skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, they can't.

Programmers have to deal with the outside world. The outside world has timezones defined as offsets from UTC. So when UTC changes, the whole world changes their clocks, and programmers have to cope. If your program doesn't agree with that world about what time it is, your program will get blamed.

If it was a choice that I could individually make, I would tell astronomers to go pound sand. But it isn't. By historical happenstance, they have been put in charge of time, and it is truly a question of the tail wagging the dog when they care about a 1 second deviation between UTC and the position of the sun at a particular longitude.
"Order by text, because the web is old fashioned... but carry around several napkins all day!" is hilarious.

Good luck. Sincerely.
Which is why we left discord for self hosted mattermost with auto-login for our community. Its just so predictable that discord will become a silo the day they decide to make money
I'm hanging around one traditional forum. The benefit is that they form communities around a common root. It doesn't even matter that the root isn't shared anymore by most people because the forum has evolved into different categories and threads. It is some kind of square or piazza. Funny enough founded by a internet shop and website around a game it is now hosted by an independent society "e.V.".

What matters are moderators if they aren't able to keep out their own opinions and views the forum and the community will die.

On the other side we have - as usual - big tech. Neither Facebook nor Twitter form communities, what I see is that existing communities get sucked up into it. Maybe Reddit host and forms communities? Regarding Imgur I don't have the feeling that it forms a communitiy, their is no common root or actions they carry out together.

My feeling? Forums are social media. Facebook and Twitter? Not even close.
I am waiting for the day when they will start threatening of discontinuing accounts using ad blocking software
Neat idea. A couple of questions:

Does the nominal bandwidth cost of $5 for 1 TB mean it's $5 each month for a TB per month? Or is it simply "every 1TB transferred adds $5", no matter how long it took to use that much?

For the rent to own plan, the only thing you're paying after payoff is the bandwidth fee? (Which for minimal usage might be under $5 or $5 depending on the above answer) Is that right?
Update: NOW it's fixed. Apparently the default echo cancellation in WebRTC isn't great. I made it so the video gets muted on recording and unmuted on playback.
Nothing lasts forever and things require ever more upkeep costs as they get older.
Nitter is great for avoiding ads.
P.S. Thanks again for the feedback.
Nothing remotely similar to this has ever been built in space. This telescope is one of the very few which transmits radio waves as well as receiving them. The transmitters are used for radar mapping of solar system objects, as well as ionospheric research. Reproducing this instrument in space would probably cost as much as the ISS. It would be a Large Hadron Collider class investment.
Distributed Systems lecture series – Martin Kleppmann
Probably not VirtualBox, it's very x86-specific.
That’s highly dependent on where you are. In Minneapolis everyone is wearing them, but drive out a little bit and many aren’t.

There’s still a huge number of people in complete denial that this is real.
> My entry into the field was when I did a PhD in molecular biology and biophysics after ten years of professional experience as a computer scientist. That was almost twenty years ago now, and I still have the feeling that I'm only scratching the surface.

Wait... I know there are cross-disciplines that let you get into certain programs, but you skipped and entire undergrad's worth of core classes in Biology, Chemistry, Biochemistry and Physics (and possibly Masters level research) and got into a Molecular Biology PhD program with 10 years as a CS?

That really is amazing, and kind of disheartening as a person with a BSc in Cellular/Molecular biology. Goes to show just how irrelevant it really way in the grand-scheme of things--though, to be honest I had already had that thought as I was doing it.

I actually double majored as a Bio-Chem major but never went past my junior year requirements for it, and was never even given the option to have my completed lower division course work be deemed as a minor when I graduated.

And, yes you are right; once you understand how immense the field is and how wide reaching it is, you cannot fathom being able to ever really grasp it in one Lifetime. It's an amazing field of study, but despite my credentials saying a concentration in Molecular Biology I honestly had a much greater fascination in Microbiology and the role it has on Human and Plant Health and disease and the correlation between the two via diet.
PS5 lighting up the Burj Khalifa
My 2 year old daughter plays this regularly. She's gotten much better at touching fish on the screen, and is just starting to explore the app a ton beyond that one game.

Thank you! This app is a positive addition to the world.
Nobody’s saying it’s totally invalid. I think you’re reading that into what they’re saying and you’re talking past each other.

The complaint is that students work backwards without understanding why working backwards is different than working forwards. So if they happen to do it correctly (e.g. by using reversible steps), then it’s only success via accident.

Done correctly, and on purpose, with the different care that isn’t required working the other way, yeah it’s legit, but that’s not what’s being complained about.
Since you mention QNAP, an alternative if you're mostly just looking for a NAS then an old computer with TrueNAS (formerly FreeNAS) is a nice alternative.

You don't need more than about 4GB of RAM, however ZFS is quite good at using it for cache so the more the better.

Anyway, whatever you do, don't enable deduplication. You can't simply turn it off and it imposes sever limitations.
I actually always thought it was abandoned since 1994, based on the first episode of the X-Files
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Men_(The_X-Files)
Have to say this is why HN is great. My dad’s been very sick (Parkinson’s) for the last couple of years and we haven’t been able to talk much about his old work on Lisp. Pretty cool to be able to grep for holloway and see snippets of what he was up to a few decades ago. Thanks to whoever put this together and posted.
Twitch has launched its crusade against ads. Going so far to look into all the adblock exploits being posted and patching them by day basis. Twitch is winning as of now. YouTube will do the same.
This is great news! No leap second in 2020. It won't be a second longer than necessary.
Thanks. Honestly, I hadn't thought about open sourcing this.

Your image looks great. Congrats on over 200 stars, too!
Fujitsu, AIST, and Riken Achieve Unparalleled Speed on the MLPerf HPC
This is even worse. Sometimes now you click to get the real URL, and it’s still a god damn AMP page.

I hate AMP with a firey passion.
YouTube premium gets rid of all the ads, unless creators have embedded them in the video.
There is lots of good content for toddlers on YouTube, but it is unwatchable with ads. I watch more myself now all the ads are gone, plus you get youtube music, not as good as spotify but good enough.
> The course was so much about WHAT and never about WHY.

WHY is philosophy/metaphysics.

WHAT is science.
all of that money, plus a thousand times more.
isn't the point that even people who might prefer things about downloaded music want the convenience of being able to upload and stream?
I see gilfoyle on gentoo with dwm and emacs
I had a few professors require LaTeX solutions. After a little practice it was only slower than handwritten answers for some symbol-heavy assignments. So much time was spent comparatively on solving the problems that it was a negligible overhead regardless.
Fair.. I've actually been looking at paid email services lately, thinking that perhaps I would rather pay a reasonably yearly fee to have more guarantees and perhaps a bit more control over my email.
When Microsoft was the dominant OS, they enabled ever-harder-to-ignore auto updates because without them, deployments of their OS could be used to harm other people's systems through remote attack exploits.

Google is also at a scale where they can improve the quality of everyone's web experience with their scale. It' not so much "their job" as "their obligation."
:) Appreciate it. It's more for the novelty factor, idea inspiration, than the use of the napkin. Also what math are you doing? They're $7 for 20 napkins, or $0.35 a napkin.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy increases telomere length, decreases immunosenescence
Definitely some potential confounding variables there...
Oh that's a brilliant idea. Someone should at this point, no?
I don't know if it really factored into rustdoc's design since it was already built when I came to Rust, but when I was part of the team responsible for rustdoc, I did object to suggestions we do this on that basis.

As well as, extending the underlying language (that is, markdown) has to be done really carefully, and so being conservative with how it's done matters. This was a huge part of figuring out the design of intra-doc links in the first place.

(All of this great work is being done by others, and I don't know what their opinion on it really is, so my opinion being -1 doesn't really matter these days.)
Imagine the outcry if they launched paid hosting at the same time as they introduced this new change?
So we now support the idea of user unfriendly software cos it means we use it less and get happier. This is a weird industry to work in.
>but didn't the Beasty Boys get their Cookie Puss audio from Something Awful's crank phone call repository?

Nope. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooky_Puss

Released in 1983
I realise this is an "old thread" now, but I only just got back to it.

FWIW, I've travelled more than most - maybe living in a dozen or so countries in the last 50 years or so.

I started out as a docker's brat in the (at the time) slums of Liverpool, in the north west of England. I was the first kid in our family to ever stay at school past 16 and not just "go and get a job"... Getting to where I am hasn't exactly been a walk in the park, but I've made good choices, and been lucky, in about equal parts.

Regardless of all that, your point is well made - in comparison to others not living in a HCOL area, I'm very well off - I could afford to buy my parents a house for their old age, for example, instead of them renting until they die.

My point, though, was exactly your own. Being (in the words of the article) "a god", is only really the perspective from the outside. From where I sit, I have a middling house in a middling part of the Bay Area. The job is well-paid, but the expenses are still very high - I still budget month-to-month, and I still worry about my kid going to school and all the other concerns that your average family has.

The overall strategy is to build up the financial equity and then leave the area, to retire somewhere cheaper and nicer, of which there are legion. I reckon I've got about 5-8 years left before that's a genuine option, which ties in well with the kid going to college (assuming he does). Then I'm out.
Thank you! I think that is a perfect solution actually to "problem posters".

Maybe HN ain't so bad after all :)
Yup, as the classic saying goes "nine women can't make a baby in one month". There's a minimum time for things even without budget constraints.
If your MBP fans are running all the time, you may want to open it up and see if it's filled with dust and lint.
There's a lot of stuff to be suspicious of with this... A 7 point stencil is 1st order which is not likely to be very useful in the real world. If it was 1st order FVM it might be more useful because at least that is conservative.

I also don't buy that 50% of time is spent setting up the linear equations. They say that that is a conservative estimate; I would say that it's unrealistic - in the CFD code base I work on, it's much much less than that - about 30%, and that's when the linear solver is well parallelised and the equation set up is not.
I wonder if it’s a coincidence that youtube-dl was nearly taken down immediately before Google created a massive incentive for people to bulk migrate data off their platform.
Personally, I've find Discord servers replacing a lot of what I think of as forum conversation and style. It's certainly worse at hosting valuable long term information, but much better at in the moment conversations, and the same level of searching out niche hobbies.
But why!
> I believe his point was that money/wealth is not a good differentiator of sophistication, AND it puts an unnecessary bar to anybody investing in today's opportunities (to your point).

that doesn't mean it's an unreasonable bar. it's sort of like the opposite of "if you owe the bank a million dollars, it's your problem; if you owe the bank a billion dollars, it's their problem". if someone with a million dollars loses a large chunk of it to a bad investment, it's mostly just their problem. if someone with $10k loses a large chunk of it, it may become the (welfare) state's problem. if the state is going to guarantee that basic needs are met at some level, it's not unreasonable to prohibit people from doing risky things that are likely to lead to them drawing on the system. this is the essential tradeoff between freedom and security.
As far as we know, all four large cores at max plus the 4 small is ~20W. Whole chip max power use is 30W including GPU and the ML processor. Ryzen also blows a lot of power on things other than cores but AMD is absolutely the closest to this however. The hard thing for them is that the Big/Little arch is a huge advantage for battery use at idle. I would say the game being played here is that Apple is betting on this to scale all the way up for fast burst but they know that the real advantage is that their cores can also scale much much lower than anything out there. Less about magical performance gains and more about remarkable power use paired with much better power management lessons learned by making smartphones. Qualcomm could do this too if they actually cared about it.
Arecibo radio telescope to be decommissioned after cable failures
I've heard other people had this issue, but I've never seen it and I'm curious what causes it.
Super cool--and very fast! Anyone looking to collaborate on these can easily add Kontxt (https://www.kontxt.io) right on to them and have localized discussions directly on page-parts.
Of the study paper, yes. The parent is criticizing the article submitted here, which does not make that distinction.
I just watch the movie Contact this past weekend. Love that telescope and the movie.
Often node modules need to depend on git to do developer experience things. Having it be available in node with no dependencies is really nice, you don't need to assume anything about the git in the environment your user is using.
It's too cold in Chicago to test

I used to have one of those massive 17" MacBooks (Best keyboard ever), and it used to heat up enough to turn my thighs red. Back then, Apple avoided calling them "laptops," perhaps for this reason.

Then I moved to Chicago, and found it was a wonderful machine for using outside on my balcony in cold weather because it would keep at least half of me toasty. If I started to get chilly, I'd fire up Virtual PC and snuggle in.
Source and more info : https://martin.kleppmann.com/2020/11/18/distributed-systems-...

This recorded series is from Kleppmann's Concurrent and Distributed Systems course which he teaches at University of Cambridge.
In case the name seems familiar, Kleppmann is the author of perhaps HN's favourite book "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" https://www.amazon.com/dp/1449373321
There are some community biology groups:

things like this in the boston area.. They have talks, offer classes, have some equipment and such. BOSlabs in cambridge MA is one such. I'm sure there are lots of others.

https://www.boslab.org/about
I guess if you redefine every feature someone cares about to be a "soft feature" then you are right. Kind of a pointless distinction though. Listing features matters because everyone cares about different features.
Sadly, if you keep going, you might run out of people to do business with.
Jackie Chan's Best Advice
99 on its own is also an example where it breaks down, which is why I stopped at 10, but yes all multiples of 9 in base 10 have digits summing to a multiple of 9.
Edit: as had been pointed out here there is no x86 code generation happening so this doesn't apply.

Yes I have seen claims from people along the lines of 'x86 code has more optimization paths in mainstream compilers for historic and other reasons'. Not sure about that, certainly can't imagine such a significant difference.
Leave it to munificent to explain things clearly. Every time :-)
In my experience Google is now about as bad as their competition was when they broke through: lots of irrelevant cruft on every single search, and not just spam but completely unrelated pages that doesn't contain a single keyword from my search.

DuckDuckGo isn't fabulous either but it is faster to retry in Google from DDG than the other way around so it is my default search engine now.

I wonder: why is it soooo hard - for both DDG and Google to just respect + or "" or the verbatim option in Googles case?

Because an empty set is far more valuable to me than a rich set of irrelevant results?

(Lately it seems I've been assigned to an experiment that has slightly better results and also shows me the context they think are relevant in the results page. That helps immensely, but of course I have no way to get that to stick :-/ )

PS: If anyone wants a billion dollar idea, recreate Google from before the DoubleClick acquisition: contextual ads, relevant results. Because that spot is empty, and given Moores law, the fact that the original PageRank patent has expired and more it should cost a tenth today vs then. Also Google seems to be collapsing under their own weight so there's less chance they manage to catch up.

PPS: I'd pay 10USD a month and accept contextual ads on top of that to get back something like old Google.
Marissa Mayer Makes Contact Again
A good reddit app like Relay or Apollo is a must have for me.
>See upthread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25148403 : people endlessly posting shock and gore to drive away other users. The problem is that bad/unpleasant content also drives people away. And the right have, in many places, made a "f--- your feelings" viewpoint part of their platform.

Free speech rules are not without limitations. Obscenity like gore can be removed without violating free speech. Illegal things like calling for the death of a person can also be removed.

In terms of "f--- your feelings" in many cases that's an acceptable position sometimes.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom's_2_sigma_problem

the average student tutored one-to-one using mastery learning techniques performed two standard deviations better

A tutor can notice gaps. You can't.
I just started a community for developers on a discord server and it seems to be scratching the itch for a lot of people. We can only be found by word of mouth, which has it's pros and cons - fewer members but high quality conversation it seems.

So I think there are communities still out there for people, but like the article said, they can be hard to find/know about. But you're welcome to join mine if you're interested in software dev team chat: https://discord.gg/tpkmwM6c3g
I wish they provided references to all media they used:

- YouTube links
- links to twitter media
- timestamps for all the screenshots
- (best) zip of all media files on archive.org
Yeah, this is 6 years of negligence and incompetence.

Here is an account on the fireworks present in the warehouse:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/07/beirut-explosi...

And yet it looks like things are still bad around Beirut port:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-fire-tyres...

https://amp.dw.com/en/beirut-port-fire/a-54881149
Kubernetes Centric Infrastructure Blueprint
S.2904 – Identifying Outputs of Generative Adversarial Networks Act
why would you want to work under direct sunlight? you can barely see the screen in that condition
Ok, but a minor release of software with a political cause attached is not an on-topic HN submission.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes, corporations can require you to join a union and maybe that is a "corporate mandate."

I'm unsure of the relevance to "freedom of association" as a negative concept, though. You are still free to associate with who you wish, just as corporations are free to not associate with you if you do not join a union.

If we are going to transform a negative right to not join a union into a positive one, there are many other things I'd like to turn into positive rights first.
Tbf China has one that's half a kilometer wide, so there's still hope for progress :)

http://www.hexapolis.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Worlds-L...
Hosting this video requires a lot of storage and bandwidth. I would not be surprised to learn YouTube alone requires $50,000,000 to $75,000,000 in hard drive purchases per year. Sure, they make a lot more than that in advertising, but I imagine every year those hosting and storage costs go up.

Why not implement an option for creators to share some of that load if they want to opt-out of advertisements on their videos? That way, everyone wins. YouTube gets money for the hosting of video, creators keep content ad-free.
Yes, of course it costs more, just as that telescope costs way more than the one I have at home.
I had to suffer with coworkers that would write doctests, bad docs and bad tests together at last!

The solution here is to write real tests and hyperlink them in a marked up form to the functions they actually test. Coding inside of a doc string is an epic troll.

This is a warning to anyone getting seduced by doctests, stay away! They invert the problem, when one should just write tests, it is a problem with the documentation and code discovery tools that makes this seem like a good idea.
Protocol Transparency
- Videos get 15 second unskippable ads

- Videos get 30 second to 3 hour long ads

- Videos have several sets of two ads within the video.
It depends entirely on who you talk to. Urban America is taking this threat seriously and locking down for the winter while rural America thinks it's a hoax. In Virginia, our cities are keeping the curve flattened, while the virus is surging off the charts in our rural communities.

Nothing convinces them. When a loved one dies of asphyxiation, they shrug it off and say that person died of obesity, old age, or a lack of vitamins. We have nurses telling stories of patients struggling to breath, but who still refuse to believe this virus is real and only cease gasping about the "fake news" when they are intubated.

Complicating this is our HIPAA regulations. The media can't show you what's happening inside our hospitals right now. They can only show the refrigeration trucks for bodies and roads closed for oxygen trucks outside the hospitals. So the conspiracy theorists claim these are for show and that the hospitals are actually empty.

With the complete abdication of leadership at the federal level--where some of our officials are openly urging citizens to fight against policies slowing the spread of the virus, we can do nothing but stay inside and hope to ride this out.
Forensic Architecture! Y U NO RSS FEED??
How about Pets.com, eToys, Webvan, Kozmo, and hundreds of others from the dot com days? It's easy to look backwards and cherry pick success or failure. Timing is also very important. Many stocks go no where for years (like MSFT for most of the 2000's)