skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, not the entire winter. What seems to be happening is that the normally very reliable wind patterns around the poles are breaking down as the poles heat up, and that's creating temporary warm patterns. As one of the articles notes, you might be 60 degrees F above normal for a while, then go back to "normal" winter temperatures.

https://mashable.com/2018/01/30/wild-arctic-weather-siberia-...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/russias-warm-winter-has...

https://www.newsweek.com/russian-lawmaker-blames-climate-wea...

> "Alexei Zhuravlyov, a member of Russia's lower house of parliament, blamed a secret U.S. "climate weapon" for the temperature anomaly that has resulted in unusually warm temperatures this season.

> The Moscow Times reported that Zhuravlyov appeared on the Govorit Moskva radio station on Tuesday, where he said that the United States was purposefully using technology to warm Russia in order to create a climate catastrophe to destabilize the country. "If [Russia's permafrost] melts now, it will be a disaster.... The Americans know this, and they're testing this weapon," he said."

It's worth thinking about political instability as an inevitable follow-on to climate instability.
Thank you for posting these. I've lost some of the links and I am now bookmarking them so I don't lose them again.

I got through some of them and I felt the quality of the OCaml teaching material itself is very high. No remarks there. Any syntax cognitive shock is eventually overcome and things flow pretty well.

Wasn't `oasis` the legacy way of building projects? Thought everyone used `dune` now?

In short, I am looking for the way that most OCaml programmers manage their project nowadays. I know this is happening through `dune` but the tool's documentation and educational material is very lacking. I don't object against the build file being LISP; when I thought about it for a minute it actually makes a lot of sense.

But I need a quality material on everything you can do with `dune`. Can you recommend such?
> When I approach again people that treated me harshly, they usually say "I thought that was already settled, wasn't it?" or something like that.

Tangential, but that can and often should be answered with a "No".
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>That’s helpful to other people who do have some privilege yet aren’t as fulfilled as they “should be”.

you're just doubling down on what i'm taking aim at. you want to be more fulfilled despite all of your privilege? go live in a 3rd world country for a couple of years you'll be fulfilled beyond measure when you return. or hell go work as a teacher in a poor urban school district.
That’s intractable. They can’t selectively shield everyone the influencer retweets from fakes.

They didn’t even shield a wirecutter , one of their largest affiliate referrers.
You're lucky you didn't accidentally put that stuff on your hair or face. Back before cosmetics and beauty supplies were regulated in the US, there would be occasional news stories of shampoos removing hair or causing rashes. A high school teacher showed us as an example a newspaper article from that period about mascara making several women permanently blind.
More popular, probably, but in no way a better option if you are into functional programing.
Yeah, I think it does point to a fundamental problem in our society. Check out your local Nextdoor and I think you’ll find people calling for very harsh punishment of bike thieves.

The difference is how malleable the internet infrastructure is compared to the real world. Would ransomware have taken off like it has without bitcoin? Is there some technical change to bitcoin that could make it less attractive to bad guys?
Yeah, I wonder that too. Apple had always charged for the development system (heck, initially to develop for the Mac you not only had to buy the tools, you had to buy a Lisa!). I don’t remember it being quite that much, though maybe in 2020 dollars it was.

There was a C++ dev kit eventually, but only for drivers (though some people figured out how to use it from NS). I also did a “native NewtonScript” compiler that under the hood compiled NS to C and encapsulated the native code into a NS function.

What really freaked people out was the 1% (?) royalty on apps, which I don’t think lasted long. Now of course Apple gets a 30% royalty and that’s considered normal! (I should mention that we wanted to have a Newton App Store, but you would have accessed it by modem, of course!)

The 2000 had the StrongARM processor that ran about 10x as fast as the earlier models. That was really the first hardware that gave something like the experience we were trying for.
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The remainder of the country is still relatively blue and urban/suburban. Just because they live outside of the large metro areas doesn't mean they are rural. For instance, the Austin area was around 30th largest on a list I was looking at whereas I live in a MSA that is more like 60th+. But there are still lots of people here, universities, etc. - it's not the middle of Wyoming or Alaska. It's just that the actual cities and towns aren't that large. I don't live in New Jersey, but have you ever been there? You have like flat suburbs that go on and on - individually, I imagine that you can have a large area with a large population, but the towns aren't so big.
I am curious if we will see rapid deployment of one of the rapid point-of-care CRISPR-based detection systems (like https://mammoth.bio/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/A-protocol-fo...)

Probably unlikely, given the understandable emphasis in the medical community on gold-standard diagnostic methods. But if one of these companies can collaborate with the CDC to get their hands on a large number of patient samples for validation, the FDA for quick approval, and a reliable manufacturing partner for scale-up, the possibility exists.

(Edit: spelling and added required collaborators to the list)
The article seems to imply that if BBC launched its own video streaming service when Netflix was still sending DVDs, it would've become the next Netflix.

I have to disagree. The execution is what really matters, not the idea.

- Could BBC have hired the talent to build and scale a credible competitor?

- Could BBC have popularized the model of on-demand, subscription based TV?

- Could BBC have acquired and created content people want to watch?

If the answer to these questions is yes (and the regulations in question aren't a problem), I would highly encourage BBC to launch a video streaming service today!
Interesting to see how it impacted sunsets. To the point they theorize The Scream may have been influenced by it.

Painting of the phenomenon:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Ho...

Photo of 'recent' eruption:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/CSIRO_Sc...
They also seem to be extrapolating onto everyone else from their own experience of feeling some kind of pressure to want to solve hard problems.
> "... would probably be a few cycles of students ..."

This sort of delay would be priced in by the person buying the ISAs from Lambda.

I agree with the grand-parent post. Lambda school definitely has skin in the game. If they want to continue operating (i.e., sell the next batch of ISAs onward to investors) then they need to have students who get high paying jobs.
Containers are great, but everything else that Docker does is very meh. Slow, inconvenient, hard to work with.

What I'd really want is a system that takes nix files (see Nix & NixOS), and gets that running as a container. Or something like that: Guix or whatever else. Free package-level caching and deduplication, and so on.
I'm not the person you replied to, but I use AWS Workmail.

Ironically. :)
Fighting fraud is only interesting if the fraudless business is interesting. If the business is stupid, fraud should happen.
Plenty of room for optimization. Raspberry PI has enough power to detect license plate numbers on its own, offline.
I wish Amazon would just let you select which countries you wanted to include/exclude (both for made in and sold by). It wouldn't be perfect, but it would at least allow me to filter out fly by night Chinese manufacturers.
Battery prices are still falling by about 10% a year. I don't think the cost of battery replacement would be that big a cost if it needs to be replaced after 10 years. You would get some money for your old battery as well.
Too expensive for most products.

Simply limit "review rights" to users who have made a certain amount of purchases, are already subscribed for a certain amount of time, etc.
Can you give some specifics about what's lacking in the dune docs?
How much is from climate change and how much from agriculture and cities sucking it dry? These guys did a documentary of their journey down the entire length of the river to see where the water was going.

https://vimeo.com/60269562
These are good points, but there are a few things to consider. First, as the article points out, self-hosting may result in a faster experience for your users due to the slowness of Google's font delivery. Secondly, your site is likely already serving up other assets which are not nearly as large as the fonts themselves (CSS, logos, other images, JavaScript, etc), so the savings is really not that large in comparison. Third, you can make use of cache-control headers that will ensure that all of these assets don't expire on the client's side for as long as you'd prefer.

One of the benefits of a CDN is the "N" part. If you host on a single server and you start getting requests from across the globe, those users will have a slightly more fluid experience if they can download the assets from a server that's physically closer to them than if they have to wait for packets to hop across dozens of nodes.
> Specifically the verge [which] actually promote[s] products without disclosure.

Huh? What are you referring to?
> Contrary to determinism would be true magic.

I used to think like this, that somehow underneath the apparent randomness of quantum mechanics there is a deterministic process that is either being sampled too slowly or too granular to see its fundamentally discrete nature.

Unfortunately that is not the case. No experiment has ever measured a significant deviance from truly random for a quantum-mechanical experiment. We have no better description for the outcome of quantum experiments than the probability distributions that come out of the Schroedinger equation.

Welcome to theory from 80 years ago, backed by every single experiment ever done in the intervening time.

The bottom of our universe is math manipulating probability equations, and we can't see beneath it.

Sorry. I was hopeful too.
Netflix has a short documentary on this very thing. It was really eye-opening that counterfeit makeup and cosmetics are not only bad for businesses but they can be physically harmful to the body/face, resulting in some people being rushed to the hospital.

The series is called Broken and the episode on cosmetics is "Makeup Mayhem" https://www.netflix.com/title/81002391
It is amazing to watch this story get rewritten in the media by the BBC lobbyists.

Kangaroo was never a standalone streaming service. All the parties had streaming services already. BBC were the only ones who planned to offer current content on the platform, and even then it was a link to their own streaming service. The main purpose of this was to sell the back catalogue.

So, no wonder this didn't occur. This project was talked about for years, it never really got started. And the BBC then realised that they could just sell you the programs you paid to develop through Netflix. Revenue in content sales is going through the roof, all that is going into the pockets of staff...why bother creating something new? It is a total scam.

The stuff about the Competition Commission is quite correct though. They made a series of bogus decisions around this time (Pure Gym/Gym Group being another one) where they chose some odd definition of market size. As with most other British institutions, including the BBC, it is run by the academic/lobbyist/civil servant...lots of board seats, no experience of business beyond lobbying for subsidies, quite remarkable.
Actually earlier than that, 2002/3 iirc, I know as I tried it out and it at the time used a p2p distribution method, which was a bit aggressive and you could close the client and still get requests days later from other clients due to caching.

Which for online gaming and the cutting edge broadband of 1MB down, just didn't sit well with me. So I gave up on it.

Also of note, they did trial 3G before it rolled out publicly with Three and one of the first tests was to stream a film, which they did (The Matrix) as a test, this was 2002 . I know this as spoke with few of the chaps working on it at the time over lunch one day as I was working for the World Service upon a digital playout system that would see the death of tape and full digital end-end system for the entire BBC radio output. Fun times.

Though around that time the current government (Labour) was busy outsourcing much of the BBC and we saw many whole area's tupped out, which was sad as I'd previously worked at the DOH and saw the whole splitting up and effective prioritisation of whole rafts of the DOH/NHS under the guise of outsourcing and other less well thought out short term quick fix, long -term debt bombing nightmares.

See that's kinda the thing - politics and such things often clash and in the UK it's been a see-saw of one party then the other which has seen many short-sighted moves for short term on paper gains of back patting, and the fallout pushed onto the other party once they take power. Hence many things over the past few decades been stymied and handicapped in the UK in government departments. Seen some serious talent wasted, messed about and general mistreated - just to make a set of accounts look good in the short term.
No, but they're extremely likely to be refurbished but sold as new. Every phone I've bought off Amazon that was sold as "new" this was the case.
I'm the creator here. Yeah, 20 K80s is a bit excessive. That's because cortex (cortexlabs), which is the ML-model-deployment platform didn't initially have multiprocessing on each of their replicas - so I was bound to using just one CPU per GPU. AWS has instances with 4, 8, 16 vCPUs and so on.

Once cortex started supporting gunicorn (still yet unreleased but present on their master branch), I was able to reduce the number of GPUs significantly. Finally, the detector only needs 2 T4 GPUs and the identification part is the most expensive one (10 T4s GPUs) for a grand total of 12.

Converting the models to use single-precision could further reduce the need to about 1.5 GPUs for T4s or just 1.2 GPUs for V100 - which in both cases it would still mean using 2 GPUs.
The first two, yes. The BBC have a long history of being a place UK techies want to work at, and they're already subscription-based, more or less. But they never in a million years could have created the breadth of content Netflix created, even if they were rolling in money. They would have made BBC stuff but with higher production values.
Doesn't the NixOS CLI do exactly that with virtual machines?
Additionally, with lighter milage, many of the repairs would likely have not been necessary.
It all depends on how much entropy you have available. A PRNG can fool any randomness test given a large enough entropy source. We typically use PRNGs with very low entropy, e.g. multiplicative inverse PRNGs, which cycle after not too long.
Also limit review to be written X time after the product arrives. So many useless reviews that just said they received it and they are going to try it later...
Yes, if you don't buy their product you can end up in jail...they are very well-funded.
Add in a list of interesting people you would recommend on the site.

I never thought about actually paying attention to who posts on HN, only what's posted. It seems obvious now that you've mentioned it.
"Known to be"?

I really take issue with that phrase.

As maddening as it may be, we DO NOT KNOW the origins of the virus. And after reading a new paper -- we still do not know. We have to stop acting like we do.
In a recent job, I was a software engineer who worked with the data science people in an "analytics" group.

A big PITA for us was the data we'd get from various sources (vendors/clients/whomever). Oh, there's a rando string in a "number" field in row 9,100,500, huh, that sucks.

You can't always build the validation into your ETL pipeline for various reasons. Or it fails the whole file (b/c the data science folks built it that way really aren't that experienced at handling exceptions in the file loads, etc)

Anyway that rambling is trying to lead up to me saying that there's a chasm between your supposed target market (marketers, BSAs, scientists) and the engineers/devs etc that could probably use some better tools for CSV/JSON munging.

Excel is terrible at this job. What I often did was load the csv into sqlite to and then ran queries on the data to figure out how many records were horked. Or if it was a process we were testing, to verify that we had the right data or a good approximation. That works for csv, but with JSON, it's even harder.

Anyway, I'm just not sure that your target market knows to look for a tool like this or would really know what to do with it. On the other hand, an engineer might look at this tool as too down level.

- No cli options
- No api?

I think there's a market for tools to help "data plumbers", software devs, engineers, support personal, etc. There's all kinds of application consultants/support etc that are moving data between systems for migrations, upgrades, custom exports, etc.
There is already legislation that should give the FTC teeth to fine or shutdown Amazon based on counterfeit goods, especially if the branding is illegitimate.
I’d love to see Sundell go and optimize the code on the Computer Language Shootout so we could see its potential in a swifty way.
> language of choice for the working class dev

What an incredibly strange framing.
If you cannot get everyone to review for all purchases, then the next best thing is to do random sampling by randomly choose buyers and purchases to get reviewed, and possibly pay them so that selected reviews are collected. I have fond memory of winning the moderation lottery at Slashdot [1]. The current system of free for all will only amplify the voice of the abusers.

[1] https://slashdot.org/moderation.shtml
After reading about the Wirecutter's attempts to extract a commission from a maker of standing desks[0] and observing their general high churn in product picks, it seems hard to argue that WC isn't buyable.

[0] https://www.xdesk.com/wirecutter-standing-desk-review-pay-to...
Maybe you haven’t found the thing you really like programming for yet!
https://nixery.dev/ does some of this. `docker pull nixery.dev/shell/git/htop` and you get an image built on the fly with bash, git and htop in it. Each loaded in their individual layers.

For a push approach, I am maintaining this project: https://github.com/nix-community/docker-nixpkgs

Both work well for CLI-like applications. What is missing is to get something similar for services where there is a mix of configuration coming from environment variables and files.
I’m basing it on my limited experience of rewriting things from optimized but messy C++/D to JVM. Yes, the end result is much simpler but is memory hungry and is ~2x slower (after optimizations and tuning). Sometimes you can fit Java in less then ~2x of original footprint but at the cost of burning CPU on frequent GC cycles.

Not every application is the same but the moment it involves manipulating a lot of data in Java you fight the platform to get back the control you require for those things. And by the end of day there is a limit at which reasonable people stop and just give up dodging memory allocations, creatively reusing objects, wrangling off-heap memory without the help of type system.
It has been a while. I admit I haven't read the entire tutorial and I checked the website just now -- seems like stuff has been added (and maybe modified). Looks a bit more understandable and beginner-friendly now! I'll have to give my two hobby projects another go from scratch. :)

Is it OK for me to hit you up on OCaml's Discourse forum if I need help or want to give extra feedback when I am able to, in the future?
Didn't the comment you replied to say specifically the opposite of what you quoted?
sschueller, could you help me understand what you mean by "full jira implementation"? We are working to align our plan features to the right tiers (https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/1887) and it'd be helpful to understand what specifically your are looking for.

Thanks in advance!
Closing borders might not stop the spread, but it certainly slows it down if there is a major population of sick people in one country, but in the other country the population of sick people is smaller. The numbers of detected and undetected cases are different, but definitely not uncorrelated.

The less people have the disease, the more you can focus onto containment measures. If you detect one case in a country of 30 million, you can test everyone who had contact with that person and maybe even their entire street. However, if there are 10 000 cases in that same country, you suddenly have a problem.

Even if you assume constant spreading rates with an exponential model of patient number increase, where after a period P, the number of cases doubles, then with 10 case, after P you have 20 cases. If you have 100 cases because you left your border open and, say 50 000 people from the country with many cases got in, you'll have 200 cases after period P.

Closing borders is an efficient method to slow down the spread. Of course you need to accompany these cases by within-country measures like China is taking, but you can isolate them to affected regions. What's important though is that you prevent travel in any fashion as much as possible, because the virus doesn't travel by itself, it needs humans to travel for it.
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Unfortunately, there's no way DDG could compete with Google without any tracking/history as google has.
A fun thing that I haven't seen anyone try is to deliberately induce metastability into a small circuit. Anyone who's played with digital logic knows that underpowering/overclocking will lead to unpredictable behavior. Just build an oscillator and aim for an unstable clock speed (beyond the spec'd setup/hold delays) with an inadequate power source.
ITV's got it bad.
> All I’m doing is building a CRUD app

There’s also no such thing as a CRUD app - or rather, there is, but it won’t meet anybody’s requirements as “just” a CRUD app and will require a lot of (unique, interesting, challenging) customization before it’s actually helping anybody do anything.
Kubernetes and Docker (if we're talking about Docker as CRI, most often this is implicitly assumed) are totally different things.
What is your use case and/or dataset size if I may ask?
There are plenty of parts of California that are cold in the winter, and use a lot of road salt.

Perhaps you're confusing California with Florida?
I won’t buy anything I would ingest on Amazon anymore outside of Wholefoods. I’ll go to Target for things like Advil or toothpaste.
I don't mind excluding the odd violent extremist.

But if you exclude all non leftists, that's about 2/3 of all Americans. And that looks very tribal to the rest of us.

The mandatory brilliant essay on this: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin...
I appreciate the use of the re-worked Pride and Predjudice quote, especially as modern social networking seems just as airheaded and deadly serious as early 19th century polite society. We in tech are the majordomos of the stately manion, the scullery maids and chimney sweeps, while all look up at Dukes Bezos, Gates, Bloomberg and Zuck.