skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the Julia community
It looks like there might be a kind of priority difference going on here...

To all the ship owners and cargo owners, this blockage is a big problem and massive amounts of money should be spent to solve it.

But to the canal owners, they are only losing relatively small amounts of revenue by the canal being shut, so while they are sending all their boats to try pull it free, they aren't yet at the stage of calling in the army helicopters to help unload the ship.

At some point Egypts government will probably get involved, and then the army will show up with tanks with a lot of pulling power, massive winches installed on the shoreline, and helicopters for unloading.
I find it cute that they even uttered that question non-ironically.

Hot of the presses: a pawn of IBM on the one hand and Microsoft on the other both oppose a free software advocacy group that fought against everything Microsoft/IBM stand for! Shocking, I tell you!
Nine women can't make a baby in a month. Some things just take time, regardless of how much resources you throw at it.
> similar climate that was around people attracted to the same sex.

You really truly can't compare the two in any substantial way. One of which was the murder of entire segment of the population as a method of reducing visibility and acceptance. You don't see the general public killing, maiming, or abusing cannabis users at any scale similar to that of the homophobia that permateated, and permeates the entire structure from the weakest on the social order to the most powerful.

You just can not compare the removal of reproduction, the imprisonment of a minority, and the victimizing of things people can not control to the act of voluntarily smoking or ingesting of any chemical.

This may be propoganda, but this is propoganda that is a net benefit for all involved. This gives people hope that things can be better, this gives people hope that things can change, this gives people a nod that homophobia is not the way to go, and to be more accepting. This is a representation of the highest level of government bending to the will of the people.

You just can't compare the two.
Well, in my experience they cannot even find URLs, IP addresses, or wildcarded words like foo*
> garbage is still often an issue in Java.

Not anymore. That future is here. Java is getting "flattenable" types not because of GC, but because of iteration.
Yeah, they forgot their towel.
Weeks are measured in what I'd call, a lot of money. Is it a consolidation of funds sort of issue? Anybody responsible for getting it fixed?
"proper monitoring" is extremely broad. And, I would say, almost unreachable goal.

You have it mail you when it goes over 80% disk usage (and what if you are on holiday)? Does it mail all colleagues? Who picks it up (I thought Bob picked it up, but Bob thought Anne picked it up. So no one did)? Does it come and wake you in person when it reaches 92%?

Will this catch this async job that fails (but should never) in an endless loop but keeps creating 20MB json files as fast as the disk allows it to?

Is it an alerting that finds anomalies in trends? Will it be fast enough for you to come online before that job has filled the disk?

I've been doing a lot of hosting management and such. And there is one constant: all unforeseen issues are unforeseen.
> (@v1.6) pkg> add Plots
Installing known registries into `~\.julia`
Cloning registry from "https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General.git"
Fetching: [==> ] 3.4 %

I gave up because it's just too slow (more than 15 min to get to 3%).

Maybe plotting is indeed faster, but I don't think I'll actually get to that point.
When I was working on database services there were actually many applications with more writes than reads. A common example is applications where you want to keep the user's state saved frequently, but you only need to reload it when the application is restarted. A lot of games work this way. So there can be a write every few seconds or every minute for every active user, but you only need to do a read a few times at the beginning of a new session.

Of course applications like a blog will have far more reads than writes. It just really varies depending on the type of application.
Sounds easier to just dig through the ship.
Most people just quote the Medium post without having done their own research. These are the best two links I've found that put all the accusations into context:

https://sterling-archermedes.github.io/

https://www.wetheweb.org/post/cancel-we-the-web
The Nordic countries also deinstitutionalized but they are light-years ahead of most other countries in tackling this problem (though still far off the goal). The biggest problem is that you simply cannot get something like it through the political system in the US: Humane prisons that are there to rehabilitate instead of parking or punishment, actual free healthcare all the way through the system, state-run centers that provide shelter, food, social helpers, etc. (that isn't just parking people with a roof over their head to hide the problem). I don't believe for a second any of this would have the interest of (enough) voters or a snowballs chance in hell of passing politicians as long as An Eye For An Eye and The American Dream are still there. They are IMO incompatible with such a humane system.
I honestly don't see why this is a problem for drivers. I always thought the complaint was they made distro center workers pee in bottles. Finding a restroom while driving is tough whether you're on the clock or not. I don't really drive any more, but I almost always carried a bottle with me when I did. This was also about the only way to do it being on a tank crew, but I'll grant it's not reasonable to expect people with normal jobs to work under military conditions.

This seems as much a problem with the dearth of public restrooms in cities. There is almost nowhere you can go that doesn't require you to be a customer. I noticed this when I used to play Pokemon Go a few years back walking around downtown Dallas, even the restrooms in the parks are chained shut, presumably as one of those hostile to the homeless measures like spikes on sidewalks, but it affects everyone that needs to take a piss, not just the homeless (not that they deserve it, either).
Breaking Down Amazon’s (Massive) Health Care Opportunity
Maybe there is a correlation between the two
You are in for a treat! https://www.indiehackers.com/
I bet IBM’s actions and decisions over the years which due to bean counting, cost cutting or managerial incompetence has resulted in poor life experiences for tons of fired employees.

Do they get to call for the management to get fired? Maybe their competitors get to call them out.

I mean the result of firings is measurably worse than being weirded out by an anti social guy.
Show HN: CrowdX, a tiny MobX-like reactivity library in less than 400 lines
It's faster than opening the editor, though.
Yeah, "complicated" sums it up perfectly. I know it /should/ be faster. And, it does feel so. But, I don't have hard data to prove it, such that I have to ack it could just be placebo.
I worked at a large company during a migration from Lotus to Outlook. We were told we'd get our current Lost email storage + 100MiB as a new email quota limit under Outlook.

I made a bunch of 100MiB files of `/dev/random` noise (so they don't compress, compressed size was part of the quota) and emailed them to myself before the migration, to get a few GiB of quota buffer.

My co-workers were constantly having to delete old emails in Outlook to stay under quota, but not me. I'd just delete one of my jumbo attachment emails, as needed. ;)
Product Design Gut Check
We do not have a society of forgiveness or rehabilitation. From childhood, at least in the United States, we have it ingrained in us that we are punished when we do something against society. You commit a crime and you break the law and you are punished by a forfeiture of your basic rights by being imprisoned. I don't understand why people are so surprised or against it when someone is punished for a wrongdoing, even if it's not in terms of law enforcement, because that's what we've normalized as a society to do.

You absolutely can cancel your way to a better culture. This has been happening for a century now. As a society, we have been slowly whittling down an exact definition if what we will accept as a society.
>Seriously, what is this? GPT-3 output? How did you get from Steve Jobs to spending a very long paragraph on Sarah Lacy/Pando and then pushing her youtube videos?

Here's how: not all interviews are equal. Some are very good because the interviewer dives deep, and the guest answers the questions and allows themselves to be taken there and open up.

I have linked interviews of Steve Jobs and videos that I have considered of value, for example "The lost interview" where he dives in really interesting topics like building product, the ways he looked for venture capital, the differences between sales driven organizations and others, etc. That is someone very interesting sharing his thought process.

This naturally lead me to link to other similar videos where guests who have built very interesting products and organizations share similar insights. This kind of videos is rare, as it takes a guest willing to go there, and an interviewer who helps them get there. The Pando list contains a registry of these videos. Think hunter-gatherer vs. agriculture: going around gathering content in the wild, vs having a bunch of it in one place.

>I flagged this since I consider it spam.

I understand.

All the best,
It's super useful to know the location, speed and course of other vessels nearby for navigational purposes. For those few regions where piracy is a serious issue, vessels are either escorted by navy ships in convoys, arrange private security contractors or turn off AIS. The benefits of hiding yourself don't outweigh the downsides though, especially not in "civilized" oceans.
As more artists turn their attention to NFTs, so, likely, do money launderers
I like how everyone thinks that by using money, bombs, or radiation they can fix a carefully engineered project by essentially kicking it hard enough.

Blowing a messy radioactive hole in the ground does not guarantee maritime navigability....
If you have so much control as to modify the constitution, you can as well appoint the judges that would side with your interpretation.
Only about the center third of the channel is actually deep enough for this massive ship. Both ends of the ship is stuck in several meters of sand. So far they've only managed get two bulldozers on to try and dig it out but progress is slow.
Oh I assumed that Embree was some new Intel graphics thing.
This man doesn't infrastructure.

(If you think it's that easy, pop over and ask if you can have a go on the JCB)
Looking at how stuck the ship is, this could also be a new terrorist vector to attack the channel via such a „derailed“ ship.
I wasn't really into MySpace much in those days. I didn't have many friends and I never quite figured out how to make friends there. When Facebook came along, I was inundated with friends and the utility was lost on me there, too.

One piece of the early internet that I do grieve for is a MUD I played in the 90s. I remember when I first found it, and it was the only MUD I ever played.

I had heard about this awesome new game called Ultima Online, and there were some great blogs telling stories from the Alpha release. I signed up for the Beta (don't think I ever was accepted?) but in the meantime I scoured UO forums and that's where I found that MUD. I think I honestly only played it for about 2 years but those were absolutely some of the most fun times I ever had on the internet. I think at max the server only had 30 or 40 people on it, and the codebase must have been absolute garbage because it would lag out periodically and you'd lose connection or get killed.

I really wish that place had survived, or in the very least I wish it had been documented. Such an amazing thing, it makes me sad to think about.

Nowadays, we've come to appreciate the fact that things will disappear off the internet, and people are preserving them. I know, like the article, "it's not the same," and you can't go back in time by just viewing a site on the wayback machine. I'm still glad that people are doing this kind of work, preserving these stories.
"Just" widen the canal so it can continue pivoting around the most stuck end until its straight again.
I miss search the most, no other replacement came even close. Like a searchable corpus of your curated library of stuff you're interested in.
I don't really get the outrage, I've always been perfectly fine being addressed
by the government and other organizations without the diacritics in my name. In
fact I far prefer that to their placement being mixed up by human error (or a
wrong diacritical mark being used, etc).
Studio Equipment for Recording and Live Streaming
Forget I said CUDA then. The point is that it would be nice to run it on highly parallel hardware.
I'm a little confused. If doom emacs is good, wouldn't the emacs experience when just disabling evil (vi-bindings), and thus having regular emacs workflow not also be pretty good?
In context his statement was entirely reasonable.

Separately I find it hilarious that he’s called transphobic because he believes in non-binary identity but doesn’t believe in grammatical usage of the singular they (FWIW I naturally use the singular they and reject the idea that it’s invalid, but ironically I too fall afoul of it because I use the singular they as a genderless singular but now the trans community has made they its own pronoun meaning my usage of they as a sane default is itself considered transphobic...sigh...)
The gastric balloon of linux servers
Not related to this, but is there a company out there who could profit from this kind of thing? "I got stuck but my friend made it through, prices are up lol".
> On Linux servers it can be incredibly difficult for any process to succeed if the disk is full. Copy commands and even deletions can fail or take forever as memory tries to swap to a full disk

I don't understand this. Swap is either a swap partition, or a specific swap file, all of which allocated in advance, so the fullness of the storage should have no bearing.
When you present peer-reviewed evidence for a lab-leak, please post it.
Hi all, author here. I was inspired by this comment to whip this up last night: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26573921

MobX can definitely seem magical on the surface, but I wanted to bring it down to earth in hopes that people might become more comfortable with its paradigm. I think it has a huge ability to make front-end state management more sane.

This project also ended up being cool in its own right! I'm happy with how simple it is as a library, and I may try using it for future projects of my own.

Enjoy! Let me know if you have any questions
Added an MIT license. Have fun :-)
Is your home folder on a network drive?
So yes it affects a lot of trade. But it can be worked around. Ships can sail around Africa or goods can be shipped across the Pacific and across the Panama Canal or via rail across America. Obviously those are more expensive, but the goods will still be transported.
do you mean this case?
https://www.mopo.de/hamburg/frachter-rammt-faehre-knapp-an-d...

that was the very same ship

EDIT: no, the incident needing 12 tugs was a different ship. see comment below.
Maybe I am mistaken but I don't think the city can give away money and call it non-taxable. The state sets income tax laws as does the federal government. Even if CA as a state decided not to tax it, doesn't mean the federal government couldn't or wouldn't tax it.

Is there something I am missing?
Are there helicopters capable of lifting a fully loaded cargo container?
Cool - so Thomas Mair plaque kickstarter supporter then?

Because as I pointed out - you only cited examples whose politics you agree with.

Take the mental leap.
Please forgive me if it's been answered, but how does CoScreen.Co compare to Screen.So?
For sure, though the topic ITT is the "relationship between a maker of musical tools and the artists who used those tools".

I give the example of MOD particularly in this case because falkTX* not only works for MOD but helps develop JACK (and DPF, Carla, KX.Studio, etc.).

For another DIY solution that uses mod-host, what the MOD and Zynthian devices use for LV2; https://github.com/auto3000/pedalpii / https://github.com/auto3000/meta-pedalpi / https://github.com/Rezzonics/pedalC2-dev-platform

* https://github.com/falkTX
It's a decentralized implementation of a quota system.

By slowly releasing supply you prevent anyone having to self-regulate (which requires unreasonable deprivation, OR global knowledge) and everyone bases their decisions off of the only global signal, free space.
What's on Deck for on Deck?
Great post, enjoyed your writing style and drawings a ton!

One of the bigger things I think Workers have going for it versus others is it’s ability to bind WASM modules. Hyper efficient, basically native running computation at edge is a really cool concept. Especially since you can talk to it with a dead-simple JavaScript API.

For example, Cloudflare charges a good amount of money for image resizing using their CDN however they do it. At the same time, they also have this proof of concept worker that uses Web Assembly to do it for basically free! [1]

Another cool demo that was on HN the other day was embedding SQLite with WASM for edge quick transactions. [2]

Completely mind blowing... Still, very few demos in the wild. The learning curve is a beast and hopefully gets better as Rust and WASM become more mainstream for web developers.

[1] https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-workers-wasm-demo

[2] https://github.com/lspgn/edge-sql
"the blast blew blubber beyond any believe boundaries"
I suppose I'll kick off the usual "why don't they just do X" thread.

It seems to me that if they can't move it by any normal means, they could just start pushing cargo containers overboard and fish them out until it's light enough to move.

I could also a lot of plausible reasons why they wouldn't do that:

- it wouldn't work (no equipment to move containers)

- the ship's owner doesn't want to do that and no one has the authority to force them

- the ship's owner wants to do that, but the owner of the cargo doesn't want them to

- the cost of lost cargo is more than the cost of delaying other ships

- it would take too long or be too messy to clean up
Is this on Windows? I've experienced the same for the past few releases in Windows. For some reason that clone step is ridiculously slow.
I just realized how similar the Neo Geo and Sega Genesis/Mega Drive hardware are.
Dumb question but what about heavy lift helicopters moving containers off 1 by 1?
TDR was booted from the NetBSD team back in 1994 ... He then founded OpenBSD and has been working on it since.
One important piece missing from this article is that on Vercel you do not get global Serverless functions on any plan except the Enterprise plans. By default you can pick one preferred region for your Serverless functions and that's the region that's always used. In practice, assuming you have a somewhat decent caching strategy, this doesn't really matter as far as latency is concerned. Where it could potentially matter is that AWS region having an outage and now you can't fallback to another. We deploy all our functions to at least two regions and Vercel does handle region failover in this case.

Disclaimer: I'm a Vercel enterprise customer
> but it becoming increasingly obvious that maintaining backward compatibility in modern high performance parts is incredibly expensive and bug ridden

Moving everything to ARM will not be cheap. As for bugs that is entirely dependent on the company making the chip, which ones do you have in mind? (Also recall that M1 is vulnerable to Spectre too).

I kind of hope X86s days are numbered as well, but I'm not looking forward to an ARM monoculture.
I found that living where there is a non-car option increased my physical fitness. Instead of knowing I should exercise but making an excuse I just walked to the bus stop every day. This was just a couple blocks needed to get to the offices, but a lot more walking than I'd do before because it no longer was something special to do it.

Too bad I've been transferred to a different office now, one with not transit and nothing in walking distances.
I respectfully disagree. If those functions are only used in this one place, I'd much prefer to have the code in one large block. John Carmack makes a good argument for why:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25263488
Most motorcycles with a manual petcock are very manual in nature. Often this is to minimize the number of moving parts that could die on you if you take it into rural areas. An automatic petcock adds more complexity that could cause a malfunction.
That's very sad to here about your grandmother in law. I too definitely felt an impact of lockdown, it's not zero impact at all.

However looking at other places in the world (not Australia) that had ineffective measures, it's like comparing certain death for a large swathe of the population vs reduced quality of life that many, but not all will recover from.
While some of the specifics are obviously x86 specific, I'm not sure that the underlying issues here are. From undocumented instructions, to lack of documentation about speculation barriers most of the root issues you see here are equally applicable to the cores in an M1.
Using Packwerk to isolate components in your Rails app
It seems like most commenters are in software engineering or related jobs. But it doesn't appeal to lots of people in those fields. There are biologists and truck drivers too. And lots of people have pointed out most companies are tech companies now.

Most topics here might interest people for professional reasons. But they include things like "High IQs are associated with mental and physical disorders" too. People love to debate politics. And "Is the Ship Still Stuck?"[1] is the top article right now.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26585282
> The whole canal is 120 miles, so an extra quarter mile they should be able to dig in a few days I would think?

Uh, what? Why would the length of the canal as a whole tell you anything about how long digging a quarter-mile section would take? If the canal as a whole was longer or shorter, would that somehow change your estimate?
I don't see how this is legal. Two people can be equally poor, but if you're black you get $500 a month, but if you're white or Asian you don't get anything?
In California you pay ~1.5% in property taxes per year. Owning property is not cheap.

In fact you never really own it.
We're discussing a ship that is 400 metres long, 59 metres wide, and has a draft of 16 metres[0]. It's carrying somewhere over 18,000 containers, each of which could weight up to 27,000 kg[1]. It's unlikely that all of them weigh that much, but still, they can be heavy.

The load has been very carefully placed on the ship to ensure maximum stability. So the heavy loads are probably deeper in the hull and the lighter loads are higher up. When ships get unloaded in port, it's unlikely that all the containers are for that port, so an intricate dance starts - offloading some containers, moving other ones to maintain the balance, and loading new ones. At all times, you have to keep the load within tolerances so that your ship doesn't go "I'm out!" and roll over.

So yeah, money alone can't solve this in 24 hours. They've got to calculate the load changes when they offload containers, so that you don't accidentally cause the ship to roll over in the canal. You're not going to stop that happening with a few bits of rope tied to some concrete pillars in the ground..

[0] https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/EVER-GIVEN-IMO-9811000-...

[1] https://www.dsv.com/en/our-solutions/modes-of-transport/sea-...
Unloading it may be exactly what happens (based on comments from the Dutch salvage company brought in to deal with the mess). And yeah, it's going to take weeks (best case scenario).