skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a particle physicist friend I asked this very question to last year. He laughed and told me that this is not something that keeps physicists up at night. After doing a fair bit of my own research and watching a lot of PBS Spacetime it does make more sense to me. Someone with more knowledge please check my understanding: Quantum Field Theory treats everything as a wave and 'particles' arise as a result of a 'collapse' of that more fundamental wave (probability distribution) as we decide to probe our uncertainty budget by getting specificity on the locality of the particle. It can also collapse of course by interacting with a combinatorial explosion of other particles (such as the back wall of the double slit experiment).

If the above is accurate I still think the collapse is a strange phenomenon that we shouldn't just take on faith (without probing deeper of course) - the disagreement between Copenhagen and Many Worlds (and the lack of a testable hypothesis) seems to indicate the collapse itself isn't well understood [1]. Many Worlds seems to have an elegant solution but it needs experiment and wasn't (and probably still isn't) 'accepted' by the overall community.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_function_collapse#History...
This has been said ad infinitum. My experience is that Windows works, but very poorly. It is slow, hangs, steals my data and treats me like an abusive parent treats a toddler.

But for me, Linux doesn't work. Or maybe it works 90%. Something's always broken, and a different thing is broken with each update. It requires constant tinkering.

One flawless and amazing experience I had was working on Linux at a medium-sized tech firm, which had a dedicated sysadmin team who knew what they were doing. As a decent Linux user I could never maintain anything like that level of service on personal machines.

I think it's quite telling that so few vendors sell you hardware+Linux+promise of it all working well. There are quite a few who will sell you hardware and pinky promise you can install Linux on it yourself, but that's not the same.
Pretty cool, thank you.
EDIT: There is a now an incorrect response to this post of mine stating that I forgot to mention the ZIL SLOG -- but the poster doesn't understand how the ZIL SLOG actually works unfortunately. :(

I applaud OpenZFS for these major improvements, but its performance is not competitive with some of the commercial offerings, even if OpenZFS is a more easily administered solution.

The main issue with OpenZFS performance is its write speed.

While OpenZFS has excellent read caching via ARC and L2ARC, it doesn't enable NVMe write caching nor does it allow for automatic tiered storage pools (which can have NVMe paired with HDDs.)

This means that large writes, those which exceed the available RAM, will drop down to the HDD write speed quite quickly instead of achieving wire speed. Which means I get write speeds of 300 MBps versus 10 GBps wirespeed.

The solutions competitors have implemented are:

- SSD read-write caching, usually using mirrored NVMe drives to ensure redundancy.

- SSD tiering, which is including your SSDs in your storage pool. Frequently accessed data is moved onto the SSDs while infrequently accessed data is moved to the HDDs.

Without these features, my QNAP (configured with SSD tiering) kicks the pants off of ZFS on writes that do not fit into memory.

References:

[1] QNAP Tiering: https://www.qnap.com/solution/qtier/en-us/

[2] QNAP SSD Read-Write Caching: https://www.qnap.com/solution/ssd-cache/en/

[3] Synology SSD Read-Write Caching: https://kb.synology.com/en-my/DSM/help/DSM/StorageManager/ge...
To add a bit more, iXsystems makes enterprise NAS systems, and develops TrueNAS (formerly FreeNAS and TrueOS) which has ZFS as one of it's main features.

Klara systems is more of a development and support consultancy firm for FreeBSD and ZFS.
Thank you, I’ve never heard details of what happens with high claims like this.

I wish you the best.
But the thing is, I get the historical significance of the Mona Lisa and Mickey Mantle. I don’t need an appraiser or something to know why they have value. The value proposition of these Bored Apes is a lot less clear, and acting like “we all just play the game in our everyday lives already” is kind of hiding the ball.
This makes me curious, and I googled a bit trying to find how large you can grow these transparent, cubical crystals.

Largest I was able to find was about 2cm to a side, maybe a bit less.. Is there any fundamental reason they don't get bigger than this/lose transparency and form as they grow larger, or is it more that no-one bothered doing growing them larger than that?
Is there any sort of in-band mechanism for verifying that the key that minted a particular NFT belongs to a specific person, or does that have to be done manually/off-chain? Is it the usual case that people purchasing NFTs or marketplaces selling them undertake that kind of due diligence before completing a transaction?
On that note, I was wondering on several occasions whether it would have been technologically possible to build neon lamp logic circuits in Babbage's time. Aside from the problem of building an air liquifier a few decades early, I don't see any really major technological hurdles there. That would have nicely solved his problems with mechanical manufacturing...
That's less of an issue though as it's a bit easier to migrate. If everything were already on Linux, then switching cloud providers is much simpler than switching the desktop systems themselves.

Also from my own enterprise experience, Office 365 cloud has still got a long way to go.
Is there a service where you can have relevant parts of your genome sequenced without running the risk of the data being retained and shared against your will?
Why should an average user care that founders are premining "scammers"? An average user won't be a miner and an average user doesn't have an investment in any platform.

Someone saying x-crypto is a premining scam is somebody who invests in another platform and is advertising.
Yes, this is the way. It doesn't makes sense.
Let's say you create some image, and claim ownership over it.

Would it be theft if someone views that image, and thus saves it? Like via the browser/cache, to the computer, or whatever.

I can see that it would be a copyright violation if someone actively hosts that exact picture. Shouldn't be much different from hosting copyrighted audio or video clips.

But then again, if you host that picture on some public website - just the mere fact that someone views it, would also mean that their computer probably has already stored it?

With that said, I do think that sharing copyrighted material, goes under digital theft. And in this case, someone has explicitly shared the media/data.

(I'd imagine that this varies from country to country. What is theft in one country, may not be the same in another.)
I am surprised when [1] Python or [2] Ruby is recommended over PHP at the very least from a performance standpoint. PHP has a lot of built in standard library utilities and it's execution model is so simple for both web applications and scripting system automation jobs.

[1] https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

[2] https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
Simplifier: Technology I can achieve on my own
And if there is no system?
https://prototypefund.de/project/microg/

https://prototypefund.de/about/
So in other words it’s useful for feeling morally superior.
Not sure what you _thought_ I was saying, but I was only saying parent's statement about NFTs is wrong. This was not a statement about the impact of cryptocurrencies on society.

You seem defensive. Find a comment that requires the above defense.
> Is there anyway you could put this in a github repo? Or would you give me permission to copy and paste it?

I once handled such resources in separate repositories (e.g. "best practices", "accessibility notes"), but I've decided to put them under my blog instead. Less maintenance, single place for all my projects.

But it's totally fine if you want to maintain such a list yourself! If you don't copy my blog post exactly and maybe include a back link, feel free to do so. (if you do, please share a link, so I can subscribe to changes)

> I spent an entire morning earlier this week, researching all the different options and the pros/cons of static site commenting, just with google, and discovered this post today and it's way more complete than all of my research.

Thanks! I think the reason is that I wrote this post in 2018 and update it every time I find something new. I've setup HN email notifications for some related keywords (like "Disqus") to learn about new tools and add them to my post.
Everything that's on Netflix is on torrents and even pirate streaming sites since it's the easiest content to pirate.

Bands might have a different set live than studio versions but you can play that, and this counts 5 times more for DJs who also attract huge crowds. The extra energy and hype are more akin to the extra energy and hype and bragging rights you get from the NFT community when you have an actual NFT compared to lack of it when you just download the image.
It doesn't help that we screw with the pronunciation of loan words and then label anyone who pronounces them properly pretentious.

One of the worst destructions of foreign pronunciation has to be Notre Dame. It hurts me to say "noter dayme". More recently, having to pronounce La Croix as "lah croy" has also been annoying. But unfortunately for both of those it's objectively wrong to pronounce them the French way since they are proper nouns and whoever is using that proper noun defines how it is pronounced when referring to them.
I added some content from the about page as contents are not overly clear from just the title.
I wonder if the Olympus "pro capture" mode mentioned in the article would do the job. That effectively gives you the ability to choose the shutter response time after you have taken the photo, including the option of negative values.
Revolut has those: https://blog.revolut.com/introducing-disposable-virtual-card...
I don’t need another biography/blog post fawning about John von Neumann, I need this goddamn series reprinted https://www.amazon.com/John-Von-Neumann-Collected-Works/dp/0....
"cancellation" is just social ostracisation. Both sides do it, it's a pretty universal human behaviour.
It is a good question. If you want something more convenient for complex manipulating data than Excel, but don't want to use a 'proper' programming language like Python, then you would probably be better off using a visual data transformation tool - such as our Easy Data Transform.
When I was a kid, it was very popular school project to grow copper sulphate crystals. They have a very nice blue color.
A consensus-challenging internet is perceived by both governments as a threat to central authority, and the pervasive surveillance and speech restrictions they’ve begun to mutually embrace will produce an authoritarian center of gravity that over time will compress every aspect of individual and national political differences until little distance remains.

This is why both parties are so bizarrely hostile to Section 230.
The Legacy of Mattress Cash Fires
You numbers are right. I just checked my stats on current project: 101 LoC per day. On this project I have ) incompetent PM, so ticket descriptions are vague thus I need to manage ticket queue by myself, ) hard to reach product owner, so I must figure lot of things at my own, *) no dedicated QA team, so I need to write test scenarios in addition to automatic test cases and then perform them manually, etc.

> Are your fixed-price estimates based on LoC?!

I don't now. I was not a part of sales.

> Else, why aren't you embedding that knowledge in a corporate library ("contractors tools") which you license to all your future customers?

Because each customer has different requirements, different goals, different language and framework. Nobody wanted to pay for a library.

> If you write 1KLoC/day then you're likely generating 2 post-release defect bugs per day. That's in addition to bugs your QA team catches.

In practice, I had about 1 serious bug slipped per 1-2 weeks. Professional QA team known a lot of corner cases to test already. Professional developers know them too, even when writing in a different language using different framework. Moreover, we know how to prepare good CI, efficient automated tests, how to write efficient documentation, who is responsible for what, etc.

> Your numbers are so far outside of industry standards and academic findings that, with 20+ years of experience, you must know they are exceptional and difficult for anyone else to accept on your simple say-so.

How much I will be paid if you will accept my story? :-)
What kind of climate do you live in? I live in Sweden, I have several types of mint in the garden and it's a constant hassle because they overtake and smother absolutely everything else.
Ah, I'm sorry you didn't find it a good explanation! I Can try and update that; in the meanwhile, maybe you would find the explanation of what the workflow is and how to do it in our docs helpful? https://docs.graphite.dev/getting-started/the-graphite-workf...
You could build your own react image wrapper then use that component in the mdx and pass in two images, then display the appropriate one based on the current theme provider. Docusaurus makes using inline react components easy.

You could also write your own remark plugin, that does it for you, and would have the benefit of having more control over what happens on the github side if it was still standard markdown.
Lemmy Release v0.14.0: Federation with Mastodon and Pleroma
Organic SaaS Growth: Scoping the field of possibilities
The kind of optimizations you would do in an application server would prevent you from scaling pass a single server
That would be one of the equilibriums I'm attempting to reference.
All governments agree with you. Specially Venezuela.

Inflation is small until it is not. Inflation is a revenue system for a government.
I think the main "drawback" of LibreOffice is that it is not widely used. If you receive a docx document and it formats funny, or vice versa (common on LibreOffice and not entirely their fault), it's on you for using weird software, or penny-pinching on a MS Office license.

If it becomes common, people just accept the minor incompatibility and move on. It will also get better as funds and attention flow to these projects.

As far as I'm concerned, LibreOffice lacks no features I would remotely consider using.

It's like when Windows was the sole mainstream OS, it wasn't an excuse "oh but I'm on Mac and can't run this". Now Macs are mainstream, and Linux is not, it's still in a "weird nerdy" corner. But not so if it just gets more widely used (it's happening, just slowly).
You've created a straw man. Author said use of bitcoins for "payments" while you've broadened that to all "transactions" on the blockchain. These are not the same thing.
I think you would enjoy the recently published book, "The Dawn of Everything" by David Graeber and David Wengrow. A point made early in the book is that Native American criticisms of European society, particularly its lack of freedom and mutual aid, led to the development of defensive European theories of civilizational development that proposed that the loss of freedom was the inevitable result of the movement from hunter-gatherer societies toward agriculture and monarchies. Democratic revolutions around the world have changed cultural attitudes about freedom to be much more like Native American ideas, but many people still operate in the framework of civilizational development that had more to do with justifying power than accurately modeling historical events.

The idea that we would have to revert to independent bands of hunter-gatherers to achieve freedom acts as a mental block. This is not to say that this movement away from freedom is completely ahistorical but that cultural attitudes about power have been much more dynamic, flexible, and even seasonal than the kind of linear movement toward inevitable constraints that might fit into the theory. By examining the many different types of arrengements people have instituted, we might learn new ways of organizing ourselves. There are plenty of opportunities to do so in the world today.
+1

"with freedom comes responsibility" (Eleanor Roosevelt's context was different, but the phrase is important)
> Fair, it makes it more difficult for learners, but I'm not sure how relevant that is for a language unless you debase languages to being simply brutal ways of conveying meaning.

It makes it difficult for everyone. So many hours of L1 and L2 speakers are sunk for no good reason just because someone finds it cool to have “p” in “receipt”.
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The big question is: Is the aim to have the best possible software integration? Or is it about freedom from MS and contributing to open source?

If it's software integration, MS is hard to beat. It comes at the price of total dependence.

If it's about freedom then going full open source is great. But the cost in efficiency is huge, since the OSS alternatives will never be as streamlined as MS's stuff. not having to spend money on licenses is great but a lot of extra footwork will be required to get the job done.
"We tried to ruin you but we failed so we didn't really try to ruin you"
Along these lines, there is a wonderful quote from James D. Nicoll from back in the days of Usenet:

“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.”
When somebody is typing or not does not get broadcast to every contact. It’s only sent to the individual who is about to receive the typed message. O(1) communication vs O(N). That is a different feature which is not XMPP presence and I agree way more relevant in the modern world.

Even if the server load from presence is acceptable (we clearly disagree here) it’s not okay to bombard somebody’s mobile device with these messages all the time. If your phone’s CPU and radio need to wake from sleep every time any one of your contacts picks up or puts down their phone, your battery life is ruined. You may think these messages important, but they are not urgent.
> the truth is that "it just works" and makes collaboration very easy.

My org does that too for different reasons for years now. It just works is a lie. We also have a lot Apple devices for all our external employees. That doesn't 'just' work as well.

Sadly I have to deal with SharePoint integration which a lot of MS services are based on. Digitally outdated has a complete new dimensions here, even if you add half baked services like Flow on top of it. There are far more modern alternatives than what MS brings to the table, there are countless alternatives that are better to control and easier to adapt.

You could use teams on Linux and while the office integration is nice, it isn't essential at all. This "collaboration" in the MS cloud is a nightmare to archive or access and some of the APIs are in a beta phase. We killed our fax a long time ago...
I actually think about this paradox relative to the uptick in crime in major cities.

Take SF for example where crime has seemingly spiked and there's no willingness to enforce the law /prosecute offenders.

On one hand, a version of Hammurabi's Code (to cut off the hand of thieves) is probably inappropriate. On the other, we've created an environment where there's no repercussion for breaking the law.

Personally, I find myself favoring Hammurabi's approach.

I don't believe his code specifically addressed petty theft; allow me to paint with broad strokes.
Before opening the link, I read the text and thought "This sounds like Feynman!"

The man truly had a way of speaking that is instantly recognizable.
I don't have much to say, other than it's nice to meet other (more knowledgable too) language nerds. Have a good day :)
I haven't used SharePoint/O365 much, so I don't know how it compares, but I've been quite happy with Nextcloud and its OnlyOffice integration.
For me, it is also Avatars. I often just don't read the name before the comment, maybe after, if I found it interesting. When people had little pictures it was just so easy to recognize them when just scanning the conversation.
Steven Pinker Has His Reasons
Feature-poor cameras with £2000 prime lenses!
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NFTs are a great idea but what people are doing with them now is a scam.

I’m not sure if it will ever come to pass but imagine what the rumors for GameStop’s nft could be - a decentralized steam.

People can build whatever client they want and it uses the blockchain to determine if you own a particular digital game. Then when you want to see it you can just sell the nft. Obviously there are a lot of considerations to that but having a decentralized ownership of digital goods isn’t a terrible idea as compared to “renting” we do now for everything.

That said paying 30k for a jpeg seems also a scam but Twitter is going to use them for avatars or something so now, potentially, we’re talking about buy unique digital “gear” for your online persona. Sounds less dumb and more like unique skins in a game or something.

So yes most of it is a scam and tulip fever today but I could see the tech being used for interesting things.

Probably won’t be but it could be.
> This requires introducing a right-handed partner for each known (left-handed) neutrino, which some people don't like because right-handed particles don't partake in weak interactions, and weak interactions are the only (known) neutrino interactions (apart from gravity), so you end up with undetectable particles.

I'd be curious to hear more about this. What mechanism forces you to add right-handed partners? Is it some conservation property? Are calculations too difficult without them?

Maybe it's also not clear if there really is a difference between saying "right-handed neutrinos exist but are undetectable" and "right-handed neutrinos are fake particles added for ease of modeling".

Edit: Wikipedia also says

> The neutral-current Z^0 interaction can cause any two fermions in the standard model to deflect: Either particles or anti-particles, with any electric charge, and both left- and right-chirality, although the strength of the interaction differs.

So could right-handed neutrinos be detected this way?
ex-Soviet states were also protected from Cold-War meddling by the West, unlike many other countries. Meanwhile, people like Lumumba and Allende are assassinated.
(2018) though I don't expect much has changed...
There are over 200 countries out there. One of them could always adopt the gold standard if it's such a great idea. Maybe there's a reason zero have done so in recent decades?
I'm aware but rereading it was unclear. I more was asking/bantering about todos.

Sharing docs via HTML export is great
no, it isn't. Banning parties that openly call for genocide (for example) is not fascism, it's having anti-genocide principles.
> Sometimes I also wonder why Org Mode is not as popular as Markdown, the former is far more powerful.

Because it's so integrated with Emacs, and all other editors are second class citizens (/hosts)?
I'm all for using free / open source where it makes sense and is cost effective. And frankly, Office is probably overkill for most of the actual needs of users. Having said that, I tried making a three page brochure a year ago, using the most recent LibreOffice release at the time. Just a mix of some screenshots and paragraphs of text. It was just too slow to be useable. On the same computer, Google Docs running in the browser was able to handle the same brochure without any noticeable slowdowns of any kind. That's a strong indication that LibreOffice is just ... not up to the task.