skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on exactly what you mean. While you may not have intended it to be, this question is more philosophical than technical. Extended conversations I've had on this topic eventually drift toward subjects like the Ship of Theseus [0] and essential vs accidental properties [1]. For the sake of conversation, lets say your preferred distro is Fedora. If you replace Fedora's web browser with one from Arch, are you still running Fedora? What if you replace the kernel with one from another distro? And the init? Are you still running Fedora if you swap out every single file that is unique to Fedora?

Bedrock does not currently support being "uninstalled"; it has to be formatted over, like traditional distros. This is for two reasons: (1) I currently have no way of ensuring any one slice of the system is functionally complete such that removing the rest of the system would leave something bootable. (2) I don't want to advertise support for something active Bedrock users do not themselves regularly exercise, and by its very definition active Bedrock users won't uninstall Bedrock. In theory with enough effort Bedrock could be made uninstal-able, but I don't plan on investing effort there. If a user is interested in testing Bedrock out, I recommend using a VM or spare machine.

In every other workflow I can think of, Bedrock can functionally mimic being an alternative packaging system on top of whatever it supports. You can get most of your system - including the install process - from some distro, then use Bedrock to get features from other distros in a way that "feels" like it is "on top" of your original distro. Whether it is "on top" is a matter of semantics rather than practice.

With the next major release (0.8) I plan on supporting running Bedrock in something akin to a container. This would let users uninstall it and be less ambiguously "on top" of a traditional distro, but come at the expense of not integrating with the host environment.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/essential-accidental/
> Isn't that literally supposed to be the sales pitch for the cloud?

Yes.

But a sales pitch is the most positive framing of the product possible. I wouldn't rely on the sales pitch when making the decision about how much you should depend on the cloud.
It's a misconception that all wet markets transmit disease; they are basically markets that sell fresh foods like vegetables. A portion, probably a minority, sell "exotic" animal meat, and even then "exotic" is a biased perspective.
>> Learning to fence and joust are very dangerous activities even in modern times.

Horses. Even today, horses are profoundly dangerous. Go to any hospital warn dealing with neck injuries. Young men fall off motorcycles, and so are generally a little older (16+). Young girls break their necks falling off horses. That particular fall (head first off a horse) is horrible. The neck takes all the load. Helmets protect the skull, not the neck. Obama once said that if he had sons there would be a conversation about them playing football. If I had daughters, they would not ride horses.
I would like to second this. How do you ensure this data and service won't be used to spread evil?
I dunno, do our drink driving laws sometimes get political freedom campaigners or sex workers murdered?
I absolutely refuse to take part in these kind of primitive experiences. If life has gotten to this dire point, spare the team members time and do a course on management as it is likely you need it.
True enough. Though, any jobsite we were on lacking indoor plumbing also typically didn't usually have children actively living in them when we were there working.

But I do see the point.
> If it’s under a heavy load, then it feels frustratingly like a waste of time when you could be getting things done.

On the other hand, companies/teams shouldn’t force you into such high workloads that being human with your coworkers feels like a waste of time. You’d be surprised how many wasteful discussions, long meetings, bike shedding debates, and managerial overhead melts away when people talk the same language and understand each other’s quirks.

Was that snark or is the person just tired? Are they rude or busy? Are they slacking or dealing with a newborn? So much easier to understand nuance when you know the people you work with.
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Facebook is not being singled out. Look what happened to Parler. It is probably worse in terms of Parler since Facebook and Twitter were used to coordinate the capital riots and Parler was just the scapegoat.
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Counter-point: I hear from a lot of women that I work with that too much video game talk makes them feel excluded. And many of the die hard gamers I work with don’t want to play casual games. Video games aren’t appealing to everyone, so carefully choosing the right games for your team would be very important.

I’ve been making time for more one-on-ones and mentoring, which has been going well for my team.
Another benefit of partial indexes is to limit a unique constraint:

create index users_email on users(email) where status != 'delete'
Totally agree with that. You know what I like to do with my friends? Bitch about my work. Vent about how idiotic our sales people are, mock how delusional our roadmap for the year is. That's for my friends, not my coworkers, not my manager who's trying to be my buddy.

Yes, I will occasionally have true friends at work with whom I can talk about that on a private channel, but that's the exception.
I'm not sure it was a better understanding so much as it was much simpler back then. There were no radical changes to the GUI since 95/NT 4.
> "Wet markets" are just farmers' markets

Well...I guess their definition of farm animals is considerably broader than ours...:-)
I read and it says you have to use a third party host or host on your own [1]. I’m not sure how this differs from the WWW - could someone explain? Thank you!

[1] https://solidproject.org/users/get-a-pod
One of the known things is that babies who get seriously sick somewhere in their first year have a better immune system for life. So yes, failing to be exposed to viral diseases can be bad for you.
Citadel Securities is a subsidiary of Citadel LLC (aka Citadel Investment Group). If RH upsets Citadel LLC (the ones who invested in Melvin Capital), then you can be certain they will also upset Citadel Securities (the market maker who account for 45% of RH's PFOF revenue in Q3 2020). The conflict of interest looks pretty clear to me.
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Ideally I am looking for a role which works on state of the art systems for ethically applied machine learning, DSP, and data sciences.
Marcan finds Apple Silicon binaries in most recent XNU source dump
Yeah this article's claim is going to be extremely hard to swallow.

The report reads like a textbook example of cherry picking data and surveys to suit their agenda.
As long as you've got primary keys on the huge table, there's a hacky solution -- create a second table with columns for just the first table's primary key and the columns you're indexing and your desired index, and ensure you always write/update/delete both tables simultaneously using transactions. Then when needed, use the index on the second table and join it to your first with the primary key.

Annoying, but it should work for most queries I'd expect without too much SQL.

I've definitely "rolled my own indexing" like this in the past, though it's more often been duplicating strings into a custom "collation" or other transformations.

Another solution is simply to split your table in two, with the same columns in both, and the index only on one of the tables. But of course that really depends on your business logic -- queries that need to retrieve data from both tables together can get pretty hairy/slow, and if you've got auto-incrementing PKEY's then avoiding collisions between the two tables can be tricky on its own. So this is definitely the less general solution.

Of coure it certainly would be nicer if MySQL supported partial indexes. It seems so useful, I'm surprised it didn't happen long ago.
While I think gemini is a cool 'hideout' on the web, it seems a lot of content served over gemini is also served over http. Does anyone know of any message boards like The Midnight Pub[1] that are served over gemini only? After some browsing, I couldn't find any.

[1] https://midnight.pub/

gemini://midnight.pub/
> Isn't that literally supposed to be the sales pitch for the cloud? Get away from the infrastructure as a whole so you can focus on code, and let the cloud providers wave their magic wand to enable scaling?

Clearly there are limits even with the largest cloud providers. You'll have to engage a bit of critical thought in to whether you're going to get near those limits and what that might mean for your product. Obviously that's easier said than done, but you could argue that the cloud providers are still giving you reasonable value if you can pass the buck on a given issue for x years.
http://archive.is/fq8VZ
For more, I recommend reading "Concurency: The works of Leslie Lamport".

https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.1145/3335772#issue-downloads

All of the chapters are freely available (scroll down to "Book Downloads").
Yet another news article that doesn't link the damn paper.

"The hygiene hypothesis, the COVID pandemic, and consequences for the human microbiome"

> This pandemic intersects with a decades-long decline in microbial diversity and ancestral microbes due to hygiene, antibiotics, and urban living (the hygiene hypothesis). High-risk groups succumbing to COVID-19 include those with preexisting conditions, such as diabetes and obesity, which are also associated with microbiome abnormalities. Current pandemic control measures and practices will have broad, uneven, and potentially long-term effects for the human microbiome across the planet, given the implementation of physical separation, extensive hygiene, travel barriers, and other measures that influence overall microbial loss and inability for reinoculation. Although much remains uncertain or unknown about the virus and its consequences, implementing pandemic control practices could significantly affect the microbiome.

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/6/e2010217118
Wrong, the P/E ratio dramatically increased this year.
The Ottawa Citizen said the paper was published in "the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science in the U.S." and listed one of the authors as "Brett Finlay"

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/6/e2010217118

It has a heading "PERSPECTIVE" -- is that like an op-ed for science?

Title: The hygiene hypothesis, the COVID pandemic, and consequences for the human microbiome
Not a lot of concrete advice here to be honest

> While yes is easy to say, it’s hard to live.

Things like this just don’t mean a whole lot. Maybe it’s helpful to people that need to hear it though.
We work in a small, seven person company. And with a small company, we assumed working remote would be fine for us.

We found that everyone has become quite a bit more miserable. The outgoing people are spinning their wheels furiously, and the introverted employees got in these really bad mental funks.

I think we often forget that for a LOT of people out there, work is the primary source of friendships and human relationships.

We started setting aside time specifically to do something fun once a month and even as corny as it is, it really helps.
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What are you talking about? I read that in the article before I even made my post. Don't slander people with false accusations like that.

EDIT: I even still had the browser tab open from when I first read it. I opened the page up in a new tab and ran a diff between them. There was no difference anywhere in the article.
If I understand correctly they insist on no re-use of connections. That one makes no sense to me and guarantees any compliant client will be slow. So people will make "fast clients" that just ignore that rule.
It would depend what they get out of it. It wouldn't have to be called a union. A certificate, code of conduct kind of thing would already be interesting.
This WSB post[0]collects a large list of links to stories in mainstream media about silver...it's really something.

Reminiscent of Paul Graham's old piece about how PR works, The Submarine[1], but this time it's not the suit that's back, it's silver.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/la4b3t/dont...

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
I believe it's this: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/6/e2010217118
And now you are editing your blog after the fact to disguise the misleading allegations about Citadel you made.
I think the exception to this rule is Partnerships and even LLPs. But otherwise I generally agree with this sentiment. Let's not sugarcoat the exchange of monetary remuneration for value added.
We've made a bunch of new hires since transitioning to remote. We tried many things to help new employees feel a part of the team.

A few months ago we started playing Among Us twice a week for 30 minutes in an optional happy hour. It has been a ton of fun, and has made a huge difference. You can't force people to socialize, but if you give them something fun to do, it happens organically.
I used the 2nd edition of this book for a class at the University of Minnesota. I didn't like it at first, but eventually I got used to the style and now it's my go to for reviewing distributed systems concepts. It's good at the introductory stuff, but I would like to see recommendations that would be good follow ons from this.
That's why I mentioned that if you want to put multiple applications inside a single container, you have to put it under supervisord or alternative. So neither would be the main process.
It's not just end users who would have to switch to Bing - the advertisers would also have to switch, and Google probably has better return on each advertising dollar spent on its platform.

I wonder whether Google might withdraw their service for a day or even just a few hours, to apply pressure on the government.
They also work to raise the lower countries’ population consumption levels, so ecology is just economy in the West, more spending in the East, but still exponential growth of our footprint.
Yes, different people's definitions of things vary based on where they are.
> but if all Google did was search, wouldn't they still be a profitable company?

Yes. Absolutely.

Though in fairness they would be more vulnerable in many ways. Competitors would be able to bring a lot more resources to the table.
Okay. I don't want to go too far off topic here but the OP is about F# so I'm certain many enthusiasts will be here, and I have been waiting for this moment to get an answer to a very specific question regarding Elmish:

What is the point of the Elm architecture?

I cannot figure out why the `model`, `view`, `update` architecture is preferable to its OOP counterpart. That is, simply defining an interface for each of the above where `IView` and `IUpdate` each contain a single method with the appropriate parameters. That is objectively[0] cleaner!

The current recommendation is to create these ungodly unions for handling the view/update logic. It feels ridiculous and really starts to gum up your modules with implementation logic that is _entirely_ unrelated.

FP and OOP each provide different (opposite) faculties when dealing with the expression problem. FP says[1], "I want to optimize for adding new _behavior_ to the same pieces of data" (one can add functions that operate on the same data without needing to recompile). OOP says[2], "I want to optimize for adding new _data_ with the same kinds of behavior" (one can add classes encapsulating different data that have the same operations without needing to recompile). How does the above square with an architecture built around a set of _single_ functions that operate on different (changing) pieces of data?

The Elm architecture seems to have chosen the exact wrong paradigm (and its associated semantics) for optimizing change! You aren't adding behavior as you build out your application in this architecture. You are adding _data_! The "behavior" is defined exactly one time (in the signatures of the `view` and `update` functions) and doesn't change. I must be missing something... is this really just so we can say "the complier will let us know if we forgot to handle a case"? That seems like a pretty hefty trade-off if you ask me. F# has this beautiful multi-paradigm capability and, in this case, it's been woefully ignored.

[0] Okay fine maybe not objectively, but it certainly seems preferable to modularize this logic.

[1][2] I get it. They don't actually say anything, but the general approach to the EP remains true for most cases.
It gets flak due to being unfinished (which is what the article is about). The movie itself jokes about it being unfinished a few times. It was also the first film released after Tarzan, which many say was the end of the 90s Disney Renaissance, so it was a tough act to follow and a tonal shift.

After Emperor's, we got mediocre films - with Lilo & Stitch being the only exception. Many consider Emperor's to be the first of this run.
Found by searching the author's name on Google Scholar.

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/6/e2010217118.short
> If Apple didn't react a week later, approach a lawyer. They'll likely be willing to work purely for 50% commission, because it'll be a slam dunk in court.

First of all nothing is a slam dunk in court.

Second even if you win you still have to collect and that assumes no delays and no appeals and no feet dragging.

Third it's not like you file and the court says 'oh we can fit you in next Tuesday' (sorry for the tone of that btw but I am trying to make a point).

Fourth, go try and actually find a lawyer that is willing to take such a small case. (ie 'up to $350k' is exactly that. Any opponent would settle for vastly less money. If not they just drag things on.).

> Of course, one would hope that Apple will do the right thing, but it's also reasonably easy to force their hand.

Apple also has a motivation to not create a precedent by settling a case that might just insure future cases against them.

Not saying impossible. But all of this assumes even there is a case and not some legal carve out for Apple (or whoever you are suing) or leg to stand on.
No, the cloud provides scalable infrastructure, but once you are in the 0.01% and you have very unique usage patterns, you still need to know how to set up your infrastructure for your needs. The difference is that instead of writing and managing a scalable cache, you just need to build the layer that knows to pre-provision for that scale/talk with AWS to make sure the system has sufficient capacity.

The cloud isn't some magic thing that solves all scaling problems, it's a tool that gives you strong primitives (and once you're a large enough customer, an active partner) to help you solve your scaling problems.