skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is from the same guy who just got fired "resigned" from the Independant for pushing the bullshit Hunter Biden laptop conspiracy theory. The guy has fallen off his rocker and lost all credibility imo.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/business/media/glenn-gree...

> Mr. Greenwald later posted on Substack what he called “the most recent draft” of the article, which was headlined “The Real Scandal: U.S. Media Uses Falsehoods to Defend Joe Biden From Hunter’s Emails.”
And none of the examples they gave are necessary for a functioning browser.
Some of the criticisms look... odd. In particular, why just Primer-BLAST of all to check the primer sequences?

There are other tools out there for that kind of calculation, and to make sure it weren't an algorithm-specific problem they should also have used others.
I fucking hate Trump, probably more than you can imagine - but this article brings up one of the few things I thought he tried to do right - get us out of wars that we were mired in.

Of course, he did a shitty job because he's an overall incompetent person when it comes to anything besides selling himself, but he did try.

And although I didn't read the whole thing, the parts I did make me realize that I agree with the whole bring it out in the open part as well - if we're hiding that we are supporting evil dictators, most people consider that bad.

Anyway, even with all that, I still hate him with a passion and I may make it my mission in retirement to piss on his grave, literally :) - childish but it would make me feel good.
I don't think the OP was at all suggesting that it's a good system. They were just explaining the current incentive structure.
Work proof does NOT waste energy. Get your facts together. The more energy is in Bitcoin, the stronger is its guarantee of a non-tamperable ledger. Even as it currently stands, China can change the network (I assume). Coordination is not free, rationality 101.
If you're in the US, you are using MMS in 2020.
Show HN: I ported a classic game from Flash to WebGL
This seems to "statically link" binaries in the sense that each program it ships with is a standalone binary. Does anyone know whether it's possible to truly statically link an entire Linux install, in the sense that the whole system is a single statically linked file including the kernel, display manager, web browser, etc so that link-time optimization can deduplicate code across the entire system?
Very cool. I just took a course on graph theory, and immediately though of the Ramsey numbers. Sure enough he made some progress there. What makes the Ramsey numbers fascinating to me is that they are a problem that goes from pen and paper trivial to computer solvable, to completely intractable in only 3 steps. A brute force proof of the R(5,5) case would involve testing 2⁹⁰⁵ (2^905) graphs.
The term “maintenance mode” specifically implies an orderly disablement. I expect anything it applies to to receive some sort of message as to what’s going on if you try to use it.

Unless otherwise specified, I assume that it will be applying to an app, but not to a marketing website—because these are almost always treated as separate things, and shifting the app into maintenance mode doesn’t take down the marketing site (even if it’s on the same infrastructure).

I expect URLs like https://everch.at and https://everch.at/about to be part of a marketing website, because that’s almost always what they are.

What I observe is that the marketing site part (presuming I’m right about it being marketing site—I still haven’t seen the page) seems to all be there and responding fine, loading its unreasonably large megabytes of JavaScript rather than just serving plain sensible HTML, but that it doesn’t actually render anything. There are no JavaScript errors in the console; the only potential hint is that it’s getting a 503 from wss://everchat-server.herokuapp.com. But is that the cause? It’s not at all normal for a marketing site to break if a WebSocket connection fails. What’s it trying to do? I have no idea. So I give up and ask. :-)

If trying to take down the entire thing, I’d hope for all requests to the website to yield a 503 response with some kind of “Everchat got overloaded, be back in a day or two” simple HTML response.
Hi @mtlynch, can you please share Samantha's profile/resume, since you already found a good editor might as well hire her.
Can you provide an example where a smart contract needs unbounded loops or unbounded recursion? Do you really need Turing completeness to begin with?
Thanks for elaborating, the article doesn’t really explain exactly what measures the Indian government did to inflame such a protest but between the communist flags the protestors hold, and what groups comprises the bulk of protestors I had an idea.
You are correct - ZFS hardcodes the assumption that data's location on disk will never change once written very deeply, and offline dedup/data migrating of any sort would require that.

(It would also be a performance nightmare - you'd have a permanent indirection table you'd need to use for _everything_, and if you've ever seen how ZFS dedup performs with its indirection table not on dedicated SSDs, you can understand why this is terrible.)
> Masks worked the same at the beginning of the pandemic as they do now, but the government did have terrible messaging about masks being (potentially) more likely to infect you, and encouraging people not to wear masks.

That is my point. Masks (the same type) always work the same way. It doesn't matter if they are in the beginning or ending of a pandemic. My problem is with people who put science on a pedestal and suppress anyone who disagree. They did the same thing at the beginning of the pandemic. Masks have been used for decades but apparently they were now reserved only for the govt. After the pandemic started taking off this position was flipped. Now you have to use anything you have to cover your mouth. Some of the early infected might have died just because they heard in the TV that masks are not safe.

My frustration is with people who abandon their common sense just because some "experts" on TV told them to. (There were plenty of others who said that masks will work, but they were also attacked by fact checkers who cited these experts on TV.)
Would be cool to get a bit of a "why this matters" intro on repos like this. I clicked through the details, but left wondering if I have any potential use for this. Can I compile this onto a USB stick and use it as a throw-away boot Linux for maintenance tasks? Can I cross-compile this for embedded devices? What is the statically-linked advantage here? Not trying to minimize the effort, I would actually love to see more such things, but felt a bit left out as I couldn't figure out why exactly it exists.
It would be nice to fix the societal issue that ties up people's self-worth, status and sheer survival with their job, but that's a much bigger ask. Now you're into things like universal healthcare, UBI, mental health, education, etc. Still, we should work towards improvements on all fronts.

I think that in today's world, if you want science to get funded like defense projects, you'll have to embrace all of the grossness of defense projects. Lobbyists, sub-contractors, patriotic jingoism, fear, etc. Look at how we got to the moon.
I can't imagine that having good reliability.
That's cool, I hadn't thought of that. But does it identify "hot"/"cold" files that might benefit from being converted automatically to/from the compressed format? That would be a very nice feature to have.
I've seen people dropping macOS and switching to Linux for a development computer. Can't really quantify that.

But it's even more pronounced for gamers about whom Apple doesn't care at all. Linux is no doubt better for development than macOS, but for gaming it's glaringly better.
Additional benefit to moon telescope: No corroding moisture and wind stress to slowly degrade and eventually collapse it under the weight of 6X more gravity.

Downside: Harder to get to if you do need to make repairs.
Most people care about democracy not in the abstract procedural sense but because it tends to produce human rights respecting outcomes. We aren’t obligated to abstractly uphold democracy in the face of a majority holding Nazi symbols. The same logic should apply to other symbols of extreme oppression such as communist paraphernalia.
Ah, yeah, I wasn't trying to shrug off the usefulness of zig, sorry. I think when it comes to compile size zig does it a bit better due to it's smaller std although, when compiling rust with just a link to libc and a printf call I believe you get an exe ~2048b when optimizing for size so I'm not certain how well that scales.

The 100 line hack I used was to noop out the `.idata` section which link.exe refused to merge/shrink, that only saved me 1Kb in the end.

Looking at the section info of the zig exe it looks like there is some black magic going on with it's alignment so I may have to dig deeper to see what zig is doing here. Also thank you both for pointing zig out, I haven't heard of it until now and it may come in handy for something else I'm planning on making :)
Technically it's possible if everything is handled server-side, so I should have acknowledged that, but IMO, it's not practical for most businesses.
> I cannot imagine a mathematics lecturer telling his students "a monad is like a burrito".

Well of course that's fatuous-- a math teacher's job in this case is to explain category theory. It would be professional malpractice for them to use an analogy to justify not teaching category in the interest of teaching practical programming techniques.
> Yeah, but so does cash in the physical world. We shouldn't abolish cash tho.

Cash I understand, it has benefits. Crypto doesn't, it only seems to have drawbacks and facilitate crime.
Agreed, and this one of the worst aspects of our PhD system - graduate students need to have a body of work that is theirs. Even amongst a collaboration, they need to carve out sections that are unquestionably theirs so they can defend a dissertation that is also theirs.

I am now at IBM Research. In my career here, I have experienced multiple working relationships where I feel we were able to accomplish far, far more than at least I know I could have achieved on my own. Maybe they didn't need me, but I know for certain I needed them to be so productive. That this kind of working relationship is disincentivized for graduate students is, to me, tragic.
It seems like you are confusing two pieces of software: There is Baloo, which is the KDE file indexer. And then there is Akonadi, which is the storage service for all PIM related things (so emails, contacts, calendars etc.). If you disabled Baloo in the settings it should not show up as a process anymore and certainly shouldn't be using any system resources.

Akonadi is required for the usage of KMail, KOrganizer and such (because they use it to store their data, so that is rather essential). If you don't use those applications, you can simply remove it with your package manager. Otherwise we'd appreciate a bug report with regards to the high CPU / memory usage on bugs.kde.org. Thank you for using KDE software :)
The incompetence is by design. Austerity programs starve government agencies, or in the case of the US postal service, install administrators who will operate with malicious intent. You see this in schools, municipal water, and in the CDC. Once failing, the money is diverted to more politically advantageous causes or privatized to the enrichment of the regulating politicians.

Conservatives have been playing this game for decades in the US.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CHg0lcLjebp/?igshid=1tpomcztoh3g...
NEVs will be the future. It's only now beginning to take off.
Sure, she has an About page on her website that describes her background and the types of work she specializes in:

https://www.samanthamasonfreelancer.com/about
Obviously, they will official support it for cosmetic purposes of promoting “democracy”. In practice, however, they know it will cause them to lose power, so they won’t vote for it.

Same reason Washington DC residents don’t have representation in the Senate. Or why the popular vote does not matter for the president.
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What
https://www.glimp.co.nz/countries-with-the-fastest-internet-....

> On the global list, the average internet speed in New Zealand put us in 27th place. However, the average internet speed in NZ was 14.7 Mbps, still faster than the Australian average speed of 11.1 Mbps.

The US is 10th on average

When I visited, I had the hardest time finding free WiFi. A place gave me 5mb of data over 1 hour which i had to redeem using a paper based password system. I mean at point, why even bother giving me a hope.
Modi chose politics as career to make money; He doesn't have any credible qualifications/skills other than bigotry/raconteur https://www.modilies.in/

He is proxy to https://archive.is/NcaKE
I had no idea it was your site.
Oh boy if we're doing Zambonis Hockey Monkey songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDxy4xuj01Q
I'm no expert, but I'm stunned that it costs more than $10,000 a year to connect a single computer to a corporate network such that AWS Macs become cost competitive. I've never worked in a big enterprise organization but I just can't wrap my head around the inefficiency required to make that math work.
Once you work with a talented sales, marketing, project manager, QA/Test, tech writer, graphics designer...

It's hard to stomach the wannabes. But I imagine they all think the same of us programmers. Sturgeon's Law takes no prisoners.

> countless positive interactions with customer support reps.

Count me interested. Please share any wisdom.

I've also wondered about fair compensation for CSRs. Early in my career, I did some "sales engineer" tasks, definitely played big (sometimes biggest) role in closing deals, but never got any of the cheddar, which sucked. Mid career, I managed some mature products where most revenue could be attributed to tech supp; our sales driven org had no cheddar for the tech supp dept, which begat a lot of resentment.
There are techniques you can do with ray tracing that can't (efficiently) be done with rasterisation, and as the amount of hardware ray tracing power increases, it will make increasing sense to ditch the extremely complex rendering pipelines we have now and just do (relatively) simple ray tracing.

Eventually desktop GPU drivers will emulate "old" rasterised games on ray tracing hardware.
And I was responding to the thread, not to you specifically.
I was imprecise in my wording. You cannot bring a shared Windows 10 virtual desktop to any provider that is not Microsoft Azure. Azure uses a delivery model based on tech for education customers that allowed 4-5 K-12 students to work from 1 PC via thin clients, and that model is only available on Azure. (And it's really cheap.)

If you do BYOL of Windows 10 on a non-Azure cloud service, you need to meet specific Microsoft EA requirements, and you must run on dedicated hardware. If you look at the AWS BYOL model for Workspaces, it very similar in cost to the Apple on AWS model. (https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/pricing)
Let Should not be Generalised
It's just not scalable for most businesses as you would have to operate cache-less if you truly went javascript-less.
they have phones dude
The equipment has never really been outdated. It's been updated as the telescope has operated, since the antenna itself hasn't needed updating. Computers and software included.

Until this collapse, the management was actually hoping to save all the instrumentation located in the suspended focal point of the dish - it was all useful, and much if it was quite up to date and not easily replaced.

It's unlikely in the present political climate it will be replaced, regardless.
COVID19 was present in the USA as early as mid December 2019
I've maintained mac mini farms and it is both time consuming and expensive. If it were reasonable to setup and maintain Macs for devops, these offerings probably wouldn't exist.
Stimulants to work around depression seems like a recipe for more depression. A high is usually followed by a low, not to mention fucking up your brain long-term.

I would suggest seeking professional mental health help. I'd also suggest meditation and a bit of self discovery. If it wasn't 2020 I'd also suggest travelling, break the pattern find some perspective.

Life is too short, find some help, get to the root of your problem. Life lesson for me that I am still trying to embody is happiness is a choice. It's really true. When I dig deep I realize that I actually like to wallow in unhappiness, it gives me an identity. This is obviously not healthy but realizing that is the first, incredibly difficult step. Shaking myself out of a black hole spiral is so hard. But forcing yourself to go for a walk, see some friends, basically break out of whatever negative thoughts you have an choosing to do something positive is key.

You aren't alone feeling this way. Be kind to yourself.
Libra crypto currency now called Diem
What is bullshit about the laptop story? Where did those pictures come from? It's clearly a smear campaign but it's not a conspiracy.
AFAIK, dirt and feces are rich in cobalamine (vitamine B₁₂), which is otherwise scarcely available in non-animal sources.

Calling it a "disorder" and "largely non-nutritive" seems a bit broad, when it could be satisfying a particular need. Even though eating feces might not be a good idea and more serious examples do seem useless and damaging.
Statistically the best way to max returns is going all in as early as possible, not trickling money in with a DRIP/DCA
Except that the README of this project answers all your questions. A list of distinctive features and a list of project's principles make up half of the README.
If at first you don't succeed boil it in acid
No KYC

Offline account creation

Instantly liquid programmable assets

Programmable banking

Financial censorship resistant

Micro finance

Anyone can use it, it’s surprisingly simple

You could create your own company+shares if you want and they can be instantly available on any market. Ever tried trading a penny stock, or an international stock? It takes forever to open an account at a brokerage where they may or may not allow you to trade certain types of assets, or at certain times. Trades can be reversed and assets confiscated. It’s a million times easier with crypto. Yes it’s a “dark forest” for now (buyer beware) but there are some legitimate platforms like aave and uniswap. Install metamask and check it out! Feels incredibly futuristic to me
Maybe, but I didn't have that formula handy and found it with a couple minutes of googling, so it's not that hard.

In any case, by the time the full transition to PoS is complete, one thing that will be easy for the market to know is that issuance will be substantially lower than BTC, and possibly negative depending on transaction fees.
At a first glance, this book seems to be quite far from the topics in this Wikipedia page, but I might be wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic_programming
What I'm afraid is with the introduction of ARM desktops, there will be subtle bugs which did not manifest on x86. Those bugs are hard to find in old legacy multi-million LoC codebase with lots of spaghetti code nobody bothered to refactor, so those bugs will haunt users for years. That's why I'm reluctant to move to this architecture at least for a few years, even if it's superior in theory.

Thankfully ARM phones were a thing for a lot of time, so many libraries should work well.
Robert Kubica's crash also brought significant improvements in F1 cars safety.
reddit comment threads have upvotes and downvotes, that's sort of an open-ended survey with a voting mechanism.
You don't have to go back that far in time, 'hacks' and bugs in 'smart' contracts happen almost every day. Here's a recent $7M loss: https://cointelegraph.com/news/yield-generating-stablecoin-p... and here's a $89M loss less than a week ago: https://decrypt.co/49657/oracle-exploit-sees-100-million-liq...

It's not even the first time that the 'Compound' smart contract has been 'hacked', but that doesn't stop fools from putting more money into it again.

All these fuck ups are called 'hacks', but actually the code is working exactly as intended, it's just that there are so many ways to write smart contracts incorrectly that it's more than likely they all have hidden bugs, just waiting to be exploited.
Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, a Smaller Bite of Ampere for $400
It may raise eyebrows, but with the current WFH culture, I simply take naps during work time. If I feel tired, then it's in my and my employers' best interest for me to nap since I will be much more productive for the next few hours.

I've tested this also by not sleeping, and my code becomes worse and I need to rewrite a lot of it anyway.

In fairness, I do try to go to bed on time, but my issue is that I sometimes only sleep 5 to 6 hours. My body just won't sleep, so I make up for it during work time.

It is what it is.
Putting multiple Erlang functions into a single C function to avoid using C’s stack sounds awesome but also horrifying.
it's been done before https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29124710/
Home-Office Ergonomics Are Still a Mess–Do Something About It
So basically David Shaw's position was: we need to get children to become fluent in computers, this will be essential in the 21st century, if we don't then a large part of our country will be for all intents and purposes a third world country. But don't expect this to be cheap in the short run. In the long run it will be cheap, because the alternative is a disaster.

Seymour Papert's position was: we need children to spend time with computers, and this is going to be dirt cheap.

The whole debate was not whether or not children need to be exposed to computers, but whether it will be cheap. David Shaw's points were that hardware depreciates faster than Papert's projection (1.5-2 years instead of 5) and that sysadmin costs are much higher than hardware costs (Papert said there's no need for sysadmin, the kids can do it themselves). On both counts I think Shaw was right in 1995.

Where are we 25 years later? All kids are exposed to computers, if anything they have too much screen time. And the sysadmin costs have plummeted; for NYC for example [1], out of a total annual budget for 2020 of $26.9 BN, only $36.6 MM are earmarked as "Prof. Services -Computer Services", or 0.14%.

[1] https://council.nyc.gov/budget/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2...
ZFS without dedup will just run slower with less RAM available for caching, up to a point (I think the lowest I've seen someone run it with ARC configured to use in recent memory is 128 MB? I believe 32 MB or so is the minimum below which OpenZFS will just ignore you if you try to tell it to use less...)

I've seen people use it as a rootfs on RPis, and have personally run it on Pis for brief occasions without encountering any RAM problems.
> For comparison, you can rent an equivalent Mac Mini from MacStadium for $139/month, $1,668/year. Or you can rent their cheapest model for $59/month, $708/year.

> You can also buy the equivalent Mac Mini for $1,899.

Not only that, but MacStadium lets you run multiple VMs on a single Mac at no extra cost. Amazon's offering is seriously underwhelming.

The more I use or learn about MacStadium, the less impressed I am with it (3 layers of virtualisation is overkill in my opinion!), but it beats the hell out of what Amazon has just announced.

The big problem with CI/CD on Mac is that Xcode does not allow you to run builds in parallel, so you need one Mac per build unless you use virtualisation.

To be honest I'm surprised that no one has added namespace/jail support to macOS yet. The XNU kernel is open source so this should be possible. In fact, can someone explain to me why there doesn't seem to be any sort of XNU hacking community?