skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks to be a similar technique.

In my testing of these ideas, I've been able to push over 2 million transactions per second (~1Kb per transaction) to a Samsung 960 Pro. For reference, its rated for 2.1GB/s sequential writes, so I've got it pretty much 100% saturated.

The implementation for something like this is actually really underwhelming when you figure out how to put all the pieces together. I assembled this prototype (also a key-value store) using .NET5, LMAX Disruptor, and a splay tree implementation i copied from google somewhere. The hardest part was figuring out how to wait for write completion on the caller side (multiple calling threads are ultimately serialized into a single worker thread via the Disruptor). Turns out, busy wait for a few thousand cycles followed by a yield to the OS is a pretty good trick. You just do a while(true) over a completion flag on the transaction object which is set en masse by the handling thread after the write goes to disk. Batch sizes are determined dynamically based on how long the previous batch took to write. In practice, I never observed a batch that took longer than 2-3 milliseconds on my 960 pro. Max batch size is 4096, and it is permanently full when 100% loaded. A full batch = a nice big IO to disk.
Isn’t it funny that more often than not, the nail impact requires tire replacement rather than tire repair. Luckily not for all four.
Haven't decided yet. Because technically, I don't need it.
Abolish patents. This is worth a read:

The Case Against Patents
http://research.stlouisfed.org/wp/2012/2012-035.pdf/
Why is this surprising? Sinovac-CoronaVac is an inactivated virus vaccine and it is expected to have less protection against mutations.

mRNA vaccines have the instructions to build only the spike protein once inside the body, which is supposed to mutate less as it's a crucial protein for the virus to function properly.
Then it might be worth another attempt.
It needs a sequel.
We had a no mow may in the uk, in city and town I live in it generally received positive feedback and has continued through june, subject to weather. It's makes a pleasant change to the square bland strips you'd usually see.
No. Lets take the most extreme example. Medicine. Development and clinical trials cost you more than a billion. Why would I risk this? I let you develop it, I let you do the clinical trials and then just copy it. Even better. I can always sell cheaper than you since I don't have to recover investment costs.

The patents are the only incentives for the investors to accept the risk.
My condition is well controlled. I'm fine.

I only answered your question for your edification. As a courtesy, on the assumption that you are seeking answers for yourself in an imperfect world where doctors aren't always as helpful as we would like.
> Is it technically pointless if you view it as a check on your own build, rather than a check on the work of others?

That depends, I think it's difficult and mostly still pointless. I wrote about this a bit in the blog post I linked to. It's a big trade off, for questionable benefit.

> Wouldn't reproducibility be necessary for those systems to work well most of the time?

Yes, there are definitely some good non-security reasons to want deterministic builds. My gripe is only with the security arguments, like claims it can reduce threats of violence against developers (!?!).
is an iPad a general-purpose computer?
That's not what I meant at all, and I think you know that
Are you sure that the right xkcd link?
I think it's largely a matter of how much advance warning we have. If we discover an object hundreds of kilometers in diameter on an orbit that will intersect with Earth in 100 years, then we'll have a better opportunity to nudge it early on so it misses entirely or develop a big enough bomb to turn it into a pile of gravel and ice chips that will (mostly) miss the Earth.

The biggest fusion bomb detonated on Earth was Tsar Bomba at 50 megatons, though the full yield is thought to have been more like 100 if the Russians hadn't deliberately nerfed it over radiation concerns.

Is there a theoretical upper limit to the yield of fusion bombs? I assume no one is building them bigger simply because there's no realistic military use for such things that wouldn't be better served by smaller accurately targeted nuclear bombs. Tsar Bomba was detonated in 1961, and no one has seen fit to repeat the experiment, though I suppose one or more of the major nuclear powers may have a modern warhead with equivalent yield that they just haven't tested or announced to the world.

Wikipedia is saying that there's thought to be a practical limit of around 6 megatons of yield per metric ton of bomb mass [1], and actual nuclear devices have achieved a little over 5, so I guess after some point there's not much reason to make a bigger bomb when you can just make two smaller ones.

This scenario is starting to sound a bit like a long-running Factorio game where the goal is to launch a rocket once a minute. With, say, a one year lead time could the economies of Earth launch a starship-style rocket with a half-dozen or so Tsar Bomba sized warhead once per day indefinitely? I think so. Would it be enough to destroy a dwarf planet? Probably not, but maybe it could knock loose enough chunks to nudge it into a slightly different orbit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_yield
We don't live in a binary world.

All this does is push precedent in one of two directions.
I read most of the article, and you are relying on information that wasn't in the article. The article doesn't even contain the word "fork".

my answer is a good one, he released open source with a license, their fork would not generate work for him which was his main concern.
you know. being a rockstar is not a solo thing. It’s a team thing. Usually rockstars teams are born out of high functioning teams where everyone is making everyone better.
I was more interested in the Silice project above:

https://github.com/sylefeb/Silice/tree/draft
It's too hard to read on mobile device.
I think you've answered your own question.

People who feel positively about their home life are inclined to maximize it by working from home.
People who feel negatively or have little home life are inclined to get out and seek social/private opportunities at or around the office.

Note that feeling negatively or having little home life is meant to encompass a range of situations that don't necessarily mean someone has a bad private life or that they're unhappy with their private life.
> Why do you think this is at all relevant to the people on HN who say they are making $500K to $1M at a FAANG?

The example you gave is, of course, not relevant. What you describe is not the model for all unions at all.

> Calling people stupid for buying into "demonization, propaganda, and exceptionalism" is not helpful, it's a cliché, and it doesn't need to be said again.

Nobody said that…
Also see this more recent randomized controlled trial study of a combination therapy for COVID-19 using honey and black cumin. It appears to be effective but the article is still in pre-print status and I don't think the results have been reproduced.

Honey and Nigella sativa against COVID-19 in Pakistan (HNS-COVID-PK): A multi-center placebo-controlled randomized clinical trial
Sohaib Ashraf, et al.
medRxiv 2020.10.30.20217364; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.30.20217364
For me it's that I don't want to socialize in the workplace. I need that space for money, which is why I want to know as little as possible about anyone else there.

Which then makes the daily commute essentially all this time that keeps me from being with people I actually want to be with like my partner.

Couple all of that to the observation that ultimately in the tech world its a lot of work just to move me from sitting in front of one desk to sitting in front of another, and its really hard to muster much enthusiasm for the alleged benefits of being in an office - particularly when I can supply better and more ergonomic hardware and software for myself.
May be I'm not an expert at programming languages, but it's the first time where I've seen sets used as boolean values (not just as a truthy value, but as THE true and false), and it reminded me of how set theory equivalence to boolean logic in math.
I am evangelical about it simply because my camp of remote first is not the default and as a result I have to make sure I am always pushing against in office, if I don't evangelize it hard I risk it not coming to pass.

I also feel that many of the people that argue that they need the socialization that comes from being in the offive just really need to spend time outside of work finding a way to socialize and they could meet that need.

As someone else pointed out tieing your friend circle to your employer seems like a bad move when the time comes to change employers.
I believe that’s technically illegal (under the National Labor Relations Act) so IME it’s rare for it to be that blatant. However, the message seems to get across almost everywhere. Even when executives’ comp is in public SEC filings it is seen as uncouth to talk about.
I’m older and would never work in an office again. It feels like a lot of those who want to go back in the office want to do it for social support reasons (lonely, single, don’t get on with family…).

The thing is having to be the social support for co-workers is one of the things that makes working in an office so horrible for many of us. It feels like a lot of people want to burden their co-workers with social roles that are better filled pretty much anywhere else.
Does this also allow for sneakernet email?
Tailscale, SourceHut
I believe probonopd is maintaining that fork as part of their work on AppImage - so it does have an active user group, which is great.

(The AppImage docs suggest using zsync as a mechanism for making images updateable: https://docs.appimage.org/packaging-guide/optional/updates.h...)
Yep, my doppels all seem to have participated in topics and threads that I ignored. We seem to have never interacted with each other, and I don't seem to have voted any of their comments.
FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC) Expander for Intel Cyclone 10 GX Dev Kit
Yes? In what way would it not live up to that title? It has plenty strong CPU and enough memory to put a lower-middle-end laptop to shame. Hell, before tablets, PDAs were also computers - they just only became much better. Also, for a significant percentage of people, their mobile phone is the only computer they own.
Leave it to HN to explain grammar, some history and a bit of etymology in response to a childish joke comment.

And, that's why this place is great.
> can we ... do what has been done for music to housing

No, because unlike digital goods, houses (and land) cannot be duplicated at zero marginal cost.

> So that we can stop working our lives into the ground to afford it.

It's not houses that are expensive, it's the land, and as long as people speculate on land then land in popular cites will be expensive. Read Henry George's Progress and Poverty:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_and_Poverty
Thanks, this makes a lot of sense. Essentially the legal system is too broken. In Germany, the legal minimum is about €9m, but standard coverage is €50-100m. Not sure how things go regarding enforcement, but there are a couple of stories where an accident destroys a bridge etc leading to very large payouts. I guess if you get into a bad crash with a travel bus this could also lead to massive liability.
And ARM is working with the CHERI team to make a hardware prototype SOC (not FPGA-based like the MIPS CHERI research devices)

https://www.arm.com/company/news/2020/10/morello-program-one...
Is the python code missing a square root?

https://github.com/mdmaas/julia-numpy-fortran-test/blob/main...

For fun I ran in Matlab with a 2.9 GHz i7-7820HQ and get about 1.83s for N=10,000 single threaded.

A = exp((k*1i)*sqrt(a.^2 + (a.^2)'))
More important than the higher rated endurance (and perhaps contributing a bit to that rating) is the fact that the typical enterprise SSD has power loss protection capacitors for its RAM, so it can cache and combine writes in RAM safely.
> there's not much point in actually attaching it to the dwarf planet.

I've been thinking that attaching a sabatier reactor to a probe and sending it to land on an extra solar body such as Oumuamua that contains the ingredients that the sabatier needs to produce fuel would be a great way to get a probe that sends signals back to Earth well after a nuclear battery has died.
> at that point just use a RAM disk and periodically write that data to physical disk or SSD. no extreme tradeoff required, because RAM disks are WAY faster than SSDs.

A storage application that need to bypass the filesystem will already be implementing its own caching system anyways. The idea is to persist the data to maintain durability without sacrificing latency.

> manhandling /dev/nvme0 seems equally likely to corrupt data in the event of a power failure.

That is what O_SYNC flag is for.
Sure, and that's a lesson that Bezos failed to learn. There are a lot of people who consider it ideal to treat workers terribly. It's a common ethos; "The cruelty is the point." Which is why it was revolutionary for Ford to say, "Wait, what if we treated people well?"

That's lesson that the car industry sadly lost track of over the years too. A good example is the NUMMI plant, a joint venture where Toyota tried to teach GM its superior ways. They took GM's worst plant and made it a top performer by treating workers with respect. This American Life did a moving story about it a few years back: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/561/nummi-2015
Mindat.org, the largest open database of minerals, rocks, and meteorites
Solarwinds is closed source so the choice to build from source is not really an option.
This study used Parkinson's disease patient derived stem cell cultures to identify gene expression anomalies leading to mitochondrial dysfunction.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24399444/
Already noted in a comment below. Too late to edit. It’s 2 off. It should be xkcd.com/1244.
Turmeric / curcumin are high in oxelates and can contribute to, or cause, kidney stones.

On a personal note, I got a kidney stone after taking a curcumin supplement for 4 months.

I don’t want to gross anyone out, but once out, it was the exact same color as the orange of the supplements.

Just one data point, YMMV
its an almost useless vaccine from a few recent reports.
Costa Rica has decided to dump it completely its been so bad. I would expect more to follow from what I've seen on Reuters etc.

I wonder how many deals the Chinese got for pushing this useless vaccine via diplomacy.
If you don't mind sharing some examples I'd love to hear them, out of curiosity more than anything. Which situations (and in which country/countries) do pedestrians not have right-of-way over cars?
It’s quite good as well, written in C++ for speed with new versions released every lunar cycle (!). I’ve done some Lagrange orbits with it in the Kerbol solar system. Doing it with Realism Overhaul and Real Solar System is a bit harder…
I never expected to see JBL Synthesis mentioned on HN by anybody else... Are the Synthesis preamp/processors sending out digital audio now? When I was consulting for them the processors exclusively sent analog, usually over XLR, even for Atmos. But the SDEC EQ stage used 96kHz internally, then could send digital audio to the amp over Blu link.

I still use the SDEC EQ and Blu link for audio distribution in my house.
I had this exact same idea not long ago but with PSA graded Pokemon cards. Essentially a reserve for digitising real world assets and collectibles. The challenge would be convincing everyone that your reserves are always secure and properly backed.
So Tesla FSD capabilities was safer without this then? Not sure why they want to add it in now. I guess another competitor called it for them.

It's for the greater good of the Tesla Fans to keep their eyes on the road at ALL times (even when FSD is on) and not fall for Tesla's misleading claims of the FSD capabilities; which is dangerous.

I guess we know what the 'F' in FSD actually stands for now and it rhymes with 'pools'.
Is this research not considered sufficient?

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...
why does our counterfeit detection need a key?
Zero for 0wned 5
I wish they talked more about how they solved this

> inequality that we didn’t realize before: people with small apartments, young kids, or living alone were hit harder than those living with relatives and enjoying a large house.

they mention

> Giving employees help to set up their home office

but I don't think that really helps those issues they listed
It's like asking, why have 2nd breakfast when you had one breakfast. We must channel our inner hobbits and think big
It’s also a meme that Google has the best engineering and that their products get shut down after a year and that it sucks to be their customer

To be fair there is a website dedicated to all the things killed by Google - https://killedbygoogle.com

No other tech co has a website like that, partly because it's incredibly difficult to get promoted at Google so you get a bunch of competing products that get spun up.
Sorry for the late reply, to answer your first question:

How does economy deal with it? If there is no internet there is no banking, no card payments. Most offices will be shut down. How do emergency services operate? Companies can't order goods, or receive orders. It must be even worse than complete lock down because of COVID.

Well, our economy isn't centered around the Internet that much, we have some variant of a local debit card called CIB and those cards aren't allowed to be used online to purchase goods or services, we can only use them to pay the bills and most people use them to withdraw money at the ATMs. Master Card and Visa debit cards are available but the fees are too high, and both have the same restrictions, they don't work when used online. Most orders are done in person, over the phone, via email, or using online stores and paying cash at the delivery.

Also, most people use the CCP service of Algerie Post[0] to send and receive money nationally.

Have you ever been to Algeria? I haven't, but I've been to most other countries in North Africa. They don't live in tents there. The cities are quite developed.

If you've been to Tunisia and Morocco, the banking experience there is far better, they don't have restrictions on the cards.

From my experience those kind of countries moved all their infrastructure far more aggressively online, than the US. Most of the infrastructure wasn't built in the pre-internet era, like in the US or Western Europe, but way later.

Not really, from what i know living here, we already had the infrastructure of phones before the democratization of the Internet, i remember using dialup modems to connect to the internet back in the 2000s.

[0]: https://www.poste.dz/
With few exceptions, video games have been keeping their assets on disk in compressed form for a long time. It's a major embarrassment when someone ships a game with uncompressed audio, and impractical to ship with uncompressed image, texture or video assets (though these can be shipped in compressed form with unnecessarily high resolution).

The hardware decompression acceleration in new consoles doesn't exactly make it easier to use compression for the game assets. Rather, it makes it practical to load compressed assets on-demand instead of reading and decompressing into RAM during the loading screen.
Minus all of the data though. That’s why people pay for Ancestry, is because they go in to countries around the world and pay to digitize archives and make them available to subscribers. Usually data like the census is made available on a rolling basis so every year there is new data to process and release
The irony about this article about anthropology is that the field has some of the most sexist conclusions about the differences between male and female behavior that is in direct conflict with current modern cultural "woke" opinions about equality.

From Wikipedia with linked sources on that page:

"Most anthropologists hold that there are no known societies that are unambiguously matriarchal.[59][60][61] According to J. M. Adovasio, Olga Soffer, and Jake Page, no true matriarchy is known actually to have existed.[55] "

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matriarchy (if Wikipedia isn't a legit source for you, then you can follow the citations within Wikipedia if you need something more legit)

The logical conclusion of anthropology is that female equality or leadership is completely biologically and behaviorally abnormal for all of humanity.

To be a woman in anthropology is the ultimate surrender to science and the serenity of rationality. When I went to UCLA it was a female professor who taught my anthropology class and it was the same female professor who ultimately was able tell the class the above fact; that feminism as we know it today lies at a unique intersection of technology and culture that has enabled women to behave in ways that have never been observed in the history of mankind. If a man had taught this in a class, I'm sure he would've been cancelled.
Yeah what exact issues are being talked about? Also were any ADA laws broken, because that GREATLY impacts how I read into this story and where any problem (if any) may lie.
Another nice resource for understanding zk snarks that I found easily digestible was this paper that was shared on hn a few months ago[0]. https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07221

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24815649
Laws matter more than your 2 cents. And governments aren't businesses.

Accessible web sites exist. It isn't a client problem.

You are at least a bit unsympathetic.
It's probably more interesting to study the object itself.

I assume its orbital period is long enough that it won't be back near the central solar system for a very long time. But similar objects could have interesting uses.

One thought experiment is to consider what it would take to be able to live on such an object, perhaps even a rogue planet just floating between the stars.

It would be very cold. Presumably you'd be reliant on nuclear fission or fusion for power, so you'd need a significant fuel supply that could effectively last indefinitely. And you'd want to have a ready supply of all the basic elements you need. Which seems more realistic the bigger the object is. Like, an Earth or Mars-sized rogue planet might be ideal.
That could just be your client trying to handle a pixel-sized thing that isn't exactly aligned to your display's pixel grid.
I don't think most libc implementations take care to buffer to filesystem block/cluster boundaries.
Yup, just last week guy I know that had about half his chickens killed when a mink got into his chicken coup.
Has anyone missed a period after the Covid vaccine?
I didn't say "opposed". Parents expect teachers to teach and teachers expect to teach. But the job decription is changing and inconsistent -- both at the high level of "what is a school" and the low level of "what should I, as a teacher, try to accomplish today?".

Goals are unclear right now. That, by itself, is bad. We need an explicit decision here, and that needs to be communicated to everyone involved.
Show HN: Kvrocks: An Open-Source Distributed Disk KV Storage with Redis Protocol
I hear this all the time and yet…nearly all of the websites failed.

This tells me that “you have to go out of your way…” doesn’t tell the whole story.

There’s clearly a disconnect between best-practice in-the-field UIs & framework; and what semantic web recommends.

Rather than attacking the government websites and businesses, pushing tooling to enforce good semantics would surely would be better?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQTKGXmITZg

This just sounds like "urine us". Potato, potato?
re-emphasizing OPs point : the chip shortage is a poor excuse for a non-responsive customer service system.

it's an OK excuse for delayed shipment -- but the customer won't ever understand that as a reason if they don't respond to customer service channels.