skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just wanted say that your reply is much better than mine. You just engaged with what the person said, without interpreting the insinuations (like I did). Thanks!
I live in Holland so I'm a bit worried about what is going to happen to this place which was already below sea level, despite having the world's best water engineers, a functional cooperative society, and no shortage of capital.
> The compelling argument for FreeBSD has always been: zfs, pf and dtrace.

You forgot to mention the "completeness" of the base system. Where Linux distributions is a "mix and match" of various tools/versions, that may or may not be the same across each of them.

FreeBSD provides a solid base that "just works". There's just one version (per release).

Jails is also another great feature. Linux has cgroups and namespaces, with various tools built on top of it like Docker, LXC and LXD, but (IMO) Jails still beat them in a heartbeat by security and ease of use.

Docker has had more severe vulnerabilities in a single year (2018 IIRC) than Jails has had in it's entire lifetime.
> There’s also kqueues which are a much better interface to high throughput I/O than epoll.

Can you clarify why you say this?

One area where kqueue will be more performance is in that it supports multiple updates on interest set in one operation, while epoll does not, which means that doing multiple updates to an interest set will likely be less performant with epoll, however high throughput I/O does not translate to high frequency of updates to an interest set.
Hi Steve, nice to see you on here and doing well! :)

My first thought was Athena as well, but it could be Quartz (it started in 08-09 at BaML, vs Athena starting in 2006).

Both Citi and Barcap also tried (albeit to less success than JPM/BaML) to do similar things.

With that said, For those unfamiliar - at least two major banks run insanely large production python installs across thousands of developers. Core skills (nowadays) are python and react - and yes, we’re all actively hiring :)

All of the large banks also have pretty good open source initiatives - just check out github repos for JPMorgan, BaML, or GS. We have also been active participants in Pycon (key sponsors and doing sessions, like Steve’s) since at least 2009.
> discovering some interesting research on this topic!

Please feel free to share :D
Sounds like when I was suffering minor strokes.

I can see the letters, I could read the words, but they held little meaning to me.

Almost as if 90% were in another language, yet I could grasp the basic gist, but nothing more.

Oddly I have almost no trouble reading this page.
The comparison was between Go and Java circa 2012 when ago was first released. Not between 2012 Go and 1995 Java. Notably, Go has things like closures and implicit interfaces which make it much easier to write more abstract code than pre-generics Java (which depended heavily on downcasting).

I’m not sure if generics will be a net benefit to Go. I often wish I had them, but I rarely need them to make code type safe. Further, I don’t think Go will be able to retain its property that solutions implemented in ago tend to be flat-footed/boring/not-overly-abstract nor the property that different developers tend to approach similar problems in very similar ways (I.e., Go tends to be written in very standard ways). Of course, if you’ve never used Go for a considerable time, you will likely devalue these properties, but they turn out to be really useful, especially in a collaborative setting. Maybe they won’t be lost when generics arrive, or maybe generics will be a net positive. I hope so, but I’m concerned. I think Go is quite a lot nicer to read and write than other languages with generics, and I would be sad if it backslid.
If the data is collected from a skimmer + pin pad camera then you are already in the current area of the cardholder. There are a lot of ATMs without cameras or ways to avoid your face appearing fully in a camera.

Unusual patterns and stolen cards are one of the primary reasons that they will rarely ever leave a team. It takes a great deal of work to gather stripe data + PIN. It's much easier to look for a website without PCI compliance. In-person carding is going by the wayside, but is much easier to accomplish if you have good data. You can buy dumps, but no one is turning over a PIN.
m.twitter.com/ProfFeynman
wtf is up with that site.

If you want to save changes: :w (write) :wq (write quit) :wq! (Override any read-only perms)
Just print a bill of a higher denomination and make your shareholders happy without destroying the solar system!

It's not the goal, it's the consequences of the rules of the game used to reach the goal.

If our economy was based on writing poetry and corporations would compete to write the most soul enticing profound poetry or art in general, the side effect wouldn't entail the depletion of resources and ruining of the ecosystem. Surely we'd find other ways to make our fellow human life miserable, perhaps all this art will make many suffer untold pains as the meaningfullness of our existence is unraveled, or whatever.

The rules of the game are the framework. The incentives are the driving force to push things down the gradient. The consequences are hard to predict. That works for wide range of rules and incentives
tl;dr: whining about SEO no longer working as well as it once did. and some irrelevant side issues like whether there are 3 or 4 ad slots ontop a search page.

My thoughts and prayers are with the SEO industry.
> an invisible collision of invisible objects — black holes — had become briefly visible

> it would mark the first time that colliding black holes have produced light as well as gravitational waves

Can someone with a better understanding of astrophysics dumb this down for me a bit? Black holes, by definition, don't let light escape. That's their thing. So how did this collision produce light visible outside of them? I mean, are we talking about a naked singularity? (Someone let Joseph Cooper know).

Or is it just that something nearby the collision but outside of the event horizon started producing large amounts of light?
It comes with it's own, but it is trivial to add your own via system policies.
Very few people need a bachelor’s degree worth of content to be successful in their jobs.
Diageo Announces World's First Ever 100% Plastic Free Paper-Based Spirits Bottle
No one can become expert on everything. At some level, you simply need to have trust, because you just wont be able to independently learn and verify everything.
> This quote from the article is incredibly sad: "each async library, comes its own ecosystem of libraries, which only work with that async library".

Already in Rust many libraries can be written completely agnostic of the underyling executor. Some cannot; we have a bit more interface work to do, but there's nothing inherent about this, it's solely a standardization issue that's being worked on. Sounds like they ran into the latter more than the former, which is unfortunate, but should be better in the future.

> But is it actually _necessary_ to resort to async I/O in Rust, given that the type system appears to make thread-based concurrency safe ?

It is not!
If you have some centralized server for hosting the application anyhow, you're probably better off just using WebRTC directly, or for that matter, just serving the music files from there.
I agree with everything you said except about the protection thing. I would except things that are supposed to protect me from a thing to be capable of it - a bandana, a mask, or a lower-rated respirator protect me from most droplets containing the virus, but have no capability of protecting me from the virus itself. However this is, as another commenter said, probably too much technical correctness.
The parts of culture that matter to business is a small subset of the whole culture. For businesses India may as well be a western country. They speak English (we can ignore the exceptions just like we ignore the few Germans who don't speak English), they have similar rules of law, so contracts will work.

Businesses don't care about anything you do at home, which is most of where the culture is different.
Ubunutu LTS. I've been using Linux since the STS days (about 50 3.5 floppy disks). I used to compile my own kernels, enter clock timings for my video driver, but now I'm older and just want an OS that works.

Linux still has video driver issues, but once those things are worked out, it's pretty solid. It's still possible to screw up your bios settings, so be careful there.

For open source development projects, it has great/the best support.

UI is still bad, but I use IDEs and command line. Those things provide some consistency across all the failed window systems.
I think the humour at the start might have been enough to make many people not read the email TBH. Something a little less tongue-in-cheek and simply nice/approachable is likely to net a better chance of response.
I think that the engineers at Netflix "could figure it out".

As a long time BSD fan (since 1998) who has had to accept the fact that Linux won out in the end, I can vouch that by far the biggest pain point on Linux is its networking stack. Whenever I have to do anything other than set an IP address I throw up in my mouth a little bit. Linux has/had its benefits (packaging, install base), but IPTables or its routing configuration isn't one of them. High performance is certainly achievable, but it has a lot of quirks.

BSD's networking stack has always been more robust. Anybody who's worked heavily with both will tell you that. It did not surprise me one bit that the primary reason they chose FreeBSD over Linux for their CDN was networking. Juniper came to the same conclusion, on top of licensing reasons.
Black holes have gravity. That gravity means things orbit them like a star. (Dust, rock, gas, bits of planets etc.) When two black holes merge that orbiting stuff collides really really fast. The light comes from that collision and subsequent heating, not from the actual black holes.
I’ll throw in another alternative to look at for those using Kubernetes: https://enmasse.io
Sounds like a descendant of Goldman Sachs‘s SecDB/Slang with automatic dependency graph building. Did it have purple children (nodes whose value influences the graph structure) and twiddle scopes (modified copies of subtrees)? :-)
> ...at the same moment.

As an aside, this is a rather funny phrase to be using about objects so massive that time and space actually switch roles inside their event horizons compared to the normal universe.

I don't feel like I can explain it very well, but here is a video that does so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KePNhUJ2reI (Skip to about 5:15 for the good stuff.)
If anyone is interested I am building something similar that is way more revolutionary. If you are naive like me and think u can change the world - looking for a technical co-founder to join me :))
This "political group" does science a huge disservice.

At different points in history, different political groups were stuffing their ideas down people's throats claiming it all is based on science, religion or bright ideals of democracy as given to us by the founding fathers.

More often than not it was bullshit.
What a pity!

[EDIT: slightly reworded]
Far Cry 6 Konfirmasi Tanggal Rilis Dan Angkat Tema Politik Diktator
(copied over from other thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23817794)

Github started doing availability reports. Last month's details in the blog post below with summary of the issue.

Stay tuned till next month for the current outage.

https://github.blog/2020-07-08-introducing-the-github-availa...
I'd be skeptical of anyone trying to build regulated financial services on a technology that is still unregulated in large part of the world.

Getting a financial service license is possible, getting a blockchain-based banking service recognized by you financial authority might be a stretch. And you'll likely spend a lot in accountants and lawyers fees, not even talking about KYC and Anti-Money-Laundering requirements.

Disclaimer: I work in blockchain (not for finance) and used to work in financial services in particular gearing up financial systems for new regulations (Basel III [1], EMIR [2], KYC, Anti-Money-Laundering...)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel_III

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Market_Infrastructure...
> was two centuries of progress in physics, chemistry and biology

Well, also _medicine_. The application of the scientific method to medicine more or less killed off homeopathy as something that could be taken seriously. It wasn't a scientific theory.
You're right, but in the wrong direction. Major card shops will have varying prices based on BIN. standard/classic/gold/platinum/premium/world level cards all go for different amounts based on issuing credit provider. You pay more for the billing phone number associated with it.

$9-$25 each and depending on provider you get discounts based on number of pieces purchased at once & possibly historical spend.
Want police reforms? Then, ask hard questions
dupe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23810780
We both seem to have direct experience of working with a publisher, but I think you are overstating the effort of most publishers these days. Too many books, even from reputable publishers, are of fairly low quality, which as a reader bothers me even more than stuff like this: https://www.flickr.com/photos/markos/49564386913/in/datepost...

Also, I don't see why them taking on a risk of printing upfront should be offloaded on the author through smaller fee.
If your core business income depends on stuff that you have absolutely no control over then you are living based on hopes and dreams and it's entirely your fault.
So true. Thanks for echoing what many of us immediately thought about. Personally, this recent anti-expert fad is neatly capture by this 2016 cartoon => https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a20630
Once WebTorrent is ubiquitous among desktop and headless clients, the networks will become a lot stronger. Especially for applications like BitChute and for anyone who copies their approach. It solves a major problem with the cost of baseline hosting vs. hosting at scale.
Protectionism doesn't work as well as more open policies. That doesn't mean that it doesn't work. For China the open policy includes things that are against their other goals and so isn't an option.
“johnyj12345” exposing self-hosted Gitlab's secrets to the public
It seems like a user named "johnyj12345" is making it's rounds on self-hosted Gitlab instances since Saturday, exposing server secrets to the public by creating issues containing Gitlab's `secrets.yml` file. Better check your instance!
A new, simpler system to point tickets in Scrum/Agile
They don't have to, but it saves them the bother of learning to make their own.
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It's probabilistic, like everything, but N-95 masks do protect the wearer from particles that small. The CDC purposefully lied to you so that you wouldn't stockpile masks they (understandably) wanted to use elsewhere.

/https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Filtration-Performance...

>Consistent with single-fiber filtration theory, N95 and P100 respirators challenged with silver monodisperse particles showed a decrease in percentage penetration with a decrease in particle diameter down to 4 nm.
> Define "pretty good".

It's a well-known fact. Actually, I'm pretty sure you're aware of this, considering this statement of yours:

> If TikTok was a PWA it couldn't have done a fraction of the tracking it was doing.

As for this:

> Compare the permission model of the browser against the appstores.

What are you even talking about? It has nothing to do with browser isolation.

> PWSs don't and won't do that. That's your whole argument and it's misleading.

That's an interesting assertion but you haven't left me any clue why you think so.

I also notice that you chose to quote a conditional sentence out of my argument, claiming that it was my "whole argument," but I'd also like to add that I did explain the hows and whys that lead it.
Techy co-founder hero person
Looking for a technical co-founder... where better than the HN community to find ambitious cool people naive enough to want to change the world. If you're looking for a project lets go :)
From the Ada standard:

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Types/access

More importantly the previous discussion on Ada SPARK 2014 'safe pointers' may also be an interesting read for proponents of a Substructural Type System:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15874273
ZFS integration was worse in Solaris 10 than in FreeBSD. In Solaris the page cache and ARC was not properly integrated and when using mmap data would be cached twice in both page cache and arc cache and there was weird issues with these contending with each other. I think this was still the case in Solaris 11 also but hard to say since it is closed source and their marketing material was fraudulent. As for the higher performance, I would like to see evidence that Solaris has better performance than Linux.

The one saving grace of Solaris was that it gave you amazing debugging capabilities but the practical outcome of that was just giving you the ability to gain deep insight to see see exactly how bad Solaris was as an operating system. In all my years of using it (10+) I never experienced it as being more performant than Linux and in most cases it was way slower if you did not tune it significantly.

There were some very good ideas that went into Solaris but they were almost invariably poorly implemented.
At some points in history, communism, racism, bloodletting and alchemy all were scientific theories.

I wonder what our descendants will be laughing about when looking back at 21st century?
Common Lisp GUI Toolkits
Maybe with some heuristics, you could hide some latency by beginning to compile before saving.
Silly question: I recently started learning to read sheet music and I've noticed I have real difficulty counting the number of lines between two notes in the pentagram. If there's just one it's pretty clear, but if they're 2-3 or more it's like my mind can't tell them apart unless I put mi finger on top to obstruct the sight gradually.

A similar thing happens to me if there's to many of the same number/letter together (for example, in 000043452 I have a lot of trouble counting the number of zeroes).

I always thought it was normal, but it feels very similar to this website. Do I have a mild form of dyslexia? or is it normal?
Wow, one of our solutions is nearly 100 projects (legacy) and the compile time for the whole solution is sub-5 minutes. I'd love to see what kind of solution would take 40 minutes to compile! (or maybe I don't :)).

That being said, C# is clever enough to only need to recompile the assemblies affected by your code change, so often you can get away with 10 second compile times even for large solutions.
IIRC our solution was around 450 projects. Visual Studio just woudn't open the whole solution.

So you had to work in individual projects at a time, slowly going through and changing stuff project by project.

VS wouldn't even build it either, really. YOu had to build via batch file that did various ms build magic. I would make changes, set of a build and go to lunch, then come back and fix the errors.

Once you checked the code into source control it would trigger a build which would sometimes take upwards of an hour :( I hated that code base.

It got even worse when they added Coded UI tests. Wait an hour for a build and then a random Coded UI test would fail and the advice from the people who wrote the Coded UI was "just run another build!", yeah, flakey tests on a code bases that tests an hour to run...
Interesting comment, I would also add that this in general is a very scientific mindset. My partner pointed when we first met pointed out her observation, that myself and my other science friends/colleagues (I'm a physicist) ask a lot of why questions when we talk, on one hand to better understand things, but also out of scepticism. Generally as scientists we are trained to first look for flaws in any theory (which can also be quite annoying for someone you're talking to).
> Companies being Ambani owned, while worse than a competitive market, is still much better than being Tencent owned.

But better how, exactly?
> but it wouldn't be because I was pro- science , but because I was pro expert.

They do the same but they pick different 'experts': priests, politicians, bloggers, media pundits. We can't escape the fact that we need to rely on other people's opinions to make our own, we can't understand everything from scratch.
I don't think these are official public webcams. At least, that's how I interpret their FAQ:

https://www.insecam.org/en/faq/
There are dozens of good open-source wikis available. Getting one set up is generally less than an hour's work.

Getting people to contribute can be a problem, but if the workflow is easy and there are things to document, it will work out.

Cleaning up after the fact is usually a bigger problem. Even with full-text search (a requirement, IMO) a large wiki can become a terrible dump. Library science is a real field, and if you can afford a librarian, you definitely want one.
Even when this someone is not from your dinner party?
Most computer users of the first world are barely even peripherally aware of the existence of linux. Within FOSS, BSD holds more weight as a software license than as an OS family at this point. Try searching BSD just about anywhere, including here[1]. And the most significant BSD-as-in-OS features are, invariably, whichever ones apple ends up sniping for macOS.

So: hardly anyone knows what BSD is, and nearly all of those who have used a BSD-like have done so in the form of macOS. It takes a certain kind of preening arrogance, mixed with total detachment from reality, to stamp and shout over distro confusion between linux and FreeBSD. It should go without saying that proponents of the latter have good reason to be grateful for any reason that new outsiders might even remember it exists.

I mean, the biggest in-joke the BSDs have is a ritual negging of bad news about BSD market share ("Is *BSD dying?"[2]). This is in line with a general level of sneery, navelgazing nonsense pervading much of the BSDverse that makes it altogether unpleasant to engage.

It's an OS, not Hilbert's Program. I'll use it if it fits my use case. I won't if it doesn't. I don't have the spare lifespan necessary to listen to BSD people whine about linux. Whatever gatekeeping needs to happen to make that stop, have at it.

[1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2]: https://www.google.com/search?q=bsd+dying
See also: competing consumers pattern https://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/patterns/messa...
Even if they were wise enough to change that ahead of time, they then run "visudo" and are stuck.
I believe you are being imprecise with your terms. Understanding how gravity applies on a quantum level is a theory of "quantum gravity". That is a very different concept than a "unified" theory. Your post uses appears to use the concepts interchangeably, although OP took care to show they are different.
Computations in finance can be quite time intensive, and are typically repeated many times with slightly modified (bumped) inputs to compute risks (finite difference approximations to partial derivatives). An initial 5s startup is negligible then.