skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think that was a smart move by IBM.

I wish Microsoft had purchased Red Hat, that would offer real synergy:

1) Microsoft could contribute to Ansible

2) Microsoft would control licensing for RHEL on Azure

3) We might see Outlook and Office running on RHEL. Or even Direct3D?
If they came in 15 inch sizes I'd be sold. :(
Ask HN: How will your society react when the ocean rises into houses?
And are there important ways to prepare for this, "ahead of the rush"?

And finally, when do you personally think it's going to start happening in a dramatic way in your country?
Yes, that correct. There are lots of downsides to this, but you also get a lot of things that we don't think are possible without it.
Hoare is unilimited liability company. Partners are responsible with their personal assets.

They are more risk averse than normal bank, they trade growth to stability.
If experience is anything to go by, "things I don't like" or "things that offend me" get twisted into things far more severe than what is actually stated, words are now "violence" and make people feel "unsafe".

This rule's application - like all rules like this - will be stretched and exaggerated to cover much more than intended and will be applied unevenly across demographics.

Just like we see on Reddit when /r/ChapoTrapHouse and /r/Bad_cop_no_donut (both of which I sub to, genuinely) gets a pass, while right wing subs do not, when it comes to violent threats and comments.

Atheists and Christians will get the short end of the stick on this. Mark my words.
>Bullying is similar to spam and other unwanted messages.

It really isn't. You can mentally deal with a spam email or two a day. It only takes one nasty message or post on social media to devastate a kid for a month, so you need 100% perfect protection and you're not going to get that, regardless of how much monitoring, moderating and AI you throw at the problem.

My argument isn't that we shouldn't try to prevent online bullying, but we need to set our goals for success lower than we'd like. If Instagram tries to prevent bullying, we can't complain when they aren't 100% successful, but people will do just that.
Thank you for raising these relevant points. They led me down a fascinating rabbit hole on this topic of "database as file system". This is way over my head, but to pique others' curiosity, here's the abstract:

Recent improvements in both the performance and scalability of shared-nothing, transactional, in-memory NewSQL databases have reopened the research question of whether distributed metadata for hierarchical file systems can be managed using commodity databases.

In this paper, we introduce HopsFS, a next generation distribution of the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) that replaces HDFS’ single node in-memory metadata service, with a distributed metadata service built on a NewSQL database.

By removing the metadata bottleneck, HopsFS enables an order of magnitude larger and higher throughput clusters compared to HDFS. Metadata capacity has been increased to at least 37 times HDFS’ capacity, and in experiments based on a workload trace from Spotify, we show that HopsFS supports 16 to 37 times the throughput of Apache HDFS. HopsFS also has lower latency for many concurrent clients, and no downtime during failover. Finally, as metadata is now stored in a commodity database, it can be safely extended and easily exported to external systems for online analysis and free-text search.
This just in... Drift _does_ allow you to turn off the pop-up. It's now off :)

- Will (not Matt)
I came to say the same thing... that is super annoying. Happy to just not read the article in this case. :)
You clearly know more about this topic than me, thanks for taking the time to explain your viewpoints.

> I pinged Klöwer on twitter.

Probably the most sensible, easiest way to clear this up, haha :)
Greener ok, but quicker?

Even if you account for the security issues, I never had a plane in Europe being quicker than the plane (with all the overhead). In most cases is double or triple the time (for shorter distances) or close to impossible for longer ones.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20395158
I've heard of Compass Pathways before and it made me wary of supporting them.

https://qz.com/1454785/a-millionaire-couple-is-threatening-t...
You don't need that; you can proceed purely through generalities.

1. 1+Πp is congruent to 1 (mod p) for every prime p.

2. This conflicts with the definition of "prime number"; all composite numbers must be congruent to 0 (mod p) for some prime p. Only the empty product can be congruent to 1 (mod p) for every p.

This is already sufficient to prove that the number of primes is not finite -- we derived a contradiction from that premise without demonstrating any additional primes.

(Note that -- within the proof, where we've assumed a finite list of primes -- it's easy to show that 1+Πp is itself prime (since it has no prime divisors less than itself). You can then declare a contradiction with the premise, as it isn't in the original list. However, you can only show that it's prime by using the earlier contradiction, so while this step makes the proof more intuitive, it isn't actually necessary.)
You are correct, I was assuming federation in a decentralized system. If it’s an isolated node in your home, it looks a lot different, and I agree with your administration pain points.

> What do you think is more likely, that Instagram goes out of business or that a Raspberry Pi sitting under my bed dies and takes my photos with it?

Of course your RPI is more likely to die than Instagram going out of business. But with Instagram, the risk is more around them booting/censoring/sharing your stuff.

Does Google Picassa still exist?
There was a local pan-handling couple who was outted on local TV for "scamming people". They were seen shopping at expensive grocery stores and driving with their car. Apparently begging was just their job and made more than a few hundred dollars a day.
> Criticizing a religion is not the same thing as dehumanizing its followers.

That is all in a matter of perspective. To you it might not be.
Honestly, it seems a bit weird to say that, on the one hand, you've made a statement to mostly that effect but then in another comment say that Mozilla can't commit to anything.

Plainly speaking, is it a possibility that Firefox on Android will lose extension support for some time in the future?
I can attest from Glendalough that these trees grow extremely close together.
WSL 1 allows for more security. What they should have done was map WSL users 1:1 to Windows users (Wine users work like that). setuid(), seteuid() and/or capability elevations would raise an UAC prompt as if they were called from Windows.
> Swapping hardware buttons for touchscreen controls has been a huge success for Apple for over a decade, with the iPhone

They didn't swap in this case though, they added. Equivalent to the touchscreen + keyboard phones of yore.

In terms of degrees of freedom, the touchbar adds a lot. It's not a simple swap. The iPhone input system has fewer degrees of freedom than a blackberry did.
Agreed, there are many things "wrong" with modern PC's, I don't think caps lock is one of them. I personally don't 'fly to close to the sun' and miss entire sentences of all-caps, because I don't look down when I type, I look at my screen.

Easier to just re-map the key to something useful than to adjust a whole industry to a single opinion.
Not sure it's what you meant, but the internet does make air travel less necessary to operate the economy.
> Performance killed them.

I've often wondered if there's a point at which something like WinFS would become practical simply through the perpetual advance of hardware. MS started working on the concept back in the early '90s (as part of Cairo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(operating_system)), and eventually gave up on it in 2006, which was nearly 15 years ago now. Devices today have significantly more memory and compute power on tap than they did in 2006, and if you roll the comparison all the way back to 1991 we're on a completely different planet today. And there are entirely new types of hardware that could be leveraged now too, such GPUs, solid-state disks, etc.

I have no idea if MS ever published their performance data, but if they did, it'd be interesting to use it to figure out what a theoretical machine that could run WinFS, as it was when MS gave up on it, fast enough to be useable would look like, and how close to that theoretical machine the machines of today are.
Reiser4 Brought to the Linux 5.0 Kernel
But that is creative, utilizing a medium/tools outside its usual purpose.
A stunning autumn
Key Criteria for Securing IIoT
> From a Pi consumer perspective, this is not that big of a deal.

Well, didn't seem that way to me when I bought an RPi4, tried it with two different power supplies and cables, and it didn't work at all. I thought the device was DoA so I did an RME with the distributor.

Today I learned a different story, and now I'll have to scrounge up yet another cable to see what the true story is. The one cable I have not tried may or may not be "dumb" enough for the RPi4 to work.

It's annoying at best.
Application will be different from stated intent. How much you want to bet ?

haven't we all seen this in practice long enough now to know how this little routine goes?
Github repository: https://github.com/edward6/reiser4
It's a tool that you use many times a day every day for years, and understanding how to do it well helps you make money... doesn't it make sense to spend some time to learn about how it works and how to use it?
Interesting! If I have a master degree in Finance and want to be a developer, should I just do the bootcamp? If the formal education is for math principles and other science fundamentals... Thanks.
Deleted, what garbage
The touchbar is garbage, why for the love of all that is good does Apple continue investing in it, having found 0 killer apps for it?
Perhaps if air travel became cost-prohibitive more corporations would invest in remote workflows and cultures?
In the UK House of Parliament the two main parties sit in rows and face each other across the house. It's said that the politicians on the front bench (the party leaders) have their opponents in front of them and their enemies behind.
This is pretty common among the coming-of-age generation that has grown up on the Web. It's more likely to be tried in communities organized around shared attribute, circumstance, or interest, than just shouting into the ether. Typically, these are posted on sites where the person has followers in a similar situation, and are shared on that platform until it slowly propagates outward. Many people who share the same adverse circumstances can't donate, so they share the posting instead, spreading it further. Eventually, someone sees it who is in a position to donate. It's likely that those who donate the most are on the fringes of the original community, but feel a sense of solidarity or guilt.

The article mentions a few communities in particular. The unifying dimension seems to be that some people's real-life safety net is outweighed by their online one, even if they don't always receive the donations they ask. It's worth a try.
Put this on its head: Nation states are attacking our businesses. That makes it absolutely essential to make sure our country's businesses are properly prepared for the threat. Think of it like building an apartment block in San Francisco without adequate Earthquake protection - not only is it bad engineering, it's illegal.
Wait a while. Holding one's breath not recommended.

For those who don't want to (or cannot, due to the nature of their application) use the Mac App Store to distribute software, the requirements will only continue to get more specific until (to the extent possible) all executable code and resources are notarized and signed with an identity.

<Insert Perry the Cynic rant about unsigned code - "What the hell is wrong with you!?">
Get the most out of the linker map file
Twitter would be better received if it were bold enough to also state specific examples of permissible religious satire/criticism. I think that would do a lot to address what people are worried about, and be a step in the direction of having more concrete rules and predictable enforcement.
Fun Fun Function, JS specific: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO1cgjhGzsSYb1rsB4bFe4Q

Computerphile, general CS topics and computing history: https://www.youtube.com/user/Computerphile

Biographics, 20-minute biographies of historical figures: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClnDI2sdehVm1zm_LmUHsjQ

Intelligence Squared, long-form structured debates on current-day issues: https://www.youtube.com/user/iqsquared
What good would going back to Chrome do to you?
Lately, we've been calling them cambronormans. Turns out they were Welsh.
This would be the correct course of action it seems.
This went out the window in favor of portable software, multitasking, and reusable components.

As soon as you have software that can run on a variety of machines (including new hardware that hasn't been invented yet), there is no way to give a performance guarantee. (An exception might be something like a game console where hardware is fixed.)

Even if hardware is fixed, if you don't control the other programs running on the machine, you don't know how many cycles you'll get.

And whenever you allow a newer, "compatible" version of a library or OS component to be swapped in, all bets are off. No mainstream languages take performance into account when deciding whether a newer version of a library is "compatible". So, any security update could invalidate your measurements.

(And in a way, the same is true of hardware since you don't control the environment it runs in or what might be plugged into it.)

We can ignore all this stuff and it mostly works. We wouldn't have an Internet without it. (Imagine if web browsers had to give performance guarantees.) Instead we'd have some kind of fixed-hardware monoculture.
Irradiated steel comes from irradiated air used in the steel making process, all of which came from bombs detonated in the atmosphere.

Nuclear waste sitting at the bottom of the ocean will have a hard time ever reaching the atmosphere.
> I usually put it this way: "Name one company that was better after a merger."
> I've yet to find any affirmative answer.

> It's good to have hope, but it's not good to be unrealistic.

* HP paid $4.5B for LoadRunner : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Interactive

* HP paid $1.6B for Opsware

* HP paid $1.2B for Palm

* HP paid ELEVEN BILLION for Autonomy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Hewlet...
There's a couple of ways of handling this. First is that of course we need to create a package manager and ecosystem, and that will take time (we can accelerate it by making a great experience, but haven't gotten there yet).

Dark can talk to other HTTP things, so many of the functions that are done by libraries can be done over HTTP. So you can call other services, even if we don't have an SDK for that yet. And from there it should be easy to package it up so there is an SDK.

Finally, it's a question of what you're doing. There's many tasks where the disadvantage of not having an ecosystem is outweighed by Dark's other advantages. And as we grow the ecosystem, the disadvantages go away, unlike the status quo tooling.
Cool, thanks.

I recently found cheap (and weak) solar pumps on aliexpress. They can only pump up about 3ft when lit, would prefer something with better performance, will probably try some others. Been playing with the idea of making a passive solar system for filling a water tower from a rain barrel on the ground. Might need to find a bit beefier one. But maybe you'd be interested in these - no battery so it only runs when the sun is out.

ex.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32893336462.html
Debian 10 was released this past weekend, but Debian 8 is still supported until June 2020, and Debian 9 beyond that. See also multiple Postgresql versions being support in parallel.

Just because a dot-release of one major version was released, doesn't effect the other major versions also active.
I am in Europe. Travel between Porto and Faro (Portugal) by train is 5 hours versus 50 minutes by plane (ok, plus one for security) and 2-5 times as expensive.

During the last 2 years I was doing this flight pretty much twice a week. It was the only way I could spend time with my kid, but still keep my job and work to support him.

I also travel for work longer distances (NY, San Francisco and all over Europe) once or twice a month (which I try to match with my trips to see my son).

Lets instead tax all the iPhone Xr and Pixel whatevers. Laptops as well. They all contribute to the shitty environment (rare materials, plastics, shipping, polluting assembling them).

This is the problem I see with pretty much every cause.

> I don't see why X or Y is needed (because I don't needed it), so everyone else is selfish and ruining the environment, but what they think is essential (new shiny gadgets, brand clothes done by kids in Asia, etc) are always forgotten.
Can you expand on this a bit? The connection to Ross Perot isn't clear to someone not well-versed in the history.
So does this mean that no government officials can block anyone on Twitter? What if a president is giving a speech and someone runs into the aisle and starts screaming, do they have a right to be there without being escorted away by secret service?
Reselling keys from bundles is also a problem. I don't have a link handy but I was reading just the other day some indie developer complaining that they're seeing more keys from Humble Bundle being redeemed many months after the bundle that had them than actual sales on Steam, and they claimed G2A was the cause (being a means by which people could sell their old bundle keys that they didn't want).

More specifically, they said this practice serves as a very strong discouragement from indie games ever participating in bundles again, because the bundle economics depend on many (most?) of the keys either not being redeemed, or being redeemed by people who would otherwise not purchase the actual game. But when people who want the game are able, many months later, to pay a fraction of the price for a key sourced from a bundle, this really hurts sales for the game and makes the bundle a net negative instead of the positive it's supposed to be.
Well sure, because while there are Muslim and Jewish activist groups on Twitter's Trust and Safety Council there are no groups dedicated to defending Christians or Atheists. https://about.twitter.com/en_us/safety/safety-partners.html
The Legacy of Nintendo 64's Transfer Pak
> On long haul flights, airlines probably[citation needed] operate Economy cabin at a loss.

Interesting, but why do they do it then? Wouldn't be better to use all that space for more first/ business class seats?
I would assume the intention is to clear them once they mature - you get the most carbon sequestration if you cut the trees down once they mature and use them to build things and then replant.

Obviously burning is counterproductive, but once you turn the trees into houses the carbon will be out of the atmosphere for a very long time.
> I suppose the Airlines will just pass along any new taxes to the traveling consumer.

That's not an unfortunate consequence, that's the idea.
I'm addicted to CMD+C/CMD+V.

I've tried making it happen in Linuxes and windows, but always with failures in one app or another, or having to configure each individual application I use independently.

The keyboard is the reason I love mac for running my Linux clusters. If I didn't have that, I would have the fantastic UX features like instant scrolling. Scrolling anywhere else is a choppy and laggy nightmare for me.
In Debian/Ubuntu terms: the newest ZFS functionality has been backported to one of the previous releases, but not the other (yet).
It might have something to do with a 5.25 million unencrypted passport numbers and 8.6 million payment cards, Of which no doubt mine was one
Tbh, by that point, the reality of rising sea levels will probably be too much to ignore, not to mention a lot of those who believe otherwise will have been dead by then.

The important way to prepare for it is to lobby lawmakers to change policy before it happens.
Why should people in underprivileged markets have to wait years before they can play the game?
I followed the link expecting to find a huge page full of confusing lists of confusing things, but instead found a very small, concise page of very concise release notes containing links to information about the handful of security/etc. fixes in the release. Not sure what you're even looking at, the link you posted is a super normal minor release errata page. It is errata after all.
I wasn't clear, I know it's legal today. I'm speculating about what future courts might rule based on the ruling today.
On Job Requirements, Skill, and Wages [pdf]
Wow, thanks, those resources will hopefully keep me busy later... I'm building a cross-platform C engine, and had the usual suspects of "Windows, Linux, maybe Mac", but then recently also "discovered" this ancient FastCGI technology, and just day or two ago skimmed the WebAssembly wiki, and I'd like to explore possibilities of implementing my engine in web applications, too, afterwards.

But if I understand WebView correctly, wouldn't this be HTML in C/C++, i.e. is WebView... "just" a browser? Or... is it "just" spawning a minimal OS-Window on the target system with a system-built-in browser engine? For my intents and purposes, that's kinda the reverse of what I'm aiming for with my C project, which rather would be to bring sprites and raw data formats to your browser window.

In essence, what I meant with "reversing everything with C" is basically programming webpages like C programs. Taken to the extreme, what I mean is for example compiling Windows to run in a browser-context instead of a physical x86-PC.
Haskell is pretty nice for scripting, too. It's very concise, and the strong static type system gives assurance that the code will probably work before even running it.
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> This is a great move for both companies. The doom and gloom in this thread is depressing.
RedHat gets access to IBMs massive sales machine and IBM picks up a number of key technologies. Win-win.

If you review HP's acquisitions, you can see the "worst case scenario."

IE, what if they just drive the acquisition into a ditch?

When I worked at HP, we saw lots of customers who needed automation software, and it seemed like nobody at HP was even aware that we offered a competitive product. (Opsware aka "hp server automation.")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Hewlet...
Similarly why a robust welfare state is preferable to charity. Charitable giving is free to discriminate and there's no mechanism to try and move it towards those who most need it.