skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, for a company that boasts "no bullshit", only offering a month after destroying data and backups seems a little tone deaf

Edit: in fairness, I'm not sure how exactly you would quantify such a loss anyway...
SaaS is such a tiny niche relative to overall software use, particularly for power users and 'hard engineering' jobs (e.g. not another Uber for X).

Basically every company that's been around or plans to be around for more than a few years is primarily self hosted.

Chat and email, e.g. stuff that's tangential to the work, might be outsourced, and they might use (the equivalent of) EC2 and S3 but ultimately it's your software running on your VM's.

Scrappy startups that don't actually make any money but are trying to thrash something together quickly to convince a greater fool tend to use way more.
The 'simple' adjective is vastly abused - in majority of cases code behind 'simple' project isn't simple - like in this case a person without mid-advanced knowledge about threading / binding / synchronisation / generic programming will have a problem to grasp what's going on in the implementation.

Side note is that I love how rust simplified that (https://docs.rs/threadpool/1.7.1/threadpool/).
You might be the first person I've run into that has heard of AOS/VS. I've run into one other person over the years that has heard of DG/UX.

Good times indeed.
The actual short version is: diffuse reflection from the surface means that some of the light leaving the surface is at angles which makes it get totally internally reflected at the boundary between the water film and air, giving it another chance to be absorbed by the surface
Actually, that explains a lot of his posed questions.

Another corporatist Koch shill at GMU that shouldn't be considered an economist if Brian Caplan. If you ever see any "insightful" articles by either one of these, run like hell.
That's not the point. Even if they did qualify, you can't claim loss of income as an expense. In other words, you can't say "well, the market rate for this space is $30,000 per year but it was vacant, so I get a $30,000 deduction!". That's not how taxes work, at all. So this isn't an incentive to leaving a space vacant.
im not convinced this is an entirely bad thing as it seems the US has had a glut of dairy for quite a while. Here in the United States, we put cheese on everything and its slowly killing us. We largely started this trend when the USDA began eschewing whole milk in favour of skim. As a result, dairy farms simply redirected their waste fats to the production of cheese and cheese-like products instead of limiting their production as a whole. Efforts to tackle childhood obesity have zeroed in on things like sugary chocolate milk and unhealthy dairy products (aerosolized cheese and processed cheeses in general) to quantifiable success.

I also question whether the newspaper for the largest dairy producing state in the US is capable of covering the issue without bias. "fake milk" and "fancy water" are a few key phrases that concern me. The coverage also seems to try to have its cake and eat it too...highlighting the urgent need for Latino workers (a critical requirement almost exclusive to industrial farming) while bemoaning the struggles of small farms as "the industry" which is actually in turmoil.

Disclosure: I am a vegetarian, and derive a nontrivial amount of calories from dairy.
> Evolution gave us allergies which cause people to asphixiate and clotting disorders which have children bleeding out from a casual scrape. Blindness, gangrene, arthritis: this is the wisdom of evolution.

It is indeed a wisdom, albeit a primitive one which simply works good enough long term - survival of the fittest, best adapted, strongest, with better immunity etc. Collateral damage for the unfortunate is not important when we talk about billions of organisms over countless generations, and survival of the species as a whole. We also evolved over weaker species, because we were better and luckier. And we will evolve more either naturally or by our hands, if we keep on surviving.
https://dystroy.org/broot/documentation/installation/

How I did it (though not using CentOS, should be identical):

Install rustup from https://rustup.rs/ (download & run the shell script).

Then `cargo install broot` to download and and install this. Then run `broot`, and restart the shell. After that it can be invoked via the `br` command.
A promo code in exchange of your data loss. What a bargain!
Any link to get past paywall ?
Yes people think that.
Yes, wouldn't that only apply to soaking wet cloth? If it's just a little wet it still looks darker but not shiny, and there is no specific angle you can look at it and see the light source reflected. So it appears to still be diffuse in that state. Where does the light go?
Yes, there is: https://nugget.one/nuggets
Hi! I work on the "Write for DOnations" program at DigitalOcean and I want to thank you for your kind words. Your comment put a huge smile on our faces when we saw it. Glad to hear we were able to help you along your journey-that's what we're here to do.
I understand your perspective on it. But I don't think I'm claiming that you can't refute what's in the article, and you certainly don't have to read it all to refute something.

But bambataa did not refute anything from the article, just saying that it doesn't contain anything "big", without actually reading it. I think that's a fairly different situation than the one you used as a example.

It would more be equal to "You can't criticize religion if you haven't read anything about it", which I think it fine. You have to at least understand what you are critiquing, otherwise you're basing your arguments on something that you could have misunderstood.
Why would I ever want a laptop with a software keyboard?
“Please keep trusting us to host your data”
Yes which is why most proposals for reforming Proposition 13 would leave the current system in place for primary residences.
Fixed it, thank you for that!
More so that laws are a social construct.

We can have a discussion about how the state should behave without using catastrophic examples to shift debates about principles and policies.

The post I was responding to sees the role of the state as a absolutist binaric executor of often fuzzy laws and rules. The context of this example doesn't have any affect on whether or not that naive belief is a path to a functional and just society.

Whatever happens with Smollett, or the next example, simply doesn't support a belief that every crime should be prosecuted. There was a (hamfisted but entertaining) TNG episode about this for gods sake...
Typically, if it is in collaboration with private sector (i.e. a company is providing the funding), said company will retain the intellectual property produced by the research. If it is government funds, university (itself a government organization) will have partial ownership of the intellectual property. So the government pays for research, the researcher does research. The researcher and the government (via university) own the fruits of the research together.

It is also notable that in Canada (almost?) all large research universities are public institutions: University of Toronto, McGill, Queen's, University of British Columbia, University of Alberta, etc. I imagine the calculus would have been different if the university was itself a private corporation.
I believe this is a fallacy (not trying to be a dick).

Why? They can accomplish 90% of their high level dragnet-ish surveillance goals via metadata snooping only (today at least)
> Not sure but there may be two bugs in the code. The use of notify on the condition outside of the mutex lock.

That's not a bug. The notifier can either signal the condition variable with or without the corresponding lock held and both cases are race-free. In some implementations, it may be more performant to signal the condvar with the lock still held, while in others it is more performant to signal the condvar after releasing the lock.

In this discussion "implementations" isn't referring to boost, libstdc++, or LLVM's glue library, "implementations" is referring to the underlying system libraries.

Alas, most of the implementations aren't willing to tell you which one is better.
Attacks on genetic privacy via uploads to genealogical databases
I found D quite easy to pick upcoming from a Perl and Js background. One could get up to speed quite fast and it has a plethora of language features that will get you engaged for years to come, as opposed to Go which keeps the language as simple as possible.
Maybe I’m missing something but 120 buildings doesn’t seem a lot. Also only 27 new buildings in the whole New York seems wrong by at least an order of magnitude. What am I missing with this crane index?
Ive got a half baked project for a blog search engine that won’t index any pages with ads...
I was at a holiday party and some guy was telling me all about the exciting life extension breakthroughs he was reading about in mass media. I tried to explain that, while exciting, what works in mice models is highly unlikely to directly scale into humans and that making progress against aging is very probably a "wicked" problem.

I pointed out how many headlines we saw in the 80s about a "cure" for cancer being just around the corner. Yet, cancer turned out to be a "wicked" problem. We've made exciting progress and reduced cancer mortality for nearly 30% in the last 25 years but there's been no "cure".

Sadly, no one wants to hear that.
Gandi have something of a cult following, but in my only experience with them they literally lost my domain name during an inbound transfer.

Their response was awful and rude and completely unprofessional. I never got my domain back.

Based on that experience, this incident doesn’t surprise me at all.
Per [1] the lock does not need to be held when calling notify. In the 17 standard this is §33.5 but I can't quite parse out the real requirements there.

[1] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/thread/condition_variable
I work at Google and did protein folding before the Deepmind (not Google) announcement.

The CASP results weren't really a big deal. It was a modest advancement using techniques that were already spreading throughout the community, coupled with a skilled team that understood the score metric very well.

Two state folders can be reversibly folded using empirically determined force fields (two state folders basically go from "any totally unfolded configuration" to "fully folded single structure" in milliseconds); we can just run simulations and let the (quantum-inspired, classically embedded) physics do the folding, or we can use other techniques, like Rosetta (monte carlo plus lots of empirical data from known structures), or evolutionary data-based techniques (like Deepmind and others used).
Interesting. The public status page says they’re still waiting for the recovery process to complete.
Refractive index of a material is the ratio between speed of light in vacuum and speed of light in that material. Light tends to bounce back when encountered with a sharp change in refractive index. Being wet means that there's a water film covering the material, mediating the change in refractive index, resulting in reduced reflection.

Apart from index mediation, the water film does something else. For rough/fibrous surfaces, the reflection will be diffuse, i.e. visible from all directions. When a water film is present, the surface becomes smooth, and the reflection will be specular, and only visible in one direction. So in most directions, the material will appear darker.

Conductors are a completely different beast. The reflection off of metals are not solely dictated by the refractive index.
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I don’t see how being a Windows guy makes Azure easier to grasp. It’s mostly not even Windows you’re interacting with.

Because you’re already familiar with the Microsoft ecosystem and they have invested a lot in making it a smooth transition. If you know C# or Powershell or use Visual Studio and watch Channel 9 and know your way around MSDN etc etc etc it’s all the same. Whereas AWS is a cold start and uphill in comparison.
Scott Aaronson makes several points, and says the more important is:

> I wish to register that I disagree in the strongest possible terms with MIT’s decision to remove Prof. Lewin’s lectures from OpenCourseWare—thereby forcing the tens of thousands of students around the world who were watching these legendary lectures to hunt for ripped copies on BitTorrent.

Since those lectures are online, from multiple sources, I don't think that objection has much weight. Indeed, comment #3 points out one source (other comments point out other sources), and Scott Aaronson in comment #5 says it would be acceptable for MIT to host them on YouTube.

> If MIT no longer wants the videos hosted “in its name,” they could upload them to YouTube right now. They could even add a disclaimer at the beginning like, “These lectures by Walter Lewin are being provided for educational purposes. Lewin is speaking as an individual, and is no longer endorsed by MIT.”

I see little difference between MIT hosting them and Lewin hosting them on YouTube, and a cursory reading of Scott Aaronson's other comments suggests that Aaronson is okay so long as the videos are available, and there is a discussion forum. From comment #92:

> So maybe finding a separate entity to host the lectures and discussion boards really is the best solution, and I hope that happens soon.
First of all, you're wrong. "It works without a color chart, or any information about the optical qualities or depth of the water body."

Secondly, if you think it's "blindingly obvious", read the paper linked in the parent's comment. Even a quick skim will show you're wrong.

In conclusion: yes, you missed something.
Sentiment analysis: what is it and how can I use it?
Have a read of these two regarding TOR - Target Of Rapamycin:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirolimus - particularly the research section
Looks interesting, but it seems there is no way to see this film outside of the organized screenings which for most people means that they will never see it.
Maybe this results in replacing much of our dairy consumption with more environmentally sustainable plant-based alternatives?

(Not almond milk, which is worse, but oat, hemp, and pea based milks and yogurts are much less taxing on the environment.)
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It's simple as in simple to use. Something that C++ needs more of.
>Surely it's good though that someone has started adding ChaCha20 and Poly1305 to OpenVPN?

What's the advantage of those new ciphers? AFAIK they have better performance than AES on hardware without AES acceleration, but most consumer devices already have it.
Note: I do not think iOS supports this yet. In my testing, it only worked with Android.
An edge case, but some 30 years ago or so I was told that in some supermarkets in Brazil, there could be a central display changing prices daily (due to the hyperinflation) and besides supermarkets people went shopping as early as possible on shop openings to get "yesterday's prices":

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/10/04/130329523/how-...

>In practice, this meant stores had to change their prices every day. The guy in the grocery store would walk the aisles putting new price stickers on the food. Shoppers would run ahead of him, so they could buy their food at the previous day’s price.
> anyone can tell me the name of the story

try https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-ident...
In my view, the only way to figure out how the healthcare system works is to own the whole thing.
I am unconvinced by this argument. After all, the same light flux is hitting your body. Only thing a lens would do is make it focus in different spots than it otherwise would, but then you'd get spots with burns and spots without burns. This is not what I see happening at all.
What about fondling of breasts against their owner’s will?
> I think Rust has the _potential_ to be better, but it's years off and requires the rust community to change how they think.

The said change already happened and Rust devs are currently refactoring in depth their compiler to make it IDE-friendly (taking a lot of inspiration from Roslyn). This is tons of work though and even if it's currently going well, it won't be there before next year.

See this talk if you're interested in this kind of things: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7_7ckOKZCJE&list=PLgC1L0fKd7Uk...
You can use a library instead of a third-party service, which I assume is what most people do.
I agree with your general argument, but golf courses are such an unfortunate example. They're the one use of public space that would be many orders of magnitude better for the community if they were used completely differently. A park would be a good start, but there are so many more.
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Start with a dry surface and consider the cone of light, scattered from a point on it, that will pass through your iris. If, as shown in the final diagram, the water, when added, forms a flat surface, and you are looking at it fairly perpendicularly, then none of the rays that are totally internally reflected would have been in that cone and ended up entering your eye anyway - they are too oblique. They do not contribute to the brightness either before or after the water is added.

On the other hand, when water is added, the above cone of light is broadened, on account of refraction, so it is no longer the case that all the light within it will enter your eye.

These considerations must be modified (I am not sure how) if the water forms a thin, capilliary-adhering film that conforms to the roughness of the substrate.

Finally, if the substrate is transparent or translucent (e.g. sand (quartz crystals)), the change of refractive index at its surface is lessened in the presence of water, causing more transmission / absorbtion and less reflection / scattering there.
I wrote it in a blog so I don’t have to keep repeating myself. The conversation is basically the same every time.

I also addressed your common complaint that there are more important things to work on.

Having the same conversation over and over again with the same result probably qualifies under the “definition of insanity”
There's currently no search on paths, only on filenames.
Shouldn't the onus be on the consumer, even if they aren't educated?
I could understand the incident (I would _at least_ start questioning myself about the quality of the service I'm paying), but IMHO this is not something that can be addressed with a casual e-mail that contains few lines of excuses and a "promo code" like it's everyday business. That's astonishing.

Worse than a bad incident there is only bad management of the following situation.
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Not exactly novel: we need to develop carbon capture technologies in order to survive, not just cut/curb CO2 and Methane emmisions.

>410 CO2 PPM in the air means if we can magicaly cut emmisions to zero right now, there are tons of CO2 still warming the earth and they won't disappear by themselves.
There’s lots of stuff we don’t understand, but our ignorance isn’t necessarily the reason evolution didn’t do it.

I expect us to find out why evolution didn’t do it by doing it to the plant genome ourselves — and that either it requires too many simultaneous changes for evolution, and/or it turns the plant into something irresistible to insects or fungi.
https://github.com/justinamiller/Coding-Standards a good topic on coding standards.
Probably it's using the default file handler, i.e. whatever would open the file if double-clicked in the Finder.
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> Once a site gets big, does it just get too hard to scale or adapt to the third-party provider?

Or too expensive compared to doing it yourself.

There's also a difference between rolling your own crypto and rolling your own auth. Leave the actual hash to experts and use NaCL's argon2 implementation. The salt+hash are just more user metadata that aren't super sensitive given modern password hashing algorithms.
Doesn't Italian use accented vowels in some cases?
These results are misleading for the same reasons why Microsoft’s market share claims are misleading.

Microsoft counts things like Office 365 and Azure AD as “cloud.” If you look at people truly using their cloud products in terms of things that pair off against AWS offerings the picture looks vastly different.

I’ve worked with many companies recently that are broadly “all in” on AWS but still use O365 and AD as core to their infrastructure. All these surveys and studies count such companies as Azure users but in practice they’re really not. Equally the companies that are still mostly not in the cloud but use O365 and maybe Azure AD for some 3rd party app auth are also counted as Microsoft Cloud users when they’re really not.

As they say 82% of statistics are mostly made up.
How? That people think differently about reality and have different motivations and values is not really a new revelation i think? Nor should it surprise anyone that a lot of people believe they are doing the right thing. What changed for you? It seems to be much more interesting then the initial conversation.

What didnt i get?

edit: While it might sound stupid its an honest question. Changing how you think about the world is quite a jump from discussing the origins of warrants. Its a jump i dont understand and I think there is interesting insight to be gained here.
This project is just someone wrote a proposal or something. Here is actually implemented pattern matching as a library https://github.com/santinic/pampy
Agreed. I try to explain it to my family by pointing out the most likely proximate causes of death in old age: A) cancer, Alzheimer's, B) heart disease, C) organ failure, etc. Solving "aging" means we don't just have to solve A, B or C but rather 'All of the above'. Much harder.