skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As that paper points out, your definition of CAP theorem is simplified and incomplete to the point of being wrong, as many are.

How so? Grandparent's statement conveys something true and useful, as far as I can see.

> As it also point out, CAP theorem doesn't really account for eventual consistency well.

It doesn't need to. CAP will tell you that some responses are inconsistent, and that remains true and important in an eventually consistent system.

> I would argue that a chat protocol is a good place to perform eventual consistency, and those tradeoffs work well. During network partitions, have both sides of the partition continue to accept messages. Have the client mark messages with random unique IDs, and have each server mark messages with a server timestamp. The well-defined merge operation is now to sort by server-time and dedupe by message ID, such that if a message is sent to two servers it only displays once.

Messages aren't the issue, things like operator permissions and channel takeovers are. It's not as simple as you're making it sound (e.g. a common problem for servers following your algorithm was that someone who got operator permissions on the wrong side of the split would correctly lose them on the merge, but bans that they'd created during the split would stay in place, allowing them to prevent the legitimate operators of a channel from exercising their control).

> I think that CAP theorem's results are less interesting if you consider application-level resolutions to network issues (i.e. eventual consistency), and as I believe the paper also implies trotting it out constantly when talking about practical systems gets old fast.

I too am frustrated that we have to trot it out so often, but for the opposite reason: the CAP theorem should be part of the common baseline that everyone understands, but even that much gets disputed. People constantly want to believe that their new technique (such as eventual consistency) has magically solved all their problems. The fact that the CAP theorem is extremely simplistic is a strength, as it cuts through a lot of obfuscating nonsense; in my experience people who want to dismiss it usually being naive about the impact that inconsistency will have on their system, just like in your IRC example above.
I'm not familiar with any of these people or groups. Why is this a "pass"?
Re: your point in #1

This other source does not say that it is voluntary.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/pandemic-a...

Returning travelers quarantining at home will be forced to download an app that combines facial recognition and geolocation. The state will text them at random times, and thereafter they will have 15 minutes to take a picture of their face in the location where they are supposed to be. Should they fail, the local police department will be sent to follow up in person. “We don’t tell them how often or when, on a random basis they have to reply within 15 minutes,” Premier Steven Marshall explained. “I think every South Australian should feel pretty proud that we are the national pilot for the home-based quarantine app.”

And are you comfortable remaining "not too concerned" as a Victorian when you admit that it's too early to tell if this idiocy will spread? Because idiocy it is, and spread it very well might. How long will you wait to call it out? Where will you draw the line in the sand? Power consolidates.
How do I unroot a jackson my phone
I really need help, I've got one or two hackers on my phone and nothing will stop em and wats the best free app to protect me
Lots of selling by the board despite the blog claiming otherwise:

President and COO sold 24% of theirs stake

CFO sold 15% of theirs stake

CAO sold 38% of theirs stake
My reasoning was pretty simple: if you sit in a bath things can leave your body and also have ample opportunity to re-enter your body. Your comment on relative concentrations is helpful and makes me reconsider this notion. As a naive and simple-minded person I think of entering a bath whilst covered in mud. Yes, the relative concentrations of mud on my skin's surface and mud in the water would clearly suggest I am "clean," but will I really feel clean stepping out of a tub that looks more opaque than clear? Maybe it is no surprise I have such trouble understanding the world with my simple-minded approaches.
> what's to stop them saying "You now need to accept getting paid half of what we'd agreed to when you were employed"?

In most of the US, for most US jobs, absolutely nothing. The vast majority of US workers are at-will employees. Their boss can call them up at any point and say “We’ve decided that starting next pay period, we’ll be cutting your salary in half. Have a great day!” The employee’s options are to accept that or start job hunting.
Personally I use Google Analytics because it's low effort for visitation and referrer stats but for work, geez the time that gets sunk into making Google Analytics accurate...
Religious exemptions are not limited to "official religions". Deep moral and philosophical exemptions can and have been made.
This is the direction the web could have taken, but the venture funded ad giants grew platforms that engulfed all of publishing. The wrong focus for users, but great for making money for a select few.

A small p2p client like emule might provide a good alternative to RSS and Reddit if the only things shared are articles and comments. I'd love to see copy pasted HN articles with no paywall, distributed over P2P. Archive.is style. No Javascript nonsense. Text with minimal, clean markup. Fast and performant.

Cryptographically sign comments and share your interest graph - instant trust network and high signal social network.
> Reducing R0 only slows down the spread a little.

Reproduction is an exponential function. A small change in R has a large effect in rate of spread.

> We don't have a practical way to reduce it below 1.

First, this is just not true. Even the (likely pessimistic) Israeli data indicates that vaccinations reduce chance of infection by over 60%. This cuts R in half from 5-7 to 2-3, and probably less when you consider the window of infection is shorter for breakthrough cases.

Combined with other measures--contact tracing, masks, social distancing, improved ventilation, etc--the measures that got Alpha transmission below 1 without a vaccine would be effective with Delta in vaccinated populations. This could allow moving to a model of managing hotspots rather than dealing with unsourced community spread.

Second, you presume that there will never be a vaccine effective against Delta. I'd rather we do what we can now--which means driving of vaccination rates as high as possible as quickly as possible--to slow spread and buy time for targeted boosters to come out than to throw up my hands and just assume that everyone is gonna get COVID so we might as well just give up and stop trying.
I haven't myself but there is an API for running queries so it'd be kinda cool to surface X people are on this site currently or generate a little timeseries graph showing popularity of posts
Erlang/Elixir is great for internal command-line tools where a several-second startup time is acceptable. If you're looking to distribute the CLI tool externally, it's worth considering other languages.

BEAM would make a fine engine for GUI stuff but the toolkit bindings just don't exist. As another poster mentioned, LiveView + Electron could make a very compelling pair.

Erlang/BEAM has been used multiple times as a gaming network server language, but to my knowledge it has never been involved in the UI.
The law of gravity isn't different in Australia, and neither is 2+2. People with immunity from past covid have excellent protection, maybe even better than that from vaccination. To treat them as "antivaxers"..."in Australia, for all intents and purposes" and to then later label these people as "idiots, petulant children, or misled and out of touch with reality" is one hop and a skip away from dehumanizing them and justifying even worse.

You need to say what you are typing out loud because you are caught up in the feel-good tribalism of debating partisan issues online. When in reality, there are multiple legitimate reasons to not bend the knee including past infection.

It's interesting that you chide others for being out of touch with reality and yet you ignore the reality that past infection offers equal or better protection as mentioned by that source I gave you in the parent post.

But in any case, the very last sentence of your post is both refreshing AND alarming. You said:

"And all that said, if the government doesn't remove restrictions once we reach 80% vaccinated and more, I will be fighting those governments tooth and nail. But we're not there yet."

Refreshing because at least you still seem to have some amount of reason left, but alarming because you don't seem to realize that by then, it's going to be too late. You'll end up enslaved because you fell for the "hate the antivaxers" ploy and picked it as your tribal narrative of choice so you could feel good while arguing with people online. Even though the science is unequivocal that immunity from past infection is excellent.

You may also be interested in this information that is emerging:

"US researchers say teenagers are more likely to get vaccine-related myocarditis than end up in hospital with Covid"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/10/boys-more-at-r...

What now? You really think people reading this information are petulant children for choosing caution and simultaneously not wanting a totalitarian regime monitoring them and building systems of enslavement?

Realize that power consolidates. They will not need to remove these restrictions once you reach some threshold. Who will make them and how? By then more people will be trained to hate others and defend more. Realize that giving a government that kind of power is dangerous.
Lifetime, or maybe more realistically the timespan over which the vaccine is effective (could end either based on fading immunity or the dominant strain evolving to escape).
The work to marginalize/sideline those texts was already done by many others over an extended period of time, GP was just pointing that out (and pointing out why they have done so).

I would be happy for you to say that Supernotes is not a note-taking app if instead you felt it was more of a knowledge-management app or a digital zettelkasten system. Note-taking does mean different things to different people. Some people don't think it's effective note-taking if you're not doing it with pen and paper.
EpiRust: Our home-grown, agent-based epidemic simulation model
That's not a good argument or a fair comparison, mate! One is a highly infectious disease that is spreading through contact and via air and the other is history! Covid has killed more than a million people and is continuing to do so as it mutates to get deadlier and deadlier. Please don't tell me that it's a lie and a conspiracy theory as I've lost family members to this engineered microscopic monstrosity!
> People who are suicidal with a plan are not generally thinking clearly and are happy that they received care once they've been treated.

As if preference on this is always treatable. For example, what kind of treatment do you give a person who wants to die because they have no support network and had a stroke which rendered them disabled and homeless? What realistic treatment is going to give them hope? A bed in a state funded nursing home surrounded for the rest of their days by untrained, uncaring people who are just there for the low wage paycheck?
I wonder how many C standards we would have to go through, before the people that are writing C+ (C with some C++ but no classes, RAII, etc)/ or straight C++ to be converted back to plain old C
Thank you @webmaven!
I disagree. The future doesn't have less social media, it has more. We won't look back with contempt, but amusement much as we do today at early cgi and tabloid efforts.

I don't love the idea with the current iteration, but every mass media invention has the exact same trope play out as we're seeing with social media.

1) first adopters and skeptics

2) major use

3) exploitation of those users

4) combo of regulation and individuals becoming more savvy

We're deep in phase three. It might get worse still, but I don't see much worse until you factor in additional game changers (deep fakes seem most obvious, but my money is on something currently unknown)

A new equilibrium will be found, better for some interests and worse for others.
Wow! This short film is genuinely one of my favourites (and is generally under appreciated). The lead actor went on to be a very successful stage performer and I think he shied away from this film a bit. I remember pestering the director (who played Agent Smith) about 10 years ago to release a 1080p version. So happy to see someone else talking about it.

Oh and I can't write a comment about it and not acknowledge the tragic passing of Michael Falzon. What a loss
> I multiply the probabilities of complications from the vaccine by 100%.

0% times 100% is 0%
Your post could word for word be used for the opposite narrative too. Many people have lost their lives through the bloodyminded actions of those clamoring for a totalitarian regime and its systems of enslavement.
I built it using pdfhtml from source and it generated this PDF.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VmkJiazNRXel1s6mN57CoJOZhli...

Not the cleanest one, but better than nothing.
I've not been to NYC, so it obviously didn't make my list.

> clean and efficient systems in Europe that don't even have turnstiles

Europe also doesn't have a rampant property crime and homelessness issue on the scale of the Bay Area. We can argue about whether this is because of the lack of safety net, but SF spends over $50k per homeless person on aid and is _the_ worst in the nation in homelessness so clearly there are multiple factors at work here.

> NIMBYism may be a problem, but so is a government that is unresponsive to the petitions of its people

At some point the needs of millions of commuters outweigh the desires of the few thousand residents living along a train route. A high speed electric light rail is no louder than a freeway and we already have lots of those. The issue with the current American system is that local citizens have _too_ much power in comparison to slightly less local people who may live a 20min drive away. For example, constructing new housing is obviously going to lower the price of rent, which would benefit everyone currently renting or in the market for a house. But it would screw over existing homeowners, so it's blocked even though it causes rampant inequality and homelessness.

You know commuters who don't live next to you are also part of the people that live in your city? Just because they vote in a different district doesn't mean their lives aren't hugely impacted by your NIMBYism.
It is somewhat worthless to pile assumptions on top of assumptions to come to conclusions. If you look at the map of Share of I.C.U. beds occupied, you can make a better, more finely grained decision. [1]

The question I asked has nothing to do with whether ICU beds are occupied. However, I also will point out that you are replying to a reply to a reply to my question, none of which actually addressed what I asked.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/davidson-tenness...
There are plenty of lines around what rights a genuinely held belief entitles you to. What the parent is saying is that there is no line between religious and other deeply-held beliefs.
> Tech stocks are typically higher valuations

At the end of the day, stocks are worth whatever people pay for them. It is a fact that tech stocks do have higher P/E multiples at this moment in time. The important question for investors is whether those multiples mean that the stocks are overvalued... or whether they deserve it. The market will decide that, and the answer may change drastically just like any other set of stocks.
Provided your employer is willing to absorb the risk of a late result which is $14k.
> just force someone to get rid of their ICE car and promise they'll have good public transit

In the US, we are so far away from "forcing" people to get rid of ICE cars that the very concept is ludicrous. What we instead force is ownership of ICE cars, and it's nearly impossible to live without one because we have banned, via law, the land use that would allow a person even the option of living without a car.

As somebody who advocates for the mere legalization of car-free land use, I am frequently accused of forcing others to get rid of their car, or of being exclusionary, for merely proposing the possibility.

People in the US are somewhat sick in the head when it comes to cars, and need to at least let the huge population of people who don't want to be subjected to the violence and pollution from cars to live that way. The contrast between Paris, which great expanded non-car options during the pandemic, and a car-addicted city like San Francisco which can't even convert a lightly used beach highway into a bike and walkway, is massive.

The US must change drastically, but the drastic change is to allow people to ditch their cars, not force them.
Chinese players review-bomb Life is Strange: True Colors over Tibetan flag
I think you’d have to strip the binaries to account for debug symbol differences.
The Fanimatrix
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fanimatrix
This is an interesting idea & hack, but it requires you to route your private messages through a third-party Matrix server. So not going to be able to use it unfortunately. Maybe if you offered a self hosted version.
Is anyone aware of anything like this for Go, Rust, Zig or similar?
My torrent client (deluge) gives the option to check which files in the torrent I want to download when I add it. So bittorrent already has this facility, and it's probably how this situation arose in the first place.
Ah, another Dietz nut!
You know what, you're right. Regardless of what the law says, my offer potentially reduces the act of civic participation to something to be paid for, rather than something that is an intrinsic good. A small evil that, at scale, becomes a great evil.

So I say instead to the GP: cheers! I drink a toast to you and your efforts. May they be impactful!
People should be winning money for refusing to be vaccinated just because such mandates are anti freedom.
Honestly you could be talking about several sites. MYS? HDB?
Thank you! The ICU Boundary Analysis documentation says it uses a dictionary to split Chinese, Japanese, Thai or Khmer.

https://unicode-org.github.io/icu/userguide/boundaryanalysis...

Is that the same as the macOS dictionary being parsed here? It seems like a pretty big file to grep every time!
If you work in a matrix organization you’ll work on many projects which have have many managers and as a manager you’ll manage multiple projects involving much more than 4 or 5 people. TFA seemed to be getting at this with multiple managers but didn’t take it all the way through. Matrix management is not a panacea but it does help productivity by making sure that there is almost always some progress happening and that nobody is sitting still.
Ah, thanks for the correction.

"a laboratory positive result plus mild symptoms" was the thing being measured, ok.
>Originally it felt like a social annoyance and not much else but in this era of vaccine denialism, election fraud conspiracy theories, even body image issues from touched up photos, there’s little doubt in my mind that society is suffering and that the problem will likely get worse before it gets better.

I'd go the exact opposite way and say that in this age of free information the self serving lies of the old centers of power were found wanting and ignored. Blaming fakenews for things going wrong is the dying gasp of a failed system trying to stay relevant like the catholic church was after the printing press.

Before I get dogpiled on because of the current pandemic, we should remember the food pyramid, the following fat epidemic and the 200k deaths a year we have been getting every year for the last 30 years: https://www.pnas.org/content/115/5/957

The past wasn't great, experts got things wrong and a whole lot of people died.
Having done some of this, I know how sometimes 'no impact' scheduled maintenances become total system outages. Having no real input into when those get scheduled and sometimes having them happen without notice sounds like a great way to have my stuff down with no control. Sure, I've got someone to blame, but that doesn't help me serve my customers.

I'd rather have potentially less uptime but more control, but maybe that's me.
AI video generator (more like a slideshow actually)
can you share the pdf?
What's your exact stack.. just ssh and bash script?
Looks like HN front page for a few days is full of 90s IRC, Torrent, eMule and Usenet related posts.

Wondering what's causing it.
Why Our Monsters Talk to Michael Wolff
That graph definitely makes it look like NZ has had a lot less restrictions cummulatively than USA.
This looks cool! I would be concerned about the privacy of my communications, though, since your service is essentially a MITM. What have you done to address privacy concerns? Your privacy police seems like boilerplate and doesn’t address anything specific to your service.
I didn’t mean to imply that at all but I could see how what I wrote could be interpreted that way. Just that, as an non-American teenager, I was surprised how that happened and how the left capitulated to it. To me it seemed obvious that you shouldn’t grant even more authoritarian powers to agencies that have historically had poor oversight and results.
HSV/L are conceptually close to the way artists have been thinking about color for centuries, since the days when everyone ground their own pigments.

Hue is the angle on the color wheel. Which somewhat translates to wavelength if you ignore the fact that we see chords of high blue + low red as the colors we give names like purple, indigo, violet, and magenta.

Saturation is how intense the color is. Lower the saturation and it turns grey, or pastel. We have a few special names here; "pink" is a low-saturation red, for instance.

Value/lightness how dark/light a color is. Lower the value on that "pink" and you might get something you'd label "brick red": it's darker, it's still definitely reddish, but it's not the most intense red you can get while still being kinda dark.

Saturation collapses as you go to the extremes of value/lightness, it's just pitch black at one end and pure white light at the other.
It is not a choice no matter how often the people defending it insist it's a choice. It's no more a choice than someone holding a gun to your head and asking you which poison you'd like to drink.

On what planet do we live, where all of a sudden that statement even in your version of the reading is in ANY way more palatable or reassuring? The government is offering you these choices:

1) Quarantine in a guarded quarantine hotel for two weeks in a sealed room

or

2) Quarantine in your home with facial recognition and GPS tracking and random pings that send the police to your home if you do not respond within 15 minutes

This is not a choice. This is the government giving you a false dilemma because it's tricking people into tolerating its massively expanded surveillance systems that it wants to build, and the normalization thereof. These things will not go away, just like the narrative until now has constantly shifted to keep the situation ongoing while power continues to consolidate.

These systems will be used for worse once they exist.
The same features? Interesting. Hiw about bluetooth audio? Support for wayland?
Thanks for the detailed explanation. I am not connected to the aerospace industry.

In the context of retrofitting an electric motor where the fossil fuel combustion happens today, it still doesn't seem possible.

> Or a beefy electric motor that would drive the fan

Isn't that what Weight is doing with their motor? Motor attached to fan blades to produce thrust?