skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trusting legacy code with few users is a dangerous proposition. My roommate was given some "state-of-the-art" code and told to run simulations with it. The only graphical output was postscript (for some reason), so every frame was 150 MiB and took minutes to dump - so usually, this was only done at the end to show the result.

I managed to hack in a step which just dumped the memory of resulting frame to a file, and then we wrote a Python script to read that and produces a PNG.

We combine the PNGs into an animation and show someone else in the department because the supervisor wasn't in that day. "Cool! But, hrmm, those boundary conditions look wrong." Sadly, this was 2/3s into his Masters.

Like much now in Physics, the original code was simply incorrect. This happens all the time, and papers get retracted because of it - well, that's the best case if somebody notices.

At the end of the day, programming languages come with eco-systems, and must be chosen solely as a tool. The problem is not with Fortran, but that often Fortran == outdated development practices and in Physics horrible code hacked on by 10+ people without prior programming experience.
Why you should not try data recovery yourself
It's very difficult, arguably impossible, to revoke access to data that's already been accessed. You could try a DRM-type scheme but there's always ways to get around it.

What you could do, pretty easily, is revoke access to the latest data that hasn't already been shared, and to have an audit trail of exactly what data has been accessed and when it was accessed. That would still be a massive improvement on the status quo.

I wouldn't rule out the eventual possibility of something like Facebook migrating their Open Graph API to some type of encrypted blockchain. Although I would be completely shocked if it were more than essentially a publicity tactic that wasn't actually using any true decentralization.
Okay.
TFA says "although recent advances have shown the entanglement of 2,900 atoms."

The related stories at the bottom of the page for me shows:
"Quantum entanglement between a single photon and a trillion rubidium atoms": https://phys.org/news/2017-03-quantum-entanglement-photon-tr...

So, uh, yeah.
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Makes you wonder how much you'd get rattled around in an aircraft that's all wing. How smooth is a B2?
> "We reap what we sow" assumes an old testament concept of multi generational collective guilt

Nah. Here are some thoughts on it:

https://medium.com/thinking-action-for-ethical-being/critica...

I also have to think of how Jacob Appelbaum said his father told him that if there ever is another Holocaust, it'll be his fault because he didn't prevent it. It's easy to dismiss it as hyperbole or demanding the impossible from an individual, but I think it has an kernel that is near infinite food for thought at the least. It's not literally true. But it's also not completely false.
https://gcc.gnu.org/projects/gupc.html

From the sidebar link "GNU UPC at gnu.org" on gccupc.org.
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Maybe by ensuring all data access/decryption happens from the client side perhaps, so that the data never flows(unencrpyted) through corporate servers.

Like FB implemented as Signal on steroids, when I add a friend I exchange keys to open up a channel with him to enable him to see posts/photos etc from my life, but the org (say FB) itself cannot see any of this data.

Not sure how blockchain will fit in here though or enhance this
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So what they really mean is encryption could help us control our data
https://mobile.twitter.com/CNN/status/894904419766108161

"Google CEO cuts vacation short to address controversial memo that argued women aren't biologically fit for tech jobs"

I remember the headlines on CNN.com using the phrase "biologically unfit", which is the exact same thing as "not biologically fit" anyway.
I'm guessing Northern England or Scotland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_velar_fricative
> You're coming across like a creationist trying to make sense of why someone would be an atheist.

Yeah I get that. I would probably think that as well if I read my previous from your perspective. Especially since there's a lot of paranoid/"conspiracy-esque" thinking going on in the crypto scene. I am fully aware of that and even I am not that confident that bitcoin/crypto will be a success. I too am very critical of many aspects.

But you have a point. I take back my statement that he has an agenda and is trying to disrupt progress. It is certainly possible that someone would do that (divide and conquer is a good strategy), but that is probably not the case. I do however think Stolfi has gone a bit too far down the rabbit hole that he kinda lost track of what his reason was for going there in the first place. You've got to admit, it's kind of peculiar that a guy like him is hanging around with all those /r/btc folks. To me, /r/btc has the right intentions but they are still stuck in a way of thinking like most bitcoiners did in the 2013 era (mass retail adoption, people spending bitcoin directly etc). What is he even doing there? Don't get me wrong, /r/bitcoin is shit too, they just (partly) moved on to to a new unrealistic "vision".

Anyway, Stolfi probably has just found a community of like-minded people that he can discuss a topic with that interests/fascinates him. He has a highly relevant background and can articulate points well which makes him a popular person in that community. Maybe he just enjoys all the attention he's getting a bit too much as the /r/buttcoin superstar. Let's hope he doesn't get addicted to the fame :)

Well, I'm rambling and I need to sleep. Cheers.
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He should feel proud of vaccines and antibiotics too then, the greatest boon mankind ever had. Very proud indeed. The populations in Africa would be a tiny fraction of what they currently are were it not for Western innovations. Likewise, the West has utterly crushed global absolute poverty, and is the leading pressure that is trying to end the ancient practice of slavery.

By every objective metric (child mortality, lifespan, literacy, starvation, absolute poverty), the world is a better place today than ever before. By a huge margin. Entirely thanks to the West.

I only mention this because there seems to be this narrative that we in the West should feel bad for the past, yet the West has been a firm net positive in the world. Probably the greatest net positive there ever was... provided we survive global warming, that is.

So if we're going to guilt-trip people today for the actions of some historical Westerners, we should adulate people too for the actions of some historical Westerners. But somehow that never happens.

The West is objectively the best thing that ever happened to mankind.
>People need to feel useful, having a job is about more then just getting a roof and food.

Unfortunately for people, having a job is not even about that.

Jobs are for you, an employee, to provide value to a company in exchange for whatever the market determines your labor is worth. Not to provide you with a sense of satisfaction, or dignity, or even enough money to afford a roof and food.

If your job can provide you with those things, then you're lucky. But as the global economy moves beyond the need to sustain itself on human labor, it makes less and less sense to expect employment to fulfill societal needs, or even basic human needs.
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Coarray Fortran is part of the Fortran 2008 standard, so support for it is very widespread.
It's also a bit of nice self serving advice for rocket ship captains who are trying to hire lots of cheap labor. People like Eric Schmidt do the exact opposite of this advice and carefully calculate every move they make.
My rule of thumb has always been that bigger planes tend to experience less turbulence, although I didn't specifically know of the exact concept of wing loading.

Are there a lot of cases where bigger planes experience less turbulence compared to smaller planes?
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I agree that, given this description, it's a hard problem. But can Nix find a way to abstract away these difficulties?

There are also bugs. For example, non-NixOS users of Simula are forced to run this script: https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula/blob/master/swrast.sh

This is because a nix package expects to find a driver in `/run/opengl-driver`, which isn't always present if you're not running NixOS.
For a pitcher?
One could do delayed round-robin. For one day (or other time period), the first-choice disk is disk A, the next time period, disk B... etc. And for intentional non-uniformity, you can vary the time-period.. it's one day for disk A, half a day for B. etc...
My dad worked for the US diplomatic service when I was a kid. Our family started out traveling on ocean liners (on the North Atlantic route from Le Havre to New York in the winter: no glamour there). There was our journey from Lagos to NY in 1958: A DeHavilland Comet over the Sahara with four stops for fuel, and a diversion from Paris to Brussels for weather. Then a train to Le Havre on the English Channel, then five days of rough Atlantic weather with a steel plate bolted over the porthole in our cabin.

Then the 707 came along. That was then end of the stops for fuel and the multiday ship rides. Every trip took a day or too because of the 707.

Then came the 747. And that kind of travel got comfortable. Junior diplomats don't get to take their families in first class, but I did once see the piano in the upstairs lounge. Imagine: lifing a piano from sea level to flight level 370 and not caring about the weight! What an airplane!

A have a friend who was a flight attendant working the Teheran evacuation in 1979. They packed the 747 full. People were sitting on the floor in all the aisles. The holds were crammed full of peoples' stuff. And my friend said the plane just rolled and lifted off from Mehrabad Airport like it was full of marshmallows. (Of course, they were only going to Athens from Teheran, and they didn't refuel in Teheran ... the landing on arrival at Mehrabad might have been a bit heavy, eh?)

The 747 is a airplane for the ages, and definitely one of the good things of my life. I hope some people who made it possible are reading this. Thanks, you all.
Put it like this: I live in Australia, and banning guns worked really well. I cannot express how little that "individual autonomy" argument resonates with me.
The twin museum at Sinsheim as a Concorde and a Tu-144 next to each other. Makes for a fun day with a rental car from Frankfurt if you are an aviation nerd.
Ask HN: Can we redefine what “Hard work” is and what it isn't?
I see people that are so busy doing things, sleeping less, working more, and showing others how busy they are, Is it an illusion ? are they fooling themselves to feel important ? or everyone should be like that ? is it worthy working hard without getting anyone's attention ? just wondering ... !
The only reason that Thiel could successfully sue them for such damages is that they did the whole "Publish a sex tape and refuse a judge's order" thing. Without that, or a similar action, then it's not clear that Thiel would have been able to destroy them.

If anything, the most problematic part of the story for me, is that Hulk Hogan had to get the backing of a billionaire in order to carry this case to completion. Hogan is a (or was a) celebrity, likely a millionaire, and he couldn't use our court system to press a suite when he had a real case. We seem to be on the exact other extreme of what you are afraid of - typical people, even 1% types, or "Single digit millionaires" as I've heard Thiel say, can't afford to use our legal system. Gawker and the ilk are free from legal challenge except in the case of litigious billionaires looking for revenge.
That’s the new colonialism.
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So literally - and I use the word literally correctly - any of the thousands of shady, useless, scammy apps can get my name and current coordinates?

The ONLY thing this advertising-surveillance industrial complex is missing is a sample of my DNA!
If you don't mind, I'd like to maybe chat with you a bit and get your opinion on some things (and maybe see if I've actually met you before). My (mainly throwaway) email is ytterbium35 (at major email service run by google).

If you don't feel like it, feel free to ignore.
A: War and ethnic strife.
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I agree with you (Uwe) that "We reap what we sow" is not really applicable here. That simplistic line of thinking could be applied to all sorts of current situations and past "injustices" (depending on your perspective.)

You reap as you sow style arguments only really work when you have a simple cause:effect. We could play that style of argument ad absurdam in lots of ways, for example: GB decides to levy a (pretty small) tax on tea on her colonies a few years back, cue Boston Tea Party and other acts of terrorism on a grand scale. Blah blah blah ... history happens ... USA etc. It really isn't that simple.

Facile, simplistic attempts to explain modern events based on single events from the long distant past - no matter how important at the time - are rarely helpful to understanding, let alone getting to a solution.

Attempting to fit a pithy epithet to this sort of process is a bit unpleasant and disingenuous at best when chatting on an internet forum and might become dangerously destructive when wielded by a politician, especially one with real power.

Covefe, anyone?
But they are for economies of scale. Product like UberPool, LyftLine, and UberEats were born from it. The business gets more efficient, and as the network keeps evolving it’ll open up new business opportunities that’ll drive prices down.
Have you tried pricing train tickets? I have, and it's always more expensive than flying.

Just now, I decided to price a ticket from Delray Beach, Florida (where the closest Amtrak station is to my house) to Deland, Florida (a distance of 220 miles). By car (and my car, I mean, my car, which gets 30mpg), it's a total of six hours (three there, three back) and will cost me $45 in gas (assuming $3.00/gallon, which is a bit high right now). This is doable in one day (leave by 9:00 am, arrive around noon, leave at 6:00 pm, arrive home by 9:00 pm).

The same trip, by Amtrak, costs $96 (twice my gas costs), and is impossible to do in one day. The train leaves at 9:22 am, arrives at 2:39 pm (over five hours, but more on this below). The train back leaves at 1:02 pm and right there you should see the problem---I have to stay overnight, incurring more cost. But anyway, it leaves at 1:02 pm and arrives at 8:31 pm, taking over seven hours.

The departure times assume everything goes smoothly. My first real train trip [1] from Delray Beach to Kissimmee (not quite as far as Deland) was incredible (don't get me wrong), but the train from Kissimmee back to Delray Beach was over two hours late, and I was informed that that is a common occurrence for Amtrak (it not owning the track it runs on), but had it been on time, I would have only had about half an hour in Kissimmee. Had the train from Delray Beach been late, and the train from Kissimmee been on time, I would have missed my connection.

[1] http://boston.conman.org/2015/08/05 [2]

[2] I never did find out how much my friend paid for his trip, but I assume it was the price of a car.
> The great thing about democracy is that it provides a fairly objective definition of what is "correct."

Democracy reveals what's popular and makes the popular powerful. I think history shows clearly that "popular" is not the same as "correct".
I guess the point is that Facebook has a responsibility to stop this proactively, not just make money off it until someone complains.
Caller ID is available via Twilio here:

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Unlisted users might be able to present any data they please here:

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Let me clarify what I was saying: I was redundantly (for clarity) talking about cache on the SSD, trying to make it extra clear that I wasn't talking about any kernel cache.

I'm trying to figure out how, exactly, you've read my attempt at excessive clarity; it's not clear to me yet what you misread, since it seems like you're trying to correct some misunderstanding, but it hasn't worked because you haven't said anything that isn't already blindingly obvious.

There is no "metadata relevant to the SSD innards" available. The md drivers do not have this information

This is not an insight.

The cache I'm interested in is tied up in how the SSD presents as a block device, but isn't implemented as a block device, as block devices are normally understood (wear levelling and remapping, hidden parallelism / striping, etc.). Yes, the FS cache can't help with this. Yes, the RAID implementation can't help with this. Of course. It's internal to the SSD. It's innards. I don't see what information you added.
It was a long time ago, but I recall them using the word "state" in the same context we currently use it, which is typically a layer of government above the lowest level of organization. Being sans-state is not the same thing as anarchy.

Of course there was violence, but since this was not a time known for having the best records, it is anyone's guess as to whether there was more or less of it. In the last 20 years, our imperium has destroyed several sovereign states and killed hundreds of thousands or millions (depending on who you ask) for absolutely no damn reason.

Centralization is typically better at directed goals (such as violence) than decentralization, so your assertion that "the economy was way more directly violence-based" is on shaky ground. Our economy is very violence based, it's just that most of it has been abstracted away from direct contact (see Smedley Butler).

Just shrink the concept down to personal computers. Did you prefer the wild-west of the 70s/80s that gave us Apple IIs, Amigas, Commodores, Ataris, PC-88s, and numerous others, or did you prefer the late 90s when Microsoft seemed to have the whole thing on lock-down?
> Do you honestly believe that the parent meant that nobody drives drunk anymore?

yep. that was my honest interpretation of the parent comment.
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TFA doesn't make it clear, but clicking through to the ruling it seems that this is just on the preliminary anti-SLAPP motion. The trial judge still has a chance to get it right. (IANAL)
In London, efforts have been made to make buses and trains accessible for the blind and the mobility impaired, but there are also a couple of public schemes specifically for them. Taxicard makes it easy to arrange taxi trips, and subsidises them:

https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/taxis-and-minicabs/taxicard-and-cap...

Dial-a-ride is a shared minibus:

https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/dial-a-ride/

As the names hint, they have been running for years and years. I am lucky enough not to need them, and can't comment on how good they are, but i think it demonstrates that a sensible public transport authority can help less able people have the same freedom to travel as everyone else.
>That link about vocal characteristics is only relevant when talking about huge populations. On an individual basis it's meaningless, there's just too much variation.

If we are talking about white/black voice difference, then it is meaningful.

>Now if "Japanese" isn't a race then nothing is. The vast majority of Japanese are identifiable on a genetic level due to the relative isolation of the country.

Race is just a more broad concept than an ethnic group, that's what I mean.

>If you're talking some stereotypically Polish person compared to some stereotypically Arabic person from Egypt, obviously, but there's cases where ordinary Turkish people look more "European" than some groups of Europeans do.

That's what I meant when I said that it would be easier if you take groups 100 hundred people, it averages out. And yeah, Europeans and Arabs are white, so there is little difference between them.

>The bell curve on these things is just too wide, there's nothing but overlap in all but the most extreme fringes.

Yes, "cline" is a better description than "race" but it is not as useful in daily life as "race" is.
For a bottle.

Or in a German restaurant, 500ml. 1 liter of beer goes for $16-18
he's definitely doing it wrong there. As a scientific C programmer, I would never do that, I would malloc one contiguous array of nrows*ncolumns. And my freeing of the array would be as simple as his Fortran deallocate.

Sure, C could make multi-dimensional array handling nicer, but I have macros that basically do his A[x,y,z] for me, admittedly a bit more verbosely.

Many of his points about Fortran are true, but almost all his statements about C are false. Or nearly so, yes, copying an array of floats requires calling a function, memcpy, and not just using an equals sign, but that ain't rough and falls into his idea of "what actually happens ‘under the hood’ inside a computer". And others are easily handled by adopting things like the MKL (want to take the sin of everything in an array, see https://software.intel.com/en-us/mkl-developer-reference-c-t... )
I used to set up my own VPN server. As I don't trust the firmware (that was trying to send the data to the manufacturer) I have implemented a whitelist-based proxy that would allow connecting only to approved sites. Pretty inconvenient to be honest because sites often pull content from many domains including numerous CDNs with long meaningless host names. A web version of Skype uses some 20 domains if I remember correctly.
Libgen
I should mention that on High Sierra there’s a bug with kill(-1, ...) that sometimes causes Nix builds to lock up the whole system.
For DSL (DOmain Specific Languages) I use R for my data work. For general computing I use to be a Python and Lua person but now I use Racket, because I can create my own DSL for what I am doing. https://beautifulracket.com/

I totally get the reason why he would go to Julia for doing data jobs. Data structures and already done libraries are very valuable.
True! I should have been more specific about the form of ignorance.