skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From one of Vincent's letters to Theo:

“Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring at you like some imbecile. The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. […] Life itself, too, is forever turning an infinitely vacant, disheartening, dispiriting blank side towards man on which nothing appears, any more than it does on a blank canvas. But no matter how vacant and vain, how dead life may appear to be, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth, who knows something, will not be put off so easily.”
Intel's “Euclid” robotics compute module on sale for $399
Do you have any legal citations about the right to be heard?
Have you talked to a therapist? Experiencing everything as positive sounds like a possible form of alexithymia.
And photos large enough to actually see. Very sad that the Daily Mail is leading the way here.
Even if this is the case, at first people were scratching their head looking at the transistor what it might be good for.
Little off topic but to reheat pizza in the microwave put a cup of water in there too, works great then!
Sounds right.
depends, if you do have a database heavy test suite, you probably need fast disks. our application really needs a good i/o performance. I tried to run 3-4 runs on the same machine with containerized cpu/memory, however as soon as 3 tests are running the i/o latency/performance goes numb, only thing that helped was either using different disks or faster disks.
Switching to PyPy in OpenStack
No, I just wanted something more succinct without being an abbreviation. Also, it's not the descriptive name that I'm thinking about, but more something like the unix group name/mailing alias.
Yes, it is, Id expect general provisions just for religion.
I guess some religions are more equal than others.
Has OCP been really that successful? How many data centers are actually using their design?
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Different journalistic styles appeal to different people. If this one didn't appeal to you, that's perfectly fine. To figure out why it didn't appeal to you, and why you personally find it frustrating, that's great, and a good exercise in critical thinking, literary analysis, and self examination.

That said, there's a key difference between "This style of writing is very frustrating." and "I find this style of writing very frustrating." From reading other comments in this thread, the story appealed to them. What comes across to you as "the writer … just being cute" is engaging writing to others. As currently written, your critical analysis of why you find the journalistic style frustrating comes off as a rant, which doesn't contribute constructively to discussion on HN.
yes, sounds a lot like the roll your own crypto conundrum.
Well, significant whitespace will play the role of braces, right? You can't have your editor "fix" the braces, either -- the author has to put them in. In the same way, you can't have your editor "fix" the indentation -- the author has to put it in.

But with braces, you can do consistency checks, such as that they are properly nested. In a similar way, you can do consistency checks with indentation. For example:

line 1
line 2
line 3

The third line is wrong, the transition from line 1 to line 2 introduced an indentation step, and the third line is neither left nor right.
Listen. I used the phone since 40 years. With the phone I had conversations with people that could have, well, annoyed others to say the least. I've said super bad things with my phone. Was I moderated ? No. Was it a problem ? No. Moderating is just here to make sure that FaceBook can still operate. That's just a problem for FaceBook to protect its image.

Let's imagine that there is no moderation. What will happen ? OK, some people will have argument, there will be insult, blood, etc. And, well, depending on a tipping point, we may realize that oooooops, letting people talk in the open is not so good. FB would be blamed and hen disappear. So be it. Now, another thing to do is : prosecute those who say unacceptable things. With prosecution, you have the justice system that will handle the case. That'll be slower but there will be discussions and, hopefully better laws.

FaceBook is becoming the Judge Dredd of free speech. It decides what's criminal and what's not and it applies his own power to handle the case directly.
Thank you for your reply.

I have been close to burnout before, so I have some idea what it's like, I was just curious what it was like for you.

I can't quite figure out something you said earlier...

"But eventually you recover and can't wait to start a new thing."

...when compared to...

"I still haven't fully recovered from this and don't think I ever will"

Do you find some value in lessons you've learned from burnout? That's the only way I can think of to understand both statements together.
'technocrat' means something other than the way you're using it here, FYI - it's evidence-based institutional governance, not lifehacking.
Ah, I'm getting my Baltimore stories confused I was thinking we were talking about the chess champion from Baltimore. The kid in this article is successful at sports not academics. Those tests aren't testing their athletic ability.
Fantastic article. Wonder if the altavista software would run under reactos?
Don't confuse authority with organization.
I think fears about both alien and AI intelligence amongst particularly white male engineers are a side effect of a general belief in supremacism.

Imagine someone, and I'm not saying this is you or anyone on HN, but imagine in the extreme someone who believes that they are generally smarter than women, dogs, religious believers, children, insects, proto-humans, slaughtered indigenous people, office managers, schoolteachers, people with bachelors degrees in the social "sciences", etc... their sense is that they are at the top of the social hierarchy because they're just smarter than most people, and they are in a flawed but generally meritocratic system.

Let's also say that person's primary skill is building software and exploiting capitalist power structures to undermine established cultural practices.

When that person imagines what we know is coming, which is intelligent autonomous software with access to capital... that would seem pretty scary. If I'm the smartest kind of person around, and this software could be better than me at what I do, what hope is there for us?

Elon Musk's greatest fear is an Ur-Elon Musk, because he really believes in his own Ur-awesomeness.

But I'm not sure that's actually a solid understanding of reality. Is Elon Musk really smarter than an ant? Is he really smarter than the people of a slaughtered indigenous culture? Is he really smarter than a black ex-felon with a 2nd grade education?

Maybe. maybe.

But I take the opposite position. Which is that the biological world is actually extremely intelligent, and the humans at the top of hierarchies are not-particularly-noteworthy pawns of powerful memes. But that the entirity of the biological world, from insects to primates has found solutions to complex problems that Elon Musk could only dream of solving. That there is breathtaking intelligence there that white male engineers tend to forget about. And that all human beings are actually extremely intelligent, it's just that civilization puts up barriers that corral that intelligence in different ways, making race-, gender-, nation- species-, etc-based intelligence differentials look bigger than they actually are.

Which means to me: AI intelligence will actually be quite retarded, and not particularly better at genocide or extincting species than we are. Which means our worst enemy will still be ourselves.

And any alien intelligence that has advanced beyond us will still have all of the intelligence of the natural world, plus human intelligence and then some. Which means they'll be better at not genociding and not extincting other species than we are.

The alternative to supremacism is diversitism, which is a pretty beleaguered idea in tech circles. Is there one best kind of thing, or are all things good at being themselves and the togetherness of things is stronger than any one thing could ever be? Still an open question in 2017 human discussions.
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There's an ocean of content nowadays, but masterpieces are still scarce.
It's as in "tinpot", British slang meaning low value or little importance.

For many the detail of the hardware does not matter Eg. "Once the packet hits the tin it's no longer my problem". Also talking about a £50k pile of servers as just "tin that needs to be racked" could be a backhanded way of signalling confidence in the task, where others might be intimidated by the cost of the equipment they are dealing with.
Even in informal conversation, that's not really about ordering that you'll come across. I had to parse it a couple of times , and my first thought was that my contextually acquired definition of extremophiles from the comments and article was wrong in a really weird way. (Because of the word roots ).
We are always looking for answers in some 'advanced' system. Forcing ourselves to do something 'hard', to prove to ourselves that we are doing something.
May be a simpler system is good enough.

1. You can better focus on producing, when your needs to consume gets satisfied. Techs such as Facebook, Instagram are designed to keep you hooked, give a hit on every use, but never lead to satisfaction. Trick is to go back to basics. Spend more quality time with people around you. The human bonding fulfils the needs that these tech claim to replace. With this alternative, your passive consumptions will automatically
decrease.

2. Contribution to the society does not have to be via creating content on web platforms.
Technology is an enabler, it should not be confused as something to do with the goal. One does not contribute to 'open source', one simply contributes to a 'mission'.
May be, you are afraid of commitment because you do not have a goal, something that you would personally want to achieve for yourself in your contribution. But your focus is on the means to achieve it. Eg. Writing blog post, creating videos.
Simplify it down. Write down your short term goal. Focus on working towards achieving it. You may realise that you do not need these platforms.
1. If you're going to make indentation significant, implement it in a way that makes tab/space confusion impossible. Python 2.7 does this.
The check for indent ambiguity between two strings is:

- Remove the common leading whitespace of both strings.

- The remaining parts of both strings must be all tabs, all spaces, or empty.

This is the least restrictive rule which catches all indent ambiguities.

2. Indent-based syntax is great for imperative languages, but not so good for functional languages with very long expressions. It's not
clear how to indent stuff like "a.b(x).c(y).d.e(z)", where a-e x-z may be long expressions. In LISP, the all-parenthesis syntax was so simple, and so hard for humans to parse without help, that indentation was nailed into EMACS and everybody did it that way. The indentation wasn't significant, but it was standardized.

Here's word wrap in Rust:

s.lines()
.map(|bline| UnicodeSegmentation::graphemes(bline, true) // yields vec of graphemes (&str)
.collect::<Vec<&str>>())
.map(|line| wordwrapline(&line, maxline, maxword))
.collect::<Vec<String>>()
.join("\n")

Note that the first "collect" is one level deeper in parentheses than the second one.
How would you do that with indentation only?
A combination of scalastyle, hairyfotr's linter, wartremover, scalafmt.
> Why is it enabled by default then?

SMB1 will be disabled by default in the Fall Creators Update [1] and removed completely in a future release of Windows 10 [2]. It should have probably happened a lot sooner, but the protocol is still used quite a bit [3] despite Windows itself not requiring SMB1 for the past 10 years [4].

[1] https://twitter.com/NerdPyle/status/863297941930246145

[2] https://twitter.com/NerdPyle/status/863519752429293568

[3] https://twitter.com/NerdPyle/status/863298534862340096

[4] https://twitter.com/NerdPyle/status/863520227576791040
You talk about https://bpython-interpreter.org/, do you actually use that? That looks pretty awesome!

Otherwise I really like the 10min demo at the end. Your library really looks amazing. I do not have any tools that would need it at the moment but I'm definitely bookmarking that :)

Actually I know someone who might benefit from that (http://www.pappyproxy.com/)
> What makes you think it isn't?

The first section in the README is called "Design goals", with 13 items. None of them is "data integrity", and none of them even talks about validating the data or handling any failures aside from power loss.

By contrast, in the canonical slide deck on ZFS[1], the first slide talks about "provable end-to-end data integrity". In the paper[2], "design principles" section 2.6 is "error detection and correction".

I'm glad to hear that's also a focus for TFS. With ZFS, the emphasis on data integrity resulted in significant architectural choices -- I'm not sure it's something that can just be bolted on later. As a reader, I wouldn't have assumed TFS had the same emphasis. I think it's pretty valuable to spell this out early and clearly, with details, because it's actually quite a differentiator compared with most other systems.

[1] https://wiki.illumos.org/download/attachments/1146951/zfs_la...

[2] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.184...
From the article:

A tick means something can stay on the site; a cross means it should be deleted.
Actually, allowing students to discharge their debt would solve this problem as lenders would start means testing students to see if they are credit worthy.
Do you have any legal citations about any party being compelled to listen to another such that the other's right to free speech is preserved?
I'm no doctor, but your description plus your use of the word "condition" makes me wonder if what you experience is hypomania.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypomania
Just skimmed the text and read the comments here TBH, but I can already see were this is going. Of course the brain is complex and we don't understand it and even if Elon might not succeed with Neuralink (in the decade to market plan) it is still worth exploring. So stop hating gizmodo.
My guess is that sentiments are almost always negative on average and do not strongly correlate to outcomes. Its very easy to pick a reason why any startup will fail, and 99/100 times, the average reason is correct.
This article made me confirm my suspicion about Node.js (and by the way I do program in Node.js as well): It is becoming the new PHP.

When you lower down the entry barriers to web development, more kids proclaim themselves as experts, or pretend to really know how to create a deployable-in-real life web application, with disastrous results.

This article would be a great article if it was written in 1995, just after cookies were introduced.

Since this is 2017, the shallowness of the advice given makes me think that out there, there are thousands of javascripters* who are implementing web apps without knowing even the essentials of http/cookie/passwd security. Many of them, also, rely on MongoDB, the Snapchat of Databases, even though the information to be stored for their purposes is often clearly relational and the app require transactions.But no, let's use Mongo because we're with the MEAN stack and because it is so easy to setup.

*not to mention that still in 2017 many of them still don't adopt the Ecmascript2017 advantages, and are still doing boilerplate nightmare like:

if (err) {...}
else { dostuff (x, function (err,res) {
if (err) {...}
else { dostuff2 (x, function (err,res) {
if (err) {...}
else { dostuff3 (x, function (err,res) {
if (err) {...}
else { dostuff4 (x, function (err,res) {
if (err)

... instead of using async and await for bringing the code down to acceptable elegance levels!!
Brian Beckman recently asked questions on the Clojure mailing list indicating that he is working on sth. related in Clojure.
I don't have an issue with it being a PR piece, but I think it's a shame that an actual discussion of the tech is basically non-existent.

Other controversial opinion: I've seen several examples of tech projects led by women where the reporting is couched much more from the human interest angle than a tech angle, and worst, questioning the tech in question can be met with accusations of sexism. I think this does a great disservice to women in tech by assuming a less critical bar.

As for examples, Elizabeth Holmes is probably the most well known one, but another one that was kind of fascinating to me at the time was Grace Choi and her "Mink" make-up printer. The printer as advertised was basically non-existent, but articles were universally laudatory and many lambasted men who questioned the tech for "just not getting it." I'm not arguing that is going on here, but without an explanation of what's actually going on, and comparisons to other similar technologies, this is just a puff piece.
> Batch inserts usually increase throughput by reducing the number of write IOPS, fsyncs, etc. They usually aren't associated with a 10x _CPU_ savings, which is the finding here.

Often the saving on roundtrips is bigger than any of these. Most database client libraries work synchronously, so if you insert via single row INSERT statements you'll approximately get a two context switches, and a roundtrip for each row. That's often more costly wall clock time wise than the insertion itself.
Well mostly because they don't rely on any legacy code base but they can write it all by themselves. Also Google has somewhat of an reputation for security other than Cisco.
In that they can restrict loading after a specific amount to KB or MBs -- but even a "small" 100-digit integer could have disastrous runtime behavior when passed to an API.
That's my error. I usually remove said cruft before submitting but neglected to do this time.
Ask yourself what it means to be consuming? Is it the same as depending on something other than you to tell you what to do? Is it not the same as asking people how to become a creator?

You don't need to become a creator. When you stop depending on outside agency, and just be, creation comes quite automatically.

It is hard to stop consuming. Because you believe that there is something in the video, the book, the blog, your friend's post, that is going to give you something. But what is the value of these things?

You can only give up consuming when you see the vapidity and the emptiness of what you are consuming. And you can only do that when you question what you are consuming. Question it's relevance. It's meaning.

Have you consumed this post and the replies? What now? What is it's value? Has this post changed you? Will you now at this moment, stop reading and delete all your social media accounts and go work on your project?

Then ask, what do you mean by contribute to society? What is society? Is it your friends? Does making an app that makes their lives easier, give you the feeling that you are contributing?

Or do you mean Society at large, where the problems are vast like hunger, disease, poverty, inane war and violence. Or is it solving the crippling effect that the education system has on generations of children world-wide making them into passive consumers, by years of exposure to images and ideas, not reality and learning.

Finally, what is your need to contribute? Is it a way to make yourself look better in your own eyes? By becoming a popular writer/anarchist/whatever. Or is it that you see the need for real work that needs to be done to fix the broken world we live in?

Stop consuming. Learn what is worth doing by looking at the world, with skepticism. Understand what is needed. Depend on yourself. Then the creation will come of its own.
If you find it exciting, who cares if someone else already did it? Do people avoid skydiving because someone else already did it?

If you're looking to make an impact, then help with an existing project. Most big open source projects have some kind of contributors guide.
I hear you but...

This also happens in sports. Someone says something in an interview, in a social network post, in a private conversation which gets published... and what happens? Depending on offense the team may, ignore, fine, suspend or fire the person in question, outside the legal framework. That is, someone may say something insensitive or can be accused (not yet proven) to have done something unbecoming... teams often feel pressure to act extrajudicially. It's just how it is where money and the public sphere of opinion intersect.
Are you asking for proof that a speaker has a right to force other people to listen to their argument?
directly compromising in my understanding tells me that the server is compromised. The server suddenly "decides" to distribute malicious JS.
The Window 2000 source code leaked. Not the same, but pretty damn close.
Any links with details? The Nexus is a pretty capable switch with a lot of media options...
I certainly agree. I think there are compelling arguments both for keeping the work to a very small handful of people and for spreading the work across many contributors. It seems to be early days for TFS, but so far it looks like an impressive bit of work.
You do know they speak in English in Scotland, right?
ASP.net Core and Octopus deploy can lead to a pile of cookies
No, the transistor replaced the vacuum tube, which everyone was already using. When the transistor was invented everyone rushed to use it because it was clear what it was good for.
This is an exact metaphor. Should I go to Scotland if my main goal were to learn english? Is a beautiful place, no doubt about it, and totally worth it to pay a visit, but there are easier ways.
This is horribly reminiscent of the marketing programme for IBM Blockchain.
The cake mix example was much more compelling to me.
You seem to be caught up on the idea that they are being "praised." Did you read the whole article. I think you went into with this preconceived notion that is something that it isn't. Also, it is true that cities started perhaps in a way that you describe but very rarely has something like on this on this scale occurred in recent history. There's also different reasons that Western frontiersmen. Anyway, I think it is an interesting update on rather unusual situation, I mean over 200,000 people, that's tremendous; also potential for opportunity.
With GPS or a floor plan.
16 qubits? How hard is it to simulate those 16 qubits with a regular computer? I get this is marketing but people would be better off just running a simulator at this point.
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The people I know that are most good at self-motivating production have two traits that seem almost opposing:

1) They are unsatisfied with what already exists

2) They aren't afraid to fail

#1 gives them a reason to get started and #2 makes sure that they finish.

People without #1 lack direction (If there isn't an open-source project that is both the best in the field, but missing something you deem important, how the heck do you pick what to write?)

People without #2 either spend so much time trying to make their creation the best that they never publish it, or end up giving up once they realize that they aren't going to write the "perfect" book/blog/code.
I find Reddit a lot better for that kind of conversation (excepting certain subs like /r/the_donald, /r/resist, /r/worldnews, /r/politics and certain others).

/r/AskReddit is one of the best places to have such free and open conversations and the best thing is that you get to set the topic for the conversation instead of some arbitrary video remotely related to what you want to talk about.
Japan: China 'escalating' tensions over disputed islands
We just need a modern version of Geocities.