skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Instead, the bounty system that had been instigated in 1923 was continued, and this proved to be effective: 57,034 bounties were claimed over a six-month period in 1934.

Someone probably started raising the birds to cash in on the bounty.
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Yeah, you are right, especially in relation to the single core speed which I must admit I just had not looked into enough when writing my response. Had a look at https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html which confirms computerbase.de article exceedingly well in terms of the much improved single core perf across the Intel/AMD divide over last 5 yrs.
As stated above, the number of users is not a measure of a system, it is the concurrency multiplied by the typical system loads per action.

Clearly a million users on Facebook is much heavier than a million registered with online banking and who only use it once a month.
yacy has support for additional crawlers.

But I was thinking of something more radical ... let the indexes be peer-to-peer with an IPFS storage back-end, but build at least the generic crawler as a browser plugin that also performs searches against the index. For "normal" web pages, each visit results in a reindexing. Of course you have to solve the chicken and egg problem of pages that aren't visited because nobody has indexed them so you don't find them in search.
It's unclear to me if we are disagreeing on anything or merely stating the same things slightly differently.

> The tragedy of the commons applies when there's a non-zero marginal cost. But with zero marginal cost, you have have to find some way to cover your expenses, and then you can give away the rest as a public good

So a web page isn't zero marginal cost, it's nearly-zero. Servers require occasional maintenance and continuously consume electricity (to say nothing of the rent / peering arrangement that is usually part of gaining access to someone else's network). Even though a server can host a million individual pages at near-zero marginal cost for each, the original point still stands that if nobody is paying for that server and nobody finds "some way to cover your expenses," the electricity will stop flowing or it will break down and nobody will repair it. So everyone hosting on that server is doing so at the mercy and pleasure of the org or individual paying for the server's continued existence (i.e. a patronage arrangement). Your specific examples (NYT giving some content away and public broadcasting giving all of it away) are examples of patronage models in action (NYT non-subscribers are patrons of NYT, and public broadcasting itself is a patron of its sponsor base).

> [citation needed]

I believe you gave a fair explanation of why Coke doesn't consider an ad vended to a broke person to have zero value immediately after that request for citation, so I will cite your logic. In addition to your observations, the points about brand stickiness (that "when someone offers you a soda, they want you to ask for Coke" bit) and behavior shaping still apply (source: I worked in advertising, this is common knowledge in the industry, but if you want concrete sources I can hit the Google and try to dig up a primer on the industry philosophy; it's so bedrock-knowledge that I can't remember precisely where I learned it). But you're right; even absent those effects, Coke assumes that people who are broke right this moment aren't broke tomorrow and still want you thinking about buying their beverage. "Coke doesn't consider an ad vended to a broke person to have zero value."
I'm not sure what you mean. You're right that the two are usually intimately linked. What I've found by blocking tracking is that as a result of this intertwining, blocking tracking usually also blocks the advertising engaging in the spying.

I don't use an adblocker. I block tracking. It's pretty nearly as effective as an adblocker, so that seems practical to me.
DHH: Integrated Systems for Integrated Programmers
Hope those lenses are not reflective
Glad I'm not the only one! I'm one of those people that can tinker endlessly, so I avoid Arch, because I need my tools to get out of the way and just let me work, but I'm happy to hear all this stuff is working for you. The only thing I really want from Dell at this point is for them to make an XPS 13 DE in an XPS 15 chassis. I don't even need a discrete GPU! I'd just like a bit more space for my hands etc.

I've been thinking about maybe getting a usb-c dock as well. Would you mind dropping a link to yours please?
I feel as if one of the many elephants being overlooked here is how 'security' is being abused to further data collection. When an account gets locked now, I don't think it is for actual security, but to increase data collection. Tragedy of the commons being exploited by major websites. The same ones which also want to hold themselves as the arbiter of truth (or at least as one of the Arbiter's official spokesmen).
Right, but the question was about which language was more complicated (with the implication being, complicated to write). In that sense I think my GP comment is probably correct.
> Could this become a "don't hire married people in their late 20s and early 30s" incentive?

Not for a good company. I've had several employees go on maternity and paternity leave. I've given them respect, and time, and money, in order to make this time of their lives as unstressful as possible.

I've done it because it's the right thing, but these people remember being treated well. They've come back to work and done very well. They feel safer knowing that their day job explicitly supports their families.

The time someone needs off work to care for a new family is a drop in the bucket compared with a whole career, or even a few good years spent at one company. Optimize for the humans, and for the long term.
Switzerland plans to anchor public services’ contribution to open source in law
Scientists reveal the most extensive genetic map of cancers ever made
I found code the other day while cleaning a disused drawer. Not on a floppy... on paper. Apparently, I had printed some Perl code from around 2003 that moved a bunch of files around on a Windows share for my employer at the time. It's surprisingly good code considering its age!
Surely whether it's "their most economically productive age" would depend heavily on how many children they have and how much parental leave they are allowed.
Basecamp v1 at $250M Revenue
"Watermarking" and trademarking can be different things. And access to data is already licensed.

I think you're right in that DRM systems are likely to be built on top of such infrastructure, but DRM has been broken in other contexts before and the system doesn't necessarily have to be used for DRM.
Don't forget that you have to assume they were using some sort of special Tardis textile that's bigger on the inside. That, to me, is the most compelling criticism. Everything else is arguably circumstantial, but it's kind of hard to look past a hypothesis apparently resting on a physical impossibility.

It's hard for me to see this as a big moral loss, either. A more compelling poster child for Vikings' relationship with Islam would be the examples of Vikings converting to Islam that are documented in the historical record. The garment, even if you accept for the sake of argument that it does read Allah, could still just be a prized souvenir.
Are you saying that people who have a problem with this conflict of interest are the equivalent of flat earthers? That's not a viable position to take.
Can you cite some source for why the SHA256 of changing data isn't sufficiently random to be used as the IV?
Noone is demanding that. If the company can't get it done without the person taking parental leave they simply have to sink or swim.

Like with any other law regulating worker benefits and worker safety. But companies know that starting out and have to plan and act accordingly. That's the cost of doing business.
>Science is skeptism of the consensus

As long as the skepticism is evidence based, of course.
Rivers and floodplains wouldn't be effected by the rising sea level. River systems get their water from precipitation not the sea. The only effect a sea level rise would have on a river system is the delta of the river would move further inland with the coast line.

However, one could argue there would be an increase in precipitation as less water is trapped in ice but that doesn't seem to be what many people are predicting. I say all this with the caveat that I am not very well read up on the science of all of this, I'm just going by what I have read in articles and what not.
We were running a speed test with node vs dotnet core and even on a small Linux box (4GB, 1 core), we could reach nearly 10K concurrent requests for a basic HTTP response but the exact nature of the system will affect that massively.

Add large request/response sizes or CPU/RAM bound operations and your servers can very quickly reach their limits with far fewer concurrent requests.

Architecture is a big picture task since you have to consider the whole system before implementing part of it, otherwise you end up having to start again.
This is really wrong. My baby already recognised and was soothed by my voice and e.g. quieted in my arms much faster than the grandmother's at 2 months.

Research apparently indicates that being loved in your first year is key to your development.
Deep link from the article to a page that the professor made to explain this https://www.poshenloh.com/quadraticdetail/
Roll-your-own filtering of RSS or API results is an interesting idea, Paul. Thanks for sharing.
One use is in military/aviation radios to keep encryption keys in sram. The power can be disconnected and the key wiped in the event of a crash or impending enemy capture. If the key was in flash it might be recovered.
I see, this means Rider is faster than the VS on many-core machines with huge amounts of memory. That's why it isn't going to be fast for me - I only use laptops, with 4 GiB RAM and dual cores each.
As a financial auditor, if a client uses SAP or some other standard ERP we can just ask for a general ledger report and get to work. If they are using something bespoke I would probably put my head in my hands and send an urgent email to our dreaded IT systems audit team, at major expense to the client.
Is there a way to create a whitelist instead of a blacklist?

In some VMs / computers, I'd like to whitelist Internet domains instead of blacklisting, for security reasons.

Edit: Seems PiHole supports whitelisting: "Manage White And Black Lists" https://pi-hole.net/
Not necessarily. If you're a real nerd, you'll be running side projects and making up problems to solve with the tech you're interested in. But if life is too busy and you're not happy doing the old codebase thing, then.. yeah. Get a job that engages you. But don't dismiss the value of having a good work environment/team/company.
Piensa en el éxito, según Fernando Martínez Gómez Tejedor
They insta-banned two new accounts from me (for side-projects) after I entered my phone-number which was associated with my personal account. They went from a no-law-free-spam zone to shoot-first-and-don't-ask-later.
>Real estate is about the closest thing to putting your money where your mouth is as far as climate change goes and the people have spoken

I would definitely buy coast property today because this won't be a significant problem in my lifetime. I'd buy from coast again when it becomes a significant problem, just that the coast location would be different of course.
> Something newish is that Windows also implements Windows by running NT and a Windows UI in a VM.

That’s not really that new. Windows 3.x, running in 386 Enhanced mode, was based on a 32-bit pre-emptive multitasking hypervisor (the VMM). Windows apps shared VM 0, cooperatively multitasked, and were mostly 16-bit. VM 1 and above were for DOS apps, including 32-bit DOS apps using DPMI.

(In Windows 3.0, it is possible to start a subordinate instance of the Windows UI in VM 1 or above. This possibility was removed in later versions.)

This architecture was introduced in Windows/386 2.1x and maintained through Win 95,98 and Me. (In Win 95 and later, most of the 16-bit code in VM 0 became 32-bit.)
Actually yes. I saw numerous teams adopting monorepos, k8s, microservices and other buzzwords, and either suffering infinitely or putting enormous effort into dragging those to the point of sheer mediocrity. Because they are not Google and will never be.
There are a category of people that vaccines are useless for. Elderly and very young who have very weak systems. People are deathly ill with some other disease already. And people with no immune system at all. (auto-immune disease)

These categories (and maybe others) are widely known (no disputes what so ever) in the medical industry.

So why do people get so irrational around any discussions about vaccines? They simply don't help everyone, this is a fact.
Even if there was a force capable of pushing back the USSR in 1945, I dread to think what a retreating Soviet Army would have done to the civilian population of occupied countries.
Great story, I don't want to know the number of companies that run business critical stuff on excel vba macros + access DB some guy wrote 15 years ago.
Codeplay Contribution to DPC++ Brings SYCL Support for Nvidia GPUs
incorrect.

They emphatically had trade. Whether or not they did it because they knew what it said - or didn't - or didn't care - is where politics comes in.
I think my biggest issue is dealing with recruiters. 99% of jobs listed have a recruiter on the other end.

I generally make it a habit of only responding if I know it's directly with HR or someone working for the company.
No, the article gives no examples of how companies can walk away from their liability by legally abusing llcs. It links to an article with examples of the opposite, disproving the very thing the author claims.
SAP is Germany's revenge for WWII.
More Dangerous Vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs
Docker has mostly succeeded in making this simple concept complicated. A "container image" is just a tape archive of some files. The runtime is just like your chroot, but with namespaces and cgroups. That's about it.

On top of all this, they designed a new programming language / build system for making those tar files. They invented a container registry so that instead of just "downloading a file", you have to use their particular protocol to download a file. They have their own version of systemd so you can see what programs are running. They tacked on some very complicated networking stuff. They tried to build a couple of container orchestration frameworks on top of all this. I think all the "extra stuff" is where people run into problems, and it's isn't even the core of the value it provides.

People have realized that it's all a little much and the good bits have been distilled into their own projects. Many build systems can just generate an OCI registry file directly (remember, it's just a tar file, and you don't need all that 1970s JCL stuff to make a tar file). Various runtimes (containerd/CRI-O) exist for running containers. And there are orchestration layers on top, for actually managing sets of containers, network rules, etc. (ECR, Kubernetes, etc.).

(Worth noting is that Docker itself does use all these spin-offs. It uses containerd as the runtime, it uses buildkit for building containers now, etc. They even ship a Kubernetes distribution, at least on Mac and Windows.)
I think these are awesome ... I've got an application for a very low duty-cycle device (operates for seconds each hour) and, paired with a suitable capacitor (or super-capacitor), I can completely pot the entire system in epoxy, mount that in foam in a tennis ball and still have about a decade long service life!

EDIT: No, it's not a dog toy
>skewed somewhat by the fracking boom in America's oil shale country.

Isn't it extremely ironic, given the topic hand?
Excerpt:

“There is an estate in the realm more powerful than either your Lordship or the other House of Parliament,” one Lord Campbell proclaimed to the peers in the House of Lords, in 1851, “and that [is] the country solicitors.” It was the lawyers, in other words, who kept England’s landed elite so very, well, elite: who shielded and extended the wealth of the landowners, even granting them legal protection against their own creditors. How did they pull off this trick? Through a nimble tangle of contracts, carefully and complicatedly applied, as Katharina Pistor explains in her lucid new book, The Code of Capital: by mixing “modern notions of individual property rights with feudalist restrictions on alienability”; by employing trusts “to protect family estates, but then [turning] around and [using] the trust again to set aside assets for creditors so that they would roll over the debt of the life tenant one more time”; and by settling the rights to the estate among family members in line for inheritance. Solicitors maximized their clients’ profits and worth through strategic applications of the central institutions at their disposal: “contract, property, collateral, trust, corporate, and bankruptcy law,” what Pistor calls an “empire of law.”"
Ghislaine Maxwell is the daughter of an alleged Mossad (Israeli Intelligence) operative. Coming from someone who hates conspiracy theories, I think this one isn't too far fetched.
Does this have anything to do with Markov Chains? Because it's smelling like that type of problem.

The verbiage in the article is a little too "wanky" for me to tell.
I'm especially sad since I finished porting some of our Docker infrastructure to CoreOS today. I guess I missed the proverbial writing on the wall.

Thank god Flatcar Linux looks to be a viable alternative and easy changeover.
Ah, Mark Miller on promises! I am building a system (Spritely Goblins) which is very inspired by another system largely designed by MarkM, the "E" programming language. I'm borrowing most of the way promises work in E in Goblins. For those that don't know, the idea of promises in Javascript largely got ported from E, though not entirely (there are some things nicer about E's promises than Javascript's... promise pipelining is one clear one, and the "when" clause is much nicer than Javascript's .then() sausage-chains).

However I didn't realize that MarkM's work with promises predated E, that it started in his work on Xanadu... that makes sense.
Presumably the battery+shielding sets minimum volumetric requirements, and those form factors meet them while providing easy and robust circuit integration using existing standards.
... medical implants...

Powered by radioactive battery?
As the original creator of the presentation referenced by the blog author (later re-delivered by Joel in the linked post) I am super excited to see this still have an impact on people, but I'd say today in 2019 you'd probably do things very differently(as others call out).

Tech has progressed really far and there are tools like Netlify for hosting that would replace 90% of the non-DB parts of this. Cloud providers have also grown drastically and so again a lot of this would/could look a lot lot different.

Fwiw original deck from Spring of 2013, delivered at a VC event and then went on to be the most viewed/shared deck on Slidehare for a bit: https://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/scaling-on-aws-...

thanks,
- munns@AWS
I realize this is HN but let's not be so milquetoast about the critical infrastructure of our democracy. Non-free, closed-source software DOES NOT belong in the machinery of our democratic processes.
Thank you for digging into the code. This is why we are going open source. The encryption you are referring to is for encrypting a list of keys for your local notes storage, which is not exactly part of the end-to-end encrypted syncing. Since you have got this far, could you please have a look at:

https://github.com/twinkle-labs/twinkle-notes/blob/8ad7d9d0b...

> They must be unpredictable

I am wondering if that is necessary, because the hacker can't perform those attacks without the user's actively using the app at the same time. From what I learned, the attacking process requires the presence of key somewhere. If the attacker can get on user's device while one is using it, then it's almost a hopeless situation. Please educate me if I am wrong.
You can't prevent a "disease" from happening anymore than you can prevent a car crash. But there is more than just air-bags for car crashes. There is crumple zones, seat belts, a-frames and all kinds of things.

So why not discuss all other options for preventing disease?

If you say there are none, there is no point in trying to educate you from nothing, go google some stuff about prevention.
Next you will tell me it's impossible for a major earthquake to strike San Francisco (or Tokyo), because then nobody would want to live there.
The larger the population, the more unique social events there are, allowing the potential to overfit on any narrative you can conjure up. Today I just saw a headline about one marine who walked out on Trump's SOTU. How many marines attended proudly?
No. Why should it? If the sea level rises two feet, how does it affect rivers that are, say, 100 feet above sea level? Or 500 feet? What's the cause and effect here?

The sea level rise is due to more water in the ocean. That doesn't translate into more water in a river, because water doesn't flow uphill.
Having Australian in-laws has ruined my ability to discern sarcasm.
I remember having to pull data from SAP for some university courses. It was misery incarnate
I really like the approach that the Steam survey uses which blends engineering and communication:

1) Pop up and ask for permission to scan the machine.

2) Show the data collected that will be sent back and give a second chance to decline.

3) Allow everyone to see the aggregate results.

Being mostly automated, it's lower friction than a manual Q&A survey. But it also feels way more respectful that trying to snoop around and then clandestinely exfiltrate the data. It's one of the few cases where I'm willing to opt-in to data collection.
I recall a SIGGRAPH around that time on synthetic life covering that material.
Could you please elaborate on your claim? I feel confused.

I learned that ice has a (slightly) lower density than water, hence it usually floats. I was convinced that submerged ice is doing so because of an additional weight on top of it (above-water ice pack).

Maybe there is also ice that is submerged without this extra weight, but then its density should be lower than water.

Either way, I don't see how submerged ice could take up exactly the same space when melted. If it has a different density, it should change in volume (elementary physics).
Video containers (or the stream itself) should really have a "center of frame" coordinate for each frame, and let playback devices crop based on that center. Maybe this already exists in some standards and im unaware.
At some clients you have to sign their development guidelines, and you have no choice but to use that notation. The rule at big enterprises is that new rules get added, but old, even archaic rules seldom get removed.
> Less than 60 years later, in 1959, man landed on the moon.

That was 1969, or less than 70 years.