skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
busky beaver used to be
the world’s most famous beaver,
& world’s third favorite rodent,
second only to mickey and rocky,
that dear friend of bullwinkle.

busky beaver used to attract
hundreds of thousands of annual
tourists & visitors to the river.

- the dams it built ~
- the stick stacking ~
throughout canada,
renowned
& amounted to some of the biggest,
most ferocious,
meticulous ordered N precision-stacked
on the banks, all around

- but in the 90s,
- in the 2000s,
slowly,
annual visitors were dwindling

“wtf?”

said busky.

for the beaver
was at the top of it’s game,
& no ordinary thing could explain
what was happening.

the consensus,
however,
was overall positive.

“more forest for me”

was the essence of forest-animal conversation,

but busky beaver wasn’t happy.

“what about BC’s nature-derived GDP?”

fact is
busky was a top earner for the industry.
had woodpecker pecked plaques & everything
& didn’t like no-one
- neither beaver nor techie -
biting into his bottom line ..

by & by,
birds in the trees,
tweeted talks of some internet thing.

absorbing attn.
keeping tourists,
netflixed comfy on homefront.

“well busky being busky
wasn’t just going to let things slide ..”

“this requires adventure of a different kind.”

& so it t’was,
busky said:

“i’m going to find the internet & stop it.”

forest heard that.
talk pinged.
honey badgers scoffed loudly

“you can’t stop the internet!”
said honey bader
“It’s everywhere!”

“Why don’t you help me?”

but honey badger don’t care.

well neither did busky.

and so it goes,
busky just went ahead,
adventured out there.

- days passed,
- months followed,
- busky trekkin,

combing through the forest
for internet,
asking questions, turning up nothing

“wheretf is it?”

long story cut short,

encounters happened,.
trying times & tribulation ..
tests vanquished, all passed,
but all the same.

nonetheless,
no trace of internet.
and so it goes,
busky went all across canada,
through alaska,
reached china,
crossed russia,
ended up back in canada.

“wtf?!”

it’d been years hence
but suddenly,
busky was back at his home dam.

& some m th r f ck r z
had laid fiber optics across it?

“fk that.”

busky had beaver mouth,
could back his own talk
when it came to chewing.
& so,
busky cut through the fiber optics,
in minutes.
next thing, WWW in BC, went bust.

and eventually birdys got word,
talk traveled.

happenstance cut fast,

woodpecker pecked plaque
but the lumberjacks are coming

tbc .. (potentially)

//* when you seek a teacher, one will show up next door; (something like that)

also – not edited / just quick “flash” written.

love hacker news / hope you enjoyed */
> To enable that, Judge Carter ordered the city to place $1 billion in escrow; ordered the cessation of all sales or transfers of public lands; ...

While I agree that Skid Row is a disaster. If I were a Californian, I don't think I'd be comfortable with this degree of legislating from the bench.
My IDE had that feature and on all but the most basic project. The diagrams would come out so large you’d have to zoom 100x to see anything.
The MagaCorp will spend less than that 1% "lobbying" (hear legally bribing) politicians so that will never happen.
Love in a time of quarantine can be costly
It said "Buy" on the buttons on iTunes the last time I used it years ago.
And Boston's (and New York's) rail stations are connected by subway as well. But (like in Paris or London) I need to build in some generous buffer to catch a long distance train. I have no doubt Swiss trains do an unusually good job of aligning schedules but AFAIK that's not true of most places in Europe or Japan for that matter.
What is the nature of this “false compassion”?
Interesting that no mention is made of appeal. Is the city willing to embark on this without challenging it? That's almost too much to hope for, so I hate to assume.
Read through and it seems to be a crazy plan for me. The judge appears to be extremely ideology driven and a believer of the critical race theory to his core.

It is also laughable to think a judge has a grand plan to solve a societal issue. So a judge appointed himself to be the supreme planner of the city? The idea that a judge thinks himself can solve the homeless problem with a big plan is by itself pathetic.
Considering they use Go, they get this out of the box. Half the motivation for Docker isn't there if you're using Go.
What problem does a decentralized public database solve?

As far as I can tell, over a decade in, blockchain is still hunting for one.
Probably 0. :)

How often do you see a variable named "O"?
Beavers have been making a comeback to downtown Vancouver after a 60 years hiatus. They've been milling about Stanley Park (a major park beside downtown) and set up dens in the park's river system.

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/animals/beavers-stanley-p...
My parents have been having a kind of entertaining saga with the beavers that have colonized their rural property in Alberta. It's 100+ acres of bush neighbouring forested crown land, and it had been logged out and abused a bit before they moved there and built their house. So they've spent the last decade and a half restoring it.

In the low lying portion of their land there was always a gully with a tiny little trickle of water, a bit marshy, but no creek or pond. Enough you could step over it, that's it.

Fast forward 15 years and it's now a full pond with a beaver dam and at least one lodge and the water is now so high they can't get to the other half of their property. My dad builds bridges but the beavers keep raising the water level. He builds what he thinks are beaver-proof culverts to lower the water level a bit (but still enough for the beavers), and it works for a couple years and then eventually the beavers figure it out.

Unfortunately it has gotten to the point where he may have to do a bit of population control on them, as they are getting beyond destructive and he's getting older. He tried to live in harmony with them, but it's gotten tricky. Luckily their house is well up on the hill but they do want to be able to get to the other half of their property.
- context diagram for an overview
- uml sequence diagram for a more detailed view of interesting parts
- entity relatioship model for databases
Grade Inflation Is Ruining Education
As they should. This is judiciary overreach.
There's a ton of different note taking methods, as you can tell by the variety of responses here. People will evangelize one method as being superior to another, but I think you just have to try them out and see what works best for you.

IMO, a prior question to understanding the information we consume is deciding what information to consume. There's an essentially infinite amount of content out there, but we have a finite amount of time to learn. The strategy we usually employ is random and mindless—we consume whatever happens to show up in our HN or Twitter feeds. But I think there's a real value in thoughtfully curating the knowledge we take in, which is why I built Trove [1,2].

I'm curious to hear, how does everyone else here optimize their information diet (if at all)?

[1] https://trove.to/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26582658
Swedes are European and share as much in common with Europeans as they do with other Scandinavian countries. Comparing Sweden to other European countries is a perfectly valid comparison.

You're cherry picking and choosing cultural aspects and labeling it as 'unquestionable fact' with no scientific evidence.

Classic Covid zealot move.

As a matter of fact, we're all human beings that like to congregate together and eat out and go to bars and coffee shops and see live music, and our biological drives have way more significance than anything cultural .

It's extremely disingenuous.
Flatbuffers, Cap'n'Proto and Apache Arrow comes to mind.
You have legalised cannabis in the states, that's a better pain relief option.
Healthcare is publicly funded in a lot of countries already.

And I'm not sure that what's happening now proves you right.
Astrazeneca is absolutly failing at ramping up its production.

I'm not a professional but I'm quite sure that more labs producing the vaccine would be more efficient.
Could you please stop posting like this? See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26930434 from yesterday.
What on earth? In SF homelessness is caused by the lack of housing. Mental illness is courtesy the Reagan era dismantling of mental health services in CA, and is over-represented for sure.

However, the driving factor for homelessness in SF, is the fact that there is no where for people to live. Thats part of why eviction is so stupidly hard in SF. Once you become homeless it is functionally impossible to get out.
I love piku! I’ve never had the chance to use it, but I’ve read a significant part of the code, and its philosophy has influenced my approach to devops!
I hope we start sending larger and larger aircraft on Mars. From the current toy copter to Cessna sized planes and eventually fighter jets and C-130 Hercules-like cargo aircraft we will need to efficiently network distant Martian outposts with one another, we will need paved runways, air traffic control, radars, hardened communications suites, and living quarters to lay the foundation for a truly permanent human colony on Mars. The goal should be to grow a colony to thousands of people, living and working on Mars for years at a time, or for the rest of their lives even, if they wish so.
Obviously the US can afford housing the homeless. I just don't understand how a judge can just decide to spend a billion dollars.
PG&E will tell you that those plans are based on demand, not on capacity.
The term knacker is used in derogatory sense for Irish Travelers.
It did justify an army of billable systems analysts as they tried to deskill their engineers.
Society is not organized around individuals and groups working in mutual self-interest. Society is organized around the interests of the wealthy. Indeed, only people who are quite well-off manage to take international flights. Immigrants I know are happy if they manage to travel back and meet their families once every 3-5 years.
Judges have tremendous discretionary power, limited mostly by explicit legislation and by the rulings of higher courts.
I think that's very close, thank you.
The most fascinating fact about this is that this northern B.C. community has a fibre optic link. I live 5 minutes from town in Ontario in one of the highest populated metro regions in the world and I don't even have DSL.
> Between 5 Suscription Services it would take to get the few TV Shows& Movies I care about, Privacy concerns and unethical behaviour like this i just can't be bothered to look for "legal" sources anymore when any decent private tracker has everything i need in one place anyway.

As a reaction to decades of cable TV, the market wanted and celebrated Netflix, one place to pay and watch all the shows and movies you want.

But with time, what we got are just multiple cable TV packages served over the internet, each with their own subscription model and poorly developed app.
> Generally speaking, courts have ruled that individual residents do not have a right to demand aid from their government. However, there is one important exception: when the government was an active, willing, and knowing participant in creating the conditions that lead to the need for aid. This is known as the “state-created-danger” doctrine. Judge Carter invokes this as the primary justification for his sweeping order: that Los Angeles created layers of structural racism that deprived Black people of opportunity, and it had an explicit policy of concentrating the homeless population in Skid Row and then depriving them of services.

Seems like in limited circumstances where the government itself is implicated in harm, than yes.
I started college back in 2016. I saw uml from day one. Never actually used it outside college. We used a lot of those tools that can generate diagrams from code and vice versa, but I personally never liked it.
> But with a book, you have that privilege in perpetuity, and you can loan, transfer, and resell it.

But you don't. Not really. DVDs and books only last, what, 30-40 years. Are you entitled to a free replacement after that time is up?
In which case there will not actually be Boring Company tunnels.
There was an AMAZING game that was released unfinished: The Saboteur, that was in black and white until you liberated sectors of WWII Paris, which would turn that sector back into vibrant color. Unfortunately game content was deeply broken, for example failing a mission might take you back to before a previous mission, among other crazy glitches.
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Well, you could quote the next paragraph as well:

> when the government was an active, willing, and knowing participant in creating the conditions that lead to the need for aid. This is known as the “state-created-danger” doctrine. Judge Carter invokes this as the primary justification for his sweeping order
Perhaps you're talking about jpackage - https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/392
Makes sense. I can imagine it working on non-tech people more easily. It sounds similar to an explanation of why people should keep their house tidy then.
Rational rose anyone
This!

Understand the data and the application is simple and easy to understand. Start with a flashy GUI and your data is a mess.
Yes. And still not everyone wants to work for them. I'd sure never ever ever try to sell them anything... I'm thinking with such reputations they get shafted out of good opportunities and this has a cost. I'm not sure how Costco treats their partners & providers but I'd guess they're still shrewd without bullying and sell better quality. I know the business model is different but clearly there's room and money to win in other ways.
It is a real optimist who thinks that the obviously wrong thing to do in code has never been done, or even that it's not the most commonly done thing.
SO the argument here is that it's the storage layer that slows things down? I deduce this since the linked article is about installing a new storage driver to sync to external volumes.

What about server workloads where the storage is completely inside the container / on a different server?
Comparing physical objects to digital one is absolutely ludicrous. It costs almost nothing to copy a digital work.

The store does not lock your access to your vacuum while it's in your home. This may happen in the future with cars for example. Imagine you driving and suddenly your car dies because the car company "banned" you and locked your car.
I think honestly the problem is a lack of tech literacy. I've seen spec sheets that are glorified database and json schemas in a spreadsheet, put together by BAs and translated by hand.

It could be done directly if every BA had enough programming knowledge to put together schemas and run CLI tools to verify them.
All true, and there are days I'm writing posts more like yours than mine. But today was hard.

A lot of it is fear - I honestly don't know if I can compete with people who can work all weekend or put in late nights.
The doc I posted is actually in part about how they react to the sound of running water, and they show the exact speaker experiment you mentioned. :)
Try to cash $11B out of a bank then
> If OP actually has 10PB on S3 currently, the OP may want to fallback to leaving the existing data on S3 and accessing new data in the new location.

Another option would be to leave data on S3, store new data locally, and proxy all S3 download requests, ie, all requests go to the local system first. If an object is on S3, download it, store it locally, then pass it on to your customer. That way your data will gradually migrate away from S3. Of course you can speed this up to any degree you want by copying objects from S3 without a customer request.

An advantage of doing this is that you can phase in your solution gradually, for example:

Phase 1: direct all requests to local proxies, always get the data from S3, send it to customers. You can do this before any local storage servers are setup.

Phase 2: configure a local storage server, send all requests to S3, store the S3 data before sending to customers. If the local storage server is full, skip the store.

Phase 3: send requests to S3, if local servers have the data, verify it matches, send to customer

Phase 4: if local servers have the data, send it w/o S3 request. If not, make S3 request, store it locally, send data

Phase 5: store new data both locally and on S3

At this point you are still storing data on S3, so it can be considered your master copy and your local copy is basically a cache. If you lose your entire local store, everything will still work, assuming your proxies work. For the next phase, your local copy becomes the master, so you need to make sure backups, replication, etc are all working before proceeding.

Phase 5: start storing new content locally only.

Phase 6: as a background maintenance task, start sending list requests to S3. For objects that are stored locally, issue S3 delete requests to the biggest objects first, at whatever rate you want. If an object isn't stored locally, make a note that you need to sync it sometime.

Phase 7: using the sync list, copy S3 objects locally, biggest objects first, and remove them from S3.

The advantage IMO is that it's a gradual cutover, so you don't have to have a complete, perfect local solution before you start gaining experience with new technology.
I travel form Chicago to Detroit pretty regularly. The train takes 4.5 hours, driving takes 4, and flying takes 1.5. Flying ends up being the slowest though because you have to spend 1.5 getting too and from the airport plus waiting at the airport. The train costs $25 which is cheaper than driving and I get to get work done. It's by far the best option imo.
The OP just gave an example of Portland to Oakland which took 20 hours. That's still mid-north pacific.
I recently switched all of my personal projects from being self hosted on a linode with a complex nginx setup to just using Netlify... never going back.
Yes let's leave these people in horrific environments and situations because we can.

I can't believe that when common morality is so absent,that when it is so bad it has to be legally mandated, there are still people who think that leaving them to rot is ok.

You are probably not a Christian, but you have a large Christian population and that they allow this to happen just highlights the hypocrisy of the entire idea of the United States.

Spend a billion or 12 on a brushfire war to shake your stick and measure your military penis but spend a fraction of that on helping poor people and you balk.
Nope. Since most manufacturing steps are performed on an entire silicon wafer at once, the cost per chip is cheaper if there are more chips on each wafer. As a result, wafers (for both basic and advanced chips) are filled with rectangular chips packed as tightly as possible (and when designing chips, prices are often talked about in units of "price per area of silicon"). Images from a web search for "semiconductor wafer dicing" illustrate this [1].

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=semiconductor+wafer+dicing&...
In an ideal world, the FTC and attorneys general around the US would hold Apple and Amazon accountable for screwing over consumers this blatantly if they did this.
Barebone C looks really interesting! I wonder if the same gains could be achieved in a more architecture-independent way by simply introducing a new calling convention where parameters are passed in the registers that are normally callee-save.

This would let the fast path functions use all registers without needing to preserve any of them. It would also let them call fallback functions that use a normal calling convention without needing to spill the parameters to the stack.
I'd almost argue that the main benefit to not using docker at a scale where scp works is you won't be tempted to use kubernetes.
Pharma Industry Dispatches Army of Lobbyists to Block Generic Cov19 Vaccines
> An encoding family requires a minimum set of resolutions to be made available before we can deliver a video. [...] For example, having one video with all of its VP9 lanes adds more value than 10 videos with incomplete (and therefore, undeliverable) VP9 lanes.

I don't see why this constraint is in place, you can absolutely serve video for certain-res users only with certain codecs (youtube certainly does this).
This is why I don't buy anything on app stores ever.
It’s used in lots of ways. Knackers is also a slang term for testicles. Knackered means tired.
These aren't luxuries, business and society is global now. Unwinding a century of globalization would impoverish many regions of the world. It isn't a mere inconvenience, it would be undoing a vast amount of economic development and progress. People aren't going to be receptive to sacrificing any hope of prosperity for them and theirs.

An argument of "but climate change" is tone deaf and not very compelling when it is you getting thrown under the bus for the Greater Good. Economic realities can't be ignored when they are inconvenient.
Even on the Northeast Corridor the morning meeting thing is real from Boston to NY. You really need to go down the night before. Which I'm generally fine with. Have a nice meal, etc. But when I can't I'll end up flying (or driving) in the morning.
UML failed because it kind of sucks, right?

I like drawing dataflow when mapping integrations in IT projects out with UML flow diagrams, such as this[0]. But other than that I have never seen anyone use them. I could never find a use.

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/UML-data-flow-diagram-be...
Facebook does have hardware for video transcoding. [1] https://youtu.be/0yk4SPRisPA
> UML, with the exception of flow charts was very OOP centric. In a world where I still come across people who use OO as a synonym for "good" I can see why they created it that way, but a tool that shapes your design space can be limiting.

To be fair, that can’t be the only reason UML sucks, or even the main reason, because the same is true of Java, and while Java sucks, it’s a much better programming language than UML.

I think a lot of it really does come down to a denial of essential complexity. If you designed a visual programming language in such a way as to actually accept and handle essential complexity you’d be on a better track.

> The lack of detail in the models means autogenerators have to have lots of configuration for each item in the diagram. People would brag that 95% of their code was autogen, and I would realize they had spent dozens of hours figuring out ways to use checkboxes and menu selections to generate the code they wanted. Instead of typing it. And all the hideous autogen vode was a nightmare to step through in a debugger. Large labview projects aren't any better really, but they are popular.

I haven’t worked with these systems you’re discussing, but it sounds like people would be better off handwriting more of the code and only using the visual tools for the part that they’re actually better for. In much the same way that a Wikipedia article about elephants includes photographs of elephants instead of merely relying on long-winded textual descriptions of their appearance, while still having lots of text for the sorts of things text is good for representing.

I think maybe GUI interface builders or HyperCard might be another example of this hybrid approach. I think some incarnations of SmallTalk included similar ideas.