skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I admire the passion, but I’m not sure why I would want Rust at all, not just async.

When I want memory safety, async-await, I/O performance, easy multithreading, I write C#. When I want performance of CPU bound code, or lots of integration with native libraries/APIs, I write C++. Sometimes I want both in the same software, compile C++ code into a DLL (or shared library on Linux), and consume it from C#.

I don’t have experience with Rust in production software, but based on what I know and my limited experience with the language, it’s worse than the above combo. At least for the projects I usually work on.

For pieces where performance doesn’t matter too much (often 70-80% of codebase), or for I/O heavy code, or for the stuff that’s in the standard library of .NET (serialization, compression, cryptography, xml, json, zip, etc.), C# is way easier to write and debug than Rust. Tooling is awesome. Even large projects build in seconds i.e. built/test cycle is really fast.

For CPU bound or native interop-heavy pieces, C++ is also way easier than Rust. Intel and ARM only support their SIMD intrinsics for C. OS vendors only support their GPU APIs for C (most of them) or C++ (Direct3D). Many libraries I use are only available for C and/or C++. Using C++ for these pieces is the path of least resistance by a large margin, i.e. saves lots of development costs.

The interop between the two adds some friction, but not too much, .NET was designed for easy native interop from the very first version. When I want to expose objects instead of [in addition to] just functions, there’re COM interfaces. At least in my experience, usability of C# brings way more profits compared to the losses from the interop across languages.
People do not trust Media because they are not trustworthy.

Google and Facebook have appeared and taken all the advertising money that Media used to get. When Media started to get Internet, after the first wave of disaster, everyone could become a youtuber or podcaster and make most of the work they did much cheaper and better(instead of sending someone to Kenya now you could have Kenyan people directly talking).

So quality reporting basically disappears and Media companies are sold to the highest bidder, usually rich people that made their fortunes from the Internet like Jeff Bezos. In socialistic countries like Spain the Government pays hundreds of millions of euros in "institutional advertising" to friend Media.

As a result, those who own the media(owners, advertisers and politicians) push their own agenda against the interest of the readers, because the readers are not really supporting it, specially if the Media is free or very cheap.

It is interesting that flow of information is higher and you can get better expert access than ever, but usually is not free.

You can get the best books(and videos) of the entire world very cheaply with incredible information.

But most people eat the MacDonnals of information through media that actually gives them disinformation. Remember "Weapons of mass destruction"(never proved), "Rusia Interference"(never proved), early COVID reporting and so on.
I suspect you're reading through preconceptions I no longer share.

Source available is in nearly every practical sense comparable to open source. The median number of contributors to an open source project is one. Even with exceptional projects boasting many contributors, users who don't edit, but simply use what's given them, vastly outnumber them. The source of "source available" projects is just as available, and frequently in the same places online. Its authors often develop "in the open" with the same tools and infrastructure. Their licenses frequently allow nearly all the use cases that MIT or Apache 2 do. Sometimes that license delta is really the only meaningful difference.

If there weren't any discussion to be had on open source, we wouldn't have so many licenses, or so many revisions and later versions. I don't know which four of five you like, but they're highly unlikely to have been first versions or uncontroversial in their days. Alas, "paying the rights you have forward" isn't at all clear. What rights? How paid forward? Are AGPL, OSL, and SSPL "pay the rights you have forward" licenses?

The idea that open source isn't reconcilable with capitalism wouldn't sit well with the early advocates for "open source" that I've read or heard from. The Cathedral and the Bazaar can be read, and fairly readily, as an extended pitch that open source sits great with capitalism, and capitalists ought to be excited about it. Capital-issuing public companies fund the Open Source Initiative, the Linux Foundation, Apache, Eclipse, Mozilla, and so on.
8 years ago, Hal finney wrote “Bitcoin and Me“
Looking at the actual press release this listicle was based off of, the countries with highest media trust are, in order: Indonesia (73%), China (70%) and India (69%)[0]. These countries are ranked #119, #177 and #142 on the Press Freedom Index[1].

I think "trust CEOs" is significantly less supported by Edelman's data than "reduce press freedom, emulate China," but I'm just a random internet commentator, not a high quality journalist like Felix Salmon.

I'd also note that the 3% drop also appears to be barely outside the survey's margin of error (survey population size: n=1,150).

[0] Media trust chart is on page 49 https://www.edelman.com/sites/g/files/aatuss191/files/2021-0...

[1] https://rsf.org/en/ranking/2020
GitHub says there could have been sessions that were leaked but can't be identified now:

"While our log analysis, conducted from March 5 through March 8, confirmed that this was a rare issue, it could not rule out the possibility that a session had been incorrectly returned but then never used."

Those sessions are now invalidated and apparently never used
A discrete cpu means "no integrated circuits". So the question answer on "does a piece of silicon where the transistors share a pin count as an integrated circuit?"

By the most strict definitions, it does count as an integrated circuit. But really, not _that_ integrated.
MQTT even?
I very much dislike your analogy.

The NFTs that you hear about that are being sold for high amounts are created by people that already have reputations. Unlike stars or plots on the moon every NFT has an artist that created it.

Artists and buyers share an implicit (by contact through the platform, in their promotion, etc) agreement.
In Ireland, it is illegal to cut down any tree in the countryside if it's more than 30 meters from a dwelling and more than 5 years old, with a few exceptions.

Arguably, this is to protect what little woodland we have left. Practically, though, it means that I would _love_ to reforest my land with native species, but don't, because it will forever lose its value as grazing land.

And I tend to agree, though private property is a complicated thing. After all, who did you buy it from? And who did they buy it from? And the person before that? Unless you're royalty and can defend your property by force (arguably the only true allodial title), you're basically borrowing the land from whatever government defends it for you.
"as soon as possible."

You dont sound like a top manager to me
Will cruise lines require passengers to get a vaccine to sail?
>The theory implies that pieces of information are comparable with other pieces of information but this is only true inside a strict set of boundaries defining what can possibly be encoded.

Information theory is concerned exactly to formalize this "strict set of boundaries".

It's not some grandiose claim or some kind of philosophical musings, if you imply that, it's math.

At least the information theory as known from Shannon and co.
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How are the holograms encoded on the glass?
I have no idea since I am no doctor but from what I read in the article it's not a common situation. The usual treatment for blood clots is blood thinners. Not exactly sure how they work but I've thought it thins it by lowering the number of plates.

But it seems that the spike protein on the virus/vaccine is quite similar to a protein on the blood plates so if the body has a runaway immune system response to the vaccine it could attack the blood plates too.

The implication here is that this could be true for all the vaccines, there are some similar reports in Israel which do not use the AZ vaccine.

These cases are extremely rare though which is probably the most important thing here. It should not disqualify the vaccines.
People doing ML “research” are not the ones applying it to specific data sets day to day. “I pointed a neural net at our sales data” is not research in the normal sense.
I don’t know but my guess is that both Sam Harris and Alan Watts are not science-based, peer-reviewed scientists. And the HR audience seems, to me, skewed in that direction.
The replacement for Spectacle, FYI, is Rectangle, which is almost identical, but still maintained
>57% of Democrats trusting the media and only 18% of Republicans.

Why do Democrats trust the media so much, relative to Republicans?
It seems like OP has piled intellectually intense hobbies (learning a foreign language, reading "complex" books) on top of a intellectually challenging career. Thats not going to work for most people, just like most people cant spend 12 hours a day on their career.

So while maybe watching TV is a little too passive, there are lots of in between activities that might be useful: cooking, gardening, meditating, things that are reasonably mindful, but work different mental muscles than thinking about algorithms or data structures.
>How much information is in the story of Little Red Riding Hood? You could measure the bits encoded in the text but is that really measuring the amount of information communicated?

Yes, in several important ways.

It's not about putting a number to the "subjective experience" of reading/appreciating the story however.
Do you have any good resources on writing dlls to consume via .net like you’re talking about ?

How do you deal with the managed memory when using the gc from .net
How does one find these marketers?
To be fair, I got a 200+ year old cottage on a few acres with commuter train service under €100k because I was willing to look at uninsurable, unmortgageable houses. Eccentrics with cash are a market too.
With 200MB/s I'm getting one week as the lower limit for rebuild time. If the drives are used heavily while rebuilding, this can go much longer.
Reminds me of those Sci Fi movies where the humans stumble upon some quirky thing that kills the alien invaders -- like an environment whose pH deviates slightly from 7.
Just because megacorps sometimes release code under permissive licenses doesn't invalidate my point that permissive licenses are a way to make a charitable donation out of your work. Megacorps also make donations to charities. Charitable donations can be made out of rational self-interest!
The earlier report[1] says:

> The underlying bug existed on GitHub.com for a cumulative period of less than two weeks at various times between February 8, 2021 and March 5, 2021. Once the root cause was identified and a fix developed, we immediately patched GitHub.com on March 5. A second patch was deployed on March 8 to implement additional measures to further harden our application from this type of bug. There is no indication that other GitHub.com properties or products were affected by this issue, including GitHub Enterprise Server. We believe that this session misrouting occurred in fewer than 0.001% of authenticated sessions on GitHub.com.

If we use the 0.001% figure and assume all 56 million of their users are authenticated, then this occurred with 560 sessions at most.

You are right in that when something only happens to a minuscule % of users is hard to investigate and repro. But at the same time something as critical as "I logged in and was authenticated as another user" should probably be immediately escalated to the highest levels within your company.

1: https://github.blog/2021-03-08-github-security-update-a-bug-...
Thanks for further damaging safety/credibility of the AstraZeneca vaccine to the public’s for no good reason. It’s obvious that this was completely political act. Wasn’t Macron spreading the rumor just a few weeks ago that the vaccine isn’t effective for those 65 and older?
I believe they are near-essential for properly learning a language.

I can credit Resharper for a large part of my proficiency in C# for example.
The trick is that to have a real chance of administering a k8s cluster you need Linux kernel knowledge (namespaces to understand docker, a bit of iptables, VXLAN or something similar to understand CNI/overlay network, how the container network namespace is connected via veth pipe, chroot/bind mounts, a very little bit of SElinux/apparmor/seccomp), systemd to see how it all starts, etcd to know about the consistency/consensus layer.. so far this is almost identical for all container orchestrator/scheduler platforms (nomad, docker swarm).

Then there are the specific k8s concepts: pod (containers that share a network and PID namespace), service (a name, a TCP and/or UDP port number, and the name/selector of the target pod), ingress (HTTP routing, basically haproxy/nginx/envoy or other layer 7 stuff), LoadBalancer (the magic API that connects your cluster to the outside world, allocates IP addresses for Services/Ingresses).

Then there are the background parts that take the YAML and convert it into actual running stuff: apiserver (this is the central info hub, kubectl and kubelets and controllers all talk to this basically), kubelet is the actual agent on each node, controllers have control loops and those actually calculate the necessary actions/operations to achieve what the YAML declared.

Then there are the subsystems: storage (persistent volume claims and PVs), settings (secrets - see vault too - and configmaps, and various special/custom resources like a TLS certificate, these are stored in etcd, through the apiserver of course), CNI networking flavors and knobs, an endless list of kubelet and apiserver command line arguments, PCI passthrough for GPUs or HSMs or whatever. And of course there's RBAC, security, admission webhooks, see how nowadays Authz and Authn is done through a "lookaside" OpenId Connect service (some Ingress Controllers support these out of the box).
My distrust stems from their inability to hire contrarians and give them a voice.

There are so many glaring examples of statements said by talking heads that an entire panel believes to be true that the only response is to laugh and change sources.
The mainstream media is largely biased to the corporate Democrat view.
Sounds like you have a solution that works with today's medium-sized drives, so how is this even relevant to a discussion of 60-120TB drives? Do you think you'd be well served by putting that 96TB on one drive? I doubt it. If your active set (for any useful or relevant definition of "active") is X and the number of drives you need for IOPS or MB/s is Y, then the ceiling for how much you can effectively use per drive is X/Y. That's quite likely less than current drive capacities, and almost certainly within what can be achieved by current PMR technology. How would HAMR or BPM or any other more fundamentally new disk technology actually help you other than to store cold data on that "spare" capacity?
I wonder if fully cooked meat can also transmit this disease? I know its big deal eating tainted meat as all hunters are encouraged to have the meat tested before consumption. there have been alot of deer that have been shown to have this disease.
Nobody is making those claims, though.
Is that a statistic that matters?

If I have a bunch of 8TB drives, I don't care what my odds are of doing a single-drive operation without a speed bump. I'm going to back them all up at the same time, and I only care about speed bumps over the entire operation and how well they're handled.
Tyres are amazing anecdata:

I got a rear puncture on my GSXR1000 while riding 100kmhr through the countryside.

Straight was only slight issue, I noticed somethnig seemed a bit weird but road had minor undulations and I slowed a bit to 80. Slight turn though was quite wobbly so I stopped. Tyre gauge said less then 20psi, flat as it gets.

That I could ride in a straight line with such stability was amazing testament to the tyre.

I limped 30km to nearest town at 30kmhr or so. Slow but doable.

Would I want to do this again? No, of course not. But that I could? Amazing.

I agree that tyre performance > runflat as priority.
It seems that it's from "Stench and Stenchibility", from the last season of the show... so, much later than "Jurassic Bark".
Good for you as a parent I don’t allow my children to use apps with adverts. If the app is free with ads we buy the ad-free version or it’s a no go.
Since the drives are full of ECC already, do UREs result from multiple simultaneous errors? Can that be fixed with even more ECC? I.e. if the errors are reasonably independent, you could change 1e-14 URE rate to 1e-18 or whatever you wanted, by just adding more ECC, in principle of size logarithmic in the size of the disk (though you might want to cache it in ram in such a case). That is how tape drives work, I think. The put ECC codes into blocks on the tape, then erasure codes over clusters of blocks, then more erasure codes over clusters of clusters, etc. RAID amounts to doing that over entire disks, after all.
Cloud Run is probably the closest thing to a managed k8s service. It's using https://knative.dev/ under the hood, and while you don't get such features as secrets management, for personal stuff it's not like you need to disseminate secrets to your coworkers every time they change, so it shouldn't be a big deal. Takes a lot of the overhead out of managing k8s, and it's not too expensive either.
It sounds to me like they created new internal development rules as a result, which is a smart response to the issue.
More Democrats in media, so they have a greater confirmation bias. Truth is often determined by agreement with the statement versus facts of the statement. Also, refusal to cover items that shed poor light on your side is problematic to the belief of the others.
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Totally agree. When reading history, you can and should substitute an invisible "According to the limited sources I consulted, and modulo their biases/mistakes/oversights, it seems to me the best interpretation of the given data that..." before every statement. Virtually no professional historian is going to claim to be 100% certain of any interpretation they make. It's often the case that more you dig into sources, the less certain you get. (Which is why almost every academic history paper's argument boils down to "this [person/event/era] turns out to be more complicated than we thought").

Hayden White has written a lot about this, specifically in his book Metahistory. You should check it out if interested! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metahistory:_The_Historical_Im...

I also really like Fernand Braudel on events as a kind of epiphenomena of history, the misleading surface disturbances underneath the actual, barely-discernible patterns.
Media trust hits a low because media behaviour is at a current low...

But media outlets aren't going to frame it like that, now, are they?
The cathedral is falling.
>(Also, the payroll ceiling is ridiculously low, and why does it even exist anyway?)

Political support. Currently social security is framed as a forced retirement plan. You pay into it while you're working and once you're retired, your payout is roughly proportional to what you've paid in. If you change it to something resembling transfer payments (ie. what you put in is unlimited but what you get back is fixed) republican support will evaporate.
Yep. Transparency is a dependency of trust, and it seems like journalism as an industry has grown allergic to that transparency - which is highly ironic considering that journalism is supposed to foster transparency.
There are levels of reporting which means it is never as black and white as suggested by the original OP.

However when you take these levels into account the OP does make a point about '2 weeks later' you never hear about it.

A better term would be 'selective reporting'.

A good example of 'selective reporting' is when a story splashes over the from page of a newspaper, which then allows other news outlets to report on that front page, which means the story spreads far and wide.

Some short time later, fearing a legal challenge or public backlash, the paper is forced to print a retraction (because their original reporting was wrong).

That retraction happens in one inch of print, contained in one short sentence, hidden away on page 12.

At that point the retraction is worthless and the original lie lives on.

Edit: Thinking about this a bit more, I suspect the what original OP was trying to say and what I am trying to say can be easily summarized by the phrase 'fair and balanced reporting'.

I think that type of reporting seems to be a thing of the past.
> While our log analysis, conducted from March 5 through March 8, confirmed that this was a rare issue, it could not rule out the possibility that a session had been incorrectly returned but then never used. This was not a risk we were willing to take, given the potential impact of even one of these incorrectly returned sessions being used.

It is funny how they make it seem like they are super cautious. When in fact they had no other choice than do it when you rephrase the problem as " there were maybe some people who got the admin right of the github account of some of our customers"
In my experience they help a lot and that's why people (colleagues, family members, the mailman...) are so busy finding new ways to circumvent them.
Discrete parts have one electrical component per package. A surprisingly good description at pcmag: https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/discrete-component

Because the Monster 6502 uses 4-transistor packages, they can't claim their design is 100% discretes.

However, these are separate transistors with a shared substrate. It's not easy to call them integrated circuits either! It's a gray area.
Oof, my brain. With that giant fiasco master/slave thread the other day, I glanced at “race condition” and “GitHub” and immediately thought this was related to that.
Thanks, despites it is a bit different for the night: asphalt has an inertia that returns the heat at night. The solar panels are rather thin to have such inertia.

I kept looking and I have found some albedo figures: deserts have a typical albedo of 0.25-0.40 (let's round it at 0.33 / source in French: https://www.lelivrescolaire.fr/page/6761182).

Current commercial solar panels yield 15-20% (let's retain 18%) of the received energy into electricity (the purpose) and the rest into local heat. No reflection (they are black), so albedo close to 0, but let's consider the extraction of electricity like a reflection (the energy is not absorbed locally): albedo 0.18.

That means making a desert into a solar park changes the albedo of the covered surface from 0.33 to 0.18. It means the absorbed light turned into heat goes from 0.67 to 0.82: +22% sunlight turned into heat.

I would be curious to find a modelization that considers all warming effects of solar panels (carbon and non-carbon) to know if it is a good idea to rush into covering deserts like Apple does here.
> No, that's not correct.

Exactly what are you saying isn't correct?

Are you claiming that if google does not proactively take down content, absent any DMCA complaint, they are libel for infringement and do not benefit from S512 limitations on liability?

If you are not, how is my statement that this isn't a case of google covering their ass to avoid legal liability (because none exists)?