skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those who have expertise in this area, how difficult would it be to actually model different political interests and their interplay? Also, would this eventually end up being a level 2 chaotic system where calculating the predictions affects the real world inputs, making the whole thing akin to the stock market? Or would it be slow moving enough that you could actually extract something useful out of this?
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Can you suggest a book about Operating Systems?
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When it gets full (like it is some places), then the only strategy is to drop packets. If they are dropped systematically (by some rule) then some demographic loses some part of their internet entirely. That's also well understood.

Its a product of non-neutral nets, where by definition they do something by a rule (instead of randomly for instance).

And even randomly dropping (neutrality?) stresses certain subsets of network traffic more than other e.g. video can recover from dropped packets; TCP traffic not so much. Again stymying certain classes of activity more than others.
I'm not a football fan, and yet some of the (Australian) football shows are fascinating right now.

The talk radio station I've started listening to this week has a daily football show, and it's all about salary cut negotiations, trying to fight off the bankruptcy of the entire competition, and finding ways for the league to generate revenue to stay afloat when there aren't any games.

The weekly footy TV show is my favorite though - they still have to do their sponsor reads for the sports betting sites, but without a single football game to bet on, they've started covering betting odds on German Table Tennis. Their struggle to find an hour of content has been hilarious.
It’s significantly less without tracking unless you have other methods of demonstrating your audience is sizable and niche.
It's really amazing how certain writers wax on about the future but are unable to describe the social change which is quite more fundamental.

Many social changes that have happened were basically unthinkable in the 1950's, the words literally did not exist to describe them.
Exactly. Is "kute pona" somebody who is good at listening, or somebody who is obedient? Like (Ingsoc) Newspeak, Toki Pona's poor vocabulary and overloaded semantics lead to a very simple and incurious language perfect for shrinking peoples' minds.
It's XUL. It used to be a Firefox extension, before Firefox changed how those work.
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> …cost money, but not that much…

Knowing no-better, $0 seems better to most.
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Technically it has an issue tracker, just not tied directly to a repository: https://todo.sr.ht

I kind of like the "federated" nature of sr.ht's offerings though. If I don't want an issue tracker for a repository, I don't have something sitting on the repo page by default.
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I don't mind ASCII graphics in general -- I used to play a lot of Rogue, Angband, and Nethack -- but DF is just so dense that I found it bewildering.
They largely divested from fossil fuel for both environmental and diversification purposes which certainly helped their returns.
MedCram on youtube has a good video on this. cant get the link on my corporate vpn though.
Wow, just found what my state (CO) is doing to help manage the influx. Talk about a low-tech workaround.

>IMPORTANT NOTICE: Because of the high volume of claims, we are asking that you help us help you and our greater community.

>If you need to file an unemployment claim and your last name begins with the letter A - M, file a claim on Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, or after 12 noon on Saturday.

>If you need to file an unemployment claim and your last name begins with the letter N - Z, file a claim on Monday, Wednesday, Friday or before 12 noon on Saturday.
Honestly, a language like this could be quite beneficial if it was widely used (maybe even taught in schools) as a fallback method for cases where you need to communicate with someone without having a language in common. Instead of trying to puzzle out what the other person is saying, you just switch to Toki Pona and use these very basic concepts to slowly figure things out.
Chain three of them together, and you have a TOR-like circuit. Of course, since SSH doesn't work as a SOCKS5 client (last time I checked, at least), you'd have to forward some local ports to remote 22's and point SSH clients at localhost (forcing them to check the specific host key is also a fun challenge). Sadly, SSH doesn't support using port 0 for chosing a random local port.

ssh -L 60001:host2:22 -N user1@host1 &
ssh -L 60002:host3:22 -p 60001 -N user2@localhost &
ssh -D 8000 -p 60002 -N user3@localhost &
There's a misunderstanding here. Vaccine confers immunity to an individual. Herd immunity means that an infection cannot get a foothold in a community if a certain portion of the members are immune.

Widespread vaccination is important exactly because it produces herd immunity.
For example, the president of the United States.
I would normally agree,
But hard to understand visuals (not intuitive) might discourage new players from trying the game. Those that do try the game will have a large cognitive load just to understand what is going on, and therefore will be unable to focus as much on the gameplay (that df is know for). So potential players and new players would be most affected.
Wouldn't it ship faster if you just plopped in any regular ol HDD the company makes (the cheapest one, probably) instead of developing a custom one just for that product?
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i mean run all the shorter bitstrings until time runs out or they terminate.
I have a hard time to see the point of your message, given that if you read the description of the said Youtube video they post multiple of the source material they used to make it if you're allergic to videos.

My message was only a recommendation, I don't see why I should try to summarize an already well-crafted explanation.
The part they got really right was the progress in material/chemical science and industrial automation (though we don't use paper media for that).

The bit about electronic communication (video conferencing and online shopping) seems particularly correct too.
For posterity, the final status update:

The issue with Google Cloud infrastructure components has been resolved for all affected users as of 09:21. Total time of impact was 08:18 to 09:21 US/Pacific, with the most severe impact at the start of the issue, tapering off as services routed traffic away from Atlanta.

The impact of this incident was concentrated in a region that is not a main GCP region and therefore there was no impact to services based on Google Compute Engine. Services that may have been impacted include External HTTP/S Load balancing requests and API requests that may have been served near the Atlanta metro.

The root cause was a set of router failures in Atlanta, which affected traffic routed through that region.
This comment is a tad ironic. My monthly expenses are $N, and I keep at most $N + 1,000 in my checking account. Often much less e.g during the first half of the month. I keep my checking account balance as low as possible precisely because I know "the difference between checkings and [high-yield] savings". Keeping more than a small buffer extra in your checking account seems pretty financially illiterate to me.

Also, keeping anything more than absolutely necessary in a checking account is ridiculously dangerous if you're using ATMs outside gas stations....
They're trying to calculate overrepresentation of US patients.
I suppose his point is that the coronavirus overwhelms hospitals much, much more seriously than the flu does.
Rimworld is easily moddable with C#.

And there's a vibrant mod community: https://discordapp.com/invite/rimworld

I've created a few simple mods and it was a pleasant experience.
I still write and actually still (sorta-kinda) like PHP, but there's no major concept/feature I can think of that's intrinsic to PHP rather than inherited from other languages. The Perl (and general "C-like language" influence is notable, and as PHP has matured it's started to feel ever more like Java. ("To write a simple PHP server app, first just initialize your PSR-11 compatible dependency injection container and add your PSR-7 compatible HTTP request/response handlers to it...")
If the drive itself doesn't support it how can the interal usb controller in an external drive compensate? At best it seems it could hide the error or do some hacky compensation for it.

At best perhaps it's a method of enforcing product segmantation - preventing users from buying & shucking what are strangely cheaper external drives (discounted so that WD can sell you (or sell 'you' via telemetry) some value addon software. I don't see a technical reason for how a drive could physical be unable to support this SCSI command.
Has anyone made a resource yet of all the infection tests available vs antibody (immunity) tests available?

Seems like that would be handy if not just fascinating
It's an open source project. Feel free to fork it and remove parts you dislike.
Isn't the USB mass storage spec just a pipe for sending SCSI commands?
I wrote a Zotero extension many years ago when doing my PhD[1]. Unfortunately, recent changes have broken it, I can't figure out what's wrong (XUL is not exactly well-documented these days), and the developers aren't responsive[2]. :(

[1] http://mackerron.com/zot2bib/

[2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/zotero-dev/a1IPUJ2m_...
>Even typeform/Google Forms would be better suited for the task.

And now you've given a private company access to market-moving unemployment data. And a million other issues, especially legal ones.

The technology part in and of itself isn't that difficult, it's all of the constraints (and, often, mountains of laws) that are the bigger issue.
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They also hate it, because they cannot charge rent, like for the ISP owned router.
For badblocks, I suggest a block size larger than 4KiB, it'll go faster. The legacy reason for 4KiB: badblocks can produce a badblocks file that mke2fs can use to avoid using known bad sectors, however the block size for badblocks and mkfs must be the same. Since bad sectors are managed by the firmware these days, you're best off not using this legacy feature, therefore you can up the badblocks block size well above 4KiB.

Another idea for a generic approach, whether HDD or SSD, is to use f3. It'll check for fake flash (firmware loops to report a bigger device size than real size), corruptions, and read/write errors.
They never thought we'd be poor enough that both parents would need to work to maintain a middle class standard of living.
> Maduro’s indictment marks the second time that the U.S. government has brought criminal charges against a sitting foreign head of state. The last time was in 1989, when federal prosecutors in Miami indicted Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega on drug-trafficking charges. and U.S. military forces seized him late that year. Noriega was convicted at trial, imprisoned in the Miami area and died in 2017.

I wonder if we'll see this part of history replay itself in 2020/2021.
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> ... maintained by people that believe they and their work are utterly infallible. Hence why to this date they have not made it possible to detect musl ...

Yes, and they are every bit as fallible as anyone. Here is an example of a pretty pedestrian bug: https://github.com/build2/build2/issues/50

And that's a pity, really, since otherwise it looks like a reasonable implementation. But this dogmatic "we know better" attitude now triggers an allergic reaction.
It’s been a while that I read it but generally speaking:

1. How to strip things down to their essence and focus on that.
2. What to expect and not to expect from Being successful
3. Being scrappy as fuck

Just read it...it’s available for free online as pdf...it’s quick and super fun read
Can't Spotify also do what you want? There are all kinds of official or unofficial playlists which you can play on random, and actually get the type of music you want - without 15 minutes of ads per hour that is the norm here in the US.
> LOL. Do you really want to depend on a libc whose author thinks this way? Who removes functionality that the kernel provides because in his opinion the kernel's design is wrong?

musl can't remove the functionality provided by the kernel. You're still free to use syscall(3) or otherwise invoke the kernel routine yourself.

May I assume you abstained from using glibc prior to 2.30 on account of glibc not providing a wrapper for the gettid syscall? More apropos: do you dislike how glibc and musl both change the behavior of Linux setuid syscall to make it standards-conformant--process-global instead of thread-local? Should they simply provide the Linux semantics rather than the standard semantics? Has the kernel no culpability here for not providing the necessary interfaces for implementing the standard-compliant semantics?
To who and at what interest rate?
Markets are complicated. Especially in the short term, you have large forces that aren't concerned only with future expected value.

For instance, if you manage a fund that sold substantially on the way down, you now have a great deal of cash you need to do something with. Considering a 'local bottom' has been found, you may be very interested in trying to re-enter the market now. The risk of waiting for a lower entry begins to compete heavily with the risk of missing a buying opportunity.
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Can you explain and support the idea that the number users using the language productively declined? The state of Clojure survey seems to have held steady at 2500 from 2015 to 2020 with 60% saying they used it for work in 2015 vs 69% saying they used it for work in 2020.

Going back to 2010 we see less than 500 respondents and only 27% using it for work. A charitable assumption is that it grew substantially between 2010 and 2015 and held steady between 2015 and 2020.

https://clojure.org/news/2020/02/20/state-of-clojure-2020
> "Straight man" makes just as much sense as "devil's advocate,"

I disagree. It's easy to see why "straight man" doesn't make sense in this situation if you try to explain to me how it makes sense. I can't. I can explain how "devil's advocate" makes sense though: it means arguing the opposition to an idea not because you necessarily disagree, but because you want to explore the negatives/other possibilities. What does "straight man" mean to you?

> The former applies to comedy performances

Correct.

> the latter applies to biblical characters.

Incorrect. If you think this, you're confusing a metaphor's literal interpretation with its meaning.

"Have a nice day" isn't a metaphor, at this point it seems you're being purposefully obtuse.

Have a nice day!
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Time will tell whether it's a crisis bump or a sustained trend.

I wouldn't give it much weight for now.
It's a tricky problem. People listen to politicians and media figures (if they are different) because those entities are listenable and provide a constant standard flow of communication--that is their expert area. In contrast the veteran epidemiologist or any other expert is primarily an expert in that domain and not an expert in reaching a broad audience.

If the collective "we" (if there is such a coherent thing) were to listen primarily to experts, we would need to constantly shift which expert to which we are listening, depending on the problem of the day. Additionally, each of those experts would have to take time out of their expert practice area to become a highly skilled communicator.

Is the Surgeon General an expert or politician/media figure? Is the WHO reflective of experts all the time or is it an institution with political and media concerns?
It's not what programming languages do, it's what they shepherd you to
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This is not really needed. The game doesn't actually use ascii output, it renders the text (windows terminals would probably be too slow), and it supports graphic packs than can show the dwarves as actual pictures of dwarves. The biggest problem is when a glyph is reused for multiple things, as in that case the graphic has to pick one of them or stay generic.
How much content are you going to sacrifice to preserve a feature? Which draws in more customers, having good content to watch or the ability to do it in a party format?

Ideally you have both, but if forced to choose, you choose whatever makes sense for your business.
> On the Canadian side so I’m not sure how our recent legislation differs

The government is paying anyone who's income is impacted (even self-employed) $2k a month for four months... so individuals are getting monetary support.

https://www.surreynowleader.com/news/trudeau-unveils-new-200...
Having done native Android/iOS and web dev, web dev is much easier than Android and at least on par/if not easier than iOS.

There's a bunch of very complex web/electron apps that disprove the idea that the web is only for static documentation and web-inspired ideas are coming to mobile (React --> Jetpack Compose/Swift UI).

More importantly, hiring can't be put aside, and it's much easier to adapt your web app to work for mobile (since websites should be screen size agnostic anyway) than it is to build a fully native app from scratch.
Kind of reminds of of when Kraft did the opposite, they change their Mac & Cheese and didn't tell anyone:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/21/business/media/kraft-reve...
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Sort of, but the experience isn't the same. Theres something about the shuffle in Spotify/Apple Music/etc that just doesn't feel the same as having a radio station select the music for you. Partly because I still have to manage it. I will think if I like the song, want to save the song, skip the song, etc. The radio completely removes that control so you don't think about it at all.

Also, I'm not sure exactly how to describe it. But internet streaming just feels so sterile to me, while radio feels more alive.
I believe you, but what makes it a flamewar topic is how other people are going to react. The results will be predictably dismal. Actually you combined two flamewar topics there: a partisan one and an ideological one.

This is a moderation issue because such flamewars aren't only off topic, but destroy the intellectual curiosity that HN exists for.
Back in the day I self-studied through MIT OCW, and found it remarkably complete. It's better in quality than what you would get at almost all universities, including MIT itself (!), because only the best lecturers tend to get immortalized on OCW.

Going through the series 8.012, 8.022, 8.03, 8.033, 8.04, 8.044, 8.05, 8.06 will give you the core theoretical knowledge of a physics major. (I assume you already know all the relevant math background.) If you prefer lecture notes, I imagine the best thing is to go through David Tong's lecture notes [0] from start to finish, as these cover almost the entire Cambridge undergraduate curriculum very clearly. If you want textbooks, at least in America, the books one uses for these courses are pretty standardized, and Fowler's blog post lays out these standard choices. For more advanced books, I have a pretty extensive bibliography in the front matter of my personal lecture notes [1].

0: http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/teaching.html
1: https://knzhou.github.io/#lectures
Sorry for the long wait again uxcolumbo. This is the description I got from one of the crew members who worked with more of the technical side of things:
"Because we needed speed we hosted a wordpress site with a directory plugin that we hacked into and had the functionality that we needed". Maybe it doesn't clear everything up but hope it helps :)
My understanding is that iron weapons were not greatly superior to bronze, just cheaper/easier to make.
"shop by picture phone" yep

2 hours New York to San Francisco: we had planes for this in the 1970s but it was killed by regulatory hysteria.

Shaving by chemical: chemical depilatory actually already existed for over a century by 1950, not sure why they included this

A microwave oven? As the captions says, that was already on its way.

Water soluble plates: how could this possibly be a good idea?

Waterproof furniture: unclear how this actually makes cleaning easier.

Electron microscopes, yep, although again these were really invented in the 1930s.

Replacing steel with aluminum in construction: never really happened although unclear why this would be a good idea.

The reference to a battery powered automatic insulin dispenser is painful. The technology to do this is trivial today but it's not really available due to onerous medical device regulations.
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“Chávez’s motive was primarily political, but assuming a direct role in marketing FARC cocaine converted his government into a criminal enterprise,” the report said. “In this period, senior Chavista leaders became more interested in sustaining this lucrative corruption than in governing or managing the economy.”

People will immediately see these charges as political, and obviously they are to some degree, if the US is serious about this they should lead with facts, not charges.

For example, they indicate that Maduro received a $5M bribe from FARC while he was Foreign Minister. Irrespective of charges - this is really damning. Regular Venezuelans understand that corruption is bad, and so the focus should be on material facts and getting them out. That the US has charged them is really a technicality that allows all sorts of another measure to be taken, but from a PR perspective, it may be meaningless because it will be perceived as politicized.

Whatever campaign is going on, the public part needs to bring the most evidence forward and make it clear as day.
> SSD blocks can be written 10k, 100k, maybe a million times.

It's not 2007 anymore.

SSDs also have wear leveling; you cannot wear out a particular block of flash by writing to the same LBA a bunch of times.
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You're getting replies about shucking, but WD Passports are 2.5 inch drives that AFAICT are USB-only. The drive controller speaks USB directly, as opposed to SATA chained to a translator chip on a separate board. I've got a pair on my desk which I won't attempt to open, as I'm actually using them as portable external drives (as opposed to my pile of easystore carcasses).

I haven't noticed any abnormal behavior, but I also don't mount/luksOpen them with -o discard (if that's what it takes to trigger this).