skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone that suggests that there is One True Solution TM is either biased or ignorant.

You also don't get to claim it supports 2Tbps if you've only weathered 44Gbps.
Depends on your definition of "scale" but mostly the answer is - as others have pointed out - that they are not designed to "scale" in the way many people use that word.

However there are some co-ops who make platform software and questions of "scale" might apply there, so maybe some interesting reading? Check out https://www.loomio.org/ - their company handbook is online somewhere.
> The platform itself has not been hacked

Not true. For example an unintentional backdoor allowed hackers dump all your data from icloud, bypassing the 2-factor authentication.

This was live for 2-3 years before the Hollywood hacks finally made apple to fix it.
Are you claiming that most people do understand computer security? My experience is that even many computer-savvy people (already a small fraction of overall population) are completely baffled by its intricacies.
> This is well-known now.

Please avoid this.

Let me preface this by saying that I have no idea who Epstein is except that he's some rich, white guy that got caught up in some kind of sex scandal, was arrested and is now dead. I'm not belittling his acts nor ignoring his accusers, I'm saying that I did not know. Now let me explain why.

Over the past couple of years, there have been non-stop stories of one powerful white man after another being revealed doing heinous sexual things to women. The reports are non-stop and it has come to the point that I have tuned them out. A good number of us here are in the tech industry, we're busy enough as it is. Whatever free time we have is focused on things that are more immediate. A large number of people in my immediate bubble have no idea who Epstein is. I'm not even sure if his first name is Jeff or James, except that it starts with J.

I'm likely not the only one.

So according to the HN guidelines, please assume good faith when people ask why.
A thought experiment called Quantum Suicide [1] is an interesting read in this context.

[1] https://thoughtexperiments.net/quantum-suicide/
Because Rome was only at the beginning of its glory years when the Republic became an Empire.
Anyone dumb enough that would like to take on a project like this? Email me : rmena123 at gmail
He is a hack. Full stop.
He is nearly a fraud.
Germany's army is barely functional.

What we need is a small, well trained and equipped, EU army and a disbanding of the national armies. It makes no sense that each EU member has their own army.
Too bad the Google developer API's didn't go through that review. 200 lines of code (LOC) for a simple "Hello world" and that is using libraries that are probably a million LOC. Which could probably just be a HTTP GET, and run with a simple curl command.
Excerpt: Additionally, bar-headed geese hug the terrain as they fly over the Himalayas, taking advantage of the relatively more oxygen-rich air over valleys.

7% effective oxygen(~21% @sea-level).

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/bar-headed-geese-...
An interesting article to accompany a BBC Radio 4 programme; albeit one only on BBC Sounds. Most BBC Radio is available as podcasts, but for some reason many are BBC Sounds only.

However they seem to be far too precious about how their programmes are listened too. No speed up, or removing silences as on Overcast. His Master’s Voice indeed.
Han Chinese immigration means that the native populations of Tibet and Xinjiang are becoming minorities in their own lands. So I don't think you are correct.
The Things Network Architecture
I remember getting NSI-189 synthesized by a Polish lab back in the day. An interesting time of my life.
For those of you how may be able to cripple your mind to a slower pace:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006l6d
Navitia: The open API for building cool stuff with transport data
Epidemic optic and peripheral neuropathy in Cuba (1997)
One can enable the other: space programs keep top engineers in the country, and this has big network effects that push up the entire economy...

So you end up with more money to feed starving people from! (...not that you'd do that with the $, but anyway).

Like it or not we engineers like to work on interesting problems and don't really give much thought to social issues, so if you want the super smart engineers to meaningfully contribute to a society and economy instead of emigrating or refactoring themselves into oligarchs you need to give them interesting science and technology problems to work on.

Once you have a richer economy, the problem you wanted to solve in the first place gets waaaay easier!
Looks like someone found a link above, I think that is what I read in the past.
> This seems to imply that anybody at this dinner (that Epstein) was complicit.

I was reading it the same way, until I got to this:

> I attended some of them [the same dinners] and I can confirm!

It seems like this person is tarring people for doing not more than she herself did.
As time progresses statues have a nasty tendancy to become objects of worship as their original stories are lost and replaced with new ones or greatly exaggerated. Once something is raised to the point of worship people will begin doing what they think the idol wants and as a theocrat this is concerning, as it splinters and corrupts society's morals.
And lots of windows exploited.

Google engineers basically fuzzed all vulnerabilities out of Microsoft's font rendering system for free
Google searches for BTC after the hurricane
Enums and APIs
JavaScript Iterators and Generators: Asynchronous Iterators
A 30K foot (re)view of chatbot platforms
>So in his opinion, it very much is NOT the US falling, but simply withdrawing because the economic order it used to bribe most of the world to be allied against the USSR no longer makes sense.

Correct.

Among its many "Trump is such a threat to America that I think America ought to be destroyed as a country to save it" flaws, I love how Fallows's article glosses over most NATO countries not meeting the 2% target commitment, as if that isn't the fundamental basis of Trump's complaint about the alliance. As you say, the United States basically bribed most of its allies during the Cold War to fight the Soviets, and among those bribes was the willingness to spend to make up what they couldn't/wouldn't spend on defense. Russia today is an economic pygmy that faces within a decade demographic collapse (another theme of Zeihan's). Its conventional forces only pose a threat to Western Europe because, again, most NATO countries—notably Germany—aren't anywhere close to the 2% target and won't be by the 2024 deadline. (And yes, the four states most exposed to Russia—the Baltics and Poland—do meet the standard.)

Over time I've come to wonder more and more if Jeane Kirkpatrick's initial reaction to the end of the Cold War—to get the heck out of NATO and return to traditional American isolationism—wasn't the way to go. The great challenge to America going forward looks to be China, and that's an area 1) explicitly omitted from NATO's purview and 2) the US has worked bilaterally, not multilaterally.
Wait, where in glibc is SIMD used anyway?
Crypto Analyst Explains How Bitcoin Could Reach $100k in Just Two Years
> So when Carroll talks about 'physicists not understanding QM', he's just unhappy that most physicists don't share his view about QM and he's been known for trying to shame physicists for not sharing his view too.

This is incorrect and bad faith representation of Carrol's position.

While Carrol is proponent of MWI, he is calling more research on foundations of quantum theory in general. If you follow his podcast it's clear what his position is. Some of these so called interpretations are "legitimately distinct physical theories, with potentially new experimental consequences". In this article he specially mentions Ghirardi–Rimini–Weber theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghirardi%E2%80%93Rimini%E2%80%...
From what I heard of the account of that, he wasn't wrong. I mean Korean airlines specifically changed their policy after that crash to make it easier for co-pilots to correct their pilots. I stand corrected if this isn't the case.
I think you're mistaken. Classical education traditionally focuses primarily on letters at the point of the fall of the Republic. It is pop culture and history that focus more on the collapse of the Empire, since this is the event that immediately led to the formation of modern European national identities.
Yeah, and I've certainly made that mistake more than once. (I try to avoid using centimeters or centi-anything for that reason, as well as deci-, deka-, and hecto-.) In this case, though, the calculation I biffed was a unit conversion from medieval units to modern units. It's harder to get calculations wrong when you don't have to do them at all.
Every country in the world has a lot of issues to fix. If we as humanity had followed this general advice, we'd probably still be sitting in caves, figuring out the perfect cave heating system instead of leaving the cave and exploring.

Harking on humanitarian issues of other countries is awkward for, assuming you are from the US, a country where life expectancy is falling, real income is falling, millions are without health insurance and freedom of press is declining. There is a plethora of other issues touching human dignity and humanitarian topics in the US and yet no one tells them to fix them first before doing X.

Sorry to be blunt, but your comment is ignorant and arrogant.
You're coming from an American perspective. In the rest of the world, the battle has been fought and WhatsApp is the winner.

For better or for worse.
Proficiency? What? He says

"Researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: 10,000 hours"

True expertise is not mere proficiency.
Could you elaborate on that? How do we know particles don't do that? Being high near one spot and smooth, near zero over entire rest of universe looks exactly like a particle to me.
That makes sense. It's been so long since I've seen a 32bit x86 (apart from single board industrial type stuff) - that I didn't really consider anyone would keep one around... Then again, we do have our old commodore vic 20 in a cupboard somewhere...
Trust me, is there is webdev monoculture it is "worked on my MacBook retina with safari, so the problem must be on your end"
Okay, let me rephrase. Many Worlds states that there is no collapse; the entanglement continue to propagate. Many Worlds is the familiar label for saying there's entanglement, and that's it.

> 1. How does the Born rule arise?

> 2. More generally, how does randomness arise?

As you said, with Many Worlds there is no randomness. The multiverse is entirely deterministic. Randomness is a Copenhagen-like concept.

There is a "universe" with an alive cat and a "universe" with a dead cat. These universes have a certain waveform distribution.

Neither of these universe are any more real or extant than the other (they have the same magnitude).*

* Though consciousness and its observations seems to follow only one path. This is a peculiarity outside the realm of physics.
Trilium Notes[0] allows that. In fact I'm surprised that it's not mentioned here, because when I discovered it (via HN IIRC), it seemed to me that Trilium had already implemented everything I could have ever thought of for a note taking/personal knowledge management tool, and more.

[0] https://github.com/zadam/trilium
This is absolutely will be blocked by UK and other right-wing and euro-sceptical parties in Euro Parlament. USA will also oppose it with all possible means.

I think it's one of their greatest fears ( Russia, Turkey, USA)
I know that it is used at least for the implementation of functions like memcpy.
agree but I have a very limited budget which doesn't allow me to work with an agency, yet.
Sources? I haven't heard of any of these scandals. And even this story could simply be the NYT failing to corroborate the more salacious accusations with more than one source yet, therefore not running them.
He's the worst kind of blogger because he is intellectually disingenuous. Not because I disagree with him (and I do) but because he refutes strawmen of his own making and because he floats random, as if it was relevant. His pontifications are asinine.

I like reading people I disagree with, when they are well written. But Scott Adams' stuff wasn't well written. It was just snark. "they're all terrible" is unhelpful, when it morphed into "but I back this one" and he picked the one with the most overt problems, yet somehow Hilary was "worse" .. C'mon, please. do not insult your reader. You were never neutral, it was a pose.
Those modifications would probably never have been made if the license was GPL because they would have just rewritten their own entire thing from scratch or licensed something else.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teutonic_Order

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne
As far as I know Tesla is not making cells with the Maxwell technology. Maybe in the future. Panasonic cells are very cost efficient compared to competition. I don't think Maxwell acquisition changes that. My reading is that Tesla is hedging it's bets for the future. Maxwell has some dry cell technology for example.
There are also statements of him saying he never said it makes an expert. Maybe he's lying?
> 'physicists not understanding QM'

This is quite a popular claim among the Physics community. It goes even further saying: those who understand it don't understand it. ;-) Emphasizing how counter-intuitive the concepts are and also the fact the even Standard QM (with 1 or 2 particles) is still a research topic. Even Einstein didn't believe in QM as it stands now.
It’s been rumoured recently that Tesla has been developing their own cell manufacturing capability:

https://electrek.co/2019/09/04/tesla-battery-cell-manufactur...
Sunflowers could save lives as they soak up radiation from soil and water
There have been “shortages” of doctors and nurses forever, the usual newspapers were panicking about it in the 80s (source: was there, read them). Probably someone will be along in a minute to say they remember it from the 60s too!

Fun fact: the doctors were the biggest obstacle to the foundation of the NHS and they disappear into private practice at the first opportunity.
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The difference is, string theorists are trying. Everyone knows that it is a major problem that we cannot currently design experiments to falsify ST or other quantum gravity theories, and everyone is working towards it in the hope that one day we may. When it comes to interpretations of QM, there is not only nothing on the horizon, people don't even speak in these terms. No one is insisting on falsifiablity, and indeed every new interpretation seems completely hell-bent on just providing a "story" around the equations in a way that does not - and fundamentally cannot - make any predictions that contradict basic QM.
I can count on one hand the number of interpretations I can think of that make experimentally testable assertions, and for those I have plenty of respect[1]. But the majority of interpretations and their proponents seem to deliberately stay within the comfort zone of non-falsifiablity, writing paper after paper whose actual impact on either physics or philosophy can be summed up with "yeah well, that's just like, your opinion, man".
I did my MSC in physics under a professor who is a well-known proponent of MWI (though my master's thesis was not directly related to the subject). Two years of working side by side with him proved to me that the detractors of work on interpretations are, by and large, correct in their assertions about the proponents of them.

[1] There is this one theory whose name I cannot remember, where each particle in the universe gets their wavefunction multiplied by a delta function or very thin gaussian at random intervals, and whose sudden localization also causes a sort of chain reaction and localizes all particles it is entangled with. This theory is interesting because it helps set a (statistical) limit between microscopic and macroscopic interactions; basically, when you go past a certain number of entangled particles, everything will be well-localized virtually all of the time, but for small numbers of particles we'll see quantum phenomena. Unfortunately I recall this theory having too many holes, and perhaps it has already been falsified, but the point is that at least it made an effort to address inherent problems in QM (namely, wavefunction collapse) in a way that physicists actually should; by making testable claims.
This article is bad. Instead of focusing on the actual topic of the book, it immediately jumps into an absurd comparison between the fall of the Roman Empire and today's America.

The two situations have NOTHING in common. None of the factors that led to the Western Roman Empire's fall plays any role in the US.

Also, the argument that the Roman Empire allowed things like individual human rights is absurd. Modern notions of individual and individual rights appeared in the 16th century. How is it possible to link the downfall of the empire with something that happened more than 1000 years later? How could we know the same development wouldn't have happened inside the empire?
Why two beautiful young women though - that seems not to be likely due to chance and surely enough to make any rational person wonder what they hell is going on?

The thing is to make everyone who you meet a bit complicit. Two young women at the meeting is not quite enough to make anyone at the meeting intervene, but it is enough that there is then a lever - "you were at the october meet, you met Siri and Alexa... you were there weren't you? You are smart, you knew what was going on then and you didn't do a thing. How will that play if that gets out?"

It's not much of a lever, but my suspicion is that there is a slow enmeshment and escalation; a dance of probing and pulling - more intense for the more useful or more dangerous contacts. The aim is to have protection, cover and support. People who say things like "one of your assistant was sobbing in the loo, so I called mental health services" suddenly find that colleagues are talking about how socially inept they are, and how important that they are kept out of certain meetings. People who join in and show approval are regarded as "good" and "fun". Bit by bit it becomes normal. The transgressions shown to "outsiders" are safe - or at least there are explanations and the outsiders are carefully selected to be vulnerable pressure from people in the circle, but each time this happens that tar pit of complicity grows and deepens. Eventually powerful people are looking at personal ruin if the offenders are exposed.
There was a time when paywall articles from Google search were free. Sigh!
https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/2/16395604/first-click-free...
> The adage was given a scientific basis when journalist and author Malcolm Gladwell wrote about the 10,000-hour rule in his 2008 bestseller, "Outliers."

Malcolm Gladwell declaring something based on cherry-picked anecdotes does not give anything a "scientific basis".

While Gladwell (very) often drives me crazy (he's a walking, talking Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect machine), I find Outliers to be his best book. You just have to reframe it mentally as "mastery generally involves a whole lot of practice, here are some stories illustrating that". Even when I vehemently disagree with his conclusions, he really is an excellent storyteller.
Do all homeless people in developed countries support their respective nation's space program?
Schrodinger equation describes evolution, but not reshaping.

Reshaping is caused by interaction. Interaction occurs with probability defined by wave functions.

The thing is, to predict results of experiments we don't really need to know how exactly wave function reshapes. It's enough to know how it "reshapes" to a specific point, that we from that moment on call a particle that came out of wavefunction collapse. You can consider as many points in as you need to calculate everything you want to know.

Hence current state of quantum mechanics where we can calculate everythig but don't feel as we have a full picture of what happens.
If there's no mp3 download it's not a podcast. Though BBC Sounds beats requiring trackable login simply to listen to radio as iPlayer now does. The oldest shows that still put up mp3s are the only reasonable approach.
Realistic Plan to Jump-Start U.S. Growth
Wait you mean to tell me US doesn’t already do all of those things?
And this is exactly why a lot of Europe sees Brexit as potentially positive in the long term, even if it is painfull in the short term: The UK is the main blocker to further political unification of the EU.
Let's just dig into one aspect of a file syncing app: storing the files at Dropbox scale. Without spending too long thinking about it, I'd say we need:

* An API to request files/upload files
* Authentication/encryption (how do we ensure DB employees aren't arbitrarily reading data on servers?)
* Service that shards data and handles multi-region replication
* That entails multiple datacenters (how much code does it take to keep a DC running?)
* Automated backups to cold storage
* Automated restoration + testing of cold storage volumes
* Soft + hard deletion (deleting hot/warm/cold storage volumes reliably)
* Error handling (retries, host errors, network failures, filesystem corruption, finding data when a host dies)
* Fail-safes like blocking requests when hosts can't handle them, shedding load, etc.

I'd also add that at this scale, very few libraries start handling the types of problems you have. For example, there might be a memcache library that makes writing queries easy. However, when you have thousands of memcache servers globally you can't just hardcode IP addresses anymore. You know have to write your own custom 'service-service' that lets you look up what host you should talk to for something.
You sad pathetic incel
It seems like the condensed version is "The idea of Haskell is more important than the language itself", which doesn't really sound like a convincing argument to answer why the language is important.
200% agreed.
But sadly, PhD positions in the field are so hard to find. A friend of mine is an engineer set out to do just that and even the biggest private sector players struggle to fund.
Have you experienced the same?
Only 85GB uncompressed for current revisions, excluding “user” pages. Not so bad!
Not true at all. We live in a world were marketing determines the standards used. The current trend is actually to give programmers less guidance on writing correct, composable code ("Dynamic" scripting languages).
> Also no one is bashing Nehru because he started ISRO

Respectfully, you are not right. Just go down this thread and you'll find one comment which says "Just because Nehru did one thing right doesn't absolve his wrongs"

There has been a coordinated attempt to distort history and malign Nehru. Not claiming that he did not screw up, he did. But he doesn't get credit due to the misinformation campaign
> believe CO is either recycled or allowed to react with Fe2O3 at lower temperature to go all the way to CO2, saving money on coke:

I think in typical blast furnace the CO in the exhaust is used as fuel to run the plant/heat the air blast.
He has not ruled "since 5yrs"

His second term just started in May
When ever I down vote a person I always try and leave a comment as to why I disagree. I really think this should be the norm of HN. Justify your answer. Otherwise I am left wondering if the people down voting are simply paid trolls trying to persuade public opinion.
The reticular activation system in your brain hones in on what you're focusing on in your life, this is how the law of attraction works.