skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this case, that is correct. From my (and the project TOS;DR's [0]) interpretation the TOS is still in general worded in such a way that Google can ultimately say, "we feel this shouldn't be here" and remove it.

For the record, that is fine, legally speaking. It just is something that I think we don't keep in mind, until our Gmail login gets locked[1] and our last backup was 6+ months ago.

[0]:https://tosdr.org/en/service/217

[1]:https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Linux. I remember someone from IS&T said Apple even forbid the usage of MacOS in their cloud platform.
That's arguable. It's entirely nontrivial to spin up a custom TPU and the ecosystem around it, and nvidia is fairly good at supporting the entire end-to-end picture (hardware, software, interconnect, higher level libs, etc). Easier to just spend $$$ on a first-rate system built by skilled integrators and replace it every few years.

TPUs are also just catching up on sparse workloads.
Really great points.

It also manifests in other strange ways that I'd summarize as killing our culture. Think of nursery songs as an example. Recall Little Miss Muffet sitting on a tuffet eating her curds and whey. I mean what is a tuffet, who eats curds and whey? The reason we don't have nursery rhymes in present day is that any of those songs are wrapped up in copyright and can't legally be shared.

The only saving grace about your Pong example is that game mechanics aren't copyrightable, so we thankfully have countless clones of Pong to play. Interestingly the same doesn't apply to Tetris, for some reason EA seems to have been able to succeed in largely removing Tetris clones.

https://www.gamedesigning.org/gaming/copyright/
Sure it'll take time.

Google cannot have it both ways though. They have a habit of completely restricting all ways of appealing or contesting these issues ostensibly because they think their tech is so good that it isn't required (at least in the vast majority of cases), and yet we have people permanently locked out of their personal and work GMails for months on end (or indefinitely) and now being accused of copyright infringement for the digit "1", with a bold assertion at the end of the email saying "This restriction cannot be reviewed".

Google's become so big that collapse/disruption is inevitable.
Ask HN: How good is the iOS app development experience on an M1 MacBook Air?
It doesn't approach it from a thermodynamic perspective, but the following paper summarises the duality between electrics, hydraulics, acoustics and mechanics:

SchÖnfeld, J. C. (1954). Analogy of hydraulic, mechanical, acoustic and electric systems. Applied Scientific Research, Section B, 3(1), 417–450. doi:10.1007/bf02919918
Nice post. Thanks!

Also, I am very drawn to the style of the page. :)
> The Democratic and Republican parties of the first have of the 20th century have almost no relationship whatsoever to their modern incarnations

That's a big overstatement, which is apparent given how often modern Democrats reference FDR. The segregationist wing of the Democratic Party was still recognizably Democrats in many respects. They favored labor, they favored a bigger government that invested in infrastructure in the rural south, where many Black people lived. Italian and Irish immigrants were a major constituency.

There is a reason Black people started voting Democrat in the 1930s, even though the party opposed civil rights until the 1960s. They joined the FDR coalition of minorities, rural, and working class whites against affluent white elites. The electoral college naturally puts a thumb on the scale against wealthy urban population centers. Ordinarily, that's a desirable thing.
WinFS was meant to be far more sophisticated than that. It's more like Salesforce for your file system.
Good question :) The difference is that in that case, the problem might take a long time because the input is very long, but in this case, the problem might take a long time even if the input itself is fairly short.
That's a good point! Didn't think about that.
Don't you have access to actions in private repositories, or is that not the same?
This thread isn't about NFTs being an improvement over all copyrighted work, this thread is about NFTs being an improvement over other NFTs.

On the consumer side I wasn't suggesting anything, I said what they have to do in response to an already existing market with already existing transactions. This isn't about some future reality we imagine on an internet forum, this is about one you are simply not in.

If you think checking is too hard, then make a service that makes it easier to check and charge people for it, how often do you rule out business models that you personally identify, because thats what the market is saying to do.
You're saying the invasion of a democratic (ish) country, whose population is now very anti-russia, is ethically defensible? The US/NATO may be pushing up against Russia, but not by force. How is offering a country NATO membership at all comparable to invading?
Great article. The references at the bottom of the doc are all great as well!
I can't say precisely how these deaths are defined. I can say that I know several people personally who have died of COVID just in the past month. I can't ever remember anyone I know dying of the Flu.
The trade-off is that a schema change (adding a column) unrelated to your query can modify its behavior.

Favoring aliases over columns instead has the potential to introduce irresolvable ambiguities as you can’t “qualify” a column alias with a SELECT list or subquery ID the way you can qualify a column by its table/view alias.
This is why there should be a way to automatically install software into a sandboxed location, e.g. a virtualenv.

Considering we are having software drive cars today it should be trivial and I would say even arguably expected that software should be able to autonomously "figure out" how to run itself and avoid conflicts with other software since that's a trivial task in comparison to navigating city streets.
Scaleway and Hetzner are cool. What I'd love to see is a lower-cost (if slightly higher-friction?) version of AWS as it was early on. Some sort of analogues for:

- S3

- VPC

- Compute instances (types don't have to bee too fine grained)

- SQS, SNS

- Some sort of Dynamo and/or RDS functionality.

- Some basic API coordinators, I guess Teraform has providers for lots of stuff these days.

Lambda- and fargate-like things would be a plus, but not strictly necessary.

I feel like 90% of the projects I've ever built could be easily made and scaled with nothing else. Further features hit diminishing returns really fast, and serve to muddy the waters up around what tooling is best, or even what exists.
What's funny is the graphs on that same page show something is clearly wrong. But nope, bright green!

EDIT: Okay, now it's not green anymore. Pretty quick status change TBH. I withdraw my snark.
Yeah, afaik this problem is totally unimportant in practice.
Those were certainly pulled out of thin air. All these numbers are for the US:

Approx 38k people killed in cars in 2020: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in..., lets assume the same for 2021 so 76k dead.

Approx 850k people killed by covid https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm

So covid killed more than 10x as many Americans as cars did (not including pedestrians). That doesn't take into account age though. CDC shows only 727 dead in the 0-17 age range.

For cars, it seems that at least in 2006, about 2000-2500 children 16 and under were killed in cars: https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...

Seems like cars are a few times more deadly for kids than covid, but covid killed way more Americans of all ages. Not a great analysis, but it's as good a job as I'm going to do.
> but children are absolutely hospitalized and killed by this disease.

Same thing applies to the flu w.r.t. to children and yet it’s not mandated for kids. CDC says 188 kids died of the flu in 2019 [0], which is not nothing but apparently small enough that no one is terribly concerned about sending their kids to school or the possibility that less than 100% of children have the flu vaccine (link says only 21% were vaccinated). Also on that page, the H1N1 pandemic resulted in 358 child deaths. And again, no one was terribly concerned about children.

“Ah,” you’re thinking, “but what about the number of Covid deaths in children?” A link I found indicates about 700 deaths over two years [1]. So maybe a little worse than the H1N1 pandemic that no one lost their minds over w.r.t. to kids and schooling? That’s the reason this argument keeps playing out over and over again. We’re in some sort of weird reality were people don’t realize that a non-trivial number of kids die every single year from the flu and therefore set their baseline to how many kids can die from Covid and still consider schools “safe” to zero.

0: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/spotlights/2019-2020/2019-20-pediatr...

1: https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/8361479002
what about an empty audio file four minutes and 33 seconds long?
(Author here) As far as I know, there are no cases where this actually matters.
I'd rather these absurd empire businesses to at least do something interesting with their empires instead of just make it a bit easier to consolidate money. Zuck is uninspiring and hard to like, but at least this move is somewhat visionary.
Idk how things work at Amazon (from what I've heard their vesting schedule is already kinda whack), but where I work freezing stock vesting is basically a 50% pay cut for the duration.
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> no different than anything else a consumer has to do

false.

if I buy a coffee machine and inside the box there's a brick there are a number of ways I can use to have my money back.

what you suggest is like buying the coffee machine from an unknown person who's also wearing a mask, altering their voice and doing their business in a shady parking lot picking up the box from the back of a van with no plate.

it would still be safer than what you propose.
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I think it's ok that there are things I don't want. There's no reason for me to offer money for it to be something different than the author intends.
The graphs show a spike in error rate in the past few minutes.
The post that you are replying to says that these exemptions were tightened years before Covid-19 existed.
Mahasi noting is the most meticulous practice I've ever done. It's easy to do wrong and should be done with a trained teacher. There are Mahasi centers that offer month long retreats which are worth exploring (at least when the pandemic is done).

The first time I did a noting type practice (way before doing the Mahasi style of noting) I became nearly instantly depressed and disassociated. Noting is, for me, a very agitating practice. If someone is reading this, this doesn't mean Mahasi is a 'bad' technique. But you may want to steady yourself in a shamatha practice before considering noting.
> The researchers found that the overall risk for dementia was 29 percent lower in those who had cataract surgery compared with those who did not.

> The researchers also looked at glaucoma surgery, another type of eye operation that does not restore vision but can help prevent vision loss. It had no effect on dementia risk.

Observational but well thought out. Full text: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...
It does a really good job of showing one of the flaws inherent to automation.

The note on magic towards the end is pretty deep, though:

Note: The word "magic" is a bit of a misnomer. It's not magic if it doesn't do something. It's magic if it does something.
>It's hard not to economically progress when one robs and sabotages all the largest economies in the world.

You mean what literally every society and culture was doing for all of human history? Native tribes across the globe were in perpetual war. Why do you think it was called the Aztec Empire as just one example? Every primitive culture would have done the same thing if they had the technology. Deception is a recurring theme in The Art of War and similar strategic works across time. Ancient Greece, ancient Rome, China, Persia, Islamic empires, etc.

>You are pointing out rituals in the rest of the world but these were occassional ceremonies.

lol no they weren't, human sacrifice happened dozens of times a day every day in Mayan and Aztec civilization. Cannibalism was a regular staple in many native American and African tribes.

All your comments on cannibalism are complete bullshit. The mummy eating stuff was basically over by the 17th century, except in rare instances.

Eating mummies is also completely different from literally killing someone for the purpose of eating them, or decapitating/ripping the heart out of someone for human sacrifice.

For someone claiming objective facts you certainly don't have any.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_canniba...
I don’t think so. Jordan Peterson is heavily influenced by Jung, and he said something that might be closer to Jung’s point:

> In some sense, I believed in the devil before I believed in God.

To unpack that a bit, he said suffering is the most real thing there is, and was obsessed with understanding how the unprecedented evil of the 20th century happened. That led him to reason that if evil like that can exist, its opposite might also exist, and has been finding his way to God ever since.
> (I've had difficulties with electron apps on Void desktop, but it runs flawlessly on servers.)

If by any chance it was related to sound, today is your lucky day as I just solved that this morning before work.
I switched to NetBSD instead of completely wiping 4.11 and installing 5.x.
> Do you think kids should be mandated to be vaccinated for a disease they've already had?

This is not a new approach. California already mandates that schoolchildren get vaccinated for chicken pox. It's not sufficient to have gotten the disease: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/health/story/2019-...

I'm not going to argue about this so will leave your other questions unanswered. Take care.
I strongly disagree with the article's assertion "take my word for it — it’s much easier to tell a computer “do this to every file in this folder” than to tell it “first, find everything with this tag, then put those into a string, then do a thing to every file in this string…”" because in most reasonable filesystem API's that's exactly what you would do with folders - first, find everything matching this wildcard from this folder string, put these filenames in a list, and then do a thing do every file in this list... I don't see a fundamental difference, in both cases you're running an arbitrary query first to get a list of the file names or handles with a specific criteria.
This, exactly. We're raising a generation where coding is synonymous with a browser, and the browser is effectively an operating system. It's getting a bit silly.

I don't see the value of commendeering a browser to run applications that would run more efficiently on the OS natively.
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The (currently) top-voted comment of that thread is somebody describing, how they went back to Linux after the honeymoon-period with FreeBSD, among others because of systemd.
I've just finished reading "Termination Shock" by Neal Stephenson, which explores this very concept.
Does Amazon do employment contracts? From what I've seen they're relatively rare at tech companies, except for executives.
This is getting repetitive.
They theoretically are based on copyright, but in practice the way it works is a few trusted entities are allowed to submit content and claim it as their own. If you have access to a Content Owner dashboard, you can claim literally any content you want from there- you'll just be putting your access to that dashboard at risk if you claim content that isn't actually yours to claim and Google gets wind of it.

This is how movies and music are added to the system for copyright enforcement purposes- they are effectively uploaded to YouTube and never published (this is called an "asset" in Content Owner parlance)
So, you want people to buy your security software, and you show how good your software is by abusing credentials you found through scanning?

That’s a bold move, let’s see how it works out for you.
Remember, "there is no review for this restriction"
I would love to read stories about the old tech stack of Amazon. It would be very fascinating to read.

I only read little bits about them, e.g. Obidos and Gurupa.

I also heard that content authoring used Emacs back in the day, was that true?

Link: https://www.quora.com/How-did-Google-Amazon-and-the-like-ini...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30065411
I read everything through Hackerer.news[0] which among other things has more distinguished visited link color. Clicking the comments or votes counts don't show much difference though.

[0] https://hackerer.news (source github.com/git-grep/hackerer-news)
Transformers can be represented by paddle wheels and gearboxes and such. They come free with inductance (inertia.)

The pedagogical failure of this analogy is how it suggests that the energy is stored in the potential and kinetic energy of the fluid (the electron density) rather than in the fields. Then you end up with this drift velocity nonsense which is essentially a holdover from the Drude model which is only predictive by luck.
Guessing it’s been studied to death re radar so probably makes a good test platform
That's definitely not true. I just agreed with you that there was an error in Sandifer's article. We agree that questionable rhetorical tricks and shoddy reasoning are bad.

But if you can't talk to me or take responsibility for your own words because I have a negative opinion of one of your faves, that's a choice you're making.
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It is indeed a great feeling to see accomplishment logged somewhere online. But I would be encouraged to do so if others would be able to review it and then find inspiration to quest on their own similar endeavor. I'm thinking of Indie Hackers, for instance--it's very encouraging to read of another's success.
My suggestion thus... allow for comments & discussion on any given entry. I could imagine myself commenting, "Good job with the carpentry! Did you use maple or oak?" Or something to that effect.

And maybe later on, rankings. As more accomplishments are entered, one goes from amateur to master to ninja, etc. But I don't think that's particularly important, just a thought. Either way, good job with HomeownerLog!
No, and indeed we already do.

It also illustrates a point: some people are really quite paranoid about their kids and covid but happily take other higher risks like driving around their kids in cars, which even with safety devices pose a higher risk, citing the data you just posted.

I would oppose checkpoints which denied people travel privileges unless their seatbelts were checked to be used properly.
What's a full rack size? 42U?

Also agreed with sibling comment that 1Gbps is pretty slow nowadays. Do you know if that can be customized?
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This was my show during first lockdown when everything seemed strange and it's air of normality and comfort was the balm I needed. Also lovely the way it celebrates the geek and avoids the temptation to mock
Actually, you are right, I mistyped. Although hypercube interconnects exist, and were used, for example, in AS400, system in question uses hypertorus topology.
> If you think checking is too hard

I'm saying it is useless

Who's the authority that certifies that I am the real aithor of the NFT I'm selling?

And what the original author can do to prevent it?

absolutely nothing.

so it's completely useless.

you're buying random numbers produced by running some computing device at 100% for a few hours/days

would you buy the output of 'cat /dev/urandom'?
99%? 98%?
Maybe all new features in new Major version? New FS=Next. But drivers should be buildable by the HW vendor right? And shouldn't the next kernel version be not crazy-hard to port the driver?
> A while back

Still in production, still incredibly useful.
Is there a product out there that makes it easy for open source maintainers to offer enterprise support services?

I think support is probably the best way of making money from open source, but a lot of maintainers are unlikely to have everything set up to do so (business entities, contracts, ways to receive payment, probably a dozen other things that you'd never think of, etc.).

Like Stripe Atlas for open source consulting?
You are shooting at strawmen. No one is discussing severing existing relationship bonds due to evolving life circumstances. There are undoubtedly far more variables in such an equation, with complex mitigating factors.

The article is about ideal preferences. Exercising those preferences, often towards objectively-superior utility characteristics, is not misanthropic.

That line of thought would make about as much sense as saying "all lesbians are inherently misandrist". Choosing A over B does not imply any hatred of {B}, or of {A+B} in general.
Absolutely not. You can't just throw out axioms and expect people to catch on. The utility of analogies is that you can anchor an idea in something people are familiar with.
"You can pretty much assume that half of those deaths were not related to COVID"

Can you produce a source backing up your claim?
To become conscious of all things a person must look for that which they are unconscious of rather than focusing purely on that which they are already conscious of. Most people prefer to see themselves as competent, but to be a master one must always see oneself as a beginner.
Some statistics about the table:

There were 30,000 participants, and in both test and placebo, there were 16 deaths. The test arm had 3 covid deaths, and the control arm had 1, but it was an HIV patient who was not fully vaccinated so they are arguing it’s 0 deaths for the fully vaccinated cohort. So, the numbers we’re looking at here are pretty small.

So what can we learn from this? Basically, if you remove all the covid deaths, it’s 13 deaths in test and 15 in placebo. These are statistically equivalent. In both test and control you’re equally likely to die of something other than covid in that window.

Now onto the covid deaths. There were 3 in placebo and 0 in control. These are horribly small numbers. More data would be useful.

However.. you can do the stats anyway. The placebo group suggests that the death rate is .02%, with some error. Having 0.00% death rate in the test group is unlikely, but within that error.

So this data is too weak to draw much of a conclusion.
well as it turns out hash("0") == hash(pirates of the carribean) as well.

Not sure how Disney is finding these.
My brain just thinks in CTEs over sub queries. I really dislike that my co-workers use these ridiculously nested sub sub sub queries.

I just look at something like this and I immediately know what's going on. If it's nested sub queries it always takes me much longer.
Facebook's

> When RSC is complete, the InfiniBand network fabric will connect 16,000 GPUs as endpoints

Microsoft's

> The supercomputer developed for OpenAI is a single system with more than 285,000 CPU cores, 10,000 GPUs and 400 gigabits per second of network connectivity for each GPU server
Well, it has to happen at some point. Exceedingly unlikely, but never say never.
It has (sort of): https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box
> the bay area

It's always interesting that anyone who lives in a "Bay", refers to their local as THE Bay. For this phenomenon, which is documented as circling the globe, who knows where this could be!