skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brutalism is a different kind of making you feel small: the "you are an insignificant insect and will be crushed flat without even a moment's consideration" kind. I'm quite sure Brutalist architecture inspired the design of the Vogons' buildings and spaceships in various Hitchhiker's Guide visual media, for this reason.
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They do make a substantial amount of money with G Suite subscriptions, and they're bound to SLAs.
Once your spinlock has exhausted it's timeslice it has lost. The point of spinlocks is sub-microsecond latency but when you're way past that you can only lose if you're not telling the OS that your lock is still spinning.
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Github, Shopify, Airbnb, Hulu and more are built in Rails, so clearly it does scale. You can do microservices with Ruby/Python as well. Ditto serverless. And my own company does this.

But comparing Rails (a framework for complete web dev functionality) to entirely different paradigms and use cases seems kind of silly. These frameworks don’t solve everything, but they make it far easier and cheaper to develop a website with under, say, 500 million users. Once you get that large you can start exploring paying more devs for better efficiency.
The Selfish Dataome (2018)
This is clever crackpottery type brainstorming from a smart person.

The author has extremely grand set of connections he developed. It ties down Buddha, enlightenment, vipassana meditation, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, fractals and neuroscience. Nothing wrong with that, of course.

Creative thinker should have these kind of crazy ideas and connections every day or at least once a week. I carry with me a notebook that is full of them.

Most ideas die as 'premature babies'. They may be interesting to think and write down, but they are not fully developed and never fit together as well as you initially thought. Filtering and piking some of them to work with is important. Giving them up is the difference between crackpot and non-crackpot.

Forcing grand connections prematurely makes this crackpottery type. Sharing the creative brainstorm in an essay that does not try make up connections would be easier to read.
> It's absolutely interesting, there's A LOT we don't [k]now

Thanks for conceding that, as a mainstream medical professional.

But maybe give people a break.

Given that there's a lot we don't know, it's fair enough for laypeople to talk about it in fuzzy terms and use metaphors that make sense to them, until your profession has more detailed knowledge to share.

As one of the many people who has suffered severe pain and debilitating illness for many years, which has not responded to conventional medical treatment but has responded in interesting ways to various practices that purport to address problems with the fascia, I appeal to you to dial down the know-all attitude and be part of a good-faith discussion from which we can all learn and benefit.

EDIT: In response to your question “What does "releasing the fascia" even mean?”, this quote from a recent medical journal paper [1] may suggest an answer:

There are some researchers who suggest strongly that any change in the viscoelasticity of the fascial system activates the nociceptors.3,12 The hyaluronic acid becomes adhesive and less lubricated, altering the lines of forces within the various fascial layers.3 This mechanism could be one of the causes of articular stiffness and pain in the morning.11 In fact, the stiffness experienced by some patients when they wake up in the morning could be related not with the joint but with the fascial system: if there is a minor quantity of hyaluronic acid or when it is not equally distributed, the tissue is dehydrated and has less possibility of sliding.3,11,12

So as I understand it, what people refer to as "releasing the fascia" describes a mechanism to detach adhesions that form between the fascia layers due to this reduced viscoelasticity.

I claim no expertise on this topic and cannot vouch for the medical validity of this paper; I just learn what I can from the material available, and apply it to my own healing efforts where it may be applicable.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4173815/
> When a model is developed with more rigor, it can be openly critiqued.

Yes. And the models developed like this haven't solved the problems the current black box models have.

> we have models running across such massive datasets with so many degrees of freedom that we have no feasible way of isolating problems when we see or suspect certain conclusions are amiss. Instead, we throw more data at it or train the model around those edge cases.

There are ways being studied to check for sensitivity to parameters, biases, etc. But in the end, reality is difficult and there's no way of dealing with that, or "getting the right answer" every time
... except for the fact that 形容詞 (i-adjectives) and 形容動詞 (na-adjectives) are used differently from 名詞 (nouns) and 動詞 (verbs). So there needs to be some distinction at some point, even if at the high level, 名詞 and 形容動詞 are similarish, and 形容詞 and 動詞 are similarish. But that doesn't go beyond -ish, and it's important to know.
This is an interesting point although I suspect the canny billionaires are the ones keeping their wealth to themselves rather than flaunting it.

Trump is another matter of course.
Yeah, right. If you do that you are legally required to use Qt.
Wow, that's one way to look at 30,000 dead per year in the US alone. Sure, I am "just" worried about the number one cause of death for children 3 and up.

To say nothing of the costs car culture forces on individuals, the climate, the economy, etc.

Your "greatest aspect of the modern human experience" entails an enormous amount of human suffering too, you just choose not to see it or acknowledge it.
*information superhighway
Very good observation. I didn't pay attention to nesting. It didn't even occur to me that this interpretation of the sentence was also possible. (And as far as I can tell it's is a perfectly valid interpretation too!)

It all comes down to the precedence levels of the LID particles (に, は, で etc.), doesn't it. I'm not sure if those are well-defined, but I think it would feel more natural for a native speaker to evaluate に before は in nearly all cases. The order between で and は seems more elusive. I'll definitely bring this up in our conversation group next time, though I'm sure I'll get some funny looks for it.
> If one really really wants to use spinlock

You will also have to make sure that your application threads are pinned to specific cores and that the number of threads is smaller than the number of cores because you want to keep one thread free to run non critical code.

Spinlocks are like full plate armor. Very effective but incredibly cumbersome to use.
What if you are from a developing country and have to rely on subtitles to understand the sequence, and also you cant read fast enough and hence you need to rewind sometimes to retain the sequence. Is this good or bad?
Why is the container not the one contained between the lines of height 8, instead of the line 7 height?

Either "walls" are porous or they aren't.
I just wait for a GOG release, I'm patient and my game backlog is already way too long. No point in paying the full price if I can play something else I bought for cheap in the meantime.
Be patient, overnight success will take you several years
We have an accurate model for gravity. It fails in galaxies, so the conclusion is that there is something else and we call it "Dark Matter". An alternative is to change the model of gravity, but the attempts so far have been unsuccessful.

We don't have a good model for life. We have only one example and don't understand all the details. The Drake equation is not a model, it's just a multiplication of unknown coefficients.

I think that bacteria-like/arquea-like life in other planets outside the star system is very very probable, almost inevitable in viable planets. Prokaryote-like life is more difficult. But nobody is sure.

Anyway, the main article is about the claim that the ‘Oumuamua asteroid in a solar sail. The solar sails are the main research field of the interviewee and he trid to hijack the events and claim that the asteroid is a solar sail, but nobody believed him.

The asteroid has a tiny deviation in the orbit, that is measurable and nobody has explained yet convincingly. But there is not enough evidence to support not only that there is intelligent life in other star system and also that they send a solar sail here.
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We have beed dynamically controlling mirrors in closed loop since mid seventies - year of the first CDROM drive. You dont need trendy technobabble like AI for this task.
ITT: people espousing opinions who clearly didn’t read the paper.
Swapping two numbers in an array using XOR doesn't use less memory
Thank you for this! C4model seems extremely useful!
I just read this and liked it enough that I will probably re-read it in the coming week (it's only 14 pages long). There's a lot to contemplate. For me the article was worth reading even if only for the journal excerpt the author gives on pages 313-314 and surrounding discussion (note that the linked pdf is a chapter out of a book, so spans pages 310-323).
The problem with the article is that the author blamed Linux without knowing the worst case behavior of spinlocks.

When you are working on your own locking algorithm you should be fully aware of all the potential problems that a certain approach implies. It's not the 70s anymore back when multicore processors and the need for complicated locking algorithms were a rarity.
Is that a CPU scheduler issue though?

Linux traditionally has a problem of overall system architecture in that userspace isn't set up to provide policy information such as "this thread is doing UI" vs. "this is a background task" by default.

However, if I help the scheduler along by nice(1)-ing my big compute tasks, then the desktop remains perfectly smooth even while the CPU is 100% busy.

It'd be much better to have this experience by default, but unfortunately it requires architectural improvements throughout the entire software stack. Trying to band-aid it in the kernel scheduler may allow you to heuristically improve some workloads, but it's ultimately a fool's errand.

Where the desktop does tend to fall over and become totally unusable is when the system starts to swap...
NHS gets £40M to cut login times on its IT systems
AGPL maybe, but GPL doesn't seem to be a barrier. Linux, Emacs, MySQL, gcc, git, OpenJDK, etc...are everywhere in corporate America. Perhaps for libraries you link to that aren't LGPL.
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I used the original KeePass 2 client for a long time but at some point I looked for a more stable and good looking client. Since I am mainly a macOS user, I found MacPass [1]. I highly recommend it for any mac users. Its been nothing but stable and good for me.

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The Baluchi cause (the subject of all your links) is a nationalist cause sometimes pretending to be a religious cause. If a Baluchi group ever got any significant power it would be a massive headache for Pakistan but it's not really a concern for the West.

ISIS and al-Qaeda never managed to make much headway in the Kurdish areas. What's left? Ahvaz? Which borders Basra and is controlled with an iron fist?
No, the moral of the story is don't use spinlocks in userspace and use established locking libraries that suite your needs. You can't expect any operating system to optimize for poorly written applications when you have thousands of them screwing up in all different ways.
I've been using CryFS with Google Drive for any kind of sensitive information and it has worked wonderfully well so far. I mostly store sensitive documents, encryption keys, 2FA setup and reset codes in there. A password manager could easily be built on top of it.
There are many game emulators that cheats by altering the game at runtime to optimize performance or improve graphics quality at the loss of some accuracy. Doesn't make it illegal per-se.
Look into matrix profiles and associated algorithms.
I have 20 C#/JS/SQL developers I want to put in a mobile project. So I’m supposed to eat an employee-year of salary to even consider Flutter+Dart?

Not gonna happen, especially with Google’s track record. Already been burned by the Angular v1 -> v2+ nightmare.
From the license:

> software developers have divorced themselves from the consequences of the code that we write

Either the author is a developer or she isn't. But switching voices within a single sentence just cries for an editorial pass over the text.
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I don't understand this complaint. Cryptographic hashing gets obsoleted all the time. No matter which algorithm you choose you're just buying time until a better algorithm is needed. One day we will facepalm because people didn't use quantum resistant algorithms.
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"Still under development: do not use for production systems yet, there are known security holes that need to be closed."

Also note the experience of Figma who used the realms shim I think this project is using to secure Figma's JS based plug-ins system, only to promptly take a different approach when compromises were identified:

https://www.figma.com/blog/how-we-built-the-figma-plugin-sys...

https://www.figma.com/blog/an-update-on-plugin-security/

I am looking forward to Realms. Until then, I am doubtful of attempts to fully secure third party JS execution in the browser's engine.
The paper specifically mentions this as an issue when interpreting black box models, using ProPublica’s reporting on COMPAS as an example.
"is certainly not"

What do you base your certainty on? It's certainly not fact.

"I doubt there is any activity that can accelerate the rate of decline apart from the things we put in our bodies (food & drugs)."

You missed oxygenation.
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Exactly. Corellium wouldn't be what it is right now if their product didn't fill a need, and Apple is mad because they're not getting a slice of the pie.
These typical naive tv-plot contracts: You write outrageous terms into a contract form and it becomes a binding under the law is both parties agree.

It seems that some people are so naive that they really think this is how the contract law works.
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I beg to differ.

In its raw form XML is not much different from JSON. It is more verbose (e.g. start and end delimiters versus a name tag in JSON) but overall very similar, if not identical in terms of features. Schemas are a different topic.

Reading and writing with automated tools very much depends on these tools and not so much on the syntax itself.

JSON is slightly slimmer and less verbose but does not really offer any fundamental advantages. Both syntaxes are very similar. The reason why JSON is more popular nowadays can be most likely found its relatively close ties to JavaScript and JavaScript's success in web development.
Paying to license what? I'm not aware of any other kernel suitable for mobile phone use you could buy with a license (i.e. iOS doesn't count as there's no way you're getting Apple to sell you even a license)
I'm totally fine with using public funding for projects that have lasting social good.
I recently bought a software synth [1] with a UI along these lines just because I thought the UI was so pretty. It has a real Teenage Engineering [2] look to it. I think a lot of the most interesting, useful and beautiful UI work at the moment is happening in the iOS audio world, some of the soft synths I use are stunning to look at and incredibly intuitive.

[1] https://klevgrand.se/products/hillman
[2] https://teenage.engineering/products
>Uber (3000 sexual assaults, 8 murders

reason for separate bathrooms for drivers and employees
Yes, when you are a recent immigrant who comes with nothing, the way to go upwards is by education.

The point is that black Americans are not recent immigrants. They have been in this country just as long (if not longer) than white Americans. Therefore, it’s probably better to compare black Americans’ socioeconomic status to white Americans.

“Speculative real estate”? Not in the slightest. Simply the ability to buy a roof over your head and pass it on to your children.
I see, thanks for the explanation. I guess vague comments like mine will tend to be buried after a a couple of hours =)
they can be. However, reading is probably "by itself" more active than watching TV, irrelevant of the content. Probably in the same vein that handwriting is better for your brain than typing.
DXB is positively staid by Arab standards. Try eg the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi, which reputedly cost $2 billion to build and is over a kilometer wide.

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g294013-d507156-Rev...
Does it support collaboration mode? As in can I design diagrams with my colleagues?
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The last war between the US and Canada (British North America) over the border between Maine and New Brunswick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aroostook_War
Windows and plenty of embedded ones to chose from.

After all, it was Series 30, Bada, Symbian, Blackberry, Psion and Windows CE that started mobile phones.
> no one was killed, but two Canadian militiamen were injured by black bears prior to the diplomatic compromise.
World's first mass-produced L4 driverless bus put into use in China
Or RAM
> I think it's also important to remember a lot of human models were abandoned because of the inherent bias

The industry needs to stop misusing the term bias this way. Virtually every attempt to find this supposed human bias has failed. Latest public example was Amazon and hiring[1]

Bias is the tendency to consistently mis-classify towards a certain class or tendency to consistently to over or under-estimate.

Somehow the term has been hijacked to mean 'discriminate on factors that are politically incorrect'. You can have a super racist model that's bias free, and most models blinded to protected factors are in fact statistically biased.

It's not constructive to conflate actual bias with political incorrectness.

Operational decision making, whether AI or human or statistical, faces an inherent trilemma: it's impossible to simultaneously treat everyone the same way, to have a useful model, and to have uniformly distributed 'bias'-free outcomes. At best a model can strive to achieve two of these factors.

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn7oWIhFffs

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-jobs-automatio...
Even using the source domain isn't informative enough. The alternative headline is better. You are being too charitable to an inferior title.
If you have a malformed JSON, that will break too. So the issue is not with the syntax but - if - with the tools, respectively as often with the - pardon for being blunt - people's incompetence.
1. Biomorphism attempts to emulate nature. But "new"-morphism is just a slight deviation from the existing trend that (some) people seem to like. In my view it looks more like 70's sci-fi (or lo-fi if you're a hipster) which is also quite trendy at the moment.

2. There is no SEO benefit to a word that nobody is searching for. That is, unless it catches on.
If you read the paper referenced in the article you will see it comes from the formula used there to define the Pareto frontier of CPU performance.
yup sorry, probably phrased it wrongly by including the word "evidence" too late to edit now.

In my view an anecdote is just that. Not supposed to support any broader point or generalization.

Its an individual story, you can make of it what you will! =)
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My guess would be that he has created all of this documentation and that nobody is reading it. Everywhere else in the company there is probably a culture of creating project requirements with a series of meetings and emails and it doesn't even occur to his colleagues that there is another way or place they are stored.
> No, that means 'reference', but the `mut` and lack of work mean exclusive mutability and const respectively.

You keep saying this, but it's just not the most straightforward way of understanding the language - no matter what the official docs say at this time. It might be fair to complain about the lack of true 'const', 'pure' etc. specifiers in Rust, but to say that & references are 'const' references is just not sensible IMHO. It might make more sense to make a similar claim about C++, where the 'mutable' keyword really does seem to be a hack like you describe. But C++ has no borrow checker in the first place hence no such motive for 'interior' mutability - so it's in a totally different situation.
To build ridesharing apps, you must get driver locations from Android/iOS, and use Google Maps API to get routes/ETA/map experience. All the device-to-cloud glue in between is on you. HyperTrack does that.
Here's a pretty good one in JavaScript: https://allenkim67.github.io/programming/2016/05/04/how-to-m...
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Realtime scheduling. It only makes sense for a tiny process/thread that is carefully written to avoid the bad effects of no preemption.
Most people can't do that or will gladly not do it if a service like this saves them the bother.
Ask HN: What Technologies to Learn in 2020?
It is always good to keep yourself up to date with the hottest tech stacks. So what are your suggestions for 2020?

For example:
Flutter / React Native ?
ML? Tensorflow / Keras ?
GraphQL ?
Vue JS?

Go or Rust?

+1 if you suggest something cutting edge that very less people know about!
Epiphany did indeed tape out at 1024 - which is why there is the acknowledgement that large scale manufacture of such chips is probably perfectly possible. But Epiphany never went to manufacture, which is sort of the point here.
> how is it ethical to attempt to restrict another person's freedom?

By preventing greater harm to others that would result if you didn't. Seriously, that wasn't obvious?
All that does is put the incompetence into smaller business units, spreads it out and magnifies the incompetence, and actually makes it harder to regulate. Happened in the UK.
What I meant more-so was the math of a "piece" from a torrent is a fixed number of bytes.

The way the files are laid out for a torrent, they are listed in some order in the initial torrent file, along with their individual lengths.

The data for the torrent is then treated as the contiguous sequence of bytes for the files in the listed order.

That contiguous sequence is then broken into "pieces" of whatever fixed size. So finding which file(s) and what position within those files piece 148, for example, goes to involves some math that is pretty straight forward all in all, but is still rewarding when it's the first time you've done such a thing.
Brilliantly enjoyable read on how the Renaissance fund was created, the models and approaches they used, and the characters who built them.