skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Skimmed, didn't read.

Iran is not an Arab nation.
Iranians do not speak Arabic.

The publication doesn't sound objective.

From the 'About' page:

"The Middle East Forum, a think tank founded in 1994 by Daniel Pipes, promotes American interests in the Middle East and protects Western values from Middle Eastern threats. In the Middle East, we focus on ways to defeat radical Islam; work for Palestinian acceptance of Israel; develop strategies to contain Iran; and deal with advancing anarchy. Domestically, the Forum emphasizes the danger of lawful Islamism; protects the freedoms of anti-Islamist authors, and activists; and works to improve Middle East studies."

The founder of The Middle East Forum, Daniel Pipes (awesome name btw) is a known Islamophobe. https://islamophobianetwork.com/misinformation-expert/daniel...

Edit: Added info about the founder.
I'm not part of a smear campaign, but in the last year I've had homeless tweakers squatting in my garage, had to get a restraining order against a mentally ill and violent homeless person who just decided to harass my apartment building, I've seen a HUGE guy sexually assault multiple women on BART, I've seen multiple people smoking meth/crack and shooting heroin in BART on my way to work, I see feces and needles DAILY. It's not a smear campaign. We're sick of living in these Medieval conditions when we work this hard and pay this much. It's not like this anywhere else in the country. It's really gotten worse in the past 2 years and seems to be getting worse by the day now.

The final straw for me, was when a bullet came through the wall of my bathroom at 1AM and when I called the cops they took 2 hours to get there, threw the bullet in a ziplock bag, then never called me or had any follow up. If this city doesn't take gun shots or violent crime seriously, then what good is the government or PD?
Thanks! I hadn't seen these. There are 4 Feynman lectures on this page[0], the Douglas Robb Memorial Lectures, of which you linked to the second.

http://www.vega.org.uk/video/subseries/8

1. A gentle lead-in to the subject, Feynman starts by discussing photons and their properties. 2. What are reflection and transmission, and how do they work? 3. Feynman diagrams and the intricacies of particle interaction. 4. What does it mean, and where is it all leading?

The site has many other science videos too:

http://www.vega.org.uk/video/series/5
TLDR:

Elite Lawfirms prefer:

Higher class men >> Lower class women > Higher class women > Lower class men

More higher class men invited than all others combined. Only 1/78 lower class men invited.
>[...] that seems like a major problem that Linux should be working to address [...] Why are all drivers expected to use the GPL?

Vendors are expected to merge their drivers in mainline because that is the path to getting a well-supported and well-tested driver. Drivers that get merged are expected to use a GPL2-compatible license because that is the license of the Linux kernel. If you're wondering why the kernel community does not care about supporting an API for use in closed-source drivers, it's because it's fundamentally incompatible with the way kernel development actually works, and the resulting experience is even more crappy anyway. Variations of this question get asked so often that there are multiple pages of documentation about it [0] [1].

The tl;dr is that closed-source drivers get pinned to the kernel version they're built for and lag behind. When the vendor decides to stop supporting the hardware, the drivers stop being built for new kernel versions and you can basically never upgrade your kernel after that. In practice it means you are forced to use that vendor's distro if you want things to work properly.

>[...] nVidia is never going to release full-featured GPL'd drivers.

All that says to me is that if you want your hardware to be future-proof, never buy nvidia. All the other Linux vendors have figured out that it's nonsensical to sell someone a piece of hardware that can't be operated without secret bits of code. If you ever wondered why Linus was flipping nvidia the bird in that video that was going around a few years ago... well now you know.

[0]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/kernel-driver...

[1]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-api-no...
There was a version of Opera 3.62 for BeOS around 2000. At the time, Opera was a great browser.
I sometimes used my Atari ST with an emulator called Aladin.
"Cracked" to work without Mac ROMs. But wasn't really useful to me because of lack of applications (at the time).

IIRC there were solutions like this for the Amiga too.
Toshiba was selling Solaris laptops.
Right and this is where plausible deniability comes in from the point of view of the pharmaceutical companies. Drug studies are problematic because nothing happens in a vacuum.
Perhaps if one wanted to use ZFS they should just use a kernel that supports it?

ZFS is certainly "nice to have" on desktop, but the main use case is going to be servers and NAS. You can use BSD there, it won't bite.
Measuring the bias would require knowing the true temperature.
Not in UK. I checked several policies.
Although the current issue with the irrecoverable data loss is terrible, I thought (in this case, at least) that they were surprisingly honest. They straight up said the data is gone (a VERY hard thing to publicly admit), and informed people they need to restore from their own backups. That seems pretty No Bullshit to me, no?
>This should not be a Show HN as there is nothing you can actually try.

You're technically correct.[0]

That said, I was extremely pleased to just have a glimpse at this project and would rather have it be a Show HN than not.

Upon further reflection I usually just look at most Show HNs without interacting, and I suspect many people are the same way.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
When you measure wealth as including home equity, as this article does, this is bound to happen in 2007. I'm not sure it tells us anything meaningful except that home prices were way out of whack and for many people their home is a substantial % of their wealth.
"ZFS hasn't kept up with SSDs."

What does that mean?
I actually bet a little bit of money on that alternative universe. I used to jokingly recount the lesson learned: “Never bet against Steve Jobs.”
They also usually got there by going 100% all in on some field or way of life. Which means they will commonly tell you all other fields/paths/ways of life are bad, as they had to convince themselves of that to take the risk of living such an undiversified life. Its a weird thing
I was thinking about a startup accelerator for cults. I think much of the process could be reused with different content to capture different segments of the market.
There was a reddit thread talking about that, and someone pointed out that there's no way a medical professional would be willing to treat a random tattoo on someone's body as a valid indication of their current consent. What if you got the tattoo and then changed your mind, but never got the tattoo removed?
I know a couple guys working as quants on trading desks that never ever get bothered between market open and market close. The downside is that they can’t get lunch or anything, but the tradeoff is probably worth it. Research quants on the otherhand get bothered constantly.
> There's nothing polarizing or extreme about noticing oligarchy.

See, you and snarf21 keep assuming that we live in an oligarchy (perhaps snarf21 more strongly than you). You keep assuming that everyone can see that. Not only can't I see it, I'm pretty sure you're wrong. And I suspect that, if you polled HN, you'd find that about 80% of people believe that we do not actually live in an oligarchy (all numbers made up on the spot with zero statistical evidence). I refuse to allow you to just assume oligarchy as "everyone knows, everyone can see". You don't get to assume it; you have to prove it.

The reason I said snarf21's remark was polarizing is because, in terms of conventional left-right divisions, the claim that we live in an oligarchy is almost exclusively a claim of the far left.

(Disclaimer: When I claim that we do not, in fact, live in an oligarchy, I am not claiming that the rich don't have too much influence - just that they don't have enough power to qualify as an actual oligarchy.)
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The 38 years figure is misleading since it's skewed by high infant mortality rates. If you made it to 15 then for most of human history you'd probably live into your 50s or 60s.
do you have lots of snapshots? every snapshotting FS I've worked with has really slow deletes, especially when the volume is near capacity.
in the application-level, snapshotting is not a way to do "consistent backup"s . consistent backup is a backup with a planned or known state when "restore"ing.
What's the business model of zerodium? Do they sell them on black market somehow? Why is it able to pay $2M if they weren't going to be able to extort more bounty from Apple (which at that point the security researcher herself can go to Apple, as well?)
Sweden has unions which negotiate minimum wages for everyone in their industry. So yes, nationally there is no minimum wage, but in practice, almost everyone is covered by a minimum wage.

Considering that almost 70% of people in Sweden are part of a union* compared to about 10% in the USA, scrapping federal/state minimum wages in America would be catastrophic, at least in the short term.

*and those that aren't will still benefit from union set minimum wages
>Ocean acidification just "feels" like much sounder science to me because the effects are so much more visible, but I'm not certain about our ability to measure pH so precisely for decades either.

One additional caveat specific to ocean (or other large scale systems) property measurement is that, because of the scale, your data can be easily biased because your sensors are not uniformly or even globally deployed. That's increasingly less of a problem in earth science but for geologic data, both in time and space, we are quite liberal in interpolating/extrapolating based on very impactful and sometimes shakey assumptions. This is dangerous because it is very easy for bias from dogma to sneak in unintentionally and undetectably to produce results which may be far removed from truth.
Yeah Wifi on Linux sucked in those days. For me that was the biggest pain point about desktop Linux. In fact I seem to recall having fewer issues with WiFi on FreeBSD than I did on Linux -- that's pure anecdata of course. I remember the first time I managed to get this one laptop's WiFi working without an external dongle and to do that I had to run Windows drivers on Linux via some wrapper-tool (not WINE). To this day I have no idea how that ever worked.
That's disputed, not "well understood". Precisely when or where are also disputed, as you said.
Vermont Bill Proposes Ban on Cellphone Use for Anyone Under 21
But the predecessor to containers were features like having daemons chroot into somewhere else and drop their uid to something that can't do much. That very much grew out of the Unix solutions. If Unix daemons were written for decades assuming all processes have equal privilege maybe we wouldn't see that.
Maybe something like the wetandforget.com? It's active ingredient is alkyldimethylbenzyl ammonium chloride. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzalkonium_chloride#Bioactiv...

FWIW, I removed the galvanized steel ducts from my house. The insides were disgusting, despite the professional vacuum service. My allergy symptoms and whatnot improved quite a bit afterwards.

Good luck. Please post whatever experiments you try.
I’m most experienced with Python, and I was going to make it work both as hosted and self-hosted.
Social connections are the biggest anti-dote to depression and suicide. I suspect Blacks, Asians, and Hispanics have stronger social bonds.
It was a parameter stipulated in a hypothetical example.
I thought I'd read up, and googled "cgi wet fabric". For me the number one result was my own comment above!
> It's better to get those individual wall AC units per room.

Ductless mini split units.
> ZFS partitions are also almost impossible to resize

I'm not sure you've actually used ZFS very much as any way I can see you could be meaning this, it is actually pretty straightforward and simple to resize partitions with ZFS pools and volumes within ZFS pools.

For example, if you mean that you have a root zpool on a device using only half the device, you just have to resize the partition and then turn on `autoexpand` for the pool.
I can't comment on whether Amazon would access utilize internal information for competitive purposes--I hope they don't--but it's definitely not smart to reveal sensitive product information in discussions. At one point the AWS non-disclosure agreement essentially said that they could use any information they remembered from the conversation to develop products. Unfortunately it came up a couple of companies ago so I don't have the exact text any more. It was surprising to say the least.

I love Amazon's cloud services and use them every day. Even so, you can't lose site of the fact they are a formidable competitor.
That they've never used SSDs for a ZIL or a zpool, I would wager.
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Amazing. Sad. I look up the Kowloon Walled City almost once a month.
This might have to do with increasing BMI, though the direction of the causal relationship could go either, or both ways. I wonder if I can dig up a plot of average fat composition over a similar period of time. I don't know how recently we started getting fatter but I suspect it started slowly with the industrial revolution.
I'd like to see the correlations after things such as how many close family members and friends one has are taken in to account.

I suspect that the larger and more cohesive one's support network is, the less likely you are to commit suicide, and that the more socially isolated one is, the poorer one is, and the sicker one is, the more likely one is to feel hopeless and see suicide as the only way out.

Other important factors are things like how many recent traumatic events (such as relationship breakups, serious illness, bereavement, rape, witnessing or being a victim of violence, etc) one has suffered, recent alcohol and drug use/abuse, and then very hard to quantify things like how good one is at coping with such events.

You can't really boil all this down to any one factor, and there's no one solution to any of these issues. But, yes, reducing misery (whether economic or social) should help.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androgen_replacement_therapy#A...
They Made a Movie Out of It: The Decline of Nonfiction in the IP Era
But what defines overpaid? You? If there is an opportunity to not over-pay, you should be able to start your own firm and put overpaying ones out of business.

...Of course, we can actually be even more clever than this, if we want, and imagine models where we are both right (of course they might not be true).

For example, we might say the value provided by a manager is, on average, $1,000,000. However, this is driven mostly by the top 10 percentile who are worth $10,000,00 a year, whereas the median is actually slightly overpaid. We can justify this distribution by adding uncertainty on the signal. A more thoughtful model of this quick example exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_(economics)#Job-mar...

So the next question would be: What is more likely? That people are overpaid, obviously, and the government needs to stop it? Or the market is behaving optimally under complex uncertainty, and the government, being no better at interpreting signal than these firms themselves, is likely just to make things more complicated and screwed up by entering? (I'll leave this as an exercise to the reader, but if you want to solve it formally follow the journal articles in the link I shared above).
If you are on BTRFS and you encounter an unrecoverable bug (which seems to be reasonably common), the developers will most likely recommend you wipe the drive and restore from backups (because you had backups, right?)

Even if the data is still on the drive and a bugfix would make the filesystem recoverable again, they don't have the time/knowledge/resources to untangle that codebase and make fixes. Even BTRFS developers don't trust the filesystem with their own data.

If you are on Bcachefs and you encounter an unrecoverable bug, the developer will ask for some logs, or reproduction steps, or potentially even remote debugging access to your corrupt filesystem.

And then he will fix the bug, releasing a new version that can read/repair your filesystem. He knows his codebase like the back of hand.

In my research, I couldn't find any examples of someone actually losing data due to Bcachefs. All the bugs appeared to be "data has been written to drive, but bug prevented reading"

While I would still hesitate to trust Bcachefs, I would trust it way more than BTRFS.
> To be fair, starvation was a much more pressing problem than obesity for most of human history, so cheap and efficient delivery of calories is a pretty monumental achievement of industrialized agriculture.

I have to agree that this really is a monumental achievement.

Calorie-dense food is no longer scarce but in abundance. We are not hearing much about starvations at least in the "developed world".

But on the flip side many people now have some kind of metabolic disease. Nearly everybody in my family is suffering from at least one metabolic disease mainly caused by a compromised sugar metabolism which in turn is caused by processed foods. And this is really causing a great suffering.

So the solution to the original problem begot a new kind of problem. Is the new problem better than the original one? Debatable.

Now we can support a much larger population much more easily (which is just what we need). But a population that is a lot less healthy than the previous generations. Quality is in decline.

Anyway it's still "progress", and yeah, a monumental one. If only they knew where to stop. They never do...
>This is done strictly for political reasons and has no known legal basis as far as I'm aware.

let me stop you right there. This being "Oracle," and its litigious nature, how can you truly be aware or sure?

Linus is literally saying there is a legal basis.
good point, crucial even.. thank you I should get back to work :)
This is why I don't.

Vanilla JS! 0 Dependencies!

Let the 1995 revolution begin!
> Does it manifest itself in the standard library as well?

Yes. For example for std::string `a = a + b;` will (at least notionally) create a temporary string and then use the assignment operator. `a += b;` will not do this.
The adversarial culture in philosophy does not serve the truth
For example, you have a number like 83954276, which you can memorize as farm-bell-rain-cash. Which you can encode in your mind as a farmer selling cowbells at a market during a storm.

The hard part is turning a 8 digit number into a story, but with enough practice, you can do this in milliseconds.

Now I'll take a random excerpt of information from Wikipedia.

"Ham Wall is an English wetland and National Nature Reserve located 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) west of Glastonbury on the Somerset Levels. It is managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, which helps coordinate conservation issues across the Somerset Levels as part of the Avalon Marshes Partnership"

We can break this down to key points: Ham Wall, wetland, 4 km west of Glastonbury, Somerset Levels, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Avalon Marshes Partnership.

Then we can encode this to wall of pigs, murky puddle, sear (04 km), a glass coffin (Glass-bury), a sunset (Somerset), an overdressed person wearing a bird costume (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds), Excalibur buried in an apple (Avalon).

With a bit of practice, you combine this into one image, e.g. a wall of pigs in a puddle west of a bird-costume guy searing some bacon at a funeral, with the deceased holding Excalibur, during a sunset.

If you really want to encode this better, more macabre, shocking, lewd details work better, but I'll leave that to your imagination.
> 906,380

literally? (if not, what's the actual figure?)
Dear lord it even loads a service worker so it can cache the app.
> I imagine a significant number of people diagnosed with dementia likely do not have it.

I don't think it's as dire as you imagine. People don't just randomly drive themselves to nursing homes for no reason. Like you and I, few who are capable and willing to live independently would want to be in one.

By the time you end up in a nursing home, the odds are good that you require significant care and are unable to function independently. If that's true and you're in a nursing home and not a hospital or hospice, it's probably because the thing incapacitating you is mental — dementia.

However, if you do have dementia and end up in a nursing home... it sucks. Our culture and medical systems just aren't equipped to compassionately take care of fragile, dying people, who are confused, have trouble eating, shit themselves, etc. Caring for someone with dementia is brutal, heartbreaking work. Most people wouldn't want that job, and there's not enough money to pay well and compensate, so you get short-staffed or unhappy caregivers.
> - Performance is not that great compared to the alternatives.

CoW filesystems do trade performance for data safety. Or did you mean there are other _stable/production_ CoW filesystems with better performance? If so, please do point them out!
Thanks for replying, because I like knowing I'm not crazy!

A lot of Azure fans like to play "hide the ball" on whether Azure AD "counts" in a lot of ways because it functionally requires Office/Graph and that's not "really" Azure. (Never mind that it doesn't play nice with any IdP, you have to basically pass an act of Congress to let it defer in any meaningful way to Okta...)
Seconded. It’s a great physics based explanation of everyday light properties.
Then get Power of Attorney for a trusted loved one so that they can make the decision, if they will accept that responsibility.
If you are interested there is a way to make linux look like BeOs [0].

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/d8e54k/window_mak...
I have 400 in total, though none on the slow volume :/ That shouldn't affect it, right?
I think about this stuff from time to time... If we think out into the future (50-100 years?)... will there eventually be such a huge footprint for frameworks / packages that there is nobody who remembers how some of the old dependencies were written? Interesting to think of a future bug where nobody would know the solution because it lies so deep in a dependency somewhere :)
> We need to all make a stand and say no more to this culture.

I don't think the path forward is to bash all websites that use a common npm library.
Isn't this sort of like "the wisdom of crowds"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds
Can someone explain to me why advances in actual model performance come from using analogies from physics when there are papers that supposedly provide a mathematical explanation of convolution?

"A Mathematical Theory of Deep ConvolutionalNeural Networks for Feature Extraction":

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.06293.pdf

"Understanding Convolutional Neural Networks with A Mathematical Model":

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.04112.pdf