skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Asynchronous multi party messaging is a tangled mess.

Top posting is an emergent phenomenon from using the wrong tool (e-mail) for the job.

Basically when you reply to all, you acknowledged which information you have received from and read, and you communicate that to the other participants by transmitting your whole history of your current view of the thread, leaving users the ability to manually do some Paxos if they want to be able to agree on a consistent shared view.

Email clients have to recourse to some black magic to merge the threads correctly. If you ever have tried to use email to constitute list of players for a football game where each participant add its name to the list you will quickly find that there are some errors and you got either some missing players or some extra. Because when two people answer simultaneously, the merging is not trivial to do and depends on the mail client.

There are also some issues with spam filters or max number of people in conversation which sometimes exclude some people from the conversation. So very quickly history of views can't be merged, and of course it fails silently.

There are also probably some accidentally quadratic problems there, but storage is cheap.
Here is Nassim Taleb, who invented the term explain it is not a black swan: https://youtu.be/lBjVTm7F1lQ
And in large corporate networks.
This is an anonymous account so I can be myself. But my blog is mostly made for me. I use it to write down technical stuff I learn.

So it's made like a wiki but with a design that works for blogs too.

Meaning I update posts regularly instead of making new ones.

The personal thoughts section is much smaller than the technical section.
What you have described is just plain old discipline. I think the reason why side projects don't result in discipline is that they are just something you do when you have time for it. Work usually has a fixed schedule and any variable events are scheduled around work. Side projects tend to get disturbed by variable events and inevitably are delayed.
It's right there in black and white

> "As one outspoken foreign editor remarked at his retirement from the newspaper, the Economist has yet to see a war it does not like. Again and again, spreading and defending the benefits of western liberalism has offered justification for imperial adventure."

Read the materials before you come to class.
On these lines, allow me to introduce a valuable new service: MRLTaaS (Most Recent Leak Time as a Service)

Ever wondered when the most recent leak of your most valuable secrets occurred? Simply upload your password file to my web service and within moments the magic of our distributed AI will return the current date/time...
You could carry on to the next sentences:

> This was originally a broad church stretching from radicals like Richard Cobden and John Bright to the cotton interests of Manchester. But that coalition frayed as Wilson opposed assistance to Ireland during the famine and backed the authoritarian usurper Napoleon III following the 1848 revolution in France.

"Free trade" tends to mean a very specific kind of freedom for a very specific set of people.
I figure Docker wraps stuff up into a nice "thing" that you can use, with documentation, a logo, and mindspace. You can put "Docker" on your CV and there's some hope that a recruiter will know what that means.
In such situations I usually ask "whose percentile are we talking about ? the percentile of the latencies of the service or the percentile of the wait time of the user ?" Then I show that for many scenarios the percentile that the user experiences can be drastically different.
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I think in many ways this is the actual problem. Since these email clients doesn't display threads correctly, their users have to send emails that include the entire thread of conversation as full-text quotes.
I built that for myself, called giki.wiki. My personal annotation giki blog is at giki.wiki/@nubela . I've since used it as a company wiki too.
The article seems to summarize, but doesn't name, Alexander Zevin's book, Liberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52105758-liberalism-at-l... ).
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No, it's a terrible twitter thread that doesn't critically evaluate the work at all.

At least one person sees the same problem with the paper that i do:

https://twitter.com/__ice9/status/1245400895581552652
“Get” is an interesting choice of word. They won’t escape without any punishment but they certainly can do this.

Their landlord can take them to court... when the courts open.
I write a mostly personal blog at nubela.co/blog . I call it The Lazy CEO to journal my journey as a solo founder trying to be a CEO. I try to be as honest and candid as I can.

I started it as a discipline to write everyday, and it stuck.
Try it again.

Things that fail, fail in a context of the times it was executed in.

It's especially worth trying a failed idea again if the context appears different.
A pandemic side-effect: Weather forecasts may become less accurate
Who is Dominic Raab, Boris Johnson's de facto deputy?
Fewer data points from planes:

> "We have gone from about 200,000 tracking globally daily to floating around 60 or 70,000. That is about a 70 per cent reduction in the number of flights circulating the planet and it can have an effect on the flight-level data."
For a kind of similar game but with a bit of a twist (not pushing blocks, but rolling them) I highly recommend Bloxorz [0] although I should warn everybody that it's highly addictive.

0 - https://www.miniclip.com/games/bloxorz/en/
Indeed - Cromwell wasn't an aberration, he was the start of the occupation of Ireland with all the usual brutality of colonialism, and the Orange Order will happily bring him out as a "stick" in the other direction.
<grin>

Thanks for the contact details.

The point-by-point stuff works well if each sub-thread can be closed off when done, and sub-threads can be merged when appropriate. I agree that things can become a big mess, and that effort is required to create value.

But that's always the case.

I think we've made our cases, and I appreciate your responses.
> Sure, you don't have to do any of those things, but you'll be seriously disadvantaged if you don't because the games are designed around these mechanics.

That's not the case, though. You might be somewhat disadvantaged, but not seriously.

On my first playthrough on normal difficulty I essentially only used the Super Shotgun. I can't remember using the Chainsaw for ammo, but I did use the BFG a handful of times.

The developers have even said that a goal of theirs was to make this "playstyle" (using only the SS) less viable in Doom Eternal, because it was too simple and powerful. It might have been on a NoClip podcast, I can't remember OTOH.

I've not played Eternal yet, I'm waiting for updated nvidia drivers to hit my distributions repositories.
They're closed on weekends and nights. The number of machines isn't what's keeping their production capacity down.
Jack Ma donates 500 Ventilators to Nigeria and other African countries
I'd be really happy to see seL4 thrive and I like that this blog-post shows that the people behind it understand what could potential hold it back - the infrastructure around it. It needs what GNU and systemd are for Linux. And it needs an Arduino/Raspberry Pi - a halo platform that I can buy and play around with.

What I wonder is how this formal verification works. seL4 is written in C and apparently the formal verification is done in a different language. Is it possible to have a programming language where the compiler does the formal verification?
I have a JavaFX app which is consuming far more memory than the heap allocates... even when I set Xmx. For example, with java -Xmx64m I can see that the app runs just fine, but it still consumes over 200MB according to the OS (checked with htop and with Mac's System Monitor). Does anyone know a tool to help find out why the JVM is holding on to so much memory beyond the heap, or how to make the JVM use less native memory?

I've found out that vmmap (as shown here[1]) is only a little helpful, as it has so much info I can't really make sense of it... and I also found this[2] answer on StackOverflow that was very helpful as it lets me see the native memory allocation by the JVM... but all I know now is that less than half of my JVM memory consumption is the actual heap: the rest is thread stacks (huge for JavaFX - around 50MB for my app), GC-allocated memory and around 25MB of class definitions!

[1] https://plumbr.io/blog/memory-leaks/why-does-my-java-process...

[2] https://stackoverflow.com/a/30941584/1007991
An online version for the lazy :)

https://theintelligentbook.com/circuitsup/#/latches/1/2
Wow. I love the license: "I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide.

In case this is not legally possible, I grant any entity the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law."

I wonder if that is good enough. I'm temped to use that for my extremely permissive stuff.
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I was the same. Once I paid for it I felt I had to get my moneys worth but there is a lot to get through every week. I tend to read it at the library now (well until the thing arrived on our shores).
Is there an email spec that actually hashes posts, and allows new emails to just refer to the hash it is responding to, and the thread hash-graph. And perhaps as some metadata, some former posts w/ hashes.
Study explores the effects of bilingualism on the developing brain
Work flow of diagnosing memory performance issues
Does it matter though? If it will always be overwhelmed by the weak and strong force as distances narrow (except near/in a black hole or if extra dimensions actually exist)?
I spent a decade working on multicast, helped write some of the second generation multicast conferencing tools, and co-authored a number of the standards. Generally, the issue was that multicast requires per group or per-source state in routers, and router memory was a scarce resource. This made it hard to scale globally. It also made forwarding problems hard to diagnose, taking up operators' time. These costs, plus an unclear connection between who benefitted from multicast and who paid for it made it difficult for core ISPs to justify. And that meant that commericial content or application providers needed to implement a plan B in case multicast wasn't available, and if that worked well enough, they didn't bother with also doing multicast.

Still, RTP and SIP came directly out of the MBone, and they bootstrapped the whole Internet multimedia phenomena we're all enjoying today while working from home.
China tried this in March and it failed rather spectacularly. Border officials were quickly overwhelmed and had to play it fast and loose; nobody knows who was responsible for what. In many cases, people showing symptoms who were supposed to be placed under medical observation were prematurely discharged, this plus some other oversight have resulted in at least one active disease cluster in Guangzhou. By the end of March the government had to massively reduce the number of arriving flights to make the passenger numbers more manageable.

As it always turns out, providing food and accomondation for tens of thousands of people is always easier said than done.
Coronavirus patients can benefit from blood of the recovered, new study shows
>the housing crisis disappeared overnight because of this virus

Thats a bit disingenous and hyperbolic. It is true that more apartments are available (00's) due to Corona but the housing crisis is far from over.
“We could search for a new protein that matches the melody and rhythm of an antibody capable of binding to the spike protein, interfering with its ability to infect,” said Professor Buehler.

Interesting. Encode the info, in potentially, an easier format for comparison.
archive.* has some really strange dns-based tracking built in
Cromwell really does have a lingering propaganda support, doesn't he?

The UK is one of a very small number of countries to have deliberately restored its monarchy after a revolution and period of parliamentary government, and the reason for that is that Cromwellian government was even worse for a lot of people. A modern analogue might be the Iranian Revolution; congratulations on getting rid of the puppet monarch controlled by overseas interests, now dancing is banned. Or in the case of Cromwell, Christmas. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/what-is-designation/h...

The UK does an extremely bad job of teaching its historial "religious" conflict, which was rarely about doctrine so much as temporal power-politics.
I read about it there too, but maybe I misremembered it.

I cam away with the distinct impression that the great thing about IO was the interpreter could be modified (ala lisp) by adding or removing functions, and as such it was an easy language to create functional "sandboxes" in by just creating a subclass and modifying the available method.

But I can find no mention of that on the projects docs..
The Secret Cruelty of T. S. Eliot
Ask HN: Success Rate (Click, Open) for Plain Text vs. HTML Designer Emails?
Seconding Feedly with RSS. Most blog software still supports RSS, even if they don't advertise it. You can View Source and search for "rss" and very often a feed will pop up.

And thanks for reminding me, I should sign up for Feedly Pro or whatever. Pay for things you like (RIP, Google Reader) :)
Mountable toilet system for personalized health monitoring by analysing excreta
Ha! I think that you've just saved me the trouble of reading the article, and in a concise five words, too! Thanks.
He said the UK needed to do that, not the US. And in case you're in doubt, yes, it's wildly inappropriate. To wish revenge on a politician who has from the start delegated to his own scientific advisors, which is exactly what people wanted politicians to do, is a sick thing.

You can go read the same advice he was reading on gov.uk, which states the obvious very clearly: you can't stop a virus with no vaccine by keeping everyone under indefinite house arrest. Even the dubious modellers admit that lockdown doesn't really flatten the curve, it just moves it forward. There's no solution in lockdown and it's wrong to pretend otherwise.

Given the information at the time (and still now) the original "let it spread with timed and staged lockdown" strategy was very likely correct. It becomes clearer every day. The hospitals aren't overflowing, the country hasn't run out of ventilators - not even close - and yet the economy is trashed with consequent dire impacts to the future funding of the healthcare system and other public services. The country could clearly be coping with fewer restrictions than it has now.

Despite that it's no surprise that the British left may sadly rejoice at Boris' ill fortune. It's hard to forget the parties they threw when Thatcher died.
My blog is HidayahTech: https://blog.basilgohar.com. If that's not confusing enough, that's also the name of my consulting business, which is much younger than my blog. :-)

It's truly a mishmash of topics that are personally interesting to me that I've wanted to share with others. I've been blogging on-and-off for nearly 15 years [0].

My topics range from programming [1, 2], hardware I use for different purposes [3], the birth of my children, faith, BBSes [4], and free/libre software [5], to name a few.

I've recently started trying to make posts that also would be interesting for others, and one recent post related to AMD laptops made it to the front page of HN [6].

Edit: Added links to some of my referenced posts now that I'm at my computer.

[0] https://blog.basilgohar.com/2006/01/14/welcome-to-hidayahtec...

[1] https://blog.basilgohar.com/?s=programming

[2] https://blog.basilgohar.com/tag/development/

[3] https://blog.basilgohar.com/2006/11/06/the-heroic-story-of-t...

[4] https://blog.basilgohar.com/2006/10/22/classic-gaming-bbs-do...

[5] https://blog.basilgohar.com/tag/free-software/

[6] https://blog.basilgohar.com/2020/01/06/laptop-oems-make-a-pr...
Huh! As i was pondering this after posting, war memorials were exactly the example i thought of.

It's an interesting comparison, because the simple meaning of the phrase is just a memorial to people who died in war. So, for example, the bomber command memorial [1] is, in that sense, a war memorial.

But if you say "war memorial" to a British person, it means something much more specific: a pillar, cross, or obelisk, about ten to twenty feet tall, located at a road junction near the centre of a village or small town, erected after the first or second world war:

https://www.wivenhoehistory.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/1...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Bomber_Command_Memorial
Notre that it includes comments written by one of the members of the research group, that is one of the regular here.
> The majority of state school provision in the UK is atrocious.

I don't think this is really true anymore. I agree state schools were truly awful in the 80s/90s (my partner who went to state school didn't even learn times tables). Quality of state school has improved tremendously over the last 20 years, and I'd say it's very good these days. Especially as middle class families are priced out of independent schools. In fact I'd even say it may be better for your kids to go to the local state school nowadays, otherwise you are isolating them from their local community.

> Not a penny of your tax goes to subsidising their education.

I, of course, totally disagree :). I toured many London independent schools last year for secondary, and you just need to take a look at the amazing school grounds to see the benefits of charitable status. [1] These are for-profit institutions with huge bursaries that avoid paying almost all taxes. Any tax exemption is equivalent to a subsidy that I am funding as a taxpayer.

1. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/charities-detaile...
CC0 is another way to do it, much wordier, but with legal advice behind it: https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc...

I still like the JonesForth version of a public domain release.
If "what we actually want" even comes into consideration, we did orders of magnitude better than the current industry standard. (Poor consolation, I know.) Right now, the vast majority of AIs don't even have a concept of "human desire" – probably none of them, to be honest, though some that are good at manipulating their handlers might've come close to a particularly stupid dog's understanding. This is at the core of the Friendly AI problem: https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Friendly_artificial_intellig...

Just because we created the AI doesn't mean it'll care about us. That's like saying a maths problem will try to make your favourite number its answer, just because you wrote it. No, you are the one who must make its answer the number you want. It won't happen by chance.

Corollary: you can't patch broken FAI designs. Reinforcement learning (underlying basically all of our best AI) is known to be broken; it'll game the system. Even if they were powerful enough to understand our goals, they simply wouldn't care; they'd care less than a dolphin. https://vkrakovna.wordpress.com/2018/04/02/specification-gam...

And there are far too many people in academia who don't understand this, after years of writing papers on the subject.
Jonesforth is insanely cool. The linked mirror seems to be missing 'jonesforth.f'. Maybe try check out this one[1] for the full implementation.

I recently tried porting Jonesforth to UEFI[2], so I could run it directly on my hardware without needing an operating system. I was actually surprised by how easy it turned out to be.

Okay, admittedly I ended up rushing a bit towards the end, and the final result is very bare-bones - it can do "Hello, World!", Fibonacci numbers, and then that's pretty much it. Still, it was a lot of fun, and I would totally recommend a project like this, especially if you don't usually work with "low-level" development.

I also ended up writing a blog post[3] to help people get started writing assembly for UEFI. The best resource is probably the OS Dev wiki, though. It has a ton of great resources.

[1]: https://github.com/nornagon/jonesforth

[2]: https://github.com/c2d7fa/jonasforth

[3]: https://johv.dk/blog/bare-metal-assembly-tutorial.html

[4]: https://wiki.osdev.org/Expanded_Main_Page
Why Sasquatch and other crypto-beasts haunt our imaginations Ideas
I have to say I'm surprised how many people blog about what I would consider to be "work stuff" on their personal blogs. For me, I keep a strong separation between work and personal life. So my personal blog is about my personal hobbies: woodworking, gardening, cooking, that kind of thing. https://www.smokingonabike.com/
Zero sum means there is only one apple, and either your kid gets it or mine does. Not everything is zero sum.
Opossums, Hydras and Hummingbirds: What We're Learning About Aging from Animals
> But we have good evidence that it is likely to be deadly enough to justify stay-at-home orders while community spread exists.

I don't think we agree on that and it's relative. Not all people agree on stay-at-home/confinement orders. I personally see them as an authoritarian measure and I think everyone should judge for himself whether he wants to expose himself to COVID-19 risks or not.

As to the point of determining if COVID-19 is deadly enough or not, I don't see how we can do that without sampling the society. It's not clear, right now, if the only cases are the ones that are diagnosed or 50% of society.
Specifically to make it "good enough", CC0 was created:

> CC0 helps solve this problem by giving creators a way to waive all their copyright and related rights in their works to the fullest extent allowed by law

https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc...
Trump’s Aggressive Advocacy of Malaria Drug to Treat Coronavirus Divides Medics
I wouldn't exactly say I 'enjoy' using SIP.
don't: https://nixpulvis.com/ramblings
There were three Chinese students in sixth form at my independent day school when I was 16-18. They lived with a host family.

Searching for "family boarding" shows this isn't unique.
It's also worth highlighting that the universities here have become so reliant on that money that they were paying students up to AUD$7500 in some cases [1] to not drop out of the academic semester, by either remote study or flying and staying in a third country for the 14 days to obey the technicalities of the travel ban from China. Had they dropped out before the census date, those students would've been eligible for refunds, and the universities would've been bled of funding they critically rely on.

That the whole system has become so dependent on foreign funding that this sort of incentive became a financially prudent decision for the unis is terrifying from the point of view of independence [2] and ongoing security of the system.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/26/australian-uni...

[2]: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/universities-rewrite...
Quoting from the article:

> If hydroxychloroquine becomes an accepted treatment, several pharmaceutical companies stand to profit, including shareholders and senior executives with connections to the president. Mr. Trump himself has a small personal financial interest in Sanofi, the French drugmaker that makes Plaquenil, the brand-name version of hydroxychloroquine.
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The more I program, the less do I value any of these overly dynamic features and elegant aesthetics.

However, I have come to greatly value robust tooling surrounding a language, to the point where I believe designing a language that makes the creation of such tooling difficult (or impossible) is a terrible trade-off.
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