skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Backups that are easily restored trump replication for so many cases and much more cheaply. High availability is overrated when you have spare preconfigured commodity hardware you can spin up in minutes, which is often perfectly acceptable human time scale.
You really don't need the other insurance running all the time - that only makes it more fragile.

Only really huge services would care about downtime of this degree, or horizontal scaling.
Buy a proper firewall, like Little Snitch. Also beware of the Safari downloads sqlite DB.
Genocide is:

"the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group."

Did the British empire do plenty of bad things? Yes, I would say so. Did it deliberately commit genocide? I'm not so sure. Please feel free to provide an example.
Depends what you mean by that, but probably not. But, signed definitely. The main problem here is that there doesn't seem to be an authoritative vendor list of the "real".
Permaculture and food forests could probably solve a lot of problems, but although they are more efficient than equivalent non-mechanized agriculture they are very difficult to scale with mechanization.

Solve that problem and we could solve a lot of them.
I wouldn't say equally otherwise he would probably be renowned as a juggler or runner.
Have you considered sales engineering?

If you join a big org and know how to play it, you can make good dough while having a somehow manageable stress level. Depends on the org you joining though.
Well NymphCast does that too. The 2nd feature mentioned in their README:

> Streaming online content by passing a URL to the server.
The people that disable Javascript are missing a whole world of interactive applications. Not every website wants to track you down and share that information with Google.
Burnout from an Organizational Perspective
Lots of industries and applications can get to that scale. My last few companies were in adtech where that is common.
The fundamental flaw of the Docker container security model is the shared kernel, which is a gigantic attack surface in which vulnerabilities are present, somewhat routinely, in functionality that can't be masked off with system call filters.

The win of virtualization is that the machinery required to hypervise a kernel is much, much smaller than the kernel itself; to use the 70s terminology, it's a minimized trusted computing base.
Most of these early transmission schemes used audible signals transmitted by radio. I'm always curious to listen how they sound.
That could be due to having to download from iCloud if the video is not present on the device.
A pretty poor response to a well written post. I'm skeptical you read through it.
The result of this work ethic is to remove one’s self from the workforce. It’s a reasonable question as to why a lifetimes ambition for these hard workers is to be able to do nothing.
Humpback whale gulps and spits out Cape Cod lobsterman
To be fair in France we get as well a lot of shooting, mass stabbing or other forms of terrorism. However it has a totally different cause.
I’ve noticed this happening a lot lately.
What kind of waves? I guess you could at least have a light source that periodically gets brighter and dimmer and a detector at the other end of the universe would detect the brightness oscillation and it would not really make any difference whether the light propagates with an finite or infinite speed besides of course the propagation time.
I'd like to see that. That would mean either WP is adding meta to the image file (which I'm pretty sure it doesn't do), or WP is making a lower quality jpg in higher which - without a special AI-y algorithm - isn't going to yield true higher res.
You're confusing essential with recreational activity.
Most workloads are small workloads. Modern hardware is incredibly powerful.
I think the idea is that the authority for the claim that Wikipedia is making is Wikipedia itself; citations "spontaneously generate", as it were:

> The Allpoint Pen is currently in use and has been used to register tens of thousands of voters in the United States, and the Long Pen, an invention conceived of by writer Margaret Atwood, is used by authors to sign their books at a distance.[6]

> [6] "LongPen", Wikipedia, 2019-10-15, retrieved 2020-05-08
Have some mercy with the ultrafinitist[1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrafinitism
Cool, now do node and ruby, using the same tool.
If that were true then why wouldn’t you want to change academia so that it works well for both men and women? Wouldn’t that be the obvious ethical path to take?
Scientists find second ‘short sleep’ gene (2019)
IIRC Maya has responded to this with something along the lines of “It’s a pet project and I like AngelScript”, which I’d deem fair.
What are the alternatives? Which future do we want among those alternatives?

Alt0: Stop optimizing. Unlikely. The incentives will pull agents to optimize.

Alt1: Change the rules of the games. Unlikely to a lesser degree. They did this to hockey relatively recently.

Alt2: Go local. Like the rise of kabbadi in India, going for local sport or local groceries will allow for greater diversity. Somewhat happening.

Alt3: ?
The Risk equivalent of "how to win at chess every time in 4 moves"...
Toxic masculinity in the media has now come to encompass any quality in a person they don’t like. A weight lifter is an asshole? It’s because of a toxic masculinity problem in weight lifting. Positive traits in men as a broad population are regularly cast to toxic masculinity in individuals by lazy writers.
I never argued for not spending money. Please revisit my comments.
What is "BP"? I tried searching the Inernet but couldn't find it.
Say derivative without saying derivative
Show HN: GF likes texts. I’m bad at texting. App for that? Nope. So I made one
Is it an alloy? The article doesn't say, but it mentions they tested it in powder form, and it sure does have a ton of oxygen. My guess is that it's a ceramic.
So called 'passive' radars. FM radio, cell towers, and also dvb-t. Wonderful tech. Is there an actual (not toy or PoC) operational system deployed anywhere?
I agree that console silicon can be rushed and bugs slip through. But then again, we may not even be aware of all the bugs in Intel or AMD products where they have been fixed post silicon via mechanisms such as microcode patches.
Sorting Luck from Skill
Looking at the code, some steps are missing in the description:

3. When processing is complete the matching table entry is deleted.

4. There is a "reaper" process that checks for stale jobs ( based on time in the future ) and resets them to 0.

This of ouffcourse raises more questions.
There was something quite nice about the audible quality of MiniDisc compression.

Is this past year of COVID to blame? I had been rekindling some nostalgia for my brief foray into MiniDisc over two decades ago (it had been too brief). And then my daughter, born after the iPod but likely channelling part of that retro zeitgeist, wanted to experiment with/explore cassette tapes. No, no, MiniDisc, I said. And then I proceeded to buy way too many of the devices on eBay.

I have a bigger collection now of both players and discs than I did when I first dipped my toe into MiniDisc.

I think both she and I enjoy mix-tape vs. playlist. Trying to pick songs to fit within 80 or 74 minutes.

And then somehow the "I want to hear something mellow" and then the physical insertion of a disc.... Something tangible in an increasingly intangible world?
If that software is available to the public it would be a great service to name or link it if you can find out what it is.
This approach has its own gottchas.
I feel I could write a similar article titled:

Do you really need PostgreSQL? How to Get Away with Just SQLite

How many apps are running pg on a single node and don't really have plans to scale beyond this?

Exclusive ownership of a SQLite database by the application can deliver better performance than exclusive ownership over a single node postgres database. This also extends to SQL Server, DB2, Oracle, or any other hosted solution.
You might be correct. Regardless, the choice is always on the browser, as it should be. It's the only one who knows the screen res, how wide and tall, the markup, etc. With all that it picks.

Again, that article I shared does a great job of explaining. I'll re-read to find out about 1x, 2x, etc.
If inflation increases effective demand by consumers (that is, increases effective income and wealth of the poorest sector of society), then debt relative to total economic activity should decrease.

The problem with debt is that it is a manifestation of an underlying contradiction. One or more of:

- The expectation that those not paid sufficiently to survive can. E.g., increasing wealth inequality.

- That past obligations take precedence over current survival.

- Past consumption patterns or expectations of future consumption exceeding actual production capacities.

At some point, something has to give. Debt can be inflated away, debt can be discharged (bankruptcy, jubilee, expiry, default). Or the social order under which the debts are recognised can itself be dissolved (revolution).

Your #2 is false. Seigniorage is gain on minting money, not inflation. I have no idea what term you're confusing it with.
This. There are so many pages that could display perfectly without JS, but they don't because someone messed it up.

Think about it: the very existence of the Reader Mode in popular browsers shows that users no longer can read information on web pages comfortably in the browser and need another specialized layer to remove all the cruft.
The status doesn't help if the worker died during processing. If you've got something that's been "in progress" for 20 minutes of a job that takes 2, your job might not be getting done. That's what expired is for.
That’s not a social system, that’s a rat race of men fiercely competing against each other. There’s opportunity there, but not much psychological support.
If that's your view that's fine, but it's not the view of GP.
Quoth the server, 404.
Downvoted for bringing contradictory data. HN is anti-science.
Ask HN: What do you use for asynchronous meetings?
Does your company use any tools for asynchronous meetings and standups and stuff? How well does it work for you?
It's been a long time since homing missiles aimed directly at the target. The AIM-9 Sidewinder entered service in 1956, and it aimed at where the target will be, not where it is.
True. I’m Dutch and have encountered mini discs only in my radio work in the early 2000’s
budibase and lowdefy
I find this hard to follow. The "first" guest (who was in room 1, in the article) moves over one room. The "last" guest (showed as being in 'room n') has no room to go to; the hotel is full.
Modern containers do provide lots of security features with namespaces, seccomp, cgroups (to some extent)

The author seems to largely ignore this. I would consider that a bit stronger than a "tent wall". Comparing it to a tent seems more akin to a plain chroot.

If I have my tent right next to someone else, I can trivially "IPC" just speaking out loud which would be prevented by an IPC namespace (which is Docker's current default container setup)

Also worth mentioning, turning a container into a VM (for enhanced security) is generally easier than trying to do the opposite. AWS Lambda basically does that as do a lot of the minimal "cloud" Linux distributions that just run Docker with a stripped down userland (like Container Linux and whatever its successors are)
> On the other hand the people in EU are happier

Are they though? And maybe happiness is overrated?

The first large scale study on overwork deaths says US has less deaths than many countries in Europe.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016041202...

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/17/997462169/thousands-of-people...

In the U.S., less than 5% of the population is exposed to

long work hours, according to a map the WHO published with the study. That proportion is similar to Brazil and Canada — and much lower than Mexico and in countries across most of Central and South America.
A Call for Preregistration of Questionable Research Practices
I don't think both of those combined would fill my time from when I'm 40 until I die. I'd have to find something that really occupies me (like maybe I start a big open source project or something) but at that point I'm just finding work that I don't get paid for.
It's pretty common for languages that compile to binaries. Golang, for example. Just inherit your container "FROM scratch". I have a number of service containers that are around 8 - 12MB, which contain compiled Haskell binaries.
Your example with matching human senses is excellent (I will reuse it) but I do not understand the link with extensions.

How would showing or not an extension change that? Nobody would expect grandma to make any decisions on the extension.
You mean the UV erasable kind? Essentially phase change memory? Very hard to miniaturize?

Because the older Flash aren't as stable when miniaturized as you'd expect. Current flash is a direct descendant of these, they only are more stable because the cells are much chunkier and thus with lower leakage.
Yes, even old ordnance like the Sidewinder, which entered service in the mid-1950s, would aim ahead of the target.
Suicide attempts among adolescent girls surged by more than 50% during pandemic
Perhaps it's a case of using the wrong tool for the job? A shell is just a simple UI to easily run commands. When you start using it to run commands within Bash, within SSH, within remote Bash, then maybe it's time to use a different tool.
What does BP mean in this context?
"Toxic masculinity" does not mean "masculinity is toxic". The term was invented by a men's rights activist.
Bonsai Trees, Color History and Depth Estimation
Remote Repositories: edit GitHub repo directly from VS Code
Close air support blurs the line a little, especially inasmuch as (in US forces at least) those pilots are both uniquely beloved among the infantry they support and with whom they share many hazards, and also much differently regarded by "real" combat pilots as halfway to being ground pounders themselves.
I wish this existed except for binaries inside Docker. A fat binary for Windows, macOS and Linux that isn’t really a binary at all, but fetched the thing you want from docker and just runs it. With the local file system.
Before Present? (Just guessing)
Yes, and I agree. I'm not saying they should take that right away from Visa.

But if a customer wants to do business online with someone Visa doesn't approve of, they have very few options. And currently Bitcoin is the best option.

And if the government does not want Bitcoin to prosper, they should come out with a better alternative in the form of a public (government run) payment system so we have the digital equivalent of the dollar.

Because unlike private entities, the government is bound to the first amendment. Unlike Visa, the government does not have the right to pick and chose who they do business with.
Why assume that the hotel's hallway is strait? Maybe it has an infinite number of rooms all around a circular lobby, a lobby that grows in diameter/circumference every time someone books a room. The message from the desk (in the middle of the lobby) then hits every room at the same time. No waves. Just instant simultaneous movement in every room.
Newer games are made with the knowledge of older games, so theoretically they should be better. I'd argue they are on average, but there's also the survivorship bias in play with very old games that only the good ones are still commonly known and played.
If you have a Net MD player today, head over to this much nicer Web front-end for ripping your mp3's to MiniDisc:

https://stefano.brilli.me/webminidisc/
It doesn't use the Internet, but it does send broadcasts to your local network for discovery.
Feel free to try to tick all the UX best practices from Nielsen Norman with pure HTML, and be done by the end of this week since we would like to ship.

See where the problem is?
https://github.com/albfan/miraclecast might be an interesting alternative, based on the widespread Miracast standard. No idea how up-to-daye that codebase is, though.
MySQL 101: Installation, care, and feeding on Ubuntu
Ok. What phrase would you use? Presumably you do agree that there are elements of masculinity that are harmful, both to men and women. How should we describe these in a way that is impossible to misinterpret?
I got tired of firing up an image editor every time to create a simple open-graph/social image for my blog posts and built https://thumbnail.ai

It's been a great time saver and a handful of people use it daily.
You can build a very long name yo push the domain outside the visible part of the form. This way all of your text is the same color and you may not realize that what you see does not have the domain part.
Qt QML is really great for making GUIs.
Best Backgrounds for Pitch Decks
A similar observation is that there's exactly as many natural numbers [0, 1, 2, 3, ...) as integer numbers (the same, but with negatives: ..., -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, ...).

Normally we'd need to count things to say there's "as many" X as Y. But with infinities counting is a bit tricky. So, is the infinite count of natural numbers the same kind of infinity as count for integer numbers?

To check this, we need to see if for every number in one set we can assign exactly one number in the other set (and the other way around). It's actually pretty simple:

0 -> 0
1 -> -1
2 -> 1
3 -> -2
4 -> 2
5 -> -3
6 -> 3
...

Since this mapping ("bijective function") exists, we know that every number in one set has exactly one representative in the other set - so the set counts are identical.

What's interesting, if we look into real numbers (think: double in C, but without problems with approximation), there's much, much more of them. The infinite count of real numbers is much larger than the infinite count of integers. But let's keep it for another comment.
What grieves me most is the drain of talented software engineers from Europe to the US. There's a 'club' of Scottish engineers working is Seattle called the MicroScotts, and there's not a small number of them, but the are few opportunities for such people in Scotland itself. You can find top flight British, German and other European engineers at Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple. The cream of British CS and Software Engineering graduates decamp to the US every year.

There are good IT jobs here in the UK in finance, defence and the games industry. It's not exactly a desert of opportunities, but there's still a clear imbalance. My daughter is looking at doing a CS or Software Engineering degree and I'm worried if she'll stay in the UK when she graduates, or the opportunities she'd be giving up if she doesn't. California is nice to visit, I suppose.
"Anti-Vaxxer" is a slur. It describes a group of people who believe that NO vaccines should be taken, under ANY circumstances, because they either aren't effective or the risk isn't worth the reward.

People who have skepticism over one particular vaccine, the one for Covid, are not the same as those who refuse ALL vaccines. There is overlap, for obvious reasons, but describing the former as the latter is overly broad, and seems to be an attempt, once again, to paint anyone who disagrees with the manufactured mainstream party line on Covid as a crank.

Vaccines in general are good, and have done a lot of good for humanity. That doesn't mean that it's impossible to make a vaccine that's harmful, especially when said vaccine is rushed, under incredible political and economic pressure, and using completely new technology. Skepticism may or may not be warranted, but it's certainly reasonable.

Furthermore, if a business chooses to turn down customers for a given reason, that policy is public information. It's not abusive to report this information on a service designed to report information about businesses. It's not abusive to share one's opinion of a business on a service designed specifically for that. Time and time again services are built out to solicit public opinion, and then panic ensues when the opinion isn't in keeping with what it's "supposed" to be. This is why Netflix no longer has a star rating system. Too many important people's egos got bruised.

Do people abuse rating systems? Absolutely (just look at the hellish wasteland that is Amazon). But disagreement is not abuse. Having a different opinion is not abuse. And that seems to be the situation here.

Edit: I also note some of the complaints were...overly enthusiastic. Threats of violence, although almost certainly hyperbole, are a bit much. At the same time, people don't like being told to show their papers. Anyone with a basic understanding of human psychology should be able to recognize this. Covid was unfortunate, but it wasn't devastating. We're not talking about the Black Plague here. Requiring Authoritarian State levels of paperwork to go about your daily life is going to piss people off, and rightly so. If things are really that bad, the restaurants shouldn't be open at all. If they aren't, there's no justification for "Papers please!"
I'm glad you responded because the person you were responded to exhibits typical thought patterns on addiction that I'm sure you are as frustrated by as I am.

People don't seem to understand that drugs like cocaine flood the brain with dopamine and that's exactly what these video games are designed to do by the psychologists the game companies hire. I don't get why people don't seem to understand that it's alarming when video game companies are hiring people from the gambling industry in Vegas.
Wait, there existed a 4-track MiniDisc recorder? That sounds awesome.
AESA radars very much do have track and search mode, it’s just not mechanically controlled so they can track more targets however once you lock on a target(s) the beams are still focused on them which is why you still have a limit and that limit is dependent on the size of the target you track as well as it’s range and not just the radar itself.

An AESA radar that can track up to 5 targets for example might still be limited to a single target with a low RCS because more of the array has to be focused on it.
Yes, let's take a look: https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/

Doordash losses: 204 million in 2018, 667 million in 2019, 461 million in 2020. 1.2 billion dollars in losses over three years. [1]

Cruise: Hard to find any data (the name doesn't help). Raised billions while producing zilch. Was acquired by GM, and is now generating only losses to the tune of 200-300 million dollars per quarter. That is, losses of around 1 billion dollars per year [2]

Instacart: Doesn't publish profitability (suprised Fry face). Had it's first profitable year in 7 years in 2020. In 2019 lost 300 million dollars. Previous data unavailable.

Should I go on?

Even the proftable darlings are usually profitable if you look at them right.

AirBnB: up and down, up and down. Sometimes down with losses up to 674 million dollars a year: [4]

Dropbox: became profitable only last year. Prior to that? Well, losses up to 484 million dollars of losses per year [5]

And so on.

The vast majority is fuelled by litrerally endless investor money with only two modes of operation: corner the market (that is, outlive other competitors who don't have such an unlimited amount of money) or get sold.

[1] https://www.businessofapps.com/data/doordash-statistics/

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1077077/gm-cruise-operat...

[3] https://www.businessofapps.com/data/instacart-statistics/

[4] https://craft.co/airbnb/metrics

[5] https://craft.co/dropbox/metrics
Microprose F-15 Strike Eagle in the early 80's did a decent lock on and detection!
I'm sorry, but the app is currently in beta and limited to 70 countries/regions to better support this. Please let me know what country you are in so that I may rectify this.