skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a massive monte-carlo type sheet and ended up moving a bunch of logic/calculation into attached scripts. Far more reliable and less likely to wedge.
Exactly. That word makes me discredit the entire list.

Although, the subtitle does say

> Its clients have included Home Depot, Google, Microsoft, Pepsi, and McKinsey.
It is moderately atypical, but not unheard of. It especially makes sense (to the government bodies) if there's less overlap than expected between state and federal document production requests.

Coordinating a 50-state+DOJ memorandum of understanding is not the easiest thing in the world. The news of a meeting suggests that someone important thinks the juice is probably worth the squeeze.
The postmortem says "we don’t provide a backup product for customers" while the docs describe the snapshots as a backup (see screenshot from my higher level comment). This is the disconnect for me that I'm sure is causing a lot of the frustration they are hearing from customers. They are not accepting that they sold the snapshots as a backup and this is disappointing in a postmortem where users are looking for empathy, acknowledgement, and a path forward.
I lived in a 1 bathroom apartment in 4 even in my 20s.
I don't remember many issues, to be honest, but I think it really depends on how long your morning routine is.
Zune, Google Glass, and the Newton Still Have a Lot to Teach Us
When's the last time you said, "I still use this 10 year old computer tech that I have."? Edit: Not trying to pick on anyone, but it's not that long ago that PC computing was on a 3 year replacement cycle, and then a 5 year replacement cycle. Smaller devices, like PDAs, were much worse.

Edit: Please downvote my opinions, because that demonstrates REAL progress.
It's probably just sand.
"and that one over there we use to prop open the door on a hot day."
So let's say this is 10% efficient, that means 50W per citizen. Clearly, there is something I'm not getting. Do power companies really budget 50W per user? I mean it's possible but that seems very low to me.
But the squatty-potty fits nicely under the toilet bowl. It's better if you're space-constrained.
We looked at libsodium and its choices impacted our discussions on our system. We decided not to use it because it's not compatible with many browsers [0]

We also discussed using a modern asymmetric key algorithm. We decided on Diffie-Hellman because we were extremely confident it's secure (so long as we choose the right parameters and implement it correctly), and would be very simple to fit it into our architecture.

[0] https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium.js/#compatibility
It would be cool if the industry let us play "Confident Applicant's Gambit": I will agree to work for you, dubious but reputable employer, for six weeks to prove my mettle.

At the end of the six weeks, we part ways unless I have clearly demonstrated I am in fact, the genuine article, at which point you owe me back pay, and commence my salary which is about 140% of what you would normally pay someone. Quite a bargain for you.

The intention of this being, the employer is not at risk for slave labor, but the applicant is clearly wasting their time if they know they are not genuinely solving a problem the employer has for the given salary.
I'm currently working on https://LightSheets.app - it's going to be a high performance spreadsheet application. Today I managed to successfully import a 5 GB CSV file with ~50 million rows of data (around 10x more than Excel or Sheets can manage). Next steps will be a serialization format for spreadsheets this size, not sure exactly how this will work yet.

What kind of limits do you find you hit regarding the number of collaborators?
"Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?" - Steven Wright
If the reason for static typing is debugging, then what matter is ease of debugging, not static typing. If the reason for binary compilation is speed and/or easy deployment, then what you need is speed and/or easy deployment not binary compilation. They smell like XY problems. [1] To the degree they are XY Problems, Erlang is worth looking into. Pattern matching against variable input is what it does with decades of real world business critical deployment at vast scale. It doesn't look like other languages because it isn't. Good luck.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem
The GPU Is the Worst – and Best – Thing to Happen to the FPGA
I was wondering about. Thinking about what exactly brought Sars under control.
We've been building something to solve this exact problem. We started looking at how much we could derive from email notifications but parsing unstructured emails is very error-prone and typically incomplete so we decided to lean on external APIs where possible. Essentially what we made was a platform to index your data across services in one searchable document store or build new applications natively on this database where all of your data is one place. If you're interested in getting early access (we're still in early alpha) you can sign up on http://www.aspen.cloud
Does it make sense to have dual balloons: one smaller one designed to burst at a target altitude (eg: 100,000 feet) and the other, more durable balloon, meant to provide a very slow descent, much slower a parachute? That could extend endurance aloft to several hours.
i wont buy another one because i locked myself out of my icloud and despite my ipad working fine i reset it to give to my daughter. except now it wont work without the icloud account. i went to the apple store with the device itself, and as much proof as i could muster that the original icloud email i used no longer exists.. and they kindly offered to recycle my old one (old meaning less than a year, its 128gb) and sell me a new one.

never again.
Didn't see that, should I delete this submission or what?
The Debate over Regulating AI Ramps Up
Not a win for them at all. Still have to do a legal distribution negotiation. So how would this help them ? It'll help them pay $500 a year more, that's all and that's the point of this change. Nothing more.
I'm not one to tell anyone what to run in production or not :)
>An aside, but what do you do when your Google Sheet becomes too big?

A database.
Fwiw Brydge makes these, with a second version coming later this year.
Another segment of society under 24-hour surveillance is prison populations.
I love Ceph, I even wrote an intro about it for those who are not familiar with it.

https://louwrentius.com/understanding-ceph-open-source-scala...

But Ceph is not designed to be a competitor to BTRFS or ZFS. The core vision of Ceph is scalability. If you need petabytes of storage and the performance to scale with it, take a look at Ceph.

I may be totally wrong here, but from what I understand about Ceph, it's not meant as a file system for a single computer. I don't understand the idea of running Ceph on your laptop/desktop.
It's possible to run it that way but it defeats it's purpose.

I've build a small lab setup with Ceph:

https://louwrentius.com/my-ceph-test-cluster-based-on-raspbe...

Also, there's the issue of performance, in particular latency. That's a bit of a weak spot of Ceph, from what I can tell. Again, may be wrong. But I found these notes interesting.

https://yourcmc.ru/wiki/Ceph_performance
I got six years of updates for my iPad Air, and it still works fine, albeit a little slowly and some apps are crashy now. It's hardly e-waste after 1-2 years.

There's a perfectly adequate online guide for replacing the battery yourself: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPad+Air+Wi-Fi+Battery+Replacem... Or you can pay Apple or any competent repair shop to do it for you. I haven't yet needed to replace my battery, even after six years.

There's plenty of programming environments for the iPad, including a web browser to run all the awesome web software out there.

Did it come with a BASIC interpreter preinstalled? No, but I'm OK with that.
You move back to Excel. Every time I tried something heavyweight- it just can't handle.
What I learned building an web eBook version of a kid's picture book
Your app vendors are making their business decisions. They can hit 98% of customers by coding with the modern, feature rich, man hour efficient APIs. The short tail of early model iPads in use don’t justify the larger expense to develop and test using the older APIs.

Apple doesn’t say it out loud, but they can’t just decide to support the new iOS versions on the first few versions of hardware. There just isn’t enough processing power there to deliver a respectable user experience with the new software. Sure, it worked fine when new, but as processor cycles got more plentiful, they still all got used by programmers.

␄

* one site is showing 98% of users running iOS 12 or higher.

* just 0.1% are stuck at iOS 6.

* the site: http://david-smith.org/iosversionstats/template_
Ask HN: Should I Move from Gitlab to GitHub?
I'm a novice programmer who is looking to build my portfolio. Not currently working in software, but hope to be within the next 2 years.

Should I migrate over to GitHub (from Gitlab)? Gitlab works just fine for me, and I prefer its interface over GitHub. But GitHub has a larger, more active community. There are very little "beginner friendly" issues available for me to work on in Gitlab land, which is pushing me to feel as if I'm stuck in a "tutorial rut". In terms of collaboration, when/if I were to reach out to someone in hopes of working on a project together, I imagine myself losing out on some great mentors because they don't want to create a Gitlab account.

The reason I moved from GitHub to Gitlab in the first place is truthfully, a) political reasons and b) CI/CD. Now with GitHub actions and a little bit of growth in the maturity department, should I migrate back over or am I just overthinking this?
So glad to hear this.

I also have young kids and struggle to even find the time to set up and use a Perkeep instance much less learn the internals or hack on it. But yeah, the whole business of de-cloudifying our lives and reclaiming privacy is going to be so important in coming years and decades.
I suspect that both BTFS and ZFS are currently good enough under most configurations that most users don't have a problem with whichever they choose, and it's only a tiny fraction that has a really good or bad experience and becomes a rabid advocate based on their anecdotes.
Love your photo gallery.
one of the comment is legit af..

"There’s something wrong with our society where the guy who puts mustaches on cartoon images makes half a million dollars a year, so the rest of us are glued longer in front of our little screens like zombies. God help us all and our future generations. I can’t wait for this scam/sham tech bubble to burst."
Not only science, but criminal justice, too. I'm so tired of seeing hacked together "documentaries" in the true crime genre that are flimsy and 100% biased.

That true crime trash puts real lives in danger.
You can't be serious.

Bitmain does.
The lack of action around ETH2's move to PoS makes me somewhat skeptical of the confidence in these arrangements.

Does each block need a strict majority of outstanding currency to pass muster? It seems like it would be super risky to align yourself with any stake unless you were sure that it was going to be the majority, lest you inadvertently follow a post-facto "malicious" branch.

Therefore it seems like it might require less than 51% of outstanding currency, depending on the level of risk you're willing to take on, and how much active stake is willing to commit itself to proving maliciousness -- if you're leading the "that was malicious" faction but your faction fails to assemble more stake than the attacker did, then instead you get burned, so there's no guarantee that evildoers will be brought to justice; and aligning with a reorganization in ETH is dicier in many ways (because of the per-address nonce's) than it is in a UTXO coin.

Attack vectors are never within the bounds of tidy proofs of complex ideas; Bitcoin's brute-force solution is very simple to verify the correctness of, and the effective cost of pulling off a double spend is fairly easy to compute from first principles with some very weak assumptions about the quality of the hash function used.

I'll give more credit to proof of stake when Ethereum makes the transition; at least then there's some skin in the game.
Godot supports 3d and 2d meshes, but if you want to use something like SVG, you have to convert into Godot assets offline first.
I agree that librispeech isn’t the best benchmark, but it’s the benchmark we have. If you have a significantly better benchmark that both wav2letter SOTA and Kaldi SOTA have participated in, I’d love to see it. Without some kind of numbers cited, it’s easier to assume you’re speculating. Especially because, as I think we both acknowledge, wav2letter requires a lot of training power to actually use, so I doubt you’ve done the training yourself in the same way you’ve worked with Kaldi to be able to talk about it authoritatively. (One of my goals with releasing w2l models is that people will be able to do e.g. transfer learning or distillation and not repeat the expensive up front training themselves)

RWTH has an impressive entry on the wer_are_we list for librispeech (2.3 / 5.0), but unfortunately I couldn’t find a way to actually use that research without a lot of work. Facebook has easy recipes posted that reproduce their results, which have been quite nice to work with. RWTH, Google, and Capio held an impressive top spot in the results for a while, which might be where you’re basing your judgement.

I don’t think the biggest benefit of wav2letter was the architecture (until their SOTA paper), I think it was the speed and simplicity. I managed to port the original wav2letter inference to numpy/pytorch in two small files (same model weights, same inference output) because it was such a simple convolutional architecture. (The only fiddly part was matching the output of their featurization code)

I agree the data and training overhead is a big aspect, which is why I’ve been training and releasing freely available wav2letter models on far more data than what Facebook has published using librispeech.

My upcoming goal is to reproduce the SOTA results but with stronger training data. My baseline data is around 4000h currently and is far more diverse than librispeech. Unfortunately I’m independent and can’t afford the LDC datasets, though I have some neat ideas for extending FB’s semi supervised work to even more data.
This quote made me chuckle. "If a tree falls in the forest and that tree didn’t call setState… well, as far as React is concerned that tree is still standing". I like the clarification on what exactly react is doing, versus what some might think it is doing.
I've found ram is JIRA's friend.

One nice thing about the jvm is performance issues could be reaonsably tuned.

I have paid Jira way too much money for cloud, if I added up the 5-10s I wait for one screen to load at any given time.. It's likely a productivity hit.
“Compiler Fuzzing: How Much Does It Matter?” – Michael Marcozzi, PWL London 2020
I'd love to buy a non-locked down tablet. There are a lot of things I kind of half-ass do on my iPad (which is my primary mobile device), but which due to iOS restrictions don't work very well. For instance, SSH'ing into a machine from it, and then having to check a website. The SSH connection gets closed in 30 seconds. Or, you know, running a JIT language right on the machine.

The problem is nobody makes a tablet that works better than the iPad for the things I use the iPad for 90% of the time - which is reading, surfing, checking email, and editing photos.

I tried transitioning to a Linux laptop last year. That experiment lasted 3 months. It just didn't fit into a corporate computing environment that is really only set up to support Windows machines. The iPad does fit.

Back in the day, when asked about how Apple was going to deal with music piracy, Steve Jobs said they were going to out-compete it. And they did. And that's really the only way they could have succeeded. Jobs had it right. Similarly, if you want FOSS principles to rule in the mobile space, you have to come out with a product that works as well as or better than the non-open ones.
Looks like you guys are working on some advanced use case of the sheets, is there anything I can look for such advanced usage. Like how people take more out of sheets. (I am using sheets with ifttt but nothing related to scripting in the sheets itself)
That's right - hackers can't attack cryptos as fast as scammers can fork 'em and create ever new Ponzis
I get the ideological issues with the iOS software "walled garden", but the shitshow that is the only alternative (Android) leaves me wanting. It's malware and advertising infested and Android tablets are a joke and rarely supported for more than 2 years.

He complained about third party apps and then goes into a couple of nostalgia trips over the comic book store (I miss it and the music store, too) and taking apart much simpler electronics as a kid. Like, get your kid a regular PC case, then? What's there to even hack? The iPad, and almost every cell phone as well, is essentially a giant system on a chip with a screen and a battery. There's not much to hack. Also, most people keep thier iPads for more than two years unless it actually hard-fails. My last one was 5 years before I finally got a new one (though I also had the misfortune of buying the first one and the first retina one, which didn't hold up to the march of new models very well).

I don't need a hackable portable computer. I have a full time job and a toddler. I want to turn it on at the end of the day and look at stupid cat videos. Doctorow reminds me of the people that refused to get cell phones and then complained that their friends stopped contacting them.

Also, what the hell is a "CD-ROM programmer"? Does he just mean software that was distributed on CD-ROM?

Also, if he theoretically had "a lot" of AOL shares he'd have been "bailed out" by the merger with Time Warner and would have had "a lot" of shares in the successor companies (he wouldn't be laughing, but he'd have something), but the fact that he's still using AOL as a slur is showing just how much he hasn't moved on with the times, even in 2010.

The only real criticism I have of the ipad is its annoyingly bad background support. I still IRC and the clients disconnect very quickly if I switch apps. This makes SSH annoying as well.
This exists on iPhone/iPad! DevonThink2Go, local crawl/search + optional encrypted sync over self-hosted WebDAV or public cloud services. Can also take/search markdown notes.
I've been fooling with some giant CSV files for model training and yeah Google Sheets and Excel just freeze up or stop importing. So what I've found really handy to play and filter those giant files is Wizard Pro if you're on a mac: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wizard-pro/id497487206?mt=12
We launch about 8-12 HABs a year with K-12 schools across the US. We follow FAA guidelines, and file a Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) as well as contact local officials in the estimated landing zone. https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/part-101/subpart-D

Most of our payloads are under 2.5kg so we can fly on smaller 1000g balloons. There is a shortage of helium currently, but we prefer it over hydrogen because it is an inert gas.

If you like to volunteer your time, the US Dept of Education will be making an announcement in the next few weeks for a CubeSat Challenge. First stage is building prototypes - which of course could be launched in a HAB or High Power Rocket.

You can track a number of our flights on https://aprs.fi KK6UUQ. Here is a launch from Saturday that we did with USC and LA Unified School District: https://aprs.fi/#!mt=roadmap&z=11&call=a%2FKK6UUQ-11&timeran...

If you are into this, check out https://magnitude.io
>Languages are tools to everyday communication. Why do we keep using historical clunky tools when we are able to create far better ones?

Because we're not mere computers or animals, to only care about the most efficient communication of commands, facts, and numbers, but we also have a history (reflected in our words and language), a culture (ditto), a literature, poetry, idiom, and song -- all the way to ancestors who spoke the same language, and successor who will carry it forward.
These are some of the reasons for which I tend to prefer PDF files for eBooks rather than attachment to anyone's specific viewers (Apple or otherwise). I still have 20 year old PC's running useful software (example: A $30,000 test instrument that consists of a domain-specific card plugged into a PC running Windows 95).

In general terms, the PC world has been characterized for what I usually describe as an intense respect for the hardware and software investment made by users not to become unnecessarily (or unjustifiably) obsolete. Another example I have of this is the Adobe CS4 suite, which we purchased back in 2008 and is perfectly usable (and in use on a daily basis) 12 years later across many evolutions of the Windows hardware and software landscape.

We also have Apple products, Macs, iPads, etc. I still remember Apple pushing the reset button twice; once in transitioning to the PowerPC processors and then abandoning the platform; obsoleting all existing software in the process. Twice.

Not complaining, just a historical perspective and a difference in philosophy between two segments of the market. I never go into the Apple ecosystem assuming the solutions are going to survive the test of time. On the other hand, in the PC world, it is likely safe to assume you are in full control of when you might want to obsolete the hardware and software you purchase. From a business perspective this difference is important.
The hype is quite easy to understand. Snapshots and checksums are two complete game-changers. ZFS has them both. And there are no real alternatives in many cases.

I've personally waited for BTRFS longer than a decade but my use-cases are yet to be considered stable (not something you really mess with in regard to filesystems).

Honestly, as sure as I have been on the success of BTRFS I now consider BTRFS dead on arrival - if it will ever even arrive. The pace of development is slower than the universe around it, that might be too harsh but really - no RAID6 yet? A decade ago the impression I got was "soon". And now 2-drive parity is becoming obsolete.

ZFS has tons of warts for home-use, I agree. So, for a home-user with high demands I don't see anything exciting in the future.
Until Windows 10 (which just has a great built in virus detection system,) I would always push people to Avast. I am shamefully disappointed that they've fallen this far.
I recently had to stop daily use due to an injury; I am now dreaming regularly for the first time in 20 years. I don't remember it being this intense an experience, though I also had to stop nicotine at the same time, so that may have had something to do with it.
> They're still using their own RAID layer though.

Synology's RAID implementation is largely mdadm + LVM.
I'm not.

Look, I'm the biggest old-school, anti-analytics sports nut out there, but I come to HN for my fix of tech news. I'll go to reddit for more general news.

What does disturb me is the trending towards reddit-like standards here on HN. There seems to be more downvoting of legitimate questions these days and an increase in cheap comments like "Trump sucks!" for easy points. What I loved about HN initially was the civil discussion that arose from comments as opposed to just burying them. HN is a good environment to raise questions or points you don't understand without groupthink hostility.
What exactly is sad about negotiating a high salary (if you can get it) from a multi-billion dollar company?

My understanding is Snap has something like a 10/20/30/40 vesting schedule, so it's a long commitment that comes with a lot of risk relative to working at a company with a 25/25/25/25 schedule, especially if you're comparing it to Google. You should be compensated for that added risk in that case.

Plus, you'll probably be working longer hours at a Snap vs a Google.