skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, Petr Baudis decided on that name (and also "upstream"). [1]

He regrets it now because of his lack of English language knowledge at the time and that "main" makes more sense but he originally based it on the "master copy" concept.

I personally don't understand why people decided on this hill to die on. There are much better targets like database master-slave replication.

[1] https://twitter.com/xpasky/status/1272280760280637441
Windows 2000 will always be my favorite version of Windows.

Its a good thing MacOSX came along right before Windows XP.
> The iPhone wasn't powerful enough to play Flash…

No, Flash Lite ran on significantly-less-powerful feature phones. (Remember, in the early days of the iPhone, Flash was desktop-only.[1])

> Jobs' hit job was a calculated sucker punch, leveraging an exciting new platform to lock out competition.

You speak as if Jobs instigated this when in reality, this was a response to Adobe holding Jobs' platforms hostage for a long time, and in many ways. Flash's ongoing instability and inefficiency on MacOS was just the straw that broke the camel's back.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2010/04/adobe-flash-jobs/: "Flash was designed for the desktop world, for web and large screens, not the user experiences you want to create in these new devices with touch, accelerometers and GPS," Luh said. "It wasn't designed with that in mind at all."
> Which part of that is "undemocratic"?

The part where judges make political decisions that are supposed to be made by voters and their elected representatives. The fact that some busybody believes that voters "can't be relied on" to enact particular policies that the busybody favors does not justify getting those policies enacted by judges instead. Judges are not supposed to enact policies. They are supposed to say what the law is, not what someone believes it ought to be.
Recently minted database technologies that I find intriguing
I really love this! My only complaint is having the brush reset to pointer after each stroke.
Quicker and cooler is best for clothes
I always thought these were rediculously overpriced for what they do. LEGO certainly aims at state-sponsored educational institutes to pay huge $ for their plastic crap with few motors and microcontrollers, not private people trying to buy an interesting and educational toy for their kids. Pehaps there are people here from this industry - why there are no affordable robotics kits these days? Are there any patents involved? Or the market is just too small for anyone to care? I always thought that some sorts of meccano based kit with an MCU board & unified sensor/motor fixtures (preferrably even 3d-printable!) would be a total massive success.
They aren't systematically segregated, mostly by circumstance and clustering by identity group. People tend to cluster in like-cultured communities either by country of origin and/or racial identity. It's not an absolute, but there are communities that are overwhelmingly black, chinese, japanese, etc.

Of course most of the real divides come down to income class, which is part of what should take an emphasis in terms of possible distribution of education funding.
I understand that this is the majority's argument. I personally don't find either side's argument in this respect much more convincing than the other; both seem contrived to me.
That wasn't supposed to be a per year failure rate. 20% per 5 years is a crazy amount. Divide the numbers by 5 to get a per-year failure closer to my intent.

So if it's $850 for the 4% failure chip, and $1000 for the 1% failure chip, I'll probably buy the cheaper one in bulk. $850k upfront and $34k in replacement, vs. $1000k upfront and $10k in replacement.

There's extra manpower, sure, but even if it costs a hundred dollars of labor per replacement the numbers barely budge.

> downtime losses

In a big system you shouldn't have those from a single server failure! Downtime losses are the point I was making. As someone buying just one drive or chip, failure costs me massive amounts beyond the part itself. But if I can buy enough for redundancy, then those problems become much much smaller.

If you're running things off one server, then apply the single device analysis, not the bulk analysis.
Airpods as a Nation: 13th largest population, the GDP of Bahamas
I dont think DHH has revealed much yet. But he said most of it will be extracted for Rails 6.2

I am wondering if it is similar to live view or Stimulus Reflex.
All good points but it’s worth noting that in order to install any non-free NixOS packages there is an explicit flag you need to set which affect their entire OS or set of packages on your machine.

That said, downloading a jar instead of compiling the jar from source is definitely a notable difference and potentially is unfree software despite the license stating otherwise and the flag previously mentioned set.

While there is nothing inherent about NixOS To prevent non-free software from entering the ecosystem, there is also nothing inherent to Guix either that would prevent any non-free software. Ultimately it comes down to community curation of the packages and while Guix almost definitely is more vigilant about free software both have focus on free-software

NixOS has the option to install non-free (which you need to explicitly enable to install non-software) and Guix is more strict where their official packages don’t intentionally support any non-free software and they employ practices that are more likely to catch oversights.
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But of course you ARE going to change your mind. People do often, and throughout their lifetimes. Believing that minds don't change is like believing that advertising doesn't work. But as an advertising exec (whose name I don't recall) memorably said: "We find that advertising is like grass growing; you don't see it growing but you still have to mow the lawn every week."

As a cultural conservative I have discovered that many people I _thought_ held certain values didn't really -- they were just taking the path of least resistance. And indeed, taking the path of least resistance is the constant for them.
It was a Pulp Fiction reference. A dog's got personality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA_Tl1kvlQU
I try to take the stance that they simply forgot about the previous conversations or agreements. That generally has worked for me and keeps people from losing too much face which additionally helps keep everyone on the same side. Everyone forgets sometimes, sometimes its a genuine memory lapse and other times not so much. I've used variations of the following numerous times to decent result:

"Hi <so and so>, we talked about this matter last in <this email chain or that meeting>, I'm attaching the last <email/meeting summary>. If there's a need to readdress this <situation/decision>, please feel free to let me know and we can setup a meeting to further discuss."

That establishes what you consider to be the facts, based on whatever evidence you are attaching, and doesn't necessarily place you at odds with the client. You always need to figure out how to balance your client relationship with your project needs. Sometimes you may need to give a bit on the project needs to keep the client content but that is surprisingly less than most consultants think.

I've had several clients come back to me after an engagement has completed and mention that they were being intentionally difficult to see what else they could get but documentation helped prevent too much excess on my part. I've even been in the situation where I have acted as the client when dealing with vendor implementation teams and told specifically to be difficult to see what else we could get.
I think this is more of a "first world" problem.

Kids in under-resourced learning environments (regardless of whether it's Nigeria or 3rd world countries like most of the USA), need focus on fundamental academics (literacy and math) more than anything else.

Computer literacy beyond browser/email/word-processing reduces down to a "nice-to-have" when actual literacy and learning is in question.
> It should be disarmed and turned into a purely defensive force.

Why not do this with all militaries? Why is your country (assuming it's not the US) special?
Yes, I was not going to go into that much detail :)
Linking this here for those of us that don't know or remember what a newsletter is >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsletter
Right, and that's why I phrased it as I did. I agree with the great grandparent, kind of—if you have the ability to use 100% open technologies, you absolutely should, and power to you!

But at the same time, proprietary technologies rules much of our world, back then, now, and likely in the future.
Great find, it aligns with the rest of my stack too so I might find myself experimenting with that.
In the case of source code, I find trunk to be one of the better terms for the primary/main/master branch.
I managed to avoid the whole Windows-on-DOS family. I went from DOS 6.2 to Windows NT 3.51, then Windows NT 4, then Windows 2000, then Windows 7. Only the good ones. Why run Microsoft's dud products?

Now, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

It's too bad that Microsoft no longer sells a good desktop OS. Windows 10 is a warmed-over tablet GUI forced onto a desktop. With ads. With terrible updates which break things. Do not want.
Its a lot easier for Apple to fix security issues within the Apple ecosystem than it is for Apple to pressure Adobe to fix the problem, port it over to the suite iOS/iPadOS/macOS, and distribute the fix to whoever needs it, as well as communicating the gravity of the issue, post mortem, adjacent attack vectors and surface area, etc.

I'm not saying you are entirely wrong about consumer lock down, but for various reasons, consumer lock down can be objectively better for the developer and user experience, and it is easier to move fast when you have fewer dependencies at play.
It is highly dangerous for citizens of the 5-eyes' War Coalition states to investigate their own governments war crimes.

THAT is the message being conveyed. And the point of the article is to demonstrate that, indeed, the USA doesn't care about war crimes. It does care about its own PR, however - and that is a very curious conundrum. One wonders why it is so important for the US government to hide their war crimes away and distract the public from the real issue.

It surely isn't for benign purposes. Someone is on the run, here. I wonder when we'll catch them, again ..
Completeness.

Also, sometimes syntactically nice to emphasize the sign:

double pos = +foo;
double neg = -bar;

Occasionally useful in auto-generated code. There are strange edge cases you might find it useful. "I've never used it" is a bad judgment of its general usefulness.
Yes, thank you for giving a heads up over the security issue especially for a startup working on data privacy
Are you saying banks won't provide loans to small tech businesses, but they will to things like restaurants?
Thanks for posting this, given the recent legal trouble, I've been wondering about what kind of history would be lost forever if the Internet Archive was completely shut down.
In an efficient market, investments that are more risky will produce higher returns. If they didn't, no rational investor would invest in them. Why invest in a venture that is more risky, unless you're compensated via higher returns.

You can already see this playing out in the public markets. Stocks produce far higher returns than corporate bonds, which produce higher returns than treasury bills.

There's further nuance here around systematic risk vs unsystematic risk, but I don't think it's as relevant to VCs since their number of investments is too small to diversify away all unsystematic risk.
It is ironic they did all that because people talked bad about the company and here we are a couple of years later and people only talk bad about the company.
> I'm still rather baffled about how people look back fondly on XP, it looked like a toy for toddlers

I think a big part of this is a combination of two factors: First, most non-tech people never ran Win2k. They went straight from 98/ME to XP. Second, no one remembers WinXP before SP2. (You know, when it was a complete trainwreck.)

FWIW, when I was doing software development in the latter days of XP, I found that I actually liked the style of the UI widgets from the default theme. Its just the titlebar and taskbar styles that I couldn't stand. However, some size tweaks made them more tolerable.
Without JS there is no captcha-crap. Which i think of as hilarious, because that should make it more easy for bots, which is what captcha-crap allegedly protects against?
I've not seen such a feature, but there are also a lot of third-party apps, so maybe one offers such a feature.
Not accurate in databases (where master only means authoritative source), not accurate in hard drives (master only denotes precedence), not accurate in hardware clocks (used to determine sync hierarchy - see NTP for a much better convention). "Master" only makes sense in a system where a component is delegating tasks and controlling one or more "slaves", and even then something like "controller" is clearer.
I was responding to your very general claim that "the connotation of master in the context of source control..."

Here is the bitkeeper documentation[1] saying "we are then going to modify the file on both the master and slave repository and then merge the work."

Safe to say that's in the context of source control? If you meant to say "based on how git works..." then sure, that's a more accurate claim.

https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper/blob/master/doc/H...
> Seek responsibility, not power.

> Be kind, be bold, never yield

> I’d provide services to ICE
Fed Chair: no risk of asset bubbles.

...that is nice.
The comment I was responding to said their intent was to reveal war crimes. Spying and corruption are not war crimes. Corruption is an incredibly vague term that Wikileaks can and has used to publish almost whatever they want.

It is also worth noting that revealing war crimes, spying, and corruption is possible with a more targeted approach rather than Wikileaks approach of publishing large batches of semi-related documents. This shotgun approach seems to be done in service of overall transparency rather than revealing the specific wrongdoings that Wikileaks claims it is against. Hence my comment that they seem to care more about revealing secrets in general than specifically war crimes.
I've become quite adept over the years at building up contacts across different parts of the business org, just through quick "water cooler" chats with people I meet while I'm making a cuppa. I'll even go to a different floor from time to time just to expose me to more people. The convenience factor of "Hi, how are you doing?" turning in to a little bit more of a conversation, in a circumstance when I know I'm not disturbing them in the middle of something. I don't get that with Slack etc.

I'm really enjoying a bunch of the aspects of working from home, and picking up a strong preference for it, but I can't help but wonder about the impact less casual contact with other teams is having on overall performance. There's a lot you can get solved, much faster, by having friendly contacts all over the place (which of course, you have to be careful not to abuse or they'll stop being friendly contacts).

That applies both to problems I'm dealing with, and problems they're dealing with that we'd never know about under other circumstances.
LR always matters, whether or not one cedes a portion of the risk. An insurance program has little value unless it is profitable over time. While some large P&C insurers historically ran their book of business at break-even, and made it up on investment income (reflected in their combined ratio), that is not a viable option given current interest rates.
That's an interesting and valid point.

First, a disagreement. Your base assumption that police activity should scale linearly with population. This is just obviously not correct. There are huge, huge differences in countries and crime rates. You can look at differences in homicide rate, for example [1]. The united states has a pretty shockingly high homicide rate for a developed country (4.96 per 100k). This is 5x higher than France or Germany. On the other end you have Japan, which is about 5x lower than France or Germany (25x lower than United States).

But that aside, the important question is: is crime driving police activity, or are the police widely malicious and corrupt? I'll admit that I'm not knowledgable enough to give a good answer to this question, but I'm very skeptical of jumping to a conclusion based on selective evidence on social media or recent news coverage.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
I could (and almost did) write nearly this exact comment myself, right down to turning 18 in mid 1999 and getting the same graduation present!

Windows 2000 is still the only version of Windows I truly enjoyed using. Just seeing the screenshots brought me back to using my beige tower in my dorm room with Winamp, Half Life, and Napster shortcuts on my desktop.
I am a practicing pathologist and I have seen many attempts and publications to use ML in pathology, which all lack in these aspects: 1. ML is trained on simplified sets (preselected ROIs, limited choice of diagnoses), 2. ML is biased by the experts who labeled learning sets, 3. there is no obvious process of learning from failures after initial training, 4. who is responsible in case of ML error with substantial consequences for patient?
The first point is especially for the lack of better word.. wishful. In the daily practice we are used to account for "things unexpected" - non-representative biopsies, parasites in tissue where tumor was suspected, foreign body reaction from previous operations, laboratory accidents (such as swapped paraffin blocks of two patients), and so on (the list is much longer). We deal with it. That ML can discern between 5 most common diagnoses is fine, but it is rather narrow problem to solve.
I found it through search on Youtube, had been looking for which way to package applications on Linux. Packaging really takes a bit of time, reading documentation and figuring out how to do it. After packaging a flatpak you need to add it to a local repository on your device before you can test install it, which isn't as intuitive as clicking on a .appimage file, but brings some benefits. The documentation is quite readable: https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/first-build.html.

Agreed for audio quality. It's hard to listen to with only the left channel working. It might be worth reuploading it with balanced stereo.
I wish banks had API tokens, so that people didn't have to exchange their passwords for financial services.
This line of reasoning begs the question. Yes, according to your moral framework, one is actually immoral and the other isn't, but living in a pluralist society requires leaving room for people to have and live by very different moral frameworks. There isn't a universally acknowledged objective standard of morality by which we can judge all actions and beliefs in a society so we need to structure the rule by which we settle moral disputes in a way that doesn't create moral hazard down the line.
Sorry for the lack of citation, my stats come from the Washington Post Police Shootings Database [^2]. As far as I know, it's the most comprehensive one currently, though unfortunately it has a paywall.

> Being killed by police is more like being murdered by a stranger, which is much less common than being murdered by anyone including people known to you [1].

The question at play as I understood it is whether, being in a dangerous situation as a bystander, you should call the police knowing that they may respond with lethal force. If someone, even someone you know, is posing a threat to you, then the police pose much less of a threat by several orders of magnitude. Yes, police are imperfect and occasionally kill bystanders, but they kill less bystanders by far than people killed through criminal acts.

This then comes back to our question of de-escalation. If someone is unarmed and behaving violently.. the police will probably successfully de-escalate them and indeed, de-escalation is the correct approach. However, if someone is threatening lethal force, then de-escalation is no longer the correct approach.

Which brings us to the Philando Castile case, in which he was not threatening anyone. He was stopped for a traffic incident.. not waving a firearm around, not because someone was panicking. The police officer who shot him was wrong, and that's why he was charged and faced trial.

> Another issue being armed does not justify a police shooting, which you kind of imply

It's hard to justify shooting an unarmed person. If we are interested in those cases where the police acted wrongfully instead of just those cases in which they acted at all, then that number is important. Yes, there are cases where someone armed is unjustly shot, those cases are obviously more rare.

[^2]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/polic...
The problem is that once the buffers are full the drive effectively stops accepting commands while it rewrites a SMR region.

When that happens depending on what your doing, the drive might just get kicked from an array, or your whole system might freeze if some critical page needs to be read back in and it can't get sufficient priority and a command slot.

I guess the vast number of people won't ever write more than a buffers full of data, or the drive will never get fragmented sufficiently that even small write operations amplify into entire drive rewrites.....
Equity going to 0 is not a foregone conclusion in bankruptcies and there will be plenty of room for lawsuits if equity holders are wiped out.
One of those who doesnt like the use of advanced stats in football. I do watch a lot of football though. My reason is simple:

The advanced stats as they are called (xG, xA, xPA, offense actions, defense actions) all end up as a mere tool for disregarding the actual result and providing arguments for which was the better team. Like team A won the match 1-0 but team B were the better team since they had more <<insert favorable stat>>. The idea behind stats should be to contextualize the game I watched a bit more, and not replace the game watching.

Then there is also comparing the stats across games. In football(and every other game) there is a different difficulty level associated with each game (fatigue, condition, team condition, opposition condition, tactics, opposition tactics, teammates, chemistry, opposition mistakes, opposition players, adjustments, pressure, and even sheer luck on occasions), which makes the comparison redundant. An offensive team would always have more shots and more possession than a defensive minded park the bus kind of team. Like you said, right now no stat is good enough to give us an idea of how well a team played. Football is a game of spaces, and a lot of things depend on player movements (or lack of) and vision. I find those reports helpful which tells us where a certain team had the advantage and how they maximised it though.
Open question:

Speaking as someone who accidentally bought SMR drives from Seagate that weren't advertised as such, what's the primary danger of using these drives in a _new_ ZFS setup?

From what I've seen, the write speed is bad enough that rebuilds might be problematic in ZFS. But since I'm not doing a rebuild, and since I can swap out the drive for a non-SMR alternative whenever one fails and I do need to do a rebuild, are they still relatively safe to use?
Some very broad outlines here https://twitter.com/sstephenson/status/1272608076433166336