skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In SeaweedFS, replication is for hot data and erasure coding is for warm data.
Thomas Jefferson wrote the living should not be ruled by the dead, and that the Constitution should expire after 19 years.

James Madison wrote the Senate should protect the moneyed from democracy, and the Constitution was forever.

If you’re going to point at their ideas, don’t cherry pick nebulous middle ground cartoon versions of their actual positions, and lump them together as on the same page.

Some enlightened people that knew much less about reality than we do and have been dead for 200 years.

Old ideas of American civic life have become a religion unto themselves. Jefferson wrote of that too: laws must change as human awareness grows.

It’s time to change things, I would agree. I’d start by burying old idols. Little left to be gleaned from men who died without knowing of Einstein, Godel, and the rest of modern invention.
Yes, we scale regularly, though we usually only add nodes. We are slowly approaching 100 seaweed nodes. We are running in k8s on local SSD storage, managing failures is easy this way.
I read the article, but I'm still stuck on why Apple is asking for IAP to be included. Is the argument: "Hey, your app works with subscription services. You need to give Apple users the option to purchase via the App Store."

If so, why doesn't Fastmail (from what I can tell) offer IAP? Isn't this the same idea?
Yeah or a klein bottle!
> .. very much going to happen

That's prediction, not facts I asked for.
Hah. John the Ripper[0] was a pretty useful piece of code back in the day. Now Jack the Ripper... I'd say if stories are true, he and his brain were evil, yes.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_the_Ripper

Hmm it looks like it's still being maintained.
the binary `curl` is just a CLI frontend for `libcurl`. curl can do a lot more than HTTP. it can transfer data over 20-odd different protocols, including real-time streaming media. it's huge in embedded software.
Excellent suggestions. I have never heard of 'systems thinking' before. Thank you for introducing this term to me.
> The only thing new about it is that programmers are exposed to more of the costs of it up-front.

That's funny, because it's only "new" if your experiences primarily lie in newer languages and communities. There's a lot of criticism of C, but one thing it does is make dependencies pretty explicit. Some say that's good, some say that's bad, I guess it can be both at different times.
They did. It was called org-babel. It is still superior to notebooks because you can weave the source code and mix a dozen languages.
preface: likely an ignorant opinion from an american.

from across the pond, it looks like the richer EU countries (eg, germany) essentially want to have it both ways. they want to have strong worker protections and prevent poorer EU countries from enabling labor arbitrage, all while having relatively unencumbered trade within the EU. at the same time, they don't want to provide the economic aid to the poorer countries that would reduce the incentive to do this sort of thing. seems like a "pick one" type of situation.
Mobile internet dilutes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_asymmetry
In my opinion such developments have less to do with turning to or turning away from "science" and such, but more with the general economy.

Western Europe developed into an economic powerhouse during that time, both through population growth and later and concurrent the industrial revolution.

That didn't happen in the islamic world (and many third world countries), or only "under the boot" of the Europeans.

So now the lesser developed countries are catching up in terms of population numbers but lagging in terms of wealth. And with that, in their investments in science.
[1] might bolster their chances

<<Context>> former Apple executive says the Cupertino tech giant uses its "arbitrary" App Store policies "as a weapon" to restrict competition.

[1] https://www.techspot.com/news/87038-former-app-store-exec-te...
> more wind turbines will be shut down than new built in Germany in 2021.

Which doesn't mean much if the new turbines are much larger than the ones being shut down.

We're all grateful for the spending the EU has done on wind and solar. Texas wind power is approaching 1c / kWh. Tesla solar power is under $2/W installed. This never would have happened if Europe didn't drive down prices by heavily subsidizing early adopters. Thanks!
In addition, Apple doesn't want the app to lay out the fact that the extra customer will pay is an Apple tax, and ban the app because the app show "unnecessary information" to Apple customer.
Cloud Run now supports HTTP/gRPC server streaming
Oh whoops you're right. I misread, thanks!
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That kind of thing looks good on paper but fails miserably in reality. No individual has the bandwidth to verify everything themselves, and precious few have the numerical and statistical literacy to be able to even verify samples here and there and not get stuck in a local minimum. To me, this whole line of thinking sounds like the dorm-room libertarian bullshit that gets generated from the Dunning-Kruger effect on steroids, but I'm willing to be convinced I'm wrong.
Microsoft recently announced that their employees can permanently work from home. Several other companies have announced similar policies and this trend will likely become widely adopted very soon.

So far, geographical proximity to a job has so far been an important factor for several employment based visa types like the h1-b. With this quickly changing, can you share some thoughts on how the diminishing importance of a physical work place and proximity to offices will impact various employment related visa types? Is there any indication that some guidance or rule changes to accommodate the changing nature of how we work will be considered any time soon?
The big difference is Apple products are quite literally beloved.

It must feel quite strange to be asked to adjudicate over such complaints when you yourself actually love the products of the company you're supposed to make a ruling on.
So let me get this straight? You are not going to put alerts on buisnesses that you recieved first hand information on being racist but instead use second hand news as the bar to decide wether or not do so?

I think there was a hit Fleetwood Mac song about that strategy, or maybe it was Marvin Gaye.

Why don't you just be honest and admit the real reason for this contrived change in policy and message was to drive attention towards YELP. It is nothing more than a publicity stunt leveraging the current state of unrest.

From the number of comments on this site, it worked.
You're complaining about the low efficiency of H2, and then you end up proposing methane as an alternative?

To create methane from electricity you need hydrogen to begin with. To create methane from that you need CO2, which you can get from the air and needs a lot of energy (alternatively you can get it from other emisssion sources, but well, we want to get rid of them, so this is at best an intermediate solution). You end up with much less efficiency compared to hydrogen.

Methane has only one thing going for it, and that is existing infrastructure and processes. But that's a mode of thinking where you try to think how you can keep the technology from a fossil energy system.

I share some skepticism about hydrogen. It probably shouldn't be applied where more efficient technologies are available. But there's a whole lot of areas where hydrogen really is the only game in town right now. And in many other areas it's an intermediate product needed for further steps.
To what extent are the new rules (wage and specialty occupation) vulnerable to being overturned by the courts?

Do knowledgeable people think the Biden administration would overturn these rules?

Is it possible that approximately the same number of visas would be issued, just at the higher salaries?
Obviously it used to be like that everywhere (except where you can't pump your own gas by law) but I'd rather pay a little bit more to not have to wait in line behind all the people buying cigarettes, chewing tobacco and lotto tickets.
Hi Peter, thank you for doing this! I completed my EB3 GC interview at SF field office last week. In your experience, how long after the interview does it usually take to know the decision?
This article is the biggest, smelliest, chunky pile of lefty-woke-snowflake trash I have read in a long time.

Stories.....are stories. Stories can be anything only limited to your imagination.....but oh no, here comes the woke brigade to curtail your freedom of thought and creativity to write in a manner deemed appropriate by them for fear of offending ..... who?

These people need to get a life, or better still do, put all of these lefty-woke zombies on a starship and send them off into space, just like in Hitchikers Guide and Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B.

"The Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B was a way of removing the basically useless citizens from the planet of Golgafrincham. A variety of stories were formed about the doom of the planet, such as blowing up, crashing into the sun or being eaten by a mutant star goat. The ship was filled with all the middlemen of Golgafrincham, such as the telephone sanitisers, account executives, hairdressers, tired TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, public relations executives, and management consultants.

....because the Ark Ship B Golgafrinchans were a 'bunch of useless idiots'."

Add to the list lefty-woke-zombies-idiots

url: https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Golgafrinchan_Ark_Fleet_...
Did the creation of the EU stop some war in Western Europe?
Google/Apple should drop the percentage. 30% is too high.
I’ve worked on 30 small hydro projects and don’t think I’ve seen a single tadpole killed. Often they have to create new habitat if some existing habitat is altered to compensate. Probably 15-30% of the total project budget is spent on environmental permitting, monitoring, and design and construction of functionality that make the plant environmentally friendly such as restricting rate of change of water level to 1” per hour
French here. I don't know if it is Germany only but this is not whole EU for sure.
Not only does the Young's modulus hardly change between soft and hard steel, it barely changes for any steel. This provides an interesting constraint for some types of engineering. For example, if you are making a bridge you can use better steel to make it stronger, but you can't use better steel to make the bridge have less deflection for a given load. You can only change deflection by engineering the shape and design of the bridge.
It's the price we all pay for ignoring user experience.

This goes way back. Take this from the old jargon file:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/P/point-and-drool-inter...

From the earliest days of computing, hacker types have regarded ease of use and simplicity as indicative of stupidity and as a "dumbing down" of computing. This mentality survives to this day in the fetish that so many have for complexity and the fact that UI/UX is often the last thing to get attention in designs led by programmers.

Apple meanwhile took the opposite stance. Computers should be easy to use. Complexity is bad, especially at the UI level. Things should "just work."

Calling bullshit on the sentiment in that Jargon file entry above made Apple for a time the most valuable company on Earth.

The tax we now have to pay to them is a dumb tax for the cult of complexity and "real men do it manually" bullshit. To break the App Store and Apple semi-monopoly, start not by criticizing but by asking why it is so successful. Only by answering that question will any challenger including FOSS be able to successfully compete with it.
libcurl (as opposed to the CLI) is extremely widely used according to the author (https://stackoverflow.com/a/55885729):

> At an estimated six billion installations world wide, we can safely say that curl is the most widely used internet transfer library in the world. [...] curl runs in billions of mobile phones, a billion Windows 10 installations, in a half a billion games and several hundred million TVs - and more.
Hello, isoprophlex, I'm your Assistant AI

Today's meeting was an hour-and-a-half spent on bike-shedding the position--and color--of the "logout" button on our product page.

15 minutes were spent debating the resident usability expert who suggested white text on a dark blue background would be more readable for people with low vision. The department manager insisted on retaining pastel blue as it is his favorite color.

45 minutes were spent arguing over whether "logout" or "log out" comprises proper semantics. Our linguistic expert was unfortunately not able to attend as she was sent on a business trip earlier in the week.

The last 30 minutes were focused on team-building exercises as Bob doodled on his tablet and Susan smiled politely at the speaker whilst screaming internally as she had 3 more meetings to attend before her department could move forward.
No one forces you to shitpost with a throwaway either, yet here we are...
Its a million dollars questions. From the last 9 years I am searching for the answers.
You forget all the successful merchants that have their products copied by Amazon and undercut. They'll embrace you on their platform but use their knowledge of your sales against you. Look at all the Amazon Basics products out there and tell me this is not concerning to retailers making use of their platform!
Temporarily it's fine I think.

Cause no one else has the skills or resources. And things are happening too fast and at huge scales to depend on local law enforcement/courts to handle it. You can see them freaking out everyday.

There was a time I thought the US and EU wld get things under control specifically after Brexit and Trump but its quite obvious govts don't have what it takes right now.

Will be interesting to see what the counter reaction is from bad actors. I highly doubt they are going into retirement now.
Oh I see, I didn't realize its core was exposed as a library. That makes more sense!
There's something that's often referred to as the "Mega Backdoor Roth" that lets you shelter an extra $37,500 per year beyond the traditional 401(k) limits.
>> They contract internationally recognized fact checking organizations. Is it perfect? No

The fact-checking organizations have themselves been independently vouched for by several highly trusted organizations. They are as close to perfect as we can possibly get.

Unfortunately there are too many bad actors in this country who are hell-bent on destroying our democracy. Huge segments of the population are actively engaged in the misinformation campaign so that's why radical steps need to be taken.

We cannot let people with ill intent ruin the country by misleading the public and stirring up controversies and conspiracy theories.

Clearly, everything is fine. The economic recovery has been very quick; everyone made a lot of profit recently and it's all going great now (stocks prices have been soaring in fact) - But you wouldn't know it from reading all these fake news on Facebook. These social manipulators need to be stopped.
But nothing said they had to include in-app purchase in their app; then suddenly, after being in the store 2 years already, Apple said they had to (and hence Apple would get a cut).
This for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.windowsgam... or Windows: http://www.windowsgames.co.uk/mother.html ?
Yes, the large number of users that expect it to work natively on their primary computing device.
Free web scraping tools compared
I do sympathise, but IAP can be implemented in useful ways. For example games with DLC such as extra campaigns or game modes. I'm a big fan of a war game on iOS that offers additional maps as IAPs. Unfortunately most IAPs are in the form of pay to win crap like gems and coins, but it doesn't have to be that way.
Hi Peter, my AOS filing date is current as of October bulletin (India born). How crucial it is to apply for AOS asap compared to later? My employer's attorney is too slow and is flooded with AOS filing requests coz of this. It seems like it will be the in final days of October that they may get to my application. It is quite concerning for me. Should I look for my own attorney?
Thinking about crates this way is a revelation to me. Is there any tooling to make analyzing dependencies as you did easier?
I guess it's hard to infer tone in a newsletter, I always saw his descriptions as a use of understatement to really draw out how evil some of these things were or in other cases to pass over the small time crook and focus on the systemic issues.

I can see it the other way too though, now that you mention it.
But but ... They are the disinformation network :(
Not sure why you're getting downvoted (well, I do, but...) but governments are what enable corporations to be the bad actors they are. They would not get so large, powerful and unwieldy in a free market where corporations have as much or more rights as human beings, i.e. corporate personhood.
No one?! HN is full of Facebook supporters and deniers.
"If you don't read newspaper you are uninformed. If you do read a newspaper, you are misinformed" --Mark Twain (b. 1835)

Just saying FB...
> You make many of leaps of faiths to get to your conclusion.

Not really. It's just the history of the equal rights amendment.

> Let's for a second assume that's all accurate, are you in favour of government solving this problem by an executive decision? Note that the same State refuses to regulate FAANGs which have stood by as their platforms were exploited to influence elections. The double standards are staggering

I am neither in favor of it nor against it. I think it is a PR tactic that will not hold up to the scrutiny of the court. True, lasting change will obviously have to originate from the legislature -- I'd love to see something comprehensive come from there. But these PR "tactics", while not truly standalone policies, nonetheless spark, influence and shape public discourse. In this case, I think that vigorous discourse (and sunlight on the corruption of H1B abuse) is a good thing for everyone.
Certainly not needless. The whole world relies on a new gcc release not to introduce new severe bugs in good code. Mistakes need to found and fixed before the release, but not 3 years after. Then the mistake becomes incompetence. I wish I would not need to sprinkle my code with

#if defined(__GNUC__) && defined(__GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__) && \
(((__GNUC__ == 9) && (__GNUC_MINOR__ <= 3) || \
(__GNUC__ > 9)))

Also their arrogant attitude. Incompetence is rarely the only problem, it only gets problematic if paired with disfunctional management or arrogance.
Looking good!

Take a look at Gasper (https://talhof8.github.com/gasper).
a) you are right. I was not in storage field.
b) During writes, the strong consistency is required. The repair is by admin scripts, not by the data node themselves. This is to keep data nodes simple and scalable. You can also run the repair scripts at the "safe" time.
You can roll out an virtualisation solution on raspis to many many many devices, perfect for making it rock solid. The arm server market is still very small, you will not haavy many customers able to test it, and much less risking using an still unstable solution.

This is a perfect entry to the arm server market.
Words all have uncertainty baked into them, as do the interpreting of pictures.. but when you use different media to reinforce each other, it seems to greatly help.

I like the fact that as I got the point, I found I could skip the details, just read the headlines, and look at the pictures... and then slow down if there were something import and read the text again.

The loading times, though... they suck.
I remember from very old PHP days that the default http client everyone reached for in PHP land was curl: https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.curl.php . I don't doubt that this is the case for many other older languages as well. This means, in turn, that there are large swathes of the internet communicating with one another via methods like this.
> we use the two words “Internet” and “Web” synonymously.

"We" do? Especially so-called tech blogs like the one that hosts this article?
This might be a good way to get a CTF/pentesting lab up and running on a RPi. I've been looking for a good way to do that where I can do my CTF tests remotely on my homelab.
Google/Apple should drop the percentage. 30% is too high. Store is a kind of ecosystem which based on the mutual benefits of both Apple and Devs. Devs helped to accelerate their products. Having billions in reserve, they should not hurt this relationship.
Lawyer for researcher deposed in $112.5M Duke case asks us to remove a post
Ask HN: Why don't marketplace users cheat site and do payments offline?
If covid-19 were contained why would there be a mask shortage? Transmission in the general population seems necessary to cause a nationwide shortage in first place.

>The CDC (and frankly every major government in the world) believed that covid-19 could be contained

There's plenty of photos from asian countries where mask use was immediate, wide spread, and effective.
Unlike macOS, Windows, Linux, and Android, there's no other way of installing apps on iOS. You have to use the App Store.
Well, true that's kinda how Mafia works.
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* instead of sending a stream of pixel-packed images, it sends specific reference points on the image around the eyes, nose, and mouth*

So they're trading bandwidth for CPU load at either end. I wonder what the tradeoff is in terms of energy? Would this result in higher CO2 emissions?
> a world in which an unaccountable third party determines what is truth, and therefore okay to say

We already have that - and have had for centuries - the people who control the press control what gets presented as "truth". Look at Fox or any other Murdoch property for a perfect example.

(cf "History is written by the winners" for another angle.)
Unfortunately the ability to quantitatively capture how much value you created is next to impossible for most knowledge workers. Sure you can approximate but that’s about it
Which is a shitty reason to hate Muslims today.
There’s a third option if the package is so important: put it in the standard library.

Technically it’s still a dependency but the standard library is maintained with a standard that is rarely matched by third party libraries, and can dramatically simplify the ecosystems’ dependency graph.
(1) No because their education and experience can be evaluated to be considered the equivalent of a bachelor's degree for H-1B purposes. (2) Publications, journal/conference paper review work or competition (hackathons for example) judging, original and significant contributions, and memberships (requiring outstanding achievements of members).
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Afaik ProtonMail is based in Switzerland, thus they might not be able to involve the EU.
Is there any advantage of this over Qemu/kvm which I believe is supported on the Raspberry Pi?
Adding that Trump sat with Al Sisi in the white house while saying he did a very good job in a difficult situation.

While I won't judge the US by what someone like Trump says, but those words were very true. Obama wasn't just that stupid to announce it like that.
And Modi regime in India wasted 1500 tons of food grains https://thewire.in/government/food-corporation-of-india-godo...
Improved failure recovery for Amazon EventBridge
Without Jonathan? Give me break. It's dead now