skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a relatively new New Yorker (I've shopped at the Strand for 6 years). Can you expound on this a little bit more?

I've found that while the inventory on a given day might not be super stellar, the sheer volume of books that flow through their hands is the true value they provide to the ecosystem. I see them as more of a used book broker than a museum for used books.

As an example to explain what I mean, 2 years ago I added to my wishlist some obscure book, last printed in the 80s by a small midwestern university publisher. Two weeks ago, I received an email saying that they had just put it on the shelf! That evening, I walked in, found it more or less immediately, and wandered about looking for particular fiction authors, before finding a marvelously-illustrated classic in two volumes, that was printed in the 1940s. I left maybe $40 poorer. This story repeats itself every month or two.

While you might be able to find such things on Amazon, I find that the Strand both beckons you to search and rewards you for that search. I don't think anything in New York competes with them, pound for pound.

While, I agree that their branding and marketing focus has shifted a lot towards "trendy", newer material (i.e. where the real money is), I'm skeptical of the notion that the quality or range of their used goods have declined proportionally, if at all.
IPFS might suffice, it might not.

It also does happen to be Blockchain based . . .

Sounds like you're expressing cynicism more than an alternative pathway for achieving censorship-resistant blockchain-based app stores
The question is how do you prevent abuse without handicapping investigators too much, since presumably you do want cases to be solved if possible?
I feel like this attitude (which is very common) holds us back from developing more reliable systems. When something fails, we don't ask what we can do to improve the system.. instead we point the blame at users. It's the easy way out.. instead of designing better systems, we just tell the user to 'do better next time'.

The more difficult a system is to use properly, the more we should demand an alternative. If your users keep making the same mistake over and over again, then at some point you have to start asking yourself what you need to improve.
Well, even if you think it would be great to have a greet function with the first argument pinned down, that is trivially done without currying. Currying would only really be useful if you have many functions you want to pass the “Good morning” parameter into.
I think given enough time, Libra project can succeed. But it has to jump through many hurdles. It will require a lot more investment than Facebook anticipate.

I advocate for a new type of crypto: digital native and decentralized stablecoin. By adding a constant inflation rate, coin price can become somewhat stable. The tradeoff is worthy for permissionless, digital native and decentralization. I outline the benefits of this new type of cryptocurrency in this article:

The Next Big Thing in Crypto: Using Inflation to Create Stablecoin

https://bitflate.org/post/2019/10/10/the-next-big-thing-in-c...
I was pretty happy using an HP x360 UHD display on Fedora. It also drove two 4K external displays.

What makes the different is wayland. Fractural scaling is working fine. However, we also were using Airtame for over-the-air desktop mirroring, which supports x.org only. Thus, I needed to switch sometimes, which caused „WTF is not working again?!? Oh forgot to switch x.org session back to wayland.“.

No seriously, if you need HiDPI and could omit proprietary nvidia drivers, give wayland a serious try.
Why don't we want people with jobs helping us again??
strongly recommend folks interested in data viz investigate Vegas further and especially VEGAS, VEGAS-LITE and the related projects such as Voyager, LYRA and CompassQL. As noted below/above great to see it used in SandDance
I spent a couple years in the DC blockchain scene. If my experience is anything to go by, the answer has a lot to do with how much of the technical expertise in this space is concentrated behind a screen consisting of a relative handful of self-declared consultants. These characters (many with Deloitte on their biz cards) prowl the power hangouts of DC to talk up how great crypto is, while handing out free samples to every midlevel policy wonk they can get beer time with. This has been going on for years and I see Libra as the first major attempt to capitalize on this ground game.

These wonks then make all the right favorable noises when queried by the FBs and VISAs of the world about the posture of the agencies, organizations, departments and NGOs they work for regarding crypto. As there's little to no in-group tolerance for critical introspection, there's correspondingly little to no collective power of seeing how this all looks from the outside.

It's a tight mutual feedback loop, twisted into hysteresis because everyone except the general public stands to gain from telling each other that the regulatory coast is clear.
There is a certain, je ne sais quoi, gravity to it.
> iOS and macOS is basically the same OS.

Sure, but when people talk about "macOS being neglected", they're referring to a neglect of work put into the things that are uniquely macOS: multi-user support (better Fast-User Switching; better Screen Sharing; OpenDirectory et al; AFS back when that was considered a good idea; Server.app features); workstation productivity (evolution of the windowing paradigm seems to have stopped after Mission Control was introduced); fault-tolerance features like Time Machine; treating non-sandboxed (incl. POSIX CLI) apps as first-class citizens; and, well, any updates at all to the natively-desktop apps like Finder and XCode.

When was the last time you saw Apple announce a new feature of an app that exists only on macOS? Or announce a new OS feature that only makes sense, design-wise, on a desktop? They used to do both of these pretty frequently. The only things I can name from the last two releases are tabs (Finder) and dark mode (macOS generally.) Those are pretty small beans.

Oh, and there was also the whole NeXT-y paradigm of document bundles, Spotlight discovering app bundles and registering their file-type handlers and provided components, etc. That seems to have been lost in the shuffle—maybe the people responsible for it have all left. Remember QuickLook plugins? Remember when Preview worked on basically every file-format that you would run into on the internet, rather than not even knowing how to display a WebP?
> For example, at the high water mark of political correctness in the early 1990s, Harvard distributed to its faculty and staff a brochure saying, among other things, that it was inappropriate to compliment a colleague or student's clothes. No more "nice shirt." I think this principle is rare among the world's cultures, past or present. There are probably more where it's considered especially polite to compliment someone's clothing than where it's considered improper. Odds are this is, in a mild form, an example of one of the taboos a visitor from the future would have to be careful to avoid if he happened to set his time machine for Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1992.

This is interesting. I've heard multiple people say that there have been two political correctness peaks: one in the early/mid 90s, and the other starting from about 2013 to now.

Are we already coming down from our current PC peak? I think we might be, even though it seems weird to say (given that we're still near the peak, so that political correctness is still high). Some evidence for this:

1. There seems to be a larger and larger cultural awareness of the toxicity of political correctness, so much so that it's starting to no longer be counter-cultural anymore, but just a well-represented view. The IDW is becoming more mainstream (which means they need to stop representing themselves as a persecuted group, lest they become stuck in 2017). For the record I'm a huge fan of the IDW. I don't want to see them stagnate.

2. Leftists -- usually blamed the most for political correctness -- are even now able to discuss a few ideas in public that they weren't formerly able to quite as easily: (i) they can more openly discuss the merits of socialism (using the "s" word) and (ii) they are free to question the orthodoxy of traditional free trade. In fact nearly every major candidate for the Democratic nomination has denounced free trade in some way. This would have been unimaginable 10 years ago.

There's still a long way down from the peak, but times feel less PC now than they were say in 2017.
To better phrase your point:

density causes more interaction which causes more conflict.
Tbox v1.6.4 update, new c11 style atomic operation
Isn't the real story here that this family bought the building in 1996 and would stand to profit perhaps a hundred million dollars if they sold it today? The landmark status might cut that value dramatically, maybe by more than half.

Isn't this a more likely reason for the lawsuit than "We won't be able to do exterior renovations as easily"? Wouldn't you be upset if the city devalued your property by fifty million bucks?
Apple just released Catalina, which no longer runs 32-bit apps.
Yeah, I suffered from insomnia for most of my life. I didn't really realize it was an issue until I was about 20-21. I think it took falling asleep at the wheel and rear ending someone, crashing on my bicycle multiple times from not being able to stay awake (going downhill at 20+mph btw), and a plethora of other stupid events for me to realize maybe I should seek help finally. I think it's pretty amazing to see what I accomplished on so little but, ultimately, it's sad because I know I could've done way more with better sleep.

And it was 100% stress related. Taking pills, trying breathing exercises, and everything else didn't fix it. It could make me slightly better than doing nothing but it was never fixed.

I have a rhythm now I follow that works better. But, really, I never found a "solution". I just got into a less stressful life. (Finally having a girlfriend, high(er) paying job, etc. was the "trick" - aka solve what causes my stressors)
I can type so much faster with Swype-style typing. I completely don't understand the die-hard keyboardists
Almost all of the ruling class in the USA went through the same few schools.

Academia has prestige and its viewpoints diffuse across the rest of society.
If the conclusions here are as statistically robust as they seem, why wasn’t this published in Nature or Science?
Ouch. I guess this would be a reason to use strings more, since they're immutable.
> They really do have to force the hand of ignorant users eventually, else Microsoft gets blamed for an insecure OS.

Theoretically, Microsoft could restructure their whole OS to support hot code reloading of system components, such that nothing ever needs rebooting. I mean, nobody else does it, either; but it'd be neat, wouldn't it?
"Well, we are limited by the physical size of our brains"

I don't think that's something that's clear at all. Men and whales have larger brains than women, on average. Are they proportionally smarter? Without knowing how brains work, it's impossible to say what constraints exist due to size.
Well, PHP jumped from 5 to 7 (without there truly ever being a 6) so I think Perl could do the same with no major downside.
No way. 150% overhead is the cost of a fully funded pensioned employee. It’s usually close to 130% of pay at a good company, and 120% at a shitty one.
My difficulty is, at heart, I don't want my tokens of exchange to be a product at all. I want the guarantee of universality that comes with money. Accessible to rich and poor alike, good credit or bad. Anything that tries to edge that out via the market is inherently a bad thing. Ultimately for all except stockholders. A central bank backed cryptocurrency with all the traits of universality and legal tender may be a better bet...

I am fully in favour of the various new banking services and apps that are springing up, services to manage, transfer, save and invest better etc. That's an appropriate place for the market. Even there it's needed regulation to ensure the most marginal in society can get a basic bank account, or not get stiffed on fees.
Company scrip (Libra, this) could well be quite a bit worse than anything about fiat currency. The new boss is often worse than the old boss.
They don't even do multi-node for node sizes smaller than 58gb RAM. Dedicated master is not available until the cluster size at least 6 nodes of 58gb RAM. Multi-master is not available.

I'm not sure if this is based on research or optimal configuration size, but it seems very expensive to get a 3-node cluster going on ElasticCo.

Does anybody have experience with compose? (https://compose.com/databases/elasticsearch)
The legislation is vague enough, and the possible characterizations of tokens numerous enough, that there are invariably many reasonable interpretations. So it's not like the SEC is necessarily playing fast & loose either, except to the extent they want you to believe it's a slam-dunk. The SEC aggressively leverages that vagueness, but the reality is that vagueness usually benefits the defendant, especially with an increasingly conservative Supreme Court. OTOH, the approach used for SEC case law going back to 1934 is unique, so SEC-related decisions don't always track the direction of administrative law generally. Securities law is like its own quasi common law, a vestige of the tectonic shifts during the Great Depression and Roosevelt era, which makes it somewhat unique in the domain of Federal administrative and criminal law. Unless you really dig down, it's often the case that two sides have drastically different interpretations which are nonetheless both objectively reasonable on their face.

Though maybe it is a slam-dunk. I'm not a practicing lawyer, and certainly not an expert in securities law. I just have enough background knowledge and legal education to know that when it comes to SEC enforcements the legal landscape is often contentious, and that the SEC has a well-known M.O. It's just something to keep in mind as an outsider.
Why not wine?
ISO8601 date/time can easily be transformed into the fuzzy format HN uses, but not vice versa since the fuzzy format is lossy.

If HN sent dates to the client in ISO8601, the client could then transform that format into the format of their choosing with client-side javascript (either a userscript, or delivered to the user by HN.)
It wasn’t implemented as a proof of work currency, but as a small distributed database. At its core it’s a multicurrency fiat currency fund that you can trade ownership units of, like an ETF. But internationally on no specific stock exchange. And when you buy units of it, the currency you put into it gets added to the fund, so it isnt dilutive.

It’s basically creating a global currency out of the worlds fiat currencies, like banks did with gold long time ago. It’s quite clever and I could see the economic value and issues of something like market created globobucks.
And here I thought the whole idea of Libra is to take marketshare from WeChat & M-Pesa.
Not completely non-workable either. A lot of store-and-forward text messages would fit on a 256GB USB.
"Apple sucks" got 1000 upvotes yesterday on this exact website.
you've already constructed that barrier between you and them in your language toward them and describing them as though they aren't you they are different from you, according to you.

You are saying you agree that all people are equal, except for people who think some people are more equal than others.

It seems to me from the article that it's exactly the way you frame people that is a detriment to us all working together to prevent us all from dying horrible deaths in a venus like environment of our own creation.

We are self-destructing precisely because we separate ourselves by ideology, geography, mythology, language.

We describe humans as a "cancer" on the planet, what is our chemotherapy? All humans aren't cancer. The meek will inherit the earth, or so it is said. The opposite of the meek are the corporations especially those like WeWork that grow fast in their own selfish benefit without benefiting the body.

We need a way to remove those cancerous humans without killing all humans.

There are no laws that say, "You are not allowed to serve yourself at the expense of the planet." Corporations used to be required to have a mandate of public good.

Is our capitalistic drive better for the planet? Is technology more harm than it is good? Are Luddites on to something?

It really isn't profitable to sacrifice yourself. We need to make it so that doing without is rewarded. We need to change our philosophy of good. The supercar driver gets mates more than the pedestrian on the sidewalk.

Peacocking works. It's bred into us. We have to overcome our biology. We have to intentionally evolve ourselves into a better species, a more conscious, rationally longterm thinking society. Not one that is rewarded on 90 days out, but one that is rewarded on 90 years out.

We almost need to eradicate DNA as the mechanism by which we propagate.

I don't know how we can fight against that. I suppose we are by not having children. In a way, we are almost too smart. I think at some point, IQ hurts our chances to have offspring and I wonder why that is?

It seems if intelligence was a good thing, then you'd be more likely to mate if you had more of it, but that's not what the statistics indicate.

You can be too smart for your own good. I think humans are too smart for their own good. They are only smart enough to cause trouble -- existential trouble.
The fate of Libra isn't tied to Visa/Mastercard's withdrawal. It's ultimately about whether there is a market for a new mechanism for international money transfers.

As someone who runs a business that has (small) offices both in EU and North America, let me share a quick overview of the current state of things.

When you want to transfer a non-trivial amount of money between 2 countries, you have likely received it in the originating country's currency and are planning to spend it in the destination currency. Now because you don't want to pay ~3% currency exchange fees to your bank, the only reasonable way to do this is to get an account with a business forex broker, that will offer you a rate in the ballpark of 0.5% off the spot price. You will have to do the KYC/AML [0], but the complexity of the whole transfer is basically this:

1. Do a domestic wire to your broker's office in the originating economic zone.

2. Wait for them to call you and confirm the exchange rate.

3. Receive a domestic wire from the broker's office in the destination economic zone.

You often need to show the invoices/contracts showing the origin of the funds and the purpose of the transfer, but if you are running a legitimate business that pays taxes, you will need those for accounting reasons anyway.

Now the 0.5% fee charged by the forex trader (that is bound to a bunch of rules and regulations making it harder for it to run away with your funds) is not worth putting your trust into a fully automated distributed ledger, where a lost password or a hacked computer could permanently eat away your money without any legal recourse.

So the only potential audience of a new international coin would be people actively trying to evade KYC/AML and that's exactly why the governments will do their best to prevent it from getting adoption (which is very easy since you can outright ban the fiat endpoints in your jurisdiction).

On the other end, there's a bunch of people who have never written a response to an AML inquiry and have hardly done any business outside of their own state, that are hoping to get rich quick by grabbing a stake at something they haven't fully researched and later reselling it at a profit to someone who will actually need it. I wouldn't see any reason for it to be successful long-term, sorry.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer
"giving up" sounds like "skipping" to me.
Yeah unless your database is not a critical component of your application, like a experiment or doesn’t have to be available feature you should almost always self operate. It pays to have control of your data.
Sorry, I agree it's not a great title. I was worried the paper's title was misleading (just sounds like textiles), so I chose a representative statement from the author's abstract + conclusion.

The link comes via https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20191011-00/?p=10... which summarized the PDF as """a fantastic write-up of the history of fibers and why they suck. Of particular note is that nearly all of the original proponents of fibers subsequently abandoned them [...] fibers are basically dead""".

By restricting itself to the TIOBE top 10, the paper also misses a discussion of BEAM which successfully offers N:M threading.
I just changed it and then came here to see this comment.

Submitted title was "Microsoft: fibers/goroutines inappropriate for scalable concurrent software[pdf]".

Submitters: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." This is in the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
I just used Hiren’s this past weekend!

I fubar’d MBR after trying to clone my main drive onto an new SSD.

10/10 would recommend
there is a lot of WinPE interest in the thread. I was part of the core team that came up with the idea and built it[0] and it is great to see how useful it has been for so many!

I'm happy to answer questions if folks are interested.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Preinstallation_Enviro...
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Just put a car seat on a horse... problem solved!
downvoters proved that rather quickly
Thanks for the civil response, it has been a long week.

My take on it is that for some companies using hosted Elastic (not AWS’ horror) is more probable if their business is not maintaining large clusters in house. This is along the lines of having a live-in nanny more than an occasional housekeeper. It is a luxury, and one in which having an Elastic nanny (PaaS/DBaaS) might make business sense.
And this magically will?
Can I ask how large your clusters are and how many records you’re reindexing? I haven’t been able to scale this to a cluster taking in several TB a day
Promising idea let down by factual inaccuracy on one of the front page links. #Brexit Leave won by 52% vs 48% not 58% vs 42%. Probably a typo but a bad mistake for a site claiming to report only facts
But does that make any sense if the attraction was that, run by Neumann, it was going to take over the world? Just because people lost faith in him doesn't mean there is a replacement for him that would justify putting more investment in. If it's just a real estate company, maybe it's not even worth close to $11B.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20955103
YPG would still be mainly Kurds. So Erdogan would find a reason to kill them.
Just goes to show that anything is racist if you're woke enough. I (and the OP) was clearly alluding to the "platonic ideal" of a Swiss: a person so above board they would never even contemplate anything untoward.
Here is a swiss manufacturer. A run-of-the-mill company with $1/2 billion in annual sales in a high margin, high tech area.

https://www.maxongroup.com/maxon/view/content/product-overvi...
It looks like but I am not. You can verify my identity :D Genocide is a strong word. There's no intention of Indonesian government to eradicate any people today. The last time we did commit genocide was 1965 during the communist purge. Guess what? Australia, UK, and USA blessed the act.