skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More like: anything can be political.
> At the end of the day, I'm still waiting to see any major tech company push serious workloads onto Cockroach. Until that happens at scale, and as I continue to see more and more of those major companies adopting Vitess, it's going to be hard to convince me that Cockroach solves all the problems that they claim to. What they are fantastic at is great docs and beautiful interfaces, both of which are lacking on the Vitess side. :)

Fair enough, keep your ears open and you'll hear more. Vitess's distribution model is simpler, less tightly coupled and in that way more easily scalable. It indeed has, at this point, been deployed at scales cockroach has not yet reached.

Does your main complaint boil down to the ability of Vitess to do async cross region replication? If so, sure, crdb will have higher commit latency. This use case comes up but it's not common. The general solution when that matters is to leverage nearby regions.

> As for cross-shard transactions, that's mainly what I'm referring to about slowness.

This has gotten better, but it doesn't get around the speed of light. We've got some ideas we're playing with to offer an increasingly flexible models which expose better tradeoffs here.

> Companies using Vitess architect their data and sharding patterns so that cross-shard transactions aren't necessary. There are definitely cases where that is part of the requirement, but in far fewer cases than many people think.

I think this is really the point of contention. Vitess enables applications that require thousands of database machines to operate at the cost of careful application architecture decision making. If you're running thousands of database VMs you're definitely spending a lot on engineering. Those companies exist, sure, but it's not most of the Fortune 500. I do definitely agree that something like Vitess is superior to the Cassandra-like NoSQL database I used to work with. You can build correct applications with those (and something like Kafka), but it's hard.

Planning out your application and know how to shard it up-front is hard too. Vitess is amazing for people using MySQL and then realizing they need to scale, but then you do need to go change things and drop the transactions.

Anyway, I think on the whole, you're saying very fair things. Vitess leverages a mature database in a nice way. If you've got the scale where you need 10s of thousands of cores, it's a better than any NoSQL database out there. It just does have up-front costs to the application developer.

CRDB is selling the gospel of the distributed transaction. The pitch is that once you get used to the application development power of having it, you won't want to go back. The argument is that the tradeoffs that it offers to provide that are reasonable for global applications that need to operate at the scales of thousands of cores for the database which is more than most OLTP business applications need. Both the scale and set of tradeoffs will get better over time.
There's a lot more blue light during the day than at night.
A small section of China's railway was crippled by Adobe's Flash ban
I'm sorry you feel that way, but it's an argument based on pure statistics. HN doesn't have the headcount necessary for a significant number of its members to either be directly or indirectly (via relatives) affected by either of those two events.
I'm not saying it isn't true, just that it's not statistically supported by the evidence presented in the paper.

You can invent post hoc justifications for almost any positive conclusion (although this one is weak since the authors admit the effect cannot be detected in individuals, only in aggregate).

[edit: you can even p-hack and retroactively justify your way to entire subfields; see famously https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/05/07/5-httlpr-a-pointed-rev...]
Canned chickpeas are typically salted.
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The reality here is that Senators like having the ability to hide behind the filibuster so they can pretend to be for certain legislation that appeals to their base without worrying that it might actually pass (i.e. when such legislation would anger their donors or otherwise interfere with their actual priorities). When such legislation is filibustered, they raise up their hands and say "well what can you do, I would have voted for it but the other party didn't let me."

The real issue at play is not having 51 "real" votes in support of a particular measure. The filibuster is a stupid procedural distraction used to excuse inaction, and the people shouldn't be tricked by this nonsense.
> Im not sure why citizens of representative democracies would want to inhibit political discussion.

Generally, they shouldn't want to do this. In specific spaces, however, this makes a lot of sense.

From a more distanced perspective, political discussions are exhausting at best, as you need to discuss many varying aspects influencing a complex system, and harmful at worst, as soon as they turn toxic (which they tend to on some topics). Having a break from these is necessary. That doesn't mean we don't need those - having these discussions is important. But there is a reason politician is a full time job.

Additionally, HN has a very international audience. Internal politics is irrelevant to a large part of the readership - irrespective of the discussed country - and therefore these discussions are simply annoying.
I don't know, my Garmin watch says my daily 1h-1.5h long walk burns about 500-600 calories. It could be wildly inaccurate. But it definitely gives me more cushion to eat comfortably during the day that is for sure! I realize it is dwarfed by the 2000+ calories I burn naturally but that is almost another meal in calories.
Congrats! Site looks great.

> needed to build something of my own

I HEAR THAT (and I bet many of us here do too.) Glad you got it done and best of luck.
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Note that HN's formatting ate several of the * in the comment above, which makes it much harder to follow.

> (also yes, (* * *) will take two inputs and multiply them.)

That's true, but Raku also supports non-Unicode math operators, so the more idiomatic way to write that would be

(* × *)

which, in isolation, still isn't that clear. But it usually is in context. And, if it isn't – well, that's why there's more than one way to do it!
> We're fast approaching a dystopian Snow Crash world of all-powerful corporations, and you people are cheering it along.

Walmart is uniquely set up to become the first FOQNE.
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> It’s easy when politics doesn’t actually impact you.

And it doesn’t for 99.999% of the US. How much time and energy was lost on the first Trump impeachment and the year investigation leading up to it. Absolutely no relevance for the day to day life of US residents.

How much time was spent hearing about a phone call to Ukraine? Also not relevant to real life.

Even the events in Congress last week were bad, but literally had no impact on people’s lives outside of the politicians/cops/etc in the building.
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Exactly, that's why we're fat as fuck. We don't have the same culinary habits as most of the world. I ate a cookie for lunch today: it was 500 calories.
Beware typical-mind fallacy. This is a common source of friction even within couples. People don't all experience attraction the same way, for the same reasons, with the same curve of intensity over time. People don't all assign it the same weight in their relationship decisions. Especially across gender lines. Social and behavioral factors can be a lot more important than you'd think. Confidence, competence, humor, status. Cultural archetypes. Personal archetypes. Social proof. Trust, care, familiarity.

Will she sleep with him that night? Probably not. Would she agree to a date right away? Also probably not. Six months later, after a dozen group social events, might she have a serious crush? Decent chance. (Might his fast-burning infatuation be dead by then? Also yes, been there done that).
Are you sure for mips? It says (emphasis added)

> We have decided that the architectures that will be part of the bullseye release are: amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el and s390x (i.e. the same we had for buster minus mips).
Twitter is a private business and thus is free to decline to do business with any particular entity for any reason or without any reason. If sci-hub doesn't like it they can build their own twitter. There, I said it :)
Implementing Raft on top of actix
Only to people that want to complain about their politics. The number of people who want to discuss political science is small.
I’ve been searching for something just like this and haven’t found ‘the one’ yet.

Something that goes from goals to milestones mapped to specific days and times on those days (I’ve learned that todo lists not mapped to calendars are far less productive).

Amazing Marvin comes close when you customize it a certain way, and their recent ‘Goals’ feature is well implemented, but it’s not ‘purpose driven’ to do what you’re describing.

Would be interested in following your journey on this if there is an email list you’ve created to subscribe to...
Wow I didn't know that's why they asked that question. I just put down a hack to get more ice cream from Baskin Robbins for less money. Is that unethical? I guess it's subjective.
> We are in a very tense political landscape. Obviously people on HN need to talk it out.

For what definition of "we"? As an EU citizen, Corona seems to have calmed politics down quite a bit compared to the trouble that brewed beforehand.

I agree that there are issues which need to be talked about, but I do not think that HN is the right place. That being said, as of now I find the political content to be either sparse or relevant enough to not be annoying.
What is your distro of choice?
I don't. And "just raise your own" is obviously not a viable option for the overwhelming majority of people.
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Combined with an increase in obesity over the last several decades, is saying "it's just selective memory" as strong of a rebuttal?
Nothing a little s/Linux/macOS/ won't fix... but I sure hope the book he is promoting is less confusing than that. To his credit, he does say "in MacOS it's X, in Linux it's Y".

(I'm a long-time x86 programmer, who has done a very little of ARM but finds it boring since you can't beat a compiler as easily as you can on x86... and yet instinctively felt unease at moving 0 into a register. ;-)
Sorry. Not trying to be unhelpful. I guess for that the tricks actually breaking the skin for the first time. Then kind of exploiting the tear from there. Sometimes I can use the pith (white flesh) to help separate the skin. Maybe it’s an angle thing? Having some nails or the edge of a butter knife seems to help too.

You can also just rip them in half. Then run your finger down the exposed sides between flesh/skin. Or bend the skin back from the meat.

Yeah it’s tough.
Indeed. A very short book that covers estrogen blockers and talks about these issues is "The Anti-Estrogenic Diet", by Ori Hofmekler.
But we have statistical surveys which can assert this without having to look at photos.
Time64 is the death of i386 - the time_t structure needs to be expanded to 64-bit to handle dates beyond 2038, but that's an ABI break, and the primary reason anyone still runs 32-bit binaries is for closed-source games which won't come along for an ABI upgrade.

You can either do the ABI break and lose most existing users when the main set of apps stop working, or have the main set of apps stop working anyway in 2038.
From my high school German decades ago, I remember that all nouns have a built-in gender, which changes articles and adjectives around the words. Has the recent inclusion trend affected the language? Do you have to say der/die Lampe, ein/eine Stuhl in order to be inclusive? Or do you just use das for everything? Or has it not affected how you say inanimate objects?
Mines, lots and lots of mines.
What is most fascinating about this is the complete naivety of the subjects. If the effect is real, I would expect it ought to be trainable. I would expect conditioned subjects to perform better than naive.

But I am not being cheeky when I say I've read more rigorous ESP experiments. At least this has a vaguely plausible biological mechanism?

> Cryptochrome forms a pair of radicals with correlated spins when exposed to blue light.[50][51] Radical pairs can also be generated by the light-independent dark reoxidation of the flavin cofactor by molecular oxygen through the formation of a spin-correlated FADH-superoxide radical pairs.[52] Magnetoreception is hypothesized to function through the surrounding magnetic field's effect on the correlation (parallel or anti-parallel) of these radicals, which affects the lifetime of the activated form of cryptochrome.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptochrome#Magnetoreceptio...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganzfeld_experiment
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Totally, and I'm sure there have been many, but being able to touch and feel the placement of the musician's hands/fingers/etc. would be important. There are certainly things they could teach without that touch, just like non-blind people could teach a few things remotely sans video, but core areas of playing wouldn't get the right attention.
I mean just because the statistics don't satiate your standards doesn't exclude the possibility of being sensitive to GMF.

In mammals, this is what guides birds to migrate. We really need to stop treating the Earth like its just a magnetic rock. It's far more than that and the earth undergoes these field changes every interval with profound impact on life on earth.

You and I are all made out of Earth and the things we eat and breathe are all Earth itself. When you die your body decomposes and it becomes soil and nutrients for plants which in turn feed the ecology which where our food comes from. So its hard pressed to just dismiss this as "spiritual pseudoscience". It is precisely this type of shallow thinking in Western ideology that is responsible for the global climate crisis. Your culture has thoroguhly destroyed earth and the next generation will pay the price because of your ignorance.

There's just no way that we can brush off this phenomena with pedantry.

edit: HN has a serious pedantry problem. Anything that challenges conventional wisdom is villified and attacked by nitpicking minor details that many only have surface level understanding. There is no p-hacking here, overwhelming portion of the samples shows the said sensitivity described qualitatively and quantitatively.
Vietnam has the lowest adult obesity rate yet is the 8th most sedentary population. The only thing I see that accounts for this is the lack of cheap, processed foods. The Vietnamese diet is largely prepared at home from scratch. Sugar is not crammed into every effing thing you eat the way it is in the U.S.
For me tangerines usually have more space ie less connection between skin and meat. Might help as a trainer.
I don't have any ideas to offer but I did want to say thank you. Based on the phrasing I can tell this takes a toll (eg: "this destroys HN and we must ban this account") on both you and HN.

This is one of the last places on the internet I feel that I can go to be free and have genuine conversations with people, even with people I wildly disagree with. Whatever hell you're going through as a result, I regret, but know it's worth it to the masses that come here.
Looks great. Can I make a small headline suggestion that might boost your conversion?

Consider saying ‘Sell your used computer...’ Using the word ‘your’ in a headline has been shown to improve conversions. I also think it would just read easier in the context of this page.

Best of luck!
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That's the point. You shouldn't have to be directly effected by it to think it is worth discussion and other attention.
Great article. I am so happy that Nellie Bowles added me in the article.

"So he and his family moved to Austin. For the same price as their three-bedroom apartment in Cupertino, they have a five-bedroom home on an acre of land. For the first time, Mr. Boydas has outdoor space. "
Not if we all plan on filing for bankruptcy.
I finally sent out the first 3 issues of a weekly(ish) newsletter I've been mulling over in the back of my mind for the past few years.

I'm calling it "The Weekend Nerdiary" and it's basically a best-of-the-internet-this-week aimed at hackers/makers like, well, me. Mix of code stuff + general tech + gaming + design. Goal is to be a fun, light read on a Sunday morning over coffee.

The idea, which is by no means original, is that I already spend several hours a day browsing HN, reddit, reading others' newsletters, twitter, etc., and I figured I ought to channel that into something productive. I'm doing it anyway, so wy not, right? Might as well curate the stuff that I'd normally forward a few friends when I chuckle.

It's been hard to remember that not everyone reads the same stuff that I do. So I'll curate a bunch of things and worry that "everyone's already seen this stuff", but no, actually, that's not true at all.

So far everyone I've sent it to loves it and has asked for more (and sent in suggestions), so I guess I've got that going for me.

(If anyone is interested, feel free to sign up at https://nlh.me. This is early and I haven't put the archive / sample issues up yet, but I will in due time. No offense taken if you sign up and change your mind ;)
"More than 100" isn't a big deal at the scale Parler was operating.
Many iOS Encryption Measures 'Unused,' Say Cryptographers
Sorry, but 20ms is more than double the amount I can tolerate when playing my instrument.

Even just the difference between local loopback (instrument -> headphones) vs instrument -> USB -> PC -> USB -> headphones, feels like playing with someone continually dragging the tempo down.

I'm sure I could relearn and adapt to >10ms, but this is a far cry from a live experience of playing with others, and I am definitely not alone in my cohort (after trying several low latency remote meetup configurations).
Those look really good -- how would it taste different if you used egg white instead of aquafaba?
There’s one in the mountains of Virginia too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_County_Pumped_Storage_Sta...
Almost every concept is used badly by some laypeople. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is widely used by cranks to make all sorts of nonsense claims. That isn't the fault of the idea.

Feminist theory is a serious academic discipline that isn't just making shit up to attack men.
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"mips64el, mipsel"

Those are MIPS, but Little-Endian instead of Big-Endian.
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Mapping the videos of the Capitol building attack
The established technique and one that many people have independently invented (myself included) is to chain the performers so one person hears only a metronome and each other person hears the previous members on the chain, forwarding along the audio in sync.

As I've said elsewhere in the thread zoom is the wrong tree to bark up since these tools exist.
As an Australian, I see most political HN discussion revolving around US interests. For the most part this is to be expected, but in the rare cases that other country's politics enter HN (particularly new laws that affect tech), there seems to be a heavy bias toward comparison to the US's laws, so much so, that I think I understand more of the US laws than I do my own! Again, this is probably to be expected with the big tech companies largely residing in SV...

But it sure does stand out when HN comments are made with the assumption that the fellow HN readership is US. Any time I've tried to highlight how this looks from the outside it's generally met with downvotes, to the point that I self censor comments that I otherwise feel could have enriched this global community.

So, maybe there is the chance in your comments @dang to make a reminder that it serves a global community? It might help soften feelings of any comments that are heavily partisan.
Good lord man, 25 years. I feel like there should be category in the Nobel prizes for that. If I make it a week I feel like a boss.
> U.S. national security is weakened if the ability to build in the United States depends on materials and exchanges far outside U.S. control.

While true, this is odd. We’ve outsourced so much manufacturing that there’s a ton of different items we can’t build. We’re in the middle of a pandemic where we found we couldn’t make enough Ppe and there was literally a single American factory left for n95s.

Having the materials available is important but useless if we can’t do anything ourselves with them.
And of what good is that discussion and other attention if you can't actually do anything about it (or have already done all you reasonably can), other than ruining your own mental health?
Sidenote: What a cool personal blog. Started in 2009 and still going strong. Inspirational!
Not realizing how bad I was at it earlier.
Mumble is probably not the right software given the purpose built ones that exist. Jamkazam is one. There are many. The apparent ignorance about existing tools in this story and comment section is driving me nuts.
At the same time you are hiding information by taking the global average as the proper baseline for comparison. This is disingenuous here because the original study picked a US cohort. The factors that are responsible for global health indicators improving might be, at least in principle, cancelled out in the US.
Selling my used car. Never have before now.