skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couple things -

It's worth pointing out that AWS Elasticsearch is not simply the open distro - and a lot of things you see in the open distro are not currently available on AWS Elasticsearch. Beyond that, many features are simply forcibly disabled in Amazon's offering, just as many cluster settings and APIs are untouchable in the AWS service (even read-only ones that would be super helpful).

I still can't touch any of the rebalancing settings on my clusters and everything looks forcibly disabled. If rebalancing worked as expected, the whole blue-green thing shouldn't be necessary, and over time, I wouldn't generally end up with a single full data node while every other node in the cluster has 300GB free. Am I missing something?

None of the CloudWatch alarms you linked to have much relevance to the issues in the article (Other than the ClusterIndexWritesBlocked alarm which will only start firing after everything breaks). As of the last time I looked, you cannot monitor disk space on individual nodes in CloudWatch, only the cluster as a whole. Alerting on a single node starting to fill up is basically the one alert that would let me know things are about to be in a bad state.

Their service seems to work well for small implementations that use EBS-backed storage, and I bet that's what most of their customers are using, but I'm running 60+ node clusters and the problems only seem to be worse as capacity goes up.

Someone in the comments here mentioned they destroy and rebuild their cluster weekly just to keep the shards balanced. How ridiculous is it for that to be the best option offered?
> When it comes to gravity, the two theories [quantum theory and classical theory] are completely incompatible, and there is no way to escape the conclusion that one or both of them must be seriously incomplete or even flat-out wrong about something important. ...

Part of the problem lies with the lack of tools for studying gravity through the perspective of quantum mechanics due to the scale involved:

> One of the difficulties of formulating a quantum gravity theory is that quantum gravitational effects only appear at length scales near the Planck scale, around 10−35 meter, a scale far smaller, and equivalently far larger in energy, than those currently accessible by high energy particle accelerators. Therefore, physicists lack experimental data which could distinguish between the competing theories which have been proposed[7][8] and thus thought experiment approaches are suggested as a testing tool for these theories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_gravity

Edit: there's an interesting complement to the linked article which talks in more detail about the relativistic basis for why mercury is liquid and gold is yellow:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunctio...
>> Your item did not comply with the following section of our policy: An extension should have a single purpose that is clear to users.

Any speculation on what the supposed multiple purposes would be?

From past experience, is that type of thing something that is automatically flagged / determined programmatically or does a human reviewer of an extension make the call?
> voluntary demolition of buildings taller than 200m is unprecedented

Any insight into why is it so?
I am using Fennel for this: https://itch.io/jam/autumn-lisp-game-jam-2019

I will not finish ... I suck at lisp. But it works.
Thank you!! This times one million.

The two years running a startup destroyed my sleep. I’ve spent the last 1.5 years trying to fix it.

I’ve had an Oura ring for almost a year and I rarely get more than 6 hours of total sleep per night. 5 hours is frequent. 7 hours is the most rare treat.

I don’t have anxiety. I don’t feel overly stressed. I love the work I’m doing. Life is pretty good. Yet most nights, I’m up at 2am and it takes an hour to go back to sleep. Then I’m up around 6am and that’s that. I never set an alarm; I could sleep until 7 or 8 if I wanted to.

Blue light glasses. No food after 4:30pm. Workouts every day in the morning.

Phenibut is the only guarantee that I’ll get decent sleep (6.5 hours). This doesn’t knock you out and my Oura data shows I’m getting all sleep stages. I wake up feeling good to great. But I limit that 2-3 times per week.

Meditation does help a bit.

I’m going to go in for a sleep study. I am determined to fix this because it really decreases quality of life. Plus, as you said, the research shows what a huge long term impact this has. I am very dedicated and focused on my health and longevity, it’s annoying how much I am failing at one of the most important parts.
To clarify, I mean the people who review (and hold up) releases, not our end users. We wish we could release more rapidly but are discouraged from doing so by the months-long process that results from any tiny update on Firefox.
+1. This is actually a really good idea and solves the issue with people potentially abusing pronouns on their profile page in bad faith.
I don't know about uncomputable but for intractable, I think, and as rco8786 has already pointed out, dynamic programming sorts of fit the bill. Similarly, this is what reinforcement learning does for search. Recursive or sequential monte carlo algorithms where states hold memory across transitions probably also fit this bill. And most generally, this is what humanity does with science, skills and knowledge.

No single human could discover general relativity, but generation after generation, from the first humans who worked out how to count symbolically to the definition of a Lorentzian manifold, we've been leaving caches of knowledge for each other so each next generation could reach ever farther.
Skype for business makes me think of one of Guy Kawasaki’s 3 reasons for a business to exist: to right a wrong.

Skype for business is an abomination, it’s morally wrong, it’s an evil that must die.

I’m hoping Zoom can murder it viciously.
PIP is a good point, not supporting play/stop via Bluetooth is another for me personally.
I've been contemplating switching to Colemak for years but I'm ultimately reluctant to because most of my day is is split between typing in English and typing in a second language (for which I can only assume it wasn't optimised for).

Does anyone know how the cited benefit analysis is done? Is there a github project I can just feed a dictionary to to and get a 'benefit' score from?

Also, just to echo a couple of the other comments here - switching to an ergonomic keyboard without row offsets (ie. something like an ergodox[1] or planck[2]) is a huge, huge leap in ergonomics and comfort. Personally I feel the discussion we should really be having is about moving away from the pointless typewriter-hammer-collision-avoiding row offsets we're all forced to suffer, and towards something that reflects the range of motion of our fingers.

[1] https://www.ergodox.io/
[2] https://olkb.com/planck
> should value American ideals over money.

And what are they? if not capitalism and opportunity? Because that's exactly what Apple is doing with China, making money.

But let's cut the hypocrisy here. All these "values" advertised by American companies are PR and marketing for their American audience, nothing more.

Just like Nike faking to care about civil rights in US while using child slave workforce overseas to make cheap shoes. And it works because consumers like narratives, not facts.

Apple is all about narratives, to make Apple client feels special, as a luxury brand.
But, at the same time, some 2% of people are neither male nor female, and our society ought to accommodate that.

Not likely to happen while SO's moderators aren't even honestly engaging with the community, but instead rewriting their posts without comment: https://meta.stackexchange.com/posts/334979/revisions
Is Cook actually gay or is it just a marketing trick too?
Seems similar to Conway checkers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Soldiers
I was really amused to find out that writing ruby code on a Japanese keyboard layout is a bit more efficient, because some of the frequently used special characters like _, @, and : don't require a modifier key.

https://www.daveperrett.com/articles/2012/05/16/underscores-...
Chrome has always been best as a Google client. You can browse Maps in it, use Google Apps, they always work well.

For regular browsing it had some nice security features but always lacked an equivalent to Tree Style Tabs. And will soon become useless without a decent ad blocker.
If this keeps up I might just give up and stick to Links2 or something for my daily browsing. There's Firefox for now but I'm really increasingly pessimistic about the state of the web.
It seems I just didn't look for it in the right place. Thanks.
> ... California is so prone to massive fires is because they do not allow fires to occur naturally ...

This was "national policy" in US and it applied to all states, and not CA specifically. It was the scientific consensus and various agencies followed that advice.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wildfire_suppressio...

We now know better, so the current scientific consensus is that the past consensus was wrong. Welcome to falsifiability.
Can you clarify how "X are [optionally, Z] inferior to Y" is the same thing as saying "a person being a man or a woman, and therefore the pronouns used to refer to that person, are determined by that person's sex at birth."? I don't agree with OP, but am disturbed by your comment.
I posted the story with the original title. I didn’t edit the post title afterwards so it was probably changed by staff.
> quality

Yeah, that feature is a must. /s

Saying "quality" doesn't actually mean anything. What exactly is "quality" in this case?
it's ok, it's just an acronym meaning: fixed that for you

now you can use it too
It’s common among chemistry students because of the incredibly expensive Unix software they use for calculating eg molecular orbitals. I’ve gone to their meetings and listened to them, they know little about computers and are taught to use ssh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_d...

Technically I think north-western Iceland should be included too since it's on the western side of the mid-Atlantic ridge.
Android doesn’t include an ssh client in the distribution.
Fixed that for you.

It's a very common abbreviation and can be found with a simple web search of "FTFY".
Weakening WebAssembly: Formal Semantics of a Concurrent Extension of WebAssembly
Is your argument that their manufacturing costs would increase by less than 30%? Or that you expect Apple to fold as a company?

You state "they absolutely have the money to run these capabilities in America." Apple's published margin on hardware is 30%, so if manufacturing in America increases costs by 30%, Apple no longer makes a profit selling hardware. If manufacturing increases costs by more than 30%, Apple starts losing money selling hardware.

Big numbers are big because Apple is selling many, many, many phones. That also means that adding to the cost of manufacturing by even a small amount per unit immediately chews up a lot of those outrageous profits.
That money will be useless if facebook is destroyed by the next government.

Trump and Clinton spent $81M on US election Facebook ads in 2016

https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/01/russian-facebook-ad-spend/

and

https://www.vox.com/2018/10/23/18015228/facebook-top-politic...
Yep, just pointing out that one cannot defend Firefox as the best just by saying Chrome requires and adblocker. There are other browsers, like Brave.

And for the record, I used Firefox for decades, up until last year. I just spend too much time in my browser to use anything other than Brave, given how much time it saves me.
The post mentions both the John Hancock Center and Sears Tower already used similar structures.
Few monthes ago I forced myself to fully drop Chromium. Painful. But I don't have chrome on any laptops (only my smartphone). I don't regret it.

Google is stringing bad news after bad news.
I'll give you an example:

If I place a breakpoint in a DOM mutation listener, I would like to have the same order of DOM events as if I wouldn't have placed it there.
This is an absolutely horrible response by someone who clearly doesn’t live in the area.

PG&E has constantly prioritized shareholder profits over renovating their aging infrastructure. They caused the biggest wildfire in the history of California and are now _finally_ facing a reckoning for their reckless and destructive behavior.

Fix your goddamned infrastructure and get a smaller bonus. That’s what we want.
The MTA is currently in the process of spending 5 billion dollars on ~70 elevators. The inefficiency (and, frankly, corruption) of the agency is staggering.

The organization's problems have very very little to do with budget constraints.
> None of that has really gotten any better in the past ten years. It feels like banks have mostly given up on making their product better. Instead of improving their product, they just buy more expensive retail locations.

you should check out "online" banks like Charles Schwab. they don't do any of this fancy retail bs. they've never charged me a fee (not even when I overdrew my checking account), and they reimburse me the full ATM fee whenever I use one, no matter how bad it is.

the only thing they "upsell" you on is their trading platform, which is quite good imo. they have a bunch of great inhouse ETFs and it's now free to trade other stuff anyway.
> but knowing something is possible cannot be discounted

This applies to other areas of life. On a few occasions, I didn't try things because I thought it was not possible based on my background/age (e.g. applying for some position, school, or switching careers), only to realize later that people with the exact same profile managed to do it....
Tim Cook Won Donald Trump’s Ear
It was a pretty good idea for Google and, judging by the adoption, it serves users very well too.

I think it's up to other browsers to offer better solutions.
Omniplan is by far the best MS project clone I’ve used.

Omnigraffle is basically nice to use, the presentation mode is a great way lead a discussion and use of force touch for feedback is a nice touch. However it is a bit quirky and I wish they’d make the core functions act like a normal program. For example, making a table is totally unintuitive.
The abuses in Xinjiang are real, but we do the Muslims there a disservice if we share actual fake news. The organ harvesting story was made up.

https://thegrayzone.com/2019/09/30/reports-china-organ-harve...
> A public entity has an incentive to maintain appearances to the public.

A public entity may have more mechanisms for transparency, whereas a private entity can keep also maintain appearances of good customer service, and as long as they're making profits the shareholders may not care about what's happening under the hood.

Until things get so bad that the private entity implodes, but by that time it's too late.
I have had code to handle emlx for over 10 years:

https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2008/03/03/2211

The thing here is that

a) there are also a number of SQLite databases that are used by Mail to store metadata and sundry

b) Mail's IMAP handling has been notoriously buggy at times

My guess is that this particular data loss bug in Catalina stems from a combination of the IMAP implementation and the metadata storage, but since they keep playing whack-a-mole inside ~/Library/Mail, I can't offer more details.
WhatsApp currently has some weird layout bugs when swiping back to the root view for me.

More annoyingly, it seems the changes to how multiple windows are handled has made it so any visible notification will prevent me from interacting with anything except the notification, so I can't ignore them anymore - I have to dismiss them to carry on using the phone.
I switched to FF after Prism was publicized. It's good. Go for it.
I think he's speculating that Copernicum and other super heavy elements might offer some angle. Oddly enough I recall reading about a large amount of interest in studying mercury back in the 30s and 40s that tapered off. Maybe there is something there.

Also I would definitely buy "Quantum Physics: A Hand-Wavey Approach" and suspect you could do a whole series of those books.
As I understand it, Scheme was intended to be a dialect suitable for teaching programming. The usual first texts are The Little Schemer, How to Design Programs (https://htdp.org/ but apparently a third edition is forthcoming: https://felleisen.org/matthias/HtDP3e/index.html) and the inestimable SICP: http://sarabander.github.io/sicp/ (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13918465)

"A bad day writing code in Scheme is better than a good day writing code in C." —David Stigant

In another man's opinion, "Common Lisp is the best language to learn programming":

https://oneofus.la/have-emacs-will-hack/2011-10-30-common-li...

Another resource for learning Common Lisp is Stuart C. Shapiro's Common Lisp: An Interactive Approach: https://cse.buffalo.edu/~shapiro/Commonlisp/
Why is not realistic? Just look at Samsung's Vietnam operation -- there are now over 200 suppliers who relocated and set up shops in Vietnam. There are also now at least dozens of domestic suppliers and contractors supplying parts for Samsung. Samsung is the largest producer of smartphones in the world and most of their mobile devices now come from Vietnam, contrary to Tim Apple's ridiculous claim that no large scale electronic production is possible outside China.
Why doesn’t “blocking” just mean blocking?

I shouldn’t need separate extensions to each block css, JavaScript, fonts, cookies, pixels, etc.

Remote fonts can be used for tracking and fingerprinting (hence why private browsing modes aren’t private).

Am I missing something here?
That diagram is anything but “clear”.
time to bring out the anti-trust hammer and separate chrome and other google entities from the search and ad business. It really seems like they're asking for it.
Software Freedom Podcast #1 on Day Against DRM with Cory Doctorow
They're openly planning the end of UBlock Origin with their upcoming add-on change (Manifest v3). Start moving now.
Unfortunately it has created an Internet Explorer effect, and weekly there is a site I need to load into Chromium because they never tested their JS on FF. Hopefully FF picks up user share and that begins to change again.
>How do Americans think about bone marrow as a dish?

We don't. Even the tiny number of people that do their own butchering rarely mention it. I've had hunters tell me "don't give bones to your dogs its bad for them!"

Most Americans don't know marrows could be food and would probably have to be starving before they'd try it.
It's not surprising they'd use that excuse as it allows them to reject extensions on entirely subjective criteria.
Regular zoning and heritage are very different though.
I'm actually surprised at my fairly neutral score. Need to post on more vaccine and climate change articles I guess
I just want to say that Vim is easier with Dvorak than Colemak.
Trazodone seems like a might big hammer for this problem. Do you plan to take it forever? I’d assume that removing it will cause withdrawal and a reversion to your previous insomnia. Or did your doctor suggest a plan of taking it for X months and then taper off? While the idea of a pill to fix this problem sounds really appealing to me, taking an SARI is not without risk.
Lists are made of cons cells, and a cons cell is simply a two-element array. In a list, the first element of a cons cell contains data and the second element contains a pointer to the next cons cell in the list.

How then should we represent the last cons cell in a list? We have two choices for what goes in the second element of the last cons cell:

1. The last piece of data, or

2. Nothing; i.e. a special non-pointer pointer. In Lisp this is called nil.

If we choose option 1 it's harder for code that traverses the list to be sure it has reached the end. It's also harder to splice a new element (a new cons cell) onto the end of the list dynamically.

Option 1 is the "dotted" form of ending a list and option 2 is the "proper" form.

Option 2 is more common in Lisp. From a type theory point of view, Option 2 restricts the second element of a cons cell to contain either a pointer to a cons cell or nil. This makes reasoning about code, compiling code, and optimizing code easier.
Stripe for Gift Cards
I would like the community thoughts on this as we are in the secondary gift card space.We are "ATTEMPTING" to build a payment processing system similar to stripe but for gift cards where payment processors can augment their payment processing capabilities through the use of gift cards or merchants directly can integrate our service to accept gift cards as a form of payment. IE an end user can pay for an item or service say with a walmart or best buy gift cards. We already have the ability to do instant balance verification for gift cards. What do you guys think about this?
Does it have time saving features?
You _can_ call it as you could call it before as well only there's a pretty big chance your existing code will break because of this change.
Are there any actual studies that show that DVORAK or other layouts help with RSI or that QWERTY causes or worsens RSI?
Pretty crazy Saturday evening! Got some friends crashing with me since they were in an evacuation zone. Fortunately we didn't lose power. Just enjoying a windy night.
It's rare in American cuisine but in New York one of my favorite restaurants has a bone marrow fried rice and it's sublime.
Preparations that were made at Suzuka for the F1 race on Sunday (Saturday events cancelled) - https://youtu.be/lNJ4F6ar6qw
Zara Lucy in “Sexy Striptease and Blow Job POV-JOI – Video”
I use https://github.com/dickmao/nnhackernews as my newsreader, and so my
default view is "new". The filtering is the most naive possible (only show
brand new submissions or comments for articles you've read). When I wake up,
there are 200-300 new submissions on the queue. Of those I might click
through on 1-2. The morning ritual takes about 2-3 minutes. In my haste I'm
sure I'm skipping some interesting-to-me items.

The holy grail is of course a toutiao filter. Netnews has always been
needles-in-haystacks since Usenet. The migration from nntp to http has imo
made the problem worse. At least with reddit's subreddit granularizing, one
stands a chance of getting read. With HN's monolithic "news" category, it's
all pretty random.
Is there a good keyboard out there where I can swap keys (say q and a swap positions). I can do that in software easily, but actual hardware keys? A software that can calculate the actual movement of fingers based on what was typed on a fixed keyboard?
This is the lamest excuse to block UBO. Do you need more reasons to ditch Chrome?
You need to think in terms of a de facto monopoly in this case:

https://definitions.uslegal.com/d/de-facto-monopoly/

https://business-law.freeadvice.com/business-law/trade_regul...

I don't know if the 69% number from StatCounter would qualify as a de facto monopoly, but it's close to the 75% number quoted in the previous article:

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worl...
I agree with this. I use any pronouns or name someone wants to be called. I'm not a jerk.

I don't understand the backlash, do you go around and call people other name that they want to be called because "you don't feel like it"?
Android's Google Keyboard comes with Colemak built-in. iOS requires a third-party keyboard, unfortunately.
AWS Transfer for SFTP Now Supports Logical Directories for Amazon S3
The 208' square floorplan resulted in a slender monolith. With other construction methods, they may have toppled, rather than collapsed within the tube. That may have resulted in even more death and destruction.

The development of the World Trade Center destroyed "Radio Row". Possibly more of the electronics industry would have stayed in the New York area had than not happened. "The Death of New York's Radio Row" https://www.qcwa.org/radio-row.htm