skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well paxos way more complex than raft. I'm not saying building on top of raft is easy, I'm saying making a MVP raft implementation is easier than paxos.

One thing I wish raft had - a learner role which act like a follower that can't start an election until it has catch up with the rest of cluster. etcd has it, but I wish it was part of the raft instead, as well as bulk log transfer.

Article pointing out a very common issue that anyone who tried implementing raft runs into:

Letting a follower forward request to leader on client's behalf is not easy to implement correctly, that's why most popular raft based software (hashicorp stack) doesn't do that. Not worth it.
I doubt that we can achieve absolute objectivity, that's why I wrote that I consider it fairly objective, not that it is. That said I don't see a reason why should Columbia Journalism Review or Poynter Institute be any better arbiters of what is correct way to measure bias. (Especially because both are competition.)

Also Poynter Institute has record of "weaknesses in the methodology".[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poynter_Institute
Why is there so much wasted space?
> The patent royalties are fairly small compared to selling a full chip

Generally, yes. But we're talking about Qualcomm [1] here.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/05/how-qualcomm-sho...
Here in the UK the police can issue "a producer" - it's effectively a caution to attend a police station and provide paperwork for something within 7 days. It's usually issued for things like broken lights, worn tyres, etc. You get a form from the officer, get the problem fixed, the mechanic stamps the form, and then you take it to a police station to show you fixed the problem. If you don't show up the police come to your house and arrest you.

They could have given her one of those saying take the paperwork for the windows to the police station any time in the next week. She could have taken a friend with her if she's nervous.

Violence is never the answer in a situation like that. The police officer was entirely wrong.
> Applications and hardware drivers on Mac just work.

... until Apple decides to break an API and not provide equivalent functionality, and then you end up with a perfectly functional soft-bricked paperweight. I can't use my external USB monitor because of this.
We see power-law distributions everywhere, notably the 80-20 Pareto rule. They are the rule with uniform distributions being the rare exceptions. The claim of a hidden puppeteer running this gigantic con that occasionally allows success and precisely mixes column A with column B such that the rabble attack one another only and never the mastermind pulling the strings is truly extraordinary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_distribution
People weren't running PowerPC VMs (besides Classic which was dropped in 10.5) so they didn't notice the loss of that functionality. Many people are running x86 VMs today which won't work on ARM.
Its to avoid economic shutdown. Its to protect people from economic disaster.
the proclamation isn't about ending H1B, it's about pausing it to allow the US laborforce time to recover from covid
I sympathize. For whatever reason, many people take any sort of nuanced, academically-formal discussion about highly contentious topics involving politics, society, etc. as prima facie evidence of dishonesty. This peculiar sort of naïve anti-intellectualism is actually quite common across the culture-wars spectrum. I'm not saying that this is what you're doing here: I'm saying that this alone is reason to be highly skeptical wrt. the prevailing rumors within the 'left' about people on SSC being horribly bigoted, racist etc.
> Quality of life when i was a child was just fine.

I bet you grew up in the West or Japan. Otherwise across Africa, China, India, quality of life for the average person is massively better now than in the 60’s.
Speech Recognition with Tensorflow.js
I was expecting someone to say like, Vive or something. The Quest is that good?

I see it being pitched as stand-alone. Does that mean you can't use it to do VR for PC games (e.g., Skyrim)?
Instagram with a 1kb upload limit
A lot of people argue that SARS-CoV-2 is more contagious and less fatal than first thought, without realizing that that means that herd immunity is even more difficult to achieve. The more contagious a virus is, the harder it is to achieve herd immunity.
You can sideload. I've sideloaded some things on Quest, and as far as I can tell from googling it's the same on Go (I don't own one though).

However, in practice it's not going to get any new software, because developers will be writing for new generations, and porting to hardware with a slower GPU speed is more effort than it's worth.
The Zen of Steve Jobs
Hi xori,

Can you please provide more information. One which page is this happening, which browser and OS are you using?

Regards,
Peter @ Oeck.
South American traffic peaked at over 3x the capacity
People are getting quarantine fatigue.

I think at some point soon, people are just going to give up.

We could’ve bit the bullet, and did a hard lock down for 4 weeks. This would’ve killed the virus in its tracks. But instead, we didn’t take the hard actions. And now, this virus is going to take its toll.

But, no worries. The stock market is doing all time highs.
Some amount of degrowth seems necessary. Would you quality of life suffer badly if you just bought a little bit less stuff?
Thanks to Let's Encrypt, this is no longer the case.
I wouldn't consider any of your criticisms as being "less accessible".

To take your example of the languages, the new design is more accessible. It has a clearly labeled heading, and I can see the names of the languages are being used without clicking on the bar. The old design has no hints that the striped bar (or in the case of `linux`, grey) is supposed to be informative. We're all just used to clicking that bar if we're curious.

It's clear they've optimized the layout around productivity, and making it more approachable to new visitors. Everyone has their preferences, and new designs are always tough to get right for everyone. "Less accessible" is the wrong way to phrase your criticisms, though.
Beatsaber is really nice, it's the first and only game I bought right now.

But it's not jaw dropping.

It's like para para or dance dance revolution, but a bit more imersive.
> ... but it's downhill from there as you maintain and update

I've been maintaining a Fedora desktop installed 8 years ago without a snag, updating every year or so as time permit. Not a single problem.
Just wait until two weeks from now...
> 2. Fabrice Bellard's Tiny C Compiler. You can't compile the diet libc with it.

:(
Deals done into {Germany,LA,SV,SF} from funds anywhere in world. That’s what I think is meant when someone says there is “almost venture capital” — is money available to invest there? These data are available from the usual sources online (Moneytree report, E&Y etc etc etc in English and German sources).

I don’t know of any German funds that make venture investments outside Europe though doubtless some exist. Still, if you want to back into the size of the domestic venture funds, pick a percentage (70%?) of the investments made as having come from domestic sources and figure that a fund wants to put all its committed capital to work within the first couple of years, and figure that the total venture pool is perhaps $7B. There are bigger single venture firms a few blocks from my house in Palo Alto. For example I walk past Accel every day to get a coffee.

As you say there just aren’t many companies there being funded, and when I read the local blogs and such people seem to want “the lifestyle” (or hate it) more than talking about building major businesses. To me it’s indistinguishable from people starting a sandwich shop.
:| What?
He created FFMpeg, QEMU and claimed the pi digits record... A legend.
> I'm not sure why the patient can't make their own decisions, but I don't have all the facts.

She is older (85+) and not equipped to navigate the more complex aspects of this.

This is also where the quality of life part becomes far more significant. At this age...given the likely prospects...it might make more sense to go for quality of life and make good memories during whatever time might remain than anything else. These are difficult topics to discuss and even more difficult options to consider because it isn't all about making purely analytical decisions.

The current guidance is a six week course of chemo followed by an evaluation of outcomes to support further actions.
Fwiw, I actually manage my linux laptop with Ansible.
Echo VR!
> John Bolton says Trump is encouraging the Chinese to build death camps to house their ethnic minorities.

give me a break, Bolton is a hack trying to cash in at the end of his dismal career. there is no evidence for this.
The creator of Zig language wrote a praise to musl:

https://andrewkelley.me/post/why-donating-to-musl-libc-proje...
My bill for Washington state worker’s compensation insurance scheme comes from their tax department and is labeled as a tax bill.

Filing state taxes requires your foreign corporate registration.

These are all things I had to do myself before payroll could process.

Sounds like taxes to me.
I'm still waiting for someone to write an LLVM backend for Go.
I haven't seen that tool yet (been a few months since I developed for Oculus), so I can't tell yet anything about that (and looks like a Mac app from screenshot, so not sure if it'll work for me).

The first solution described there needs users to register as developer (not just unlock it as in Android phones) and being able to use adb. We will have to see if that continues to work. No info about that yet. It's definitely not completely disconnected from the online stuff. For example - when the system needs updates you can't do any development in that time (I learned about that when after some weeks pause it prevented me completely from developing for nearly a full day because of outstanding updates).

The second solution is using the shop which as the as described by the original article will be shut down and not even updates to existing apps will be possible anymore.
Or most people hated it but didn't love the product enough to care to comment. Perhaps the design of the feedback form matters. I wasn't part of the beta so I don't know how they asked.
Good luck on your decision -- it's a toughie! :)
Hah. I think we can all agree that the UI has been improved since then.
You’re kinda always eating from the dumpster of ideology whether you’re aware of it or not.
Too wide and spacious
Thank you! there is no 'GROUP BY' keyword support. Optimiser works out group by queries without it. We are planning to put a noop there, just to be nice to finger memoory.

EXPLAIN would be quite boring in our case, we use a myriad of methods to make query fast. We would love to keep up the performance so that no one ever needed to be interested in query plan.
I think you missed the point of the parent post. What's to stop governments from having a perpetual state of semi-emergency with always-on citizen tracking "because we don't know when this could happen again"? I think some worry over this is warranted.
I'll admit up-front that I don't have a solid source that I can cite for this, and there's a good chance that it's outdated by now. That being said:

I've heard several times that this is largely driven by the crappier flavors of "media platform" and bottom-of-the-barrel ad networks breaking in spectacular fashion due to CORS and mixed-content problems when the main site tries to switch to HTTPS.
More background:

https://freebeacon.com/media/well-known-blogger-shuts-down-s...

NYT has a history of selective doxxing.
Wrong, this redesign is awkward. If it was a good design, then people wouldn't complain about it. However, it really is a step backwards.
And I have. But the reality is that the vast majority of Quest users don't know about SideQuest and/or don't want the hassle of sideloading.
Wow, this is amazing. Thanks.
ARM Processor – Sowing the Seeds of Success
> Apps shipped with macOS are actually good imo, ...

As long as your standard is low, sure. Scanning with Image Capture results in needlessly large files and it has turned to be quite a piece of crap. Moved my scanning pipeline back to Linux, and now, I've got text recognition for free !
Depends on the location but living without a job is not really feasible without government assistance of some sort which is usually tied to stress and extra work proving you need the money. For example in many US states you have to prove that you are constantly looking for a new job and are willing to accept any kind of job offered in order to receive unemployment assistance. This is a far cry from being relaxed enough to work on projects in peace.
Well, it doesn't seem right that H1Bs can vent and rant all they want about the problems they see with the H1B program and how they are getting the shaft, but the discussion can't go the other way.

A lot of non-H1Bs feel that they are getting shafted by the H1B program as well. How can those frustrations be articulated without it being considered "racial flamebait"?

No matter how you phrase it, if you as a non-H1B articulate frustrations with H1Bs and/or the H1B program, someone replying is going to mention the country/race that comprises 3/4ths of all H1Bs.
Not a problem in the sense that, tested positive doesn't mean you are sick, tested positive doesn't mean you are having severe symptom.
You can't compare US taxes to EU taxes. Paying these (taxes and social contibutions) you also get something in exchange: free public medical care, free education, state pension, various safety nets. Although quality and amount depends on country.
Eh. An animated image (an image that contains some sort of video media, whether gif or h264 or whatever) is a hint to the browser to play it automatically and without sound. If everything were true video (say, mp4) you couldn’t make that distinction. As long as the video in the animated video is encoded properly — as real video and not a sequence of frames as gif does — then animated images definitely have their places.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)

From the looks of the associated CVEs, it is buffer overflow attack against Safari. The exploit is probably to use a MitM attack to inject the payload into an arbitrary website.
Training is hard.

I've been training remarkably difficult-to-train people for decades, with really spotty success.

Part of it was that I have never been "trained to train," so I cleared the minefield by dancing through it.

I have learned to take Responsibility for communication.

In my experience, if "they" don't "get it," it's my fault.

The biggest problem that I have, is starting at too high a baseline (sounds like what happened here). In many cases, I need to back up, and do a "preflight" of "the basics."
you've actually got it backwards. 150 cases out of 150 tests mean that testing isn't indicative of the infection rate, and is a yawner because the test itself is telling us almost nothing.
Sorry, I misunderstood your previous comment. I'm totally fine with them designing it and making the case for it. Actually having a good justification is a long way off imho. But a few mil for feasibility and a few more to work out what it could do is a smart exercise.
Not a fan of the new rounded corners on everything. Also, don't like how a repository's navigation is no longer aligned with the content of the repository itself. Just seems off.

Other than those two, everything else seems OK.
The fact that there are continuously new outbreaks in meat processing plants shows that indoors the disease is easily transmitted, and it's so serious that the workforce is off sick with high fever for weeks.

The CFR for coronaplague is ~ 1 %, comparable to the Spanish Flu in Germany. The impact was catastrophic, the High Command had to decide between sending young men to the front or keeping them at work in coal and steel. In those days there was little automation, the infection would spread like wildfire through the workforce at any large employer. The only reason we aren't seeing the same now is that people adhere to some form of social distancing - work from home, no going out to bars, no gym, no church, kids are not in school, but as soon as guard is dropped infection rates jump up again. We are seeing this as well. Israel had new cases down to 1 per 100000 people until they opened up the schools and cases increased by two orders of magnitude.
Don't forget asexual
I'm still annoyed that they don't have multiple user profiles for Quest. What kind of gaming device doesn't support that in 2020? Every time I hear an announcement from Oculus, I have a little hope they'll announce support for this, and every time I'm disappointed.
ok then how many are positive but free or minimal of harm caused by the virus ?
I am the end user
Yes, sorry, it could help other competitors to Google, like other mapping companies
Racing teams and big car manufacturers have incredibly accurate models of vehicle dynamics.
yeah this is ripe for survivorship bias

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
I agree -- the president is right to warn that force will be used to repel an effort to take over part of the nation's capital.
why is the latino population seeing large number of cases?
Nothing really jaw dropping there right now.

Beatsaber and Superhot are cool games, but they aren't 460€ cool.
The Threadripper 3970x can compile the 5.x kernel in ~24 seconds. That's not too shabby. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-linu...
In the linked blog post, they say that apps will be still subject to their policies (same as when you want your app in the iOS app store or Android Play Store), but that you'll have a direct link to distribute.
The idea is to have a balance of compilation + runtime performance.
A few months ago I think there were some fan-made "GitHub redesigns" floating around that sorta looked like this. It kinda reminds me of those crazy futuristic video game console "leak" videos (à la "This will be PlayStation in 2020!!") followed by the reveal of the actual new PlayStation design.
It’s easy to look up, it has historically been used to spy on human rights activists and reporters.

It’s sold by the NSO group, that has repeatedly tried to smear and spy on organisations that report on them knowingly selling to and supporting governments that are using these tools to attack HRAs, etc.

I assume that they have updated it since it first came to light, as the vulnerabilities at the time were all fixed.

Note that the vulnerabilities that they use are all the same ones used by jailbreaks, so fixing them necessarily means preventing jailbreaks.
We all know that Intel iGPUs are terrible (at least until the new Xe based GPUs start to come out).

The comparison I don't see enough people making is to throw out as an option the one company that regularly ships semi custom, secure, x86 SoCs with GPUs, AMD. An Xbox One SoC is literally half of the transistor count of an A12Z (5B and 10B respectively).

And the frame rate was anything but steady there. And calling it "middling settings" is pushing it as well, the env lighting wasn't even on Lara. It looks like they dropped the settings as far down as they would go.
Why the pandemic unleashed a frenzy of toilet-paper buying
"Forget 3DoF & AR"

Sidenote, Quest will be mixing between AR and VR [1]. Maybe it'll take a hardware revision to really bring it to the fore, but the future of AR/VR are quite blurred.
[1]: https://tech.fb.com/the-future-of-work-and-the-next-computin...
Yeah, I've been trying to compensate by working till 2/3 am but it's destroying my health.
There are nicer ways to say that, it might just be a tiny bug on a brand new project that someone is sharing.
Well not for nothing, thanks for your comment - this is a really good insight!
> Not sure what that has to do with hardware but I'll bite: users don't care

Sure, if you keep a population ignorant, they won't care about the pettiness of their lives, as they don't know about freedom.
They could have left the languages in the same place where it was before. Now it requires extra input and mental effort to find the languages section. This is definitely a step backwards.

Not complaining about the design of the new languages section, but the layout is just completely terrible and useless.
I'm totally unaware of the Intel-failed-at-10nm story -- is there somewhere good to read an intro to that?
Wow. He doesn't want to disassemble his laptop, so he's lying about being a power user?

Have you ever heard of the No True Scotsman fallacy?
I think the old github design was perfect.

Upcoming https://gitly.org is going to have a similar design, even simpler.

It's written in V, so it's very light and fast. Open source release this week.

Other features (from the readme):

- Minimal amount of RAM usage (works great on the cheapest $3.5 AWS Lightsail instance)

- Easy to deploy (a single <1 MB binary that includes compiled templates)

- Works without JavaScript

- Detailed language stats for each directory

- "Top files" feature to give an overview of the project

https://github.com/vlang/gitly
To be fair, they nearly did bite the bullet until Microsoft stepped in with that loan (for entirely non altruistic reasons on their part of course).
Daniel Tiger is pretty good about working with others and focusing on our emotional maturity.
Let's Encrypt is a 3rd-party.
That was indeed a thing several years ago as ad networks were being forced to support HTTPS, but all of the major ad networks and ad servers have supported HTTPS for years at this point.

I don't doubt there are some bespoke ad servers or other dark corners of ad infrastructure where HTTPS support is still lacking, but that should be rare at this point.