skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's horrible.

I suppose there's a poetic irony that even in places where you can really transcend people still find a way to hurt eachother.
My point is literally the first sentence of my comment.

> It's not "structurally sexism", it's biology.
The brain cells?
The variable here is not just the size & skill of the team but their needs. In most cases a single company or team will need a simpler, smaller-scale deployment, probably running on one or a handful of machines and not requiring the insane complexity that a public cloud provider is running behind the scenes to provide their service.

This eliminates a lot of moving parts and things that can fail. Imagine an Nginx server running on a single machine. There's very little that can go wrong here beyond hardware failure (and certain types of failures can be mitigated with things like RAID), and yet it is probably enough to host most internal websites.

Now compare this to something like Azure App Service which is obviously more complex to be able to support many tenants, load-balance, etc. There is much more that can go wrong with the entire App Service infrastructure (due to its complexity and moving parts) than with a single machine running Nginx, and the complexity will also delay disaster recovery efforts (this outage is now lasting for more than an hour - you can reinstall an entire Linux web server from scratch in half that time).
Gold mining in Scotland has become popular among amateur prospectors
You’ve got it right. This “seed” is a seed in the sense of a random number generator. It only controls generating the world, however, it does not control the behavior of NPCs.
Amusingly, this is part of why some folks are deeply terrified of Robinhood: with a few clicks here and there, you’ve just bought yourself 10-15x leverage.

I actually think it’s a great thing to let someone easily try out “let me try out options trading, I’ll start with $100”. The write ups about r/wallstreetbets though are sometimes heartbreaking.

So like you said, at least you know what you don’t know!
Sure. But the question asked was not about what value NASA use, but what precision you need for space travel. The rule of thumb I use when looking at noisy estimates is that you should shoot for twice the precision (one extra bit of information) that you have in your noisiest other value (or of your total noise - they're usually about the same thing). Any less precision than that and your estimate gets worse, but more precision doesn't materially improve your estimate. I don't know a rigorous proof for this but you can hand wave it from the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem [0].

So how much uncertainty comes from other sources when deciding on an initial burn for your trip to Mars? Contributing factors could be your fine control over the thrust from the rocket engine, but also solar radiation, gravity or - I suspect this is biggest - attitude control.

I'd guess NASA can achieve a precision of better than 1/500 but probably not 1/50,000, so they'd need about 5 or 6 digits of pi. But I'm interested in hearing a more educated guess!

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist%E2%80%93Shannon_samp...
They aren't blocking you from just downloading the app. Windows has been doing this forever. Most people just download the executable you want.
Gauge was already registered.
> So you are not concerned with protecting the “little guy”? Doesn’t that give Amazon more power in the marketplace?

What do you mean? Sellers can always sell on other marketplaces, like eBay, where it's clearer to the buyers what they're getting into.

If Amazon has too much power in the (retail) marketplace, the solution is to break it up, not give other sellers precarious access to its storefront via "Amazon Marketplace."
This is the first time since 2015 that I remember an outage of this magnitude (scope + impact) with the platform. Not saying my memory is authoritative, but.. I certainly wouldn't call this regular.
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If you’re on a VPN and you get blocked by Startpage, it usually means the IP address that you’re using is shared with spammers causing malicious traffic. Try releasing your IP address and getting a new one.

FYI: Startpage's anti-abuse mechanisms do not store your system's IP address. Startpage's team devised intelligent methods to filter out bots and abusive parties.
There are lots of algorithms for optimizing the search of a space. If you have a goal in mind it’s possible to come up with a strategy that will get you there faster. Think breadth first vs A star
How do you secure it from unwanted access? I have been wanting to do something similar but I am unsure of the best practices
Question does the compiler at the cli also phone home or is it just the IDE?
That looks awful if you have smaller hands.

They say you can tilt the thumb clusters up, but then you lose the ability to tent the keyboard.

If you tent it, the thumb cluster is doing the work and has to be tilted down making it harder for smaller thumbs.

They should have provided another leg to do the tenting so you could adjust the thumb cluster as needed.
It has no real impact on everyday gameplay other than being a bit of trivia. The seed does indeed allow you to predict the vast majority of gameplay behavior of a particular map, but only that map. This particular map was used to generate an icon that was used as part of the GUI in Minecraft.
That's not true, and probably the biggest misunderstanding about Netflix. Netflix was really generous on stock options. It gave you stock options worth 5% of your salary for free. Then you can forfeit your salary for options, but here is the kick: Netflix gave your 5 times of discount. 5 times! For instance, if you forfeit 100 dollars for options and the strike price is $10, then you will get 50 options instead of 10. The general formula for profit is 4X - 1, where X is the percentage of increase from strike price. If the stock price is 25% higher than your strike price, you'll make even. If it is 50% higher, then you will double your forfeited salary. On top of that, you vest your stock options on a monthly basis, and your options expire in 10 years! Thank about it, you're pretty much guaranteed to make money as long as the stock has certain volatility, and Netflix stock is one of the most volatile stock in the past 10 years. That's how so many employees of Netflix became multi-millionaires.
How Is Anonymous View Different from Private Mode
I guess, Minecraft has some kind of licence restrictions.
i have no dog in this fight, but it worth noting that a n of 116 likely has pretty low statistical power.
Everything is new when you were seemingly born yesterday... the date is the very first line "As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 28, 2020"
At least the guy with the change request was vindicated for now. That must have felt good - about to be crucified for putting in a change that brought down AAD globally, they roll it back and shit's still broken. :D hahaha wudn't me mofos!
Me too. Got a few instances of similar situations with Datagrip and really wish we had local license instead of license server.
This.

we know quite a lot about this, most life-forms on Earth almost continously try to kill humans or at least to mine its biological resources for its use.
Do companies get refund from Microsoft for outage? What does a typical MS SLA look like?
The mathematical values of fraction signs in the Linear A script
Not for my wife, her solution was "you can mop the floors then".
not that surprising, since it probably doesn't have to phone home.
control for it if you are making claims about vitamin d
> there was a boast of a >100% divorce rate among students. Every married student who entered that program was divorced by the end, as were some who got married during the program.

Meh. Sounds like the number of divorces was still less than the number of students. And possibly less than the number of marriages -- the definition provided doesn't even establish that 100% of marriages among the students failed.
Minetest: https://www.minetest.net/. It’s a bit similar to “just use Minecraft” because it comes packaged with a barebones “game” — a mapgen algorithm and enough Lua to allow you to run around, mine, and craft, but stops short of adding non-player mobs (but you can find plenty of mods to add them, and adding mods — really just Lua scripts + packaging and optionally meshes, textures, etc. — is what it’s designed for). “Available for Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, and Android”.
For _tactical_ use, I rely on my trusty model M, with metal base plate. For home defense, it is without equal. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The rest of time I greatly prefer the ergonomics of the old thinkpad keyboards w/ track-point, but the external ones are expensive and sucky, imo.

I also sometimes move my mouse to the left side of the keyboard so that I can have better, more symmetrical posture. I would really prefer to have a small external USB trackpoint that I could simply place beneath my spacebar, but sadly no one seems to sell this.

This person even hacked their own (https://github.com/feklee/usb-trackpoint), but I haven't found the time or motivation. I bet I'm not the only one who would pay a handsome margin -- business opportunity?

That UHK pointer module would solve my ergonomic problems better than mousing backwards, and might be worth the price by itself.
CRDTs?
Yes, exactly. The procedurally generated world is predictable* if you know the world seed -- land forms, structures and items/loot spawn the same way each time. You can specify the seed when creating a world, if you like.

There are certain things that are nondeterministic, such as where mobs spawn (that depends on player position, etc.) or how they behave.

* There may be parts of world generation these days that are nondeterministic even with a known seed; I'm not too up to date with recent world generation changes.
isn't it pretty much the same thing?
Damn, Slava's gotten pretty burned! Let us reminisce about the good old days noodling around with Weblocks.
When this guy discusses OT vs CRDT he's discussing algorithms for some very specific use cases. Namely, concurrent document editing a la Google Docs. Realistically, there's maybe 50 people in the world who are versed in these kinds of algorithms at a really deep level. 99% of us are users. If I was pressed into it, I maybe have the chops to implement a reference implementation for something like this, but I've never come with a country mile of an organization that has the resources to invest in something like that. You can be a great programmer with a very successful career as someone who only knows how to read an API and use it. And unless you are tasked with creating a concurrent document editor, you will probably never need to understand the API for a CRDT.
> surprised

In this case, kind of, Google does work pretty hard on accessibility features. No one else has workable live transcriptions, and android accessibility suite is seeing constant improvements.

Maybe they think their ML transcription has gotten to a point where the process can be automated and maintaining crowdsource captions is not worth it / has liability. Still I disagree with this move. Genuinely curious what the cost/benefit analysis is. Most countries demographics are skewing older, I think it's worth maintaining these systems just in case.
I use a chrome extension called "High Contrast" that achieves this for any website.
> The only savings I see there are the time saved by the server being physically closer.

Here in Australia, with ping times to US West Coast (where lots of companies host by default) of 170ms this is a real issue.
Well, there is Roblox. It has an... interesting community. Technologically it uses Lua for scripting! And has a great ide for editing worlds and script. And a giant user base.

It's definitely limited though.
Neat idea, I like the concept of logging intensions when unlocking phone and the iOS widget is convenient
Genuinely curious. What complication? And what does screenshot have to do with the billing change?
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build a home vpn with self signed certificates
The infections that happened throught the history of human colonization do not apply here. Those were just what microbes had evolved for, finding untrained or weakened immune systems to infect.

Martian life, if any, should simply be "trained" to pry on the particularities of its own environment, not ours. There's a extremely low chance that it could survive and thrive on our warm planet. Add to the fact that lots of precautions will be in place, Martian life exploration can be considered very safe for Earthlings.

However... since life evolves to be successful in (almost) any environment, Martian life could just as well be trained exactly for these rare moments: to be dormant then suddenly pry on unsuspecting alien visitors that come snooping around... But then that would be the argument of a successful Ridley Scott movie franchise.
Sure, RISC is more energy efficient, that's why AMD and Intel are microops behind an x86 decoder :p

A ryzen is a lot more capable than a Pi, and sometimes that's worth the material and power cost. Mostly, I was just pointing out that there are some systems out there to buy if you want though.
Maybe enacting your mission statement is no longer popular nor cool?
Introductions to Systems Thinking
Operational Transformation and Conflict-Free Replicated Datatypes are very different from each other.

As the author explains, OT relies on some ordering of system events, and CRDTs don't. That means CRDTs need to be commutative (and probably associative), and OT doesn't.

So, OT is less scalable but more powerful, and CRDTs are more scalable but less powerful (in theory).

It's sort of like comparing Paxos/Raft to Bittorrent.

(I am not an expert on OT.)
You are highlighting meaningless semantic differences and narratives in place of meaningful structural properties to define the two.

"The means of production" is not a relevant idea outside of marxism. It's just called capital, assets or money to everyone else. Defining capitalism in terms of the "means of production" is part of a dishonest attempt to reframe the discussion in Marxist terms which is not taken seriously by anyone that is not Richard Wolff in academic economics and not by anyone who is involved in economic analysis professionally.

Check out the wiki for the "means of production". It's part of the series on marxism (ie economics used by essentially no one in practice): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Means_of_production

Focusing on the word private is not untrue, it's just dishonest in the sense that it is used to imply that any other meaningful framework exists and again to try to highlight the comparison to Marxism as primary which is not a debate that exists on any meaningful implementation level. Out of over 200 countries in existence, as far as I know North Korea is the only one potentially that doesn't acknowledge private ownership of goods (on paper only) and that only exists for unrelated complex international political reasons, not because it is a tenable system economically.

You don't own things privately if there is no market to trade them in because markets are an emergent phenomenon of people owning things privately. The only way there wouldn't be this market is if you legally restricted private ownership. So market's and private ownership are meaningless without each other.

And even then you are failing to understand the difference between markets as a concept and capital markets.

So no, it is not a mistake to equate markets with capitalism, especially the existence of capital markets and this does not preclude markets existing before we thought of things in terms of capitalism.

Also Matt Stoller is not an economist, he's a partisan author of popular media. He's not authority on any of this.
Looks to be fixed, at least partially.
Yeah I have been using VS for nearly a decade now but I've never 'bricked' it.

Sure, sometimes installing new versions alongside old versions could cause issues. But that's a managed process that one team member would do before the whole team migrated and any issues would be worked out during that stage. (one of our old upgrade steps was to install 2015 before 2013 because doing it the other way around would break something in 2013; 2013 still being needed for some projects).

I have never been in the situation where the entire company (or even entire team) was locked out of their IDE.
I disagree that it is a quibble. Not having context is different than being strung along to increase engagement metrics. I didn't know what CRDT was either, but I spent 10-15 seconds searching it and then read the rest of the post, which I thought was otherwise extremely well done. I actually subscribed to Joseph's RSS feed because I was so pleased with the quality of the writing on the blog.
I do agree that engaging in this sort of disagreement on HN is low-yield, however.
I wish they would fix the bug in Catalina where you can't restore to Mail from TM backups, it won't access any available backups. If you go into ~/Library/Mail and manually locate the account, it will access previous versions, but restoring these doesn't seem to recover individual inboxes, likely because there is an index somewhere else. Anyway, pretty bad...
McAfee has been public in one form or another for over 25 years. This S-1 is for the most recent iteration of the company, which was spun out of Intel in 2017. (McAfee, then in its NETA form, was the first public company I worked for.)
Tim Cook has famously told investors to fuck off (in slightly more polite language) for questioning the ROI of accessibility features.
You (or your employer) knowingly chosen a proprietary and hostile development platform and now you are reaping the benefits. I am sorry for you, not for you inability to work, but for your incorrect choices.
I basically already do this with vcxsrv (launch vcxsrv with -ac, start wsl2, export DISPLAY, run emacs) and gui displays!
Yeah, that what exactly my thought when I found out they were doing the Crystal Skull instead of Fate of Atlantis. Talk about missed opportunities.
Just to back this up, I've also bricked my VS installation multiple times when I worked in that environment. However, some of that was self inflicted when I was trying to figure out how to restore older sub versions of vs 2019 before they started publishing the manifests publicly.

Also, while this isn't bricking the IDE, you can definitely ruin solutions & project files in a very hard to debug way if you ever need to manually update those files.
This is a fundamental problem of all copy-on-write filesystems. With btrfs, a quick fix is to plug in a spare usb stick whose space btrfs can borrow in order to delete files on the main drive.
a lot of other use cases are interested in using CRDTs for complex mutations with a relatively small number of users. Most collaborative editing sessions will be a small handful of users. Our use cases are things more like "three thousand people are presented with a multiple-choice question simultaneously and answer it simultaneously and we have to show the results on an xbox and the entire thing has to happen in under 15 seconds". We mostly just use the standard g-counter and pn-counter types. We have a thing that's like ... a high score list for a trivia game that doesn't have a well known type (it's kinda like ... having a zset where only the top N items in the zset are replicated) and a CRDT implementation of a ring buffer of strings for audience comments in ... Quiplash 2, iirc. I'm a bit tied up since we have a new pack coming out October 15th, but I might have time to write some stuff up after that.
"[censored]" standalone is no better, because of the implication. If you want to go that route, pick something else.

Voice: "Because lucky you, that's why"

Caption 2: "Because f*ck you, that's why"

Caption 3: "Because [censored] you, that's why"

Caption 4: "Because [unintelligible] you, that's why"

You tell me, which one of these failure modes is better?
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One of the simplest ones, DuckDuckGo Image Search, is on the list as `!ddgi` but it has a shorter version: just `!i`
Normally I would downvote a comment that amounts to "read the article", except that this one is entirely on point.

One of the classic problems was size and performance. However both problems have now disappeared. Operations are `O(log(n))` and the size overhead is a factor of 1.5-2.0. That's quite workable.
But seemingly it already has guards: apparently the captions have to be approved by the video uploader before being displayed to viewers.
I second this - think about threats from other animal kingdoms, say plants - they get infected by bacteria, viruses or parasites. Yet no-one has ever managed to infect an oak with flu, or to get yellow rust from wheat. Anything actually alien is going to be further removed from me and you, than we are from jellyfish. The bodies will be just too different.

Maybe some kind of invasive organism could exist that spreads like kudzu and plain outcompetes existing life -> however this sounds like something that could be controlled by brute force.
Exactly right, a fair number of my fellow students would ride to school on a snowmobile!
"Promoting perspectives" is fine for advertising, but not for screwing over existing users who have their own perspectives already.
To a certain extent yes, but delegation at the store level is extremely coarse grained.

Also, no automatic updates.
It revalidates the license every 30 days, and I haven’t used it in a few days. Apparently I just got unlucky with my timing.
It seems like this article is about accounting for Goodhart's Law[0], to give a pointer to another expression of this idea.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
What specifically made you need to? Editions aren’t supposed to make you do that. I would be interested in hearing what we missed!
Consider creating a Street Library that way you will have a constantly evolving book collection and probably make lots of connections with your neighbours.
https://streetlibrary.org.au/
The one thing I don't like is that it goes through ddg. This makes sense implementation wise since it's a web site. But I wish it was built into the browser for when I use ddg in my browser URL field. Every once in a while ddg takes a while to respond.
* click *

Restores operating system image in a few minutes.
Honestly not sure, someone with more of a physics background should chime in! We always had winter tires and were quite religious about checking treads, pressure, etc.. as we had to be.
I missed the edit window, and of course I was remiss in not looking this up. It was something that I've heard from multiple people, but never verified. Here's one reference:

https://resources.finance.duke.edu/research/documents/eTutor...
It's 90% PR puffery corpspeak to try to cover something up. What are the actual facts of the matter?
Consumers hate mobile web apps.

They've been around for over a decade in various incarnations and they are always clunky, poorly designed and developed for the lowest common denominator.

And often what developers are vocal about wanting is anti-consumer e.g. most people like a single point for all subscriptions/payments.
The most pressing need is to add an updated payment card so that the domain she uses does not expire next week. This seems geared towards closing the account or getting a Google Takeout. She is working the probate process so could conceivably get a court order to help, though they are extra slow due to COVID.
Anecdote: I tried 16:8 intermittent fasting for a month (it wasn’t hard considering the lockdown situation). I gained 4lbs (156lbs to 160lbs).

No claims are being made of mine being a proper experiment. Just sharing the observation. I generally don’t focus on weight. I did not do it to lose weight. My best guess is that my overall calorie intake went up as I fit all meals in that 8hr window.