skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody is claiming that memory fences are free or that livelock isn't possible with lockfree algorithms. (Except in corner cases, such as carefully constructed RISC-V code where the architectural specification does guarantee progress in short tight ll-sc loops with proper instruction alignment.)

The LWN comment mentions spinlocks to improve worst-case performance of some lockfree algorithms, but that criticism doesn't apply to atomic increments / decrements on multi-issue CPUs. The latency of contended memory operations would completely hide the overhead of the add/subtract and make the atomic add/subtract equivalent to a spinlock. (Also, the LWN comment doesn't apply where the algorithm can be written within guaranteed progress corner-cases of the architecture, where applicable.)
> but moderate autism makes it incredibly hard to act in daily life in the same way moderate OCD does.

It's hard to live with moderate asperger syndrome, because you typically look and act normal, but are actually positioned in uncanny valley of behaviour. You try to act normally, but your responses are off enough to be mistranslated by others. You are expected to behave normally but you are missing those expectations. People who are visibly disadvantaged have lower expectations on them from the start.
You could just give them all the right to vote and rely on the fact that young people tend not to vote. It’s about the closest thing to a law of sociology that there is.
> In some countries Education is a human right and universities are free.

If you hint to European countries, our universities aren't free at all, we pay them via tax money. Not because "education is a human right" but because that's a more sustainable way to finance the system over the long term and education. Students still have tuition costs though, but of course not as crazy as what you have in the US.

But even in this context universities are reserved to a small number of people, mostly from a wealthier background, and the main reason for students to go to university is to have a "student experience" for a few years, not to learn the actual content. Only a small subset already knows what they want to do when they pick a university.
Paycheck. Ultimately how many people were prosecuted at Enron or Lehman Brothers? And honestly why wouldn't you be okay with it you're not killing anyone.
You're a public official in Germany. You have a pandemic raging that already killed 75000 with at most 25% of population that had a disease. On the other hand you have a vaccine that kills 37 for 17 000 000 jabs provided (360 if scaled to 2 jabs to everyone).

One death is of course too many. 360 even more so. But if an alternative is an extra 75'000 I know which choice I would like my public officials to make.
Some questions I have are

- what is this

- how do I pronounce the name (note there's a popular crypto tool called "age", which is "pronounced like the Japanese 上げ (with a hard g)")

- what are the alternatives (regular postgres, dgraph, neo4j, ...), and how do they compare, along whatever dimensions you like (performance, guarantees, scale, ease of use, license, ...)

- what are some use cases that are good for AGE vs the alternatives

- when do I not want to use this

- what does simple example usage look like

- what is the maintenance status, what does "(incubating)" mean, etc

But the github readme is a first-glance place, and once I've made it to the docs I might not go back to the readme. So the docs need to contain all that information.
That's a great question!

In the context of this post, I wanted to check how much work the Spring team had done so I did the trial-error-fix process on purpose.

On real-world applications, I suggest you use the Java agent that comes from GraalVM and go into every corner of your application. At runtime, the agent will record every interaction and at shutdown, will write all necessary configuration files.

You can check the documentation here: https://www.graalvm.org/reference-manual/native-image/BuildC...
Historically, Silicon Valley was created from government contracts and subsidies.
Although that might have been tongue-in-cheek, the word "about" could refer to the accuracy of the position, not its precision.

Precision != accuracy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision
That experiment has been run and it’s a major success, it’s the iPhone.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3273107/10-apple-acces...
Your iCloud album is no longer available "due to high demand"
The original Postal is now open source (2017)
On the other hand, the one message you don't want to get out is "we decided not to pause vaccinations because we were afraid of what it would do to the vaccine's image" - and if there were deliberations to that effect, that will get out.

Transparency can be painful in the short run, but in the longer run I feel like it's often the better option.
SolidWorks is pretty much by any objective standard better software. It's also extremely expensive and a product of the French military industrial complex; the fact that FreeCAD wasn't developed to aide the design of French warplanes, and that it is free, is really the only good thing about it.
I would love to visit Iceland this late Spring, it would be my second visit after my first one in 2008.

I am wondering if anyone knows what the covid-related restrictions are. I would go there primarily to hike, and secondarily to try to meet interesting startups.
Where does it say they make money from selling data?

What would be their motivation for just giving their customers data to Facebook for free?
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Exactly... all my b2 files are client side encrypted. It would be a really bad idea not to do that.
It's still revealing two levels of filename extesions - type of encryption and file format. Full filename should be simply random alphanumeric ASCII string without any filename extensions, although this requires to manage and store a map of keys and filenames.
Sure, but I suspect reducing unnecessary automation will lead to using noticeably fewer chips.

People have different preferences, but I think many, like me, would prefer a simple heater on/off and a linear stronger/weaker selection over a full climate control that auto-selects whether to run a heater or an AC and how much. My 2c.
Apparently Apple has rate-limited this shared album. I got to see the stunning footage before it was cut off. If you get a chance to upload it to another source, please circle back with a link!
That is ridiculous... Oh, an actual demand for the sharing service? Let's shut it down temporarily until the demand passes. Have they never heard of caching?
Strange take. Bulgaria has a skeptical and misinformed population so you blame the Danish health authorities for
taking a decision coherent with their mission, i.e., to protect Danish citizens?

I don't think a national health authority has to think about these things at all, honestly. I would distrust my local agency if I knew they didn't pause vaccinations that they thought should be paused in order not to affect the vaccine's public image. The problem lies elsewhere.
yeah but it's hard to determine "real" profitability when all the initial investment was made by the state and hte company itself is partly state-owned. i think the profitability or not is a bit of a red herring
(b) is allowed. This has been confirmed by the Austrian Data Protection Agency. (I haven't checked other DPAs, but they coordinate with each other.)

In the case above, a newspaper offered access to paywalled content for a small monthly subscription fee, and readers would consume it with zero ads, zero tracking.

Alternatively, they offered access with no monetary cost, but instead in exchange for tracking.

The DPA ruled this as fair because readers had a choice, and because the paid model was reasonable for a newspaper subscription (€6/month).

The key here is that starting with alternative (a) makes it a paywalled service, which is clearly legal (think Netflix). Also offering (b) just offers another mode of payment.

You wrote earlier: "GDPR breaks the normal monetization methods of the web." Well, smoking regulation broke (some of the) monetization methods of Big Tobacco.

Arguing against the GDPR here is besides the point. The GDPR is not an end, it is a means. The end is recognition of right to data as a fundamental right.

Re-writing your statement in light of this, the point becomes "Data as a fundamental right breaks the normal monetization methods of the web." Opinions will differ here.
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I’m hereby notifying you that I have now appropriated that term for my own future use. :)
> Even 1 death in a million outpaces COVID-19 deaths in young people

It absolutely doesn't

https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/11/18/covid-infection-fatalit...

In the 20-24 range it is 60 per million

40-49 range it is ~ 10x that
'Totally free' is usually a bad idea because the asymmetries inherent in the system are multiplied.

The OP argument 'everyone uses it' is also not super rational argument either on it's face - we all 'use food' and 'water' but we pay for those - the former in market terms, and the later is socialized on some level but still paid for by individuals on a usage basis.

1) You'd be happy to have people in villages and in the countryside pay for your transportation, who wouldn't? It's not fair or ideal, to have some people's tax money pushed heavily into systems that don't benefit them.

2) When things are 'free' we tend to use them in a way that does not reflect their true cost. Imagine if toilet paper were 'free' for everyone. We'd probably use a lot more of it, unnecessarily so.

The issue with metros is the intense capital costs and de facto monopoly status.

If there were 20 metros too choose from we wouldn't even think of socializing them, you'd just have to 'pay for it' literally like everything else.

The 'Strategic Advantage' in the metro is that it's actually a very efficient way to move people, but those efficiencies may not be realizable without subsidy.

So instead of 'free' - a reasonable solution might be to subsidize expansion while requiring regular Ops to be paid for out of revenue. Some investment in urban facilities is warranted vis-a-vis the countryside due to the big upside i.e. a large bit of social/industrial gain can be had by government investment that could not be had otherwise.
In the end they always win.

Even if they need to be dragged there kicking and screaming.
He really went for it didn't he? A bit lower and it'd be toast
Here is a list of automotive products offered by Renesas:

https://www.renesas.com/us/en/products/automotive-products
> tried to be gay

and getting murdered is not remotely like losing interest in commune life and leaving.
To me a good README needs to:

- tell what the software does

- list its requirements

- explain how to set it up

It must do this only relying on local files.

The README of AGE meets some of these. The description could better. I'd open with: Apache AGE is an PostgreSQL extension that implements the openCypher property graph query language.

I would remove the latest happenings from the README and keep them on the project home page which I would have a link to right after the description.

I would also I would include the source of Apache_AGE_Guide.pdf in the repository. It is fine to have a link to the already formatted PDF should some one be viewing the README on a device where building the software isn't possible. But I would not want a user to download a snapshot or the repository and then discover that they have to have further internet access to get the documentation.
Interesting comparison. Long term we badly need something to replace C (or at least minimize its usage drastically), so perfect should not be the enemy of good.

I hope something like Zig gets widespread adoption, including in embedded/IoT/automotive environments. Especially automotive. We're moving more and more life-and-death scenario-type tools into software.
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I guess my point is, given that we know that this strategy works, why aren't more Western cities' transport companies/departments copying that model? Why not trying to buy up or lease property in strategic locations and converting them into malls integrated with a metro/train station? In Tokyo you often find nearby malls connected to the station by underground walkways - I'm sure there's also a business model to be had where a percentage of revenue goes to the transport provider if they connect stations in that way.
Facebook may ask you to log in to view the video, here's a direct link to the video file:

https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t66.36240-6/10000000_...
It's more of the fact that S3 is expensive for storing lots of data, isn't it? I think tarsnap charges only a small margin on top of S3.
If chips are super scarce, that might be where we're headed.
Orca is hardly ever used, however, if that's what you have available, trying it is still miles ahead over not doing anything. There's a lot of things you could do to make an OK experience better, but the highest bang for the buck is making a broken experience at least work - and any screen reader will be able to help you discover that some part of your app is completely unreachable using the keyboard when navigating using the screen reader.
In the same sense as birds in a flock flee when one of them is attacked and start a distress call. Sperm whales enjoy a very long distance communication that allow them to keep contact at several Km.

> “We” and “us” may be more important than “I” and “me”

Not necessarily. It depends on the species and males and females behave differently. Some whales at least have a strong sense of individuality. They are one of the very few animals known to call other specimens by its individual name. The big sperm whales have a sort of matrilineal culture (Pygmy and dwarf sperm whales are solitary probably. Males definitely only care about themselves).

In any case this would be the common behavior, as seen in many fishes, spiders, mammals or birds.

Talking about societies in many dolphins is justified, and not a new thing. Like elephants or humans, they have grandmas also, that is also an uncommon trait. Grandmas keep mental maps of the territory. This is useful to drive the other members directly to that hidden submarine mount that is plenty of fishes. Grandmas also take care of the young whales in surface playgrounds while their mothers dive deep to hunt.
Language develops according to how people actually use it. There are two competing camps on the meaning of "open source"; I understand why there is a battle over it on ideological grounds, but I don't think it is necessarily a mistake, more of a different side of the debate. Much like how some people are pedantic about calling them "tissues", while a large body of people know the difference but just go on calling it kleenex. Not wrong, just a different culture of usage.
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26527848
“are constructed and the assets owned by the Land Transport Authority (LTA), who allocates operating concessions to two for-profit private corporations, namely SMRT and SBS Transit.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Rapid_Transit_(Singapor...

Singapore loves competition. The public hospitals are, well, public, but were restructured to compete with each other more like private businesses.
You need to put it in the context of over 500,000 Americans dead from COVID.

A proportion of which are directly and indirectly caused by the behaviour of young people.

So yes mental health of children is important but for many people not as important as staggering numbers of people dying.
Why not just use client side encryption and be done with it? Why would anyone browse their personal files remotely on a web ui? If you care about privacy, take the proper precautions.

There really isn't any competitor to B2 on price, or convenience (e.g. them sending you a NAS device for recovery).
>There is something strange going on in Scandinavia because UK has reported nothing special with two orders of magnitude more people vaccinated.

I don't want to start conspiracy theories but I wouldn't be surprised if it came to light that, in the UK, reports about deaths and side-effects have been suppressed. In the wake of a disastrous Brexit, the UK is in desperate need of a success story and with the Astrazeneca/Oxford vaccine seen as the British contender, it might have become a question of national pride to have it succeed. British newspapers (well, tabloids) present the UK vaccination rate as a vindictive competition with the EU.
> … the vast majority of right leaning sources (aside from fox) are effectively blacklisted.

This reminds me of a past blog post, a few weeks ago or so, from a journalist who spoke about how strongly right leaning "journalists" often think of their writing as political influencing and counter-acting the left journalism.

I don't know how true that really is but such a tendency could be a good faith explanation for such a rule (as long as it has exceptions).
Vaccines are usually developed and tested over a period of 6-10 years.

If, and only if, after that much time, you don't observe any side-effects, then it is honest to declare it "safe". Everything else is just a lie to sell the product.
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Interesting story from Africa: My friend is a professional photographer who does several thousand-mile long road trips through the remote African wilderness. Wherever he goes, he gets cash offers on his tricked out SUV dating from 1998. The reason is that this was the last year before the SUV became loaded with all kinds of computer chips. If the pre-1998 SUV model breaks down in the middle of the Sahara, all you need is a screwdriver and a wrench to fix it. If you have a recent model however, good luck to you. You're going to have to wait for someone to FedEx a new controller board to you in the middle of nowhere. Most likely you'll have to abandon your SUV entirely.

If it really matters, you can't rely on a car that requires a computer to start or to drive. You want something purely mechanical.
> "we decided not to pause vaccinations because we were afraid of what it would do to the vaccine's image"

Ironically, that's the news they'll get from Russia :)
This argument has to work against the fact that the 'stuff' in the shops is x% more expensive because they are paying for their bus on the backend.

Do you think a transportation system that is perversely incented and controlled by 'the shopping mall' to do specific things, subject to all sorts of weird policies ... is going to be more efficient than simply reducing the price of goods and allowing travellers to pay themselves - and decide for themselves where they want to travel and for what purpose?

Getting the capital costs sorted out for these things is hard, the shopping mall would have been one of the few places to foot the initial bill - that's probably why it happened the way it happened.

But it probably would have been more efficient for some state actor to step in and provide the means for it to work more broadly.
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Yes. Though more general, you have to have some kind of coverage to have a chance of catching anything.

That coverage can come from testing, proving or careful reading etc.
My ideas:

* Tax monopolies more heavily and redistribute that money in the same area. Take from Google, and give it to competitors like DDG, even Bing, and even back into Google.

* Heavily socialize basic things like transport, telecommunications and education. These are things that help foster growth from independent sources.

* The environmental issue is tricky. I don't think it's possible to deal with until things get really bad, at which point it'll be quite late. Hopefully not to the point where we go extinct (unlikely) but probably where millions will die (directly or indirectly). Until then, I don't know if there's much that can be done.
Finally!

When the Garrets of the World are defeated by facts, it's always a good day.
> Maybe I've just been extraordinarily lucky in who I associate with, but no-one I would consider a potential "collaborator" (either in professional or personal life) would ever demand I be incorrect about something to suit their ideals.

I find that very hard to believe. To be correct you not only need to be able to say carefully thought-out, nuanced things; you also need to be able to speculate wildly, to take half-baked ideas where they might lead. But the half-baked version of some important truths probably sounds exactly like the most offensively ignorant notions you could think of.
It's even better with the small tree icon hosted by an external service, thus leaking some data when you open the email :)
No the point is that there should be on average ~4 people dying of these sorts of fatal blood clotting anyway.
Frankly, just about everyone would be "neurodivergent" in a different culture.
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a) There is evidence of children spreading COVID-19, "children under 15 were about half as likely as adults to be infected, and only half as likely as adults to transmit the virus to others". [1]

b) In order to have children at school, you need teachers at school. In order to have teachers at school, you need public transport. Suddenly, you have a significant amount of people moving around spreading the virus.

[1] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/we-now-kn...
And pesky users can't point out GDPR violations using the browser Developer Tools.

Server side analytics will prove much more powerful and opaque when it gets integrated deep enough into web dev stacks to work properly.
This is sort of what Pony did with its ORCA based GC. It has some tricky edge cases to optimize in practice but it can be made to work especially well if data is immutable.
I haven't been to Tokyo yet, but in Munich you don't just have a shop or two, some of the more central stations (Stachus, Marienplatz, Hauptbahnhof, Sendlinger Tor) have small shopping centers in the mezzanine level. While renovating these during the last years, they have tried to optimize (i.e. increase) the surface usable for shops.

But it's still pretty unfair if you think about it: having a subway system is a major plus for a city, so landlords get to collect more rent (generally, and even more if the building has a subway station nearby). So it's only natural to ask them to pay slightly higher taxes to help finance public transportation. But subway systems still have to justify why they are cross-financed using tax money...
What in the name of god are these tourists(?) doing there !?
Defective equipment may not hold a calibration as well, though. Especially for something like a digital caliper which can have all sorts of complicated internal failure modes (in theory). In a field like aerospace, the users of measuring equipment would have an expectation that the design/manufacture of the measuring equipment meets certain standards.