skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I'd say it's a bit muddled. Pure STM systems have seen limited success, mostly on the jvm, particularly clojure. But as a technology it's not spread widely in the industry, despite the fundamental advantage of composability. I personally would attribute this to a sort of gulf created by two common approaches:

1. It's become very common to structure software as a stateless service cluster backed by a stateful database technology. Most of the databases used in this approach would not be described as STM, but the net effect to the application is similar, even if involving more layers and complexity.

2. People have gotten pretty comfortable with simple mutex patterns connected by queues of various sorts. This is a sort of worse is better situation, where the simplicity and high performance of a mutex protected whatever in a toy test or microbenchmark is far more efficient than STM. However, a system composed of many of these mutex protected islands proves a whole different beast indeed. STM has largely been criticized from the perspective of the former, vs the latter.

There are many people who have made the observation that transactional concurrency control, state of the art garbage collection, and even file systems have been converging on similar features. This is being driven by the common constrains on both sides of what hardware and humans expect. In particular with persistent memory, I think you'll see all three of these unify into a single design, because systems that attempt to solve these problems separately will have very inferior match to the hardware.
I do have over 10 U2F keys. Do I make sure every single one is synced with every service? No.

I have 4 main ones that I try to keep synced with every service. Though I usually try to sync up a few more if I have them handy.

For me those four are:

Laptop (Yubikey 5C Nano)
Desktop #1 (Youbikey 5 Nano)
Desktop #2 (Yubikey 4 Nano)
Keychain (Yubikey 5 NFC)

I also have one in my work-laptop but it is only registered for work related sites. I also register some of the previously mentioned ones for my work related sites as a backup.
Occam's razor in terms of scientific theories means choose the theory with the fewest variables, not just compare guesstimated probabilities or something. From that, I would guess the poster means the lab leak is preferred as it has only one variable related to the possibility of a leak of viruses that are already there.
It’s great because you don’t even have to click in to read the “surprising” result, even if it’s 100% jargon...

> to our surprise, only one nonlinear method was superior to Salzer summation, namely the Wynn rho algorithm

GASP!
There's no harm in filming your daughter changing clothes at these booths we installed all over the beaches. We are keen at protecting her data and making sure her face stays blurred. If we'd stop the costs of going to beach would go up tremendously, so that's out the question.
Interesting question. I guess I am "a youtuber", but what are you hoping to gather with this information?
I don’t think it’s like that for everyone, but I’m not sure what would determine where you are.
It reminds me of the "Happy Fun Ball" ad parody on SNL years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmqeZl8OI2M
> All arithmetic in B is integer, unless special functions are written. There is no equivalent of the Fortran IJKLMN convention, no floating point, no data types, no type conversions, and no type checking. Users of double-precision complex will have to fend for themselves.

This seems like a biggie.
Wasn't this how windows originally did tabs?
"S3 costs include battle tested, multi-DC replication."

Sometimes we pay a bit too much for this multi-replication, battle tested stuff. It's not like the probability of loosing data is THAT huge. For the 4x extra cost you could easily take a backup every 24h.

"It means that we can host 100 different indices on S3, and use the same pool of search server to deal with the CPU-bound stuff"

You can do that with NFS.

It's amazing how much we are willing to pay for a bunch of computers in the cloud. Leasing a new car costs around $350/month. You could have three new cars at your disposal for the same price as this search implementation.
The issue isn’t just the quantity but they type of burning. Historically, wildfires would burn out underbrush and younger trees, but would leave the older, larger trees alive. This would clear out the underbrush so that there was never too much at any given time.

But over the last century or so, well intentioned environmentalism has meant that these fires get put out before they get going. This has led to a very dense accumulation of this underbrush and young growth trees, which essentially have turned California forests into tinderboxes. Now when a fire starts and gets out of control, it gets so intense that it takes out old growth trees with it.

We’ve managed to turn natural forest fires from something that was a rejuvenative part of the ecosystem’s life cycle into an apocalyptic death blow.
Many low probability events happen every day, without contradicting the prior that they remain unlikely.

It is akin to saying "Pliny the Younger didn't die in Pompeii overtaken by a volcano because there is so many other cities he could have died in and other causes of death." Statistically, that would have been true, up until we learned that it happened. Then the low probability ceases to matter, since it becomes an observation.

Statistically, this is due to both priors rising, proportional to their original values, such that now the sum P(lab escape)+P(natural cause) == 1 and their average is a coin-toss (50-50). So without outside information, the prior statistical probability isn't low: it is exactly neutral between the options.

We've also seen viruses arise in small villages. This is even more unlikely to be predictable in advance which village with p << 0.0001.
Ah my bad! Yes, Humio (and Loki) are opting for this approach.

This does decouple compute and storage in a trivial manner. There is indeed a realm in which this brute force approach is the best approach.

We could probably make a 4D chart with QPS, data size, latency, and retention period and define regions where the elastic/SOLR approach, Humio, and quickwit are the most relevant.
Is there someone know something about Wondershare Document Cloud?
I think a lot of people have that reaction to something like veganism for a couple reasons:

1. You are a constant reminder of their choices, the impact of their choices and their ability to make different ones

2. Eating food is a very base level need and the idea of moralizing that can elicit strong responses

3. I do think some people are genuinely afraid that vegans will prevent them from eating what they love (similar to democrats taking away guns or something)
I always notice this with Googlers.
Modern C, https://modernc.gforge.inria.fr/
Working with these people in college was rather frustrating at times. I always did good work, started working on projects early and often. Because I knew programming a solution is sort of an unknown until you really dive in to it. Many students got better grades than they deserved because I was in their group. They were great people, just horrible team mates.
Wow, the scale of this surprised me. Made me wonder, do these services offer both positive and negative reviews? That is, if I want, can I get 5 stars on my stuff, and then also pay for 1 star on my competition?

"In total, 13,124,962 of these records (or 7 GB of data) have been exposed in the breach, potentially implicating more than 200,000 people in unethical activities."
Civic lead of Scottish Government's Open Data strategy resigns
(Thanks for the very detailed response.)

(Immigration quotas are a weird one -- on one hand, you want to keep all the H1B visas from going to the mega-consultancies like Tata or Infosys that end up not paying very much, but on the other, of the 18 most populous countries, US is at #3, Russia is at #9, and the rest are outside of Europe. It's probably not racism! But at the same time, it does limit immigration from these larger countries which disproportionately skew Asian in favor of smaller countries that skew white. Europe is split into roughly as many countries as Asia, despite having a sixth of the population!)

I mean, affirmative action as a wedge issue for Asian Americans is already in place, whether it's achieving proportional representation or not -- the premise is that there are already higher admission standards at elite universities for Asian Americans than even whites (see: Harvard lawsuit). I agree with you there, that on the face of it, when taken in isolation, affirmative action is bad for Asian Americans! At the same time, you know which group is really under-represented at Harvard and would benefit from proportional representation? Non-hispanic whites (with "only" 40% of the student body, versus 60% of the US population).

I'm honestly curious to what extent the stats on median household income or whichever metric(s) you're using to gauge economic parity are skewed by the tendency of Asian Americans to concentrate in high cost-of-living urban areas. For instance, it's not a fair comparison to say "oh, Asian Americans who disproportionately live in NYC / SF make more than the median white American who lives in Wisconsin".
Given the tiles are algorithmically rather randomly (as in normal Tetris) chosen, is there an optimal play? A trendy computational approach will be to utilize a neural network ala AlphaZero.
In US law there are both civil and criminal penalties possible for copyright infringement, depending on the nature, if found guilty in court.

https://info.legalzoom.com/article/consequences-violations-c...
“Contrary to our expectation”

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C21&q=“co...
IIRC ARM devices can also be big-endian and GCC can even generate big endian 64-bit ARM code:

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/AArch64-Options.html
The Theory and Practice of Cameras in Side-Scrollers (2015)
x86: 8086 1978
x64: 1999

ARM: 1985
ARM64: 2011

RISC V: 2010

It took x86 about 10 years (1988) to become the most popular, and until 2005 to cause Apple to switch (another 17 years)

It took ARM about 25 years (2010) to become the most popular, and until 2020 to cause Apple to switch (another 10 years)
Not saying they did intentionally leak it, but for an example of what they’ve gained, look at what they’ve been doing in Hong Kong and the South China Seas under cover of COVID. They also were able to quickly rebound and start producing economically while the rest of the world was shut down. I think COVID has been a net positive for China from a strategic standpoint.
This isn't hard for to check. Yes, basically all research on RaTG13 did appear after the Covid pandemic, as you would naturally expect given that scientists were interested in it given the similarity. Nobody was interested in the RaTG13 previously.

However, the evidence is pretty clear that this was found and published earlier. It was originally described as "BtCoV/4991" and it was described and published as far as I can find as far back as 2016. (The name was changed to RaTG13 to describe that it was collected in 2013 in Tongguan).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/983856042 <-- partial RaTG13 sequence in 2016
The government absolutely has the authority to mandate safety measures. Corporations don't have the right to violate users' privacy and security, I see this as completely fair.
Raptor Computing has some expensive-but-not-that-expensive POWER systems:

https://raptorcs.com/
British street artist destroys own mural to create crypto-artwork/NFT
What Apple is doing here is the free market solution to invasive tracking. The GDPR was the government's solution to that.

I'd much prefer the Apple solution which allows for a company to be _rewarded_ for taking a voluntary stance (a positive one!) on tracking, instead of coercing every business to follow a government mandated rule on something as relatively minor as advertising.
I disagree that Facebook makes it seem mandatory. Receiving their in-app popup yesterday brought me great joy in denying access.
You're probably joking, but the TSA has made that exact argument for their full-body scanners.

>"The (body image scanning) technology is sent to the airports without the ability to save, transmit or print the images," said Greg Soule, TSA spokesman, in an interview with CBSNews.com. "At airports, the images are examined by a security officer in a remote location, and, once the image is cleared, they're deleted."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/naked-body-scan-images-never-sa...
I’ve interacted with a lot of doctors in my job and no, most doctors aren’t that aware. You’ll get the doctors involved in research who know all about the drugs years before they are approved, but those are a handful. Like most people who have jobs you focus on the here-and-now and while “yeah I’d love to read up on that new drug, but I don’t have time”.

I worked on one drug where we had to go to and tell them to stop buying it (they were still buying lots and if they return it a year later it would mess up our accounting) because there were far superior drugs available. We’re talking malpractice not to use the new drug. They thanked us for letting them know.
Yes, for example, in old C the type was implicitly int unless mentioned. "Long" means long int" ;)
Around 90% of users will never change a default setting unless it's directly interfering what they're trying to do.
How to Optimize Order by Random()
"... proponents of lab escape can explain all the available facts about SARS2 considerably more easily than can those who favor natural emergence."

"The natural emergence theory battles a bristling array of implausibilities."

This is a fantastic article, but amazingly almost all of it is year-old news. Most of this was known in March 2020, and nearly all of it by the end of 2020. How does it take so long for the truth to win?

I published a meta-analysis covering much of the same ground in November 2020 and this was only after waiting and expecting for several months that someone with a better platform would do so first. The article above covers the most important points but the story does go deeper: https://followtheplot.org/covid19
Rails routes. ActiveRecord. RSpec
Something stating you own your data and can choose who to sell or not sell it to sounds pretty free market to me.
> I did my due in the army myself

I am not a native speaker of English so my apology if the question sounds strange: but does that mean that you feel that you owe your country some time spent in the army? ("I served in the army as everyone else" vs "I was employed in the army because of my choice").

Your last sentence rather points to the former but I wanted to make sure.
Sony Reportedly Prepping PS5 with 6nm AMD CPU
Ask HN: How do you deal with losing focus during meetings?
I'm not sure, but I feel like I have some kind of an attention deficit disorder. I was never diagnosed. It's not severe, but I feel it is hurting my performance during meetings with other people.

My situation is that during meetings I sometimes lose focus with what other people say. This happens mostly when a sentence has ignited my imagination, and I go forward with my train of thought instead of listening to other people and participating in the conversation. When I notice it and come back to the conversation, it sometimes happens that I had already lost important info.

This has three effects:

1. I feel that I give less value to the meeting, and I'm being less resourceful than what I could have been.

2. I feel I'm less appreciated of my skills, because I miss on opportunities to show my previous work or knowledge.

3. If the info I miss is important, I need to complete it somehow by myself (asking, reading, guessing).

Does someone relate to these conditions? Do you have advise how to overcome this limitation?
"Social news" is an interesting thing to call it. Social yes, but "news"? That's a stretch.
Women vs. Men
This is a good read. Not very emotional, but good description of one of the jobs. One interesting bit: "the vast majority of farmers don’t do it. They might be rearing the livestock for meat and understand that the animals’ ultimate destination is an abattoir, but that doesn’t mean they like killing.... It’s the same as with an old dog: they could do it themselves, but they can’t."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/13/the-knac...
If there's a 50/50 chance there is an intruder in your house, wouldn't you act as if there was?
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> Yes they do. Healthy vegans are way more common than you think. There is nothing unique about meat that can't be obtained from plant-based foods.

You can easily check if a vegan is actually following a vegan diet without cheating, because after a few years they will develop the sunken eyes and hollow collarbones, definitely not looking healthy.
What would be unlikely for a pandemic to also affect wuhan?
I fought so hard with that in grad school 10 years ago. A number of newer papers in my field were written in the active voice, and I dramatically preferred that approach. My supervisor, however, was adamant that everything needed to be in the passive voice. He won, naturally, because I needed him to sign off on things. I do wonder how different that conversation would be today.
I'm love/hating this idea because now I want to burn a LiveUSB running Linux with a QEMU Windows VM already set up on it. I can run it live and have Windows 10 "PE" or I can install it to a host and have Windows up and running fairly smoothly without going through the OOBE.
Well, no. I was referring to the question posed related to available knowledge and your article. But your statement makes an assumption that it’s origin is a lab, as that would be the only way that somebody would know for sure. If it’s natural in origin then that person does not exist, or if they did would publish their research and claim the glory. So you’re taking a position on the scale of certainty which is dependent upon your own conclusions based on uncertainty.
I do. I pay for the WSJ, the Economist, and a hand full of others.
But it needing a conspiracy to be kept quiet is one of the main arguments against thr lab theory.

How many people (lab technicians, doctors, 'police') would know it is from a lab and are hiding that information? If the answer is 'hundreds' then the chances of it being kept hidden are very low. That is what labeling it a conspiracy theory means.
I'd love to see MDI implemented in productivity web apps. Like all "cool new tech" (read "well forgotten and reinvented basic ideas") it will inevitably come into fashion in a couple of years.
From what I understand, that decision was made because of potential legal liability.
It's nice to see hard evidence of this, but anecdotal evidence is plain to see on Amazon.com reviews. For example, a product gets a lot of 5 star reviews stating that the buyer bought it for their child/relative/friend and they are just sure that they will love it... 5 stars! Or "I just got this delivered yesterday and I haven't used it yet but it looks really great!"... 5 stars.

These are then immediately followed by a 1 star review along the lines of "This is the biggest piece of junk I've ever bought online. Will be returning to Amazon. DO NOT BUY!"

These aren't to be confused with the indiscriminate idiots who can't be bothered to use their brains, who leave mindless reviews such as "This is junk but it was cheap and kinda works... 5 stars!" Right.

Most times this trend of 5's followed by 1's is seen even in the first page of reviews. It's a serious problem with the platform. I usually search for reviews written by people who have had the product for a week or two and give the pros/cons along with a less than 5 star rating. That helps me avoid the fakes and the idiots.

This makes me wonder why Amazon, in all their analytical genius, isn't cracking down on this when it's so blatantly obvious.
Pencil used to by my go-to tool, but over time it has slowly grown more complex and less useful. More recently, I am using Google Slides for quick GUI prototypes - if I need something more robust, I hire a designer, but my necessity for solid wireframes as a communication tool is low enough that it's not worth learning a new tool.
I'm very, very happy with the A7ii, especially at the price point. Battery life is not in my way in any meaningful sense. I have no plans to upgrade.
Yeah, the combat / gameplay is quite dull (which is a shame because there's a great variety of combos with great animations[1], you're just not incentivised to use them at all), this is something that I agree with. I was only addressing the original comment's final remark.

[1]: https://youtu.be/QAU_8GEgSwI
This has all of 2B's moveset and all combos with different weapon sets.
The norm changes wildly from field to field: the voice, style, pronouns, etc...

Stylish Academic Writing by Helen Sword is a good book on the subject.
What if there is no such thing as politics? It's an umbrella term for so many different things.
Would the $ conflict with jQuery.

(Of course jQuery's main job is DOM manipulation which isn't needed here)
As I've already said elsewhere I only interested in an answer to whether this virus has been created artificially. The author are you already said has some "interesting ideas". And the real answer to this question if known has definitely nothing to do with this author's views on racial subjects as he is in no position to answer it accurately in a first place. He just raises concerns.
Anyone know if sites like Fakespot will be incorporating this information into their review engines?
So 4% haven’t found the setting yet.
A bit of a reply to all who wrote me: prints go out around May 12, as I had to order some packaging and wait for it to arrive. Also, if you haven't got a message from me, please check your spam folder!

P.S. this is how it looks printed on Hahnemühle Daguerre Canvas (colors are a bit more saturated irl): https://rybakov.com/files/unix1.jpg
https://rybakov.com/files/unix2.jpg
https://rybakov.com/files/unix3.jpg