skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While we fix bugs in our Linux packages so they work on USW/WSL this one appears to have problems (and I do not expect I will look into them any time soon):

Python 1.0.1 (Mar 26 2014)
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Segmentation fault (core dumped)

.. I did capture the backtrace though; for what it's worth:

(gdb) bt
#0 0x00000000004212bb in do_mkvalue ()
#1 0x00000000004210a7 in do_mktuple ()
#2 0x00000000004211a8 in do_mkvalue ()
#3 0x00000000004213f2 in vmkvalue ()
#4 0x00000000004214a1 in mkvalue ()
#5 0x0000000000422438 in err_input ()
#6 0x000000000042258c in parse_file ()
#7 0x00000000004226ae in run_file ()
#8 0x0000000000422bf3 in run_script ()
#9 0x000000000042232a in realmain ()
#10 0x00000000004039f4 in main ()
Was there ever a "epidemiological" study of financial bubbles?
Maybe I just have big hands or I'm uncoordinated, but I've never been able to use one of these things without touching the inside at the top at least once. The last thing I want to be doing is touching a probably filthy surface after washing my hands.
> The value of current crypto-currencies might very well be zero, even if there is some value to blockchain technology.

Sure. I'm just saying; you can't know. Bitcoin might be around in 5 years, Ethereum might be the platform everything gets built upon, or something better comes along, or it all dies never to be heard of again.

> Comparing market caps like that is silly. I launch my own coin pg314-coin, 1 billion exist. I sell one to my friend for $1000. The market cap is now $1 trillion, twice that of Facebook...

Approx. $10bn worth of Bitcoin was traded in the last 24 hours ($200bn market cap). Approx. $3.4bn Facebook shares were traded per day during the last 50 trading sessions ($550bn market cap).

Let's assume that even half of that Bitcoin trading is wash trading (which I don't think so). I think it's a pretty good way of looking at market caps. But you're right for the smaller coins -- those valuations are not in line with the money invested.

> That is true of any period in time where the stock market went up. If you have a positive return to start with you can have an arbitrary multiplier with 'leverage used in a smart way'.

Sure. But debt has been cheap in the last 10 to 20 years, and that has driven up asset prices significantly across the globe. People overpay for assets everywhere.

In times when everything has been going up, people are more willing to take risks. In times where everything is falling, people are less likely to take on speculative investments. That's just part of the cycle.
Surely that means that the people who replicate it from your ("your friends" and "your friends of friends") would be required to delete the (personal) data?
Not a female, but growing up I read every Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew and Goosebumps book I could get my hands on.

In my opinion this trait exists for all genders.
Given a map, and starting from a known position, it is perfectly possible to know where you are by continuously updating your position by knowing your direction and distance covered, corrected by recognizing features on the map as you reach them. When done from boats or airplanes, this is known as pilotage, but it is much easier on land, where there are no winds or currents, and even easier when restricted to a road network. I don't know whether any autonomous car is equipped to do this, but it would seem to be one of the lesser technical problems of the field.
The “failure to capitalize” in Italy was due to huge economic pressure on public finances in the late ‘80s, that wiped any surplus (which cultural industries need, in order to thrive) and fostered a mindset where “culture doesn’t pay”. Liberalisation of the tv sector also opened the doors to a flood of cheap imports from US, UK and Japan.
Those are racist undertones, even when put in context.
Open Source is a contemporary invention introduce by Eric S. Raymond in 1997, so any failure of Ted to utilise it is a bit unfair as he was living in a different era. For me the key take away from Ted is the democratisation of computer use, without Ted there is a very real chance we never would have had fully functioning stand alone PC's, it was Teds discussions with Bill Lower at IBM that persuaded them there would be a personal computer market, and that as a creative media tool, it would find a home in every house, thanks Ted :) Imagine a world like now, except we only ever got dumb terminals to connect into Facebook, etc, sure 98% of the world might not notice the difference, but the flexible computing power in the hands of the 2% has massive potential, as the open source movement has adequately demonstrated!
They happen so much on the internet there sort of needs to be a shorthand instead of gently hinting at why you cant take their statement seriously. Maybe there should be discussion system with 'fallacy flags' instead of downvote buttons.
I predict nothing useful will emerge.

The blockchain is an interesting Computer Science toy. But in the 10+ years since it was invented, the only real application that anyone has found for it is Massively Distributed Ponzi Schemes.

The problems that you point out with London Transport aren't solvable by a distributed blockchain, because London Transport is a single central authority. It's completely pointless creating a distributed ticketing mechanism for them where they don't have all the power, because the ticketing mechanism is for the trains that London Transport run and control completely. There's no point having a ticket that London Transport don't recognise as valid. They're always going to be a single point of failure because they run the whole system. Sorry to be so blunt about it.

The solution to this problem is not to add in MORE complexity, networking and distribution. It'll be in removing complexity and improving connectivity.

But, of course, your stock price doesn't increase by removing complexity. You need the blockchains to impress the idiots who buy shares.
Why don't you simply just don't use them ?
They also don’t actually work outside of a few models, they are always slow to use, they are extremely loud, and when restaurants only have air dryers and not paper towels, you can’t clean anything besides your hands (e.g. your shirt or your face). Air dryers suck.
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I’ve always wondered — from a security perspective, is this kind of an in-depth engineering blogpost a good idea? You’re basically handing a map of your internal infrastructure to any potential attacker who reads the blog.

Of course obscurity is not security blah blah blah. Still I can’t help feeling that writeups like this could backfire down the line.
checkinstall [0] lets you create deb, rpm, and a few other formats from Debian, so long as you have a decent makefile. Basically replaces the "make install" step.

[0] https://wiki.debian.org/CheckInstall
Navigation by GPS and collision avoidance are not mutually exclusive - people do it all the time. They operate at different scales.
Dysons were briefly popular in hospitals, as a cost-saving measure. Turns out permanently installing a safe harbor for bacteria in the form of a device that is constantly hot and moist, and then blowing that crap onto people’s hands...

Dysons were worse. It was so damn easy to accidentally touch the edge of one while pulling your hand out. Time to wash your hands -all over again-.

It’s been a while since I saw a hospital with air blow dryers, Dyson or otherwise. At least in the areas where physicians clean their hands.
BTW, if the handle is to be trusted, I think it's really cool to see original authors embracing free and open platforms like archive.org :

https://archive.org/details/@tednelson

Even if the hypertext is inferior, and there are no transitive, diminishing microtransactions automatically compensate authors in the case of content transclusion...

Now, I just whish the books were available in a digital format at a reasonable promise[ed: reasonable price, lol. But in this case "reasonable promise" works too]. I remember my university library had a single, battered copy of "Computer Lib" - that probably none of the students who were studying "information science" " (as opposed to computer science) had heard of...
Since I just grabbed the first link from DDG, and failed to check if it was working, here's a corrected link:

https://www.iab.com/guidelines/digital-video-player-ad-inter...
A few years ago, I recall being impressed at the clealiness of the toilets in Edinburgh train station. An attendant was diligently wiping each urinal with a cloth, and also used the same cloth to wipe the Dyson hand dryer.

I’m sure it’s not a common practice, but I’ve avoided them ever since.
Signage for a waste disposal site presumes a waste disposal site. If you’re recklessly leaving radioactive material around in an abandoned hospital, thinking about signage is a rather marginal improvement.
I tire of this same irrelevant point there always appears on Ted as if everyone else is running around shipping perfectly functional software, on time and on budget, like the NHS for example, which failed to build what was essentially a database, with 100 times what Autodesk spent on Xanadu, not adjusting for inflation...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/18/nhs-records-...

Ted is not essentially a programmer, Ted is a creative generalist, inventor and systems designer, why don't you blame the team implementing his ideas ? Not that I would, it was a complex system to implement now, then, well, I cannot imagine!
On the other hand, you have a team of X employees who work at the company. I'm sure many of them have access to this map.

By sharing this with the world, you are encouraged to face any vulnerabilities that you may have overlooked.
The Dyson hand dryers are really awful. This adds a dimension to it, but the one that bothers me more is that their design makes them excessively awkward, if not impossible, for many people to use at all.

https://www.disabilityaccessconsultants.com.au/dyson-hand-dr...
- Will it support linking several iCloud accounts to it or just a single one?
- If it just supports one, will it only allow messages from this account? Then the functionality will be limited for the rest of the household members.
- How will multi-user work? Because regardless whether it only supports one or several messaging users, it should ensure that only the relevant recipient can choose to play messages out-loud. It also needs to have some sort of mechanism to understand who is saying “Send a message to mom” and use the right sender and destination for that message. Otherwise I can picture very funny things making the news…
- Will it sync multiple address books from multiple providers? In the example above “mom” is an entry in someone’s phone, but it may be coming from iCloud, Google Contacts or an Exchange server. Will the HomePod take the address book services from the phone (all the authorized users’ phones) and sync them itself?
- How will it authenticate users? Will it share the “Hey Siri” voice profile from the iPhone or users will have to do some voice training for the HomePod itself?
It doesn’t read like a thoughtful piece. It’s aggressive, weirdly punctuated, and hammers on this disease analogy that doesn’t hold up. Also tonally it sounds like he thinks guns are really a disease. Some people think drug addiction is, but tell someone with cancer that you have heroin addiction and see how well the model works. The writer of this thing is a jerk. For me that invalidates his point. He has an agenda in fear, not fact.
Bush's key message was 'Augmenting Intellect', so personally his angle for me was intellectual and very educationally driven, Ted'd vision was far more inclusive of the wider world of media in general, for pleasure and education, and for me reflects more clearly a vision of what we have now.
Agreed. I tried ages ago to come up with a sort of footpump that would force open the hydraulic closer on most doors, just to avoid the "touch the exit door with my just washed hands, collecting two days worth of other men's urine" - but the pressure / force needed to open a door is huge
Correctly identifying fallacies is a useful skill. Doing it incorrectly and thinking you are correct is a detriment to yourself and conversation. (Kinda like how certain people say "fake news" to refer to things they don't agree with, even if it is factual).
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$170bn is just the annual inflow of resources.

The air force is easily a 3-trillion dollar organisation - that's what it would cost to rebuild machinery, equipment and know-how over decades if it wouldn't exist.
Google has served malicious ads at least as far back as last spring:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/6rm5ig/alert_full...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14140756
> The KeyboardInterrupt exception for SIGINT.

I never noticed that but now that you say it...

There should be a way to pass an option to Python so that if you do 'python --early-sigint "message"' it prints the message for an early sigint.

You should post that to the python-ideas mailing list. It's a long and tedious process to get everyone on board by writing mails, but it works. Pretty much everyone can do it.
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That was already closed at Sun times I believe since it contains third party code where Sun/Oracle didn't have the right to open source it.
hah, awesome stuff. One internet star for you.
Something tells me this battle isn't over. What's stop stop Trump from issuing another executive order that reinstates the tariffs? That's what he's been doing in a battle with the supreme courts on his Muslim ban for the past year.
I imagine the examples are probably fictional. The only thing you know is that they are using AWS.
The default referrer policy is "no-referrer-when-downgrade", so it won't send a Referer header to a "less" secure destination (HTTPS -> HTTP), but it will send one to an "equally" secure destination (HTTPS -> HTTPS).

Websites can override this though. For example, HN could send a "no-referrer" directive to prevent any Referer header being sent.

More information: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re...
On the flipside, being this open might mean that weaknesses come to light because of the increased scrutiny.

It's just like when talking about secure communication, you explain exactly how the public/private key exchange works, what algorithms are used, and how the entire handshake takes place. You don't say "We are keeping those details secret just in case it might aid some hacker".

The added benefit of everybody examining the process and agreeing that it's sound and secure is just too great to give up.
Not sure why the author chose to go with "elevator operator", instead of "horse-and-buggy driver".

> But if people aren’t careful, its fully autonomous cousin may one day drive the joy of driving, or even an entire joy of living, out of human experience.

There's no joy in spending 50 minutes in stop-and-go traffic on the freeway. This is a bunch of feel-good nonsense. Are you going to feel wistful about no longer spending three hours a day doing laundry by hand, too?
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The map / description in the blog post probably describes about 50% of all the applications running in AWS that I’ve seen, almost identically.

If they listed out security group and IAM configurations, or how exactly they’re connecting through the bastion, then it would be a little more risky, yes.
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He died happily by demeaning his peers which were happy because they made a good money from South Sea stocks. :)
If you feel the need to "pad" your current salary for negotiation purposes, and suspect "the work number" is giving out actuals....

Talk about stock option awards or other non-payroll events. Theworknumber only has visibility to payroll type events.
Not everyone does that and the point of the study was to figure out what happens if people with dirty hands use towels, dyson blades and other hand driers.
As someone who prides himself at figuring out song lyrics, I feel more and more unnerved when I listen to it, it’s like I’m straining to understand and eventually start to get anxious when I listen!

Once I stop caring and just listen, I like it a lot though.
But it's important to put them in context because it makes them more understandable.
A cool data science project would be analyzing the dictionaries of all languages (at least those sharing an alphabet) and finding networks of cognates or shared words, i.e. building a connected graph where all vertices are words and edges represent a cognate between a word in two languages.

I think the relevant keywords here would be "computational historical linguistics."
It’s not comparable in terms of hours spent. But could be comparable in effort spent.

You can’t trade 1 hour of McDonalds employee for 1 hour of car mechanic, for example. It’s not a fair trade. (And I’m not saying here that these are women’s and men’s roles. Just providing an example.)
The code comparison between CloudFormation’s abysmal JSON formatting and Terraform’s DSL is a bit disingenuous.

CloudFormation has supported YAML for at least a year or two now, and it’s leagues more readable and compact, not to mention maintainable—you can even add comments to your code with YAML (something that is impossible with the old JSON format).

I’ve spent a lot of time working between the two, and while Terraform does have a lot to offer and is often a very valid option, CloudFormation has its virtues, especially the fact that almost all bleeding edge AWS features are first available to be managed via CloudFormation (sometimes with weeks or months of lead time), and many bugs can be more readily ironed out with AWS support (assuming you have it).

Again, not saying don’t use Terraform, just that I don’t think the decision is quite as black and white as this blog post seems to make it.
I have to agree. This sort of hatred kind of made sense 150 years ago when it was part of a liberation struggle, but it's just plain racism at the moment. People should be better than this.

(Disclaimer: I'm a Bulgarian who's lived in the UK for the past decade. Most Bulgarians who have lived in Bulgaria their whole lives would probably disagree with me.)
>> However, the real reason these irritating dryers are popular is virtue-signalling: they're a way of announcing to everyone that you washed your hands

I don't see how that works. In most offices I've worked, the toilets were situated far from the desks, where nobody could hear the hand driers or see who was coming out of the can after the hand drier had gone off.

Also, I seriously doubt that strangers in the public loos look up at me and admire my determination not to spread my germs around. Public loos tend to be in places were people have very different things in mind: catch their train, finish their beer, etc.
Virtualization capable hardware required though (I don't know about Hyper-V).
We should probably also link to Nelson's response [1] to what he termed a hatchet job.

That said, it seems to me that the response is fairly nit-picky. You'd think that the Xanadu guys could put together an unoptimized demo of what their vision was using modern tech to brute-force things that would have had to be finessed. I understand they did release a demo a number of years ago, but I could never get it to work.

[1] Errors in "The Curse of Xanadu," by Gary Wolf: http://web.archive.org/web/20001003011753/http://xanadu.com....
So I could require anyone inside the EU to delete any mail they received from me? (I'm in the EU)
There're many decent web-based proprietary mail solutions, and I was really excited once Nylas Mail showed up, even though it's Electron-based. And then instantly disappointed by its license. Later, I was considering switching to Nylas Mail when they re-licensed their open-source client, but turned out by "please use this" they still require you to opt-in with Nylas Identity tied to Nylas Cloud[1] They could only help replace free (from mail vendors) Thunderbird, playing by the rules of the Thunderbird.

[1] https://github.com/nylas/nylas-mail/issues/3484
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I knew exactly what the song was the moment I read the title. It's nice that there's a ton of additional context in this article that we didn't get when it popped up on reddit 8 years ago.

Although I wonder if we'll get longform articles about eating Tide Pods in 2026.
"A person shouldn't have to have an advanced law degree to avoid being taken advantage of by a multi-billion-dollar company. You should be up front about what you're doing and allow people to opt out." - Ben, Parks and Recreation
Toronto was able to make the short list without any tax incentives.
There is a Thailand song that became famous in Vietnam because the lyric somehow sounds 90% like Vietnamese and with very funny meaning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0n4T0SQt70.
As I wrote: I think, on average, Esperanto speakers are more altruistic.

Someone who knows more about it should jump in, but as I get it: due to the limited use of the language, a lot of sharing is involved in the community.

Also, learning an almost useless language is hardly a selfish thing to do.

Why do you think this reasoning is ridiculous?
IIRC since the beginning tensorflow has required at least sm 3.0 support (Kepler or newer). I imagine the combination of a pre-AVX cpu and Kepler or newer gpu is uncommon.
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Why, the light would be inside the dryer of course. Also, UV-A radiation does not damage DNA.
Out of interest: if Italo is"the third best genre", what are the top two?
I would imagine regulations and law enforcement. Catering to such demand usually only makes it mainstream and greatly increases it. The divide between those who care and those who just want to do what they want to do is more or less the same in every field, but difference here is species (niches) once lost can pretty much never be brought back.

The stakes are higher when losing a keystone species, say, versus a Van Gogh (just for examples sake, I certainly hope we can preserve both). Yet sadly more people identify with the creations of their own species, than outside their species.
The pain every .NET developer has felt from async stack traces is now gone :)
Just wait until the tax incentives run out and they simply move again. Nokia did this in Germany, it was quite the joyride.
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You can create addresses which require multiple valid signatures (private keys) in order to spend the contents. And other sort of smart-contracts.

But it’s still based around having the correct mathematical keys to unlock an address.
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There is a song by a Russian band released in 1992 where it was long speculated that the lyrics were supposed to be an imitation of American English. Apparently they were not, but give it a listen:

https://youtu.be/xutpxia3Qkc

For something even less serious, check out how to speak any language in three steps: https://youtu.be/s5qlu4vnCXE
It's not enough for you not to use them. Virus laden people need not to use them also.
Do the words have the same meaning?
That'll never happen. Some casual users are confused by tab bars. And casual users understand trees even less.
The other smart speakers didn't even have multi-speaker support from the outset, much less slaves.

Plus slaves in the same room don't really make much sense. I want my sound to be balanced. It's not really going to balance well if I have a tiny speaker on one side of the room and a big one on the other.
So, if I don't touch anything in the bathroom at all and I unzip my pants and take out my penis without touching it and pee and then put everything back without touching it - I'm spreading more germs than someone who touches everything in the room?

I doubt it.