skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) has stockpiled enough smallpox vaccine to vaccinate every person in the United States." [0]

[0]: https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/bioterrorism-response-planning/...
How does this compare to other effect-oriented languages like Koka, Frank, and Eff?

I've been doing some work with Koka lately, but I briefly looked into the other three (including Effekt) and it mostly came down to, 'Koka seems most active in development'[1] and 'Koka had the easiest to use documentation for me'[2], which are both kind of subjective ways of choosing between them rather than an objective comparison.

[1] E.g. https://github.com/effekt-lang/effekt had its last commit back in June; https://github.com/frank-lang/frank last commit last year; but https://github.com/koka-lang/koka last update was Oct 15. Effekt seems semi-active, at least, compared to Frank. While stability is good, I wouldn't expect it in a language actively being used for research.

[2] Comparing https://koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/book.html and https://effekt-lang.org/docs/ and https://www.eff-lang.org/learn/
You're rehashing mainstream news articles that gloss over crucial details.

"Plotting" is the act of filling the hard drive with the random data. It only needs to be done once, after which the data can be used to "farm" indefinitely.

Farming is very low on energy requirements and doesn't damage the drives.

Plotting can be accelerated by doing it on a fast SSD, and transferring the plot data on large capacity HDDs for farming. This saves time at the cost of writing a lot of data on the dedicated plotting SSD, which trashes consumer grades SSDs if done continuously.

Plotting can also be done on the HDDs themselves. It's slower but won't noticeably reduce the HDD's lifespan.

When Chia was launched, there was a lot of speculation and farmers were competing to be first to finish as many plots as possible, so most were plotting on SSDs, and many on consumer SSDs. That's were the "Chia destroys hard drives" myth came from.
Well Desktop Environments have become what the Linux Desktop is to most people and it honestly made sense back when we had just KDE and Gnome and maybe XFCE. But now we have so many damn Desktops that thinking about the good old day of just using a Window Manager (or now a Wayland Compositor) appears simple.

It sort of sucks that every distro thinks their shitty UI customization is their unique selling point, overwriting what ever Desktop Environment does. In the end the user is probably going to change it anyway or try (sudo apt install vanilla-gnome-desktop? WTF?).

When advanced distros like Manjaro and Arch get more popular because you don’t have to undo so much things are sort of bad.
Anything beyond a completely centralized service (like twitter) is castle in the clouds levels of hard.

Maaaaaaaaybe the forst loss stat? Via satellite images?
Truth is, if you want to really learn algorithms and data structures, then you are the one who has to "go into the details". CLRS is the bible, I can't think of a better book, and you don't have to read it sequentially because most chapters are independent of each other.
From someone who knows little about this -- what is the advantage of this kind of engine? And have we scrapped the idea of space elevators?
There were interior defenses though. In some of the more impressive castles there were concentric rings of walls so breeching on wouldn't surrender the whole castle. There were often also keeps. Even in early proto castles you had motte and bailey designs where the main walls defended the low ground (bailey) for an interior fort built on a hill or prominence (the motte).

Castles weren't single layer defenses that stopped at the walls, they were definitely designed to continue the fight and protect the nobles even if the enemy did get through the walls. Given that it's not so out of line to think the interior architecture might have been designed to increase defender's advantages.
Before AirTags these devices were somewhat obscure, and without the ability to have their location broadcast by a network of smartphones either a lot bulkier or a lot less capable. Apple widely advertised theirs, turning them from something you see in Breaking Bad to something you buy in the mall. I think it's completely fair to single Apple out here.
It works well with junior developers too.

The problem isn't really seniority or juniority it's that doing this usually requires buy in all the way up to the CEO.

If it doesn't then the CEO pressures the CTO for estimates, the CTO badgers the middle manager for estimates, the middle manager badgers the project manager on your team for estimates and he comes nervously to you asking if you could please give him something resembling a date while he nervously wonders how much to pad it.

Each one has their asses on the line for the date.

You can be as "agile" as you like on a team but this wave of estimate badgering reliably turns on the waterfall every time.
Not open source, but Northpass has a pretty robust API so you can white-label your LMS. I've seen it used to power Shopify's academy.
I think you are deliberately missing the point.

One example: Kevin Hart had to step down from hosting the Oscars because 10-20 years ago he made a joke about how his kid would never be gay and if he were he would hit him with his dollhouse (the joke being that Kevin is oblivious to how gender-bending the kid already is).

That's only really possible because of social media. In the good old days if such a comment surfaced, there wouldn't be horses of randos calling for consequences for such a thing from so long ago. The preservation and immediateness of long ago comments enables this.

Church driven orthodoxy was about what happened now. You could be forgiven if you took back what you said or you apologized. Churches didn't go back 20 years to your tweet history and inquisition you over it.

Social media enables such things literally by keeping a record of all your comments from years ago (which didn't exist back then) and also by allowing people now to interact with such comments from years ago, right now.
Could you please do 5 seconds of Googling before saying stuff like this in public?

The fact is that an AirTag will start beeping after 8-24 hours if separated from its owner. So no, it's just plainly false that an Android user "would have never known". Plainly, and obviously false.
Probably a reference to cloudflare: https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/lava-lamp-encryption...
There are many other tracking devices available. This is the only one that notifies the target. If one of those other devices had been used then this lady would have never known she was being tracked.
What's the justification for those cars that fuel up behind the rear license plate? Probably aesthetics, like Jobs insisting the Apple have no vents
Yes, it should be protected as they are the ones that did it to themselves.
"makes it clear"

You assume a lot about management/product there. The term -should- make it clear that debt has a cost to carrying. But the thing is -they aren't paying that cost-. From their perspective, they're getting free money while the devs pay the interest.
In the case of a large institution adhering to some law-encoded conducts and held accountable by the wider public, there is less chance for targeting random individuals based on their specific views, relationships and personal states of affairs. Again, it is key that the institution is accountable and not some repressive apparatus of a totalitarian state.
How is it meaningless? Your program's integrity is compromised, but the host is not. That's a meaningful difference.
Yes, I agree. I believe military-grade optics detection systems use multiple wavelengths, and some even use short bursts of visible light, making it harder to block.
How is it irrelevant? "Apple needs be forced" By whom if not the government?
We have enough stockpiled to vaccinate every single person in the US [0].

[0]: https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/bioterrorism-response-planning/...
Many packfile-deduplicating backup tools (bup, kopia, borg, restic) can mount the deduplicated storage as FUSE.

It might make sense to check how they do it.

I'd also be interested in how elfshaker compares to those (and `bupstash`, which is written in Rust but doesn't have a FUSE mount yet) in terms of compression and speed.

Did you know of their existence when making elfshaker?

Edit: Question also posted in your Q&A: https://github.com/elfshaker/elfshaker/discussions/58#discus...
The world is starting to notice how many athletes are DYING after the Covid vax
Let us posit that the patient's goal is to remain alive and well (maximize quality-adjusted life years). Let us posit that the doctor's goal is maximal renumeration. Cannot we simply compensate the doctor quarterly as a function of quality-of-life during that quarter along with some fixed retainer. Now the doctor hopes we remain alive and well as long as possible?
And once I do, I'm being willingly tracked by Apple tech.
They do allow pseudonymous answers, so in most cases people can answer without fear of reprisal.

The anonymity was meant to be absolutely secure against that -- not even a warrant could break anonymity. But it made it impossible to moderate the site, because there was a ton of persistent trolling and neither the administrators nor self-moderation tools were of any use.

So this does remove a narrow use case of, say, whistleblowing or reporting from war zone. But I'll be blunt that I saw zero uses of that, and a ton of abuse.

You're right that it won't shift demographics. As I wrote in a separate comment the anonymous answers were less used for abuse than anonymous questions. I suspect it's more about software maintenance, ceasing to maintain a use case that has little value and much headache.
Tesla and EV dominance in Norway causes shortage of fossil fuel cars to tax
This is a great discussion on ZFS. I thoroughly enjoy reading HN! For those who aren't real IT people here is how I set up my first ZFS system at home.

My background includes a few years at IBM as an OS architect in charge of, among other things, the file systems and network services for AIX. However, this was a long time ago (~1988). So I understood NFS, inodes, what it meant to mount a device and the classic Unix commands for managing filesystems.

The first ZFS problem for me was just the vocabulary. What's a pool? What's a VDev? Fortunately, there are lots of high-level descriptions of ZFS on the internet that cover the high level concepts.

Getting the hardware set up was the second hurdle. There are a lot of discussions on forums that cover hardware issues and there you will find answers to many hardware issues, like: is ECC memory required, how fast does the processor need to be, are SATA drives recommended and what drive controllers are compatible with ZFS. Naturally, the answers to these questions depend on how critical is the system you are putting together. I suggest for most people to try setting up a ZFS on some old hardware just to get practice with it. I had a low end Dell tower server model that I wasn't using so it became my first FreeBSD/ZFS server. It had four hard drives.

The real difficulty for me was just the lack of a deep understanding of how ZFS works. ZFS has lots of features totally new to me so working with only the man pages for the ZFS related commands was not giving me much fun. I ended up buying two small books that I can't recommend enough, FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS and FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS by Michael W Lucas and Allan Jude, see [1] and [2].

These books are each around 200 pages long. The chapters of the first book are:

1. Introducing ZFS

2. Virtual Devices

3. Pools

4. ZFS Datasets

5. Repairs and Renovations

6. Disk Space Management

7. Snapshots and Clones

8. Installing ZFS

Each of the chapters is quite detailed, and I found these two books were just what I needed.

[1] https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B00Y32OHNM&preview=new...

[2] https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B01E40YIRM&preview=new...
A 386DX actually has a full 32-bit address bus, so you can theoretically give it (almost, due to MMIO) 4GB of RAM. Memory testing might take a ridiculously long time, however, and I'm not sure if there's any stock BIOS that will handle it. All limitations that can be worked around, of course.
It should be illegal even though she got a warning almost immediately, and even though she would have gotten a 2nd kind of warning almost immediately via the AirTag beeping constantly, even if she didn't have an iPhone?

Why? Seems to me there are plenty of privacy protections in place, here.
No, that is literally a solution.
Just one you may not like.
Apple put anti-tracking measures in place which will alert any iPhone owner if they have an unknown AirTag nearby that seems to be following their location. The AirTag connects to the Find My network (via Bluetooth) which allows it to broadcast its location anonymously via any nearby iPhone owner.
The ends don't justify the means. If the benevolent charity starts putting people into camps, it's evil.
> How? There's tons of these tracker products out there. Are we going to make the entire category illegal?

Statutory damages executed against company executives.

This is quite literally the solution for every singe "corporations no longer fear anything" argument. Execute against execs. They are the ones who would be balancing their multimillion-billion dollar rewards against either criminal or civil penalties.

If Apple's ( the company ) fuckups could make Mr Cook spend a weekend in Rikers next to a guy who beat up his gay roommate into pulp over $10, Apple won't ever fuck up as Mr. Cook would have all the needed motivations not to allow for it to happen.
> ...church-driven enforcement of intellectual and political orthodoxy

It's interesting you noted that line. When I read it, I was thinking of the legendary Saturday Night Live "Church Lady" skits. The character Dana Carvey created perfectly captured the judgemental, moralizing environment I saw in church communities as a child. The skit was so funny because it reflected a reality barely hidden beneath a thin-veneer of faux-friendliness.
Like all the cars she drives by, people near her parked car, etc? Google searches say any apple device within around ~10 meters.
Indeed, Cromwell tried very hard to destroy castles. The trouble was that they were very hard to destroy. Most of the ruined castles are not in that condition out of neglect; that was simply the "best" they were able to do at destroying them. Eventually, the cost of gunpowder was just too much to continue that campaign.
As much as I'd like to take your word on that you'll need to offer something more to actually demonstrate it's true as there is other speculation here it caused a dip and I have no idea which of you is correct.

I get the daily trading volume of ETH itself is large but don't see ready statistics for ETH->USD.
This is easy to disable. I enabled it after covid struck and found that nowadays the data has extremely low granularity.
Well, people still have the ability to refuse at great costs to themselves and ultimately the state itself. I think the low level of protection and associated risks cannot establish enough room for a vaccination mandate. And that mandate is also again something different than a pass. I am vaccinated but I won't use a green pass. That shit won't ever go away again and we would see this every winter when the flu hits a bit harder.
writing good error messages is hard* and a potential security issue if it leads to information leakage. for this reason in my team (not jira) we opt for "sorry, something is wrong" per default in the UI (with maybe the real error message in the logs) and only provide the real message if deemed necessary.

* and good developers aren't necessarily good writers
I've only ever listened to the podcast.

Giving these familiar voices faces did uncomfortable things to my brain.
>The aerospike engine has been the saint grail for rocket scientists since its was first theorized in the 50’s.

'saint grail' ...
One reason is that is is really tough to define what an LMS does since it can serve various use cases. Most people who are not familiar with LMSs think of Blackboard/Moodle/Canvas/EdX and mostly for academic/schools.

There is a whole set of industries for LMSs like B2B training, HR/Compliance/Continuing Ed/Healthcare etc. Then you have Product companies who just need to train their customers, create brand recognition etc. I jus spoke this AM to a startup who works with Kids and they need a "Kid Friendly LMS".I regularly see companies try and twist Moodle/Canvas/EdX for these but usually they end up with in-house duct taped solutions.

The challenge is that each industry can have its own needs and requirements and building something that can truly cater to all audiences in one single monolith LMS is impossible.

I am thinking about building an API first platform where you could build your own interfaces on top while the API does the heavy lifting. For example, you want to start a webinar ? Just call "/api/v1/webinar" and build your own frontend for it. Think of it like "Stripe for eLearning".

Disclosure: I run an LMS company so I know the challenges :) If you are interested in this space, hit me up. I am looking for people to join us.
> But to play devil's advocate, can't someone buy any cheap old iPhone (or any smartphone), activate it with a cheap prepaid plan, and use the phone itself as a tracking device instead of an airtag?

When I was younger I had a friend who worked in a cellular phone store (back when most people went to a physical store to buy cell phones).

He very frequently got customers asking for another phone to do exactly this. It was a common problem for their commission structure because the cheap phones used for tracking people (usually spouses suspected of cheating) were often returned within 30 days and their data plan cancelled, which was a net negative for their sales stats and commission structure.
Ok, what about many of the hundreds of commercially available trackers from china?
"A distinction should be made between coming up with a move and understanding the motivation for the move."

Sure, but realizing what the reasoning could be in retrospect (sort of reverse engineering) is by definition easier than coming up with a (paradoxical) move in the first place, so if you can't even do the former...

"polynomial time heuristics such as that would come from neural networks are much more likely to be human discernible."

AlphaZero's playing style definitely feels more human-like, as it has a "speculative" quality to it.

To quote no other than Kasparov:

"I admit that I was pleased to see that AlphaZero had a dynamic, open style like my own. The conventional wisdom was that machines would approach perfection with endless dry maneuvering, usually leading to drawn games. But in my observation, AlphaZero prioritizes piece activity over material, preferring positions that to my eye looked risky and aggressive. Programs usually reflect priorities and prejudices of programmers, but because AlphaZero programs itself, I would say that its style reflects the truth."

It's probably a bit deceptive, because what looks risky to us, probably isn't really perceived as "risky" by the neural network, which can "feel" the deeper correctness of the decision, much unlike traditional engines, whose conservative cautiousness stems from their inherent limitations. (We know that now - before AZ it was assumed this is simply the "right" way to play, just like Kasparov says).
Yes, that's how it is done in a spreadsheet.

A stream allows you to generalice the computation, not depending on the number of data items that were available when you defined the function; i.e. not different from a function with a loop.

Applications like AirTable and other modern outliners are exploring interfaces to model that kind of generalized data tables and relations with visual metaphors.
There is no distinction between so called "surveillance capitalism" and the state that uses it for their purposes.
Yeah 3 is pretty weak because it depends on knowledge flowing freely and quickly when you as a noble wouldn't want your fortress builder talking to potential or actual enemy fortress builders improving their defenses. It'd be a better example if they could show the same architect used both directions in different castles or the same castle.
I got an SSL error, fyi. ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID
This is basically the Kaiser model. Kaiser's doctors are salaried, rather than getting paid per procedure. Works pretty well!

(I think the actual answer to the question in the OP is, at least in part, to license more doctors. Then the cartel doesn't have as much pricing power and medical care is less of a luxury good. The rich person should really hire a lobbyist.)
Loved it when it came out. I tried the floppy demo a few times. It was impressive.
This is invalid for the same reason why none replies with "what about the rubber hose" to any cipher selection process.
If you look at .beat which is pretty much the same idea most common concerns are not addressed here.

How do you chose a meridian people think is fair? Swatches choice pissed people off.

How do you celebrate New Years Eve? You think people will support a system that tries to kill one of the year's biggest parties?

There's answers and counter answers, it's hard to model. Could Facebook just do it and become a defacto companion to standard time.... maybe.
I wonder why Crystal is not more popular today that it reached 1.X, as you say, it fixes some important Ruby issues but most importantly it also fixes Elixir's weaker points.
> and doesn't have a straightforward monetization strategy

I've seen a few bloggers doing 'sponsored posts' where they ask companies if they'd like an article discussing the company's product(s).

(There is a dark side to that too. Some posts don't declare they're sponsored and are secretly astroturfing/shilling products, so keep that in mind).

There is also affiliate marketing which has been a staple for many bloggers even since the early days. Check out Commission Junction.
As far as I know, those have always been pretty rare. Maybe more the style a few decades ago? I'd probably put my money on designers.
As of the latest iPhone release, "Find my iphone" still works even when you power the iphone off (there's a warning that says this when you attempt to shut down your iphone). I wonder how long an iPhone will hold its charge while powered off.
It was too subtle for me too. It didn't help that I've seen new languages on here that were completely serious and much more absurd than this.