skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This comparison seems a little disingenuous in this context. I read GP's post as saying simply that the current speed of SW RAID is enough to saturate current network speeds. If in the future we make some great breakthroughs in network technology without making the same progress in compute performance, then perhaps hardware RAID will become more relevant again, but right now software strikes a better balance.
Very Professional. It sucks to be laid off, but I'm not sure this will advance their chances of getting rehired (anywhere).
I still find this a bit peculiar, I haven't experienced that in any of my previous machines, mac or not.

Normally, I'd call customer support and assume it's an issue with my device specifically. HN saved me a bunch of annoying phone calls.
The point of my comment is to tell you that you're wrong by saying React is not appropriate for a landing page. Gatsby (a static site generator) provides equal or better performance than regular HTML/CSS. You apparently have only heard of Gatsby.

Even though I built my site in React, the end result is minified HTML and CSS. So out of the box using Gatsby and React, I have a faster site than you because I have minification. Of course you can also set up minification. Of course this has nothing to do with React. It has everything to do with what organizations like Gatsby are doing, which is just part of the React ecosystem.

You're scaring people away from adopting the React ecosystem. I'm writing a comment because I need to provide a counter argument for future readers of this thread, not to convince you to use React.

I started blogging on my Gatsby site in January for my business. I get a 98 on PageSpeed and rank for all sorts of keywords. Here's my organic traffic: https://share.getcloudapp.com/RBuv7bWw I'm doing this by myself and I'm happy with results. The idea of switching to writing pure HTML/CSS as some sort of benefit would be completely idiotic to me.
Ask HN: Microsoft/Flash Gordon Videos?
In the 1990's Microsoft had a couple of videos that were voiced over old Flash Gordon movies. I had them only a old computer at one time so I know they are (or were) out there.

In one of the videos, this woman beside Ming the Merciless asks him "Whats with the costumes?" (something like that).

Ming responds: "It's casual Friday"

Does anyone have them or a link?
I conclude that usage of std::boyer_moore_searcher is relatively low, despite this C++17 feature shipping in VS 2017 15.3 (August 2017).

"www" triggers the bug like all 3-character repeats, but Boyer-Moore manages to find it in "http://www.example.com/" despite the damaged delta2 table, because the incorrect shift value is never exercised. However, a haystack of "https://www.example.com/" triggers the bug, because now the "www" is at an offset of 8.
Mine started freezing lately if I run graphic intensive programs and hangs on a gray screen when trying to restart. I wonder if the battery could be the issue.
I had no idea there was a game. I would love to see that redone now, starting from the first book.
I keep waiting for news about their RYF certification.
I think it's probably more just uncertainty on their end. They're upping the delivery estimates to cover their ass for the ones that get delayed. Anecdotally I have had the same experience of items arriving in around normal prime shipping time while having estimates weeks to a month out.
No but that's a good idea — I will look into that, seems like an easy first step as far as screening goes. Thanks!

True, the NYPL UX is pretty terrible now that I think about it. That will especially be a problem for seniors who aren't confident with tech. I will add a bunch more stories ASAP and introduce a filter, thanks for your thoughts! LMK if there's anything else you think.
Without a familiar object or a ruler in the pictures, it's difficult to tell how "miniature" these are.
This comment misses the point. How many other government contracts have the presumed favorite lose after the President made multiple statements saying that he would do everything in his power to screw over the favorite? And AWS losing IS an upset.

I've spent a lot of time around government contracting and this whole bid process was mind-boggling badly handled by the government. The number of conflicts-of-interests involved throughout the process are absurd.
Selecting hardware for embedded development of open-source protocol adapters
Interesting! My statement was based on what I read in the Museum of Retro Tech:

http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/museum.htm

Many designs have been tried over the years, but suffer from oil leaks, low compression or high manufacturing costs.
exactly. more specific selectors are edge cases, which is a usually-acceptable heuristic for rule priority but doesn't correspond 1:1.
Being a better scientific communicator might mean being more aware of how innocuous statements can be accidentally or deliberately misconstrued.
Apparently there are multiple fixes, some of which are said to be simpler. See https://github.com/microsoft/STL/issues/727 and the cited comments within, which quote Knuth. (I'm learning a lot by having this PR appear on HN!)
> Isn't this bad design?

It’s a trade-off - they COULD build a laptop which can run everything at 100% 24/7 indefinitely, but it’d be heavier and more expensive, with zero benefits to their target audience of "people who only run at 100% for a few hours per day"
If I know I’m going to leave a laptop plugged in indefinitely, I would like to be able to set it to 50% battery manually instead of trying to “train” the software to get it right. Most (all?) operating systems lack this ability.
Facilitating Remote Workshops with Zoom
you can't just expose a package like that to the user. user-removable batteries need to have a much sturdier (ie, thicker and heavier) package to prevent damage to the cells (major fire hazard). probably the chassis itself needs an additional layer of plastic to protect the components that would be exposed when the battery is removed. on top of all that, you need a robust latching mechanism that can withstand clumsy users removing and reinserting the battery over and over again. the end result is a much thicker and heavier device.
You don’t have to answer even to that if there is no probable cause.
I would have to had the author said something along the lines of "I don't track your browsing history"
Google’s and Apple’s Contact Tracing
Life Sciences Financings and Commentary #3
Just tried to figure out why Hasura has lambda on it's logo, and hey, it's written in Haskell!
Push-UPS daily for 30 days Wonderful body transformation
OK, so we have done dozens of such studies. The overwhelming opinion is that vaccines are safe. Here is just one report on the many studies:

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2f93s53t

Read it, and let me know if you're not convinced please! Aussiming you're not, I'd like to hear your reasons. I don't expect to convince you beyond the above report, but I would really appreciate hearing your thought if that's ok?

Thanks!
mhm, tempting
“float” and “normal” (what?) aren’t layout modes. the rest didn’t exist in css until relatively recently. postion: relative exists, yes, but it doesn’t do what you say it does. - it sets the top, left, bottom and right properties to be relative its own natural position. it doesn’t specify any relationship to any other element. the other properties you say specify layout relative other elements- don’t do what you think they do either. align and margin only effects an element’s content, margin only refers to other elements in edge cases, and float was only ever supposed to let you embed figures that text would wraparound. it’s use for layout was an abuse and not what it was designed for. Though i can see how it can seem like those elements seem like they refer to other elements, but that is just a consequence of the properties interacting with the document flow algorithm, which is there with or without css.

while css now does have real layout modules: flexbox and grid, CSS wasn’t designed for layout and it just isn’t very good at it, especially if you compare it to say, cocoa autolayout, or the flexbox model in UI frameworks that were designed to do this stuff at the start instesd of having it awkwardly bolted on. and just what is document flow? is it a layout algorithm? no, it’s a greedy word wrap algorithm applied to boxes. that’s it.

finally, 15 year old display: table and flex hacks? what are you smoking. ie8 was released in 2009 and didn’t uproot ie6 and ie7 until many years later. i had to have fallbacks for ie7 up to 2015. flex only became usable after 2015. it existed before that but not in all the browsers.

the closest thing in css to what I am talking about is position:absolute, which implicitly refers an element to its nearest parent with either position relative or position absolute. i don’t get to identify which element or elements i would like to refer to directly.

the only other thing is percentage unit which refers to a percentage of the paren’s width or height depending on which property it appears in- which was annoying enough they almost fixed it with vw and vh units which refer specifically to width and height of the viewport, but if i want a proportion of any other element’s dinensions my option is to use javascript or eat a bag of donkeys.
Actually, I do.

You're wildly underestimating how rebellious newspaper editors are. If someone was messing with the reporting, everyone in DC would know, and you'd see remarkably detailed reporting on it throughout other parts of the press.
The UK government has already started hinting at this.

In reality it will probably take as long as it took to outsource everything to China and in the process we will all feel a little poorer.
Illegal Drugs (and Coronavirus)
My point is that internet dealt them a body blow and now the virus has killed them. Going to Fry's even before the virus was a sad experience
On Dell's laptops (at least, on my XPS), I can set a maximum charge in the BIOS, as well as select one from a few different charging strategies.
I used EventMachine a lot about 8-10 years ago. I'm excited to see Ruby getting some concurrency love again. What are the goals and improvements of your underlying design in general, and especially those that make HTTP2 and WebSockets work?
Building an end-to-end Speech Recognition model in PyTorch
Snap – Snap Benefits – Snap Eligibility – Snap Allotment – EBT
> We really shouldn't be arguing over these facts anymore.

Well actual death tolls for the US would be around 60,000 which is comparable of number of new suicides due to lockdowns.
Facebook ‘Fact Checker’ Worked at Wuhan Biolab; Ruled Out Virus-Leak
Trouble is that the industry has not kept up with people's backup needs.

A tape drive costs ten times what a hard drive with the same capacity costs, and then you have to buy the tapes.

I've been able to read data written to a hard drive 99.99% of the time but I can't say that for tapes. Often it has been human error, but the fact that it's a strange thing you don't do everyday and isn't part of your workflow is a reliability problem that is hard to overcome. (e.g. why a Toyota Corolla is more reliable than a Ferrarri Testarosa.)

In theory you could do offline backup to "the cloud" but probably your net isn't fast enough and the other people at home will be wondering why Zoom isn't working for them.
Every improvement in energy efficiency we have ever made has resulted in more energy use

Actually, quite a few countries never went back to their pre-2008 total energy usage, the primary example being the UK which invested heavily in efficiency.
On the user's side: Treat userscripts like stuff you paste in the browser console.

In terms of actual tech: GreaseMonkey (and probably also Tamper-/ViolentMonkey) does some sort or isolation between the userscript and the page so that the page can't hijack the userscript. More on that here: https://wiki.greasespot.net/UnsafeWindow
That would be more fair if the same people who don't get the vaccine actively support the vaccine mandate. From my experience this is not true. They simply do not trust institution. Their motive is not free loading herd immunity and avoiding the hassle of doing it themselves.
I know this is a rather unorthodox source, but 538 reports a death rate of 1.2%.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-comic-strip-tour-of-t...
> It seems like humans trying to understand a hypothetical God are not unlike ants trying to understand quantum physics.

> You ascribe beliefs to me via stereotype.

Not that I feel offended by the first quote, since I don't believe in a hypothetical god, but how am I the one stereotyping you? If you don't believe in God, which you made clear in your first comment, then you disbelieve in Him. So that means you're an atheist, right?

Or am I misunderstanding the concept of being an atheist? To each their own of course.
The Dutch prime minister just made a statement on this, and he's using your argument 1. He's afraid it will decrease social distancing and make people with mild symptoms go outside, because they think they are protected.
I used to customise the hell out of tcsh, zsh... until I started using fish, which just has sane defaults.
Phenomena are discovered.
Mathematics are invented to describe them.
Halfway through you were bringing up hopes for a great new way to do 2D rendering on GPUs but then there is no show of actual implementation. Rather anticlimactic!

Even decades old Cairo is beating VulKan/GPU based renderers like Skia in some tasks. Can it be that hardware intended for ML or 3D-graphics is not suited at all for 2D rendering (parallelism vs. pipelining)? How will WebGPU solve those problems?

To me this talk raises more questions than it answers...
Yes I'm aware of that misspelling ;) Small sample size, but I've never heard an English person use the word and have always assumed it was archaic there.
> When solar system planets formed from stellar dust, do we assume that said dust was uniform in composition and merely position, solar dynamics and interplanetary dynamics such as collisions (formation of Moon) led to the differences in chemical composition?

That's the simplest assumption.
Certified, open-sourced medical ventilator [video]
You may want to check out Social Fixer (socialfixer.com). It's a userscript that manipulates and adds features to Facebook, which is written in React. You may get some ideas from them.
VictoriaMetrics [1] is written entirely in Go. By default it uses canonical zstd library for compression (the library is written in C), but it supports pure Go mode when built with `make victoria-metrics-pure`. In this mode it uses zstd implementation written in Go [2].

[1] https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics

[2] https://github.com/klauspost/compress/tree/master/zstd#zstd
Sigh. Keeping sqlite as an example. On most Unix-like OSs (and even windows now) there is a dynamically linked sqlite managed by a package manager.

It also predates the time period when people would whine about a lack of package managers.

As do a bunch of these libraries.
This is a phenomena and wonder if they are afraid of humans and the damage we are doing to the oceans with those underground cable lines..we love the internet. Those lines run under the ocean floor and studies are scarce on the impact cable lines are having on the ocean floor. Just commenting
iTerm supports this on mac (google "iterm hotkey window"). Been addicted to that since guake!
Ask HN: What's an unsolved problem in your field?
There might be several different categories of problems, from the literal "unsolved" (i.e. mathematics / physics) to systemic (i.e. human resources / advertising).

Some examples that come to mind:

Brand Influencer — "The Algorithm" prevents exposure, sales, etc.

Customer Service — Explaining warranty status, other than "because it's the least we have to do legally".

Mathematician — The length of pi is continually increasing, and there doesn't appear to be an end.

Software Engineering — Thoroughly understanding a codebase in a reasonable amount of time.

Ideally, this would be less of a "here's why X field is bad" thought exercise, and more of a "that's interesting, I wonder if X problem could be solved" thought exercise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothes...
Same thing for the US census that has been used to round up Japanese in internment camps during ww2.
Pricing on this is ridiculous. Build your own SFF system using MiniITX and save the money.
I started going this route and then decided I couldn’t bring myself to install Wordpress in an AWS account I used for other things. In the end I created a new Digital Ocean account, picked one of their Wordpress droplets or whatever it’s called, stuck Cloudflare in front of it, and called it a day.

It’s possible I’m sure to lock down Wordpress and also to segment your AWS network but ... why? Unless it needs access to other assets in your AWS account then quarantining it on a dedicated account on a different service provider is easy.
There is a lot of scoffing in this thread and I agree AWS does make some things overly complicated but I think the scoffing here is unfair because the architecture looks far more complicated than it actually is.

First of all, lets bare in mind this is talking about larger, enterprisey installs. So what would you need if you hosted on-prem:

- a DB with a read replica in case your main DB died (RDS can actually build read replicas for you pretty easily so this part of the deployment would be much easier than doing the same MySQL replication config on-prem)

- Redis for caching (my experience with WP is a couple of years out of date now but when I last managed an highly popular WP install (several in fact) Redis or Memcached caching was a necessity to get the kind of page load times our visitors expected)

- Shared storage (bare in mind you're running more than one WP web server - if this was on prem you'd be hosting those files off a SAN)

- A load balancer (I don't think I need to explain a justification for that one)

- And probably a CDN too (reduce the stress on your web-servers and internet gateway)

That's literally the bare minimum any large Wordpress application would need and that's all that AWS architecture is outlying. Sure there's a few more items on there like NAT gateways but those are just network stacks that are deployed as part of your VPC (or in on-prem terms, that's just the VLAN and/or subnet management that you'd assign to your load balancer).

If you don't need multiple web-servers nor high availability then your architecture becomes drastically simpler (no load balancer, no shared storage, no replica DB, etc) but also you would run the risk of downtime and even data loss. Which might not be an issue for some people but it's also not one of the selling points of AWS. So you'd be better off with shared hosting or a managed WP service -- or to put it another way, AWS was never going to be a good fit.

edit: Personally I think the issue here is more WP -- or rather the classical CMS design -- than it is AWS. A static site generator style of CMS would be a lot simpler cloud design and run a lot cheaper too. WP is designed from an era when web shops had this infrastructure set up by default.
This is how Hacker News looks like with my script: https://i.imgur.com/We97pJC.png

Numbers on the left (11, 12, 13) are shortcuts to open a thread (for example, pressing 14 opens the "Userscripts are fun..." thread).

Numbers after that (e.g. 65,20) are karma and number of comments, respectively.

Much more compact than the default layout and shows better which topics are hot.
How Facebook Works for Trump
I wouldn't be so quick to judge, usually when something like this happens there's some bad blood.

If these people are reasonably good at what they do I doubt this will affect their chances of getting hired. They also don't need to put it on their CV.
I don't feel there's more risk with grads. Because they typically don't work on the riskiest projects anyway from the start anyway.

Typically, companies that are more or less stable in their hiring needs, tend to be more open for grads, as they are more sure it will pay off in the long run.
Clue to what? Are we still pretending this isn't an old people, unhealthy people sickness?
The best case with mass immunity is that R drops below 0 and the virus burns itself out.

The worst case is that immunity primes the body for a massive and lethal immune system overreaction if the virus returns and/or mutates. This seems to have happened in 1918, which is why the second wave was more deadly.

Generally viruses seem to become less lethal over time, so this is rare and unlikely - and we'd be very unlucky indeed if it happened now.

But it isn't entirely impossible. The smart thing to do would be to have some high-quality monitoring in place to catch it if it starts happening, with high quality contingency planning for an international response.
The gist of the article was that a CPAP machine was basically a ventilator with some features disabled in software. Given that there are many of these around, with a 3G internet connection and OTA updates, and that the manufacturer could easily turn a CPAP machine into a ventilator by "flicking a switch", yeah, I consider that an indication that they're "sitting on it". They'd rather sell you a new machine at over-inflated prices than enable existing machines to be repurposed.
> opening up TLDs for sale seems like a (somewhat) logical way to expand the available namespace for domains.

Some would say the new gTLDs have failed to increase the supply of useful domain names, because the only people who use the likes of .info and .biz are scammers, and that bad reputation scares users off.

It was also well known from the start that the gTLD program was going to extract a lot of rent from domain owners - that the likes of Volvo would end up paying $180k for the .volvo TLD and $300 for volvo.sucks and so on.

Some people see the fact gTLDs had none of the benefits and all of the costs, and yet ICANN keeps on issuing them, as a sign that it was never about the benefits to begin with - that it was about shaking people down for rent all along.
Life Sciences Observations #6
I would offer that the Project Veritas expose of CNN belies your assertion handily.

There is a mindset that dominates academia and carries on into the media.

It is reflected in the political donations of journalists.

And the distribution of the story bias.

It perhaps one should say "stunning lack of anything resembling a distribution".
That's a good thing, but lingering emergency laws are not the full extent of the risk.

The risk is largely related to changing perceptions and standards for what is normal, beyond the pales & such. Once something has been done widely and publicly, it becomes more normal and less scary.
Fuzzy Matching and Deduping Hundreds of Millions of Records with Apache Spark
Exactly. Wordpress (plus plugins) is too much of a liability to host yourself. Personally use wpengine.com with comes with tools to keep Wordpress updated with the latest security patches automatically
Show HN: Ready for testing – an iOS app to calculate multi-currency conversions
https://dequatre.net
First thing to do is stop talking about "meritocracy"; the cream does rise to the top to some extent, but the awful truth is that the best jobs are more rare than the best talent.
> To what extent do you think these programs filter a population with an innate distribution to find a subset versus train people to develop these characteristics?

I think the bias is very strongly towards training. The recruiting pipeline sucks up everyone with enough intelligence to pass some standardized tests.

However, everyone who enlists knows that they are going to be facing a hard life. The fact of the matter is that if you are smart enough to become a nuke, you're probably also smart enough to work as an engineer.

The vast majority of enlisted nukes got there in order to get a second chance at life. Most of my shipmates either flunked out of college or couldn't get into college due to shenanigans in high school. I was in the latter category.