skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can find some examples of protestors blocking main roads and getting arrested the same day (https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2011/10/occupy-wall-s... among others), but no news or reporting on continuous multi-day blockages (probably because, as far as I can tell, there are tons of examples of them being swiftly arrested, same with BLM).

But not, like literally making roads impassable at all hours for days (https://www.dw.com/en/canada-court-orders-protesting-trucker...).

(and there's something to be said for "the police shouldn't be able to put down a large scale protest of involving thousands of people and vehicles. Perhaps if the police force is powerful enough to do that, it's too strong?)
This needs to be cracked down on from a consumer protection lens. Like, any product revision that could potentially produce a different behavior must have a discernable revision number published as part of the model number.
runs <- 100000
x <- vector(mode = "numeric", length = runs)
for (i in 1:runs){
while (sum(sample(1:8, size = 3, replace = TRUE)) != 24){
x[i] <- x[i] + 1
}
}

summary(x)
Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max.
0.0 146.0 353.0 511.8 708.0 5112.0

quantile(x, c(0.5, 0.8, 0.9))
50% 80% 90%
353 824 1187

Strangely enough the mean agrees. The other ntiles are off a bit, but that's randomness for you.
So if SSDs rely solely on capacitors for data integrity and lie about flushes, what do they do on a flush that takes any amount of time? Are they just taking a speed hit for funsies? Heck, from this test, the magnitude of the speed hit isn't even correlated with whether they lose writes...
Make smaller and smaller goals until they can ship.
Could you say more about these "better technologies?"
Also somehow its easier to build self-driving cars than it is to invest in public transportation.
So is Russia recognizing them, or is it also recognizing their claim?

That is, the US recognizes China, but does not recognize their claim of the Nine-Dash Line. You can do one but not the other.
In Apple's defense, they probably have enough power even in the worst case to limp along enough to flush in laptop form factor, even if the power management components refuse to power the main CCXs. Speccing out enough caps in the desktop case would be very Apple as well.
All the way back to the Romans, the statues had detachable heads so that one ruler or governor's head could be replaced by the next.
The article, and especially the headline, are extremely misleading.

The actual result: measures of self-control either weakly or strongly predict positive life outcomes, depending on the measure and how much adjusting was done, e.g.

> [The study] created a new measure of the time each original preschooler waited before taking a bite (or getting the reward) to adjust for variables such as age, gender and experiment conditions.

This study found that the "marshmallow test"—as a single measure—is no more or less predictive than a basket of other measures of self-control the study tested, or any of those other measures of self-control taken alone.

Despite the misleading article and headline, the study itself seems well-designed (e.g. pre-registered), but the conclusion in the headline is utterly wrong as that is not what the study found: self-control matters, can be measured, and those measures weakly or strongly predict positive life outcomes.

Here's an accurate headline: Self-control still predicts positive life outcomes, Marshmallow Test creator finds.
The more you look at speculative execution and these drive issues, the more you see that we're giving up a lot of what computing "safe" for just performance.
> Wouldn't the Android platform be worth a lot more if they gave developers freedom to explore different strategies and business models?

Say Google does the right thing. Enables great apps, charges 4% instead of 30%, everything goes well.

What does Apple do in response? If they do nothing, Android eats their market share. That's kind of the point, isn't it?

But that means they can't do nothing. They'd have to respond in kind; do the right thing too. Which means it's not a competitive advantage for Google. All they do is lose the 30% they're getting right now.

Even worse if Apple is foolish and the move actually succeeds, because then Android gets a real monopoly instead of this duopoly fig leaf they each use to claim they have competition.

This why duopolies are just as bad as monopolies if not worse. We need real competition and barriers to entry low enough that someone without a vested interest in the status quo can actually enter the market.
But this is NOT a board strategy game. Would you call Germany attacking Poland or France reasonable?

You can't just call shameless aggression reasonable and implicitly assume that the "board strategy game viewpoint" (whatever it is) is the default one we should use.
Once voltage from the battery gets too low (despite reporting whatever % charge), you aren't getting anything from the battery.
> lack of beginner-friendliness could also be seen as a lack of effective static analysis

Slightly confusing comment to me ... Java has on the one hand a relatively simplistic static typing system but on the other hand some of the best static analysis support that you can find (I don't think it's a coincidence; the relatively simple type system and lack of ways to hack around it facilitates the strength of the analysis that can be done).

I'm talking about things like, add a parameter to a method in a library and eclipse automatically not only deterministically renames it everywhere that its called in the library but in every dependent project, all in milliseconds. And a dozen other similar types of operations.
Yup, I concur, it is a bit too weak currently, but my answer would be that I am really excited even for such baby steps, because it is so much more interesting of an approach than the (I would say) boring high-performance simulation libraries from google/ibm/other quantum startups/etc.
Have you seen Yanis Varoufakis, one of the most prominent Marxists, on his recent speech/interview circuit where is discussing how in his view the socialist experiment has failed, and we are now living under feudalism?

He calls it techno-feudalism.

What are your thoughts on that?
Right, but if you read the letter, the student isn't really complaining. She's just asking Feynman for an explanation of what the paragraph means.

Another relevant details is that "the class was a survey course for non-majors".
Very weird to hire people to do work, and especially convincing them to leave their current job, when you don't have any work that needs to be done.

Having said that, a variant of this type of behavior is not uncommon in large organizations where 'go-getters' can self-manifest by creating chatter and finding underlings. But in that case there is already a revenue flow to support time and attention.
Ask HN: Is medium's cookie notice legal?
When you land on any medium blog you see:

To make Medium work, we log user data. By using
Medium, you agree to our Privacy Policy,
including cookie policy.

(e.g. https://donhopkins.medium.com/hyperlook-nee-hypernews-nee-goodnews-99f411e58ce4)

Without ability to accept or reject, just a close button. In fact I do not agree with their privacy policy, but by that time I am already tracked. In their privacy policy you see:

We share personal information with vendors, service providers, and
consultants that need access to personal information in order to perform
services for us, such as companies that assist us with web hosting,
storage, and other infrastructure, analytics, payment processing, fraud
prevention and security, customer service, communications, and marketing.

(https://policy.medium.com/medium-privacy-policy-f03bf92035c9)

It is not trivial to report them to my local data protection agency, otherwise I would've done it already. But this is just pathetic if this is leagl, NoScript seem to be the only way forward.
Of particular note, the lack of `expandtab` in Nvi and Traditional vi may be more of a showstopper than lack of multibyte glyph rendering for many.
The sort of methods 'PageRank' uses already existed. It reminds of Apple `inventing` (air quotes) the mp3 player. It didn't, it applied existing technology, refined it and publicized it. They did not invent it but maybe 'inventing' something is only a very small part of making something useful for many people.
> I've never been on a team where developers talk 50% of the time. We have a meeting to prioritize tickets once a week and talk to other devs when necessary.

Shit, I have—but if you count only productive hours, it's more like 10-20% are talking :-)
Thanks for circling back.

It seems like the brain drain from every other field into computer stuff is a real and substantial loss for our culture. It makes me wonder whether we will keep it together, in the end. Societies decaying has happened; eventually they collapse. If it happens again, it will not be confined to this or that empire.
But the taxpayer owners have less power. Seems like a bad system IMHO as a tax payer.
The Poison Papers: Hidden history of chemical and pesticide hazards in the U.S
> but when the same thing happen for rust, it's censorship, nobody talks about rust's internal problems

You clearly can see through the bias in HN, and each project has its controversies. Out of any project that I have seen that has had drama like this, the one that is more of a cult and has its problems hidden from view is most definitely Rust.

Just look at how this one went [0] or the level of discussion that is going on in [1] and [2]. The way the foundation was setup seems to be heading into another disaster, which even the main promoter of it is starting to distance away from it after getting upset about Amazon [3].

I won't be surprised to see the next controversy in Rust hidden away from view vs the controversies in other communities.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29501893

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29306845

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30163141

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28783997
I don't have a clue how a journaling FS works. But any ordering should not be observable unless you have a power outage. Can you give an example how a journaling FS could observe something that should be observable?
Generic verb "hoover" is probably used more in the US as a deliberately informal/colloquial synonym to ingest or something like that. e.g. hoover up all your data.
Thousands of people were out of work for most of a month. For example, the Rideau Centre, which employs 1500, was shut down.

Thousands of people had to move out of their homes because they couldn't sleep with the continuous honking. One idiot even brought a train horn.

And that was just Ottawa. The ambassador bridge shutdown was much worse. For instance, Ford shut down an Ohio plant employing 1600 due to lack of parts made in Canada.
UPS won't help if kernel panics.
I assume it evolved from charging publishers for typesetting and editorial work, etc, and charging readers for the physical copies.
Can you submit the link to https://github.com/hetznercloud/awesome-hcloud/ , too?
>I can tell you that you are unequivocally wrong if you think that NK is anything like CA. It's a fun narrative of the uninformed.

If you think that they are even a tiny bit different, you are brainwashed into thinking that. There is no other explanation.

>Yes this is a fringe position that the science does not support.

"Science" supports whatever most scientists are paid to support. Lots of scientists supported the use of tobacco for a very long time.
You gotta normalize for incarceration, abuse, narcissism, neglect, financial issues, sicknesses, mental health issues. All those are way more likely to either prevent marriage or end in divorce. Many of those are repeating patterns in parents life's even after divorce.
ad 2) Hitler and Sudetenland is even more fitting parallel. Does Russian POV include that too?
This is short sighted. Teams do not build everything from scratch, probably most shipped executables are 90% outside libraries, open source or not.

Code being predictable is a huge win, not only with other people but also with your own code from 10months ago.

It also makes change more calculable.
Redefining percentile or who is considered an active participant as the author did is the greater self-serving misunderstanding. Following from my earlier comment here, this weekly graph already shows active players - those who aren't active aren't factored in: https://lichess.org/stat/rating/distribution/blitz

To be active on Lichess requires on to actually be active and have a Rating Deviation below a certain value.

It's all easy to "reaching the top 1% is easy" if you're already at the top. I commented earlier explaining the difference between Overwatch and chess, pointing out how the author's description of what it took to get "good" at Overwatch simply doesn't work for chess. Without trying to slight Overwatch, chess is simply a very very tough game/sport to get very good at.

As Grandmaster Ben Finegold would say, "I'm the best player in this chair!" Yep, so that also makes me in the 100th percentile when in my own chair, just with fancier words.
> This is a disingenuous interpretation of what is essentially a peaceful worker's sit-in.

That is literally what they are protesting for, so I fail to see how it is disingenuous.

> This is a disingenuous character smear of anyone who decides to question the status quo.

Perhaps you should "research" the difference between "status quo" and "factual". 10.6 billion people have gotten a covid vaccine, it would be pretty hard to hide any signs of deleterious effects in a sample size of 10.6 billion. On the other hand, the statistics on covid are equally clear: it's orders upon orders of magnitude more dangerous to human health that the vaccine could even "possibly" be.
> Fourteen- and 15-year-olds may perform only that cooking which involves the use of (1) electric or gas grilles that do not entail cooking over an open flame, and (2) deep fat fryers that are equipped with and utilize devices that automatically lower and raise the baskets into and out of the oil or grease.

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/58-child-labor-...

So this will let them hire younger workers to prepare & season the fries that Flippy made, since they won't be placing the baskets into the hot oil. Win for employee safety, win for the restaurant.
Sucks because Apple has hired a lot of really talented developers to work on Swift. I hope they aren't being treated to this kind of toxicity.
I don't know if that's FUD or not, but personally async turns rust in a language within a language: core rust is interoperable with everything via C FFI, you can build on top of existing stuff. But if you let async rust lure you with its (well deserved) appeal, you end up in a parallel universe, where everything is pure rust.

Surely you want to use the pure rust async aware postgres client and the pure rust grpc implementation, but with async that's not a free choice.

You now have to deal with the fact that these (actually often quite well written) reimplementations often lag quite a bit in functionality.

For example you think you can just use some boring technology like a RDBMS but then you discover that pgbouncer doesn't really work well with sqlx. Similar stories for gRPC and other stuff.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that's because async implementation is bad or it hasn't been well thought out. Other languages make other tradeoffs (e.g. Go detects blocking syscalls and increases the size of the thread pool, which makes it a bit easier to accomodate blocking FFI with the core async model, but that comes with a price).

What I'm saying is that in practice async rust feels like another language, a language built on top of rust, that looks like rust, that can call rust, but effectively creates its own ecosystem. The problem is compounded by the fact that it's still called rust, and often you can write libraries that can do a bit of async or not based on optional features.

It's probably all unavoidable and for the better, but it does add a source of fatigue that must be acknowledged and not dismissed as FUD.
Ahh, I see. That's pretty cool!
There is a good list of startups that went bankrupt here: https://www.cbinsights.com/research/startup-failure-post-mor...
Katerra seems like the latest big one - $1.5B in funding that filed for chapter 11 last year.
i actually poked around a bit as a contributor a few years ago (before i had to start a real job) and remember it being a thin layer on top of XLA among a few other things. interesting to learn that it is growing into something that people are using as a fully fledged numerical computing library.

also a little bit surprising to see how immature and fragmented the python gpu numerical computing ecosystem is. everybody bags on matlab, but it has been automatically shipping relevant operations over to available gpus for years.
>Also real democracies have real elections and real candidates and peaceful changes of power between politicians.

I completely agree. And fake ones have faux elections with controlled oppositions where voting doesn't matter... like in the U.S. or Canada.
NBP is such a nice project.
I wish it had the level of success as NPR (New Packet Radio) had.
Or even more.
It has a good pedigree of actually being in use for a long time.
I've heard great teams at Apple and toxic teams - maybe more on Software than hardware (see the writeup / postmortem on Aperture which started off great but middle managers under time constraints ruined it/made it toxic).

Not sure if Apple silo-ing off teams lets this perpetuate, but then again, it's not like Google or FB have their own share of toxic groups.

You'd think something like that whole Apple university MBA program would figure out better ways of managing large numbers of people with commensurate egos, but it seems like an unsolved problem.
I dont think the solution is to drop the fee to 4%. My pushback on the Play execs was that we need something unique, that seems fair and recognizes the value that 3rd party and the platforms provide. The 30 / 70 is simple and clean but its not “good” or “fair”. It doesnt mean you cant capture say 20% of app revenue in a way that is good and fair
I would have no problem with online advertising if it all took the same form as on HN. No embedded code, no tracking, no individual targeting, just an opportunity for the advertiser to inform the public of what they're offering and nothing else.
At one point it was different barriers on the different submission queues inside the drive. Not externally visible queues, but between internal implementation layers.

It's been a few years since I've checked up on this and it was for the most part pre SSDs though.
How is this DSL acceptable?

posts = await client.post.find_many(
where={
'OR': [
{'title': {'contains': 'prisma'}},
{'content': {'contains': 'prisma'}},
]
}
)

SQL for comparison:

... where title like '%prisma%' or content like '%prisma%'
How does he not have security now?
So emergency powers would trump that expectedly.

If you're worried about the groups using crypto to launder their money due to fines/lawsuits, then freezing accounts seems reasonable as well.

Laundering money is a great way in the US to get your account frozen without being arrested/tried/convicted. Because if you waited for the conviction, the money would be long gone.
India’s largest stock exchange CEO made decisions from Himalayan yogi
Reading this thread for the first time, it looks to me like (1) everybody is fairly well behaved by the standards of an online forum and (2) Chris is probably using more inflammatory language than anybody else.

So maybe one the problems is that at this point, he's no longer getting the deference from other community members that he feels he's still owed?
The company probably broke minimum wage law. And might owe employer’s national insurance contributions to HMRC (the tax office). That might sound strange because the employees weren’t paid. But if the company was legally obliged to pay minimum wage, I’d guess they were also legally obliged to pay employer taxes.

Having said that, the article noted that HMRC’s minimum wage enforcement team have already been involved and recovered just £29.70. Hopefully they’re still working on it.

Edit: An employment tribunal ruled that three employees are collectively owed £19,000, so minimum wage is somewhat being enforced. But the company doesn’t have any money to pay them. It’s a mess.
Those were the real ballers of the new world. That would have made great television!
Negative. I left Ubuntu everywhere because of how it kept increasingly creeping in.

They usually give up on their NIH missteps after a year or two(see upstart, mir, unity, etc), but they're really dug in on this one.
It does not. Sometimes the issue is real. Winning don't make it disappear. The good feeling after makes it easier to not solve it until it gets real bad.
While I agree with the sentiment, even a firmware revision could cause a difference in behavior and it seems unreasonable to change the model number on every firmware release.
I do think human progress and welfare would have been much better off without Twitter and Instagram. I think WhatsApp is basically neutral and I haven't used WeChat or Snapchat so I can't comment on those.
Go has Rob Pike as a sort of BDFL within google, no?

Apple it seems does well w/ a Scott Forstal or a Bertrand Serlet running cover for their engineers. maybe not so much if there's a giant committtee....
Probably implementing a barrier for ordering io…
A crash, lockup, are the same as a power failure.
I have talked to Crimeans. They overwhelmingly wanted to join Russia... as do a huge number of Ukrainains.
AirTags exist and they work perfectly fine in all these conditions. We would need to turn the clock back a few years for this comment to make sense, in an universe where AirTags didn't yet exist.

Your phone takes it's last position from GPS, refines it with RSSI of nearby WiFi networks and then you add in the broadband stuff they have to localize the tag further.
It just seems highly unlikely that you are having 10 minute meetings while accomplishing anything beyond the usual small chit chat and banter that almost all social interactions require. It takes ten minutes alone to just gather a group of people, look at each other, and say hello.
Given the current replication crisis, I would say, not much.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
There's nothing to believe, really. If, and as long as, it correctly explains experimental evidence we can use it to make predictions.
There is no defense for lying about sync like this. Ever.
Hard drive write caches are supposed to be battery-backed (i.e., internal to the drive) for exactly this reason. (Apparently the drives tested are not.) Data integrity should not be dependent on power supply (UPS or not) in any way; it's unnecessary coupling of failure domains (two different domains nonetheless -- availability vs. integrity).
> unless you have a power outage

Journaling FSes are all about safety in the face of such things. That is, unless the drive lies.
" it is not a dangerous lifestyle."

I think that's highly dependent on the rules/steps one follows to stay healthy. And many people who rely on testing don't have a clue of how to properly use it (timing).
A little tongue in cheek, but the strength of Java is that you don't have to actually use it to work in the Java ecosystem. Here is the entire program to copy stdin to stdout in Groovy:

System.out << System.in