skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Visiting second-hand bookstores during the nineties was my hobby, in my hometown in that peculiar Caribbean island. There wasn't much to read, except a lot of old science books translated from Russian. And mixed with those, some western textbooks printed at the same press than the Russian ones (I have always wondered if those were reproduced with permission). For lack of juvenile literature, I developed a hobby of deciphering foreign textbooks during my teenager days...

But those were the nineties, and now is now. These day, bookstores only sell "souvenir literature", dreadful works about and by the dictatorship ideologues that ordinary Cubans regard with indifference at best ...
Is it middle boxes that do TTL-- as in ping?
Skates are more expensive than cleats. Hockey sticks break or are grown out of, and decent ones are a few hundred bucks.
There are lots of different kinds of SCIFs. I've been in one that looks just like any other room in the office.
This is a bit hyperbolic, but it contains some truth. It's part of a larger trend of well sorting people by capability that started with mainstream adoption of sending kids from their home towns to universities and has continued as the economy evolved along with software and automation.

The bubble I'm in discusses topics ranges so many arcane fields, but my addition to the bubble came at the cost of my childhood community loosing one of their more intelligent members. Facebook, Twitter, etc is just another layer on top of that.

My hope in the long run is that Gataca will address this problem and we'll get enough intelligent and unaggressive people to handle the exponential power increase that capable individuals have.

For now, stability at all costs please.
"doesn't plan on using PoW to secure the chain" - IOTA uses PoW to secure the network (it's not really a chain), that's exactly how the network is secured. Every transaction performs a small PoW.

"the only thing they have to show for it is a whitepaper" - say whaaat? IOTA is a functioning digital currency with feeless transactions. You can watch the transactions on the network here: https://thetangle.org/live
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This is why there should probably be an early age pension system for these athletes. The major sports leagues could certainly afford it (and it would lower players upfront salaries some).
Does repeating it hard enough make it true?
...like saying "5 days of downtime" followed by having to "rebuild the world"?
Yeah, I thought we were talking about hiring people who had gaps in their basic CS knowledge and then training them.
> you have to pro-actively reach out to them

It's been a long while since they missed a prime delivery date for me, but the couple of times they did, they credited my account automatically without my involvement (other than reading their email notification). Maybe I just got lucky?
Like you have to regularly compile and build big packages like Glibc (while under load) just to update the system. Also, as it's a rolling release distribution, as I understand you won't have stable enough software (an update might require configuration file change, this doesn't happen in CentOS or Debian Stable).
Half of the science-heave PBS shows that are such a favorite of the SV crowd wouldn't be possible without Koch donations.

So even if the Kochs really do end up killing all of the polar bears, it'll be well documented on TV.
> There is no support for datagrams, just datastreams.

Datagrams can be easily and effectively encoded as discrete short-lived streams. If you need streams of datagrams, you can encode your own header to do that. I see no reason why this has to be built into the protocol when the provided primitives are sufficient.

> Forward error correction is actually cool but just using XOR is too limited.

Pretty sure FEC was removed from the IETF draft.
Breitbart, Fox, National Enquirer...?
If the self is an illusion who is being fooled? (Obviously I experience things - scientific research showing that the self is complicated and many-faceted don't really serve to get rid of the idea...)
Hope you won't get me wrong here; this sounds to me like the million details required to implement something properly, and certainly a task like the one you describe here would take a workday or two to implement properly.

But it does also sound like there are some problematic inefficiencies in the way your company's software stack is set up. Common tasks like logging, caching and error handling should be abstracted away to a separate layer so that you get it for free whenever you implement a new service or endpoint. Don't know if this is old news to you, but check out e.g. [1].

This part about abstracting away rote work and optimizing a stack to be less maintenance-heavy is a learnable skill. The problematic part is that your working environment needs to have it in its culture. It needs to be okay for staff to spend a week here and there tuning a process that's used again and again. This is a big force multiplier which needs to be appreciated by management.

I'm in an online banking company with an 18-year history and all the cruft that entails, and we're in aggregate spending multiple full-time positions continually upgrading our infrastructure and practices. Releases used to be one-week affairs that were performed twice a year. Now they're done in half an hour, most of which is verification and monitoring. Etc, etc.

[1]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn223671(v=pandp.30...
/g/ of course. Surprised people are afraid to name 4chan despite it being on I'd the most visited sites on the internet now.
Paribus.co does exactly this
Just because some UI element labeled "Enable Siri" can be toggled doesn't mean it works exactly as you, or even Apple devs, expect it to. And even phones without digital assitant technology can be turned into remote listening devices.
Considering that flapping-wing ornithopter drones exist[1], zapping everything that flies would be the safest bet.

1. https://youtu.be/w6VLzKACnS8?t=37s
> This is a far harder problem than it looks. Let's Encrypt basically relies on a demonstration of control of a web server, and the resulting certificate is only as strong as that validation. For email, the way you can demonstrate control is in being able to read and send emails originating from an address... but the point of S/MIME is to secure against other people who can also do that.

The situation's a bit more nuanced than that: S/MIME protects you in the case where traffic can be read but not altered (or it would incur far more risk to do so) and most users state changes over time so there's more of a window to attack every message than to attack the account ownership validation, especially if that protocol is hardened.

I see this as similar to the way many people are working to encourage end-to-end encryption because it reduces the amount of interesting data sitting around to be compromised on a server. Yes, at some point a hostile admin can do a lot but that doesn't mean that we can't harden against more realistic attacks.
This is typical Google/DeepMind ignorance. The rest of the world is non-exist.
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They also don't make $400k – an engineer that costs $400k doesn't get that in take home pay.
I hate to admit it, but the slowness of Emacs is why I avoid it. A good JIT which hopefully speed it up would be amazing.
Ceph meltdowns seem to be the worst. I've seen two other projects struggle with Ceph and eventually both gave up and moved on to something else. The main problem seems to be lack of documented usage guidelines and not much written on what to do when something blows up...and things seemed to blow up with both Ceph systems frequently and in many cases without any discernable error logging.

The after actions on both systems seemed to indicate that they had simply been provisioned wrong, or had violated some other best practice, but that advice never seemed to be written down anywhere and the documentation on the Ceph site was woefully inadequate.

One team simply moved on to using HDFS and rewrote their entire approach to assume HDFS and it's been pretty solid since. I think the other group moved to using Gluster.

I really hope it's getting better, because the idea is really great, but I wouldn't recommend it to anybody right now based on what I've seen.
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Sometimes they shoot themselves in the foot with delivery estimates, too. A month or two back, I ordered an item on Wednesday that said it wouldn't be delivered until the next Tuesday. I was OK with that, so I ordered it. Checked on the order the next day and it now had an expected delivery by Saturday at 8PM. Saturday at 8:01PM it changes to "There's been a delay, now expected Monday by 8PM". Monday 8PM rolls around, no package, and it changes to "Tuesday by 8PM".

So it arrives on the day it was originally expected. Difference is, now I'm irritated because I've had to change my plans several times.
>The Tibetan Zen Buddhist monk Chogyam Trongpa

It's written Chögyam Trungpa. Trungpa was Vajrayana school Buddhist. "Tibetan Zen Buddhism" does not exist. I'm sure there are individual Tibetans who are Zen Buddhists, but there is no Zen tradition in Tibet. Trungpa was also alcoholic, womanizer, sexually abused his students, cocaine user, ... and was able to get away with it because it was all 'crazy wisdom'.

Zen and Buddhism in general is full of people like Alan Watts and Trungpa. Both were highly intelligent, inspiring writers, and alcoholics who presented themselves as masters.
The quoted passage can be interpreted as one - presumably the implication is that it had those attributes relative to alternative semantics (and might have been expected to do so).
> It makes him an intelligent investor.

It makes him an amoral investor.

We need more rich people with morals, not those who use the letter of the law to destroy things and then claim they're not to blame because they played by the rules.

Because something is legal doesn't mean you should do it.
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What small, unknown, open source projects do you think could use an extra hand?
Most of the article reminded me of this: https://xkcd.com/1227/
Yeah, agreed: it's all pretty broken, unfortunately.
Especially given that it's Black History month, it sounds like you might be interested in watching this movie:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_on_Ice_(film)

And consider this criticism of the somewhat rosier picture portrayed in that film:

https://hockeyinsociety.com/2017/03/06/soul-on-ice-the-day-t...
For normal internet use that doesn't need instant changes, caching relays would be pretty interesting. Kinda like how Netflix has servers at ISPs. So you would get "instant" access to things but it would be behind.

The Expanse (book/tv) does an interesting bit when talking with people as close as the moon. Talking over each other and stuff would be something that would we'd have to get used to.
The claim is that some sort of universal self gets fooled into thinking that it is a bunch of disjoint individual selves. Whether the word 'self' is best for both concepts, I couldn't say.
Give them a link to the terms of service and say "please direct me to the language in your terms of service to that effect." Follow up with "as a paying prime member, I insist on compensation for Amazons failure to meet their guarantee". This has always worked for me. Some reps have pressed back when I insisted on two instances of compensation for one order with two late packages. I replied "I have no sympathy for a multi-million dollar company that fails to meet its obligations." Have gotten several months of prime and gift cards through chat in this way.
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So, it's not spent from your wallet?

So it's a post-it that won't burn.

And if it doesn't give access to your wallet, how does it protect your wallet? If it can be used to gain access to your wallet, then how is writing it down safe?
Is hypocrisy in proponents of a belief actually a good argument against the belief? This reminds me of those arguments that presume if solipsism is true, its proponents have to act like psychopaths, or that if determinism is true, its proponents have to act apathetic.

In every case, if the proponents dutifully performed their beliefs, that would merely indicate they hold the belief, not that it is true.
> In a deflationary environment, one need only hold currency or inert commodities in order to have greater future purchasing power.

Carry this thought experiment a few steps further. What will people buy every day, despite this currency appreciation effect?
Interesting. Thanks for the tip!
Another story where the root of the problem is code that lacks robust type checking, allowing for subtle memory corruption.
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I'll buy that this is a true native macOS app, but why does it seem to be trying so hard not to be? Why does everything have a flat white background, and why is the list of data not a standard Cocoa list view? It's still a bit too visually disruptive for my taste.
Free-flowing capital would be regulated by who? The World Government?
There are huge overlaps between the different kinds of engineering - not quite enough to support a single unified core curriculum, but enough to make it obvious that there's a lot of similar math across all the disciplines, and only the emphasis varies.

The big problem with engineering isn't the specialisms, it's the name. Outsiders still think engineers are people who wear oil-covered overalls and are essentially mechanics.

Not one person in fifty understands that the job is mostly mathematical modelling of complex systems.
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Yeah, exactly. You can tell the software to disable the feature, but the hardware is still wired up, and it could still be doing everything but the user-facing bits, or a future update could flip that on even if it's not presently doing it.

I have an Android phone and I trust Google somewhat less in terms of personal-info-collecting than Amazon. :|
Compared with Debian or Red Hat, Gentoo is really a meta-distribution. It's a nice basis for creating your own distribution. In theory, Gentoo lets you mix the latest version of some packages with well-tested, old versions of other packages and generate a release perfected for your organization. If the Gentoo release of some package, Ceph for example, isn't as up to date as you want, you can easily update it yourself and publish a new release to your servers.

In practice, many people don't understand that Gentoo is a meta-distribution and try to run it like a simple distribution, leading to arbitrary ABI breakage and chaos. If you want to run Gentoo on servers, you need to test all upgrades on build machines before rolling them out. You need to publish your own binary packages. You need to do a lot of the testing that Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, etc. would be doing for you.

I have some friends who set up their own hosting business based on Gentoo and they seem to be doing it right. Their servers are very stable. Testing updates is an ongoing expense, but I think it has worked out well for them.
I've learned recently that even using Nix when building from source is something of a false hope of reproducibility. Many packages use the fetchgit function and fetchgit violates the contract.
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It’s mistaken (and somewhat sad!) to take a cynical attitude like that given the implications of the research.

The most exciting part of these type of studies is the ability to take depressive people and ‘kick’ them out of the cognitive ruts they are in.

Those cognitive ruts are often world-views, thought structures and learned behaviours from childhood or their parents which constantly reinforce that the sufferer is worthless or stupid or unwanted etc.

In those world views, other people are often seen in very negative light - they’re critical, or assholes, or dangerous, or perhaps you’re so needy for love and attention that you endlessly see other people as your savior (and constantly make bad relationships as a result).

The idea that we just need love and kindness and selflessness and we’re all connected maaaan - that’s a childish interpretation. As is the idea that interconnectednesa and empathy falls apart in a realistic adult world of possessions and basic needs.

In the context of mental illness, being able to experience connectedness and heightened empathy might mean seeing other people for who they really are, not who they appear to be in your distorted worldview. It might mean realizing that other people are similar to you and you’re not alone in your struggle, or realizing that you can give support to someone else instead of constantly needing support from them. Sometimes breakthroughs like that take years in therapy, but might be achieved much more quickly using mushrooms.

Hope that helps dissolve the cynicism.
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Perhaps, but also perhaps toward investment.
Yes. Another way to look at it is the bottom line of various non-dual/mystical teachings which is basically that the best way to achieve lasting happiness is to eliminate the seeker of it (of course, not in a physical sense) - or put more accurately, to realize that the very illusion of the personal self is the root cause of the unhappiness.
Was this Cortana, or Alexa?
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tl;dr of the article:

Athletes have high earnings for short periods of time, but often prefer risky "flashy" investments (e.g. nightclubs) and aren't typically knowledgable regarding anything having to do with basic finance.
I was playing fortnite on 2-04-18 22:00 UTC during the "Friends Service" outage.

You couldn't see friends lists at all during that time period. So you couldn't queue up in a friends / people you knew at all in a match, the only options were either playing solo or using a "filled" team with random players.

I've been playing fortnite as one of the early 60k concurrent users all the way to the 3.4M, so its been interesting seeing their load / server issues over time and then reading this (Granted, I don't understand everything discussed in their blog). They've done a outstanding job handling their growing traffic.

One thing I've noticed with Fortnite, compared to PUBG or other MMOs, is how large their patch updates are. Its usually several GB large, and it comes fairly frequently about once a week.
Can someone explain why FB can't become a paid service that engineers itself for the good of users?

I don't know anything about corporate financing but naive napkin math says if their 2 billion user base pays $1/month they would be pulling $24 billion a year. Wikipedia says their revenue is $24b/year. Now if they removed their entire advertising aspect (the human labor, infrastructure) their operating costs would go down and that $24b/year would mean more than it does now.

Is that bad math? I would readily pay $1/month to use a service designed for our well being rather than advertisers. I think anyone would. Why isn't this a thing?
I know that there's a few people who disagree with the article but I found it hit close to home.

I'm a young(ish) guy that's tall, fit and has a great career that pays well. On a (superficial level at least) I have a lot going for me in attracting women.

Yet I have no interest in pursuing sex or relationships.

Why would I bother going out and attempt to have conversations with women who have nothing in common with me.

Why have a relationship with a woman when it's taxing physically, mentally and emotionally?

There's so many other things I can do with my time that is much easier and more rewarding.

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After writing this I can't help but feel that my experience of relationships isn't typical.

Does anyone agree or disagree with me?
Darn, you beat me to it.

Product blog operators, please see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16278142
And rolling hashes of every build. And a device to constantly cross-check the hashes. And a device to constantly verify that the cross-checker was working. And a workflow to show diffs of each commit. And time to read through them, grok them, and sandbox-test that they weren't doing anything nasty in an obfuscated way.

At the end of the day, you really can't trust anything completely, and the only real solution is to 1) trust Amazon (which doesn't seem like a great bet right now), or 2) don't own one.
No doubt. I'm sure my experience was a little more X-Files than other folks.
I think that part of this trend may be tied to games, such as PUBG, becoming popular while still "under development". I imagine once a game has a stable server build it is much more practical to distribute that server to all of the community operators and have them update on a fixed / infrequent schedule. Whereas, while changes are still being constantly made to the server application, this would probably result in users only being able to connect to a small fraction of available community servers while waiting for the other servers to update.
I had no idea. I'm a huge Pratchett fan and this made me smile.
You might enjoy reading some of the articles by Soros from the NY Review. He has written a bunch over the years, generally about an integrated Europe - http://www.nybooks.com/contributors/george-soros/
Some drones can move faster than 50mph now.
If anything, the last couple of years have been very enlightening.
https://www.reddit.com/r/math/
I'm very confused about the point of having a lawn is. if you're going to have something you cany walk on, why put in grass, one of the plants thats well adapted to be walked on