skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's written in Markdeep, which is pretty cool stuff:

https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/

Essentially markdown plus ASCII graphics, and it can "resolve" itself into HTML by adding a little JS footer to the end (AFAIK it's also possible to convert to HTML offline, like a conventional static site generator).
It's not about romanticism. It's about the fact that almost all value is extracted by Google and Facebook, that the web doesn't inspire a younger generation, that reviews are gamed, that even politicians, authorities, and public broadcasters post on proprietary message boards to feed polarized masses, that
there's an industry employing extortionate practices (blackout shops and restaurants not willing to pay from public presence through network effects), aggregators taking undue money for payment services, musicians having to go to "platforms" where they get screwed, citizens and pupils needing to kiss the ring of an ad company to access information, monopolies taking over web and IP infrastructure and standardization to create enormous craptastic media formats to make it impossible to create browsers from scratch, ever again. Hell, even F/OSS developers have been brainwashed to bring all their traffic to github and create fscking webapps.

The web was supposed to work like http://person/thing but turned into http://thing/person. We didn't need that; that was exactly what we had before.

When was the last time you went to a new website? Listen to new music?

The web isn't dying; it's dead already. The only question is if we can eventually come up with a truly recommendable way to author and distribute text and other media digitally that'll serve us as well as books.
There's a saying that fission is like playing a mini-golf course where you have a flat surface peppered with holes, and every time you hit a hole you get ~2 new balls. Fusion is like a mini-golf course which is a volcano mountain with a tiny hole on the top.
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> How do you figure this? Is the US approach courageous?

Cowardly is too strong for what I meant to say and I take it back. I meant it in an 'avoiding fighting' sort of way, choosing to not stand up and fight for one's rights, or choosing to give in so as to avoid confrontation, and in direct contrast to Americans seeming to fight over everything to the bitter end, with laywers, wars, refusals to comply, etc. Now that I read the definition, it was far too negatively connotated.
It's a funny coincidence, but I also happened to hire Samantha at around the same time (her rates have gone way up since then!) and she was just a dream to work with. I learned so much about writing from her and worked with her until I started dating the former senior editor of The Walrus, which is like Canada's New Yorker.

If you have the budget, she'll build up a style guide with you that is tuned to your little specific preferences. Mostly little Canadianisms, decisions on when to hyphenate, or points about tone.

It was an absolute dream to work with her.
So who's actually going to make this happen ?
Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus. (Françoise Sagan)
Attempting to use zfs for the root partition is a huge headache because the software lives in the supplementary `filesystems` repo. https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/filesystems/zfs

1. It often happens that the main repo offers a new kernel, but the corresponding module is not ready on obs yet. This means upgrading to the latest rolling release cannot just happen at any time, but requires careful planning. This is a big inconvenience.

2. In the past dracut sometimes just failed to pick up the module for the initrd, causing a boot failure at the next system start. I could not figure out why, however this never happened with the first class supported ext/xfs.

3. The distro's boot/rescue media do not contain the driver. This means a third-party boot medium is required to go into a broken system, and repairing it when chroot is involved is now much more complicated because of the different distro.
Nebulo is arguably better than Blokada.

Besides, some of their practices like redirecting every blocklist through their own mirror (blokada.org/mirror) and in some cases through their URL shortener (go.blokada.org), makes me think they're not really as private as they claim to be.

Also, Blokada leaks DNS connections over TCP and doesn't let you set your own DoH resolver.

None of these are problems with Nebulo which is also recommended by https://PrivacyTools.io/providers/dns/ over Blokada.

https://git.frostnerd.com/PublicAndroidApps/smokescreen

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.frostnerd....
I think this concept is pretty similar what Peter Thiel suggested at Zero To One

“Like acting, sales works best when hidden. This explains why almost everyone whose job involves distribution— whether they're in sales, marketing, or advertising— has a job title that has nothing to do with those things. People who sell advertising are called 'account executives.' People who sell customers work in 'business development.' People who sell companies are 'investment bankers.' And people who sell themselves are called 'politicians.' There's a reason for these redescriptions: none of us wants to be reminded when we're being sold.”
This is perhaps one of my biggest downside surprises about university.

Although there were plenty of fun people to hang out with, there were very few people who had a seriousness about getting work done, along with a collaborative instinct. Maybe I was unlucky, but I'd thought that an Oxbridge college would yield a few people who could keep me focussed on the academics. And yes, in another world I would have brought the motivation myself, but like many people, I am influenced by my environment.

If you've ever coded with someone you click with, you might have had this experience of generating way more useful code than 2x people working on their own, or what one person could do in 2x the time.
Of course he didn't force anyone, he didn't even consult them. He did it himself.
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I didn't say all rich people are unhappy, I said not all poor people are unhappy and not all rich people are happy.
I completely agree. There should be motivating problems and examples. But I don't think that's at odds with Dijkstra's viewpoint?
Originally all software was free, it just wasn't called that because there was no closed software. It was shared like cooking recipes.
Tried timers of almost all types and platforms before finally found Forest. Their gamification works great for me!
Yes, the very same paper.

> Although results of an observational study, such as this one, need to be interpreted with caution, as done by the authors [1], due to the potential of residual confounding or reverse causality (i.e., vitamin D insufficiency resulting from poor health status at baseline rather than vice versa),

You need a control group with vitamin D deficiency but no other health issues to prove the hypothesis. They are just stating there's a correlation worth looking into.
Really postmodernist take on mail-order brides.
This is a fairly blatant advertisement from Wärtsilä. It clearly states that their goal was to find renewables to be the best option, minimizes the continued reliance on fossil fuels in their plan, and fudges the cost by assuming everything has the same 20 year lifetime.
Sick = good
Doesn't matter what you call yourself or what's in your title. It matters what you do and what others call you.
The closest in the next few months is the new Zen 3 based APUs that AMD is announcing at CES which is in Mid January. Zen 3 is reasonably competitive with the M1 on a per core basis. Not quite the single thread perf, but pretty competitive on multicore throughput.

As a rough estimate I'd expect the AMD chips to be within 10-20%, and you'll be able to run Windows or Linux on them.
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Historically yes, but not so with the Zen3.
Have you considered something like Discourse[0] for this usecase, or are you looking for something more minimal? I'm trying to understand the usecase better.

[0]: https://www.discourse.org/
It’s important to focus on the pleasure of practicing and honing a craft. I don’t think either of these guys are doing this for notoriety. They’re doing it because they love math.
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Technically no, but the word has come to mean something different. Because even bare metal instances come under the same APIs, security, architecture and usage model as the other "real" VMs, the difference is very slim now. We can think of them as VMs of a specific size with a minimum billing time and get on with using them with our existing tooling.
I will admit I may not have kept up to date.

Did they also restore the opening and endings, and use the latest Stockfish?
I'm not at all down on New Zealand. I love it here and always have. I think you've misunderstood my humor. I consider myself a New Zealander. It was self-deprecating.
Some times I feel inferior while reading such stories, they are of almost the same age as me. Even though I am very well placed in my career sometimes it just stings :(
The importance and value of lock-free programming is massively overrated.

I routinely improve performance and also reliability of systems by deleting lock-free queues. The secret to both is reduced coupling, which lock-free methods do nothing to help with. Atomic operations invoke hardware mechanisms that, at base, are hardly different from locks. While they won't deadlock by themselves, they are so hard to get right that failures equally as bad as deadlocking are hard to avoid.

So, replace threads with separate processes that communicate via ring buffers, and batch work to make interaction less frequent. With interaction infrequent enough, time spent synchronizing, when you actually do it, becomes negligible.
Maybe. JITs and runtimes in general might add some "overhead" code that does book-keeping and verifies assumptions (to rollback conditional optimistic optimizations). Maybe wider engines allow running this overhead without impacting actual runtime.

It probably also help hide the cost of type checks and bound checks.
I think you could actually argue that it does; it just solved a problem in a relatively short amount of time (iirc the folding@home project has been crunching numbers for over a decade and barely got close), and it doesn't occupy 'real' space since it lives on various computers - it could occupy a whole datacenter, or be contained to a single chip, either way it's in a scale that humans themselves can never exist at.
I can't help wondering when this will be ported to Go. Doesn't performance matter in such a sophisticated technology?
This does sound absurd, how would people react if a car manufacturer would try to raise arbitrary limitations against car rental businesses?
I love the author's bio:
> put the 's' in https at Facebook
"What Apple did here is create a monopoly for MacStadium, at least in the near future"

I don't see what the bit I left off ("at least in the near future") changes.

There's nothing structural that favors MacStadium over other businesses with the same model.
It was for me too !

I ended up doing a lot more maths than writing code, so it wasn't that good of a project.
This remotely reminds me of European PSD2 - it was also meant to turn banks into utilities, but in the end even web-scraping the online banking was recognised as "providing an API", thus seriously limiting its real world use.

Otherwise this digital dollar is nothing more than a cheap marketing trick to counter the rise of crypto.
> Like I've never searched my texts for something that is more than a few weeks old.

I have. In fact, over time I have searched my texts at least a dozen times for stuff that happened years ago. It might be links/references that I'm looking for or answers to questions like "When did Paul and I go to X?" and "When exactly did I meet Sara?" in which case Paul and Sara often don't remember the answer, either. Also, I have a dozen or so friends & acquaintances that I only get in touch with about once a year (mostly because they're living on the other end of the world) and, in this case, knowing what we last chatted about is a tremendous help in picking up the conversation where we left off. (Suddenly I magically "remember" that they told me they had started a new job.)
Like in any trade, I'm sure that the best are great at what they do, but I suspect I'm not alone in finding that the vast majority of my interactions have not been with a good sales person (and maybe by your definition not with good orgs either).

I've never been told that I might be better off going elsewhere. Many times I've been told that whatever problem I describe, they can handle it, or my problem isn't what I think it is and they can handle it. I feel like short term incentivisation tends to promote dishonesty - most organisations don't seem to have feedback mechanisms to deal with a poor sales process.

And like most trades, I'm sure the answer is to take it more seriously, train better, invest more in the people, etc. But the reality is for most sales jobs, as a former colleague once told me, you're never more than 2 missed targets away from being let go.
How does it do with intrinsically disordered proteins? Those are some of the more interesting ones and very hard to xray.
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There are a few of those as well, see https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/ux_research_design/
Authentication between microservices using Kubernetes identities
Yeah, but both labs burn hundreds of millions of dollars. Without Google/Microsoft (not to mention Tesla/YC money), they would have died before bringing these kind of results to market.
You can do everything you might do in Rust equally as easily in C++.

The compiler won't hold your hand, so much, but if you wrap the semantics in a library, and use the library, you get the same reliability from it.

(This is an unpopular observation in certain places.)
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Well yes, but... if they crack the nut of how to make an economical fusion reactor work, I'd be happy to pay them to be the monopoly supplier of REBCO tape until the patent runs out.

And to be honest, if they demonstrate the reactor to work, I'm sure others will figure out ways to produce REBCO without violating the patent, or would outright give the patent the finger.
Hadn't really considered something like a forum TBH. We just want a place where people can come and give us feedback on our product, potentially in private so other teams can't see what they're saying. People often expose things they're working on or at the very least their way of working to us and that's not something they necessarily want open to the public.

Slack is free which is really appealing. But it is a barrier for some people because they don't want to open another slack workspace (slack fatigue).

We also integrate to Discord and like that a lot so that's one option for us for sure.
How about being the only way to even build an application for 50% of the U.S. mobile market?
There is no 100%. Proteins are flexible. Curious how this deals with that even more fiendishly difficult fact.
I like the concept, here is my feedback:

* Moving around is clumsy. If I'm in a channel, it's hard to know how to get back out or to the previous menus without hitting the back button.

* I tried to upload a gif and it just hung without responding. Not sure if the gif ever went through but I eventually got bored of waiting. If it was working - maybe a progress bar on uploading?

* Obviously spam is already a problem. The popular communities list, and the new communities list, are just people mashing their keyboards to create test communities.

* Channel title length needs to be limited. (See the channels with huge names that are ruining the "New Channels" page)

* How does "No censorship" work in terms of malicious content, spam, pornography, etc? If it works like it sounds, I'm not sure I'd like to browse it. Do I really want to see gifs of animals being tortured, shocksite images, etc. People self-promoting and trying to sell things - if people used it wouldn't this be a huge part of the content?

* How would you fall on the subreddits that reddit banned - e.g. jailbail, fatpeoplehate, racist groups? Communities that are not quite illegal, but clearly toxic. Doesn't it seem like by enabling such people to get together and coordinate you are helping to promote toxic behavior?

* The website became non-responsive for me at least once and I had to kill the tab. Looks like it was waiting on firebasestorage googleapis. A better failure mode let me know something had gone wrong, or load as much as possible, without just crashing the tab.
I mean, you can predict somewhat how headphones will sound based on a FR graph.
Virtualization means virtualization. Nobody's changed the definition of a VM.
There's a "blade" chassis in there somewhere. Something that takes a big stack of macbook air logic boards...
Have you ever taken a psychedelic before? Sounds like a pretty similar experience (which makes sense since they're all serotonergic).
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Yes. In particular for a long time x86 had much cheaper memory barriers than the competition. Not only store release and load acquires were free, but sequentially consistent barriers were also fairly cheap. Intel had to add optimizations to make them fast much earlier, while weaker RISCs could get away with expensive barriers for much longer.

Now apparently M1 has very cheap atomics and barriers, to it is doing as much tracking and speculation as an x86 CPU. But probably they can get away with tracking fewer memory operations, which might improve both performance and power usage.
I appreciate this tremendous 3.5B subsidy that Google brought to basic ML research and R&D.

There is barely any multinational that has the freedom Google had of planning to spend 3.5B with no ROI. Their shareholders would sue and vote the managers out.
The progress looks like fun and Starcraft 2 games, until it doesn't.

Hope this one gets into management books about innovations.
I would definitely be interested in such a guide. I have to say that i my experience with blogging left me very confused.

One of my best blog posts, on which I dedicated >4 months in research,writing and editing has been read by less than 300 people.
In cotrast, a post I wrote off-handedly during a flight back from a conference and didn't even bother to edit was read by more than 10k people in a short time and was tweeted and generated a nice amount of traction.
Linux distributions released in last 10 years or so come with pulseaudio, which does exactly that out of the box. No need for any configuring.
This seems like an absolutely bizarre take on the situation. You don't really think Apple added those EULA terms for MacStadium now right? They were clearly added for AWS! MacStadium just happens to be happy that there's crystal-clear red lines.

These rules are 100% down to Apple, absolutely nothing to do with AWS and MacStadium in terms of decision-making.

Apple don't want the perceived value of their machines to become lower, want to make sure there's no possibility of performance issues due to multiple tenancy, and want to make sure this doesn't become a way for people to have a personal Mac without having a Mac.

Maybe in another year or two, assuming nothing came out of this which Apple didn't like, they might loosen the rules slightly.
That is about the same (or better) level of scruples as nuke advocates invariably exercise. In some places it is the only way to get a fair hearing.

The US federal govt just granted $1.4B to an Oregon company to build nukes for a site in Idaho. That $1.4B could build a hell of a lot of solar and energy storage that would work immediately.
They should do four work days and then a whole day of pointless zoom calls.

Oh wait that’s basically the normal arrangement isn’t it
Children can, and, according to the CDC, should get vaccinations during lockdowns.

"CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommend every child continues to receive routine vaccinations during the COVID-19 outbreak." [0]

Personally, I'm hoping vaccinations against COVID are what ends the pandemic.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/parents/visit/vaccination-durin....
I dont think it was only the presence of other people. The local band was simply better then music on tv which I completely forgot.
Out of curiosity what would you have done with them? They'd otherwise be destroyed and they're an inevitable result of the process. Do you oppose IVF?
It seems reasonable when you consider that 10x is revenue not profit.
Yeah IIRC Woocommerce creates a new "Order" record, copying the shipping address from your account if you have one saved or using the one manually inputted at checkout. It makes sense that the account email doesn't update shipping email, generally companies will try to keep payment/purchase/shipping stuff in a "frozen" state or at least something where edits or logged, so in the case of issues, they can see what the user entered initially.

Same practice goes with credit cards, a charge confirmation (like something that would be generated after a stripe charge.succeeded webhook) stored in DB wouldn't be retroactively updated to new last-4-digits if the user switches the card saved in their account.
I have also found scientists to be very tolerant. But I was not talking about the scientists, I was talking about the platforms where scientists talk. Science magazines (like this one), social media and (more broadly) the internet. More often than not the ones doing the censorship are not scientists. They are usually employees and these so called fact checkers. It doesn't matter how good your argument is when a fact checker can declare your argument false based on a pedantic mistake. The rest will see the fact check and just accept it. Or in some cases they will simply delete it.

Also, how does one become anti-science in your opinion? Does questioning contradictory orders now means anti-science? Like how masks didn't work at the start of the pandemic but now even a kerchief will work? Millions of people protesting in the streets don't spread coronavirus but ten people indoors is a hotspot? I don't know about you but my teachers taught me questioning everything is an integral part of science.
XFS is one of the only filesystems I've suffered serious catastrophic dataloss with. The other one is of course Btrfs which was and is the worst of the lot.

What was worrying was that the XFS dataloss was due an action totally out of our hands: a power outage at a substation which took out a whole area of the city. The whole datacentre lost power, and the XFS filesystems on some massive storage arrays were completely hosed. Just from power loss. It took days to put it all back from tape backups. XFS has long been known to have problems with unclean shutdowns, but total loss from a power outage is about as bad as it gets.
> One is over paid, the other under paid. If companies just created a sales team from their highest performing customer support reps and didn’t give them quotas or bonuses I think the model would still work as well from a revenue perspective

Overpaid in commissions from finding new business? Sounds like a happy SaaS.
Not to mention that, if he had done 10-15x the lethal dose of acid, wouldn't he be dead?
>He has done enough work as an undergraduate to get a faculty position

what a reward - academia job!
So trump wasn't entirely wrong about disinfecting the inside?