skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The page size can't be more than half the L2 cache (else writeback to DRAM would be triggered, dramatically lowering performance). That means you have to use a relatively small page size, and lock contention in the kernel for those pages then limits throughput if you use many cores, even if the data is never read by pv.

See the comments in the code for info...
Interesting note:

> Since the iPhone 12, it has been impossible to swap major components from one iPhone to another, since each part now has its own serial number and the phone can tell if it has been changed.
Errrrm because button pressing is location independent and commutes are a waste of time?
OpenBSD: How it all started
Seems pretty comprehensive. Great illustrations!
>>then your end results will just be worse by adding in your thinking

Tell that to the people who decided against getting a labotomy after labotomies won the Nobel prize. ;)
The 0.5 derives from 'in a hundred year interval, there's a 50% chance to observe the event', which was my intuitive interpretation of a 'hundred year flood'. But as so often in statistics, that intuition was wrong -- 1/100 is indeed correct. (I'm at least not alone in that erroneous interpretation: "A common misunderstanding is that a 100-year flood is likely to occur only once in a 100-year period."[0])

The better way of looking at it is probably: In a 100*n year window, you expect to see n such events, which makes it pretty immediately obvious that the yearly incidence probability is 1/100.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/100-year_flood#Probability
The US companies also store data in Europe with "backup" in US.
The market has spoken. It wants factories to dump waste into nearby rivers because it allows them to make cheaper products that are more competetive.

It's not really a good argument is it?
Do wolves do it though? Seems far more likely that, like many other dog traits, this is something that was artificially selected by humans as being cute.
> I was the Plan-A back then during Constellation. And SLS was also Plan-A.

It makes sense for it to use the well known approach as Plan-A when the options don’t exist.

> NASA did a whole bunch of studies and these studies pretty much universally showed that the current SLS designs was flawed and a booster that looked like a modern Saturn V was the far better solution.

New developments based on new components, however Saturn V-like, are a risk. I have read a couple studies back then and, while I am not overly enthusiastic about the approach adopted, it offered minimal development risk.

The only novel idea of Ares was putting people on top of an SRB, which was cheap, but abandoned when they realised the vibrations would kill the crew.

Back then, SpaceX was science fiction.
> It’s frustrating to see such bonehead statements

Please be civil and consider whether you’re actually trying to have a good-faith discussion.

> people who get money spend money without describe other things of interest

Did you read the passage I quoted? And the table in the paper nearby? They clearly show the effects of the benefit on different categories of spending split across income groups, just like you’re asking.
Is it Apple’s responsibility to maintain X on the Mac, though?

If they want to implement something that may interfere with X (usually they do this kind of thing because security), should they cripple the experience for half a billion users, to appease a small minority of techies?

I’ve been writing software for Apple devices since 1986, which means that I’ve had lots of rugs pulled out from under me, and have been incandescent with rage at Apple, many times.

That said, I’ve never regretted choosing it as my preferred platform, despite thirty years of insults and put-downs from other tech folks.
AdGuard is quite usable without subscription.
If office workers were barred from all but one toilet in miles I'd guess the seats and walls would be just as caked in shit and piss.
Why I enjoy frank opinions that challenge the current consensus, I think the post only concerns 'men with very important positions'.

More white collar positions are not very important. So while I would agree a CEO taking 6 months off is hard (some have to do it for health reason), a typical engineer or middle manager may very well do so.
Google did not rebrand itself though, it's still Google. It's the holding company that owns Google (the company) that's called Alphabet. In contrast, Facebook does an actual name change now - there'll be no company named Facebook anymore, just a product.
The philosophical name for this concept is panpsychism.

Personally, I’m a panentropist (my own creation) - I hold that the spectrum of life/consciousness varies depending on the level of entropy. So a flame has a higher level of consciousness than a piece of paper and oxygen molecules. But when you combine them they increase their level. It’s weird but it might be correct - doesn’t address issues of the hard problem of consciousness however
This reminds me of the time I used a practical time machine to crack nearly all shareware.

https://joeldare.com/that-time-i-built-a-crack-for-nearly-al...
If margins are paper thin, they should cut costs elsewhere, not human lives. I know a trucker who's stated that if they didn't lie on their timesheets or use amphetamines, there's no way they'd get the driving required done, they'd get canned, and another person would either falsify or use uppers to keep going. This kind of thinking could then be used for anything - office building workers, for instance, why is 0.5% of time mail not being sorted? It's entirely dehumanizing and takes creative process and ingenuity (what little there is in autonomous jobs) down the drain.
Given they get infected in the first place, right? It is a posterior probability. This is the "Interpretation" paragraph from the linked Lancet paper:

> Vaccination reduces the risk of delta variant infection and accelerates viral clearance. Nonetheless, fully vaccinated individuals with breakthrough infections have peak viral load similar to unvaccinated cases and can efficiently transmit infection in household settings, including to fully vaccinated contacts. Host–virus interactions early in infection may shape the entire viral trajectory.

Also note that the study is about household settings (which are responsible for the majority of transmissions according to the article), where the exposure is prolonged, and the faster decline of the viral load in vaccinated individuals with breakthrough infections cannot make much difference.
On the other hand, simple intuitive explanations may not lead to simple mathematical analyses. Things which are obvious and simple to grasp, may involve near-insoluable systems of equations! This seems to be the case with lifting force.

We can easily explain lifting-force if first we get rid of the wingtips. Just explain 2D airfoils in a 2D "flatland world." Infinitely-wide wings are almost trivial to analyze.
The end product will be still FPGA and will be end-user programmable. This is a core differentiator for some of Raptor's client base, and I do not mean only individual RYF hardware fans - the design means that the system is also fully auditable by owners including ability to rebuild all firmware images from scratch.

The FPGA on the motherboard which handles some of the glue logic is also user programmable this way.
No one should ever call that thing Meta. We have to draw the line somewhere. Facebook needs to be gratuitously dead named.
> And couldn't they have told the scientist that it's "Worcestershire Sauce" and not "Worcester Sauce"?

I've heard plenty of English people pronounce it "Wooster Sauce". I'm pretty sure they're aware of the difference. I think it's just become a standard contraction.
This is getting so annoying also with books.

So many authors reference their Podcast, they want you to download a PDF on their website and so on.

I just want to read a book and start go to a f*ing website.
Well, their contracts with AWS should expire in a year or 2. Also, they've used AWS, GCP, and Azure.

It only makes sense to migrate to their own cloud.
They're already offering Xcode Cloud. The logical step afterwards would be a public cloud. This is where the big money is.
Aren’t there any other options?

Air traffic 2048x2048 monitors excepted.
> It seems that now we use around 10% of the brain power

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_percent_of_the_brain_myth
And physics is just applied mathematics! It's applied complexity all the way down.
Only the hardware business, of which iPhone still is the biggest chunk I think.
Gold for the quote!
I don't know where you live, but for context, the departure of continental European truck drivers from the UK has been in the headlines a lot here of late; for those who live here the point isn't exactly elbowed in. Though I do appreciate our domestic issues are of little interest internationally.
>That’s a pretty high conversion rate

Hence the constant stream of articles confirming tropes that play to the HN demographics.

It's basically impossible to have a reliable 10+% conversion rate without targeting the lowest common denominator.
I would hate to have significant holdings in a crypto coin and see it progressively go out of fashion because there are coler alternatives elsewhere.
It only took someone having me try their Quest for two minutes to decide I should buy one. And it's been great for the cost and portability.
That's the problem with self-help today - inspiration/consumption is overrepresented and action is underrepresented. The problem stems from misaligned incentives - creators make money through engagement, regardless of actual change created.

I created a platform [0] to solve this problem - for creators to develop programs (example [1]) that are aligned with their audience's best interests.

[0] https://themoai.org

[1] https://themoai.org/intentional-technology
The FDA's advisory on Clostridium botulinum Toxin Formation has a lot to say about it.

C. botulinum can enter the process on raw materials. The spores of C. botulinum are very common. They have been found in the gills and viscera of finfish, crabs, and shellfish. C. botulinum type E is the most common form found in freshwater and marine environments. Types A and B are generally found on land but may also be occasionally found in water. It should be assumed that C. botulinum will be present in any raw fishery product, particularly in the viscera.

Because spores are known to be present in the viscera, any product that will be preserved by salting, drying, pickling, or fermentation should be eviscerated prior to processing (see the “Compliance Policy Guide,” Sec. 540.650). Without evisceration, toxin formation is possible during the process, even with strict control of temperature. Evisceration of fish is the careful and complete removal of all internal organs in the body cavity without puncturing or cutting them, including gonads. If even a portion of the viscera or its contents is left behind, the risk of toxin formation by C. botulinum remains. Uneviscerated small fish, less than 5 inches in length (e.g., anchovies and herring sprats), for which processing eliminates preformed toxin, prevents toxin formation during processing and that reach a water phase salt content of 10% in refrigerated finished products, or a water activity of below 0.85 in shelf-stable finished products, or a pH of 4.6 or less in shelf-stable finished products, are not subject to the evisceration recommendation.

Obviously he isn't eviscerating his fish since the process relies on the fish guts still being in there. But he is using small fish. Since he is starting from frozen, he can probably rely on them not containing preformed toxin.

For shelf stable (non-refrigerated) products they recommend 20% salt (which is what he used, unless the calcualtion for water phase salt is somehow different):

Controlling the amount of salt in the product
to 20% water phase salt (wps) or more, to prevent the growth of C. botulinum types A, B, E, and F and other pathogens that may be present in the product (e.g., shelf-stable salted products).

Obviously, 20% salt is a lot of salt, I think you can't use that much for many other kinds of fermentation (e.g. vegetables), because the product would be inedible. But for a sauce, it's fine (soy sauce is ~15%). I wonder what the pH of his final product is. Fish sauce never struck me as particularly acidic.

PS: Not a food scientist, haven't even done a lot of pickling, don't believe anything I write, read the original sources (twice).

https://www.fda.gov/files/food/published/Fish-and-Fishery-Pr...
The irony is that while you won't do it as their employee, the same companies will happily hire offshoring companies that work just like that from the other side of the planet.
No I am not happy about this situation at all and I am not sure how I would deal with it if I was in charge. This 15% is more like 40% in Greece by the way, and a bit more than this in my city.
But people have been buying these necessities before the pandemic. If spending shifted from services to goods, that implies that it's non-essentials that people are increasing consumption of. Unless people started eating more?
> I'm shocked how maybe 5 out of 8 of my team choose regular office work over hybrid simply because of the free lunches and dinners.

Some people I know are bachelors who don't cook (weird lifestyle, but it takes all sorts I guess) so employers with canteens are a big attraction for them.

Other people, I suspect, have reasons for getting back to the office that they're a bit shy about. Joking that you're just here for the coffee preserves your status and privacy better than saying you're back in the office because your house is tiny / your kids are uncontrollable / you struggled with mental health issues.
I see changes, some better, some worse. I was not happy with the state I resided in so I left. The state was responding poorly to a pandemic, over-correcting and abusing the situation so I did something about it. Logistics will be bad in most countries for a while but it will correct itself eventually. It takes a few days longer to get something from Amazon and my packages are often beat up. Anyone looking for a job should be happy given so many people have resigned. There are something like 10.5 million job vacancies in the U.S. Tensions between a few nations are heating up to the point I find it hard to call their actions saber-rattling any more but that may be a boon for defense contractors and the GDP, maybe. Oh and there is a bit more tribalism in the U.S. and people are more divided, not sure if that is happening in other nations. Beyond that, everything else appears business as usual to me.

What are some of the things you are seeing becoming progressively worse?
Combining Nearest-Neighbor and Keyword Searches
`egrep '^[a-z].*rce' /usr/share/dict/words | grep -v "'s" | wc` gives 157 for me but there's a lot of duplication - probably comes down to about 35 base words from a quick eyeball.
You can install Firefox Focus and select that as an adblocker for Safari. Alternatively, DuckDuckGo has an iOS browser with built-in adblocker.
Thank you for clarifying. I feel it needed to be said.
> Things are binary. They work or they don't

Until a calendar view you add needs hotkey support and different calendar types and localization and ... "Oh, wait, that wasn't what was sold? But why would anyone think it would work any other way?? That's how a calendar is supposed to work!"

Still finding the same problems in freelance frontend dev and it makes me never want to do it again
It must be compiled from the provided source code
if you want to run it.

The instruction for doing so is far from simple if you
do not have a dev. background.

I look forward to using it.
T-Sql is still the dialect I know best.
> unless that is done with JS.

Which is the entire point of the article: Most of the time even trivial video playback is done using JS due to the shortcomings of the <video> tag itself! This also means that browsers are unable to perform such optimizations.

> And just you don't need to limit all devices by the lowest common denominator either.

Unless the video site is intentionally sending cache control headers preventing caching of the video assets, this behavior is presumably already caused by the browser itself, not the site.
Steno shows up around here every now and then and it makes me more curious to try it every time it pops up. Does anyone here have experience with using steno in a bilingual context?

I understand that chords are mapped to words through a dictionary of sorts, usually based on how the words are pronounced, but I expect different dictionaries to clash. I suppose it's possible to manually remap the entire dictionary for conflicting words, but that's a lot of work.

Is there an easy way to switch dictionaries/languages? Has anyone tried this?
Anybody know from where does CF get the domains to block on 1.1.1.2 (malware) and 1.1.1.3 (porn)?
I don't see it.

"Longer path" is an incorrect explanation for why the air above the airfoil moves faster. Yet the air above the airfoil really does move faster, as that webpage correctly describes. (That webpage doesn't say why the air moves faster! Thus they avoid the "equal transit fallacy.")

- "Airplane wings are shaped to make air move faster over the top of the wing."

True. Giving the airfoil some camber will change the upper/lower velocities, making it produce lift, even at zero attack. No mention of "equal transit-time."
But then we're back to people needing to purchase new items to accommodate sudden changes in lifestyle where it just didn't make any sense since the last major advance in technology / the last pandemic. Sure, we know we need to avoid disposable items right now, but as disposable items go paper products are pretty dang recyclable or compostable. Whereas at other times and places conserving water is far more critical.
Cleanliness. Find a truck stop near you, go use one of the toilets, more often than not the facilities are beyond filthy unless the station cleans them several times a day.
There are plenty of other place names that end in -cester pronounced as -ster: gloucester, leicester, bicester. It's somewhat of a rule itself. wor sounding more like woo is just the local accent I think.
And the US has pretty damn good freight rail. You just don't notice it because all those containers get transferred to trucks or unloaded at distributions facilities outside the beltways in which most of HN tends to live and does the last ~20-100mi on truck.
The system requirements are insane. Programming is a lost art.
I wish we had access to the back story of the invention of garum. My guess it was either very interesting or very dull.
It can be very immersive for games designed well for the VR platform. It can also be quite immersive when visiting locations, as long as the video is high quality. There's also some interesting 360 video experiences, like experiencing being a character in a movie. I also see the potential for exploration, like with the three space apps I have. And there are several apps which give you a good workout. The Supernatural one is great, if you're willing to pay $200 a year.
It's more than that. It's one thing to offshore some shoe factory to China while keeping most of the quality jobs and R&D at home. It's another story completely if 70% of U.S tech will be off shored; the knowledge escapes, the patents, sometimes IP can be stolen etc etc. Slowly but surely the competitive edge the U.S has will disappear.I'm pretty sure there will be political objection to it and laws to make it less appealing to offshore if that is the case.
Steadily losing 0.5-1kg/month just by cutting out carbs and sugar. Not really full keto (which requires like 70-80%+ calories from fat to maintain ketosis), just paying attention to nutrition facts, stopped buying high carb food, started cooking more with quality ingredients I control, otherwise eat whatever and however much I want.

The biggest change by far was cutting out cow milk which is actually very caloric and sugary. I easily drink 1l+ carton a day and that's 500+ cals alone! Human metabolism is pretty high but that's just too much calories to consume every day and that you can hardly feel. Found a good substitute - almond milk, especially Blue Diamond and Alpro brands - they cream coffee and taste in it just like regular milk with only a fraction of calories and no carbs. Another good sub I grew to love is grated/mashed cauliflower instead of rice and potatoes.
We don't call it MetaNote because note-taking is just part of the Project Meta's ecosystem. In Project Meta, we are building "Meta-apps" that add "metadata" to the original database, such that different Meta-apps can use the same data for different use cases.

Here's more context:
https://medium.com/sheracaolity/my-vision-project-meta-e0bed...
World of Warcraft is RPG. Not all MMO are MMORPGs. And there are now many MMORPGs which are similar size or even bigger than WoW is now, for years already. Though, it's true that outside asia no RPG seems to be as big as WoW was at it's peak.

But MMO in general today are massive, far bigger than WoW ever was. Though, there is also far more diversity regarding world-sizes. From smaller worlds for some dozen to hundred users, to bigger world with thousands and ten thousands, to the big massive virtual continents that WoWs era defined, we have them all now.
Mistakes from 6 Months of Freelancing
> I am more worried about the individual lounging on their couch, halfway through a 6 pack of IPA getting in some of that game of thrones re-watch, while the rest of the team is mopping up a shitty merge to master wondering where that individual may be at 11am on a Tuesday.

I've had these scenarios in a 9-5 office job - eg. someone merged in some shit that broke migrations, CI takes forever to run so they don't catch it, the next day they are off and now I'm there touching systems I know little about just to revert my setup to a working state.

I think if you can't rely on people in your team to be professional/competent it's going to be shit no matter where you work. That being said managing flexible work hours is really hard, it's especially hard if you're bad at estimating how much is acceptable to deliver in some time frame. If you always give estimates based on what you're capable at your ideal 8 work hours you're going to sink a lot more time than 8 hours a day - especially if you allow yourself to be distracted. I try to give my estimates based on 4 productive hours per day.
There's a whole list of possibilities when making garum. I've made 7 different ones made of different kinds of fish.

Loosening the definition of what a garum should be, people have been making garum from a lot of other ingredients such as mushrooms. Koji is usually listed as one of the ingredients, as it contains a lot of enzymes that do the same things as the fish' guts do.

I make mine a lot more simple though, just putting a jar in the heater cupboard. Perfect results every time.
Thank you so much for collecting all these transcripts. Especially the last paragraph about why publications like the NYT have not covered this much at all.
Low net energy is why most of the schemes for replacing fossil fuels with one or another form of ambient solar energy on a scale that would satisfy current demand, much less future growth, will come to naught; the Energy Return On Investment will be marginal, and the capital costs exorbitant.
> ...I'm pretty sure that as an end user I would not feel comfortable...

The fact that you have access to all the information you need to do the job should alleviate any concern. It is a night and day difference from blindly hacking on hardware from a hostile manufacturer. Did you actually mean "I don't want to"?
For a legally blind player, Far Cry 6’s accessibility options are empowering
Show HN: I've made an open source Raspberry RP2040+ESP32 dev board with a twist
There's risk to that. The customer company could have gone tits up or shit-canned whatever project they were using the finished castings for "because 'rona" leaving whoever is sitting on a year of castings in a bad position. There's risk to both approaches.