skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well for the record then this is my jam and I cannot express how much I love it: https://www.rtings.com/mouse/reviews/elecom/huge-m-ht1drbk

There’s also the slightly smaller Deft Pro (https://switchandclick.com/elecom-deft-pro-review/) which I also own and use for travel — it has a superior scroll wheel and therefore may be a superior choice for you.

For me the Huge has a perfect form factor that outweighs all else.

On mac I use steermouse to map the buttons.

I promise to stop being a trackball pusher now.
Thanks for pulling this quote out - I just skimmed the epub and it's actually a really lucid and grounded set of claims for something I've often thought, that just as there's causal influence going forward in time, so might there be patterns in arbitrary other dimensions of automata-like processes in higher dimensions.

Something like a time crystal, but in other dimensions of higher space.

Anyway, such things are probably unstable at the scale we'd need to perceive them as meaningful coincidence (I think of them as atomic coincidences) and in any case the book goes on to argue that the world is simply overloaded with symbolism and in such an environment, synchronicity abounds, and that's all you need to explain it.

Somewhat sadly I agree, though I'd like to think there's a slight nudge toward coincidence from the laws of physics, and that not everything we'd deem meaningful is purely emergent.
Guatemala was surprisingly hard for me. I discovered I really have no idea what the countries in Central America actually look like. I got it by naming literally every single Central American country think of, and then thinking really hard which one I missed. Guatemala has an interesting border I won't easily forget anymore.

On the other hand, I got Nepal in one, which I'm unreasonably proud of.
>Did you notice that most of the claims in this article are stated as facts but not explicitly supported by data? There is good reason for that. A̶d̶v̶e̶r̶t̶i̶s̶e̶r̶s̶ programmers have strong opinions about a̶d̶v̶e̶r̶t̶i̶s̶i̶n̶g̶ programming

Still works
Thanks for the tip on Libby. I tried Audible on iOS for a while and found the UX too annoying. I can’t remember specifics but in general I remember it was annoying to use with AirPods while using my phone for other things. Felt like it needed to learn some lessons from Apple Music or Spotify
The poll backing that tweet appears to be exactly the problem you're highlighting though. It's a bunch of academics in which they poll people on questions selected specifically to target a minority of right wing people, which they then use to "prove" that Democrats are better informed. And also that young parents are less informed than older non-parents, which they discover for reasons we'll get to in a moment.

But hey, anyone can do that. Here's a poll that shows the opposite - that right wing people are better informed about COVID than left wing people:

https://news.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/354938/adults-estimat...

Except that's actually a professionally done poll.

The "Covid State Project" is an academic consortium (so we can guess that their work won't replicate anyway), and these people REALLY want to believe that left wing academics sit at the top of the informational totem pole. This sort of polling is a waste of time because you can get any result you like, it has confirmation bias all over its design. Want to show that <outgroup> is stupid and dumb? Find the most extreme and stupid beliefs held only by a tiny minority of members of that outgroup and poll everyone on only those questions (an actual question they asked about, "do vaccines contain microchips").

In fact not all of their questions are even correct. They only asked four, and one of them was "is there any impact on fertility" which was rated false. This is itself a lie and I know this, because my fiancés best friend lost her period for nearly six months. No periods = no fertility, so I have seen with my own eyes that this can happen. Not surprisingly, this is the question in which the highest number of people said yes to, yet they rated this belief false and claimed anyone who believes it is "misinformed".

This probably explains their otherwise unexplainable finding that young parents are amongst the "wrongest" people. Young parents are exactly the sort of people who are most likely to know lots of women who are caring about periods and fertility, and thus who will be the first to pick up on widespread disruption to menstrual cycles. When they answer correctly that vaccination can affect cycles and thus fertility, they get graded as misinformed.

It's garbage-grade research like this which makes academics look so corrupt and terrible. 14 academics worked on this and a poll with four questions, one of which has the wrong answer, is the best they can do.
The customers we have today can tolerate some degree of outage. VM snapshots are usually the path.

Our roadmap has replication being done at the application level (i.e. business logic is aware of other nodes and policy around replication). Those specific entities which absolutely must survive would be synchronously replicated to additional witnesses on the network.

Note that this is about non-repudiation, not operational uptime. If we cared about always on operations, we would take a radically different path.

Abstractly, I think the role of ensuring business data survives some incident is not something to be pushed down to the database layer. When you pull this concern into business logic, you can produce far more robust solutions.
Amazon often pitches itself as having a "writing culture", but much like the LPs and other mantras like "working backwards", this is more a case of cult-like exceptionalism than any sort of actual advantage once viewed from the inside.

I haven't seen any evidence of a company culture scaling beyond ~10 people - in a bigger group, sub-cultures and individual personalities seem to inevitably take precedence. Arguably this is even more the case at a place like Amazon where raw metrics are king - nobody cares how culturally aligned your work is as long as you are delivering the goods.
That would just prove that the fascist were wrong. Can't have that. The opposition to totalitarianism is always wrong.

You have to understand that those who are in power don't want solutions or good of the people. They want total obedience.
A targeted ad can be a contextual ad, with no personal information involved.
> Uhm, the key of the experiment was that someone did active division.

I think that the division of people by vaccination status is active, like a division by religion or language would be active.

> they're not encouraged to be militant by Justin Trudeau or Stanford researchers.

I am not sure about this. Some argue that demand characteristics lead to the outcome of the experiment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment#Dem...

The BBC experiment had a different outcome. Like the Danish "experiment" today (no mandates, no protests, nobody calling for state of emergency).
>- use N-order thinking

what does this mean?
Nukes are mature tech. No surprises coming. They are not getting cheaper. If you got approval to build one, you would get no power for ten years, minimum.

A billion dollars buys a GW of solar panel generating capacity today. Another billion buys plenty of storage. No NRC approval, no containment vessel, no disaster plan. You can start generating power almost immediately, while you are still building out. Prices continue falling the whole time you are building, so the last panel you put up costs half what the first did. It all fits well within the exclusion zone of a typical nuke reservation. You can put up wind turbines too. And keep adding panels, paying for them with income from ones already up.
So without leap seconds/days, how does one keep their clocks in sync with reality?
MacOS at least lets users choose the accent color: https://osxdaily.com/2020/07/24/change-accent-color-mac/
Since Brexit, the labour market is missing all Europeans. To work in the UK you have to leave the EU, or be treated as a lower status resident, or do a bunch of paperwork and pay import/export taxes.
Employers have not accepted that that is a bill they must pay or workers won't join the UK market.

If you move first, then look for a job, you just have to accept the local market conditions.
I know how VAT works. If the government changes the VAT overnight then prices won't round to .99 until merchants (or Amazon themselves) change the base price again. I don't see the issue.
@rukshn Thanks for your post. Personally I'm not convinced by the idea of adding site:reddit.com to your Google search query either, not just because it will get gamed by SEO practitioners as you suggest, but also because there's a lot more to the internet than reddit and a lot of great content hidden away which isn't on reddit. I also believe that a more general solution to better search is both to reward informational sites and also to penalise advertising sites - that's why I built a search engine with a PageRank-style algorthim which also detects result pages containing adverts and heavily downranks them.
Awesome to hear that RL for plasma confinement could work for fusion progress.
You don't think that making the system literally an order of magnitude cheaper is much of a difference?
> Total monopolistic practices with abuse of market power. In a competitive environment no producer would accept this.

Hasn't Audible's business model been basically unchanged since its inception? Everyone who puts their books on their knows the price of a credit, which is normally like $15, and so knows they'd get at best $6 per book sold on there. How would Audible become a monopoly if people didn't like those odds?

Furthermore, I don't see much of a "moat" here. Suppose there was a company called BetterBooks, which had the same business model and price per credit, but gave 60% commission instead of 40%. If publishers were genuinely unhappy with $6/book, they could list it on BetterBooks and get $9/book instead. The quality of books on Audible would drop, and nobody would buy them.
On laptop, you would get data loss / corruption on sudden power loss. This is rare. With "flush to storage device's RAM", even a kernel panic would not lose data if you let the storage device flush to flash without power loss.
And still SpectorJS as the only debugging tool available, far behind native GPGPU debugging tools.
Click-bait title again.

“You can lose some of your file changes in case of hard-reboot” is more correct.

It was a given truth for me all the time and I can tolerate some data losses if power was accidentally turned off for my desktop, or if OS panicked (it happens ~ once per year to me).

If this is a price for a 1000x speed increase - I’m more than happy they have implemented it this way.
Although I don't think such an option exists in the UK, several EU countries are offering "Digital Nomad" visas which give you a legitimate status while remaining employed by your SV company.
PS: If this is incorrect, I'd love to know why instead of getting downvoted :)
Personally I use these apps, but I didn't expect that kind of navigation on desktop, so it took me a few seconds to realize.
Software Architect is a difficult job, many skilled developers deliberately forego higher pay to calmly work on tickets from the current sprint and not worry about the big picture.

I switched been Software Architect and Individual Contributor roles a few times. the pay difference does not really match the increase of responsibility for this position, you have to be willing to communicate, lead and challenge others and have fun doing it to be a successful Software Architect.
Pierre Herme Nicolas Buffet- Interactive Story Telling
Perhaps life on Earth was a long-con destined for us to throw our nuclear fuel out into the stars for easy harvesting
Luhansk People's Republic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhansk_People%27s_Republic
Yep. The pushback against FLOSS software could be seen as a delay tactic to allow the continued distribution of software with known flaws (even in commercial environments with source-available agreements, as other commentors have alluded to. if you don't have both the public code and reproducible build of it that you can verify independently, then you may have been provided with human trust, but you do not have software trust).

I'd expect that once software trust reaches a sufficiently high-quality baseline, we'll begin to see tricksters retreat (or bolster) network-level traffic gathering and interference. Not all tricksters are hugely sophisticated -- but many of them do get themselves into increasingly complicated situations, often with significant access to resources of finance and leverage -- so that movement would probably be accompanied by a lot of braying for attention and FUD-style tactics (they'll need to find ways to cover their tracks -- something that is often purely about producing distracting noise and search results nowadays, in the era of search engines).
Seems legit: https://caniuse.com/webgl2
>Blacklist all SEO spam

That is like saying:

"Electricity problems ? just build a fusion reactor..."

Sure it's the answer but the devil is in the details !

The "easy ones" like pinterest are "easy" but I can guarantee you that finding all the other ones and new ones will be much much harder, especially once you have false positives.
300% agreeing with this... In a small company, finding the right "right arm" is incredibly tough. So much so that I still have not despite multiple attempts.
Nice tools!

When it is serverside, reading a 50MB CFD is a small task. And once it is read we can store the zipindex for even faster access.

We made 'zipindex' to purposely be a sparse, compact, but still reasonably fast representation of the CFD - just enough to be able to serve the file. Typically it is around a 8:1 reduction on the CFD, but it of course depends a lot on your file names as you say (the index is zstandard compressed).

Access time from fully compressed data to a random file entry is around 100ms with 1M files. Obviously if you keep the index in memory, it is much less. This time is pretty much linear which is why we recommend aiming for 10K file per archive, which makes the impact pretty minimal.
In the first case: natural selection sort of works for products. If you want to survive you need to find a way.

In the second case: that is a massive smell and time to find a new job. Which from the comments regards turnover at Amazon seems to be the case :-)
Everyone else does that as well and it's not a substitute for end-to-end data integrity.
Would be nice to have some more geographic hints like rivers or major cities, i.e. night lights. Also as someone whose long term memory of geography is sustained by occasionally humming Yakko's world song, it's depressing to learn how inaccurate / out of date it is.

See: Errors, Inaccuracies, and Other Geographical Trivia
https://animaniacs.fandom.com/wiki/Yakko%27s_World_(song)

Recommend Map men's "The mystery of the squarest country"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mrNEVUuZdk
> But I'm afraid, that's not what 99% of people would do

Your original post was very personal. Commenters tried to help solving your personal problem. Why do you care about what other people would do?
GNOME probably imagined it had enough market power to persuade app developers to change their design. Also GNOME likes to emphasize "distraction-free" computing so the designers probably thought status icons are too distracting for users.
Do I need to look up for you how much pumped-hydro storage is already online? Or list a dozen other technologies also under large-scale construction? You could look that up yourself, if you cared.
That's interesting! I'd be fascinated to know what the underlying cause is – these full-sync numbers are amazingly low.
Linux Magic SysRq + R S E I V B key chord will immediately shut down while still properly flushing disk cache and such. A bit annoying to enter, but a handy tool to have in your toolbox.
On this NVMe, flushing is slower than on some spinning disks, so it apparently matters.
I think the big thing going for it is it's low footprint and mostly universal existence on all servers I work on.

For example, I'm working on a Hashicorp Vault server install and due to it's sensitive nature, I'm strongly considering using bash to set it up over something like python. I love the ability to test in a robust language, but the extra dependencies are hard to justify, at least on a security sensitive application.
I don't think most countries build houses of wood like North America does. In Europe houses are mostly built of various kinds of bricks and concrete. Only the roofs in detached houses are usually made of wood (and not all of them).

That's how most houses are built in central Europe for example: https://budujemydom.pl/i/2020/01/02/215608-d885-1100x0-sc1x5...

Of course later the insulation is added: https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/pressland-cms/cache/__...
Audible's whole business model is to sell monthly credits on subscription for $15, which can be used to purchase any audiobook. That's not a "promotion", that's how Audible works.

Now they do also have sales where they sell books for like $5 or something; if those sales are not opt-in, of course that's a problem. But I have a hard time believing they're not opt-in.
They flush the cache when something requests the cache be flushed; I don't know if there is a timeout, because presumably it's not difficult for some random process to issue a FULLFSYNC and flush everything prior as a side-effect (the flush is global). But I've seen at least 5-10 seconds of data loss from drive cache loss on the Mac Mini, so if they do do deferred flushes the timeout is longer than that.
> On NVMes I wonder whether this really matters, but it's a serious issue on spinning disks: do you really need to flush everything to the disk (and interrupt more efficient access patterns)?

That depends on the drive having power loss protection, which comes most of the time in the form of a capacitor that powers the drive long enough to guarantee that its buffers are flushed to persistent storage.

Consumer SSDs often do not have that, so flushing is really important there, at least if your data, or no FS corruption is important to you.

Enterprise SSDs almost always have power loss protection, so there it isn't required for consistency’s sake, albeit in-flight data that didn't hit the block device yet is naturally not protected by that, most FS handle that fine by default though.

Note that Linux, for example, does by default a periodic flush every 30s independent of caching/flush settings, so that's normally the upper limit you'd lose, depending on the workload it can be still a relatively long time frame.

https://sysctl-explorer.net/vm/dirty_expire_centisecs/
Ask HN: Context Switching Tips for Humans
Interested in learning more about dealing with the inevitability of context switching from fellow HN readers.

So far, the only article I've found that goes into some depth and offers practical advice is at [1] and it goes:

Sometimes context switching is inevitable. Instead of fighting it, let’s explore ways to make the most of it. Broken focus is inevitable. The goal of all of this will be to get our brains into that same frame of mind when we were most productive, as quickly as possible.

Keen on hearing other tips and/or being pointed to similar resources.

[1] https://www.phase2technology.com/blog/effective-tips-for-context-switching
The traditional pattern of one connection per transaction is actually a strong anti-pattern when working with SQLite in particular.

This is because SQLite is just a file, not a network connection or named pipe. Obtaining and releasing file handles is a non-trivial task that takes significantly longer than reusing the same one.
China’s 5G Soars over America’s
If you weight it by the actual size of territories rather than just the extreme boundaries then the center is indeed in Spain, because the overseas regions are still rather small in comparison to the European part of France.

If you use only the extreme boundaries then it gets a lot more interesting and I would say that the center is closer to the center of the Earth than to its surface.
How about applications that are controlled entirely from their status icon, like dropbox or vpn apps? Fedora, which normally champions GNOME, is beginning to acknowledge that status icons are here to stay whether GNOME designers like them or not: https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/246
Reverse engineering Russian IRA tactics through network analysis
With the magic of 3d printing, you might be able to reinforce or even replace the plastic casing to extend your monitor's life.
>Google's solution that "outside links" are considered as "votes" that this site is good is what made it good but also what made it vulnerable to SEO.
Do you have any other idea on how do you decide if a result is good or not beyond the literal text search?

Exactly this !
I used to be head of search for a big eCommerce site, and even with this very "limited-scope-vertical". I was always amazed at the vast differences between people's opinion on "what are good results" it's so personal and ambiguous most of the time.

Even in our small'ish devteam (< 15), there were never 100% consensus on what "query to product-ranking" should be.

Doing this at Google scale I can only imagine is x1000 harder
Effective Tips for Context Switching (2019) [for mere mortals]
"Random ad vs targeted ad" is a false dichotomy. There are also contextual ads. For example, the audience of Linus Tech Tips regularly gets their fair share of contextual ads delivered by Linus in-band. You're not going to see an ad of a toilet paper on LTT. Instead you're going to see ads of hard drives, Squarespace, online shopping platforms, etc. The ads are the same for all viewers (i.e. definitely not targeted) and don't require any JS spyware. Moreover, LTT (and other creators) get more money from those ads than from YouTube ads. Everybody wins (except Google and Facebook).
Does this diminish the results of all browsers shipping decent WebGL 2.0 support, though?
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87-88%, what's your point?
As mentioned in the blog post we do not expect to support TAR archives.

There is no central directory in TAR, so indexing would be very expensive, and we would not be able to support tar.gz anyway.

ZIP was chosen mainly because it fits with the feature set. The alternative was that we developed a custom format or took another approach completely. This was the solution that in our eyes would be the easiest to implement for clients.
This was also roughly the idea I used; if you squint it comes down to a BFS and as such can use a lot of memory. My solution was to fix the first few digits (as in the article) and then run the VM in parallel over the remaining digits, combining solutions (because the have the same internal state) as it goes. If you do this for all the allowed permutations of the first few digits then you must have covered the entire search space.

I don't really understand how the "early out" logic works but that would have been pretty nice. My solution didn't have that and took quite a bit of time.
Sorry, but domain-driven design is actually when you have "class Licensor; class Licensee; class RoyaltyPayment". What you're describing is competence and attention to detail, and that's too much to expect from development teams.
Those VM tunables are about dirty OS cache, not dirty drive cache. If you fsync() a file on Linux it will be pushed to the drive and (if the drive does not have battery/capacitor-backed cache) flushed from drive cache to stable storage. If you don't fsync() then AIUI all bets are off, but in practice the drive will eventually get around to flushing your data anyway. The OS has one timeout for cache flushes and the drive should have another one, one would hope.