skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The story of freebsd & erlang "needing" to be patched seems to be greatly exaggerated.

The story is greatly underreported and all focus is only on "they run Whatsapp on Erlang with just ~50 engineers".

Highscalability lists just some of the patches and optimisations they have here [1] and here [2]

Here's an incomplete list of patches only. There's also tuning and optimisation:

Erlang: Fixed head-of-line blocking in async file IO by patching BEAM, added round-robin scheduling for async file IO, added multiple instrumentation patches. Instrumented scheduler to get utilization information, statistics for message queues, number of sleeps, send rates, message counts, etc. Made lock counting work for larger async thread counts. Patched to dial down spin counts so the scheduler wouldn’t spin.

BSD: Backported a TSE time counter. Backported igp network driver.

More Mnesia (Erlang) patches discussed here: [3]

Are you ready to do this for your Whatsapp?

> elixir/phoenix also achieved the same "2 million connections on single server" without needing those optimizations.

There's more needed to run a chat server than just "2 million empty connections".

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[1] http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/2/26/the-whatsapp-archi...

[2] http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/3/31/how-whatsapp-grew-...

[3] https://www.infoq.com/presentations/whatsapp-scalability/
Yes! E.g. you can use the sun as a lens during a solar eclipse.
It was actually the experiment that proved Einstein's general relativity to be more than a theory, because during a solar eclipse we can see stars at the edge of the eclipse that are actually _behind_ the sun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_May_29,_1919
What's that to do with React Native?
Doesn't the increase in mass change the diffusion characteristics?
New President would be nominated ... by the same people who nominated the last one.

The Parliament doesn't get to choose the leader. They can only ratify or delay the decision of those who do. That makes them useless. Even if they fire the entire Commission, the Council will just immediately re-appoint a new President who has exactly the same views and policies.

This kind of "you may be a nuisance but not change anything" arrangement is everywhere in the EU's structure. It's infantilising. It says you can cry if you like and get some attention for a while, but ultimately, the decisions aren't being made by you.
I don't know, but for reference GitHub was acquired for 7.5B and Atlassian has a market cap of 30B.
Still uses min-height: 100vh;
The overall losses between the power plant and consumers is in the range between 8 and 15%. An electric motor typically is between 85% and 90% efficient. Conventional gasoline vehicles only convert about 17%–21% of the energy stored in gasoline to power at the wheels. State-of-the-art fossil fuel plants at 46% efficiency. Using average values gives a ratio of 46x0.885x0.875/19=1.87 (electric almost twice as efficient). This calculus has not taken into account transport and filling the tank and older fossil fuel plants (maybe they compensate each others).
Yes, this was my feeling too, why not just use python and save the effort of learning another language? Perhaps because you can't assume python will be present in a basic *nix install.
Nearly anyone who buys sheets of rolled steel eventually finds they can't buy a sheet bigger than a certain size...

Same exists for most goods - try to buy a dustsheet to cover your room, and you can't buy one wider than 5 meters without a seam
The+Work+At+Home+Mom
They really aren’t that bad. Very uneven, but that’s to be expected from a young person. The few looser paintings like “Klosterruine in Messines” show promise IMHO, at least compared to the heavy-handed drafting of most of the watercolors.

This one makes me think that it would be an amazing trolling opportunity to remove the signature, create high-quality reproductions of this “Mary with Jesus” and give them out to American Evangelicals, as the art style generally matches the Christian fundamentalist taste:
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HitlerMaryWithJesu...
The P Programming Language
I see that theory pop up from times to times, but it only really sounds plausible if we look at the IT sector in isolation. Here in Sweden around 85% of men and 85% of women work in a profession that is gender segregated, and the national employment rate for both is practical identical.

Not only is 85% a really large part of the majority of everyone employed, and a higher number than in the US, but for any male dominated sector there is a equal large female dominated one. In addition, the trend has been for the last 50 years of ever increasing gender segregation.

If sexist atmosphere is the culprit then the numbers makes no sense at all. People like to throw in the gender paradox, but that is more of an observation rather than explanation. If we go by the data the cause must be very fundamental, exist in practically all work places, and have equal force at both women and men.

I personally ascribe the phenomenon to a pretty old theory from the 1970. People feel slightly more confident and secure in a decision when they mimic decisions of people they identify with. From the first moment someone choose a education path, to succeeding and failing with exams, to applying for jobs, to succeeding and failing in the job, each time the benefit of feeling more confident and secure apply a small bias. You thus get a leaky pipe, and the more equality in choice people have in every step the higher the probability is that you end up with a gender segregated work place by the time people are in the mid 40s or 50s. If we wanted to prevent this we would need to raise confidence of any minority (gender, race, wealth, background, anything that people identify with) to be identical to the observed effect. In my view this is the primary reason mentor programs actually work, while looking at atmosphere (sensitivity training comes to mind) is unlikely to change the outcome.
Agreed. A manager hiring their daughter over more qualified candidates would be a “jobs for the boys” situation despite her not being a literal boy.
Because certain groups have abandoned the pursuit of equality for the pursuit of equity, and you can't have both.
> it offers nothing for sorta-server-related things like data fetching

The obvious advantage of not including these kinds of things in the library is that it makes less assumptions about the data and communication model. Maybe my data source is a Websocket, a REST API, a GraphQL API, or some Electron IPC messages. Ideally, in my view, the rendering library doesn't care. It shouldn't have to understand all these things to render my view, and it definitely shouldn't assume any single one or two of them.
Setting a Development and Production Environment in Google Tag Manager (GTM)
This is a great excerpt.
Yes.

That's like asking if shitty burgers really "justify mcdonalds valuation".

Maybe you are not impressed with the product, but millions of people are interested in buying it.
Or you use position:fixed?
Sounds like the author is describing techniques to avoid Kahnemann & Tversky's anchoring effect. Avoiding one's own cognitive biases is important in debugging too; I mutter "listen to the system" as I read logs and error messages to try and avoid ignoring output that contradicts my preconceptions about root causes.
1) Church

2) Internet dating

3) Write about your quest. Publicize it.

1) Lots and lots of women want to be stay at home moms and they disproportionately go to some kind of religious service and are part of an associated community. Alternatively move to Utah. Even if you don’t want to marry religious there are ex-Mormon women who are still into children because that’s the culture.

2) If your internet dating profile says you’re seriously looking to get married you will attract entirely different people from the less serious dating/hook up crowd. And if you message women in other, more traditional countries you’ll find plenty of women who would be more than happy to be housewives in the US.

3) Have you heard of the Polgar sisters, who are all chess champions? Their father found their mother by looking for someone to run an experiment in child rearing. If you’re willing to be loud about your quest for a housewife you’ll definitely find one.
A black Saturn wouldn't do it justice. Saturn doesn't bend space as extremely as a block hole does, and it's that extreme bending of space that's the hard part to visualise about a black hole. It's trivial to imagine a black ball with a ring around it, but it's the bending of space and the subsequent bending of light that's the hard part.
From your example it looked to me like the types in question were "file" types. You're right that "file name" types are not checked by these languages.
You should also take into account the embodied energy of the battery which is currently produced with fossil fuels. That narrows the efficiency gap a lot.
This was essentially already established, I believe, in relation to contracts and signatures in general in electronic communications.
Hitler a painter and Stalin a poet. What can I say?
I came across this from the wiki page on Actor model programming languages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model#Later_Actor_progra...
I Disagree with you on the word "often". There are far many jobs where physical body doesn't matter (and even there, you wont accept fat young guy either, so you might as well just list what do you expect candidate to be able to preform), than those that do.

Now lets look at a story in question:

> In the latest rulings, the EEOC cited four companies for age discrimination:
> Capital One, Edwards Jones, Enterprise Holdings and DriveTime Automotive Group.
> Three companies were cited for discrimination by both age and gender: Nebraska Furniture Mart,
> Renewal by Andersen LLC and Sandhills Publishing Company.

No firefighters, no lingerie models ( I thought there were male underwear models).

As far as who do I expect to become firefighter ? Anyone who can do the job. If it means only males can do the job (I have no idea hoe true that is), I am fine with that exception. But if there is a woman who can lift just as much as average firefighter, and want to do the job, why would you prevent her from doing it ?
Yes, I have meat people who thought pictures of our galaxy were actually pictures of our galaxy. (edit: I mean, from outside)
I would advise against that for anyone with oral herpes (cold sores) even if you’re not presenting. Also there’s a limited amount of food baby can eat when small. Don’t chew pizza and give that to a three month old.
I found this exploration ticket from a year ago:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/issues/53206

Nothing on the mailing lists as far as I can tell.
And set the height to what? Using percentages means 100% relative to the parent. What if the whole site is the parent and that site is 3 screens high? I haven't found the way to make it work without relying on vh or JavaScript.
Tiresome and rather stupid hindsight bias. I even generally agree with the opinion in your quote about Hitler's art, but in the broad scope of works that have been heavily applauded by art critics and galleries, it falls far from bottom rung. And it's certainly not deserving of someone declaring its creator's efforts as "hopeless". That would just be a shitty attitude because an artist with the technical proficiency of Hitler could indeed be successfully nurtured in the right environment towards really creating something interesting. But of course, because it's Hitler, safer to say it was prosaic crap with no humanity to it and no hope of anything better had things been different...
What kind of email are they sending you that involves so much PII? Like, what is their angle?
stackoverflow discussion and more Infos on this: https://stackoverflow.com/q/37112218/1216595
Would he have used the same approach if there were fierce competition in his field?
For all the people looking for color photos, not of these specific people but at least to give an idea, You can do an image search for "Methemoglobinemia" which is what the condition is called. Turns out people who have it are rather blue. Bluer than in the colorized photo in my opinion.
use the correct feature for your use case. for a dynamic background behind a scrolling page use 100vh if the size depends on the height otherwise the background will do this strange shrink and grow thing as the UI changes size
Sounds like the article that part of their demise came from a botched fast international ramp-up. Perhaps they didn't have the expertise (or funds?) to scale up.
I think people are missing an important point when talking about Falcon Heavy. Yes it was delayed, but the Falcon Heavy that was eventually launched, was WAY, WAY better then the one announced in 2011.

The payload of the 2011 version was almost reached by the Falcon 9 itself. That was one of the major reasons for the delay, not design and production issues. The Falcon Heavy profited from all the advancments on Falcon 9 and it made no sense to actually build a Falcon Heavy before Block 4.

In fact the first costumers for Falcon Heavy flew on Falcon 9 instead.
Did you open the link? I am pretty sure it's not what you are suggesting.
I’d say stay based on what you said. But do some research and maybe networking to see how your skills could transfer to another job so you have a backup plan of things ever go south at your company.

Maybe your industry domain experience is valuable enough that another company would take you on while you learn their tech.
Creating a wallet (generating a keypair offline) and signing+publishing an attestation using a non-wallet keybase key to publicly associate that wallet on your profile are two different things. Adding cryptocurrency support is fine; using my private keys without my consent to publish an implicit endorsement of that cryptocurrency is not, especially when it can't be removed. It's a dark pattern that enables paid advertising designed to look like an endorsement/user engagement.

Furthermore, there is a way to remove/revoke every other type of attestation/claim on a keybase profile - except for the permanent, paid ad for Stellar.

See: https://github.com/keybase/client/issues/20022#issuecomment-...

It sounds like that part is being fixed, though, which is good.
Yeah, exactly.

Though even as someone who spends 40+ days/year in the backcountry skiing around the PNW, the 645m is plenty for me. That, combined with an inReach Mini incase shit hits the fan and I feel pretty well covered.

As a side note, those bindings are incredible. Easily one of the biggest innovation in skiing since shaped skis. I put 30 days on mine last season and didn't have a single issue; really impressive for a lightweight, finicky, and brand-new piece of gear.
Unix based operating systems have pretty great file system security and almost everything is based on the file system, and you can use unix sockets for networking. So you can for example create a new user, give the user access to only the folders it needs. Then run the program as that user.
You can also from within the app itself read configuration files, etc, then chroot, and setuid to continue as a non privileged user.
Then you can use Apparmor or se_linux to fine tune access.
The difference is that with a little help (e.g. 10M) I can start a (serious) gitlab competitor tomorrow. Not so with the hamburger chain.
Last year my main competitor went on a diversity hire drive. After hiring a bunch they tried to fire one of them due to poor performance. It ended up as a legal battle that is still ongoing. A number of the the other diversity hires got the message that they were now unfirable and decided to start slacking off as well. Now work there is pretty much frozen and they're bleeding customers. Im told they're 6 months away from mass layoffs.

This company dominated my industry. I always planned on the taillight following strategy where you follow a leading company and wait for them to screw up. I'm now happily taking full advantage of their situation.

I actually have a way more 'diverse' staff. I offshored the work (and myself) to a non-white country where for a weird historical reason this work was mostly done by women. The main difference is that they're not a protected class here so I don't have to worry about lawsuits.

The most lucrative customers will only buy American so once my competitor goes under I'll open up a US office which will mean exposure to US laws but by that stage I'll be ready to package the company off and sell it to someone else to worry about.
Intel and Nokia were trying to add repository trust levels to rpm back in 2010/2011.

To this day, if you can add a new repository, it is fully trusted and can provide trojaned updates to any core package. Bump the version number to something higher than what the core distro would use and you can persist for quite a long time. I remember pointing this out at a Nokia project (would have been no later than early 2008) as an attack vector via apt repositories.

We wanted to prevent a rogue or compromised repository from being able to provide an update to, say, glibc or libstdc++. Never got to work on that - Elopcalypse took it all down.
This is a big forgotten one. The sound of container ships as they go past on shipping lanes is colossal; if you're downwind you can hear them from 3/4 miles away quite well.
A #QuantumComputerArchitecture Tweetstorm [pdf]
I think this is an awesome project. Any effort facilitating the understanding/recognition of common fallacies leads to a better world.

After "name", "description" and "example" should be right next. "Alias", "Type", "Inheritance", "SUBYPE" should be much lower, as they make the user scroll to read those 2 which imo, are the most important.

In terms of design, I wonder why you didn't go for a full-screen modal, I'm using a laptop and only 40% of the screen to the right is used. Maybe use a modal that utilize 90%, or 80% when a fallacy is clicked upon.

Keep up the great work :)
Perhaps they're talking about the US market? In Europe, H&M has been big for as long as I can remember (since the late 1990s, which is when I started shopping for clothes).
Notarization is free and in my experience it can take as little as 60 seconds for it to complete.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/notarizin...
Very nice web view of source code, inline commentary on merge requests... merge requests themselves.

To a one-click view of CI pipelines, that's nice too.
I'm afraid that a resource like this will make internet debates even less
pleasant and productive than they already are.

To my experience, calling out an internet interlocutor for committing a formal
logic fallacy only serves the purpose of shutting down conversation.

After all, formal logic fallacies apply to formal logic statements- but
internet conversations are not carried out in the language of formal logic.
They are carried out in natural language (natural English, most often).
Therefore, formal logic rules do not apply. One might as well accuse an
interlocutor that they have miscalculated the gradient of their comment.

We comment on the internet. We say what we think makes sense in the way we
think it makes most sense to say it. We are not infallible logical machines
that calculate the truth or falsity of logical statements by rigorous
application of a set of rules of inference. We are not little lay philosophers
trained in formal logic, engaged in rigorous debate. We sound clueless and
pretentious when we try to sound as if we were.

We should learn to not take the name of logic in vain.
How to Install a Corner Sink?
Gender bias is when a company doesn't decide by anything relevant to the job (such as skills, quality or work discipline), but instead decided mostly by the sex. And this is happening. Female programmers are getting hired even when their skills/productivity/experience is way lower than male programmers.
Antifragile thinking is not really mainstream economics, is it ?
We won't, as far as I'm concerned, being the maintainer of Krita, the KDE project that gets most bug reports per year.

Gitlab's issues feature just isn't powerful enough to be more than a developer's task list. Since it's completely label based, it's hell to use when you've got bug reports coming in from non-contributors. Even classifying issues by OS needs to be done through labels...

Just take a look at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/issues. I'd prefer to spend time triaging my bugs, instead of labelling them.

Plus, it's good to have a gap between user-generated bug reports and developer tasks.
Mesh Spreadsheet
What is ivf success rate in India?
http://www.artbaby.in/
That is illustrated very well by the second row here: https://www.paintcodeapp.com/news/ultimate-guide-to-iphone-r...
This paper prepared by Rod Van Meter.[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/rdviii/status/1178447742214893568
As I commented above. many of his works were far from hopeless for a young artist, and if he'd been accepted to the right academy, the latent talent could have nurtured something much better, but the safe thing even for modern art critics is to simply agree with a prevailing and hindsight biased idea that of course the art showed a total lack of imagination and humanity and was right for rejection. One wonders at the world we'd know today if the young Hitler had gotten an admissions official with just a bit more imagination for his application.
> The brain wasn’t brightening the light on stimuli of interest; it was lowering the lights on everything else.

An outstanding demonstration of this process is Apollo Robbins' "pick-pocket" act[1]. You can clearly see how he gives his subject a bunch of things to think about - his hand movements, what he's talking about, sounds, touch, etc - until it fills up the subjects attention capacity and they suddenly stop noticing everything else going on right in front of them. He basically performs a denial-of-service attack on someone's attention system until they cannot notice him take their wristwatch off. All done with a flourish for the camera, of course, which works because he's not DOSing the audience's attention.

A particularly good example is from his talk[2] at defcon (the entire talk is worth watching). Right when he asks "When you walked past me, did you check to see where your wallet was?" you can see the volunteer suddenly put all of his attention on that question and not his wristwatch.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoUSO_Mj1TQ

[2] (demo starts at 31:22) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kkOKvPrdZ4&feature=youtu.be...
Program Analysis for Developers: Part I
On the social side, that would be starring/watching cool project on the platform.
That would remove the “community bubble”, which is an important aspect I think.

However, a feature making easier to x-post can do the trick, maybe?
They claim they aren't, but their parent company is called "Fast Retailing", and by the definition the GP is using "cheap sweatshop clothes" they match.
They can't do that because they need to thickness to taper off up the sides of the vehicle.
You don't get "free energy" by using a catalyst, but you do get it "cheaper" because usually you need much more than the reaction energy to break the bond.

Or, putting it in monetary terms, the "price" is the same but the fees are cheaper.
There was need for a Snopes fact check for that? Strewth.
Mobile html dev feels like it’s taken a step back lately. With vh not being the true viewport height and with user-scalable no longer being respected, it’s become very difficult to build advanced apps for the mobile web. A lot of it feels like reactionary changes due to abuse by devs of these features which lead to bad UX, but it comes at the expense of allowing richer apps.