skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As with all things, you would really need to benchmark the system, preferably with real load, both ways to know for sure. But that takes a lot of time, especially if you're going to put in the time to tweak both systems.

People can do amazing stuff with enough time in both FreeBSD and Linux. I honestly think most server applications wouldn't be held back by either OS. You need your application to be really lightweight and focused before the OS makes a big difference, and even then, the differences only show if you're maxing out the hardware.

I worked at WhatsApp, and enjoyed working with FreeBSD there, and clearly it worked for us. Linux in FB datacenters also worked, but the server components were a lot different so there was never an apples to apples comparison. I run FreeBSD on my personal servers because I enjoyed working with it at Yahoo and then WhatsApp; but my personal servers don't have any performance needs. Sure, the networking stuff is nice (and it was nice to work with in the kernel), but what I like most about FreeBSD is the lack of churn. I can look at old administrative recipies and all the commands still work. I can expect (and mostly get) that when I upgrade, everything will keep working, and maybe a little better; occassionally, a lot better.
I was able to leverage JupiterOne to identify the misconfiguration mentioned in the Wiz article across all my AWS accounts in a single query. Pretty nifty.

They shared that query and a bunch more in this blog: https://try.jupiterone.com/my-bucket-my-data-or-is-it
Parsing nested parens requires stack, which humans are vary bad at handling. So writing in this style will be harder to read compared to linear style that people are used to. There are topics inherently nonlinear, but they are often linearized or directly drawn in 2d space.
Those have bigger and fewer holes, and they don't look like an ant's nest.
Walking down the street is public. Are you ok with researching behaviour using tracking location based on observing this public behaviour?
I have to strongly disagree here. I own a Surface Book 3 and an M1 MacBook Air. There is no comparison. The Surface track pad is better than most Windows laptops, but not on par with a MacBook.
Ah, yes, reading documents on a computer. A keyboard. Both of these are things that have never been done outside of the Apple ecosystem before Apple made their copies.

I don't like Apple, but come on. Reading documents is what computers have historically proven best at, and a keyboard is a pretty logical extension of any given electronic device. Would sure save everyone a lot of time if these things were built in.
The usefulness is questionable, but it still is an entertaining read.
NPR has made a niche for itself using 'human angles' to the story. They're not hard-hitting, they're not politically unbiased, they just make the soft sell for the Reader's Digest crowd.

It's good business. They've found an audience, they intend to keep it.
Michelin has been selling these under the "Tweel" name[0] for skid steers, commercial lawn mowers, and other mid-sized wheeled equipment for several years now. Supposedly, they improve the handling and ride of the equipment since the Tweel's internal structure flexes more than an air-filled tire and therefore adds more of a suspension to the tractor.

[0] https://tweel.michelinman.com/light-construction-products.ht...
> Flippers are filling a need/void in the market. I get all of that. What's out of whack is the flippers profit and how much market penetration they have and how they are not actually improving properties. Sure they look nice, but behind the walls they actually screwed a lot up in the process of making it "nice."

How is this different than Mercedes and BMW vs Honda and Toyota?

It's not like people are only allowed to pay more for things that you think are actually worth more.

People regularly spend lots of money on what many people consider waste. Why shouldn't they be allowed to do it on housing? New construction is just as rife with this problem, I think.

Houses are built with a ridiculous set of boxes that need to be checked by buyers. They are not built to be actual livable houses. They're built to be sold.
>Why would you assume 2 shots of vaccine is enough for life when a new variant pops up every month?

False dichotomy. The issue is not “get boosters now or never get a booster for the rest of your life”. The issue is that evidence shows the vaccinations are currently still very effective at preventing serious disease and death without a booster.

>As an official, how would you pick a country to send vaccines to when most of the world has lower infections and death rates?

Well, accurate infection rates require accurate testing methods. But as for death rates, that is actually an interesting question. Rich countries have more elderly people, who are harder hit by the virus. For instance, Canada and Uganda have similar population sizes, but 18% of Canada is over 65, while 2% of Uganda is. Many poor countries take care of elderly family members at home, as opposed to care facilities often used in rich countries, which we have seen is a hotbed for deadly outbreaks. But regardless, the longer we have huge parts of the world with minimal vaccination, the more likely unchecked viral spreading will lead to those new variants you are so worried about.

>How would you ration your vaccines when FDA may authorize them for younger kids any day? What about vaccine mandates? Those are supposed to up the demand, right?

Boosters are not the same as initial vaccinations. The issue was never “should we vaccinate people in this country, or should we send those to other countries”. That is not what we are talking about. We are talking about giving people that are already vaccinated, where evidence shows they are still protected from serious disease, a booster to slightly increase their protection before large numbers of poor people have had any vaccinations at all. I am all for increased vaccination in the US. But a global pandemic is, you know, global. The things that happen with the Virus in Uganda or Egypt effect people in Colorado and Louisiana. The long term benefit for getting the globe vaccinated are more than the benefit of giving vaccinated people additional protection on top of the protection they still have from already being vaccinated.
I happily grant much of what you’re saying; I think the difference here in my view is that you can define groups in one way, and find that _other things_ can be predicted. No one said, “we will define African Americans by whether or not they have problems with high sodium causing heart issues” and then determined that African Americans have this medical problem. Race is certainly a suboptimal way to predict this medical problem; much better to have statistically determined genetic markers, or better yet, a complete rendering of the mechanisms of action. But we don’t.

I’m all for “variation with groups is larger than variation between groups”, both as a literal reality and also as a practical answer to the question of how do I go through the world without being a jerk to people.

Racial categories are squishy and permeable. So are ideas of species, sub species. They’re useful tools with sharp limitations. Again, some people certainly oversell the utility of the tools, often for malign ends. But it doesn’t mean it’s an entirely bankrupt view
I feel like our desire for “more” is a contributor. One could just as easily use personal productivity improvements to work less.

But many of us want more money, a bigger house in the right neighborhood, travel across the globe, acclaim from others, etc.

If there’s no end to your wants there’s no end to the work.
How digital-currency investors differ from the general population
You think they lowballed him?
QuestDB (time-series database) is hiring engineers and dev rel
Relevant: If your SSH server is public, you can give its address to https://sshcheck.com/ and it will report any weak spots in your config.
I don't think this is a very popular take, but swipe keyboards are extremely common right now; I don't believe Apple had an ulterior motive here.
Not for me. But I'm running uBlock Origin with Javascript disabled. It rendered perfectly.
Java come out in 1995, and it was definitely meant for server stuff too. Java + SQL was big thing which made proprietary C bindings (Informix for instance) seem obsolete.
That rumor got started because a study in mice showed it lessened the severity of infection. The doses were very high, close to lethal. There is no evidence of prophylactic use making a difference. Only early stage of infection use. Some doctors are prescribing it for covid cases. It is not surprising it would work a little, it causes an increased immune response. There are also studies linking it to melanoma shrinkage. There is a large enough parasite burden in even a developed population that a twice yearly dose might make sense for humans.

All that said, buying an oral syringe with enough ivermectin to kill people with low body mass and trying to get your dose right is a horrible idea.
There’s something to be said about losing an incentive here.

Likely they should pay _something_. But they should also be grandfathered in.

But at the same time, over the past year, it’s ridiculous how easily this government decides to change the rules of the game overnight and expect us to catch up without a problem. It was the money printing first, then talk about raising capital gains, now this.

What the hell. People had made plans (to buy a house, or to retire for example) based on numbers that we thought were sacrosanct.
That's the function of the Comptroller and Auditor General where I live. I'd be surprised if there was no equivalent in the USA.
You mean Watson was never blocked.

Sherlock was the Apple tool that (in version 3) took heavy inspiration from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karelia_Watson.

Allegedly etc etc.
Why Facebook is using Ray-Ban to stake a claim on our faces
Alfred seems live fine alongside spotlight too.
It is systemically interesting how spontaneously and reactively the concentrated, ignorant envy seems to gather here.
That would be believable if Apple allowed Flicktype and released their own version later. The fact that they blocked it does show ulterior motive.
> We know the shots don’t prevent spread, nor prevent you from getting it, the only argument is it lessens severity of symptoms

That's just not true. The shots significantly decrease the chance that you'll get COVID. They also significantly decrease the chance that you'll spread COVID. This is most clear via the lower likelihood of infection. (You can't spread it if you don't have it.)

Sure, the shots are not 100% effective. They were never claimed to be. That doesn't mean they are not very effective. They are.
Exactly re: who won't pay. If I'm losing hundreds or thousands, I'll pay $150 just to get a real person's attention - most scammers won't. And yeah, it was MS I was initially thinking of, but haven't been in that world for a long time, so no idea if it's still an option.
Why is the slashdash comment style an incredible idea?
> The truth is that you probably didn't have a 1000 cal daily deficit for 2 months.

Uh yes, this is pretty much exactly what I said. But left out from my original post was how my weight loss began again when my caloric intake increased.

This was about at a 125lbs in to a ultimate 170lb loss. CICO doesn’t have a good explanation for plateaus in a long weight loss journey. It also doesn’t factor weight gain due to muscle build.

My ultimate point being it’s not a simple math equation.
Agree. Sherlock products were allowed, not blocked.
> Apple wanted to buy FlickType but they didn't agree on the price or Eleftheriou didn't want to sell (I doubt it)

Man, these Apple threads are always so full of open speculation.

Edit: I find it very interesting that after multiple downvotes, suddenly I'm getting downvotes on lots of older comments of mine also. Are folks just going into comment histories to go on a downvote rampage?
Unless this guy had a patent, any offer is a good offer. It’s not a terribly complicated feature to do from scratch and it does logically belong to the OS.

Blocking it from the store was an ass move, if it indeed happened as described and there’s no hidden context.
For a couple of hot years, J2ME games was a killer businesses, especially for carriers who made a nice mint on simplistic games.
Sorry, I thought you were referring to the bug reporter rather than the author of the error message itself, in the latter case I agree.
This made me remember a Myth Busters episode where they were testing if Indiana Jones could survive a fall from a tall building into an awning (happens in one of the movies). They were pretty sure that it was impossible, but the crash dummy survived with a bruised rib :)
First Magnetic Rocket? (3D Printed) [video]
There have been a number of reports of components of rubber tiers being harmful to humans[1] or the broader environment[2] beyond the waste issue, would be interesting to know if these manage to improve on that.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/11/pollutin...
[2] https://www.opb.org/article/2020/12/04/scientists-point-to-c...
Can someone ELI5 what's so special about the Mac's touchpad? It's been a good couple of years since I've used a MacBook and I don't recall anything in particular standing out for me about their touchpad.
Thiel gamed Silicon Valley, Trump, and democracy to make billions, tax-free
I did not downvote, but I don't like reading the same xkcd references over and over, so I can imagine others feel the same way.
> This exchange is increasingly unhinged.

I can understand how it must appear that way to you.

> Covid should not be addressed because obesity is a problem and because the US invaded Iraq?

No. You're way off.
Nice app. Even open source :)

Regular "shortwave_radiation" should fit your needs. This is basically "direct_radiation + diffuse_radiation".

I am not entirely sure, if this effects your users that much, because many will work indoors and only a fraction of sunlight will get in.

You can contact me directly via mail for a non-commercial use waver.
Commentary on the sixth edition Unix operating system (1977) [pdf]
And a operator in the lambda calculus. (Kite is just a function that returns the identity, aka as false or λx . λy . y)
Right - in Gödel’s mind, he was trying to model how mathematics works - the same applies to the problem Hilbert and co were framing in the Entscheidungsproblem. They were wrestling with the foundational philosophy of how powerful mathematics could ever claim to be.

Turing I think resonates as a computer scientist more than a mathematician for the same reason that Ada Lovelace does: both of them shared, and made explicit in how they approached problems, the insight of the generalizability of computability beyond mathematics. Where Babbage saw a calculating machine spitting out numerical tables, Lovelace saw music and pictures. And not in the implicit reductive way most mathematicians assume that anything important can be modeled as mathematics: because if it can’t be modeled mathematically, it can’t be important. Turing and Lovelace both seemed to get that this is a mathematics that can act on anything, and that that’s what makes the mathematics interesting.

The extension beyond ‘and this lets you derive any provable true statement within a formal system in finite time’ to ‘and this lets you carry out any deterministic transformation on an arbitrary piece of text’ to something like ‘if machine translation is possible this machine can do it’ or ‘a sufficiently sophisticated machine like this could hold a convincingly human conversation’ is a through-line you can only make with Turing’s insights, not just Church or Gödel’s.

And sure, you need Shannon to give you a framework for information representation that extends it to any form of data and dozens of other contributions of course, and without the mathematical foundations of Church and Gödel et al there’s no foundation to build it on at all. But Turing’s bridge out of the mathematical philosophy world into the realm of stuff engineers like Zuse were building seems like as good a moment as any to draw a line and say ‘this is computer science’.
It's totally possible to to anonymize location data for this study. The idea is that while the mobile IP has location track logs instead a fair sampling of actual travels is provided where a travel is two locations some person visited at some point in time after each other where locations are treated identical if they fall in some grid box of n km coursity.

In fact such datasets are available by Telecom providers.
Backspace in the Terminal
That’s the one! :)
But does it receive email?

http://catb.org/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html
What you're missing is...how did they get there? It wasn't overnight.

When you can be 20 to 30 lbs overweight...look around the room...and think "oh, I've nothing to worry about, I'm not as bad as most ppl here..." that has influence. When everyone sitting around your dinner table (i.e., family) is unhealthy...that has influence.

Yes, consciously they'd answer as you said. Of course. However, we're wired different subconsciously, and those signals and nudges are far more influential than most ppl realize.

And again I'll default to Jonah Berger. He's the scientist. I'm only the messenger.
This is not a speculation, it is according to Kosta Eleftheriou, the developer of FlickType.
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> In one blatant example, Eleftheriou said he was approached by Apple’s head of mobile keyboard technology, Randy Marsden. The latter (who created the Swype keyboard) wanted to buy FlickType to add a native QWERTY for the Apple Watch and improve typing on the device. When Eleftheriou rejected Apple, it refused to remove copycat and scam apps from the App Store.

https://hitechglitz.com/the-creator-of-the-previous-highest-...
this falls in to the same category of reasoning (IMO) as "you're holding it wrong." - it doesn't answer the underlying issue (in this case - that apple's obviously being unreasonable to the developer)

There are other ways to solve the "wasting their money" problem - offer refunds or similar (again, not at the expense of the developer)
I am against regulations but I still find these practices anticompetitive.

Not sure what the conclusion should be here.

On one side this runs on Apple platform:"it is my platform, I rule it".

On the other hand, they have a de-facto position to abuse by just kicking out companies at will to enlarge their businesses and monoplolize them...

I wish there was choice beyond Apple and Android. I am myself starting to look for alternatives. Espcially because of privacy concerns. Things like these at the end go against us customers.
> How is that the flipper's fault? Ultimately, a regular home owner is buying the finished product.

The flipper is just making money via arbitrage. The 'profit' they make is simply: (holding cost + holding risk) * time + value of improvements + cost of hassle of renovating
Criticizing the HR department I'm possibly gonna be working for, is not the approach I would take. Instead I'd try to get them to understand my perspective.

There's lots of approaches to this, but I usually go along these lines at the very start of negotiations:

* "I'm well respected and well-paid at my current job. I'd need to see a good salary bump though before I accepted any offer. Moving jobs during a pandemic is, well, risky..."

Honest and straightforward. You give them something to work with, and also what you're expecting.

* "I would like to see $X" where $X is just outside their zone of comfort.

Ideally they should be feeling pain or discomfort because your number is 10% outside their salary window. Usually you can make an educated guess about where $X is, and if you were way outside, you probably didn't want to work for that company anyway.

* "I don't want to waste anyone's time here. What's the range you're looking for?"

A lot of people in HR will give up the range if they're having trouble filling the position -- which many people are these days. And if the top is acceptable, be honest about it. If it's not, be honest about it with the expectation the call will end after that.

If you detect a dodge or resistance (1) to give any detail whatsoever, it's easy just to end the conversation at that point. There's no reason to get angry, frustrated, or to argue your case, you're just turning down a number at that point in time -- or in some cases a lack of a number.

(1) I would expect an investment bank (e.g.) to not give up their total compensation package. But they should still be able to say whether it's acceptable or not.
Apollo Primary Guidance, Navigation, and Control System (PGNCS)
Apple's gig workers have no longer justification to complain when their boss steals from them. They knew where they are going and fully chose it
Do you have a guide for such incorporation?
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Over the past year, we've worked on an embedded dashboard solution to allow companies to share metrics, data, and insights with their users. However, our customers were still receiving requests for data dumps. Their customer service reps often triaged these data requests, had their data teams pull the data by writing SQL, and emailed large CSV files. For example, an ed-tech platform we recently worked with wanted to allow teachers and admins to pull student rosters, but each user was interested in a different set of fields such as age, grades, contact info, etc. Because of this, they often created customer reports in Jaspersoft or wrote custom SQL queries that took time to do for each request.

That's why we built out the Explo report builder. It leverages the existing Explo platform that connects directly to any SQL database or warehouse and filters the data by customer. To set up the report builder, you write SQL to create the table you want expose, format the data, and embed the report builder in your existing web app.

Check out a demo (https://demo.explo.co/report) for the report builder here or a quick video walkthrough here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHJnII-DteA&ab_channel=Explo). We're building out much more functionality here including the ability to perform aggregations, pivot the data, save reports, and more.

One question on our minds as we continue down this path is how self-serve do you want your data and analytics to be? Does it make sense for your customers to build their own dashboards and reporting in-app? We learned that it's actually quite rare for users to want to build out their own dashboards in the products they use. If they do want to perform more ad hoc analysis, it often makes sense to just export the raw data, and run the analysis elsewhere. Or pull the data directly into a data warehouse to analyze there.

We'd love to chat with anyone who has built a reporting tool in-house for their own product. What additional functionality did you build out that was helpful for your users? If not, how do you currently deal with data requests and share data?
> It cant declare war.

History tells us that countries can and do declare war when it would be illogical for them to do so. There was a running theory before WW1 that the economic interconnection of Europe made war impossible, which was obviously false.

Does this mean China is gearing up for war? No. But to declare that China can’t declare war is fairly ahistorical.

> China is not trying to emulate the us … disregarding the propaganda

Ironically, I’d argue that this is propaganda. “We’re not like that other power, we’re so much better” is pretty classic stuff.

Although I’d argue that China isn’t emulating America, I’d argue that China is emulating 19th century Britain with its debt diplomacy.