skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be much better to say that the belief in the ignorance of experts is a prerequisite to science. Science itself is the process of proving a hypothesis to some degree of certainty. It is not mere skepticism. If you have no plan to put in the work necessary to prove your hypothesis, then statistically speaking, you generally are better off listening to the experts and textbooks. Science is the difference between healthy skepticism and mindless armchair contrarianism.
Cassandra has tunable consistency. It also has some, terribly slow, lightweight transactions. If you have replication, which you need for HA/DR, then the cost of writes is pretty much the same, data has to be written to all 3 replicas. The question is, for the most part, when do you ack the writes. So on a single site Cassandra you can e.g. write 3 replicas, read 2 back, and you have a consistent database (for a given key). That's not sufficient for ACID though.

I'm honestly not familiar at all with CitusDB or Vitess in terms of where they sit in their ability to handle failures, scale out, transactions etc. or where they sit in the CAP story. I'm sure Spanner is paying the tax somewhere but it's just that Google can back it with infinite resources to give you the performance you need.

If there was a database that offered ACID, HA/DR, and scaled horizontally perfectly at a cost of 10% more resources then I doubt anyone would be using stuff like Cassandra, ScyllaDB or HBase... I don't think that exists though but I'll look up those other databases you mentioned.
yeah, cool story bro, you mean like the sweet gig at Oracle (who can't recruit in the Bay Area) that will pay you enough to buy an electric generator and a flight for your daughter to get birth control?

cool
If that is the case, what is the argument to have platform specific functions in the included c code?
Fastest growing has nothing to do with the link I posted. What is relevant is they were the highest paying jobs on that list. Compared to all wage jobs, nursing pays relatively high. Just take the L and move on.
No. You get gatekeeping and laziness and stale group think and unstated quid pro quo and discrimination. It's worse science.

A famous name getting the same paper published easier is a failure of peer review. The whole point of science is that ideas and evidence stands on its own merit. Not celebrity or seniority or power or any other axis that doesn't matter.
Just add it to a laundry list of terrible policy decisions in Texas. Might not make someone leave but really reminds a lot of people why you wouldn't want to go move or vacation there.
Not sure how your router is configured, but mine (Netgear Orbi, so not a niche router with one-off software) still has terrible IPv6 support. The only options are to allow public routing to each of my devices, or to block it entirely. No port forwarding or firewalling all but a single port. So confirm your router works the way you expect before you try migrating from IPv4.
It only means anything if the people tagged actually wrote that exact comment. Otherwise, it's just a case of random sampling putting random names next to random comments.
In that case n=1, not n=1000?
Yeah, but the obverse is equally important. Hierarchy and dynamics will also decay when there isn't a status quo built to support them at least that's how it works out in my noggin. I think the formalized hierarchy tends to ossify individuals, departments, processes and et cetera. Once that's established, it becomes rigid, and rigidity stops being fun and it stops being interesting.
Pretty much all of the HOAs that are de facto zoning boards of the Houston area would most definitely prevent you from doing anything like that. HOA by-laws are where you'll find the real zoning regulations over there.
The title doesn't seem like clickbait to me. Seems pretty straightforward really.

Now if they had written the second part of the title like, "You won't believe what happened next!" that would be clickbait.
In this case it looks like his good reputation was falsified from the start? They were unable to prove misconduct in his dissertation only because the data had been destroyed. So consistently missing his misconduct would be more to blame here than riding on a reputation.
I feel like good managers show up in these as evidenced by the quality of the feedback. It shows in the writing. If the manager hasn’t been doing their job, it’ll be apparent too.

That’s been my experience on the other side of this. But I suppose plenty of directors, VPs, etc. can mail it in at this stage and probably do.
Or everyone votes to increase everyone's salary, the payroll department says we don't have enough money, and eventually someone (management, but let's not call them that) has to step in and straighten things out.
I will tell you who had a fantastic imagination. Sci-fi writer, Robert Heinlein. And Musk is trying his darned best to be the hero from Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land. (Spoiler alert: no happy ending for him there)

Having said that: If I do flex my imagination muscle, I would say that EM would disappear suddenly before the long gnarly arm of the law can catch him. And somewhere in the frozen landscape of Russia, a new country would birth with the blessings of Papa P.

Where bears and Siberian tigers roamed, now a shining new city will emerge. This red city would be called Mars. Entirely powered by solar…it was toasty tropical even during the bitter Russian winter. Even Father Frost Morozko can be found lounging outside in Xmas eve. This red city had no cars or roads..only underground tunnels where electric car pods whiz next to container grown food. It becomes a paradise and soon as everyone is clamoring to get in after selling their get away properties in NZ. It’s too boring down there. Why be with sheep when you can sleep with bears.

Of course, the currency is Doge and the entire country runs on the blockchain. Don’t ask me how. I know not how..no one does.

First only the billionaires start trickling in but soon, everyone wants in.. but NO. Only those who have shown that they can create new generations and deposit heftily in the state of the art fertility clinic will be given visas. And all the children will have the last name of Musk. And everyone lived happily ever after. Sucks to be us. The End.
Archive link: https://archive.ph/7SKuT
I feel like this whole thing could be a webcam and some snapchat filters. I must be getting old, because I just don't get it...
What is the problem with "not fun" and "not interesting"?

Why would I want an org chart to be fun or interesting? Usually, my goal is for anything "fun" and "interesting" to be either a direct responsibility at work, or something I do outside of work for pleasure.
> I can recommend something beefier than a raspberry pi, though, or at least than than the pi 1-3 speeds that I'm used to.

Thin clients are perfect for such tasks. More powerful than a Pi, fanless, uses little power, and comes with a proper network card. Second hand HP T620s are cheap.
I don't know why we should assume that a company will be successful in one area just because they've been successful in a totally different area - I wouldn't expect a text/photo based social media company to succeed at creating... whatever this is any more than I would expect Toyota to win the fast food market (although VW does make sausages...).

My prediction: the successful "metaverses" will either be created by totally new companies/indie devs, or by an established game developer (I know this stuff has some overlap with the social media wheelhouse, but no more than say World of Warcraft does).

Ideally someone creates some common open protocol for 3d/VR/AR social spaces that catches on, but I won't hold my breath. (I know there's a few projects like this around already)
Was the article about Galveston or Houston?
In my field that would be impossible... people work in collaborations and you know pretty much all of the experiments.
Hm interesting, when I'm in VRC on Quest I see low poly avatars (haven't compared with the exact experience on PCVR mostly because if I have the Quest on I'm going to use the Quest) so I figured it was some sort of graceful degradation, but guess I'm wrong.
Other Western nations mostly have similar regulatory issues. South Korea, which doesn't, builds its nuclear plants on time and on budget
I must misunderstand what override. Wouldn't the "override" term in this case be better served as being called "customised validated attestation state" ? Its doesn't roll of the tongue but correct terms matter.
Oh man, are you high? :DDDD

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There are 100 billionaire 35-45 yo men with fond memories of Civilization, Diablo, Halo trying to make video games hiring the top game designers. And they get flops!
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Examples of these big flops please.

Creating a big title is a team effort. You can shove your top designer if he doesn't have a proper team. Ex blizzard guys, almost all of them failed, why? Because they jumped out, believed they were hotshots, but their team/general game idea was lacking. Also look what happened to David Jaffe without Sony's backing...

If you have the money, but don't know jackshit about games, and you don't have a Steve Eisman quality bullshit detector, what are you expecting? Btw there are a lot of excellent indie titles that trump big titles while made by a few individuals, but only a fraction of gamers know about them, because they don't have the money plus marketing machine needed to bring them to a wider audience. Pour your zillions there or hire me, give me a shitton of money, power to kick people in the balls and you'll get your 10x return, lol.

Plus how is this relevant? All I'm saying that the tech is ready, can be made, there are perfect VG examples that can be used as a VR/MV setting, but what Meta showcased is a letdown.
The hypothesis is that gender bias could be driven by a population of interviewers who don't tremendously like interviewing, meaning both that they don't care to correct for their biases and they aren't likely to sign up for interviewing.io.
> I think it's important for self hosting solutions to not run Android or Windows

Not sure I follow. Those are the two most widely deployed operating systems. If you want people to be able to upcycle their old devices for selfhosting, I think that's where efforts should be focused.
I've spent most of my career, which started around 1995, as a security researcher. I think you'd be surprised by how poor a job "the arena" does at sussing out complicated memory lifecycle problems in C and C++ code. Some of the patterns we now look for to find exploitable conditions aren't even all that old; much of that "arena time" was spent not even looking for those problems. Security teams at places like Google subject C/C++ code to fuzzing at boggling scales, and people still find memory safety vulnerabilities. Shit's hard. It's better just not to have this problem in the first place.

I'm not stamping my feet demanding you track down a Rust web browser. But the thread started with someone asking what the point of a Rust NTP daemon was. I think that's been amply answered now.
really great men!

on 'can we search your bag?' maybe answer: 'do I have a choice?' may help

but I am sure that being scared of losing the flight will just make you say: 'yes, you can'
I wasn't attempting to troll here, my reply was directly to this claim from the parent comment: "they moved to a more normal corporate structure so they would actually finish projects instead of people bouncing when the project got hard"
The claim is not that discrimination exists. Of course it does.

The claims basically amount to any inequity between groups is due to discrimination, except in the cases where the inequity "favors" the oppressed class (and where oppressed and oppressor classes have no real objective criteria or definitions, aside from what intersectionality experts claim them to be).

And that institutional policies of discrimination are an the acceptable and effective way to deal with this inequity, but also you must not refer to them as systemic or institutional discrimination.
It is, and openSUSE's default of "create a snapshot before and after every 'zypper in' and/or 'zypper dup'" has saved my bacon on more than one occasion.
I routinely ignore recruiters from places I don’t want to live even if the job is interesting. Red states, and places with similar politics are on that list.

I spent a week in Utah and heard open antisemitism and anti Mexican rhetoric. I don’t have faith that my wife could get medical care she needs there. Why would I ever want to live there or any of the politically similar places.
But that's not how that works. Your pay is "market rate" aka what your alternatives are, not theirs

Employers engage in cartel behaviour to suppress wages, regardless of scarcity
> You are just as likely to get a hit from an extremely talented and lucky unknown as you are from Richard fucking Garfield. A title that cost its developer $1 to make can become a #1 App Store game at roughly the same a-priori likelihood as a game with a $100m budget.

Given this, where is the YCombinator for games? Why isn't someone funding 100,000 ConcernedApes and ToadyOnes in an attempt to cash in on the next Stardew Valley? Serious question.
FirefoxOS was one of those hail-mary longshots that you always thought would be destined for failure but you had to respect the fact that they had the guts to attempt it anyway. (Though to be fair, Rust was the same sort of project, so sometimes long shots pay off.) It showed that Mozilla understood the existential risk of ceding control of the platform itself to your direct competitors. I'd love to see it come back and I'm sad that I never got my hands on one of the original phones.
> First up, there are probably way more console users than pc users.

> OTOH, PC gamers tend to have more disposable income (based on the fact that they have at least a pretty decent PC).

If we're talking about on average it's probably the exact reverse of this. I'd be surprised if more than 25% of Steam users were in North America. Not because Steam isn't huge in NA, but because getting a console and games is way harder in most other countries than running what you can on the family PC.

For example (at least before the sanctions) Russia makes up the largest portion of CS:GO and DOTA2 players. At least for DOTA2 it's more then double the number of American players.
The problem with chat experience is that it's really, truly not Android's fault, it's Apple's. It sucks because Apple wants it to suck to push iOS and macOS sales. Pretty useless blaming Android for that.

I have managed to push most of the people I know to not use SMS or iMessage and use Signal - we can all have a high quality chat and media sharing experience with a comparable (or superior) security model on whatever device you have. iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, Linux, etc.
>Why not be angry that it doesn’t deliver on experience and features?

Because Apple practically has unlimited resources and power while Linux and its ecosystem doesn't?
Gebrus work was not especially impactful before the giant blowup about the Google paper.
> It occurs to me that in your various comments here you are thinking of

What am I thinking now?
Looks interesting, need to dig deeper.
Women who got to the stage of job applications are more likely to give up after than rejection than men who do.

Who's to say that the two are comparable? The men who would give up may have given up earlier in the process
Office Space but it takes place entirely at Peter's dining room table via a VR headset.
rm ./--file-that-looks-like-a-flag

;)

(I'm always half-tempted to suggest that a "strict mode" shell should require all paths in arguments to start with either / or ./ so that anything else is unambiguously not a file.)

(I spent a bunch of time with a file named -i in my home directory, you know, just in case.)
They could have said what happens next in just as many characters, but chose not to. I assume the reason is because fewer people would read the article in that case.
It doesn’t, and nobody in the DEI crowd cares about then. Some will likely even think that it’s great.
The "who can say penis the loudest without getting in trouble" game was very much a thing with my friends in middle school.
Ocean plastics: How much do rich countries contribute by shipping their waste?
It’s the other way around. Wealthy people can opt out of Meta’s VR surveillance apparatus, others cannot.
The model for Sift (formerly Sift Science) was to essentially pull all the data everyone provided in together so anyone using their system benefitted from everyone else's data, but without exposing the actual PII of the fraudsters (or people the fraudsters are pretending to be).

There are public suspicious IP address lists/lookups but nowadays fraudsters with any level of sophistication tend to get a fresh IP each time.

It's a hard problem. You have to decide who you can trust to submit "fraudsters" data and to what extent you trust what they provide. If you start looking at PII (emails, phone numbers, faces, etc. as you say) then even good actors may inadvertently add data of innocent people that fraudsters are fronting as.
I’m bullish on VR in the long term. Many will prefer virtual worlds to the dreary real world.
Exactly. It don’t care if it takes more work for you as a developer to make everything a pageable URL. Just make it work the way I expect it to work.
Not everyone has space, not everyone wants to spend tons of money (generally the same people who don't have space) on 5 displays and the OS config to make 5 displays work. Some people travel a lot for work. There will always be enthusiasts like the people who spend absurd amounts of money on fancy mechanical keyboards, but once VR resolution becomes good enough for work, anyone who wants/works better with large screen real-estate or travels for work a lot will just dump monitors.

BTW if you're actually interested in this, Carmack talks about this and the state of the Oculus around ~ 56 min in the linked video.
(Maybe this is just intentional social narrative churn on his part, but...) Musk is an over-passionate, over-personal equivocator in relationship logic. He should not be getting involved unless it is only behind the scenes on the side of the US. He will likely fault-spread around to both sides and then go into a publicity spiral once this spins out of his control.

There's no place for Musk's kind of thinking with Putin's cold logic in the picture. The go-between is a weak person by enforced role, to Putin's mind. This is a firm rule when you prize power so much. The go-between could otherwise take some of your power.

Russia will make sure Musk gets his pie in the face, bc that's the rule for the role as they see it, and also, they prefer negotiation chaos to negotiation stability.

And then Musk is going to freak out.

Musk and Putin should also stay away from each other. In personality dynamics terms, Musk is very similar to Navalny. He only understands power of a completely different type. Musk also generally has way more power-opportunity in the area of precise control enabled by fresh new ideas and tech, with less human focus. This is not the political gunslinger you want unless you are looking for a Thatcher to wrest control.

So...popcorn time at the very least. It probably feels good to ask yourself what the highest level you can operate at is, during such a crisis, but that's also kind of how the Peter principle works...
I went Windows > Mac > Linux > Mac > Linux

Just recently got a System 76 machine and they really nail the whole experience. Last time I tried to do 100% linux desktop was probably around 2016, and while it wasn't bad, gaming was impossible except for a hilariously small number of titles and I still had trouble with drivers for most everyday things, had wifi problems etc. It was not bad, but not really something I could use 100% of the time.

Pop!_OS has been great so far, and most importantly, Linux gaming is now really, really incredible. I don't do much multiplayer gaming these days, but I've played a bunch of new titles including CyberPunk 2077 and Stray, plus nearly my entire back catalog, and they play perfectly without any fiddling to get them started.

Most important:

> My computer is mine, and it's never felt more like mine than it does now.

I hadn't realized how slowly my Mac had become more and more Apple's machine over time. I felt like I was slowly losing control of more and more of the device and more things were also Apple's things (for example files stored on iCloud which is both convenient but also feels like I'm really using Apple's computer).

Linux desktop, and getting back to using mostly OSS again really made me enjoy computing again and realize how much everything else feels like you're working on a big advertising box.
blocked for europeans 'cause of GDPR :(
I love ocaml, but it's not very memory efficient.

Every value needs to be tagged, so an `int` only has 31 bits of numeric information.

There's stuff like "Int32.t", but IIRC it takes up 8 bytes for 4 bytes of inty goodness. Then there's BigArray which can store them contiguously, but that doesn't carry over to records.
Personally, I'd like to see Lpeg integration, and support for Scintillua lexers:

https://github.com/orbitalquark/scintillua

Which would give fairly complete syntax coverage, and a good foundation for building more sophisticated tools.

Lua patterns are fairly primitive, while the opposite is true of Lpeg.
Unfortunately Quest Pro is 72hz with an option of 90hz. No 120hz.
It is. Portland went from shockingly massively increasing home prices to declining home prices in no small part due to this.
I'd count that as motion. Instead of the world remaining static when you move your head, it moves with you.
I cant imagine this would be able to raise enough money but feel like if this tech was working they should just start in tourist locations. Perhaps drop you off with skis somewhere remote or island hop.
I visited Moscow in the late 1980s. I expected to be harassed and followed according to all those 'What it's like inside Russia' books I'd read over the years.

I discovered a bunch of people who were far more kind, moral and honest than the ones in New York that I'd visited a couple of weeks earlier. I hadn't felt particularly safe in New York, I felt safe in Moscow.
Is it the case that the rug was truly pulled out beneath you? Or was the system you thought to be advocating for was not equal as you thought.

So many people I know fall into the latter at least you are questioning how we got here.
And apparently the ECHR had no problem with Switzerland denying women the right to vote … so WTF?
I haven’t used a Linux desktop environment for many years now, so maybe there’s some nuance I’m not understanding, but virtual desktops have been a first class part of the macOS UI for many years. Swiping between them is only delayed by the default animation speed of that aspect of the window manager, and generally meant to match trackpad gestures and provide inertia consistent with other gestures.

Trying to understand how this relates to a tiling WM, I’m wondering if the virtual desktop in dedicated tiling WMs concept goes beyond multiple instances of the display and has arbitrary widths (or single dimension spaces)? That does sound nice for some ways I’d want a tiling WM, but it’s not what I’ve previously thought I’d want in one where I might have a grid with non-uniform x/y divisions.

Like it sounds very confusing to have a layout such as:

a a b b c
a a b b c
a a d d e

And to treat anything besides `a` as a “desktop” even if they’re variable width.
I was really upset when FB bought Oculus, but have to admit that they did a decent job with the acquisition (other than the FB login fiasco) and I respect taking the risk on what could be the next thing.

I don’t think they’ll ‘win’ in the end because of their reputation and business model, but I think we’ll look back and say that VR likely would have died without their investment in Oculus and various studios in the ecosystem.