skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In HopsFS, you can also tag objects with arbitrary metadata (the xattr API), and the JSON objects you tag with are automatically (eventually consistent) replicated to Elastic search. So, you can search the FS namespace with free-text search on elastic. However, the lag is up to 100ms from the MySQL Cluster metadata. See the epipe paper in the blog post for details.
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Not really. The phone is roaming into other networks with different prefixes.
downvotes sometimes mean you were correct and struck a nerve. Its best not to take it too seriously. Often when you're wrong or not 100% right, people will reply and discuss. When you make a good point and get downvoted its probably because people know you're right and don't like it.
All of the reasons you said are correct, but I want to point out that Windows on ARM is also a bad technical product. The Qualcomm SoCs in devices like the Surface Pro X are more efficient than Intel chips, but they are much slower for everyday tasks even on native ARM-compiled code. Emulated x86 code is even worse, as the slow cores are further held back by Microsoft's emulator implementation. Users may like better battery life, but they also despise waiting for their computer.

Apple Silicon does not make any of these tradeoffs. ARM code screams on the M1, and even emulated x86 code runs with comparable performance to the Intel Macbooks. Battery life is better across every workload. To the user, selecting the M1 over the Intel chip is a no-brainer (except for some edge cases like 32GB+ of RAM, where Apple has largely left the older products in place). This is the same playbook that made the PPC -> x86 transition successful as well.
AramCo, Laphams Quarterly, Nautilus, Quanta, New Yorker(on the fence now),National Geographic, Popular Mechanics.

ETA: London review of books, Edge.org before they shuttered(they are back. I didn’t know).
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I read Jacobin everyday.
>I wish there was an easier Gimp, like Paint shop pro 5 easy, because it may be the most powerful tool for image editing yet I've hard a super hard time creating a simple screenshot with a red arrow.

I find Pinta useful for those sorts of tasks. It's open source and supports most platforms.

https://www.pinta-project.com/
Yep. It's cantankerous but gosh darn it, the field lacks something better.
I study WW2, so I'll comment.

WW2 is the name we use today, but there were really about 11 wars total.

1) Britain declared war on Germany as part of their mutual-defence pact with Poland, but after Germany invaded Poland.

2) FYI: Aggressor countries have rarely "declared war" before attacking for almost 2 centuries. Because, you know, element of surprise. So it's normal to be attacked with no declaration of war, but then to declare war on your attacker or in defense of your treaty partners.

Like Pearl Harbor, where the Japanese attacked without declaring war, then the US declared war on Japan, then Germany declared war on the US as part of their treaty with Japan.

The problem that Japan and Germany faced was you don't declare war on an enemy that you can't bomb, and who has 10x more oil than you do. Oops.

So yes, Germany did start WW2.

To be fair to the German people, they were used to monarchy/autocracy. Democracy in the 1930s was not looked upon as an entirely positive thing as it is today in the West. So they were fine going along with whoever the strongman was, similar to Russia and Putin today.

> the harsh treaty of Versailles made to WW2

It actually wasn't harsh compared to previous treaties that favored Germany, although politicians find fig leaves for war convenient, and one can object to any reparations at all.
I certainly agree the classic full page reload approach is still completely relevant. It's more that most websites nowadays will employ a hybrid approach. They need a bit of both. Anything that isn't a static website is going to be using react or some other front end frameworks, and a lot of react involves asynchronous requests with REST APIs.

But most rails resources focus exclusively on the one approach, with very little of the other.
What does "cell regeneration" actually mean? And how does lack of oxigen trigger this process? Isn't it simpler to temporary reduce levels of oxigen if that is what causes the so called regeneration?
The cellular changes sound impressive, but does this translate to actual youthfulness for the person? They left that part out, and it seems relevant.
> When Niko Tinbergen, the Nobel prizewinning ethologist, was asked how human beings differ from animals he responded, “I wish I knew.”

Another way to see this is that other mammals are no different to humans. They spend most of their time caring for their families and going to work. They do their best to seem attractive to potential mates; they love sex and food; and housing is a very important issue for them, particularly in the context of parenthood and education.

What's it like to be a mammal? You already know. If people who dismiss other animals as inferior would only remember that, the world would be a kinder place.
The news must be viewed in light of the lack of development on the rest of X. In that light, it's definitely noteworthy.

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XServer-...
I think we all lose, if we do decide to pay for this entirely through taxing the rich. We (further) lose social trust between the rich and the rest of us, and we (further) lose the sense that we're all in this together, and we encourage ourselves to further think about how we can get those people over there to pay for our stuff over here.

To be clear, yes, please, tax the rich. But do so with a progressive taxation that we all pay into, so we all share the cost to the best of our ability.
Nice.

One issue, though: Highlighting the current page in the menu doesn’t always work. Browsing with an iPhone.
I was gonna ask how it compares with Minio. Minio looks incredibly easy to "deploy" (single executable!) [1]. Looks nice to start hosting files on a single machine if there's no immediate need for the industrial strength features of AWS S3, or even to run locally for development.

1: https://min.io/download
Seems like Mao had some good ideas.
I like the idea, too :) We have it as a project for a Master's student at KTH starting in January.
I've been curious about this lately: https://reimagined.github.io/resolve/.

Anyone use it? Thoughts?
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Print:

Aperture
Mother Jones
New Yorker
Vanity Fair

Digital:

Capitol Hill Seattle blog
New York Times
Talking Points Memo
Not the original poster, but for me, because our political system is broken and we can never seem to do the hard part, so we shouldn't do the part that makes the system worse unless we can do the hard part that makes it better first.
Also given Google's history of sending corrupted version of pages to Firefox useragents.

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7whdv4/googlecom_i...
https://androidforums.com/threads/problems-with-firefox-user...
https://www.ghacks.net/2018/07/25/google-making-youtube-slow...
... and many more
That's not what I meant by a distributed file system. Is the metadata layer of ObjectiveFS distributed - scale-out. Can you add nodes to increase the metadata layer's capacity and throughput, so it can scale to handle millions of ops/sec? That's what I meant by a distributed file system (not just a client server, with a single metadata server).
GIMP gets what I need done and has for more than a decade. I'd love for it to get a Blender-like focus when it comes to funding and developer time.
That's fascinating!

> This type of uncertainty is better addressed using fuzzy measures other than probability (which is only a subset of more general fuzzy theory).

Do you mean that both probability theory and possibility theory are subsumed by fuzzy logic? What about works that integrate fuzzy logic and probability? eg. https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.09156 employs both fuzzy logic and probability; can those be understood in terms of fuzzy logic alone?

> See Klir & Folger for nice discussion on this (I forget the title, but it is called something like Uncertainty in Fuzzy Theory Applications).

Do you mean the 1988 book "Fuzzy Sets, Uncertainty, and Information" by George J. Klir and Tina A. Folger?

If you have any other references on this I would be glad to read!

edit: regarding the my first question, I found this

https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.4953

Fuzzy Logic and Probability
Petr Hajek, Lluis Godo, Francesc Esteva

In this paper we deal with a new approach to probabilistic reasoning in a logical framework. Nearly almost all logics of probability that have been proposed in the literature are based on classical two-valued logic. After making clear the differences between fuzzy logic and probability theory, here we propose a {em fuzzy} logic of probability for which completeness results (in a probabilistic sense) are provided. The main idea behind this approach is that probability values of crisp propositions can be understood as truth-values of some suitable fuzzy propositions associated to the crisp ones. Moreover, suggestions and examples of how to extend the formalism to cope with conditional probabilities and with other uncertainty formalisms are also provided.
I'm no fan of rent control, but your argument doesn't make any sense to me. Who is this landlord that's only charging more for one of their units because the other units are rent controlled? If they could charge more for a unit, why wouldn't they? Can you imagine someone who says to themselves... "I could get someone to pay me $3000 a month for this unit. Thank God that rent controlled tenant moved out of one of my other unit. Now I only have to charge $2500 for this one to make ends meet. I didn't want that extra $500 anyway."

Rent control is bad because over time it screws up supply and demand, and increases the the rent that the market can bear. Not because it gets in the way of the landlords' natural charitable instincts.
I for one find your criticism to be enlightening and valuable. If I may ask you to continue, what qualities do you think are signs of good experiences in print and digital literature?
> I think it's more that the massive engineering effort that's gone into improving JS has leapfrogged it over languages like Python, Ruby & PHP in terms of performance and tooling

This is not true – PHP is still much faster when running on the server than NodeJS.

JS has got much faster in the last 20 years, but in-browser execution has seen most of the speedup (as it's where most of the optimisation is focussed on).
Read trash newspapers, get trash articles. The Sun is objectively neither worse nor better than 20 years ago.
T-mobile also requires that you match your forward and reverse DNS and run a webserver with a posting address on the domain in order to whitelist your mail server.
1) instead we've had empty hospitals and a lot of non-COVID patients didn't get various treatments which they would have gotten overwise. Plus economic hit to the hospitals, and that most probably will have impact on the future patients. Hardly a win, if any.

2) Would be a win if it is so. I haven't yet formed even a barely informed opinion. It looks like a new development though, and I don't remember such thing mentioned about other viruses.

3) which is why i put the numbers only up to a year ahead as any mass vaccination doesn't seem happening earlier than that.
Nice!

I haven't followed redo in years. Has there been a solution to the multiple-output-file problem?

Does your version pass the apenwarr/redo test suite (at least where it makes sense?).
Explanation: I believe copyright law is harmful to human creativity and should be repealed.
I have two apps in the Store built with SwiftUI, one ported from UIKit and the other started from scratch in SwiftUI. I’ve been “all in” since it’s announcement in 2019, despite suffering through it’s growing pains. I really wish the framework was opened up or at least distributed separately to OS updates, watching how open and quick the Android team are with Jetpack Compose really shows the different approaches to library development and Apple’s feels really outdated.
I’m mid-30s, working for a finance megacorp and we have a few production codebases older than me. Some observations:

* Sadly, as others have said, these are proprietary internal systems and members of the public won’t ever be able to see them.

* Although the codebases have ancient lineage, the code doesn’t stay static and has been extended and patched over the years, and sometimes transplanted wholesale to a different technology using automated tools (e.g. mainframe to .NET, although that particular one was an unmitigated disaster for maintainability).

* Ancient code usually persists in production for reasons unrelated to its technical qualities, and usually in spite of them. For example, an insurance company managing a closed book of pensions has very few compelling reasons to change its technology because the product it supports doesn’t change, and regulatory changes can be handled by tweaks and auxiliary reporting systems.

* Having said that, ancient code was usually written with a great deal more discipline than modern code, and I believe this stems from the division of labor between Programmer and Analyst, which no longer exists. By having two people involved in every part of the system, you had all the benefits of rubber ducking, peer-review, documentation, and the simple act of talking to another human about what you are doing.

* Ancient systems tend to be very rigorously tested for functionality that directly supports business activity. Ancillary functionality such as management information reports, less so. These systems change infrequently enough that the major defects have all been flushed out and fixed, over the years. There is very little feature churn, which does wonders for stability.

* The code at the heart of these systems usually wasn’t designed with a modern threat model in terms of security. Security is often bolted-on by isolating these systems behind other systems, and they get a lot of mileage out of obscurity too.

* The code is often the least interesting thing about ancient systems anyway. Few are performing rocket science tasks - they are usually just doing batch data processing and green screens. More interesting is the ecosystem of infrastructure, interfaces, job schedules, copybooks and data models, resilience features, and documentation. These are the things that make the system really work. Lines of COBOL are usually unilluminating.
Definitely not an impossible situation. Could even be a regular situation given a flaky DNS provider and a sufficient volume of requests.
Doesn't the water in our bodies tear through everything when it turns to ice?
Another way to look at it:

Microsoft forced PC buyers to use their software by making deals with OEMs to preinstall it on every PC, hiding the cost of the software from the consumer. Most consumers did not purchase a PC with no software installed, and then purchase a license to Windows separately; the software and license came with the computer.

There are probably more similarities between Apple and Microsoft than there are differences, however tempting it may be to focus on the differences.

People love to criticise the RPi. It has its flaws and shortcomings. Nevertheless, it is a rare example of a computer that does not come with an "OS" preinstalled. Buyers can choose from a variety of OS and make their own bootable SD cards.
I wonder why? I would expect that it is possible technically just that "the powers that be" made a policy decision not to allow it.

If it were possible would you use the BIOS?
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Didn't 'Knox' mess that up for newer phones? Anyways, couple of Samsung A/J series phones does seem to work well with PostmarketOS but unfortunately display brightness cannot be adjusted making it a hard choice.
It’s bizarre that they didn’t just apply this as a universal tax of miles driven for all vehicles.

But the dollar amount sounds about right, so my objection is simply “charge the base miles tax to all vehicles and multiply it by the number of tyres on the car”, or set it by “axle weight ^ 4” as top comment notes, or whatever.

They can repurpose the gasoline tax as a carbon emissions tax, set to market rates for the carbon credit cost of a tank of gasoline, since we can generally estimate that within enough accuracy for a carbon tax.

Still, at least it’s progress towards rational behavior towards vehicles!
London Review of Books - which I receive print copies of.

The New Yorker - which I read on a kindle.

Domus - which I receive print copies of.

If I had to pick one journalistic endeavor to support it would be the New Yorker.
This is a little bit premature of me to posit however I have a good feeling about tech like Blazor.

In particular Blazor offers two interesting approaches (“hosting models”):

1) a websocket-based HTML sync layer, basically shipping over the smallest amounts of render state from the back-end. This is as close as you get to having, essentially, a server-side rendered page that is then updated in real time.

2) a wasm based approach where the whole application is delivered to the browser and you make the API calls.

Both have you writing majority of the code in C# and Razor templating syntax. Yes, you make an argument that well it’s technically still JS running it. But this becomes an implementation detail that will be ironed out, because technically the browser is written in C++, but we look beyond all that. And so on and so forth.

Now, I’m not saying I expect the world to move to .NET. Far from it. I have been preaching for a language agnostic browser execution engine so that I can write not only my logic, but my layout and styling in whatever language I want to, whether it’s Ruby or F# or Lisp, and have the browser execute it via its own internal “assembly code”. Except I’ve been parroting this idea since mid-2000s and we have at last finally started down that road.

I think this is where we are headed, and I don’t think it’s far fetched.
At least 25 years ago or more, there was a saying something like that you knew a text editor had gone too far/lost its way when you could send email from it.

Times have changed?
I believe this has been around for a while, and it reminds me:

- https://opalrb.com/

- http://voltframework.com/

I was very excited about what voltrb can become. Quick intro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbFtIt7-ge8
This is a failure of the market.

Since builders do not want to build, then the State needs to provide leadership, take control, establish eminent domain, and send in the army, to build government backed buildings. Then rent these out to people that need them, at affordable rates.

The sacred market, is ultimately what is killing the quality of life in California.
I used Rails for a lot of projects starting ~10 years ago, but slowly gravitated towards a stack based on Sinatra (for a lean REST API), Middleman (static site generator), and webpack/react/etc - for mostly the reasons you describe.

In hindsight, I can't blame Rails for the direction it took; JavaScript's path (the language itself, as well as the tools) has been extremely volatile in that time. Rails is opinionated, which is part of what makes it great, but to be more opinionated on JS in the past probably would have been detrimental to the Rails community. I've felt the pain in my own work: every 2 weeks, it feels like my webpack/react/babel/etc toolchain and codebase need to be refactored because what was recently best-practice is now considered "legacy" and unsupported. When you embrace a specific set of technologies, you take on a certain amount of risk that those technologies will be deprecated, unsupported, or unpopular tomorrow.

I believe (hope is probably the better word) the JS landscape is getting more mature and stable, and it makes sense that the recent versions of Rails have incorporated more of what has become "standard" JS tooling. I'll always love Ruby, and even if I don't use Rails at the moment, I appreciate what Rails is doing and I directly benefit from the contributions of the Rails community.

More recently, I've been trying to learn some Elixir (those Phoenix LiveView demos look amazing), but not sure I'm ready to jump in 100%. Looks like matestack is essentially doing something similar with Ruby, so I'll be interested to see where it goes.
Googling "dependency cutting" does not find me any informative pages about this. Is there another term? Or do you have a link to a page where I can read about this?
Yup, he's overdoing it a bit there. But on the other hand, one could argue that many implementations of the idea of an MVP end up being like a single tire.

Does that mean that the MVP idea is flawed? No. But if the interpretations of the idea end up in flawed end results, it's time to look for new ideas that are easier to understand, even if it's through juxtaposition.
Oh these are great :) You can orientate yourself based on the big loop in the middle, which is the citric acid/krebs cycle - an important intermediate in cellular respiration to produce energy. The long pathway leading into the loop from the left of the poster is glycolysis, which produces a small amount of energy in the form of ATP and creates pyruvate which is then fed into the citrate cycle.

I can't figure out where the electron transport chain is however, but I suspect it is part of the stuff inside the citrate cycle loop.

If you want a clickable, but slower loading, version of this you could try KEGG: https://www.genome.jp/kegg-bin/show_pathway?map01100
I was hoping this would bring a dead weight ipad mini back to life, but was very sad to not see it on the support list. Great project either way!
Couldn’t this be simplified to 3-4 sentences? Why so much ink spilled?
> What point are you trying to make?

One can advocate for terrible things by comparing them to even worse things. That doesn't make it ok to violate people's rights, it just means we can find even worse examples in history. Here we have an example of a democracy violating people's rights. Someone said government nowadays is unaccountable. I suggested that government has always been largely unaccountable. Someone said I was cynical and that democracy was good because that allows us to wrest control back from the elites. I suggested (in the form of a question) that the people in a democracy are just as capable of violating our rights as the elites. Someone else pointed out that's better than a warlord. I observed that the warlord is also better than what he replaced. Certainly we can agree that violating people's rights is bad, and just like we came up with something better than a warlord, we ought to be able to come up with something better than a democracy.

> One thing can be better than another, even if that other thing is better than something else.

We can keep coming up with better things.
Ask HN: I am learning the flute. Journey better than the destination
I suck. I am learning an Indian bamboo wind instrument called Bansuri. I practiced for two hours today.

And I had this epiphany. Because I am actually somewhat drunk after the two hours of really slow progress.(I have small hands and I can’t reach the holes..I have never enjoyed washing dishes by hand in hot water as I did today..because it does help to stretch the fingers!)

I realized that when I finally perfect technique, it’s going to be really boring. I am not going to enjoy #winning like when I am a struggling student vs when i attain musical perfection.

Any musicians here who can relate and tell their stories have my gratitude because I am literally in a state of drunken elation when a small voice is asking me why I am happy when I am struggling. Cheers! What is this strange power that music has over us?
I really hope iframes aren’t the “right” way to do just about anything.