skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I get the geopolitical reasons for this, I just want to say that it sucks. E-wasting kilotons of functioning hardware, in the middle of a global silicon shortage, is not a good state of affairs.
If Kangaroo as they say is not a k-v store, as this says, how does one talk-about/describe which cache items they wish to retrieve or update? Don't we need a name/key to talk about the value being cached, so we know what to ask for next time?

I have it earmarked to go read this paper more closely, but the claim that this is not a k/v store made me confused.
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The NBA only recently exploded in popularity. Worldwide too. I think you could say 1994 (MJ’s first three peat) was the establishment of the NBA skyrocketing in popularity. That’s not even 30 years ago.
I didn't know about this and thought you were going to reference them switching out NAS drives for SMR ones.
Iframes were a non-standard IE-only feature that also had accessibility issues and obviously wouldn't work in Netscape.

They were very handy for a variety of scenarios so it became part of the spec, but I think most self-respecting web developers avoided them out of principle.
It's funny. In 2019 I did a couple of larger personal orders for play and upcoming projects. I got @50 STM32 (a few different), and 25 Giga RISCV chips. The order was a less than 250$USD for the uC's, some memory, and logics.

I use them sparingly now, and try not to goof them up!
>... San Francisco, London, Tel Aviv, Kviv

Is it rather Kyiv, Ukraine?
I'm doing Nanowrimo this month. 30 days to write a 50k word novel. It's my first time attempting it so it will be interesting to see what happens.

Some people in my writing community have already finished. No idea how they did it in one day.
I'm not sure what your ideal of a good PhD student is; there's no measurable level of "good enough" that once met allows you to do a bunch of other things. It's supposed to be an all-consuming, single-focus period of intense research and knowledge generation.
Luton man left shocked as his house is ‘stolen’
How does Tether make money/profit?
It's not so much US can lose, rather perhaps US simply can't win against PRC anymore. In Clausewitz "war is politics by other means" sense, even the worst case scenario for PRC, China still has the capability to destroy US hegemony / domestic security by attacking regional US protectorates and demonstrating US security commitiment to be meaningless at massive costs to US serenity (semi destruction / cyberwarfare). It's not a conflict US can insulate citizens againts. PRC is approaching or has exceeded in developing capabilities that could credibly threatening US military primacy, especially in her neighbourhood - US may still "defeat" PRC but at the cost of her empire. The same way most allied EU powers won WW2 but lost much of their global holdings and influence. Perhaps in US calculations, it maybe preferrable to not even try. The fallout from trying but failing to defend TW is much worse than simply not defending TW in the first place, which seems to be where recent US strategic thinking is pointing towards. Ultimately, PRC has grown to a point where even in defeat she will remain simply too powerful a regional actor. This is the point that PRC collapsist miss, PRC is too large, too developed, and too self sufficient (in context of war economy) to be constrained with-IN the region anyway.

I would also watch out for further PRC ICBM/hypersonic developments over the next few years in the realm of refining accuracy. PRC rocket force with sub 100CEP ICBMs essentially fully deters US conventionally barring huge leaps in ABM defense. There's already evaluations of using AI to calibrate bespoke missile hardware that will increase accuracy by orders of magnitude. Imagine PRC with the capability of conventionally sinking USN capital ships in ports, more or less rendering entire US military projection structure useless. Which still isn't existential for US who can always retreat to safety of fortress America, whereas for PRC, breaking out of first island chain is a matter of survival at any cost.
> in almost all use cases

Including horizontal sharding and vertical replication out of the box?
When I worked at Apple they were the first resort as they were usually cheaper to iterate with (no recompilation, lower overhead, etc), but ASAN has only gotten better & was the primary focus. I agree that maybe jemalloc might be a good drop-in replacement, but it just might not be a priority for the libc maintainers. Lots of low hanging fruit can be missed for very long periods of time because you have to pick what to focus on.

GWP ASAN from TCMalloc might be the better direction for runtime support for memory corruption from malloc as it gives a lot of ASAN-like protection with an electric fence-like performance profile (& can be turned on/off at runtime).
Cricket isn't?
Probably. Our company received a similar letter from Adobe 15 years ago, we simply changed the name and still in business without a problem.
I mean, Amazon and Google are already doing that... and there's companies making ML ASICs.

Problem is... the ASICs are really good for certain classes of ML problems but aren't really all that general.
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The worries about stablecoins being used for day to day transactions are pretty interesting. I haven't seen any interest in that online and I personally think transacting with stablecoins would be the worst of the cryptocurrency and credit card worlds.
So if you had the capability to be one of the greatest PhD students in the world your strategy would be "do a bunch of stuff average instead"? How would you achieve such a high level of performance in the first place? Being a good grad student is as much learned and practiced as any other skill.
Crazy story. I wonder what mechanism allows the new owner to keep the house? Logically it seems like they should just lose their money.

With stolen property this situation would totally make sense, but it's not like the house was ever in the possession of the fraudster. Can't fraudulent land registry entries not just be undone? Clearly a person with no control over the property can't have sold it.

If it works like this for houses, how does it work for companies? Can anyone steal a UK LTD in the same manner?
I'm integrating openrsync with libssh2 so that I can finally sync my files using rsync+ssh and read them on my iPhone.
"Please, let's keep it technical and vague."

What?
Let’s assume this is a CS PhD (so no “lab” work). Is this person doing 60 hours of actual research a week? If I did a PhD while working full time, I would expect to do purely research. I’m not interested in teaching or grading papers or anything non-dissertation related.

Btw, this is how most people do their PhDs here. It’s a quick in and out 3 year seal-team like operation. Caveat: We see Ph.D as a degree you do after a 2 year Masters degree. So in total 5 years after undergrad.
This is a good summary, to which I shall add heat removal.
If people have 10% extra money but the costs of food and rent/housing and basic goods is up 50%, the purchasing power eroded and economic activity in real terms will drop.
The pandemic has caused some short term disruptions but overall the US manufacturing sector is huge and growing. Revenue was $2.3T in 2019. We make a lot of stuff.

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/manu...
As stated above European PhD are not typically the same as North American PhDs. I've never seen a respected program here that allows for part-time let alone while holding down a full-time job.
I believe the word slip is 100% intentional. It's the same kind of people that conflate, on purpose, "the vaccines are 95% effective!" with the wishful notion that they stop the spread of the virus.
Take olympic athletes. There are differences not only in the level of work but also physiologically between those who win gold medals and those who can't be olympic athletes. If you're a would-be gold medalist why isn't it possible to settle for getting into the olympics and have a job on the side?
Previous discussion regarding your comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28679234

(I'd repeat what I said before, but dang wasn't happy the last time I copy/pasted).
I moved to a new team where we leverage the idea of precise dispensing of fluids but apply it to life sciences. A pipette is all about dispensing a precise amount where you want it - so is a printer. We think outside the box on that. Feels good to be making something to make people healthy and not to just sell consumables.

I also finished walking every street in my city a while ago. See https://citystrides.com/users/31460/map#44.56456589999999,-1... Lot of fun, lost 10 pounds, saw a ton of fun stuff I had no idea was here (even after 40 years).

And I finally am finishing a classic (1800's) sailing ship wooden model I've had for ages. A lot of fun to do something very non-software.
Fair examples. Every rule does have exceptions. But none that would make Brown in the title make one think it was a skin color because of English rules.
> they completely nuked Kynes' character to replace him with a forgettable "generic strong woman" character

Kynes was perhaps a critical but yet very minor character in the novel and arguably was a forgettable character. The reason it may seem otherwise is that Kynes was first portrayed by that notorious show-stealer Max von Sydow.

Casting a Black female actor instead in the role of Kynes is merely license as opposed to and starkly contrasted with the sacrilege of Liv Tyler stealing all of Glorfindel's thunder.
> like the Silmarillion. It’s supposed to be detailed over centuries/millennia

Well, the last books of the original series of Dune take place over thousands of years when Leto II becomes the worm via symbiosis with the sandtrout. There is so much that happens in these millenia, sometimes told in flashback through the everlasting Duncan Idaho, or through the narrative of the religious texts.

The wars and the scheming and the plans and the plots... I mean just the sisterhood's rise and attempts to undermine leto could be its own series. Heck there are more subplots in Dune than fables in the Silmarillion. In fact, I think that the flaw with the Silmarillion is that everything becomes so much of the same after a while that I stopped caring about all of the one-off stories: it got repetitive and, frankly, boring.

Dune did suffer a Jon Galt moment with all of the exposition in God Emperor of Dune, but there was a lot of storytelling in those meetings between the Duncans and Leto.
I'm glad you said this because I was really concerned when the article sounded legit but I couldn't make heads or tails of it.
Assuming this blog post is correct, what would a smart response be from an investor point of view?
To make the price of USDT (or anything, for that matter) go down, someone who holds it must be trying and failing to offload it at the current price. Conversely, it's possible to prop up the price by being willing to buy fairly large amounts at the current price, burning your cash stockpile in the process. Meaningfully shorting the price of USDT requires getting access to a large stockpile without adding to Tether's (or its confederates') reserves and burning through their entire reserves.

There are two ways this can be done. The first is to be a large holder of USDT already, one whose nominal position is greater than the entire reserve pile, and attempt to liquidate it in favor of USD (this is basically a bank run). Or you can artificially induce this by borrowing enough USDT and selling it to either soak up the entire reserves or induce others to do so as well. But Tether's reserves are probably substantial enough to make this latter option infeasible except for the very largest financial institutions.

Now the largest holders of USDT are those exchanges that immediately convert any USD you put into them into USDT. And so long as you don't try to withdraw that USDT for real USD, they're unlikely to sell any stocks of USDT they hold (in your name or in their own name). Effectively, this means that so long as there is a net inflow of hard currency into the cryptocurrency ecosystem, no Tether crisis is likely to happen. However, should there be a sustained net outflow... well, we'll discover who the equivalent of Lehman Brothers in the cryptocurrency world is.
Leftist here (and not `democrat left`, actual left). I would love to build nuclear reactors, lots of them. Problem is, it is a political issue that spans across all political leanings in America. You can find conservatives who would agree with me on building reactors, and conservatives who won't. You can find liberals who would agree with me, and those who won't. Best I have is, crux of the problem is that to get people out of their hysteria means being able to learn a little about nuclear, which most people don't want to do anyway.
Ironically the whole GDPR mess made it easier for me to use ddg first. I just don't have cookies, so every time I use google I'm greeted with that amazing consent form, so I just stick to ddg unless it's really necessary.
There is no evidence, only bitterness.
It's worse than that... functionality testing wouldn't be enough. Short of putting every chip under an electron microscope you can't really guarantee it.
Kind of curious, I could not with a regular browser just click the B2/IPFS links right? Would need something, guess I should try it.

Oh it is an mp4 interesting. Interesting stuff I thought it would be people but looks like nude vtuber skins or something. Neat

Yeah this space is interesting, like social void filling/companionship. What's crazy is these could not even be real people, since it's a CGI type body. I know mocap but yeah. Make a bunch of em, get people to watch em, tips... hmm.
> Do you think we will forever be organized and segregated by governments?

> Do you ever think a human being can be a sovereign individual in his own right, without owing fealty, taxes and morality to a government in some future?

All of this is doing nothing to change my view that cryptocurrency requires me to buy into this whole weird worldview in a way that few other products do. No, I don't particularly want to be an anarcho-capitalist.
I'm working on software to help save democracy (and therefore indirectly also humanity and the planet. no pressure!) as a side project and an unpaid hobby, in my free time

I have 2 planned books to write, also, afterwards in my TODO queue. but trying to have no more than 1 active work-like side project at a time, so dont burn out. and just cap my hours on it. 0 is too few, 2 too much, 1 is just right
I had a very similar experience. IIRC I did 90 minute naps every 4 hours for a week. My first full night of sleep after a week of 90 minute naps felt like waking up after one really extremely long and weird day.
That is not the definition of a recession as far as the fed is concerned. It has to do with documenting sustained periods of decreasing GDP
Rich people have most of their assets in equities, not loans or fixed-income securities. As a general asset class, business equity is usually a pretty good hedge against inflation.
All this data is so public that offering any kind of removal option is pretty pointless.
All the pedophiles will work for Facebook and google just to be able to watch private pictures of minor. Seriously EU do you ever think before voting?
> The really smart money with large crypto stashes could borrow USDT with crypto as collateral, and trade the USDT for greenbacks.

Have you looked into the mechanics of this trade? The crypto loans I'm aware of are all significantly overcollateralized. You would have to pledge say 1m BTC to get 0.8m BTC worth of USDT which you could then sell for dollars. If you succeeded USDT tanks, everyone who holds USDT would be rushing for the exit, wiping out the crypto you pledged as collateral also. So you succeed in losing 20% of your money on the initial USDT trade and almost all of the value of the crypto assets you pledged for the loan as well.

These markets are nowhere near as flexible and liquid as regular fx - I would be amazed if you ended up making money overall on this kind of strategy and the execution risk is significant.
How do you dry off after taking a shower?
Appears not to be Atlassian code but something more low level than that. (Former Atlassian here)
I'm building an air quality monitor using premium, top-of-the-line sensors for particulate, HCHO, CO2, and VOCs using Raspberry Pi and a touch screen.
Are Google and Apple real players in VR? I thought it was FB via Oculus and Microsoft.
I knew a couple who married. He had a house in England. She had a house in Australia. So, every Equinox, they travelled back and forth, always having a Spring and Summer.

If you can manage it and can afford to do it, go ahead.
I took a three months leave from work, unsure if I wanted to do the early retirement fuck around dance or not. I worked on a meta-JIT library for Rust interpreters (https://github.com/chc4/lineiform), roughly analogous to Truffle/Graal - it would do dynamic recompilation to try and stick together multiple interpreter loops into blocks for constant folding and things. It didn't work out that well (it's a unique enough space that no existing codegen backend was a good fit, and I started on writing my own backend using dynasm-rs to support it instead that kinda stalled), and I realized that I liked working quite a lot and just went back to my old job.
My speculation is that being surrounded by ubiquitous wireless technologies, some people are going to be curious about the nuts and bolts of it all and want to understand how it works. A second factor is that things like RTL-SDR that allow exploring interesting signals for about the cost of two decent burritos makes it very low friction to get started. I hope the interest continues to grow.
I've sat through some bad film translations of books before, but Foundation is worse than any Stephen King treadmill. I think maybe Lawnmower Man was probably a bigger delta between book and movie than Foundation (a short story about a satyr who eats grass naked vs. virtual reality!)
then they will relocate sections of the factory gradually. before you downvote, i'm not agreeing with this process but just stating what will happen next. a system that is maintained will always * look for ways to "optimize", think of any first job you had, remember how boring certain task were? or downtime? what did you do? you found something to do, most of the time it's some type of optimization. upper management will not be able to look at what is classically label as "inefficient" without going in there and "nudging" this or that part. i've experienced this first hand working in factories as an assembly line worker
> There's a couple of things in there that are just correlated to the fact that the author is around young/wealthy people, like the low obesity rate

The other issue is geographic - the author is a grad student in DC, which is one of the more fit areas of the country. This is one of the few cases where I'd say it's more a class thing than a wealth thing. Political staffers and the generic military types by and large, are not wealthy people, but are very scrupulous about avoiding obesity.
I try to start from the bottom up. I'm "fortunate" to live in a country where we have a saying - The country doesn't have a mafia, rather the mafia has a country. So I'm pretty used to hearing "we need systemic change, individual action is meaningless". But I just keep telling myself to be the change I want to see and - honestly - I see results. I'm not saying I have changed anything, but the situation feels a bit better. And when it comes to democracy the elected officials are a direct representation of the peoples of the country.
Hard drives are still first and foremost optimized for low cost per TB. Almost everything you're asking for would work against that goal, even if you could get economies of scale on these specialized drives. You would end up with little or no cost savings relative to QLC NAND, sequential read performance and random IO performance that would still be worse than QLC, and potentially higher latency than current hard drives.

Seagate has been pursuing dual-actuator drives because density increases have been causing a decline in performance per TB, making the performance characteristics of big hard drives relatively more tape-like. It's a first small step in the direction of your proposals, but it doesn't seem to be a big hit so far. That indicates taking those ideas to their logical extremes is probably very uneconomical.
What are the most common reasons for losing it?
Or don't, as the case may be :-)
Children and the Spread of Covid-19
In my part of the world, it's always the person's behind fault.
Launching an international airline! (See np.com)
This bit me when moving to iOS. Thankfully I didn't use Signal all that much, but I did "sign" some far away friends keys before so that was disappointing...
$20 for skilled labor in this industry seems very low. The bump to $22.13 when CEO gets a bump in the millions is really throwing the finger to workers everywhere.
> hot sauce area

There isn’t enough fermented hot sauces in New Zealand… not sure if the product gap is worthwhile where you are, or whether it interests you.

Perhaps you could become as great as ADAM REAL-LAST-NAME-UNKNOWN - chapter heading page 119: https://joeandjin.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/anthony-bourda...

“Why, of all his creatures, did He choose this loud, dirty, unkempt, obnoxious, uncontrollable, megalomaniacal madman to be His personal bread baker? How was it that this disgrace as an employee, as a citizen, as a human being-this undocumented, untrained, uneducated and unwashed mental case who's been employed (for about ten minutes) by every kitchen in New York-could throw together a little flour and water and make magic happen? And I'm talking real magic here, people. I may have wanted Adam dead a thousand times over. I may have imagined, even planned his demise-torn apart by rabid dogs, his entrails snapped at by ravenous dachshunds, chained to a pillory post and flogged with chains and barbed wire before being drawn and quartered-but his bread and his pizza crust are simply divine. To see his bread coming out of the oven, to smell it, that deeply satisfying, spiritually comforting waft of yeasty goodness, to tear into it, breaking apart that floury, dusty crust and into the ethereally textured interior . . . to taste it is to experience real genius. His peasant-style boules are the perfect objects, an arrangement of atoms unimprovable by God or man, pleasing to all the senses at once. Cezanne would have wanted to paint them-but might not have considered himself up to the job. Adam Real-Last-Name-Unknown may be the enemy of polite society, a menace to any happy kitchen, a security risk and a potential serial killer, but the man can bake. He's an idiot-savant with whom God has serious, frequent and intimate conversations. I just can't imagine what He's telling him-or whether the message is getting garbled during transmission.”
not being denied for pre-existing conditions, or being dropped for hitting a lifetime limit, have been a huge lifesaver for many Americans. if one is fortunate to be young or healthy the ACA wont benefit as much. but its a huge improvement and peace of mind for the large percentage of folks it helps
No, just leave. It’s not your responsibility to fix this unless you were hired to do so.

A trash fire will remain a trash fire.