skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you think the "W" in WASP stands for?
yes, too much of the wrong kind of attention and focus. biden had to do something splashy considering his approval ratings have been hovering in the low 40's for a while, and covid continues to garner the broad mediopolitical attention he needs in that regard. if our collective attention had been on vehicle injuries/deaths, he would have made arbitrary pronouncements in that arena instead.

these current pronouncements require some significant portion (perhaps 40+%) of 100 million people to give in to political aims or face unemployment and potentially destitution, to slow down a virus that is going to burn through the whole population eventually (and do so again and again). presumably by now everyone who's risk-averse or at elevated risk has gotten vaccinated. so now that those folks are vaccinated, why force others to do so, other than for political reasons (and for no other seasonal maladies killing tens to hundreds of thousands)? it won't stop spread, mutation, illness, or even death, but rather will only prolong the pandemic while shoveling federal dollars at pharma, making it a purely political gambit.

on top of the vaccination levels we have now, we can get the same epidemiological slowdown without the socioeconomic costs via some modest distancing indoors and mask wearing by public-facing workers (like cashiers) and in social settings (like at home, not generally out in public where it does practically nothing), but that doesn't have nearly the same political punch.
With enough effort, anything is possible. When it comes to hiding from authorities (or anyone, really), it's only a matter of putting up more roadblocks than they're willing to overcome.

They're human, too. Often dumb, most often uninterested and lazy. And everyone gives up at some point.
If nothing else, it is a "show of force".
They made it specifically for machine learning
> Can I get compile-time guarantees, about non-trivial run-time generated code?

Sure. If you control all sites where run-time code gen happens, you can gate them all on a compiler-check. In fact, the former is just `cl:eval`; and in some Lisps, a compiler-check already guards it.
I agree - that's why we turned the flamewar detector off and unhid this thread. I probably should have added that to my comment above; I think I assumed everyone reading this would see that it was back on the front page.
Accessing the WSL filesystem from WSL is indeed a lot faster on WSL2. Accessing the Windows filesystem from WSL or vise versa is even slower in WSL2 compared to WSL1.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/compare-version...

> As you can tell from the comparison table above, the WSL 2 architecture outperforms WSL 1 in several ways, with the exception of performance across OS file systems.
Msb?
It mentions on the widget itself that it's accessible. That makes sense at a high level, since it doesn't require interaction.

But I'm curious if it might need more work in the 'accessible' area. Like, for example, is the progress bar percentage-done exposed in an accessible way? I don't see anything obvious here: https://git.sequentialread.com/forest/pow-captcha/src/branch... , seems like it just changes width via css styling, but I could be missing it. I'm not sure it presents an easily understandable reason why the submit button is disabled, that you need to wait, etc, either.
Portable 'Lab-on-a-Chip' Diagnostic Platform Rapidly Tests Dozens for Covid-19
Thanks for the correction.

I actually missed the original.
Recurse Center for Rendering Stuff into a Checkbox Grid, 1 Checkbox Drive, etc.
If a biased, willfully ignorant person would care to follow the link and actually read it, they would see Ohio, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Maryland, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania on the list. Are any of these pro business, small government, Republican states?

Don't let reality hurt your narrative. Perhaps it is actually the case of regulatory capture of both Democratic and Republican parties in both red and blue states?
The guy played VI like a Stradivarius. I'm at best a hack, but watching him work through learning XQuery for the first time. Almost like a window into his brain real time. He impressed the hell out of me as most folks don't naturally take to functional coding.
This approach makes a lot more sense. The real problem here is input validation, not type mismatch.

Arguably, this could extend to real numerical data (use NUMERIC everywhere as a default), but the performance impacts of that are far more severe.
That's ironic then, because a huge percentage of the full-time employees at FAANG are actually former contractors who've been converted. So that would suggest a large chunk of their full-time employees are sub-par.

And that still doesn't answer the question--why hire anybody directly at all?

If you're so much better than the other contractors, they could just pay you higher rates. It'd be the same thing.
> Aren't unvaccinated individuals the ones who made this decision?

Yes. And personally, as callous as this is, I give zero shits about COVID deaths of people who choose to not vaccinate, though I feel terrible for their family members that got vaccinated and couldn't convince them to vaccinate because right-wing media has poisoned their minds.

> Or is it that the risk that the unvaccinated pose to the vaccinated are so high that they warrant strong arm solutions?

This question is highly subjective.

The vaccines are very effective at preventing spread, hospitalization, and death, but not 100%. Look at the statistics coming from any major hospital, and you'll see the trend that around 95% of the people hospitalized with COVID are unvaccinated.

The more people are vaccinated, the slower the spread, and the lower total number of breakthrough infections and breakthrough disease (Note: There's a difference between the two!).

Back to your question of if the risk is so high to warrant strong-arm solutions...Currently, I'd say no. But how long until Delta evolves into an even worse form that the current vaccines do nothing for?
Is this documented anywhere? I’d be interested in reading more
It's more than a 4-dimensional space - it's a probability distribution over 4-dimensional space, one that you want to explore ahead of time, and you never really know for sure where you're on it until your trip is over. I'm yet to see a planning tool that handles this.

What I mean by the "probability distribution" part is, your trip plan isn't really a specific plan - it's a set of possible plans. You may have concerns like, "what if we arrive late on the first day?", or "what if the main attraction for the 2nd day is closed", or "we're not sure at this point where we'll eat", or "oh crap, it's raining today, what do we do?", etc. You have to navigate these questions in your head. I'd love to have a tool that makes this easier.
It's not amazing but a quick calculation says that a full 1080 screen will generally transfer in just under half a millisecond.
Oracle supports up to 32k VARCHARs since 12.1 released back in 2013.

It just needs to be enabled: https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/REFRN/GUID-D424D23B-093...
System performance is, IO between Windows and Linux isn’t.

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197
I can't make any general statements about what happens to everyone, but in this particular case, I can't complain at all about HR's handling.

That's kind of the exception that proves the rule, you think?

That is, your outlining of the situation gives a strong suggestion that this sort of thing is common and unless the contractor has pull (say, a relative that works at Google), they can't do anything.
Some past threads:

Live View of Hurricane Laura - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24289287 - Aug 2020 (54 comments)

About Windy (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21701065 - Dec 2019 (34 comments)

Typhoon Lands in Japan – Windy Storm-Tracking Platform - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21232332 - Oct 2019 (44 comments)

How wind and geography influences wildfire smoke - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18416850 - Nov 2018 (6 comments)

Windy.com - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15094639 - Aug 2017 (103 comments)
With hardware acceleration and CUDA?
Trolls convinced journalists they were “abortion bounty hunters”
The best HN posts really do start around 5PM EST
End-to-end encryption should mean that the cloud provider doesn't have access to the key to decrypt the data.
Instead I suggest you start with the primary sources like Thucydides, Plutarch, Xenophon, Plato and Aristotle. I sure have and I don't need to read k'th- hand accounts, for large k, like the one you suggest.
sometimes you just need someone who can write super simple scripts to help process/clean some data or do grunt work that none of the devs want to do. And sometimes this need is just temporary for 4 months etc.

I wouldn't waste a google dev's on grunt work that any coder could do.
Last time I used digikey, they would notify me that if I bought a few more widgets I'd be eligible for bulk pricing, which would lower my bill. Sure, they would move more widgets, but would receive less money. I was a little shocked and impressed. I did buy more widgets, and did indeed lower my bill.
NK could at most destroy a few square blocks of e.g. Seattle. That would be a tragedy, but it would also serve as justification for a multinational coalition (possibly even including China) to take over NK and ultimately hand its territory to SK.

IOW, if NK lobbed a nuke anywhere they would cease to exist. I'm pretty sure Mr. Kim understands that.
U.K. Health Department to End Data Contract with Palantir
Is that semantic difference documented anywhere? I’ve never heard of this before, would love to learn more.
Who gives a fuck about some reddit faggot drama? Kill yourself, cunt.
For the record you can do the last two things with a website these days. Still sounds like it won't work for your project, though.
https://archive.md/o5sxV#selection-3149.0-3149.57
They'll have to have something for kids and anyone who can't/wont get a card (tourists from non rfid countries, people with horrendous credit or fraud in their history, weird religious sorts etc).
"huge percentage".. got any numbers to back that up? i can tell you its a single digit percent at G.
Pretty revolutionary...
If the amounts of money involved or the number of parties is small, why commit the fraud?
In US Drone Strike, Evidence Suggests No Isis Bomb
I find the current shell world obsolete. grep/pipes/sed/awk are byzantine. Most REPL environments are better. I'd like a terminal to go straight to Python REPL and run just Python commands. Would be much simpler.
What is the author even trying to say? I just get random rambling. Could as well have been written by a Markov generator.
If sucking cock gave you antibodies that helped protect you and your community from a pandemic, you'd have a valid comparison.
Precisely this. And I realize it's not the same around the world, but recurring payments get really bad in large parts of the world.

If you, the customer, want to cancel a recurring payment and you're using ApplePay, it's one button and done.

If you're using 3rd party billing from $randomcompany, it usually works by you, the customer, trying to find who to call and spending a substantial portion of your time being badgered by customer retention people. They're set up to make it as difficult as possible because they know that they can make people give in if the effort is too high.

This is a huge part of the reason why companies want the second option - they want to own the customer, and for you to have to get permission from them to stop belonging to them.
I don't understand it, myself. The small size of DOS and its utilities make it look, in a word, trivial to me. I've read about the early days of Microsoft and how they struggled to get DOS finished, and from the perspective of today am more or less baffled.

A part of the problem was they wrote in assembler. Today, I would not write it in assembler. I'd write it in C (or DasBetterC!) and get it all complete and debugged. Then, I'd hand translate it to asm. I expect this would go 10x faster.

I'd also develop it on a Unix computer, using an emulator to debug it, much like how Gates/Alan developed Basic. (That was a really smart move by those two.)

I don't use IDEs myself, but git is an absolute game changer.
I lived in Birmingham for a few years and loved the ticket apps.

Just buy a few tickets (so you can replicate the font), screenshot the whole thing and edit them with a new date and maybe a different number and you can travel for free, controller approved!

At least I never got a QR code scanned, they just looked at the screen and moved on. Love you all!
Crazy mandates, bombing innocent people, optics scheduling.

I didn't think the Americans had such a thirst for the establishment.
They're using Mapy.cz. Same location in Mapy.cz and Google Maps:

https://mapy.cz/turisticka?x=14.1857611&y=49.9310438&z=14

https://www.google.com/maps/@49.931472,14.185431,14z
Doesn't Hollywood exist to sell out? To patriotic Americans, to adolescents intoxicated by hormones or adrenaline, to men and women attracted to the opposite sex but wishing it were a little more sensitive or a little more easy-going? Or are all the movies that I have in mind made out of deep artistic conviction?
I would love to have the option of 1 instead of solving a captcha. Charge me 0.1 - 10 cents worth of bitcoin depending on the action, and I'd happily pay.
We've test driven UNO at our company
https://platform.uno/
but you really have to stick to the beaten path as some more complex controls are only partly implemented. It's a variation on Xamarin basically.
Even before that. A problem in EF, got fixed in 2 minor versions later.

This was during .net 4.5 fyi, ages ago by now.
Real life isn’t a movie… and even if it was hostages don’t move like hostage takers do.
Your reasons for considering changing jobs seem to mostly revolve around revering FAANGs and new tech and "hot companies", and very little to do with your life satisfaction.

What you should be looking at is what the role actually does, who is on the team, and interviewing some team members to see if you would enjoy the work and enjoy working with them.

Also, it seems like even though your current company is not far along in its digital transformation that you may be able to help propel it forward (e.g. putting some workloads on cloud) if you volunteer to take it on.
> nodes sending PAUSE message to the special multicast address 01:80:C2:00:00:01 are instructing the switch to not send them any more frames. My switch seems to honor this, but also forwards the frames to the other nodes on the network, in effect telling THEM to pause in sending frames, which would explain the observed behavior.

The what now? I've never heard of "PAUSE" frames before, but those sound like a feature just waiting to be exploited.

Do we know how common the behaviour to forward the frames is? This sounds like it could bring down any vulnerable public network of their choice by just logging on and sending that special packet...
I heard some woman with a fake deep voice is on trial now.
My local bus ticket app has a rolling ball and other animations to prevent that sort of ticket forgery.
something something death of research.

Too Good To Check: A Play In Three Acts: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/too-good-to-check-a-pl...
I found this to be incredibly damning. There is a tweet thread by Evan Hill that outlines this more simply:

https://twitter.com/evanhill/status/1436422176425578496
I've always thought the phrase "the exception that proves the rule" is nonsense, btw. There's no such "proof."
Glad you asked! ;)

https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-x-windows-disaster-128d398...

[...] X-Windows is the Iran-Contra of graphical user interfaces: a tragedy of political compromises, entangled alliances, marketing hype, and just plain greed. X-Windows is to memory as Ronald Reagan was to money. Years of “Voodoo Ergonomics” have resulted in an unprecedented memory deficit of gargantuan proportions. Divisive dependencies, distributed deadlocks, and partisan protocols have tightened gridlocks, aggravated race conditions, and promulgated double standards. [...]

X: The First Fully Modular Software Disaster

>X-Windows started out as one man’s project in an office on the fifth floor of MIT’s Laboratory for Computer Science. A wizardly hacker, who was familiar with W, a window system written at Stanford University as part of the V project, decided to write a distributed graphical display server. The idea was to allow a program, called a client, to run on one computer and allow it to display on another computer that was running a special program called a window server. The two computers might be VAXes or Suns, or one of each, as long as the computers were networked together and each implemented the X protocol.

[...]

X-Windows: …A mistake carried out to perfection. X-Windows: …Dissatisfaction guaranteed. X-Windows: …Don’t get frustrated without it. X-Windows: …Even your dog won’t like it. X-Windows: …Flaky and built to stay that way. X-Windows: …Complex non-solutions to simple non-problems. X-Windows: …Flawed beyond belief. X-Windows: …Form follows malfunction. X-Windows: …Garbage at your fingertips. X-Windows: …Ignorance is our most important resource. X-Windows: …It could be worse, but it’ll take time. X-Windows: …It could happen to you. X-Windows: …Japan’s secret weapon. X-Windows: …Let it get in your way. X-Windows: …Live the nightmare. X-Windows: …More than enough rope. X-Windows: …Never had it, never will. X-Windows: …No hardware is safe. X-Windows: …Power tools for power fools. X-Windows: …Putting new limits on productivity. X-Windows: …Simplicity made complex. X-Windows: …The cutting edge of obsolescence. X-Windows: …The art of incompetence. X-Windows: …The defacto substandard. X-Windows: …The first fully modular software disaster. X-Windows: …The joke that kills. X-Windows: …The problem for your problem. X-Windows: …There’s got to be a better way. X-Windows: …Warn your friends about it. X-Windows: …You’d better sit down. X-Windows: …You’ll envy the dead.
You're right, people will suddenly have cameras in their pockets without an indicator light! How will we adapt to this brave new world?
Why do these hubs (or the chips they're made with) want to send PAUSE frames in the first place? What's the potential advantage vs just behaving as a switch with no other devices connected?
What do you mean by "not playing nicely". With UEFI boot you can dual boot all day. There is no need to modify MBR. So nothing gets overwritten on updates.
There's also MyRadar, but this looks more accurate?
It's so weird to see Teams on the Windows Desktop next to a Linux Desktop Window... [0]

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/wslg/raw/main/docs/WSLg_Integra...
Indra – Hackers Behind Recent Attacks on Iran
This is very cool, I’m guessing that Bismarck, North Dakota is the place to be if you are wind farming, looks like a lot of air is being funneled past it. Things get interesting around the Rocky Mountains in general.
You want to directly fine low level employees for the actions of execs? My god, no. That's such an evil idea.

They're fined indirectly with stock prices already, but man is your idea really bad.
If that's the only loss of performance, that sounds amazing compared to running anything under Wine.
> Right now I’m using a full VM.

WSL2 is also a full VM
> it appears that right now Elastic is on its heals while Amazon is driving forward

Perhaps - what are the commit/accepted contribution rates for the two projects like at the moment? (I'm not saying that's a perfect metric, but it could provide some information)

> Which open-source search engines do you think are competitive?

MeiliSearch[1] is an impressive-looking candidate. Perhaps two of the stronger innovations of Elasticsearch were horizontal scalability and the ability to pass documents to it over-the-network (basically, the ability to curl a JSON document and instantly have it be searchable -- and I'll admit/credit that Solr may have gotten there first with XML documents). Those two features make it easy to get started, and easy to scale up if needed (a common architect's concern).

[1] - https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch
A year ago spend relatively long time troubleshooting my home network problem and the root cause was the same: 1. USB-C hub with an Ethernet port send pause frames when it is powered but a laptop is disconnected 2. TP-Link Wi-Fi router broadcasts pause frames to all ports which causes all connected devices to stop sending traffic.

TP-Link (or more specifically Atheros AR8327 used inside it) here is likely breaks a IEEE standard (may be even the most basic one - 801.2d), but when no-one send pause frames this goes unnoticed.

As workaround now don't connect power to the hub and instead connect charger to a laptop directly (if a hub is powered you can connect only one cable to s laptop to get both - power and external USB+Ethernet).
Maybe not technically a CAPTCHA if it can't "Tell Computers and Humans Apart".
Thanks for doing that!

I'd originally commented when it was still pretty new and went back to find it on the frontpage and didn't see it. That's when I originally replied to you. I see it high ranked again.
You can benchmark it, the license agreement only prohibits you from publishing the benchmark.
A War on (Free) Natural Immunity
Extreme corruption. When car manufacturers lobby for laws against their own interest, just to quell a new competitor, I don't know what else to call it.
But for a given resistance, you don’t get the amps if you don’t have enough voltage. V=I*R. Don’t they teach that equation any more?
A better question would be what if the South outlawed slavery, and the horribly destructive Civil War had not happened?

What technology advances would have happened without the burning of half the nation, the 750,000 dead, the countless wounded, and the numerous rapes?

https://gettysburgcompiler.org/2015/10/05/finally-speaking-u...

With the economic savings a nice check could have been cut to the Freedmen, and the country could have started the healing process.
WSL2 disk access from the Windows side is very slow. It's the reciprocal problem of WSL1.

WSL2 Linux apps now get proper performance now but if your IDE is on the Windows side, access time to project files on native Linux partition is terrible.
I guess it could be a practice that started when companies still gave out pensions.

Pensions were a massive burden (just look at the auto companies who still have massive pension liabilities), so it probably made a lot of sense back then.

But now that corporate America has eliminated pensions in favor of 401ks, the contractor/employee juggling just seems wildly inefficient for anybody who's not a janitor.

It feels like now its just a case of the sheep following the herd, for no one reason anymore.

Anybody I talk to about this gives a nebulous response that basically amounts to "Hell if I know, that's just the way everybody does it!"
No need to check for topups/updating a db potentially?
>But I mean come on, they're Microsoft. If they really wanted filesystem access to be efficient across systems, we'd have it by now.

Here's one of the developers saying it is hard back in the WSL days.

https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-391...

The reason makes sense to me, but I'm not an expert. Maybe you could expand on why you think they could do it but chose not to?