skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a pattern I started long ago where I have one drive to hold OS install and program files and one drive to hold data. Bottlenecks on storage IO are less common with nvme but my recent build is a workstation that runs a bunch of VMs and also serves as a DAW. I thought it better for each drive to have its own PCIe lanes. I'm also working on a 10G LAN and didn't want a bottleneck during disk IO.

You could also have IO storms with so many VMs, what if windows update start while 10 VMs kick of Ubuntu auto updates while at the same time a DB starts a backup job? In that case I don't want my web browser to slow down.
> If you follow all the rules and regulations it takes decades to profit when renting out homes

What do you mean by this? You still have the property which presumably hasn't depreciated in price.
And your friend might or might not know that the acquaintance is recording.
No, that's expected. The program you wrote might be minimalistic, but there is still a lot of code under the hood for the runtime.
If you compile a program that's twice as complex, you should still get roughly the same build time.
FWIW The compiler builds in about 30 seconds. And it's a really complex piece of software.
MacBook owners in seven states can be part of butterfly-keyboard suit
The guy is almost 70. Whether or not he is ever again going to voluntarily quit, the FSF needs to find someone equally able to carry the torch and figure out how to live without him if it's going to have any level of continued long run viability as an organization. You can't rely on milking labor forever out of people past retirement age.
Maybe it's just me but I feel like an agency like the IRS should go the PACER route and (re)build core systems in-house.
Some people change, most don't, and when one person changes, the other might be comfortable and not want any changes.

Sadly these things can and do happen. But we the people usually make it much worse by holding on to relationships that are past their date, for much longer than it's healthy.
I GNU the day would come!
Git Commands Visualizer, in Scala.js
From FB's policy https://www.facebook.com/help/230764881494641

" Claims that it was created by an individual, government, or country

Excluding claims that it was studied in, came from, or leaked from a lab without specifically calling it man-made"

So discussing possibility of a lab leak is not a problem, it's the deliberate bioweapon aspect that they're banning.

"The goal of this policy is to remove common viral hoaxes that have been repeatedly debunked by independent fact-checkers."
This article is written by a journalist who is clearly knowledgeable about safety practices and mistakes in US labs, but does not consider the extensive knowledge we have about the sequence of SARS-COV2. The preponderance of evidence supports a natural origin of the virus.

This is no way exonerates the Wuhan government from possible culpability—indeed government officials did deliberately suppress information—but this investigative opinion doesn’t pass scientific muster. Misinformation.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9
This is very clean and looks neat. Also cool that it's for Google Cloud Run.

Years ago I embarked on a sort of side project to create a blogging platform which runs on Google App Engine. It helped me learn a lot about Google App Engine & Python. When I decided to launch my latest project, I cleaned it up and deployed it for the project's blog - https://nocommandline.com/blog/
Disclaimer: I don't know anything.

> Python is also said to be beginner friendly and easy to learn but in fact there are a lot tricks hidden somewhere and if you want to be a professional python programmer, there are lots to learn and they're very deep.

Yeah. I'd add that to become proficient, you are also going to have to learn a bit of C and know your way around Python's bytecode. You'll have to learn the language and the interpreter.

I've never used a compiled language (shame on me), but I'm not aware of people learning the Go compiler aside from a couple of its options maybe.

The static binary thing is amazing, I love it. By now, a large part of my selfhosted stuff is written in Go and all of it is great so far (no causality, "just" correlation).
Congrats on the release!

The biggest factor drawing me to experiment a little with Crystal is that it is one of very few languages providing what otherwise has been pretty unique to Go: Lightweight threads+Channels+M:N concurrency (automatically multiplexing the lightweight threads onto a smaller number of OS threads).

Also it does it with a very readable and clean syntax.

Wrote a little about it, with code comparisons, before:

https://rillabs.com/posts/crystal-concurrency-easier-syntax-...
Good love to see more details on the Why rejects from them.
I meant to say two times other than Sars-CoV-2 (SARS and MERS).
Hi! Thanks for the feedback on diffs - it's something we're always thinking about and working on in the group.

One of the things we're currently working on is putting monitoring in pace for all the of the diff limits - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/31063. The goal here is that we can further fine tune some of the limits in place to continue to help with larger merge requests.

The group also spent some time investigating ways to improve the blocking time for large merge requests and you can see some of the discussion around that here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/295237.

The last issue I'll drop here is https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/241841.

You can also see all of the other issues related to performance that the Code Review group has been working on in GitLab here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues?scope=all&utf8...

Thanks again for the feedback - and know that this is something we are looking in to.
How do we prove that accused people are not guilty of crimes then?
I like panpsychism: everything in the universe exhibits varying degrees of "consciousness."
It can be both! The lab could have mishandled a natural specimen, causing first human infection.
>The OS, files and configuration which can be unchangeable are trivially replaceable and thus does not really need to be protected.

Precisely the wrong way to think about this.

If the OS can't protect itself, you've got a system with zero security.
I can't believe that Mr. Daszak is on the origins team... nothing like letting the accused do the investigation.
As you lose weight your body needs less energy because there's just less tissue to keep alive. So in order to continue losing weight at the same rate you have to reduce calorie intake further (or burn more calories).

If you think you have a metabolic problem then get a resting metabolic rate test. That will tell you your baseline daily calorie burn.

https://www.dexafit.com/services/rmr-metabolic-test
With advice, you have to read it, decide if it works for you and then utilize it or discard it. You do not have to decide if it works for everyone and discard if it doesn't.

There are aspects of MMM's that anyone can do, but obviously the huge income he got after retiring from the MMM blog is unique to him (and the few really successful FI bloggers) and for many, just having insufficient income compared to the cost of living will be a roadblock. In general, this post seems to be a rebuttal about these ideas people have about MMM - https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2018/10/05/the-fire-movement....

I mean if you want everyone to have the same opportunities, you are welcome to give up the advantages you might have so that others get better opportunities. Or you can look at your own life and decide what's best for you.
society has a real fucking problem adopting things that are good for them. we all hate iotshit, but how many of us go the extra mile to do ethical, consumer empowering iot? no one. folks like tp-link suddenly close down their devices & all the home-assistant & handful of webthings users cry & are sad. screw you, you bought unethical hardware & circuit/software bent it to your will, but now it's chuffed. it was never an ethical enough start, even though you tried to empower yourself, you got wicked wicked burned. rarely do ethical, proper chances come along to try & support.

webinos was so noble, so good, such a well thought of way to do iot. that had all the right priorities.

it's fair & easy to call this a catastrophe, a disaster. but it keeps feeling to me- and this is dark- that the real disaster is us, mired in a deep deep inability to evaluate the free market of ideas, & pick actual good ones.

it makes me absolutely desperate to believe the "1000 true believers" thesis, or as I once heard it, the "follow the alpha geeks" thesis. i want to believe change is not that hard, if you can get users empowering themselves & each other. webinos never got 1000 true devs. but, to me, we are all to blame. and we will suffer endless tales of how bad iot is for decades to come as a result. how can society better adopt?
Because buying the models even at GW prices is likely cheaper than the time and effort necessary to do a good job of printing them. Model piracy does occur but it takes the from of Chinese recasters making molds directly from the model sprues. That all being said there is a market for this and my guess is the BOM cost of the hardware necessary to make a 3D scanner capable of resolving the detail of a tabletop mini is in the $10-$30 range right now. No way there's enough market to foot the bill of SW dev tho.
Every single living person has a priori knowledge that it's not just a language issue.
> Warning: this book is non-fiction and is scary.

It may be scary, but it's not non-fiction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_257#Discredited_consp...

> A discredited 2004 book entitled Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory fueled the conspiracy theories. Archived specimens show that Lyme disease was endemic well before the establishment of Plum Island laboratory. Additionally, Lyme disease was never a topic of research at Plum Island, according to the US Department of Homeland Security and Department of Agriculture.
I use blueiris for the recording and viewing (including their mobile apps), works really well. I have ~15 PoE cameras on it, adding a few more soon.

Camera's I use are all inexpensive sv3c camera's off Amazon and they have been great overall. The one exception is I do run a different brand of dome cameras. I run all the cameras on a separate lan that is isolated and can't communicate to anything but the blueiris box.
Paging Greg Egan
So, let us frame it all up another way:

Forget RMS. Does the FSF matter to you personally?

Why or why not?

If it does matter, I submit the best course of action is to help others better understand.

If it does not matter?

...
Sweetgreen's Operating System
My experience porting C++ stuff into Java/.NET, with occasional native libs, most of the time using a GC based language is more than enough for the expected system performance.

Naturally it requires understanding the whole stack, how to improve performance in general, picking the right data structures and algorithms as well.

Of course, there are scenarios where that might not be enough, and that is where a C or C++ native library might come into play.

No need to be siloed into a single language.
The cost of a standard unit of insulin
Except that experts have visited Wuhan and never found evidence of the theory proposed in this article. I think it is time to stop spreading even more disinformation about this deadly disease. If the US government had taken the virus seriously as the Chinese did, we most certainly wouldn't be in this situation.
Yeah, I've had bad luck with raid consumer/prosumer gaming motherboards. I do like raid on servers, my r430 cluster has PERC 730 raid cards, never had a problem.
So, in the context of the bay, rather than paying my $3k/mo rent, I should buy a $1 million dollar home?
I think you are confusing “lab leak” with “lab manufactured.”
> It's not a defense, obviously, but it's enough to ask not to use the word "assault" when talking about those accusations because it's clearly misleading.

Is it though? If the victim was coerced, and he’s complicit in causing a great deal of harm, why wouldn’t we call it assault? Not all sexual assault involves battery, and pretending that it does is silly.

>Like, c'mon, showing up in that thread to argue about used words is the most on-brand thing he could do.

I don’t think I ever argued this was atypical behavior for him. The fact that it’s expected is the part I find unacceptable.
Sequence Data Source for Apache Spark
It's a good question for your financial advisor assuming you have one.

One of their jobs is crunching the numbers to answer the exact question you're asking.

We recently went through this with our financial advisor. We're the same age, only have one kid, east coast HCOL area, live well below our means, very similar savings as you.

Rough answer was we could do a normal retirement in our early 50s if we could get closer to $6M nest egg with an assumption of spending a bit higher than your current expenses in retirement.

FI/RE seems to be financial advising minus the personalized advice and the regulations and plus the silly social media influencer/huckster side of things with a side dose of "retire well below your normal standard of living" to retire early.

One of the tricks for me to balance things is realizing the startup game is too rigged.. it's way easier to make solid/reliable returns working at high performing public companies that award equity. I've been through quite a few exits, but as time has gone on each exit was worse and worse because the founders and investors get more and more of the pie. And working at the public companies tends to be way more life/work balance.
"I have heard so many news about a guy winning more than 100 millions from Powerball. I couldn't image that it won't happen to me in the future." That's my translation of this article.
Why does the user have access to the backups?
Related:

I captured the Iceland volcano eruption from up close - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26543533 - March 2021 (14 comments)
Wednesday – the first fully cloud-native, distributed OLAP platform
You misquoted me, I said 'IMO...'

I've worked in several labs, created several viruses (non-pathogenic) myself. People are careless, did you read the article?
Related:

Live feed from Iceland erupting volcano [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26538005 - March 2021 (135 comments)
I'm even more worried they'll shut off the API at some point and start going hostile to third-party clients.
And navies!
The complexity is about the bare minimum to express concepts like concurrency, pointers, and interfaces, in my opinion. The ways Go seems complex are because it doesn't try to hide how memory works as much as other memory-managed languages, and in turn, as an engineer, you can write application and web-level code that performs almost as well as C and gets you thinking about things like a C programmer. I think Go just seems familiar to people that come from a variety of languages.

For me, the simplicity, batteries-included, and minimal primitives are a breath of fresh air, whereas in many languages I've felt like I have to learn "a whole new thing" each time I plug in a new library or try a new framework. Go has a web server, JSON, SQL, crypto, compression, and more built in, and it's all stuff you'd want to use directly in production. In Go, code and docs are just easier to write and navigate too. Compare, for instance, the prevalence of Reader/Writer types to how all-over-the-place implementations of buffers and asynchronous code are in other languages and ecosystems, or how many different build systems, dialects, and frameworks most languages have. The locality of most Go packages means you'll find better docs and help, and more canonical examples of how to do something.

Swift is another "deceptively simple" language to me. Swift has quite a few features, which means more prerequisite knowledge to read code "in the field". You're less likely to understand code by looking at it because there's more ways it can pan out while the developer is thinking about how to write it. I found that to be an especially big problem with JavaScript; I generally tell people to start writing JavaScript with a particular toolchain like React/TypeScript so they can set up a project and get on the right track fast. Go's ecosystem is opinionated but still just flexible enough, as I would say most of the features are.
Hi! I'm not sure if you've seen this, but in GitLab 13.0 we released commit based navigation for merge requests. You can read more about this in our docs, but we'd love any feedback you have on the feature.

Documentation: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/revie...
When did experts ever visit the labs in question?
Maybe you have this but a way to align with a master timeline or set of timelines would be great too. Master timeline would have a bunch of branches like git does.
But you are then archiving data (not just backing it up), and will need to work out how to delete records you are no longer legally able to keep.

(GDPR and earlier laws, etc.)
I'm open to entertaining any company really, but ultimately the question it boils down to is: "Is the new job/company good enough that I'd jump ship from my current job?"

Not just pay of course, although I'd be lying if it wasn't a factor at all. I'd be willing to jump ship for the same (or even less) pay if other characteristics of the new company made it worthwhile.
You should read the actual book, because it addresses both of these points.
Subreply – A Simple Social Network
previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26338525
The point of content marketing blogspam is to pester the reader with AdWords and the occasional affiliate link.

Old-school useful content is rarely monetized, just someone sharing their passion for something. Occasional affiliate link, with the obligatory apologetic "hey web servers cost money, so I included some affiliate links here!"

The uselessness is just a side effect of Google directing you toward paying customers.
That's true, but there's more to overall health than just weight management. You can't under-eat a sedentary lifestyle.
While we are at it: The popular hair loss medication minoxidil is HIGHLY TOXIC to cats.
Not everything reported has to be a proven fact. Theories, ideas, there's room for all sorts of things in life that aren't certain.
Crystal doesn't use significant whitespace (like Ruby).
The lawsuit only applies to 2011, Although in Backblaze's case it looks like a situation where their web team made a mistake building a custom Facebook tracking pixel. They are 100% intending to send tracking information to Facebook.
> she owns these properties outright but has not collected rent on either since April and May of last year...

Is this not just due to the eviction moratorium?
Documentation links (incomplete):

// +linux

Dunno -- help, anyone?

//go:embed

https://golang.org/pkg/embed/

// #include <stdlib.h> import "C"

https://golang.org/cmd/cgo/

// go:generate

https://golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Generate_Go_files_by_processi...
No they don't if you own a tapelibrary.
If the gang thinks you're a big enough target they will make sure your backups are wiped if possible.
The only thing that's going to Help is to seperate the backup infrastructur and pull the backups mit push them.
It's just a type of sensation!
What is amazing about how difficult these interviews are is that these companies (not including Netflix) put out bad products. Amazon Fire - terrible hardware, terrible software, Microsoft Windows ME, Windows Vista, Windows 8/8.1, etc etc
Says the person who has dictatorial tendencies and put a lot of effort into undermining any form of free and independent reporting...

Who also happens to be often criticized by the press (independent of it being free or not).

Who is also bad at handling critic and was cough lying about small relevant facts just because he didn't like them.

But the most sad thing is maybe he is right in that a lot of the established US press is a lot less free then it should be. Which actually isn't what that article says. What the article says is that the media is less free because of big tech having gone wild. Which is a much more complicated topic. Because random anonymous private person opionons are generally not seen as being "part of press" but on social media they are (sometimes indistinguishable) mixed up with press reporting.

Which still isn't the same as there not being free press.
>the exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service.

What's your point?
You are indeed misunderstanding the point.

Smallpox is also naturally originating virus. That doesn't prohibit it from leaking from a lab.
Bogus Android Clubhouse App Drops Credential-Swiping Malware
Here is the 9th Circuit opinion:

https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2020/04/09/1...

Nice typo in the 2nd paragraph.

Here is the orginal publication of Facebook's wiretapping, and the Facebook response where it denied the tracking was used for advertising.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110929182141/http://nikcub.app...

https://web.archive.org/web/20110927040818/http://venturebea...

https://web.archive.org/web/20110929182141/http://www.huffin...

This was first reported in 2011. Note how long it took to get to the point where Facebook is being legally compelled tell the truth.

IMO, this also highlights the difference between tracking as one issue and what a company may do with collected data as another. Arguably the second issue is the most important. It is easy enough to discover the presence of tracking, but discovering what companies do with collected data is more difficult, and perhaps requires compelled discovery in the context of legal proceedings.
Recent and related:

Europe's Vaccine Disaster - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25964197 - Jan 2021 (418 comments)

I think there have been other threads as well?
If you have that much in the bank and you're worried about how a gap year will affect your future, then I'm royally screwed.

I want to take some time off, but I've got significantly less to fall back on. I wish I didn't earn so little for so long. It feels like by the time I catch up I'll be regular retirement age anyway.
Loyal is working to develop therapies that treat the causes of aging in dogs
Why would it be more feasible this virus is leaked from the lab other than some wild animals from the market itself?

Either can be equally believable yet impossible to prove.
This is perfectly legal in most of the US.

Famous people and their paparazzi followers probably know all too well that when you are anywhere an eye can see from a public location you can be recorded.
Wow. Why every comment questioned your argument is downvoted or even dead?

> is-ought 34 minutes ago [dead] [–]

> Can you link to something that proves this is the criteria used for lab placement?

How is this even dead? It's only asking for a reference.
"independently wealthy" is the normal word choice. Or "fuck you money" from the gambler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJjKP8vYjpQ
I suggest whoever made this website try opening it on a phone. It’s really, really bad. I could make a better mobile friendly site in a weekend. Also, I found no link to the source code which is odd for an open source project. The pricing is pretty steep too. Considering the quality of that website and the hefty list of Fortune 500 companies listed as being users of this product, it gave me the impression that this is a scam site with a fake product.

https://supabase.io on the other hand is a great open source project working to be a replacement to firebase for those interested.
I recall China passed an urgent law at lightening speed to enforce safe practice in the bio-virus-labs across the nation a few weeks after the outbreak. It might tell you something.

Also it refused fiercely to let foreign experts in to investigate, which is also hard to explain other than something MUST be hidden at all costs.