skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chest freezer.

A lot of items had these swings though: face masks were the most obvious, but virtually all emergency supplies went through major up-and-down spikes. Dry shelf-stable food, some medicines, toilet paper, etc. All of a sudden, the whole world wanted to stock up.

That made it really hard to buy those items if you have a non-emergency use for them.
Just a warning, this method is considered piracy. Not that I'm placing judgement on anyone who goes his route.
No more than the alternates here:

- go tooling (ides, etc) have to be taught about the _specific_ embedding in the same way one could teach rust tooling about specifically `include_bytes()` (or any other specific macro in the same way one teaches go tooling to handle specific pragmas)

In the world of rust build scripts, there is tooling that exposes information about which files are used if dependency info is all that is required (I don't know to what extent imperative macros are able to expose similar info).

The core of how I see the comparison here: if we restrict ourselves to the capabilities of go pragmas in rust, the same level of support is possible, but even without that restriction there are ways to obtain (though with more work) the same info.
It's all about gaining social status, about knowing more than that other bloke and potentially gaining some economic advantage so as to attract an attractive female etc.
Yea, but they would have to blink a significant portion of their galaxy for us to notice.

The top of our capabilities is indirect planet discovery. So alien civilization would need to affect ceartain stars on a scale that a planet does and make it look not natural, like prime number periods or something.
Not that there aren't plenty of eyesores among them, but there are loads of computer cases with huge tempered glass windows (and I've even seen a decent number of them made of clear acrylic panels).

I guess that's more transparency than translucency, but it's easy to put together a workstation with visible internals. You don't even have to load it up with rainbow LEDs if you don't want it looking like some hot rodder's ground effects ;)
Why automate? Pay someone to open the box and check.
Writing thought leadership with gpt-3
Democracy doesn't require elections. Sortition is the classical example, but there are others.
I found the article [1]. Looks like they crossed Coronavirus off the bingo card too.

Like I said, it's perfectly on-brand for them.

My wife and I have a running joke (which I think I've seen pop up elsewhere too) about how Terry Gross picks her interview guests based on how many items the guest ticks on the "diversity checklist"

[1] https://www.npr.org/2020/07/01/871625210/you-can-either-be-a...
It's hard to do objective research. Some studies try A/B tests on student volunteers. But then this setting is clearly different to professional teams working on a project for a long time.

The value of new methodologies, languages, and techniques is partly that the enthusiastic proponents of them are given a chance to prove out that there is value, and so become motivated to go the extra distance to achieve the project specific outcome.

This value is destroyed if people are forced to use the technique, instead of championing its introduction. So measurement is made even harder!
It's possible, I once went through that process, but it took ages. But if you want substantial external financing, there is no other option.
Inflation is a consequence of 'the average consumer' having more money to spend and thence becoming less price sensitive. The reason we haven't seen inflation is that the stupendous amounts of money printed recently have all gone to people who already have more than enough cash to spend.
I stopped reading Apple News and Google News. Life is much better now.
> Modern instruments cost a lot of money, lots of labor to produce.

well, I'm not sure, how the trumpet from 1970 differs from a modern instrument (and yeah, people are still using these, where I play), but yeah, "lot of money, lots of labor" ><((((*>

And btw., one of the bands I'm in plays sometimes for money, but incurs no cost for membership or anything. It's just there.
Note that the article mentions they did drive two hours each way (!!) to give the presentation. Surely that's better than "essentially treat you like a dog."
There's no expectation of privacy because you're in public. Also, the security cameras are visible and there are possibly signs informing you of this. I have yet to see a "your actions are being recorded for product improvement purposes" warning on a website. Or maybe I did, but I tuned it out because it got buried in the standard cookie warnings.
Is there a convincing argument for RSS over Atom in 2020 or the other way around?
Did you just invalidate your own prior comment? Very meta…or maybe your comment was just about your own insecurities, relative to pg?
In the past our domain was blocked by one of the top free email providers - we sent about 1 email per day at the time - because we sent email from an IP owned by a hosting provider who also owned another IP that in the past had sent spam. That was the reason given. Whitelisting and adding as a contact didn't allow us to even receive emails from ourselves, to our own email address (over a decade old at the time) with that provider. Our _domain_ has never had spam sent from it, never appeared in a blacklist, and the IP address itself was clean.

So yes, own the IP [and do all the regular SPF, DKIM and such], but be aware that is possibly nowhere near enough.
it really deserved to fail

Did it "fail?" I'd like to see some sales figures on that, and not just the latter-day revisionist history echo chamber that is the internet these days.

I don't understand how they could think that would sell many units.

This was during the era when "selling units" wasn't what Apple was trying to achieve. In the time between Steve Jobs' return and Tim Cook taking the helm, Apple was about producing interesting, cutting-edge, quality products for its loyal fanbase.

Today, you can measure Apple's success by units sold, because that's how Mr. Cook rolls. But at the time of the Cube, Apple was a different company.
If they knew what they'd capture, it wouldn't have been controversial, but they didn't. :P
No. The claim was that there is zero evidence that has happened to anyone in Portland. We're talking about how to characterize the arrests made in Portland, not US foreign policy.
Yes the point I tried to make was explicitly about the political aspects. I agree that from a scientific point of view, the null value is almost as valuable as what we got now.
As someone who works on embedded devices, yes. The whole system can have 256KB of flash or less. 1 or 2KB for keys hurts, but is manageable. 65KB means that much of the IoT will not be upgraded to post-quantum security.
It could be a bad move overall, but there is a floor to the loss, because you get a secure roof over your head that you can become attached to. That has value, especially with a family and community nearby.
Just clarify your perspective - Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and other crowdsourcing platforms are even more scammy, because they go the next step and ask for money, not just an email?
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> Way higher than yours.

> You seem to tie your self worth to college prestige.

The fact that you seem to bring this up often makes me think you do too. It's honestly unnecessarily cruel.
I have implemented my own open-source (https://github.com/brettkromkamp/contextualise) topic maps-based personal knowledge management system: Contextualise: https://contextualise.dev/. However, I think Contextualise is missing quite a few of the features that you are looking for.

You can check out an exhaustive list of (personal) knowledge management applications, here: https://github.com/brettkromkamp/awesome-knowledge-managemen...
The title is correct, but the article misses the most important thing. The reason you should not divide them is that delivery of a non trivial feature requires change at each layer of the stack.

Conway's Law etc etc
Well yes, the problem is people seems to think it should be "revenue" taxed and not profits "taxed". ( Dont ask why, but that is the general sentiment )

And you can see they are very vocal about it, If they are sold in X, they should be taxed in X.

The problem with current Profits based system is that it allows Apple X to paid Apple Ireland 99% of your profits as IPR, Brand / Logo usage ( Apple France paying to Apple Ireland ). Effectively leaving only 1% of the profits being taxed in X.

And there is no way to determine the proper value of those IPR. Apple spends tens of billions every year on R&D and Marketing. So not paying for those IPR would be wrong, but also paying no tax in countries is also wrong.

And no one so far has a reasonable solution to fix the current profit transfer problem. And it is a much harder problem with Globalisation.
Diverse smallpox strains were widespread in northern Europe in the Viking Age
In the article it mentions that while indexes are conceptually monolithic, in practice they're partitioned into 3 spaces: historical, current, and in memory.

New data gets written to the log for durability and updates the in memory portion for queries. Periodically indexes are rebuilt, creating new segments for current, and shifting historical data out of current. This limits how much of the log must be replayed on recovery, and allows garbage collection of data that falls out of the retention window.

It's not that dissimilar to solutions used by traditional mvcc databases.
Of course. Most manager types assume all code monkeys are the same. They just turn a crank all day. In the end one of the other key factors is just monthly expense. Business types like locking in engineering costs at $XX,000 per month. They have no ability to see that they will be paying twice as long until feature Y is ready and even then it won't be what they really want. But they did cut $30K from the monthly engineering expenses so here is a 10% raise and a bonus. Great Job!!!
In Mexico most of the times you'll get a previously opened and returned package. Which in turn would usually return myself and ask for a new package (happened with an AIO cooler unit which even had the thermal paste applied on it...

Or the items won't work as expected which has happened to me with laptops and tablets. The only good thing is there is no problem returning the used / bad stuff. But you lose time and the discount price.
Vancouver being a much younger city is more accessible than the average North America city for wheelchair users, starting with the entirety of the Skytrain system... But you probably already know that. :) Good luck!
Nick, just dropping by to say that I have enjoyed your blog posts on all topics kernel development tremendously. Thanks!
That is so mean.

Meanwhile I got a new Galaxy S9+ (not in USA obv.) which was broken from day 1 and couldn't get it replaced without suing the store and that would take years. I had to get a brand new phone serviced instead (battery, motherboard). And maybe it wasn't water resistant anymore after being opened.

World isn't fair. :(
> given some number of flight-hours?

I think the issue here is the lack of flight-hours. These parts were designed and specified for an in-use plane, not one that sits around.

An airplane is an extremely expensive asset and they are typically almost constantly in service. It's very rare for one to be idled for months at a time.
> At the moment it's too expensive and risky to go after customers, even when Amazon can determine they are running this scam.

Amazon could very easily prevent future returns from these customers, preventing them from running the scam.
They're probably using this list

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

And you are probably using this one

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

So it depends what you mean by diversity
Agreed.

This is becoming a pet peeve of mine. When I run into my limit I just skip the read or find a way around it :)

Wish people would just stop posting to or linking to medium.
I'll hazard a guess: PG went out on a limb a few years ago, and actually published a long essay on one of the ideas that are very controversial in the sense implied in this essay. Namely, how tech tools as a primary driver for increasing wealth inequality will likely grow in importance, leading to increased wealth inequality, and that this is in itself not a problem.

This was after years of pointing out that it's not necessarily a good idea to specifically discuss controversial topics, if you want to spend your time thinking and learning instead of arguing (and, implied, deleting hate mail and death threats, etc).

This essay was met with an incredible amount of backlash that missed its point entirely, and if I was in PG's shoes, I'd probably have soured on taking that sort of discussion outside my closest circle. A big but very understandable loss.

I believe that discussing the phenomenon, rather than specific instances of it, still has great value. This points out tools that can be used to discover and handle the censorship of valuable heresy.

I'd love it even more if I had intimate access to a group of very intelligent and open-minded folks to actually discuss the heresies of today, as this is both super fascinating and a great mental stretching exercise. Sadly, doesn't look like public forums on the Internet are the most fertile arena for that kind of thing. It happens rarely, when I happen to stumble across a community that hits something like this by chance, or where one of my real-life acquaintances happens to stray outside the box in exactly the right way.
I'm very fond of Goku and Dragon Ball because they taught me this.
Wrap any ML model in a shareable UI
The headline is playing a trick for clicks. More people died on the Titanic, but the Eastland has more deaths if you only count passengers and now crew.
Hint: for all but the most egregious offenders a long click (or right click) on the back button might bring up a list of the pages you visited before this. You can then click an earlier one to get back to safe ground.

Most people around here probably know already but there's always one or two that will have their life improved a lot I think.
the Gamecube was much, much, smaller, had more efficient cooling, similar specs (minus the disk drive), and was 1/10th the price

How many people ran Photoshop or did desktop publishing on a GameCube?
I’ve not tried it, but check out https://stoopinbox.com
The event itself is called “a raffle” and the verb comes from that.

The technical difference, vs a lottery, is that a raffle always has exactly one winner, drawn from all of the entries. In most lotteries, it’s possible for no one to win or several people to share the prize.

Raffle also implies that the event is a smaller, one-off event, usually with non-cash prizes and often for charity. A church might have a raffle to raise money for a new roof, using prizes donated by the parishioners. This is in contrast to lotteries, which are usually run by the government, feature cash prizes, and occur on a fixed schedule.
Usually raffles in the US are for charity or fundraising purposes. You can't run a lottery usually, as those run against gambling laws. You can run a raffle, where an item worth $X (and usually donated so X=0) will be given away to the owner of a random ticket which costs $Y. The runner of the raffle sells N tickets. Your profit/fundraising is $YN - $X.

Often raffles are sold significantly below expected value. A popular raffle to support a charity is called a 50/50 raffle. This is where the winner of the raffle receives 50% of $YN, and the charity receives the other 50%. Buying a ticket isn't a good financial decision, but it's for a charity, and you can end up winning, so they are popular.
Ask HN: Is Rust stable enough for use in Production?
The motto behind the nightly releases is "Stability Without Stagnation", but is Rust really stable for use in building Production systems?

If yes, why aren't we seeing more Open Source Project being built using Rust as compared to Golang?
Is it just because of the development time?

I'm particularly curious about why new Open Source DB's are choosing Golang as opposed to Rust or even C/C++.

YugaByteDB had gone with C++, which IMO is a safe and tested choice.
CockroachDB however seem to be investing time working around GC pauses and FFI overhead of Golang.

I would love to hear HN's opinion on this topic, given that there is so much talk about Rust over here(mostly positive).

I've also come to understand through reading HN that :
All that Google builds is not Gold.

So I'm skeptical about Golang..
What will happen to those filing an I-751 if USCIS is basically shut down for a while due to a furlough? Will there be any special considerations for those who may have to file during the time the USCIS is operating at minimal capacity?
I had a similar question once, someone had mentioned https://www.unshackledvc.com/
Here you go:

https://www.stsci.edu/ftp/science/hdf/project/scheduling.htm...

Observations run from 352:16 to 362:19.

Filter Nexp hours

F300W 100 48.93

F450W 62 36.52

F606W 77 34.94

F814W 49 34.86
I am not in a serious place of knowledge, but I don't know how much I agree with this.

Isn't TSMC making CPUs/GPUs for basically everyone; Apple(mobile, computer soon), Qualcomm, Samsung, AMD, Nvidia? Perhaps an argument can be made that those other companies get first dibs. However, I imagine if AMD showed up with an order for all Thinkpad made in 2021, things might be different because TSMC likely charges more per unit for AMD's bigger/ more complex (up to 20 Billion T) CPUs than say an 865.

Not to mention both the next gen game consoles are AMD 7nm zen setups. So if TSMC cares about volume more than per device profit, that is a boat-load of devices that are going to be produced for the next 7 years without much retooling.

I really think it might be support. AMD's 4800u is the vastly superior to Intel's 10nm offering, but that wasn't as true last gen. It was:

- A wash, at similar clocks, in the single threaded workloads

- Intel had a clock lead(still does)

- AMD just had a slight core count lead

Of course, AMD totally lead on consumer pricing. That said, I imagine after decades of work with all the major computer manufacturers, Intel knew how to cut the right volume deal to make it worth HP or Dells time. Also what if a partner want some SSDs and wifi cards on the cheap, go Intel and another deal can be had without having to figure out where else to source parts from. What if a partner wants to cheap out on a model with a spinning disk but want the user to still be okay up front, intel optane cache cards do help things along and can't be used in cache mode with non-intel CPUs.

The landscape is way different post zen 2, AMD leads on all things but frequency and power efficiency. But lets say you want a 5 watt part, what does AMD offer? What about a 45 watt laptop part? How bout support for quickly and cheaply building / differentiating your bread and butter mainstream laptops? I know they seem like an afterthought to "pro" customers but things like Project Athena or the Ultrabook reference designs and branding might really help keep cost down while keeping visibility up. (I have no idea though)

Really though, I know that was long but I have no truly informed opinions. Care to expand?
Thanks for the explanation. I'm familiar with the both forms of gambling, but for some reason, I've encountered "lottery" as a term a lot more; "raffle" I hardly knew, until now. Thanks!
I have an hard time understanding your point, are you saying that the ones that build music out of someone else music, couldn't have done something similar without building out someone else works? They couldn't either if they had to pay a small license fee to the original author?

What made they come out of poverty? Their creation? Or their distribution? Because how you make it seems, the ones that came out of proverty aren't the creative ones... just like the good old copyright owner in America.... It's the ones that found something good and were able to sell it better. The only difference is that the creative one didn't have a choice but to forgo their ownership... just like in America though, which happens under economic pressure instead of by law, but at least, they can at least refuse that.

> The value to humanity in that situation far outweighs the profit of the original creators.

It does though if the original creator couldn't make money out of his original creation... Your premise depends on the fact that without the original creator, the subsequent creation wouldn't be worth it... You want to scrap what's worth it... for something that can't even exist without it.
The most effective recruiting emails I receive (in terms of how likely I am to reply) are:

* Plain text

* Directly addressed to me from name@company.com

* 3-4 sentences max, slightly personalized

* Optionally have a link to the company career page/job listing (better if the raw link is pasted instead of embedded in text, to save me the time hover-checking it).

I'm more likely to reply because it feels like there's a real person on the other end that "hand-wrote" this email. Not some amorphous system that crawled my LinkedIn and sent me an automated message. Kudos to recruiters that are doing this — doing the thing that doesn't scale to get an edge.
fail0verflow did this exact thing when they first got linux working on the switch actually! https://twitter.com/fail0verflow/status/988543541403160576 It'd be a pain and a half to get a "proper" fast port with CPU emulation (either some lightweight JITing or natively running the code with hooks on SVC and such) and a GPU backend for the switch graphics. Not nearly simple enough to attract someone to do it on a whim with no other reason that to say it happened haha
Yes, their job is to Bill Hours, so if they're working an inefficient process* or dealing with a bad architecture that needs all hands on deck to deploy anything or the developers environment takes ten minutes to go from edit->compile->debug, none of them are going to raise their hand and call out this bullshit, especially if they're new to the team or new to the business.

* a config flag needs to be changed for a new release. Configs are stored in a database. A dev needs to write a SQL update script to make the change. This needs to go through QA, and be signed off by a DBA.
Yeah, I am guessing you never actually tried to get any work done on one. Nothing like listening to it swap on the floptical while doing a big compile. CHUNKA-CHUNKA-CHUNKA...CHUNKA-CHUNKA.
Stratechery offers an RSS feed for subscribers; I subscribe to both because I normally feel the way you do, but I find I read the email more.
You're absolutely right. What's good for civilization is to advance scientific understanding and knowledge. To take risks, because sometimes they pan out! So go on, pour resources into a thousand crazy ideas. Something will work out eventually.

Yet, what's good for the academic? Each effort costs potentially years of your life. A great discovery will catapult you to the stars, a small one will advance your career, and a negative finding does nothing. You're not alone, you have peers competing for the next round of funding, tenured position, or residency. There are literally never enough to go around, and each will judge applicants in part on their record of results.

I think you're describing a conflict between what's valuable for a system at scale and what's valuable for individual actors within it.