skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would like to comment - respectfully - I hope. I do believe death to America is the literal intent.

You're not respectful, as you're insulting 80 million people by saying they all want to murder you and other hundreds of million.

You're not being intelligent either, because you're wilfully ignoring the fact that literal translations from one language to another are incorrect.
Even Google translate is in fact smarter than you are: just paste مرگ بر آمریکا into it and see what it prints out.

> Further, I don't think the killing of Soliemani was intended to signal we intend to change the regime. I think rather it was asking a question ... It's time for Iran's leadership to give this era of zero sum foreign policy a proper burial.

Wait, wait. The Iran had an agreement with the rest of the world, all of it. It agreed to a very strict regime of inspections and halting its nuclear program in exchange for an increased freedom to commerce with the rest of the world. This was a win-win for all, the opposite of a zero sum game. Trump has reneged the agreement, against the opinions of everybody else, and imposed a complete economic embargo on Iran through sanctions on anybody who does commerce with it. It is chocking the entire country. This is a zero sum game.

What the US is doing is strangling a country of 80 million- a bloodless death but death nonetheless. And if the dying country kicks and struggles, you say "enough with the zero sum game"? Really?
Time for government cheese again I guess?
Key Things to Know: Enterprise Chat Architecture That Connects Millions of Users
Go check out the price of built in fridges and re-evaluate your comment.
there is no evidence that gluten is bad for you if you're not gluten-sensitive.
Are there laws around imitation foods that would prevent this from being called "Pork" in any countries?
Because it did not even bother with a powerful and useful type system. Counter example: Rust. I don't think go would be a thing if rust was, say, two years older than it is.
no one asked for this lol
> For them everything that the government has been preaching about the great Satan is coming true.

Maybe it's time to realise it had elements of truth from the beginning.
KubeEdge is the first Kubernetes Native Edge Computing Platform with both Edge and Cloud components open sourced!
I define modernization as anything from updating frameworks, over libraries, tools, to the language itself.
Because it helps one of the narratives they've been pushing for at least a decade: "business all bad, people being exploited, we are their/your champions", never mind any actual truth.
No, GP was taking about a clear race condition on growing the slice in the first example. It is not just a case of "idiomatic go" vs "idiomatic" or something, as the author suggested, a problem only when the code grows. It is a critical bug in the first example.

Edit: add what one gets when run with `go run -race`

> WARNING: DATA RACE
> Read at 0x00c0000a6000 by goroutine 8:
> runtime.growslice()
Until AMD (well, TSMC) had process node advantage parity it didn't make sense for AMD to compete at the high end portable market. Now they do, so they will.
looks like haml
The so called problem would also vanish if the monorepo was modularized and broken up into smaller repos.
And I think you are right. However, I wonder how you communicate your needs for... Let's say a raise? Or a better position?
You're missing the keyword 'network'. If you're routing a payment across the lightning network, then it is technically not peer to peer. You send a payment to the next hop in the route, then they send a payment to the following hop, and so on.

As you said, any two parties are able to open (and close) a channel. However, these actions require an on chain transaction, and your funds are locked until you close the channel. Unless you're going to be exchanging many transactions in a short period of time with your peer, you would be better off creating transactions directly on chain.

I won't get into this here, but the lightning 'network' has its own set of scaling problems, which imo are much worse than that of the bitcoin network itself.
Tucker Carlson had a good segment on one example of private equity destroying a small American town by bankrupting a business that was by all measures doing well. I haven't seen it anywhere else in mainstream media.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdwH066g5lQ
However, it's practically impossible to avoid learning how to use it these days, so "much better UI than git" will never be a compelling selling point for an alternative VCS

I think this is true if you think the target market for VCSs is professional software developers only. But there are other people writing code that might care less about the fact that Git is the standard for professional software development and don't want to pay the cost of learning or using Git: data scientists, scientists in general, new media artists, most high school students, etc. I've had a hard time selling Gitless (https://gitless.com) to undergrad CS students, but it is easy to sell to non-CS students that write code.

That said, GitHub is a big thing so any new VCS probably needs some story for Git-compatibility. Even tools that have built-in version control like Overleaf have some way of synchronizing with Git repos.
Blockstream (Which funds Core developers) was funded by AXA Strategic Ventures with about $80Million in two rounds.

Digital Currency Group, which has investment in a lot of Bitcoin companies has a controlling interest from MasterCard.

That alone does not prove anything, but Bitcoin (BTC) failed to scale. When fees hit $50/transaction, with weeks long confirmation times, most companies backed by DGC failed to switch to the upgraded version of Bitcoin (BCH). This was despite BCH being a drop-in replacement, while Segregated Witness (the BTC upgrade) was not.

Part of the reason nobody switched to BCH was a major marketing push to strip Bitcoin Cash of the name "Bitcoin", and to frame it as a "scam" with "air-dropped tokens" you can "claim". (It was just a direct blockchain copy at fork time).

The truth is that BCH forked from BTC after 4 years of obstructionism. We forked just in time: because the huge transaction backlog on BTC happened within months of the fork. The result was an entirely predictable result of failing to scale.
By creating the fork on demand. The only part of Bitcoin that is technically hard to recreate from scratch is the huge hashing power of its mining network.

If buyers were happy with bitcoin-but-a-different-brand then there isn't much existing bitcoin holders can do to hold their market together. There is an unlimited supply of numbers out there, the constraint is numbers that are backed by whatever silly number of hashes per second the Bitcoin network is up to. The holders don't have any particular influence over that constraint.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Election_Law
Queue Canadian Linus[0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGUESEq75ZI
This is a false dichotomy. We have known energy is not (always) conserved since long before we began discussing dark energy.

This is such a misunderstood topic vis a vis dark energy that Discovery specifically has an article on it:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/energy-is-not-...
It would technically be a plant of sorts. Or maybe it would make vegetables the new "meat" in terms of ethical concerns. Do vegans distinguish between something like carrots (where you basically kill the entire plant) and apples (where the fruits are harvested but the tree remains in tact)?
Go does put that goroutine to sleep, freeing the underlying OS thread to work on other goroutines, so it's very lightweight.
It doesn't have a UI. Its just a program that takes instructions and does what you tell it. If you want a nice fancy GUI for Git there are plenty of reasonable options. Fork is the one my coworkers seem to be enamoured with at this point in time. I myself don't see the need to use any sort of GUI for Git the vast majority of the time.
Nothing is difficult. The point is that there is no excuse for using a) windows, b) freedos, c) geteltorito, or any hacks and workarounds in 2020 for updating the bios of your laptop.

To your point, the method of putting the bios file on a usb stick is also not universal. I don't think any lenovo laptops support that. And while passable, that's also kludgy.
Suspension of Cogent Access to ARIN Whois
Ask HN: Would You Pay?
Hey HN community, I'm conducting some research for a startup idea and would like to ask the community a question.

Let's say you're renting a car, and there is a $100 hold that is placed on your credit card for the duration of the rental. If you had the option to pay 9% of the $100 deposit, so $9 upfront to not have the $100 hold placed on your card during the rental, would you pay the non-refunded fee? That would mean during the duration of your rental, you would have access to $91 and wouldn't need to wait days after returning the car to get $100 back.

Consider the same option is available for other services like hotel rentals, Airbnb, apartment security deposit, etc.
Has that site been hacked? When I use Chrome's simplified view there is a paragraph injected talking about and linking to live porn.
Not sure a citation exists for such an assertion -- but I'm a decade deep and numerous production (profitable) iOS apps shipped without ever touching Apple hardware. MacOS is a joy but the hardware is consumer rot.
Is Dopamine Fasting SV's Latest Fad?
It's laughably bad engineering to try to solve the scaling issue of the base layer by adding another layer on top. It's like you'd try to solve a throughput problem of IP by layering TCP or HTTP on top.

But this is the logic of one of the main devs who championed the "fee market" idea of Bitcoin[0], that high fees are required for Bitcoin to function. And who in 2017 celebrated when fees were around $50.[1]

[1]: https://medium.com/@johnblocke/the-fee-market-myth-b9d189e45...

[0]: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017...
I have a 27" 4K display that I run at 1440p because 2160p is too small for me to read text easily. I'm on Linux and don't use any scaling. 1440p on a 27" at roughly 3ft viewing distance is slightly better than Retina quality according to this[0] calculator.

[0] https://www.designcompaniesranked.com/resources/is-this-reti...
Just use SharePoint.
Jesus. Why the fuck do people write articles like this? Who gives a fuck? 30 years from now? If you are on the young side of the current that means you are what? 20? Ok, great. So when you are 50 we will have awesome control over our brains and genes. Guess what? When you are 50 and this happens you really won't give a shit.
Why do you think Mc burgers are any better or worse than expensive burgers?
Trump is choking Iran after reneging an agreement the whole world had taken, and that Iran was respecting to the letter. What would you say if Iran prevented your country from having commercial exchanges with any other country in the world? Just imagine that.
We use Clickhouse extensive at work and boy is it better than anything i have used in column oriented databases so far, documentation is good, http query interface and features such as builtin url parsing are amazing, we also tested Druid and found Clickhouse to be better than Druid, it is easier to setup and maintain as well
> I don’t remember Anita saying anything to my mother or even asking her husband first if she could give us something, but I remember her packing up her table: the pot roast, the carrots, the gravy, the potatoes. She handed it all to my mother.

That hit me like a truck. I'm actually tearing up.

Next time I walk past a homeless person, I'll think twice.
> http://

no donkey in this race but how sure this is not you and your circumstances rather than the site itself? Living in certain countries my ISP used to inject all sort of nonsense into every unencrypted site they could.

Anyone not using tls these days is intentionally exposing their readers to harm, which you seem to be experiencing.

Personally I won't view such sites on principle and block them with https-everywhere, though guessing many others do allow it, due to being the default setting worldwide.
It was shown in the liveblog [1]. Just to give you an example of an organisation which wants to use Apple's logo but likely hasn't got permission due to Apple does not want to officially endorse it. [2]

[1]https://images.anandtech.com/doci/15333/IMG_20200106_140421....

[2] https://aomedia.org/membership/members/
Scaling isn't even just about number of files or size of them. A problem I've hit is just in having cross-repo stuff work well. Monorepos are helpful partly because git submodules are not ideal for good workflows, and splitting stuff across multiple git repos can backfire (it doesn't help that almost all the tooling around CI and the like is repo-based instead of project based).

I would love a layer over Git to handle workflow issues related to multi-repo projects
The article is mediocre, as it keeps saying "death to America" when the phrase means something else.

Just open Google translate and paste in it: مرگ بر آمریکا
Comrades, this is your captain. It is an honor to speak to you today, and I am honored to be sailing with you on the maiden voyage of our motherland's most recent achievement. Once more, we play our dangerous game, a game of chess against our old adversary — The American Navy. For forty years, your fathers before you and your older brothers played this game and played it well. But today the game is different. We have the advantage. It reminds me of the heady days of Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin when the world trembled at the sound of our rockets. Well, they will tremble again - at the sound of our silence. The order is: engage the silent drive.
It's just fashion but I'd describe this website as vintage rather than dated. I quite like it and it fits the product. It also signals authenticity that it's still the same product and developer and that the project hasn't been taken over by some spyware maker.
Health Benefits of Tennis [pdf]
CES 2020 Press Day: Foldable Phones, Veggie Pork and LG's $60K Rollable TV – CN
Jesus. Who gives a fuck? Dopamine fasting? Are you fng serious? Kill me now. Why do people feel compelled to write and share this garbage?
Ah yeah you’re right. I had a brain fart and got my -V and !V confused.

At the time of writing I was sure I had it right too!

I’ll fix that up. Thanks :)
SV should die in a fire
With Snap’s AI Factory Acquisition, Deepfake GIFs Will Go Mainstream
Also not to forget, if there are people awake at night without outside pressure, then there's probably people fine with working at night.

In Germany you can't work on Sundays. I always wanted to work on Sundays as a student, Fridays and Saturdays were worse, since that's the only days where most social gatherings happen.

On the news I hear people saying they don't want to force people to work on Sundays. I'm thinking maybe, just maybe, not everybody is the same.

I even agree we need limits. But how about limiting it to working 5 days a week, instead of picking an arbitrary day where you can't work.
> I think the distinction you're drawing between code history and paperwork history is more arbitrary than you give it credit.

I don't agree. The responsibility of a version control system is to manage the changes made to the source code. The paperwork that goes with it is an entirely different, and separate, responsibility, just like ticketing systems and keeping track of tasks, epics, sprints, etc.

> If all we cared about was code history, a super pure "version control" system would have one trunk, no branches, and a sequentially increasing version number with no commit messages or author information.

That doesn't make sense because you're ignoring the fact that branches are used to host versions that are being developed independently at a specific moment in time, and merges are used to finally join contributions when they are ready to be added to the main branch. If you look at single branches and ignore the work being developed in any other branch, the history is as linear as you expected it to be.

> But if you can annotate an entire commit with a descriptive message

But you can.
Or just get a laptop with dual graphics card, having a gaming/workstation class card

I don't own a desktop since 2004.
> As for latency, quibble with the numbers, but I don't think a user will ever notice the few hundred microseconds difference between the Go version and the ASM version.

You do realize there's a huge difference between a few hundred microseconds and the 100 milliseconds you were talking about?
they’re just signing up to get fucked all over again if they move to patreon.

we need good decentralized platforms, no?
This is a terrible place to do market research on this. HN likely skews wealthy and financially literate, and this is a product for people who don't have a spare $200+ in their bank account or on their credit card. Basically it's the same people who would want payday loans.

Further, credit cards already allow people to get cash advances in an emergency.

Lastly,taking a $91 loan for an interest rate of 9% is financially insane.

I don't know if my repulsion at this (both morally and as a business idea) is apparent, but I am repulsed.

If you want to start a business, find a way to give people value rather than exploiting their desperation and/or poverty.
That's what is weird about this: from the paper, "Unlike population age, we find no significant correlation between host metallicity and Hubble residual". So it correlates with age, but not metallicity!
"controlled" is a key word here
That's assuming dietary cholesterol is bad. Or assuming that cholesterol is causal in heart disease.
Asylum patient whose art documented his sterilisation by the Nazis
What We Talk About When We Talk About Conversion Rate? and How to Improve It
DPI is only half of the picture though (forgive the pun). Viewing distance is the other half, your eyes can't tell the difference between 100 DPI and 300 DPI if you're far enough away.
Elitism
Ask HN: How many servers power the internet as of 2020?
There are old estimates from 2014, with the most common being around 75 million. https://www.quora.com/How-many-servers-exist-in-the-world

I'll help quantify the question: Can we estimate how many servers exist based on how many servers are manufactured annually? That would give a realistic maximum upper bound.
If you're worrying about the health aspects, look more at the sodium (500% as much as real pork). It's true that the jury is still out on how bad sodium is for you, but it's definitely not great to have 5x as much sodium as the real thing.

I would probably try to counteract this with lower-sodium pasta sauce, or less soy sauce.
Well. It’s the year 2020. The far far future according to the young me. I guess we all experience time in a different way.
Not writing speculative articles isn’t the answer. It’s not believing them wholesale and understanding that change is inevitable but slow.
> There's evidence my ancestors have been drinking milk for at least 10,000 years

Most humans can't digest lactose after infancy [1].

For those who can, we have limited research around the quantity in and frequency with which their ancestors consumed whole milk. Comparisons to modern milk, produced by stressed-out cows bred for volume and fed god-knows-what, are tenuous.

[1] https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/lactose-intolerance
I was thinking about perfored cards too
This world with all its evil has beautiful people who love and give freely.
If you can't discharge student loans in bankruptcy, you damn well shouldn't be able to discharge pensions you've promised your employees for decades.
Presumably lots of dollars does a lot of talking all on its own. Ill gotten or not.
AutoNormalize (part of FeatureTools, to those unfamiliar) is one of those most useful libraries I’ve used in awhile.
> designed by evolution over millions of years to be precisely what a mammal needs to thrive

Infant mammals. Adults consuming the milk of another species is recent. (About 10,000 years in humans.)

We have mixed evidence for the benefits of milk. It was a rich source of calories when those were scarce. Today, it might promote obesity. And good advice for some is bad advice for others. For example, milk boosts iron at the expense of vitamin D; that makes it favorable for light-skinned people at high latitudes [1].

Milk's branding as a superfood essential for kids is a product of post-war propaganda [2]. (TL; DR The U.S. government boosted dairy demand to feed soldiers. After the war, that production was threatened. So civilian demand was boosted.)

[1] https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/131/1/e144

[2] https://dairymarkets.org/pubPod/pubs/EB9505.pdf
> Hillary won the primary with 16.9M votes to Sanders’ 13.2M, are you telling me Democratic Party has changed its rules such that someone wins the vote like that won’t win the nomination?

Elections that have coverage of results during voting are known to experience very strong positive effects from perception of success already attained (and in US Presidential nominating contests particularly this is known to affect voting both directly and by effecting fundraising, endorsements, etc.), and the coverage of the 2016 primary featured reports of delegates “won” in the nominating contest to date including both pledged delegates secured by voting and superdelegates who had made public commitments, on the basis that those were the expected first ballot votes. Because of her strong early establishment support, the absence of significant establishment competition, Clinton had huge superdelegate commitments at the outset of the nominating contest.

They've changed the rules to prohibit superdelegate voting on the first round unless the result is already determined, and to exclude superdelegates from the total on which the majority needed to win on the first ballot is needed.
I have been hungry. This rings of truth and it brings me almost to tears.

Thank you.
Life is hard. Most people luck into their existence. Especially west coast.
Replying to self for an edit. T495 has bios updates on fwupd but the E series does not. So it's a case of price differentiation by lenovo.
In today's day and age, it is High Performance Scientific Computing, so might be a good idea to focus on that.

Strongly recommended [1] and the free pdf book referred in [1] can be downloaded from [2], the book name is `EijkhoutIntroToHPC.pdf` in the root folder of the BB repo.

[1] http://pages.tacc.utexas.edu/~eijkhout/istc/istc.html

[2] https://bitbucket.org/VictorEijkhout/hpc-book-and-course/src...
A Task Management App Written in Common Lisp
Around the World in Rare and Beautiful Apples
Does Fossil do sub-modules correctly? Specifically does it let you compose a project of several repositories and do configuration management on that repository? That is something git kinda sorta does but it gets out of control easily.
LinusTechTips tester it, and, IIRC, the answer is CPU bottlenecks aren’t really a thing anymore.
Yes -- that's what it means to be a flaw with the entire current generation of version control systems.

"Need a centralized server" wasn't specific to one (pre-DVCS) system, either.