skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is some self-similarity going on (Mandelbrot discusses scales from 1000 km to 10 km) but rocks or coastal sections with the fractal dimension of Great Britain on a scale of 1m or 10m are a rare exception.

I'm not an expert, but I think it's because as the length scale gets smaller, coastal erosion dominates the coastline, as opposed to an older force producing larger features, like glacial erosion or even plate tectonics. No reason to drag quantum mechanics into this discussion, but the circumference of an atom can be defined, so that's not a problem.

An actual Koch snowflake you can buy will always have a measurable circumference.

E: Some of this misunderstanding is actually due to Mandelbrot himself, he wrote in the introduction to [How long is the Coast of Britain?, 1967]:

> Geographical curves are so involved in their detail that their lengths are often infinite or, rather, undefinable.

No, they're not any more infinite than a toothbrush.
I don't understand the root cause... Did nobody at Fiserv know about example.com or the .invalid TLD?

I see this sort of thing ALL the time - documentation referring to completely made up domains like "newcustomer.com", and it soon makes its way into software becoming real world DNS lookups for these placeholder domains. Nobody ever goes back and changes them and there's no monitoring or awareness that it's an issue.

Please take a moment to read BCP 32 - https://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp32 if you do not know about example.com or the .invalid TLD.
Alternatively, humans hunted the big games to death after acquiring big brains that enabled more cooperation when hunting. Curious if the decline in big game happened in places without humans.
i googled your first nit and it appears that has been fixed. wsl flags an entire directory as case sensitive upon creation. ntfs supports case sensitivity.

the other two im not sure i will use (i have custom dns in my house i can use instead of hosts and don't do local triggers)
I think it's going to be a really tough sell to convince me or anyone else that we should pay more in cash or attention for products to subsidize developing nations. We've been doing it for decades on things like tech and pharmaceuticals and it seems like people are getting tired of sacrificing for the rest of the world.
> If "used to be" counts, then the bare minimum is whatever it takes to get someone to pay for it, like in the literal snake oil days.

I’m advocating for higher standards, not lower. With regards to the COVID vaccine, we’ve decreased the quality and quantity of research performed over what we’ve done for previous vaccines.

It sounds like you’re saying that the research on these vaccines is better than before. Which is confusing because they have not obtained FDA Approval. If they had been tested to the same rigor as other vaccines, they would have received this Approval.

> implying that it can never make sense for the FDA to change how they do things.

Again, that’s not what I’m implying. I’m implying that we should change how they do things in only one direction- more safe. Long term research and vigorous testing.

Not rushed testing who’s new rules are dictated by industry-captured regulators.
Hobby OS powered, Chinese, counterfeit Apple products.......Yikes.
this is great, except apparently there's no support for containers? is that on the roadmap?

thanks!
> COBOL programs do what they do. They do not have specs

And nothing around them is standard either. No database, no best practices, no comments in code. Combined with

> OBOL programmers were often meant to be "less" than real programmers.

you get programs that are completely unmaintainable. Contrast this with the first versions of UNIX or BSD (written around the same time) and you can still build and understand them pretty easily. That's the difference between programmers and software engineers.

> This said, the kind of things you could do on a IBM mainframe in the '70s (virtualization, data safety and efficiency, disaster recovery, even uptime) still run rings around the 90-core boxes with Linux that are in your datacenter racks.

All through obscure, proprietary APIs and along with a hefty support contract from IBM. Making sure nobody in academia or in SV could get within 500m of a mainframe sure helped them become more than a niche.
Netgear Nighthawk Wi-Fi routers go mesh
Sure. Absolutely nothing specific to tech. In fact, many big tech companies have a much better IC career ladder, mostly but not entirely for engineers/devs, than non-tech companies do. Sales is the main exception I can think of.
Yes. But writing a letter to friend (or automating your accounting in Excel) differs from writing "War and Peace" (or writing an OS kernel). I think everybody is capable of learning to do the former, but have a really hard time beliving the same for the latter.
AFAIK double-precision performance is artificially crippled on consumer RTX cards to differentiate from professional Quadro and Tesla.

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/nerfed-fp64-perfo...
On the one hand, I'm glad they're calling this Amazon Care so I know to stay a million miles away from it. On the other hand, why on earth did they attach the Amazon name to this? Does anyone actually want Amazon involved in their health?
> However, the older I get the less enthused I am about having to play around with config files...

I'm in my late forties and I don't play with config files a lot because... Once X11 / Awesome WM is set up it is set up, well, for years. Literally years. Does not move: not a iota.

At times I've had my "workstation" (just a big PC) with an uptime of 6 months. 6 months of uptime, for a desktop. That's how stable things can be. (I had my reasons for leaving my computer up at night for one of its core was computing something: but that's not the point... The point is these Linux and BSDs can be so stable you can, if you want and kernel security patch excepted, easily reach one year of uptime).

My current desktop PC is six years old and I'll soon buy a new one and I'll reinstall everything from scratch: I've got notes and may need to "fight" new hardware and whatnots for a few hours (if I'm unlucky) but then hopefully I'll be good for another six years?

The thing is: if you don't like tailoring your system to the way you like it to work, then you're forced to use the way others thought it'd be best for you...

So, sure, it may be a bit more work than a Windows or OS X machine, but the stability and uptime is also on a whole another level.
I agree that it served no purpose, and yet this thread appears to have found one: the virulence of the objection is so out of proportion to the magnitude of the change that it raises the question of just what is really at the root of it.

It is entirely about those "annoying liberal scolds"... and the way anything they say will be turned into an existential crisis. I feel like this is less about any actual change as a constant search for a thing to be aggrieved about, and when found, pounced on with absolutely maximum force.

I think of it as "vice signaling": performing the objections without even a moment's thought, not for the purpose of refuting it but to be seen as being the most, loudest, most obnoxious opposition.
Makes sense, but weirdly I did not follow that route. I started on Unix, then learned about DOS, did not use it much, but I did switch my Unix prompt to use '> ', because I liked it better. The default '$' has too much visual clutter for me. BUT, when I post snippets of shell commands on the web, I use '$ ' because most people are familiar with it.
I look forward to the tech sector getting into fights with The Lorax, or more seriously, the Sierra Club.
I wonder if prime membership will get you your appointment sooner /s
Its actually not a statement about what I personally do, it gives context to why black Americans and other people of color would and have, at the surprising surprise to seemingly everyone.

The “right” simply does other things and a core part of that is rejecting virtue signaling even if that results in apathy that perpetuates adversity.

People are willing to choose the right, in absence of other choices, partially because it more honestly matches the last 250 years of apathy by all administrations. Where its clear there is a kind of vapid reckoning occurring in the left that simply assumes their minority constituents are all struggling victims that cant possibly be interested in any nuanced platform. And there’s just other things that Americans can be interested in like certain trade deals or certain people confirmed into government positions or something completely irrelevant. Your comment really suggests only some people have the privilege of playing the game of America. Within America, people on the left have trouble believing minorities could have any interest in that, as in the Democratic Party doesn’t factor it in at all, while their ranks are filled with posers who are willing to weaponize their understanding of race at a moment’s notice, no different than a self-proclaimed supremacist.
As someone who is 1/4 Irish, I'd say it's because we just don't care. The Notre Dame mascot is completely inconsequential. It's a mascot. Nothing more. Nothing less.

It's a privilege to not care. I feel sorry for everyone from other groups that are forced to care about inconsequential things because in aggregate all these inconsequential things that people demand that you care about end up being a denial of service attack, leaving you with less bandwidth to think about things that actually matter like working hard and working smart and building wealth.

If some group that was not Irish kept trying to get me and other people of Irish descent to waste brain cycles on such trivial non-consequential things, I'd ignore them and instruct others to ignore them.

It honestly boggles my mind that our culture has optimized for amplifying the voices of such people as it's so counter-productive.

I'm also 1/32 Native American and feel the same way about those mascots too.

It's honestly all so tiresome and wasteful of brain cycles. Heck, look how many smart people have commented on this story and all because these non-issues have been elevated to the point we're we are forced to waste brain cycles on this because it became intrusive and broke our work flows. Many activists in history have been great but much of what passes for "activism" today is not just useless, but actively counter-productive.
There are only two possible ethical positions one can take as a response to this sort of proposal:

1. It is absolutely OK to deliberately create and then kill other human beings, as long as they are under a certain arbitrarily-decided age before which we mostly agree that they are not really people yet.

2. It is always wrong to deliberately kill an innocent person and the only way to avoid this with certainty is to never destroy or interfere with a developing human from the moment of conception onwards.

Anything that is not (2) is some kind of hand-waving variation on (1). If you are not comfortable with taking personal responsibility for deciding when is the exact moment a person becomes a person, you may be more Catholic in your heart than you previously thought you were.
This is the closest to "cheems" or the spanish variant "chems" (my name on wormate.io where i've risen to the top ten a few times on Android) I've seen for the name of a YC startup.

May you go to the moon, and unlike poor Cheems, return home safely.

https://youtu.be/YWOZtGMer48

Kidding aside, I installed it and am impressed. One of the smoothest onboarding experiences I've ever seen! And it seems positioned better than most recommendation services to make money.

I also wonder how you coded it. Any chance it's a flutter app?
That's some neat blablabla but his argument is mathematical while yours is purely emotional.
Because of this problem, good terminals require confirmation before pasting any strings that contain suspicious characters, e.g. carriage returns.
Yeah, I think there is virtue in this approach. If I had figured this out back then (and if it were possible—I don’t know) I might have gone that route.
My prediction is that this is going to be generally good at the 95th percentile. Virtual-first care will drop costs significantly, improve outcomes (since you won't have to go in to a high-risk environment for many routine things), and be the forerunner of what will come: the breaking of the healthcare complex.
Absolutely, this is another thing I feel strongly about. People have limited energy, attention, resources. Every news segment that opens with

"pc gone mad! radical leftists want to ban the word "blacklist"!"

is a news segment that doesn't open with

"wages have been stagnant for the past 50 years despite gains in productivity"

"prices of tvs and smartphones falling, prices of housing and healthcare skyrocketing"

"statistical studies show voter preferences have near-zero correlation with effected legislation, while preferences of the wealthier 0.5% are very strongly correlated"

"hey have you noticed that the EU is hilariously undemocratic"

etc etc.
At a glance I couldn't find anything on IP rights. Do users retain full right on the content? Which permissions do users give SO in regards to content they host there and in which ways and for what purposes will SO use that content?
I think Slack is different than Gmail because people are actively having conversations, so if you disconnect, it is much more likely to be noticeable and annoying.

Reading between the lines, I think what they would need is a way to tell clients to move to a new websocket connection at the proxy layer. I don't think there is an easy built-in way to do this in the websocket protocol, so they would have to implement something custom in their application layer. This would also require triggering custom code in the client to make a new websocket connection, start using it, and then close the old connection.

I feel like it would have been simpler to just have the client do a graceful reconnect every 5 minutes. But they probably decided to use envoy so they could have the other advantages too.
I think this is one of those things where there are more people that love and trust Amazon vs hate them.
you're trying to claim Bitcoin will stop the actions of these bad actors?

Where did I claim that?
I'm sensing a pattern in these answers:

> There is no “solution” to The Rockstar Developer

> It is impossible to solve The Aspiring Manager

> The Extreme Overestimator... is fixable, but there is no will to fix it.

> if The Incompetent Developer had the capacity to learn software development, they would have already

> All in all, [The Soldier is] nearly an impossible problem to fix.

> There is no fixing The Legacy Maintainer

At least having disabused ourselves of the ability to actually try to address issues, we can now get rid of management since they clearly have no work to do!
I honestly can’t stand Amazon, but isn’t health care the kind of thing you want commoditized and streamlined? Amazon is in the upper echelon of doing this kind of thing.

I would much rather be able to request services in the way Amazon allows you to buy products than continue to engage in the current opaque system.
I'm not trying to diminish the experience of your ancestors, mine were also Irish.

But in most contexts, white privilege doesn't care about your actual ancestry. A 2nd generation black immigrant from Africa to NYC will face some of the same discrimination as a descendant from slaves. And with your white skin you will receive some of the same privileges as a wealthy descendant of the Mayflower.

It doesn't really hurt to recognize this, and it doesn't have to "erase" the pain that your ancestors went through. It's simply recognizing that there are inherent subliminal biases in our systems and society.
You never feel uncomfortable when you are the only non-white? I too am non-white and see myself as white, due largely to the way my mother raised us.

My Father is white and my mother is hispanic, but I've been asked if I am Asian or Pacific Islander many times. I've also noticed a distinct difference in how people treat me when they see me, vs virtual or phone.

I meant to draw attention to how many non-whites are forced to immerse themselves in mostly white groups and can feel ostracized in the US.
It's true. The constant accusations of "virtue signaling" are novel. "You don't really mean what you say; you just want people to think you believe it". It's quite annoying, but I soldier on.
It's interesting that you can categorize a number of the top comments according to this list.
That's not how this works.

It's a rite of passage for YC companies to be trashed by some guy on HN, before going on to become a Unicorn.

Stop encouraging them.
Typically; if you use the :compress feature, more like 14 meg.
> The problem is maintenance, it's a cost center, it doesn't directly generate revenue, so it's been eliminated.

It does (effectively), the problem is that it is on a long enough time span that the dividends don't appear until long after the decision makers are all long gone. Executives need to be compensated with annuities depending on the future performance of the company to disincentivise slash & burn profit farming.
> the Dr Seuss thing

Can I just briefly highlight that this wasn't "a thing" per se? This was a company privately deciding to pull some poorly selling publications from active publishing and adding a positive PR spin by calling out some questionable decisions in the art.

This was made into "an issue" by some pretty rabid media outlets rebranding it as government censorship while the decision was entirely privately made. That's a pretty terrible mis-categorization.

These sorts of controversies, from both the right and the left, sell news papers and that's the reason why media latches onto them so aggressively.
Or use tabbed/fullscreen/custom views.

The GP comment is so backwards that I wonder if they even used a tiling wm for any period of time longer than a day or two. Tiling window managers are better at managing many windows than having them all scattered randomly over a desktop with a traditional window manager.
To what benefit? The privacy policy can change next week and there ll be nothing you can do about it.

Unless you don't plan to read it as an individual but as part of an effort, like EFF does, to point out it's shortcomings.
That's usually seen as success though.

I'm fairly confident in saying no success has come without recovery from failure
Judging from the logo, the name is derived from the Russian word Babushka, which stands for a granny.
I’d guess that holding bonds until maturity in the form of a bond ladder was more common from 1980-2000, but since then bond funds have become more common.
Well.. Could be there right password but the account is misspelled...
Thank you! I'm hoping to get it on iOS soon. React Native doesn't make cross-platform development as seamless as they claim :(

I don't believe tinder has a patent on this! I believe Likewise, an app similar to mine led to by an actual business, uses swipe-to-like.

I'm also an indie developer, so take it with a grain of salt. If I ever really had the time and resources to make this app into something profitable, I'd probably be scared, haha.

P.S. I used this open source React Native library. Just thought they deserved a shoutout!

https://github.com/alexbrillant/react-native-deck-swiper
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Reminds me of a quote from Tolstoy: “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Those sound like excellent gains in and of themselves.
Money laundering is getting ever more obscure.
Conservatives recently realized that they can say the quiet part loud and not only will nobody punish them for it, more people will vote for you the louder you shout it.
words do matter.. if they didn't, none of us on the thread would be talking about it. You can't splain away how a person from a different group feels or why. What is nice about other SCM systems like Mercurial, Fossil, CVS, SVN.. or basically anything not Git.. is that the language is clear and not offensive to anyone. It really is that simple
opensea
Frequency illusion aka. Baader-Meinhof phenomenon? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
I learned about this concept during a talk at MozFest last week called "How to Get Open Source Projects Unstuck"
My team is going to love these!
When I first heard of chasse à la glu I thought it was a prank article. Surely, no one would want to be Mr Twit? But it is horribly real, and I can't but help think that people who do this should have to stand in lime.
Let me just thank you personally for the money I'm getting out of this. I went into Social Justice Warrioring for the feel-goods, but the buttload of cash is definitely a nice bonus.
Math mysteries like this fascinate me, because my first thought was that the problem is so simple it can't be that hard to solve.

Then, within 1 minute of trying it reveals itself to be something close to impossible.
The people pushing the agenda see racism everywhere. The attribution probably has never occurred to most people in tech, because they are not obsessed with other people's color or beliefs.
Looks like nothing can make you feel better at this stage if you can't infer that the intention was to help.
I am reminded of Antirez's experience on being pushed to rename the master/slave terminology in Redis: http://antirez.com/news/122

> I believe that political correctness has a puritan root. As such it focuses on formalities, but actually it has a real root of prejudice against others. For instance Mark bullied me because I was not complying with his ideas, showing problems at accepting differences in the way people think.
It is sad that as a culture we are loosing the value of freedom and bend over backwards to justify why it is ok for people to limit other peoples freedom

When i first got into the IT world many decades ago it was largely libertarian, free culture was rampant and attempts to lock down peoples speech, and freedom was viewed very badly

Today people like you find anything and everything to not only justify your Authoritarianism and desire for control over others, you do so by attempting to gas light people in to thinking you are actually supporting freedom

Sorry I was there, I lived through the rise of the internet, I lived through the crypto wars, I saw the raise of Free Software, and Open source, I saw it all first hand... I know the dangers if the society you desire, but it seems history will need to repeat itself before people will learn

This trend in some circles to limit speech and thought will not turn out good for anyone, never in history has speech codes and thought police been a good thing for society, and I see no reason to believe that the so called "progressives" that are leading this new round of authoritarian policies will turn out any different.
I've seen discrimination against Asians. Sometimes a current of disrespect or resentment exists. I also notice a distinct different between how an Asian, or non-white in general, is treated when they are in a superior position vs an inferior position.
Fair. In any case, I really wish we could drive an iron wedge between work and health. They're billing this as a workplace benefit, so it does nothing to get at one of the fundamental problems with American healthcare.
How to Program for 24 Hours Straight
The customers ultimately. Moderators should produce moderations which result in something people think is worth paying for. I'm thinking of a multi-rooted aggregation system. Wikipedia is an example of a single-rooted system.
Is general CUDA development permitted, or can I only use this for deep learning?

There's a simulation problem that I encounter often at work which should parallelize very well, and I was considering getting my feet wet with CUDA by writing a solver for it.
i would be a lot more sympathetic to the "Cricut is actually paying for these, so it does cost them money." argument if they hadn't also sued third-party software that would let you use your cricut locally without involving their cloud at all.