skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The wedding photographer believes, because of their religion, that it would be unethical to participate in the wedding.

The "because of their religion" part is demonstrably nonsense.

People don't foster anti-gay feelings because of their religion, they trawl archaic text to justify anti-gay feelings that already exist.

It takes 30 seconds and a copy of Leviticus to disprove. Where's the conservative rage about tattoos (Leviticus 19:28), or oysters (Leviticus 11:10)?
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> It doesn't seem to be in the same category of things as the sorts of things Trump's doing.

Indeed. While we have similar laws regarding denaturalization, Trump did not make them. But you're probably right about the rest; I doubt a Tory PM would demonstrate the same level of sloppy, slapdash, incompetent jackassery we're seeing from the new occupant of the Oval Office.

Tangentially: I get there's a lot of fear going around on the subject of authoritarianism, dictatorship, Nazis, et al. I don't buy it, not least because we had the same with Bush, and the only difference of note in today's rhetoric is that it's as much hotter and faster as the Internet that powers it - remember that Facebook and Twitter weren't a thing back then. (So far we've come!)

Trump is no Hitler, though, any more than Bush was. He's not even a Mussolini. He might be some fraction of a Berlusconi, but most of all, at least to judge his performance so far, he's an utter boob, and not the first we've had in the office. I suppose an appeal for moderation in rhetoric, and awareness of history in one's analysis, is foredoomed to mockery and oblivion in this age of hot takes and clickbait. But it might ease the mind a bit to take, where you can, a somewhat longer view.
Yes. There are people who value support for a fixed version for 10 or more years much more than they'd value "rolling" support for a "latest" version that they have to keep updating their apps for.
IIRC porn sites receive significant traffic and almost all porn sites serve content over http only. The post mentions that https is faster than http and also utilizes resources better than http. Is the statement still valid when streaming video? (Please note that I visit porn sites only to check if it has https enabled or not)
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Just seeing the name of the journal made me 90% certain Richard Gabriel was involved somehow. I was right.
Same thing for ruby and perl also.

I would have advocated to move to pony instead, since it is a much cleaner and much faster language than Go, and has guaranteed deadlock and race safety, unlike Go or rust. It also needs much less memory.
You look realish enough. But your brother might be a propoganda person...
Boston Dynamics has a new leaping, catapulting 'nightmare inducing' robot
The reality of Multiverse is undetermined and it is untestable. Unless someone discuss methods to test it, it's a waste of time because there is nothing to learn on our universe with it.

It would be a mistake to call back into question the existence of multiverse. And a mistake as big to claim it exist.

Until a method to test it is found, discussing this idea is a waste of time. However I would respect people searching and discussing methods to test it if they have pertinent things to say.
Hi,

I'm working on a project called Performetric (https://performetric.net) that aims to help objectively measure levels of fatigue and stress and help manage some situations mentioned here.
I am not doing my “pitch” here, but trying understand if a solution like our can help you
Monitor the rate at which the disk is filling up, and extrapolate that to when it will hit 90%. If that time is outside business hours, alert early. If current time is not in business hours, alert later if possible.
Looks good. Do you have any sample code?
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Ha. Yeah, even as a happy Win10 user I chuckled at that
Related discussion here - "Ask HN: Ever faced difficulties pivoting your job or career later in your life?": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13528434
Surely you can explain more than that
> those tech companies aren't going to lose their cheap source of exploitable Labor..they'll figure a way around it

That's pretty much what we're looking at right here, don't you think?
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Clickbaity article.
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inclination or prejudice for or against one person or group, especially in a way considered to be unfair.
No, I do not have a bias. I judge anyone only on what they say and do.

Great, we would probably enjoy each other's company.

The only basis I have to possibly assume things from is what you write.
You made the comparison from someone disobeying an order based on a professional assessment that the order was unconstitutional - to an employee disobeying an order.

Well I think we are interpreting the parent paragraph and my reply in totally different lights. As I point out elsewhere, I think there is a difference between a sackable offence through disloyalty, and not following an order because you don't agree with the validity of it, expert or not. I am not making any claim regarding the actual substance of the executive order; or whether trump's use of disloyal is 'correct' (I personally think it's a beatup) ; only that disloyalty is undermining and is a fireable offence..

>Dictators rely on loyalty, leaders listen to council, regardless of business or politics.

Mate, the whole fucking world revolves around loyalty; also known as friendship or cordial business relations to change spheres again. It holds democracies together just as much as dicktatorships. Doesn't make disloyalty any less of a fireable offence.

there's too much strong systemiser here on both sides. Anyway, not my country, and probably won't be one for much longer, which is going to have some pretty profound implications. Enjoy the fireworks and stay safe.
Related discussion here - "Ask HN: Good Career Alternatives for 50+": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13531096
Yup, saying invisible in there was redundant. That's not all, though. Saying force is additionally also redundant too. All things pushed around are pushed around by force.

"Milky way pushed around" would have been sufficient to convey the interesting part. It's interesting because at galactic scale isn't it usual to be pulled around rather than pushed around?
They probably just want to instill fear. If they are powerfull enough to get away with this, then who would ever oppose them?
Creepy flesh head is the future of VR porn
Ah memories! Thanks you for this!
Transparent hydrogel-based robots can catch and release live fish
This kind of research worries me a bit. I live 300 feet away from a 6-lane, heavily trafficked road. I'm a male in my 30s, but still, moving somewhere further from a bunch of car exhaust seems like a good idea.

But maybe I can just measure the air quality — I wonder what are some accurate, but affordable particle counters. Or maybe I can rent one.
They also have higher health care costs due to smoking, which in Australia costs billions of dollars in increased health spending. I think it's not unfair to have them subsidise their cohort's inevitable health care costs.

The argument runs both ways: given smoking is a lifestyle choice with absolutely no positive outcomes for anyone other than tobacco companies, and numerous and virtually guaranteed bad health outcomes for those who smoke and almost certainly for those frequently around the smoker, then I don't see why wider society should be "punished" for the avoidable actions of those who choose not to quit smoking.

It's not like there are not extensive campaigns and programs subsidised by the Australian government for those willing to attempt quitting cigarettes.
Think of all the web sites optimized for IE6.

If those apps are so seminal, let's hope they are open source and available for study, porting, and upgrading.
Does it fart? Does it puke? Does it sneeze?
That's a shady area, a very shady area Y
Oh, is that why you get that message? Uhm, I have a few of those apps then :(
Indeed. That's happened on our systems as well. Someone issued a reboot on what they thought was a non-critical host, and instead they did it on some very essential host. The host came up in a bad state, and critical services did not start (kerberos....).

It lead to a "Very Bad Day". I found out about it after reading the post mortem.
Worth mentioning here: The Quiz Broadcast [1].

[1] https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3Dx8Yxab-uFpPdulB4g2rw...
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Off topic, but "deep seeded" is a pretty great eggcorn (word/phrase that sounds like another word/phrase, is quite different but still approximates the meaning of the original).

It's like "deep seated" with a reproductive twist.
You are explaining how current algorithms try to find the (approximate) Nash equilibrium (and those algorithms are far from perfect; as noted in the recent DeepStack paper, current abstraction-based programs are beatable by over 3000 mbb/g, which is four times as large as simply folding each game). But my point is that even the (exact) equilibrium strategy would not necessarily be the best strategy against given non-equilibrium-playing players.
I'm not qualified to give a comprehensive answer, but I would have to imagine that it partly has to do with the fact that poker is a game of partial information. In Go or Chess the current state of the game is known. In poker, you don't know what cards your opponent hold, so you have to assign probabilities based on previous actions, and simulate many different scenarios.

Another part has to do with the fact that both you and your opponent have surprisingly many legal "moves" at each turn. because not only must you decide to fold, call or bet, but if you bet, you also have to decide how much.
Exactly, so you need to manually copy src/picohttpparser/libpicohttpparser.so to /usr/local/lib
What do you mean "not integrated"? Alcohol advertising is present in the most popular sport in Australia, AFL football.
I check my backups on Feb 29th ;)
There's really no point doing intensive congnitive work for more then 8 hours straight. After that you go by instinct and muscle memory. Surprisingly a lot of tasks can be done, but you shouldn't do anything critical.
At the moment, US is having a massive problem with deer. And the major reason why that is, is that we've eliminated most of their natural predators, and lobbied very aggressively against hunting. So now you have millions of deer destroying crops in US, but of course any time anyone mentions culling, people immediately get aggressive about cruelty of hunting. I mean, I get that, and I wish there was a better way, but deer are literally worse than pests at this point.

http://blog.nature.org/science/2013/08/22/too-many-deer/
Show HN: BackupChecker
It's been some time I tell myself I should prepare this tool for sharing it, but with the Gitlab problems showing backup validation is still a problem, here it is as rough as can be:
a python script I've used to validate backups (remote ssh backups, git backups)

https://github.com/rbauduin/backup_checker

It supports several kinds of validation (file size and age, number of files in directory, filename, newest file in directory age, and is easily extensible.

Config is put in a yml file, of which there is an example:

https://github.com/rbauduin/backup_checker/blob/master/demo.yml

Hoping it can save some trouble for some people.
Time Machine backups are great for a lot of use cases, but beware to not trust your virtual machines to Time Machine [0].

You might end up disappointed if you do.

[0] https://kb.vmware.com/kb/1013628
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No, totally worth it!
Did we read the same article? I am looking a whole lot of Cunningham worlds for how this move by Apple is a good thing...
This story gives a very one sided view of the situation in Australia.

The decrease in population wide smoking in Australia this century has not been due to an increase in quitting. It's mainly due to reduced rates of initiation in young people.

http://mike.bailey.net.au/2015/10/smoking-prevention-and-tre...

People who cannot or do not want to quit are being denied information and access to reduced harm alternatives so as e-cigarettes.

It's currently illegal to sell nicotine e-liquid in Australia, thanks largely to hard campaining by a large cancer charity that receives millions on dollars each year from taxpayers to reduce smoking rates.

Look up 'health facism'. It finds a safe space within the "tobacco control" arm of public health. Not all public health advocates are humanitarians.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/07/the-nazis...

"But according to Proctor, the Nazi ban did manage to do some good for a subset of the population: German women. Proctor estimates that some 20,000 German women avoided lung cancer deaths, thanks to “Nazi paternalism, which discouraged women from smoking, often with police force.”
This happened to me one night late a few years back, with Oracle on a CentOS server. rm -rf /data/oradata/ on the wrong machine.

I managed to get the data back though, as Oracle was still running and had the files open. "lsof | grep '(deleted)'" and /proc/<ORACLEPIDHERE>/fd/* saved my life. I managed to stop all connections to the database, copy all the (deleted) files into a temp directory, stop Oracle, copy the files to their rightful place, and start up Oracle, with no data lost.
As a person who emigrated, I can say that aint a good thing.

Edit:
OK, I'm fine with the very wealthy being charged an exit tax but the draconian tax laws seem to effect everyone EXCEPT the very wealthy. Like, if you cannot afford a lawyer to sort your shit out then you'll get fined BIG TIME but if you're a rich person, you don't pay any large percentage.
Indeed, and a very good way to proceed.

Another thing to note, is that the RTO will occasionally state someone and "ACTUAL". That means that whomever they are speaking for is actually speaking and not the RTO on behalf of the CO.
If only the authors of abandonware would open source their projects.

Complaining about one closed source company that is actively growing and managing the platform we rely on for increasing performance and security because other closed source companies abandoned their software seems rather confusing to me.
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I can't believe it took this long for someone to register that name.
The pollies get too much money from the gambling sector (casinos, pubs, RSL clubs etc) to ever take real action in the eastern states.

WA gets pinged by NSW and Victoria whenever GST distribution comes up for not having pokies as an alternative tax source.

I hope WA continues to resist the temptation to allow them here.
they are livestreaming their recovery process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc0hPGerSd4
People joke that BLM land is the leftover land that nobody wanted.

But I completely disagree that it should either become a National Park or get privatized. There are other classes of public land you are leaving out and that is National Forest, National Grassland, and National Monuments. BLM is, in general, less restrictive than all other types of public land (e.g., National Parks & National Forest). Nearly all public land in Colorado (my state) is not a National Park [1]. This includes most of our outdoor recreation opportunities (e.g., ski areas, hiking areas, most 14ers, rivers for rafting, etc).

What's wrong with another class of public land that can be grazed, hunted, and fished (unlike most National Parks)? Dispersed camping is nearly always allowed, without permit, in BLM land. This leads to fun weekend outings along the lines of "this canyon looks cool, let's take the 4WD road to get close and camp by it for a couple nights" without needing a developed camping area. If anything, I could see an argument for moving BLM from the Department of the Interior (NPS land) to the Department Agriculture (USFS land). But western people who enjoy the outdoors would be really pissed of all public land was suddenly a National Park with an entrance fee, the usual restrictions, and vastly more limited recreation opportunities.

And what makes you say BLM land is over grazed compared to similar private land? BLM land is, in general, scrubby & dry. You are given Animal Unit Month allocations on BLM land. The ranch base of operations and perpetual renewal policy do seem unfair to newcomers. But then again, the number of farmers & ranchers has been declining heavily for the last 100 years.

[1] http://csfs.colostate.edu/colorado-forests/colorado-land-own...
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It would be funny the narrator... "Now I'm slowly reaching into your pocket... to steal some of your money..."

I'm usually freaking out all the time in my mind... "Oh god oh god oh god... this and that..." I find showering is where I collect my thoughts. Think about some problem I'm trying to solve. I don't know.
For me it happened quite often back when I was going to University. Often other students could accidentally hit the cable in class. It was really neat in those kinds of situations.
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unicode in domains is tricky; on the one hand; it's good that we can allow people whom have non-ascii characters in their language to create domains using them, but it introduces the problems pointed out here. It would be sane to say that, when you abuse the system to trick people (as is clear with the google and lifehacker examples), that the registration is voided (and barred from future use).

Maybe it should be restricted to certain TLD's though; e.g. only allow the unicode characters in TLD's that have a good reason for using them. That way, it won't be an issue for .com/.net/etc.
I mean, by definition Black Swans can't be anticipated. So, no matter if it's an AI or human, black swans will throw you over.

But, an artificial intelligence probably has different black swans than humans, as their perception is inherently different. A tweet from Trump might not surprise us (anymore) but to an AI player, it might not be evident that a small amount of text from one Human can cause an uproar on the market. And it might not even have access to the relevant data (Twitter) at all.
This is very misleading, because it's overwhelmingly skewed toward large websites run by Google, Facebook, etc.

The statistic is that 50% of page loads are HTTPS - the majority of those page loads are going to be visits to a very small subset of extremely popular (and well-resourced) sites, so this stat gives no indication that the remaining 50% is or will move to HTTPS anytime soon.

The real tipping point will be 50% of unique domains visited being HTTPS. And a more interesting statistic would where that figure is now, and trend data on that. I wonder can that stat be extracted from public Mozilla data...
Popovs argument seems to contradict his statement as seen in this other Motherboard article: https://motherboard.vice.com/read/this-pro-trump-russian-is-...

Before:

> “I was fully prepared from April, but I wait. I could begin in a month before the elections and on a wave of the anti-Russian hysteria to receive a lot of traffic,” he said.

Later:

> “Lie! Not my domain!” Popov writes in bright red text regarding the site with dodgy pop-ups.

> “Lie! I'm not a spammer!” he continues.

Either someone is running an extensive anti-Popov campaign or Popov is realising that the campaign has been a huge mistake.
Didn't plenty of new ideas start with analogies? I can think of Feynman and Einstein who described imagining or noticing things in real life which gave rise new ideas in physics.
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If it's all their code, yes they can do it (it might be a lot of engineering, though). But it might contain 3rd party code or dependencies to something that's non trivial to port to 64 bits.

If you go look at the boot procedure of a modern ARM SoC, it's pretty complex (also it's different for every SoC, there's no governing standard like the "PC is for x86"). The CPU may go through several operating modes and the procedure of booting up the cores is non-trivial.

I do not think it's impossible, but the benefits for all that engineering work may not be as great as GP suggests.

They are in a pretty unique position as they control all the hardware and the software, though.
If you think you're being "harassed" by the device offering to use essential features of the platform then perhaps it's not the device for you? I've used iOS for years and have never found any prompts that are remotely harassing about anything iirc. It's been nearly two years since they started requiring all apps and updates to be 64 bit, it's not a huge surprise this is coming.
Amazing document. Thank you for sharing. Taking it back to my company to make sure we can learn from it and to know what to check (like our logical backups... I know we've seen issues with our 9.5 servers and RHEL7 defaulting to 9.1 or 9.2 on our host where we take the backups from! Verifying exit code here we come...)

@sytse, I noticed you _do_ use streaming WAL replication, but I didn't notice any mention of attempting Point In Time Recovery. Have you taken a look into archiving the WAL files in S3? Those, along with frequent pg_basebackup's (frequent because replaying a WAL file has been painfully slow for us) could allow you to point in time recover to either a timestamp, or a transaction (and before or after). https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/continuous-archiv...

We use https://github.com/wal-e/wal-e to manage our uploading to swift (no S3 at our company heh) and then inhouse tooling to build a recovery.conf. Note we actually have our asynchronous followers work off of this system too so they're not taking bandwidth from the primary.

(note this is can lead to ~ 1 WAL file of data loss, but is acceptable for us.)

I doubt I could be of any help, since reading the report definitely shows y'all having an up on me with pg knowledge, but if there's anything I can do / talk about feel free to reach out.
Yes, iOS 64-bit devices use a full 64-bit bootchain
Thank you so much for your response. I had no idea all those properties were built with Web Components/Polymer! Maybe I'm living in a React/Vue bubble, because this stuff has never shown up on my radar.

> I looked a bit at Angular 2.x but for me Polymer look way more natural in terms in how applications should be build on the web.

Completely agree. In the long term, I'd love to see most reusable UI components on the web built with Web Components, with optional wrappers for people who still want to use frameworks.

One more question: is there currently a way to do server-side rendering for an SPA built with Web Components? I'm assuming something like jsdom will work?
Thanks - I'll try that. Thought I'd throw it out there first in case someone had some insight.
That's if we're allowed to continue protesting. The GOP just introduced bills across many states to make it more difficult, including such things as a felony and 5 years jail plus $7500 fine for blocking roads during protests (impossible to have a large one without doing this). Land of the free.

Some restrictions apply.
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There is UEFI+ACPI on ARM also, that's how Windows on ARM works. Windows on ARM devices use a far more desktop-like bootchain than anything else
HTTPS is not faster than HTTP.