skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For relatively small data sets in CSV format, you can use the in-browser utility-- which is quite convenient (no installation, no security concerns) at https://zsvhub.com/playground/. A subset of the features there are available in a native command-line utility (all open-source-- see https://github.com/liquidaty/zsv), to which the "obfuscate" feature that is currently available in the playground will soon be available and is anticipated to be extremely fast (in keeping with the project's current status as the fastest CSV parser). Full disclosure: I am one of the contributors / authors of zsv/lib and zsvhub
I've already read through most of Greg Egan's works, but it's good to see like-minded people out in the wild!

Simulations can have explanatory power and can potentially have falsifiable predictions.

One prediction of a simulated universe is that any such computer would be built on a budget. As in, you'd expect all aspects of the the compute substrate to have finite "limits" that manifest at the extremes of the simulation. For example:

1. Finite resolution -- Plank length.

2. Finite information propagation speed due to simple "update next cell based on neighbouring cells" simulation -- Special Relativity.

3. Finite (maximum) information density -- black holes.

4. Finite precision -- particle decay, "inherent randomness", etc...

You can even explain General Relativity by saying that simulation chunks that are busy due to highly complex content fail to fully update their state and hence fall behind, appearing to have a slower progression of time. Neighbouring cells also need to "check" the state of the busy cells, and hence they're slowed down a bit also, which explains field curvature.

Etc...
I have an easier option, allow one click install of Web Apps. Which are Apps in WebView with additional features such as push notification. And the Icon on the HomeScreen will have a blue or green edge shadow to show this is an HTML5 apps ( As Steve Jobs used to call it )

There is a whole class of Apps that doesn't or shouldn't need Apple's approval. And are mostly reader apps or web page with some interactivity. From Ordering in a restaurant to Reading comics, or as simply as watching Netflix.

Keep the Gaming and "Software" on the App Store if they want it that way.
Latin as she is spoke: How classicists tricked themselves (2019)
> but it seems to have started a terminal decline that continued all the way through the Early Middle Ages (with no clearly identifiable "fall" event, albeit the convention of picking 476 CE, being roughly at the midpoint, is arguably as good as any!)

This isn't really true. The Roman Empire recovered substantially during the 4th century; economic output and population (at least as well as we can measure them) stabilized at levels below those of the first two centuries C.E., but significantly higher than during the crises of the third century. It wasn't until the late 4th century that things really started going downhill.
> if they tomorrow decided to open up iOS to non-App-Store apps, it wouldn't impact the quality of curation on the iOS App Store

Yes, it would. Developers who are today forced to go through the app store would self publish rather than use the app store. Whether or not they use this power well is a different question but there is no question that opening up other distribution channels would directly impact the app store, (which is a huge part of the value add for an iOS device to me)
This topic came up in a group of early stage investors I'm associated with and I know I'm not alone when I think: they couldn't raise more than 15M? And lost control of the company??

Sure, I get that it's a database, and databases are harder sells than a lot of other things, but christ on a bike they must've fucked something up if they couldn't draw the allure of any of the big funds currently throwing gobs of money around.

I know a few founders at smaller companies than dgraph, where similarly engineers are their target audience, who have complete control of their company despite raising in the ball park of 100M over two or three rounds in the last couple of years.

There's just no excuse. Either their fundamentals were so fucked, or they were too arrogant even for VCs which is almost impossible.

We'll probably never know the full story here.
Good idea to use against packers-movers who don't provide real-time tracking (which seems strange - who doesn't provide it in this day and age). I also found it strange that the US Army doesn't use its own logistics service to help its personnel - in the Indian Army, officers are permitted to use the army supply lines to ship their belongings to the new station.
The interfaces of Paradox games only get better with each release in my opinion.

Crusader Kings 3 looks polished and is easy to use. Leagues above CK2. I love the stackable tooltips that let you define terms in tooltips defining terms in menus.
I can agree some parents take this power too far and abuse it, but saying they should not have this power at all is not right.
I'm not a fan of the recent trend of breaking programs that do uncommon but legitimate things, just to make it "safer" to run buggy programs. I don't think anything related to argc == 0 should be changed in the kernel.
> Also, if you think that the "professional" hosts do any better, consider that that Hetzner box you linked is a desktop machine shoved onto a rack shelf.

This.

People think "professional" and act like it hides the fact that it's all the same people running stuff on a shoestring budget.

That $50/mo boxes in Hetzner tend to stay up for years it a testament to that there isn't any black magic or huge costs to keep them running.
Go does not. It doesn't do any magic conversion. If you want to use different types together, you need to cast one of them, period.

Why C/C++ ever thought this was a good idea is beyond me. The whole point of strong typing to me, is that you should never be wondering what type something is. C thought they were adding convenience, but decades have shown that it only adds bugs, and forces people to memorize weird rules, or remember to use the right compiler warnings. Good riddance.
https://archive.fo/EEqyF
Sanjay Shah
So much of the ML hype is business people wanting something that everyone can operate equally poorly.

The fact that so much of ML is inscrutable alchemy and a guessing game is a feature not bug.
Taken so young, the poor parents.
Satire is fine but this 'nice' thing is really galling.
What I wouldn't give for an equivalent film about Led Zeppelin making one of their albums. Though I feel like they'd be the last band to ever agree to it.

I first thought watching Get Back might "spoil" the magic of how the Beatles made records. But somehow seeing all the quotidian banality and hard work made it all the more impressive.
Don't you know? That's krapp the genius!
I use this. It's fabulous.
Live Q&A: WiFi Game Boy Cartridge (3:24:10) [video]
There is a strange bump around 2 months on graphs of sever illnesses and infection rates at 2 months [1]. Can anyone explain or point in the direction where it is explain the paper?

Second, Cox models for vaccine effectiveness(Infection and Sever illnesses) show decline around 6-7 months, which is knows well now. But what part of these decline attributed to effect of the vaccine vs emergence of a new variants? In other works, what would the curve look like, if there was no Delta & Omicron or if they appeared very shortly after the first variant? It is being said that booster does not prevent Omicron spread, thus maybe declining effectiveness in infection prevention can be explained partially by the new variant.

And lastly:
Data sharing
The data that support the findings of this study are available from Lombardy Regional Health Service, but restrictions apply to the availability of these data
...
Data are, however, available from the Lombardy Regional Health Service upon reasonable request.

It is upsetting, that data is not readily available, the cohorts are huge, thus the possibility of deanonymization can be excluded.

UPDATE: It looks like Omicron was detected in Italy on Nov 28, 2021, so a month after the end of the study's follow up ended (Oct 20, 2021). Is it possible that it had been already circulating widely enough to affect survival curves before it was officially reported in Italy?

Also, were lockdown measures used as a covariate? It is hard to find time time of lockdown measures in Italy and specifically in Lombardy and it would not be possible to superimpose it on survival curves, because survival curves are relative to a timeline measure in time entering the study, but I seems plausible to me that similar demographic received vaccines and was affected by changes in lockdowns around the same time. E.g. most of the kids of a specific age got vaccine at the same time and X months later schools reopened, so some of the bumps on the curve can be explained by it.

[1] https://els-jbs-prod-cdn.jbs.elsevierhealth.com/cms/attachme...

[2] https://els-jbs-prod-cdn.jbs.elsevierhealth.com/cms/attachme...
I had one in our org back in the day.

We had a number of boxes named following this theme. For instance, the firewall box was named pelennor.
>I think that's still awkward on Linux.

At least for .deb and .rpm packages, the default build process automatically extracts debug symbols into separate packages. Eg the process of building package `foo` also produces `foo-dbgsym` and `foo-debuginfo` packages respectively that contain debug symbols for every involved binary and library, while `foo` contains the stripped files.

So anyone who wants to debug a coredump / live process just installs the corresponding -dbgsym / -debuginfo package and now gdb has all the debug info it needs.

Distros have also started incorporating debuginfod into their repos so that gdb can download symbols automatically. So you don't even have to hunt for the right debuginfo package.
Great share! Your README is better than 99% of the repos I’ve seen in CV. And kudos for implementing it in both TF and PyTorch!
Factor them into a library and put it on GitHub.
I already did. We will never be able to find out how many people specifically died of Covid, and how many died of a viral pneumonia, thanks to the changes in death reporting guidelines that I linked.

I find it absurd to believe that flu "went away" - do you have any evidence for that?
Yeah. A 90 day line of credit is very different from "I don't pay for this if I don't sell it in 90 days."
It seems like you were talking about Apple, and I was talking about Valve.
Do people think it's okay to stalk people via their cars in this way, just because their license plates are publicly visible? If not, then why would doing the same to any other type of vehicle be okay?
If Gandalf the White is anything like my UDM-Pro, I hope the backups are good. Mine self erases the config periodically, most recently 10 hours ago.
Can We Survive Technology? – John von Neumann (1955) [pdf]
"The router that routes twice as fast routes half as long"
Where did you hear this advice? Why wouldn't you take an advantage and who would recommend against it? What is the reasoning?
What's crazy to me is that a massive 6509 could be replaced by a tiny UniFi USG-Pro.
But I mean... gigabit interfaces it must be good!
Found a post about it on HN few days ago here. Not much was said though. Although the twitter thread does show more than this vice article.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30061543
I really wish we put guard rails in the form of fines and damages to prevent people from exposing private or sensitive data. Handing people who have no idea about security or sensitivity of data the keys to the kingdom is like handing a toddler a loaded gun. Or a JavaScript, front-end UX developer the AWS root keys.

Oh wait, we've already done that - and we regularly see them blow their parent company's heads off.
But it has far more than “delayed the inevitable.” The things we’ve tried to protect people have (a) enabled us to stave off a lot of infections until this latest less-lethal variant evolved, and (b) helped reduce hospital loads. Things would be orders of magnitude worse had we not tried to protect people.
I don't even care about the cost of the land, it's the mind-boggling amount of solar panels that would need to be manufactured to fill it. Have a think about how the panels would get shipped and fitted in this proposed facility - the panels would start degrading and reaching end of life before you could get anywhere near completion.
There absolutely is - it's called energy returned on energy invested.
Sure and you could buy a digital ocean droplet or Amazon lightsail instance for 5$/month. Both include 1TB of free data transfer.
I'm not sure it makes sense to argue that a state "falls" when it reorganizes its administrative structure, makes big changes to its currency and fiscal policies, and goes through a period of violent upheaval. By those standards, the United States "fell" in the late 19th and early 20th century with the civil war and the vast expansion of the role of the state.
That’s good news. I did miss the release.
I don’t doubt it was the case at one point, but isn’t twitter public now? Wouldn’t twitter prefer ad money over MAU?
Brave does have a feature that displays ads in exchange for BAT, so it's not a cheap shot. https://brave.com/brave-rewards/
I disagree. The 'cattle' vs 'pet' distinction is about replicability and replaceability. If you can spin up a new baremetal server quickly and easily in the configuration you need, then you're doing it right. The technology you choose is not relevant.
You’re gonna have trouble topping this lede:

"Engineers actively participating in the NANOG email list had a rare breakthrough on a major problem plaguing nearly no one on Wednesday evening."
I mean, we're renaming genes because of how much excel has been corrupting data.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-renam...

I agree that there's tons of value in the paradigm (more than a lot of people on hn would admit), but excel particularly has way more sharp edges than people know.
> You may think of them as personal computers but most people don’t.

And language such as "side loading" helps that too.
"cattle not pets" doesn't mean "use cloud images for everything." It means to do essentially what you're saying you do with nix. Hosts should be easy to make and easy to drop.
Damn whoops

Link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30102240
Yes, I was referring to blockchain and bitcoin rather than ‘smart’ contracts.
> but even just ongoing security patching at the OS level can be a full-time gig

Oh boy, if that's what your server admin guys told you before you went full cloud then I'm sorry, I've got some bad news for you.
This comment represents some of the worst elitism I see in the programming community.
Makes you wonder if Zuck read it and was like "this sounds like a great idea".
So who is this Ed Matheus?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29580726
You should when those people will overwhelm the hospital system. Even without people trying to get sick, it was touch and go for quite a while. “Pox” parties would have destroyed healthcare.

Now that omicron is proving to not be overwhelming, you’ll start to see restrictions lifted and the unvaxxed who were/get sick will be able to return to civilized society.
Being young is all about lack of perspective, lack of experience about how things can go wrong. I was able to do all kinds of things long before I was able to make good decisions about what I actually should do.
Dear OP, my username bows to yours.
Who is at fault for that harm? The customer? The employee? The employer? Regulators? Society??

I'm not even sure this is relevant. We're not talking about a cashier returning too much change. In this scenario, there is nothing to not balance. The item wasn't scanned, isn't on a receipt, was simply given away. The balance in the till is still correct.
I feel joining Amazon at less than L6 isn't worth it.
Those things have nothing to do with the topic at hand.
There is a place between those today, which is Apple Business Manager (ABM).

It uses the App Store infrastructure, but apps are not listed on the public App Store and are instead made visible through redemption codes or using an email-based invitation. The UX is pretty terrible, the support is nearly non-existent, but it's there.

I just hope they are a little easier on App Review considering how hard it was to get a bespoke app through App Review in the past.
I was an early cheerleader of Wire but it almost sunk my "tech goodwill" among friends because its reliability of notifications on mobile was poor for years. I still don't know if they've fixed it. [1]

[1] https://github.com/wireapp/wire-android/issues/777
>Stack Overflow or Hacker News

Woah, those seem like two completely different things. Is it just me, or is SO like 100x more gate-keepery than HN? On HN it seems like you have to go pretty far off topic to even get more than a single down vote (or maybe get into a pretty heated or political discussion to get flagged). But it seems like SO has an endless supply of people nitpicking on things like the form of your question, so that a obscure/difficult question will fade away before anyone can even get a chance to answer it. I'd say SO is some form of malignant fallacy #1, where instead of just tolerating off-putting behavior, it actively selects for busybodies looking for drama.
There wasn't any implication that the code is "brittle" or hard to grok due to a defect in the software architecture. It may be approximately optimal from the perspective of software maintainability relative to functionality and performance. All code has non-local side effects, but in most software that is buried below the noise floor of inefficiency.

Some types of software are intrinsically difficult to understand e.g. due to highly visible behavioral coupling across multiple unrelated parts of otherwise tidy, modular code. This is a strictly correct and intentional design in many cases but it means even a seemingly small code change can only be evaluated for correctness relative to the detailed internals across diverse code components in various runtime contexts. Reasoning about these systems has a very high cognitive load.

This is one of the reasons writing competent database kernels is so difficult -- the best designs asymptotically converge on being exquisitely complex and subtle monoliths, even when the code appears clean and modular. In my experience, there are always parts of these code bases that only one or two engineers dare modify even though the code is straightforward, because any local change can't be evaluated for correctness without deep expertise in half the system internals.

It really depends on the nature of the software.
> Cut out the middle man and you're far better off.

All that knowledge is now in-house, and you have access to it at a moment’s notice.
It's simply amazing to see you personally answer almost every single Matrix-related question on almost every single Matrix-related HN thread. You're literally the mastermind behind the most important internet protocol since HTTP, and yet you don't consider it beneath you to correct such basic misconceptions that nobody who so much as skimmed the spec would have had in the first place. Bravo!
It's not just the words though, here. Being called to the principal's office is an exceptional occasion. If they were called to the office that many times, they'd see through the words and recognise that the adults were out of their depth and that's why they were being called.
It represents a clear conflict of interest with the way I intend to use the internet. There are no half-measures with advertising, there will be no crypto in or around my browser. If they wanted to make a case for using their browser over Ungoogled Chromium, they shouldn't have started by shilling their own shitcoin.

Also, their creator compensation program is quite terrible, which Tom Scott has documented quite thoroughly. It's all designed to feed back into Brave's cut, slowly siphoning your ad money to line their own pockets.
Yep, you've correctly identified the problem!
I also think this guarantees the binary to be released has had a full review

(TestFlight awkwardly only requires review for any build in a release train, and future builds can be released toll-free)
But also less prone to
single drive failures. And easily auto expanding storage sizes. Everything is a trade off.
I can do the same thing with the 15x8x20cm Synology sitting above my bathroom (don’t ask, that’s where the internet enters te house :P).

Your main point still stands though, not everyone can or wants to do that.
That's not what the numbers say
So what if the desktop is in a worse state? Mobile is still a common threat surface that supports stronger security measures. Unusual is relative, mobile is much more secure by default. It makes no sense to weaken the security posture for mobile users just because the desktop/web doesn't allow a stronger one.

I guess you also think Android/iOS should just get rid of app permissions because users could just use similar software on their desktops without any permissions gating?

Edit: Android/iOS are increasingly popular platforms, the security they pioneer far exceeds their desktop predecessors and has improved the average security posture of millions of mobile-focused users.
Looks interesting. Where can you get these outside of Japan?
For me the biggest take away from this thread is the distinction between release, deploy, and launch. So no matter how good or bad your CI/CD process is, you can still control what gets launched, when, and to whom.

I did not know about the term as such, but after reading about it I realised that it's something that our very small team (< 5) has been doing as a way to make sure that new stuff doesn't break production (eg switching major dependencies).

I can see how being more formal about it can help small teams, especially when they want to have high velocity but do not the capacity to test the hell out of everything, or simply have to support alternate features at the same time.
DeFi platform Qubit Finance begs hacker to return $80M in stolen funds
The default server is absolutely terribly slow.
Do not use this for important messages.
Has it seen packets you wouldn't believe?
you'd be interested in joining orcasound slack: https://join.slack.com/t/orcasound/shared_invite/zt-bd1jk2q9...

We basically just talk about orcas and how we can decode their language moving towards bidirectional comm.
> There are awesome photos on the Web of these transmitters ...

What would I have to google to learn more about this? it sounds fascinating.
Apparently, all of these links point to people who are building nothing but "fraud, scams, and greater fool schemes":

- https://weekinethereumnews.com/

- https://filecoin.io/blog/posts/filecoin-in-2021-looking-back...

- https://zeroknowledge.fm/

- https://cbr.stanford.edu/sbc20/

- https://www.arweave.org/build#inspiration

I concede that if you have no previous exposure to crypto it will take more than an hour to find these links. I believe you that "a few hours" was not enough time for you to understand how things work. Were you really able to read and understand all of the Rust book in "a few hours"?
The topic at hand is whether or not people's hate towards Brave is legitimized. I'm explaining to you how people come to despise the browser and it's developers. You can take it or leave it, but you can't act surprised when people come out in droves to tell you that they don't want to use a browser developed in-house by the same people directly commoditizing the attention market.
Not really. JVM is similar in this regard and one of the thing we wrote in our basic Java course was the code that produces memory leak. And when you have memory leak you also may end up with other fun things like applications behaving unexpectedly in low memory conditions.