skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Upping the block size to more than whatever SMR overlaps on the drives works for workflows that don't care about consistent random rewrite performance. Can get 120 MB/s sequential writes on the cheap seagate SMR drives in my big slow pool which is enough for clients on gigabit or less networks.

Although frankly at this point if you care about performance you're on NVME anyway.
If everyone took the bus the car industry would also collapse. But if buses didn't exist people might take the train instead.

You can't just assume that people that don't use your service would be paying customers if a specific alternative wasn't there.
I think it will depend on the political climate of the particular workspace.
re files - you can mount an nfs export in WSL and Windows 10 comes with a opt-in NFS server - or perhaps try samba.

re network - if you mean localhost, that's probably impossible due to WSL2 being a vm unless the folks at MS invent some deep black magic. you should be able to use the LAN interface IP address, though.
> We continue to expand our merchant base around the world. The number of merchants on our platform in North America, Europe, and Latin America has grown approximately 234% since 2019. In particular, the number of merchants on our platform in the United States has grown approximately 268% since 2019. Through our diversified and global merchant base, we are able to offer greater depth and breadth of categories and products. For example, in 2019, four out of the top 10 selling merchants on our platform were located in the United States selling refurbished electronics, beauty products, and hobby items, which illustrates the ongoing diversification of our merchant base and product categories.

This feels like probably more of a symptom that the Chinese merchant base is probably a bigger amount of smaller shops whereas these US shops (who still only take a minority of the top 10, which is a largely useless metric anyway considering it is unlikely that even 10 large merchants make up a small proportion of sales) are probably part of a smaller volume but are more successful simply because there is less US sellers so there is less competition especially in categories like hobby which are harder for China to serve (I mean think about it, could you name a seller on Wish? It doesn't feel like the opportunity is marketed much). Also the 268% non-China growth metric doesn't really mean much without context and while I do think that Wish is probably succeeding in expanding their merchant base I do feel like their dependence on China is a lot larger then they would like to admit, and even under Joe Biden I doubt that world pressure on China will ease any time soon so Wish may have an unstable future ahead.
useless eaters are still getting their paychecks I see
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-value

In this context it means that the probability of getting the result they got, in the assumption that vaccine does not work, is less than 1 in 10000.
Wouldn't just LUKS->ZFS be enough?
Exactly the reason I dipped my toes in Racket, loved it, then went back to Elixir (and Rust). Without a good runtime / libraries to tackle concurrency and parallelism in a transparent way -- as Erlang/Elixir and other BEAM VM languages do -- the other traits of a language take a back seat.
I like Flash as an idea, its just the Adobe Flash Player that everyone had a problem with. It would have received a lot more love if there were alternate implementations available, especially open source ones. It's kind of similar to how you can often find Windows users complaining about "Java" when they mean the annoying Oracle JRE that sneaks into installs and is a security mess. Nobody ever complains about OpenJDK.
So enlighten us: where is that $14 billion and counting coming from?
Interesting for me, I’ve had two drive failures, both in the past year, but otherwise nothing for the past five+ years. Both were data center class drives (Seagate Exios) and died within the first 2 months of purchasing them. I have over 20 consumer grade drives with >50,000hrs of reported power on time, of which 3-4 are >70,000hrs. They constantly see writes, but I’m definitely not pushing max IOPs by no means on a regular basis. I’d say around 1-2% of the time they are under very heavy read/write activity, otherwise just constant appending of data at around 50Mb/sec across the entire RAID pool.
Huh, I've never heard of this but went to the home page and it sells .. junk? Some of the products remind me of those "THIS ONE WEIRD TRICK" ads
HGST remains my preference for "enterprise-y" stuff on home and small business setups. Slightly pricier but if you value your time it pays for itself easily.
Can you pull out the threads on that argument a little? Taken at face value, it's not meaningful. Bridges launch with huge, sometimes catastrophic problems.
The whole notion that you must use AMP to serve static text faster is hysterical.
I've been using the OpenDyslexic font for the last few years and, while I don't believe I'm dyslexic I've found that it does in fact reduce eye strain while sitting in front of a monitor for long periods of time.

https://opendyslexic.org/
It will probably also confer at least some reputation. Or maybe not - that would explain why search results are getting worse with pretty much anything posted by lowly users will have rel="nofollow" these days.
Personally, it’s never really come up. I have no Unicode arrows in my actual source code.

On the occasion it’s in a string literal or whatever the it’s pretty obviously different, because it’s a single-width character as opposed to the double-width ligature.
I believe the Oxford vaccine does require a booster. It’s the J&J that is single shot.
Ah, so you did. My apologies, I misread.
What he means is that you can't expect a mostly French Canadian talent pool to create a work of fiction that isn't at least slightly biased against the English. Everyone has their biases.
What a horribly uniformed and irresponsible comment spreading anti-vaxxer fud without any sources. These vaccines are going through the same standards of testing as all vaccines go through [0]

0. https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/covid-19-vaccine-safety
Neat modelling experiment!

Curious how they chose to categorize flat zero-shading and zero-perspective drawings at essentially a 4th-grade level. Is that what average people draw? I guess yes.

How much harder for a neural network to recognize artistic flamingoes, because they would all be essentially different on paper. It can't grasp the nature of a flamingo from ink and paper? Maybe if it had a true model of a flamingo, and mapped pictures onto that for training...
Show HN: I created a website to query and find info about Show HN projects
Our YC Application Video that got us an interview
Interesting. Any stats/aggregations on numbers per resource type (e.g., 56k for scotus, 36k for D.C. Circuit Court etc)?
Putting aside the deplorable ethics of freeloading in this matter, I think your analysis of the situation is objectively problematical.

It is not plausible that, absent a vaccine or other cure, only a small percentage will contract it. The evidence strongly suggests that a large fraction of the population will end up catching it at some point.

We already have plenty of evidence how that goes, in the chicken-pox outbreaks in the communities that have chosen not vaccinate, presenting a threat both to themselves and others. This virus is known to be much more dangerous.

You seem to weigh your hypothetical problems of a vaccine much more heavily than the actual problems of the virus.
I have them in print still, including the MS-DOS ones (TP), if you don't have them any longer, they are available at bitsavers.
Signed up for the notification when the book is published. I really liked your article about the product minded engineer, and follow your blog. Given the timeline you refer here, I wonder if the project O'Reilly was referring to was Software Engineering at Google[1]. Given the book contents summary on your site, the contents do seem to overlap in some areas, except I don't expect that you're making numerous references to Google in your text :-D

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Software-Engineering-Google-Lessons-P...
a lot of what goes by as 'science' is really just religion with a "this is not religion" facade. (for example all 'science' with a "replication problem").

At the core, both religious people as well as scientific people just want certainty of whatever they believe (also known as 'the truth'). They just go about it in different ways.
Being a coder and not a biologist, I asked a friend who regularly works with drug companies on FDA approval. I asked what the risks could be of a vaccine that was “rushed” through. In his opinion, there was virtually no risk of the vaccine actively causing harm. The biggest risk is giving people a vaccine they think is effective but isn’t and they contract the virus.
That is ingenious! That would get me excited about TypeScript! Dynamic typing, no cumbersome transpilation step, no source mapping, 100% backward compatibility with JavaScript. That would be a dream come true.

We need a way to go back to JS without hurting the egos of TS community. It will require a massive marketing innovation to achieve this.
At one point I stopped caring how they do it. I just want them to do it. We can't all be everywhere at the stack at the same time. We have work to do.
Agree for short term effects, even for young people. Due to the trial size, I think we can be confident that if there are any short-term safety issues with this vaccine they are extremely rare.

1,769 people 25-34 have died of Covid this year. There are 23m people in that age range. .0077% have died. If the vaccine had an adverse effect at a similar rate as covid has killed young people, we'd expect it should have showed in the trials in 1-3 people.
Should we make an index of all forums ?
That guy probably based his experiments/research on a 2005 paper.

https://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1743-42...
I think that as you pedal you shift your weight, also wobble a bit, and any uneven road surfaces can be harvested theoretically by this.

This doesn't create free energy it just captures inefficiencies created by transfer of energy from your muscles to the wheel.

But there is no free cake. This can't work by just sitting still at it :)

Also 30% improvement sounds like a outright lie or marketing PR talk.

Anyhow even if real i dont care about +300$ wheels.
I found it weird that Paris is full of "Black Friday" sales, on every store. Not "Vendredi Noir", or some purely French phrase. The whole thing is adopted lock, stock, and barrel from the Americans. L'Académie must be having conniptions.
I think this is an important comment. Work (and life) doesn't have to be a grind. Grind is surprisingly ineffective.

The number of hours we spend working is arbitrary. It's 8 hours in our world. On another planet it could have been 186 hours. I remind myself of this slightly tongue-in-cheek idea regularly when I'm trying to carve out another 20 minutes of work on the weekend. There is a clear upper limit to how many tasks one can get done in a week. However, the impact of a week's worth of work can be almost limitless. I can spend the entire week frantically answering emails and putting out fires (that often come from the fires I frantically put out last week), or I can dedicate the week to, say, rebuild my website's front page to be clearer and more engaging and taking my daughter camping. I know which week I'll look back on with more satisfaction.

It takes a while to let go of quantity and accept that I don't need (and, indeed, shouldn't) fill every waking hour with work and focus on important outcomes instead, but whenever I've been able to do it, I find it more relaxing and that is has yielded better results.
Hi, Sebastien here, maker of this small webapp!

I created it to find information about people who posted projects here on Show HN, to find their Twitter and GitHub accounts, etc. I needed it for another project, so hopefully it will be useful to other people as well :)

Oh and it is open source, you can find the source code on GitHub: https://github.com/scastiel/showhn-projects
In hindsight- this video looks terrible but I think this highlights the YC Matra that focus on your product and users and everything else should fall into place.

We probably spent 5 hours at max working on the application and the video itself. I look forward to sharing our application too in a separate video post - Anirudh
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Or use PeerTube, which is built on top of torrents but provides a similar experience to a video site.
Ah thanks, I didn't spot that. That's good enough!
> Latinx genderfuild bipocs

I can't help but think there's a field of woke eugenics that uses terms like this completely unironically.
Awesome! Now let's turn it into JARVIS.
There are plenty of people who are willing to risk their own life for controlled infection trials.

The issue is finding professionals and professional institutions willing to risk the lives of others to administer those trials.
In that case it works reasonably well, but how do you represent the difference between `=`, `==` and `===` in javascript. IMO =, == and === is much clearer and more visually distinct than ≔, = and ≡.
Many in this thread are saying there's no need to upload this information to the cloud because the transform can be performed locally on modern hardware, but that puts significant pressure on the business case. A model in the cloud is protected. Stored locally, that same model is potential shareware. If you're seeking to maximize the number of true positive diagnoses, then a viable business with low marginal costs is a better bet than an open, stagnant research model. Further, as others have noted, this information may already be stored widely in other clouds due to patient post-diagnosis search and browsing activity. Thus, adding another surface is only a linear change to the patient's privacy. Put simply, the incremental privacy change to the end user here may be worth it.
I second this. It was already offensive at the time, but now just 10 years later, much of the stuff did age really poorly.

It went 4chan levels really fast, including racism, sexism, sharing of personal information (without consent) incl those of public figures (there was one video of some person licking a dog’s... “thing”)

And it got worse and worse every day. Also note that most of it wasn’t english. It was not an international community, the site was dutch, but that didn’t stop people from joining and posting weird shit in all kinds of languages.
When User is a type of:

Guest | AuthenticatedUser

and isAuthorised is a type guard like:

function isAuthorised(user: User): user is AuthenticatedUser { return user.isLoggedIn /* or whatever */}

as long as doSomethingWithThing accepts just AuthenticatedUser, yes it can be caught. You can also use discriminated unions with implicit type refining from TS without type guards.
I'm not a parent, and certainly not your child's parent, but...

Please help her with that. What's she's asking it basically what I asked of my parents at her age. I did things like run a BBS and write stupid programs, and today I'm a senior software developer with a job that pays quite well. And I still love programming.

While she doesn't technically need it to be creative, doing things that interest you is a huge boost in the creativity and learning departments. She probably won't learn what you or she expects to, and that's even better, IMO.

Of course, I don't know what else you're already doing for her like that, and there's certainly a point where you're just throwing money away at whims. But I just felt the need to put this out there.
Seems like with small wheels or furniture glides you could repurpose this as a decent planing jig, like this one: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YMWALHrfLT0
in my own experience the first 3 of the four noble truths (Buddhist philosophy) are very much onto something...

so I disagree with your statement "all religions only promote complete nonsnese" because of that very specific counter example.
> I have been around people risking their lives in B.A.S.E jumps, scuba diving or aircraft acrobatics.

Those are more risks of a quick end doing something you love, which is much more attractive than a risk of ruining a long life ever after, which being on the wrong end of a failed medical experiment very much is. If we somehow had cultural conventions and processes about controlled opt-out from life then this might be different, but we don't. I don't know how those cultural mechanisms would look and I don't know if they would even be possible without doing more harm than good, but I do know that we clearly don't have them.

But the real issue with challenge trials is that they just don't tell you that much as the trial group would undoubtedly be extremely biased. Basic validation can be done in a dish, in programmerese that's the suite of unit tests, and it can be done well enough to skip from safety tests (that don't involve the virus) right to observed staged deployment. The main thing challenge tests would add is that they would be a big lure for reckless people who try to be faster by skimping on the initial dish tests that are the majority of development (the equivalent of skipping unit tests).
foot stickers do work, i tried one and grow 6 inch, problem is when you remove them you are back to your previous height
Fun-centrism certainly helps if you're making something that (1) targets mainstream audience and (2) takes 50+ hours to finish.
I agree. Too much bloat. Too much using a Technology X hammer when a screwdriver is what's need.

That said, the metric here is too blunt, too broad.

1) We need to call out avoidable bloat. A simple example: too often I'll visit a site where say the full-hero image is full width and full height. The problem is the same 300-500k+ image that's served to desktop is served to mobile. No media queries (if they're using background-image), no sizes and srcset if it's an image tag.

2) It's about expectations. Some site are naturally image heavy (e.g., photography). Within reason, that's acceptable. Some use of lazy load is better than paging, and such.

3) And do we throw the baby out with the bathwater? If a site is slightly bloated but accessible, I think there should be redeeming points for that. That is, you had X or Y amount of resources and you made #a11y a priority, at say the expense of trimming some bloat. I'm okay with that.
Well I did pull the plug for this reason.

It ran for a while without problems. It was just a group of people sharing videos and talking about how their parents sucked (most were teenagers and young adults).

People started sharing offensive material and adult content, so I created a part of the website where they could keep that stuff separate (you had to opt-in, but no login required to opt-in).

Surprisingly that adult section of the website became really popular. First it was porn and liveleak shit, than just random gore, hentai and just weird stuff.

After a while, there was suddenly a lot of international visits. I think some sites linked to us as a source of free adult content without ads. It was just in a few months where it turned really bad suddenly. it was fun/challenging to moderate it for a while (and to increase efficiency to do so) but when letters from lawyers start coming (because people were witchhunting IRL people and sharing personal details like phone numbers and addresses), while people were also posting CP increasingly often, it was time to unplug it
Apparently chemistry. He's practicing as a kind of nutritionist with some strange esoteric views.

It seems the police stormed multiple apartments in that house after being tipped off about illegal drug dealing. This is totally not related at all to COVID or the lockdown and it seems not even specifically targetted at him.
But most text editors don't render ligatures if the characters span token boundaries. Sublime Text at least doesn't.
It's not selling goods for SV people

Basically an Aliexpress clone with cheap chinese stuff
Mithraists, in Norway, 1200 years ago?
What was rushed through? The messaging from my government (not US) has been that approval process rules have not been changed.
you mean Netscape Composer? :)
Attention is cool but not to the level of higher-order cognitive architecture. Further, there are many uses of differentiable programming besides AI
I said "with the exception of J" which was supposed to apply to mean not closed source and not requiring a commercial license (well... outside of Jd).
Thank you! Did not know that this vaccine was simpler than past vaccines.
Words like "cult" or "pagan" were used as derogatory terms to belittle non-christian cultures, much of which do not exist today.

Academia should be thorough in cleaning up the vocabulary, if not out of politeness, at least as a means to avoid bias.

If John Doe's CV read, "Barbarian John Doe" or "Cult leader John Doe" - where objectively neither of them were true. Bias sets in at the very beginning.
>Either you acknowledge the bad and good things, or you white wash the past.

And the way you white wash the past is also very interesting, because it shows the preset-day values of the storyteller.