skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ran a weekly trivia challenge when I was in high school. I'd offer up an obscure question, and the first to answer it won a free pizza. The one question that remained unanswered at the end of the year was, "what happened on September 10th, 1752 in Britain?"

At the end of the year, I revealed the answer to that one question that had remained unanswered. Nothing had happened that day, as it didn't exist. Afterwards I had to explain the transition to from a Julian calendar to a Gregorian one to a very miffed group of trivia players.
Leverage over android users. If iMessage became dominant on Android, Apple can make the experience just a little bit better on iOS to encourage people to switch.
Interesting read. I don't think the codfather is capable of respecting a conservation goal, he's a maximum extractive guy.

Ripping off his co-boat owners, shitting on the Port authority and the auction process, its just icing on the cake really.
I don't think any of this is counter to what Greenwald, I or a great many moderate voices would contend about immigration in the modern world. If pointing out that immigration has tradeoffs and requires some degree of organisation and solidarity among workers was not bigoted when Marx and other early communists said it, it is not bigoted to say similar things today.

If positions are rooted in hatred based on race or class, of course that's different, but Greenwald has said nothing of the sort, and all the positions he's expressed in the past 15 years make it clear he doesn't think anything like that.
In case anyone gets a hot linking error 1101:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201026081303/https://www.os2mu...
Not sure how you are defining pre-mechanical age. But trade has existed for a long time. Trade on the silk road was active by 200BC. Europe is covered in Roman roads and droving routes. And it was common to use boats to transport goods by sea and navigable Rivers in medieval times. Of course all these modes would have had baggage that couldn't be carried on bikes.
keep aside time for working say 1 hour for working and do work related stuff in that 1 hour i.e no hn, no reddit, facebook, ig, netflix or any other thing that you use for passing time. if you don't have work to do in that hour than spend time on thinking what to do next in that hour.
Idea is to create a routine, once routine is setup things happen by themselves as per my experience. Give it a try and see if it works for you.
How do you move any agriculture to the ocean at the scale we consume it currently? Do you mean just switching crops like corn for crops that grow in the ocean like sea weed?
> "Hey everyone, I thought of this and wrote it down, none of you wrote it down before so now it's my idea for the next 30 years"

In this case you are right, it stiffles progress instead of helping it.

But what about the case where "Hey, it took us 20 manyears of research to discover this, and when we release it, it's up for grabs for anyone"

In that case, you want to have a patent system so the research can have a ROI.

But the latter case never happens in software, and so I'm very happy Europe doesn't have any software patents.
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Odd you were downvoted ! I think that this is a good insight because it underlines physics!=math!=physics.
I retweeted this :
https://twitter.com/theprincessxena/status/13794762308571791...

The way to fight climate change is at the level of national or supernational legislation.
Nordics tools and documentation are generally considered relatively high quality. Not perfect, but the competition is usually worse. That's one of the main reasons they are dominating the Bluetooth LE peripheral market.
Languages you must know #0
I've been programming full time for 50 years. I've been paid to program in 60+ languages. I've been involved in authoring 4 commercial languages. I've taught at 4 schools.

Language defines the way you think. Some languages completely change THE WAY you think.
Some languages change WHAT you can think.

Most languages are "more of the same". I don't care if a language is widely used or "a success". Python, for example, is both. But Python teaches you nothing.

Of the many languages I know, I will give highly opinionated recommendations on which languages have profoundly re-shaped the "WAY" and "WHAT" of my thinking.

For each language I will try to hint at the "way of thinking" and the fundamental idea(s) that "bend the mind in a new way".

It is an absolute, unqualified joy to learn a language that changes the way you think and even the things you "can think".
Phism: Polyhedral High-Level Synthesis in MLIR
The signs of Corona are discovered by an artificial intelligence device
And the armies had wagons with them, that is what ultimately capped their marching speed, not individual travel mode.
I know you are a Lisp expert with a deep knowledge of its eco-system, but trying to downplay the existence of multiple dispatch and protocols doesn't help.

Also I bet that The Art of Metaobject Protocol reference implementation can be ported into Clojure without major issues.
I would argue if you're not bringing your idea to market, that's not innovation. It's the opposite, you're blocking innovation.

Patents stop other people from creating useful stuff. I think it's reasonable that you should have to fill the gap in order to retain the right to stop them. Although enforcing that is difficult.
Workers is wayyyy cheaper if you don't call into on other Intra AZ AWS deps: https://medium.com/@zackbloom/serverless-pricing-and-costs-a...

For instance, Cloudflare throws in fair-use bandwidth and its cache for free, while there's also no need to setup an API Gateway to serve http reqs (if forwarding http is all you're doing with apigw).
Most Russians aren't even aware that this is due to the church using a different calendar - as far as they're concerned, "orthodox Christmas" just happens to be on January, 7 (as opposed to "catholic Christmas" on December, 25).

This is further reinforced by January, 7 being a state holiday in Russia - defined directly like that, without any references to the old calendar.
I have yet to find an organization that has figured out how to effectively transfer learned lessons to other projects/employees without retaining those specific people for long periods.

Add in high levels of turnover and unless the specific person who learned the lesson is also on the project, there isn't a clear wrong way to prevent a wrong turn.

I am part of a new team at a startup and everyone on the new team is a relatively new hire. As far as I know, we haven't taken any meaningful learnings. Despite the company existing for years, we have done everything from scratch.
nah, it was the bat. how can anyone believe anything else? you must be crazy.
I had misunderstood this idea as minimising the WIP, but it's about optimisation.

Quotes:
"How can I find out what the ideal WIP limit is for the system I am in?"
"After a few iterations and having recorded the learnings in retrospectives, we collectively decided to increase the WIP."

This articles also references: Why limiting work-in-progress works.
https://lethain.com/limiting-wip/

Discussed previously
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19186456
Nobody here in Finland is buying bikes (or anything for that matter) from a dodgy guy on the street corner. They are usually sold online or if more organized operation forwards to some fence who ships them to another city (or country within the EU) to be sold. Depending on the bike they can also be sold as parts. Selling really expensive racing bike can be hard but selling the frame on its own after cleaning it is not that hard.

And if you are buying a 1000€ bike for 50€ you can be pretty sure it is stolen and buying stolen goods is illegal and can get you in trouble (if the police would actually be doing anything about bike theft...)
XACE is basically an extension of SELinux into userspace for X11. Given that today Fedora/RHEL are the only distros that enable SELinux out of the box, such an approach would have been doomed to failure (or doomed to provide a product differentiator for RHEL in the best case) - not to mention the sheer joy and excitement that debugging SELinux AVC denials would produce for end users and desktop application developers.

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/XDevConf/x-security-wal...
EFF is really deciding to die on a hill on a feature where all the tracking is moved to your owned device instead of being held on some foreign servers? Despite that giving your software full control what it collects and reports to the servers?

Even Apple uses this kind of federated learning approach for their data collection needs.

Is EFF fighting to improve privacy or are they only interested in attacking certain corporations?
Why use the OS then? Just do bare metal runtime like we used to do on MS-DOS days.
Great thank you for your input and contributions!

- Regarding the power supplier: how did you validate that the tariff is actually eco-friendly?
- What do you think: how successful have you been at debating with other people? :D
- Any other (local) people or communities that you regularly join forces with on this topic?
Annatar's saying there's a solution out there with fewer moving parts than the industry is moving towards. Rather than the dropbox situtaion that was the opposite.

I'm not that familiar with any of these, but SmartOS sounded cool when I looked it up.
Confucius, he say: "Chew your rice slowly."

Rice contains starch, and saliva contains amylase, an enzyme that breaks down starch into glucose. Slow chewing gradually confers a sweetness on a mouthful of rice; so Confucius was right.
Well, dreaming about how the world would be able to organize such a conspiracy does sound like conspiracy theory to me. But that is not my point, what I wanted to say is that, even if it turns out the coronavirus was leaked from a lab, practically it is impossible to prove that this was intentional.
From my MS-DOS/Speccy programming days 400KB is a lot, no need to make use of the OS, if one can avoid it.
Very often, even tough I only ever write very short programs (100 to 1000 lines) in Python, C++ (and learning Rust), I look at my finished program and feel like there is a million things to improve and a billion other ways to do it. Each variable could have a better name, each abstraction could be abstracted more, the whole thing could be rewritten in a different style or language.

Whereas if I design something in CAD, I send it to the printer, try it, improve it once, print again and never ever again think of it as long as it does it's job.
Yes, but it doesn't excuse the alarming and misleading headline. The one third includes 24% of patients showing mood and related disorders, compared to 21% for other respiratory diseases.

Covid is bad enough as it is. It's no reason to run roughshod over basic journalistic principles.
The key word here is 'invention'. In practice we have lawyers specialized in crafting as vague and broad patents as possible, so that bogus infringements can be litigated in court.
I think this year but I suggest you look it up yourself, they probably are mentioned in the court documents and the dates are public.
The CCP is basically China and at least most Chinese people, because it draws its authority and power from the complacency of its constituents. Trying to differentiate the CCP from its subjects will leave you labeling all counter-parties as communist agents until you’ve realized you’ve labeled the majority of Chinese citizens!

Of course no country’s government has the full support of its citizens, but to say Chinese people are wholly distinct from the CCP is disingenuous.

There is no ruling ethnicity, just a more unified single party system. People can choose to participate in politics, they just have to do it within the party.
They state "The disks were attached as JBOD devices to a ServeRAID M5210 controller (with a stripe size of 512)". I interpret the stripe size to mean a CEPH stripe size.

So the fancy RAID controller can bite you in the ass even if you try to lock its risky functionality away in a closet.

Maybe it's hard to buy name-brand server hardware with lots of disk bays and a safely dumb controller?
I have mildly bad experience with gluster. I did never lose data, but the maintenance load was very noticable! Ceph will rebalance by itself when adding (or removing) disks. That alone reduces maintenance by a huge amount. For Storage clusters I don't care about as much, it's also nice when a disk fails that ceph will notice and react automatically. Replacing the disk is then something you ought to to at one time, but you don't have to do pretty soon.

I am running some rook-managed ceph clusters now that make even ceph infrastructure nodes automatically recoverable. But I did not test that enough yet.
Software allows incredible leverage by reusing stuff. I would never consider four developers a large software project though.
Erlang/Elixir would like to have a word.
I really wish Thread mesh networking would become standard on new Wi-Fi routers. Google Nest has hardware support for it, but not sure if it's enabled yet.

I think Thread is a much better fit for IP connectivity for IoT devices. Nordic Semiconductor nRF SoCs can do Bluetooth LE and Thread on the same radio at the same time, so should be very cost effective.

I'd gladly replace all my Zigbee devices with Thread ones if they were available. It'd be really nice with something that's easier to troubleshoot with standard IP tools, and to not have to have a separate hub for that network.

Nordic Semiconductor recently bought Imagination Technologies WiFi assets, so there should be some nice SoCs from them in the near future too.
When the epidemic was started, I started to spread information about new danger in my country, and I was attacked by our government then (including police and three letter agency), so I'm not surprised that the lead SARS researcher is missing in China, because she knows the danger of SARS-CoV very well. Our government did not understand the danger of SARS-CoV-2 until now, when clinics collapsed under load.
IMO, technical leadership isn’t allowed to build at scale or the leadership doesn’t exist.

The race to the bottom incentivises profit over principle. Boards don’t care if something is built to scale if the competitor gets to market with a cheaper solution. Scaling is a day two problem.

I’m bearish on my future employment as someone who questions the motivations for profit driven development.

I naively thought the market would reward the best product, instead I see the cheapest product being rewarded. What happened to innovation and doing what’s best for society?
The problem with X11 was never that you can't add things to it, the problem is that you can't remove things from it.
Didn’t mpeg work with patents and licenses?

... I guess it’s not really necessary to have patents in order to sell licenses, and I guess in most cases for software, patents are used as a moat for a business rather than getting a direct ROI on research.
They actually compare it to other respiratory diseases survivors. The results are a lot milder than the headline implies.

This, by contrast to the shoddy Reuters article, is a good reference, with a chart that neatly summarizes the results (pay attention to the different values on the y-axes):

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-04-largest-date-link-cov...
> The virus is unlikely to have been engineered (in the way I described above) and leaked.

Likely, unlikely, it's not really possible to attach probabilities to events that already happened. Also history is told chronologically, when told anti-chronologically we tend to make causal connections where there are none.

I don't want to dismiss the lab theory completely but consider this:

These kinds of labs are all over the world, in China, in the Netherlands, in the US and so on. They are mostly being built in metropole regions because that's where large science clusters tend to be. Coincidentally city centers are traditionally built around markets. These tend to be the densest areas of cities. Densest areas are where infection clusters are most likely to build up and get noticed.

And now we find a case where all these 3 coincide. Really, that doesn't say much. Also there have been quite some hints about Covid19 cases before December 2019, outside of China even. [1] Statistics is a highly counter-intuitive discipline. If it wasn't maybe the virus would be already under control anyway.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-01/covid-inf...
I mentioned it and got attacked, so of course I'm going to reply. Both you and "gadders" have gotten your knickers in a twist over absolutely nothing. I've already spent more time in this thread thinking or talking about Prince Philip than I have in the last 3 decades, I think that is quite enough for me - I'm out.
> but what can you possibly say?

Just say, "Thank you." It doesn't need to be long and complex: "I'm sorry for your loss; but, I id like you know that your son's/daughter's heart has given our daughter a second chance. Thank you."

Don't over think it. You'll never get it "perfect."
The first covid-like epidemic was in November 2019 in South part of the Russian Federation, where Vector lab is located: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMh11FtfaP0

Turn on subtitles, then select automatic translation -> English in options.
What is "door"?
Yesterday I watched a video about how Netflix scaled its API with GraphQL Federation.[0] The video contains some neat visualizations that helps you see how complex data accees problems at scale can get. And this is just the services level they talk about.

No mentioning of the underlying infra with all its complexities needed to acheive the goals of flexibility, reliability, speed and cost cutting.

You don't have to be of Netflix size - when you start getting tens of thousands of users, complexity hits you real fast.

[0] https://youtu.be/QrEOvHdH2Cg
Videogame Developer Used the STL and You'll Never Guess What Happened
And for reference, this is a much better article: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-04-largest-date-link-cov...
I have tried fighting this a couple of times but lost every time. Do you know a solution to make my Android phone keep the connection to a wifi without internet connection?
AFAIK the older ESP chips used Xtensa, not ARM.
> If you block all the ads on an ad-supported website, how will it survive?

If the only thing that website provides of value is a billboard, it doesn't deserve to.

I'm perfectly happy paying for high-quality ad-free services.
I had to resort to using Firefox with uBlock to watch YouTube. I can’t make it work on Safari with ad blockers, which is a shame.
Agreed - it is a minority.

By this study it's about 8%:

https://hiddentribes.us/
> the overall expansion between the Civil War & the creating of the Fed was still unprecedented

That’s...not surprising given the way postwar expansions tend to work and the impact of the Civil War.

> Good thing the Fed was created just in time to finance the World War 1 resulting in over 20 million deaths. Interesting coincidence...

How is the link you are insinuating between the creation of the Fed and WW1 supposed to work, exactly?
That explains the grenade attacks in Sweden.
I keep referencing it, but I refer you to this article, which contains a lot of helpful information, including a very useful chart:

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-04-largest-date-link-cov...

PS. As you'll see, statistically significant difference does not mean an important difference.
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I died on that hill many times, Linux people don't like if you criticise AMD because they're open and NVIDIA isn't so they're evil.

Your 6700 XT might not be fully supported, but my 5500 XT is and was been causing kernel panics since I bought it one year ago. I got tired of posting the same drm bug report as reference but it's one of the 3 most commented and open for a couple years now.

It's painfully obvious that the Linux driver team at NVIDIA is underbudgeted and completely ignored, so I'm happy Wayland comes for them as well and I can continue to use their high end cards and not be relegated to tried-and-tested-and-painfully-old AMD cards on Linux, at least until they sort their day 1 support for new cards.
Interesting, beautiful, and fun to speculate on: Intuitively it seems that research like this would help us install and maintain interfaces between the external world and the central nervous system.

Free science-fiction idea: Vat-grown bone ports to match the recipients immune signature that have an embedded organic o-ring-like seal around a neuroumbilical root. Control-theory-based anaesthesia induces, maintains, and adjusts fractional loss of consciousness, applying machine learning techniques we learned from trying to control k8s to local-to-region biomechanical control of gas diffusion as well as suppression networks in the brain. We cut out a part of the skull or spine - in microgravity to avoid stretching and breaking the fatty gossamer cabling inside, of course - and perform the slightest of abrasive insults to the brain or spinal cord. To exactly the correct place because we can ask the fractionally-conscious inhabitant. Then a brain-glue scaffold is built up while the bone port is put into place and nerve fibers are threaded between the new piece and the existing body. The nerves reach out for each other and fuse. Then we saturate the client in various neurogenesis factors, cycling between various classic psychedelics in a proprietary house blend. The client may select if and how to be brought into consciousness during that phase. After healing, a reliable and standard machine interface port is available that is mechanically robust, fully immunologically protected, and self-healing with a reliability span comparable to at least the lifespan of an unmodified host.
m = meters

min = minutes

:-)
Also I would venture to guess that horses were tad more practical and if you needed that mid-range solo travel. And if you were doing it for reason you either had money or someone supporting you.

It's very often forgotten just how little average people in agrarian societies tended to move. And on other hand the "downtown" of even Athens seems to have been quite small that is 1,5km in diameter...
RISC-V (no MMU)
Reading other comments here, I guess I am lucky enough Ceph still works fine for me, however I am still baffled by its potential performance. Last cluster deployed is 3 nodes each with 4x P4610 NVMe as OSDs, 25Gbps network pushes only 20k IOPS during 4k read, queue depth 128. Single disk is supposed to push around 600k...

“One of the issues is that the officially recommended way to install it seems to be rook-ceph with kubernetes.“

I believe the recommended way is using cephadm.

I have been using ceph-ansible since luminous and had to deal with nasty issues or quirks as well caused probably by complexity and human errors.
I agree that national and supernational legislation can have a very immediate impact on this.

I guess you also thought about getting involved more personally. What's your stance on this?
It is explicitely part of the wayland protocol https://wayland-book.com/introduction/high-level-design.html
Joking on HN risks downvotes
It also didn't help that these cards often had weird hardware failures (maybe because clone?) that would make them flaky but people would keep them in service because Ethernet cards were still relatively expensive at the time and, as you point out, network protocols are pretty resilient.

I used to have to literally break flaky cards in half--not kidding. Three different people fished a card out of my trash and only stopped when they realized I physically broke it--and this was about 2001-ish.
Blizzard being the shining paragon in that regard?
Building up the tooling is how we advanced over the last decades. It is a very slow process though because one tool has to become stable before tools on top of it can progress instead of adapting to changes.

Large software projects do not have decades. Only few years.

Distributed operating systems are nothing new though. Plan9 for example.