skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Epictetus, Stoic philosopher says:

"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. Some things are up to us and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses, desires, aversions — in short, whatever is our own doing. Our bodies are not up to us, nor are our possessions, our reputations, or our public offices, or, that is, whatever is not our own doing."

From that I take away, whether the universe proves to be a well-meaning entity or a bleak, chaotic, meaningless one, it is not useful^ to attempt to discern its motivations except to the extent you can affect them. As you noted, it is up to you to determine then what really is or isn't in your control.

^ note that this is distinct from the idea of intellectual exploration for your own enjoyment or edification
They do have a calendar, which is something lacking from ProtonMail (although I believe they are working on this). ProtonMail has a free plan and if you only need a single custom domain then it's cheaper than FastMail. FastMail only have a free trial but the standard plan covers multiple domains (you have to pay more for extra domains on ProtonMail).

Edit (numbers):

FastMail = $50/yr (https://www.fastmail.com/pricing/)

Up to 100 domains (https://www.fastmail.com/help/account/limits.html)

They also do DNS and static website hosting (but not with HTTPS)

ProtonMail = $48/yr (https://protonmail.com/pricing)

1 domain, extra domains: $18/yr per domain
Data Selfie – Chrome extension showing how Facebook infers what content you see
Did they also stand during takeoff and landing?

Doesn't sound believable...
You're essentially asking about the difference between active and passive existential nihilism. Or in non-philosophical terms, asking who is resigned to their existence and who actively searches to find meaning in it.

Active nihilism is much more beneficial and relates to stoicism. It holds that you must find your meaning, which is really what everyone does anyway, whether through a super natural being or friends, family, or one's life work (read Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl. The best book I've ever read that relates these ideas as a holocust survivor).
To help with this, I made https://bleed.cloud/index.html

It lets you run domains quickly without downloading and grepping.
Both I and my accountant thank you haha.
You asked a question that is easily answered by RTFA -- in the first sentence even!
Why These Researchers Are Drawn to the World’s Edge
*of the worst of technically literate humanity.
One needs to kill much less plants if one avoids anymal products. Cows, pigs, dogs etc. are very inefficient at converting plants they consume into flesh that can be eaten.
This is exactly what I believe the universe is. When people say the universe is uncaring, they equate that as bad; I reckon this is because we want control over our lives. True our agency over our lives is increasing as we progress as a society but it's unlikely that we will reach a point that our cumulative progress would give us control over everything.

The universe doesn't care who you are the same way a benevolent god cares about his subject; the universe cares about you in an impersonal kind of way, that is if you do things according to the reality that is already established, then it'll 'care' about you and give what you want. The giving is likely probabilistic.
I'm from the UK and I'd put it at 4 or 5. Basically completely unacceptable but when it comes to health and safety there is almost no limit to how dangerous you can make a situation. 10 would be depressurising the cabin and giving passengers warm clothes and oxygen masks and hoping enough of them survive that you still make a profit.
The thing is, my outlook IS under my control. I would not want that outlook, but I would create it. If you don't have any evidence as to whether the universe is cruel or ultimately wellmeaning, then you yourself can choose what to believe about it.
If the pilot doesn't know he has extra passengers, and those extra passengers add weight to the aircraft, and the aircraft is not fueled to handle the extra weight, that's a problem.
All passengers are required to have a chair for safety reasons. The chairs absorb a lot of impact in the case of a crash, and obviously they also have seatbelts which are important for safety.
In a great organization it will not depend on the individual recruiter because the organization as such makes sure that candidates are handled well. Same for management or other traits of an organization.
I'd argue this isn't unique to esports - Formula One has a similar thing happening - the teams develop new technology to make cars get round the track faster, and then the organisation decides if they fit within the rules. The rules change over time.

DOTA2 does this better than most - most strategies are accepted as a part of the game - in fact, a lot of things core to play now began life as those kind of exploits (pulling your lane creeps into neutral camps to deny enemies experience and allow you to farm the neutrals easily, for example). The game is balanced around those things, even if they were unintended.

Sure, the game is regularly patched, but the solution is very rarely to directly make something not viable any more - at most it will make it even by buffing other options or reducing it's viability (but not removing it).

The draft with bans also allows teams to deny the enemy team access to certain strategies, which means teams can't focus on one strategy, which is nice.
Bone cancer in children - if there exist an almighty sentient God, then he is erratic and malicious. The polytheistic concept of gods is actually more realistic (better explains reality) in that there are multiple gods with different agendas and morals acting.

In polytheism the universe is not chaotic and meaningless - things to not happen at random, but because the gods willed it. But the gods does not always act for the benefit of humans, so the universe is not "fair".

If something bad happens to you, is it really a consolation that it is because an allknowing and just God wants you to suffer?
I personally never had any issue with Fastmail in about 2 years, it seems very reliable
Predicting the 2017 Oscar Winners Using ML
This seems to be a frontend ui for a go (the board game) site for those looking for golang or somthing else.
I work on enterprise systems for a living and the article is "skinny"; most of my clients are keen to progress to something more, for want of a better word, digital.

The fault is with the trusted large consultancies, who are still focussed on large deals for COTS products that have essential core models (ERP/MRPII, EDMS, CRM/Automated Selling, etc.) - they're changing but all too slowly - and often comically, into areas such as bitcoin, AI and VR - when some simple design thinking and user centred design would be enough.

On the flipside, most of the smaller digitally focussed agencies are unable to deliver the boring but essential bits of a project like programme, risk and change management where large consultancies excel.

Hell, most of the smaller agencies I interact with have not idea about practical architectural design, how to actually deploy and manage devops, how to manage risk, how to deliver in a boring but predictable way.

It's kind of a mess and unlikely to get better in the short term. This is the main reason Salesforce took off.

If there are any Django consultancies out there - you could really clean up ...
Paying with Your Face
Currently also on HN and much deeper article on stoicsm: On Anger, Disgust, and Love: Interview with Martha Nussbaum

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13710672

http://emotionresearcher.com/on-anger-disgust-love/

In a section further down the article she discusses the books "Upheavals of Thoughts" and "Therapy of Desire". There she elaborate how stoicism and emotions relate in a fairly comprehensive way.
Yes, but then the font is too small then.

Phones aren't meant to render hard-wrapped fixed-fonts pages. In fact, web isn't meant for that, and the web is probably by far the first mean of consumption for this kind of release notes nowadays.
I absolutely like many of the ideas behind EROS, including checkpointing, though I think it does have some issues. E.g. we often treat reboots as a "clear all state to recover from weird situations", and so we still need something like that.

The point is more that it doesn't mean you can just treat things like we do RAM now. It ends up being closer to how you'd work in apps that use mmap'd files to back persistent data.

The capabilities model was interesting too.

I think my biggest problem with a persistence model like that, though, is that I suspect it would encourage not thinking seriously about state, and ideally I'd prefer a system where state is minimized. E.g. compare EROS with the virtual opposite: Android, for example, where apps might find themselves killed anytime. Some apps handle it poorly and go through lengthy initialisation processes again when restarted, but many maintain the illusion of being fully presistent to the extent that users can rarely tell if they've started from scratch or not.

I'd love to see more work into allowing the illusion of a persistent process with little developer effort, though. Perhaps OS-level per application checkpointing support that the application can have control over (allowing the app to control exactly what gets checkpointed, and when to ditch the checkpointed state to reinitialise). So "cleanup" can occur by restarting processes transparently for users while hopefully providing most of the benefits of persisting state.

Perhaps coupled with OS-level checkpointing of the information required to bring said "virtually-persistent" apps back up in the same state after a reboot.
It just shows that mammal brain is rather inneficient and has to compensate with size for that.
Agreed , but I was unable to understand how it worked while taking off and landing .
> nobody called you out on this yet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13728738
In case readers are interested in the HN community input to this issue, there are two substantial discussions from 7 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12105188 (163 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12096321 (24 comments)

Of course, if you have anything new to add it will have to be here, as discussion on those threads is now closed.
Pragmatic thoughts on #CloudBleed
Fuck somebody else's safety guidelines. I am responsible for determining what level of safety I desire for myself. Nobody is forcing me to stay there, I decide (or not) if the flight conditions are acceptable or not.
I would rather sit in my seat with the belt buckled and not have another passenger bounce all over the cabin and hit me in case of turbulence. Not to mention capacity, balance and evacuation efficiency issues.
Record is 1,122 passengers on a 747 to Israel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Solomon however that was extraordinary circumstances.
In commercial aviation specifically, we worship health and safety even more than usual, in large part due to the high psychological impact of aircraft incidents. Given the complexity of aviation systems and the number of catastrophic failure modes that exist, the fatality rate of (particularly Western) aviation is absolutely incredible.
ISIS builds quadcopter “bomber” with DJI drone and badminton supplies
I'd never heard of wirecutter before. Every 6-12 months I (or a family member) will want to make some kind of largeish purchase, and I go hunting for reviews and try to figure it out on my own. I think this site is going to save me a lot of time and headaches.
> Is there someone among you HNers who has retained a positive outlook by believing that the universe is a bleak, chaotic place with no intrinsic meaning to the things happening in it?

Yes, I have. I tend to see myself as an existentialist.
Memory Error Detection Using GCC – RHD Blog
Bleed.Cloud for checking your exposure
https://bleed.cloud/index.html

I made a tool for checking yourself for cloudbleed exposure.

Given that emails from a website are a good indicator that you have an account there, I have a python script and webapp that pull domains from your gmail safely and check it against the cloud flare disclosure.
Microbial enzyme research may help to unlock mysteries of health
Good for you. I'd rather not have to try and climb over your dead body when I'm evacuating.
I would give this incident 1/10. It's mind boggling to me why people think this is a big deal.

Speaking of theatres and other venues, overcrowding them is way worse. For once, they actually do catch on fire much more often then planes fall from the sky. I consider overcrowding a theatre criminal negligence, while I couldn't care less about (minimally!!) overcrowding a plane.
Would it be possible that by stopping to believe in god, you stopped believing that you were safe, supported, and being taken care of? Did you stop believing because you wanted to, or was it like science took that belief away because the whole concept is wrong and impossible? For me it was the latter.
So, Um, How Do You, Like, Stop Using Filler Words? (nyt.com)
Switching to Route53, Dyn, or similar should be a cheap and easy process.
What do you think Postgres should do in this area? It seems there are a bunch of approaches being explored by different teams. I'd be very interest to hear a Spanner person's take.
Then chose a different (more expensive) airline that doesn't take extra people. Market dynamics at work.

Personally I would always chose the more expensive option, not because of safety (level of safety is plenty), but because of comfort.

Thing is, I afford this comfort, there was a time (not even that long ago) where I could not afford to fly at all, and I would have definitely accepted to stay in the aisle (or a plane without seats). Many, many people are in this scenario. Why shouldn't they be allowed to fly if they are satisfied with the conditions?
A bit off topic: their landing page is really very well done. My only picking is their name: Ragic!.. Simpler software doesn't have to sound unprofessional.
Cover girl climber shot could send high schoolers to their death ‹ SPARKY's Blog
I of course accepted things as in "yes it just is this way", but I could not be content with them, as they are not "ok".
Bolivia has more forest than Western Europe, Southern Europe and Central Europe together. I had a look at Google Maps; Brasilia is frightening. The rainforest gets divided into smaller parts. The South American rainforest is still larger than the African rainforest, but looks like an organism becoming devoured by bacteria.

The problem is that there are too many people on Earth. Our impact on Earth is much too high. We would already need 2 Earths. Overpopulation causes a lot of problems, not just deforestation, mass extinction of animals and climate change, but also lack of food, human mass migrations, elevating crime rates, and so on. However if we could reduce the world population to 3 or 4 billion people, than all mentioned problems should be solved and Earth should be able to re-establish a natural balance.

I am ready to help.
+1 for SGX support. Would be really cool to remotely attest the software you are running in a real-world cloud.
Altcoin: Zcash May End the Money Trail
I don't think it's a big deal.
The Google project to put an aquarium full of water bears inside a phone
import urllib.request
try:
urllib.request.urlopen('https://wrong.host.badssl.com/')
except (IOError, OSError):
pass

causes:

ssl.CertificateError: hostname 'wrong.host.badssl.com' doesn't match either of '*.badssl.com', 'badssl.com'
You can absolutely read small text if you supersample at 1.5-2.0x.
To Save Afghanistan, Put Pressure on Pakistan
Ahh radical libertarianism is so cute. The state religion of "fuck you I've got mine".
Isn't that hard to do based on the distributed nature of DDOS attacks though?
This is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13729770. Go there for larger conversation.
I just deleted 36K tweets
Given the material chemistry constraints on output/capacity/weight will govern any innovation in this field, I'd like to see some out-of-the-box thinking.

For example, "in flight" hot-swapping mid-air of rotor legs with recharged replacements on demand at some rendezvous point. In fact, you could swarm a standby entourage of rotors on your journey which wouldn't be subject to the frame+passenger load. I'm sure there's some optimal creative refilling strategy.
i agree re workflow

however, on the mobile site right in the middle of the screen it says "Create a schedule online. We notify your team using text messages." which seems pretty clear
Show HN: Mdwebreader – Markdown multifile project web viewer
The "bleak, chaotic place with no intrinsic meaning" conflates two things unfairly. Consider a beautiful sunrise on a tropical beach. It's part of the universe and not bleak and chaotic yet you don't have to believe it has a meaning enjoy it. As an atheist, the survival of us and our ancestors for ~4bn years suggests the universe is not so bleak in parts.
ProtonMail seems to be focusing on high security and encryption as their value prop. My interest and needs are more in the web interface UX, speed, workflows, customization, Exchange (iPhone push) support.
something that's being ignored, there are three possibilities, and its' never PIA that it will prefer it let alone advertise aisle... It's about 2.30 hr flight from Karachi to Medina.

1. They are labors. and they can't miss the working day, they beg to fly in aisle

2. 99.9% is above, other than some religious pilgrims, who have tight schedule ...

3. PIA is dirt cheap for Karachi to Medina compared to ahem Emirates

And it wasn't as uncommon than one could think, until recent times, few decades ago, it was pretty regular thing for Karachi to Lahore (local flight ... 1 hr approx) ... as people have to meet certain time to perform a job .... and back then there were no local carrier compared to dozen of them now, and about 20+ KHI to LHE daily flights.

It's terrible, but chalking it up entirely to PIA is bit unfair...
Ask HN: Would you use a periodic travel ticket search engine?
What I mean by this, suppose you want to go home for a weekend but you don't necessarily care which weekend as long as it's cheap.

I have built a small script which searches every Friday to Sunday train and flight tickets for 4 weeks and gives you the cheapest fare for a weekend.

Right now it's a command line script and I was just wondering if anyone else would find it useful?
Difference between Google and Apple visualized with patents
Thank you for working on it. I found Ghost Desktop App makes the whole platform much more competitive with Wordpress, their App is even called Worpress.com (https://github.com/Automattic/wp-desktop) which does not inspire confidence in my view. Do you know how it compares with their app?
How to Make Patterns of Thinking Work for You
How have I not heard of Dask? Would have saved me a lot of pain when trying to deal with oom datasets in my Luigi pipeline.
try:
...
except (NameError, AttributeError, TypeError):
# likely programming error
raise
except Exception:
...

Not pretty, but maybe better than catching every exception.
It's available on my laptop at least:

$ egrep '^(model name|microcode)' /proc/cpuinfo | head -n2
model name	: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6820HQ CPU @ 2.70GHz
microcode	: 0x9e

$ egrep -o ' (hle|rtm) ' /proc/cpuinfo | head -n2
hle
rtm

This is a mobile chip and an old stepping (and running the microcode that supposedly addresses the issue, presumably by disabling it on 'bad' chips?), so I'd be surprised if newer chips (especially server ones) didn't have it.
Last year, my boss gave me a task that looked simple enough at first glance - get data on how many vacation days each employee has in total, how many they have used in the current year, and how many they have left, and put that data in our SharePoint server (so people can see when filling out a vacation request if they actually have enough days left).

Most of that was fairly easy, except that the POS program that sits in the actual data only allows exporting data in one single format - PDF. Converting that PDF file to a CSV that I can feed into SharePoint was one of the nastiest things I did last year. I did manage to get it to work though, by toying around with pdftotext for a while and exploring its command line parameters.

It was a pleasure to use! It took me a while to discover the correct set of command line parameters I needed, but I got it to work! Thanks, xpdf!
WHY CHRISTIANS and MUSLIMS SHOULD LISTEN TO THIS QURAN PREACHER,
It's interesting to hear that Guido is now excited by types. A few years ago his opinion was still that types can't catch most problems. I think I will listen to that interview.

Personally I think types are over-hyped for most (profane) code.

The problem with complicated and/or specific types (which promise to catch more errors) is, in one word, coupling. They create serious dependencies across the whole project or even across project boundaries.

The other problem is: one functions-guy's URL is the next function-girl's string. And all this up- and downcasting usually creates considerable noise. Often overzealous typing is painting oneself in a corner, creating more pain then relief. It's like creating these totally arbitrary object-oriented inheritance-based taxonomies which might make some sense in one place of the code but totally break down in the next place.

But speaking about primitive types like int and str, or maybe list of int - most function arguments can accept only one of those for the code to make sense. So strategically placed type annotations can help reduce some boilerplate and put some useful barriers for error search there. While the simple-types cases are also the easy ones - the first thing you'll notice while testing is usually that you put a str where an int was expected.
kinda of a bad pattern.

lots of abuse of error handling apparently just to have a fetch and parser in the same method?

why not have one promise of a fetch and then a promise of a successful parse?
The vision thing
Sounds good, can you specify what time on Friday you want to leave?
Yeah, I wondered the same thing. Verification by company email reduces spam/noise, so I understand why it's done. Probably useful to have non-employees filtered out. But there's no way I'd trust the service enough to use it. Not to mention my latent fear of a data breach/leak ruining my career.
You actually can construct reasonings in which bone cancer in children might serve some greater good, though such reasonings are very painful to hear for people remotely affected, so I won't try that.

I know that I'm stepping on thin ice here, but: My son does not want his teeth brushed. He absolutely hates it, because he does not yet understand that this pain is way lesser than the pain and treatment of tooth decay. So, I still have to do this to him, at least twice every day, because it is necessary.

I DONT mean to say that bone cancer might be good for something eventually, but; if it were, then we might not understand it, because we don't have neither control nor insight over the future.
What's up with all those submissions about stoicism on HN, is that some new SV fad?
The key bit is that your page needs to have been in memory in that process for it to leak. So malformed pages that use the affected services would leak data from other pages that use those services.
Opinion follows: I don't give a fuck.
Fox News is a cesspool of disinformation for the under-informed.
KGS keeps my interest because of automatch. Getting a game is fire and forget.

I also believe people on KGS play more conventional go, which I enjoy more.