skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don’t think we’ll agree on this issue, but I understand your arguments and they are reasonable.

Hey thanks for saying that. I can return the favor, you’ve been very reasonable too. I don’t disagree that red light camers specifically might have some tradeoffs, and maybe it’s true they’re a net negative right now, I don’t know.

As far as the safety goes, have we actually given it enough time? Would it change anything for you if we fast forward into the future, and imagine that all intersections have cameras and everyone expects them? Today’s trade off between T-bones and rear-ends when there are cameras is presumably caused by people not expecting a camera and then realizing fairly late that they might get a ticket. Is it reasonable to assume that if cameras were everywhere, the rear-enders would eventually settle at a lower rate?
Being involved in the church is lovely, but rather separate from bring a pastor. That's the point with Mr Rogers. He was an active pastor who ministered outside church.
A televangelist, then.
>E.g., if I admit that, not only am I not confident, but I see the world as so complex that I can't be possibly confident about it, how can I decide what to do?

You need to learn to face uncertainty. You know some of your data is incorrect, and that you sometimes make mistakes processing that data. But if you are calibrated correctly, you should be more sure of some things (that the sun will rise tomorrow) than others (that I'll get that job I just interviewed for) - I mean, I think both of those things are true, but one I'm very certain of the first, the other? I'd say it has a 60% chance of happening.

It's totally reasonable to make a bet that will cause me to lose something important if the sun doesn't come up tomorrow. It's much less reasonable to make a bet that will cause me to lose something important if I don't get that job.

>If my view of the world is correct than my actions would at best have unpredictable results and at worst would be reckless. So the best course of action would be not to do anything.

If you literally make no conscious effort to do anything? It's likely you will die of dehydration in the next few days.

Doing nothing is very likely to be much worse than randomly picking from actions deemed culturally reasonable... and you can probably do a lot better than random through weighing what uncertain information you have.

I mean, complexity is hard, but it's ultimately going to get you better decisions than a system where you are absolutely certain of things.
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16602151
Paul Khuong and the Stale Pointer
Private blogs. Accessible to only me or me and a few other people, depending on the project/subject.
ProPublica issues major correction about Gina Haspel’s role in torture program
I can't help but think of what the 17 families in Parkland, Florida would think of this article. Especially this quote:

“This is a defense against instantaneous, violent death, which you will find was avoided, but anything that sort of maims or injures or mangles you or whatever is still fair game.”
If that's true, then in Manhattan the cars should go. Even as a pedestrian it is frustrating to wait for cars at the end of every short block. I'm not sure how gridlock is helping anyone, they should just ban anything that isn't commercial or a taxi from most of the city. If you want to live in Manhattan and own a car, fine, just don't bring it in.
Yes, it can't be done retroactively, but it can be done for new TLDs that haven't launched yet.
Desbordamiento de memoria en el kernel de Linux permite elevar privilegios
Two is one and one is none. You'd be utterly foolish to go to sea without redundant navigation and communication equipment. A hacker might take out your navigation instruments, but so could a simple short circuit. Saltwater is brutal on electrical systems, so only a fool operates on the assumption that their primary nav system is absolutely reliable.

Even on a tiny inshore yacht, you'd want a handheld GPS, a handheld VHF radio and a stash of AA batteries in case your main electrical system fails. On a small coastal yacht, that stuff would be in your survival bag next to the liferaft. A large offshore yacht should have two fully independent nav stations on completely separate electrical systems. If all that fails, you should still have an EPIRB and a canister of flares; good bluewater sailors can happily complete a passage on sextant and compass.

Contingency planning is at the heart of seamanship. If you're placing total faith in your instruments, then you have bigger problems than the insecurity of the NMEA protocol.
If this works as expected (and i plan on trying it out this weekend) it would lead the way to being able to add Spotify Connect devices to existing Stereo systems cheaply (a Raspberry Pi and possibly an external sound card)... Do the Pis still have crappy Stereo Audio? i remember the first (and possible second) gen ones being bad... not sure about the newer ones...
Every country will eventually get stuck with a stable population and as long as the average person lives to be over 80 they are going to make up a large chunk of the population.

PS: Japan also has a rather high population density. The shrinking population is likely to end up as a good thing.

PPS: The 200% debt to GDP ratio is rather fictitious as 40% of that is owned bey the Japanease government dropping their actual debt load closer to 120%.
Actually, I _am_ referring to 'many worlds' (at least according to the technical explanation in this article: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2011/05/26/...) and not a multiverse. And yes, there is some hope that there will be some testable empirical evidence at some point, but if in the end it turns out that there are not 'many worlds', then I don't see that big a difference. I'd love it if there were parallel dimensions but it is fantasy at this point.
Look up integer promotion rules. Basically almost all arithmetic operators promote their operands to int/unsigned int before doing anything.

And you are the person who replied to my earlier post saying "don't do things that do not have intuitively clear semantics." Do integer promotion rules count as intuitively clear semantics? Most C programmers never learned them and therefore the semantics is confusing. For the few C programmers who learned them, the semantics is clearer when they can remember the rules, and confusing otherwise.

Now I hope I've convinced you that there are a lot of such subtle semantics issues in C, and hardly anything is intuitively clear, unless you've been a language lawyer or programmed in C for long enough.
Off the top of my head:

* Distribute tokens to partners (product / gift manufacturers). Partners with vested interest in the success of a company could be much less likely to sever relations as it will hurt their investment.

* Distribute tokens to customers as a type of rebate. Like a loyalty program that encourages patronship.

* Use tokens to vote on what products should be sold. Many gift shops sell pipes and other drug related items. This decision would sink other family oriented shops. What would your customers like?

* Distribute tokens to the locals as an attempt to build virility and community around your shop.

* Distribute tokens to employees as a way to recognize accomplishments. Ever get a few bonus stock from your company for doing good work over the week? Me neither.

* Sell tokens to raise funds.

* Set budgets based on community votes.

The list is endless and these are rough ideas. Look for ways to align business interests and customer interests.
For me personally I just hold VTIAX. May not be the best because as I understand it, it's a large cap only deal.

Also obligatory, IANACFP, so many grains of salt.
Given the math, code and relation to finances should this be flagged? The nature of the gist is hacker worthy.
I ride a motorcycle and I like breathing.

The other day I was riding down a normal surface street in Seattle and a parked late model Camaro with black windows started its engine and pulled out from the curb in a few seconds. There was no angle that would have allowed me to see if this car was occupied.

I was able to stop in time and avoid an accident but if I had not reacted I would have ended up on his roof. In your opinion was I in the wrong?

You don't sound willing to give cyclists any support when you condemn the entire group for the actions of a few and disregard legitimate threats to their safety.
I think the context for dang's comment is that the HN link originally went to a Facebook thread. I hope nobody from HN showed up on that thread to trash Lamo in comments that were effectively directed right to his grieving father, but...
I think this provides a new answer to the "Great Filter" question. Is it before us or after us? The answer is both.
> If you believe this, isn't the rational thing to use your dollars to buy assets?

If you have leftover capital after consumption, then yes.

>I think you're betraying a deep mis-understading of how money works. QE has been raging for 10 years, but inflation is incredibly low (2.5% US, 1.5% EU). In other words, even though you claim that the FED "gives asset holders free money", when you hold cash you're not really losing purchasing power. How do you square the two things?

Housing affordability crisis in nearly every urban centre.
I always find this so weird -- the tech world is rife with machine learning and AI, but the big game studios can't produce a good single-player opponent even though it's year after year at the top of the wishlist. Note that even smaller studios (like Paradox) and hobbyists (like Vox Populis for Civ5) can outpace the mainline Civ AI experience. It's nothing short of embarrassing for 2K Games.
> There's a lot for you to learn here if you care to look a bit deeper than "oh, just uses fsync, boring".

That wasn't my conclusion at all. That's why I took the time to read the docs and the source code. Because I was interested in how SQLite provided the guarantees that it does and what the limitations of those guarantees are.
I think I think this is pretty cool, but I'm not sure if the reasons I think it's cool are valid. For example, I can imagine a jukebox app for parties or bars accessible via SMS, but I can't tell if Spotifyd actually enables such an app. Furthermore, if Spotifyd does enable such an app, would that app be impossible without Spotifyd?

I glanced at the readme, but it looks like it's written for someone who already knows why they wanted an open source Spotify client.

Regardless of all the above, good work!
Yep, and I think the hexagon is thus quite superior both in logical sense and aesthetically.
By your definition, any price rise in any asset is free money for whoever holds the asset. That's... kind of true, in a way, I suppose, but not a very useful way to look at it.

What you seem to be either missing or sweeping under the rug is that the holder has to sell the bond in order to get the money. Your description is therefore rather odd for the reality of the situation. It looks like you wanted to find the most outrage-inducing description that had some faint correspondence to the situation.
I think an alternate money system that works alongside government issued currencies would be a huge boon to society.
Interesting. I'm surprised that even cheap SSDs and HDDS will reorder the writes. I've heard that most enterprise and higher end hard drives don't lie about fsync (actually it's a bit more subtle, I've heard some do, but they have enough energy stored in capacitors to finish writing if power fails).
> The assumption being that nobody else knows about the flaws?

Not nobody, but fewer. The information in a disclosure like this will focus a whole lot of miscreants' attention on something they might not have thought of before.

> that may greatly reduce the incentive of someone looking to do the investigative legwork

Now you're the one making assumptions. Most people don't need the incentive of an immediate crisis to do that legwork. Often, the mere fact that the bugs are real is enough, regardless of timelines. In most other cases, the fact that the clock is ticking is sufficient. If somebody has a proven track record of taking these things lightly then forcing their hand might be justified. Otherwise, you're essentially telling people you think they're lazy or negligent when you have no evidence of such. That's not a good way to start a collaborative process, in a situation where collaboration might be key to a timely fix.
For 1J of energy it's producing ~ 10^6 neutrons each with ~ 10^-13 joules of energy. I'm not quite sure what fraction of the energy is released as high energy neutrons (it should also release high energy protons and gamma rays sometimes) but I think it's very high, so we are looking at something in the vicinity of a 1 millionth the energy input - output.

There do seem to be a few substantial improvements left on the table per the paper (mixing tritium in, scaling up a bit, etc) but getting to break even via this technique in the near future seems unlikely. And even after that you have to capture the energy.
There are a lot of private parking garages in NYC. Are those all government mandated?
Ah yeah, you can have incremental structures without an incremental pipeline or vice versa, they’ve just worked well together for me.
I might be rejected for a chinese visa someday, but that will just be a canary in the coal mine, I guess.
Yes, and when there was free land available, and when the economy was small so growth was easier to achieve as a percentage, and when immigration was at levels that would be politically unthinkable today. So "This is not a coincidence" seems to be rather overstating the certainty of what the cause was.
> Bikelanes are for cyclists

As a regular biker in NYC I would agree. But there is a cultural gap that we have not bridged yet. NYC was designed for cars (as were most cities in America). The biking ecosystem has made huge strides in NYC in the last decade - from CitiBikes, to dedicated bike lanes, to the massive increase in daily bikers.
Everybody makes rolling stops at stop signs on empty roads every once in a while. Based on my own anecdota, I wouldn't say that they usually make rolling stops though. It's still a ticket, that many local police in the US are more than happy to hand out. Not that it matters either way- it doesn't mean that it's OK for anyone to ignore stop signs as a rule.
It can be applied to any behavior. I was using it to illustrate that your previous statement was associating a person with something extremely negative and you defended it by saying something to the effect of 'I never said he was x'

You kinda did, though. It's weaselly language.
> What sort of convoluted logic could possibly drive you to equate necessities of life, or constraints of circumstance, with such antisocial choices?

That you consider all drug use “antisocial” is revealing; that you think the need to use a car would exert more pressure on the average person than an environment which encourages drug use from a young age is telling.

Your use of the term “ivory tower” is ironic when your assumptions are based on a kind of life that many Americans do not inhabit.

There is such a thing as personal responsibility. I would argue that most drug use is not a good idea. I think environments that encourage people to make bad decisions should be repaired. But to argue that “just one drop” of bad decision making justifies massively unfair treatment is an argument that is as intellectually demeaning as it is dangerously naive.

Would you argue in favor of a law that puts people in jail for doing something “antisocial” like using bad language, and that is predominately enforced against people of a particular race? No one needs to use foul language, but having done so does not give us carte blanche to hate.

As my final comment, your unprompted use of the term “ivory tower” and your ominous reference to “unpleasant implications” regarding race suspect that you are trying to bring another argument into this discussion in which I have no interest. This is my final reply.
Postmates postmortem: eight hours as delivery drivers
Thanks for the suggestion. That might be especially useful if I decide to diversify regions too.

> There are much better options available if you can bring your own IPs.

Like what?
Gift cards are very limited. The tech behind gift card usage is extremely insufficient. Things like checking balance is often not even possible with a public API layer.
Virtual dispatch in C++ and Java is dynamic dispatch, but it is singly so rather than multiply so as found in CLOS, Dylan, Julia, etc. If you want multiple dispatch in C++ and its kin, you need to jump through hoops with visitor patterns and such.
Laurelin, a new LDAP client for Python
The problem is that these events tend to be expensive.

It's $400 for a HPDE day at my local track, and it's done on a weekday so I gotta take the day off of work.

Racing on the streets is free.
Cognitive dissonance among Bitcoin minimalists is quiet amusing.

You think Bitcoin is good but fear Litecoin for creating a new alternative system?

You think deregulating into a anarcho-capitalist deflationary market is good, but then complain when someone does something you don't agree with?

but proof of stake, unfortunately, results in all rewards
to creators and an unsatisfying amount of control among
people where distribution was guaranteed for no "work".

Apparently you haven't bothered to look at how Bitcoin is created? The supply is generated in such a way that a small group of users spent minimal work (CAPEX+OPEX) to generate the majority of the supply. All "rewards" of the supply went to the smallest population of the world. Satoshi just created a new system for oligarchical wealth extraction.
The public suffix is more correct than the TLD; however the fact that publicsuffix.org accepts private domains at the domain owners request weakens the mitigation.
Here is a simple way to demonstrate the point of the article. If I deposit $100 in a bank, the bank can lend out around $90 to someone else (fractional reserve banking). That person now deposits the money at another bank, and the "money supply" is $190 instead of $100.

On the other hand when a central bank "prints money", they use it to buy assets with an equivalent value, so there is no net transfer of wealth done by the central bank. That assumes they don't affect asset prices, which not a great assumption.

The way central banks affect the money supply is through interest rates to change the supply and demand of private loans that banks make, which indirectly affects the money supply.
The united states prison system is designed to systematically incarcerate and disempower black americans. It has nothing to do with "breaking laws". Incarceration is not correlated with crime rate, and nearly everyone breaks laws, but a small segment of the population is incarcerated to a large degree (black men).
You can make your pipeline mostly oblivious to the incremental nature of each stage, which has some SE benefits. However, I like to run all my phases as damage/repair work lists after the initial incremental lex stage: token changes dirty trees associated with them, putting them in a list for releasing, which then can cause retyping of those nodes, causing those to go on a work list, though the parsing worklist is cleaned before the type checking one before the execution (for incremental live programming) one.

I’ve never seen two IDE-oriented incremental compilers use the same approach actually, there is a lot of diversity here.
Thanks for this insight, and blessings to your sister.
‘Accumulation of Events’ Doctrine and the ‘Bloody Nose’ Debate on North Korea
They might also switch to the Chinese Yuan, especially if the trend of the last 20 years continues, and there's little reason to expect it won't imho.
How many votes do you get in Japan?
The difference confused me for a bit, but consider the following:

Print(Vehicle v){
print("vehicle");
}

Print(Car c){
print("car");
}

Print(Boat b){
print("boat");
}

Vehicle test = Boat();

Print(test);

In a language with multi dispatch I believe this prints boat, whereas with single dispatch it prints vehicle.
Astronomers Can’t Figure Out Why Some Black Holes Got So Big
Or even further, keep the internal economic work:payment model consistent. All work pays equal tokens.

Computational work = constant payment.

Unfortunately no one has been able to create an algorithm which creates valuable compute work.

Satoshi's Proof-Of-Work is more like

Proof-of-Capital-Burning
÷ time passed
÷ sum of all users and capital burning in network

PoW is effectively guessing a random number.

Nonce-cents
No, I mean I care. I just don't let people make me frustrated. With the exception of people who are manipulative or assholes, I don't make other people responsible for my feelings. I try not too. It's not healthy to be like "I'll be calm if you learn to act in ways to not me angry."
>blacks disproportionately commit crimes, especially violent crimes.

This is a racist lie. If you control for socioeconomic factors, the difference totally vanishes.
I was going to say that's just some dumb jury, but heck, even the text you're quoting says, "On the balance of probabilities."
A Private Fork Is No Fork

...b-b-but muh snippet! Shame on you Github! You were supposed to babysit me!

~ T. Dipshit
Like, almost anywhere. If you have your own IPs abuse emails will not reach your host, and your host most likely won't care at all. There are some places which are more vigilant, but that's far from the norm.

https://www.nforce.com/ is a popular destination.

edit: The jabber address I posted earlier was completely wrong, correct one is "hqservers@injabber.info"
Unless it's via some new-fangled C++ feature I haven't heard of yet, I'm pretty sure C++ doesn't have multiple dispatch. Can you elaborate on what you're referring to?
On the macro scale, he's right. On the human scale, however, your number could be up any second. When I get into debates with people about security and the erosion of rights under the guise of security, I'll eventually say, "You can only be so safe. In the end a determined killer WILL kill someone, even if it's only by biting them to death. There WILL be successful terror attacks. There WILL be random attacks of violence, the question is, how much freedom do I want to lose before I realize that there will always be danger in the world?" That makes people feel I'm a nihilist or something, but it's the truth. I enjoy living, I Want safety for people, but we can't wrap the world in Nerf. Life is a trap no one gets out of alive. If you're alive today, you're lucky nothing killed you along the way, enjoy it while you can. With stuff like the Florida school shooting, we should absolutely do something about guns and gun culture because it's needlessly killing kids. But making me take off y belt at the airport isn't saving anyone, or worse, saying the TSA /customs/the gov't in general should have the right to my passwords to get into my computer because "if you're not doing anything wrong you have nothing to hide" is absolutely terrifying and wrong.
NYC has a law requiring cyclists to stay in the bike lane if one is present. Only more civilized cities (like Boston ;) allow bikes to take the full lane. Although traffic moves so slowly there's rarely a point unless the bike lane is blocked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzE-IMaegzQ
Congratulations. Couple of questions, hopefully I haven’t missed you.

1. Recent SEC activity: is this a threat to you? I see you have been careful to avoid fundraising in your examples, but other people here have come up with that as a use case in brainstorming.

2. Did you look at Stellar? It has none of the disadvantages of Ethereum (ie instant confirms and de minimus fees) and was in part purpose built for your kind of project. I know you both have Ethereum backgrounds but was wondering if you’d considered and ruled out alternatives.

Good luck! I’m keen to see a healthy online micropayments ecosystem so I’m supportive of your project, which could become part of that.