skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may even be possible to find on eBay a multi tape loader that has a disk inside and appears to the system as just a dumb tape drive.
I get your point, but you have cardinality(usize) elements in your array. So you need to use an indexing type and operations that let you exploit that full cardinality.

usize does have the required range, but then you combine it with std::ops::Add(). In this case std::ops::Add()'s overflow check just gets in the way, preventing you from fearlessly exploiting all 64 bits in the usize. Had you used usize.wrapping_add(), it would not only have not hit the overflow panic, it would have been faster.

Maybe that's your point? The final version of his code is indeed buggy, because middle should have been calculated like this:

let middle = high.wrapping_add(low) / 2;
> I recommend hiking alone... Even though I was delirious from the elevation and fatigued

You shouldn't hike alone. In real wilderness, you want to have it-least 1 other person with you (ideally 2-3). It dramatically de-risks.

Alone in the wilderness, delirious & fatigued is a dangerous situation. Albeit the author was probably just exaggerating to tell a story.
Perpetuating flamewars on HN like this will get you banned here. No more of this, please. We've already had to warn you several times in the past about breaking the site guidelines.

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On HN and Reddit people are engaged in the characteristic activity of friendship - discussing topics of mutual interest - yet it would be pretty sad if that’s all someone had for friends.

Similarly, just because you do work with some people, does not make them your team.

Now maybe programming can be organized in a way that doesn’t really require a team. People can get projects done by interacting in a more transactional, contractor/gig-worker way. But that is a very different experience from being part of a team.
This shows you lack understanding of the fundamental philosophical system by which his arguments are built, espcially Aristotle. Dispute what many think, Aristotle did a lot of experimentation. He was not an arm chair philosopher. St Thomas' arguments are anything but circular.
31. Learn to recognize easy places where you can add value with minimal work.
>but of course there’s only one #1 user-uploaded video website.

That comment makes the issue sound a lot more slippery and ill-defined than it really is. If you're a small content creator, YouTube is your only option. It is actually quite simple; you don't have any plausible way to get people on your website, you won't get any views on Vimeo and you can't monetize it there, and Tiktok won't work unless you're running at most a few seconds. YouTube has a total sector monopoly on doing business with 3Blue1Brown.
Looking at Luxury in a Post-Pandemic China
Which is great, until the heads wear out. I would hesitate to buy a used drive unless the heads have been replaced, especially since LTO-4 is about 14 years old at this point.
Would you please stop breaking the site guidelines with flamebait and/or unsubstantive comments? You've done it repeatedly lately and we ban that sort of account. We're trying for a different sort of internet here...as I think you know?

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
The nature of brains is largely a prediciting machine. Most of our sight is actually predicted, not interpreted, especially anywhere we deem familiar.
I like LSD too; I wish the government would legalize it.

related: https://www.mondo2000.com/2018/06/18/the-inspiration-for-hyp...

Bill Atkinson waited until 2016 to talk about LSD as it related to his work; Steve Jobs has also gone public about LSD.

LSD makes you pretty tough. Many people have a hard time digesting that, so they choose to be afraid of LSD instead of recognizing it.
For Japan, government won't do good things to export our recent culture like Game, Manga, Anime. They has been exported well without government's support, but maybe thanks to company and community's effort. (Traditional culture is different story)
I find all professional sports to be an incredible waste of time and resources.

The only benefit of professional sports is the enrichment of people who are already rich, the owners. Some athletes make money, but the vast majority don't really benefit, especially when considering the damage their bodies absorb.

Some people would argue that professional sports has entertainment value, but knowing the that ultimate goal is the enrichment of the owners at the expense of the health and well being of the players is not something I find entertaining.
Some forms of antitrust enforcement exists to protect the worker, other forms exist to protect the consumer.

In either case, metrics can be employed to test whether success has been achieved. Worker wages, consumer prices, profit margins, market concentration, etc. can all be employed to study the positive and negative consequences of antitrust policy.
However, if you buy external USB hard drives, it's only about $20/TB, you have full random access, you don't need a fiber channel card, and if you buy a bunch of USB hubs, you don't have to change tapes every 1.5 TB.

IMO the niche where tape still has an advantage is pretty small these days.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27488442.
I did not downvote you, but I see why you were confused. I should have clarified, but one of the links said total grocery sales revenue is $750 billion, so that's how I was calculating what fraction of the market Wal-Mart and other stores have. All those tiny grocery stores in dense urban areas account for much smaller slices of the revenue pie.
Please don't cross into personal attacks on HN. Your comment would be fine without the swipe at the beginning.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site to heart, we'd be grateful.
Might it be possible to embed the legacy format witbin a more modern format that gets written to the tape?
> So the threat of enforcement does seem to be having an impact, at least in the short term.

This is how the US solved the hijacking problem in the 1970s; threat to do occasional random searches of passengers. Apparently airport security reported finding abandoned firearms outside in the bushes whenever they put up the “passengers may be searched” signs.
Not available until November, sadly.
I had clearview AI try to hire me when nobody in the wider public knew about them and that was pretty much how I felt about it at the time when I turned that offer down. I'm glad to see it being talked about now.

I like to call it inspector gadgetarianism. Cops LOVE this shit. They do all sorts of practices like denying that you can easily pass lie detection testing, penile plesmography (like if they want to determine a potential recruit is a pervert they hook their meat up to this machine and show them shit like dudes copulating with chickens), and that time the us military got those ridiculous fake bomb detectors that did literally nothing.

It's a miscarriage of justice but that's what you get when you have an organization that does stuff like not even letting you in if they think you're too smart https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/st...
> How do zoom meetings happen when some employees are in a meeting room together, and others are on zoom?

Generally, remote attendants means everyone takes the call from their desk. (some exceptions if the structure allows it, e.g. people in a meeting room present to a distributed audience, but for general meetings that's the default)
I remain continually amazed how many people are incapable of just saying “no comment”.
There are some valid cases for microservices. Specifically when you have divergent scaling needs for different types of services. But almost everything else about them can be solved with good code modularity. I think microservices grew out crummy package managers that either didn't work very well (npm, everything python has tried) or ones that were powerful but no one knew how to use properly (maven, nuget).
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments? You're not being "suppressed", just asked not to lower the quality of the thread with generic, shallow, predictable dismissals.

We don't care what your position is, we care about the quality of these threads, and especially about not having the same wretched, copy/pasted flamewar over and over. It's entirely possible to make substantial arguments in favor of the same position, as rank0 just demonstrated—and that's totally fine.
I have a friend who's terrified of this new phrenology. She's missing some muscles in her face, such that she blinks weirdly. She can only mostly close her eyes, thanks to an operation in her childhood that took a muscle from her butt and placed it diagonally on her forehead. At best, her blinks are asymmetrical. At night, she has to sleep with dark cloth over her eyes because she can never fully close them.

Her terror revolves around being profiled as being overly nervous at airports. Of course, that worry makes her actually nervous at airports.
I also work on hardware. Oddly enough I moved my lab to my house when the pandemic hit, but I don't work with really huge or dangerous stuff.

I think there's going to be an interesting dynamic when the hardware workers go back to the office and the software workers stay home. The tendency for the software department to become isolated from the rest of the business was already present before the pandemic, but may become more pronounced.
Out of curiosity, can you list some of your leisure activities that involve other people...? Taken to extremes, most leisure activities have adverse effects on "professionals".
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The problem with hitting in MLB has nothing to do with pitch doctoring (which has been going on since the beginning of baseball, and was far worse in the 1970s and 1980s than it is today). It's because the batters are obsessed with launch angles, hit velocity and home runs.

Hits per game has been dropping for 13-14 years now, as the culture in baseball has shifted toward swinging for home runs at all costs. Naturally strikeouts per game are up accordingly as batters go for broke.

That's why hits are down but home runs are not. Home runs are still at steroid era peak levels, just like they have been for years now. This fact is intentionally being ignored in the discussion about pitch doctoring supposedly being the big cause of why batters suck at hitting now. They also need a convenient scapegoat for the new baseball MLB introduced this year and the way it has benefited pitchers more than hitters.

They're trying to turn MLB into the NBA. The NBA no longer plays defense, they stand around chucking three pointers; it has become the WWE of basketball, it's a joke league (and ratings keep plunging properly, because it's not fun to watch all-star game scoring where nobody plays defense). MLB now openly advocates in favor of changing the game to juice ratings and scoring artificially (by eg restricting the ability to play defense, among other things). They allowed the steroid era to happen in the pursuit of ratings, they're going to screw the game up all over again.
Hacking Bitcoin wallets with quantum computers could happen
Pinta is like paint.net on Linux but way less polished (it's image editor core started as a port of Paint.net 3.0's when paint.net was still open source, but it's UI was a clone in GTK). I remember being particularly unimpressed when I tried using it for low res image manipulation and discovered the selection "marching ants" and resize handles were rendered at the canvas resolution, for example.

At least for me, Krita has ended up as my paint.net replacement, but it is a step up in complexity from paint.net (and hence two steps up from paint)
Not just schizophrenia. Psychosis overall is the danger- this includes a significantly wider variety of conditions such as bipolar.
I did hybrid at a company a couple years ago, and the way we solved the meeting problem was that everyone at the in-person meeting would connect via their laptop as well. All in-person laptops would be on mute except one, who would have a good camera that could capture the room.

I found it pretty natural to _also_ look at the camera while also looking around the room, as if you were just making eye contact with a new person. And while the "highlight" border would only ever show for one in-person person, cameras are usually close enough that your eye is naturally drawn to whomever's mouth is moving.
Technologist, Privacy Activist Kevin Gallagher Passes Away
I really like your point about losing our "second place". It's a great way to verbalize the feeling I've had that permanent WFH on a major scale takes American individualism to the logical extreme.

Rather than learning to live with each other, we'll all just retreat to our own little castles (or shacks), taking all focus away from making public spaces enjoyable for everyone. Who needs public transit when we never leave home? Whatever your station in life is where you'll stay, there are no trains coming.

We'll all have a carefully curated whitelist of like-minded neighbors to protect ourselves from witnessing any of the negative externalities of our lifestyles. Our only view of the outside world will be entertainment news that coddles our doxastic anxiety, telling us the exactly what we want to hear at all times.
In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is a delusional, dangerous lunatic who should be locked up and medicated senseless.

For the Greater Good.
Good thing they’re focusing on this instead of global warming or voter disenfranchisement.

/s
Ethereum has a value equal to roughly GM, Ford and Toyota combined. Probably as much as AWS despite the fact that no large company I know of runs their company on Ethereum. The largest things on Ethereum are things like Uniswap which facilities speculation on Ethereum...hehe. What happens to the world if Ethereum disappears? I don't think it misses much of a beat. Ethereum does have "tons of uses and potential"...but it's still just that, and it could be displaced.
The kind of men particularly predisposed to aggression need an outlet that is not war or tearing each other apart. That is not a waste of time and resources. Probably does a lot of good to unite nations by also providing the same kind of outlet
We adapt to controlling countless complex things; I'd imagine we'd adapt very quickly to controlling these.
It is way more complex than Markdown and saying it doesn't require expertise is plain wrong.

"Skribilo's markup language to provide information about the document's structure, which is similar to HTML or LaTeX and does not require expertise."
> you don’t have any plausible way to get people on your website

Again, you mean “instantaneous access to millions of people who like to go to YouTube”. A website for $5/month opens you to more people than YouTube. If 3Blue1Brown has decided YouTube is best for them, then that’s great. But

> monopoly on “doing business with 3Blue1Brown.”

Sounds just as silly as Universal Pictures having a monopoly on movie series that involve bad acting and fast cars.
> 'Intel in talks to eat smaller company that might otherwise grow to challenge Intel'

There's been a lot of news this past week about Congress finally doing something about megacorps buying smaller companies before they can become challengers. We'll all have to wait and see if Congress actually acts.
Key difference for me between microservice architecture and service oriented architecture is the move away from a shared database. Switching to small, single purpose datastores is the much bigger shift in thinking than small, single purpose components.
Are you asking me to back up with data that ATT&CK is most frequently used by --- maybe almost exclusively used by --- corpsec Windows networking people?
You conveniently omitted the Exclusion class that makes the excerpt posted above quite reasonable. The only thing which is not completely clear to me is whether the items listed in the Exclusion class are combined using OR or AND.

In any way every once in a while the US surprises me in a very good way. Congrats if it passes.
> So the solution is to censor what information is ok for the plebs to see and what is too ideologically harmful for them?

I'm not saying that.
The worst decision MLB ever made was refusing to take back Houston's world series trophy and place in the record books. They signaled to the world that cheating is OK.

Not surprisingly, Gerritt Cole at the center of this seems to have started down this path immediately after joining the Astros.
for what it is and does it's pretty alright... I mean it's a simple script to munge some data and there isn't much more you need to do with it. you don't need fully well thought out full object oriented solution with a bunch of error handling and stuff for a scraper doing 100 records at a time. one nit is that ruby generally doesn't use tabs and only uses 2 spaces.
Drone swarm navigates a stylized forest without crashing
Debian's patches are generally out of necessity in order to use or support the upstream software in a sane way. Within Debian there is a culture of always sending patches upstream and most of the time patches not being upstream has a reason; for example there could be an unreasonable CLA, upstream might have gone proprietary, upstream might not accept external patches, upstream might not be (very) responsive etc.
Demonstration of skills demonstrated with a fun example. I'm assuming there is image->Text translation, process automation + functional demo, and UI design.

Digging into the github page it appears a custom OCR solution was created. I wonder if anyone has forked/used this in cool places.
Just because there isn't a law against something doesn't make it ok. And there is more to wage slavery than just low wages. Amazon has a history of abusive, manipulative behaviors when it comes to warehouse employees.
You may find Framework interesting: https://frame.work/
I fully agree regarding unions or even co-ops. The managers at this job wanted me to have ideas about the future of the product... that is, do their managing for them. Why would I contribute in that manner after you demonstrated your view of the workers as disposable?! I will take my ideas and capture the value, myself or with a like-minded group. Not be the phd face lending legitimacy to your mismanaged business.
any computer should do, no?
I haven't really figured out MacOS specific stuff, especially Xcode related (though apparently AWS has OSX EC2 instances). Also with Genymotion, you don't get the same live-reload experience as you do locally so it's better to suck it up and listen to your fans sometimes
They used to be a lot cheaper. When I did admin work for a small company ~2004 they weren't as cheap as a DVD R/W, but they were still pretty inexpensive, and I kept rotating 7-day backups on them along with a monthly rotation, and IIRC the system itself was RAID 3. When I upgraded the server I think the DAT tape drive, 4GB per tape, only added a a few hundred dollars.

These days a new tape drive goes into the thousands. It's a shame because it's still very difficult to beat tape for high capacity unpowered offline storage. Some optical formats have longer shelf lives but lower capacities, and also aren't cheap.

I'm glad I don't have to worry about backup/restore in my job anymore. I had to make use of those daily tapes more than once and the stress of that was not fun.
It's even stupider than that. IRCCloud is a web client which happens to provide some bouncer functionality. Freenode's bouncer is only available over IRC; it requires users to connect with their own IRC client.
I couldn't put it better myself, 1k+ hours poured into this for a handful of laughs isn't a trade many would do
The idea of making a rats nest out of 50TB of USB hard drives aimed at consumers is not appealing. They're not as durable as I'd like, either.
> Dismissing someone with a mind full of unique and creative ideas is generally a bad idea

As someone who smoked a joint with Terence, I can tell you why people dismiss him. He went totally over the edge with the "Timewave Zero" software nonsense. Aside from that, he was surprisingly pretty grounded.
Where I work we moved to a fancy backup solution a few years ago. Which one doesn't matter but suffice to say the name implies the focus isn't on metal

Not a single one of our metal machines ever successfully backed up with it. Tens of TBs per system seems to be where it just fails every single time. We put those systems back on the official-retiring tape system and now all it stuff is backed up without a hitch every time.
You must be fairly young and idealistic. It’s really hard to know people well enough to be able to trust them. Especially in this new WFH environment are you going to know your employees after a few skype calls? I’ve been in tech for over 25 years now and a manager for last 15, the level of deceit one comes across is mind blowing. In one case we had an employee we all liked and thought well of, did decent work, extremely friendly,
and we caught him trying to copy all the company’s code to a USB drive attached to his workstation under his desk. People are crazy you never know what they will do.
Stephenson books are such milestones, and such a gas, I like to stay a couple behind, to have them to look forward to.

So, good news! I can finally read another.
To each his own. In my work, standardizing environments is a point of frustration to the extent that it's better for us to figure out the environment once remotely than for every OS locally.
> Whats so "fundamentalist" about this?

For example take this peer-reviewed study for Ivermectin as a prophylaxis which was published back in Nov/2020.

https://c19ivermectin.com/carvalloprep.html

https://medicalpressopenaccess.com/upload/1605709669_1007.pd...

* 0 out of 788 (0%) in the treatment group got COVID.

* 237 out of 408 (58.2%) in the control group got COVID.

The treatment group were volunteers who agreed to take it, so it wasn't an RCT.

"Big RCT Fundamentalism" discards that study, because it wasn't a big RCT, even though the signal to noise is obviously clear, and it has been replicated study after study, including smaller RCTs (when using a weekly dose of at least 0.2mg/kg).

There are no big RCTs that show the same effect, because they can cost millions and there's no incentive for anyone to fund it.
Really looking forward to Turing.jl gaining CUDA support
The only people who thought FB overpaid for Instagram were the same people who complained that FB wasn't a real business and was going to collapse at any moment. Ironically many of these people were HN commentators.

Anyone who worked in the space thought it was the most desirable property available, and wasn't surprised at the price given that Google was looking at social properties at the time too.

And no matter what people on HN thought, FB did buy Insta because it was a competitor:

The exchange was one of several potentially damning pieces of evidence in documents obtained by the U.S. House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust, showing that Zuckerberg leveraged Facebook’s market power over competitors and bought Instagram because he was concerned about the fast growing company’s potential to turn users away from Facebook.

https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/facebook-bought-inst...
Command and Conquer remastered had it's source code released.

That includes Tiberian Dawn (aka the first game) and Red Alert.