skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>To be a Trump supporter in December 2020 is be ignorant or to be a traitor,

Geez Louise.

>Most Trump supporters are just ignorant

A little under 50% of the population supports Trump. All of them are ignorant? Uh huh.

> but Scott Adams is no isolated fool, so unfortunately his continued support for Trump is, yes, willfully seditious.

Geez Louise.

>but when you have someone openly attempting to retroactively cancel an election after he lost,

Let me fix that for you to add some context: "but when you have someone OPENLY AND LEGALLY attempting to retroactively cancel an election after he lost".

Trump is going through the court system. He has a right to do that. Do you want to live in a country where candidates are not allowed to challenge election results in court?? Really really? So far outcomes of the lawsuits resulted in some votes that were missed to be counted (like the flash cards in Georgia), some re-counts that resulted in Biden getting a bigger voter-share, and a number of lawsuits being thrown out. Seems like the system is working as intended. WHAT'S THE PROBLEM?
ExoMars completes parachute test ahead of 2022 launch
Yup.

Something perhaps more helpful but so far unmentioned (and somewhat OS-specific) is that statically linked executables usually fork & exec (especially exec) much faster than dynamically linked ones. This difference is usually only like 50..150 us vs 500..3000 us but can multiply up over thousands of files.

This only matters on the first run of `rga`, of course. While the dispatched-to decoder is likely mostly out of one's linking control, this overhead can be saved for the dispatcher, at least. So, I would suggest `rga-preproc` should have a static linking option/suggestion, at least on Linux.

Of course, this overhead may also fall below the noise of PDF/ebook/etc. parsing, but maybe not the decompression of small files in some dark horse format. :-)
VictoriaMetrics CTO here.

These tests are great, because they spotted a few minor bugs in our PromQL implementation and these bugs were fixed quickly. See https://victoriametrics.github.io/CHANGELOG.html .

The majority of failed tests for VictoriaMetrics cannot be "fixed" due to deliberate choice made when designing MetricsQL: to rethink and to fix the most annoying and confusing parts of PromQL, while providing drop-in PromQL replacement for the majority of practical cases. See more details at https://victoriametrics.github.io/MetricsQL.html .
For a primer on materialized views, and one of the key rationales for Materialize's existence, there's no better presentation than Martin Kleppman's "Turning the Database Inside-Out" (2015). (At my company it's required viewing for engineers across our stack, because every data structure is a materialized view no matter where on frontend or backend that data structure lives.)

https://www.confluent.io/blog/turning-the-database-inside-ou...

Confluent is building an incredible business helping companies to build these types of systems on top of Kafka, Samza, and architectural principles originally developed at LinkedIn, but more along the lines of "if you'd like this query to be answered, or this recommender system to be deployed for every user, we can reliably code a data pipeline to do so at LinkedIn scale" than "you can run this query right away against our OLAP warehouse without knowing about distributed systems." (If it's more nuanced than this please correct me!)

On the other hand, Materialize could allow businesses to realize this architecture, with its vast benefits to millisecond-scale data freshness and analytical flexibility, simply by writing SQL queries as if it was a traditional system. As its capabilities expand beyond parity with SQL (though I agree that's absolutely the best place for them to start and optimize), there are tremendous wins here that could power the next generation of real-time systems.

EDIT: some clarifications and additional examples
I would like a more unified notation for the concept of "inverse". But I have no good suggestions for how to implement that. However, I have some bad suggestions just to illustrate what I mean:

INV(*) x, instead of 1/x

INV(+) x, instead of -x

INV(f) x, instead of f^{-1}(x)

The last one should really be (INV(°) f) x = f^{-1}(x), where ° denotes function composition as the group operator. But involving this operator in the notation would probably be overkill in most circumstances.
I am hoping they didn't put the racist mRNA in the vaccine. As a minority, I don't want to become White.
We have a HomePod in the kitchen and its (in my experience) pretty flawless. I empty the milk and I just say 'Hey Siri add milk to the groceries list' and she says 'Ok, added to your groceries list'. If I mumble or stutter things can go off the rails. Also inline editing of my statements causes problems (like where you start saying one word and realizing its the wrong word and swapping it mid-sentence)
There's been an argument that was made all throughout the Trump administration that there were honorable people in that administration who stayed on instead of quitting because they sought to minimize the damage that Trump did.

Well, now's their chance to prove that they were sincere by saving what they can of these records.
I still don‘t know how to start play youtube music using siri on an iPhone. I also couldn‘t figure out play music . It‘s truly badly integrated.
> "I'm no frontend dev but I know a thing or two about HTML + there's no built-in way to input text into a box"

hahaha, nice one (continued)
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Before, you only needed domain experts. Nobody thought they could do more complex things w/o education. Now, knowledge is google/wiki shallow even in simpler domains. I've seen "experts" who really did not invest in depth and before they couldn't even try because it was obscured enough that you had to actually work to find it. It scares me to think how much engineers or doctors may be just googling around because Material Thermodynamics/Vascular course got split up into electives because the domain wouldn't fit into a semester anymore.

Chip engineers tell me they used to actually understand what was going on and could converse about any part of the chip. They understood a lot about the fab process. Software people knew a lot about the chip. Now, no one has the big picture. Scale this up to airplanes, civil construction, large embedded systems, power grids... people may know their domain if lucky but the integration of complex projects is filled with gaps people don't know how to bridge - they don't even know where the gaps are.

It's not brand new - no known engineer/software person grok'd speculative execution exploits for the two decades it was possible. Now, kernel people know a lot more about chip pipelines and cache architectures because they got bit.
Can someone explain to me the economics/ technology of Starlink and why it beats out traditional geosynchronous internet providers? Is it that owning your own cheap launch platform makes launching lots of satellites instead of one big one feasible? Is it some new antenna miniaturization technology? If that were the case, I would think this would have been invented by one of the myriad existing players in the space. Why is this apparently revolutionary progress in internet satellite technologies coming out of nowhere from a company (SpaceX) that has nothing to do with connectivity or satellites?
In a previous job, we used to joke about having a life sized cardboard cutout of the lead engineer left in the head end. Things would not be working "nominally" to the point we needed help. As soon as the engineer would walk in, the erratic behavior would stop. We joked that the equipment only behaved that way when he was not in the room. We wanted to test the theory to see if the equipment knew him or would be fooled by the cutout. You know, for science. Nobody was vested enough to actually pay to have it done though.
wait actually? my sense is that react is leading
Google acquires data management specialist Actifio
Top White House staff are widely reported to use WhatsApp, Telegram, and other private, non-archivable communications methods. This is illegal[0], of course, but as Congress has abdicated jurisdiction over the Office of the Executive they are not facing consequences.

[0] https://www.co-equal.org/guide-to-congressional-oversight/co...
For reference https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
To first approximation, it's not the M1 at all. In terms of silicon area, Apple ships iPhones, with a few other products mixed in. But mostly they just make iPhones.
Much of the discussion here centers upon "race" and its use in the headline and in the medical literature. A better term might be "genetic variation" as it has less baggage than "race".

What is significant is genetic variation tends to be geographically distributed. https://www-nature-com.stanford.idm.oclc.org/articles/ng1435. Making a universally effective vaccine needs to start off with a geographically diverse sample of both the virus and the population to be vaccinated.
The United Kingdom is made up of the island of Great Britain and a part of the island of Ireland (Northern Ireland). It also includes many other smaller islands

You're probably thinking of Great Britain by itself, which is the island containing the main parts of the countries of Scotland, England, and Wales.
Founder here :) Feel free to ask me anything.
Agreed, they even completely fabricated stories about Assange in the past.

https://theintercept.com/2019/01/02/five-weeks-after-the-gua...
I am currently reading Unix - A history and a Memoir by Brian Kernigham. I disliked the first couple of pages (describing Bell Labs), but after that it has been gold. The people behind Unix were great, intelligent and most important funny as hell. You live the pranks they did to each other, specially Peter's face everywhere.
Google Drive Has Quietly Become One of the Best Backup Options Around (2019)
For mlocate you can edit /etc/updatedb.conf to specify what to index. One trick I use is "locate -Ai" that lets you search for multiple patterns and makes it case insensitive. So you can use "locate -Ai linux .pdf" to search for all pdf files related to Linux.

Also for gnome there is tracker which does search and indexing built into the system. I think by default its set for minimal use but it can be configured by the settings/search panel to index many locations. I haven't played with is much recently though.
"OK Google" is the biggest problem I find with Google Home and Google Assistant so far.
Things like "Alexa" and "Siri" are short and seem more practical. When I say "Ok Google", I feel like doing a mouth-exercise. And multiply this extra effort over the number of times you need to apply it in a single session. It is a pain.

Why didn't Google ever change it?!
I don't think it's so black and white: the "security tool" is a chrome extension for sending notices to employees about the site they are visiting.

An analogous situation seems like if the company had a big cork board for safety/security messages and someone posted a paper with that sentence on it next to something the company posted that was perceived as anti-union.

It's unclear to me if that other scenario is protected or not: I understand that you're legally protected when posting notices informing your peers of certain rights on company property, but presumably you couldn't stick such notices just anywhere.
Being from Europe and having spent the last 6 years in the US I feel this is way more accentuated here.

I always thought the fact of putting your life in true risk because of your financial situation could be one of the reasons (lack of public health). And this extends to
public education, retirement plans, ... which forces people to the competition.

Just an opinion based on my personal experience though
https://github.com/aws/aws-proton-public-roadmap/issues/1

Not disagreeing with you, just posting information I've come across, they plan to support 3rd party tools including terraform and jenkins, how is unclear.
See this comment that explains the kind of config Kathryn changed:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25279578
Airbnb Could Surpass Booking.com
While every outcome is equally likely, one can say that, a-priori, the odds of an easily described outcome is small. This is formalized in Algorithmic Information Theory [1] [2].

For instance, when flipping a coin 100 times, the odds of the outcome being describable by a 40-bit program in a predetermined language are only 1 in 2^60.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_information_theory

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmically_random_sequenc...
I just tried "a half hour" and "half an hour" and it does understand that. So that might be an option if you don't want to wait an extra minute.
3D transistors so cubic milimeter might be better?
You can also say "Set a timer for four minutes".
Recombinant factor c (rFc) which is mentioned in the article is that synthetic alternative. I have no doubt that it will eventually replace horseshoe crab blood for the LAL test, but it takes time for these things to be approved. You need to be absolutely certain that this test works or you will kill people. We need more data to be sure everything is kosher and it's reasonable to be ultra conservative when you have a working method.

There is another method which is arguably worse than bleeding horseshoe crabs that also works. (the rabbit pyrogen test) So even if the entire horseshoe crab population died tomorrow we could still manage to keep everything working without our hands being forced.
What complexity science says about what makes a winning team (2020)
Unfortunately, most of them were ferreted out and fired when they committed the error of breaking kayfabe by questioning or contradicting the President in public.

The ones who remain do not have career track records that suggest they are the kind of honorable people who would save a document from the fire.
DoorDash's IPO Just Makes Uber and Airbnb Look Better
Ask HN: Did all P2P projects die?
I was looking around on Github a little bit, and could not help but notice that almost all peer-to-peer projects seemed to have been discontinued for at least 5 years. Did all P2P projects die?
In a studio apartment with no blocked lines of sight?
If you want to keep the amount of dead people to a minimum, then it makes sense to first vaccinate those who are most likely to die.

HN-ians like to model stuff, and i get that. To do it properly we need to know how many "young"(active ppl) there are, how many old with lung problems, the rates of propagation in and between those, and probably other stuff. But the goal is to keep the deaths down, and my opinion is that by far the smartest way is to first vaccinate the vulnerable people and those who deal with them directly (nurses, etc.). There's also a lot of points about practicality. For example; If i get infected not much happens (i'd just have to isolate myself, even with heavier symptoms). But if my mother gets those severe symptoms she would need to go to the hospital, if she would live at all.

Even if the math says it's better to vaccinate the young ones first, i'd still argue that it's overall safer to vaccinate the vulnerable ones first.
Approximate area of virgin old-growth forest in contiguous US in 1620/1850/1920
Can it (or any tool) perform proximity searches on scanned PDFs? E.g word1 within 20 words of word2, on scanned PDFs? (I think this is non trivial but very useful.)
By your logic, an employee should be protected if they decided to add a political statement to the homepage of google.com? No?
SMPP sort of fills the need for a standard way to send SMS between carriers. Although you still need to know which carrier to send it to, and have a working connection to them.

I think HD voice calls can't be made over SS7? So to the extent that carriers interconnect for those (which isn't a lot, but it's more than zero), that's a parallel system too.
I don't even bother trying to use any sort of voice commands while in a car unless I'm stopped and the radio is off. Road noise makes voice recognition an impossible task.
Isn't randomness a property of the distribution and not of any number in particular?
No, I'm throwing out the one that is impossible to do.
Thanks for sharing. This post makes a lot of sense, and I think it jives more closely with the original (How to Escape the Modern Rat Race) post when it comes to finding meaning or purpose in life.
Preservation of materials regardless of admin is paramount to democracy.
I also never have issues and, based on the replies, I'm wondering if the Homepod is the difference. It seems like people using the Homepod as a hub have better luck than those just using their phones.
As a Google employee, I really don't want to be saying "Ok, Google" in my home all the time. It's totally possible for me to go to work in a subway that has Google ads, waste time on my Pixel, work at the Google office for eight hours, waste time on my Pixel, walk past the same ads on the way home, watch YouTube videos and do Google searches about random topics, and ask Google to set an alarm before I go to sleep. It's too much. :)
When Families Un-Adopt a Child (2018)
This article is not about escaping the rat race but about winning it. Reinvesting and having long-term goals is just the best strategy to make the most. It's kind of doubling down on the rat race.

The status game is actually a valid strategy since, unlike developers, most people don't live in a merit-based society. Strong people associate with strong people. So whoever needs resources also has to appear strong. For non-developers, it's pitch day every day.

The easiest way to escape the rat race is to keep racing. Not to win, but to race.
>> More Americans have died from COVID in the last 9 months than the Americans who died in WWI, and we've surpassed the American South's Civil War deaths, and are approaching how many died fighting for the North, too.

> One death is one too many, but we recovered from the civil war which was 600k+ deaths with a 31m population at the time.

> Covid isn't the end of the world. We can recover. The world has been through far, far worse. Stop being a fucking doomsday prophet.

Let's have a nuclear war, then. Sure it will cause massive death and destruction, but we don't have to worry about that because the Black Death shows we'll eventually recover [1].

Massive tragedies from that past don't free us from having to worry about similarly-sized tragedies in the present, but those acknowledged tragedies can help us acknowledge the scope of the current tragedy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death: "The Black Death ... is estimated to have killed 30% to 60% of Europe's population.... it took until 1500 for the European population to regain the levels of 1300."
I wonder if you could have:
a) song called Recursion on Spotify that has lyrics of "Ok Google, play Recursion on Play Music"
b) a song with the same title but lyrics "Ok Google, play Recursion on spotify" on Play Music (or whatever it's called now).
MoneyGuru, What Is It?
The Nightmare of Voskhod 2 (2005)
My issue is that I found out the special incantations two years ago, and then they changed (I presume) something about the core language processing logic, and now none of that works.

For example I have Philips Hue lights behind the TV/Screen on my living room wall, and I use their "color loop" behind the screen when watching movies etc. The problem is that "TV", "Television" and "Screen" are semi-protected words, so "turn off tv lights" ends up with the TV being turned off 9/10 times. "We" compromised and those lights are now called "screen wall" lights

As for setting certain lights to "the color loop", what used to be a 90% success rate (the other 10% turning my lights to "the color blue/bloo(p)") will now set the lights of the room I'm currently in to the color loop, which is usually the living room, not the screen wall. Also as recently as this summer I used to be able to set the whole house to "the color loop" this feature recently disappeared. The color loop slowly and nearly imperceptibly fades the colors from red to green to blue etc over several minutes. It's technically part of "hue labs" but it's a "beta feature" that's been available in the product now for over three years so I would argue it is core functionality at this point.
Certainly we prefer the best article on a story to be the linked URL, but whether two threads are dupes is a separate issue: it depends on whether they're discussing the same story, which was the case here.

I've added the NPR article to the list at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25269374. In the future we want to create a better way to group related URLs into the same submission, so hopefully someday there will be a better answer.
I think children are probably at least as smart as adults, but are missing assumed context on almost everything. Maybe the same is the real problem with smart assistance?
Do they prevent the cars and other cargo from falling out when they move the sawed-off part of the ship away, and if so, how?
Not sure if it was the medium of television that causes these problems. I remember reading Ben Franklin's biography a while ago. He was in the printing / newspaper business and what struck me was how polarized it was. Lots of hit pieces with absolutely no evidence, and papers heavily biased in one direction or another (a la Fox News).
Unit [ https://unitworkers.com/about ] is interested in helping establish small, locally-run unions.
Depends if you're running it 24/7 and what your power generation is.
Yeah we would wish that the mods sucked our crucks by any haphazardly generated comment. Such is the hacker news.

Such is life. On Tracker, Danger, News.
Reminds me of this voice command skecth I've watched recently (careful, loud): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n-GAd33jew
Especially, since the problem wasn't the voice command in your case.
Ikigai seems to be embodied in the "iyashi-kei", "slice-of-life" genre of Japanese manga and anime. From older titles like Azumanga and YKK (Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou), to Aria / Aqua, K-On, and even series with a bit more activity like the wonderful Mushishi (recommended to anyone without exception).
>Starlink will never() directly compete with most of the in-ground Internet providers.

It only has to compete with in-ground Internet providers that don't provide internet in-ground. There are a lot of them.

StarLink will do for the Internet what satellite dishes did for TV and radio in many, many parts of the world that only had access to government controlled broadcasts. Satellite dishes allowed these people to have access to other cultures and become aware of things their governments were hiding from them.

The reason I say StarLink is underrated is that SpaceX is a U.S. company providing internet from space. Pretty hard for a government body, or a government, to control this. Even if they try, there definitely will be a black market for the receivers and people will get them where they need them. There will be customs agent who will take a bribe from someone importing them illegally.

That's without even addressing the fact that some governments spy on their citizens and arrest them. Granted, nothing guarantees that a StarLink customer won't have U.S. intelligence deep packet inspect the heck of their traffic, but the bigger threat for these people is their own government, and serious jail time for nothing. The lesser of two evils will play a role in adoption.
> high-quality alternatives

any examples?
Anyone know what their 30-day users looks like? It seems like a lot of people created accounts to try it, and this is growing, but it doesn't tell us anything about churn.
It's a Chrome extension deployed to Chrome browsers on Google-corporate machines. So when they visit certain Internet sites, they see messages Google wants to remind employees while they are on those sites.