skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generational arenas are really nice. I don't know why they are being discovered only now. Like e.g. graphs implemented using generational arenas play nicely with CPU cache.

For anyone who cares, here's my Rust crate that's like petgraph but with generational arenas.

https://github.com/adamnemecek/pgraph
Over a decade ago, I remember that we were debating the merits of CLAs that got all of OpenOffice.org owned by Oracle (cf. https://lwn.net/Articles/443989/ as a random starting point).

I really think this was the FSF's fault - they insisted on copyright assignment for any contributions to GNU, because if the FSF held the entire copyright, they'd be in a better place to pursue legal action against violators. But history has shown that this clearly hasn't been required: Linux doesn't have this policy, and no Linux enforcement case has ever failed because the Linux Foundation wasn't able to demonstrate clear standing. And the FSF basically legitimized everyone else asking for CLAs. Had they stood firm and said that giving up ownership of your code to a central entity is antithetical to the spirit of free software, and the license is all that people can rely on, I think we would have been in a much better place today.
It's not out of some love for Macs. I have a 2008 MacBook running Catalina and it's simply because the cost of replacing it is >0. If this works and works well(and it does) then why would I get rid of it? Just to spite apple, which doesn't care either way?

I also have a 2005 car that still runs - should I get rid of it because the company that made it stopped providing any kind of support for it long time ago? Or you know....keep using it because it works?
I’m curious - why don’t you just buy an Android phone and PC - then your issues are resolved no?
In this context it means becoming close and connected, not a euphemism for sex.
I think it was more recent than that but I only saw reports about the numbers, not the thing itself.
Many people (including myself) will just not post. If you want to see what’s going on with a subreddit in your feed, you have to subscribe/join it. You can manually visit all your favorite subreddits but that can be very tedious and doesn’t fit the “news feed” type of behavior that people want to use.
Anecdotal experiences are not evidence of anything else than someone having experienced something in a certain way.

It is completely feasible that you simply are more susceptible to the effects of plain nicotine, e.g. due to differences in nAChR genes, or maybe you already had a MAOI source in your daily diet, e.g. medications, cannabis smoke, coffee, soy sauce, beer, wine, sake, roasted/grilled foods...
> From the perspective of the law, their duopoly implies competition.

From the perspective of the law, a duopoly can imply a cartel[1], especially given the price fixing[2] Apple and Google engage in[3] in the mobile app distribution market.

Also, a trust[4] can refer to a duopoly in antitrust[5] law:

> A trust or corporate trust is a large grouping of business interests with significant market power, which may be embodied as a corporation or as a group of corporations that cooperate with one another in various ways.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law#Ca...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_fixing

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26486737

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_(business)

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law
Our team is literally running into this right now. XGBoost claims their non-pickle implementation of model file (which is just json) is "experimental"
yeah, for integration with coc-nvim, take a look at this github comment:
https://github.com/meatwallace/dotfiles/issues/129#issuecomm...

There is also a LSP at :
https://github.com/bash-lsp/bash-language-server
YAML is the biggest flaw of Kubernetes, so I'm quite exited that cdk8s is progressing very nicely https://github.com/cdk8s-team/cdk8s

There are other solutions that are potentially better (e.g. Dhall) but cdk8s seems to have momentum and sense for tackling the practical stuff (integrates easily with cdk, library with simplified constructs cdk8s-plus, import and convert existing stuff easily etc)
I use curl a lot so I'm glad it works for him. Having a part-time unpaid moonlighting gig doesn't sound like it would work for me personally.
On the other hand, it heavily influences the perception of the platform itself - for a random utility that does something, my expectation is that there will be free apps for that on Android, while the iOS equivalent will cost a couple euros. Multiply that by many apps and that's a reason to choose an Android phone if you want to avoid all these extra fees for every app you'd use. It would be compensated by a richer choice of apps, but it isn't in practice, Android is large enough so that there's a good app for everything anyways.
Now we are just playing with semantics.
Analysis of Cloud Provider Market Share – 2021
I Hacked Facebook: Part Two
Really well done interview, some real interesting bits in there.

One part concerned me though, in the interview, it mentions "we own (and have built) all of our own platform." and it fails to mention a few critically important key parts of a storage platform, first being encryption. How are personal files being handled? Is encryption being used? Are you able to access this data using a shared key?

As well as contingency, what happens if critically important data is stored on your platform. On your website you mention:

"We have a world class, IPV6-capable network with locations in three US cities as well as Zurich and Hong Kong"

however fails to mention if replication is done across these locations. If technology (drives) is stolen from your datacenter, or mechanical failures beyond your control happen, how will you be able to recover from physical failure if you only appear to be serving from a single location?

Excuse me if I'm wrong but I couldn't find anything concrete in either the interview or your website. The premise of the platform seems quite well aligned with keeping alive the the UNIX philosophy, and reminds me of Tarsnap.

Either way, well made interview and interesting approach to a storage platform.

As a sidenote, what keyboard are you using? It seems really interesting and you failed to mention it in the interview :)

EDIT: It appears that you offer Geo-Redundant Filesystem as as separate product, maybe you would want to make this a bit more visible on your website except for only the FAQ and order pages. Either way, it seems like a sufficient move, that does still leave the topic of encryption though.
As mentioned traffic is encrypted using SSH ofcourse, but is the data itself encrypted on your platform?
I always wondered if we could achieve greater success in server hardware by having boards with truly massive numbers of tiny CPUs all with their own RAM and maybe even individual storage. Since most web apps are very simple at an individual session level having a 1 to 1 mapping between a CPU and a session could provide for a great developer and user experience when building server apps.
Rust Compiler Error Index

https://doc.rust-lang.org/error-index.html
I recently chose to sign a CLA for an MR I wanted to make to a commercial entity's SDK. The feature I added will enable me to build a product and potential revenue stream. I could have forked the project and maintained my own version, but I'd rather do the work for free and have someone else maintain the library going forward. I don't care about who owns or has access to the the work I did in this instance, so I was comfortable with signing it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_inventions
As opposed to how “easy” it is to install Linux this doesn’t seem half bad.
It‘s not local, there have been similar cases in Germany and Italy, with confirmed deaths.
Or even worse than antivaxxers, the actual vaccinations being given in a mass rollout:

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/08/25/9058847...

"It's actually an interesting conundrum. The very tool you are using for [polio] eradication is causing the problem"
Reading this takes me back to when I started playing with storage professionally.

For me it was in 2004, also using 3Ware controllers. I was running on RedHat (before RHEL) and XFS before it was common on Linux, and similarly had memory issues when trying to repair filesystems.
I Hacked Facebook: Part One
Dogs also spend a lot of time on leashes where they'll get yanked around if they don't pay attention to their human's movements. And many families specifically train and reward dogs to move in sync with them (heeling, agility). It seems obvious that synchrony is something that humans both train and selectively breed dogs for. I guess the point of this study is that synchrony is another way to measure social connection between dogs and humans and that this connection extends to children.
Thrilled to see a new Cloud engineering hub being created in Durham. Google's late to the game in RTP and has likely lost a lot of great candidates to a huge variety of competition in the Triangle region.
journalism is long dead anyways..
But both of those models start from the assumption that it is possible for an alien civilization to expand beyond its home star in the first place. But if you try to draw parallels to known knowns, one could convincingly argue that such an assumption is not a given. For example, humans are undoubtedly a technologically dominant species on Earth, yet our growth model is not to expand to every corner of the planet in an indiscriminate fashion: throughout history, humans tended to settle (and re-settle) the same areas that were most conducive to civilization, while remote areas remain for the most part remote.

It really isn't a stretch to posit that an alien form with liquid-methane-based chemistry (instead of water-based) would want to stay far far away from places like Earth, just like we wouldn't like to sunbathe in Mercury. And the boring but most likely occam's razor of alien civilizations is that it isn't actually physically possible for a civilization to leave their home star.
Not a judgement, but speculating on charitable giving is the worst idea I've ever heard.
There are 3 possible scenarios related to viruses and humanity on Earth.

1) Normalcy: People live their lives as they have for thousands of years, and some percentage of people die from any number of viruses, but never enough to permanently trigger one of the other scenarios.

2) Extraterran: Humanity can no longer survive one or more of the viruses on Earth. Those of us who continue to live here must do so as if it were a foreign planet filled pathogens that will surely kill us, because they do.

3) Extinction: Humanity is ended by one or more viruses.

Of these 3 possible scenarios, the 1st one seems more likely than the others, and is what we should aim for before being forced into the 2nd one to avoid the 3rd. Right now we are living somewhere between the 1st and 2nd, and my intuition tells me that all our efforts related to coronaviruses, regardless of the strain, won't be able to save those whom are genetically unlucky enough to be predisposed to die from them forever. They will mutate, and eventually infect everyone, not unlike the common cold, and humanity will move on having lost somewhere between 1% and 10% of it's population, just as it would have had no curtailing measures been taken or vaccines developed at all; no different than it has been through the vast majority of our time on earth. While a higher population and the ease of global travel does mean that the virus side of the immunological arms race is boosted, all that does is raise the bar for ours. Either we'll pass, or we wont. Finally, while the deaths that have happened, and the future deaths that are likely to happen, on our path back to normalcy are certainly tragic: they have been, and will be, part and parcel of existing as organic beings living on a wild world. We cannot expect to only exist in nature when it is convenient for us. As long as we remain natural beings, we must accept that some of us will be eaten.
Oh god I hate the yellow lights. When I moved to the UK in the 90s it took a while to realise what was "wrong" at night, then I realised it was the street lights. Every colour and definition disappeared, hard to spot the right car etc, and late evening strolls was less enjoyable as everything was blasé. I am glad there are a lot fewer of them around now.
> storage devices with twice the volume and 50% or more storage

More the opposite, really - same capacity in lower volume. The people who buy most disks are a lot less concerned with capacity per disk than capacity per rack. Sometimes capacity per kW or capacity per BTU, but mostly capacity per m^3 in my direct experience. I also suspect that a lot of consumers would prefer the same capacity in a smaller package, since they mostly boot off flash and their disk is basically a cache for much larger amounts of data elsewhere.
Messenger RNA vaccines, which are a new technology, turned out to work much better than expected. They can be synthesized fast. It took two days to make the first mRNA vaccine molecules for coronavirus. Traditional vaccine technology is slower. Bulk production was a problem; encapsulating those fragile mRNA molecules without breaking them requires a difficult bit of microfluidics technology. But it's difficult in the sense that IC manufacturing is difficult. Once the manufacturers got the tooling and the process right, it worked well.

Here's the list of vaccines under development.[1] There are 105 different vaccines in the pipeline. Most of those are more traditional approaches and don't work yet, need further testing, don't work as well, or have other problems. What we have now is the minimum viable product - two doses, difficult handling and distribution, requires an injection. Some of the ones in the pipeline are skin patches, nasal sprays, or pills. The Merck pill, though, turned out to be a dud - provides only weak protection.

The non-injection schemes may help overcome some of the vaccine resistance problems.

Throwing money at the problem did help. Usually, vaccine R&D consists of finding the most likely candidate, setting up the Phase I/II/III trials, and waiting to see how it works. If it doesn't work, the developers go on to another candidate. Developing 100 different vaccines in parallel improved the odds. A lot.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/science/coronavirus...
"Goldenrod" looks like a field of goldenrods.
I work in industrie automation and I can't agree more to dumb devices. There are a lot of nice special products, but if something goes broken, you have first tousend of pages manual, just maybe an identical part. The guy on the night shift has also to know this special part well .. and so on. The dumb devices, you can replace easy without any problems tomorrow or also in 10 .. 20 years.
Hi r4id4,

Sorry I wrote in a bit of a rush and could have been more verbose. :)

Thanks for acknowledging the mistake, it's a much better response than denying or dismissing.

Just another small nitpick - iCloud's / Apple's servers are still a third-party servers since they are neither mine nor yours.

Your app looks pretty nice though, I wish you success with it!
Yeah, C# compilers do. Easily Googleable error code to further explain it.
been there, done that (json parameter storage). it's slow as molasses and precision loss from storing floats as text can cause issues.
Cats can like you. The difference is that dogs think of you as a big upright dog, and cats think of you as something other than a cat. Dogs think of you as a peer, cats think of you as a pet or a fancy piece of furniture.
I am saying it's not really feasible. To charge a 35kWh battery in 35 hours, you need a constant 1kW. 1kW is a LOT when it comes to mobile PV panels, converted bus campers don't have that much usually.

Earth receives 1kW of power from the sun, per square meter. A solar panel has an efficiency of 20%. So under ideal conditions, sun directly at 90%, no shades, you get 200W per sqm. Now, you have shades, less than 90% angles, dirt, etc. On average in the US, the capacity factor of solar PV farms is 25% (includes day/night changes). You will get less on your car, but let's say you do get 25% capacity factor. That leaves you with 1000 * 0.2 * 0.25 = 50W per square meter, 24/7. In a week that is 8400 Wh per square meter. To charge the 35kWh battery once a week, you need 35/8.4 ~ 4 square meters. 4 square meters is plausible. You could say that the car has more space for PVs, but you kind of have to mount them such that they have a decent angle, otherwise their efficiency drops 10 fold.

In the case of Chevy Bolt, if you have a 1kW of PV panels, used in ideal conditions, you would need 1kW * 0.25 * 240h = 60kW. 10 days to fully charge the 60kWh battery. If you manage to install 1kW (4-5 square meters) of panels on a volt at ideal conditions (tilted 30-35%), then you could drive it 200 miles every 10 days.

On the other hand, if you only drive 20 miles a day, you could recharge at a power outlet and 60kWh would cost you 6 dollars. 6 dollars per 10 days, that means fuel cost would be $219 a year. That is $3200 for 15 years. Is it really worth installing a heavy and complex system on the car if you can achieve the same and better results by just laying the panels on the ground, next to the carport?

I am all for integrating solar PV in a lot more things, like house sidings and windows, but putting it on cars is just a PR move.
> Maybe compiling (which was one of the main use-cases behind Sun's SGE)?

The problem is that your task will still be limited by power of a single machine.

You need means to run a task across more than one server, and preferably great many.

It's possible, but completely impractical to run a shared memory system across network.

If somebody figures out how to do that usable in practice, and without complete rewrite of the program that will be really impressive, and an ACM medal material.
Gina Carano is an actress. Image is her business. She wasn't really fired for the content of her tweet, but for her inability to maintain her image.
I think they can effectively do the same thing if they own the copyright to a significant portion of the work.

Here's a thought experiment: Suppose that Mongo or Cockroach consists of 80% code for which they own the copyright (written by employees). And it's 20% written by contributors who have NOT signed the CLA.

Now can they relicence the whole codebase? No, but I think they can do something with thes same effect by relicensing their parts.

I think it's easier to see if they start a new project. Say Mongo starts a new project called "Dumbo".

Dumbo consists of 80% Mongo code relicensed. And they simply reuse the contributors' code under the existing open source license. So you distribute both licenses with the code.

But now it is still impossible (*) for Amazon or whoever to stand up a cloud service according to the license -- unless they want to rewrite 80% of the code.

I'm not a lawyer but that's my understanding of how it works. Interested in contrary (informed) opinions.

(*) edit: better to say that it's harder, not impossible. They can fork the old code under the old license. It really depends if the they "understand" the code.
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SAR is similar to the video technique mentioned, agree it's not quite the same but if underlying assumptions hold still more estimate than "guess".
I think they spoke too soon, either way, they said it should be brought to attention of people of the potential symptoms and what they should do in that event - something that the manufacturer itself hasn't even acknowledged yet. Here in Portugal when this was addressed to the public it was brought to people's awareness that skin bruises, bleeding, general pain for few days should be reported to the doctor.

Let's see what Norway and Germany will do, I think the eyes are more on them - since they are dealing with those cases. Also if more cases keep showing.
When the use of JavaScript is justified
Sometimes I like to transcode videos I recorded on my windows machine during a gaming session to post to our group chat.

If I have to do those steps locally, I can't be gaming. That's not cool.

Still, kinda makes more sense to just fuse/smb the videos and have the remote processing node pull, processes, push.
Safari is now probably the influential wild card browser for user privacy
Hetzner has a similar product at better pricing that i have been using a minimalist dropbox alternative

https://www.hetzner.com/en/storage/storage-box

Access via rsync/sftp/scp
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26504909

Here’s the original post/actual deck.
I am least familiar with SIM, but you can do live-cell SIM imaging for sure. The processing is a bit computationally intensive but not so bad (and can always be done post-hoc).

The big thing you have to look out for is the light intensity killing the cells or bleaching your signals. One of our collaborators is actively working on on-the-fly SIM processing for live cell imaging.

A quick glance at pubmed it looks like 11Hz was do-able several years ago https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2895555/ and this (sorry paywalled, I've heard sci-hub has the paper...) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30478322/

STED is promising for live imaging too. Lots of beautiful pictures out there!
Given the vagaries of what a self-report of "happiness" means, it's hard for me to take even 5 percentage points of difference seriously.

The report is really, really insistent that getting married makes you happy. It seems at least as likely that having met somebody you could see yourself marrying is the important factor. Forcing yourself to get married just so you can check that box seems unlikely to work.
Does anybody know how/if this deals with /dev and /proc and /sys and all those? Usually you need to separately bind-mount these in your chroot.
Nothing silly about it. Yes, with one node you don't have High Availability, but you get other benefits, like a standardized way to manage configuration.
Calculated Ultraviolet Exposure Levels for a Healthy Vitamin D Status
A lot of well-read people don’t give money to the NYT out of principle.
Is there a single case of someone misusing an open source license and being assigned significant damages as a result in a court?

I know Google v Oracle is still ongoing but other than that?

Unless there’s a whistleblower in your organization or your product itself is open source it seems impossible to identify, let alone litigate.
Ah so its not just thickening of the blood then fair enough.
AZ is not given to people over the age of 65 in Germany because their clinical trial only included 18-65 year old patients.
It is mainly given to healthcare personal.
Related, Clippy, a linter for Rust also does the same and links to https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html .
> nobody's taken a successful extinction shot at us that we know of.

Are you sure? Someone's been chucking bloody big rocks at us for millions of years, on and off. Some of which appear to have caused some pretty spectacular extinctions.

Maybe the issue is that we think the aliens fly around in saucers when, in fact, they are just playing a gigantic game of pinball.
Neat, does that include System Integrity Protection and Authenticated Root Volume on your hardware?
Very cool. Will definitely be taking a look at this as I might be in the market for an EV in the coming months.
They’re not new this article is from 2013 for example and the general idea is older still. But I think interest in Rust, the ECS pattern and the associated advantage of easier ownership semantics that handles provide explain their wider popularity.
Where I am in the UK, it's only really from 10.30 am to 2.30pm where currently I can get enough vitamin D from the Sun.