skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Software will always outrun hardware, and ginormous software drives the entire existence of the hardware business. It's just how the system works. Are we getting benefits? I can think of lots of software we didn't have 10 years ago that we wouldn't want to give up just so we could keep old, slow boxes.
Speak for yourself, i guess: people in my state are tripping all over themselves (and the vaccination signup official website(s), unofficial website(s) and twitter bot(s)) to get in line for appointments.
Okay, I mean "how do we get rich by non honest means"
I worked with Vodafone and AT&T for projects in Europe. It was a large company to that did some work with SDNs and were a MSP. Can confirm the endless chain of subcontractors when dealing with large Telcos.

Europe in general has a fetish with subcontracting IT to the point where only the contractor’s can do it. Sometimes it’s the contractors’s contractor’s contractor who is the only one who can do anything.
Thank you, keep up the good work!
Military personnel + operations and maintenance, not including procurement, is more like 65% of the US budget.
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After my second jab I honestly don’t care. Time to get on with life.

We have someone in our family that can’t be vaccinated for medical reasons and they feel the same way. The risk goes down significantly when the whole family is vaccinated.

It’s time to put covid in the “managed risk” section of our life and get on with things.
It amuses me how the low limit nature of Excel has affected the ecosystem around it. Apache POI, which is a popular library to operate on Excel files, has a weird 4GB limit [1] on uncompressed file size.

throw new IllegalArgumentException("Max entry size is bounded [0-4GB], but had " + maxEntrySize);

[1] https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/poi/tags/REL_5_0_0/src/ooxml/j...
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"When the internet was mourning the impending shutdown of Yahoo Answers, announced earlier this week, there was a sentiment that you saw over and over again: that shutting the site down was akin to the library of Alexandria burning down."
How do I contribute? I have an idea ‘Twitter but with finite state machines’, where undereducated but pedantic dilettantes share ‘state updates’, and each person’s update must force the rest of the network to set their current state (since its immutable and shit).

So if I go from ‘happy’ to ‘sad’, the rest of you better update your state on this network. I suppose this will scale.
Ok, I'll take the bait. Done right there is no torment. My 1/2 dozen cows are grass fed and have a life of blissful grazing and laying under the shade trees chewing their cud. They have one bad moment before they start the transition to the freezers of myself and my friends.

Second, the natural (and normal) world is full of predators that eat meat. Consuming other animals is one of the more normal things we do. Certainly a lot more normal than standing around typing into this phone.

I will certainly agree however that large scale meat processing needs reform in some of its practices. I won't argue that.
I get the impression that LotR was a project Peter Jackson had a lot of passion for, and the Hobbit wasn't, really.
Third-party tracking cookies have not been a problem in my browser (Firefox) for quite a while now, since they get blocked by default. Firefox also recently introduced Total Cookie Protection, which is a feature isolating cookies by the origin on which they were created on. (https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/24/firefox_cookies_86/)

So the argument for FLoC is moot because this is actually a false dilemma. We shouldn't be acting as if it is a choice between either third-party cookie or FLoC. Rather, we should reject both.

Aside: In some ways, FLoC is worse than third-party cookies since the latter are not under central control and do not provide a way of automatically grouping an entire browser user population into similarity groups based on past browser history.
Thankfully one language (English, but whatever language it is might not be that relevant) is becoming 'de facto' the language for sciences, and kids are starting to learn it from an earlier age.

It's still a long way to go, especially for undeveloped countries. However, probably any children born within the next decade will be able to read and speak at least advanced English before reaching 18.
I work for an average sized Danish city. Even when we combined our datasets with 10 other average sized cities and accumulate the biggest national data set and let the big data wizards have a go at it, it wasn’t really large enough to amount to anything useful.

Don’t get me wrong, Watson came up with a lot of BI suggestions that were useful and some of the scientists came up with semi-interesting prediction models. The thing is though, our analytics team has much better BI models and the our finance department does the prediction much more efficient and, well, legal. The prediction could become a useful aid, if it ever became legal, but not really at the license fees we were looking at.

Not sure if automated BI is ever going to become good enough. It’s impressive that Watson can come up with stuff an university post-bachelor intern can, but it’s license is more than our entire analytics team, so yeah...
Isn't herd immunity at 70%? This, along with those that have natural resistance to it should get us there, right?
Their series is a new series, it's based on stories from The Silmarillion and the large series published by Christopher Tolkien.
I don't think they ignored it? Says it was addressed. I think it was OK to dispel the implication that the elaborate supply chain attack was allowed in the first place by sloppy pw practices. You don't want that to be the takeaway and then other companies thinking, well our pw management practice is really good so we don't have to worry about being a victim so much
Reminds me of something we had more than 10 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EyeOS

It certainly ran better than this.
I once plugged my Linux thinkpad into a projector via HDMI during a programming interview, and my laptop started smelling like it was burning. Never again!
We can technically offer the users Nth page with cursors+offset hybrid, if we're fine with the computational demands (smaller than pure offset, but bigger than just prev|next|last).

Let's say we want to offer the user 5 pages, 100 records per page:

prev (7) | next (9) | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | ... | last

If you click "13", you'd need to query with cursor for page 9 (i.e. id > last rec of page 8) , and offset 400 limit 100.

This way offset never get gigantic, because if you show up to 5 pages to the user, you need to offset up to 5 * 100 records at a given time (combined with the cursor).
If we're not spending the time optimizing, it must be going somewhere. If it's not going into faster, more frequent releases it might be going into improved quality (though I doubt that as well, from experience) or perhaps even just employing cheaper developers (and QA and management and design and etc) such that they produce software of the same performance in the same amount of time.
> as aliases for existing DOI names, which are often very long strings.

Probably because the problem it tries to solve is mostly a non-problem in practice. I've hardly ever seen "very long" DOIs. In fact most I encounter on a day to day basis are so short that you could reasonably spell them out loud if you'd have to.

EDIT: Okay, it's better than I expected. It currently gives you a 4 character id (e.g. https://doi.org/f655), which is so short that e.g. one would quickly copy it from a presentation slide.
Is this because the automation tools for performing such refactoring don’t work well? Or were you trying to do this kind of work manually?
Hate sells well and many are eager to buy.
Here's the KFF data mentioned in the article:
https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/dashboard/kff-covid...

The "definitely not" view is interesting.
White label operators can't usually afford Amdocs solution from one side. From the other side, Amdocs doesn't have a server farm in Israel to do CDR processing :)
Everything happens either on client premises (and Amdocs can deliver end-to-end solution, including buildout of complete datacenter if it required by client) or "in the cloud"
Why fnm was rewritten in Rust
They did it before, even had to wire everything together, coast to coast.
It's their branding.

https://about.twitter.com/en/who-we-are/brand-toolkit
I was never able to read all the way through the books myself; they were much too dry for my taste. I did quite enjoy The Hobbit though, and I think the LotR movies are fantastic. It's an excellent cinematic universe, IMO. There is so much there to build a story upon.
My understanding is that he directed the Hobbit movies after Guillermo del Toro was removed, and the studio wanted him to start filming immediately. Fellowship had tons of pre-production time, The Hobbit movies had virtually none.
This series is supposed to be set during the time of Morgoth. So the story is going to be completely different from LotR. I think they are just using the name as a stop gap (and maybe for PR) until they officially name the series.
That is true. It's not super easy to add new languages and I'm not familiar with Fortran (thankfully our group switched from Fortran to Julia recently!) but we already support C since it's easy to call C from Python. Perhaps Fortran support won't be super hard either.
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Cursor based pagination is much better from a performance point of view against large amounts of data.

It's also sometimes called keyset pagination - there's a good article about that here: https://use-the-index-luke.com/no-offset

I implemented it in https://datasette.io - it's quite tricky to build if you want to support arbitrary sort orders.
Why do you think it is overrated?
To be fair, i haven’t read a local readme in years. Markdown in github is hands down miles better and provides more value than any local readme openable with any kind of computer could provide.
I detested netbooks because their performance always disappointed. They were too early. If today's arm chips were driving them and better memory it might have been different.

I don't know if it counts but I still have the carcass of an ho stream 7 I bought and used for maybe 3 months before I became sick to death of its performance.

I think I even upgraded it to windows 10.

Not sure if there are any good uses for the bones of these kinds of machines now.
I know quite of a few of these people and I’m consistently surprised at how little is understood about their motives from comments like this. People pretend like they’re some alien race immune to logic. If that’s what you want to believe about your countrymen than that’s on you.

Which is a shame because there’s things we could do to change vaccine rates among these groups. For example find alternatives to aborted fetal stem cells for testing and research (or worse, ingredients).
I’m confused. It runs smoothly on my iPhone.
> I can edit it anywhere

Can you pull it up on your phone when you're out and need to jot something down? (Honestly wondering, I've always toyed with org mode, but half my notes are taken on the run.)
Without those tractor yokles, the cities would starve. It takes a lot of different sorts of people to make the world go round.
I don't get it. Yesterday the mayor of our city sent out an email detailing how many people have gotten it, broken out by age:

Residents who are partially or fully vaccinated include 95%+ of those who are 75 years old or more, 95%+ of those 65-74 years old, 81% who are 50-64 years old, 65% who are 30-49 years old, 38% that are 20-29 years old, and 8% who are 0-19 years old.

My wife and I are in our 50s. We signed up for the state registration system, we got email updates from our healthcare providers (affiliated with one of the major Boston medical centers) stating that we are eligible ... but no notifications of when we can actually go somewhere to get the jabs.
I don't see the future to 2040 as bleak, kind of the opposite mostly as I'm kind of a Kurzweil techno optimist and think we should be able to get that sort of stuff going, possibly including uploading, immortality, interplanetary travel and the like.
The US was more democratic after the revolution than before. Since then the trend has been in that direction, largely because those kinds of principles are baked into the constitution.
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FYI the AIP diet says to avoid vegetables in the nightshade family, which includes potatoes.
Complete/Big data should be loaded into memory for doing any processing in Excel;
Agreed but I don't really care about the privacy of my notes tbh. They're mostly web clippings and technical information I spent time to dig up, not my innermost thoughts.

However something self-hosted would be nicer.

With other O365 services it's more of a problem indeed. I use cryptomator on top of OneDrive to mitigate.
I belive that's insightful comment about it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21073302

(from discussion "Ultraprocessed Foods – A New Theory of Obesity").
Your comment history makes me worry for you. If you don't already, do therapy. Times are hard, take care of yourself.
Although I suspect this will not be a popular comment, I hope the Amazon series will remain faithful to the Catholic/Christian sense that Tolkien deliberately infused into these novels. Peter Jackson did a notably good job with that, all things considered.

To be clear, I don't think that you should have to be a Christian to like Lord of the Rings -- quite the contrary. But given the lack of compelling Christian art in general the past 50 or 60 years, I sometimes find it a bit painful as a believer that such a notable counter-example is so often treated as if it can be separated from its author's profound religious convictions.
I'm excited to see how a fantasy story about magic and elves can be used as a vehicle to teach me about white supremacy and transgenderism.
Yep. I'll feel bad for the people who can't get a jab due to lack of herd immunity and I'll worry about the anti-vaxxers leading to escape.

But even with that I know I won't be able to help but have a "screw 'em" stance pretty quick with the people who are choosing to not get vaccinated.
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Given that it seems that you can be transmitting the virus without developing symptoms, would it really be that much safer for an unvaccinated person?
Hi, I'm under 40 and a Republican. Less than 15,000[1] Americans in my age group have died with COVID and they almost all had comorbities, most commonly obesity. I have none. I'm a healthy weight. I live in an urban area. COVID is in no way an existential threat to me. I will not be getting vaccinated, especially with a vaccine that the FDA has NOT approved[0], only authorized, and recommends only for emergency use for high risk individuals, one of which I am not. I will not be dying, and I do vote. Have a nice fuck you

0: https://www.fda.gov/media/144414/download

1: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-...

Oh yeah and by the way, the pandemic has made me WAY more Republican, because of comments like yours and the reaction of Democrats and the media to use this pandemic for unending [3] control so just keep calling us yokels you fucking racist, see how that goes

3 https://reason.com/2021/04/16/michigan-moving-to-make-emerge...

It's okay though, the Democrats are focused on important things like abolishing policing[4], that and being shamed into taking an experimental vaccine for a disease that is not dangerous will definitely win us over. Unity and healing!!!!

4. https://mobile.twitter.com/rashidatlaib/status/1381745303997...
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Rather, once you've randomly decided that that's a horrible thing.

Men (and women) have spoken with vocal fry for the past several millennia, but I don't recall reading of anyone being annoyed by it until recently when everybody decided that millennial women speaking like that on the radio was anathema.
How did you install pandas without any work around? (Mini forge, building from source, making a Rosetta terminal)
"Before" it was simple. Now it's very complex. It's very complex exercise in large scale planning, logistics and coordination. If company tries to do it by itself, it something that will take years of work of hundreds to thousands of dedicated to this task people to accomplish.

Market and customers require faster pace.
How much would it cost, assuming 70m visitors and various page sizes (100k to 1m)?
Twitter web is not working for my logged-in session. Can’t refresh.
I agree with the parallels with aviation regulation, there needs to be something forcing a supplier's hand to solve this. The way to protect against supply chain attacks is to invest in a security-hardened build system (eg don't build releases on dev workstations, do them on build farms by build software that is the only thing able to access the release signing keys). This costs too much for most companies, so if they don't have the obligation to build it, they'll do features instead.
One factor that makes this really difficult is: exactly as much as you believe you are right, so do they believe that they are right. And as exasperated as are you with them, so too are they with you.

I don't like to think this way either, but Darwin may end up needing to be the ultimate decider. Along the way though, we all will suffer, as our economy and healthcare systems do not get to discriminate.
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Thank you for the new word, I will have to save it for another perfect context
Now a Samsung Galaxy tablet can be converted to a Netbook by simply adding a keyboard which mounts to the device. The closest thing to a netbook you can buy today is a Chromebook.
The problem with Electron apps is that they're using an embedded browser. As more and more apps are moving to Electron you're running a whole lot of browsers altogether on one system.

I don't want to waste hundreds of MBs of memory just on one small app :)

There's good Electron apps, yes. Like VS code, which is fast and optimised and uses very little resources. But most Electron apps are wasteful. Even the other ones from MS like Teams are horrible.
I had the impression that the assistant's proposed task was to translate von Neumann's older papers, the ones he wrote in German before moving to the US. In either case, he was fluent in German from childhood, but his English was not all that great at the time he moved (it got better with time). His native language was of course Hungarian.
Some people value the community more than the individual, some the opposite. It is a big problem that people can't respect each other.
Offset pagination is hard on the backends. You can distribute some of the sorting load (see: https://engineering.medallia.com/blog/posts/sorting-and-pagi... ), but it's tricky, and less efficient in any case.

Cursor based pagination is way better, since the backend aggregation bucket size is capped by the page size times the number of nodes used for a distributed sort (essentially you aggregate on page sized priority queues, one per node, and then aggregate them).
The title is a bit misleading, as Amazon's series is based on different material. It's presumably called 'The Lord of the Rings' because its title character is the same as that of the book and original movies.
If the trust issues cannot be fixed on hardware level or on base layer, it needs to be fixed on higher levels with more prominent and audited protocols. “IP based calls and everyone gets a free VPN from their telco”
The downside with Project Euler, though is that you need to run your code elsewhere. That's why something like leetcode is so nice (I think, at least): you can run the code right there in the browser. If you take this approach, you're forced to whitelist languages.
I disagree with those ragging on the PMS acronym.

Own it!

They should play on the acronym in very subtle ways. Icons that semi look like tampons and pads, slightly reddish hues, etc.

But keep it subtle.

You are in a super crowded market, and using something people are uncomfortable about, that they shouldn't be uncomfortable about is a great way to attract attention and keep you at the top of peoples minds.
I think one issue is we were told after somebody gets both shots they are still required to wear a mask, dine outdoors, socially distance, have their office closed, etc. It causes some people to feel there is no reason to get the shot.
Sure about that? Given that TFA is about the US, consider how much of our food supply is driven by giant agribusiness.
Yeah I was lucky enough to just use a RD gateway instead of the Cisco VPN so that Sidecar wasn’t disrupted.
That's interesting. I did read quadratic voting more accurately reflects preference, along those lines. I wonder if there isn't some way of modelling a world with independent actors and a fixed number of unique activities, where availability of the activity changes with respect to preference, maybe conceptually your quadratic vote budget is effectively time units. I suppose you'd have to consider how innovation increases available activities. Is there a real world example of that type of model with pricing data?
VS Code is the exception to the rule. MS has spent lots of time optimising it.

However most apps don't, and even MS' other apps are total crap, like MS Teams. If it was so easy to take the lessons learned from VS Code and apply it to their other apps they would do so I'm sure.
There's definitely not a great way to see all of your options. I was able to through my county's program, but there is also a city driven program, options at CVS, private practice doctors, clinics, and so on. None of them seemed to be aware of each other. My spouse was notified by the hospital that her primary care physician practices at, and got her vaccinations that way.

My son drove to a rural town, where there's a larger "not interested" crowd, and was able to get both shots in a walk-up fashion with no appointment.
Perhaps more local politics would be better. Trying to get 330 million people to agree on everything is doomed to failure.
I really like the fact that you have to declare when a class implements an interface. I consider it a valuable feature in Java. It’s a tremendous boon for documentation because it makes finding compatible classes much easier. Documentation indexers make this a snap, and it makes it easy for IDEs to autocomplete for you.

I have spent more time than I ought to have trying to find conforming types in TypeScript and Go code through trial and error. Fortunately I get feedback pretty quickly in my editor, but it is still a frustrating exercise. I want to build mechanisms, not solve jigsaw puzzles.