skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“We expensively studied the behavior of one hundred dollar bills when burnt at varying high temperatures” would be accurate and not a typo.
Ask HN: Why doesn't Waymo warn you when driving on a road with many accidents?
Study Shows SSDs Are More Reliable Than HDDs
> If you feel the need to emulate C++ features in C then you're just writing C code with a C++ mindset.

Ah, classic no true scotsman'ism. No real C programmer would emulate classes, an object system, virtual dispatch, templates, ...
I tend to agree :).
If we get 1 req/s, even for a dataset of that size, this is not as cost efficient.

For that kind of use case, I'd probably start using minio.

> Seems comparable to AWS ElasticSearch service costs:
> - 3 nodes m5.2xlarge.elasticsearch = $1,200
> - 20TB EBS storage = $1,638

Don't forget S3 includes replication.
Also EBS throughput (even with SSD) is not good at all.
Also our memory footprint is tiny. This is necessary to make it run on two servers.

Finally, cpu-wise, our search engine is almost 2x faster than
lucene.

If you don't believe us, try to replicate our demo on an elastic search :D.

Chatnoir.eu is the only other common crawl cluster we know of. It consists of 120 nodes.
Wouldn’t that be incredibly convenient and unlikely?
Nope. At that point we had no disco light. Small town, Eastern Europe. And the cloud cover would be way too low.
A funny anecdote: my wife and I have removed most meat (apart from occasional fish) from our diets for a variety of reasons (health concerns, sustainability, and animal cruelty).

Do you know which concern resonates most with my 10 year old daughter? Absolutely none of them. She is aware of the issues, and appears to be a conscientious person in the abstract, but when confronted with the option of eating an animal in the moment she simply doesn't care at all.

Are adults more empathetic? Maybe. But fundamentally I think that by the time something makes it to your plate, it's simply too far removed from where it came from for any of these considerations to resonate with most people.

We've considered trying to show her Okja [0] to see if it has any effect on her perspective. I know it was at least partially instrumental in causing me to reconsider factory farming.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okja
I'd be most curious to hear from folks how they go about getting first clients and starting cold. I loathe the idea of starting on Upwork.
That's amazing pricing O_O (drooling)
For selling your data to third-parties? No.
I agree and disagree. He definitely wasn't very professional in his remarks and could have toned it down but in that clip Glenn said exactly why he thinks that way. And this was on a podcast (i.e. his personal opinion), not an article posted to a news outlet.

The 'tool' even did exactly what Glenn accused him of on that thread, taking short clips of people he doesn't like out of context and disparaging them. Seems to be his MO. Again, I don't love Glenn but overall I feel he's decent and usually does actual journalism instead of playing silly games most of the time.
On the plus side, at least it looks like it will be a duopoly. For a long time it looked like x86 would eat all other architectures.
I don't use Vim because I can never remember the command I need. Maybe Vim could add some sort of hierarchical navigation reminder that is visible on the screen but took up minimal space when not being used.
"to our excitement"

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22to+our+excitement%22
You're choosing to fixate on a characterization of the past you believe I implied - which isn't an important aspect of my comment.

Being unbiased, and offering multiple points of views is something mature readers value - both in the past and today. It is something a journalist's should aspire to as a matter of professionalism.

Can you make the honest argument that you want a news outlet to not even try to be unbiased when reporting to YOU? My experience with people who advocate biased journalism is that they want others to consume biased journalism that they agree with - because they believe they are immune to the bias.

If you are not paying for news, you are the product and not the consumer. And I specifically choose my news outlets based upon my perception of their quality of journalism, which heavily includes their degree of bias and the depth of their coverage.
I'm very curious how this works, so this is from a report [0] from Flurry Analytics, "owned by Verizon Media, is used in over 1 million mobile applications, providing aggregated insights across 2 billion mobile devices per month"

How is Flurry Analytics measuring app tracking on iOS devices? Are they just reporting how much they themselves are being disabled?

[0] https://www.flurry.com/blog/ios-14-5-opt-in-rate-att-restric...
I’d say it was clear sky, but honestly I don’t remember the weather. The topology of the terrain is flat.

Chances are it was some sort of atmospheric optic phenomenon, but I’ve never seen anything like it since.
I like the idea of gene editing to remove brain stems, although that still leaves us with the input/output issues (feed, methane etc), which perhaps we can also engineer away.

If animal suffering doesn't bother you, does human suffering?
Microsoft Counterfit: automation layer for assessing the security of ML systems
The switch allows the app merely to request tracking, so I'm surprised requesting that the user enable the switch doesn't violate the App Store guidelines (or maybe it does).
That sounds like government interfering with the free market, which is completely unacceptable under any circumstance for ~50% of the population.
It's philosophical in roughly the same way The Matrix is - whereas that was "Plato's Cave as a sci-fi action movie", NieR is "Existentialism 101 as a sci-fi video game".

I liked it a lot more than GP did but if you don't have a high tolerance for anime BS (e.g. can you deal with the fact that the protagonist is a sexy lady robot samurai in a skimpy maid outfit?) or have actually spent any serious time reading philosophy, the anime BS is going to overwhelm and/or the philosophical themes are going to underwhelm.
> What's the reason the lab is located in that city? Is there an underlying causal connection?

I thought so initially, but then:

1. look at the size of China; even assuming bats are found only in half of it, and maybe that Wuhan has more bats than other cities, that's still pretty fucking unlucky.

2. the bats in question are not from the same province anyway
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Interesting point, similar to why the „Spanish flu“ is called like that even though it originated in the US.
Yes I agree and that’s why in my post I said “speaks to a lack of understanding of tech workplaces” right before my statement about dominant creeds.

I was not talking about construction sites or other non-tech workplaces.

You were the one who brought up Christianity, but I don’t think you’re really in disagreement with what I said. Perhaps it’s simply the term “creed” that’s at issue here, and substitute it for another one in that case. You go on to present a hypothetical example of management attempting to specifically hire Christians rather than members of other religions, if that actually openly happened we both know there would be a hue and cry and an EEOC or HR investigation. It’s not representative of what tech workplaces look like today.
>The challenge for personalized ads market will be significant if the first two weeks end up reflecting a long-term trend.

Adtech is basically highly-paid people sniffing your underwear trying to figure out what you had for breakfast. And they get all indignant when you say "hey cut it out, that's kind of weird."
Hi, I'm the creator of <https://sumi.news>.

Why create another reader?

- Sumi.news has a per-feed view, showing only the latest entry, ordered by most recent update. I couldn't find this in other readers.

- Sumi.news is simple. There's a single, clean, chronological feed. Unread counts stress me out, tags and bookmarks are better left to bookmarking services.

- Sumi.news is fast and light. Many other reader webapps are slow, heavy, client-side JS apps.

- Sumi.news is affordable. It's $33 per year. No limits, ads, or business plans.

- Sumi.news lets you follow newsletters and microformats2 blogs (indieweb blogs).

Tech stack:

Sumi.news is built with Haskell and PostgreSQL. It uses Warp/WAI, blaze-html, and selda.
It's mildly interesting to me that there's now really no notable big-endian systems left, yet that's still the network byte order. I wonder what the math is for the amount of global wasted CPU cycles on byte-swapping for things that would do a fair amount of that...DNS for example.
I haven't seen this option presented to me. How would I make sure that app tracking is turned _off_?

Edit: Never mind. I found it under Settings/Privacy/Tracking: "Allow Apps to Request to Track". I might flip it on just to see what nags me about allowing tracking.
> I prefer to use the /dev/disk/by-path symlinks for that reason

That was a neat trick. Thank you for mentioning it.
Database Weekly: May 7, 2021
Those ads are inadvertently revealing -- they make it plain that it's a medical and pharmaceutical _industry_. Let the patient be warned not only of side effects but to the nature of that industry.
that's an interesting comparison.
it shows the ratio between people doing actual research and people reproducing what other people already did.
It is similar though, but yes it misses the "more ISOs" part, which I actually find weird because at that point that would be almost cheap to do - that's why I did not reverified that bit, sorry.
animals do not have a concept of good and evil so why would we apply it to them?

I think looking at how things in the animal kingdom work and using that as a justification for our actions is a very low bar. We have the cognitive and emotional ability to understand that things like murder/rape/etc. are wrong do we not? If you just take a small step from that and recognize the sentience of animals, it doesn't seem too unreasonable to afford them the same respect.

PS: I think the idea of good/evil is pretty reductionist to begin with, but I understand it's a common way of looking at things
> No doctors were arrested early on.

That's a lie.
> there very much is a social expectation that you are reachable on them

I disagree. People will (somewhat) expect you to have a WhatsApp in many European countries, but hardly anyone will expect you to use Facebook.

At least in my circles Facebook is a wasteland. Many people haven't even posted anything in years, and if I was trying to reach anyone via Facebook I'd settle in for a long wait - until they check it in a month or two.

You won't notice it if you just open Facebook, because Facebook will fill your feeds with people who are active, but when I go through my list of contacts there it's obvious less than one in five are still actively using it.

I don't claim total knowledge of the situation everywhere, but I do keep in contact with people of a lot of different countries.
No no no.

The passive voice is preferred.
I, personally, do not care if factory farming causes suffering and support cheap, nutritious and convenient food by whatever means is necessary. The people who want to ban it are insensitive threats to human comfort IMHO.

But if it is a problem that needs to be solved, breeding the animals to enjoy it is a much easier solution than synthetic meat. We've had the technology to change animal behaviour through breeding for longer than we've had history. If people want them to get a kick out of being caged and slaughtered then that is doable. easier and would have been faster to accomplish than growing meat in a jar, anyway. I think it is a waste of time, but it is better than laws restricting food production.
What's stopping US companies from competing based on price? There's multiple producers of insulin in the US. Why do you need a foreign company to undercut them? If an international market would fix it, why doesn't the national market fix it? Why doesn't one of the US companies charge less than the others?
I don’t see a definitive date on this article but assume it’s 10 or more years old. It mentions the Pentium 4 as a “modern” CPU—a CPU produced from 2000-2008 and succeeded by the Core 2.

What has changed since then, and especially beginning with Haswell, is that contemporary CPUs have so much more branch prediction machinery that they can render computed goto techniques irrelevant. It’s a neat technique, for sure, but people looking for performance this decade need to look away from threaded code techniques and towards ILP and SIMD.
The digital currencies that matter: Get ready for Fedcoin and the e-euro
> "BUT calling the gameplay boring with lots of running around is a fair statement. NieR:Replicant is worse."

Both Niers are RPGs after all, in terms of mechanics, and traditional RPGs are even duller (attack/defend/item/flee menu choices) but still manage to be enjoyable. From that standpoint, the bullet sponge nature of the enemies, being unable to defeat them until the player characters have leveled up enough, and backtracking is understandable.

Personally, I found the combat adequate (yes, even Nier:Gestalt) and sufficiently varied to keep things interesting.
Can you not turn off certain ad types in facebook?
Everything you listed out is also work going on in Rust as well specifically for targeting WASM, I’m more familiar with Rust, but there are many efforts in other languages too (C, C++, AssemblyScript, etc).

The question in my mind is do we need a language specialized for this? For example, a lot of the design choices of the language, like OCAML inspiration, good FFI are already part of other languages.

While to me that means it will probably be a niche language, the fact that it’s specifically targeting only WASM for now, will probably mean it will be a great language for experimentation that other languages can learn from.
“No Units to Send” – Baltimore Short of EMS Personnel During Night of Shooting
Indeed, I’m not a bash expert, but I’ve heard multiple times that using eval is a bad idea. Your point is a good reminder of why.
Well, apart from the adult-only part, it sounds like the EU.
How to use F# to create shell scripts?
Rogin covers this in his book “Chaos under heaven” and his earlier articles. Here is Rogan/Rogin snippet https://youtu.be/IqhKlkkc2Eo
Be aware of fake dex'es with Tcl
>Didn't anybody think it was weird that the head of the NIH, a research institution, not a public health institution, became the top public health communicator during COVID instead of the heads of the CDC? He had a massive conflict of interest and wanted to protect it.

1. How does being the "top public health communicator" protect his conflict of interest?

2. Fauci isn't the head of the NIH, his position was "Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases"

3. Sure, it might sound weird, but what does previous pandemics show? Who was "top public health communicator" during the previous pandemics?
On the nativeness, as I understands:

ZFS relies heavily on Solaris VFS API, which is inherently different from both Linux's VFS and FreeBSD's VFS implementation (e.g., behavior of vnode[1]). Both FreeBSD and Linux implements this VFS API with a layer called Solaris Porting Layer (SPL).

In the original Illumos-based FreeBSD ZFS, this SPL layer was implemented as a kernel module (opensolaris.ko). OpenZFS originally maintain this shim in other repo, but later incorporate this shim into its codebase. FreeBSD port of OpenZFS involved importing SPL layer from FreeBSD tree into OpenZFS. On this part, there's not much difference in nativeness of the port.

However, this SPL layer also serve the purpose of adding one degree of separation between GPL code and CDDL code in order to comply with GPL in order to prevent ZFS code from becoming a derivative of the Linux kernel. The shim in OpenZFS is in three licenses; the Linux part of SPL is GPLv2, the FreeBSD part is 2-BSD, and the part that interacts directly with ZFS code is CDDL.

This is the area where FreeBSD can be more native with regarding to ZFS. Since CDDL is compatible with BSD license, FreeBSD kernel and its userland can integrate directly with ZFS without any licensing issue, e.g., FreeBSD bootloader can simply linked against ZFS, whereas GRUB2 must reimplement a part of ZFS in order to do probing.

[1]: https://wiki.freebsd.org/AndriyGapon/AvgVfsSolarisVsFreeBSD
> There’s also little a priori reason to believe that might be true.

What? You don't believe that constantly telling someone they are a victim during their entire childhood can make them feel like a victim? There are really no a priori reasons to believe that such a thing could be true?

You could argue that there are little evidence for it, but you can't argue there are no a priori reasons for it being true. If I take a white kid and tell that white kid that he is a victim of black oppression, do you think that the kid will be more or less likely to feel like a victim of black oppression?
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Here it is, pulled out of the linked page:

main( ) {
extrn a, b, c;
putchar(a); putchar(b); putchar(c); putchar('!*n');
}

a 'hell';
b 'o, w';
c 'orld';

B uses single quotes to denote a character (like C), and double quotes to denote a string. Each character is a word (as are all variables in B), which is 36 bits long, so it can hold 4 ASCII characters! A character literal with fewer than 4 characters is zero padded (as is, presumably, the left over 4-bit nibble). In fact an earlier snippet in that document just outputs "Hi!" because that way you only need one character:

main( ) {
auto a;
a= 'hi!';
putchar(a);
putchar('*n' );
}
Your argument is just antinatalism, but for farm animals. Every animal will suffer in its life. Eradicating an entire population to reduce suffering is pretty extreme. Other arguments for veganism, like the environmental one, are much more palatable.
Have you tried telling Facebook to not show you these ads through the 3 dot menu in the top right? I don't go on Facebook much anymore, just curious
Delete the tools that are meant to compromise a computer.

If you are the sysadmin, put the target computer in a policy group that doesn't include live scanning temporarily.

There are also USB drives you can get that have a write protection switch, but that doesn't mean you will be allowed to actually run the software.
But why does 50% are mostly fine with "only medical data is super special"? Your private data could be abused in a similar way.

Also why not a law for full transparency? You can have all your freedom you want just be transparent about all the tracking and information selling or sharing that is happening. Can't you convince the free loving americans that a simpler GDPR that only requires full transparency is "very capitalistic"?
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What if America is covering up the leak? https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-admin-pulls-nih-grant-...
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The problem with calling it a conspiracy theory does not hinge on whatever the CIA may or may not have used the expression for, but rather on the unassailable fact that there is no implied conspiracy in said theory. It's an accident theory, calling it a conspiracy theory is just as wrong as saying that James Dean died in a Porsche conspiracy.
Why are there so many people in prison in America? (2017)
I should, but not sure if learning bash specifically is best for productivity. Especially if I don't use it daily, I will forget syntax etc, will still have issues understanding what is going on quickly, more likely to introduce bugs when trying to improve something etc.
Not really. Reproducing research can create surprising results (if it doesn't match what you're trying to reproduce), and novel research can be unsurprising (if practice matches with the theory).
Or did the government interfere with the market by not protecting privacy to begin with?
I bet that was it! Thanks!
I'm saying I consider it insensitive to not care what effect your choice of words has on how people perceive things. If you think that makes me 'overly sensitive', then I'd recommend reflecting a bit on who is hurt by bad messaging. And if you don't believe me that it's bad messaging, just look up the studies on the effects of framing racial inequality as privilege.
You can do actual original research without finding anything surprising.
It's better to stick with the sectors you understand and have an edge over others, that's what Peter Lynch recommends in One up on wall street. It's difficult to follow this advice, especially when your sector loses steam, but you still have insights that outsiders don't have and over long term all sectors perform, see what's Pharma doing these days.
Nah, everyone would get behind this if we actually had politicians brave enough to lead the charge. No one wants Faceflixzon to dig their hooks into your kid's life.
Is college still a thing? I sort of thought that it would at least start to die in the permanent-pandemic era. Right now even the elites look a lot like University of Phoenix Online, and I don’t think they’re ever going back to any meaningful physical experience. It sounds a lot more like a very expensive honorarium.
I believe so, which is why that % is very small.

I’ve seen quite a few reports from different providers in the last couple of weeks and suspect the _real_ average of opt-ins is considerably higher.

I’m hoping to see some numbers from Apple at WWDC, which I expect would be in the 30-50% opt-in. Why? Because some apps (like Facebook) make it seem like it’s mandatory to opt-in. And I believe that if you opt-in for Facebook you’re more inclined to just hit that same button for every app…
IBM mainframes are big endian, all the Linux distros support them too.
I find his fiction pretty good. He also wrote Ra and Fine Structure (both available on his qntm.org website and as physical books on amazon).

As with most fiction written online, it could probably use an editor. But it's as good as a lot of more conventionally published scifi AND it's covering topics that I haven't been able to find other authors interested in covering.
Re: the chimera vs mosaic, that's not particularly true.

If I take a known virus and make a single mutation (insertion of a furin site in this case), then I wind up with the same virus, + a furin. If I take that mutated virus, and then passage it through multiple generations in lab grown hosts, it will mutate at random throughout the genome.

The exact rate and the time it would take is heavily debated, but one important note is that viruses with an RNA-dependant RNA polymerase are, as an evolutionary strategy, quite poor at preserving their own genetic information. They have the highest error rate of replication of any known organism. Which means, after some discrete amount of generations, you could wind up with some sort of "mosaic" + "chimeric" virus. Again though, how many generations is under hot dispute. And how long that would take in nature vs in a laboratory is also under hot dispute.

100% of the evidence for lab leak is circumstantial. But we know two things:

1) If I set out to design a SARS-CoV 2, it's technically feasible. And there's reason to be interested in this type of research. And lab accidents involving pathogens can and do happen.

2) There's no single piece of evidence concretely and completely ruling it out. Which is unfortunate.

I'm a structural biologist, I primarily study viruses, I also engaged heavily in that topic you mentioned (against my better judgement). At the moment, I have a mental probability (which is probably incorrect) of wild virus 90% chance, lab leak 10% chance. I'd be extremely surprised if it was a lab leak, but I also can't sufficiently falsify that hypothesis to complete write it off.
I'd like to hear what publications are less biased (I won't write not biased because I don't believe in magic or miracles). Can you name just one?