skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who said it was guaranteed to be zero-copy?

The original article said that the data must be copied based on some bogus handwavy argument, and I’ve pointed out that the manpage of write(2) contradicts this when it says the following:

>File I/O is done directly to/from user-space buffers.
I bet you never tried to write large scale Makefiles across several OSes, even POSIX ones.
For me it's Dell's Xps Laptops.
My colleagues and I have some and they are always broken.
We got replacements for the screen, fans (so many broken fans...), motherboard, docking Station, battery (swelled),... Don't by it!
>Is it safe to live there?

As someone who has lived here my entire life I'm not sure how the next month is going to unfold.

Historically though the United States has crime issues, a few of the most dangerous cities in the world (not in a war zone) are in the US (St. Louis, Baltimore, Detroit).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_murder_rate

https://apnews.com/article/homicide-st-louis-coronavirus-pan...
You probably can't get a VISA. Trump really turned the screws to the # of available ones, only 85K H1B last year (200,000 people applied). Might want to wait a year for Biden to fix that.
I made https://hope.embit.ca to pay tribute to all our frontline workers. Half-baked as done in an afternoon and then not spent any time on it.
Custom resources are really "operators" and there are some really great operators, and there are some not so great ones. Notably OpenShift 4 is implemented as operators on top of K8s, so there is a lot you can do with them.
One man's "just did his constitutional duty" is another man's "completed a stolen, fraudulent election".

I'm in the first camp, but the fact that an entire news/social media ecosystem is promoting the latter interpretation is a problem I have no idea how to solve.
That's what some of the protesters were screaming. It started trending when people pointed this fact, not as a support for it, but because people were freaking out and started to document/discuss it.
Cop Killer is a great tune though
It is easier in tropical countries like Colombia, where “cold” is basically “warm”. In colder (northern) countries, I tried this but it is very hard because “cold water” (i.e., non heated) is way too cold (like minus temperatures).
I'm glad they halted that. But it reduces the common area we can even discuss anything going on this week in politics.

Taking a step back...

We've got these two sides. Regardless of the merits, each side believes they know the truth, and that the other side is delusional. And it is easy enough to engage with your media outlets of choice, and get your beliefs reinforced.

How can we have a meaningful discussion as a nation, when there is no apparent common ground? No set of agreed-upon facts?

Now I of course have my own very strong opinions and I'm sure I have a good comprehension of the truth. But that isn't going to convince anyone on the other side anymore. To people on one side, the other side's minds appear to be just poisoned.

A common tactic to try to get through to the other side is to just yell louder. But that isn't working.

What's left? What can be done?
They were armed.
In case anyone else has trouble: turns out this was a Bitwarden auto-fill problem (thanks for dropping by on Discord to figure it out).

Will get this one fixed ASAP.
Just googling for RCT, I found one convincing example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5025014/
It's definitely not obvious that appeasement leads to better outcomes.
Do it. You never know where it will lead. For example I started screwing around with C a few months ago and now I playing with microcontrollers and cameras because of that.
If you're 104 and takes long walks everyday that's the more extreme element rather than cold showers. But sure a great morning routine with the adrenaline boost from cold water might give you the edge to actually take that morning walk.
"It does argue that 1984 misses the internal instability of totalitarianisms like Stalinism, which besame evident after 1984 was written."

Instability compared to what? Stalin's USSR survived major natural disasters and wars, expanded its territory and the leader died in office. Multiple democracies in contemporary Europe were destroyed from the same influences. Only UK, Sweden and Switzerland could be said to be at least as stable as Stalinist USSR.

I despise and hate Stalin, but his regime was fairly stable compared to contemporaries.
This was not an attempted coup.

This was IRL shitposting.

The cops murdered a woman. A couple more people died of natural causes from the excitement during the event. A cop died from a pulmonary condition afterwords.

If you engage in this sort of rhetoric, you are fanning the flames. Please stop. It's not helping. You don't want things to get worse because I'm not sure you can conceive of how bad things can actually get.

Let's all just let off the gas and tap the brakes.
You have pushed your body to do something it wasn't designed to do, and over time, you broke it. It's very hard to get back.

You could have chosen another profession, but perhaps you'd have trouble with your knees then.

I had perfect vision for years, but a few years ago, things started to get blurry. Now I have to stop working after some hours because I just can't see the screen anymore, which would have been unthinkable a few years back. It feels pretty absurd having to stop just because you can't physically see anymore what you're doing.

I also do strength training and distance running – also to fight bad effects from prolonged computer use – which I guess keeps me pretty fit and healthy, but again, some part of the body might not be so happy and break down due to exercise.

As an adult, one's surprisingly left mostly to one's own devices when it comes to long-term holistic health. Most things beyond medical or mental emergencies are a lot harder to figure out, with a lot of fads, quacks and charlatans along the way.
https://github.com/maxvfischer/Arthur
An AI art installation I built from scratch using a GAN network, Samsung The Frame, a button and a PIR-sensor (including, code, images and tutorial). The main draft is almost done, but quite some polishing to do.

https://github.com/maxvfischer/shibusa
An automatic Zen Garden drawing infinite patterns in sand. Using stepper motors, inverse kinematics and a Raspberry Pi Zero W (including, code, images and tutorial). I'm almost done building the robot, but still have quite some implementation to do. Also, the guide is far from done, I've mostly uploaded images so far.

https://github.com/maxvfischer/DIY-arcade
A full-size Arcade Machine I built from scratch (including, code, images and tutorial). I don't know where you draw the life of "half baked". It's done, but there's a lot of improvements that can be done.
Heh, you should drop him an email and compare notes! :)
It's the same old extremist playbook that's been in operation in American politics since at least 2001. You're either with us or against us, no room for debate, our way or the highway, literal saint or literal demon. Then turn around and claim that your opponents don't want to hear you out or compromise, because to you compromise means getting everything you want.
> is it safe to live there?

This varies a lot depending on where you live, your skin color and your socioeconomic status.
Not yet, that's a great idea. Thanks!
My price tracker for AliWatcher: https://aliwatcher.com/
Full of bugs, prices are not updated nearly enough, but decided to put it live anyway while I start working on it
> Out of interest, how would you design a page that caters for both tastes?

I wouldn't!

The great thing about design is that Designers can often do research to make the best decision for everyone.

This Wikipedia article is a good starting point if you want to read into how line lengths are chosen. [1]

You might wonder why Wikipedia itself is then using a unlimited line width. And the answer is: they're changing it [2]

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

[2]: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/09/23/wikipedia-is-getting-a...
Darn those non-hackers who don’t work on non-trivial things! :)
They killed a police officer.
Video of the crowd at the Capitol chanting "Hang Mike Pence", which was a trivial Google search away.

https://twitter.com/ExportedFromMI/status/134776388564682752...

Reuters photographer eyewitness confirming it was a common refrain and discussed openly.

https://twitter.com/jimbourg/status/1347559078831284227

Myriad videos from the day too of people shouting things like "WHERE'S PENCE?", sometimes at capitol police.
That's really neat! What is the hardware set up - how does it interface with the camera?
Is the aim to have this production ready as an alternative to ELK/Splunk? Or is it more of a tool for local development?
Business-friendly government and regulations, very developed logistics and infrastructure.
I mean net neutrality prevents the ISP one from being an issue, which means making the hosting provider should be the end of that.

The payment infrastructure doesn't really have a good solution. Visa/MasterCard are famously quite puritan, most sex workers (e.g. OnlyFans, porn actors) get paid in direct deposit (form the websites) and are paid (by clients) using bank details (not cards, nor in most cases paypal like processors, it's one reason Patreon toned down the sex work they allowed). So yes, one would have to do that, create your own bank and stuff. But banks, like Tier 1 networks, seem to generally "peer" with anyone, but I am not clear if that's a requirement of legislation or not.
I don't think you have the hardware necessary to train it. I think it trained using 256 GPUs for two weeks.
It sounds like your problem is a certain outcome dependency. A better mindset is to learn things out of curiosity. You could level your criticism at learning anything that doesn’t help you in the cubicle tomorrow.
Cracks in US nuclear command and control
Amazon Co-founder Mackenzie quietly gave over $4B to 384 organizations in 2020
Apparently Orwell entered the public domain in Australia 20 years ago. I've been meaning to read some of this.

http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty-n-z.html#orwell
> I expect similar quotes in here about how it’s totally normal for glass to shatter within 2 minutes of delivery.

So.. remind me why it’s a problem if people don’t care about panel gaps but do care about windows shattering? How exactly is that inconsistent?
https://github.com/mkmik/zerozone

> Zero Conf public domain registrar

Currently implemented using IPFS, but I plan rewriting it in top of another half baked project if mine:

https://github.com/mkmik/udig

> public-key addressed TCP tunnel broker
UChicago scientists create first computational model of SARS-Cov2
I don't know what to say to people who want someone else killed...
So far the funniest bug with cmake I've fixed was when we were accidentally setting a variable with name '0' to a value '1'. Later on, in other module, we were checking if some other variable was equal to '0' which was interpreted by cmake as a variable reference so the actual check was with '1'.
I live in San Diego too. I'm also from the Midwest/South where there are rednecks that are Democrats. The term doesn't mean what you think it means (at least based on how the author used it and how you continue to contextualize it).

I've also paid attention to the doxxing that's been going on in r/SanDiego and most (if not all) of these people live in the city and are business owners. They are hardly definitional rednecks.
>I think it’s fine to lump those people together as domestic terrorists.

You can do that, but after many people in power and including in this site supported BLM riots earlier this year this rings hollow. It's clear most people don't care about violence being a limit given that violence was used tremendously throughout the entire year in all those protests and supporting them was the trendy position among the elites, that now suddenly decided violence must be opposed at all costs and those who support it must be terrorists. Give me a break.

Call it for what it is, when one side uses violence it's good, when the other uses it it's bad, because this is a battle, and in a battle all that matters is punishing your enemies and rewarding your friends. I'm glad that this is becoming more and more clear as time passes and all pretense of principles is being dropped, and anyone with any sense can see that this is true.
> Enough of these political posts on HN.

You are under no obligation to view or comment on posts that are not of interest to you. Should you care very strongly against a submission or comment, you can always flag them.
Probably decades of technical and operational manufacturing know-how that has been in decline in the US, plus killer supplier networks.
Hey everyone, as promised yesterday, I went and snuggled my pup and got some sleep. Here is a web extension implementing a dark mode stylesheet for HN: https://github.com/eyelidlessness/HNDarkMode

I don't have a developer account for any of the web extension distribution sites/apps, but the source is available and everyone is welcome to use it (or just the CSS file if your browser/setup supports custom CSS).
11 Tops photonic convolutional accelerator for optical neural networks – Nature
> Is it a liability issue?

Yes, it's a criminal liability issue.

> Section 230?

Section 230 provides immunity from certain civil liability. It doesn't provide any immunity from criminal liability, such as that for providing “any property, tangible or intangible, or service [...] except medicine or religious materials” while “knowing [...] that they are to be used in preparation for, or in carrying out, a violation of” any of a wide variety of federal criminal statutes, several of which would apply to events like the Capitol attack or the follow-on already being planned on social media, “or in preparation for, or in carrying out, the concealment of an escape from the commission of any such violation, or attempts or conspires to do such an act” under 18 USC Sec 2339A (“Providing material support to terrorists”.)

This creates a positive obligation to act on knowledge of the organization of such acts on your platform, that Section 230 cam’t immunize against.
"There's a confusion about China. The popular conception is that companies come to China because of low labor cost. I'm not sure what part of China they go to, but the truth is China stopped being the low-labor-cost country many years ago. And that is not the reason to come to China from a supply point of view. The reason is because of the skill, and the quantity of skill in one location and the type of skill it is...The products we do require really advanced tooling, and the precision that you have to have, the tooling and working with the materials that we do are state of the art. And the tooling skill is very deep here. In the U.S., you could have a meeting of tooling engineers and I'm not sure we could fill the room. In China, you could fill multiple football fields..."

- Tim Cook, Apple: https://www.inc.com/glenn-leibowitz/apple-ceo-tim-cook-this-...
Welcome to identity politics!

There is "us", and there is "them". If you are not a part of "us" then you are an enemy. Some of the most dangerous enemies are people who previously appeared to be part of "us", but have now betrayed our cause.
Insights Through Atomic Simulation – PNNL
It was a rhetorical question. These countries where pushing for all these pesticide bans without identifying safer alternatives. Perhaps instead of banning it, maybe limited use for specific cases while promoting the research of alternatives.
https://ytemail.com/

I like e-mails, and I was pretty sad when YouTube removed the e-mail notifications for channel uploads, so I decided to build my own. It's pretty unpolished, but it has the MVP (sends e-mails, opt-in per channel and very basic billing management).

This is my first ever project that takes any payments and I have only one paying customer so far, but I don't really expect to make any money out of it. Feedback will be highly welcomed at contact@domainname.
I think what played a bigger role in stopping them from doing a lot worse was their targets had been evacuated, and when they tried to break into more secure areas one of them got shot. And sure, the truth is that a lot of people there weren't very bright and things got out of hand. But even the people taking selfies and souvenirs whilst the considerably-less-harmless guys in military fatigues carrying flex cuffs looked for Pence didn't fear punishment for their actions. You could tell that by the way they gave their names and itemised the crimes they'd committed to media outlets they supposed were sympathetic or livestreamed the whole thing.

Sure, a huge mob of people trying to get into a building not explicitly designed to be a fortress isn't easy to stop, and with the limited resources available evacuation was probably the right move, but what we actually saw on video in front of the Capitol was a line of about six police and a movable fence, and open doors. I've seen more convincing looking security at music festivals. You can try to deter people by what might happen if they try rather than what happens if they succeed, especially if they're crazy people who think what will actually happen if they succeed is President Trump giving them a medal.
There's always some excuse.

In this situation, I would say that anyone who is high risk and has no affirmative reason to believe Vitamin D is contra indicated should consider trying to take a small supplement and/or get some sunlight regularly.

For optimal absorption, you need to take Vitamin D, Vitamin K and Calcium together. Some Calcium supplements include those two vitamins.

For optimal results, do not consume calcium and iron together. This means if you are trying to improve your nutritional status via diet, do not eat high iron foods (like beef, broccoli) with high calcium foods (like cheese, milk). They interfere with each other in terms of absorption.

If you are in a really fragile state of health, all these details and more (such as bioavailability) matter a helluva lot. If you are not in a really fragile state of health, you may find that you don't need to care so much all these pesky details.

Anyone who is really interested in their own welfare can and should start a food and symptom journal and read, read, read about health stuff (and learn how to sort the wheat from the chaff). If you do that, you can get to a point of noticing symptoms of deficiency at an early stage.

I do this regularly and adjust my diet accordingly.

But these are not answers people want to hear. They want a pill, a shot, a surgery, a solution with a really big and obvious and immediate change so they can look at it and go "I did a thing and got a result." They don't want to hear "You need to track it over time and see how you feel in a week or a month to have any real idea what helps."

It's also inherently hard to isolate nutritional stuff. If you make any change at all to your diet, you have probably made multiple different changes.

The way to isolate it is to start with supplements, stick to your normal diet, make no more than one change per week and keep a journal so you can track it and see what happens.

Anything that has any health benefit will have side effects. Antibiotics routinely cause diarrhea and that's one of the more common side effects of alternative remedies, yet if I tell people that many of them will use that as an excuse to say "Oh, it has side effects. Nope. That's a big fat nope for me. I'm not doing that." even though it's the same side effect that antibiotics have and they wouldn't hesitate to take those.

There's a lot of ignorance and prejudice and inherent resistance to resolving medical things nutritionally. In spite of study after study after study saying "Nutrition and exercise mitigate every known deadly medical condition ever in the history of human kind" when the rubber hits the road, people hand wave off nutrition as not important and "not something that will cure cancer, you dumbass!" and stuff like that.
The horoscope of political opinions. Read whatever you wish from your daily horoscope! :-)
Not long ago, there was a #guillotine hashtag on Twitter

https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/guillotine2020?lang=en

Wasn’t ‘halted’.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/guillotine

https://mobile.twitter.com/notallbhas/status/124791247934001... : Bernie sanders’ plan c = guillotine
Scaling Replicated State Machines with Compartmentalization
You can see 1984's themes in play today in democratic governance: Say one thing and do another. Label groups as "the enemy" to have a target for hatred. Denigrate critical thinking and much more. It covers more than just Stalinist totalitarianism.
The extreme supporters are some of the people believing that the election was rigged, despite the inability to provide information that can convince an unbiased court.

If we extrapolate on this, can't we conclude/believe that some people who feel the system is betraying them, would see Mike Pence as conspiring with those stealing the elections?

Do some of those people value "constitutional duty" right now? If they did, they wouldn't have stormed the Capitol.

It's hard to understand people when there's a certain amount of conspiracy theories influencing their emotions.
It's unfortunately one of the problems with politics. A bunch of people who make laws that mostly don't get to apply to them, get to say what they want, with little or no accountability.
I remember a quote, I cannot find the source for now, but it basically says "A book can either be completely correct, or be readable, but not both."
Street Epistemology is the kind of thing I think can ultimately be successful. Instead of yelling at people or telling them their wrong and you're right, discuss with them how and why they come to their beliefs in a non-confrontational way. The hopeful result is that you both come away thinking about how better to examine what you believe.