skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>not only because its human toll was so high

1 radiation death and 18 injuries? (Only 2 of which involved possible radiation exposure.)

The "overly-conservative" decision to evacuate such a large area killed more people than if they hadn't evacuated at all.

Even Chernobyl only killed ~30 people, with maybe another 30 cases of cancer that workers had since then.
GPS is also “easy” to setup if you’re already coming in from space.

I wonder what the “useful minimum” for satellites would be if you wanted, say, relatively accurate positioning once every orbit or each day.
A simple backyard compost will go through chicken bones quite well once it gets going. I'm not surprised an optimized process can take care of a whole body in a matter of weeks.
John Carmack coding Quake on a 100 pound 1080p CRT in 1995[0] is a great image that this article reminded me of.

I seem to remember monitors being 800x600 around that time, and a few years later did we even see 1024x768 become the norm.

It's mind blowing to imagine what 1080 would be like back in the day.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20110927044427/https://geek.com/...
I was targeting industrial control systems, medical implants, and other critical applications. So a lot of the constraints of desktop/mobile/server computing just don't apply.

The assumption was that you'd end up with something close to a microkernel architecture, but without any all-powerful software up top. A purely peer to peer architecture running on bare metal.
>Reddit is way too useful a resource

I never open it at work and get along just fine.
> (perceived) correctness

Right, in TDD there is "always" a range of values against which you are not testing. A developer can only create a finite amount of tests, and the program will fail with any of the missing permutations.
I’m from Romania. Not exactly the country you’d be eager to expand to.

But I’ve been using Wise (former TransferWise) to receive ACH payments and payouts from Stripe in an US based bank account. So it should be possible to have any business/advertisers from any country as long as they provide an US/Canadian bank account.
long-running existing contracts is my guess
California offers digital record of coronavirus vaccination
Apple Silicon have potential to grab the 30% market share in 2-3 years.
Lots of people lurk without an account or go private for a bit. The web app is basically crippled in those cases.
I am using an IKEA swivel chair `ÖRFJÄLL`[1]. I have a tendency to slouch or slump in a more comfortable chair and never got a hang of standing desks. This makes me sit upright for most of the time and my back loves it (so far).

[1] https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/oerfjaell-swivel-chair-white-vi...
> ... intended audience of this pop article ...

Are we reading the same page? I see datasheets linked in the navbar, an article about an EtherCan box, and white papers about encoders. If any site is then certainly this one has a very specialist audience in mind.

Besides i believe what constitutes "advanced" gets wider rather than narrower when you move towards a less specialised audience. To the generic population even two stacked PID loops would qualify as "advanced" while practitioners would call that "conservative" or "old-fashioned".
Yes. I have the app but theres 30-40% of URLs that send me to the browser which then asks me to download the app.

I dunno.
> If tomorrow SnapRAID stops working, I can replace just that component with something else without affecting the rest of the system.

Can you actually? If some layer of that storage stack stops working then you can no longer access your existing data, because all these layers need to work correctly to correctly reassemble the data read from disk.
The OP is talking about the SNR received by the readers of HN, not the potential value of the HN customer base and their importance to businesses.
I get the humor, but if you think about it:

Almost all of the technologies that we would need for survival and productivity on Mars are recently-invented.
I don't think many game devs thought that their creations would live on. Most probably figured their games would be off store shelves in a year or two and completely irrelevant in three to four. So it makes sense they would not have planned for the future.

I'm sure no one, but a few prescient individuals, ever considered retro gaming/emulation would be a huge thing in 30 years. Even I can't believe it when I see seven year olds wanting to play SNES games.

The film industry had been around long enough by the 90s to have realized that there will be a market for classic movies and that it behooved the industry to future-proof when possible, especially for blockbuster films.
Joy [1] is a function-level stack-oriented (read: FORTH-y) programming language inspired by Backus's FP. Funny how these things end up connected.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_(programming_language)
Does anyone here use Opera or have thoughts on it?
95% of which group of people?
"forAll"
"Human remains are a breeding ground for disease that specializes in breaking down humans"

They are not diseases, but common microorganism - and they are specialized into breaking down any dead organic material.

You don't want them in the drinking water, though. But you don't want any microorganism in the drinking water.
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The article is a great example of all the somewhat surprising peculiarities in ZFS. For example, the conversion will keep the stripe width and block size, meaning your throughput of existing data won't improve. So it's not quite a full re-balance.

This is generally in-line with other ZFS operations. For example, changing compression policies will not rewrite existing data and only new data is affected.

It simplifies some code paths and keeps performance good no matter what. You don't get a surprising reduction on performance.
In Iain M. Banks' Culture series, customarily, a ship Mind displaces (teleports) your body to the center of the nearest star on death. That way your atoms contribute to the star and will eventually rise to the surface and spread through the universe. Also takes care of prion diseases.
According to international standards, your wifi antennas should have a maximum of 0.1/0.2W power (up to 4W for some specific 5Ghz frequencies). Wifi router hardware is really basic, you need something as powerful as a computer from the late 90s... which on todays hardware runs on a few watts. Something like a rpi is really beefy for a home router.

So 100W may not be a big deal if you have an abundance of electricity around. But on the order of energy you can produce yourself, it's quite a lot.
Available here: https://web.archive.org/web/20150419140249/http://american-b...
This style of programming, such as unnamed arguments, sounds very difficult to understand. An important part of programming is thinking clearly by using simple and explicit writing style. Clear code should be as close as possible to explaining the problem domain and how you would like to influence the outcome.
> PerformanceTest software only runs on Windows OS

I think this excludes huge population of servers as we know Windows is not dominant there.
Isn't one of the hottest movies right now about monsters that kill anything that makes a noise?
Is there a CLA for OpenZFS/ZoL? I don't believe there is, so I don't think Oracle can unilaterally relicense it.
Cool post! I've also been thinking about this for a while and agree with your advice. Have also been on both sides of the fence and often feel "out of place" sharing my project.

However, I try to ask myself, can a really contribute value in this conversation first - which is probably what motivates anyone to leave a comment. And if yes, I try explaining by adding an example using my project. This way I try to block myself from just promoting into any conversation in an unnatural way.
The thing in this paper that I see missing from most discussions of Functional Programming is the use of an algebra to derive programs.

I've worked a bit with an FP concatenative language Joy and this sort of algebraic manipulation is easy and fun, and seems to permit (nearly) bug-free development.

Here's a very simple example of deriving a function for the quadratic formula:

https://joypy.osdn.io/notebooks/Quadratic.html

A more complex example deriving a combinator "treestep" to process tree datastructures:

https://joypy.osdn.io/notebooks/Treestep.html
The key is the adhesive which means you have to tear or otherwise undo it before you can unfold it.

I suspect that much of it was simply “how can we fold the letter” taken to extremes as a form of individual expression.
Start resistance training. A strong back can take more.

The best posture is the next posture (move from time to time).
If a plant such as a tree is grown from your remains don’t you basically “become” the tree?

I’ve always thought it would be great if one could become some kind of long lasting tree that could last generations and could be visited upon by ancestors, but I don’t know how practical such graveyard forests would be.
> hardware RAID

That's just the worst of all worlds: Usually proprietary and you get the extreme aversion to improvement (or any change really) of hardware vendors.

This ZFS changes is going to come, and it may end up being complex to implement for users... but it's happening. At the risk of being hyperbolic: Something like would never be possible with a HW raid system unless it had explicitly been designed for it from the start.

Also: ZFS does much more than any hardware RAID ever did.
Puerto Rico hasn't made much progress. Plus you can't insist possible rivals (Brits) give up their empire while building your own...
Not sure what techniques exactly you’re referring to, but the commonly used techniques for GPS enhancement (e.g. RTK [1]) are not simple distance measurements between GPS receivers and base stations but rather both stations measuring the satellite signal and using the difference of the signal in both locations to improve position estimates.

I imagine it’s possible to set up a ground-based network, but you would need a high density to cover large surfaces (you want to see at least four stations from every position). I also imagine that it would be difficult to get accurate vertical positions if the stations are all in the same horizontal plane.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_kinematic_positionin...
“Demon Slayer”: The Viral Blockbuster from Japan
> So yes it's f*king expensive, but I do highly recommend it. A year on, I think it was a very good investment.

It's worth noting that it comes with a 12 year warranty:

* https://www.hermanmiller.com/customer-service/warranty-and-s...

So if you keep it for (at least) that long, the initial price may be high, but if you amortize it over more than a decade, the annual or monthly cost isn't as crazy. You probably spend more on buying lunch or coffee.

(The arm rests may not be included IIRC, so those may have to be replaced at some point.)
If Disney can trademark a “special derivative” of Loki. Can I trademark a “special derivative” of Mikey Mouse that’s just the same character but wearing green and staring in my animated movie?

There really should not be any discussion here. Disney cannot hold trademarks on Norse gods. They have copyright protection on specific drawings, movies etc, but that should be the limit of that.
Apple is really sticking to what Jobs said:

"People who like software want to build their own hardware"

I am surprised, I thought they'd be moving towards the higher margins of software and marketplace even more
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Apple Silicon doesn't show up anywhere in the benchmark. If we were seeing a chart of totals rather than percentages, I'd expect to see a void where Apple Silicon entered.
If you can, find an office liquidation sale as it happens. Oct 2019 - prepandemic - 2 regional banks merged, and one office was put in to "sale" mode. A local company came in to manage selling everything (or.... they may have just bought it all themselves up front for a song then resold?)

I picked up 16 Steelcase Amia chairs (plus 2 others). Had them delivered to my office. They took away 10 old crappy chairs we had to the dump. Total price was $635. For 18 chairs.

It was a bargain, to be sure. I'm not sure what effect covid will have had on the whole 'office furniture liquidation' process, but there's likely bargains to be had before things get to the 'office liquidation company' warehouse.
I also saw that recently from one of these brands. The review prompt cards have definitely gotten more aggressive over the years.

~2016 I worked for an Amazon Marketplace seller – avoiding the banhammer was our biggest priority, having been banned once because a unisex fragrance (perfume) we sold "smelled too masculine" and therefore the customer told Amazon it was counterfeit.
I'm sure Shamans will become a thing now that they are legal and offer a ceremony like this.
Well... Would be more like crepiness on steroids, "final dungeon boss level".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owKFlNU_T5w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7t1WguYJyE
I doubt it. Consider that Apple is the #4 personal computer vendor after Lenovo, Dell, and HP. They have less than 10% market share and many of their products are still shipping in Intel versions.
I'm pretty happy with a refurbished Steelcase Amia from https://www.crandalloffice.com/. I want to say it was around $400 and came in a variety of custom fabrics and designs.
I've been sitting in an Ikea Marcus (not the leather one) every work day since 2016 and I find it very uncomfortable. I like the mesh back but I'm 6'2 and find it just too rigid for me. I went and tried a few cheapo Staples chairs out but didn't love them, so I think the Marcus beats those out, but I'm saving up for a more expensive chair that gives me more customisation.
Thank goodness.

For second there I thought terminator was becoming real in my lifetime.

Or that military drones may be equipped with this sort of tech to find civilians/soldiers then deliver an explosive payload just for kicks.

Glad we are starting to use it for good. For now at least.
How about investing in a split keyboard? Uaing one promotes good posture if both halves are kept at shoulder-width.
The television show Person of Interest had an episode that featured a technology called "ShotSeeker" that was modeled after ShotSpotter. In the storyline, ShotSeeker is paired with human oversight to help distinguish real gunfire from other sounds. However, the police develop such high confidence in the results that the program is co-opted to both hide real crimes (by declaring actual gunshots fake) and to set up an attempted murder by effectively "swatting" one of the characters.

https://personofinterest.fandom.com/wiki/ShotSeeker
Mapbox Workers Union
> It doesn't sound like fatalism at all. Recognizing and accepting reality - things as they actually are - isn't the same thing as being fatalistic. As opposed to being wildly delusional about the context for example, which is the guiding philosophy of the do-something-to-stop-China cohort. You can't stop China as they imagine it and thinking that it's possible is quite irrational.

Accepting reality? Years of life in China will make anybody lose touch with one, especially living in the most Potemkin town of them all.

> It's why whenever people talk about ganging up on China, they're always extremely vague about it. That's because it's entirely bunk. Do something! What? Something! Do a thing! Which thing? The thing! It's identical to bumper stickers that (used to) say: Save Tibet, it's largely empty virtue signaling or wishful thinking. It's not realistic.

First, the West has a giant arsenal of means not simply "to do something", but outright destroy China as a state. The West remains the preeminent political, military, economic power of the world by a giant extend, way more than China, Russia, Iran + 10 other rouge states combined. You don't "contain" your enemy, you defeat him, this is how the West needs to start thinking.

— It's a giant power, the West only needs to use it. The West has a way more means than China has to do anything to the West. The direct military attack being only one of many things possible on the list. It's just the Western unwillingness to admit that it can do something, because admitting to it will be be followed by a compulsion of doing so.

West's internal problems are a malaise of heart, while its problem with China is a malaise of mind. The material problems can be fixed, but what's being kept created by your own mind cannot: the Western fixation on impotent "realpolitik China strategy" is one of this kind, and its fixation on China's economic strength is another.

China as a state entity existing in a physical world is much a lesser threat, and danger than the China which exists in the heads of Western elites, and all kinds of wormtongue "strategy advisers", Kissingers, and co.

I'm fully agreeing on the point that the West can't win without a dramatic change happening inside their heads first. For the West to defeat China, first it will need to defeat itself, and own weaknesses, all what holds it back.

Foreign policy making wormridden by "political strategists," pathological addiction to backstabbing of critical allies, refusal to look at politics from classic military dimension;

Elite culture dominated by defeatist people selling wholesale "China model" koolaid like Tim Cook, and Sundarajan Pichai, universal hostility to useful business, and industry by political backstabbers, useful idiots, and wanton saboteurs-profiteers;

The giant Trump electorate, you will have to find a way to live along with these people, but that doesn't mean surrendering to them! Propaganda of inaction, and isolationism exactly of this kind led to US staying out of WW2 until it was tool late;
Quora reminds me of the experts exchange times. They are "improving" themselves into irrelevancy.
Well put. My uneducated guess is that people who lack emotional intelligence tend to dismiss emotions as unimportant and tend to believe they are more rational than average precisely because their low emotional intelligence makes it harder for them to understand the importance of emotions in themselves and in others.
I have this chair with the optional foot ring and head rest. I also replaced the plastic wheels with some roller-blade style wheels. It's the best chair I've ever owned.
>Can't seem to duplicate this. Android/Chrome it offers up on first load the 'open in app' or continue in browser option

Are you visiting the exact subreddit? I can reproduce it just fine. As I mentioned in another comment, the behavior is subreddit specific. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27554337
I like it when the tutorial is part of the “story” beyond a simple “learn how to jump” training session.

Something akin to an interactive cutscene that also tutorials. Either way you may want a way to skip for those who have played before. (Even more fun are tutorials that instruct you on using basic systems to complete but allow you to use advanced techniques if you know them.)
I tried this a year ago. Had some trouble first downloading this (afaik the project only provided sources, not binaries, so you had to trust some random guy's website to download the .exe), then it randomly crashed within 5 minutes every time I launched it, then I deleted it.
In California there’s a decent amount of homes without screens. I’ve lived in two apartments that had no screens (one was a fire escape, the other opened outwards and had a latching mechanism that made it impossible to add a screen).
I thought my wife was about to get swarmed.
Not to pick on this comment too much, but people's quick trigger to label something "dystopia" contributes to this dishonesty. Editors write headlines like this for the same reason people like "dystopia" -- it's usually inaccurate, but it gets attention.
Desk chair is only half of it. I bought an Aeron a few years ago and was never totally satisfied with it. Then I bought a standing desk and was slightly more satisfied but still something was wrong. Then I bought a monitor arm. Boom, suddenly everything clicked.

Ergonomics depends on the right distance from seat to floor, from arms to floor and from eyes to floor. A good chair solves the first, a good adjustable desk solves the second and a good monitor arm solves the third. If you only solve one, you won't be comfortable. Especially if you're tall, you'll realize that most default setups are not built for people above 6 feet. Without my monitor arm, I was always craning downward to look at my screen. Without my desk my legs wouldn't fit underneath and my wrists were always angled downwards.
From the article:

> Mr. Hollowell, 39, was angry. “You can sunset the service, but at least let me use the camera,” he said. “It just did nothing.”

> Many have learned a hard lesson about what it means to be an Amazon customer. Even when you’re paying lots of money, you are a guinea pig at the whims of a company endlessly striving to innovate. At any moment, the company could surprise you with an unwelcome change to an Amazon product you own or decide to kill it altogether.
It was coined in 2011 by John Gruber: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/03/06/dickbar
Actually it makes a lot of sense. Some of the reasons include:

- Stable\known CPUs, most vendors are used to Intel.

- Infrastructure\Support, Intel has a lot more infrastructure to support customers\contracts

- Long cycles, servers are more complex to replace and contracts can span multiple years.

- Compatibility, many rely on Intel specific features or are afraid to try their solution on a different CPU vendor.

- Relationships\Market Share, Intel still is a far bigger brand with more prestige
What does "Man forces widespread epidemic of cutting on society at large" even mean?
The control system is clearly designed wrong. Navigation input should not be able to affect the closed-loop control system directly. It should affect only the calibration, incrementally. If that had been done, there would have been no flight instability, just disagreement between the IMU and navigation about how far they had flown.

There are certainly people involved in the project who could have explained this to them. I hope they are learning fast.
If you get pains from just sitting 10 minutes, I would look further than just a chair. Working out or moving more in the daily. Fix tight hips, lower back. Etc.
Yeah just download it over FTP bro!
There's a lot of caveats on this data. It's only showing the ratio of people submitting reports through their benchmark software, which apparently only runs on Windows. So, that makes it sound like the entire space of Linux servers is excluded.

I'm just speculating here, but it feels to me like they're just not accurately measuring the market share for servers.
They don't actually remove the content, just hide it with an obnoxious scroll-down-to-trigger-login-spam JS and a blur content blocker. It's dismissed with one right-click -> inspect element -> delete div
Same. Also, moderator of a few large subs. They keep shitting on mod feature and abilities, still wanting us to mod 'efficiently'. One more major "fuck you" and I can promise I'm gone from all that.

Get more value and less hate from here, as it is.
Where I last worked they said it would be hard to switch to AMD quickly because Intel CPUs had a feature set they were dependent on and would take some time/effort to switch.
I second this. I was sold on the Embody and went to try it and I thought it wasn't for me almost as soon as I sat on it. I ended up getting a Cosm which surprise me personally, because I sort of liked all the knobs in all the other chairs, but I really liked how it adjusted to my body.
Try all the chairs with an open mind and listen to your body
If you want to make 2D or 3D games with cross-platform support, the open-source Godot Engine is a really great choice:

https://godotengine.org/