skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recommend that you realise your arguments for a totally free market are exactly as useful as the arguments for a state controlled economy. It doesn't work because people will always screw each other over. This is the reason communism is not viable, and it is the reason libertarianism is not viable either.

I hope you realise that todays "strict" food safety laws were born out of a world where people did exactly what you say they wouldn't. They cut bread with sawdust to make money. They skimped on hygiene. They advertised other meats than they used etc etc etc. Today these things have real consequences. You're saying we should just let people do that? I cannot fathom what drives you to that position.

"Oh, but people won't buy their products as soon as they have been ousted as being cheats" yeah well. People don't buy Nestle products even though they use child slavery and caused mass malnutrion of poor children? It's just so naive to think that this actually happens.

We can mostly agree what is good and bad, but as soon as you have to pay 20 cents extra for fairtrade bread that goes out the window. You know it.

>Somalia's during its civil war didn't work because there was no central authority providing security and preventing raiders from pillaging markets, so markets didn't have the opportunity to become highly developed.

So there was no central authority and therefore the system failed. Isn't a weaker central authority what you want? Governments generally want stability, and guess what. Regulating markets helps stability.

Anyway, this discussion is pointless if you cannot see that total free market idealism is as extreme as pure communism and equally flawed. The optimum is somewhere in the middle.
How Russian and Alt-Right Worked Together to Skew the Narrative About Berkeley
Looks promising. Anonymous confessions on the blockchain, and ICO proceeds used for a great cause (medical debt)!
> The one issue I have with Telegram is that starting at least six months ago there can be a huge delay in message delivery. Sometimes easily half an hour after a message was sent. Does anyone else have this experience?

I haven't experienced such long delays with Telegram. It takes a few seconds, though I will admit that message delivery seems to have slowed down compared to how it was a few years ago.
I think this is a pretty classic "because it's there".

It's pretty unlikely finding a single new prime will reveal anything interesting (though it's certainly not impossible that it would lead to the discovery of some previously unknown pattern or progression)
Just keep discussing ideas, exploring and sharing them, working through the feedback etc.

Good luck!
The Millennial generation has already peaked, and the generation that came after it is smaller and will drive less demand.

More generally, people are born in spurts. The baby boom generation and their children, the millennials, are larger than adjacent generations.
You don't need to turn off your webserver, you can use `certbot certonly --webroot -w /path/to/docroot ...` where /path/to/docroot points to the document root, i.e. the root directory of the website contents, provided that your webserver is listening on port 80 (HTTP).

On my personal servers, I have the regular webserver configured to listen on port 443 (HTTPS) only, and I have a separate webserver on port 80 that's only used for ACME challenges. All other HTTP requests are immediately upgraded to HTTPS. Among other things, this split solves the cyclic dependency between the webserver not starting without TLS certificates, but also being required to provision certificates.

Details: https://blog.bethselamin.de/posts/how-i-run-certbot.html
When I was lifting more in college, I'd bulk for a month and cut fat for a month. My method was "protein-sparing modified fast", where it's still an absolutely massive cut in calories, but you do consume protein and continue to lift. The only thing you eat is protein, I was taking about 1400 calories per day of just whey powder. I'd usually manage to cut about 20 lbs in the 30 days.

I would like to add that it's impossible to fast and add muscle mass at the same time. To add muscle you need an abundance of calories since you're literally building new parts of your body from food. If you're fasting, even if you're taking BCAAs, you don't have the extra calories to spend adding muscle, your body will use any available calories to retain, not build, muscle. You might think you're adding muscle because your tone is revealed as you become dehydrated and/or burn off extra fat, which might fool you into thinking your muscles are getting bigger. They're not.
I especially like that Octopus' have a large proportion of their neurons distributed along their arms, and that their arms are semi-autonomous.

But that also suggests that the neuron-count for Octopus' is lower that the total figure might suggest: they do not work in unison, and it takes a while longer for the synapses to communicate with each other than if they were in a single contiguous brain-ball.
not sure if it counts as web framework but postgrest comes to mind.
also perhaps ur/web.
This is awesome to see. There's been a lot of articles about zork lately, so I started writing my own interpreter, just to see what all the fuss is about. It's a pretty interesting system. I'm currently trying to step/debug through zork too see how they implemented the parsing, game state, and other such things, and it is really quite interesting.

I've considered trying to do a hardware implementation, but concluded it is beyond my skill. Some things like user input can be complicated. It is the interpreter's job to split the input on a program-defined set of delimiters, look up each token in a dictionary provided by the program, and copy a variable number of specified values it finds base on that info into other locations. That's really complicated for a single instruction, and makes it pretty apparent to me that their target from the beginning was interpreters, not any kind of special hardware.

Nevertheless, its an awesome project, and a really fun thought experiment. I'd love to see a physical version of something like this from 74xx chips.
Magenta (their new microkernel) is being renamed Zircon as they reorganize the OS into layers named on gemstones.

As for the UI, their new compositor requires a GPU with Vulkan support to make it run. Unfortunately QEMU doesn't support Vulkan at the moment, so I wasn't able to test it.
Rough equivalent in PowerShell would be:

@(48..57 + 65..90 + 97..122) | Get-Random -Count 32 | ForEach-Object -Begin {$secret = ''} -Process {$secret += [char] $PSItem} -End {$env:SYSTEM_SECRET = $secret; Write-Host "SYSTEM_SECRET is $secret"}
I guess the rendering of custom XML documents was more supposed to be controlled by CSS via the processing instruction <?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="styles.css"?>. It's a little known fact that this was actually working in Mozilla/Firefox all this time, but not anymore I suspect.
Powerwall can level the load.

And making Powerwalls can turn out rather cheap: electric car batteries degrade towards low energy/weight ratio, but it hardly matters for a stationary installations. Two used li-ion car batteries - one happy household.
For me it really was more about the mental hurdles. I've done multiple 14 day water only fast and recently a 7 day fast a week ago. For me it's about learning all the many things we know so far that got me through and kept me fresh and energetic. For example - hydration and electrolytes are key, especially sodium(salt), potassium(Lite salt), magnesium citrate and possibly calcium. Knowing how the body loses what electrolytes during which phases is a big deal. Also knowing the risks is important e.g. Only so much potassium should be consumed at a time. And There is a thing called re feeding syndrome and edema. Refereeing properly is important to avoid something like this.

I've noticed upto 3 days is not that big a deal once you've done at least one. Also if you mess up your refeeding after a 3 day fast it seems easier. Remember that your gut biome will change. Longer fasts will experience different effects that you might or might not be prepared for hence the reading up.

One thing that made long fasts easier is by slipping into a fast after being in ketosis. That way I've always avoided the dreaded Keto flu.

Know your purpose though definitely. If it's weight loss, then I've learnt a better combination to be Keto + intermittent fasting 23:1 and when possible 4:3(4days feasting and 3 days fasting)

Water fasting has additional benefits like autophagy etc. but really I would not recommend to anyone whose not ready to take on some serious research and doesn't have an experimental mindset. One other thing that will take you by surprise is how much bored you'll get!!

Resources -

https://www.reddit.com/r/fasting/

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NaNQcDjUR97yfF3bNYqAmGld...

http://a.co/hvVllDl
We're trying to solve healthcare in Uganda. It does look like supply of doctors is an issue[0], but it also seems that delayed paychecks are a big part of that, and this seems like at least a partial solution.

I'm not sure what to do about there being higher salaries for doctors in the US. Subsidizing education for medical students who promise to stay in Uganda for several years might be a good option. But it seems silly to complain that Watsi has only partially fixed healthcare in Uganda. I certainly don't see any basis for the blanket claim that "This isn't going to work." This is already working--it's just not a panacea.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/feb/10/u...
> There's no way that a tool used on the internet would become one.

Said tool pissed of the party that is most strongly associated with "never regulate!".
Yet people hate it from the bottom of their heart, it seems.

A friend of mine works for a company that builds these things in Germany and he says most people hate it.

And even those who like it say, they can't allow them to build on their property, because their neighbours would hate them for it.

People say these things are loud, ugly, kill birds and bats etc. pp.

They could have done so much to decentralise energy production, somehow the most are built and owned by big energy corps so they can tell the world how "green" they are...
Altruistic: building a foundation to pardon medical debt, or tackle some low hanging fruit type problems in your neighborhood.

Pragmatic: Invest most in index funds, and use the proceeds to fund your startup.

Crazy: Alt-coins :D
Everything I've ever read on weightlifting says that aerobic exercise during a fast will destroy muscle gains. Aerobic exercise doesn't require large muscles, so if you don't have fuel to power your body it will break down big muscles to power your other systems. My understanding is that it's better to just cut back the weight during the fast, but continue to lift to continue telling your body that you need to keep those muscles and not burn them.
Bank error or money laundering?
Are there any? I can't imagine how one would harvest kinetic energy without moving parts...
What is a Fiat currency?
Wind needs some subsidies so it can compete with the huge subsidies for carbon based fuels.

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.aspx?sk=42940.0
Well, true - though in most cases I'd imagine the blobs are firmware that would otherwise be burned onto the peripheral ROM and aren't too closely tied to the kernel itself. IANAL, but you'd have a heck of a time arguing that a blob shipped with a device's kernel wasn't a derivative work if it linked with kernel sources.

On the other hand, it's possible to upstream the changes, but if you're dealing with anything like Qualcomm's 1.7 million line kernel fork[0] it's exceedingly unlikely if you're not the SoC manufacturer. And if you're not able to upstream them, you're stuck backporting security patches til the end of time/you throw the device out.

[0] https://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides...
I managed to negotiate my rent down by almost $1000 this year in SoMa. Pretty crazy.
The PS4 is bringing back semi-transparent PlayStation controllers
I genuinely wonder what the point of skipping carbs or keto diet is, given that you can achieve the same results by just fasting every other day. The ketosis these people get into happens because the body has no glycogen to burn, so whether you fast or you just skip the carbs should have the same effect, but at least with alternate-day fasting you still get to eat like a normal human being.
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A robot tax rises from American center of tech industry
Clarkson wasn't doing the bank any favors by posting his info, however this is the bank's failure to properly verify the transaction(s). The bank was tricked, and the bank is responsible for this error. It's fraud, plain and simple.

The article ends with him saying "I was wrong and I have been punished for my mistake" but this is just his schtick, it's factually incorrect.

I live in a small community and many local charities and non-profits post their bank info online, so that people may make donations by bank transfer or standing orders. Fraudsters periodically manage to trick the local banks into transferring money from the charity accounts and everyone freaks out, which is complete bullshit. The banks always restore the funds, and scold the charities for having this info online. I've experienced this myself at two different organisations. As a result charities become more reluctant to publicise their bank info and predictably, donations lessen.

It's important to keep perspective and hold the responsible party accountable, instead of trying to compensate for the bank's failings.
> They always have to find a new name for everything.

Advertising is not always about selling products. It can be about selling a concept.

They find these new names to sell these concepts to the people who want to be "trendy" and "hip", and subsequently garner more following.
Yeah, but with nuclear you only have to deal with demand variability, not supply variability.
Epistemology: no one knows anything for sure, least of all their own minds.
>Over-urbanization is a real problem. It's much worse outside the US, with monsters such as Delhi and Sao Paulo, with huge slums. The US has managed to avoid that.

I'm failing to see how most of US 'middle-class" suburb district do not amount to slums.

Of course walled communities near rich cities are well off, but other than that look at what these suburbs are in flyover states and poorer part of south-east
Here is a technical podcast I listen to on my commute home: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com

I don't listen to every episode, however I feel it's technical breadth and depth is fairly decent.
No, you're talking about a different problem: that of counting the total number of n-queens solutions. The original article is talking about the problem of deciding, given a partial placement of queens, whether it can be completed by adding further queens to form an n-queen solution.
Patent-pending technology. Email me for details.
"In modern nuclear reactors, safety is not an issue."

Russian nuclear engineer, 1985
>Lots of coastline is plenty windy. Why isn't there more offshore wind generation in USA like there is in other nations? My impression is that rich people who own land on the coast have no taste and think that offshore wind generation is an eyesore.

Offshore has promise but it's significantly higher in cost and there isn't a lot of long term data on how well they hold up yet.
Those companies have products available that consumers pay real money for?
Fernando Pessoa’s Disappearing Act
Once for science, once because both me and the doctors didn't realise what was happening.

Either way, I'm sure its great if you have bodyfat, but its really crap if you dont.
Completely agree with this. Some of the books seem eh kinda strange.
I think Webpack solves a real problem in the web world, but holy cow is it a pain to configure in large applications. Anyone who has had to maintain a larger (and often dynamic) Webpack configuration knows what I am talking about.

I think Webpack is a step in the correct direction, but web bundlers are still in need of improving.
Nah, shit happens.

It's easy to stamp in the wrong account number.
Any discovery is useful information. As for practicality, the methods used to find the number may be of more immediate value than the actual finding.
After adapting to life in 500sqft, a single family home just seems kind of... disgusting. Wasteful. On the other hand, I pay an enormous premium to have a public transit commute of only 25 minutes, while this is totally normally in more car-oriented areas.

I hope that, with the return to the suburbs, we distribute those suburbs around the country instead of having a few instances of enormous sprawl. If we continue to scale just a few cities outwards until traffic gets catastrophic, we're going to be spending a hell of a long time commuting. (Even if there's transit, because transit for single-family-home sprawl will never work that well).

Electric cars should be able to mitigate the worst of the environmental impacts.
I feel for technical subjects, you need to sit down with a pen and paper, concentrate, understand and absorb the material. You can try listen to Coursera or Edx lectures. But to be honest, if you are learning well with that, you are probably not driving safely/likely to miss your stop.
Depends. Server-side prepare works the way you described while client-side prepare interpolates placeholder values. Both are widely used.
Have you timed it? Starting threads in Python is slow...
This isn't a meaningful difference and it's also not really true. A "water fast" is a fast involving consumption of only water. Similarly a "juice fast". So a fast isn't just about "food you didn't eat".

Fasting is also absolutely a diet in the sense of a diet as a state of caloric restriction.
I'd be quite happy stepping off the grid and having my own small suite of power-harvestors, out on the property and so on, and generally share the overage of the system with any other nomad who needed to charge their suit, so to speak.

I've sort of come to the personal belief that the way to solve the power crisis is for us all to be harvesting it from the most local sources, and .. perhaps .. become less dependent on mass/social- infrastructure, reducing our group load, decomposing cities, &etc.

The technology is there. I could easily live off the stream and wind energy in most of the world, personally.

I just don't quite have the harvesting device. I wonder what an "iEnergyHarvester", y'know .. the cool new disruptive kind .. would look like?
I'm not an expert in HFT either, but know personally someone who's developing HFT apps in C++. I guess if your profit depends on milliseconds and lower, there's no point in taking chances with Java.

But Java is of course huge in all kind of financial apps, including settlement of HFT deals (eg. not on a critical code path).
Typical approach to replication is to somehow record changes made to database and somehow push these to slave replicas. There are different approaches to both "somehows".

For the format of the changes themselves there is continuum of different levels of abstraction that range from propagating the user's commands to slave servers directly (this is essentially what mysql does) to propagating commited writes to on-disk files (which is what default pgsql replication is about). Both extremes have their tradeoffs: in the SQL-level case the user has to make sure that results of transactions are deterministic (which is more complex than just not calling functions like rand() and now()) and in the physical page case all involved servers need to have exactly same on-disk layout (ie. same cpu architecture and you have to copy the actual on-disk files for initial synchronisation, dump and restore usually does not work)

For the actual propagation there are two approaches: write the change records somewhere and let the slaves read that at whatever pace they can or push the changes to slaves before the transaction is reported as commited to the client.

The full spectrum of PostgreSQL replication solutions in fact completely fills the space of these two choices and you probably should select carefully what matches your usecase best. (The two significant questions to ask is whether you can live with replicating the whole database cluster as one indivisible unit and whether you can live with possibly stale state on readonly replicas. When both answers are yes then streaming replication is what you want. If answer to second one is no, then you should probably redesign your application such that the data that requires this kind of guarantees is as small as possible)
Surely you mean finding a polynomial algorithm for a #P-complete problem?
100 years of hurricane paths animated
The point is that the desire to climb the status ladder by purchasing conspicuously expensive, useless commodities is generated by a pretty deformed set of social relations. It is a product of a very shallow capitalist culture, and has the effect of wasting productive capacity that could in the counter-factual be used to help people who need it.

It's also philosophy 101: self-realisation is who you are and not what you own. Go read Marcus Auerelius, Erich Fromm, etc.
Did they do this to "protect" people, or for more control?

Almost any ban can be said to be done to protect people.

Cant have them reading some books for their own good!
I checked it for PostgreSQL right now, and it seems that libpq can send them OOB via PQexecParams() and networked integer buffers. But that's not the case with OpenResty's pgmoon driver, which doesn't have such an interface. E.g. Lapis framework built on top of that simply escape_literal()-izes all arguments and interpolates right into query text. So, YMMW with specific (or generic) drivers.

Placeholders are there for those who tries to concatenate queries by hand; having them properly escaped in protocol should not defeat client-side security purpose.
Is it possible that the "urban renewal" just didn't hit already-popular and not-in-need-of-renewal cities like Manhattan?

My city was almost completely dead as recently as the 90s. Very high crime, lots of abandoned buildings, no businesses in the city center, only poor people lived downtown. Today there is a brewery on every corner, food trucks parked outside every day, live music almost every night of the week, and tons of people who don't own cars making it because downtown is an amazing place to be.

And you talk about Detroit: Detroit was one of the biggest benefactors of the urban renewal. Sure it's not back to its pre-1968 glory days, but downtown is a safe and entertaining place to be, plenty of young people hang out, Woodward Ave in particular is hopping pretty much every night of the week. It went from being the place you warned your kids about to being the place you take your kids for a weekend while you watch a baseball game.

It's easy to look at Manhattan and say "so much for urban renewal", but look at smaller cities in the Rust Belt. Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Cleveland, Cincinnati, St Louis. All cities that just 20 years ago were a death trap if you were there after dark, and certainly not a place you want to live. Now it's hard to tell their downtown cores were ever abandoned in the first place.
500 Commits of Summer: My Story of FOSS and GSoC
"The current analog is searching for the perfect keyboard."

Sounds like we have been on a similar journey (typing this on a Corsair K95). I still enjoy finding a really good pen, but they rarely cost more than 10-20 usd and I mostly use them for sketching UI. If only there was a keyboard equivalent to The Pilot G2 0.7.