skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We need to narrow down on specifics

I have an unfounded suspicion that there exists a simple algebra akin to a continuous geometric algebra that allows all of physics and only physics.

Something that's bothered me for years about contemporary physics is the use of constraints "on top of" a general purpose algebra over the infinite precision real or complex numbers.

Mathematicians would argue that it's all "equivalent", but to me it feels arbitrary and in a sense missing the point. The final theory whatever it is, shouldn't sound like "everything except almost everything leaving one thing". It should sound like "this one thing only, that can be no other thing".

A friend of mine once put it this way: Ask a mathematician to describe a Rubik's Cube and he'll start with the space of all possible transformations, whittle it down to some space of discrete modular transformations by throwing out all other continuous and infinite transformations, then by throwing out even more transformations eventually wind up with a set of rules that matches a Rubik's Cube. If you ask him to draw what it looks like he'll start spouting about how that's impossible and you just need to "learn the maths", pointing at a stack of textbooks.

Modern theoretical physics has the same problem.
So just like any other dynamically typed language?
Right. Though I doubt backblaze is using RAID in the first place.
They could detect whether an external monitor is connected. They can’t tell whether the cable ends in the same room.
It is true. When a policeman breaks the law himself he might get covered by his higher ups and merely lose his rank or the job but still not face any criminal consequences.
What does a Director of Engineering do?
There could be a rule that states that if the land trust becomes bankrupt, then the land in question becomes the property of the title holders owning the home on top of it. This idea could have issues in itself with respect to incentives, but hopefully it could prevent people having the rug pulled from underneath them.
Ask HN: Most effective practice towards remembering and recalling tech details
That might be a useful idea. To work however, you need people who want to buy the insurance.

Lots of people seem happy enough taking the risk of slightly crappy products?

Established brands with a long running reputation is another way to achieve similar goals to your insurance proposal.
IMF predicts worst downturn since Great Depression
> Firefox Containers are awful.

Any details, how do they leak?

> Only firefox profiles can give you true separation

I don't think they would help a lot against fingerprinting. (I have no idea how commonly used fingerprinting is at the moment.)
One of the things that is of constant annoyance is trying to find out when something was posted. Sometimes the time when it was posted is important, it allows me to ascertain how relevant the information therein is.
Calculations for operating "business as usual" in the USA gave ranges from 1.7 to 5 million dead with extremes of 4-8% death rate (13+ million).

This is based on a collapsed health care system causing the vast majority of cases requiring ventilators to result in death.

Roll two die, if you roll snake eyes you would die.

But, in my experience, most people saying things like "cure cannot be worse than the disease" are young, healthy and have access to good health care. Would that describe you? My father is in the 18+% fatality zone.
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Booking people to jail for sleeping in the cars. That definitely sounds like the land of free.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but I think here the optimization is possible because "* p = 2" is UB, because the compiler can assume that "p" points to invalid memory. For this assumption, the compiler must know that "realloc" invalidates its first argument.

How does it know that? The definition of "realloc" lives in the source of "libc.so", so the compiler should not be able to see into it. Its declaration in "malloc.h" does not have any special attributes. Does the standard and/or the compiler handles "realloc" differently from other functions?

edit:

It looks like clang inserts a "noalias" attribute to the declaration of "realloc" in the LLVM IR, so it seems it does handle "realloc" specially.

declare dso_local noalias i8* @realloc(i8* nocapture, i64) local_unnamed_addr #3
The risks of driving and seasonal flu are fairly well understood. And there are mitigation’s in place: seatbelts, traffic laws, theraflu, flu shots, etc.

I’m not calling you a murderer. I’m asking you to put a hard number in the risk you are willing to absorb.

Mine is 0.
Feel free to ask me anything about Keycloak in the Clojure ecosystem.
The README of keycloak-clojure needs some lifting but hopefully you'll find everything you need.
Disabling the use of cheap wired headphones which also doesn't need charging?
FCC to approve spectrum plan that Pentagon claims will harm GPS
Unlike ES6 classes, you absolutely can ignore type hints (and they're easy to ignore). In fact they're basically inline comments, and the interpreter ignores them too.
Purely Functional GLL Parsing
Apart from some online-only businesses, pretty much every business it cutting back at this point. Ads are one of the first ones to go. Esp. with the whole travel industry cutting by nearly 100%. Airlines, hotels and cruise ships spend a ton on ads and there's no point of running ads for them at this point.
Do you understand that millions of people are now out of work and won't be able to support their families, businesses are collapsing, calls to suicide lines are up massively, and society is general is not functioning?

This is a complex issue. Using hyperbolic emotional appeals to drown out discussion is not the right move.
Ask HN: Flat/minimal design ergonomics question including example of Hacker News
While I appear to be asking for a change, and I would be honored if a change was made due to my thoughts, for me this is an exercise in people's perception of usability vs. simplicity.

I would personally love it if Hacker News added some slight amount of color (Say "Hacker News Orange") to the faded links that I have already clicked on, to make them easier to find. Color could be subtly added to the whole link title, or just to the item number acting as a bullet.

I chronically have to engage some noticeable cognitive effort to find previously clicked links on many occasions.

I am creating a design language for a lot of web site content of multiple kinds. If you have clear thoughts on design, and especially if you are a designer, what pros and cons come to mind when considering a change like that?

Also, in a non-HN example, my brain requires much more mental effort for flat design than design with 3D type accents. My interpretation is our visual pathways already have a lot power available to color and use 3-D hints such as shading, to quickly identify "objects".

For me at least, these elements require less subjective mental effort to interpret content.

What do the designers out their think about that? I feel like simplicity of pages are being prioritized of simplicity of use. Flat design ignores the cognitive capacity of our brains to quickly discover and respond to any 3D type cue.

AGAIN - NOT A SUGGESTION BUT USING MY EXPERIENCE WITH HN AND FLAT SITES TO ASK FOR OPINIONS AND RATIONALE'S FOR NOT USING OUR BRAIN'S EXCEPTIONAL ABILITY TO INTERPRETE COLOR AND 3D EFFECT WITH LESS EFFORT THAN HAVING TO INTERPRETE THINGS AS DIFFERENT (unclicked link, clicked link, what is a button, what is not, etc.)

I encourage only responding if this is something you have given a lot of thought to, or if you have any other ergonomic issue with minimal and flat design that (for you) causes you ergonomic issues.

EDIT: I love how HN uses black for "tab"-text colors in the top bar, with white as the currently viewed "tab". This could not be clearer. Batman pointing at the current tab with a mithril sword couldn't add more visual discovery.
> The underlying intent may well be that, but it is couched in both ignorance and callous disregard for others.

Nope, that’s just your projection. You’re callously disregarding him.
It doesn't make much sense to compare VSCode and VS though.
I think there was genuine concern that the quarantine as implemented would not be enough. You can see lots of stories locally wherever you are about how people aren't obeying the order. Italy was still in a lot of trouble despite having had some quarantine measures in place. Hindsight shows the quarantine was effective enough to get numbers down. The US, despite reacting too late, did lockdown fully relatively quickly.

I would agree that modeling after NYC seems like a bad idea given the lack of density and public transportation. On the other hand, Michigan looked pretty exponential, and as the lagging cases came in from other states, they also began to look fairly exponential as well. Despite cases staying elevated for now, the exponential growth has died down.

The US missed the worst of hospitals being overrun and it running away in multiple cities.
Actually, I disagree. It might surprise you but the extremely violent behavior of American policemen is primarily influenced by external factors (such as the number of criminals equipped with guns). No matter what you do, you can't solve the problem by improving the police force.
My personal theory is that a big use case for Shkval is in the littoral and shallow waters of the Baltic Sea where there is fantastic opportunity to play hide and seek. Especially sub to sub. I think the Soviet command expected enemy subs to successfully sneak up on them and then have something up their sleeve to raise hell right back.
The way to scale this is with actual laws.

For example, it's hard to believe that an organisation not only handing over an obviously personal account to enterprise management but then failing to fix the problem when explicitly notified isn't in flagrant breach of the GDPR in Europe. The entire account tied to a personal identity could reasonably be considered personal data, which brings obligations in terms of properly managing and safeguarding that data and in terms of allowing the user to retrieve it and erase it, among other things.

I'm not generally a fan of how the GDPR was implemented in practice, but in cases like this, the sledgehammer-nut principle might well work in favour of the little guy. Going after both the hosting service and the former employer if they fail to disconnect the personal account and retain control over it when notified seems like exactly the sort of thing the regulators ought to be doing. This is such a flagrantly inappropriate policy that some sort of punitive fines to make an example don't seem out of the question.
Weren't journalling filesystems supposed to help with bad random write performance?
They're the same company but not (yet?) the same drives.
For a few quarters. They'll survive and be back where they are now when the economy bounces back (whenever that may be). They could take a 100% cut for several quarters without cutting expenses. Small ad companies are the ones that will really suffer. They don't have Google's deep pockets and diversification.
A quote by a liberal (Krugman) writing an opinion piece for the nytimes is hardly an argument. He even had to follow it up to specify that they had a center-left bias.
What do you think about Web Assembly?
The two doesn't even play in the same category:

"source code editor" vs full fledged IDE

It doesn't make much sense to compare the two in general imho.
Onfido Nabs $100M in New Funding
Yes, you better leave it at that.
> GDPR protects personal data, which the EU interprets very broadly.

This isn't accurate. Individual member states can and do interpret the GDPR differently.

For a European company, the country they are "at home to" is the one that will govern them, not the state that the individual belongs to. If the company is not "at home" in the European Union (for example, because it is in the US and has no European offices and does not trade in Europe), then the rules of the individual's member state will apply.

The details matter.

> When you are working and what you are working on is included [as personal data], for instance

No: Not in the UK or Ireland (which I'm most familiar with) and probably not in any other European country.

Personal data is data that identifies a natural person, or that can be used to identify a natural person, not that is produced by a natural person.

The ICO has excellent (English-language) literature on this subject:

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...

It may be that storing (say) your email address on every Trello card would be personal data, but then you can follow the process to have this data identified and removed by sending a letter requesting it be returned to you and destroyed. Trello would not be required to figure this out on their own - you would have to tell them how to identify your personal data.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...

> Processing of such data (e.g. handing it over to a third party) without explicit consent is subject to major fines

This isn't what the GDPR refers to as processing, and it is absolutely possible to process personal data without explicit consent. For example, the ICO suggests no less than five separate ways that are not explicit consent:

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...

And again, I don't agree that "Trello cards" count as personal data. You can call the ICO (if you want) and ask them if you think otherwise; I have done this several times and they've happily sent me written clarification on any theory I might have (including on something that is similar to this):

https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/
EPYC is already a modular architecture, literally nothing stops AMD replacing a couple of "compute" dies with HBM2 stacks. They could release CPUs that don't require DIMM sockets at all. E.g.: instead of 2 sockets + a bunch of DIMM sockets, the same motherboard space could be used for 4 sockets with embedded memory.
It's a treatment, not a cure. Deaths go up because more people are getting infected.
I feel like "spec sheet omitted serious detail" is a good signal to avoid a specific brand even if that specific SKU isn't available.
As a lay person I don't understand why they wouldn't, could you give some more information as to why?
As they said to coal workers who were getting out of jobs, they should learn to code.
There are, but it's a moving goalpost. Consumers are chasing yet unbiased reviewers, while companies' marketing departments are busy bribing the next generation of reviewers.

At least in IT we have Stallman-esque zealots who refuse to be bribed. I don't think we have the equivalent in other markets unfortunately.
The cases reported per country, or state are only a narrow window into what is actually happening. The most advanced medical testing company in the world, Roche, is Swiss-German so Germany's testing capability relative to most countries is off the charts. Combined with a highly distributed, yet also highly co-ordinated health care system they have been ahead of the curve in testing on every conceivable metric. As a result they have reported relatively high case totals, because they have been doing mass testing for a long time, but very low death rates because this enabled them to effectively isolate cases quickly.

As countries increase their testing capacity it is quite possible some countries (or states) will end up eventually reporting accelerating numbers of diagnoses even if the actual new case rate in the population is falling.

One way to mitigate that is to report only cases requiring hospital admission. This isn't ideal by any stretch, but is a reasonable proxy for the spread of the virus and at least gives a good indication of the impact on the health care system.
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> Some users are experiencing problems adding the latest WD Red NAS drives to RAID arrays

No, these drives are not 'fine' for NAS use
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In the end no one will know if it was worth it since no country went in the other direction and just lived with it. The UK tried for a bit but then reacted harshly as the situation worsened.

Maybe not doing anything would've resulted in a few months of medical chaos and not much more, maybe it would've destroyed whole societies. But the polls I'm aware of show that the majority of people is supportive of measures nearly everywhere (I'm not aware of a poll that shows the opposite). In democracies, you'd expect politicians to act if the majority and experts support it.
No I did not. But in the end, when it gets compiled, every word is clearly defined, or not?
"Blog" comes from "weblog" and logs usually have some time of timestamp, right?

Especially when using time-relative words like "lately", I always check out the date of the post to see how relevant this piece is.

In addition to displaying a date on the post, I also appreciate dates above the content[0].

It's fine to have a curated homepage though.

[0]: https://jlelse.blog/thoughts/2019/11/dates-above/
Memory corruption in sudo password feedback code happened because length and pointer sit as unrelated variables and have to be manipulated by two separate statements every time like some kind of manually inlined function. For comparison putty slice API handles slice as a whole object in a single statement keeping length and pointer consistent.
Ah, sounds like a NIMBY clean-up effort.
After seeing the comment from Blair at Atlassian on Community forum, I also noticed that Support Team replied with a lot more care seeing that the conversation went public. Not good.

In the first stage, they should have already made the right decision, handing over the account to its rightful owner, without any hesitation. I hate companies favoring companies over individuals. I thought this was a mindset of old school businesses, not our current tech ones, the ones that build their success on us.

I was already reviewing new tools for organizing plans, today I'm removing all my boards and closing my account on Trello, as my civil response.

"Apathy is the tyrant's greatest ally."
This is beautiful! Congratulations!
WSL1 has some unimplemented features, but overall it's not a bad experience.
Very cool. Thank you for that! Is there an easy way to explain why you can't do this with other particles but you can with Majorana particles?
Without air traffic and closed borders, a country that's not that affected could get through it with few measures. Not sure if many countries are still at that stage but it's no coincidence that international travel hubs got affected worst.
Creating Amazing 3D Videos from raw 2D Images of Nepal Using Computer Vision
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem
That sounds rather deceptive
Came here to say this. It's great. I use it for my portfolio tracker - https://stockdaddy.io/ - it's quite powerful in terms of breadth of APIs and data available.
A nice example of "ensurers will ensure everything" is the Ansari X Prize (space competition). They ensured against someone actually winning the competition:

> The funding for the US $10,000,000 prize was unconventional in being "backed by an insurance policy to guarantee that the $10 million is in place on the day that the prize is won."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansari_X_Prize#Funding
Seagate drives are notoriously poor quality, in addition to well published, large sample and long running studies by Backblaze - I ran a number of decent sized storage clusters for many years and by far found Seagate drives the most unreliable (including Seagate a rebranded as HPE etc...)

- https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-q2-2019/

- https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/02/13/seagate-12tb-drive-fai...
Facebook will be in a great position with people having more and more phone time due to the quarantine. Might be a short term hit but a big boost down the road
Author here. Fingerprinting is a valid concern. The API explainer has a section about it:
https://github.com/WICG/performance-measure-memory#fingerpri...

It is important to keep in mind that the API only accounts for the objects allocated by the web page itself and does not expose the total memory usage of the browser.

The only information that can be extracted using the API is the browser version (because an object representation may change between different versions) and the bitness of the browser (32-bit vs 64-bit). This information is already exposed by other existing APIs (e.g navigator.userAgent, navigator.deviceMemory)

Thus the API does not add _new_ data bits for tracking. The final spec of the API may include additional protection against fingerprinting. For example, adding a small amount of Gaussian noise would make browser version inference much more difficult.
Might. Or when she breaks the law, she might get thrown in jail like everyone else.

It depends on how corrupt the local establishment is. The cops play a tactical role.

For reference, see the original handling of the Jussie Smollett case. Clearly laws were broken, but corrupt higher-ups provided cover.
It is also in the nature of a policeman to follow law, I think. Non corrupt ones don't really have a choice.
He got something worth more than $1M. A father who was a US Representative who was smart enough to be operating his own investment firm, and who was probably able to guide him to the right schools and network of people to magnify odds of success. Knowing the right people is such a huge lever in the investment business, especially back in those days without computer trading and internet.
>can anyone recommend a resource for determining the relative performance of processors?

Anandtech has a section of benchmarks with many workloads. I used that for years to assess CPU relative performance.
https://www.anandtech.com/bench/CPU-2019/2224

You can also look at https://hwbot.org/benchmarks , but it's harder to use.

Another good resource would be: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Benchmarks-Tech.123.0.html
The economic impact was going to happen one way or the other.
That sucks, mate. I hope it works out for the best long term.
‘Smart toilet’ monitors for signs of disease
For these large scale infrastructures, they typically use JBOD, i.e. no RAID whatsoever and they achieve redundancy by maintaining multiple copies of the data over multiple disks spread around the datacentre. So it's not hardware RAID that requires a certain response time (I suspect the drives mentioned here drop because they timeout as it take a long time to random write on an SMR disk), more like a distributed software RAID. I think they likely also have their own file system so they are not dependent on a fixed block size, which allows them to save space if they have loads of small files.
Maybe it's just concentrated on poorer parts of the population? Generally poorer people tend to live closer together and can't afford staying home when they're sick. Immigrants tend to be poorer in most countries, including Sweden. I'm not sure how it helps to name place of birth for infected, finding out the actual factors determining the spread would be more helpful.
The current tactical solution to people taking potshots at helicopters is flying in pairs. Whoever gets shot at evades. Whoever doesn't get shot at shoots at wherever the shot came from. The Navy doesn't use this tactic much because the ocean is relatively free of people hiding in apartment buildings and bushes with RPGs but they could quickly adopt it if needed at the expense of effectively halving the size of their helicopter fleet.
Spot on and I can see you are a good person. Thank you.
Isn’t that exactly what Sweden is currently doing?
To be fair, the US government does engage in similar things. The DoD lending equipment for film only if the script is favorable enough.