skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless Omicron is different, which is possible and consistent with other evidence. It's spreading 500% faster than the original strain did; Delta was only 70% faster. The two asymptomatic Hong Kong patients both have sky-high viral loads.

That's why this data is so alarming. Either you've got a 10%+ base rate in the population and they all skipped (or false-negative) a pre-boarding PCR test. Or Omicron spreads fast enough that it can infect 10% of a plane during a 12-hour flight and multiply enough to show up on a PCR test upon landing. Or the 61 cases knew each other beforehand (same hotel, same tour) and it's bad for that travel operator but better for public health, which is why they're trying to get the facts on that.
Yeah, the more I think about it, the more it seems like this might be the way to go. What are the drawbacks? I know GPUs are hamstrung, so gaming isn't viable. But I can use another machine for that. What else?
I just calculated the 90th quantile of line length over the TXR project, for all the C, Lisp, Lex and Yacc sources:

1> (let ((q (quantile 0.9)))
(each ((l (flow "git ls-files '*.c' '*.h' '*.tl' '*.y' '*.l'"
command-get-lines
open-files
get-lines)))
[q (len l)])
[q])
63.9840684046716

The project follows two character indentation except in one inherited source file and its header.

The 99th percentile:

2> (let ((q (quantile 0.99)))
[ .. SNIP ]
[q])
78.9882857548558

Of course, that's skewed by the internal pressure to stay within 80 columns.

When we go to the 99.99th percentile, things take a bit of a leap:

3> (let ((q (quantile 0.9999)))
[ .. SNIP ]
[q])
[q])
104.790549931036

Still, that shows us that long lines are quite rare. Probably the column limit set by the 99th percentile is reasonable from this perspective.

Moreover, if we want to be quite generous, we don't have to add too many columns. 105 characters will only break 1 in 10,000 lines. Something can almost certainly be done about those. Or these outliers have something wrong, like being accidentally joined or something.

--

Let's tidy up the code, by eliminating the each iteration with mapdo:

1> (let ((q (quantile 0.9999)))
(flow "git ls-files '*.c' '*.h' '*.tl' '*.y' '*.l'"
command-get-lines
open-files
get-lines
(mapdo (opip len q)))
[q])
104.790549931036
> If you have a file on a computer, despite what NFT promoters believe, it is not possible to prevent people from copying it.

Not sure if these quips are meant to be jokes or serious, but nonsense like this detracts from the credibility of the argument. Nobody believes the data corresponding to an NFT cannot be copied.
Also relevant is this series:

https://jet-start.sh/blog/2020/06/09/jdk-gc-benchmarks-part1

"On modern JDK versions, the G1 is one monster of a collector. It handles heaps of dozens of GB with ease (we tried 60 GB), keeping maximum GC pauses within 200 ms."

(note: 200msec is its default goal, not the limit of what it can do)

Java has a reputation for needing complex GC tuning. Over time the need for this has fallen away as the GC technology has improved.

https://jet-start.sh/blog/2021/03/17/billion-events-per-seco...

"In our previous experience, we found you don't need any low-level GC tuning parameters to get great latency results on the JVM, but you do have to use a recent JDK. We let the JVM use its default G1 collector and configured it with our desired GC pause target."

"the maximum throughput at which a single Hazelcast Jet node maintains 99.99% latency within 10 ms now lies at 20 million items per second, a 250% boost!"

The JET guys show that a modern JVM (newer than Java 11) can achieve stunning throughputs with extremely low pause times. At 60fps each frame has 16 milliseconds to run. Obviously JET is a server and not a client-side app, but it helps put in perspective how impressive it is that your server could easily be running at "60fps" whilst processing 20 million items a second!
About 6 months. I use Windows 11 with no "fixed element" (ex: hidden taskbar, each app is in fullscreen) which may mitigate such issues.

I've checked recently with a pixelcheck tool and I couldn't see any alteration, but we'll see in a year or two!
Zillow just has Zillow. The homeowner has Zillow, local realtors, inspections, personal experience of the house...
For comparison, the whole OrgPad.com server currently uses 8 GB of RAM and 2 vCPUs. Everybody of the developers has 24 GB+ of RAM with all the main ones having 32 GB of RAM. This is because production uses "just" nginx, JVM with the application server, PostgreSQL, MinIO and a deduplicating backup using borg. The screenshot server is an extra VM, it runs headless Google Chrome with puppeteer on a 1 vCPU, 2 GB of RAM node.

We developers use a desktop operating system and programs with a GUI. That by itself uses at least 1 GB of RAM extra. We have an IDE, like IntelliJ that uses about 3 GB of RAM on my machine, there are web browsers, known memory hogs. There are e-mail clients, video-chat apps and all of the production stuff besides backup too. Some of it is recompiling stuff live e.g. shadow-cljs. There is also Spotify or occasionally a video call or screen recording e.g. using OBS Studio. That uses even more memory temporarily. There is a healthy reserve with 32 GB of RAM to make the experience smooth but 16 GB doesn't cut it anymore.
So we use about half of the amount of RAM eBay used on their Sun E10ks in 1999 just for development and that is ok. The RAM costs perhaps 100 € now. The 50 € difference really doesn't cut it, if I am having hangs because of swap and the GCs doing their best everywhere.
Quite the contrary, really. I actually started typing at age six, much earlier than most of my cohort, and used pen and paper mostly under protest as a child and especially a teenager. Years on MU*s in my teens and 20s, and probably on the order of a million words of prose expended in roleplaying, left me with no interest in paper save for the most evanescent of purposes.

So when I picked up that first Metropolitan and Amazon Basics notebook in 2018, it was more for the sake of it than anything, and with no real expectation of persevering - indeed, having surprised myself with the discovery that the medium really does make a difference has no small amount to do with why I've kept up the practice to the tune of around 1500 diary pages and several A5 books filled with work notes.

(While I'm singing the praises of the old ways, I suppose I should mention that a good hand, with a good pen, also doesn't hurt to use. When it doesn't take any force to clearly mark the paper, you can write pages at a time with barely a pause and never feel it in your wrist. Granted I do also have a writer's bump now, but I'm not a hand model, so that's not really a drawback!)
> Then again, it’s much easier to keep doing something when everybody else is doing it, so if you’re in an area where cyclists are a minority I imagine it’s more of a challenge to convince yourself. The advantages do still apply so I’m sending virtual encouragement!

Very much, and also netherlands bike lane system is a real luxury. I'm lucky to have a long bike lane to bike freely, if most of my area was like this I'd be biking twice more.
It astonishes me the level of expertise of some people in the comments section.

Complex defence contract negotiations, submarine technology, geo-strategic planning.

Its really quite impressive.
I see this argument so often and it simultaneously dumbfounds me and intrigues me. It’s inane, rose-tints the early internet, and focuses on one small part of the internet (websites) as being valuable and tosses the rest aside.

But the idea that we could make an internet that separates concerns again is very tantalizing to me. What if web services served data in a standardized, presentation-independent format, e.g. articles as plain html? What if those services then offered web apps to view content and competes to make the best viewers? Could we get back to a content-first model that still encouraged business to flourish?
Also: You can't avoid a lot of it: Is PART OF THJE JOB.

Also too: Next time people complain about JS, Java, Electron, etc? Remember this.
Uber:

- "Hey, I saw a statistic that females are anxious about taking taxis at night in France. Why don't we add a feature to let people share their locations with others?"

- "In London taxi drivers have to pass The Knowledge, a test on roads! Have we considered adding a similar pre-requisite test for drivers in that city?"

- "I noticed a lot of drivers on Reddit have been complaining that the tips aren't viewable on the app, but we have the data. Why don't we add that to the drivers UI?"

Etc... The sources of this information would be user channels like Reddit, taxi-related news sources in countries you operate in, and keeping up to date on legislation. Sure you might not have the ability to make any of these changes yet but if you stay ahead on these factors it's definitely the way to move into a position where you can have that level of impact.
That already exists, but it would also mean the end of end-user customizations. As mentioned by sibling poster, accessibility would be nonexistent, but one also could not use adblockers, copy text, etc.
Bob Bondurant died a short while ago. Now Frank. 2021 sucks.
Because money can't literally buy votes. no matter how many ads you show me I would never vote for Trump.
I moved from Stockholm to NYC 3 years ago.

Yes it's been worth it for me. I really enjoy my time in New York and I was looking for a change.

Being far away from friends/family is clearly not fun. I already changed countries several times within the EU before so I was used to it.

Some random notes since the question is a bit open-ended:

- I stayed with the same company, which helped me a lot because it gave me social contacts when I first moved (my colleagues).

- Having a guest bedroom is great because having friends or family over for a longer time is easier.

- The visa process is a pain while you're in it. Looking back on it, it's mostly the frustration at the lack of efficiency and unclarity that made it bad. Considering all the other things, it's a visible and easy to discuss "cost" but changing social circles is the bigger challenge and less easily discussed, I think.

- Moving to a country where English is the native language is a _lot_ easier than moving to a country where you don't know the language as well. This holds even if a large part of the population speaks English very well; if you don't speak native language of a country, it's hard to feel like a part of society.

- I personally don't like the "X in NYC" (X being your citizenship) facebook groups. Bonding based on interests (sports, books, ...) has been more rewarding for me.

The experience has been totally worth it for me and I don't regret moving one bit. That said... I don't plan on having kids in the US/growing old in the US.

(salary is better but I assume you looked that up already)
Makes a good point about the lightening network:

> Even when taking the Lightning Network into account, which is technically impressive, but seems inherently redundant as one has to do an on-chain transaction to open and close a channel. E.g., if someone without bitcoin wanted to accept, say, his monthly $1500 wage in bitcoin on the Lightning Network, he's obligated to first buy $1500 worth of Bitcoin himself, open up a Lightning channel worth $1500 in bitcoin, then transfer this $1500 worth of bitcoin somewhere else in order to empty the channel so it can receive $1500 of bitcoin. Fantastic.
IMO I think that it is more about the content of the book then the device it is stored on. Especially with a Kindle(the e-ink variety, not the LCD tablets) it is a single purpose device that looks near identical to a physical book. Of course if someone is reading on a modern internet device there is always the possibility of getting of losing mental concentration, but that is less so on a dedicated e-reader like a Kindle.
A moment that sticks in my brain is Lewis Hamilton driving Sir Frank Williams around the Silverstone circuit.

https://youtu.be/kSoQtwbpcGU
> Bitcoin is an open source permissionless protocol, so you have multiple clients to chose from, each with their own list of bootstrapping nodes, many open source where you can submit a PR to add your node too. You can even build your own client and point to whatever you want. You can also just ignore them and just point directly to nodes in a list from a public forum, a private chat, whatever.

I characterized this as relying on centralized authorities (albeit several of them), but sure, it can also be considered decentralized to some extent.

The point is that it's a mechanism outside of the proof-of-work network itself. Instead of relying on a machine to reach consensus via a formal protocol, you the human are probing for a social consensus by evaluating statements made by other humans (via GitHub, public forums, or private chats, or just talking to people in person).

In both proof-of-work and proof-of-stake, you need to find social consensus in order to initially obtain the software, after which point you can rely on the network's consensus.

The difference with proof-of-stake is that you have to redo this if you disconnect from the network for months on end.

In practice, for a variety of reasons, practically all users of cryptocurrencies download regular software updates, and thus continue to rely on social consensus, regardless of whether the currency is proof-of-work or proof-of-stake.
A trivial aside: English used to have something similar in a "score" being 20. So "four-score and ten" would be 90, not too dissimilar from the French.
Popular alert dialog library is mostly sponsored by NSFW companies
As someone else mentioned, hire a trainer. There is only so much you can learn from reading vs doing. Having someone guide you will increase the effectiveness of your effort by 10x.
No, it is a word like ananas or worm, an image in your head.

Nobody in France would do any multiplication, it is just a word.

We have a weird language ('eaux' is 'o', imagine that?) but this is not one of the crazy things.
Can’t we all just agree? A review of 10 papers on consensus (2015)
Cheap and effective: kettlebell workouts and running. Keep it regular even if you only do a bit.
Isn't health insurance like 10x the price? I always hear that US people pay 1000$+ per month. In Holland it's around 100 i think and here in Spain it's free. That works be a big issue for me because any time without employment would drain my savings
burpees
It's not the same thing. GP says that the entire source code of xena can be directly copy-pasted in your business javascript code, or even in your html; no need for imports, no need for CDNs, a process under control from beginning to end.

What you're proposing is essentially saying "look, it's easy to fly, here's how you do it in python":

import antigravity

def main():
antigravity.fly()

if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
Killing Senna ruined them. Hearing Frank - as an old and almost broken looking man - admit that during an interview (the last one I've seen) made me respect the guy a bit more. He looked like he felt guilty. They were guilty.

Rest in peace, old man.
I cofounded my own startup. One year in, impostor syndrome totally cured! Now I just need to earn some money...
Those may display too small on that Remarkable2, since it must zoom out to show a standard-sized PDF.
No, I've only had it a few days. I haven't yet really decided to return it, either; the tech is legitimately amazing, even if the software lacks a lot, and I've yet to more than scratch the surface of what the community has to offer.

I'll find some worthwhile use for the thing, even if it takes a while. I'm just disappointed that that looks so much like not being the use for which I actually bought it.
The biggest part of the LPL skillset is his knowledge about all the low-skill attacks that exist, and which locks they work on. Low-skill attacks are only effective if you know about them, and remember which locks each exploit applies to.

The only low-skill attack that seems to have any widespread effectiveness (and would therefore be worth trying on every lock) is raking, and that is pretty easily defeated by any lockmaker who cares.
LPL has discussed locks without being able to pick them, eg the Bowley lock

https://youtu.be/qV8QKZNFxLw
I thought it was a good review, because I find devices like this are always tempting, but never live up to the imagined utility compared to simple pencil and paper or simple "editor and text files" (or real books, in that case). I was glad to find out this is another one of those, before I spent $$$ on one.
One item of note - public transit is pretty common in the northeastern US. In the major metros (Boston, NYC etc.) most people do not own cars.
The only useful part of the article was the holding up of two example websites. If the whole article had been an informative survey of websites done right, it would have been a much more worthwhile read. The problem of monetization through serving ads that the author points out won't be solved by reverting to HTML only or even to text only. If a website costs money to host or create content for then it must generate revenue to pay the bills unless the author has other means of doing so. Making websites smaller will reduce those costs but won't eliminate them.

UBI is a non-answer to this, implementing it won't allow everyone to quit their jobs and make art instead. Ideally it's meant to be a social safety net, not a way to sponge off of "billionaires paying their taxes" and no ideal survives contact with implementation. We could hope for a marginal improvement on welfare at best (and that would be a good thing, even small improvements count).

The current web can and should be improved upon. Web browsers are in a "worst (that works) is best" situation after having roughly solved the software distribution problem. We need to take these lessons and move on to something better. Seamless execution of software in a sandboxed environment. That's how you solve the current state of the web, build something that is better suited to what people are trying to shoehorn into browsers and they will move all of their bloated apps off of the web leaving only pristine documents behind.
> Nowhere in any of my posts did I say juniors are too stupid to learn. Much like your previous comment, you are filling in your own blanks.

Easy conclusion to make when every post is full of reasons why juniors can’t learn SQL ;)

> is easier to learn than learning SQL from scratch,

I very much doubt many juniors are learning SQL front scratch. They’d have learned some already at college. And if they don’t genuinely don’t have any experience with databases what do ever then you bloody well need to skill them up irrespective of whether they use an ORM. So again, your argument here has no teeth.

> In your previous comment you simply went off the rails talking about branching and CI without tying it into your argument.

I’ve explained how that ties in several times now. There’s a difference between you not understanding best practices and me not explaining them

> If your argument is that CI will catch the issues, CI can only catch some issues. It too isn't a silver bullet,

I agree

> and relies on code review to catch some other issues.

Not just code review, automated tests, vets and so forth too. But I also agree that code review is a key part.

> Why not just use an ORM to add that security up front?

Because ORMs aren’t a silver bullet either. Except you’re trading in due diligence with lazy abstractions that add runtime overhead.

> It doesn't replace CI or code review, but it greatly reduces the risk of each stage failing.

It doesn’t reduce the risk of it failing. It reduces the ability for code to be vetted. It adds overhead and runtime costs. It adds complexity and the only benefit is you can keep your juniors blissfully in the dark about how your database works. That strikes me as a stupid compromise.

> Okay, you do you. You've dissalowed any reply of situational pragmatism for your own fastidious absolutism.

I’m not being absolute. I’ve said POCs and hobbies can bypass these best practises. And I’m being pragmatic when I say that every organisation I’ve worked at, both as an engineer and as a leader, has benefited from these best practices. Hence why they’re called “best practices” rather than “pointless processes”. Every organisation I’ve worked at where I’ve seen teams bypassing these best practices have been dysfunctional. That might work for you but it results in shit code — which is likely why you’re dependent on ORMs to fix things for you. And I urge you to read more on this typic rather than just taking my word for it. :)
What if Buffett just wants to see the world burn and doesn't care about getting the money back out?

Or if a nation state or the central banks see it as an existential threat, they could consider it the cost of doing business? Maybe $30B to take out Algo or Solana and destroy trust in all PoS networks? That's a rounding error for them.
Lived in the US throughout my 20s, lived like a grad student (with a few splurges here and there to celebrate career milestones) and saved+invested most of my money earned during a FAANG career, during covid i bought+restored an old manor in a rural area in my home country where I can live on a few hundred euros a month (it blows my mind what 30 euros gets me in fresh produce from local farmers compared to $100 at BiRite in SF). I'm still ~40 minutes away from a mid sized city and airport that directly connects me to large cities in Europe.

It's been worth it although it's come at the cost of personal relationships somewhat.
A bicycle shop owner would surely draw it perfectly from memory because he's familiar with their workings. People who have used them occasionally for transportation are aware of the general appearance of a bicycle, but will have trouble visualizing the details unless they've actually paid attention to them, and start guessing, just like it happens in dreams. they won't have trouble imagining the parts they're familiar with, like wheels, pedals and handlebars.

Also, I can imagine my wife's face almost perfectly, but any attempt to draw her will result in a monstrosity because I suck at drawing.
2022 Ferrari Daytona SP3
That's still high. In Barcelona you can find a city center flat for 1000€/month
I use sweetalert2 all the time and just stumbled upon their NSFW sponsors which eclipse the non-NSFW sponsors, which I thought was funny and interesting
This is awesome, thanks for sharing. I may tinker with it
There is an interview with co-founders of Pirate Bay on darknet dairies.

The founders come across as very arrogant, making childish arguments and apparently unaware of how modern society in which they live functions. Also lots of F words.

I was put off.
The natural scenario is that as the mining reward goes down, hash rate will dwindle until mining is profitable again.

The only real problem with that is that with a small hash rate, bitcoin can be attacked more easily.

If bitcoin is the monetary backbone for many nations, they will subsidize miners to maintain the balance of power. That is the actual scenario that I'm optimistically predicting.

If bitcoin isn't the monetary backbone for many nations, by then, then it's probably a failure, and should probably be allowed to die.

It's also very possible that transactions fees alone actually will be sufficient to support a high enough amount of hash power to secure the network.
This.

I know the DEC VT340 was capable of 132 columns, as was an Apple II with a Videx Ultraterm card and a suitable (hi-res) monitor.

There are probably even more examples, but those two are what came to mind first.
I haven't really found a job that's 2-3x more compared to Europe when not taking equity into account