skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We wanted to use the same setup for all experiments, so we had to choose for an on-disk DB for SQLite, because TPC-DS SF100 catalog_sales does not fit in 16GB memory.
Shopify has very strict rules to prevent that and they have been working to address that problem for YEARS.
They have actually worked on Packwerk (which they use) which enforces the usage of constants when crossing boundaries, rather than any form of interface or duck typing.

The load time of a single test is a recurring problem in the Rails world though, so ActiveSupport adds up.

Monekypatching doesn't lead to crash (it can, but that's not the point), it leads to:
- Less extendable code
- Less learning
- Less maintainable code

Even if the damage is small, given how competitive is the world, why taking the chance for no benefit?
Hmm. Cop mapping? https://pen.gg/campaign/cop-map/ (not sure if it still works...)
Lol I see now that there is another thread only 30 minutes old talking about obesity stuff. This essay is about a history of fad diets, and IMO the most fascinating hypothesis about what is driving the obesity epidemic yet.

Yes I'm aware of the Slime Mold Time Mold arguments, "Calories in Calories out", and the Scott Alexander essay arguing for and against saturated fat diets. I still think this is very plausible and very interesting.

TLDR: American consumption of linoleic acid (omega 6) has skyrocketed since the 1960s. Other animals in our family tree enter into a state called "torpor" to prepare for hibernation, and they do this by increasing their intake of linoleic acid which signals their fat cells to begin storage. Squirrels, famously, switch to a diet high in acorns (high in Ω-6) as the winter approaches, which tells their bodies to start packing on weight in preparation for hibernation.

Squirrels need 8% of their calories to come from linoleic acid to switch into torpor, americans began to eat more than 8% of their calories in linoleic acid almost exactly when the obesity epidemic started.

human temperatures have also dropped by 1 degree fahrenheit since before the obesity crisis started and nobody knows why. Torpor is a plausible explaination
A Peek Inside Facebook’s AR Project
But there are no oxen in this comparison. The RPi is 4 chickens and the Honeycomb is 16 chickens.
Refusing vaccination is not an inalienable right in America - the Supreme Court has ruled many times that compelled vaccination is perfectly legal for the government. In fact the anti-vax crowd isn't particularly new in the US - it was present when both polio and MMR were being removed as common causes of death. The only real difference this time around is that anti-vax is considered a political tool by one of the US parties and thus has garnered a false legitimacy.
But putting everything in one folder still doesn't satisfy my itch to see my journal from two views: time-series (which answers "what did I do X days ago?") and project collections (which answers questions like "what's next?" and "how did I solve this obscure problem?!").
In which case, you don't use IEEE 754 floating point for math, you use some kind of numerics type or library that correctly models the domain.
Yes, this. You bicycle to public transit, then either safely park your bicycle or load it onto public transit.

OP is attempting to find an opposition where none exists. Most people are not so wrongheaded, and where you find an advocate for safe cycling, you'll also find an advocate for public transit.
seems like by using Apple Pay / google pay your fears would be assuaged?
This is like advocating to get rid of log statements because they might not log the cause of the next bug.
Oh, one more thing: about once a week, I type the item titles into a text file, along with book number, page number, keyword list and both square- and angle-bracket references. That way I can use `grep` to find things.
I suppose I could write a few lines of code to auto-generate a local webpage, but I'm just as happy listing the file or looking in a text editor.
I would love something like this for Spotify/Youtube Music/Apple Music
Single dose has been the recommendation for a while in the US.
This is super cool but can you help a newb understand why I couldn't use a Revolut or something like that which lets me hold a basket of different currencies? Or send money back and forth with Transferwise?
The main thing I disagree with you on, is that there is a namespace collision because of the package manager, or that there is a namespace collision because both use Rust. If there is a namespace collision, it should be because they're both tools used by developers. The package manager issue is solved easily by adding something to the package name. As for the language, Rust is shaping up to be more like C++ than Ruby or Python, where the main community is more about the language and the standard library and less about the myriad different uses of it.

I think both can keep their names long-term.
Young people fail to appreciate the fact that the technology they use was actually created by older generations.
Thanks!

Pretty good. I remember reading that article ang finding it difficult to get through. He needs an editor.
Being against artificial sweeteners is like being against vaping. Even if they cause some harm, the alternative is a massive danger, so we should still encourage people to switch.
Isn't this true for any app that has updates though?
every statistic is a summary and a lie. p50/p99 metrics are good in the sense that they tell you a number someone actually experienced and they put an upper bound on that experience. they are bad because they won’t tell you is how the experience below that bound looks.

mean and all it’s variants won’t show you a number that someone in your system necessarily experienced, but it will incorporate the entire distribution and show when it has changed.

in the context of efficiency, mean is beneficial because it can be used to measure concurrency in a system via littles law, and will signal changes in your concurrency that a percentile metric won’t necessarily do.
A lock does not offer a guarantee of completion but one of integrity. Any serious pessimistic lock granted will have a timeout associated with it (in case the owner dies, etc.), which might cause your operation to fail if it takes too long. Which would require a retry in the same way that you would retry an optimistic lock. Then again, it just depends on timing.
I'm trying to figure out what sort of intelligence would be collectable that isn't already.

Do you mean officer movements in-field? That's often done by protesters (I remember seeing examples of it during both the BLM protests and the WTO protests; police movements tracked by monitoring police scanners and updated in realtime to chatrooms and Twitter).

Do you mean who they are personally? As public servants, that's generally a matter of public record.

Do you mean camera recording of specific encounters? That's become best practice.

I think what you're describing is what we do now.
Ask HN: Recommend an ergonomic or quality mouse in 2021?
For years I used a Wacom tablet stylus as I felt it helped lessen my wrist pain. However I stopped using it once I read the driver was tracking my use: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22247292. Now I just use a standard Logitech mouse though it is old, and the buttons are starting to fail. I use Kinesis Ergo keyboard and absolutely love it. I am considering a Kinesis Vertical Mouse: https://kinesis-ergo.com/products/#mice-and-pointing-devices though the idea of a vertical mouse seems strange to me. Anyone have experience with it or something else? There are some old HN threads about this. I am looking for up to date options.
> Concurrency is a much harder problem and something we deal with more often. I would consider memory management close to not a concern.

Absolutely. The longest lasting bug I've ever had was in some multi-threaded code in a trading server (and nothing to do with memory - shared resources getting corrupted). When I tracked it down (after about 6 months!) I repeatedly banged my head on my desk, yelling "You idiot, you idiot, you idiot!" - referring to me.

Compared to stuff like this memory leaks are really easy to test for, detect, and fix. Anyone can write a test harness to see if there is a leak.
> What some might not know is that New Orleans is currently extremely unprepared for a major hurricane.

Honestly, I think it's a little incredible that someone might think they would be prepared. The city was woefully unprepared for Katrina, and the only cities I can think of that might have a more robust history of political corruption and wasted tax dollars are Chicago and Washington, D.C.. Of course nothing has changed and they're entirely unprepared for a hurricane.
I read his post as explicitly saying that he was not meaning that.
Greece and Lebanon share similar culture and genetic makeup from their levantine / hellenistic past.

Greek Uzoo = Lebanese Arak
Greek Yogurt = Lebne / Labne
Greek Orthodox = Lebanese Maronite
Olive oil on everything = Olive oil on everything
and so on.

Now they also share similar economic meltdowns.
They are, if they're designed to be addictively delicious.

McDonalds and their ilk, have created taste formulas that are nearly irresistable. I've seen people from foreign countries come to america who've never tasted anything other than their local cuisines who can't imagine eating anything else. but the second they sink their teeth into a McDon hamburger, they are hooked.

MSG has been shown as a super reliable way to make mice obese: there's even a scientific procedure named after it: "MSG induced Obestity". It's a standard procedure used as a precurser to obesity experiments on rats. If it's that reliable on rats, just imagine what it would do to humans.
Forgive me, but if the market responds to OP's subscription model (and $4k/mo is not trivial), no ads is a better user experience and there is less dependency on the ad network for revenue.

It's typically much harder to acquire new users than retain current users = subscription model allows you to monetize your userbase over a broader period of time (let's say $5/mo * 6 mo = $30) to a value that would likely be cost-prohibitive. Most users would not spend $30 for this app. But they might sign up for a free trial, and then the $5 subscription.
This is a very stupid take from the author just intended to drum up controversy.
> but you need to deal with the fact that the end user's experience is more important

The end user is completely toxic as a result of the App Store. I cannot buy books in Amazon's app, because Apple think they are entitled to rent seek on it. We've ended up in a word of crappy gambling simulators instead of sensibly priced paid software because Apple engineered the store that way.

The App Store is horrible for me, as a user.
The visual cliche of the "evil Chinese man in front of a red background with five yellow stars" has come as far as that of the "hacker guy wearing a hoodie in a dark room with obfuscated JavaScript floating in the frame."
All networking to NOAA in Boulder, CO is down due to 'multiple fiber cuts'
The average person in this country has time to binge watch Netflix and social media. Have you seen the stats? We do have the time.

Of course there are exceptions, but we're a long long way from only having the exceptions left.
That's a useful perspective: let's say 3% of a service's userbase really loves an obscure feature (they rate it highly), but at the scale of the business, it doesn't make sense to support that feature within the core product.

That seems like an indicator that there could be a viable business around that single feature. But can that business exist if the larger company's product doesn't provide interfaces that allow peer products to interoperate?

(I wouldn't call those "plugins" or "API integrations" -- those make it seem like there is one "primary" product and one vendor who creates a smaller, secondary component. in the Unix philosophy, any two tools can combine without the need for any clear priority of roles)
> You're going to do more for your health by cutting back on your rice portions, rather than worrying about what is or isn't processed. (And rice is barely "processed" at all... but its incredibly calorie dense with high glycemic index).

And yet Asia has basically no obesity problem. We clearly need better nutrition science.
defend by nuclear war？
Today, we've been mostly focused on software vendors, and providing the service of making it easier to move people onto their platforms.

However, there is nothing stopping us from selling our service directly to end-users (the code is the same), so that is something we're working on setting up.
I think the major problem with CICO is that advocates for it present it as if it is a diet when it's actually just an explanation for why diets work (or fail).

I've seen a lot of threads with people asking for advice on losing weight and inevitably someone chimes in with "Calories in, calories out." Great, but that doesn't provide any strategy or guidelines for actually losing weight. Calorie counting and tracking is a strategy (and so are many other things, like intermittent fasting, the potato diet, etc. As long as at the end of the day you are at a calorie deficit).

Additionally CICO ignores the reasons why people overeat in the first place. There are a lot of physiological and psychological reasons for that. Maybe someone is overweight because they eat to cope with trauma. Maybe they have a hormonal imbalance that doesn't properly regulate how full they feel. Dealing with those underlying issues is often more beneficial in the long run.
Ha, well no that is another interesting story. But way less valuable than Arm.
I think you are reading too far into my McDonalds example. There are plenty of McDonalds without a drive through, who still overserve their customers. There are also plenty of people who are overweight just because they love to cook and eat tasty food (soul food!).

Why are chefs nearly always overweight? They work incredibly hard and tax their bodies for 10 hours a day. They aren't sitting in drive throughs. Maybe it has to do with the fact that they are around food all day and consume large quantities of it
I realize that this discussion is focused on obesity, but the above response comes out every time weight loss is discussed. It may well be accurate in many cases, but I don't think it encompasses the full picture of health. For example, smoking has shown to aid weight loss, but the outcome of taking up smoking is a skinnier person with a new set of comorbidities.

If the desired outcome is an improved quality of life, exercise has a plethora of mental-health benefits [0], cardiovascular and energy improvements[1], and has negative correlations with some of the risk-factors of obesity, like type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and some cancers [1][2].

I would hate for someone to read the common response and conclude that since obesity is causing their problems and weight loss seems more affected by diet changes, that exercise doesn't matter and can be safely skipped. To have a different life a lifestyle change is needed.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1470658/
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6172294/
[2] https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/fitness/in-dept...
Why would you compare a 64 bit fix pint with a 32 bit float? If you can afford twice the space you would use a 64 bit float. Also I'm not an hardware designer but I think that a 32 bit float multiplier is going to be less complex than a 64 bit fix point multiplier.
It's probably both.

It's true that countries where they don't put sugar in everything—or don't use HFCS at all—don't have this problem.

It's also true that between 1950 and 2000 portion sizes went up. For everything. If you travel in France and Italy, known for butter and pasta heavy cooking, respectively, their servings are half the size of the typical American restaurant.

At the same time, if you go from a walking city in the US to a suburb where it's all cars all the time, the visible difference if you just look around at people is jarring. Sure, cities might eat differently, but not that differently.

I'm not anti-car, but in some places the 100% sedentary lifestyle is a big part of the problem.
I would be worried if there was a way to query the webcam LED. Ideally you want it controlled by the hardware: if power is going to the camera, power the light.

If it’s accessible via software, there’s the possibility that it can be controlled with software as well.
Well, Texas is home to some of most overweight cities in the US. However, I agree on all points. Portions are way too big at the majority of places around the US. I get portion anxiety when portions are too large, I feel like I have to eat it all and end up over eating and feeling ill. Places that don't supersize their portions are generally more expensive. Better off making food at home.

People still complain about portions being too small at places with massive portions, restaurant owners feel pressure to keep them large.
If a US kid makes $400k from selling lemonades, you can be sure there's something shady going on as well.
Parody/satire is generally fair use.
Naive question: Isn’t it possible to plan those things when it’s not hurricane season?
It's possible, but if I am, it means protein and fat are better at keeping me satiated. The standard American diet is high in carbs, and it could be that processed carbs aren't very good at keeping someone full.
Same. In fact, Lemonade has a charity component and here is highlighting a project they did in Africa. https://socialfintech.org/lemonade-b-corp-insurtech/ That site is focused on "FinTech" too.
By empire I'm assuming you mean all that they had stolen from India and elsewhere.
> It is a race to the top. Solvable via regulation if anyone really cared, but I suspect no one really does.

Well put. I suppose no one cares enough because, after all, there aren't THAT MANY billionaire tycoons. And, sure, they perform a valuable function in putting many people to work and giving away millions of turkeys on thanksgiving, etc.

But now, we're in an era of billionaires racing each other into space and compensation levels which are "astronomical". It's in some ways a repeat of the age of robber-barons except I don't see it slowing down any time soon. Now I wonder what ended "the gilded age" ~100 years ago? Oh yeah, world war + economic crash.
avoid spanning tree like the plague in large datacenter networks as well. because of the scale and it becomes an impossible black box.

there is a reason evpn exists, and is it to solve this exact issue by making gateways handle all logic normally stretched across to the other side of a l2vpn.
Curious if you have any examples of "Non-dashboard approaches" to compare and contrast?
Yep this is terrible editorialising. It's faster on every scenario but very long sequential writes where, after 115 GB your performance drops from 2.5GB/s to below 1 GB/s. The older drives dropped earlier (40 GB) from 1.75 to 1.5 GB/s.

Toms article explains it but for those who want details, the SSD controllers reserves some amount of NAND cells for fast writes, what they call SLC cache. What that means is, instead of writing 3 bits per cell (in TLC), they only write one bit per cell on those NAND cells. They do that because writing one bit is much faster than writing 3.

So the controller maintains some "free" cells for fast write. In the BLU version, the 980 Pro controller that's used here has a different strategy which keeps more cells around (110ish GB vs 40 GB) for fast writes. As you fill up your disk, the controller will try to maintain this. You will see a drop when you go above that because the controller will start consolidating the data (the controller will also move data in it's idle time, consolidating the SLC writes to TLC writes).

This is why you do those specific tests as a reviewer, to analyse how the controller works, but it's not a real life scenario. A much more interesting test which we used to do back in the day was measuring performance when your disk is filled up (say 80, 90%). This is usually where you see those SLC cache strategy no longer working (depending on how good the controller is, some just don't consolidate data and you end up having poor performances).

Anyway, it's a pretty irrelevant change for 99% of users and the SSD will be faster on all other scenarios.

Considering they did a hardware revision, updated spec sheets and new packaging, and changed to a better controller (from the 980 Pro), this is nothing like what WD did.
Because Ruby has been consistent: there is no method starting with S.

Array has `include?`, Regexp has `match?` and String has `match?` and `start_with?`.

This is consistent: there is no S.

Now when I'm in a codebase, depeneding on ActiveSupport and which parts of it are included, the consistency is now missing. Is it with S or without S?

And what methods DO have the S version and which one do not?
You know, I have some hope. The Army Corps of Engineers is not what I would call a politically charged area of the government, and the costs, while substantial, are manageable for the work that needed to be done.

https://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/Portals/56/docs/PAO/Brochures...

"Following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was authorized and funded to design and construct the Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System for southeast Louisiana. The Corps strengthened and improved virtually all of the levees, floodwalls, pump stations and surge barriers that form the 133-mile Greater New Orleans perimeter system. The system that is in place now is stronger and more resilient than it has ever been in the area’s history. The new system is capable of defending against a 100-year level storm."

"The Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System
(HSDRRS) is fully funded at $14.45 B."

"Risk cannot totally be eliminated; everyone shares
responsibility for buying down risk through insurance,
zoning and building codes, coastal protection and restoration, and complying with mandatory evacuations." My emphasis on this last statement from the pamphlet I reference. Everyone is responsible for working together to derisk.

Lets see what that money bought.
You are right that it's about personal choice. But, so is Drugs. but they are highly adictive. Once you are addicted, it's much harder to quit.
> "“Given the rapid state of change, we believe it is best to enable communities to engage in debate and dissent, and for us to link to the CDC (US Centers for Disease Control) wherever appropriate.” "" <

This isnt debate or dissent, this is propaganda, endangering lives and our economy. And those that want to believe garbage they are being fed, are not going to care about the CDC especially when half the articles are conspiracy theories about the CDC.

A Totally irresponsible and truly garbage CEO.
Project Fugu: Closing Gaps in the Web's Capabilities
Well that's just pure luck. Incubation periods of 34 days for this thing are not unknown
OSTicket – Unofficial API
Do you think this will have any impact on aps that are not pay to win games?
I was able to make something similar using Home Assistant to get the webcam status on the mac - https://willvaughan.design/making-an-on-air-light-for-my-hom...
We've spoken with consultants who are interested in our tools as a way to decrease the amount of effort required on their end to perform migrations (for example, so they can increase throughput and take on more customers.) Also, if a consultant is unfamiliar with the original platform, we help them get the data so they can apply their expertise to mapping it to the destination.
No, I don't think this hypothesises agrees with observable evidence https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/07/a-chemical-hunger-p...
(2014), I believe.
Agreed! I herniated my disc (L5-S1) last year and it’s been a long road to recovery. Unfortunately I’m still in pain but I installed a pull up bar in the door to my home office and hang on it every time I walk through. It’s definitely helpful.