skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hardly think being a virtuoso programmer is something to shun. Not everyone has to do it but it's not a bad thing. Also, as the speed of processors has basically stopped but we get more and more cores, things like Clojure's atoms, STM, and core.async make it really easy to do parallel computations without the utter insanity that using mutexes or Futures or whatever leads to. Clojure definitely makes it way easier to write clearly correct multi-threaded code in very few lines of code. You would be shocked what you can get out of the box. So there is a lisp that targets exactly what you want: something for laymen to use to effectively get the job done correctly and way easier than the competition. I've seen FAANG engineers screw up simple locks etc. If Clojure can hand you tools to get that done then why wouldn't you be trying it (despite your aversion to parens).
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Convenience of course.
The boot scroll was/is actively harmful in that it requires process-of-elimination troubleshooting to recognize deviations from a "normal" boot process.

The individual subsystems should be able to recognize their correct state and output a clear diagnostic when they are not in that state. I shouldn't have to step back through e.g. several broken services to find out my second ethernet port didn't initialize.
There have only been 5 instances resulting in 19 fatalities. None were when exiting the atmosphere. 2 were the flawed Space Shuttle on return. Only one other was a flight system, on an experimental craft.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_....

Today's rockets are far more reliable, and anything holding nuclear fuel should be the best of the best.
thought: when half the country has a "muhammed" appendage to their name, what does it even mean? and might it perhaps be time to just not consider it as such?
> Probably not.

100% not. I have a bunch of Google Accounts (not even with a Gmail inbox attached) that just forward on email alerts from Google Ads, etc. And have been getting these update emails since July 14th.
My concise way of paraphrasing this:

“ when what you’re aiming for doesn’t add up directly “

No carrots or distractions involved.
> may I suggest cmForth[6]
Hmm, not a forth I've come across before - enjoyed reading JonesForth though.
China had the strictest of all and they still had covid spreading around. You can’t control a respiratory virus like covid no matter how much you convince yourself.
Maybe Western countries should just stop interfering in African countries' way of doing things.

Help is fine, using science is fine. But let Africans decide for themselves what help they need / accept, and how to apply what science.

If you read the article carefully, you might just suspect mr. Gates (through his foundation, using 'soft power' influence in African countries' politics) working to increase Africa's dependence on products of the likes of Monsanto (GM seeds), Bayer (agro chemicals), fertilizers, etc.

Not to increase Africa's self-reliance, but hook 'em into globalized commodity markets.

Noble goals? Double agenda as Monsanto & co's salesman? I tend to give mr. Gates a lot of slack considering his charity efforts & knowledge in such matters. But let Africans make that judgement, ok?

(and even mr. Gates gets things wrong sometimes :-)
Probably this "doctor": https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/10/doc-who-thinks-vacci...
Or the definition of fascism has expanded to cover all one's political enemies.
The lab leak theory was not being touted by the Black people who beat up Asians in droves the last 3 years. The idea that it was Trumpists was a conspiracy theory not borne out by stats
It isn't just that: we have a shortage of well paid people in the trades, which exacerbates our housing shortage as, even if the land and materials were free, it now still costs $2-300k to put up a modern home.

The solution is probably just prefab from a factory in Mexico, but I don't see that as better than just letting in more immigrants.
I live in a small town where the press is in the pocket of the powers-that-be. That situation doesn't get press. This situation is a lesson to every newspaper that might out of line, not to do so.

That is to say, you're confused. Corruption is the usual thing a small American city. A paper reporting when it gets out-of-hand is unusual. Cops screwing with the paper or anyone who reports their dirty dealings is normal. Cops getting flack when they do this happens but often they just get away it. Even when the cops get flack in the press, they usually come out OK in the long run. Even a paper gets a lot support and congratulations in the short, they often wind-up screwed in the long run.

And sure, a raid is kind of a crude reaction. Local corrupt officially usually have a more subtle way to send a message. Perhaps the local cops felt a need to make their point strongly.
There is at least one non-Western culture that I am aware of that still practices essentially the same thing, though laying down rather than in a sitting position. I think it is only for a week, so probably not as unhygienic, I suppose.

Even modern Orthodox tradition holds the relics (bits and bobs from corpses, as well as full ones) of saints in high regard.
> Everyone in the medical and public health field was trying to prevent mass casualties and complete collapse of the healthcare system to the best of their ability using the knowledge they had

Um, no. Wrong. The Great Barrington Declaration was not put out by a bunch of "random morons." Yet Francis Collins said it needed a quick and devastating takedown. Someone with scientific integrity would have said your first quote, not that.
> I can't remember the last time the Android kernel had a bug that could be triggered by simply sending packets to it.

RCE from Bluetooth packets has happened uncomfortably often - CVE-2017-0781+2 (BlueBorne), CVE-2020-0022, CVE-2022-20411, ...
Every camera I see gets the finger. Especially when I'm at Kroger / Fry's / Ralphs / Dillons and there's no manned cashier and I need to use the self-checkout.

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I don’t know if this counts but it’s one of my all time favorites.

- https://youtu.be/IXdNnw99-Ic (Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd)
Hot war in outer spaces is should do. War is fine so long 1.(selfishly) it won't kill me, 2. it has no chance of ending the humanity, and 3. the sites devastated can recover.

Colonial wars in the asteroid belt and beyond. Interstellar wars. Maybe the first FTL drive could be on an autonomous space torpedo, and that could be lore explanation for the shape of warp nacelles in this timeline.
At my last job I was officially a senior software engineer. But I was the de facto “cloud architect”. I was looking for someone to off load some of the cloud work too. I could tell someone who was faking it from a mile away. I am objectively very good at behavioral interviews (my next job at AWS ProServe was based passing a 5 round behavioral interview loop). The guy I eventually chose moved on to be an IT manager at the next company my CTO went to.

I can tell a paper tiger from someone who just went through ACloudGuru and memory enough to pass an exam.
Totally agree. A good buddy of mine worked really hard for this. Because of all this he was able to get some major funding for his startup and has been majorly successful. And it helps his uncle too because he can reap the rewards of such a big seed round.
It’s still deidentified if only you recognize it. It violates deidentification only if others recognize it and tie it to you.

And it doesn’t violate HIPAA even in those situations as HIPAA allows a certain percentage of reidentification (not specified in the law, but generally accepted at 1%) before it’s a breach.
I for one celebrate that "capitalism" takes precedence over politics. Because he actually means free markets, people making their own decisions instead of politicians and bureaucrats making decisions in the name of everyone else.
> I wanted a cloud based desktop, with your personal encrytped access key being your phone

Sun used to have a desktop product similar to this, it worked with an authentication token like a company badge or whatever. You could go sit at any desk and login and you'd have your own desktop environment including audio.

Of course the whole thing was proprietary and it was server side so you needed heavy servers. Also logging in remotely wasn't possible IIRC cause it required a huge network pipe (aka on-premises). It died a quiet death.
No, the title is correct. Even though it’s on atariarchives.org, it’s not talking about Atari computers.
I have found a more convenient way to read and comment on Hacker News articles
I used to work at Heap, although I left 4 years ago

> Why use Postgres distributed cluster vs say an incremental store that supports real time data like Materialize

Materialize didn't exist when Heap was founded 10 years ago. Also, Materialize is dependent on knowing what queries you are running up front. Not to mention Heap is dealing with petabytes of data. Materialize only recently introduced multi-node support, so I would be surprised if it's being used at that kind of scale.

> Why use typescript at all?

Heap was originally written in CoffeeScript. It was the decision the semi-technical CEO made. Migrating to Typescript was the best option that allowed Heap to keep their existing codebase.

> Regarding audit tables, are you also keeping audit tables for user and events tables too?

No. Only the distributed metadata had audit logging when I was there

> Doesn’t the database come with audit tables baked into it?

No
I just had an issue related to this: my name ends in "Filho" meaning son, to differentiate me from my father.

I ran into some stupid company policy where I had to be identified by first and last name...

Resulting in people thinking my name is "son".

The I had to explain that no, son is not a name, nor a surname. It is an adjective, not a substantive, it's sole purpose is differentiate me from my father, when needed. Calling me just "son" makes no sense.

I pointed out to that company that if they applied that policy to bill gates, that is names Willlam Gates III, they would end Calling him number three, and it is obvious that number three is not his name.

Then there is the fact my "middle" name that matters. My first name was just to honor a famous catholic priest and is not even a valid word in my native language. Nobody calls me by my first name... unless there is some bureaucracy somewhere, then they insist on calling me by my first name, and son as my surname.
Fedora has "Cool Other Package Repositories" or COPR. They're a place for community members to build and publish arbitrary RPM packages. Some are well curated and high quality, others less so.
The problem with the term "lab leak" is it means different things to different people. To smooth brained shitheads it means "weaponized virus leaked from a lab in China". To scientists it means a leak of a virus under study by breached protocols or lax adherence to same.

The smooth brained shitheads ran with their version of "lab leak" and poisoned all discussion of it. They were of course egged on by right wing opportunists around the world to push their favorite bullshit narratives.

Scientists and government bureaucrats acting in good faith didn't pick up on the stochastic meaning of "lab leak" and tossed it into public discourse with no qualifiers or definition. This opened the door for just more opportunism by anyone pushing an agenda.
GemRB: Portable open-source implementation of BioWare's Infinity Engine
You'd also not have to worry about the propellant exploding.
Those people were still gonna die no matter how much yoh shamed people for the audacity of going fishing or going on a hike or using a playground. You can’t control covid. Sorry.

And speaking of… how do yo explain Japan’s huge surges of covid despite being the most mask heavy country in the world? Did the Japanese not take covid seriously?

Anyway I’m bored of this. You will wake up someday and realize how badly you got duped. There are billions of other problems in the world besides covid. The myopic fixation on covid-only was a disaster. History will prove it.
I'm not really sure I understand why I should suppose that. I've seen people in every category, who started with a passion and did or did not turn it into a job, and did or did find the time to keep making art for the love of it

You can do art for money or not, I just don't see how you're trying to relate this to archival of music that is no longer sold, whose authors aren't around anymore. I get the impression you're trying to ask people who archive art whether they make art themselves, but I fail to see the point. Very possibly they do, but then so what?
Yep, be great if someone nearby had the inclination.
Yes it took them more than two decades to get there, but unfortunately it's not enough to just make good games to achieve kind of success Larian achieved.

It's really takes a lot of work on financial and investor attraction side when you making game that likely cost more than $100,000,000. Amount of bizdev talent and work required to pull it off is not that far from "making a good game" part.
Thanks. My research is also in OOD detection and this is very helpful.
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But what is a transaction error? <UPDATE user_profiles SET first_name = 'REDACTED';> will execute very successfully from the databases point of view.. And from a business point of view, it might be either a horrible thing (in production), or a thing that happens every saturday (on dev).

But, beyond that, our Postgres + PGBackrest setup could do point in time recovery. It would be a pain, because you'd have to dig through lots and lots of WAL archives with some pg-wal-viewer to figure out the exact transaction that started to cause damage. And then you could reset the database to the exact transaction before that.

Except, this is weaker than the audit logs presented in the article. If there was a mix of poison changes and valid transactions after the identified point, we'd lose the valid changes after the first poison transaction. That may have some amount of impact which has to be evaluated from a business sense.

But, keeping these detailed audit logs around for busy tables isn't an option. If you dump a couple hundred records per second into a table, it's not really a good idea to double the write load with trigger inserts into a second table. That can incur a pretty significant increase in hardware cost to host the dang thing.

But eh, I'd much rather implement this as an append table with a bit of smart indexing. Annotate the shard routing with a <valid_since> and select <ORDER BY valid_since DESC LIMIT 1>. This way, you wouldn't need two tables, and you could rollback a bad update either with a <DELETE FROM routing WHERE valid_since BETWEEN ...>, or updating them into the past.
> Taiwan did that and their mortality and contagion rate is orders of magnitude lower than in the US. Same goes for Japan.

This is simply not true. I don’t care how much the data gets massaged to align with the narrative. It’s a lie. Misinformation, really. Which is par for course when it comes to covid.
The History of Windows 1.0
Link to the original article
https://theconversation.com/new-evidence-suggests-the-worlds...
Part of the reason why they got the political say in the first place - so that they could have a say in politics to prevent this kind of decay from happening. It doesn't always work out though.
Here's my theory:

One of the reasons the Internet is (was) so good is that it was a communication mechanism with a filter.

It used to be that you had to work hard (and pay more) to host anything on the Web and get your content seen. That meant that the Web had more high-quality content, written by high-quality people.

Inaccessibility on the content authoring and hosting side is a feature, not a bug.

Now that anyone can easily and cheaply host or dump out content, the quality has gone down. Internet content will continue to go down in proportion to how easy it is to get your content out in front of people.

Is this a new theory? Or am I repeating what is already a widely shared theory?
> None were when exiting the atmosphere

Er, Challenger?
Maybe but "get the hell away from Black people" isn't a "claim"; it's explicit rich white boomer racism.
To speak to this: I’ve triggered my 14” M1 Max MacBook Pro fan in two scenarios: Stable Diffusion, and Minecraft. At no point have I heard it run when I’ve been doing Actual Work.
This recent TED talk by Al Gore is worth watching [0]. This is the first time I’ve heard him speak in quite some time, and I’m not sure if the fiery anger is new, but it seems appropriate.

It’s good to see real action, but it’s only scratching the surface. And even more problematic is the industry response that this tech gives them “license to keep operating”.

https://www.ted.com/talks/al_gore_what_the_fossil_fuel_indus...
Yes. X13s is less-powerful, has worse battery life, and I think even costs more…
This thread brings back memories. It is refreshing to revisit. If you want to break away, unsubscribe from streaming, share with your friends, by used records, tapes, and cds.
Yes, but their GPUs were far lower performance
Thank you for the clear explanation! I love it!
Most entities have constantly accumulating debt. Apples debt has been growing year after year. Would you not invest in or loan money to Apple for that reason?

If nothing else, GDP grows every year, so debt can safely grow too.
There's a difference between a lump of uranium metal falling back to earth and a lump of uranium that's been turned into plasma.
For any HN users struggling to read, blocking Google Fonts or Fontawesome absolutely demolishes the website.
How does an international organization solve that problem? Are international organizations known for never being corrupt and wasteful? I wasn't aware. How does an international organization enforce illegally attaching sewers to storm drains?
Which is very cool until you have to interface with systems expecting first/last name :-(

When my last company did phone numbers we just let it be free text…
I recently filled out a web form on a state government site that asked me to enter the name of my immediate supervisor at my previous job. His last name has an apostrophe (starts with "O'"). The site gave me an error message:

"Your immediate supervisor's name must only contain letters (A-Z), hyphens, or spaces."

(At least it didn't actually impose the apparent restriction that the name must be ALL CAPS.)
You're focusing on the tenant part too much, it's about power. Their knowledge and means are generally not focused to be in power, no matter their tenancy.

Equating being able to run a webserver on a privileged port to power, and thus ownership is a bad take. That also goes for the other way around where it is equated to ownership first and power second: none of that is coupled to the ability to run a webserver on any port for that matter.

And on top of that, I made the case that even if you could, you're now just beholden to the power of the webserver maintainer, the OS maintainer and the baseband maintainer. You're not suddenly 'free' or 'empowered' by some sort of ideal.

Mind you, I'm not saying it's great that you can't always run arbitrary software, but staking power and tenancy on that seems pretty dumb to me.
The ratio of infections and deaths in Japan is a small fraction of those in the US, with more population density and an average age 10 years older of that in the US. This is all publicly available data.

Yeah, they did way better with worse odds.

What a egotistic fool you are.
The URL is wrong because it's copied twice. Just click and delete the second copy.
Living in the SF Bay Area, I have witnessed people pumping flood water into the sanitary sewer. There are some low-lying spots where the storm drains can fail to keep up with the storms, and people get desperate when their homes are flooding.
Next you will tell me that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is not democratic?
It’s certainly true that branding as morally pure isn’t usual beneficial, but even businesses that brand themselves as sinful or evil have internal processes to maintain moral principles. Often to a greater extent than non profits that are selling morality. An example: casinos request regulation to enforce rules about payout odds, while unregulated casinos create mathematical proofs that their outcomes are honest. They also often run programs to provide assistance to customers suffering from gambling addiction. These actions aren’t because casinos are “pure” or making sacrifices; it’s because the expected payouts to the owners are higher by enforcing these processes.

It’s also important to remember that customers are not the only agents that matter to an entity’s survival. Public opinion, regulators, employees, shareholders, etc also matter. One instance of this in crypto is the lack of assassination markets. There’s been theoretical work on how to build anonymous assassin markets since the early 90s but no one has done it even though there’s proven customer demand. Why? Because for someone with the ability to build such a market, there exist better options that have higher payouts due to lower regulatory enforcement, easier access to capital, cheaper labour, etc. Again being “pure” has nothing to do with it since people with those skills do build dark net markets that sell other illicit services which are viewed as not really wrong by a large percentage of the population and as less severe to regulators than assassins.
what exactly is "the spirit" of X11?
I've heard it before, don't know if the theory has a name though.

Fwiw, I disagree. To me, the best sites on the old internet we made by generous people donating their time and energy to make something cool, and nowadays

1. The internet is no longer cool in the same way,

2. The community is different

& most importantly

3. The vast amount of ad-based commercial websites.

Adding a financial barrier would just make it more dominated by commercial entities, and people wanting to share their stuff for fun would be more likely to post in a silod social media app instead of a website.
When I was working in the industry on ML models, no one I talked to had any luck with OOD detection, at least with single-task regression models. My impression was that "proper" OOD detection would require Bayesian NNs, and those are 10x less performant (optimistically - 100x realistically) on inference (unfortunately impractical for a ton of applications).

Judging by publication dates, there's been a lot of progress on 2023. Is there anyone doing OOD detection in the industry? Or Bayesian NNs, for that matter?
Nacht und Nebel is was not a slave labor program. It was the practice of making people disappear.
Seems more likely that they all just got large jetted bathtubs --- we just bought a house and all the high-end houses had them --- but maybe it's all a conspiracy from the elite tastemakers, who knows.
At first glance, it's eye roll material. But then 12 weeks of "medically supportive food and nutrition" and guidance, might be pretty effective from a cost point of view. If that's the cost of changing the mind and habits of someone who has grown used to garbage eating habits, that might be a record low for a medical treatment with long term impact. Certainly wouldn't this likely be a record low cost for a California initiative? We can't argue that more things shouldn't tried.
Feels like a variation on the idea of Eternal September. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
The twitch right as you are falling asleep is known as a hypnic jerk. The flash of light may be related to exploding head syndrome. The faint "music" could be tinnitus, some electric device (speakers, guitar amp, etc.) picking up an AM or shortwave radio station, or just your brain making up (or playing back) music as you drift off to sleep.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_head_syndrome