skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is specific to blocking APIs, as per the page:

> Examples are legacy RDBMS drivers or messaging APIs, and the underlying reason is typically that (network) I/O occurs under the covers

The issue with async/await is that APIs need to be extended with their async counterparts. If they don't, then you have to be sure not to invoke blocking calls. Java won't have this issue as the runtime will take care of preemption.
At this point I'm becoming more worried about distribution rather than finding a working vaccine.

One in six people (in the UK) said they'd refuse a vaccine if it became available, and another one in six weren't sure. (YouGov poll)

It might make distribution to reach herd immunity difficult.
I begin to think about how to build a linter/scorecard for this sort of stuff.

Example linter rules:

This article does not have a source.
This article has no sources from a known resource [this community] find reputable.
This article has a source from a source known to this community to be non-reputable.
This article has a "shallow" source such as a blog (tumblr, medium, blogspot, youtube)

Probably would need a mechanism to build/aggregate/crowdsource reputable source lists.

edit: formatting
I would imagine that people who've already recovered from covid-19 wouldn't need/get a vaccine, but I am not a doctor.
Often I see assertions that state the exact opposite of what the reference contains.
The comment is now deleted, but someone asked for some examples on nanopublications. I just found out about nanopublications myself, but here is what I found:

- The website itself [1].

- This paper from 2018 has an example (and it shows some broader scientific context about this idea) [2].

[1] http://nanopub.org/wordpress/?page_id=8

[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.06532.pdf
That's also how I intended it.
Unfortunately Chromium on Linux (and for those who have desktop apps - Electron on all platforms) doesn’t support h264. Chrome does.
I'd argue that indeed, many of these acquired companies could not reach scale w/o Google. Consider Youtube which was burning millions on hosting and always on the verge of bankruptcy if they couldnt raise more funding.

Add in a company that can fund operations, provide user flow, provide a pool of advertisers, real compensation to engineers, and you have a real success.

I give Google a lot of kudos on this.

Do we really want another SUN Microsystems happenning?
Interesting use case. We haven't encountered this or thought about this before. It would be a change for us to price like this, but happy to discuss further if you want to shoot us an email!
> I wouldn't put it past AWS or another large player acquiring them soon.

I really hope it doesn't come to this sadly. I'd be okay with DO or somebody who isn't as massive doing a merger. Maybe they can pull resources to make each other even successful and maintaining reasonable independence.
> “Zed Shaw”

Wow, that’s a person I haven’t heard from in ages.

He was a Big Flipp’n Deal back in the day (Mongrel, Spats with DHH, etc). Curious to know what he’s up to now.
Just as an idea, adding overlay stamps to it. Something like "Recommended by developers", "Only for limited time", or just a lens flare effect.
Hugging Face is also a for-profit startup. I wonder how betrayed this guy is going to feel betrayed when they launch a paid service...
Well, do they want to be taken seriously as an open institutuon and a Charity?
"Give humans a new tool and they will amaze you." You are right. Already some special use cases of the API have come up. I have been exploring the API since yesterday and it is a big deal. But not for the reason of AI and AGI. That may happen later. But right now, the API is the game changer. Single API to apply for lots of different tasks. I have been updating my thread of demos which I am building at https://twitter.com/nutanc/status/1285128265519083520
Borg/Kubernetes?
Yes, I was originally inspired by GraalVM’s work! They were one of the first to realize a practical implementation of Futamura’s ideas. I briefly discuss it towards the end:

http://breandan.net/2020/06/30/graph-computation/#programs-a...
My network provider capped my bandwidth to 1mbps because of this for like five years in the early to mid 2000s. They said I used more bandwidth than an entire apartment building (not a small one). Very early days of mainstream pirating. It was a makeshift internet provider that used (stole, I guess) internet access from a nearby university.
Thank you for reading.

This is a very difficult question. I am sympathetic to the view of Spengler, which is similar to that of Toynbee.

But in practise, I think what constitues the West is constantly changing. The historical base is Western Europe. If Western Europe and the US diverge in ideology over the next few decades (not necessarily a bad thing) then as a category the West will shrink back to the base. Possibly a bit larger if the EU stays intact or integrates further, as I hope it does.

If one was to scientifically determine it they would look at how strong cultural transmission is across the different units -- probably looking at the distribution of movies and other media, as well as how quickly new phrases and political ideas spread across social media.
Yeah that's the truth.

More and more often as a sort of puritanism takes over replies have near 0 to do with me.

I'll put forth an idea X, and someone will maybe think (sometimes reasonably, sometimes less so...) it also supports another idea Y.

I'll be all "oh man no not Y".

And I'll get a diatribe about how I support Y ... despite explicitly saying that we both agree that Y is bad...

It sometimes feels like in most places nobody believes anyone is honest and just is looking to riff off some tangential thing and yell at people.
ZFS deletes can be really slowed down by having dedupe enabled on the pool.
It's doing all these things (basic code generation, arithmetic, function composition) without specifically being trained for any of these tasks.
It was basically just trained to predict the next most likely word from a prompt and yet all those interesting things "emerges" from it.
And giving it more compute power it still keeps improving so far.
I'd love to switch to ZFS, but the RAM requirements are absurd. I don't have a separate storage server, and I'm not really to sacrifice 10GB of RAM (1GB/TB of storage if I'm to believe what I find through Google) on my home desktop just for it when the vast majority of my data could probably handle a rotted bit or two.

I did briefly try ZFS on my laptop a year or so ago, and it ate up half of my RAM permanently. Since it was already fairly limited, that wasn't a sacrifice I wasn't willing to make either when I have plenty of backups anyway.
Not true there are lots of regulatory-light fintech applications you can try like building applications on top of banking APIs. Very few people ever really use bank APIs you may find the bank will be glad to talk to you.

You likely (but not always) need a legal entity, but thats a prerequisite for setting up any business.
> Companies like Facebook and Twitter have so much power because they are so large, and they face no real competition.

I find it hard to take the rest of the article seriously when it's talking about Twitter as a giant monopoly that needs to be broken up...

But also the argument seems fundamentally wrong. Account security is a prime example of a place where economies of scale bring a lot of benefit. I would absolutely trust the security of say Facebook, Google or Microsoft above that of Twitter just due to the larger scale. They can afford to spend more on security, since they have more users, and their users are more valuable. Every dollar spent on security applies to the whole user base. And similarly I'd trust Twitter above a 100 person web startup.

If you start regulating for some kind of a minimum security bar, either you're going to be killing a lot of companies, or you're going to be setting the bar laughably low compared to what these companies already do.

> Were there 100 different Twitter-like companies

... they would all be bankrupt.
Sucuri seem to have pretty similar business model, which is a proxy in front of your site that handle security and cdn.
I might be wrong on this, but wouldn't that still be fine in order to achieve herd immunity?

I distinctly remember reading something that said 60% was the minimum threshold required to ensure that the virus spread as a greatly reduced rate.
Screwed by Lufthansa and the German Government, Saved by PayPal
But there are many tea pots orbiting the sun, the path they follow is a bit weird though ^_^
Mine goes up to "2160p" but since the source photos are stitched together, I'm not sure what their total resolution would be (probably varies based on what/how many were stitched together).

It's basically some pans across high resolution composite images. Quite cool but not captured video. As they mention, there's not much moving there anyway but it will be cool when someday we can look at high def (or even stereoscopic) video from these remote locations.
Well, I should provide a disclaimer that I’m only really aware of California buildings that do this, which might answer the “how does this work in general” question :P
Many thanks for your comment and this reference -- he looks like a very interesting thinker.
In Canada 42% of the people got the flu shot in 2018-2019, up form 36% two year prior [1].

[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/publications...
You are right, Nespresso and especially Krups pods are ridiculously wasteful. To put something compostable in a vessel which will take 100s of years to biodegrade feels perverse.

That said if people started to make coffee in espresso machines that would if anything be even more wasteful.

One, most espresso machines sol are the cheap machines. And they are rickety, poorly made, unrepairable and low longevity. You see lots of them at the local household waste center piled up next to other consumer electronics junk. I could see a proliferation of them being a bigger environmental nuisance than pods.

Two, a proper espresso machine takes a fair bit of time to warm up and I wouldn't drink the first shot out of the machine, so they need to be run through a few times, wasting electricity and coffee.

I can see the appeal of Nespresso. I don't personally want one, but their convenience and ingenuity is undeniable. If anything Nestle should double down on ensuring the pods are either compostable or that recycling rates improve markedly.
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Many of us don't even know it. My DNS for PortableApps.com is run through Digital Ocean, which uses Cloudflare for DNS.
Since the other commenter didn't answer your question even remotely.. It's mostly schools that are lacking windows. Most places (that my tired brain can think of) at least have a window, not necessarily one that opens though. Might be different for other places, only speaking from personal experience.
Prove it's sarcasm.
As I understand it VCs don't acquire companies, they invest in them. The difference being that in an acquirer buys and runs the company, while a VC only buys a small portion of it and gains exposure to potential upside.

In my case, I'd like to go from an owner to something like a VC -- that is, I'd like to liquidate my company but still maintain a small potential upside. What I don't understand is how this would work, as the acquisition itself would be the upside.
radius only apply to the back cover in firfox https://i.imgur.com/nv6locC.png (works as expected in chrome)

excellent work otherwise
The bigger problem is that technology advancements gravitate at the demands of the noisiest, with the most social gravity.

Yes there are a lot of smart people at FAANG and Cloudflare corp.

There are a lot of just as capable folks not driven by job addicted meme.

Technically there’s no reason the web couldn’t be replaced with 1:many via Wireshark key sharing based access control to local content.

But via Wall Street, along these very particular rules, is how we are told to trade information. How is that not a planned economy?

Not just by doing what we’re clearly interested in doing naturally.

Make no mistake: big corp isn’t making us login at gunpoint. “They” didn’t do this. “We” did this.
Suits to measure aren't a new thing, but suits are expected to last for quite a while and thus they cost a bunch. Additionally, dunno about Indochino's web offering but they have offline shops where somebody takes measurements for you the old way, so apparently that's the experience many customers expect.
I know it's not the same but AeroPress or Moka Pot at home- fast, tasty, strong.
Only it's difficult to serve guest because how little the container is.
If you made the claim then the burden of proof is on you. The thing I was talking about is that I can automatically win the fight by asking you to provide a link.

Edit to add: a link that I know for sure you won't be able (or will be very difficult for you) to provide.
It's off, but I'll triple check, thank you.
This GPT-3 thing is stupid random generator. I don't get the fuzz. This thing is a pattern generator, it doesnt understand things.

Input "Black People". Output

“Black people own twitter, it’s white people telling them what to tweet.”
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Off topic to the content of the article, but this is a really slick looking blog! Is this a template or something custom?
Fire is dangerous though. Fire gut-punched California three summers running. The power company cut power to whole regions out of respect for fire.
We need more information than that poll. Someone unwilling to take a brand new vaccine is not inherently the same as some loony anti-vaccer. It’s not obvious to me that it would be sensible to be first inline for one of these vaccines that have been developed so quickly.
That RAM is needed only when you run deduplication (you have to store the checksums of blocks that you deduplicate somewhere). If you don't, the RAM requirements are similar to other filesystems.

On your home desktop, you don't have to run dedup. You will get still the bitrot protection.
What do you mean with "handmade HA" ?
If kids have a tangible goal of what they want to accomplish with coding, basically the barrier to entry no longer matters they'll figure it out.

This is why things like Minecraft and Flash were great, there is a part to the experience anyone can enjoy and accomplish but also the potential for huge depth through learning.
Basically you can sort things in GNUS based on some rules. You can also perform any arbitrary lisp based on some rules. So you simply add some regex, check the body of the message, and then perform whatever actions you want by either depositing the messages in a queue, or just directly doing those operations.

Sorry if that was vague, there isn't much to really say about it. I'm afraid I have no helpful pointers/tips to give.
Flame wars aren't always launched or avoided due to the level-headedness of rhetorical delivery
If you dump enoigh money, the machine does most of it for you, you need to click a button" take a piss and come back.
The very idea that deep fakes are somewhere near the top of the list of significant concerns for the media right now is in itself disinformation. And it seems to be very persistent. I keep seeing articles and videos about it all the time. Someone is pumping significant amount of money into this narrative.

The irony is that all this "anti-disinformation" research will clearly be used to run better disinformation campaign if/when the primitive shit being used right now stops working.
> Is the bar for doxing really that low now?

Also, if merely linking a real name to a pseudonymous online identity is doxing, then Alexander self-doxxed himself by republishing one of his SSC posts under his real name (while noting their origin) in book published by Springer.

An accurate definition of doxing would contain several components, a few of which would be: it's not doxing if you make the link yourself, and it's not doxing for a 3rd party to repeat the link you made (akin to the first sale doctrine).
Clearly the average USian is not the average person, but given that they need to speak English to have a shot (unless gpt-3 works for other languages?) it doesn't seem like a terrible approximation
If you are the instance owner you can do whatever you want. Additionally, many instances are installed on a single host (https://masto.host) and almost all instances are on VPS in various managed clouds.
Interesting thoughts Carol, thanks for sharing. It's important to have this sort of conversation with yourself when considering the foundations of starting a company. The fact that you've expressed it in such a way that others can tap into may be valuable for those like you at or approaching this crossroads. Fascinating thought process!

Not enough entrepreneurs/founders are able to have such a pragmatic and mature dialogue up front about the pros and cons. It's imperative that they do for the sake of their time and emotional well being - at the least. Kudos to you for going through it and making a decision which suits your needs.

You've said: "Setting goals like working at a certain company, promotions (up to positions like CTO) and building a specific type of thing aren't less ambitious than building a successful startup." ... and I would ask you to elaborate on that, like is there anything more "ambitious" than building successful startup or how do you perceive the scale of ambition in the context of say business/professional pursuits?

PS - I didn't know that hey.com was considered a "huge, groundbreaking" product...certainly captured some hearts and minds of the early adopter meets anti apple/establishment crowd but is it (yet) recognized outside of that bubble?
Fascinating. It's good, but there are lots of little emphatic "head nods" that don't make sense in the context of the speech - unless that was just an odd mannerism of Nixon's.
> “You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve”

No, you really don't. Your "pay" is a function of the market size, your market share, the budget of your customers, the amount of perceived value you create for them, your ability to sell, your costs, and probably some other minor factors. The difficulty of the problems you solve is – if at all – only indirectly related to some of those factors.
Honest question: I've never really understood the back of the napkin math of how Cloudflare functions economically, which I feel would go a long way towards my understanding of why/how they were able to become such an integral and generally positive part of the Internet.

Did they have some crazy in to get cheap bandwidth? Did they bet big on bandwidth prices falling? Did they figure something else out that nobody saw? Do they just to a tremendous job of migrating sites from free to paid plans?
exactly. That's when I realized the Turing test was too polite. That it was designed to keep the ugly truth away from the masses lest the field of AI be killed while still in infancy. But I think our evil nature would always win out. The temptation to create an AI that could 'manipulate' the enemy is too great. Just like everything else humanity discovers/invents, it is turned to manipualtion and conflict because there is more money in that. I still remember when I used the arpanet in college. I felt so special that I knew people who only wanted to help each other. Like a kind of 'stackexchange'. But the internet is a cesspool for all its corporate invaders who seek to monetize every aspect of our lives.
I'm interested in CPU core ballooning. I am willing to manually configure my code to ask to increase CPU cores.
I think the key lesson in this story is the author's willingness to do the work. IMO it's not enough to be skeptical; you also should have a set of criteria by which you'll be satisfied, and be willing to go try to satisfy those criteria yourself. I don't think that merely pointing out a lack of citation is sufficient as a counterargument.
Using GPT-3 API
(chuckle)
After using my Nespresso exclusively for about 2 years, I've recently added a Keurig to the mix. I agree with you... It is convenient to order Nespresso pods, but I'd rather pick up pods at the grocery store. Additionally, I mistakenly purchased a Nespresso Vertuo, which has a much more limited selection of pods compared to the original Nespresso pod design. The Keurig has so many pods, my local grocery store has a huge section of Keurig options.
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Some good ideas exist in this article. I could see this strategy implemented in my district as one of several starting in the Fall. But it's not going to be easy.

I'm in New England. The sheer number of students and the percentage of them who have inadequate Winter clothing and food would make the strategy impossible to implement as a one size fits all approach.

A quick search shows that my school district has 10,479 students. The number of students on free or reduced price lunch is a good indicator of access to adequate Winter clothing as well. We have 44% of the students on free or reduced price lunch. To implement a strategy of windows open or outdoor classrooms, we would have to account for 4,610 students' Winter clothing needs for temperatures ranging from 0F-55F.

Some communities have much higher percentages of students on free and reduced price lunch. A quick look at a neighbor city 15 minutes' drive to the north shows 95% on free or reduced price lunch.

Districts less affected by poverty could probably implement an outdoor or windows open strategy. But a mountain of logistics exist in trying to implement in communities like mine. Unfortunately, in our county, communities like mine are the norm.
The Pareto rule (at least my interpretation, due to its similarity with a power distribution) is recursive: 80% completeness from 20% work also implies 64% completeness from 4% work which in turn gives 51.2% completeness from 0.8% work (half of success is just showing up).

Accepting 51.2% as an approximation to half, the problem becomes 0.008 x = sqrt(x) which gives x = 125^2 = 15,625
That's not actually a contradiction. When an individual website is considered as a system, it will have multiple points where the failure of a component inhibits the system. It's possible to have both cloudflare and your database as "SPoFs" and that "single" is not meant to imply everyone only gets one.

It's absolutely true that if us-east-1 in AWS has a bad day, a significant fraction of the American digital economy will shut down. For some companies, the same is true of Azure and Google's various comparable offerings.

I read your post as skeptical. Why would you be skeptical? If you care about keeping your product up, you absolutely should have a fallback for cloudflare if you're a customer of theirs. Now, you might not care (and actually, for most folks I submit you need not care), but the folks making sure Ambulances get timely push notifications and realtime driving instructions probably care quite a bit.
There is going to be a finite number of people who are going to dedicate their computing resources (with the security, usability, and power consumption/heat issues that entails). I suspect that number is relatively small. It seems the definition of zero sum.

It's hard to rationalize virtually any notions of conservation (being green, AGW concerned, etc) with this project. Finding the seed of pewdiepie's world is somewhere between absolutely meaningless and completely meaningless.
Yeah but folks have been popping rice in hot sand for millennia. Its apparently the oldest recipe known! So children should have seen it done daily. Hm.
> That's completely irrelevant because they're very different viruses. Vaccination for a coronavirus should be a lot easier [than for retroviruses like HIV/Herpes].

Why is that? Uneducated guess: because of the rapid mutations of those viruses and the way they go dormant and hide?
This is just false. Tons and tons of closed positions played by grandmasters.