skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A packet-switched network is less necessarily centralized than a circuit-switched network.

This is not actually true. The AT&T Long Lines network was originally very decentralized.
When it was first fully automated, there was no central control point. There were 10 regional control centers, but they were not essential to most calls. Eventually there was central control, out of Bedminster, Pennsylvania. Originally all it did was collect data and send out new routing tables every few minutes. It didn't process any calls. Previously the routing tables had been fixed, changed maybe once a month. Calling pattern changes on holidays were a serious cause of overload. AT&T used to run ads asking people to make their Xmas calls earlier in the day.

There's "A History of Science and Engineering in the Bell System"[1], written by the old-timers at the AT&T breakup to record how all the old stuff worked. A general understanding of how the more advanced electromechanical switching systems worked is useful in designing high-rel systems. Number 4 and Number 5 crossbar systems had system reliability much higher than component reliability. In the entire history of the Bell System, no electromechanical central office was ever out of service for more than 30 minutes, other than due to a natural disaster or major fire. That record has not been maintained in the computer era.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/History-Engineering-Science-Bell-Syst...
Sounds like the lottery.

The problem is, when dealing with a zero (or negative) sum game, having a few big winners means you have lots of little losers, or a few big ones.
I have a virtual camera going to Zoom and do not have a lag to speak of. The computer is M1 Macbook Air.

I recall that I had some issues. After fiddling a while, I disabled all the 4K options, etc. from camera and selected 1080p output. This is cropped down to 1280x720 output resolution. It's enough.

Generally speaking, video resolution is not important for the sense of quality. Just have decent lighting and don't frame your face like an idiot. To get sense of quality, I recommend investing a little bit to a microphone. People don't realize it but audio quality is the king.
Permalink here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/5251478676/permalink/1016197...

He's in bad shape medically and in a wheelchair. It links his Patreon, Gofundme, and Paypal pages.
I think data storage would be extremely important in that case. If we notice the apocalypse is coming, one of the first things I'm doing is downloading the entire Wikipedia, agriculture websites, survival guides, etc. As much as I possibly can. A raspberry pi can be used to index into that.

(Obviously I'd buy supplies etc. too)

If this happens, you want a reliable, low-power, easy to maintain no-BS computer, since you have more important things to do than mess with that.

Now if we think a bit more into the future, at some point humans will start living in okay environments and we're probably going to want to start building computers again. Having some infrastructure for this would help in bootstrapping computing. Maybe we'll know better this time, maybe we wouldn't destroy our own civilization the second time.

This is obviously all just theorising, but I can see myself needing a reliable low-power computer during an apocalypse.
Secondary DNS providers will do a zone transfer from your primary provider, so the configuration is pretty minimal.
Wikidata, both the software and the platform generally, is definitely developed at Wikimedia Deutschland. I’ve met a few of the people involved.

https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE
I use VMs at work. Always hosted in the cloud- to work with GPUs, or deploy some app.

Outside of work, I use VMs for distro-hopping, i.e. regularly trying out new Linux distributions.
Indeed, really the Alzheimer's situation is unusual only by virtue of being a politically controlled narrative without being partisan.

Once you see how corrupt and political something as non-partisan as Alzheimer's research is, you realize how terribly corrupt and purely narrative-controlled "the science" is for partisan topics.
A safety argument does not favor consumer-level use of hydrogen. Nor, of ammonia.

But synthetic liquified hydrogen, produced at airports from power delivered on transmission lines at times when power is cheapest, and banked, will certainly come to drive aircraft where cost matters.
When I was visiting Australia, I visited a winery that made ginger wine. It was amazing, and it was what I would want to drink with Asian food 100% of the time. I assumed I'd be able to find ginger wine back in California, but alas no one makes the stuff here! I have actually considered ordering a case of it from the winery in Australia, even though shipping would cost an arm and a leg.
Another point of reference is the principles for scholarly structure. It has clauses to prevent exactly mission drift and other ills. Not adopted by WMF or WMDE, but in the same approximate space.

https://openscholarlyinfrastructure.org/
Especially for the surgeon, why would you volunteer to be interviewed for this? Unless you actually have $2M net worth and it's a big troll, you're not going to show your friends you were in the WSJ. You want your patients to know?
Hey man any coupons for developers from India?
Tencent's WeChat wants no more talk of cryptocurrency and NFTs
Something beyond a regression to the mean?
Yep. And what’s worse is that Firestore is notoriously difficult to migrate away from (at least from what I’ve heard, haven’t yet tried it myself). So if you take the prototype and turn it into an mvp, you’re kinda stuck with it.

If the goal is to create a prototyping DB, ideally there’d be some nice off ramping or migration tools for when the app needs to become production ready.
Which is exactly why they might be able to make healthcare cheaper.
That's why the real diversity - the diversity of ideas - is important. There aren't many mustache-twirling villains that wake up with the thought of suppressing ideas for the fun of it. Most people who suppress ideas think that's because they have the right ideas and the others have wrong ideas. Except turns out even very very smart people can be mistaken from time to time. And maybe it's worth to allow some ideas that we think are wrong to be around - just in case some of them turn out to be correct later.
Well, a lot of the early RFCs have been lost.
>The correlation between poverty levels and obesity are also well studied and are not uniquely american. Although the trends don't hold for developing countries where the poor are often on their feet all day.

Is it possible the kind of self-discipline needed to prevent yourself from over-eating is more heartily rewarded economically in the US than in some of the particularly impoverished nations where only a tiny fraction escape poverty? I don't know, but it's worth noting the causative direction could influence going from obesity to poverty, poverty to obesity, neither, or even merely correlative dependent variables caused by some other 3rd stimulus.
I challenge the assertion that the gp is really antidogmatic. The definition of abuse and the appropriate response to it, while generally unquestioned in one society, may not be the same in a remote island society.
As a happy mirai owner I am really encouraged to see all positive news and efforts around hydrogen economy recently
Remember the time he tried stitching Kraft and Heinz together?
FYI, Gravenstein is just a variety of apple like Fuji or Honeycrisp, not a separate fruit like the other items in your list.
IIRC some states have similar laws so you have beer that is 4% and lower so it can be sold at grocery stores.
I'm kind of mystified by the authors description of fiction books organized by kinship rather than by author. Non-fiction-- sure!

But "the shelf above my desk" may not be very many books, and if so the order hardly matters -- order by color if you like.

For our books[1] fiction is by author, then whatever makes the density better. I think lately I've been slowly reorganizing them toward making it easier to pull out series in order from each author.

If we ordered fiction by 'kinship' I think I'd never find any of them, and it would be kinda hard to shelve books we haven't read yet.

[1] https://nt4tn.net/bookshelves/ ... though these pics are a couple years old now.
Big, Boxy Apartment Buildings Are Our Rental Future
What if it turns out that for many actions, the game-theoretically optimal strategy for the individual isn't optimal for the society, and people's gut instincts are reasonably close to game theoretic analysis? In other words, what if it turns out that it's really objectively best for society if everyone is tricked into being good?
This paper assumes that the goal of vaccine mandates is about increasing or managing disease immunity.

Indeed, if the goal were immunity, the recommendation to recognize the utility of natural immunity would be sensible.

However, since the mandates aren't about immunity, the paper's argument is meaningless.
More practically: for example, I write my web service(s) with event sourced architecture. Now any worker, or any service sending a command, can operate against the storage. Regardless of version.

Other architectural patterns offer the same kinds of options. Clean architecture or hexagonal architecture limits the surface (coupling) between your versioned logic and the data so much, that they can version independent.

Alas, most web development uses some ORM as the center of the app. Active record, for example. An architecture known for its immense and tight coupling to the database. An architecture that has as major downside that businesslogic cannot evolve separate from the data store.

Your parent commentor very likely is, unaware, running into this downside and projects that experience to all of web development.
more yaml config files insanity, happy that irc is not dead
Bombs are not the only issue either - leftover WW2 ammunition hampered wildfire-fighting efforts in Brandenburg in recent years. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/germany-forest-fire-world-war-i...
If their accuracy is 11m, can we calculate their wordlist size?
Is there a chance we take it as a teachable moment and ask ourselves if there are other areas where we feel OK to suppress alternative approaches and ideas, and where we're going to pay dearly for it later?
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In C++ when I see `DoX(y)` I have to worry every time about temporary lifetimes, copy vs move operator, and a bunch of other things that are easy to miss during code review. It is so easy to accidentally copy large strings around many times in a performance critical loop.

Rust makes all of that easier to see during code review. It is very explicit about these things.

I'm a Google employee working on chromium and chromeOS and have been asking internally about rust support for over a year now, so it's exciting that it's making progress.
> is for steel production by the H2-DRI-EAF method

You can electrowin iron at about 80-90% efficiency.
"Wine" today means grape wine. People ferment other things and call it dandelion wine or mango wine but not just wine (unless they're trying to be obscure and edgy).

OP (and other commenters) is being overly pedantic though, because the article wasn't talking about the name, but why grapes are fermented to make alcoholic drinks more than other fruit. The answer from the article being high sugar, good taste, good availability.
Employers have more power than employees in the employer-employee relationship, so they can extract concessions like this.
Yes, ASD is in much worse shape than depression.

And, risperidone is a terrible choice of treatment. Anxiolytics can be very effective.
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> Then you have harder to reason about test that can fail in its complex parameter matrix.

Can you give an example of tests that would be better with repetition than parameterization?
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Having grown up with relatives that made LOTS of home made wine from apple juice, I can assure you that wine can be and is made from many other things.

The problem is that it just doesn't taste as good as the stuff made from grapes. I've tasted wines made from many different fruits and they're frankly all just ... not great. Not terrible (well, the home made apple wine (please note: WINE, NOT CIDER) was terrible) but just not great either.
It is. As is Rust.

Grandparent confuses correlation for causation.
When I was in school reading coaches encouraged the awareness of subvocalization (where you mimic the text as if you were speaking it, but not aloud). If you find yourself doing that while reading, stop/suppress that.
Cantonese can be written, it is just that the character is not as common as those you see in Mandarin.
Yes, there are KYC regulations - but they have been around for a while. And still banks didn't do it in an intrusive manner that some of the newer companies do it.
I have an Elgato Facecam which claims to work with Zoom on a Mac M1, but doesn’t (at least on my machine). I proxy it through an OBS virtual camera. Weird work around, but works!
> The nice thing about the free market is that there are alternatives to choose from.

That's the nice thing about a free market with perfect trust busting. You are trying to make me choose a large tech to like just so I can buy a phone with everything they choose for me to maximize their benefit.

> This is a real stretch.

The US made this stretch over and over, i.e. on IP phones that didn't want to support 911. In a way they are right, any reductions in quality or expectations in availability would quickly go from a niche problem to few people still having a landline with 911 service. Having no phone is fine because you don't expect to have it be your way to call 911, iphone owners often think they planned correctly but can't make any calls once their battery dies.
You can certainly hide a container, but you can't hide a container port, much less a non-submarine ship in the open ocean, which is what your earlier comment suggested.

Argentina definitely does not have customs officials as honest as those in the US, though perhaps they are more sophisticated.

Traveling via container is a thing I've contemplated doing myself, if only I had the budget.
Feel free to elaborate -- this is hacker news not script kiddie news. Excess cynicism aside, while I think there's always plenty to be critical of I think between Leslie Lamport, Excel, and Windows XP I'd say it's not all bad.
I think this is being seen in particle physics right now, with CERN campaigning to fund a successor to the LHC that other particle physicists believe has little chance of finding anything new.
I mean I said imagine, but I too paid for a coffee with botcoin in ca 2015 : )
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Tripp

Had to Google that, though it does sound temporary?
What do we owe them? They already got paid. By Microsoft.
> You also had a pentest of your setup so you are perfectly sure you don't expose something to the internet that you are not supposed to?

What are you talking about?

With Kubernetes you need to explicitly expose something. In code. And apply that change. And see it explicitly listed in the descriptions.

Outside of Kubernetes, you're already talking about a requirement that applies to all web services, regardless of deployment solution. Why didn't you mentioned that?

> You also considered updates for Ubuntu and microk8s so you have strategy for updating your nodes with newer versions and security patches.

What point were you trying to make?

Do you believe Kubernetes is the only software that requires updating?

Even so, with Kubernetes you can launch a freshly created instance in your cloud provider of choice, add it to the cluster, and go on with your day.

If you'd want, you can drain a node, shut it down, and rebuild the node from scratch.

Where exactly do you see a challenge?
Cherry wine has been produced in Scandinavia for a long time. It is far from a novelty.
When “Jawboning” Creates Private Liability
What differentiates apple wine from cider?
Bonds will take a hit if interest rates keep rising. (Look at how they’ve done year to date.)

If you want to actually hedge your investments, use a collar.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/active-trading/011515/...
> who often opted for watered-down wine to sterilize pathogens in the water

Will this meme ever die? The Greeks didn't know what a pathogen was, much less sterilization. They had clean water. The ancient wells of spring water are still there in Greek cities, still producing. The only time people wrote about using alcohol to make water "safe" was when the army was out in the wilderness and the only water nearby was brackish and stagnant.

> and to stay sober enough for symposiums of (allegedly) high-brow thought and debate.

Symposiums were just a bro party. They could be serious or salacious, and they could get rowdy; it depended on the host (kinda like today). They drank diluted wine because drinking undiluted wine would turn you mad and only uncivilized cretins drank it undiluted.
> Birds of prey—particularly those with large wings such as buzzards and eagles—are especially vulnerable to electrocution at power poles, says Graham Martin, an ornithologist at the University of Birmingham. “When landing or taking off from the perch, they are likely to touch two wires simultaneously.”

And a bird does not need to bridge a "hot" wire to an actual ground. There are plenty of "hot" to "hot" combinations of wires which are also lethal - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-phase_electric_power
What’s the difference, in process and result?
I don't think that was the point the OP was making. I think they were trying to argue that ML cannot learn control loops or maybe that the system needs to "understand" physics (Not sure - it wasn't really clear to me).

The fact there is a control loop here doesn't actually seem important if you represent the features correctly.

I'd argue that data representation is actually what you need to get right (ie, in this case the behavior in the time domain).
Paywall: https://archive.ph/srJaw
In 2020, a lot of swing states were close, and there was a big shift towards Trump in election results vs. polls. He might have won had he not gotten covid.
Topical *cylovir is a weird concept. The virus is inside nerves.

Anyway, does acyclovir still work, anywhere?
Ensuring worker threads terminate before their parent which owns them exclusively is the only sane way to design software.

C++ is all about stack-bound resource management.
Technically it may be forgiving, but not economically. Imagine electrolyzer or ammonia plant that uses only 20% of full capacity on average because of using only peak electricity surplus. The rest 80% is basically wasted. Classical plant with higher capacity factor might still be more profitable even if it uses more expensive electricity.
Adverse selection is not at all why Vermont rolled back their decision.
Yep, it is required by law to have the repairability index score posted prominently near the price tag of the product, whether online or in physical retail. It’s a super effective approach (as noted in the linked study).
Something like this with voice recognition would be really cool
Can't replace the kernel though, and updating the web server application itself is going to be hard too. Unless it's some Erlang like hotpluggable server I guess.
I'm just happy that Microsoft is finally charging directly for a developer product!

When they keep giving out freebies (VSCode, npm etc.), I never know which direction the product is going to evolve (e.g. unnecessarily tight integration with Azure).

With this, there's at least direct alignment between end user & the product.
There are many areas in which JavaScript "performs" poorer than other options. Productivity, stability, maintainability, to name a few. Other languages and ecosystems are much better at that, than JavaScript.

Luckily projects like typescript solve those issues, or try to.
All sorts of places, including some unlikely ones. California, Massachusetts, Maine, and Texas all pulled licenses for refusing to uphold the narrative.

Washington, Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, and Arizona all threatened to do so, though I have been unable to determine whether any licenses were actually pulled.

California threatened criminal charges, though I have no evidence that any were ever actually filed.
GNU recutils – human readable, plain text databases
I don't want to discourage you, but if you know the subject matter and are inclined to work on a book, you should just write your own from scratch as the sole author: the normal way most books are written.

(I personally wouldn't write a book about the shell. I would be too paralyzed by the thought that at any moment, Stéphane Chazelas might crack it open.)
Mead is also called honey wine in German at least, so not exclusively fruit (at least if it's used with a qualifier). That's only in normal speech, though, as the trade name 'wine' is exclusively for grape wine.
> Try setting it up on your own without Ubuntu doing the legwork.

Why? Do you also see any purpose in hopping on one foot to work instead of driving there?

I don't understand what leads people like you to try to move goalposts to pretend something is harder than it is or needs to be.
Yes, they can determine if you've been near any dissidents, or if you have spoken any wrongthink or if you patronized any disloyal establishments.
Ask HN: What service do you use to collect and analyse your API data?
Hi HN. I asked a question here before. [my app is slow. What do I do now?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29700098). HN users kindly instructed me to record logs about my api request as a starting point. I have done accordingly and found some slow api requests and fix them.

But recording api request and analysing them with custom python code is not as interesting as creating features for my app.

Are there any service that I can use to simplify this task?

I've used Mixpanel to collect and analyse my user behaviours. So far it is working great.

I'm thinking of using Mixpanel to collect and analyse my api request data. But I'm not sure Mixpanel is good fit for this task. (I'm not an expert in Mixpanel though).

Have you used any service to do such task? I would be happy to pay for the service.

Thanks :)
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You're basically just reinforcing parents comment (correlation does not imply causation) because those studies mention the same problem with their design thus they can't come to a valid conclusion.
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Abroad in Japan. He’s really popular, but I find him pretty balanced.

That Japanese Guy Yuta. Some find him annoying, but I like it. He covers a lot of controversial subjects. I’ve actually purchased his language learning and it’s been really good.
I've been using the beta since last year and I love it. I think most of the people complaining about it either haven't used it, or are judging it on its most verbose guesses. That's not what I use it for mostly. For me, it's just a really, really good autocomplete. It's best for things with common patterns and APIs. But hey, they're common so I write them a lot. Boring stuff like creating a Response object, adding the right headers and response code. And look, it's worked out that I need a case for a 404 next, and has suggested the code for that to, and a 500 in my catch block. Sure, that's not much typing or cognitive load, but added up over many, many times then it's easily worth it.

And no, I'm not a beginner. I'm a principal with over 20 years experience. I don't really use it for the Stack Overflow-type stuff, but even as an autocomplete it's worth the money. As it happens I'm apparently eligible for free access as an open source maintainer, but I'd pay $100/year in a heartbeat for it. I'd pay for Intellisense if that was $100 too.