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Francis Spufford’s Red Plenty is a great “nonfiction novel” about the problems of (and conceptual/mathematical limits to) central planning in the Soviet Union.
Email us at hn@ycombinator.com. That's the reliable way to get in touch and we always appreciate getting a heads-up about something on the site, since there's far too much content for us to see it all.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
I prefer functional style whenever I can. I noticed that this style slows Python programs down. It seems function calls are rather expensive. Does anybody have a similar experience?
You seem to be unhappy working here. Here is your exit interview.
"Escroc" in French comes from "Scrocco" in Italian [1]. No relation with escrow.

[1] https://unaparolaalgiorno.it/significato/scroccare
Not sure where you work, but they definitely don't. It's all part of the game. Just make the sale, that's what matters.
The article doesn't link to the Tucows Downloads Archive, for whatever reason it only links to the archive.org homepage.

Here's the direct link: https://archive.org/details/tucows

It also appears that the archive wasn't manually reviewed; some items are just screenshots, and others are unrelated to software at all.

Example (mildly nsfw): https://archive.org/details/tucows_71077_Sung_Hi_Lee_2
Rust needed a GUI and Microsoft provided one. They seem to be very focused on giving developers what they need, but only to a point. I've been doing some system glue stuff and while it's nice that powershell has ssh an scp they are missing some options I want. I was going to use curses with python (batteries included!), only to find out it's not supported on windows.

It almost feels like a strategy - be standard enough to bring people in, but idiosyncratic enough to lock them in.

I'll be using gtk-rs thank you very much.
sorry to be an ant-fucker, but reactionary basically means conservative
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Or maybe "Windows API for Rust".
This is a great point so many companies don't seem to get. The company I worked for previously thought their pay was "competitive" because they kept people at median of market. Company before that, same deal, I was paid a "fair" median salary. Turnover at both companies was very high as you'd expect.
>All of those benefits were solved problems with VM based workflows using something like Vagrant long before Containers started gaining traction (IMO).

Well, VMs are like overweight containers. Containers make "all of those benefits" easier, more performant, and more ligherweight.
>The team developed an ultrasensitive semiconductor sensor system capable of simultaneously measuring trace amounts of four selected cancer factors in urine for diagnosing prostate cancer.

it would be interesting if they run as a control a human looking at those measurements.

One can also wonder how many other cancers can be detected by dipping a chip in urine and whether those chips can be just made into a smartphone accessory for home/field use.
love all the different virtual worlds!
If I had a billion dollars, I'd put a research group together to study the prospects of index sharding.

That is, full table replication, but individual servers maintaining differing sets of indexes. OLAP and single request transactions could be routed to specialized replicas based on query planning, sending requests to machines that have appropriate indexes, and preferably ones where those indexes are hot.
I don’t think it’s really relevant to the story, he was ethical but did schmooze prospects at dinners. Which is standard operating procedure for multi-million dollar database sales. The acquirer did the same.

He was incentivized to hustle harder, until incentives were stripped, out of spite.
Tektronix was there and Oregon State was a source of cheap engineers.
The lockdowns in the USA were generally lighter/shorter in most states; I am pretty sure in some states indoor dining never stopped. In all the states that I'm aware of, the enforcement was non-existent for individuals. For example, you could drive to a state park 50 miles away from home that you were supposed to stay-at, that was officially completely closed, and there'd be 100 cars parked along the road next to a closed trailhead.

I was assuming the enforcement/lockdowns are like that because they wouldn't stand in court, but then did a little bit of research and found out general-purpose freedom of movement in public spaces does not actually appear to be a well-codified (or often argued in court?) right in the USA, so I guess it's just the culture of liberty, and the politicians being afraid of the reaction if there was enforcement. It made me very proud and happy to be an American by choice ;)
Fully agree. I was referring to a specific case where the payscale for people with MBA degrees was lower than the payscale for people with undergraduate engineering degrees.

In my experience, there are many great leaders with MBA degrees. However, you never hear about their MBA degree because they have so many other accomplishments to lead with. They are managers who happen to have completed an MBA program in the past.

The troublesome people are those who lean on credentialism in the hopes that merely having the MBA degree will allow them to skip to the head of the compensation structure. Anyone who builds their identity around the university they attended or the degree they received will raise a lot of red flags.
In the US it's not easy to commit people- you generally need to prove that they are a danger to themselves or others. Judges just can't randomly commit people against their will, especially if it has nothing to do with the case in front of them. They can hold people in contempt, but that's a whole different thing.
Also how the 10 year term was removed. Seems like this is a core principle in the CCP party, but what events caused this to change. Was this planned from a long time or it the circumstances were right and it was grabbed.
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This is a poorly thought out comment. Hosting providers are a commodity and so they cannot de-platform you. Only a platform like Twitter can de-platform you. If a hosting provider suspends your account, you still own the domain and all your data - you'd just move it to the next host.

Besides, when there's sufficient demand, there'd be several more options for hosting, including ones that are "pro free speech". OTOH, monopolies could end up destroying individual liberty and choice.
It’s doesn’t have to. Unless you’re conditioned to believe that aws is cheap
Excellent, yet another stream of text that must occupy my information grapevine to define a virtual value system utilized by people who are not creative enough to park their economic gains as deployed assets.

One BTC is currently a post-tax yearly salary, a third of a tractor, at least one Bridgeport CNC lathe, 12 metric tons of cold rolled 304 stainless coil, or two springtime paid internships for folks out of high school (including their brand new Lincoln welders).

When the price goes up, it means even more people do not know what to do with resources available to them.

Kilowatt hour upon kilowatt hour that must be sequestered only because someone desired to "invest".

A modern metric to measure mediocrity, stagnation, and indecision (a hockey stick graph).
I agree. I think you need to be very careful about giving uni-directional advice like the OP, when in fact you are optimizing a U-shaped curve. Too little AND too much use of metrics is bad. The advice for a given company will depend where they are on that curve.
>Is not docker server running inside a VM though

No, docker server runs directly on top of the OS as a native program.

As for Docker containers managed by the Docker server, they are runing on top of a supervisor - not in a full VM.
> This article is an important reminder

The only facts being reported in this article is that someone made claims in a lawsuit.

> This is totally unacceptable. I wonder if there is some kind of legal liability that could apply here?

Yes. Both civil liability (under the fairly recent exceptions relating sex trafficking to 230 protection) and criminal liability (section 230 has never applied to criminal liability) are possible, for the kinds of things claimed in the lawsuit.

That civil liability is possible is, of course, almost certainly a factor in why the lawsuit was filed; while you can file a lawsuit where there is no available liability, it tends to be a waste of effort.

Of course, one would also do well to take claims made in a lawsuit with some skepticism. If those didn't often turn out to be untrue, we wouldn't need courts nearly as much as we do.
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What about "long covid"?

It looks like 1 in 10 people infected experience symptomps for more than 12 weeks. [1]

Just because you aren't likely to die doesn't mean you'd be fine.

[1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/news/statementsandletters/theprevalen...
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uBlock origin works great against YouTube ads. Unfortunately it is broken on Safari atm.
Its a bunch of slave labor people in India who dont give a shit. Its an interesting dynamic that we have foreigners deciding what content Americans can and cannot see and can and cannot say.
With total and complete mask compliance.
Critical Race Theory has its problems but it's not an elaborate conspiracy theory clutching at random tidbits of news and numerology and obscure messageboard posting and constructing a massive, world-ending conspiracy out of them.

I mean, it's a cute comparison if you squint, but there's far less craziness to describing the reality of racism than describing all of the political class as baby-eating vampires.
IMO it goes without saying that any beginner weight lifter should start with a personal trainer such that they learn correct form, etc.
AFAIK this is probably the same trick he attempted to use where he took a signature from the blockchain and used it. The signature would be of a hash of a transaction, but it would appear as a "valid" signature from that wallet public key.
I am the only one who thinks Craig Wright is the writer of the Bitcoin whitepaper and the original developer? I understand why it is controversial and doesn't fit the bitcoin myth. And I don't find him particular symphatic.

But he convinced Gavin Andresen and in general has the background of someone who could build this and do the writing that followed on various mailing lists and discussion forums.
Clearly not--when there is systemic rulebreaking, the point is that it's impossible to enforce the rules in a way that is "enough".
Have you ever read "All you zombies" by Heinlein?
https://gist.github.com/defunkt/759182/ad44c6135d168ae54503a...
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>Lots of "they" in there and very little substantive evidence of who "they" actually are and what actions were connected to other "theys" involved.

This [1] is a good recap of what happened

[1]https://hackernoon.com/the-great-bitcoin-scaling-debate-a-ti...
Headhunters for contract work at one FAANG company offer me $50 an hour for gigs utilizing the same skill set I’ve billed them $500 an hour for in the past.
He probably wasn't fooled, or actually, he got screwed by both sides. He knew CSW wasn't satoshi, also he knew adam back was satoshi but couldn't tell anyone because of the NDA he signed (adam had long been compromised at that point). I think he felt the only way to save the project was to point to someone else being satoshi that did believe in the original bitcoin = p2p cash narrative, but that obviously backfired. Craig also did a complete 180 on his 'beliefs' and made everything he touched proprietary, patented and anti-freedom and privacy. Hard to believe that happened without any external influences as well.

The history of bitcoin is a very interesting one. The video series of unmasking satoshi nakamoto from barely sociable is a great first step into the rabbit hole. But i'm warning you, the deeper you go the weirder it becomes.
>Unfortunately it looks like it requires unsafe { } for now

Forever, and not "unfortunately" but rather as expected and necessary. Windows API is unsafe (C/C++) itself, and this is a wrapper for it.
They aren't mandating vaccinations, they're incentivizing them by paying employees for getting them.
I'd say this marks the beginning of the `extend` phase.
That is because it is meant to be a successor to Grooveshark.
Well, strictly speaking it is. There is no terminating condition- the OP simply chose to return at an arbitrary point in the recursion.
I had a bit of a derp here at first, I was like what, python already has a functional (as in working) standard lib, then I read the docs and was like ohhhhh that functional.

I think python made some half measures in regards to functional programming, not a bad thing since python tends to blend the different styles decently but at least for me it would be nice to have a good library to extend the functional side a little more, hopefully this scratches the itch.
The local economy is the global economy. Things I make here get shipped there, unless my business is shut down because of local mandates. Then nothing gets shipped over there.

I think you're oversimplifying and I can't figure out how to explain myself.
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Out of interest, why not use uBlock on brave? That's my setup.
I think voluntary mask wearing becoming a new norm is fine with me
Getting everyone to work in harmony is basically impossible. If a politician goes on the news and say you need to stay home for 2 weeks starting next Friday, what do you thinks going to happen? Mass panic buying and looting? People refusing to do it because it's a conspiracy? Mass protest events encouraging super spreading? By the time this is all over, 2 weeks has passed...
Thanks for bringing this up. We'll add a link to the main Datto website shortly. :-)
Welcome to the filter bubble. What you see on twitter, facebook, google, youtube, etc. is going to be radically different than what someone else sees.
I've compiled all of the reported catnip studies and run some large-scale surveys of my own: https://www.gwern.net/Catnip https://www.gwern.net/Catnip-survey

Globally, catnip immunity rates are closer to a third, but Australia is at the extreme with about half cats not responding.

Villani 2011 https://www.gwern.net/docs/catnip/2011-villani.pdf establishes that catnip response is highly heritable but polygenic (not Mendelian), and to a first approximation, no one studies cat genetics - so it will be difficult to prove that there's some sort of founder effect on Australian/Mexican/Spanish cats causing a lower genetic propensity.
Link: https://wiki.dlang.org/D_for_Win32

Ada has something similar: https://github.com/AdaCore/win32ada
Thanks! Let me know if any new requested spaces
TF even if he is Satoshi, scientific papers belong in the public domain.
This is an interesting take for sure that I hadn't heard before. Do you have more information on how they could have accelerated things?

If feels like the risk of shipping a vaccine that later is found to have adverse side effects would be so dangerous to the trust of the FDA that it would be really dangerous. Think of the shattered trust on both the FDA side and on vaccines in general, feels like maybe that would be too big a risk to take.
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What an odd take on an article on male college admissions. And what a strange view of women that you think they need economic incentives to persist in a long term relationship.
So, like ostree? https://ostreedev.github.io/ostree/
> We’re pleased to say that much of the software and other assets that made up the Tucows Downloads library have been transferred to our friends at the Internet Archive for posterity.

The usage of the word "much" makes it seem like IA crawled most of the archive, "probably".

@ Elliot Noss:

The real classy way to shut down something as historically important as this would be to transfer a 100% (edit: ~100%) dump to the IA.

(Hoping to be disproved.)
WSL2 has almost everything you need if Windows isn’t enough
The paper may be read here:

https://sci-hub.do/https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano....
You could imagine the curved parentheses as "cutting the corner" of the square brackets - or imagine the curve as just gently kissing the endpoint at a single point, while the flat square solidly includes it. "Open" makes sense because it satisfies the criterion that for any number in the interval, you can find a larger (or smaller) number that is also in it - there's "no end".
After 3 or 4 of these rejections I stopped reporting.
Honestly I would love it if more users would adopt similar practices. My only question would be how do we validate that the Windows guests remain isolated from the host. Depending on the virtualization software that is an achievable task.

Imagine a world where users only ran the bare minimum software necessary for an atomically specific work task. It sounds like pure joy from my perspective.
>> the Satoshi hoard of coins which haven't moved (ever)

What type of math problem has to be cracked to claim that stash?
Aren't those weird submissions with no comments that show up on here ads?
Actually, the last one I saw was for "Substack is hiring talented engineers to redefine the way people read and write things on the internet"
Even if the software it was running on never had a bug finding, the hardware would eventually fail and it'd have to be updated to run on modern software. Coupled with the fact that bugs do pop up in operating systems, web servers, etc, it is no free to maintain. The Internet Archive screen scrapes everything and just saves the pages you see, but even that isn't free or trivial if you don't already have the software.
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Some related obscure nostalgia - I used to like downloading games from Happy Puppy.

https://web.archive.org/web/20000815211217/http://www.happyp...

"Happy Puppy was launched on Valentine's Day 1995, establishing itself as the first-ever commercial games site. It was an overnight success and has been the leading gaming lifestyle publication on the web ever since."

Related in the sense that it was another site I would download software from in that era. Disappeared in 2006.
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Yes, the option with the most safety data is to not contract a novel disease and not be admininstered a novel vaccine (of a novel type).

Any option involving contracting the disease or being administered the vaccine has unknowable long term risks; and it's foolish to argue otherwise. That doesn't mean you can't argue about short and medium term risks; but if someone is worried about long term risks, pointing to the months of studies doesn't help at all.

Given the known short and medium term risks, vaccination seems like a good plan, at least where there is community spread. In areas where the disease is controlled, the unknowable long term risks dominate, IMHO, and would make it a harder decision. Of course, lack of supply moots that question for now, there's more than enough people to vaccinate in areas with major caseload, so we don't have to think about vaccinations in places that are under control.
This is wrong. In the U.S., the COVID vaccine is covered by health insurance if you have it (at no cost to the patient), or by the government if you do not.
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We have a server with the hostname "cloud.example.com".

It can help if someone wants their data "in the cloud".
I don't work at intel, but if I retire, I don't think I'd ever go back. It would have to be a big chunk of change... which nobody would pay since I'm worthless.
... what if they have to sleep in the same time as everyone else?
Exactly, aside from the civil liability already being pursued in the reported lawsuit, there should also be criminal liability for people making those editorial judgements, as far up the management chain as it goes.

This is not some algorithmic failure that no human saw -it was specifically examined by a human with managers setting policy, and deemed to be acceptable to distribute.

At that point, they are willfully distributing the material, and should be held accountable.

Yes, the result may be harsh. Ideally, there would be advance notice of the potential legal jeopardy, but ignorance of the law is never an excuse, and child porn distribution is widely known to be illegal. Standard pull in the workers and get them to flip on the managers, repeat all the way up the chain as far as it goes.

It should now be obvious to anyone that internet discussions are either moderated/edited, or will descend into toxic cesspools when any of a variety of bad actors are allowed to run unchecked.

The hosts need to be responsible for their editing decisions, which are made at far larger scale than any newspaper or broadcaster.
I think you're talking about Parler, not Parlor which is a very different app.
Are you speaking for literally every human?
> 1) source code size is compared

This is new to me (the Benchmarks Game has been around for well over a decade).

> 2) correctness is checked

This is par for the course of benchmarks. A benchmark that is incorrectly compiled provides no useful information whatsoever about performance. It's not really what people mean when they complain about correctness issues in the compiler (which is generally referred to as soundness in literature).

> 3) time "to complete and log all make actions" (build the program) is also logged

Performance in a compiler is usually taken to be a combination of runtime, code size, and compile time, although all three components are not weighted equally.
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They have all the data already - why not to apply on your behalf to a bunch of banks and choose the best offer for you?
People are banned from HN all the time for being rude. Does the reason even matter though? Twitter can decide who uses its services and who doesn't as long as it doesn't violate existing laws.
There were 285,418 bitcoin transactions* in the last 24 hours, bitcoin energy consumption is estimated to be around 76.87 terawatt hours per year, which is 0.210603 twh per day.

So 0.210603 / 285,418 = 0.000000737874765 which is 737.874765 kWh per transaction. Assuming a price of $0.10 and an average 475g CO2 emitted per kWh, the real cost of a single transaction is $73 and 350kg of CO2. But I suppose that's a price worth paying...

*according to https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/
I'm kind of questioning whether it even makes sense for Intel to try to compete with Nvidia and AMD when it comes to GPUs or deep learning accelerators. They just need to really win in one area in a sense, or at least to have a product with a really compelling price/performance ratio. Though you could argue there's a certain synergy between laptops, desktops and servers (people will generally favor running the same architecture they develop on).
> You can see the running version at https://bitchin.net

> 502 Bad Gateway

Yeah, it’s written in V.
Satoshi did predict just that, even before he launched the network (in 2008).

“At first, most users would run network nodes, but as the network grows beyond a certain point, it would be left more and more to specialists with server farms of specialized hardware.” – 2008.
“At equilibrium size, many nodes will be server farms with one or two network nodes that feed the rest of the farm over a LAN.” – 2010.
“The design supports letting users just be users. The more burden it is to run a node, the fewer nodes there will be. Those few nodes will be big server farms. The rest will be client nodes that only do transactions and don’t generate.” – 2010.
Lower-level APIs like this are usually unsafe, with second-level libraries providing the safe abstractions over them.
There isn't currently an option. They are telling their employees that they will pay them for getting vaccinated, a separate issue from when the employees become eligible for the vaccine.