skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about attention to bugs like displays of sexual fitness, that make us plunder the earth, spewing carbon dioxide as we go, in order to consume and display like bowerbirds.
Facebook is so screwed.

FYI, apparently in 2009, they were so broke that they couldn't find funding and relied heavily on a few Russian oligarchs to help fund their growth.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/technology/internet/27face...

Zuckerberg even met with the Russian president Medvedev too around the time of the IPO:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-usmanov/facebook...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjN_1IydBIA
Wow that's smart and awesome. What company does this?
Not what happened here though.
This was such a refreshing experience. The sound work especially brought things home for me.
Australian government promises national space agency
Personally, I use rEFInd to manage my MBP's OS installs. I know that it installs itself to the EFI partition, but would that cause this service to identify an insecure/corrupted/whatever EFI?
I really like Around the World: The Atlas for Today[1]. Fascinating content and great graphical presentation.

[1] https://smile.amazon.com/Around-World-Atlas-Andrew-Losowsky/...
"There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat"
For deliveroo I just call them and they resend the food and give a credit on your account.

Kind of ruins the moment though.
> We hit Hitler comparisons fast on this thread, eh?

There was no comparison to Hitler
True. There is at least one apparent exception, Australia, during hunter gatherer times. But everywhere else...

Exchange and alliance also happened; often in aid of success in brutal conflicts.
Hygenic accounting, marketing gimmick? It's really straightforward, so I don't see why you need to malign a charity that has found a way to separate overhead from assistance.

o=overhead donations (min of 25k)

a=assistance provided

donations received = o+a;

donated % used for charitable cause = a*100/(o+a)
Short of explicitly labeling each part (which would not be in spirit of 'lightweight markup'), it's hard to imagine any link/description markup that is completely foolproof. The advantage over markdown here is that you are really only likely to get one part of the links wrong: the order. In markdown, you might also get them out of order but you may get the brackets wrong too. Then, having realized something is wrong, fixing it way more complicated. With Org-Mode, you notice your link isn't working right so you swap the order and you're done.
His face was literally blue.
I think only about 2% of the population is sensitive to beryllium. I was in a beryllium monitoring program (yearly blood tests) at work. A few coworkers are sensitive, one getting really sick.
"A couple of decades ago I bough a Sun Ultra-60 and asked whether it was worth paying for the dual processor version.
The answer that I got was "Yes. You need one processor to run X and another for everything else."

People cursed with diskless Sun 3/50's would run xterms and emacs's across the net on each other's workstations instead of locally. It was noticeably less sluggish, because you didn't get hit with all the heavyweight process context switching between X clients and server every keystroke.
You would have to show that the EU entity is not under the control of the US entity before the court. I don't see how you could get there without a fully separate entity that is not owned by the same parent company. Not to say it's not doable, AmaGooSoft are certainly capable of pulling it off, but you've got to be pretty convinced you're leaving a LOT of money in the table by not doing so.

I predict EU firms will get over it unless there are regulatory reasons they can't. Any EU company with a US presence is already vulnerable to DoJ lawsuits and can be directly compelled.
While this is an interesting thought experiment - technical solutions to political/government overreach are not the right answer.
Those are neither large, nor mammals.
He says general AI is 'certainly an end goal' but I certainly hope the 'end' part of that is not true. We should certainly expect that the first general AI will share the tremendously significant shortcomings and flaws that human brains give rise to (conflating correlation with causation, rejecting truth on pragmatic bases without determining actual truth or falsehood, etc... every list of 'common logical fallacies' is a flaw that the associative nature of our brain makes feel true despite being (at best) non-determinitive). If we intend to stop there we really might as well not work towards it. I'd expect the end goal to be producing something better.
Oh yeah. Hard limit pools are the bread and butter of console engines. You want to preallocate everything because fragmentation will murder you.

Source: Ex-gamdev who's shipped things on x360, ps3 and psp.
There is absolutely no problem with optimizations being available. The problem is that the standard gives the compiler license to muck with the semantics of the program in highly non-intuitive and potentially dangerous ways, and this is true regardless of what flags are passed to the compiler. So I can't depend on anything working even if I specify -O0, at least not by the standard. I am entirely at the mercy of the benevolence of my compiler vendor.

If the compiler is going to be given license to make those kinds of dangerous non-intuitive changes to the program semantics I want that to be evident in the source code. For example, I would like to have to say something like YOU_MAY_ASSUME(NOTNULL(X)) before the compiler can assume that X is a pointer that can be dereferenced without signaling an error if it's null. That way the optimizations are still available, but it is easy to tell by looking at the source code if the author prioritized speed over safety and if there are potential gotchas hiding in the code as a result. The way it is now, the potential gotchas are like hidden land mines, nearly impossible to see, and ready to blow you to bits (pun intended :-) without warning.
Yes! I remember a long time being nonplussed by the saying "Don't mistake the map for the territory".

I thought who on earth would ever do that! Ridiculous!

But in fact, as I gained experience I found it was the norm, not the exception.
> As an engineering manager, you'll need to put company first, team second and your team members third.

I think a good manager sees the second two as an important factor in putting the company first. Demoralized teams are bad for the company.
I know of a different way the North profited -- the opportunity cost of a firm refusing to do transactions with members from a different group (i.e. both hiring black labor or collaborating with black enterprise) is equivalent to institutionalized forfeiture of feasible income (of adding more laborers) [0]

Southern capitalism thus negated capitalism's mission: that society improves when parties can fulfill each other's desires efficiently if they each have something that the other desires. So Northern capitalism did tend towards greater capitalist prosperity, because it wasn't contradicting post-slavery capitalism like the South. That contradiction depends upon the Southerners not seeing blacks as anything but "technology", rather than economic agents.

But the result is that white refusal to cooperate with blacks hurts both blacks and whites: neither blacks improve their lot (no productivity), nor do whites improve theirs (forced to relinquish maximum efficiency and profit that would otherwise be allowed by allowing black employment) - simply because of racial stubbornness.

[0] https://www.nationalaffairs.com/storage/app/uploads/public/5...
Obligatory : Seinfelds episode about the 'Coffee table book about coffee tables'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE5ROl2YPbs

This Ask HN must be a prank.
I don’t know man. I am just presenting my arguments. You are the one who is taking it personal, counting votes, and have to resort to personal attacks(“splitting hairs with everyone”, “not be intellectually honest”)

Just because someone disagrees with you, it doesn’t mean you have the intellectual honestly and he doesn’t.

Also, if it’s not worth discussing, just stop discussing. What’s with this passive aggressive statement?

Btw, since downvotes seem to be important to you: every single reply of yours in this thread is negative.
Your password has never been "Secure Enough".

I use a generator to create passwords for myself (https://password.ga) - but I prefer 2FA on top of that.

XKCD summed this up excellently: https://www.xkcd.com/538
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rEFInd is just an EFI application. It doesn't replace the system EFI firmware (which runs before, launches, and provides services to rEFInd).

As to whether or not this tool will flag it, I suppose you'll find out shorty after installing High Sierra.
The natives are those that were killed because they opposed to the plans other had for those lands were they lived for centuries

They didn't kill first
"Had he done some real design work and looked at what others were doing he might
have realized that at its core, X was a distributed database system in which
operations on some of the databases have visual side-effects. I forget the
exact number, but X includes around 20 different databases: atoms, properties,
contexts, selections, keymaps, etc. each with their own set of API calls. As
a result, the X API is wide and shallow like the Mac, and full of interesting
race conditions to boot. The whole thing could have been done with less than
a dozen API calls."

To that end, one of the weirder and cooler re-implementations of NeWS was Cogent's PIX for transputers. It was basically a NeWS-like multiprocessing PostScript interpreter for Transputers, with Linda "tuple spaces" as an interprocess communication primitive:

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/301904/

The Cogent Research XTM is a desktop parallel computer based on the INMOS T800 transputer. Designed to expand from two to several hundred processors, the XTM provides a transparent distributed computing environment both within a single workstation and among a collection of workstations. Using Linda tuple spaces as the basis for interprocess communication and synchronization, a Unix-compatible, server-based OS was constructed. A graphic user interface is provided by an interactive PostScript window server called PIX. All processors see the same set of system services, and within protection limits, programs capable of using many processors can spread out over a network of workstations and resource servers, acquiring the services of unused processors.

http://wiki.c2.com/?TupleSpace

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuple_space
I don't see what is malign about hygienic accounting.

Marketing gimmick is certainly a cynical take.
We're datadog customers and we still get calls and emails from their sales people asking us what monitoring tools we use and if we're interesting in switching to datadog.

They must not be using any sort of CRM, or their salespeople might not do any homework before cold calling.
Here are a few that come to mind right now:

Brotherhood of Kings: How International Relations Shaped the Ancient Near East by Amanda H Podany - Covers how international relations worked between the different rulers of the Ancient Near East. Covers different things and in a different way than I had heard in a lot of other ANE history.

Up, Up, and Away: The Kid, the Hawk, Rock, Vladi, Pedro, le Grand Orange, Youppi!, the Crazy Business of Baseball, and the Ill-fated but Unforgettable Montreal Expos by Jonah Keri - Lots of fun, interesting stuff about a sport I like and a team I didn't know too much about.

Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World by Noel Malcolm - This one is really good, covering the history of a single family amidst the relationships between the Ottoman Empire and the Christian world.

The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code by Margalit Fox - Another excellent book, this discussing how Linear B was deciphered, with particular emphasis placed on Alice Kober, whose work was largely overlooked since she died before Michael Ventris ultimately deciphered it.

The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 by Alan Taylor - This one won the Pulitzer for history in 2014, so that should tell you something. This book covers an aspect of history I had never heard before, with a lot of focus on slaves themselves, rather than their owners or the people around them. The roles of the British as liberators and slaves as their aids in the War of 1812 is very interesting.

And one last one that I'm currently reading is Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire by Peter H. Wilson. I haven't finished it yet, so take this with a grain of salt, but it's very interesting to hear about a large aspect of European history I wasn't too familiar with and that doesn't fit into the neat, centralized nation-state based history of the world that is predominantly taught.
> Find a society without historical sin

The Minoans
My favourite is by the illustrator Mr Bingo - it is called Hate Mail, and it features illustrations and hand-drawn typography on real postcards that were sent to real people - features lots of swearing NSFW

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hate-Mail-DEFINITIVE-COLLECTION-Bin...
This is really cool! It'd be even more awesome if there was a permalink so I could save/share my results.
I'm not a prescriptivist myself. I simply like having useful words, which is something I appreciate about the article in question.

So, I like the idea that "may" could carry that permissive meaning such that the strictest interpretation is as you suggest. But I don't like it pedantically in practice.

To be clear: "It may rain" isn't a problem because there's no confusion possible. I don't care about stretching words in that way. I just like the idea that the distinction is available for cases where it is meaningful.

If we lose the distinction between "Can I bike there?" and "May I bike there?" our communication suffers.

But "may" is beyond screwy today. Relatedly, although it's fundamentally wrong (not just prescriptively, but like my brain has a bad-syntax error feeling when hearing it), there are places in the U.S. where people say "might could"! See https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/3211/is-might-co... as on example discussion.

Personally, I'm a non-prescriptivist, non-pedantic, amateur linguist who like people actually thinking about words and using them thoughtfully and intentionally.
Orbit: C/C++ Performance Profiler
Yes. Server is used to mean serving graphics visually, the display server, not in the sense of remote processing.
Sales & Marketing, pretty sure.
I consider the omplete Calvin & Hobbes collection to be the perfect coffee table book. Bust it out at a random moment and receive the sum of all human wisdom in bite sized cartoon form.
Design Ethics and Mixed Reality
This depends very much on the engineering and leadership culture and your manager's view. Also company size matters. Managers are necessarily fewer in number than individual contributors. If the organization isn't big enough there might not be room now. There might be in the future, though, so it may not hurt to make your desire known.
Nuclear deterrence is limited by geography
I do not think this is an accurate analogy, specifically I do not think an Irish CEO would be violating the law, but in any case, most jurisdictions do not care if you have placed yourself between a rock and a hard place legally and will operate as if no other jurisdictions exist; the main question is usually "can the US entity do what is being demanded"
I live close (relatively) to Calcutta in the state of Jharkhand. It's far from the glamor of a tourist city in rajasthan.

Poverty is still an issue and it may well be worse than Cambodia. The (dis)advantage India has is that economic growth happens organically here. In the 3 weeks I've been back, women entrepreneurs have given me pamphlets for their at-home beauty treatment visits to hand over to my mother. If this were more organized, some VC somewhere would have converted this into a chain of stylists making home visits.

Anyway, thanks for the conversation. My personal goal is to see people/myself as they are.
Will this resolve the slow start problem in serverless apps?
>...the data is considered to have been “legally volunteered” under the Terrorism Act... the person searched “will not be directly told their phone is downloaded.”

Well isn't that a choice bit of doublespeak.
Why do you want a degree? The main point of that seems to be immigration.
I once wrote a script to periodically back up the text contents of my terminals, JOE 2.x crashed so frequently (losing my work). JOE 3.x crashes less frequently, and I can tell when it's about to (block-selecting starts acting up), but it's unpredictable enough that I could in no way describe how to reproduce it in a bug report, and I often don't have cores enabled on the machines I'm working on.

I love love love the interface, which keeps me on it, but I've been bitten enough to lose trust that I won't get bitten in the future.
Godwin's Law doesn't state that as soon as the Nazis are mentioned, that the quality of the conversation is zero.

There is a difference when drawing a comparison about something entirely unrelated, but when you're talking about topics involving wiping out a people, claiming Godwin's law is silly.
You can find it in the same place as the Clinton Foundation $100M
Like a lot of things, soil infertility is a symptom of a much larger societal problem. Within society, there are many different competing groups that have "the answer". Progressives want a specific list, conservatives want another list, city dwellers want a list (irrespective of being progressive or conservative), country dwellers want another, business owners want their own list, workers want another, government wants a list, law enforcement wants one, radicals want one, etc., stc., etc.

All of these lists of wants are at cross purposes. All of it is based on self-interest. Very little of it is based on a wider responsibility for all citizens and the country that supports them.

This won't change as people won't give up on their list of wants. The attitude of "us and them" just reinforces the basic problems. Is there a solution? Most certainly. But it requires a change in the basic attitudes of every citizen and most will object to having to face who and what they are.

When a society is focus on "rights" instead of responsibilities then the society loses its ability to think in the large. When a government is focussed on it continuation and power it loses sight of its responsibility to build society.

There is no short term solution that is a quick fix. In the case of America, it is heading down the path of civil war and devastation because pretty well every level in the American society is in the mindset of "them and us". This is obvious to anyone who opens their eyes. Law enforcement has forgotten that they are there to serve and protect the citizenry and not themselves. Government is self-serving. Corporations are treating their customers as slaves and a resource to control. The general population is focussed on their own little problems of day to day self-gratification.
When sailors refer to a rope as a line, are they also signaling that they're part of a monoculture? Or do they just need more specific terms than regular English (there are several words for various kinds of ropes: sheet, hawser, painter, ...).

It seems natural for professions to develop some specialized language. It's obviously a liability to not understand it, because you won't know what people mean. But it's not much of a liability not to use it if there is an equally precise non-jargon term.
Iterate Your Habits
Are EU regulations on this issue substantially different?

I ask because every time this topic comes up, a comment will inevitably be made saying how you should keep data in the EU and this will be the death of the US IT industry. However, what I've never seen is any actual evidence that these court cases would proceed differently in an EU country (and note that Microsoft actually seems to be winning their similar case as far as I know).

As an example, suppose France had a Google equivalent (Le Google) with servers all over the world. The French government issued a search warrant for an email account, and Le Google refused to hand over the contents of that email account because the data was (or could be) on a server located in a United States. Under French or EU law, is this a valid reason to reject a warrant (and does it matter if the account belongs to a French citizen or not)?
Your Go code uses "defer" in a for loop, which could be a performance bottleneck. The deferred function call doesn't run until the saveToDb function returns. A simple fix would be to reuse the rows variable and put the defer outside the loop.

I believe it might, depending on the database driver, also cause another issue. Since you're not closing the rows right away, and not even consuming the rows, this may force the driver to mark the internal connection as busy until the defer runs, meaning the next database call would have to open a new connection. Try closing the rows as soon as you can.

If you don't expect any results, you can also use Exec instead. Then there's nothing to close.
"IPFS is The Permanent Web
A new peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol"

Until it is blocked by everyone because DRM
Jared Kushner's private email server
Thanks for the reminder. I suffer from the same habit and cannot be reminded enough to exude more bullshit.

Please excuse me, I meant to say that you seem to be inexperienced and just making excuses. ;)
Thanks for making me aware of Rocksmith. Wish there were more games which teach a real skill!
Lego Architecture: The Visual Guide https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lego-Architecture-Visual-Philip-Wil...
In Erlang, actors are called "processes".
So weird, same thing happens to me - I can drink a huge can of energy drink, or a strong coffee or anything else with a lot more caffeine in it than usual and within 20 minutes I'm ready for a nap.

Not medical advice, I'm not a doctor, go speak to a doctor, this isn't a substitute for sleep etc etc. But in my experience, whenever I've found myself in a situation where I'm not able to get much sleep but still need to function for an extended period of time, Modafinil or Armodafinil has been an absolute life saver. No lingering caffeine like coffee as well, once it wears off it's gone and you can sleep normally (roughly 12-14 hours).

Overall downside - it's not super well researched, especially long-term effects, might cause brain problems, or cancer, who knows? I also often hear of people coming to rely on it as a substitute for sleep - it's not addictive per se, but what it allows you to do definitely can be.
Principia Disordia.

But you didn't read that, and this fnord does not exist.
Thanks for the good memories. I remember those days of Java 1.4 start up times and the first talks of modularization coming out. It was so exciting! Then 1.5 came and startup speeds boosted a lot. I recently gave Java another try with a Kotlin project and am fairly impressed. Have not worked with Java in years, mostly in Python recently.
Sort of. The big advantage the US had was OCEANS on both sides and only stone age peoples to the south. Attacking the US on it's own soil has been a suicide mission for hundreds of years. Counties in order to attack the US would need to pile men on ships travel for a month(s) then attempt to skirmish on the beaches. On the other hand attacking Poland /Korea/China/Spain/Italy/Egypt is a matter of walking. Once ships were powered/quick enough to transfer men in mass it was too late -- the repeating rifle had been invented.
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