jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Why though? The whole point of git is that it's distributed source control - you _always_ have a local copy of the source and the history. That's one of the biggest wins in using git and not a centralised source control in the first place..
I'm starting to think we as a society might be focusing our efforts incorrectly
No I think it's because up until recently, American parents were told to avoid giving young kids peanuts or peanut butter.

Israel has very low rates of peanut allergies and peanut butter is the main ingredient in a popular snack:

Peanut snacks called Bamba, which are made of peanut butter and corn, are wildly popular in Israel, where parents give them to their kids when they're very young. That's very different from what parents do in Britain and the United States, where fears about food allergies have prompted many parents to keep their children away from peanuts, even though the American Academy of Pediatrics revised a recommendation to do so in 2008.

- https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/02/23/388450621/fe...
@fortran77: I’m trying to understand why you are submitting multiple stories on the same event, some after others are flagged. Can you clarify or elaborate, please?
There is nothing about BTC that deprecates the issues you present.
OCaml is still pretty fast and part of RHEL. How good ia linux support for F#? And how hars is it to get mono installed?
Sadly it was killed by so many bad decisions from Borland. It was really a great tool.

Maybe if Microsoft had bought it instead of "just hiring" Anders Hejlsberg?
"higher code coverage was not the best measure of post-release failures in the field"

Perhaps they should measure the coverage by taking the number of tested paths through the software divided by the total number of paths.
This doesn't seem in the least bit surprising. They have a lot more spare time than us, and many fewer available things to do with it.
>No, seriously, it was awful. I deleted my blog of 1,557 posts. I wanted to protect my privacy, but I ended up with articles about me in New Yorker, Reason, and The Daily Beast. I wanted to protect my anonymity, but I Streisand-Effected myself, and a bunch of trolls went around posting my real name everywhere they could find. I wanted to avoid losing my day job, but ended up quitting so they wouldn't be affected by the fallout. I lost a five-digit sum in advertising and Patreon fees.

At the start of the post but there's more further in.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/still-alive

There's s also this from The NYT initially contacted him with his reasoning for protecting his job (which didn't work out)

>I think it’s plausible that if I became a national news figure under my real name, my patients – who run the gamut from far-left to far-right – wouldn’t be able to engage with me in a normal therapeutic way. I also worry that my clinic would decide I am more of a liability than an asset and let me go, which would leave hundreds of patients in a dangerous situation as we tried to transition their care.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/22/nyt-is-threatening-my-...
A lot of educated people make the mistake of thinking that their rational brain is the one in charge.

In reality, emotions rule us and that's why a good story wins. It speaks to the inner cortex, the one in the driver's seat.
From https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00375-7

> Dwyer says that the team didn’t see anything during its visits to suggest a lab accident. “Now, whether we were shown everything? You can never know. The group wasn’t designed to go and do a forensic examination of lab practice.”

From https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/13/world/asia/china-who-wuha...

> Even in the best of circumstances, a full inquiry could take months, if not longer. The team must also navigate attempts by China to politicize the inquiry.

And yet a few days ago the WHO pushed out a hasty judgment that it was very unlikely the virus leaked from the lab. And in the last day they’ve already started backtracking after intense skepticism from the world - see https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-12/who-backs... titled “ WHO Backs Away From Outright Rejection of Virus Lab-Leak Theory”.

It also seems that now the virus may have been reported even earlier than we thought. From https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/world/asia/china-world-he...:

> The Chinese scientists also acknowledged they had discovered that 92 people were hospitalized in Wuhan as early as October 2019 with symptoms such as fever and coughing. The Chinese experts said they had found no trace of Covid-19 in those people, but the tests were incomplete. The W.H.O. team members said more research was needed.

Between the CCP’s early suppression of journalism and social media reporting on the virus, the fact that Taiwan was the first to warn the world, China’s repeated denials and delays in letting an outside team to visit the site, and their purge of all the coronavirus studies originating from this lab (https://www.the-sun.com/news/2113876/covid-cover-up-china-wu...), there is very little reason to trust the claim that a lab leak can be ruled out. If anything it only seems more likely that a massive coverup is in progress, and the WHO is the willing mouthpiece for it.
Eh. This advice is less practical than it’s made to seem. Like it “works” but it’s not really usable for anything other than connecting two privileged apps over a hostile network.

* Docker doesn’t support CRLs so any compromised cert means reissuing everyone’s cert.

* Docker’s permissions are all or nothing without a plug-in. And if you’re going that route the plug-in probably has better authentication.

* Docker’s check is just “is the cert signed by the CA” so you have to do one CA per machine / group homogeneous machines.

* You either get access to the socket or not with no concept of users so you get zero auditing.

* Using SSH as transport helps but then you have to also lock down SSH which isn’t impossible but more work and surface area to cover than feels necessary. Also since your access is still via the Unix socket it’s all or non permissions again.*
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26122356
this is why we decentralize so that that billion can instead be a thousand millions, and we try a bunch of options in parallel rather than consolidating power in a flawed few, no matter how accomplished those few are (statistically, the consolidated few will always be relatively flawed to the parallel many).
LE certificate renewal is server-side, client apps don't need updates.
The WHO is not an organization with a military or the power to enforce anything. It’s completely at the mercy of the member states to pressure each other to allow it to do its job.

The reality is that it was up to the member states to pressure China in early 2020 to release the information they should have shared. And as the only member state as large or larger than China, this was the US’s job. At the time, however, the Trump administration was entirely focused on closing a trade deal with China that Trump could use in his election campaign. Which is why the US said nothing which prevented the WHO from getting the support they needed to investigate the origins of the pandemic.

For the first few months the US, and especially Trump, was basically going on about how well Xi Jinping was handling everything.
wat?
china is all borrowed money after 2008

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102066916
> I now need to write everything with the fear that any hastily written article might end up on TV, with the most extreme word in the article singled out with my name on it forever.

> I’ll keep writing — I can’t stay away. But academically, it’s not worth the risk.

I often, in my role as a community manager, call people out on their words, and they act like no one should be reading them anyway, not really understanding that their statements are public. If you are writing something, or saying something, and you are doing it quickly and harshly, it doesn't seem like you should be able to paint yourself a martyr who now has to live in fear of when you make a "mistake": this sounds a lot more like "careless"?
Nothing to do but write code?
The Earth Orientation Center of which he is head belongs to the IERS which, until 2003, was the International Earth Rotation Service (it is now the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service).

So until 2003 there was, in fact, someone whose job title was "Head of International Earth Rotation Service".
Less middlemen between farm and plate?
>> But there is still this very common belief that we get ill by getting cold in a physical sense, while e.g. being outside with not warm enough clothes.

This is kinda true, the body produce mucus (snot) in the nasal passages. Microbes sticks to this, and when swallowed are neutralized by our stomach acid. But cold air slows down this process, so our first line of defence doesn't work as well during winter.

There are also factors such as behaviour changes like spending more time indoors, closed windows and a lot of other stuff that also likely helps spread infections.
There are plenty of other earlier SF authors that fit the bill , Swift and CS Lewis for example.

And there are plenty of New Wave authors that also fit into this Ballard and SRD (Chip Delany) especially
It is hard to believe. However out of my own experience: Execution, decision making, vision and goals, people, alignment, setbacks. A very complex mixture and the more people there are, the more important a driver is.

PS: Nice nickname. Read the book from Th. Mann - over a period of 7 years I think.
Viruses are ultimately bits of genetic code wrapped in a shell and injection mechanism. IANAB, so this is pure conjecture, but: it wouldn't surprise me if it turned out that viruses are a kind of degenerative state - something evolution may just spit out as it makes mistakes trying to improve on cells. If that's the case, then viruses may exist simply because they are a waste product of natural selection of more complex life.
Not as long as the US citizenry as as afraid of taxes and 'socialism' as they are.
> It is deeply disturbing to me that there are people with these types of views.

Just friendly advice: you're never going to have a meaningful discussion or a productive debate if that's how you treat a differing opinion.
That makes a lot of sense - thanks for explaining! :)
I'm just calling out that health care coverage in Canada isn't all peaches and cream. I've experienced both systems so I know what the pros/cons of each are.

Here is another examples: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/patients-liv...

People in pain (who can't work or even walk) waiting 2 or 3 years for hip replacement. A friend of my mom's in BC is 85, needs a new hip and the gov't said no. Not "no, maybe later" it was just "no, you're too old for it to be worthwhile".

Now don't get me wrong, this is why healthcare is Canada is way more affordable than the US. The Canadian system is just limited by budget - the provinces set the budget (based on support from the federal gov't) and then say "this is how many hip replacements we'll do this year". And if you're not a priority, you wait.

While in the US, if you're either poor (Medicaid), retired (Medicare) or have good insurance through your employer (majority), you'll get care pretty quickly. But that comes at a cost - a cost about double of healthcare costs in Canada.

Again, I'm not saying the US system is better. It's outrageously expensive system, leaves many without care and is unsustainable. But if you're a middle class person in the US, don't expect the Canadian system will give you the exact same care for free.
well..by your logics the US founding fathers should just gave up 'cause at that time, the British Empire is stronger than whatever two-bits army that the founding fathers can scrap together.
Spoiler alert -

If you were looking for the controversial 'Harold was smitten in the eye by an arrow' scene, its at the '57' mark.

I'll leave it for others to decide what killed him, but from the lower part of the tapestry, battles in those days must have looked like hell itself.

[Edit] clarity
Do you think Google has any strong competition?

I think a lot of what’s not being discussed in this thread is that in a competitive market consumers could vote with feet, and the resulting competitive pressure would naturally drive better behaviors, but because that’s lacking governments are now poorly attempting to “fight back”.

In a sense, with enough kludgy regulation, eventually there may be enough daylight for a competitor to pop up, and until then people will argue passionately past each other, one libertarian side worried about libertarian things, and the other populist side worried about populist things, etc.
Butts in seats is the opposite of high focus. If you do one, you won't do the other.

So, if your coworkers kept their 8 hours days, it's normal that they are less productive than you.
Indeed.

I see this as a very open and collaborative approach. To announce such a big contribution to Postgres, and be it open sourced when published, is very welcome, and I believe one of the boosts, as I mentioned in the post, that Postgres needs.

I'm also convinced that Babelfish and PostgreSQL will be properly integrated, and this will be a great win. I consider it too a development branch more than a fork, which certainly has "no confidence" connotations. But there's still some worry that it would become one, one day, if there's no sufficient effort towards its integration --as the conversation that I wanted to spark here was almost non-existent up until recently.

This actually brings the topic of more explicitly branch development in Postgres, but it's a different story ;)
> "let's evaluate and simplify where we can?"

Amazon has "Invent and Simplify" as one of the leadership principles. However, each team has its own hiring bar and culture, so some will take it seriously and some will not.

> I find AWS a huge pile of overcomplicated offerings

I fully agree. I'm speaking exclusively about the internal infrastructure, not about AWS.
This is exactly how Docker works too - they recently rate limited anonymous accounts, and by signing up for the free plan you agree to very similar terms and conditions in return for a higher pull rate limit.

Source: https://www.docker.com/legal/docker-privacy-policy

See Section 3. Use of Information Collected
The trick here is to break it into the smallest possible pieces and just start doing the first piece as your only task for today.

Most likely that will build momentum.

Can also try accomplishing a small not-work task like laundry or something to solve it from the other end. (You’ll feel like you can take on bigger pieces because you just accomplished something)

Lastly reading the specs or playing with the app with no other windows open and eventually boredom will take over and you’ll start making bits of progress.
An iGun will only fire specially made square iBullets with DRM chips
what about other career paths?
Congrats as well!

We've been loving it for making internal point-and-click tools + external project starters (ex: tutorials, solution engineering, ..).

Today, if you and your users are coding-heavy for data flows (dataset -> pydata wrangling/ml/... -> ui), jupyter notebooks are #1, and if you're in bigco, maybe say databricks notebooks as #2. However, most operational users really want an interactive point-and-click dashboard UI. Tableau and friends don't make as much sense in the pydata world, mostly for simpler SQL-only flows, and the existing python dashboarding tools (voila, panels, plotly, ...) have been too much work, esp. when sharing.

I've been liking Streamlit as it's pretty opinionated + prestyled (less work!), simple interaction model (accessible!), etc. It clearly can be better, but is already so much more accessible than our experiences with other tools here.

As some examples:

* We've been building https://github.com/graphistry/graph-app-kit for people building mini graph apps (one-click self-hosted launch via docker + st dashboard + graphistry viz + optional graph db connectors + optional graph compute tools).

* We're releasing 2-3 more integration + tutorial sets this month, where they're both notebook modes + dashboard modes.

* We just ran a hackathon for the same w/ the TigerGraph team: https://tigergraph-web-app-hack.devpost.com/

* projectdomino.org uses it internal for anti-misinfo dashboard tools. Our devs/data sci/some advanced osint researchers are fine w/ nb's, but everyone else needs dashboard UIs.

I'm excited to see what 2021 + 2022 bring here, and esp. if they can keep increasing accessibility all the way to no-code!
"The second world war over, von Neumann accepted a string of commercial consultancies. But he was increasingly drawn into the defence establishment. An earnest advocate of the development of the H-Bomb, he later described himself as "violently anti-communist, and a good deal more militaristic than most". After his death, Life magazine reported that he had said in 1950: "If you say why not bomb them [the Russians] tomorrow, I say why not bomb them today? If you say today at five o'clock, I say why not one o'clock?"

Though frequently quoted as evidence that von Neumann favoured a first strike "preventive war" against the Soviet Union, this is a weak reed on which to build such a claim. It seems more likely it was characteristic - though tasteless and bloodthirsty - banter designed to emphasise his hawkishness.
...

Von Neumann was not an unthinking militarist: he believed that the world's only chance of avoiding destructive conflict was world government, but - since he could not see any practical way of achieving this - he was determined to defend his adopted country with as much armed might as possible.
"

http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~hwolkowi//neumann1.html

Unlike Teller, von Neumann is not renowned for what you describe as "persistent advocacy" of nuclear first strike. AFAIK, von Neumann was not especially politically active in promoting US gov't aggression of any kind, again, unlike Teller.
It depends on the country.

In France for instance, it is legal to have two (or more) jobs but they cannot be with competitors, you have a limit of hours you can work (which means that if your contract states 40 hours work then you cannot have another one), and you cannot have a clause in your contract which you usually do have (in the companies I know at least - tech oriented).
No, they are intended for helping with performance (letting the compiler know which branch of execution should it make the "default" for the CPU).

But see "Don’t use the [[likely]] or [[unlikely]] attributes": https://blog.aaronballman.com/2020/08/dont-use-the-likely-or...
Brings back some memories. First UNIX I worked on was, IIRC, was System III on a Pixel Machines box. We ported a management tool for Dept of Transporation that had been running on an IBM TSO system. Deployed 5 of these around the country, setup uucp to send data back to home base. Xenix came along a few years later and, if memory serves, it's what we ran on some Altos machines. Fun times.
Had Microsoft stayed with Xenix, you wouldn’t even need WSL.
> single-use/burner ProtonMail account

Except that ProtonMail requires a valid phone number for an account registration (when accessed via Tor).

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/638ykr/phone_nu...
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Wait... If people can't use proxies to surf with HTTPS, then how does HTTPS provide any security when using Tor? Tor is basically a proxy, and the only reason Tor is safe is because of HTTPS-everywhere. I'm having trouble figuring out why HTTPS works on Tor but not for these kinds of proxies.

My understanding is that you should be able to set up a TLS session with a destination server while you're routing your traffic through a robot-in-the-middle. And the robot shouldn't be able to harm your content in any way, due to the encryption. (I originally said that a free proxy could still cause harm, but if HTTPS is involved, I'm pretty sure that's not true, otherwise Tor wouldn't work. It could drop the connection, but it shouldn't be able to modify anything.)
Just voicing your interest here is fine!
circuit breaker?
I think it's insane that Coinbase has not figured out how to scale their platform, you have to imagine by now that they will never figure it out.

That said, here's the truth: Liquidity always dries up when prices crash. If you look at a stock that is crashing, bid/ask spreads become very wide, it can be impossible to get a limit fill. Market fills will have big slippage from the quoted price.

It's hard, but you have to sell into strength. You can't wait for the top.

Also, how Coinbase lacks limit orders is beyond me. For a mission focused company they are not very focused.
Technically it's always been usable; it's just the benefits don't outweigh the cons to make it worthwhile. Nothing has changed on that side of things.

BTC will never be a widespread payment for things like coffee, as it makes no sense. It will always have to be pegged against a local currency (and that currency shown) so what's the point of using it to buy coffee?

At present, Bitcoin still an extremely risky asset. If it stays that way, who knows.
I love concept designs.
Personally I use Mathematica as a sketchpad for playing around with ideas and getting a feel for a problem. It is great because I can type in my sloppy half thought out ideas in a fairly natural syntax and Mathematica will generally do something sensible with them. Once I've gotten a handle on what I need to do and actually have to start getting results I leave Mathematica for matlab, python or C.

That being said I've met some really great Mathematica programmers, and the stuff they can make that program do with only a few dozen lines of code is truly amazing.
It may not work that way though. This reminds me of mom-and-pop restaurant (Israel) vs. chain (USA)- the chain, while benefiting from economy of scale, can never manage to retain the mom-and-pop feel and quality.
I remember reading the TSA manager IAmA on Reddit recently where the guy said that they don't consider all the liquids they confiscate as being dangerous. They do it with the expectation that if they throw away all these liquids as a matter of course then no one will bother trying to bring in any liquids of sufficient mass that are actually explosive.
Yes, but my point wasn't so much that there wasn't consent (well I admit that I was going on a tangent in that direction in my last paragraph...) but that there is no 'force' being applied.