skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, WSL2 is pretty cool. Also, Windows Terminal is actually pretty sweet, and I even gave PowerShell a spin the other day. The crazy thing is you can basically use it as a bash shell, and it gets the job done. My developer experience right now consists of PowerShell, where I do all my regular directory jumping, editing (vim), etc., and a Developer Shell with god awful classic "terminal" which I only use to call conan/cmake/clang-windows.

I have to add the following: MSVC supports clang on windows. And CMake - all within Visual Studio. And it works perfectly, with perfect support for C++17. Badass.
That is a really nice idea and anybody on a network that allows drafts could adopt this on a personal level.

I hope this usage pattern gains some traction.
Until very recently, Python’s grammar was strictly LL(1), so the parser couldn’t handle, for example, `(x, y) => x * y`.

Perhaps with the move to a PEG parser, this syntax could now be supported?
That really depends on your software.

Something like a NOSQL style it is kind of built in that it will be distributed. But that backs the compute cost back into the clients. Each node is 'crap' but you have hundreds so it does not matter.

Something like SQL server it comes down to how fast you can get the data out of the machine to clone it somewhere else (sharding/hashing, live/live backups, etc). This is disk, network, CPU. Usually in that order.

In most of the ones I ever did it was almost always network that was the bottleneck. Something like a 10gb network card (was state of the art neato at the time, I am sure you can buy better now) you were looking at saturation of 1GB per second (if you were lucky). That is a big number. But depending on your input transaction rate and how the data is stored it can drop off dramatically. Put it local to the server and you can 10x that easy. Going out of node costs a huge amount of latency. Add in the req of say 'offsite hot backup' and it slows down quickly.

In the 'streaming' world like kafka you end up with a different style and lots of small processes/threads which live on 'meh' machines but you hash it and dump it out to other layers for storage of the results. But this comes at a cost of more hardware and network. Things like 'does the rack have enough power', 'do we have open ports', 'do we have enough licenses to run at the 10GB rate on this router'. 'how do we configure 100 machines in the same way', 'how do we upgrade 100 machines in our allotted time'. You can fling that out to something like AWS but that comes at a monetary cost. But even virtual there is a management cost. Less boxes is less cost.
12 hour downloads of 7mb Paint Shop Pro trial...
If they were randomly distributed perhaps, but it seems like they just cut a location. All these people work at a particular grocery store.
You are trading off cost, though. According to that paper I referenced, the SMART reallocated sector count is just binary (the critical threshold is 1 sector). Drives with non-zero counts are much more likely to fail but 85% of them are still in service a year later. If you proactively replace them you may indeed have avoided some surprise failures but it's actually not a great deal more effective than replacing drives randomly, and it costs money.

Also we haven't even discussed the online disk repair phenomenon, in which you take a "failed" disk, perform whatever lowest-level format routine the manufacturer has furnished, and get another 5 years of service out of it. This is done without ever touching it.
“ The news could have a chilling effect on other organizing efforts by Instacart employees across the country. The company’s leadership has already shown its hostility toward organizers, running a union-busting campaign that included bringing in managers to the grocery store in Skokie to convince workers to vote against the union.”

Sounds like the NLRB and DoJ needs to get involved here.
Why say this? You’re making things up and you happen to be wrong.
Like most important things in life, primarily a failure. When I was a kid/teenager I was too focused on other things (which, surprise, didn’t pay off).

Since then, I’ve really just had miserable luck and am just never in right environment to meet meet people (not only romantically, but platonically as well). It’s rather difficult to explain what I mean by this, but it’s defined been made worse by COVID. I have a number of odd personal issues problems as well that unfortunately kinda stuck me in a “loser” category. Nothing my outwardly apparent, but enough that anyone who knows me more than just superficially will be turned off. Some of it is my fault, some of it is due to things that were out of my control at the time, but require money / willpower to correct I just don’t have atm.
There is no way Intel is going to exit fabrication.

They're using TSMC out of necessity, not desire. Intel's fabs are integral not only to their success and profits, but to the infrastructure of the United States itself. We simply cannot allow all CPU fabrication to be offshored, especially when most of it is close to China (Taiwan / TSMC). Samsung is too busy pumping out smartphone / tablet CPUs and NVIDIA's GPUs, so even if Intel wanted to use them, there's not enough capacity.

Intel is going to have to get their shit together, not just for their own sake, but for strategic manufacturing security interests of the United States as well.
It is, but it's much easier to get it past the National Labor Review Board when it represents 1/200th of the people fired.

Going to be hard to get a retaliation judgement on this one IMO (FWIW, I'm pro-labor and think this move sucks, just stating the realities of today's workplace)
Couldn’t verify? Or refused to try?
Palantir’s God’s-Eye View of Afghanistan
I would say yes.

1. They're all at one location.

2. They're laying off ~20% of their workers.
For someone not familliar with Windows API, why does creating a Windows needs unsafe and other low level things? I guess it's the same for the C++/C# version?

https://github.com/kennykerr/samples-rs/blob/master/create_w...
I always hear progressive views about unionization which I agree with and they make sense. What are some of the disadvantages of unions?

Edit: Before you hit that downvote button, can we not have a balanced discussion about pros and cons of Unionization? I am a progressive and a Democrat but I want to know both sides of the coin. For people saying this question is of bad faith, I am not really asking "What are the advantages of murder?" here, Unionization is a complex topic and it would be interesting to understand that it's not just companies exploiting employees, but there is a lot more to it than that.
I hated Download.com. It was buying up all my favorite download sites of the era and shutting them down without integrating their features. I think SoftSeek was my favorite and I'm hard pressed to find even a screenshot of it these days.

Off to look.
FYI - for a gentle introduction to hesychasm, I'd strongly recommend "The Way of a Pilgrim". Eastern Orthodox, and simply written (in terms of understanding it). For a more involved approach try the "Philokalia" - but be prepared for heavy reading, and make sure you are getting the right book as the title has been used for other works.
Well usually your PI will do the initial stages of networking or carry enough weight that you don't have to do much networking on behalf of your publications. That is a separate question from if your PI will do networking FOR you. Some will, some won't, either by malice, by ignorance, or by temperament. I worked for a nobel laureate (who discovered restriction enzymes). Publication was not a problem. He was lovely and fun to work for, but in the end I had to leave academia because he couldn't be bothered to network for me (he was more interested in playing penny slots at the casino).

If you're in grad school, my strongest recommendation is to optimize first for a PI that will network for you. That is generally the most valuable form of networking, because 3rd party validation generally carries a strong amount of weight by human nature. Plus it potentially takes minimal effort on your part.
Absence of metrics would be shortsighted. Metrics with a purpose other than surveillance and budget would be good.

However, most metrics I have encountered and helped impleme t in the past, especially in the finance industry, fall in that category. Boxticking and task-management because there is a mentality of cutting corners.

Bullshit Jobs is an essay, not a research paper. It points at a globally felt phenomenon in the workplace. People's impressions, no matter how subjective, still imply something is afoot.

Also, a book pointing at an issue is not obligated in providing a solution. Criticizing a system has its own merit. It outlines an issue maybe someone else will then be able to elucidate.
What are you using to host the server? VPS? Machine from your home network?
Controversy over Taleb is no secret, but I'll say it every time. Everything I've seen by Taleb seems to be him posing an idea that is obviously flawed, claiming that it is mainstream among widespread experts (when its not), and then taking credit for saying its incorrect, whilst making the reader feel smart because they too see why its obviously wrong.
Funkwhale seems to focus on the social aspect of sharing music among a group, and that's cool if you're into that, but for hosting my personal music library just for myself I like Airsonic: https://airsonic.github.io/
Please stop repeating this. Repetition is tedious and lowers signal/noise ratio. HN is supposed to be for curiosity, and curiosity wants just the opposite.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

Edit: also, can you please stop posting unsubstantive comments generally? It looks like you've been doing that a lot, and that's not what HN is for, for the same reason: it repels curiosity.
Rippledoc
Exactly. You pretty much know what you get when you hire a grad. And if it doesn't work out, you can understandably act surprised and say "I know, and he was from MIT too! If you break the mold and it works no one cares. If you break the mold and hire some guy without a degree, and it does wrong, you built your own gallows!

Freakonomics referred to the Sheepskin effect: 80% of the benefits of getting a degree come from the last semester. Someone with 90% of a degree is worth only 20% more of the gain someone with that last 10% is.
So we're posting sensationalist, hyper-inflated claptrap from the Murdoch-rag NY Post on Hacker News now?

Let's not, instead. If this is really a story, and if that headline is really justified, then a more reliable source can be found.

Set phasers to flag and fire.
But you can define functions inside of functions (recursively).

def function1():
print ("hello outer")
def function2():
print ("hello inner")
function2()

function1()

Output:

hello outer
hello inner
I wish newspapers would offer a no ads subscription.
Could you elaborate on what you mean re: convincing regulatory bodies? I'm not used to working in a highly-regulated environment. Why are they involved? For certification of the lab?

EDIT> I mean involved w.r.t plate sealers/unsealers, not more generally.
Yep. It was one of your first stops after you reformatted Windows. Like you, I haven't heard about them in a long time. I haven't thought about them in a long time, either. Guess that means Windows got more stable? I don't reformat anymore...
But how does the first tier museum acquire stuff for its archives and where does the money for that come from?
> I think a policy which stops upgrading cities until a baseline is met in the rest of the country is also appropriate.

The best I can get in San Francisco is 5Mbps symmetric. Would that be good enough for you? :)
>The issue with the flu isn't that it rapidly mutates but that we can't quite predict which mutations will happen each season.

This doesn't make sense. Of course we cannot predict what mutation will happen. Are you trying to say we don't know which mutation take off? Even then the issue that we don't know what future mutation might take off is a problem.

> each seasonal flu vaccine is really a combination of three different strains

This year it was 4 different strains.

> it's impractical, even dangerous, to give them all of the strains at once

I've never heard this before. Can you provide a citation so I can verify it?

>The common cold is an even more extreme version of that process

There are a lot of different viruses for the common cold. There have been vaccines for them, but the odds of catching any one strain are so low that a vaccine against one isn't really significant.
Being vaccinated does not provide any guarantees. You may remember the headlines about "95% effective". What more is there to understand? If I am infected, I'm a risk to you, whether you're vaccinated or not.
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I've noticed that Twitter is very arbitrary in terms of what they moderate and don't moderate. I've seen accounts for antifa groups or other groups engaged in criminality and violence several times, and no action has been taken on my reports. Invariably, the reports that aren't acted upon are ones involving groups that align with left-leaning political sentiments. This type of selective enforcement of rules is extremely unjust, and I am not at all surprised to see this inconsistent enforcement in this instance either.
Oh absolutely agree. The amount of time we spend washing dishes is absurd. We yearn for the end of the bootstrap phase.
The question is valid. The winapi crate binds the functions in the Windows headers explicitly. You can call `winapi::...::CreateEventW` because winapi has a `pub extern unsafe fn CreateEventW(...)` in its code.

This new crate is a generator. If this new generator requires access to the .winmd files or .h files from the SDK or whatever, where is the non-Windows builder going to get those from? And will this generator look for them there?

For example, I used to maintain a generator that took COM typelibs and generated Rust bindings for them, but it required calling into the Windows API for working with typelibs and thus obviously required a Windows builder. The functionality of this crate is split between the windows_gen and windows_macros crates, and from a cursory glance I could not tell how it works wrt win32 bindings.

Edit: Answered by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25863581 - the win32 API is now also described by .winmd files.

So the question is, can a non-Windows builder get these files, and then convince this crate to look for them wherever it placed them?
I agree with you.

1. I run Arch Linux on windows vis WSL which provides pacman as a package manager. Pacman is way better than homebrew.

2. Docker runs much faster on windows compared to Mac.

3. My Mac will freeze up at times, while ctrl+alt+del always works on windows.

4. I am no longer limited to the crappy gpu options on Mac and can actually do gaming on my laptop.
They could just remove it if they can't tell, same way a bouncer will throw you out of a bar if you don't have ID.

I don't know why people are giving social media companies a pass on what goes on just because their job is hard. Nobody is holding a gun to their head and telling them that they need to run an unmanageable platform, they wanted this many users.
Raise your hand if you're surprised. Hopefully nobody will.

Just get a iPhone 13 or a M2 Mac.
The solution for this is rather simple, and until Windows does it, I will always be skeptical of their renaissance as some benevolent contributor to open source: open source windows.
If "every employee who voted to unionize" means 10 people, I'm pretty much surprised that they were able to unionize at all. To form an union, don't you have to have the majority of the workers or something like this? (I'm not in the US, pardon for my lack of knowledge)
>We all get it. Yet people continue to get sick and die.

Is that because the interventions (masking, social distancing) are de facto ineffective, or because a critical mass of people simply ignores them?
The submitted title ("New mutation of COVID19 strongly resistant to past immunity") broke the site guidelines by editorializing, and probably also by being misleading. Please don't do that. If you want to contribute your interpretation, that's fine, but do so in a comment—then your interpretation is on a level playing field with everyone else's. On HN, being the user to submit an article doesn't come with any special rights about how to frame it for others.

"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Intel in Oregon is probably like an hour from downtown Portland, and there are a ton of apartment complexes about halfway between the two (and there's nice public transit to Portland, so you don't have to deal with the drivers). Nike also has a big building nearby.

Also, I imagine Intel would gain very little from being located in, for example, the Bay Area or NYC. It isn't like they are some little startup that needs to go out to bars to find new developers or whatever.
If I remember correctly, the user in question kept exported plain-text backups of the conversations on the phone. The encryption of the app itself was not breached.
Cool project. Looking forward to trying it out with more people.

Why the name Pluto? I feel like I've run into quite a few projects sharing the name. Are you going for something related to the underworld?
Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 (Preview)
That the monetized IRC clone is unhappy doesn't convince me that Microsoft has done something wrong. But we'll see what the EU commission decides.
PEP 590[1] makes calling callables less expensive. It was finalized for Python 3.9.

[1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0590/
MIT Students Flipping Failure
This is a resource of students who have dealt overcoming different obstacles like imposter syndrome, burn-out, finding passion, failed research projects, work overload and covid-19
> Gavin admitted he should have been removed because he stopped contributing

Citation desperately needed. Here's a contribution from literally the day before he had his commit access stolen.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/006cdf64dc932

Even if he did say that, it's irrelevant to this discussion. Him "no longer contributing" was not the reason his commit access was revoked. It was revoked as a power grab because he wanted to and had the power to increase the block size. Nothing more.
We built a software (Botium Box - https://botium.ai) mainly for On-Premise use, and we delivered as Kubernetes, Openshift, Docker. We added a hosted plan later and thought it would be a good idea to just use managed Kubernetes for this offer as it didn't require much coding changes.

We have to support multiple clouds (Azure and AWS), but with Rancher, it is really easy in usage - setting up new clusters, deploying new services, restarting, logging etc. But now that we built up container technology know-how we are transitioning every service where we don't need the scaling capabilities of Kubernetes to plain old docker-compose on baremetal.

Thanks for the interesting article, didn't know about Nomad and will try it for sure.
The flu mutates a lot faster than COVID. There is still hope we can vaccinate against it and be done. This depends on speed of getting the vaccines out, and preventing it from jumping to something else and then getting a foothold there where mutations can jump back.

We will know in a couple years how successful we are.
This feels like a distraction from what I was driving at. Whether it’s Intel, AMD, etc. any large company needs a lot of work to be done. You don’t need top engineers for that.
Why use a library for it? Can it not be done with just Python? And if using the library is much different from normal Python, does it mitigate Python's problems with functional programming? (For example one expression only lambdas and no TCO.)

I also do use some functional concepts in my Python work, but do not use a library for it. Only procedures or functions. No additional dependencies.
CDC officials urge Biden team to dump Palantir's Covid tracker
Real media don't make decisions on whether to publish based on whether something also appears in the NY Post. That's a ludicrous assertion.

What's actually happening: Murdoch rags like the Post have zero editorial standards, whereas others are attempting to actually vet this story before running it.
Investor Elad Gil makes a big bet that business travel will rebound after Covid
When I am writing or choosing (or bindings to) an API I always go and look at other languages (especially what the functional people do) to avoid repeating non-obvious mistakes and seeing where the impedance mismatches are.

Most recently, I've been playing with eBPF on Linux: The system call API is terse and pretty impenetrable, whereas the high-level APIs either mean writing gadgets in C with a nearly-blind debugging experience or relying on a library to retain the power of the featureset the kernel exposes.
> You have to repeat the full range of clinical trials with each reformulation that targets a new antigen.

Are you sure? I don't think we do this with the seasonal flu vaccine in general. It certainly wasn't a consideration in the CDC pandemic flu response fire drill (sequence antigen -> manufactured vaccine in ~2 weeks) that I got a sideline seat on.
I keep thinking that's the PayPal logo
I'd say claiming Satoshi is Paul Le Roux is obviously and trivially wrong when there is much more evidence pointing at Nick Szabo.
https://floss.social/public
> The Let's Encrypt post does not describe how they implement off-machine and off-site backup-and-recovery. I'd like to know if and how they do this.

The section:

> There wasn’t a lot of information out there about how best to set up and optimize OpenZFS for a pool of NVMe drives and a database workload, so we want to share what we learned. You can find detailed information about our setup in this GitHub repository.

points to:
https://github.com/letsencrypt/openzfs-nvme-databases

Which states:

> Our primary database server rapidly replicates to two others, including two locations, and is backed up daily. The most business- and compliance-critical data is also logged separately, outside of our database stack. As long as we can maintain durability for long enough to evacuate the primary (write) role to a healthier database server, that is enough.

Which sounds like traditional master/slave setup, with fail over?
Thanks for the answer. I would have guessed that the higher core count outweighs the lower frequence for database usage, but obviously I don't know the details. I think the 90% CPU usage graph just made me nervous enough to want the biggest possible CPU in there.
Tried, hard, and found that it was not substantive.
Bitwarden releases “emergency access” feature
So you go and get vaccinated, don't force everyone to wear a mask forever and live in perpetual lockdown.
What Covid tests can we trust?
And consider the volume of false claims Twitter receives each day.

If everyone reported tweets that were CSAM just to take down a random post they disagree with, I'm sure moderators would make the occasional false negative.
Economics always prevails and that is on the side of my argument. Its also industry standard. Do you have a source for me being wrong?
Just FIY, the puzzle doesn't load here. I tried disabling uBlock, but still it looks like some .JS is missing.
For 1099 contract work, $200/Hour is the sweet spot for in demand fields, javascript, React, FE, etc.
So you’re saying that NY Post fabricated the lawsuit that has been filed in court? Having an axe to grind doesn’t turn a fact into a falsehood.