skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wars are very rarely (read as never) fought as total wars to the death. Nobody can predict what exactly would happen if the conflict turns violent. The range of outcomes is huge. The regime may not be able to sustain itself if a war breaks out. There could be mass surrender/defections. Certainly it's hard to see how NK can sustain a war for any length of time given the state of its economy and the resources it has. The worst case scenario is indeed very ugly but IMO not very likely. As crazy as the regime appears to be, self preservation must be one of its objectives.
> The web is gradually consuming all that came before it.

It's about cost, too. HTTP can be cached very efficiently, but FTP not at all. If I were the operator in charge and I had the choice between next-to-free caching by nearly anything, be it a Squid proxy, apt-cache or nexus, or no caching and having to maintain expensive servers, I'd choose HTTP.
Why wouldn't the same argument apply to electric grid or internet infrastructure?
Please file this over on the repo - since we're dealing with CR/Bezier equivalence, there's technically nothing wrong with the fact that a CR spline might have a cusp if the corresponding Bezier does, too.
And now the tricky one for you, Americans: what about guns?
Well, I don’t think so.

I had never worked with Spring or Java Enterprise, and could write the example after 1 hour of reading docs.

After years of working with vanilla JS, and weeks of reading docs, I still can’t get a typescript compilation and CSS/SCSS compilation and minification pipeline right. Seriously, I still can’t get it working.
Hackpad was cofounded by one the original authors of Tomboy, which was a really excellent desktop note taking app that has withered since. It was based on a fork of Etherpad, which was a startup that made a multiplayer, web based note application- that company was purchased by Google, the code open sourced, and the service wound down. Sort of a long sad trip.

I really liked Tomboy, I enjoyed Hackpad, although I quit using it over time- I collaborate much less now.

I don't take notes anymore, with software or on paper.
When I was a kid, we used to have to replace chess pieces we lost while playing during lunch break with ersatz ones...pennies, nickels, etc. I'd like to see Deep Mind try to tell a game from that.
I agree that self driving cars have the potential to be much safer in the long run, but the concern that a single error could have outsized consequences is too serious to just be swept under the rug because "lol driving is already scary". How many drunk programmers are out there?
Because Unity uses a Jurassic Mono implementation with a stone age GC and JIT implementation.

By the same metrics, we should evaluate performance of C and C++ code by using benchmarks with MS-DOS C and C++ compilers, which should be about the same age.

Don't mix languages with implementation when talking about performance.
Shakash, when the walls fell
They do, but detractors of Prop 13 also need to remember why it was enacted. Property taxes were skyrocketing, and causing people to lose their homes. Homes they had lived in for most of their lives. These people had done absolutely nothing wrong, except choose to buy a house in a place that later became very desirable. Any solution that does come up should not cause people to be forced from their homes because they became too expensive, or because other people with more money want it.
Machine learning to predict white collar crime
Hmmm, well as I see it, Marx, like many luminary geniuses forgot about one thing.

Human Nature.

The ideas in and of themselves were profound but the prescription was unfortunately childishly naive.

That given sufficient resources and everyone pulling together we will all get along is great, but it just takes one self-interested outlier to spoil that soup, and there are plenty of those to go around.

Some people can just never have enough.

Personally I believe self interest is pre-programmed at the genetic level in all species. Dawkins wrote a book about that, and it manifests itself in everything we do individually or across species.

So back to your question, that's a good one.

The only way to make it work is probably some kind of authoritarianism, but perhaps authoritarianism comes in many flavors.

I'm highly suspicious that a single individual can do it. Even if they are a benevolent dictator they can be corrupted by the people who surround them. It really doesn't take much to Gaslight someone and it happens a lot more and in more subtle ways than many of us think.

So what is a more pure form of a benevolent dictator. A computer program with hard rules that we agree upon?

At least it would be consistent.

Then again, the program would be written initially by our own genome, and it better be pretty clever to quickly figure out how to ignore that aspect.

But just imagine it ,a logical machine that only does the right thing to maximize outcome... (Already sounds like the Genome)

Planet in jeopardy, insufficient resources, no way to create more resources? Simple answer, kill a percentage of the populace.

Looks pretty Stalinesque already. But I guess you already know that.

It's a problem for sure.

There are radical ideas to sidestep it, but those would take more than a spoonful of sugar I think to get the medicine to go down.

As far as dictatorship of the proletariat...

"In Marxist sociopolitical thought, the dictatorship of the proletariat refers to a state in which the proletariat, or the working class itself has control of political power."

The big mistake I see in HN is that the members believe themselves to be elites, which for the time being may well be true, and many here are making hay. Probably a wise move.

The truth is we are also soon to be no more than axle turners in wheel factories, and many of us already are.

I'm not a dystopian, I really am an optimist. Hence the desperation.
No, that's simply a false statement. Every American school kid learns about the Trail of Tears. I'm sure you can find someone to deny the genocide of Native Americans, just as you can find Holocaust deniers or people who think slaves in the American south were well-treated. But only on an Internet message board can you maintain an argument that mainstream American history denies Native American genocide.
No "good" C level exec would take the job without a guarantee. You can define "good" based on the company's need. Here it was a high profile exec from one of the most profitable Internet companies ever.
Oh really.

http://wjactv.com/news/local/huntingdon-county-woman-exposed...
So that is true as long as all the bloat is contiguous. If it is spread out throughout the file (in such a way that bloat doesn't fill an entire page) it will still end up loaded. Or even if it is "unused", that doesn't mean something isn't scanning over it byte-by-byte.

In the happy case, yes, virtual memory will save us. But there are a lot of ways we could still end up loading the junk into ram.

Also, there are potential runtime costs to it being larger just on disk (need to seek over it, etc).
Does he/she have a website or a forum? I think I know folks who would be interested in this.

Unless they don't want the publicity. I'm not that popular though. :-)
I've never understood this line of reasoning. You don't object to sales tax per se, you just prefer that it be hidden from you? (Ie, included in the sticker price.) But later you object to hidden fees in the context of major purchases.

Which is it -- should taxes be visible or invisible? Does the visibility of the tax matter more than the amount of the tax?

The strong preference for highly visible taxation might be a uniquely American thing. Most Americans probably know their effective state & local sales tax rate to within a whole percentage, since it's a separate line item on literally every transaction they engage in. Where I live total sales tax is about 7%; the highest that total sales tax rates reach in America is about 10%. (For comparison, sales tax in Germany is 19%). In my hometown, a proposal to increase local sales tax by even 1/10th of a cent is accompanied by vigorous public debate, and often enough fails to pass. People pay close attention to these things.

Where we seem to agree: lots of hidden fees and upcharges are a consumer UX problem, and they result in confusion and frustration. Anecdotally it seems the most regulated industries (air travel, internet service, phone service, public utilities) are the worst offenders.
The idea isn't new, 1984 explores what such restricted language become: a tool for restricting thought(Sapir-Whorf hypothesis) by limiting the conceptual space of language speakers("Double-plus-ungood").
Toki Pona is a form of Newspeak, not some mind-expanding tool. By replacing signified concepts with primitive composition and generic fit-all 'thought-idea' it removes all abstract meaning to what is essentially emotional picture of a concept(e.g. "belly-feel" of 1984).
Federal judge rules against Trump's threat to defund sanctuary cities
Well no.

You're right that being clear to avoid confusion is a good preventative measure, but you're wrong that intent to defraud is required. It's enough that the public is (or is likely to be) confused.

See Reckitt v Borden (1990) judgement referring to the three-part test for claims of passing off (my emphasis):

"Second, he must demonstrate a misrepresentation by the defendant to the public (whether or not intentional) leading or likely to lead the public to believe that goods or services offered by him are the goods or services of the plaintiff"
Completely agreed. He pretty much barked up the one tree that actively cares about use of the title "engineer", and used it in violation of the law (as it is now).

Had he sent the letter/formula/math/suggestions to the local state university civil engineering department, the local/state Dept. of Transportation, or the local/state representative, the response would have fallen on less deaf ears, and his use of the title would have likely gone less noticed.
I should have been clearer: the complaint was about the API usability, not about safety. The POSIX API is a total mess when it comes to things like this.
Looks like there needs to be March for Engineers on Beaverton OR.
Though a Dr. is anyone with a doctorate.
If you're looking to try out camera scripting on the cheap, Canon high-end P&S / superzoom cameras also support it (through CHDK). With something like a used ~$100 Canon SX40 you can get relatively decent image quality.
The speed limit should reflect the reality of the road. No, you shouldn't go around tomorrow updating all your speed limits to 85% percentile graded and then try to redraw the roadways to traffic shape to desired speeds. You would do the latter first, then update your signs.

Except in most places, neither is happening. People are driving dramatically over the speed limit because that is the natural speed of the road, and no attempts to change the actual speeds of traffic are happening because they cost money.

So people get to die for the multitude of reasons the article outlines because of political deadlock.
That's addressed several times in the article, and the answer is yes, we're not immune to this. Calling things a fad disorder is a bit dismissive, though. They're consistently at pains to point out that whatever the person is feeling is real, even if their suffering is perhaps built upon further by their beliefs.
If you're at all extroverted you're probably happier in an office. I'm not even that extroverted but I imagine I would have left my job (my last day is Friday) much earlier if it were entirely work-from-home: those days tend to be more productive, and I get to smoke inside, but otherwise it's just lonely.
Haven't looked at the code that generates this list (if available), but that sure looks to me like double-counting going on here. Most files in \Windows\WinSXS are hardlinks.

Example pulled at random:

D:\analysis\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows
-imageres_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.15063.0_none_edd17c6c30b4bf9f\imageres.dll

...

- Total: 4435

D:\analysis\Windows\System32\imageres.dll

...

- Total: 4435

I am willing to bet those are the same file hardlinked and only wastes the 4435 bytes once, verifiable thusly:

cmd> fsutil hardlink list \Windows\System32\imageres.dll
Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows-imageres_31bf3856ad364e35_6.3.9600.16384_
none_cd7c033dcbdd0cab\imageres.dll
Windows\System32\imageres.dll
> By sending such a letter, I'm not claiming to be a lawyer, right?

Wrong. The author of the letter (you) is falsely claiming to be a lawyer. You are also falsely claiming other things, which may or may not have additional consequences.
What? That he claimed to be an engineer? The board shouldn't exist as part of our government.
Move Mars to the habitable zone and turn it into another Earth? Sure.[video]
Indian IT bodyshopper companies get only 20% of H1B Visas
I think at least some of it is the Windows on Windows stuff to allow 64 bit machines to run both 32 and 64 bit software. Weren't the 32 but versions of Win7 about half the size of the 64 bit ones?

There's still a lot of size growth over time, of course.
There is no 'self-healing' system.
Nothing can detect a 'real' failure as opposed to
a counterfeit failure without heuristics that depend
on an interpretation that is inherently fallible.

Ops was about discipline and method. Restrict the
problem set to known values. The one thing that I
see these days is that developers don't have a
fucking clue about ops but they do see that the
basic task responsibility is toilsome,
counter-creative and that 90% of it can be
automated by reliance on coded procedures in
write once argot that hopefully is editable
and doesn't give up the family jewels when
posted in pub github.
He clearly would. Just doing the things is deemed "engineering", even if he called it "monading".
None of them are ever for any of my hardware
That's because prohibiting hate speech would be nothing but suppression of speech. If you use hate speech to incite a riot, that is a crime. Simply saying it is not.

Similarly, simply saying "i am an engineer" is obviously not a crime. Students do it all the time, despite not being licensed. Using it to lend credence to your ideas around traffic lights, however, may be a different story. I think thats the crux of the dispute.
Perhaps of interest:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/03/chronic-w...
Seriously. How about we just call it EJB 4.0?
That's what this does and more. What you described are techniques. Linkered is an implementation. From https://blog.buoyant.io/2017/04/25/whats-a-service-mesh-and-...

Linkerd applies dynamic routing rules to determine which service the requester intended. Should the request be routed to a service in production or in staging? To a service in a local datacenter or one in the cloud? To the most recent version of a service that’s being tested or to an older one that’s been vetted in production? All of these routing rules are dynamically configurable, and can be applied both globally and for arbitrary slices of traffic.
Having found the correct destination, Linkerd retrieves the corresponding pool of instances from the relevant service discovery endpoint, of which there may be several. If this information diverges from what Linkerd has observed in practice, Linkerd makes a decision about which source of information to trust.

Linkerd chooses the instance most likely to return a fast response based on a variety of factors, including its observed latency for recent requests.
Linkerd attempts to send the request to the instance, recording the latency and response type of the result.

If the instance is down, unresponsive, or fails to process the request, Linkerd retries the request on another instance (but only if it knows the request is idempotent).
If an instance is consistently returning errors, Linkerd evicts it from the load balancing pool, to be periodically retried later (for example, an instance may be undergoing a transient failure).

If the deadline for the request has elapsed, Linkerd proactively fails the request rather than adding load with further retries.

Linkerd captures every aspect of the above behavior in the form of metrics and distributed tracing, which are emitted to a centralized metrics system.
OMG. How would escaping be faster than prepared statements if prepared statements are literally cached in the database server instead of re-parsing and re-planning every time?! o_0
What do you suggest for static typing on the frontend?
Επαναληπτικός ημιτελικός ΑΕΚ – Ολυμπιακός
It's meaningful when you can't amortize compilation. I wouldn't call those pathological, but they seem niche.

The translation from glob to regex at the syntax level is likely a non-factor. It's the compilation of the regex that probably starts to matter.
https://www.nostarch.com/programwithminecraft

Maybe will like this book as a gift ;]
As far as I know, all disciplinary actions for state-regulated licenses are public information.
A big reason that the posted speed limit is only loosely correlated with the actual speed driven is because the speed people go is not based on the sign, but rather on the design of the road. There are various standards for traffic engineering that define various parts of the road based on the speed expected on them: things like lane widths, curve radii, the presence of fences and guards, and more. A 35mph road will have a smaller turn radius than a 65mph highway, for example. These standards have margins built in to them, obstinately because the standards for faster roads are safer. If, for example, you need a 200 foot turn radius to avoid skidding at 45mph, then the road will be designed with a 300 foot turn radius that would prevent skidding at 55mph, and a 55mph road will have a 400 foot turn radius that would prevent skidding at 65mph. However, what happens is that people will drive at the speed that's safe, not the speed that's posted. People will go 55mph around the 300 foot radius turn that's posted for 45mph.

The solution to this seems to be to make the roads designed for lower speeds, or to reduce the safety margin, or as other commenters suggest to add traffic calming measures. I'm pretty sure this would reduce traffic speeds, but I don't know if it would reduce traffic safety.
For you, what's the distinction between being a software engineer, and being a software developer? The line seems blurry to me.
There is a pervasive brain-washing in valley startups that hits employees the hardest sadly. In my experience, the more successful ventures tend to propagate fear, anxiety and aggression in their culture almost as an unspoken point of pride. I've seen organizations led by all sorts of alleged valley legends fall into this category, regardless of how enlightened HR is.

Some of this may come from people overly identifying with their work roles - and when those work roles come with a mild hero complex due to rising success and the promise of riches/prestige - egos thrash around at high speeds. Part of this phenomenon is the almost manic behavior you see in some entrepreneurs/investors/leaders as they buzz around like bees to the honey.

People need to take a step back from this capitalistic bubble and remember that we are here to do jobs and that employers must respect not just time boundaries but psychological boundaries as well. We can do great work and produce tools that have real impact on the social and economic welfare in the world, but never, never, never at the cost of our wellbeing.

Very sad what happened to this fellow.
I feel like you're implying that would be a bad thing when it could actually be preferable. I don't think MS is faultless or anything, but I'd be surprised if they could make themselves as much of a pain as Adobe does (especially given all the OS integration opportunity).
For the same reason why the US doesn't relent on its socially destructive minimum sentencing requirements. There is no political capital in being soft on <insert despised minority group here>.
It bothers me to see three or four comments saying there's no point in trying to lose weight go unchallenged.

Widespread obesity is a recent development in our society. And it's not caused by the abundance of our wealth, as the poor are most affected. Rather it is caused by outsourcing cooking from the family to corporations, whose incentives are at odds with our health. They make fattening, craveable, nutritionally deficient food, and work hard to ensure that we and our kids are confused about what is healthy, while making sure that their products are always more available and convenient than planning and cooking meals.

Society has only turned this way in the last two generations, and it can be fixed. We are not doomed by biology.
I'm a game designer and a hobbyist writer, and I traditionally have had a terrible time of putting stories into my designs...but yeah, there's some really fun interactive narrative / rpg games out there and I don't think the author has bothered to give them a try (he's only focused on the recent 'walking sim' genre in the article).

Phoenix Wright, Danganronpa, Persona 4 and 5, Life is Strange... all really great, and that's just what I've played in the last year. I've already got Nier Automata on deck for whenever I finish Persona 5.

I also tried playing Steins;Gate this year, one of the more influential graphic novel games, but I'm having a harder time getting into that one (I already saw a good chunk of the anime, so the game feels like a major downgrade visually).

The multiple path/ending thing is something books and films have never done terribly well. Clue is the most effective and successful movie that has attempted multiple endings, and even that could only provide 3 ~5 minute endings to an otherwise static (but really fun) movie.

Meanwhile quite a bit changed in my playthrough of Life is Strange based on my choices (although still not quite as much as I would have liked, certain plot points couldn't be altered), and I got 3 different endings in Persona 4 Golden, with each of the endings leaving some of the mysteries left unanswered (I haven't gotten the 'true' ending yet).
In 2015, according to estimates by the World Bank, Germany had 234 people per square kilometer. France had 122. And then there are the tolls.

I'm pretty sure Germany is trying to use less road for a lot more cars and everything else is secondary with regard to traffic jams.
I'm not actually all that committed.

I'm coming from the opposite angle because I never took courses in morality in school or spent much time thinking about out of school.

I did take a lot of economics which leads me to believe that the current system is 'fair' in that it's likely just free market forces driving these insane payments.

I do see the argument that no individual has a need for this much money. And, there likely won't be a substantial drop in peformance incentive if there was a sort of judicious salary ceiling implemented. The result of this regulation would be more money to be distributed to shareholders (the rest of the world).

Thank you.
Okay, one thing the article didn't make clear to me that maybe somebody else knows: what is penis theft? The Internet seems to think it's when people believe their penises have been shrunken or have entirely disappeared. Do sufferers believe that they don't have genitalia anymore? If you point to it, would they not see anything?
Nothing new in legal terms, claiming regulated titles is a crime or offense in a lot of jurisdictions - including Germany (§132a StGB, see https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missbrauch_von_Titeln,_Berufsb...).

Unrelated to the legal issues, what the engineering board is doing seems to be beyond ridiculous. IMHO Mr. Järlström should have informed himself better about the implications of the word "engineer"... but you know the old saying "three felonies a day", this case seems to validate it.