skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"Commands
The following list of commands is supported by 86-DOS.[23]

Internal commands

CLEAR
COPY
DIR
ERASE
RENAME
TYPE

External commands

ASM
CHKDSK
DEBUG
EDLIN
HEX2BIN
MAKRDCPM
RDCPM
SYS
TRANS

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PDS: It's amazing just how spartan 86-DOS was, compared to the later (and more well-known) MS-DOS versions...

Also note the appearance of HEX2BIN, which is arguably (in some form, on some computer) the first command-line based "assembler".
My wife and I visited Iceland last July. 5 days of the trip were spent trekking in the backcountry with a group from 4 different continents. When we got home, my wife came down with a terrible case of the flu that led to pneumonia. She never needed to be hospitalized but it was close for a couple days.

Eventually, it spread to my son and myself. It's the sickest I've ever been in my 40+ years of life. We didn't return to anything resembling normal until early October. It can't have been COVID but there must have been at least one really nasty flu bug going around last year.
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Well, for one thing, all logs are in /var/log.

If it doesn’t fail just right in kubernetes there might be no logs at all.

I’m thinking on particular about trying to mount filesystems into pods.
I feel like I’m witnessing two co-founding colleagues - who sit by each other day in and day out - discover the other’s persona on HackerNews.

Sure, maybe you two (@dvcrn and @arcticfox) don’t work together and don’t know each other, but it’s definitely more entertaining imagining the scenario above.
As someone who worked for a global UN agency, I can personally attest to the influence of China in the organisation. I remember one instance where the Chinese govt. kicked a major fuss over including 'Taiwan' in the country selector dropdown for our web properties. The order came from really high up in the top and we had to remove Taiwan lol.
Their test is completely invalid, they only used a small portion of the disk in a sequential manner. Likely the "cache" portion of the array is a significant portion of the partition they created.

Further, I'm not aware of a single raid system built in the last 20 years that doesn't do online rebuild. This means its only sequential IO as long as the RAID controller isn't servicing other IO requests. Futher it also assumes that your running a dead simple RAID system that is RAIDing the entire array rather than doing the RAID on top of a LVM/thin provisioning like setup (this is basically ZFS's problem).

Frankly, I would be willing to bet that its possible to tweak a benchmark like iometer to use a sufficiently large part of the disk with a 50% random RW workload and cause quite a number of RAID controllers to kick the drives for write timeouts. Some percentage of them might even kick multiple disks at the same time resulting in complete array loss.
> It’s surprisingly difficult to track the this stuff in part because many diseases make the jump but then simply die out without gaining a major foothold in the human population.

I was wondering about this the other day. How can we know if some other zoonotic coronavirus spread to a only single rural household somewhere? Is there any way to estimate this? Is there any literature on the subject?
Under current events, I'd argue it does explain Humanity: look at a card upright, white is at the top while black is at the bottom :(
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I always cringe when reading about "race" in the US, the term really (intentionally? ) gives the impression that there is a clear genetic demarcation between people based on skin color.

The US is the only country I am aware of who still uses this term, everywhere else was using some thinking like ethnicity to indicate different culture, origin...
Better not be hired by Amazon.
Hey, repo poster here. The requirements are if one wishes to be able to follow all the directions completely. Depending on your drivers you may or may not want Cloudflare. Some advantages of Cloudflare are privacy (hiding your actual server IP (if you proxy all the addresses,)) caching (if you expect a lot of traffic,) nice API control of name server functions, and it's free. But, you trade that for unencrypted man in the middle, certainly an understandable deal-breaker for certain situations. Cloudflare can be skipped and your domain mapped directly to your edge server IP using your registrar dns panel.
Northrop Grumman has been developing very sophisticated, state-of-the-art, facial recognition technology for the last 15 years. There are several USA defense contractors that have this technology.
I’d love to read a write up on this if you ever feel the urge.
This also works in TypeScript's favor. You get test coverage which you would never write. A "simple" component that doesn't have any logic and doesn't warrant a test still checks its prop types, and you don't have to do anything other than make the compiler pass.
Hey could you expand on the part of contract work on the side? You mean in tech right alongside your full time job? How can one pull that off if both jobs are 9-5?
I did my Irish passport photo on my phone.
> ”does this person have a clear and sound thought process?”

I agree that this would be a great question to answer, but I doubt it would be possible to answer at scale. I don’t trust people to give a thumbs up or down on how someone else thinks. It’s also so open to interpretation and that leaves lots of room for implicit bias. He was quickly considering all the variables. She was scatterbrained.

One alternative, focusing entirely on the code written during the interview, is much more concrete. It’s open to preparation (here’s what good and bad solutions look like) and group discussion after the fact. And it’s actually in the professional skill set (judging code) versus doing an amateur job of judging other people’s thoughts.
I was looking up "coronavirus" on google trends. What I saw was a flat 0 except for a blip in late august, and a score of 100 on September 21, 2019 coming from Hubei Province specifically.

Those results remained the same for over a month until I posted the above in a hacker news comment. Then I was down voted heavily and the results suddenly changed. I do have a picture of it, because I wanted to share the results with my friend and they dont use social media, so I forwarded a picture.

while I agree with the hacker news downvoters (the downvote, hate, hate, unsubscribe, rage, rage, you must be stupid crowd) that this doesn't prove anything, it is certainly part of the evidence building up.
You may have found an actual use for blockchain.
Curious on why that is. Can you provide any insights on why it would generate hundreds of thousands a month?
I'm betting its possible if your drives are sufficiently fragmented and you start a heavy write workload that shotguns sectors all over the disk from multiple TCQs the default write command timeouts on most RAID systems aren't sufficiently long.

So the drive may not have failed, the RAID just determined that the command was taking to long, fired a reset at the drive and when it didn't immediately respond marked it bad.
That's news to me, wouldn't Microsoft's hacky JavaScript ads be able to snoop on DDG users browsing habits?
Just tried to try this out.. Has anyone else noticed how slow and unusable the Font Book app built into osx is.
IT DID. I posted in another comment, dont want to repeat
All I can conclude now is that your "very deep" experience didn't even involve reading the literature or understanding the arguments. Your description of "antifa" is not reflective of anything actual antifa people say about their own beliefs. There are certainly people who also are antifa who express beliefs like you're expressing, but it doesn't define antifa. The only thing that does is being anti-fascist.
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As soon as I figure out how to get the OOM killer to just kill Chrome every time, I might never have to hard reset my system again!
Yes, I wonder if this is because in the political climate in the US some people feel more empowered for statements like this or if the number of people holding these believes is actually increasing (at HN)
I share your cynicism, but I think it's worth examining if IBM's cynical cop-out might also be true. Is it possible to develop facial recognition systems that couldn't be used for mass surveillance? Or, is it possible to develop mass surveillance systems that could only be used in the pursuit of moral (or at least morally neutral) goals?

I'm generally of the opinion that tools are intrinsically amoral; neither moral nor immoral. A hammer could be used to build an orphanage, or be used to hit orphans; it's an amoral tool that could be used for good or evil. But I think when tools become sufficiently powerful, that sort of perspective starts to break down. Weapons of mass destruction are good examples of this from the past century. Could there conceivably exist digital systems too powerful to consider morally neutral? Personally I think so, and I think facial recognition technology might qualify.
> Your line of argumentation seems to argue the opposite

Hmmmmm... I'd say that "my point of view" differs from yours, and does not fall in line with common group think. Cognitive biases are typically pushed back on, even when they are in your favor.

> since it's the candidate who's the prospective engineer, wouldn't that imply that it's their job to clarify the nebulous spec

Gosh, no. You have it backwards my friend. It's a real opportunity cost on your part to think like that. It's a tactic for some to offload the work onto others so they don't have to spend the time doing it.

> FWIW, many of the FAANGs are famous for asking intentionally underspecified questions

99% (or more) of the startups/companies out there are not FAANG's. They are not the litmus test on how to effectively interview. They have candidates FIGHTING each other for a position at their company. Not the other way around.
In the past five years I've had three multi-week overseas vacations where I've had to take a week or more off sick from work immediately on returning home. Each of those years, that was my only time that year getting sick. I assume travelling just exposes us to more people, more unsanitary situations, and more opportunities to wear down our immune systems.
In talking about linking colour to ways of thinking, there's also de Bono's hats:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Thinking_Hats

BLUE "The Big Picture"
WHITE "Facts & Information"
RED "Feelings & Emotions"
BLACK "Critical Judgement"
YELLOW "Positive"
GREEN "New Ideas"
I don't think the poster is even addressing that, they're instead addressing the gate keeping mentality of the poster they replied to.
Until WD published a worse case write timeout on these drives, and gets it merged into linux/etc I would claim they aren't fit for any purpose because your just crossing your fingers and hoping your write pattern is ok.

They are still hiding fundamental parameters needed to make these drives work properly (number/size of SMR regions, how much CMR is available, and ways to read the percentage the cache+CMR is full at any given time).
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Why would people from Wuhan (who speak Chinese) search for "Coronavirus" in English on Google (which is blocked in China)?
I think you fail to understand just how prevalent these issues are for people of color every single day.

Yes, these issues might be just a speck for you. But they're a stain on daily life for millions of people around the world (which is why you see people empathizing not just domestically, but internationally).

Justifying one's existence and identity every single day is exhausting on a level that all other problems are simply irrelevant when existence is in question.

I don't know if you've ever heard the phrase "When White people get the cold, Black people get the flu". Our problems are systemic and the way problems impact people in our society isn't equal.

> There's a worrying lack of housing for people here in the last year since the psyche ward and homeless shelters shut down. Businesses have been closing down permanently for months, people are desperate for work,

Now dig into the data and see what segment of the population these issues affect the most and disproportionately so. On top of all that, Black people have to worry about having to walk down the street too? Any reasonable person would say "fuck that".
I think GP may be reacting based on common techniques of obscuring faces - i.e. ninjas wearing black masks, special ops putting dark paint on their face to obscure details. I think the effectiveness of those techniques leads people to think that darker colors are harder to see or make out. But that analogy breaks down because here we're talking about fully lit situations, right?
So the tldr is we thought k8 was too complicated so hand rolled out own orchestration tool which is way better...?
What I am saying --which is absolutely true-- is that there's a lot more data in the mid-range of a gamma-encoded image (which is 100% of the images produced by everyone doing this work) than the low-lights. This means that the local dynamic range in those regions is different. Which means that operations such as edge detection will be more accurate and could make the difference between something working and not.

Vision researchers should take a class or two in cinematography and photography, it would serve them well. Even the quality of the lens makes a difference. Most work I've seen out there uses cameras that barely pass as security cameras or webcams.

That said, yes, ML needs to work with crappy images and every single camera out there. My argument is that you are not going to be able to train using crap data. And the images in a data set would be crap if the data --the images-- were not acquired using cameras and techniques that provide enough data across various segments of the dynamic range.

Again, I gave the example of my black GSD for a reason. You are not going to be able to recognize him as anything other than a blob on a couch without a camera that can capture enough data at the low end of the dynamic range and a system trained with that data.

The fact that Samsung (or anyone else) failed means nothing. In order for that data point to be meaningful you'd have to have intimate knowledge of what they were doing and what capabilities they had, both in terms of science and engineering as well as the consumer hardware they developed.

I have competed against multi-billion dollar multinational corporations who, despite their financial prowess and scale, could not design their way out of a paper bag. They don't understand the problem, lack creativity and, most importantly, absolutely lack the passion necessary to solve it. Ten 9-to-5 engineers can't compete with a single engineer passionate enough to devote every waking hour to solving difficult problems. It doesn't matter how much money you throw at them, they just can't perform.
Do you ever get tired of listening to this rhetoric all over the Internet. It is so obvious they hid the pandemic within their country. They didn't lockdown in time or prevent flights to other countries. It is also coming out as suspected that the WHO was in cahoots with China over misrepresenting the actual state of affairs. A simple search tells you how China has used this time to advance militarily across the South China Sea and other neighboring countries.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/05/ch...

https://m.hindustantimes.com/india-news/troop-movements-halt...

Add to all this the anecdotes from several people on the Internet including several in this very thread that seem to suggest the starting of a viral spread as early as July.
There are literally hundreds of articles, social media posts and anecdotes that indicate this has started as suggested around the August-november timeline last year.
This is not racial bias at play, even though there is no dearth of that on the Internet. But calling it bogus and slandering factual content based on personal bias and opinion is not the way to get to the truth.
One other advantage of Kubernetes that is overlooked in the article is the benefit with a heterogeneous cluster of instant auto scaling. For example you have 10 apps on a k8s cluster that each use the same resources, you can give 20% buffer for the cluster, which would let any single app use 300% of their allocation instantly. With VMs, you’ll be stuck waiting for VMs to spin up or have to give each app their own large buffer to handle bursts of traffic.
I, and most people in the US paid a salary, continue to get paid during vacation days.
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>There are probably a lot of us out there. If it weren't for a couple of cat monsters I probably would have lost all of my marbles by now.

I think you might be underestimating yourself as a human being. I spend about 8 months with little human contact. I spoke twice with my parents for about 10 minutes each, once for 2 minutes to ask some questions, and maybe 10 seconds each time to the cashier when buying food (however it never deviated from this script; "Would you like bags?" "Yes." "How are you paying?" "Cash." "Have a nice day."). That was it. Nothing else.

I won't say that it was an easy or enjoyable thing to do, but I think given enough time and focus, almost anyone can probably acclimate to a complete lack of human contact without loosing all their marbles.
It it possible that you found yourself attracted to a particularly violence-prone group then, fell out with that group, detached yourself from the underlying philosophy and attached yourself to another violence-prone ideology that just happens to target your former in-group for violence?
As much as I would shill reasonml. Think before you adopt - it still requires more upfront work than typescript (you will have to write bindings for most things even popular stuff. You might end up fighting it too.) but as parent said, you get more expressiveness (algebraic types, powerful pattern matching, immutability, partial application etc) and sound type system with a speedup on both transpile times and actual run time.

You can leverage ocaml/ml as well as js ecosystem. Mix different files and syntax.

Bsb is also faster than tsc.
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I'm sure it works fine if you can get it running (documentation didn't work when I played with it). I'm referring more to the $200/month it was per control plane.

That to me is a product they offer because someone else is offering it, but they don't want you to actually use it.
probably the same reason they are doing it now?
I don’t agree because the cultures are too divergent. But Apple could quietly invest in them to ensure someone else can’t take them over...
It seems like a really good idea to write a network simulator (multiple simultaneous things going on) in Go...

(Note to self: On a side note, I wonder if Go would be the best language to choose for a digital logic (CPU) simulator (again, multiple simultaneous things going on)... this would seem to be a good logical conclusion...)
Does it work without the oil? I haven't used any oil for mine--I like the result. But maybe I'd get better results with oil.
I think the potential harm these systems could cause if they worked flawlessly might be far greater than the harm these systems could cause by malfunctioning.
There's a whole team of them in SIG, Pikkula now works at Citadel, John Finkel runs a $1B AUM HF, etc.
Funny, when I was in middle school I found an old copy of David Copperfield at the bottom of my closet. Its a 700 page novel, but the prose at the time blew me away. The drawn out scenes and vivid characters captured my imagination. I dont think I can ever get that kind of experience now, I'm too cynical.
I had not heard that phrase, but I imagine it refers to the recently printed Oko, Thief of Crowns. A card that dominated every format until it was banned in all but Legacy, Vintage, and EDH. It is (almost) universally agreed to be the most busted Plainswalker in Magic. And it is unique in that when you first read the card you think ‘meh, no big deal’... then you play against it and lose every time.

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Are they still charging something ridiculous for control planes? When I looked at it they were like $200/month.

I wasn't aware they were offering fargate on EKS now. They weren't when I looked at it last.
It's not so much governments that screw up, it's governments who trust the science, who are decisive and move quickly, and who's populations are willing to follow them - my argument is that it doesn't seem to matter whether they are capitalist of communist - some communist countries have done well (Vietnam, China), as have some capitalist ones (NZ, South Korea, Taiwan, etc).
Well the alternative would be that they have chosen to take a moral stand that they expect will cost themselves and their investors money. So the explanation is pretty basic for disbelieving that story.
> Nothing that involves exponential growth should disregard total numbers

If total deaths grow exponentially then deaths/million also grow exponentially, do they not? So you can disregard total numbers and still pay attention to exponential growth.
> I have also never worked on a team that spends so much time dealing with issues in poorly written community packages, or arguing with package maintainers who could never in a million years pass a technical skills test at the company I work for.

Excuse me for asking the obvious, but if they would never pass a technical skills test at the company you work for, why are the people who did pass using code that these maintainers wrote?

It sounds like the right approach is to sidestep them and fork the project yourselves. That way you'd clearly have a much more competent team maintaining it, and implementing all the features you need.

That is if you trust code written by someone of such standards in the first place. Really you should just rewrite it from scratch so that you know it's never been touched by anyone not at the competency level of your elite squad of code monkeys.
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Eh, part of it is just that "the things I love about writing software" just aren't very important or in demand in a business setting. There certainly are positions I think I would enjoy, but they are fewer in number most of the positions prefer people with graduate degrees (I know not to put too much trust in job listings, but some domains do tend to be more strict on that sort of requirements, whether it be a culture thing or otherwise) and I never went to school at all.

> If that is not the case, are you constrained in some way from upgrading your credentials to the ones you need?

Money, and to a lesser extent time. I can't be considered a resident of the state I reside in "for tuition purposes" at least for a couple years, so there's no in-state tuition for me. On top of that I make enough money not to qualify for any aid, but not enough to fork out nearly six figures in a reasonable time. I could maybe pull out private loans, but for just an undergrad degree, it honestly doesn't feel worth it.

> I have also observed that smaller companies are more focused on who can do the job rather than their credentials. Sometimes moving to a company that needs your skills more than they care to look good on paper might be worth looking into.

Yeah, I'm not fully given up quite yet, hell several years back, I didn't think I would ever get a software development positions period, but I managed to get in.