skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Always wondered, if the CAP theorem does not account for latency, one assumes infinite latency does not impact availability. Shouldn't then be possible to define a theoretical system with an infinite buffer that, in the event of a network partition, will simply keep all incoming requests on hold (infinitely or until the partition is undone), satisfying CAP?

I know this is a useless construct in practice, and there is probably a flaw in my reasoning, but it seems to me that you have to establish a non-infinite timeout for the proof to be consistent.
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The photo in the article is deceptive; better pictures are here: https://www.flightglobal.com/aerospace/flying-v-model-embark...
Also every month there is a thread where you tell people on HN that you are looking for freelancers or alternatively contact the right people yourself.

See -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24342497
oh.. I’ll look into that asap.
Yes. I don't eat bread regularly at home, so some times, it'll be a few weeks in the fridge, and it's just fine (after a trip in the toaster).
Leave that same bread out and it'll be mouldy within the first week or two.
This is regular french bread bought at the local bakery.

Here in Denmark, we also have black bread, which are more normal to keep in the fridge, that bread does not seem to go stale the same way as french bread, but I also know some weirdos who keeps black bread outside the fridge :P
Pure technical expertise alone is not enough to make you senior IMO, I would say it's your capacity to successfully conduct projects in many political or technical contexts, given the constraints (time, money, etc...). Also understand and deliver business value, and talk with decision makers. At least that's the biggest difference between 20 and 30 years old me.
"Cows have to go through quite a lot to make it happen, with a multistage digestion process, multiple stomachs, regurgitation and additional chewing of food, the right microbiome. In short it's not an easy trait to just «evolve»."

The complexity of digestive apparatus found in Bovidae family and other ruminant mammals is just an optimization. Herbivore monogastric mammals like horses consume cellulose too. There even isn't that necessary for the mammal to be (specialized) herbivore in order have the cellulose digesting ability, as pigs clearly demonstrate. Some extensions in our menu limits are always welcomed. Digesting lactose as adults was nice, but digesting cellulose, even if not that pleasant or efficient, would have been even nicer, as when things went historically bad, it would had came in handy if we could literally just run to the forest for more than to just hide.
Thank you for you good wordsZ And good idea about specifying shortcuts somewhere. I have not heard about lanes.io. It looks like a huge project. Mine is simple and small. :) Thank you so much taking time to try this anyway.
Here's a youtube video of the model from the KLM official channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFoc8wbuasM
Fascinating. This looks like the kind of problem the OLPC was created to avoid - it was inexpensive, durable, open, standardized, and trivially easy to repair. It'd also be given to each and every student.
I'm not sure I follow what you're referring to here. I have some concerns about Google's UI for AMP, but as far as I know they don't downrank sites for not using it.
The hormonal changes are hard wired, but certain behaviors aren’t.

As an interesting corollary, did you know that the symptoms experienced by schizophrenics is extremely culturally dependent? Here in America the voices heard by someone with schizophrenia often urge violence, but in other countries (India is the one I’ve heard) they say nice, positive things. Same condition, culturally dependent outcomes.
I've used dmt, mescaline, psilocybin, thc/cbd and impepho, all in plant form and all in nature/relaxed environments (not trance parties, or for giggles with friends) and some alone at home. As much as I want to tell everyone do it all at least once or to fix x problem (depression?), I don't recommend it and don't talk too much about it with others. The main reason is that they are very unpredictable.

You can use the exact same dose a month apart and will have wildly different reactions to it (both during the experience and afterwards (add digestive system weirdness to the list)); Nevermind trying to predict outcomes between different people, even if the dose is the same. And since the experience and some of the effects are based on your current mental landscape, it tends to bring more of what you are to the front (on top of your physical surroundings, sounds, smells). This can good or bad, and sometimes both. Point being that you can permanently alter your mind and body in unpredictable ways.

I greatly value my experiences with them but I don't touch them any more because I'm truly afraid of what they are capable of. I don't think I've been damaged by it in the long term. My own experience of course don't invalidate other's experiences or that it has helped people. I just feel that it dangerous in the same way that jamming wet fingers into a broken plugged-in toaster is dangerous. You might get lucky a few times but at some point the toaster will teach you it's ways, and you may never get to enjoy toast again. Well you might, but it might come in through a tube while you are drooling at clay in a mental hospital.

One shaman told me to never seek these things out. Wait for it to call you. Learn your lesson and move on. He also said not to push others into it. This is YOUR journey, their time will come sooner or later (meaning different lives, if you are into that). He also said not to try and force the substances/plants/medicines to give you specific knowledge/teachings/truths - they will show you what you need to see.

Sorry if I seem conflicted - I both want everyone to do it (hoping it would make the world better via empathy) and nobody to do it (because even a single person suffering a bad trip is not worth the cost (it really is hell x1000000)).

Hope it helps the discussion.
There are cultures that deal with it better
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The fact that tax revenue to GDP has been flat doesn't really matter, because that masks the fact of progressive taxation.

The whole point of taxing billionaires 90% is so we can tax the lower class close to 0%, or even spend more on them than we collect (through education, social services, health care, etc.). It's totally fine if the overall tax revenue to GDP remains unchanged. The point isn't necessarily to raise more money, it's to address inequality by creating a level playing field for each new generation of citizens.

And yes, taxation pretty much necessarily distorts spending. But loopholes are not actually that hard to fix, if we want to fix them. If we tax income and inheritance, and close taxation loopholes around things like setting up trusts/charities, then that billionaire's wealth is going to end up being collected one way or another.
Please check out my geometric algebra software at https://github.com/chakravala/Grassmann.jl
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Compression only cares about representing a set of data, while the brain also needs to account for future experiences. Thus brain representations need to also include information that is useless in the present but could be useful in the future. Compression is definitely a part of the story but not the whole.
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duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24396780 (and terribly clickbait headline)
There seems to be a lot about liquid-hydrogen as a fuel for passenger jets lately.

IMHO, it's totally unsuitable.

Is there another reason it's being pushed, eg it's an output of some other process that is desired?
Title right now: “US sanction threat wipes 23%%20off the value of China's biggest chipmaker“

%20 is [space] in percent encoding. Something failed to process “...wipes%2023%%%20off%20...”.
The list of U.S. Wars is long

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

but so is this one

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

even if you start counting at the revolution.

The military culture of the U.S. is an interesting question. Our volunteer military is small relative to the population; we invest in quality over quantity and spend upwards of $1 million to train a foot solider. Compared to the population, few people seriously consider a military career.

In the solar economy, wealth came predominantly from the land, and being an officer had to do with your status in the feudal system -- it was automatic that the "power elite" was represented in the officer corps. We have some remnants of that system, but large sectors of the current "power elite" would not even think of commissioning, there is no ROTC at Harvard or most of the ivies. Certain right-leaning Christian groups work hard to pack the officer corps with their own.

Yeah, we make movies like "Starship Trooper" and "Saving Private Ryan". Only inside subcultures, however, do boys grow up with the expectation that military service is fundamental to being a man. (Oddly, in those subcultures, girls seem to be developing the same expectations today.)
> In Lua, nil is assuredly a value

Please tell me how I save nil in a field of a table.
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Reminds me of Reggie Perrin. See The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin: http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/fallandriseofreginaldperrin/inde...
Ask HN: Advice for a non-programmer writing a proposal for a big software change
I am a fairly technical person but not a programmer. I am the end user of a large product within our company that I spend a good 5 hours a day using. I think it's fundamentally built on sand, inefficient and could do with a root-and-branch overhaul.

I have an idea of all of the problems with it and ideas for solutions from a birds eyehigh level. The software team are up for making changes but I need to come up with a good detailed proposal of what direction we need to go in.

There are about 5 different big things I'd like to change so I was going to create a document with those 5 sections and within each section highlighting the areas to be changed, breaking down:

- motivation for change
- exact problem as I see it
- proposed solution (from end user perspective)
- pros of making that change as I see them
- cons of making that change as I see them

Is this the kind of information a software team/product manager could use to go ahead and start planning a project to overhaul this? If not, what better approach could I take to get some momentum on this?
Midlife crisis is a thing in itself. One day you realize 20 years have passed, your spouse is no longer the person you married, you don't like your kids, you hate your job and -- here's the crisis part -- it dawns on you that this is it and you'll follow your current trajectory of quiet unhappiness for the rest of your life.

In reaction some people buy a Harley, some seek escape in adultery, some commit suicide... and a few disappear and start a new life.
I interpreted that more as a difference in the potential problems you may cause rather than the skills required, as GP referred to "responsibility".

If FB goes down, people waste less time online[0], if a guidance system fails people may die.

[0] yes, of course there are people whose livelihood depends on cat memes, but I'm making a generic example.
this would be absolutely amazing, given that AOO's OOXML support is rudimentary. Which version of each, and what precisely happens?
Thank CNN for that. Clearly clickbait.
The Flight Global article someone else linked to has the word "model" in its title and a lot more useful information.
The final quote about the coat and the hairstyle is a great example of how when we feed in our biases to the model, we get our biases back out. The sexism and portrayal of women as morally weak goes back to our earliest written stories.
You're conflating abstractions with magic. They are not the same. Magic is not just an abstraction we don't bother to understand. Magic is magic.

A car is not magic. It does exactly what it purports to do and nothing else. David Blaine levitating is magic. It works in a very limited set of circumstances and no more. It works to amuse some spectators. It doesn't work to, for example,
cross the Hudson River, despite outward appearances.

Similarly, in programming we use "magic" to describe something that seems to defy what the underpinning (language, framework, etc.) would allow. We know that it's using some trick to pull off what it's doing, and that trick likely has constraints that won't allow the magic to ever become a true abstraction.

Note that I'm not calling Phoenix magic as I haven't used it enough to know
Government is often a reflection of society.
* In combating against bigotry (racism, xenophobia, etc.), we must be wary that our anti-bigotry policies aren't themselves bigoted.

* On slurs and other words that hurt: we cannot punish people who say them if we do not have proof that they intend to hurt. Some people think that even saying them unintentionally ought to be punished, because someone gets hurt even though none was intended. But because words like these so frequently get said

- out of necessity

- out of ignorance

- because it is tremendously inconvenient (considering foreign language meanings, multiple meanings, etc.)

it's unrealistic to put this onus on everyone to avoid these words, especially when bigots can so easily make another word a taboo word. My position is that it is a courtesy (and not moral obligation) to actively try to avoid using taboo words and think of synonyms and circumlocutions to avoid hurting someone when none is intended.

When analyzing the cause of the hurt, I think we should analyze the pain that happens when hearing someone says a hurtful word unintentionally as not primarily caused by the person saying the hurtful word, but by the person or people that sensitized the hearer into feeling hurt upon hearing the painful words, but having a delayed effect.
Has anyone else read “Tripping Over the Truth: The Metabolic Theory of Cancer”?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23496164
So choosing the dull colors is right and avoiding crisp nice colors is the mistake.. totally not an opinion piece.
It’s off right now. Plans are to add a second radio in the Russian segment later so they have two IORS modules running at the same time. Then they can operate both the repeater and digipeater.
It provides a unified language for many areas of mathematics, which would need to be studied separately without GA. Also, with the GA toolbox, things become much more clear and better to understand.
A magazine called “Reason” publishes a piece which in the second paragraph has a line about some things being “90% bullshit” 🧐
Maybe for the next pandemic ...
Happy to help. Send me an e-mail with a bit more details about what you do and what you're currently struggling with.
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I like the "school does not let you escape" point.

In nature, animal aggression usually results in one animal chasing another animal out of its territory.

Deny an escape route, and violence is likely to result -- one of the surest ways to get bit by a dog is to compress it into a corner.
I just tried to replicate myself. It seems working fine on chrome and firefox on a mac. May I know on what you were trying registering?
“Lenders must be made whole, and can take any step necessary to be made whole” is an extremely common and extremely weird point of view.

If one believes in the free market, shouldn’t one also believe that bad lenders who give out risky loans should face the risk of not getting repaid?
Compound (YC S19) is hiring software engineers
One of the ways that sometimes works well is to find big potential client, and then hire (or even partner with) someone that works in their product team. You can use his network. I know it sounds silly. But, that's one of the tactics that many companies use.
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Indeed. See:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24371703
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24396780
can second this. I am a Chinese who lived in Beijing for 10 years. No one would pronounce a hard r after 那个
If what you want is a situation where anyone can just call anything open source and individual users have to manually re-check all the licensing for any given project that gets posted to HN to make sure it doesn't add additional restrictions or conflict with the common MIT/BSD/GPL, I'm pretty sure that's already happening. There isn't any big corp gatekeeping -- they don't care if the community gets stuck dealing with fallout from these new licenses because that means they didn't have to pay the legal costs to get it tested in court. And in the meantime if the big corp really wants to be a customer they'll just ask to buy a standard proprietary license because it's cheaper and doesn't involve legal.
Thanks for posting this. I do feel foolish that I didn't come across the relationship between OneRep and Nuwber myself. I hope other HN readers will see this and take this into account before they consider OneRep. I'll definitely consider deleting my account.
Thanks for the wonderfully detailed reply. I had a follow up question does the ROM designer or any part of the ROM itself ever have to know where in memory it is mapped to?
The thing is, you don't design for the flight plan - you design for the "oh my god there's super strong crosswind, complex approach, and we have no fuel left for another airfield" and similar cases.
We're constantly digging up old and dead things because we care.
It’s pretty strong. You can listen to Amateur operators using it if you go to websdr.org, find one of the handful of receiving stations that cover 437.8 MHz, and time it right. One of the neat things is that you’ll easily see the Doppler shift in the spectrum waterfall.
UK Algoshambles, Neuralink, GPT-3 and Intelligence
This week Dr. Tim Scarfe, Dr. Keith Duggar and Yannic "Lightspeed" Kilcher respond to the "Algoshambles" exam fiasco in the UK where the government were forced to step in to standardise the grades which were grossly inflated by the schools. The schools and teachers are all paid on metrics related to the grades received by students, what could possibly go wrong?! The result is that we end up with grades which have lost all their value and students are coached for the exams and don't actually learn the subject.

We also cover the second Francois Chollet interview on the Lex Fridman podcast. We cover GPT-3, Neuralink, and discussion of intelligence.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3LiiGzyOYI
Pod: https://anchor.fm/machine-learning-street-talk/episodes/UK-Algoshambles--Neuralink--GPT-3-and-Intelligence-ej8c11
I'm not sure that the angle is severe enough to matter? I can see people becoming accustomed to it.
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23971143
I don't work at Amazon, but worked at a similar (European, national) retailer:

You really have to walk the line between ratings-per-SKU and aggregate ratings sometimes.

In an ideal world, the reading experience of a Kindle book is the same as the physical book. So someone might argue that ratings should be aggregated across all version of the product. Would you expect different ratings for hardcover/paperback versions of books? Probably not, at least assuming people review the content of the book, not its appearance.

Similarly, do you really want people to leave ratings on a black shirt in size L, and that rating not apply to all sizes and colors?

I assume someone at Amazon thinks about this, and the defaults (fashion => merge, books => merge, electronics => donotmerge) etc. do OK until complaints come in. There's no profit in not being heavy-handed.
This is what we do and have done when I grew up; my parents would go to lidl or aldi and get a loaf of bread per day of the week and yeet it in their big chest freezer, every day (in the evening) they'd take one out to defrost overnight. We do it now as well although our freezer isn't that big.

Defrosting it is best done at room temperature, but in a bind can be done in the microwave; it's a very thin line between defrosting it and warming it up (making it soggy and warm and ugh) though.
Why is this considered rude instead of stating an opinion?
I haven't, but if it was a thing, Polish social media would be all over it.
"Mini Event" = several 1 hour long talks

Was hoping for more (time wise) digestible introductions.
Worked on a project with similar goals [0]. By no means a production level implementation, but much of the system exists as a proof-of-concept.

[0]: https://makedist.com/projects/cruzdb/
I’m very similar, even my toaster method! I bake bread for the household once a week. 1 kilo of flour, 2 loaves. Sliced up and frozen within an hour or so of coming out of the oven.

I don’t understand how a sourdoughs starter could go stale though, as it’s a liquid, not bread?

My starter recently got the orange streak of doom, and I’m back to an overnight biga artisan bread.

I avoid the fridge as it definitely stales homemade bread, and leaving it out too long ends up chasing mould. Freezer is the best option for sure.
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The turning will cause banking, or just lead you to a stall unless you have ridiculously słów turn rate (bad idea)
> lax credit card validation policies

However, if you try to pay through a bank account (at least in Germany), it's an utter pain. Same with Maestro debit cards...
From the earliest days, Amazon apparently made the decision not to separate reviews of content from reviews of the delivery of that content, e.g. award-winning films with a poorly-made DVD.

And, yes, it can be an issue with Kindle. A lot of books with illustrations, sidebars, footnotes, etc. (i.e. not simply free-flowing text) get designed for print and are sometimes just automatically converted to ebooks without much care. It's a bit of a dice roll.
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The web didn't pop into existence out of the void. There were various substrate and precursor technologies that existed before the web was invented, and when the web was new, you'd expect engineers to know and understand these technologies as well.
Too bad that one can’t figure out a way to login into 4 separate X-Windows/PCs using a single/sign-on.

I’ve stared at SASL, SAML, and PAM but the precipice is too steep.

Closest thing I could think of is to remote SSH into the other three and fire up its X session.
If there is a partition and you want to execute a write on both sides of the partition, both sides can wait, but eventually one side wins and the other side gets back a failure, so the db turned out not to be available on that side. At least that's my interpretation.
So you slice the whole loaf after the hours in the fridge and before going in the freezer?