skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jesus (or whoever came up with the stuff attributed to him) was indeed a profoundly wise human being. His philosophy of love is probably one of the most important developments of ancient religion.
What "good enough" means depends entirely on the maintenance horizon of the code. Is it some campaign web site that runs for 2 years with two updates in it's lifetime? Or is it a code base that will receive 20k commits every year for the next 20 years? Working in the latter kind, I really wished people hadn't shipped so much "good enough to ship" code and had written more "good enough to maintain with ease for 10 years". I have only worked on one single project my whole career - with the first 12 years being before the first release! Not typical perhaps, but goes to show that "shipping more projects" isn't always an option.

Often these are conflicting goals too. If that guy hadn't shipped the kludge 10 years ago perhaps the company and project wouldn't exist today.
His shareholder letters from the 1950s have the same humble tone.
What management practices do your "responsible growers" follow?

In the US commercial forest operators will cut anything there is a market for, sending stuff that isn't sawmill quality to a pulp mill or biomass plant. They want to get rid of stuff that isn't sawmill quality because it competes for resources.
Footrace between 99-year-old and 92-year-old ends in electrifying photo finish
That is utter crap. No such thing happened.
Huh. No, for the record, we'd never heard that acronym when we chose the name for Dabble DB.
That's jumping to quite the conclusion. As I've responded to a few people here, I have a site where I write about technology and freedom. Net neutrality is a big topic in that area, but I also write about privacy, free speech & censorship, cryptocurrency & blockchain, etc.

I am certainly not a shill, nor spreading propaganda for any one or any industry. I'm a software developer who works in a completely unrelated industry to telecom.

Look, we probably agree on the primary issue here: to maintain a free and open internet. I dislike the AT&Ts and Comcasts as most do here, and I choose not to do business with them.

Where we likely disagree is how to maintain a free and open internet. I don't believe the government should play that role, as they often (in my opinion) push for more and more control once their foot is in the door. That's not what I want.

> This is then kind of thing you see in authoritarian states and rather chilling.

No, actually, throwing labels like "shill" and "propaganda" at someone to discredit them and squelch their desire to speak freely is what you find in authoritarian states.

Every time I post an opinion that goes against the net neutrality norm, I'm accused of being an agent of the FCC or telecom industry.

Can I not hold an opinion that differs from the norm? I posted (in my opinion) a question to provoke thought and discussion in a completely non-trolling, non-harassing, non-toxic way.
> It perplexes me that there are HN'ers who do not understand the risks involved.

I don't think you understand that "risk" doesn't mean "damage"?
> I really do hope, Home Server, NAS catches up as a trend instead of us relying everything on the "Cloud".

Exactly... If I am spending my hard-earned money on a NAS, it is exactly because i need stuff to be in my lan and/or don't want to use the cloud.
Pretty much what others have suggested, but I would weigh in and say The Genealogy of Morality is the work I find myself revisiting the most recently. That along with Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism and Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle form a fairly interesting exploration into modern society, in my opinion. Not one I always agree with, but certainly one that makes you think.

Also, is it ironic that a stoic is waiting until the rain stops to go out and find happiness?
Unless your system is very simple (i.e. even if it's moderately simple) it's non-trivial to really be sure that a 2nd-pre-image attack is truly necessary to break any part of your system, and that a collision attack truly cannot break any part of your system.
Apple cancelled the AirPort program a while ago.
I'm really disturbed by that mindset. Surely, you are not saying that without belief in some sort of God, you personally would cease cooperation and rape and murder and steal?

I'm an atheist, but I certainly have no desire or intention or plan to cease cooperation. Just the opposite, I think it's extremely important, and it is also extremely important that we cherish and enforce and cultivate it.

As just a little example, for me some sort of communal health insurance covering everyone is a matter of course, as for most citizens of developed nations. (I'm aghast at the fact that many people oppose it in the USA, and I note in passing that it appears to be mostly religious people.)

Next, I have the same expectation of basically everyone I encounter (except some sociopaths, against one has to guard appropriately).

Finally, I think there are many good reasons for it, and the position that man is ("just") a higher evolved animal is not at all incompatible with it.
gwern has a great write-up on this: https://www.gwern.net/LSD%20microdosing
Aside from the things you mentioned, I have started moving to self-hosting everything on a VM with an encrypted disk and https for all app interactions.

For code I use gitea/gogs + self hosted drone. I have OpenVPN running their as well and use it even at home since Comcast is my ISP.

Backups are done via Borg and shipped to another VM also with disk encryption. I use pass for password management and push it to my gitea repo.

The one area I haven't solved 100% is email. I tried self-hosted but the majority of my outgoing email was being flagged as spam, even after doing all the suggested things to prevent that. I am using proton mail now and just have to trust they are legit.

For texting I am using signal and have managed to get most of my frequent contacts to start using it as well.

For online communities I use different handles and email aliases. Not sure if that helps or not though.
They post underwriting profits cause he picks excellent insurance businesses.

GEICOs moat is customer satisfaction. Obviously selling direct means their product is a great value, and service means hard to get their customers to switch.
shouldn't you be asking CloudFlare that? you pay them, and they haven't reached out to you? sad.

you're all idiots.
The flight in question went from Karachi to Medina carrying a total of 416 passengers, on a Boeing 777 with a total seating capacity of 409, including staff seats.

IMHO the weight difference will be negligible, and in an emergency evacuation those in the aisle would be the first to leave. The biggest risks are probably turbulence and availability of oxygen.
The working class is living better than at any other time in history. Without progress they'd all be working fields, with little to no leisure time, with little in the way of education, entertainment and the arts. They'd be worried about famines and diseases that have long been brought under control.

Life back then was short, nasty and brutish. If the population continued to grow with corresponding progress, we'd be fighting even more over the limited resources available.
He's not using the naturalist fallacy at all. He says that being a Stoic is not acting in accordance with nature at all, that nature is completely indifferent. And then he says that their philosophy attempts to tyrannize over nature and that isn't going to work.
Sure, when you're switching jobs every two or three years, those bad decisions you make to ship now or paper over problems to make a sale don't have the opportunity to come back around and really bite you in the ass. It's the poor bastard who comes along afterwards and has to maintain or extend the Jenga tower that has that bucket of fun land in their lap.
In a venture capital-funded world, the primary marketable skill is capturing venture capital. Follow the money.
If you land me 30K for the hardware I would be glad to do it :). For writing WAL it scales reasonably close to linear
I also recently deleted most of my >10K tweets after signing up around 10 years. I'm keeping certain tweets that have a specified string in them, and I'm keeping all the favourites.

I used this Ruby application to do so, together with the archive CSV, customising it a bit.

https://github.com/MikeMcQuaid/TwitterDelete

I think Twitter became less local or personal and became more serious.
The SHA-256 "weakness" is a bit disingenuous. As far as I'm aware in the 10 years since that paper was published the "weakness" hasn't been extended _at all_. The main reason for the SHA3 competition was because we were all concerned at the time that SHA2 would be broken and there'd be nothing to replace it with. However as it happens, SHA2 has remained rock solid, so the outcome of SHA3 was to pick something (Keccak) maximally different from SHA2, since in the intervening years cryptographic diversity became more desired than actual replacement. Both SHA2 and SHA3 are fit for use in production systems -- I would personally pick SHA2 unless I had some specific reason to benefit from SHA3 (e.g. incremental hashing modes that the sponge construction makes possible).
I probably kept it going for further than I should have also. Apologies.

I understand and accept some people disagree and probably have valid reasons for doing so. Fine. Accepted.

But back the original point, I just don't understand nor get on any level the mouth foaming hatred. It doesn't appear rational. Seems like disagreement would be enough and so much more effective.
He is saying that "living in accordance with nature" is a nonsense concept. Nature is boundless indifference and by your very existence, by your very desires, you are not and can not live in accordance with it. And beyond that, the Stoics are taking their view of the world and are projecting it onto Nature.

One of the things Nietzsche hated most were life denying philosophies. If your philosophy of life made you weaker, then it was evil. He considered Stoicism a philosophy that made you weaker by accepting what was. For example:

From the article: “Starting with things of little value—a bit of spilled oil, a little stolen wine—repeat to yourself: ‘For such a small price, I buy tranquillity.’ ” Nietzsche would ask if you are buying yourself tranquility because you want to? Or because you are too cowardly to say something? Based on how I read the article, the latter is almost definitely true.
> for economic understanding it's important to note that these were not the major drivers of growth.

Two hundred years of slavery was not a major driver of economic growth?

Edit: Serious question, rephrased: do economic historians really not consider slavery a major driver of growth? If so, that would be highly counterintuitive. We're talking about the free labor of ~10 million people over two centuries, in an economy that was almost entirely agricultural.
Maybe they can offer Google Cloud entirely running on ads, where they inject them at the load balancer. That way they won't have to deal with customer support.
If you listen carefully to what he is saying, even he is advising a diversified portfolio of low cost mutual funds. If you want to move a small portion of your domestic equities into BRK.A instead to try to get some alpha, feel free, but also realize how much harder it is for him now with his massive amount to invest than it was 30, 20 and 10 years ago.
Thanks! I hadn't seen that one. xkcd is great.
..who do you know that would kill someone for $1000 cash?
i suppose i use twitter very differently than mr. kaplan. for me, twitter is almost like a social "one line a day" journal, where i persist random thoughts and jokes i have throughout the day. what he considers "fragments of nothing" without any worth, i consider memories. i can still look back at my old tweets from 2008 and remember what i was doing and why i made the tweet almost 10 years on.

i'm likely in the minority, but twitter for me is more personal than performative or social. i keep a backup of my tweets archive so that i will never lose any of my memories. and this is why i find tweet delete services so baffling.
Open Source as a Full-Time Job
The obvious solution that occurs to me would be to isolate the "email protection" feature to a second process, thus limiting the scope of the catastrophe to only those sites using the feature and not everyone.
Well, looking around the last few days, this SHA-1 collision is breaking various pieces of software (svn in particular). You can't count on two documents with the same hash being the same document.

Sure, there is broken, and then even-more broken, but SHA-1 is already, for most practical purposes, useless.
Admittedly without support, I'd assume that slavery held back southern productivity.

If you are making profit to support a lavish lifestyle relative to your local peers and (crucially) there is no free market value of your laborers' labor, then what incentive do you have to apply innovation?

Some (cotton gin), but certainly less than a free (in all senses of the word) labor market where a shortage of workers leads to increased wages and a push towards mechanization.
> I wasn't suggesting you were saying "let's hire idiots just because they're women", I was pointing out a hypothetical scenario in which meritocracy plays second fiddle.

You suggested "if the majority of developers are mal, then a majority of high-performing developers will also be male". So far so good. Then you made the non sequitur jump to "Hiring lower-performing females to attempt to achieve balance does not fix the original issue". That's a straw man, nobody suggests that. You risk being perceived as creating an absurd hypothetical ("let's hire worse people for social justice reasons") just for the sake of winning the argument, or even believing this is the choice that's posited.

I think this is a recurring problem with these kinds of discussions, people tend to put forward very extreme views of reality where what'd be useful is to seek the middle ground, understand the problem, and then nudge a bit in the right direction.

Additionally, even the basic premise that we currently hire for merit is questionable. Of course everyone tries to hover the best and brightest, but it's easy to see see how a very homogeneous group like SV software devs might mistake group conformity for competence.
Here's the updated and live link.
https://medium.com/@faizann20/using-ordered-markov-chains-an...
The only new google service I've signed up for in the last few years was Project Fi, and that's simply because it wouldn't be a nightmare to move my number back to another carrier if Google just decided they got bored with it.
you sure can get reasonable close with 2 phase commit, and starting with next release and quorum commit you will be able to do exactly that.
> Death is absolutely the most natural thing in the world.

How is it more natural than anything else? What does that mean?

> While it's viewed positively in some situations no culture views it as a universally good thing.

Without death there would be no biological evolution, so human beings would not exist. It is very easy to argue that death is universally a good thing (from a human perspective).
With regards to one, just because it was not original does not discount its value. That only supports my point that it was an attempt to present a way to live - a failed attempt given hindsight. I never said it was original nor entirely good. That's why we can both recognise the good parts as generally good advice.

2. I'm not preaching. I was brought up Catholic and learned enough to reject it. Catholicism and the actions of that church and other splinters are fundamentally at odds with what Jesus actually preached - love your neighbour. Somehow, it was ok to burn your neighbour alive if they did not believe Jesus was God, which the rule did not mention. I am not a Catholic today - there is too much hypocrisy. My assertion was that these, regardless of what we know now, were misguided hypotheses that had mixtures of valuable advice along with ideas that we now know are wrong. The structure built on top of that is perhaps a hypothesis taken too seriously. My thinking is that what originally was the equivalent of Aristotle to some Newton was misunderstood and taken to the extreme. I share your sentiments exactly.

> Yes, at the time. But not today

This was exactly my point. Your English is very good, by the way. If I didn't know better, I'd mistake your German directness as rude and blunt.

I would agree. Perhaps not empiric but more practical which lends itself better to empirical study.
Ask HN: How would you delay a job offer?
Let's say you've applied at 2 companies and the recruiter from company A gives you a call to extend an offer. Problem, you're waiting on a potential offer from company B, which should come a few days later.

How would you delay the offer from company A until company B gets back to you?
The median overall happiness of planet earth will go up significantly when North Korea rejoins South Korea and adopts the South's behaviours. We are a strange species, we can go to the moon, but, struggle to see/admit such an obvious mistake. Its like the cruelest political science experiment ever.
These are fairly anemic processors so I suspect you would be disappointed trying to run a desktop OS with one. Let alone go head to head with a modern PC.
What Makes a Senior Software Engineer
I have slowly been migrating from LastPass to pass and am just about ready to go all in. There are a few hoops to jump through to get it working on android (a requirement for me), but nothing too bad. The one thing I am having to make a habit is always doing a git pull whenever I open it since I use it across multiple devices.
>This is exactly what I believe the universe is.

Yup - I've found the lion/zebra thing to be very useful in explaining something that isn't easy for most people to see. Especially those that grew up with religious notions of good vs evil.

>the universe cares about you in an impersonal kind of way

Personally I'd be very wary of using the word caring at all. It's just atoms & stuff flying about the place to me. I choose to overlay the whole "I want to be a good person etc" on top of that though as a personal choice despite considering it a very artificial & fake construct. Bit of a cognitive dissonance I suppose but much like people choose to believe in god I choose this.
What is the status of the Whirlpool hash function? Can it be added to the color table?
An owner (Buffett) that understands the insurance business goes a long way. There is less pressure than in a public company to do business even when the appropriate premiums can't be obtained (see p. 10). Having a very large and sound balance sheet also helps.

Their insurance businesses don't always make money. There have been years in the past that they posted big losses.
The top link has a |level:all| tag.

The difficulty may be that the website does not express clear opinions...I mean 'opinions' in the sense of Ruby on Rails where agree or disagree the number of decisions the user must make is reduced. For comparison consider Zed Shaw's Learn X the Hard Way. There are other ways of teaching that might be better for some learners. Those people are able to make a quick decision that Shaw's work is not for them. He does not waste their time searching and trying to be all things to all people. Rails does not try to be all things to all people either. That's good.
The real cruelty is that your thesis was correct, but no longer is. Now it would be a massive social and economic burden for any country, including the ROK, which is why reunification is becoming ever more unlikely. 'The Cleanest Race' is a good read.
Are you aware of Ms Fowler's allegations?

https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-on...

Nothing to do (directly) with underrepresentation or "hiring lower-performing females".
> The lowest bank mutual fund in Canada that I've seen in from Tangerine at ~1% MER, are there ones lower?

Without having to handle rebalancing yourself? AFAIK then Wealthsimple and Tangerine are already the lowest you'll find without working with ETFs or index funds directly.
We're continuing to look for any evidence of exploitation. So far I've seen nothing to indicate exploitation.
I bet I could find someone to smear baby oil on a stranger's face for $1000.
> Besides even without that, his showing that what's natural could be seen in another different way is enough to deprive the stoics of their claim to naturalness. It is not naturalness the preach, he points, it's "how nature should be according to stoics".

Why bother depriving the stoics of their claim to naturalness if the claim to naturalness has no value?

And why should we care about depriving the stoics of their claim to naturalness when no one is claiming naturalness in the contemporary conversation?

> But the even more important insight is this: "And granted that your imperative, "living according to Nature," means actually the same as "living according to life"--how could you do DIFFERENTLY? Why should you make a principle out of what you yourselves are, and must be?"

Granted that "living according to nature" means whatever Nietzche wants it to mean, Nietzche can argue anything, but even a cursory reading of the stoics shows that the stoics weren't speaking tautologically when they said "life according to nature". "Life according to nature" in stoic terms is more like "life that acknowledges the limitations placed on one by reality". Stated in English as quoted, Nietzche's argument sounds like Nietzche didn't even read the stoics. However, I suspect that Nietzche's intent may have been lost in translation, as such semantic arguments translate poorly.
What are the different stages of learning JavaScript?
Quorum commit is not the same as distributed strict serialization because replicas can desynchronize.

Additionally you have the bottleneck of a single master. Will it be possible to do a quorum read as well, and will every transaction on the master be doing it? Then you are starting to get closer, although many anomalies are still possible.
It's hard to point to something everything else does. Things die before taking their first breath. Even inanimate objects like protons die.
Almost anyone with a serious meth problem.
It's worse for google because their brand is attached to it. Shutting down a branded internal "startup" can cause negative sentiment to be attached to the overall brand (as evidenced in comments here). Whereas with a startup there isn't really a lingering negative impact on a parent brand because there is no parent brand.
And while the industrial revolution wasn't a distinct U.S. advantage, the post-WW2 period gave the U.S. a near monopoly on industrial production. Most factories across Europe and Asia were destroyed in the war.
“If you cannot interview him, how do you expect to manage him?”
I eared a lot this argument in Brazil. It is wrong in a thousand ways. Cutting trees is not a necessary condition for powerful economies, we are in the 21st century. Canada and Scandinavian countries have lots of trees and also powerful economies. Europe is actually increasing their forested area.

The only industries that benefit with deforestation are logging and raising cattle in extensive pastures. Brazil needs manufacturing and services, they generate a lot more income and jobs.
I thought it was common programming knowledge that ln(x) is log(x), and log(x) is log10(x).

As an EE, I use both frequently. Seems a lot of errors could be avoided by just comparing your code to a simple hand calculation. I suppose few do that these days.
Don't put too much stock in early reported details. Unfortunately, people are prone to wild speculation and mistakes are made. That said, you must be reading less cautious news sources than I as none of these "facts" were included in the stories I read. I have not seen any definitive statements as to how the chemical was applied except in hacker news comments.