skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is because most people are not inquisitive by nature, they generally take things at face value without questioning why.

I have to disagree with this statement. Almost all people that I meet, pretty much across all group boundaries you can imagine, I find to be inquisitive. Very inquisitive in fact.

What I think you may be observing is that the depths of questions that many are interested in aren't great... gossip magazines, for example serve to give answers to an inquisitive populous, we can question the value of such questions, but that is still a drive to know something.

Also, I find that when people do ask deeper questions they can be simply overwhelmed by the answers. I'm not particularly good at mathematics, but often times work with people that are in the very top tier in that realm: I will ask certain questions for which I'm simply not prepared to hear the answer... the answer requires background that I simply don't have... I am genuinely interested, but the required prep work is simply out of the question. One could argue that the answers can be simplified as well, but that's not always true.
I would argue that zero-knowledgeness is a property that (from an information theory perspective) can only be approximated. It is not possible to have a technique based on information theory that works like the example with the hats; you always give a tiny bit of information about the solution (this information is the hash in the commitment scheme), and this is kind of interesting.
I found they way they've written it very confusing, like they were advertising 50 max IOPS, but that obviously made no sense.
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I think with this kind of situation the best thing for you to do is lawyer up.
You got an Interact? I can sell you one of those with lots of extras.
That may be true for children, but surely adults who have obtained a basic level of education should be able to decide for themselves.

Of course the question this leads to is "what is thr basic level of understanding that people should have in any given topic"?
...and how is this different from the costs of global warming and other features of fossil fuels?

The costs are not visible to the user of the fuel but put on the nation states and future generations.
I knew what this youtube link was before I clicked it.

This is so important, my family and I watch it several times a year.

As far as I'm concerned, it should be taught in school, though that's so politically incorrect as to be unthinkable.

As are most of us, law enforcement are professionals who are rated on various metrics. The main metric is getting convictions. Guilt or innocence is not even a secondary concern.
No, in the normal case. Coal has trace amounts of radioactive elements (such as uranium and thorium), burning it in large quantities concentrates those elements and release them into the atmosphere.

And that's true even when you account for the risk of nuclear power plants and spent fuel. Coal ash is produced in gigantic quantities, and often stored in an open environment, while spent fuel is vitrified and far easier to contain.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...
But you can't use solar/wind as base load. At least not yet.
> treating people with respect

Peterson makes specific claims an comments. Respond to those - He clearly doesn't think this framing is correct.

> systemic disrespect and delegitimization

'respect' is subjective, and as such dangerous to write into legislation.

In this case "delegitimization" is defined as any sort of disagreement or failure to abide by another persons views and wishes.
http://greaterskies.com, back in 2011 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3066684), personalized high-resolution maps of the sky as seen from a place and at a time.

Amazing how time passes. It's been more than 10 years since I started, and it is still my side project and not big by HN standards. But it is making now many times over what I make in my day job as an engineer in Cambridge, and it's been featured in The Guardian Christmas gift list this year.
Is something like the MIST FPGA (http://harbaum.org/till/mist/index.shtml) not an option?

While not the "real deal" it may be good enough and it can emulate a wide range of 8-bit machines. I was thinking about buying a unit to emulate my very first computer (a MSX) and the machine that I also wanted as a kid (Amiga) :-)
Never any love for Rackspace :(
There was an article recently (linked here?) about an artist who overcame her purchasing compulsions by drawing pictures of the things she wanted. Somehow that reduced the desire to actually buy them. This won't work for everyone of course.
We have done this multiple times at Breezy. You won't want to go it alone but the fees aren't astronomical. I can make good intros; my email is in profile.
And just to stay on the Classics, Dante Alighieri in the Inferno has a devil called Barbariccia:

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

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Divine_Comedy/Inferno/Can...

« Ed elli avea del cul fatto trombetta.»

« And he had made a trumpet of his rump.»
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This isn't exactly a software project, but I posted in a "What are you working on?" thread three years ago about my book, Statistics Done Wrong: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6619796

Someone posted it on the front page soon after: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6675843

Now it's a book published by No Starch, has sold 25,000 copies, and has been translated into German, Korean, and Chinese: https://www.statisticsdonewrong.com/

I doubt I would have finished as soon as I did without that initial attention to spur me on, and wouldn't have been able to wrangle up as much attention without that chance post on HN blowing up and bringing me visitors. (It ended up posted on Boing Boing, Metafilter, and various other places too.)

Now I'm a year or two from finishing a PhD in statistics and wondering if there's another book I need to write, or perhaps a second edition -- doing actual statistical work with real scientists makes the points in my book even more clear to me, and the need even clearer.
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And coal power is so cheap because everyone pays the price. Everyone everywhere. Coal electricity have enormous negative externalities: health, quality of live, the aggregated economic cost is enormous, and will increase exponentially.

If coal electricity users actually paid the real cost it would dwarf nuclear cost.
Creativity imo. We can choose to create novel things, with intention, that fulfill a use.
is flatpak going to stick to its focus around desktop software only? because that was one ofnits original goals.

Snap on the other hand is actually shipping docker into production.
Ok, but what makes brain surgery a good analogy? Why not replace "writing software" with "hopping on one foot" instead?

Most of us own computers that can run software, but we don't own the equipment required to do brain surgery. More people have problems that can be solved by software than can be solved by brain surgery.

I think software is more like basic arithmetic: a bit of training (plus the pen and paper you already have) and you can do something yourself that used to require a professional. Of course, software is way more powerful!
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Also, `ByteString` as the qualified name is a bit unusual but it probably is helpful for clarifying what's going on for people unfamiliar with Haskell. I'm more used to seeing:

import Data.ByteString (ByteString)
import qualified Data.ByteString as BS
import qualified Data.ByesString.Lazy as BSL
import qualified Data.ByteString.Char8 as BSC
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That will just end up like Facebook - an echo chamber.
Did anyone else click on this thinking it had something to do with Ikea?
The difference is most people won't need brain surgery in their lifetime. A more relevant comparison would be car maintenance.
Ah, now I see! Sorry for repeating the author then, thought it may be interesting for someone to have a fuller picture. Thank you for the heads up!

Edit: seems someone thought it was sarcastic ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (it wasn't)
Funny that neither Scaleway nor OVH are in the "Compare US" section.

Unlike Upcloud, both offer unmetered bandwidth. Which is enough for me to tag them as "better".

OVH also has NVMe disks.
I think this misses the problem completely. The problem is not that people that trust computers need to put more effort into understanding computers. The problem is that people keep trusting computers.

What people really need to be educated on is "Why computers are not and never will be trustworthy". And they don't need the details of why, just the bottom line.
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>Why anyone and especially facebook should care about fake news is beyond me.

I may be wrong but didnt the outcry against fake news and Facebook come as a result of the US presidential election? Many people are looking for someone or something to blame for the unexpected results.
This is possibly a good long term approach, but what to do when you need to put the situation under the control quickly, and kids just don't cooperate? I had such experience when my 4yo kid was at some point fascinated by kitchen stove, turning the gas knobs on/off. It's just something that you can't slowly teach him not to do, you need to draw the line right away, for his own safety. You can't reason with kid that small, and it's too dangerous to let him learn the lesson by trying, so you just have to scare him out of it.
https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/study-exchange/exc...

https://www.ice.gov/sevis/overview#wcm-survey-target-id
Note that the person you sponsor will most likely be subject to the two-year home residency requirement: after their J1 expires, they are required to return to their home country of residence for at least two years before converting to any US immigrant visa (i.e. any visa which could lead to permanent residency or citizenship).

If your employee doesn't intend to stay in the US, that's fine, but if they, say, get married while in the US, they'll have significant obstacles in their way.

There are certain circumstances in which this requirement doesn't apply or can be waived, but I won't presume to know if they apply to you.

https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/study-exchange/stu...
I think the problem with creating a society of thinkers and tinkerers is that some people just do not find it interesting, so we should not force them into it.

I am curious by nature and like learning new things and figuring out how things work, and it has been like that since I was a kid. My brother is the exact oposite to me, yet we both had the same upbringings (we differ just three years).

When he studied the sciences, it was just pass highschool degree, and after that he went into the social field as a caretaker for special-needs children. I doubt he would benefit a great deal in his day to day life from knowing why apples fall down or planes fly up.

Whilst I like the idea of encouraging a generation of thinkers and tinkerers, I accept that it just isn't for everyone, and neither should it be. Maybe it's just not in their nature.
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I have been actively avoiding London for years as I dislike the place. Likewise with the States.
My understanding of the J1 is that it is a cultural exchange visa and that the intent is that it's very short term work and specifically not as an alternative to the H1B.

Another caveat is that the position could be designated as subject to the 2 year residency rule, and therefore your employee would not be allowed to work in the US for 2 years after their J1 expires.
From the 10mins I spend looking at it:

- It seems some kind of language/computation-model. Loosely based on a "everything is an actor" model.

- It did look goodish. I tried following the Fibonacci example, which sort of made sense (I got the impression that recursion is handled by creating new nodes/zells). The discussion chapter also seemed interesting.

- It has that abstruse academic feel, where sometimes it is hard to assess whether the problem is my ignorance, or just vagueness of the publication.

- Motivation sections usually have an exaggerated tone to them (i.e. this will totally change everything), but this one, and the article above, are a bit over the top.

- There are also some over-the-top statements sprinkled throughout the thesis (e.g. "a model of virtual objects which exist independent of any hardware").
Nomadlist: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8107222
> Nuclear power is only cheap as the nation states serve as insurers

EDF, who are preparing to construct Hinkley Point's planned nuclear power station, have been guaranteed a minimum strike price of £92.50/MWh. The mean wholesale price is currently around £46/MWh.

Even disregarding the risk/cost of accident cleanup, nuclear power isn't necessarily cheap or unsubsidized.
The foot will be mined and processed into fuel within the next 20 years. At that stage the surrounding pristine wildlife haven that the countryside reverted to in the absence of humans will again degenerate into the usual suburban death zone, filled with humans, cats dogs, and almost nothing else.
There is a big, abstract, and not entirely useful introduction to this post in order to describe a useful case of pub/sub (rather the exact or nearly exact case pub/sub was designed for).
Haskell namespaces are a bit annoying.

let's look at the stdlib `replicate` function. `replicate 5 'x'` gets you `['x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x']`. But that's a standard haskell linked list, and there's other list-y things, like ByteString. So there's bytestring module has it's own replicate function which returns a ByteString (like an array afaik) instead of a list.

Now, a bare `import bytestring` just dumps all of the module - its datatypes, its functions - into the global namespace, like a Python `from bytestring import *`, so the two replicate functions are gonna clash. There's a solution - we do `import qualified bytestring`. it behaves like a normal Python `import bytestring`, which means that we have to type `bytestring.replicate` to get that function from earlier. all of the stuff inside the bytestring module is hidden away inside this namespace.

Now, the trouble is, EVERYTHING is hidden away. So, say I want to refer to the actual ByteString datatype, say to write a type signature like:
```
length :: Bytestring a -> Int
```
Now, because of the namespace qualification I did, I actually have to write the verbose
```
length :: bytestring.ByteString a -> Int
```
So that's like saying "bytestring-module.ByteString-datatype" every time you want use a ByteString. that's what the author does, hence the weird duplication you noticed comes from.

The usual solution is:
```
import qualified Data.ByteString as B -- the functions
import Data.ByteString (ByteString) -- the datatype
```

which roughly translates to Python as:
```
import bytestring as B
from bytestring import ByteString # the ByteString class
```

so now, I can use `B.replicate`, and `ByteString`, which is what I want! Great! But the importing is verbose and, as I said, kinda annoying.
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We might, the actually sad part is that - besides being a real name - she is a Professor at the Uni, a successful book writer and commenter on TV:

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

http://www.thedailybeast.com/contributors/candida-moss.html

"Candida Moss is professor of New Testament and early Christianity at the University of Notre Dame and an award-winning author of five books, including Ancient Christian Martyrdom: Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions and The Other Christs: Imitating Jesus in Ancient Christian Ideologies of Martyrdom. She is also a frequent news commentator for CBS and CNN."
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I would have never thought to use that within a program during runtime.

During Runtime is unlikely. It does have clear benefits especially when dealing with 10GbE nics. Having N-cores handle 2x NIC's the caching thrashing can bottleneck your maximum bandwidth. While dedicating 1:1:1 NIC -> Core -> IRQ solves this.

Generally setting up IRQ masking should be part of your pre-startup configuration. Not setting it dynamically at run-time.

It also says that you can’t disable interrupts for all cores

Yes/No.

One can disable all interrupts for a core via separate mechanisms. But this means you need to implement your own scheduler on that core, and remove that core from the scheduler. Also you lose the ability to fire syscalls, lose kernel level Mutexes, Futexes, IO, etc. It gets very complicated very fast. Having some interrupts is generally a good thing.

Lastly you'll still be subject to memory bus interrupts (but they aren't called interrupts, they're non trivial stalls) to maintain Cache coherency and R/W ordering (in AMD64 and ARMv8). You can never opt out of these.

If you want to disable all interrupts on all cores why are you even running an OS?

It also seems very non portable.

AMD64 Linux is literally the most used OS in data centers, but you are nonetheless correct.
Or just get into the habit of deactivating.

I really thought FB would be gone by now. What have I gotten out of Facebook? I'm just more cynical of people, and the world. People can claim that about a lot of sites, but FB brings the worst out of me. I don't think I'm alone.

It just takes 10 clicks to deactivate.

(As a developer, I despise websites that use a FB login.)
Why do we need to wait for the government to get their act together? Why isn't there an independent organization yet that can provide this guidance, like Consumer Reports but specifically for IoT?
I am quite relieved to find out that there's a protocol that uses zero-knowledge proofs to do password authentication. In a cryptography class I took, the teacher asked the question "What can we use zero-knowledge proofs for?". My suggestion was "to communicate passwords over an insecure network", but he shot it down with "Ehm no, hashes are for that.". Kept me confused for a long time. I guess the protocol is just a little obscure.

In retrospect, maybe I should have known better, as the same teacher did not understand why some students would question the accurateness of the statement "this data is random because it satisfies Golomb's postulates".
Yup, was thinking mostly of those. The AF5x was giving us more trouble than it was worth, too.
Much better article about this at the Economist: http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/2171121...
I definitely wouldn't say it's common (and was a huge 'don't go there' in my family). However, I have seen some families where the parents aren't around as much or aren't responsible for discipline or structure, and this definitely does happen. It really depends on the parent child relationship, since that word would get grounding/timeout/huge reaction in my family, whereas the parents I've seen this happen to either get sullen or are aghast at their child.

To be clear, I'm not suggesting that laying hands on them would fix things. But there's usually a lack of someone being there who can send them to their room or give them any kind of punishment for their poor decisions/actions.
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"Doing their jobs" misses a huge part of the story. Someone illegally leaked the details of the ongoing investigation to the New York Times, changing what could have been a temporary unpaid leave for Raphel into a front page story with damaging after effects.

Had this been investigated and resolved secretly, as per the rules, Raphel could have reapplied for her job after the FBI concluded there was no espionage case.
> draw_debug

> A boolean that if true enables a special debugging text renderer. It seems to turn sections of the document either blue or red, and within the sections it turns tokens alternating light and dark shades of those colours. Note you have to set the setting to false to turn it off, not just delete it. These change sometimes when scrolling and editing but I can’t figure out when and why.

That sounds exactly like GPU layers in web development - green is GPU accelerated, red is unaccelerated.
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Are there any studies that quantify the effect this has on the distribution of outcomes? Or how / whether the results vary by economic or social class (or race, since it can be a proxy for those)?
Yes, exactly. The client is able to install and run a local proxy/translator application on their machine (currently, it's called a "bridge"). Their IMAP client connects to it and it interacts with ProtonMail's APIs over HTTPS. Since the bridge runs locally, the private key is locally decrypted with the client's password. The password is never sent to the server. The decryption takes place locally in the bridge software running on the client's computer.
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Because the premise is invalid or because the ensuing discussion is low quality?
I bought this book awhile ago and I can't recommend it enough. My machine learning club will go though this starting in January.

Is this part of a Christmas season special, or do they regularly do giveaways? And do they send emails about the free book of the day?
A fascinating 2006 Economist article on the financial structure of Ikea.
I used itextsharp library to convert the PDF files to text and then go from there. Once you have the file in text format you can then determine how to parse - that would be the structure you will see all the time for that document. In my case, each document differ by vendors, hence different parsers. That's the gist of it.
A workmate once told me that he found his young son fiddling with the dials next to a hot stove. So he took his son's hand and briefly placed it on the hot part. The son ran away crying but he learned his lesson.
https://theconversation.com/baseload-power-is-a-myth-even-in...

The old myth was based on the incorrect assumption that base-load demand can only be supplied by base-load power stations; for example, coal in Australia and nuclear in France. However, the mix of renewable energy technologies in our computer model, which has no base-load power stations, easily supplies base-load demand. Our optimal mix comprises wind 50-60%; solar PV 15-20%; concentrated solar thermal with 15 hours of thermal storage 15-20%; and the small remainder supplied by existing hydro and gas turbines burning renewable gases or liquids. (Contrary to some claims, concentrated solar with thermal storage does not behave as base-load in winter; however, that doesn’t matter.)
Everyone is dressing it up as being about something else, but this is the central point. None of this would be an issue if Clinton had been elected. The left wants some self-flagellation now by those they thought were in their pocket.

If things had gone the other way, everyone complaining would be making Trump meme's right now to post in their favorite walled wonderland. Next we'll be hearing about how the expansion of Presidential powers is actually an issue now that it isn't their guy doing the expanding.
"In the next post I’ll talk about some of those — specifically, the efficient proofs that we use for various useful statements. I’ll give some examples (from real applications) where these things have been used. Also at reader request: I’ll also talk about why I dislike SRP so much."

Did he ever write this? I can't find it.
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It exists in many countries.

Governments license news organizations and journalists. Governments review stories. Governments run the legal print and broadcast media. Governments regulate access to web sites.

Be careful what you ask for...but consider donating to Poynter: http://www.poynter.org/