skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just put a battery on ram and you have an sdd as fast as ram, in principle.

That reminds me of non-volatile SRAM modules you can get by Microchip. How it works is that its just normal SRAM, but each cell is connected to a matching flash cell and when the mdoules voltage drops below a threshold, it writes the SRAM contents to flash in parallel. When the voltage is restored, it does the reverse. The user-observable effect is that you have normal SRAM (speed and it doesn't wear out) but its non-volatile. In reality, its a clever trick, but since the flash is only written when the module is powered off (not per-write to the module), you get a lot more use before it wears out.

Of course these modules are tiny (a few KB), but I still thought it was pretty interesting!
> The difference between this and a full lisp like Clojure is that this must be turing-incomplete.

Sure, but one could still implement a Turin-incomplete language in S-expressions. It would be more readable and more succinct, too.
> modern alternative to PHP

Try...well, PHP. It's pretty modern now and a lot better than it used to be.

I'm not a PHP guy but I do have a few sites running on it and it's nice to go back to my roots.
I'm no mathematician so reading this article was a familiar journey:

- Polynomials and roots of unity, I'm with you.

- L-functions, I've read a little about those.

- P-adic numbers, I've read a little about those.

P-adic L-functions? I'm out.
Yeah I’m curious too..like do people remember a time when everyone formed unique and contrasting views about national subjects they didn’t personally have in depth domain knowledge of? Whats the expectation here?
Natural selection. Red unions make companies go bankrupt, and relocate outside of France. Btw unions are mandatory in France above 50 employees. Which is why you find an awful lot of companies with 49 employees in France.
We can criticize the Chinese government. But if we do we should have facts, not wild speculations.

I agree automatically linking Asian-looking people to the actions of China's government is racist. And there are a lot of racists out there. Given the ongoing spike in anti-Asian hate crimes [1] and online anti-Asian hate tied specifically to coronavirus [2] I think we should be unusually careful about excited speculation.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/anti-asian-hate-c...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/09/twitter...
Thanks. I didn't know that. My bad.
Dropbox also clearly had a business where what they sold was fundamentally storage and bandwidth. So it makes a lot of difference to their fundamental cost structure how much they are paying for storage and bandwidth.

Most businesses who are operating in the cloud are not so directly purchasing a cloud resource, layering a little value on top, and reselling it; most businesses make their money selling something else, and using cloud compute/storage/bandwidth/infrastructure is not a transactional cost.

For every gigabyte of storage space dropbox sells, they have to buy a gigabyte of storage from someone. And if you're looking ahead to the future of selling lots more gigabytes, you're quite motivated to find a cheaper way to buy them.

So I am never convinced by the argument that because Dropbox left the cloud, that means other businesses should.
These are great tips applicable to not only first-time female founders but to everyone. Thank you
Inhabiting 21st-century science fiction – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Learning history: school vs. self-directed learning – supermemo.guru
For me 10% safer is enough when I pick between Uber or self driving. The truth is though that we're stull far from that treshold.
The reading passages include cultural elements from history and social sciences that are Western / US centric. Compared to American students, I expect that Chinese student would have volumes more knowledge on Chinese literature and European students more knowledge on the renaissance. Is it a measure of aptitude that Americans know more about the story of Benjamin Franklin flying a kite ( that was literally my SAT question ) ? Even without direct exposure in school, it is embedded throughout our society and media.

Additionally, you presume all people whose first language is not English is an international student. If that was the case, American public schools would not have ESL courses. Then there are natural born American students whose first language is English but with ethnic or regional variations. Those students may have a much more comprehensive lexicon from Urban Dictionary than the SAT developers, but the SAT developers cannot avoid projecting the set of vocabulary from their own middle-class upbringing thru academia. It would be to entertaining to see the SAT include "deadass" on the vocabulary item when every New Yorker knows the term and, with the help of meme culture, youth on the West Coast knows it too. To the point of academia, the ethnic distribution of academia is not representative of the general population. Finally, this expectation of English and normalized American cultural knowledge involves the forced assimilation and white-washing of indigenous Americans.
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Most Americans don't know this, but in the US, most people have healthcare insurance through a non-profit such as BCBS or Kaiser or Wellmark. Additionally, 2/3 of the hospitals themselves are non-profit.

The non-profit model is more prominent than the for profit model in the direct care area of healthcare.
Easier said than done. When you have to load a number of components, each with possibly multiple rows within them, it can take awhile to pull all the data and it is better to break them into a bunch of smaller backend calls that can be cached as needed than trying to return a single json object containing all the data needed to be displayed on a user generated app.
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Wuhan discussing "synthetically derived viruses": https://web.archive.org/web/20200212011902/http://english.wh...

2017 conference at (Wuhan Institute of a virology) with gain of function research being top priority: http://english.whiov.cas.cn/Exchange2016/International_Confe...

Ecohealth Alliance partnership: https://web.archive.org/web/20210323171425/http://english.wh...

US Gov from state department: http://web.archive.org/web/20210116001621/https://www.state....

EcoHealth Alliance Peter Daszak discussing gene editing in coronaviruses in december 2019 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-Y843FFJvI

Note: The documentation isn’t even new... all those people banned and censored via Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc [1], have been saying this the entire time. Its kind of amazing to watch both realities (left wing media va alternative media) collide. Gives me hope to be honest.

[1] https://www.projectveritas.com/news/breaking-facebook-whistl...
I have been programming for 40+ years and have never ever seen this in practice. And I am the kind of guy who have implemented my own Lisp more than once. Just for fun. However I would never use it in my day job.
Might want to read some more Chinese philosophy before drawing such conclusions.
OpenSUSE is a good option, as is waiting for a stable Rocky release. Ubuntu is fine if your definition of HPC is actually mostly focused on data science and ML. For classical HPC you probably have to watch out for whatever commercial software you have and their support requirements, many proprietary packages are RPM only.
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Holy cow, the single biggest benefit to Nextdoor? Learning which of your neighbors are racist or otherwise ... problematic.

"Suspicious person on Elm Street, lock your cars!" is usually thinly veiled "I saw someone black walking their dog".

It's horrific at times.
I don’t have an answer to that but it most certainly should NOT be New York Times, Business Insider, WAPO, FactCheckXYZ, etc style publications.
I see a big difference between Hadoop and React though: React pushes the costs on the client. This is something that's not often mentionned, but with a traditional SPA, a good part of your code runs on the client, which is server costs you don't have to pay. I don't know if it's something that people do consciously to reduce costs and just never talk about, or if it's an unintended consequence, but it's here. If your React app is too slow/unoptimized, the client will pay the cost, not you. If your Hadoop cluster is too big/not efficient enough/not useful, you're directly paying for it.
"Another political article about how it's not possible that the Chinese were studying the virus and some underpaid lab tech screwed and and exposed himself and then did what humans always do, the tech tried to cover up the mistake."

no, you're wrong. You need to focus attention not on the lab-leak, which could be small mistake by an underling, but instead on the gain-of-function research that is the goal of labs like Wuhan and likely created this virus with approval of the highest levels of the lab.
Congrats, also for being honest and mentioning you previously worked in VC and had ivy-league connections.

Myself and my co-founder never had time to go network or sell to investors, building a product just took 200% of our time. Having a moonshot idea and big market didn't matter.
We just didn't have the connections or the time to build them. Looking back that is all that mattered. They didn't care we had customers and revenue and a good deck or market.
Brits 'unwittingly tracked' by phone after vaccination to study their movements
"Epidural analgesia had no impact on the risk of caesarean section or long-term backache, and did not appear to have an immediate effect on neonatal status as determined by Apgar scores or in admissions to neonatal intensive care." - Cochrane meta analysis: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD....

Have you seen a childbirth, and one without an epidural? There's so much pain that it's not going to be guiding anything. Physicians monitor the status of the infant via fetal heart rate monitoring and monitor the progression of the delivery.
An issue I've seen happen is as the number of microservices grows, no one is keeping track of the service dependencies. So what happens is service A goes down, and then someone says "Service B is down too." and then people start thinking it's some wider outage (they always blame the network) but it turns out that Service B just depends on Service A, but it wasn't widely known.

The issue then becomes that teams don't have a good understanding of the expected impact due to an outage. They think microservices are helping to minimize the blast radius, but they really just don't know what the true blast radius is.
Well, the thing is they're not all that similar (except maybe s3 which has been copied by competition). So terraform or similar abstractions (from pulumi to chef/ansible) are what you get. Or k8s.

But there's also: https://www.eucalyptus.cloud/
I don't know.. voter rolls seem to be how my fairly new California information got onto most of these people search websites.

Getting it off is not easy. First, there are so many of them. Second, half the ones I've found want you to register with them first and verify that it's you... which doesn't seem to fit the spirit of the law, but that's how it is.

It has been a long and frustratingly uphill battle to get my current name, address, phone number, etc removed from literally dozens of these data broker websites.

and I've tried to be careful. :/
Sharing code between frontend and backend isn't a bad idea, yes. However, using Json for it is. And the problems and limitations with json can't be "fixed" in any way.
1) The issue isn't you mixing up the terms, its that the Dr you cite mixes up the terms. The Hunan market isn't close to bats, nor were bats sold there, moreover, the Hunan strain was not as similar to COVID19 as the Wuhan strain. Dr Deuhr does not provide anything to support his theory that the Hunan strain was COVID19, though he demonstrates that the Hunan strain is related to COVID19 and might be a predecessor. (However, most coronaviruses are genetically very similar; the reason we had vaccines so quickly was because SARS2 is actually genetically close to SARS1, and they've been working on vaccines for that for almost 2 decades.)

2) I don't care what articles from Spring 2020 say about the virus' origins, related to meat markets, etc. We know more now than we did back then, including, for example, that the virus was already spreading before the meat market incidents cited in the WHO report...though China waited until after the WHO report was published to admit that the first cluster of COVID19 cases occurred several months before any of the meat market incidents identified in the report.

The largest and earliest known cluster of infections confirmed to be COVID19 were Wuhan staff members occurring in late summer/early fall 2019 (or in other words, 6 months before the earliest cluster traceable to any food market) and those staffers all just happened to be studying the bat viruses that were the most genetically similar to the initial pandemic strain of COVID19, and it just so happens that most of the mutations in that initial strain of COVID19 were all present in the various strains of coronavirus also being studied in the lab (though it is not clear if those sickened staffers were also studying those other strains).

Is it possible the lab workers picked it up from the food market? Sure, but then the question becomes why did several unrelated Wuhan lab workers get infected at the same time...but nobody else at the food market for 5-6 more months?

3) You supplied two quotes from Spring 2020, when the earliest known cases were the Wuhan food market cluster. Are those experts willing to say the lab-leak theory is not feasible, knowing now that the first cluster was among Wuhan lab workers?

4) The lab leak theory is not that the virus was man-made, the theory is that it leaked from the lab. The lab leak theory does not posit how COVID19 originated. COVID19 could have been among the samples of bat viruses being studied by the lab (i.e., already present in the wild), or it could have resulted from cross contamination between samples (several researchers that have worked with the head of the Wuhan lab have accused her of recklessness regarding safety protocols).

The biggest circumstantial factor supporting the lab-leak theory: this theory could easily have been proven false if China had opened up its Wuhan lab to foreign researchers. But China chose not to, because it clearly had something to hide. Presumably, that something is that outbreak was traceable to the lab in some way.
Another perspective is this one: https://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html
Which Lisp would you recommend for a config file that has a few business rules in it, when the rest of the system isn’t written in Lisp?
> what do you think is more likely, there is this matter out there that no one has been able to find in decades of searching, or the mainstream assumptions/math on gravity are wrong/incomplete?

You are mis-stating the real issue here.

The distribution of matter is already a free parameter in our current theory of gravity, General Relativity. GR in no way requires that all matter be visible to humans.

The "no one has been able to find" thing is not a problem for GR, it's a problem for the Standard Model of particle physics, which does not contain any particles that dark matter could be made out of. But most physicists already believe that there are more kinds of particles than the SM describes, we just haven't figured out how to make them in accelerators so we can study them in a controlled experimental fashion, and we haven't figured out any "smoking gun" signature that will tell us if such particles exist out there in the universe. "Dark matter" is really just a name for those kinds of particles that are already believed to exist anyway, we just can't detect them with the technology we currently have. But the technology we currently have is very limited.

So the real question you should be asking is, what do you think is more likely, that there are particles that aren't included in the Standard Model of particle physics--which is already believed to be the case anyway--or that General Relativity is wrong in its description of the dynamics of galaxies, even though this is a domain in which GR has already passed stringent experimental tests with predictions accurate to many decimal places?

I'm going with the former.
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Jim Keller (cpu designer): "I joke, like, I read books. And people think, 'Oh, you read books'. Well, no, I've read a couple of books a week, for [50] years."[1] Thought you might like.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb2tebYAaOA&t=5044s
Translation: the democratisation of media has made it more difficult for Israeli lobbyists and their conservative and neoliberal cronies to control how Israel's actions in Palestine are viewed.

Good
Thanks for the feedback! That’s totally fair. My plan for now is to work with early users to understand what makes sense to them. At this early stage, any price I come up with would be almost a wild guess.
The Response from OpSec Security for Ubuntu ISO DMCA Request
Isn't almalinux some cpanel tainted nasty horror? The base derivative of cloudlinux instead of centos. If you want you can md5 hash your passwords, unsalted and run telnetd too..
And then should "live programming", where the program is running while edited, become "gramming"?
I bet you hate Elizabeth Holmes. I wish your sex wasn't relevant, but unfortunately it still is. I genuinely wish you well. We've seriously needed more (hell, any) diversity in our leaders and decision makers for a very long time.
> Why should I pay for other people's kids if I'm never going to have kids?

Medical Debt Up => Poverty Up => Crime Up => Incarceration Up => Paying for their imprisonment instead.

You're protected by prisons, so you are a user of the service provided by them and must therefore pay under your model.

> Ideally, roads are that way too.

How would this work for e.g. Montana with seemingly-endless lengths of highway and a very low population density?

…

Let's take things a little further. Do you believe only private schools should exist?
Interesting work and I'm glad it's being done, but none of this is about the "hard problem of consciousness". This is about the neural correlates of consciousness, which is the "not as hard" problem of consciousness.

Again, interesting work and I'm glad it's being done. But once you know exactly which neurons, in what configuration, are responsible for consciousness, this still says nothing about the "so what? why does that result in qualia?" But, given that the hard problem is probably impossible to answer, this is a better problem for them to be working on anyway.
Yes I agree there was a lot of conflation of man made and lab leak, but I much more frequently saw people dismiss lab leak because of arguments focusing on man made, than people saying they believed the man made hypothesis because it could be a lab leak. That might just be my social circle though.

Similarly, I can't recall a time that lab leak wasn't considered a conservative conspiracy among my social circles, and that does include a conservative group from my hometown. In the exact same groups I do recall a rapid swapping of position on masks however.

That is of course anecdote, but in general Trump has been very critical of China, and also issued travel bans relatively early on that were painted as racist by the media. Additionally, Trump and his fans childishly insisted on calling COVID the "China flu" for awhile there.

So the origin of the lab leak hypothesis may not have been conservative, but from what I can tell they pretty quickly latched onto the potential for anti-China sentiment there. And not too long after that we had another situation where the Democrats decided to throw the baby out with the bathwater because they didn't like the ideas that had picked up steam with Trump supporters.

But maybe you're right it's a more untargeted lack of ability for nuance. Certainly in this case that's possible, as it's a more difficult technical topic. I just see the way some of my friends hedge fairly benign statements these days, out of fear of being associated with Trumpers. I actually know someone who got rid of the couple of red baseball caps they had because they were afraid people might think it's some sort of MAGA statement. Nuance is even harder when there's a fear of saying anything that might get you out-grouped.
It’s all about the narrative, comrade. That their enforcement is so incredibly in sync is where more scandal resides.
So is studying for math, or anything really.
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I'd never heard of the company behind Alma before this shambles, while Greg K is pretty well known in the HPC world and as the original CentOS founder. If I had to bet, I'd say 2 years from now adoption of these will be 80/20 in favour of Rocky.
Some techniques of manipulating the virus would leave "fingerprints". Others would not. My understanding is that the sweeping assertions that COVID-19 would show clear signs of being manipulated have been largely debunked. Many ultimately traced back to a letter written by a group of virologists led by Kristian Andersen and published in Nature, but all that letter did was assert that some techniques (not all!) were unlikely (but even then, not impossible).

I'm unaware of any reputable experts who are willing to assert that manipulation via, eg, serial passaging, can be ruled out. The closest you'll get is assertions that a natural zoonotic origin is, in their estimation, more likely.

See, eg, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-esca... and https://nicholaswade.medium.com/origin-of-covid-following-th....
I take this to the next level and try to find things to struggle with to begin with. It's kinda like going to the gym - you want to do the thing that will kick your ass because that's how you grow.

Writing about your struggles is a fine way to engage with it and be thoughtful about it - but this is the case because struggle and reflection is just fundamentally valuable.