skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This does not remind me of the database groupby operation, but rather of partition, like in SRFI-1. I mean in natural language it is clear to me, why they’d name it groupby, but in programming terms I think partition is more appropriate, as groupby is already “blocked” by the database operation.

But…this is exactly what a database GROUP BY does. (You’ll always have aggregations in the SELECT clause which work on the data in the groupings, but the GROUP BY itself just specifies splitting the dataset up into this kind of groupings.)

> Otherwise I guess one can easily write partition oneself and then use that function over and over again, without resorting to a library.

Yeah, literally all a library is avoiding having to rewrite code that someone has already written once.
Hemp!? Is hemp the best answer? Thousands of products and Oxygen can be made from Carbon diOxide, Hemp, water, UV radiation, and soul.
What form factor are those NVMe drives and how are the connected? I see cables, so I'm assuming they're not all plugged straight into their own PCIe slot. Are there a bunch of M.2 headers on the motherboard?
Kroger is straight up replacing instacart within 5 years. Ocado robotic warehouses will pick next day orders, local fulfilment centers will pick same day orders and pick ups, and traditional warehouses will continue to supply the stores. This also means Kroger will stop picking product from their own shelves for curbside and online orders, therefore solving a huge issue with out of stocks for those traditional brick and motor customers. Instacart is screwed
The Soviet Union's greatest accomplishment was convincing everyone else in the world that Yerevan exists.
At this point it's pretty common for self-identifying lesswrong-style rationalists to use quote marks, or add a bunch of qualifiers. Weird nerdy people get a lot of hate, there are whole subreddits devoted to hating on "rationalists" for a variety of reasons. Adding quotes tends to calm those people down, and make them a bit less hateful.

Really it's not derisive, it's self defense.
Just curious, have you ever operated Elasticsearch at scale? I haven't operated at the petabyte level but I have at the terabyte level, and everything I've seen tells me that this move is going to hurt Elastic immensely. They've forced Amazon to create the Elastic equivalent of postgressql/mariadb/jenkins ci.
Thanks for the feedback! I'll look into these, and any details you could post to https://github.com/outrightmental/agendar/issues/new are greatly appreciated too.
> Meanwhile there are less drones like MQ-9 Reaper (200 built) [...] costing $40 million a pop.

Prices like this for military equipment are deceptive. They're not $40mil a pop. They're the product of an $8 billion project. The build price is probably less than $100k... or at least it would be if a military contractor wasn't absolutely creaming it.
> vertices have to wait for values

So computation can not start before I have all the inputs, right? But when I --a vertice-- am doing a computation, I would like to ask for more data from some other component, so that I can complete my calculation. So how could I get such data except as one of my input? But I must have all my inputs already, else I would not be executing.

This would then seem to be at the core of the difficulty with data-flow programming. Once a computation of a node has been activated, it can not ask for help from anybody, because it must have all its inputs present before it starts doing its calculation. Does this make sense ???
At least as far what I've gathered reading airliner crash reports go (these obviously are going to be skewed) one of the challenges seems to be just being up to date / adjusting from one airliner to the next as far as procedure, and recovery processes for a given aircraft.

Being behind the aircraft as far as interpreting the situation/ indicators and not knowing what recovery steps to take seem to be a reoccurring problem, at least as far as catastrophic type situations.
Milo was wiped off the map of public consciousness, which is good evidence for the effectiveness of deplatforming in itself.
A focus group isn't an A/B test. An A/B test gives you a number per option. A focus group is a conversation with customers where they can actually talk to you and explain their opinions. An A/B test could tell you customer click on the darkest blue shade of links the most, but a focus group could tell you that they were clicking on them by mistake.
Here are a number of his articles. They are quite good:
https://www.slatestarcodexabridged.com/
this is vigilante justice.

Is it a good idea for Facebook, amazon and random researchers on the web to hand out internet death sentences (as judge, jury and executioner)? without even any kind of due process?

this is setting a potentially dangerous precedent going forward.

having the FBI take the site down would be one thing but having FB or amazon or other sites do it without any kind of due process just seems wrong. what if they make a mistake? what if they don't do without biases?
I'm about to make a really petty and possibly off topic comment, so sorry for this --

"this is the correct take" is like my least-favorite Twitter-ism of them all. it's so ridiculously authoritative and final. Like, "Whoa, okay, everyone stop the discussion. @SandwichGuy87 has identified the correct take. Thanks for bringing us to reality, @SandwichGuy87."
"one of" being the key point here. Let's encrypt has a huge number of sponsors (AWS being only 1 of 9 even if you only count the "platinum level" sponsors), which should allow them to maintain their independence.

https://letsencrypt.org/sponsors/
Why would they need to bother when it's mostly machines talking to machines? Certbot doesn't care that it took 90ms vs 9ms.
If I recall correctly, the creator, chief maintainers, and primary contributors to Lucene are also at Elastic. The ElasticSearch/Lucene distinction is one primarily brought up by AWS advocates to muddy the waters.
In what universe is capitalism not an emphatically right wing economic system?
Toronto Raptors still current NBA champions
Wikipedia on google says Toronto is still the current nba champion.
That sounds good on paper, but what happens when your revenue doesn't closely correlate with the number of users? Hypothetically, a site can have a million users but have a shoestring budget. On the other side of the scale, Twitter not only has the support structure to mass moderate but they have investors providing millions of dollars. Hiring a full time moderator isn't trivial; it's thousands a year per person, which can be tough for a website that operates on mere thousands to even a few million.
I'd not treat it as a data point for that - he's no longer anonymous at all, since he signed his name at the end of the post, and links to his psychiatry practice. It looks like it took him that much time to decide that he can make posting under his full name work for him.
The DeLorean and the Cybertruck both have the stainless steel body, too.
The report is biased and blind to the fact that an established category "racial terrorism" exists. Investigate and include the races of rioters / looters who came forth in American cities and calculate the immense damage they did in 2020. None of us witnessed any Proud Boy types or right wingers burning down buildings and looting stores . . . but quite a few "fed up" right wingers came down with assault rifles and such to protect the property of scores of struggling business owners they didn't even know.
Intel says hacker obtained financially sensitive information
Saddly the kind of pieces sitting in Rijskmuseum basement will never refill with "lots of new suplly". Its heritage from past that you may not be able to see yourself but which is publicly cared and may be enjoyed by future generation.

I really like the disruptive idea and it may work as expected for a while but in a few decades everything's gone in private collections.

The primary goal of museum is to care of masterpieces and history traces. They're definitely not an entertainment center as a zoo. Don't get me wrong, I'd love the opposite because lions are sensible beings are status aren't.
Well you can't do `l = lambda` to replace it either, it's not really anything to do with allowing full unicode identifiers.
> Deplatforming is a freedom of association issue.

Its a freedom of speech issue: The right to choose what speech one will expend one’s resources promoting.
I think an accusation like that warrants some elaboration. Please describe why you think this is selfish.
ZFS was started around 2001 when SSDs weren’t really a thing. It’s goals were, amongst other things, to manage multiple volumes (providing redundancy), to be reliable (most filesystems aim for this), and to support cheap snapshotting. The last two we’re supposed to come from being copy-on-write and this model was an advantage when SSDs became popular as it worked a bit better with their semantics.
At this size/scale I wonder what the actual price would be for a comparable Supermicro system. If I had to make a wild guess, well under half the 200k previously quoted.
Firefox's engineers have done a remarkable job at trying to mimic the native context menu as much as possible, but it's not a 100% match (as evidenced by your discovery that it doesn't support dark mode). There have also been times over the past two decades where macOS updated something about the context menu that then make the Firefox one not match. The main point is that it really should just be a native menu; they shouldn't be spending time trying to make it match 100%.
For context, I recommend reading that part too if you haven't: https://www.elastic.co/blog/why-license-change-AWS
Saying Goodbye to Loon
Not sure why I'm getting down-voted. It doesn't work in Firefox's private mode. Nearly 4 years after the issue was raised. It was completely dismissed as "something Mozilla needs to fix" on multiple occasions.
The 9ms is one indicator that the new hardware platform has ample extra capacity for future growth in load and traffic, it probably won't need to be replaced or upgraded for some years.
Quoting from the article referring to Balaji’s advice:

“I'm not sure any of them were especially actionable, at least not while the Geneva Convention remains in effect. But it was still a good learning experience.”

How is what I said disingenuous?
> it was a highly questionable choice to download and run those in their heyday as well

I never let that stop me! I was going to have my realistic fish aquarium screensaver, come hell or high water.

Besides, I could always reformat. I had that Windows XP serial key memorized, after all!
That's not true. All EVs have transmissions. But most use a single speed transmission. It's still a transmission if there's only a single gear ratio. It's called a fixed-ratio transmission.
Why going "only" electric? The real innovative move is to go straight to nuclear fusion isn't it ?
Global nuclear weapons ban begins – without the world's nuclear powers
Would you visit every single anthill? What if an advanced alien civilization just doesn't care after passing by thousands or millions of primitive civilizations?
Wormhole-GUI is a cross-platform graphical interface for magic-wormhole
I don't work with AWS, but their products are so popular that I recognize many of them from conversations. I genuinely thought Elastic Search was an AWS offering until I saw this page.
Mach started as a microkernel, but when they jammed together Mach and BSD they put it in the same process so it's not really separated anymore.

Recently there are some hypervisor-like things for security, and more things have been moving to userland instead of being kexts. I'd still say it's less of a microkernel than Linux since it doesn't have FUSE.
Lets say I have a platform that someone used it to gather support for and planning some sort of attack on my local democracy.

Lat's say they're successful and they can impose their own policies that do not include free speech.

I'm pretty short on free speech now...

It's hard to ignore that.
> So much faster. However, it does a poor job of blocking advertisements and trackers. I'll be going back to Firefox for that reason, I can suffer the slowness.

What issues are you having with the blocking?

/Disclaimer, Brave webcompat support
Huh, that's on pseudoscience territory.
> Failure on spinning disk HDDs is comparatively random.

comparatively, yes, but when averaged out over a large number of hard drives it definitely tends to follow a typical bathtub curve failure model seen in any mechanical product with moving parts.

https://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/apr/section1/gifs/b...

early failures will be HDDs that die within a few months of being put into service

in the middle of the curve, there will be a constant steady rate of random failures

towards the end of the lifespan of the hard drives, as they've been spinning and seeking for many years, failures will increase.
If those far-left conspiracists are using the platform to coordinate terrorist attacks, absolutely.
> artists are promoting merch because selling albums/EPs doesn't pay the bills. It's fascinating what merch people will buy too - tapes, signet rings, €30 caps, bags...

Pretty much this. The music is basically promotion for the merch, which actually makes money.

Cassette and vinyl sales are also important because in addition to the nostalgic (hissy/scratchy but also warm and saturated) "analog" sound the physical recording is a fun collector's item and something you can show off.

Hopefully live shows will return at some point as well.
Maybe journalists think that, but lots of people (including Scott and me) don't. I believe people have a right to privacy.

> when he was less careful... publicly outed himself

Is the NYT journalists, or hostiles? Usually needing opsec is reserved for activists and criminals hiding from oppressive governments, not bloggers who reasonably want a private life.
Is this due to some fundamental change in warfare or just due to the fact that modern wars are typically a large country fighting a comparatively tiny and unequipped militia? Like, would it still be true if China and the U.S. actually went toe-to-toe?
I tried clearing cache, history, all the Safari things I could find. I tried adding more "apple-touch-icon" resolutions. Every "is your favicon good?" site I could find said it was fine. It works just fine on my iPad (and every other non Apple device I have). It works on my SO's iPhone running the same version of iOS, and same screen size. The iPhone shows the favicon when I go to tab-switch mode. It shows the correct image if I create a link on my Home Screen. It will not show the favicon on my favorites page.

And yeah, given how quickly the bug was closed that I opened, I'm guessing Apple decided I'm full of it too.

At some point, it's not worth it any more.

I keep the link around on my iPhone for when I get bored and try to debug it from time to time, but really I'm mostly curious if iOS will ever decide to do the right thing.
Ask HN: Has WFH meant you have spent all your social capital yet?
First off, I recognise what a privileged position I have in the Covid-world - a nice middle class job that can be done sitting down in front of a PC at home. Compared to pretty much everyone else on the planet I have it just fine.

I just have noticed however, that I, and my coworkers are ... getting on less well. Maybe it's me, or maybe it's that the chats over cups of coffee, the walls in the fresh air chatting about projects or gossip or nothing much actually play a really strong role in maintaining team cohesion and trust.

It's hard to pinpoint a problem but things just are getting missed.

Maybe it was always this way. or maybe we have spent the good capital accrued over those cups of coffee and are now starting to creep into overdraft.

Anyone else?
There's nothing unethical about "capturing more value than you deliver" (well, assuming I understand you right; I'm interpreting that to mean side A gets say +10EV and side B gets +100EV). In free trade, both sides benefit; that's why they freely chose to trade with each other. It is a myth that one side can unilaterally benefit at the expense of the other side. So if you actually meant "it's unethical if the consumer is coming out of the transaction worse than they came into it", that can't happen under a system of free enterprise. (To the extent that you think it's happening, you are making a value judgement that a certain side is irrational or stupid to perceive a trade to be valuable)

Now, there are absolutely cases where there is unethical profit, but (under my worldview, at least) those are all cases where the state gives a company a special advantage, or literally gives it money. So, the following is unethical:

- bailouts of corporations ("corporate welfare")

- government providing an exclusive monopoly to a given company

- government de-facto forcing someone to buy a product due to coercion

The following is not unethical:

- making a product, offering it freely for whatever price people are willing to pay
To compare the two is to ignore so much context I can't imagine you're being anything other than disingenuous.
First we had GPL, then some people noticed the “over a network” loophole being exploited, so AGPL was born. Has the time come for FAGPL (F*** Amazon General Public License)?
I don't know what distinction other people make, but when I capitalize Open Source, I'm referring to Libre software, specifically of the kind that Stalman or the OSI would talk about.

Lower case open source is a term that I personally try not to use, specifically because of that confusion. I personally try to refer to that as source available or shared source when possible.
> Tuesday’s chaos arose after China Railway Shenyang failed to deactivate Flash in time, leading to a complete shutdown of its railroads in Dalian, Liaoning province. Staffers were reportedly unable to view train operation diagrams, formulate train sequencing schedules and arrange shunting plans.

> Authorities fixed the issue by installing a pirated version of Flash at 4:30 a.m. the following day.
>What AWS and others basically did is create identical services, keep all the profits, and exploit gaps in Open Source licensing to this end.

Gaps in open source licensing? The license Elastic chose explicitly allows anyone to take the code, run it as they wish, and not contribute anything back. There are other FOSS licenses that are slightly more strict about this; they could have chosen AGPL if they wanted someone hosting a service to publish their changes, for example. And then they could have used a proprietary license from the start if they didn't want others competing with them at all using their code.

Launching a competing offering using FOSS that someone else wrote is nothing new at all though. Red Hat built their business around subscriptions for and support of free software, much of which they wrote, but they hardly had exclusivity over the distribution (see CentOS and all the providers offering it) or the software they wrote. (It's all free software after all!)
The sarcastic reply comment was downvoted for a reason, but I will point out the HN guidelines do specifically request you don’t imply someone hasn’t read the article.

The fact that this thread went downhill immediately does indicate this might be a really good guideline.
For anyone who hasn't yet had the pleasure, Scott's (fiction) book Unsong is magnificent. It's one of the best books I read last year, and I read constantly.

http://unsongbook.com/

Ebook

https://github.com/JasonGross/unsong_scraper

Sample:

“I AM BUSY. I AM TRYING TO FIX CONTINENTAL DRIFT.”

“I…didn’t know it was broken.”

Uriel’s face became more animated, his speech faster.

“IT HAS BEEN BROKEN FOR FIVE WEEKS AND FIVE DAYS. I THINK IT BROKE WHEN I RELOADED NEW ZEALAND FROM A BACKUP COPY, BUT I DO NOT KNOW WHY. MY SYNCHRONIZATION WAS IMPECCABLE AND THE CHANGE PROPAGATED SIMULTANEOUSLY ACROSS ALL SEPHIROT. I THINK SOMEBODY BOILED A GOAT IN ITS MOTHER’S MILK. IT IS ALWAYS THAT. I KEEP TELLING PEOPLE NOT TO DO IT, BUT NOBODY LISTENS.”
> Do you have a problem with the “democrat” party

Its called the “Democratic Party”, and it is a proper noun, which distinguishes it visiually form the common use of “democratic”.
What downside exists for Elastic from making this change? If AWS makes valuable contributions on their fork, Elastic will absorb them, but the converse is no longer true. If the downside is that the AWS hosted ElasticSearch service will become successful, well, that was happening anyway before the relicensing.
The power output per old banana skin is not yet cost efficient. We have great hopes for the spin-off silver-visor tech however :-)
Secret message in White House website's source code seeks technologists
Having discussed this with Drew, I think he was really talking about what I, personally, should choose to work on. And I think he's right that I should work on the accessibility of free software as much as I can, rather than accessibility on proprietary platforms. I don't know yet how soon I can actually start doing this.
Facebook admits encryption will harm efforts to prevent child exploitation
Balaji is notorious for disliking the press. The Geneva Convention reference is a joke about that.
Maybe he's right, but those companies are bigger and not as easy a target. Parler got beat down because they made themselves a target and have no leverage to defend themselves.
I don't think suppression of thoughts based on regional majority opinion is a net good or a reliable method of dealing with extremism, violence, or people we just don't like. Not only does what's acceptable vary by region but each region is unlikely to agree with itself from 100 years ago. That's not a knock on popular opinion it's just a knock on using it to decide what's acceptable to discuss as it's clearly not consistent. Some say violence is the separator except there seems to be plenty of acceptance of "good violence" whenever it's not the minority opinion doing it so again it doesn't seem like a consistent way to decide what's good to discuss.

I hold the opinion that the only successful way to navigate to stability is education, open discourse, and constant discourse. The more in society that ignore other thoughts because they are convinced they are unequivocally correct on what's right or wrong (minority or majority) the more unstable society is going to be as they are driven to view everyone who thinks differently as the problem instead of searching for better answers.
> or for not liking the content being hosted?

Parler was widely distributing violent content from major leaders (c.f. Lin Wood calling for Pence's execution) in a movement that reality showed was a real and not theoretical threat (c.f. the mob chanting "Hang Mike Pence!" in the rotunda).

I really, genuinely, truly don't understand why people insist on understanding this only in the context of partisan censorship. Parler had been around for years, uncensored. Almost all it's major accounts had history on Twitter for years before that (often having been kicked off for similarly violent content, btw).

If Big Tech really, truly wanted to censor conservative opinions for partisan benefit... why did they wait until months after the presidential election to do it?
> But the deplatforming didn't make those people go away, it pushed them to platforms like Gab and Parler, right-wing echo chambers

It has the effect of preventing violent content from using adjacent nonviolent content (i.e. baby and pet pictures, nonviolent political advocacy) on the mainstream platforms as a kind of "human shield".

Of course, this is a disappointment for anyone who finds the normalization of violence-provoking content desirable.

The problem is that there already exist plenty of forums on the internet for non mainstream but non violent speech. The only speech seeking a home is the violent speech.