to pay for stuff. App providers bring their apps and services. Revenue is consequently split.

That Spotify is beholden to another party (record labels) is not really Apple's problem. It's Spotify's problem. And the problem is that they're not really bringing much value to the table. They don't own the content and they don't own the customers. They thing they provide is listening suggestions. Turns out that's not actually all that valuable. If it was valuable, they would be able to negotiate better terms with the labels, since the labels would be worried that customers would stay with Spotify despite not having access to the music from a given label. But customers don't actually give a shit about Spotify, they care about the music. And Spotify doesn't own the music.
Besides, Huawei's phones were already banned in federal agencies and Pentagon since last year. So I'm really not sure what Google is trying to say with this "national security threat" at all.
As I said, it wasn't a bug in the end :) The issue was with my formulas, but I don't recall exactly what I did wrong. It was a tiny typo I made a sheet with thousands of formulas if I remember correctly.
Around the same time, RPI university had an "Internet Coke machine", which you could check the status of using the "finger" command.

Sorry, I'm wrong, it was Carnegie Mellon:

https://iot.stackexchange.com/questions/601/what-connectivit...
I have some experience with work councils in Germany and they have some significant downsides, including for employees, that we need to be honest about. Yes, employees get credible representation at the most senior levels of management, but that comes at a cost. My experience may not be universal but from what I gather it is representative.

First, works councils are strongly biased toward the organizational status quo by default. They can deny/delay opportunities to individual employees against the wishes of that employee and even though the works council has no credible claim to skin in the game. I've seen it happen and it demotivates employees it happens to. Companies use a lot of hacks to informally let people reorganize themselves without the consent of the works council to get around this.

Second, many trivial and inconsequential operational decisions become glacially slow because works councils tend to micromanage all of them at ponderous speed. Even obvious employee issues which would be resolved in 30 seconds at an American company can take months when the works council is involved, all to the benefit of no one really. This takes a very visible toll on speed of execution. It creates interesting dynamics when the company is global because the rest of the company may not be able to wait for the works council, so the employees under the works council may feel like they are on the outside looking in as the rest of the company moves forward.

The loss of autonomy over my own career would bother me as an employee. The loss of operational agility and execution speed would bother me as a business.
It absolutely is.

However, people are often not entirely rational creatures.

Advocacy, for a very effective example, is a combination of reason, emotion and character.

How people feel matters. Who they are interacting with and or referencing matters.

Roll all that up, and we are likely to encounter people who are not self consistent.

That is OK, human. I just noted that being a predetermination, that's all.

Secondly, there is no requirement they be more rational in their arguments. They may not even see something as one, depending on what it is.

They may, for example, seek better mutual understanding.
The main issue with SEC is that everything that claims or "wink wink nudge nudge" implies that you should buy The Thing from them because it's going to jump in value is essentially an investment proposal that's potentially fraudulent and thus needs to meet SEC regulations.

Stablecoins, where you explicitly state that it's never ever going to appreciate and make you richer by just holding it, don't meet that criteria so SEC doesn't (and isn't allowed to) regulate them.

IRS/tax issues, and AML/KYC (anti money laundering/know your customer) laws still are a potential issue, but that's not handled by SEC.
slen() returns 1 more than it should, or is it meant to include the '\0'?
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No moral judgements here either, I'm just someone very interested in evolution of human species. I only attacked the 'appeal to Nature' fallacy which is otherwise most commonly used against lgbt people.
I'm desperately in need of a guide on how to un-fuck my Python setup. On my Mac I have several versions of the default shipped Python, brew-installed versions of 2 and 3, and Anaconda-installed versions of 2 and 3, and I have no idea which I'm getting when I call 'python3' or 'ipython', or what should be being used. Substitute brew for apt and it's the same situation on Ubuntu. It's really confusing and means I have to troubleshoot dependencies for any Python project I try to run.
The Google status quo circa 2016 was the worst of all worlds. Political discussion was tolerated up to a point, but the point was ill-defined, and (naturally) enforcement tended to be based on how many people disagreed with your opinions. Generally, more liberal employees could get away with much broader and more aggressive proclamations than more conservative employees (not sure if that's still true), but that wasn't consistent, and consequences seemed largely random.
Which ones exactly? Let me know.
California would find a way.
I disagree with the documentation one. I really think developers need to focus a whole lot more on documentation, possibly prioritizing it over code.

In fact, I think there should be something like a documentation driven development, where first devs change the description of what code should do, and then change or add the tests, and then finally write the code.
If you go by Overmans

Eastern Front until 12/31/44 2,742,909
Western Front until 12/31/44 339,957

makes eastern front 91%. If you look at the size of the battles in Western front it's hard to see how would the figure exceed 339k.

For comparison, Stalingrad alone claims 500k Germans and 900k axis total. Battle of Moscow estimates 500k killed, missing, wounded or captured.

Now we can play with semantics. Are we looking at killed only, or captured and wounded or otherwise incapacitated? Is it Germans only of axis.

I think did overstate. To put it better, I would say 90% of Nazi power was defeated in Eastern front.
It is worth mentioning that national currencies are monopolistic. Corporations can act in bad ways but you have a choice about which corporations to take your business to.
Frederik Hayek wanted to "denationalize" money and have several competing currencies. The idea was that the honest money would win out in the end. If FacebookCoin is Orwellian then why not use something else?
An online persona soliciting child pornography has their IP traced to an individual with a criminal history, registered on a sexual offender database. The police have probable cause to believe this individual has and distributes child pornography.

A judge signs a warrant to perform a forensic search of the individual's hard drive. The individual refuses.

So then, it's just tough shit for the police right? Given that they can't get in on their own with a warrant.
Fun, pays well, empowers the powerful, amplifies our biases, harms our society, makes life worse for the general populace
I don't want to build a NFC based readers. Although, I have watched tutorials on NFC reader with Arduino (RC 522 module). It's not that complicated.

My ideal scenario where reader will be implemented is retail stores (Once prototype is working as expected).
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