skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would LOVE to own a Kamado BBQ made of this stuff. The current approach is to have a firebox made of multiple pieces inside the chamber. A material like this that doesn't expand or contract would negate the need for a firebox and allow for a more efficient design that could last a lifetime.

Just an anecdote, but this really truly has unlimited potential.
Fatigue and rapid heartbeat being cured by a vaccine sounds like psychosomatic long COVID. This is a hot button topic that few professionals will bother examining in a critical fashion.

Loss of sense of smell is not psychosomatic. Unfortunately, viral infections can cause sometimes permanent loss.
The GCC developers in particular were hostile to such efforts for a long time, IIRC. (This is a non-trivial issue because randomized data structures exist and can be a good idea to use: treaps, universal hashes, etc. I’d guess it also pays for compiler heuristics to be randomized sometimes. Incremental compilation is much harder to achieve when you require bit-for-bit identical output. Even just stripping your compile paths from debug info is not entirely straightforward.)
Yeah even the “gcc compiled Jan 23, 2021 at 11:23AM” messages you often see breaks deterministic builds.
I was with you 3 years ago, but Microsoft pushed a major update that caused random BSODs on my motherboards chipset. I switched over to Linux full time and haven't looked back, though to my knowledge the BSOD issue is still prevalent in Lenovo's Haswell prebuilts.
This really deserves more love.

Who remembers Ken Thompson's "Reflections on Trusting Trust"?

The norm today is auto-updating, pre-built software.

This places a ton of trust in the publisher. Even for open-source, well-vetted software, we all collectively cross our fingers and hope that whoever is building these binaries and running the servers that disseminate them, is honest and good at security.

So far this has mostly worked out due to altruism (for open source maintainers) and self interest (companies do not want to attack their own users). But the failure modes are very serious.

I predict that everyone's imagination on this topic will expand once there's a big enough incident in the news. Say some package manager gets compromised, nobody finds out, and 6mo later every computer on earth running `postgres:latest` from docker hub gets ransomwared.

There are only two ways around this:

- Build from source. This will always be a deeply niche thing to do. It's slow, inconvenient, and inaccessible except to nerds.

- Reproducible builds.

Reproducible builds are way more important than is currently widely appreciated.

I'm grateful to the nixos team for being beating a trail thru the jungle here. Retrofitting reproducibility onto a big software project that grew without it, is hard work.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of data tapes, barreling down the highway.
I use Kiwix in my iPad to store all of Wikipedia (with images). It’s a 88gb download.

Just the text is smaller at 11gb.
Moore's law for RAM capacity has begun slowing over the past few years. The 64 TB system you mention is from six years ago, right about when Moore's law began tapering. If Moore's law had continued doubling RAM capacity every eighteen months, we should have seen four doublings, up to 1PB. But that's not a machine we're seeing.

Notably, the bandwidth of RAM does not and has not been following Moore's law, improving linearly, and the latency is more or less constant. So as workloads scale up in size, performance will get worse and worse and worse, until "just buy more RAM" no longer solves the problem. Similar to how swap partitions used to be a thing, but performance is now so bad that swap can't be used as cheap RAM anymore.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Understanding-and-Impr...
I don't get this argument. Maybe you could elaborate. I tried for a long time to get used to Racket. I really like the idea of LISP. The reason why I started using Julia wasn't because it was good at numerical programming. I was because it was a much better GENERAL PURPOSE programming language than Racket.

Unless you do a lot of meta programming stuff, I don't find Racket to be advantageous to use. Julia syntax is much friendlier towards general-purpose programming. It is easier to do mathematics as well as string manipulation with Julia.

Multiple dispatch also makes it a lot easier to write code. Getting into the LISP heavy thinking of Racket is harder than jumping onboard Julia.

I find that I have been able to learn functional programming, meta programming and other things that make LISP/Scheme famous in Julia than I ever managed in Racket.
Mandatory link to the Debian single purpose site:
https://isdebianreproducibleyet.com/

However that is for everything in Debian, not just the iso. It is truly remarkable to see all the Linux distributions move the needle forward.
This could probably work for some jobs,but if it requires strong mental focus, anything beyond 5-6h a day is just running on empty batteries.
It sounds like the “high quality outdoor space” you are referring to is something to be found in typical North American suburbia, but I would argue that this is typically a bleak crabgrass hell and not much higher quality or more alive than the road/parking-lot hell that surrounds it. But maybe you are instead imagining streets lined with elm trees (well elm was traditional but most died of Dutch elm disease—other species are used now).

Occasionally one may find an undeveloped lot which has more native species growing there, but perhaps we just disagree on what a high-quality outdoor space is, and you have something much more human-focused than natural in mind. I would argue that these do exist in the dense parts of big American cities (think Central Park in New York, which has a lot of space but also serves a dense population and so can afford more gardeners, flower beds, and varied features in general; New York also manages to sustain two botanical gardens which have reasonable examples of natural habitat too.) Though I would imagine the typical US city with a hollowed-out downtown mightn’t have good parks or shared spaces.
Audio over IP - you see it being used with (for example) theatre setups between a processor and powered speakers that take it as an input.

You can (if you are sufficiently well-heeled) use it for home theatre with e.g. a JBL Synthesis 55 and Genelec or Meriden digital speakers.

(Unfortunately, everything in the AV space is fucked up by the copyright cartel, so processors aren't allowed to send anything beyond 24 bit/48 kHz outside their core processing path.)
Being bit-for-bit reproduceable means you could do fun things like distribute packages as just sources and a big blob of signatures, and you can still run only signed binaries.
I know that nature conservation authorities had to do that here in Germany when these plants spread from people's gardens into natural reserves. Please use local species instead of invasive ones.
I 100% buy into this vision.
You don't have to use Android. You can use AOSP. You can use /e/. You can use LineageOS with microG. Even then, with microG, you don't have to use any Google services.
I'm sure there is so much room for improvement here. The closest thing for me is using TeXmacs: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H46ON2FB30U
you can map a useless key like capslock to do that in a single step. Thus to type μ, for example, you simply press CAPS+m, and similarly for all greek letters
Or worse, they may internalize it as normal and unreflexively continue breeding the problem. Those olderish managers of young people were young people themselves, once.
It's very very easy to run afoul of the rules.

For example, if the position goes up on Sunday and you provide the required written notice (which is regardless of qualification - so you need to take your senior in house legal counsel role and send a notice to your front line non attorney retail staff about) on Monday - you are going down and are in violation of the law because you have to provide the formal written notice on the same calendar day.

Similarly, if someone approves and posts the position at the end of a long day at 11PM, but the folks sending out the formal written notices are not awake then - bam, $10,000 penalty.

Similarly, sometimes you get an incredible candidate and decide to hire above planned range in terms of comp. This requires a re-notification to ALL your staff (ie, 10,000 emails to all your employees) to allow them to apply for this higher comp position (even if they are not at all qualified - ie, retail staff get notices for software engineer roles etc).

Finally - you have to maintain documentation in anticipation of litigation showing that you complied with the requirements. So now someone has to be logging and tracking all the various times of notice posting on a job board like indeed vs formal written notice to employees -> which then has to be fed into a records retention policy for larger employers etcetc.

For a lot of companies dealing with all this is not worth it.

A reminder - there are already tons of notices that have to be sent out. Most employers are not even following the rules here which are very specific.

Here is an example requirement for one of these "You must hand the notice directly to the employee or send it by first-class mail to the employee’s last known address. You will not meet the notification requirements by posting the notice on an employee bulletin board or sending it through office mail."

These notices are often for things like EITC etc - for some employers where starting salary if $60K+ - these notices are total noise, and insuring you send them out when required (which are all at different intervals), can't go through office mail but have to HAND DELIVER a printed notice or send via first class mail - it's just silly at some point.
Why would it? If brand X adds anti counterfeit detection in their products and makes a brand X validation app, what's the added value of the ledger?
> Americans are only keeping them longer because [...] the cars are not as good as they were 25 years ago

Do you place any value on crash safety? Because if so, then this is totally untrue.
That's an expensive way to carry your one bottle of shopping.
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I don’t think so, to a meaningful extent. There’s already lots of stuff out in the Oort Cloud with orbits out of the regular planar disk.
If you care about SSDs, one paper you should read is “Don’t Stack Your Log on My Log” by Yang et al. 2014

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/inflow14/infl...

> Log-structured applications and file systems have been used to achieve high write throughput by sequentializing writes. Flash-based storage systems, due to flash memory’s out-of-place update characteristic, have also relied on log-structured approaches. Our work investigates the impacts to performance and endurance in flash when multiple layers of log-structured applications and file systems are layered on top of a log-structured flash device. We show that multiple log layers affects sequentiality and increases write pressure to flash devices through randomization of workloads, unaligned segment sizes, and uncoordinated multi-log garbage collection. All of these effects can combine to negate the intended positive affects of using a log. In this paper we characterize the interactions between multiple levels of independent logs, identify issues that must be considered, and describe design choices to mitigate negative behaviors in multi-log configurations.
> the exact same issue will appear 10-20 times per week, and each and every time it is treated as a completely novel issue with an ad-hoc response

Yeah, this sounds like a very bad situation where management won't let you do something that reduces ops pain because it isn't the most desirable solution, but they won't let you prioritize the right solution either. The next thing that happens is that on-call folks develop ad-hoc quasi-runbooks and share them amongst a subset of people (or just keep them to themselves to make their own life easier) and those quasi-runbooks become critical to ops, but not documented or shared by everyone. It's pure dysfunction.
This WP article mentions cases where the "COVID long haulers" have the aftereffects go away after the vaccine, which we don't know why yet, exactly.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/long-haul-covid-vaccin...
This got me curious. Some quick googling indicates that likely isn’t the case. Apparently the US spends about double on corporate subsidies than the amount it spends on social welfare programs.
> Enter your Apple ID email and password

Nope
> Don't like iPhone/iOS? Don't buy it, go and buy Android

Two choices is not enough. And, there are more choices than these 2. AltStore being an example.
Haxe is hard to document because its scope is large: "accommodate everything all these other languages do". So there isn't a one way of documenting it that will accommodate all users and workflows. It would help if you outlined what you need.
Does this mean that the code cannot be built with CPU specific optimisations (march option with gcc)
> Saturn is 1.2 billion km, roughly 7 AU

That's a unit conversion error. 1.2 billion / 150 million is 8, not 7.
I totally enjoyed this video because I have a pet pigeon under similar circumstances.

For whatever reason he can't fly, except maybe straight upward to look around, and then straight back to the ground again. I knew there was no way he could survive a winter outside like that, so he lives indoors now.

The dogs get along with him, even though he totally bosses one of them around. He goes for shoulder rides with me on sunny days. He runs across the floor to greet me when I enter the room, and comes when called. He likes to perch on my toes when I sit in the living room with my feet up because he's gotten so familiar with dogs and humans. Completely unlike outdoor pigeons.

Pretty much chilled out like the pigeon in this video, except mine is black with metallic red and green on his neck.
Nope, only 32 GB. But maybe next computer?
> Alibaba

> Blurred face reconstruction

So many papers on pose and face reconstruction appear to be coming from China.

Are they developing that for mass surveillance and to identify every single Uighur in CCTV footage?
Another similar tool: https://rxi.itch.io/tilekit
Stop procrastination get things done
I think there was a lost opportunity with the latest 101 dalmatians remake.
> When people bid up the price of TSLA or GME to stratospheric valuations, the index fund must re-adjust their market-weighted holdings to reflect those prices, creating further money inflows to the asset and thus a self-fulfilling prophecy.

This claim doesn't apply to the majority of index funds. It's specific to S&P500 funds, which because of their artificial limit of 500 stocks, have stocks enter and exit based on valuation. More modern index fund designs (like Vanguard Total Market) hold a fixed percentage of every public company no matter how small. So they rode TSLA, GME and AMC up and down without lifting a finger. These modern funds only transact due to inflows and outflows, or when stock is newly issued or bought back.

Even specific to S&P500, another quirk of that index's legacy design is that it "must" do nothing in particular. It has an index inclusion committee taking into account factors such as profits, and with the discretion to delay inclusion even after its formal criteria are met.

The investing nihilists love to make arguments that ordinary investors will be "forced" to reward them by some reflexivity. But the reflexive effects they point to are all quite weak. So far, the vast majority of the rewards to nihilists have come by persuading other investors to turn nihilist, not by somehow exploiting mainstream investing strategies.
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My laptop has 128GB
I would make the claim to be constantly evaluating the validity of statements I have not heard, and may never hear. This may sound like nonsense, but the flip-side of censorship is not excess of information but curation. If my news sources are trustworthy, then they are filtering useless information for me, while hopefully not belying my trust by censoring important information.

To the other poster, my argument was supposed to be obvious: it was intended to be a simplified example to elucidate concerns by comparison.
That's what everyone "knows" about fake Rolexes, and it isn't true and hasn't been for a long time. 10 years ago I bought a Rolex for $15 in China that had a smooth sweep.
What did you do in your career to get to a point where you could ask for those things?
Just don’t use it to keep two systems in sync when you pay for transactions as it can be very costly.
That's user space install. It’s actually nice when you don't have admin rights
Yeah, it's much easier to end up in a malfunctioning workplace than a good one. The number of healthy workplaces where everything seems to just work is shockingly small, and you are actually lucky to end up in ONE through an entire career. And then you can never go back.
https://hydra.nixos.org/build/146009592#tabs-build-deps
> it allowed users of Binance to withdraw assets from the exchange directly to their chain

A factor, sure

> it was the first major EVM compatible network to spring up with low fees.

so we are just going to ignore Tron? but its kind of hilarious that Tron tried for years to be considered not an Eth clone "we're totally differen't, not a 100% compatible EVM" and now the market only wants Eth clones and barely anybody knows Tron is one

> shitty geth clone keeps breaking

yep. pretty much all the "high tps" EVMs have an issue with the node software, it is very strange. barely anybody is even bothering to work on this layer. I know some coders and arbitragers that modify the geth software themselves so that it is parsing less data and more efficiently, so they can snipe transactions for frontrunning, but they don't share it.
How come our culture didn’t base astronomical units around base 10 of our current units?
How many Chevy Volts have ever needed their high-voltage battery replaced?
Sounds very dismissive, did Bezos earn it or did (do) Amazon's workers? Besides from my understanding she was very supportive when he decided to leave his "cushy" well paid job...etc etc...also beyond the debate here (which I find very interesting) whether her donations will be effective... I think, hope, that her giving may open the floodgates of giving (especially seeing there's so much unrealized profit from stocks etc and... unpaid taxes)

The article from Time below suggests her giving could actually be disruptive, let's hope effective too...
One quote I liked particularly
"Inside Philanthropy called her methods “simultaneously exciting and troubling to behold.” If all philanthropists worked the way she did—acting alone without a foundation or an obvious way of being contacted—grantmaking might be more efficient, but it would be less transparent, and possibly less diverse in its interests and approaches. (There might also be fewer jobs in the philanthropy business.)"

https://time.com/6050873/mackenzie-scott-profile/
Yeah, really a cool project, and so much potential.

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/apr/05...

It got cancelled by the mother company E.ON and want into administration, and seems that some Chinese company copied it and is developing it further now.
its different in the US. They just set a floor...
It does compute, using iOS. If you want to use Linux or Windows why would you buy a device known to not work with them?
Certainly interesting, but not necessarily surprising. The Oort Cloud is roughly spherical so inclination would be expected to be isotropic overall. On average there will be less high inclination bodies (isotropic inclination has a pdf of sin(i)) but they will still exist.
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I'm tired of people complaining about this. If you don't see the need to process-isolate each DOM element, you don't understand frontend. What if a <div> crashes, or stalls? It used to be that when one DOM element's event listeners failed the whole application would fail. Now we simply restart the process and repaint the screen. The messaging and coordination is a nightmare but the reliability and scalability is worth it. With modern support for post-async language constructs it does not even increase development time by more than a large constant factor.
I'd like to knock up a solar system in a right scale and I wondered how can I do that. Now that I see this article I think I just can't, not in a regular room at least. I guess I will not have my solar system in an accurate scale hung on my ceiling. Too bad
This is objectively false though - https://www.cmu.edu/career/documents/2017_one_pagers/scs/BS_...
Of course it will not always beat Fortran, but don't think think it is damn impressive that a high level dynamic language with much higher productivity frequently matches or beats Fortran? That is a crazy achievement if you ask me.

Real world systems today are going to use a lot of computing resources, such as clusters, GPUs, tensor processing units, multiple cores etc. In such a world, anything that makes that easy to deal with is going to have the performance edge in practice.

Doesn't matter how fast a Fortran program would be in theory, if the Julia program is delivered years ahead of it.
Wow, u recognize ppl on hn? I only recognize ppl I know In real life, everybody else is kind of anonymous.
There are only two instances when you're happy at Amazon - when you start and when you quit. Doing the latter was the best decision I made, perhaps, in my entire career. I can honestly tell that those RSUs and bonuses weren't worth it.

I can assure you that in the other areas of the company (non-SDE roles and not exclusively in India) things are WAY worse.

Avoid it at all costs. You've been warned.
I first read the title as "beer-friendly urban wildflower meadows", and thought that would indeed make a lovely beer garden.

Maybe these meadows could serve bees and beers? :)
LoL, you must be forgetting about Android and I-Phones devices that have multiple sensors... and what about cars that are connected 24/7?
Achieving cutting-edge storage performance tends to require bypassing the filesystem anyways. Traditionally, that meant using SPDK. Nowadays, opening /dev/nvme* with O_DIRECT and operating on it with io_uring will get you most of the way there.

In either case, the advice given in the article and by the OP is filesystem agnostic.
> Was real fun when I was told that refusing to be alone with a female after hours is now sexist.

Wait what? I've always heard that as a male, if you're going to be alone with a female, it's always good to do things like keep the door open and things like that. Did they tell you the opposite? Isn't it pretty risky for females?

> Flat out refused, and was highly confused as to why I was being demonized for it.

Keyword is "colorblind racism". The new ideaology basically says that instead of focusing on the world as it should be (everyone is equal regardless of race/sex/etc) and act that way, we should look at how it is now and act to compensate (minorites are oppressed so we compensate, etc).
I read through the whole discussion on github. I understand the author's concerns and point of view, but his response to the NixOS maintainers and way of dealing with the situation was completely unreasonable.

The NixOS people seemed willing to work and do what it took to make it work, up to and including rewriting the functionality using an identical API. The author refused to compromise, discuss anything and got fairly hostile and was pretty rude.

It might be slightly more understandable if the author had been getting a barrage of complaints from users, but this hadn't even happened, he was preemptively assuming(you know what happens when you assume things...) it would and refusing to listen to the assurances of the NixOS people about taking responsibility for this.

All the author really has to do is make it clear somewhere that they won't support any users using a non-official packaged version of the software.
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