skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A fair comment and a good thing to remember when we think about computer hardware or facilities for people to use in general: Not everyone is "able-bodied" and many of us are facing all sorts of physical, environmental or psychological challenges.
This is common in the financial industry: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/gardening-leave.asp
And the vegetarian option is.... ;)
I've seen the article before; you'll find comments at the bottom pointing out that antivaxxers have been misreading it, and the author acknowledging that but opting not to revise.
The Tcl thread library allows you to create multiple threads in a single interpreter, and use mutexes. locks etc. to manage them. In this case of course you only need to initialize your interpreter once.

The library is most used in an "easy" mode however, where each thread starts up with its own interpreter and thus the usual mutex/lock dance is unnecessary. Various forms of message passing can be done among these interpreters, including tools provided by the thread library itself, Tcl's built-in synthetic channel feature which makes communication look like standard file I/O, or, since each interpreter has its own event loop, Tcl's socket I/O features can be used to set up server/client comms.
Learning to Superoptimize real-world programs
2 tech leaders talk as if personnel were property... oh wait, they are!
I still think it should be cheaper. The rail card thing is just a scheme to overcharge casual riders and tourists. It's reasonable for people who regularly go by train, but for people like me who do just one or two trips a year it feels like a rip-off.

Especially if I want to take my kids, I need to get a different rail card for families, and when you add it all up it's a lot more expensive than taking my car.

For some reason, public transport is always priced in a way that makes it really expensive for occassional usage. If you go everday, then an annual pass is a good value.

If you only ride on public transit occasionally, and you have a car, then taking the car is almost always cheaper. It shouldn't be like that.
Welcome to HN, Azaan! (I'm a moderator here.) I hope you'll continue to be part of this community over time and I hope you'll find it useful for learning and sharing.
Weird that a Microsoft product would get hard to disable telemetry…

All jokes aside though, this doesn’t seem too bad and I can put myself in their shoes to understand why they want this data. It would be difficult to monotone this information (asides maybe a nice shiny new Surface machine).
These non-competes are 100% illegal and unenforceable. The NLRB would back the employees in a heartbeat and companies are just using it as a scare tactic cause they know they can't defend it.
GPT-3 and GPT-4 Could Ruin the Future Internet
> wget --quiet -O - https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo apt-key add -

Is there a reason to do this rather than putting the key in /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/?
HTTP Keep-Alive can cause TCP race condition
Multistakeholder Manifesto on Cybercrime: call for responsible action, inclusion
If you switch to ? keep in mind that some keyboard layouts (e.g. Hungarian) require a modifier key to type this character.
> archiving saves me from screwing up

Does it? How do you restore from an org-mode archive? To this day I haven't figured that out.
Linux dominance in the datacenter is about to grow even more. Awesome news!
On average, yes. That particular person might be a terminal cancer patient, though.
This is not really true for a number of reasons. pg_upgrade is absolutely the preferred method if you are able to spare small downtime. It will absolutely work to upgrade your existing data structures to be compatible with the new Postgres version, so not sure what you even mean.

It doesn't automatically re-create indexes (to take advantage of new features) for example, but that is likely something you don't want to do right away (incurring extra downtime) when you are doing an upgrade anyways. You can easily just REINDEX after the upgrade is complete.
This app is amazing. Highly recommend it.
OK, so it is everyone speeding up or slowing down heart rates at similar parts of the story, not all the listeners synchronizing heartbeats with each other so all heartbeats are simultaneous (when I read the headline, I thought it was talking about a phenomena like synchronizing metronomes [1])

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T58lGKREubo
More like there's obviously no designers on the team.

There's plenty of tech out there to build on. Ideas to build on.
No Web toolkit is going to look like a website from 20 years ago... This is dead in the water unless they can show something that looks like it was made in 2021.
how do you keep people from just riding the train perpetually?
I'm not sure the "open source" qualifier is needed there.
Neo4j is open core, isn't it?

Then there are oss graph dbs like Janus, Titan, and Tinkerpop - Tinkerpop just for graph-like interfaces to oltp/olap stores - right?
That's an entirely different claim than the one you made (and the one you're replying to), which was predicated on infection, not hospitalization.
Some people are impossible to please I guess.
In order to search that space you have to have a specification language for the behavior of the target program. Things like copilot/GPT-3 currently take natural language as input, but that cannot be used for anything that needs to be verifiable or have correctness. Maybe start by having the nets generate implementations of the IETF RFCs in a variety of languages given the text of the RFC as input? Not easy.
I've been meaning to visit Hereford Cathedral. Most famously it's home to the Mappa Mundi, a very large map of the world circa 1300. As well as the world's largest collection of chained books.
Do you got any evidence that they are changing anything? Talk is cheap, any links to an article where they actually changed something and not just them talking about changing things?
For some idea, a one liner to find the (last) longest username and length in /etc/passwd:

$ awk -F: '{len=length($1);if(len>max){max=len;user=$1}}END{print user,max}' /etc/passwd
shebangs and more complex scripts are covered in the article.

But yes, I agree that the original AWK book is really good. After covering some basics and the language reference, it has some fun projects that you can build with AWK.
I didn't take it that way, though I could be wrong.

> I got an error message when I tried to click on this site: http://DeadURL.org/index.jsp

> It looks like they made a change to their home page but didn't update it... anyhow, the correct link is here: http://www.FixedURL.org/

I think both of those URLs are third parties and supposed to be the content that the site used to link to. Then the email template goes on with:

> And while you're updating your page, I wondered if you'd be open to including some further resources that could help people struggling with similar issues.

> Compelling Content Title

> http://www.clientsite.org/compellingcontent

> Compelling Content Title 2

> http://www.clientsothersite.com/compellingcontent

Which would be the URLs that you're trying to obtain links towards.
Well I'm not an anti-vaxxer. I actually helped review this article before it was published. Can you provide anything constructive here or are you going to keep responding the way you have so far?
We've fixed it now.
Parent is not talking about a 10TB corpus of software but the corpus/set of all possible software weighing 10TB (or less I guess, specially if you take the lottery ticket hypothesis into consideration).

A sibling post shows this, it presents the concept very well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel
While there are those in the AI community who believe scaling laws will unearth such programs, they are deluded. There are problems which scale faster than our computational resources allow, even if hardware scaling continues unabated for millennia to come.

The space of all programs in 10TB is far too large to count, even if we could harness galactic computation. Even within a much smaller search space, there are valid programs which cannot be found by gradient descent. Let BT(n) be the number of distinct binary trees less than or equal to height n. This number scales according to the following recurrence relation:

BT(n+1)=(BT(n)+2)²−1

Consider the space of all binary trees of height 20 - there fewer atoms in the visible universe. And this is just laying out bits on a hard drive. There are other functions (e.g. Busy beaver and friends) which scale even faster. The space of valid programs in 10TB is too large to enumerate, never mind evaluate.

In case anyone here is interested in learning more about program synthesis, there is a new workshop at NeurIPS 2021 which explores some of these topics. You can check it out here: https://aiplans.github.io/
I'd argue you shouldn't be performing an upgrade at all without a proper backup. But yes, absolutely do not use a hardlinks upgrade unless you have a backup laying around.
Oh for sure. I guess I could have worded it better (not just scare quoted "real"), but it seems like a public expectations reckoning will happen, but not a reckoning that really affects practitioners who aren't 'script-kiddies' for lack of a better term.

(side note, does anyone know a less insulting way to refer to the group people call 'script-kiddies' that still gets the same point across?)
Back in 1992, I wrote a Sinclair Spectrum emulator for the MS-DOS on a 386, and when it had proceeded far enough that I could test some games, I asked around on Usenet or a mailing list, I don't remember. Someone in South Africa had a collection, but FTPing dozens of 48k files from a South African university to a Norwegian university was too slow to be doable. Things timed out. Then one Monday night the FTP worked.

That Monday was when South Africa deployed its new 64kbps connection between its universities and rest of the internet, a vast upgrade from the 9600bps link. And the first thing that happened was that a random longhair student saturated it with retro games, n×48k.
How can we find this information out easily (not just for Samsung, but for others)?

Even Anandtech only tested 32 queues on the 980 Pro [0].

[0] - https://www.anandtech.com/show/16087/the-samsung-980-pro-pci...
It's built for people who use the keyboard, your mouse will not help you here.
I hate to be that guy, but the first caption under the Themes section should read:
"The standard theme in its dark look."

Having the apostrophe in "its" makes it read "in it is dark look"
From the Darwin Awards' official rules:

> The existence of offspring, though potentially deleterious to the gene pool, does not disqualify a nominee. . . [E]ach nominee is judged based on whether or not she has removed her own genes, without consideration to the number of offspring or, in the case of an elderly winner, the likelihood of producing more offspring.

https://darwinawards.com/rules/rules1.html
Maybe they should look into getting vaccinated? My insurance covers the vaccine as "medically necessary" because I sometimes go caving. I'd guess most doctors would consider having bats in the house as "high risk" enough, too. At the very least it doesn't hurt to ask.

My understanding though is that you still need to seek treatment if you know you've had a possible exposure but the post-exposure treatment is much less onerous. Another jab or two rather than several jabs and the (apparently very expensive) antibodies.
This is hurting me pretty bad right now, renewing my LE cert is not fixing it via Terraform.
I love it. Now put it in Emacs and we have a forever client.
Naive question, but I wonder if non-competes have been tested in the supreme court if they violate the constitution. Seems like the very concept is an infringement on personal liberty and if extended too far comes a bit too close to indentured servitude, especially in this era of specialization where your livelihood is heavily tied to your profession.

Edit: Also, NDAs exist for IP and confidentiality, so why non-competes ?
Is it really that complex of a process? They're just disabling groups of cores, not taking a hacksaw to it. They package it the exact same way as the full dies.

What is so complex about their pricing? This is completely normal stuff, and simpler than both AMD and Intel.
http://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1442871038308618252
Facebook accused of putting profits ahead of children’s safety
I'd love to see that info, been interested in why it was taken up by Cybertec and EDB seemingly dropped it.
Exactly! Exactly! And now fix it to work with tabs :-)
Evolution used an entire planet and billions of years to come up with us.
Would love to see the IOPS/core for this like they did on Intel/AMD [0].

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28706762
There are things I've come to dislike and avoid when programming in general:

- Avoid programming in strings (especially in Bash, where nested quotes are full of pitfalls)

- Avoid magic switches that change behavior (like -F)

- Avoid terse or cryptic variable names (like $NF)

- Avoid terse and magical syntax (sorry Perl, happy to leave you behind me)

- Avoid programs that are hard to read

- Avoid programs that are difficult to debug while writing them

- Avoid programs that ignore types

For these reasons, I prefer to avoid awk for anything except the most trivial of tasks. I think the prevalence of scripting languages and the speed of execution and debugging today has made awk not as necessary as it may have been in the 70s. And as to the first point, I'm aware you can write awk scripts in files, and I feel like if your script has gotten complex enough that you need a file, you're creating something unmaintainable and unreadable that would be better suited in a different programming language.

Edit: I should add this article is great and a good introduction to awk, regardless of my personal taste for the tool.
But it's really not. They already have to find a fence beforehand, what does it change if the fence gives you a procedure for turning it off without the password or if they just give you a bag?

Thieves and fences always figure out how to bypass the component lockdowns.
If the reasons they give for this were honest, you'd think their time would be better spent building the kind of extremely basic integration tests that would detect if, say, their world generation broke making the game unwinnable.

https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-236618

Inflammatory zingers aside, I don't mind telemetry in a product like this and I'm sure I'd want it if I were working on it. But I'd want automated tests first. Factorio's approach seems enlightened, but very rare in the industry.
After reading this I felt the urge to buy Cloudflare stocks... anyone else as well?
That is what I see as well. Not sure why they just don’t give free passes to students and people with low income instead.
Just a few attention heads can solve reasoning tasks in multiple languages
> To me it feels as if a new generation of tech minded people have started taking things for granted

Indeed. Most fundamentally, they take their computing freedom for granted. There are powerful forces who want to take it away from us. There are powerful and rich people out there who think it's too dangerous for mere citizens to have access to unrestricted computers.

People focus on Stallman's software licenses as if that's what he's all about. They barely matter. People ignore the big picture: computing freedom. It's not just important, it's fundamental. Without this freedom, there is no hacking as we know it. There is no way to write and run our own software. What good is free software if a corporation or government signature is required to run it?

Stallman saw this coming before most if not all of us.
Your DNA is already in a database [video]
Having laws or rules you intentionally don't enforce at all can't be good for society. Why would people conditioned to steal from the state in one way not be expected to eventually steal from them in others as well?
Does someone crawl into the cargo compartment to unload it the moment its door is opened? If that person got caught in a CO2 pool they could plausibly fall unconscious & at least start suffocating before coworkers noticed they were absent for too long.
Agree. The price is about double what it should be, and right now it's vaporware.
The justification I see often is helping with SEO as well
It seems that there's an SD slot at the front, right below the floppy drive.
You can hate this and hate real estate agents. Supporting Zillow’s attempts to artificially inflate home prices also isn’t great. Or corporate America’s current fascination with purchasing single family homes. Both are bad. Don’t be a fan of terrible things just because someone you also don’t like is against it.
making intercity public transit free or cheaper - as per here 100% will augment public transit as very few people walk or cycle more than 10 miles each way.
Same. We were definitely told to stay away from raccoons and bats, especially during the day (both are normally nocturnal or close to it).

The only people I know who've required rabies treatment had encounters with bats. Usually a bat got into their home through an open window, but wasn't noticed for some time. From what I was told, small bat bites aren't particularly painful or large and can look like bug bites, so any bat in the house usually ends up with a rabies treatment for residents.
Thanks for the reality slap and bucket of cold water buddy.
I did the same thing, as a side project when covid first hit. It's a fun and difficult problem to solve efficiently. I remember seeing some videos on YouTube of algorithms that could do it as well.
This is gorgeous. Congrats and well done.
I like this idea better than most local government UBI proposals. E.g., instead of suggesting UBI in NYC just make the trains free. It's not straight currency but it's unlimited transportation on high capacity, environmentally nice(r) systems. Then people can argue over who can make the experience nicer vs who is going to raise the fares. Ridership-wise, many heavy users already have unlimited cards.

(Still, however, not a UBI fan in general).
I would like to update my priors if possible that this theory has been refuted. Can you provide counter evidence?

Note that the theory does not influence the degree to which one should seek to get vaccinated. If you think that it does, you don't understand it.
Sunday on 60 Minutes: The Facebook whistleblower
> our society is based around subsidizing the fuel cost of those polluting cars

I think you mean being subsidized by the fuel cost of the cars?
The article is paywalled. I just want to know why anyone would expect children to be on Facebook in the first place. Kids should not be on social media.
Personally, I’d let the results of the audience decide which is considered more “thought provoking”; a dozen CEO’s or some mass murderers?
Another way to phrase it would be "How can schools know if they are engaging with their students?"

Or, "How can teachers better understand what engages students and what doesn't engage them?"

That said, a good storyteller or teacher knows if they are engaging their audience (or failing to) and can adjust for better engagement. Bad ones don't know this, or even if they do, don't necessarily know what to do about it.
I think you grossly misunderstand how infectious disease research works.
(Joke)

“Yew duz dem der graymur guud!” - Cletus the Yokel

“U like Ugg. Ugg make good words!” - Ugg the Caveman
Unfortunately, this childish take is now rebranded as "Modern Monetary Theory" and is official FED policy right now.
Yes my thoughts exactly. It's completely uneforcable. IIRC non-competes are only legal if you literally cannot just hire anybody off the street. The simple fact that restaurants near me are moving over from english to spanish speaking staff is evidence that you don't even need to speak the native language to get the job.
Yeah I have kept it as a SHOW HN: itself, not in the main feed and the tools is a free tool and there is no upsell so not sure what is the reason
> If energy were free, I foresee accelerated destruction of nature.

Perhaps the reverse, eventually. If costs of space travel dropped enough, we could push polluting industry out into orbit and further, and start repairing Earth. It's impossible now, but if there were little difference on the margin for the businesses between working on the surface and upwell, then businesses would hesitantly say "ah, what the hell, we'll do our stuff up there, you go ahead with your silly environmental programs if that floats your boat". Social progress happens when the market stops caring about it, and doesn't resist it anymore.
Many of the tests that I have done are around travel, and not to do with symptoms.

Some others were due to exposure, and also not to do with symptoms.
I find it deliciously ironic that CloudFlare is eating AWS' lunch with their launch of R2, after Amazon did basically the same thing with a bunch of their services built upon open source projects.

I suppose it's now corporations stealing market share from each other...
I can access the status page from my mobile network connection, but not from my home Internet connection.

DNS issue?
Yeah. We’re not in any big company - far from it. If this was the last decade I guess we’d be called a Micro-ISV. I don’t know what the current trendy name is though.
Eh Minecraft is a video game, I just don't see the privacy risk with "typical" Windows-level telemetry happening there.

At some point we have to accept that this data actually helps them fix real issues too, they're not monetizing their players directly with it.
They're a progressive company, but price wars are generally not a profitable place to be.
I disagree on not building your own blog engine as a general rule: Building a blog engine can be as simple as using a markdown-to-HTML converter library on your server, and using your backend's admin interface. Or a simple HTML page with a big text box and submit button. Depending on use case, this can be fine. The cognitive complexity of integrating with a 3rd-party engine can be more complicated than writing a simple one.

Which brings me to a big point the article missed: Page loading speed is important for search ranking. I have a blog I add to once every other month. It uses HTML and CSS, and I write it in Django admin using markdown. Lots of room for improvement UI-wise, for both reader experience and writing interface. Yet, it's a low-traffic site, and most of the blog entries show up on the first page of Google for relevant keywords. Relevant: It gets a perfect Google Page Speed Insights score, by virtue of being an HTML/CSS page.

I bring this up for 2 reasons: Using a blog engine will probably make it tougher to get fast load times. You can rank high on Google just by having good content and fast load times.
>ticket scalping happens because bands sell tickets for less than it's worth, usually to whoever shows up first. the scalper's role is therefore as an arbitrageur, buying something that's mispriced and selling it for market price. Is there any evidence that's the case for zillow? Are they beating everyone to the houses that are mispriced?

Ah, you think the outcome of a fully "free" market is the best of all possible worlds.

The band wants tickets to be affordable for their fans. Scalpers monopolize the market by using their purchasing power to eat up supply, and resale for their own benefit to those who can afford it - wishes of the bands be damned.

The comparison being made, which I'm not sure is true or not, is that Zillow is doing something similar. They are using massive amounts of buying power to consolidate supply of a market, dominating it to the detriment of people with more modest means, that would have been able to afford a home otherwise. edit to add: Yes, they are providing liquidity for sellers, but is that "market efficiency" best for society? Zillow sure isn't providing their service for the greater good.