skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, here's a name I didn't expect to ever see again (and neither did I realize that they have such a long history)

I never used Pegasus much but many moons ago worked at a place that used Mercury MTS as a mail server. It worked wonderfully, and of all the software that particular server ran, Mercury was the least fussy and fairly easy (for sysadmin me, anyway) to set up. (Though IIRC leave the server window open, I think it was easy to accidentally kill it by closing the window. Surely that's fixed now)

Nice to see that they're still being updated, and that the author is still around, cares about, and is supported by his work. Seeing stuff like this gives me hope for the future as jobs become seemingly more and more bureaucratic and proprietary cloud stacks swallow up many of the things that I enjoyed
Alfred’s smart lock might be the first real product that gets its power beamed
> If you ask me this is a problem in every highly regulated industry. You often find that the regulations have exceptions for smaller changes.

Another example of this is getting planning permission to build a house. Renovations are generally easier to get approved than new construction and keep any variances that have already been granted, so you’ll occasionally see someone “renovate” a house by tearing down everyrhing except for a single wall and building completely new otherwise.
I think this is the wrong approach. The data is public.

The place to filter unwanted mail is at the SMTP/MTA level, in my view; not at the distribution of already-public data.

As pointed out by others, this will absolutely not prevent Cogent from spidering this public data. It will, however, negatively affect legitimate users of the data within Cogent’s IP space.

This is the wrong place for a spam filter.
I was thinking about this for house building, you go to a panel and the bots that make up the house reconfigure themselves to add a swimming pool, or an extra guest room, etc. Could be pretty awesome. Let’s hope they are not used for evil :-/
They are not related at all. Dark matter is visible on the scale of galaxies, dark energy on the scale of the universe.

Dark matter is currently the best model that can describe the rotational curves of galaxies under the assumption that general relativity is correct. Since GR has so far stood all tests extremely well, this is a very compelling argument for the existence of dark matter. There are also some more direct observations, such as gravitational lensing caused by dark matter.
For a fair comparison (fp64 vs fp64):

«A single GPU card like the AMD Radeon MI60 has more computing power than year 2000 supercomputer ASCI Red (fastest supercomputer in the TOP500 list of June 2000):

• MI60: 7.4 TFLOPS (FP64)

• ASCI Red: 3.2 TFLOPS (FP64)
»

https://mobile.twitter.com/zorinaq/status/112491212518746521...
> if you're calculations don't fit, then your mathematics is not suitable, so change the math before you change the physical description

Physics is littered with mathematical formulations predicting new phenomenon (forces and particles).

> What is the relationship between dark matter and dark energy

There is no known relationship between dark matter and dark energy. They could have been called unknown matter and unknown energy! The absence of a good account for each does not infer a relationship between the two.
> Ironically, hundreds of billions of animals are killed every year for food, contributing massively to climate change, which is the root cause of these massive fires.

This is simply false. It's one of these routine lies told by vegans. Livestock do not contribute "massively to climate change". It's embarrassing that this is the top comment here. Also, "hundreds of billions" of animals are not killed for food. Billions yes, but not hundreds of billions. Billions of human beings have to eat.

> "if you find the death of 500,000,000 mammals, birds and reptiles in weeks of australia wildfires mind blowing and horrifying, note that more were killed worldwide for food in the same period of time - and these facts are not unlinked"

And hundreds of trillions of animals are killed by nature and other animals each year? What is the point?
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I've very often had to finalize the famous "last 20%"
of their projects which is a fun place to be in.
"I thought it was almost done?"

Yeah, and then management thinks you are a mere 0.1x or 1x or 0.01x or whatever because you're moving so much more slowly than the "10x" person.

In a fair world (or a fair workplace) I wouldn't mind doing that kind of work. Ideally, I'd say "I'm willing to do whatever it takes to ship good code! Hell, I'll mop the floors or go fetch sandwiches if that's what the team needs at that moment!"

But at this point, I really try to avoid it. Unless your manager is attentive and technically savvy enough to recognize the hell you're wading through, it's basically just career suicide. The 10x person gets farther and farther ahead of you. At the end of the month he's got 100 commits and has shipped 5 features and 9 fixes. Meanwhile, you've done some fraction of that.

When I have junior devs tackle a mess like that, I make sure to put extra effort into recognizing the difficult work they are doing in cleaning up somebody else's mess. I make no claims of being a good senior dev or a good manager or anything like that. But I try to do that one thing right at least.
Except that users are (or should be) trained NOT to click on any links in spurious e-mails they receive.

No, dear sites, kindly deal with a little bit of sign-up friction and stop offloading to others the fallout from people abusing your services.
production was threatened. So civilian demand was boosted.

That makes no sense. When production is "threatened", artificially boosting demand would be the exactly wrong thing to do.
ASCI White wasn't Intel (it was IBM Power3)
Isn't that the same thing? If you need to be taught the underlying abstraction to be able to understand the UI you've got a text book example of leaky abstraction.

After I had to unfuck a repository for the n-th time, I trialed a switch to Mercurial, we switched shortly after. I can count on one hand how many times I've had to intervene in the last few years.
Not much of a deal, but the price differential on the high end Mac Pro CPUs is actually slightly less than Intel list.
> just preparing for and attempting the interviews at [better companies]

This really rings true, I attempted and utterly failed an interview recently and was a real kick up the arse to improve myself - I'm no longer the hot shit I was 10 years ago.
I think the difference is psychological: you are in control of your car and you feel safer because of it. A plane gives you no control so you want more guarantees.

Als: Planes add another dimension of things which can go wrong so maybe that is also involved.
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Oh that brings back memories. That was the old way of doing it.
I find the term "useful Arts" interesting in patent law, as it clearly suggests that there are "unuseful arts"!
While I fully agree that the most essential need of every human being -- and every animal or plant -- is drinking, breathing and eating, let's not forget there are other essential needs that everyone has: attention, love, education...

All I want to say is that the most precious thing you can give might as well be: your time and undivided attention, a smile or nice word or any other form of humanity. It can sometimes be harder to give that, than a quick donation to a foodbank.
It's like what you'd do with actors on top of some kind of userspace scheduling (e.g. a thread pool that accepts tasks), yes. Writes to channels are implicitly yield points, so you write cooperative multitasking code (again, like you'd do in any language with userspace scheduling) with all the advantages that entails (no blocking), but without having to explicitly manage your sequencing/yielding. Since the whole language is built around the idea that this is going to be happening, a lot of the immediate problems with userspace scheduling go away: anything that's trying to do thread-local storage (e.g. web requests or database sessions getting bound to the current thread) will necessarily be goroutine-aware and do the right thing.

There's no free lunch, of course: it becomes much harder to write code that is pinned to a single system thread (e.g. good luck interoperating with a C library that expects you to pass callbacks), or to use higher-performance blocking I/O in the cases where that's warranted. But it makes the 80% case very straightforward.
There are 3 serious companies - Kernel, Neuralink, Paradromics (Ctrl-labs does not make brain interfaces, per se).

If you want to look at what's coming next - check out what DARPA is funding through their NESD and N^3 programs.

The hardware currently being shipped is awful, including the original link.

I expect industry-relevant technologies to be showcased in under two years, with commercial products following shortly.

There is a HUGE gap in time-to-market between invasive and non-invasive technologies for regulatory reasons.
> The problem has that this editing involves a programming-like-activity on a system vastingly, inconceivably more complex and interconnected than any human constructed computer.

It's like programming in Malbolge... if Python was as "fun" as Malbolge actually is!
No, they're not taxed as income. They're taxed as capital gains. There's a set of taxes called "income taxes," and the rules are the same for anything classified as income. Long-term capital gains are not classified as income. Even short-term capital gains are not classified as income, although they're taxed at the same rate as income.

And regardless of semantics, the original point still stands: relative to their wealth, Rich people, effectively, don't even pay income tax. This is trivially true: if your liquid net worth increases by $1 billion dollars, and you made that money via income, you would be taxed (depending on state) up to nearly 50% of those gains. If you made it via capital gains, you would be taxed at zero. Since very rich people make most of their money via capital gains, what little net worth increases they make via "income" pale in comparison to the gains from capital investments. Thus, they pay effectively no income tax relative to their wealth, which is large. If they make 1.2 billion dollars in liquid net worth, and only 0.2 billion is classified as income, they're paying an effective tax rate of about 12% in CA instead of 49.3% (what they would pay in CA if their gains were categorized as income). If only 0.1 billion was income, they're paying 6%. If they "only" made 50 million dollars of income that year, and the rest was classified as long-term cap gains, they're paying 3% tax.

For the record — I'm not saying we should tax unrealized capital gains! This is a very complex subject and changing the tax code in that way could have far-reaching, potentially very negative side effects on the US economy; for example: we wouldn't tax unrealized illiquid asset gains, right? That would be unfair: if it's illiquid, you may literally be unable to pay the taxes on your supposed gains. But that encourages mass migration of high-net-worth individuals' assets into illiquid assets like real estate (since by and large they don't need immediate access to the capital), and out of liquid assets like company stocks, which would drive up housing costs and reduce available capital for US companies. Not only that — it prioritizes illiquid assets over liquid ones, which is good for rich people who can park money on illiquid assets and don't need to spend it short-term, but bad for everyone else who actually may need to spend their money. Not exactly the outcome we want! In general tax is super hard and rich people will pay very smart people to game the tax code for them.

But capital gains being only up to 18% compared to income at up to 37% at the federal level (with similar breakdowns by state) seems pretty off.
The comma and dot seem weird; curly braces would feel more natural to me. In your example, style isn't terminated by a dot, but other one liners are, which I'm assuming is just a typo else I'm really confused.

What's the advantage over JSX?
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I think that "not caring about other people actions" should be the standard way of thinking if you think their actions doesn't cause harm to other humans. That's what I get from that text.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/concern_troll
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Unfortuntately Threadripper only ("only"..) supports 256GB of RAM, Mac Pros can go up to 1.5TB.

So they definitely couldn't switch completely, and supporting both would be expensive for apple due to doubling mobos + testing + drivers etc, and confusing for the consumer because of the differing max RAM capabilities.
So it will hopefully harm cogents business and customers will move away. Corporations only understand the bottom line.
Paper cuts can be addressed with more users reporting bugs and contributing fixes. The fundamental design issues with git that prevent scalability cannot.

As a Google employee I use hg every day, even though it's not required. (Some teams at Google do mandate its use, but these are few and far between.) I don't use branches, but I use bookmarks. I didn't notice any merges that really ought to be performed automatically but were not; in any case I use Meld to resolve merge conflicts and it's easy enough to do occasionally.
That's just insurance. You'd be insuring the amount of the deposit. Any business can buy this from a major insurance company if they want.
Wow. I used it on Win 3.1 on an old 486sx25. It was both powerful and lightweight. I loved it.
Do you know any good source where I could follow through the whole argument that universe is expanding and the expansion accelerates? Without handweaving.
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> A friends 1 year old was watching YT unsupervised

Parenting is not something you can automate
If flying were very expensive for consumers, it would probably be a lot more expensive for the military too. Civilian aviation probably provides a lot of R&D that is used in military planes.
Already posted and discussed in 2014
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7667976
Easy.

Step 1: Have a lot of money. Especially family money.

Step 2: Start a business with family money.

Step 3: Fail.

Step 4: Goto Step 1. Repeat 5 times.

...

Step 5: Maybe.. success?

Step 6: Write a book on how to be successful. Sell for $50.
My point isn't that it has no downsides, my point is that it would be a far less pressing issue than Y2K was.
Could you cite the paragraph of the GDPR that requires this?
I, and every developer in my company have been running Linux in various flavours in XPS 15s for several years now; it works just as well as on any other device I've used it on.

I use an XPS 13 at home also running Linux (Ubuntu/Manjaro) and have no unusual issues there that I haven't also seen in my desktop.

Saying it doesn't work well in Linux is either bad luck with a particular model or just plain misrepresentation.
This looks like a killer laptop. Love the exterior pixels. Hope linux will run on it.
How many of those were healthy people under 80?
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For what it's worth, the linked page is itself running on Fossil, which has of course build in forum facilities and several other suchlike goodies - being a complete solution, packed into a single smallish executable with no significant dependencies apart from SQLite. The Fossil site runs on very moderate hardware, and gets no hiccups from hitting the HN frontpage.

I like this kind of untroubled minimalism, and so far have never encountered a reason not to run every personal project on Fossil. The real world will occasionally force me onto Git territory, but I can't really say I have ever enjoyed the experience.

Git is here to stay for any foreseeable future, of course. And while I do understand points often made about the benefit of one de facto standard to rule them all, monolithic dominance always tends to unsettle me. My SE friends in general simply use 'Git' as a given synonym for 'version control'. And it does annoy and somewhat worry me that they've never even heard of Fossil until I roll out my sermon.
> That's rich coming from you. It's easy for anyone reading this to search for what nullc has said and done.

How so? I'm fairly proud of my actions, and I'd be happy to discuss any of them with you.

> The blocksize limit was only meant as a temporary spam protection, not to enforce higher fees.

There is nothing that actually supports that the claim that it was spam protection, thats just blind unsubstantiated assertions.

The system has anti-spam mechanisms in it all along that worked independently of the blocksize.

I think it's fairly likely that Satoshi didn't give these details a lot of thought... It's a champagne problem, and for as many things as he clearly thought through there were many others that were a little rough (e.g. like the broken original longest chain rule).

> Many transactions paying low fees can support security just as well as few transactions paying high fees.

This is being slowly disproved in practice. Bitcoin currently pulls in $3m per month in fees. The most popular fork with no blocksize limit pools in a couple thousand dollar at most, with a substantially lower amount of fees per transaction. Even if their block was 95% full at their current rate, it wouldn't be more than a few percent of its funding from inflation (while bitcoin fees currently are as much as 25% of that altcoin's inflation).

Assuming it isn't inhibited by node resource usage, propagation centralization pressures, or other considerations it could always be increased in the future... going the other day with an ecosystem that depens on effectively zero fees would be much harder. I don't think it's an accident that analysis supporting unlimited block sizes assumes perpetual inflation instead of limited supply.
How much is a chauffeur? Or taxi driver salary?
How do you justify this claim ?
The latter - historically they added or removed digits when the number overflowed. Both aren't very good solutions IMO.
Yeah, it seems like you would of course want to balance the amount of water taken out and how much is replenished by rain/snow/underground movement.

I just find it fascinating how smart ancient people were!

Also, it's nice to meet you, and I think someone has been looking for you. (I love your name :) )
Let me get this clear: You want to WAIT until it's evident that we can't scale anymore, and then add 2nd layers?

And this, you want to do after significant adoption?

So, you are basically going to tell the Starbuckses and other large corporations that have built a large infrastructure around onchain transactions that they need to stop that, wait a few years until 2nd layers are adopted, and then start using that?
I had the exact same thing, so I bought a Dell xps 15 then swapped out the ssd for a 1tb one that was faster, too.
I still use it today on my main Win 10 machine.
I used it first when netscape communicator announced end of live. Anyway - must be over 20 years now. Why not? Never change a running system - I guess...
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if you look at the magnetic soup we call matter, or maybe electromagnetism is a better term, is dark matter / dark energy / anti-matter (&anti energy??) just the same thing of a higher frequency

say if matter / observables go from 0hz - 30+ Zhz.. is dark energy from 30+Zhz to ???Zhz and perhaps anti matter / energy from ???Zhz to ???????Zhz? (more question marks being higher ? :D )

or is this completely invalid and a dumb thought?
Amazon owes as much as $21M over soured NYC skyscraper deal
Being pedantic here. You're an omnivore, and not a carnivore, since the parts other than the patty are made from plants in real Whoppers too. Carnivores are animals who eat only other animals (or animal parts). You can say you're a heavy meat eater instead, if you want to emphasize that behavior or preference of yours.
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Once you want to add AC you need to add more support systems making whole machine more complex and more expensive to operate.

There are actually tractors like that, but those brands are failing unable to compete with high tech tractors like JD or New Holland on one side and with simple old tractors on another.
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On a virtual machine cluster, while you use a few of those cores to play a game from the same PC
> No, they're not taxed as income. They're taxed as capital gains.

Capital gains are a subset of income, taxed via income tax at, in some cases (mostly, “long-term” gains) preferential rates.

> There's a set of taxes called "income taxes,"

Capital gains are part of those taxes.

> and the rules are the same for anything classified as income

No, they aren't. There are all kinds of special cases with income. Capital gains are one: they are income, included in AGI (adjusted gross income) which effects eligibility for various tax credits and deductions, but in certain, but not all, cases taxed at lower rate than ordinary income, as low as zero percent for the portion of long-term gains within the tax bracket qualified for 12% rate on ordinary income.
I am sure almost every action could indirectly be related to human suffering of some sort. Using a phone for example and there is a good chance that it will have cobalt mined by children in Congo.
You have no idea what lightning transaction volume is, for all you can tell I'm currently making 1000 transactions per second in a loop between a set of lightning wallets. :)

Because lightning is actually relatively scalable it doesn't broadcast every action to everyone.
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Yeah I was confused, where I couldn't tell what was precomputed stats (col min/max/count), view calcs, and what's actual perf -- even legacy SQL vendors do all those. That's apples/oranges, more of a statement against the other db vs for clickhouse. Likewise, the db comparison I'd like to see if _other_columnar_stores_.

I know some folks running one of the larger clickhouse instances out there... but this article made me trust the community less, not more.
Git does far more than making it easy to fork: it makes it trivial and inexpensive.

Meanwhile SVN supports forking in the sense that it supports copying directories.
Bingo. And it's less stressful for the eyes to focus on an object that's further away. Net result: I might actually have some vision left over by the time I retire. Worth the cost.
Are you sure it was in 1995? I joined Sun in 1997, and the E10k was launched a bit after that.

According to Wikipedia it was launched in 1997 so it does line up. If I remember correctly, the system was bought from Cray after SGI bought the rest, so I didn't know they even had it at Sun in 1995.

Also, the original model of the E10k supported 64 GB RAM.
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The restriction to a tiny GPU workload is increasingly wrong for assessments.

GPU compute stacks are increasingly geared towards multi-gpu/multi-node & streaming, esp. given the crazy bandwidth they're now built for (2TB/s for a dgx2 node?). Likewise, per-GPU memory and per-GPU-node memory is going up nicely each year (16-24GB/GPU, and 100GB-512GB/node with TBs connected same-node). Network is more likely to become the bottleneck if you saturate that, not your DB :)

Though I like to do mostly single gpu streaming in practice b/c I like not having to think about multinode and they're pretty cheap now :)
Sunflower is high on omega 6 but apart from that having calories coming from fat is healthy (as compared to carbs).
you just described facebook's feed algorithm