skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not async by default. It's concurrent. In order to get async, you have to do a ton of wrapping, e.g. https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/v1.9.4/lib/elixir...
> You agree with the bill's author.

I'm skeptical of that, considering how horribly broken the bill's analogy is. "Cell phones have often been used by mass shooters of younger ages for research on previous shootings." is so much of a strawman that it's a bale of hay.
They could probably easily make them work with solar chargers like those little walkway lights.
Rule of Thumb :

General Predictions from experts/specialists are almost useless.

For decent predictions of the ways of a world, find multi-disciplinary generalists. They would likely be right, at least directionally.
The future of privatized water is happening today
The sad fact is that sober analyses like these won't make their way around. Meaning a large subset of readers of the first article will have more "evidence" for their mistaken interventions to improve academic performance. On the plus side, installing air filters in schools is cheap enough that they should do it anyway -- not to mention the morality of forcing kids to be in school for half the day when the conditions aren't healthy.
It does, but it's not 100% clear if administrative employees of universities count as educational. Sure, if you are teaching a class with it, go for it; but running a VM in it for the university accounting office is not as clear.
I get Cannot Be Found when trying to visit the link.
Obviously a business decision, it is in Google's to interest to protect their services and official apps in all the platforms they support.
Worth noting that the sequencing for this analysis was performed from 2012-2016. 4 years is a long time in the NGS world, and it is highly likely there have been chemistry improvements since then. Though it wouldn’t surprise me if inconsistency in coverage in clinical whole exomes remains.
Doesn't Clojure run on the JVM? Haiku has OpenJDK, you know...
So his main point is a private & potentially decentralised social platform. He didn't address how the platform is going to be funded though.

Advertising as we know it is well and truly dead, and I don't think Facebook or Zuckerberg are the right entities to push for change in this field. They've already demonstrated their bad faith and maliciousness.

There are ways to make advertising ethical, but Facebook definitely won't do that, as they currently profit from the negative externalities & bad side effects of the current advertising model. Doing advertising ethically will be a serious downgrade from their current income, and while it's still a big chunk of money they for sure won't like it and will never do it for this reason.
Sorry, I'm slow I still don't get it. Zero displacement then means he's doing straight round-trips where he's going back to where he started? If so, why does that matter? I'm missing something basic here.
> I don't think private companies should be making so many important decisions that touch on fundamental democratic values.

> One way to address this is through regulation.

> I've called for new regulation in these areas and over the next decade I hope we get clearer rules for the internet.

Surprising to hear a near-monopoly call for regulation.

> Another and perhaps even better way to address this is by establishing new ways for communities to govern themselves. An example of independent governance is the Oversight Board we're creating.

Oh I see, self-regulation is the answer.
MRI does not use radiation but magnetism instead. Are you not confusing CAT instead?
The dot is likely treated as an "any character" in a regex type of way.
Same here. I immediately ditched Solaris (hated it) for Linux when KQ Infotech ported ZFS over about a decade ago, but after a few years switched all my file servers to FreeBSD. ZFS > Linux. Did I mention I love Linux?
It really wasn't. Doom's gameplay almost entirely took place in a 2D maze with one-way walls. It was rendered to look 3D, and as you said, that's an implementation detail.
Yes. Those cron jobs are installed by default by all major vendors that supply/support ZFS.
What's going on in America if absolutely everyone is afraid if theft? Or are the bikes just big target?
> why not block all Oracle code from ever running on the OS?

...to be fair, I would probably run that module.
No, but you're basically alleging a conspiracy. It's up to you to back up your claim, but I'm asking for some support rather than outright dismissing your view.
Summary: Verizon offering better package to new customers only. Existing customers do not qualify.
Russia does have free public healthcare. It's not a stellar system, but it works.
...and then zmodem came out and saved us all with resumable downloads, because 50% of the time you lost connection due to crappy phone lines/noise and would have to start over.
I honestly don't think privacy legislation would make much headway, simply for the reason that vast majority of people outside of the HackerNews crowd don't care about it.

When people say they care about privacy, most of the time they mean they care about anonymity, as in privacy from people who knows them personally. They don't want their internet search history to be known by friends or family or coworkers, but they probably have no qualm if it's just data being sent to large corporate service providers.

That's why people would continue to trade personal info for conveniences for the foreseeable future, and as long as corporations maintain public anonymity for those data the most we'll ever see are temporary public outrages.
Zuck said, "It is important I find ways to get even more of your data and figure how to monetize it."
Look up Joel Kaplan. Mark doesn’t give a shit about regulation unless it is to his benefit.
> Surprising to hear a near-monopoly advocate for regulation.

Not really. When a company reaches a certain level of dominance, government regulation is a good thing because it increases the cost of entry to the market, so it acts as a kind of moat for the established players.
UK police call for ban on anonymous pay-as-you-go phones
It's obvious. The author of the air filter paper didn't have the luxury of having air filters in their office. They're hardly to blame.
Whole genomes bring their own complications. You will have tons of variants of unknown significance in each patient. Then you would want functional data to see if there is an impact on transcription/translation of the protein, and the tissue of interest might not be accessible for such an analysis. There is some interesting stuff on the horizon—like humanizing homologous genes in C. elegans and CRISPRing in the mutation of interest, then doing functional studies in the worm. Not perfect, but it could give you functional information in a clinically relevant time frame.
Crazy timing, just this week I pulled my BeBox put of storage and fired it up. Still impresses me even now, loads of nice touches. Also got a bit of a shock when I played a MIDI file and perfectly serviceable sound was produced by the little built in speaker.
I don't care about my data, so I use ext4, and like most non-ZFS peasants I lose files every other day.
Because by 21 most people have matured enough to realize the insanity of voluntarily enlisting with the way our current government treats the military. We'll spend billions of dollars on getting you into a war, but when you come home you're not our problem.

Gotta get them before they have any roots or real-world experience.
Doom was a 2D space that looked like a 3D space due to rendering tricks. You could never move along the Z-axis though because the engine doesn't represent, calculate, or store one. That's why you can't jump, and there are no overlapping areas of the maps.
Why don’t we start the decade off right and knock it off with the political ads on Facebook. Seriously, this guy lacks so much self awareness it blows my mind.
How about standing up for simple truths and basic facts, for a change?

Facebook’s active complicity in spreading falsehoods is appalling.
It isn't just ZFS. All sorts of drivers get broken because Linux refuses to offer a stable API, saying your code should be in the kernel, but also often refuses to accept drivers into the kernel, even open-source code with no particular quality issues (e.g. quickcam, reiserfsv4).

Use FreeBSD where there's a stable ABI and you don't have these problems.
The vast majority of users of Apple products don't care about feature X, until the Apple product gets such feature. Then, suddenly, due to some magic miracle, these features do matter. We're talking about basic functionality the current devices had such as capability-based security, App Store, ad blocking, cut and paste.

The only major innovation the iPhone was using, was a capacitive touch UI. iOS wasn't polished, as it lacked many basic features. Yet the UI was good enough and simple to use. Nothing I wrote here above is in contradiction with each other. The only thing you appear to disagree on is the importance of these missing features. If they had these features from the beginning, perhaps Apple would've released too late, and the market would be saturated already (as touchscreen devices were coming to the masses regardless).
> Surprising to hear a near-monopoly call for regulation.

Regulation can often mean a higher bar to entry for competitors. Compliance costs time/money and Facebook has plenty.
Education might not be the same as research in this license's terms. And there are even software vendors picking nits about writing a thesis being either research or education, depending on their mood and purse fill level...
It would be harder for a fledgling competitor to comply with an increased regulatory burden than it would be for Facebook. This is especially likely given that Facebook would be influencing the regulation. That is one incentive for Zuckerberg to advocate for regulation even though he runs a monopolistic firm.
HP May Finally Stop Screwing You When It Comes to Printer Ink
"Somebody might work around it" is never a good argument against a policy. Whatever the policy's goals are, even a version full of loopholes will accomplish more of those goals than not implementing the policy at all.
A Team of Engineers Invented a Brick-Laying Robot. This Is Their Story
>I don't think private companies should be making so many important decisions that touch on fundamental democratic values... As long as our governments are seen as legitimate, rules established through a democratic process could add more legitimacy and trust than rules defined by companies alone.

This is a big chicken and egg problem. Mark wants the government to set the rules but what happens when Facebook doesn't make the rules, people are elected through questionable means (notice he used the phrase 'seen as legitimate'), and those people don't want to crack down on Facebook because an unregulated Facebook is a key to them remaining in power. There is a feedback loop there that Facebook could shutoff with a single decision from Mark. It is much harder to fix that problem through government action.
Most small news organizations can't risk violating GDPR and don't have the technical staff in place to ensure compliance. It's a LOT easier to just block * traffic from Europe. Not saying it's fair or right, but it's reality.

Really? I explained why he couldn't get to the site, and I get downvoted? OK
,,Today, many important institutions in our society still aren't doing enough to address the issues younger generations face -- from climate change to runaway costs of education, housing and healthcare. ''

Maybe there are ways to improve the quality of discussions _within_ Facebook to help solve these problems. It works for Hacker News, so I don't think it would be impossible. Of course indirect revenue from oil companies would decrease somewhat, but a balance should be found.
Hans is eligible for parole this month.
Switching to FreeBSD now for my storage.
Having a 8TB database setup. Primary DB is running with LVM(cache)/XFS, which gives very satisfying speed, but I really love my secondary mirror DB which storage is on ZFS. I do daily snapshots and daily incremental backups via send/rcv to another ZFS location. No other FS I am aware of provides me with this and that easy functionality.
Linus seems to never used ZFS. Although I can understand his issues with the licensing, he is ranting about ZFS. That's a shame.
Erlang isn't exactly academic, or impractical. And the BMessages themselves did not share the kernel memory pool, it was the thread system (or BLooper if you will), but only some of the primitives. In fact, BeOS was kind of split brained. You could send a message to a thread either through the kernel send command (which had a limited queue length) or a one which use local shared memory (which effectively did not). That is, of course rather dangerous, since there are no protections on that memory (it being C++).

I don't miss the segfaults that I experienced time after time and strange stateful consistency errors from when I was programming in the BeOS, and I don't miss biting my knuckles when having to recast data as (void*) in order to send it to another thread, now that I'm programming in ERTS. I do however strongly appreciate the experience, because it was a hell of a lot of fun, and, importantly, I learned that you can't use a buffered matrix mult to save on memory allocations, because you don't know that your preemptive kernel won't kick you out midway through the matrix mult and start filling the bins with data from the other thread.

I would say that half of the reason why I am really adept at identifying race conditions in erlang is that I've seen them all, and worse, in BeOS.

And the BeOS runtime does not have half of the resilience and fault isolation properties that Erlang has, which is what I mean by "half hearted and primitive".
I used to use `skim` a fair amount, but over time I've gradually found myself defaulting to `fzf`, but YMMV. I haven't personally used `exa`, but I do like `lsd`. I would also vouch for the other three tools mentioned by eerrt (`ripgrep`, `fd`, and `bat`).
Kernal? If you can merge zfs support into 8KB kernal then you are not a mere mortal, so no need to worry about any legal difficulties.
Question: would VR be adopted en masse if it dropped permanently in price by 70% tomorrow?
Been using iwantmyname for the past few years. Smooth sailing all the way.
You don’t have to disable any part of the screen. Just hit “start” and you are locked into the app.
I just tested it and the only thing I could not do was change the volume.
> I thought it was novel when he did too

He thought learning Mandarin would help him conquer China. lol.
You should look into supporting https://www.transformca.org which works with Bay Area governments already to solve transportation policy. They have already contributed immensely to transportation accessibility in the region, and have been at the forefront of the BRT fight, but it's an uphill battle and they need more support.
Send me one, too, if you don't mind. I like collecting these techniques to give to researchers or practitioners wanting to try new things.
Converting boolean expressions to finite state machines for high-perf evaluation
Ask HN: Resources for someone now making much more money as a software engineer?
I just graduated with a CS degree from a good school and am considering several job offers. I guess I had low expectations and all of my offers are for more than I expected. Some of the offers (the usual culprits: large cities, large companies) have a total yearly package greater than I ever expected to make in my career. No one in my circle of family or friends makes this kind of money either so I have no mental framework for comparing these offers, much less envisioning my life after accepting one of them.

Does anyone know of good resources (books, blogs, videos) or advice for someone suddenly thrust into a much higher income bracket, ideally in regards to the tech industry? I'm looking for ways to stay grounded, financial advice, etc., keeping in mind that I plan to start my own company some day.
After all the lobbying they did in my city to get a helmet law exemption and then to get the city to install designated scooter parking and no-go zones...
One may not wield it while suspended from the institution.
If the air pollution is really a problem, shouldn't the locals address this problem for the sake of public health?

This is something I don't understand. Is it possible that the air pollution doesn't create health problem, but only creates cognitive problem?
>Cut up your credit cards

If you spend frivolously, I agree. Otherwise, credit cards can be a good tool in building a payment history. I am in my mid-30s and have almost no credit history due to paying for everything in cash. While the credit score itself is not bad, my payment history is so limited that lenders appear to consider it a slight gamble.
> drivers are expect to use the GPL if they want to be mainlined and maintained

I think parent comment wasn't asking for third party, non-GPL drivers to be mainlined, but for a stable interface for out-of-tree drivers.
dmraid raid5/6 lose data, sometimes catastrophically, in normal failure scenarios that the ZFS equivalent handles just fine. If a sector goes bad between the time when you last scrubbed and the time when you get a disk failure (which is pretty much inevitable with modern disk sizes), you're screwed.
I guess. But my point is that it's all about money.
This is a serious question because I don’t know: what’s the difference between high dimensional data and high dimensional manifolds?
The Game of Snakes
it's one Microsoft's greatest business achievements to have won against the OS/2 and BeOS competition and it's one of Microsoft's biggest business failures to have not won against Google's Android.
I really got into learning how to play guitar. Has been amazingly fun so far. I was having a lot of trouble switching off after work. 30 minutes of guitar and I am in pure bliss. Seems ideal for your case as whenever I have a long running build I pickup the guitar and practice a bit.
> am just wondering: is there a way for me to ascertain if JS ecosystem has calmed down and is more friendly to productive programmer workflow, or is still pretty much the Wild West and everybody does whatever they like and there are not many widely accepted good practices for JS project management?

There are widely accepted good practices, but the domains in which they are widely accepted are narrower than “JavaScript development”.

Each major front-end framework is something of a community of its own (often with sub-communities), and there are others.
Is that experience recent? AMD drivers used to be terrible and Intel isn't even competition.
Project-Runway-185
Nope. Not enough implementations right now outside of quirky demos or gaming. Of course see initial adoption by excited crowd but not mass market.
They might not but being concerned with that type of a thing comes with a deeper more committed understanding of why we might want to care about it can you take away the government is accountable for a lot of layers of our existence which we might not daily care about but are absolutely critical
This is super cool and I'm pretty sure this is basically topology. The article was pretty hard to read though. It reminds me a little bit of the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_ball_theorem
> What's not legal?

If nothing else, I think the part where you are expected to start working before you start getting paid sounds pretty sketchy.
> What’s left for us now is to wonder, how different would the desktop computer ecosystem look today if all those years ago, back in 1997, Apple decided to buy Be Inc. instead of NeXT? Would Tim Berners-Lee have used a BeBox to run the world’s first web server instead?

For this hypothetical scenario to ever had been possible, BeOS would’ve had to time travel, as TBL wrote WorldWideWeb on a NeXT machine in 1990[0]. BeOS was initially developed in 1991 per Wikipedia[1] and the initial release of BeOS to the public wasn’t until 1995.

[0] https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html#browser

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS
Your heart is in the right place, but the richest people derive their wealth from capital investment, not from wages. A maximum wage would address the gap between executives and workers, but not between investors and workers. Since the investors hold the power, the money that's no longer paid to executives would just go to them.
I remember something about registrars doing this so the domain you wanted wouldn't get snatched by someone else while you were in the process of buying it. Made more sense back in the time when far more basic names were available and such collisions were probably common for high-value domain names. Now it's two people finding the same needle in a haystack.
I wouldn’t blink, either, except that this was a slum (even by Chinese standards of the time), and that it was densely populated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City) says it had 5,000,000 people per square mile. Dividing by 20 floors still gives you 250,000 people per square mile.

If I calculate that correctly, that’s ballpark 100 square feet per inhabitant, and that area included shared space. I would guess the average ‘apartment’ would have about half that, and only the better ones would have windows facing outside.
Any macOS users should check out DevonThink.
Unfortunately scooters are more dangerous, the little wheels and high center of gravity means eating concrete is more likely than a bike.
How is this a safe haven for win 7 users when its just a GUI? I'm failing to see how switching to Linux with a win7 GUI will help me. My windows apps wont work, the games etc etc. What I'm I missing?
hi jan6, youka here. i'm still in alpha stage, so bugs may happen. i'm search lyrics mainly in public sources. tell me which song you want, i'll fix it for you.
But from what I can see, marking the "save SIMD registers" function as GPL is a blatant lie by a kernel developer that wanted to spite certain modules.

Saving and restoring registers is an astoundingly generic function. If you list all the kernel exports and sort by how much they make your work derivative, it should be near the very bottom.
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Linux absolutely is especially hostile. Windows will generally try to support existing drivers, even binary-only ones, and give plenty of notice for API changes. FreeBSD has dedicated compatibility with previous ABIs going several versions back. Linux explicitly refuses to offer any kind of stability for its API (i.e. they can and will break APIs even in minor patches), yet alone ABI.
So is HN just a dumping ground for anti-<foreign_baddy> content now?

USA good. China bad. Middle East bad. USA good.
HN is essentially a hive mind cult. Look at my join date. At some point, you could dissent with your own opinion. Nowadays it’s downvotes and outrage.

Shields up — ready for the downvotes.

Not a great model for FB to follow. You’ll start getting DMs from people like “dang” telling you to behave, LOL.
I meant apt-x HD as the transmission codec for a Bluetooth connection rather than as a compression format for the audio files themselves.
Not sure, but there is an argument out there that a cell phone + social media is as addictive as a slot machine, read some of Georgetown's Comp Sci Professor, Cal Newport: https://www.gq.com/story/cal-newport-digital-minimalism
I agree with and recognize the reasoning you are suggesting here, but seething at how all flavors of wrong thinking it represents in the part of these firms. And I write that as someone who enjoys classical music, wine tasting, sailing, etc, IE: the same activities that would probably signal successfully.
Over a thousand years of technological advancement is not evidence of how effective some brilliant inventor is, given that humans do not live for thousands of years.