skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just want to note that bcachefs looks great (I was sort of tangentially aware but hadn't dedicated significant attention to it).

Definitely something to try out (backing up my home servers is just about to reach viability for me, so I'd definitely consider switching to it in that use case).

Thanks!
> those checksums are regularly checked to detect and fix corruption.

I don't believe that's true. They are checked on access, but if left alone, nothing will verify them. From what I've read, you need to setup a cron job that runs scrubbing on some regular schedule.
Cool js demo, certainly worth reposting. Since he credits Steven Strogatz here's the link to Steven's 2008 TED on synchronicity and emergent behavior.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSNrKS-sCE0
In the city of Kawasaki, Japan there was an arcade whose interior was modeled to look like Kowloon Walled City. The builders supposedly flew in literal trash from the actual Kowloon Walled City to use in the arcade. Sadly, they closed permanently at the end of November last year:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/anata-no-warehouse
Looks like it got shot down, it just wasn't destroyed right away. Now there's even a video of the event.

https://twitter.com/trbrtc/status/1215348488164298752
Teen/young adult suicides are now occurring at the highest rate since we’ve been keeping statistics (1960):

https://www.latimes.com/science/la-sci-suicide-rates-rising-...

So there’s unequivocally a spike.

The only argument you could really make is that suicide rates have been rising across the US since 1999, up in most states and up by 30% in half of all states, making youth suicide of a part with the broader trend. But I don’t think this is any less disheartening.

https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/suicide/index.html
That a photon can be in superposition is even a better example than my hot dog example. Nobody is impressed if you can find a corner case interpretation that makes the question sound dumb they are impressed if you can try to figure out what the person really wanted to know and answer it to the best of current understanding.

In the hotdog example the point is the person is actually trying to figure out if you want them to buy you more hotdogs not whether or not the exact same hotdogs can be found at the store and fridge at the same time. In this actual discussion about the photon it's not about whether or not the photon actually carries an ID card with it it's about what actual interactions are happening to photons when the light is reflected or refracted in different ways.

Sometimes what a person is trying to figure out may not line up with how things actually work, in fact take any science and add 100 years of knowledge and pretty much all discussions are this way. That does not mean it was nonsensical to talk about it just means the details are more exact and complicated than the asker knew how to phrase (and again, it's always like more exact and complicated than any of us know as we don't know everything there is to know about the universe).
That's actually the one I ended up getting! Thanks for the recommendation though.
Paging Inspector Morse.
Love the UI but can't make its font bigger even though I edited the configuration seemingly correctly. Reading the docs currently.
It is used as an excuse by quack doctors (including naturopaths and "functional medicine" practitioners) to diagnose people with hypothyroidism even if all the blood tests come back normal. Here is a good summary: https://hormonesdemystified.com/basal-body-temperature-and-y...

As for the paper you linked, a correlation of -0.013 degrees centigrade is too small to be useful as a diagnostic tool.
A lot of folks don't appreciate the black & white nature of a DNR. At my mother's group home, the head nurse told me a story of a man who started choking on his breakfast. They were unable to clear his airway, called 911, and EMTs were able to get him breathing again. She got into trouble for violating his DNR. My neighbor shared with me his doctor's comment that their mother's DNR would preclude antibiotics to treat pneumonia.

I went over my own mother's DNR papers several times, but there was never any chance at nuance with this legal document. I held off signing her DNR until it made sense — the point where a hospital admission could not possibly result in an eventual release. Many life-threatening complications require better judgement than a single page of blindly copy-pasted instructions.
How to get funders pitching you
You disagree about what? That getting a DNR would be a mistake for the vast majority of healthy people?

The existence of rare bad outcomes is not a good reason to decline a big class of medical treatments. You would not recommend against vaccination because every once in a while a vaccine kills someone.

You do not need a DNR to have clear communication! That's why I specifically mentioned having advanced medical directives. A DNR is standing blanket order to not perform CPR or other live-saving resuscitation in case your heart stops or you stop breathing for any reason.
Gas Lights: How We Erased Darkness from the Night [video]
Molly Love: Resorting to MDMA for Intimacy
Can Alternative World Maps Reshape Geopolitics
I recently decided to start a new video series on the modern history of light.

You may be surprised to learn that street lighting (as we know it) was relatively uncommon until the mid 1800s. Up until about 200 years ago, new lighting technology developments tended to take place centuries apart. That all changed with the advent of open-flame gas lighting.

In the first video in my Story of Light series, I cover the development of gas lighting, the pros and cons of the technology, and the inventions that led to its downfall. If you know where to look, however, you can still find gas lamps today.
Depends on how derivative and how transformative and, since Fair Use is a affirmative defense for which merit is decided subjectively, doesn't really matter until you're in court. Fair Use isn't protected, per se, more that it's an exception to copyright being protected if you can convince the judge.

That said, I wouldn't even call what I was looking at derivative. I can barely match the transit lines up for most of it, and the styling is completely different. It goes beyond transformative to just being a unique artistic rendering of the same base system. That's the phone book scenario the article raises to a T.
Hisense demoes phone with color e-Ink display at CES 2020
It can be quite confusing, but not everyone who uses English and Arabic numerals uses the decimal point for separating the whole part and the fractional part of a decimal number.

See the "decimal comma" related sections in this Wikipedia article, especially the "Examples of use" section:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator
> And what should you do if your outside air has in it too much CO/methane/other small-molecule gas particles that HEPA filters have no hope of trapping?

You pack up, and move somewhere that's not the equivalent of sitting in the middle of a crude oil refinery.

Plants won't deal with these problems, either.

> What do they do to recycle the air up at the International Space Station?

For the most part, they chemically scrub the CO2 out[1], use the equivalents of catalytic converters to pull things like trace ammonia out of the air, and move on with life. There isn't a lot of heavy industry that happens inside the ISS.

If the air outside your window is literal poison, your house isn't sufficiently hermetically sealed for this to work.

[1] The actual process they use is the Sabatier process:

2H20 + E => 2H2 + O2

CO2 + 2H2 => CH4 + O2.

The water is brought up in resupply missions, the methane is vented into space. It's not a closed cycle (Which would require an enormous amount of plants), and its never going to have one, because it's going to be decommissioned in the next ~15 years.
Somewhere (on Youtube or Vimeo I think) there is - or was - a "runthru" by someone (I believe they had to be Chinese) with a gopro or such strapped to their head - where they duck in an entrance of one "side" of the city, then "run" thru to the other "side" - and the along the way you get to see people, shops, etc - the denizens, so to speak, of the "city".

The reason I say I believe the person had to be Chinese is that the city, from what I know, is well known to be hostile to people who don't live in the city, and especially to people who look western and aren't with an escort. It was a very insular place, where even that person doing the runthru was taking a big change being stopped by someone, but probably would've had less hassle than someone who definitely didn't look like they belonged there.

Anyhow - it was a kind of "urbex" video of a place that - at the time - was still a vibrant, if mostly lawless - place of people going about their lives. Quite amazing to watch and see, honestly.
create-react-app is just the CLI to bootstrap the project, you want to look at react-scripts instead:

https://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/react-scripts
Why wouldn't you include home equity into wealth?

Perceptible gap widening since 2007:

https://www.cbpp.org/research/poverty-and-inequality/a-guide...
No, physics is such that semantics are important. What’s the observable difference between absorption/emission and reflection? If the latter doesn’t happen at all the distinction is meaningless.
not because of the inquiry itself, wich seems valid, but because the way it's posed, which suggests it's just a bait for grandstanding
It was founded by pioneers of the Internet in France who where involved in non-profit/hacker/open source circles, which is where it got its cult following from.

But at the end of the day it's a cheap provider with, ahem, French-style support so I'm not sure what people were expecting out of them.
A well placed/camouflaged trail cam or two might work.
A cool coffee table book on this subject is "Kowloon large illustrated" (ISBN 4000080709) by Iwanami Shoten. Even if you can't read Japanese, the photos and illustrations are great.
... hence the desire to use ZFS, which skips trying to present a single coherent block device and performs parity at the file (chunk) level.
Is reiserfs still maintained. After Hans went to prison I didn't think there was much left beyond stagnation.
Unless there's more to the story than the redraw methods you described, I would suspect that this approach would not be significantly faster than React if your React components correctly use shouldComponentUpdate and React.memo.
I agree.

Another option would be custom chips for inference or training. IF we can get something like a TPU in house.
No - see my comment elsewhere - there was a runthru video made of the city. I remember watching it on youtube or vimeo; not sure if it still exists to watch, tho.
> Once you taste it, it's nearly impossible to go back to such controlled, desk-equated productivity environments.

This is an underrated source of class division, I think. Working- and lower-class people in menial jobs endure tortuous levels of this stuff, far beyond what your average office worker would ever think is reasonable (or maybe even possible).
> Ajit Pai's FCC is among the worst possible outcomes for competition in telecommunications.

I disagree. People pronounced doomsday for the internet when the (anti) net neutrality legislation got passed. Doomsday has yet to materialize.
I can remember when I first met Gary in 1988 in the same building as the Cray Computer Apple had bought. Gary was so pumped showing a beta version of Photoshop. At this time Adobe had not bought Photoshop yet and it was written by the original developers, Thomas and John Knoll. Talking to Gary was always a pleasure.

The laser printer story is the story everyone wants to hear and you can find plenty of that on the web.

With Gary’s passing I have been trying to recreate in my mind what Gary was going through being the solo inventor of the laser printer. Reading the Computer History interview located here it reminds of what few know about Gary. https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20...

Gary is a physics major who knew how to write software. Gary’s speciality was optics which led to him getting a job in Bausch and Lomb’s division working on lenses for high end cameras for Hollywood. This story is explained in more detail on page 7 of the 53 page document above.

Gary being in the Rochester was also where Kodak was located would often say “The Sky is blue, and the grass is green. No matter what you do with colors don’t break those rules.” So even when he was at Xerox he thought about color. It is part of being an expert on optics.

What I think Gary realized in 1967 when he had the “eureka” moment of the laser printer is if he used a laser to paint a drum the optics totally changes to a more precise addressing. He knew he could use the laser for CMYK for color printing, but first step is to do monochrome printing.

On page 6 of the above document, Gary discussed the use of computers to improve the optics in lens. Why can’t computers use the optics in a laser printer to print anything you want?

In 1992, I took the bold step of leaving Apple Computer to go work at Microsoft on Windows 3.1, being program manager for all the Far East TrueType fonts. But even though I was now in Redmond I would still see Gary in Cupertino when I would visit family and friends in the bay area. I would visit Gary to discuss imaging, fonts, DTP, and color. Five years later in 1997, Gary says he thinks it is time for him to leave Apple. I said why not come to the Windows Imaging team. He says isn’t really wet there, and he would rather stay in Saratoga. Luckily Microsoft made an offer Gary could not turn down and now we were both in Redmond in Windows group. 2-3 years later Gary moved to Microsoft Research and I think that is the happiest I have seen him when at work.

Gary explaining his move from Apple to Microsoft is on page 38 of the above link.

One nice picture that I think will get out there soon is a picture of Bill Gates at Gary Starkweather’s retirement party. Bill is smiling and Gary is too. That’s a nice way to end your working career.
This is true. It’s valid.

For me if I carry a book with me I’m going to read it. Carrying the weight of the physical books ensures I read it. I don’t want to carry it around for nothing.
Checksums are amazing for when you do have a problem, because a scrub will tell you what you lost. Knowing what's been damaged is practically more important then actually fixing it, and ZFS is great at this.

All the Linux alternatives answers to this problem are always "is your data okay? Don't know! It'll be a surprise when you get there".
XFS on LVM thin pool LV. Stable and performant as far as I can tell.
Unfortunately the culture I’ve experienced in the past few years has been essentially that, but for anything that does not use a common npm library. “Why is this not done with React/Vue/Typescript/Angular/<insert favorite thing here>?” is a question that’s posed less as a question and more as a condescension in many cases. The rebuttal “because not using XYZ works just fine” is not often accepted, true as it may be, followed by bashing the non believer in question into submission.

I’m with you though, I don’t think the bashing is necessary, in either direction. It just breeds contempt.
I'm using Porkbun and like it. I've used Namecheap, Cloudflare, Alibaba Cloud, and Gandi. I prefer Porkbun to all of them, but I'm a fan of simple, no-frills stuff.

I've used support twice when transferring domains into Porkbun and they were good. I transferred a domain out and has no issues. Their 2FA options are really good. They frequently have the best prices around (tld-list.com).
When idiots try to use simple math to try to model complex phenomena, I can only assume they have idiotic simplistic goals in mind.

Why do we need to prevent suicide? Maybe we need to remove the stigma around it so that people who got dealt a shit hand, aren't further burdened by getting shamed by everyone around them for wanting to end it.

We have too many people, it'd be an improvement for those who want to live and those who don't, if those who do not, decided to spend a few months doing whatever they wanted that isn't harming anyone else, and proceeding to peacefully move on with it.

It'd force shit parents, shit communities and shit people in general, to re-examine their way of life, if those around them would rather cease to exist, than co-exist with them. It'd be a massive move in the direction of honesty, dignity and respect for one another - something humans rarely engage in.
C&Rsenal: YouTube removes shooting footage
Why in our digital age is very hard to find love without Game dating?
As an ex-New Yorker, the MTA has a horrible reputation in NYC (at least last time I lived there) due to its complete mismanagement of the subway. It's pathetic that they're devoting their resources to copyright trolling.

Intellectual property laws in the U.S. are broken, plain and simple. I hope this case leads to reform of these broken laws.
They had a really ugly green Hulu color for a while too. I would hope that Hulu paid for those bikes.
Kumite! Kumite! Kumite!
Since the plural of anecdote is data, I'll provide mine here. ZFS is the only file-system from which I've lost data on hardware that was functioning properly, though that does come with a caveat.

Twice btrfs ended up in a non-mountable situation, but both times it was due to a known issue and #btrfs on freenode was able to walk me through getting it working again.

With ZFS, I neded up in a non-mountable system, and the response in both #zfs and #zfsonlinux to me posting the error message were, "that sucks, hope you had backups." Since I both had backups and it was my laptop 2000 miles from home that was my only computing device, I didn't dig deeper to see if I could discover the problem. FWIW, I've been using ZFS on that same hardware for almost 2 years since with no issues.
> I was reading the other day that typically mass shootings happen during a recession, and right now is a confusing time because the economy is supposedly doing fantastic, yet we keep having mass shootings.

This feels like the sort of thing that's really going to depend on the definition of mass shooting used. Inner city African American gang violence is the majority of "3+ killed by gun at once" incidents, and if your definition includes that then that's what you'll be measuring. And on the other hand if you use "2+ unrelated people killed or injured including shooter, not gang related" like some advocacy groups do you'll get different results, and if you use what most people would consider a mass shooting (3+ unrelated people killed in public place not including shooter excluding gang violence, or "something that shows up on national news") you'll have minimal data to go off of since those events happen <10x/yr.
Their PUEL license even has a grant specifically for educational use.
Australia recently had a Royal Commission into the Aged Care sector:

https://agedcare.royalcommission.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

One of the 3 major issues identified in the interim report is:

to respond to the significant over-reliance on chemical restraint in aged care,including through the seventh Community Pharmacy Agreement
If nobody is taking that job for a salary that is economically viable, then it shouldn't exist. We shouldn't make people waste their finite time on this Earth doing pointless jobs under the threat of homelessness or starvation.
So in theory if we wet a surface painted in Vantablack (the darkest substances known) it should become even darker.
LVM/mdraid configuration is much more daunting than ZFS on BSD or Illumos, especially given the Availability of things like FreeNAS
they don't say how or where they get the info, and failed to get lyrics of a song, despite recognizing and listing it in the dropdown...
no mention of WHERE it tried to get the lyrics and failed...
Not necessary under the App Store model, I think - don’t they already have partial/conditional downloading of hardware-platform-specific assets running on iOS?

I wonder how many fucks they give about non-App Store apps. I rely on them, but I know Apple
is using the App Store to herd developers toward embracing best practices for security like sandboxing and entitlements and userspace drivers, et c.

Also, there is nothing to “bring back” AFAIK; the os x binary format (mach-o, isn’t it?) still supports multiple architectures like it did the last time we all went through this dance. See also: 64 bit iOS/watchOS binaries.
I think this is called, "knowing enough to be dangerous". You clearly have some understanding of light, but you are missing some key facts that would lead you to the correct understanding.

>Light can reflect off of transparent crystals

No, the point of the above post is that a photon is not "reflected", but captured and re-transmitted by photo-electric effect.

Light travels at maximum speed C, only when in a vacuum. Otherwise it travels through a medium. We can see that the different speeds of light cause dispersion such as when it enters and leaves a clear prism (changing mediums, thus spreading out the different speeds/wavelengths of light). Since we know that light is "traveling in a medium" when it travels in air or in the prism, then what do we mean by this? It is traveling slower, so it must have some information about the medium...

So how does the light "know" it's in a material, without interacting with the atoms of the material?

Of course, it couldn't know. It is interacting with the material. The behavior of the particle is fully explained by the photo-electric effect.
Nowhere in the Gospel of Mark is there a claim of authorship. The book is commonly attributed to John Mark, an associate of Peter, but this is just an (admittedly very early) church tradition.

That being said, it had to have been written by someone, and shorthand that person is often referred to as “Mark”.
Thanks for reading David! I've been enjoying your blog posts as well.
Thank you very much for this link. The original narration (written by Hugo Poritsch) is excellent and the subs by the uploader are among the best I've ever come across.
No, basic financial planning would take into account both sides of the equation. I can own a money losing asset as long as it is costing me (including depreciation) less than what an alternative service would cost. Uber will never work out unless you drive very infrequently or live somewhere like New York where the total cost of vehicle ownership is prohibitive.

Additionally, depreciation is not linear. I drive an older vehicle, it has already mostly depreciated as far as it will go.
That's a good question. Sadly there's definitely microplastics involved. Research into microplastic effects is still in very early stages. When you're creating any sort of dust (wood, metal, plastic, etch) particles around humans it's a good idea to have a dust mask at minimum.

My understanding is that most of the microplastic concerns at the moment are about how they're reaching our water sources and oceans. The amount being produced just by washing clothes is relatively scary.
Thanks for reading! It's nice to hear that you still remember my quitting Google post.
> If it were that easy, companies would just copy their marketing or load up on marketing and they would be successful.

Maybe good marketing is really hard and you can't just "copy Apple"?