skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paramedic here - two main areas of concern regarding blood in the prehospital/emergency setting -

1 - Volume - You need enough fluid in a closed system to maintain pressure to push that fluid.

2. Oxygen carrying capacity - Oxygen binds with red blood cells which then deliver it to every cell in your body.

Right now the prehospital setting can more or less manage #1, we have been for a century with Normal Saline.

There is some stuff circulating (pun intended) regarding fluids that can transport oxygen but it will be years before we can use it
Right. Didn't want to go into too much details here. From what I remember from a decade ago, the "full" blood and the four main fractions were strictly forbidden, and everything further down was left as a matter of individual's conscience.
The paper [1] compares Slog against Spanner, both in theoretical terms and using benchmarks. If I'm understanding the paper correctly, I think it makes sense why Slog is better -- or at least, can do better in theory.

Both systems operate very similarly for local transactions that only touch data "owned" by a single master region; they just relay the transaction to be executed by the master. For multi-region transactions, Spanner uses a coordinator to perform two-phase commit, which acquires locks on all regions before allowing the transaction to proceed.

Slog does something similar, but effectively pipelines the locking to achieve higher throughput. First there's a global coordination step that globally-orders the transaction, without any locking (which means this step can use batching for high throughput). Then, each region's master independently acquires local locks in that global order, and replicates those locks as transactions so that replicas can deterministically apply them in the same order. Finally, each replica independently executes the transaction once it sees that all of the locks have been acquired. So a lock blocks the execution of conflicting transactions, but it doesn't block their replication. Once the replication is done, the locking overhead of actually executing the transactions should be comparable to a non-distributed DB.

All of this communication has a latency penalty, of course; there's no avoiding that for a consistent distributed DB. But the point is that it provides better throughput for transactions with conflicts. For transactions that only touch one region, the latency is still just a single round-trip to the master region, and that can be very fast if your client locality is high.

The benchmark results are heavily normalized, since it wasn't possible to do an apples-to-apples comparison on the same replication topology. So they don't demonstrate convincingly that Slog is faster than Spanner, in numerical terms. However, they do show that Spanner's throughput drops off much more quickly with increasing contention, compared to Slog.

[1]: http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol12/p1747-ren.pdf
I'd say it's a gradient.

40+: Pretty much only Facebook

30-40: mainly Facebook, slight uptick in Instagram use

20-30: mix of Facebook and Instagram, some Snapchat

12-20: mix of Instagram and Snapchat, some very slight Facebook use

If you count WhatsApp as social media: universal with 90%+ penetration among all age groups
China has military control over the south China sea and a lot of the oil imports to SEA countries. Assuming the US pulls out, Japan, south Korea, Australia will all face strategic challenge from China over the next few decades.

The US refuses to see China as a strategic threat, and only as a economic challenge. Australia is looking into getting 16-32 submarines ordered right now, to cover for future defense outcomes. Aus and the SEA middle powers are having talks about obtaining nukes simply to prevent them being used against the countries.

China is projected to grow to be double the size of the US's econony. China is willing to spend those benefits in the south China sea and on BRI. Make no mistake about the military of China. It is a concern. This is as big as power politics get.
Now that you bring console music players to the discussion, I admit that I have never understood how to use ncmpc/ncmpcpp.
Without touching on legality of such things, it's interesting also in that these things probably have have a very clear record dollar amounts involved for such an act in terms of revenue generated, CPMs for ads, etc.

This scene from Office Space comes to mind.[1]

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZjCQ3T5yXo
Not sure why you’re being downvoted here (maybe a misunderstanding of what you’re trying to say?) My takeaway from your comment is that we should first look to our own hypocrisy, i.e. we’re quick to post a comment about Amazon’s unfair labor practices, but we’re just a little quicker to click on that free 2-day prime shipping button.
> We don't have to be friendly to those who would want to use our software to take freedom away from others. We should be friendly to everyone who wants to use our software freely, regardless of their skill level.

"We should be friendly, unless we don't like the people using our software"
The contentious point in the TL discussions that led to all this appears to have been Monica's refusal to use singular "they" in particular. But there is certainly more context to that than I could hope to fit into a comment here, even if I knew all of it.
And your first friendly act is to 'friendly' take control of the organisation someone else built to host you. That opens a whole perspective of refreshing friendlyism.
Firstly, the question was very specifically to coldtea to help flesh out his/her claim that it is "not easy to adopt the extra features piecemeal". So far that claim doesn't seem to have be substantiated.

Secondly, are you really saying you believe that Haskell doesn't have all these features? That there aren't good ways of mutating arrays, writing CRUD apps, combining effects, etc.? Presumably then, your jaw would hit the floor if I could demonstrate that everything you believe is false.
Why not just offer both?
"I'm not sure the average American benefited as directly to the atrocites of the past. "

We live on a continent taken from a people by violence, betrayal, and disease -- some of it intentionally spread through government policies. Sorry, the average American are direct beneficiaries of the atrocities of the past. Some of us don't know or chose to ignore it.

Update: I didn't say this to justify terrible things people are doing. We can't play this game of "only the most moral of us can criticize". Something is immoral in and of itself, it doesn't matter who calls it out.
We love you, but don't come back
" If you're likable, people literally will not believe you could do bad things."

This is based around if you are attractive.
But you will maybe have an unpopular opinion in private and is leaked to the public(like it happened with Mozilla CEO) or you used some bad words 20 years ago or made someone uncomfortable and they will remeber it tomorrow.
Indeed, this flag has little, if anything, to do with "Taiwan independence".

But according to the PRC the ROC no longer exists (that's what they mean by "Taiwan is part of China" and I'm guessing that they see the flag used by people opposing the (PRC) government, so the standard procedure is to ban it.

I'm curious, though, if this comes from a specific demand or if, for example Apple has moved to releasing the same version of iOS in HK and the mainland (I'm guessing that the flag isn't in the mainland's version of iOS here, but I don't know for a fact).
This looks pretty nice. Is it only available as-a-service? I'm not satisfied with the recipe server I'm currently using, and would love to entertain an alternative (writing my own is about 30th on my to-do list).
The excerpted comment in a format mobile readers can see without left/right scrolling:

"Unlike most databases the core data structure is the fastest part of the system. Most of the query time comes from parsing the REPL protocol and copying data to/from the network."
This is a common belief of the Muslim religion. Interest is haram

https://www.coindesk.com/sharia-goldbugs-how-isis-created-a-...
Back when we collectively ousted Brandon Eich from Mozilla, I thought we were doing the right thing. However, that slope is awfully slippery, and we are now ousting people from their own projects for sins that have no real bearing on the project. This isn't making our community better, for there is nobody that exists that doesn't have skeletons in their closets.

People are claiming here that they can have just as much an impact on open source as Stallman, but if this is the case, why haven't they already pushed Stallman out on their merits alone? Why has it taken airing Richard Stallman's dirty laundry for them to step up in the community's eyes?

Perhaps their sins are less objectionable than Stallman's - more acceptable when combined with their lesser impact than Stallman - but what about tomorrow? Who will replace them when their actions from 20 years ago come back to haunt them?

What level me mediocrity will we have to endure in 10 years just to have the least objectionable person possible in a position of power?
Wow.

latchkey's story presents himself as being in the wrong, and presents you as overreacting. Then he closes with an apology.

Your response makes it pretty clear that you do indeed match the description of you provided in latchkey's post.
> This is something that NN advocates seem to have a very hard time accepting. The law that was shot down wasn't "net neutrality", it was classifying ISPs whole of Title 2 (which is a ginormous blob of legislation, minus a couple of "forbeared" provisions) which had a specific form of net neutrality as one of its many provisions

It was something like 700 forbeared provisions. There were only 8 pages of regulations in the 2015 Open Internet Order.

If you recall seeing Pai and some members of Congress waving around a 400 page document and claiming it was the 2015 Open Internet Order, what they were waving about was actually 8 pages of the Order, plus a long analysis of the legal history of net neutrality, responses to comments, analysis of the FCC's authority to regulate, and things like that.
I think GNU deserves a leader who is not only strong in freedom advocacy.

I hope GNU finds a similar passioned but also humble and emotional capable leader.
We all pay taxes that buy triggers and pay to have them pulled. You can argue this is compelled, but I personally have more respect for those who refuse to pay taxes and face the wrath of the US government than I have for my own cowardly position of paying taxes and continuing to complain about the horrors committed using that money.
Which happens to a lot of companies. Big deal. You invest in a growth company, you are expected to recognize the risk involved in that investment.

At the moment, Tesla seems to have no real trouble raising the kind of capital they need in order to maintain the level of growth they're experiencing. But it's going to take a lot more growth before they're on par with GM or Toyota or the like. And since that's the obvious goal, it's foolish to be "profitable".
I would add that overreach is a thing and it alienates many of us who are not fundamentally against greater density. Perfect example: the developer is planning a seven story structure to replace the current Albertsons property across from the pool. That's seven stories from the alley at the back of the inclined lot which means more like eight or nine from the sidewalk. And it will occupy the entire space, shoe-horning itself up against the relatively affordable three story apartment buildings on either side. At the first public meeting when asked why they were going so big their exact words were "because we can". So, yeah: even reasonable, progressive people get bent out of shape.
The only joy I get from these threads is in watching a whole bunch of newbies to GNU get upset that politics, social policy, and GNU are intertwined.

They have always been! You could at least have the dignity to read Stallman’s writings (a fine start is available at: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/essays-and-articles.html , a more advanced diet is available at Stallman.org ) to understand just how politically charged GNU, the FSF, and Stallman have always been.

So now some members of a social movement disagree with the leader of that social movement you feel upset to see social issues discussed? That seems dishonest.

Why should any social and political movement remain beholden to one original star of the old guard as the world moves forward.

How ought the community respond to a trend to controversy and irrelevance other than by asking Stallman to step aside from the figurehead role? Is the argument here really that once you are a figurehead for a social movement you earn that position for life? I can’t think of any successful movement or organisation for which that has been the case.

GNU has always been political, the politics needed to bring software freedom to all users is different now than it was in the 90’s. Some battles have been won, others have been lost hard, new battles have arisen. An honest discussion of whether Stallman is best placed to lead those new battles is overdue.
I thought maybe we need to penalize "complexity". I feel like there is too much incentive to complexify things in society.
This is the same scribe.
Facebook closed-sourced it because it was too hard to maintain an open version and a version that addresses Facebook's needs.
You're literally doing what you describe. Throwing away a bunch of people at the first sign of an action you disagree with.
Stash adds support for database backup/restore
Cool! Know of any websites or writeups about the silicon version?
I wonder if this technique can be used to scan a PCB as they can be in attack vector for supply chain attacks.
Coworking Space Offered for YC W20
I recently converted my home into a co-working space and I am offering it up as a co-working-co-living space for the Winter 2020 YC group: https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/off/d/berkeley-in-home-co-working-space/6994580890.html
Precious metal commodity money is held to have emerged as a consequence of this, at least by Graeber.
HN commenters seems to have the amazing ability to predict the future with incredible precision. Why we need quantum computers if we have HN commenters?
Perhaps I pull you aside, call you out for your actions, and give you the chance to change your ways.

One strike and your out isn't even how we play baseball.
Cool. Parsing Javascript with Javascript is much more complex than parsing my simple language in C (WASM).
The manifesto/winter-is-coming bits and overall design reads to me like TempleOS without the mental illness. Eg, a shell that "compiles", no protected memory, etc.
I beleive that the unicode consortium have chosen not to say much about witch flags are there pretty much for this reason. They don't want unicode to get mixed in with international politics.
Whereas the poor can't move without losing their job. Yeah, this chart is federal only, but state taxes are also an issue, certainly.
https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=site%3Aadmin.spacex.com%20file...
I do understand what a REPL is and have even used one from time to time. But from my perspective, a program which cannot interact with the outside world is literally useless.

It is not an accident that almost any tutorial for any language or framework or platform starts with "hello world". Because you want to start with the minimal but real, working program - and build from there.
GP may be more up to date, but from I remember from previous decade, cloning blood would be no-go, and so your own blood that was stored outside of your body. Cardiopulmonary bypass was AFAIR considered OK, because it's considered to be just an extension of body's blood flow.
It works, it's simple, and it's battle tested.
totally watched family guy on my cowon, too :)). Way before my first smartphone
The Good Place actually deals with this, "you can't be good and participate in society anymore because of globalization" idea pretty well IMO.
MFJ RigPi: Raspberry Pi Ham Radio Remote
Quantum computing may someday be amazing, but at the current rate of progress, in 5 years it'll still probably be a side show. There's a small-but-reasonable chance of some sort of massive breakthrough that will make them suddenly jump in power, but I wouldn't call it a good bet from a financial perspective. (Bear in mind, for instance, that while Google may have demonstrated a 53-qubit machine, it's still deeply limited and they had to construct a problem for it to demonstrate quantum supremacy on. It isn't even an arbitrary 53-qubit machine yet.)

At the moment, I see no clear path towards monetization for these startups yet, in any time scale that makes sense for a startup. AIUI it's not like there's even a ton of algorithms that you'd want to run on a quantum computer yet that are known to be clear quantum wins. For instance, breaking encryption requires a qubit per bit of encryption, IIRC; it's not just that "quantum computers break encryption" but "4096-arbitrary-qubit computers break 4096-bit encryption". 4096-qubit machines seem a long shot on the 5-year time frame, even interpreting current progress as exponential, let alone a 4096-qubit machine that can actually run Shor's algorithm.
I agree that it is sad, but it is a real consideration. Nearly every environmental proposal has the potential increase hardship on low earners. Most commonly, this comes in the form of higher costs for consumer products, utilities, and housing.

There are are a lot of similarities with road congestion pricing going into effect in San Diego and NYC, and planned for LA and SF. Who will bear the greater burden, high earners who can easily pay the fee or low earners with rigid schedules.
ahh yes, purged, like the stalinists, I get it, a perfect and not at all over the top howlingly absurd ideologically confused snarl word. Excellent contribution to this discussion, you've outdone yourself.
2003: The 99.999%ile (?) pays the highest taxes; the Top 400 and the rest pay marginally lower.

2011: The rate is mostly flat, especially above the 80-90%ile. The 99.99%ile pays the highest.

2018: The 99.99%ile pays the highest, the Top 400 appear to be paying a lower rate than almost anyone.

Somewhere between 2003 and 2011, the 0-10%ile began paying more than the immediately higher percentiles.
The only reason I'm not interested in the Tesla is the overall unavailability of replacement parts.
> It's much, much easier to live and work in a foreign country today. And it's only getting easier as technology improves.

So let the current oligarchs exile themselves and we'll do what we can to make sure no more Bezos are created again.

I wonder if your school situation has to do how schools are funded in the United States in particular. It sounds like your school needs more tax money from richer parts of the country then where you grew up.

>> Governments invest a lot in their country, their citizens, education, a healthy market, etc.
> Do they?

They absolutely do. What I've seen of other countries's welfare states is grand.

> I find that most people are successful despite governments, not because of them.

Universal Healthcare. Universal shelter. Public transportation. Environmental protection. Welfare. Universal Education. Massive wealth redistribution. Markets. Most rich countries do these things with the government and are better for it. Huge numbers of Americans are not successful because this country lacks these things, and is actively prevented from having them.
Sometime around 2004 or 2005 I had an 1996 Honda Accord with over 200k miles on it that I took to the dealership for some maintenance and was told it had a cracked engine block. The dealer said something to the effect "that's not suppose to happen" and offered me a loaner while they fixed it for free.
I'm not sure that means something is necessarily biased.
> The more requirements you tack on to any kind of housing development, the more expensive it becomes to build housing, and so projects on the margin get killed and rents go ever-higher. That's not acceptable.

That’s not faux progressivism. That’s real progressivism, just applied to an area some progressives want to see flourish rather than be killed.
> I found my next side project haha. I need one for another app I planned to do.

You might want to base it on https://anysoftkeyboard.github.io/
It's important to note the difference between the two main sources of lithium. Chile and Bolivia has lithium in the form of brines (mainly Lithium Cloride, high concentration, relatively easy to extract) and ores (pegmatite, hard to extract, as requires mechanical work to grind the rock). the region of the north of Chile, Bolivia and Argentina has the mayority of reserves of the world, following by Afghanistan. Australia has a lot of pegmatite.
South Park has reportedly been banned in China after criticizing censorship
I feel like they're labor conscious they just don't give a fuck or are actively opposed.
As a professor of mine once explained:

"Income tax is the tax you pay on living expenses."

The more expensive your lifestyle, the more money you have to pull out of your companies / trusts / investments etc. If you want to reduce your income tax, reduce your expenses. But in any event, you never hold your own money and since it's never yours "you" never get taxed.
There's no such thing as "the left". Historically leftists have always been purging each other (most famous example Stalin/Trotsky). Stallman is the wrong kind of leftist these days, because he is still based in the left/libertarian wing of the 1960s 1970s student revolts.

Now you need to be a limousine leftist with Google or Facebook stock options.
Utterly destroying a person's reputation should come with a damn high burden of proof. That article would be laughed out of any courtroom.

Reading that has been a complete waste of time. To save everyone else some effort:

1. The man has problematic opinions. Welcome to democracy, where people with uncomfortable opinions are free to hold and discuss them. This is healthy.

2. He used a bad pick-up line, saying he'll kill himself if X doesn't go out with him.

3. The MIT report doesn't mention Stallman by name.

3. Had a mattress in his office.

The discourse level in the US has hit rock bottom lately, all I see are online mobs running amok.
Growth companies are always in a precarious financial position. That is their nature. Default dead, as pg put it. The goal is to achieve market scale, then make that financial position stable and profitable, rather than precarious and feeding on investment.
This will be great for ambient music producers on bandcamp.
I do not understand why you are sneering at the idea of re-investing profits then. Same for why the availability and cost of money (equity or debt) would not be something also forecast and planned for by Tesla.
> I recall being told early in my freshman year “If RMS hits on you, just say ‘I’m a vi user’ even if it’s not true.”

I do not believe this. Stallman has no kind of irrational hate against vi beyond "church of emacs" memery. Stallman doesn't even take the editor war thing seriously.

>He literally used to have a mattress on the floor of his office. He kept the door to his office open, to proudly showcase that mattress and all the implications that went with it.

Stallman lived in his office. This is well-known and well-documented.

It's not mentioned in this article, but there's also the claim that women kept plants around to scare Stallman off. This is also patently false; besides being obviously ridiculous, one can also find plenty of pictures of Stallman surrounded by plants.

All of these claims are so utterly ridiculous, so absurd, that I not only feel confident to dismiss them without evidence; I'm also inclined to believe that most of them were made in jest.

It becomes hard to believe any of the accusations when so many of those that are repeated in earnest are so laughable.