skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I supported Milo Yiannopoulos in the hope and expectation that his expression of views contrary to the social mainstream and his spotlighting of the hypocrisy of those who would close down free speech in the name of political correctness would promote the type of open debate and freedom of thought that is being throttled on many American college campuses today.

'The Overton window made me mad, so I threw a brick through it!'
If you can get VC-like dealflow and vetting - yea. Would need a few years before building a reasonably sized portfolio too. On top of that - this kind of a deal isn't going to play too well with future investors. Not to mention you won't be getting liquidation preferences etc.

It's stacked against you in every possible way. You could work for regular pay and just make angel investments?
This, and all other thousands of cases of malware in the universe should mean something for those who defend "native" apps over webapps.
My 4 year old daughter was able to recognise a fairly artistic photo of a proboscis monkey [0] about one month after having seen an episode of Wild Kratts [1] (in Belgium they only have the cartoon and not any live footage). So this was not a toy that she'd played with, she'd never seen a photo and they don't have them at the local zoo. Nor was it an obvious animal. But clearly the nose is distinctive enough to match up from a cartoon to a photo.

In dutch it's effectively called a 'nose monkey' (neusaap) which makes the name easier to remember for kids.

[0]: http://timflach.com/work/endangered/slideshow/#74

[1]: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RPnKpAsxUaM/maxresdefault.jpg
Forgive my ignorance, but couldn't this be explored with 20th-century technology like a very long drill bit and a fiber optic camera rig?

Every article about this mentions sending up tiny flying robots for some reason.
Looking at this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15613848, I wonder if it could help to simplify C++ by moving some of the existing features into libraries, which you would have to include for backwards compatibility, but could do without if you didn't need backwards compatibility.
Yeah, but 'some' is different than most.

It's pretty dang universal to feel "good" after putting in effort to achieve something.
Is that part of the original sculpture? It looks like a modern pedestal constructed for it to me.
who says MariaDB doesn't work with ProxySQL?

Also, this statement is total BS:

"The risk of moving to MariaDB Server if you aren’t using newer MySQL features may be minimal, but the risk of moving out of MariaDB Server to MySQL is very prevalent."

Here is the correct statement:

"The risk of moving to MariaDB Server if you aren’t using newer MySQL features may be minimal, and the risk of moving to MySQL server if you aren't using newer MariaDB features is also minimal."

I switch between multiple versions of MySQL and MariaDB all day long. If you aren't using specific things like MySQL's JSON type or NDB storage engine or expecting CHECK constraints to enforce on MySQL (oddly omitted from this feature comparison!), there is nothing different at all from a developer point of view, beyond the default values of flags which honestly change more between MySQL releases than anything else.

As the maintainer of SQLAlchemy I think MySQL more often makes backwards-incompatible changes more often than MariaDB, such as just from 5.7.19 to 5.7.20 they decided to change the name of "@tx_isolation" to "@transaction_isolation" (and no, "@transaction_isolation" is not in 5.7.19, they just changed the name on a point release) and start emitting a prominent, scary warning when you use @tx_isolation that is breaking people's CI builds - on a point release.

The reason a vendor like Percona or a linux distro chooses to favor MySQL or MariaDB is mostly about that vendor's relationship with Oracle (or lack thereof) more than anything else. I'm stuck using both all the time but the MariaDB community certainly feels more accessible than trying to get through to people working at Oracle.
I find it very amusing that "scalable blockchain database" is the core selling point here. I must be experiencing buzzword fatigue I think. Why would I want to Chuck my boring MySQL installation for this?
> I don't think they are going to write tests that are more complicated than unit tests

I find unit tests are useless for most cases. But this doesn’t stop me from writing more complicated tests. Even unit tests when they’re useful. E.g. for sufficiently complex low-level SIMD math routines: inputs & outputs are simple, no IO, no multithreading, no large dependencies, no side effects, just some computations, and tons of weird _mm256_verb_typesuffix intrinsics everywhere i.e. it’s very easy to make mistakes writing these.

> what type of software do you write

Lately Windows CAD and Linux embedded. Previously mobile software, PC and console videogames, CNC & robotics, GIS, WinCE/embedded, multimedia/video codecs, utilities for Windows administration, lots of other stuff.

> how do you know if it actually works?

I use strongly typed languages that catch 99% of stupid errors at compile time. I test it manually while using debugger at the same time to inspect internal state. I design my software to be testable, e.g. logging, asserts, configurable debug dumps, well-defined interfaces between components so they can be tested in isolation, etc.

P.S. Today I’ve fixed 3 bugs in my code.

[Windows] A user tried using my software on old AMD CPU, it didn’t work ‘coz SSE 4.1 instruction set is not supported.

[Windows] Under some conditions, my code reads value from a depth+stencil D3D texture while the GPU is still rendering previously submitted commands into the same texture, read fails.

[Linux] When both HDMI and DSI displays are connected, my DRM/KMS client code selects the wrong one.

All three are caused by environment or external hardware, and you can’t unit test these.
You get 100% of this credit passed on to you (cut right out of your negotiated amount) if you lease for 36mo. That's they way to get inexpensive electrics - lease and then keep it if you want it after 3 years.
I think the alarm bells were in the alts, not Bitcoin itself. The crypto community used to use alts as a way of testing out new transaction processing concepts (Proof of Stake, new mining algorithms to stop ASIC abuse, etc). Now, we seem to be testing out these new techniques on Bitcoin itself through the various forks that have occurred in recent months.
sigh No, no it isn't. Not even close.

The fact of the matter is, people want to be paid for the stuff they create. That's how they're enabled to create more of that stuff. We learned a long, long time ago that people didn't want to outright pay for things. That doesn't leave many options.
I would honestly be more worried about the root CAs which are enabled by default in the most popular OSes and browsers, with root CA privileges for government of China controlled entities, Turkish government entities and unethical/shoddy root CAs such as Symantec. The Netherlands recently passed a law allowing the government specifically to use false keys and run MITM on crypto, which brings into question all .NL based CAs.
I think you're entirely right on the media thing. I've used them on JP->US and US->JP over the years as my sources of income and expense destinations have shifted around. They're pretty brilliant, but it's clear that they're just buying dollars from UFJ (who has a lot of dollars to sell) at a rate better than the one UFJ would quote me.

Which is fine! It does exactly what it says on the tin.
Check out the recent O'Reilly book Tragic Design for more situations exactly like this.

Poor UI design is remarkably common, even on controls that are essential for safe operations.

http://www.tragicdesign.com
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It's a question of risk mitigation. Would you say that a 5% risk of humans going extinct it worth it, for an oil company to collect an extra $50 billion in profits?

I would say no. An oil CEO might say yes.

Who should have a bigger say in public policy, the civilians facing the 5% possibility of human extinction and no extra paycheck, or the oil CEO weighing their paycheck against possible human extinction?

The current head of the EPA clearly thinks oil industry profits are more important. Trump clearly thinks oil industry profits are more important.
Flipping heads 200 Times is definitely possible, I can do the math to prove that. It is just greatly improbable to happen in the space or lifetime of the universe.
End of growth is not end of absorption. Still 40 to 50 M phones sold every quarter... I think seeing everything through the financial growth lens really keeps us from grasping how steadily a stagnating Apple would still be physically growing.
Historically speaking, if you bought bitcoin at any point and time and held on to it for 2 years it would outperform an S&P 500 index. We can argue about how long that trend would continue, but those who have chosen to invest at least something in bitcoin have made a good investment so far.

Yes, it is a high risk investment, and yes you could lose 99% of your investment. If you don't have a tolerance for that kind of risk, then bitcoin shouldn't make up much (if any) of your portfolio.
There is a huge difference between science (research) and panic (person belief systems). The parent comment avoided bias by avoiding both, but you jumped right into stereotypes and accusations.
A CDN That Can Not XSS You: Using Subresource Integrity
That sounds very un-clever (edit: I mean by Microsoft). Why couldn't malware do the exact same thing?
Either they weren't the first ones at Apple with those last names, or they're avoiding bots that guess email addresses.
How about you post this in "Who's Hiring?" thread, where it belongs?
Well you can look at the certificate store by running certmgr.msc, but it's a dangerous game - do you trust Go Daddy, COMODO or Symantec any more than you do Savitech? They have all at one point or another given reason to not even entrust them with organising a piss-up in a brewery.

Other applications like Firefox have their own independent root CA store.
Are you trying to argue that the US, Australia and the UK are the most irrational and dysfunctional countries in the world?
page.js is used by many people, documentation is great and support is not needed at all because it is simple and just works (while React Router is incredibly complicated for such a simple thing).

React Router depends on a ton of libraries and thus has a huge impact on your build size (not to mention your disk while developing).

But maybe because they have "React" in the name and have got some network effects everybody keeps using and recommending them?
I understand that Julian Assange HATES HRC but I think 99% of other people don't understand the feud between the two.

How is this not a Cyber Watergate IF this is true?
It's too bad their happiness can't translate into ultrawide video being displayed properly on an ultrawide monitor in my browser. I have tried a few times to inform them but I guess it either gets lost before it ever reaches the people who can fix it, or they just don't care to fix it.

Black bars surrounding all four sides of the video (only with ultrawide content on ultrawide browser) because their app can't properly apply video dimension to the user screen dimension is kind of sad.

It's a little hard to believe they don't know about it, because I'm not the only one affected. There are even some compromise-options users contribute through use of Chrome extensions like this one:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ultrawide-display-...

Even this is not a good solution, because Chrome is limited to 720p (Edge goes to 4k).

So.. users can either get a smaller video in a box centered on their screen, but with higher resolution, or they can get actual fullscreen with a poorly supported browser at penalty of a lower resolution.

I know, not the best place for bug reports, but customer support, Twitter, other social media all have failed to solve this for a good year and a half.. Hopefully one of their engineers can read this and think "I feel empowered enough at my job to be able to pursue a solution to this."
I'm reading it and I'm just wondering what this line means

(eqv? #\1 (call-with-input-file userns-file read-char))

specifically the #\1?
I think that assessment correct, but not deep enough. We have a generational problem of unlimited access to unfiltered information in the hands of a population mostly unequipped to handle it. The education problem arises from that larger problem.
The denialists have been moving the goalposts on these questions for the last 30 years. At first they strongly denied 1, but slowly they have been conceding on 1-5. Meanwhile their delay tactics have caused 6 to become more and more false. I suspect the 2000 election of Bush over Gore will go down as one of the most consequential elections in human history because every decade of delay will have effects for thousands of years.
A new name for a very old concept. People keep inventing these things...
That depends on the settlements. There are many Greek settlements far under water, but this has nothing to do with climate. It has everything to do with earthquakes. There is more that changes the world than climate.
How do we know humans are the cause again? The planet is what, 6 billion years old? Oldest "humans" are roughly ~3 million years old?

Gee. That sure does leave a lot of room for variable. I'm not saying we shouldn't try to take care of our planet (hint, we should because our options are limited in space ;) ), but jesus christ. 6 billion years. You can't prove jack shit with 2700 years worth of data.
I think the point is we don't want them to continue making videos.
Yeah Metaclasses in Python are obviously so powerful and make programs so easy to read, so let's just go ahead and add those as well.

Now we only write

struct Point {
int x;
int y;
};

to get the oh-so-needed

class Point {
private:
int x;
int y;
public:
Point() =default;
~Point() noexcept =default;
Point(const Point&) =default;
Point& operator=(const Point&) =default;
Point(Point&&) =default;
Point& operator=(const Point&&) =default;
};

Genius! Almost like 1972 where we wrote the former and that was just fine!
I found https://haveibeenpwned.eu and https://haveibeenpwned.ninja don't use Report URI
Sure, but I thought we were talking about the context of documentary /instructional /information videos.

For entertainment that's fine, I enjoy cartoons, drama etc. as much as anyone.
You're misinterpreting the statement. It is obviously not claiming that muscle mass follows a specific trajectory regardless of all other factors. It is claiming that muscle mass follows a statistical trajectory holding other factors constant.

It's as if someone said that a car coasting to a stop slows by roughly 1% of speed every second and you tried to refute this by pointing out that if you hit the accelerator it goes faster.
Saying it's inconvenient, or that you'd prefer text is an opinion. But that's not what OP said; they said it's hostile. That is an entitlement.
What is with the huge percentage of users here that think this sort of thing is okay?
You're paying higher spreads, twice, and (likely) higher fees, twice, and also going long BTC for at least a portion of the day. This is unlikely to be cheaper than Transferwise unless you win at Casino Bitcoin.
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Presumably you need to grant the installer admin privileges for it to work
Their Q&A site was vastly better than what existed at the time, and that's how they won the market. Now, though, it is full of people looking for quick points (as you suggest) -- people that think that the original poster was asking for someone to search Google for 'em -- and I'm convinced that the truly helpful people have moved just given up.

One thing I've noticed, that drives me crazy, is people demanding more information in response to a question, without any intention of using that information to help find an answer. Their whole goal is to score points for asking more details. I don't mean to suggest that more details aren't useful, only that it isn't helpful in any way to ask for more information if you don't intend to follow up. (Perhaps that could be improved by allowing those sorts of requests to be sent privately, and without any chance of generating points?)
No, I'm saying a person of Buffet's talent could find his way to leverage his bets as much as the bets support being leveraged.

In our world there are many people who want him to take their money and he did until he felt he couldn't use any more and then he stopped taking more money, and I am saying in the hypothetical world where he would be worth $24k at 30, by 60 there would be many people who want him to take their money and he would take as much as he think he can put to good use and then stop taking new money, and he would be worth about the same.

Of course, this is a bit of an exaggeration. There is some luck involved, both in the sense of his decisions playing out well and in the sense of him managing to put himself in positions where his personal investment skill is measured and recorded so he can later use it to attract investors in his own fund.

Also, at 20 you can take chances that you might not be able to afford at 30, by which time you may be starting a family, etc' etc'.

But I'm saying that Buffet, Simmons, all these consistently successful investors - their net worth is uncorrelated to how much money they were worth in the year when they started their fund, because there's always more people wanting to throw money at them than they could use, and they make money from fees as well as compound interest so they can play catch up to their millionaire-at-30-counterfactual-self pretty quickly.

And while "compound interest is a strong force of nature" is a very correct claim, all exponential growth processes I've seen in nature eventually flatten, so you shouldn't look at the world purely from that perspective. Buffet succeeded mostly because he is extremely talented and had some luck. Bezos succeeded mostly because he is extremely talented and had some luck. Antibiotics succeeded mostly because they save lives a lot. Radar, assembly lines, jets, rockets.

I mean, I've served as an engineer in a military force at a time of emergency. I've seen how much of a boost there is to inventiveness and getting things done when everyone starts thinking about winning instead of not being sued/etc'. I think our unit did about a year's worth of work in every week of a state of emergency. But we still would have gotten that work done.

I guess I'm saying I fully agree with the post's moral but strongly disagree with everything the author said to justify it. Maybe I should be more charitable.
I think you have provided a great example of why people don't feel comfortable expressing doubts about climate.

A thought exercise to hopefully make it easier to empathize with these people. Imagine you are transported back several hundred years into a Catholic ruled country. You don't believe in God but you don't discuss that with strangers because you often hear people say things like "Reasonable people cannot disagree about Scripture, which is overwhelmingly on the side of eternal damnation on those who don't believe."

Imagine you hear this stuff in the market, at your job, and from the street corners. No amount of hearing this is going to convince you to believe in God. If anything this reinforces the feelings you have that religious people are hateful and ignorant.
> Sounds like your computer architecture classes were not up to date or very well taught.

Or maybe I went to school before C++11 was around.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm pretty sure most users actually want the driver installed.

The correct solution would be for microsoft to allow unsigned drivers (perhaps with a warning.)
I didn't say it was easy, but dismissing it as impossible doesn't do anything to accelerate that process because it drains people's morale at the beginning of the task.
That’s not a lifting regimen. You don’t need crunches if you’re doing heavy squats or deadlifts. You don’t need bicep curls at all. And chest press must be balanced with barbell rows. As to how many reps, I only do 10 or more reps during warmup. From there on out it’s 5 reps per set or so, and at the end I do a few heavy singles at about 85-90% of PR.
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That you're stuck on LTS doesn't matter to everyone who's not and has been able to use async/await natively for a while now.

In other words, you've been able to for a while now, you've just chosen constraints that don't let you, so your response isn't very honest.
Orbits only really decay due to atmospheric drag. Other tiny bits of cosmic, rarified gas can slow the spacecraft on a long timescale, and solar radiation pressure can perturb an orbit (occasionally dramatically, if the Sun is unhappy), but the effect is far smaller than constant drag. If a small satellite is orbiting Earth at a high enough altitude which was calculated to consider the broader gravitational system (Earth's natural satellites, the Sun, and fainter perturbations from nearby celestial objects have to be factored in), orbit can be designed to be stable on a long, long timescale. Millions of years, or more.

The real fly in your plan's ointment would be exposure to space, which sucks a lot for electronics.
A classic example:
https://www.rentec.com/
Steroids are one of the most used drugs in the world. It taken off pretty well.
I don't see why this person's post is downvoted. That was a good question.
but main question is how to monetize this content ... it seems patreon is the only option?
I rarely see anyone present well thought out specifics of what should be removed from the language when making these types of claim. There are some complex areas (two phase name lookup springs to mind) that might be done differently if designed anew but I haven't seen too many good examples of things that could be "easily" removed, backwards compatibility be damned, that I have found to be actual problems in practice. The best examples are usually legacies of C.
Belief systems. When something is not in your sensory environment, and not in your experiential history, you are relying on a belief of what might happen - like, will our crops get rain next week?

To illustrate, you might enjoy Joseph Henrich's example of how the Ilahita tribe of Papua New Guinea was able to expand their tribe size beyond the Dunbar number (>300 people). In their case, having a large enough tribe to battle neighboring tribes was a matter of survival against an existential threat. (11:20 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmpSwbtWopM)

What's interesting in the scenario presented was the tribe expanded their religion to a dual moeity system. This introduced new rituals and gods that helped the tribe form economic, social and emotional bonds - ultimately allowing the tribe to expand in size.

Its an example of how _belief_ in gods that are contradictory to our modern science provided an organizational fitness function to combat their environment.

I'd imagine very few people actually interpret their world through a scientific belief system. Further, what some consider scientific, might not fit the belief system of others who are more rigorous. The lack of widely accepted model for beliefs based on _scientific thinking_ might be the scariest part of our society today. Personally, I blame the short-comings of our language as it is not well suited to communicate scientific knowledge efficiently (ie, for 3rd grade readers) and without ambiguity.