skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always think of the "they're made of meat" story when considering this [1].

How do we even know what life looks like out there? Or what it has turned itself into in order to survive, travel and spread? Or even what it started out as?

We can't even talk with dolphins, even though we have a very recent evolutionary common ancestor. They're sentient life, tool-users, do we think they'd build a starshade to solve this problem? Shame we can't ask them, or understand their answer.

We know trees are alive, we know they communicate with each other. We don't think they're sentient. But how would we know? What would a sentient tree do differently from a non-sentient tree? What would a sentient tree do about the sun getting hotter?

Even if they started out like us, the evolutionary responses to living on other planets will change them. We're adapted to the conditions on Earth. If we live on other planets with different conditions then we will adapt, because that's what we do. We don't know how far those changes will go, because all the life we've ever seen has been adapted to Earth. Maybe high-gravity humans are less like sci-fi dwarves and more like Pratchett trolls.

We seem to be expecting sentient life out there to resemble us and have similar solutions for their problems. This seems dumb to me.

1: http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html
I never memorized my times tables and do just fine with graduate level mathematics.

If you ask me 9 * 7 I still do 10 * 7 = 70 - 7 = 63 in my head; but, I seem to handle spectral graph theory just fine.
> Isn't that merely the slippery slope fallacy?

You're correct, you did present a slippery slope.

> Firstly, the internet does not permanently and completely eliminate our agency...

> You can love something to pieces, yet still find yourself unable to do it, merely because the draw of the internet is too powerful.

Which is it? Is the draw of the internet simply too powerful to ignore? Or is it possible to partially ignore this distraction?

> Secondly, all of the other activities you listed do not reduce our agency to the extent that the internet does.

Internet access reduces your agency? Sorry to hear that. Internet access increases my agency.

> Thirdly, establishing distance from the internet (e.g. not involving computers when they aren't necessary, using the computer at the library instead of keeping one at home, adding restrictions to a smartphone or using a dumbphone) is not the same as giving it up altogether.

> We are not optimized to deal with the stimulus of the internet.

You're excusing convenience. If the internet is so harmful, why risk any contact? And are all parts of the internet equally harmful?

Back to the original point, if you don't want to use the internet, then don't. But if you don't want to use the internet, why are you using it to tell other people that you don't want to use it?
I am in kind of a similar situation. Was never really good or into math during school, been a software developer for 10+ years (mostly backend and web stuff) and at 34 am now working on my calculus and linear algebra after spending some months brushing up my basic algebra skills (which i still do on the side to keep "fit"). I am actually toying with the idea of going back to college to do a Masters in Data Science because i got so fascinated with Machine Learning and AI as well. Soo, you rock, keep it up!
While you can argue that SAFEs are roughly equivalent to equity (with the advantage of allowing rolling closes) they are very bad for startup employees. Many startup employees have no idea how much they really own of a company because their equity disclosures do not include the conversion of the SAFEs upon future equity rounds.

I have met many companies where the first few employees think they own 1% of the company, and after a Series A where 25% is sold they find out they only own 0.5% because the SAFE conversions took up another 25%.

In some cases founders don't understand what is happening or how to include SAFEs in their cap table, in other cases they are purposefully obscuring the cap table. Whatever the reason it's very bad.
I've been thinking about this, and I think it's easy to say all humans are destructive, violent, control freaks when global communications can always drum up an example of this. People are being arrested for allowing their children to walk to school, or shop in a store at the mall by themselves. It'd be hard to convince me that this frenzy isn't caused by the vast accessibility of information which always seems to bring us horror stories from around the globe.
western Jews fall on the same statistics used by the article as it could fit well as a subset of "White men".
It's sadly not just the servers but also the clients... still you're right about that being a really long tail at this point.

Edit:

A quick search seems to indicate that the only typical consumer facing system that doesn't support SNI is IE on Windows XP. It's pretty safe to have a catch-all bucket that informs such users to use a modern, security patches including browser or to upgrade to a different OS.
No investor will do an uncapped note (unless it's a bridge round) because it's a very bad deal for them. A fixed discount on the round is not enough upside to account for their risk, especially when there are plenty of investments available whether they can get a cap which gives them much more upside.

Investors will do uncapped notes for bridges because there is usually a very short time period between the note and the next round, so they actually make a better return due to the discount than they would in equity appreciation over that short time.
Last I used one was for mixing paint. I will admit it's not super regular, but I use them once or twice a year.
This calls to mind: http://suckless.org/

> Home of dwm, dmenu and other quality software with a focus on simplicity, clarity, and frugality.
Doesn't look that simple.
Ubiquiti can get expensive for a home user, but yeah. It's rock solid gear, truthfully advertised and still a bargain at that price point.
Check out data.world
Anything that cant do SNI isn't going to support TLS 1.1+ and wont be able to access a huge percentage of the web anyways.

Eventually old clients have to be let go of, maintaining compatibility for them degrades everyone else's security.
> I don't understand who gets to use these things

You, several years from now.

The inclusion of features in the standard is an important part of the evolution of the language. But it's just one part. More recent browsers have already implemented many of these features, and there will come a day when they're pretty much everywhere. Just be patient.

(source: I'm old and remember the era when our sites had to work with Netscape 4 due to its market share)
There is no way to know at the beginning if you'll be a $0M or $30M company and to make their portfolio math work they need as much upside as possible if you get to a higher valuation. The pie is fixed at 100% and everyone is fighting for more of it.

The real problem with capped notes isn't the proxy for price, it's that the cap table is impossible to discern. Capped notes actually do have an advantage in that you can do a rolling close of your round, so you don't have to have everyone invest at the same time on the same day. The downside is that it is hard to explain to your employees exactly how much they own since it depends on how the notes convert.
Yea, so far people want Java, Python, and C# first.
The apps may be tiny, but the website itself is (also) a breath of fresh air from times past.
Modern meshes still often have a choke point. Kill enough nodes at the right point in the mesh and the reliability degrades quickly as the backhaul links get oversubscribed. At least that's what I think OP meant :)
Off-topic: If only IPv6 adaptation would have as much momentum as HTTPS.
CloudFlare's "Flexible SSL" (https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl/) offers encryption/authentication from CloudFlare's server to the client, but none from the origin server to CloudFlare's. Which means that is a vector by which the content could be sniffed or modified in transit.

It's a "better than nothing" option, as there are a slightly higher number of actively exploited attack vectors that apply to the client to CDN connection than the CDN to origin server, such as "free" wifi that injects ads, malicious ISP DNS, and the like. But it's not actually secure, as the origin server to CDN connection could be tampered with, and just because there are fewer active attacks that would be likely to affect that connection right now, doesn't mean that someone won't come along later and hijack such a connection.

CloudFlare offers other TLS options that do include encryption and authentication between the origin server and CDN, but they do require that you set up a certificate on your server, so if all you're trying to do is enable TLS (and don't care about the CDN), just installing a cert on the origin server and using TLS is probably a simpler option that using CloudFlare.
Is anyone using Inform (or some other interactive fiction programming language) for bot programming? This project reminds me of some of the old tools for adventure games, so I’m wonder if anyone went to one of the interactive fiction tools.
on windows I use autohotkey, and you can make it program specific what happens, like

SetTitleMatchMode, RegEx
#IfWinActive .*Microsoft Visual Studio|JetPopupMenuView|ReSharper|.*GVIM|.*Visual Studio Code
Capslock::Esc
#IfWinActive
Maybe it's a python pretending to be a cobra?
Maybe, but this conversation always inevitably ends up in this territory ("But what if aliens are crystals?"). And sure, we can't know. But we're going to have to make some assumptions, and we all do live in one universe, with a common constituent set of physical laws. Aliens that build spaceships probably also have airplanes and an internet. I don't think it's dumb to speculate with some reasonable assumptions, and while I appreciate that this conclusion always comes up and is not wrong, it's uninteresting.
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Don't forget the Black man trying harsh to do well for himself but never gets there, the only reason is he's a total degenerate and ought to be culled for the good of society.
This is a great illustration of why the naive belief that a microservice architecture will solve all the things is so ill-conceived. When developers fail to properly assess how deeply coupled microservices are to their dependencies, the result is cascading failure scenarios that take down the whole ecosystem.

Perhaps we should aim for 'services' architecture that are just right. When two concerns are deeply coupled/dependent on one another, the ecosystem will likely be more robust if these are left together in a single service. In addition, this adheres to good old fashioned software design principles of striving for good coupling/cohesion relationships.
I actually did use hired.com but I'll note that these platforms only work for jobs in major cities. I had ex-coworkers based in the Connecticut suburbs of NYC and they couldn't find jobs in the area through hired.com or an alternative. Also if you have an old-fashioned tech stack like COBOL or SAP, I suspect it's easier to use traditional recruiters.
Your original comment said it's bad to couple your api with tables so I am agreeing with you, use views to decouple.
for writes, you can use stored procedures for corner cases although most of the apps work with one model at a time, so auto-updatable views work most of the time.
So if we take into account that most apps talk to one database, i have most of it covered with simple views since usually you have a 80/20 read/write split? I'll take that.

FDW are very elegant for reading data from other systems. If you can read from twitter https://github.com/umitanuki/twitter_fdw you can read from anything although I don't understand why you brought up microservices, this is one one of the microservices (that is talking to the db), it's not the thing trying to unite all microservices. You can have GraphQL on top of PostgREST just fine (https://subzero.cloud).
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The Happiness Hypothesis - Jonathan Haidt

Alamut - Vladimir Bartol

Non Stop - Brian Aldiss

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The law is better on average for all people because a lot of people invest impulsively and get scammed, but worse for a minority of informed investors who if they bet right could get large returns.

Maybe it doesnt harm people in all senses, but it seems like unnecessary babysitting at the least.
I've spent the last 4 months making this tool - it's a "Selenium IDE"-like Chrome extension that can generate an entire codebase locally, and can playback tests in the browser directly. Great for startups or people who need QA tests quickly for their projects.

Let me know what you guys think. Saves me tons of hours at work.
Smart contracts will need human juries
Even if they weren't tradeable this would still happen. The troll law firms would approach holders and ask to represent them in defending their IP, on a 'no win no fee' basis.
They convert to shares, which are junior to debt.
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You're only supposed to write 20% of the time (so, like 5% of the material) when you hand-write notes.

This doesn't work well in certain classes (e.g. math classes where you have to copy every word of a proof and analyze it later).
The challenge is going to be adoption, plain and simple. I worked two years on an Erlang project, and most of our frustration came from the lack of community to lean on when we needed help understanding best practices. Also, when you find only one library to solve your problem that has been abandoned for at least two years that is never fun.

Few projects actually need the level of scalability that Erlang brings, and the cost of building and running an Erlang project as an enterprise application is non-trivial. People need to understand this if they want Elixir to succeed where Erlang hasn't.
Google's response:
https://www.blog.google/topics/public-policy/responding-camp...
um, venv is included by default in python 3, no need to install any package.
Use threads. They exist. Use em'. Know what threads are really good at? Hiding IO time. They're like REALLY good at it. When a thread is blocked on IO, it's not spinning your CPU. So is the thread "free"? No. Is it pretty cheap compared to re-writing an app in another lang? Yes.
I suspect the big reason it hasn't happened yet is it would require ISPs to replace tens of thousands of dollars of hardware and it would increase support requests in the short term ("site XYZ is broken but it's fixed when I turn of IPv6").
Well, if your dad came up with a great idea, but was getting a little old, wouldn't you want him to be able to pass it to you to see into action?
The issue that the police in UK fire their guns a few orders of magnitude less might have something to do with it. It makes no sense to dive into statistics as to encounters and guilt and race and what not. Police in US is seen as adversial because they tend to shoot people and that's the core problem. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uk-police-sho...
How we deploy Python Code
I've found Pony Foo's articles to be excellent:

https://ponyfoo.com/articles/tagged/es6-in-depth
> Once they found it in the 2016 images, the astronomers found it in other data as well. The apparent brightness of the star changed over time in the images. While a blue supergiant can change its brightness, it’s more likely LS1 is moving as it orbits the center of its own galaxy, and as it does so the effects of the gravitational lens change.

Can gravitational lensing really affect the brightness of an star traveling around a galaxy within a few months timespan?
I think while this is great, it is good to remember that your current tech stack maybe just fine! after all, Discord start with mongodb[0].

[1]. https://blog.discordapp.com/how-discord-stores-billions-of-m...
I've seen Google Wi-Fi installations where someone adds three APs in a tiny urban apartment, and removing one actually improves signal and throughput.
Now that's a culture thing. I've always been taught never to pull a gun unless you are ready to shoot someone. That's why I don't have one.
Having the seller pay closing costs essentially allows the buyer (the buyer always pays transaction costs from an economic perspective) to pay the closing costs through the mortgage. I.e. the house costs 10% more, but you can mortgage it, instead of an extra 10% out of pocket.

The rationale, from the VC's perspective for the company paying for a priced transaction is the same. Really this is a way of making the LPs of the fund pay for the transaction (i.e. their money given to the company to pay the transaction) rather than the VC having to pay transaction expenses out of their fees.
I think I've looked at every photogrammetry, desconstruction, hand modeling etc... technique for 3D reconstruction and this one takes the cake for ingenuity, quality and capability.

Elsewhere in this thread, 'proee' links to what might be an even more interesting technique, which restrains the object in a dodecahedral "cage" (to allow for precise angular positions) and then measures the amount of liquid necessary to create a set predetermined rise in liquid level. http://www.romansystemsengineering.com/hypothesis.html.

Combining some aspects of the two, it might make sense to start with the object at the bottom of an empty container (in a cage or otherwise restrained) and add liquid at a known constant rate (as for a titration). Then generate a 2D graph of time against liquid height for a number of known angles, and solve in the same manner as this paper describes.
o_O Maxtor purchased Quantum in October 2000. This is the same month when Adwords left beta. What the heck are you talk of? By 2000 home broadband is beginnning to spread, dial up Internet is everyday in most of the so called developed world.
Well this explains the shift to Cyberduck my company made.
Hey, systemd has to be shipped when it's immature because you need users to try it out and help catch all the bugs and insecurities. Now you say battle hardened code is a myth.

Sure, people should audit their own tools, but there are also casual users. And there are indirect users. They are entitled to enjoy the better (if not perfect) security provided by battle hardened code.
ATSB to investigate potential drone collision with light aircraft in Adelaide
The message is clear and simple, but can you deal with it?
http://home.nwciowa.edu/firth/kafka.htm
Assuming it worked well enough, you could use it to run legacy Java applets without having the Java plugin installed. That would at least improve the security situation a bit while still allowing for legacy applets.
1) It is a major revision: it's called Java 9.

2) This is a very mature, professional, thoughtful, low impact way to break backwards compatibility. It is also a break for a very good idea: core library modularization.

3) Emotionally, it sounds like you've staked out this hill that you're set on dying upon. I think you're prepping yourself for some unnecessary suffering. Your words sound incredibly binary. Real world engineering is about finding balance: all solutions are trade-offs because we're optimizing many variables.
It takes the kindness of a Mormon (as in this article) to have the patience to bite your tongue when people you know and love drink the "natural" Kool-Aid. The only tactics I've had success with is sadly stopping to using the same scare tactics these "believers in natural healing" have used to con family/friends into wasting their money.
This man is a saint.
I don't know that I could do the same. I would quickly turn this I to a scene like Louis CK trying to force-save his chocolate-eating dogs' life with Hydrogen Peroxide
The Roman dodecahedron as a three dimensional recording and measuring instrument
Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP is pretty good so far.

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920024149.do
They limit to tiny changes to minimize the breaking API impact. This is a good idea.
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"Discord clients depend on linearizability of events"

Could this be possibly be the cause of the message reordering and dropping that I experience when I'm on a spotty connection?
It's like when you study mechanical engineering and suddenly everyone wants you to fix their car.
What? Need I remind you of Heartbleed?
What Killed the MMOG?
Excellent! PureDarwin [1] is still plodding along slowly.

1: http://www.puredarwin.org/
PostgreSQL vs Sqlie - sure, no argument there, i am talking about a reasonably complex thing like PG/Oracle/MsSql.

Well, of course, it's easy to use what you already know as opposed to the thing you don't, and i agree that most of the people don't know the capabilities of the databases but your comment implied that it's a bad idea in general and i can't agree with that.

The places where you would use SQL would be for reading data and some of them (views/queries) might get big, a bit complex but i doubt the equivalent code in any other language doing the same thing would be any simpler/easier to understand. I would bet the view code would be an order of magnitude shorter than the expression of the same problem in any other language, also you can use stored procedures (in any supported language) for reading.

For writing ... you don't have to use Pl/pgSql ... use your beloved Python/Perl/JavaScript :) the only difference the code is running in your database.
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Is the hardware you're talking about the network equipment controlled by the ISP, or the routers and modems in customers' homes? I'd be surprised if the former hadn't been IPv6-ready for many years now, but I can imagine many customers are still using ancient hardware left over from when they first signed up for service.
I'm a bit surprised that there aren't more comments about following the submission link and then being dropped on, what is apparently a technical product/project, with nothing but a full screen, long-form, non-transcribed video. If I hadn't read the comments here, I would've never assumed it was something technical. And I'm still not going to watch that video.

Hopefully they can put together some text that I can digest accessibly...
I tried Ubuntu back when they were tossing Amazon search ads onto the system. There was also, idk, a million and one things, like games and other junk, that I didn't want. Coming from Arch, this put a sour taste in my mouth.

It would take me 30 minutes to build an Arch the way I wanted it. The install on Ubuntu already took 2 hours, then I would have to spend countless hours uninstalling trash I didn't want.

Maybe this isn't true anymore, but "apt-get [package]" was a game of whack-a-mole. If I ran apt-get, I wanted the latest version, not have to guess, hunt, uninstall wrong versions, etc.

Fedora is a minimal system, very much like I would have on Arch. dnf defaults to the most recent stable version of whatever I want to use, and the entire system is built with that in mind.

It sort of depends on what kind of programs you prefer to use. I personally like to have the most recent "x," though I understand the arguments for not having that preference. However, knowing the default is going to be the most recent, I have no need to think beyond that simple fact if I need to use an older version of a program.
You should know that Apple sells old iBooks by the box load to qualified buyers. From what little I have seen there is no quality assurance.
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Watch my raid rebuild: https://seashells.io/v/e5KtSGPW

It's like watching paint dry, only more boring.

(Neat service though!)