skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you expand on this? I've certainly been enamored with his presentations, although I don't think the ideas he presents are necessarily original, but he has a great knack for formulation/synthesis and distilling the ideas to their essence.

Like this article, he's not the end-all-be-all but certainly worthy of consideration as part of forming a grander perspective in life.
I'm sure Deva would be up for it, she does it for some patient groups she works with on Facebook, but I'm not sure if Hacker News is a good place for it? Also speaking as Deva's husband I think the kids and I would like to see her at dinner more, joking (she is a regular attendee at dinner), but you would not believe how much effort and time she puts into researching, thinking about and working on these things (along with everything else she is doing).
I tested removing a 10GiB file of random data from a btrfs filesystem, it took 254ms.
The true problem I see with these kind of integrations is that a company like Shopify can very easily figure out which third-party extensions are turning around the most revenue and then re-build those in house, only better since they have direct access to the folks building the platform.
I recall being fairly surprised at one point to learn that TB and leprosy were things that many people had an innate immunity to.

You think about all of those nurses, nuns and priestesses who took care of people with chronic illnesses in an era before we really understood infectious diseases. You were playing a single round of russian roulette with your own health, but your odds were good enough that we could ascribe your outcome to fate or gods.

It often makes me wonder if the disease is maladapted or if they are truly ancient and most of us are descendants of the survivors.
Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated! Planning to take a stab at this soon.
Courts basically have to follow a precedent or set a precedent. Setting a precedent is consequential. If this case results in setting a precedent that influences future international commerce, then it becomes a non-trivial deliberation. Being “partial to the US” might not be well defined in this case.
I really like this take. Haven't thought about sustainable emotions much, but this hits the mark.
> The similarities are purely surface level.

They really aren't. If you'd care to offer some reasoning behind your assertion that they are, I'm listening.
Not just wilderness or undeveloped, but highly inaccessible to firefighting crews. The Bay Area has peaks over 4000 feet with lots of fairly sheer areas. Often firefighters have to be dropped in by helicopter.

Florida is mostly low rolling hills with the highest point in the state being ~350 feet above sea level. If Florida has a fire in an inaccessible area, it's usually inaccessible due to water, so more of a help to firefighters than a hindrance.
Christ's morality is quite different from the golden rule and much more radical. "Turn the other cheek" is not the golden rule.
Guess I just have slow internet :(
"Lower cost", I should have said. Skipping straight to Phase III helps.
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If the building was construction prior to 1991, the construction wouldn’t have been subject to ADA requirements because the ADA did not exist then.
China's Three Gorges Dam is one of the largest ever created. Was it worth it?
WorldWideWeb – Executive Summary – Tim Berners-Lee
Property values often increase from increasing density (ie, replacing my five-million-dollar mansion with a twenty-million-dollar apartment building on the same lot). The zoning doesn't necessarily protect property values as such, so it's an important distinction.
New York City Museums Ready to Reopen, but Some See Unclear Future
Disclosure: I work at DFINITY, but not on this team. I can probably answer most questions folks may have...
I think you talking about this one? https://forge.medium.com/how-to-become-the-best-in-the-world...
https://archive.vn/A5SdS
David Heinemeier Hansson wants to dismantle Silicon Valley’s startup culture
> While I agree that this is the way it's supposed to work, I have unfortunately worked at companies with "stateless" build/CI servers that download the Docker image each build.

Couldn't they remain stateless but be redirected through a caching proxy? Memoization is not contrary to statelessness.
should we fix a problem?
"nah it's too much of a hassle and it will anger rich people"
ok.....
I think the underlying message is that people do not respect the power of supplements -- or even food, really -- because we think of them as fundamentally different from "medication." I think the intent is "These things are, in fact, powerful and need to be taken seriously."

My personal framing is "life is chemistry" and every single thing you put into your mouth impacts your chemistry. Over time, it all makes a difference.

But I'm just a stranger on the internet with a medical condition and, like Rodney Dangerfield, I don't get no respect. (shrug)
When I read about western intelligence agencies, one can't help but look at the last decade or so and ask, what was it they said their job was again, specifically?
"can" I think is true for some large majority of people. It's just that most people get discouraged well before the point at which they've devoted enough of their lives to their endeavor to be truly excellent. So in that sense, maybe they "can't", but it is not due to an innate talent deficit, but a psychological deficit (which I believe can also usually be addressed with enough attention and intention).
Source? That sounds awesome. I mean, terrible. >_>
As someone coming from the computing side of things, I found nix to be quite difficult to grok enough to write a package spec, and guix was pretty close, at least in part because of the whole "packages are just side-effects of a functional programming language" idea. At least nix also suffers from a lot of "magic"; if you're trying to package, say, an autotools package then the work's done for you - and that's great, right up until you try to package something that doesn't fit into the existing patterns and you're in for a world of hurt.

Basically, the learning curve is nearly vertical.
If this reads like greek, let me dumb it down.

You get the hash of the final result from the trusted server and hash is checked. Because of this you will never get an invalid image.

There are also some clever tricks to make sure no one can force you to start over from scratch by sending wrong data. But that's more of a detail.
Personally, I find they're two tangential, but distinct goals. I use anki for things I want to be able to recall instantaneously, like a foreign language, and I use markdown notes for general reference of media/knowledge I've come across, to record my fresh understanding for later. I don't need these memorized- just an easy reference.
> but they did agree to provide the same data to groups working on verification studies as long as they're willing to sign a data privacy agreement. Send a query to <blahblahblah> ..."

This would be administrative overhead, it will be shut down 9 times out of 10. I understand why this might seem easy but it really is not, you can have multiple hospital that each have their committee that agreed to give the researcher their data. They don't have a central authority that you can appeal to, much less someone that can green light your specific access.

As for the synthetic datasets that's basically just having tests and was advocated for elsewhere in this thread.
> If you are emotionally committed to it, seeing someone else doing it well will likely be inspirational. If not, you're more likely to give up before you even start.

Complete opposite for me. The things I get discouraged at doing because there is already an extraordinary talent pool are the ones I keep saying are the most interesting to me. To me, those things are too important to me to get wrong.

As a result I shut myself off from most books that are fiction, because regardless of what the content is, if I find the style of writing or content too engaging, it will plunge me into abject misery. So much so that sometimes I just can't being myself to do anything else for the day. Knowing myself, I figure that getting away with working on things that are not truly what I believe I exist on this Earth to do, but am already competent enough at this point in my life (programming) is a more productive use of my time if it means I don't catastophize at every turn. So in a sense I'm just locking myself into my current skillset in a vain attempt at self-preservation.

Statements like "just do it" have become dogma to me at this point and I seem to just shut off my mind at amy mention of them. I can't seem to legitimately enjoy doing anything unless I'm being productive and my expectations match up with reality, and you can't realistically expect to achieve this if you haven't already yet put years into a hobby.

Being as good as someone else isn't even what I wanted, it's merely being recognized at all as a somebody who does X. I don't get this recognition from anyone I know, so it feels like there is nothing at all to carry you forward except your shitty art and a vague notion that you'll eventually improve in two years, and it is the most empty feeling imaginable. There are a lot of unique ideas I carry, which none of the artists I know have ever had, but it still takes enough competence to depict those ideas according to a set standard.
That's because it's not a law, it's a one-sided interference of the executive. If the US Congress made a law properly, TikTok would not be able to challenge it.
Strongly typed? You mean statically typed?

See "What to know before debating type systems":

http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2010/08/what-to-know-before...
I would normally be with you but I burn in just a couple of minutes, and I've unfortunately had some really bad burns in the past (where my skin is still very freckled).

I'm totally with you on shade over sunscreen though, I only put sunscreen on my face, and just try to shade everything else. Sadly my skin hates sunscreen too!
Cybersecurity Canon
I'm not sure if this is 100% true any more. I've found that when enabling the DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 env var that docker will sometimes eagerly re-fetch stale images. I think your argument is generally still true, but was happy to see that some progress is being made on dealing with stale `latest`.
Green ambition has short-circuited California’s power supply
> Everyone just games these benchmarks by calling out to C libraries.

Really?

Please say which of the n-body programs do that.

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Meanwhile, sort by program source code size —

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
I don't disagree with what you are saying, _but_:

> Docker defines pull rate limits as the number of manifest requests to Docker Hub.

> For example, if you already have the image, the Docker Engine client will issue a manifest request, realize it has all of the referenced layers based on the returned manifest, and stop. ... <excluded> ... So an image pull is actually one or two manifest requests,

This still implies that even if you are appropriately re-using layers on your machine, with a free plan you can only do maximum 200 builds (since docker still needs to verify it has the image) per 6 hours?

This change also seems to imply that builds steps which previously did not handle/require authentication against Docker hub (it was only pulling public images, and pushing elsewhere) will now be required to auth against docker hub in order to double the number of pulls/checks/builds it is allowed?
Unfalsable Is Uncalibrated
https://www.sciencealert.com/this-solar-plant-accidentally-i...
I’ve more experience working with iOS Reviews. Anecdotally, I was able to discuss with a real person, get at least some insights, and I even went through an appeal and won it.

It really sounds like Google is refusing to provide information, and just point to a specific rule which is too generic to really understand what it’s going on. That’s a pity. I hope you get some traction on HN to solve this
Let's say someone hacks a maintainer for the Ubuntu base image. The hacker publishes a new version of the base image with a backdoor.

When the backdoor is detected, you now need a revocation system so the distribution of the malicious image will die. You can theoretically do this on the tracker level, but people may build other trackers that may not propagate the changes.
The code I work with is not debuggable in that way under most circumstances. It's a complex distributed system. You don't attempt to debug it by being deterministic- you debug it by sampling its properties.
This is a silly and doomed to failure mindset for an aspiring entrepreneur. The question should be, how large is my addressable market and how much gross profit can I generate to cover my overhead.

Shopify Merchants are selling roughly $80B a year, at least 5x WooCommerce merchants. Paying Shopify 20% means you net at least three times higher monthly revenues over paying WooCommerce zero commission.

Apple charges devs 30%, but in return you get access to the worlds highest volume App Store paying developers $35B a year. You can also make iOS apps using an enterprise certificate, and distribute to tens of thousands with zero commission, but no one will ever find you on the store search, or give you public App Store ratings, you’ll never appear in a top category list or get featured by Apple, and any potential customers you reach will be leery of using your custom payments or subscription system, leading to lower paid conversions.
Engineering and writing/communication/organization is basically the definition of a tech lead. If you find me a good engineer with good communications skills, I'll get you a mid-6-figure salary no question.
Is there a more reliable source for that 17% number? The quoted figure comes from a poll by "TheRideshareGuy", which is apparently a magazine for rideshare drivers giving tips on maximizing earnings, and so whose entire existence is predicated on the rideshare business remaining as it is. So as a source for a question like this, it's basically worthless.
>> If you combine an average programmer with an average statistician, you get a profile that is not particularly attractive.

Nobody said being average at both was enough. The parent post specifically said if you know more than average in both areas. You still need to be good, but the combination of good in multiple areas is claimed to be sort of like being extraordinary in one. I think there's some truth in that.
At least for Ubuntu and popular distros like mint you get super high speeds on torrent maybe because you have a peer in the same region.

Afaik Windows is also using this to install updates where it shares the download with others in the region (1) using p2p (though i may be wrong since i don't use Windows anymore)

(1) https://www.itproportal.com/amp/news/how-to-stop-windows-10-...
I think they should've written this line as "don't be afraid to reevaluate your understanding of extraordinary" as it's pretty clear that's what they're doing in the article. This statement followed statements like "extraordinary as I perceived it" and "I feel disappointed, jealous."
Yup, someone else posted the original .gov source when it was released by the SEC:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24259821
If American judges are being threatened by the executive branch, that seems a severe form of corruption to me. It also seems unlikely in common scenarios.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24445737/
While this is true, there are simply so many problems that need solving and too few humans to solve them, which makes it not too hard to do well in life. Luckily, life isn’t a zero sum game unlike video games.
Maybe this is offtopic, but I made my peace with this kind of anxiety once I met, interacted and worked with people who were really very very good at what they do.

I let me ego go.

It's ok to be normal. And it's ok to get to learn from the masters.

I once read a O Henry short story where the three main characters are at different places in society financially and in terms of power.
But they still found some meaning when they accidentally meet each other during the course of the story.

Their relative stature and standing in the world didn't affect what they thought of each other when they met.

It was kind of an uncanny, uplifting little story. Don't remember its name though.
we do use it, it's actually pretty neat. I was pretty surprised that no one on HN ever talked about it.
Yes.. then lets prevent multi millionaires, millionaires right after.. off to the gulags with them !!
We give so much more slack when it's a company that supports a totalitarian regime.

When it's Facebook which is subject to scrutiny of many major democratic governments and press, we gives it no slack.

Ironic and funny.
So on regular old linux with xwindows like ubuntu or whatever, suppose I want to use this new deal and also I now don't trust X as well as emacs itself. I create another user that can't SU, and I vnc into a new session, and run dangerous-emacs. You could make the history and text files readable from your main user.

So now VNC is your trust boundary. I should try eww again too.
> Look at MongoDB's performance since IPO in 2017 for perspective.

I know that this opinion goes against the hivemind, but I wouldn't call them weak in engineering by a long shot. They obviously made some questionable/bad decisions regarding defaults (write acknowledgements, security) in order to have a lower barrier to entry, but apart from that I've had a pretty good experience with it as a stable product and good timeframes for bug-fixes.

Unity is a stark contrast to that. The few years of using it sporadically for hobby projects has been a wild ride. Bugs/crashes seem to be everywhere, and when/if they are fixed just seem to be replaced with new ones. I don't know how full-time Unity developers can deal with that. Their speed of progress is also meh.

Overall, if they were to stick to their (mobile) gaming niche, that probably wouldn't be a problem.
However it seems like they are looking to mainly grow via other industries, and with that shoddy engineering and their development pace, I don't see them making a lot of headway there.
They forgot to mention server less
You’re giving me flashbacks! I spent a year as an admin on an HPC cluster at my university building tools/software and helping researchers get their projects running and re-lead the implementation of container usage. The amount of scientific code/projects that required libraries/files to be in specific locations, or assumed that everything was being run from a home directory, or sourced shell scripts at run time (that would break in containers) was staggering. A lot of stuff had the clear “this worked on my system so...” vibe about it.

As an admin it was quite frustrating, but I understand it sometimes when you know the person/project isn’t tested in a distributed environment. But when it’s the projects that do know how they’re used and still do those things...
You mean "would real examples of cold emailing to investors be interesting"?

The sentence subject (examples ...) cannot be moved after the main verb (to be). In a question, the subject appears after the auxiliary verb (due to "subject-auxiliary inversion"), but before the main verb, as in "would you like ...?" not "would like you ...?"
Is it not ironic that Facebook is unable to sue the Chinese government behind their ban?
If you have read "Blink" by Gladwell, he points to work by a sociologist who can, with incredible accuracy, predict whether a marriage will last 15 years--in a matter of 15 minutes. While watching a live feed of a conversation between couples, they will be prompted to discuss something arbitrary. The researchers are looking for emotions and intentions. They have found that emotions pointing to disrespect and disdain are the highest factors for marriage failure.

Western culture might have things backwards. It is not love first, commit second, respect third. It is more accurately respect first, commitment second, and love third. Love being in the 'eros' sense. The primary feeds the secondary feeds the tertiary.
Fair enough, then I would point out to the bare metal Qt deployments and Android as well (which the Linux kernel is an implementation detail for the Java and ISO C userspace).
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> in Go there are no uninitialized arrays (or slices)

This is a little murky and misleading. In Go, you can actually save memory by 'declaring' only. For example, if you do var x []string, and never use x, it never actually uses memory. Whereas x := []string{} does. The JSON encoder treats the two differently, as well.
In retrospect I probably have heard the term but it was not meaningful. I'm a north american.
We are discussing “climate change”, something that has been occurring over the past 200 or so years.

Yet the first link your provide in response to my query is discussing cycles with periods of 100,000 years, with no mention of anything related to the modern climate change events (at least, nothing in the abstract).

... What’s the deal? This is a complete non-sequitor.
But it gives the vendor the right to tax you 30% on all future purchases related to that device, even if you disapprove of the job they're doing in stewarding the ecosystem? Despite that there are plenty of other vendors standing by that would be happy to steward it if given the opportunity?
Unity has also a lot of potential in the Cybersecurity industry, for people that wants to train themselves on Industrial Systems.

The only thing that makes industrial Cybersecurity really hard for students is the industrial systems laboratory requirements.

With Unity, some people are trying to build completely virtual pentest labs on industrial systems, such as GRFICS (https://github.com/Fortiphyd/GRFICSv2).
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was hoping to get some advice from people, I'm working remotely in NYC and moving apartments. I'm moving this week but Verizon says there are no technician appointments for 2 weeks. Any ideas on what I should do, I've even looked into NYC mesh to see if it could work for a period of time.
> why not scan the database automatically (the evil, evil facial recognition), and then double check by humans?

Because people tend to think "The computer said this was right, therefore it is unequivocally the correct answer." This is obviously incorrect, but is how many laypeople view it, even if instructed otherwise.
Unity's homepage lists four industries they target and Games is only one of them. Seems clear they also want to sell into Manufacturing, Construction, Film, etc.
Every developer on the project then uses his favorite subset. Which may or may not be the same one you prefer and know. Unless of course you know everything ;)
What was Seinfeld's take, that cities "change"? He gave as an example "Rome"?

Perhaps tourists will go to a revitalized NYC someday, and visit the ruins of the Chrysler Building and Statue of Liberty.

Seriously. Cities "change" is perhaps the most vacuous and ambiguous commentary a person could make. Change to what?
Native ability to define fields within a word, macros, use of period (dot) to dereference pointers, arbitrary representations of data structures (the programmer defines the method of access of structure elements), everything is an expression, native co-routines (which can be marvelous in building co-operating processes), some control over register allocation policy (useful for interfacing with other non Bliss-programs), the idea of "plit" (pointer to a literal) which points to literals not constrained by word boundaries, built-in functions that map directly to PDP 10 instructions.

[Edit]

A good overall description is here: https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/ronald-brender/bl...
Why didn't you call it "NotesApp" if it looks like WhatsApp?

The "Insta" in the name is misleading :P
How would bittorrent work in companies? Only HTTP traffic is allowed and often only when going through the company proxy.