skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Re-reading your comment, I did overreact, and assumed that you were implying a position that you didn't actually assert. I'm sorry for assuming that you were advocating for a pro-death position.

If your comment wasn't intended to advocate for pro-death policies, I'm very confused about what you were trying to communicate here.

My reading of your comment is that you first asked the reader if they can imagine what the planet would be like if nobody died, then implied through what appears to be rhetorical questions that it would be much more crowded and much more of a strain on the earth's resources.

There's a lot of diversity in the use of English, so we may have experience with different rhetorical traditions, but my experience is that rhetorical structures like that are pretty exclusively intended to express condemnation of the subject and anyone who would support it, implying that they're ignoring the disastrous consequences of their policy.

The assumptions I inferred from your questions, stated directly, are something like the following. If you're uninterested in engaging with me after my earlier reply, I understand, but if not I'm curious which of these you disagree with.

1) If life-extension technology manages to dramatically reduce nonconsensual death, we will have a population explosion on Earth.

2) If we have a population explosion on Earth, quality of life for most humans will drop significantly.

3) If we have a population explosion on Earth, consumption of nonrenewable resources will increase dramatically, leading to resource shortages dangerous to human civilization.

4) In order to avoid a population explosion, we should stop work on life-extension technology.

5) It is better for the majority of currently-living humans to die after less than 100 years of life than for Earth civilization to undergo a population explosion.

By my best attempts at moral reasoning, withholding life-saving medical technology is morally equivalent to murder, and although I've fortunately never been in a situation to make such a decision, I hope that I can be the kind of person who would never decide for people to die through inaction that I wouldn't be theoretically willing to kill myself for the same benefits.

I hope that's given you enough perspective on my position that it doesn't seem completely hostile to serious discussion.

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>> They don't target American companies. American companies makes themselves targets.

Sometimes the only reason they make themselves a target is because they make money, and American companies are the largest players in the space, not EU ones.
That hasn't been true since the 60's or before, when oil was very different than today's (or the 90s). We know that the 3000 or 5000 mile oil change interval is pure nonsense because the exact same engines magically have 10-20k mile oil change intervals in Europe.
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Having just watched one of Kevlin Henney's many talks on the subject on Youtube, I'm reminded of his mutability and shared state diagram. Since I can't find a copy of it outside of an hour long video, I'll try to replicate it here (sorry for those on mobile):

Mutable
^
(Good) | (Bad)
|
Non-Shared ----------> Shared
State | State
|
(Good) | (Good)
Immutable

On the top half of the graph you have Mutable state, on the bottom half Immutable. On the left you don't share the state and on the right you do. Everything is fine as long as you don't both mutate the state and share it. Of course, that's what we always feel like we want to do ;-)
Just curious - why the downvote?
OpenBTS and Ettus USPR (software defined radios) have made it inexpensive enough for hobbyists to set up cellular base stations at Burningman.

The difference between an open source base station, and a homebuilt stingray in negligible.

While a grand or two's worth of radio hardware and however many weekends/evenings spent getting it all set up and the a software configured is _kind of_ expensive - it's effectively free at criminal org, corporate espionage, or state levels of action.
Unfortunately it is lying to you (it was paid to do that by the people who sell you the oil).
> Surrogates are actual codepoints, the range U+D800 to U+DFFF is reserved exclusively for that use:

Yes ... and no. In a UTF-16-encoded string, surrogates lose their status of code point (which they would have in a UTF-32- or a UCS-2-encoded string) and are mere code units instead.

The fact that the natural number they represent is reserved as code points is only a trick to band-aid systems that are trying to interpret buffers as UCS-2 although they are UTF-16.

> Not really. It's a base codepoint plus some sort of combining/variation selector, not unlike e +‌ ‌́ = é

I am pretty sure the combining marks and all these other things are technically still code points on their own. They're not glyphs, though: a glyph can be represented by multiple code points, as you mentioned one base code point (or two as in the flags) and potential combining marks/selectors/etc.

And then the families are indeed multiple glyphs with ligatures, AFAIU.
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Shouldn’t have happened given CA gun control, and YouTube’s anti gun agenda.
> Is the problem that people in DC don't park properly?

It's definitely a culture thing. In Sydney people seem to think it's fun to trash the bikes, throw them in rivers or just render them unusable.
The biggest proponent/driver of the agreement died a few years back (pancreatic cancer).
"As you all know, first prize is a Cadillac Eldorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired." - from Glengarry Glen Ross
>What you're trying to tell me is that it's not valid for someone to consider US culture as it pertains to guns as a reason for wanting to live there or not, because I'm statistically unlikely to be involved in gun crime. The statistical likelihood of being a victim is totally irrelevant, we're talking about the compatibility of cultural values.

Well, his post is hidden now, but he seemed exclusively concerned with the danger, not the actual culture.
There's also Adonis, which is somewhat the same. Never used it though.

https://adonisjs.com/
How is this compared to FeathersJS?
Check out Jordan Petersons biblical series: the psychological significance of the bible stories.

The bible tells a deep story about the workings of the human mind. To discard them because you don't believe them to be historically accurate is missing the point. There is a reason people have kept those stories alive for thousands of years, and why functional societies have them, and why dictatorships tend to ban them. They teach thought!
I'd expect IRA (or whomever) to use both types of accounts. They can work together.

I'd expect the 10^7 follower account to indeed have more influence, but not necessarily be able to effectively use that influence as well as the 10^4 follower account.

The big follower accounts would probably tend to be more general, with more diversity among their followers. For example they might have followers spread throughout the nation. Much of their influence will be wasted influencing people in areas where changing a few opinions is not enough to make a difference.

The smaller accounts might be able to be more focused on one particular region and one particular group of potential voters in that region. They will align with that group better than the big, national account will, and so might be more likely to change positions of their followers, and they can be focused on a region where things are close.

So what you do is use your big accounts as sources, and use your small accounts to post things from the big accounts. The link to the big accounts lends credibility to the material in the eyes of your followers on the smaller accounts.
Congrats to them, but I don’t think I’ll ever understand renting music. I can understand Netflix’s success because movie content is much less replayable and more expensive, but music is relatively cheap to own your own collection. I love music, but I don’t understand the appeal of Spotify and Pandora—I’d rather take the cost of subscription and build out my library over time.
There is a proposal out for it:

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-optional-chaining
This is exhibit A of why I can't stand Twitter. It has negative value in so many circumstances.
I was trying to meditate on this topic a few months ago, https://serprex.github.io/w/My%20Thesis

Didn't come together very coherently. It's coming from someone who's both stoic & hedonist. Mostly trying to find explanation for causality of behavior

Written somewhat while gasping from the end of a noose, so not as optimistic as this article, but the call to action ends up the same (where action is deemed voluntary)
Then you remote into a workstation as some one else in this thread said they did.
Hoping that governments are going to outlaw surveillance, when they are the biggest practitioners and customers of surveillance, seems... optimistic.
Just how much trouble can you get into with HMAC?

I recently ran into some HMAC-based crypto that I thought was pretty sketchy based on the "no custom crypto" principle, but I'm wondering if my concerns were overblown. I haven't found any obvious holes in it, but I'm not an expert so I don't know if that means much.
It is very easy to learn and is similar to Laravel.
AFAIU one RES feature is to specify your own preferred stylesheet for all subreddits.

You can achieve a similar result via a browser CSS manager, say, Stylus.
That you feel he is a con artist does nothing but indicate to me that all you know of Peterson is from headlines and hit pieces.

On the contrary, he is probably responsible for droves of new readers of Nietzsche, Jung, Solzhenitsyn, Piaget, William James and other important thinkers, which is certainly not a bad thing. Whether you find yourself at odds with what you think his audience is makes no difference to the strength of his arguments.

If you were honestly concerned with challenging Peterson's ideas and fans, you could squarely engage his work critically. Others have productively challenged his ideas and, as a result, have added to the progress of the discussion surrounding them. Before you do that, you're just adding to the noise which confuses and obscures issues of actual importance.
why did you prefer laptops to a bigger and cheaper in a bang for buck way desktop machine?
They allowed a surgeon (Andre Campbell [1]) to answer questions (as opposing to have a PR person to sanitize it):
https://www.pscp.tv/w/1zqKVrbanRAKB

In this interview Andre Campbell:

1) Advertised his ("Zuckerberg") hospital capabilities (3 times).

2) Answered some tech/medical questions about the wounds/diagnostics.

3) Occasionally smiled [in response to reporters curiosity].

[1] https://surgery.ucsf.edu/faculty/general-surgery/andre-campb...
I am pleased to see that features from E continue to be smuggled into ES, like finally-style asynchronous cleanup and template literal enhancements.

Edit: Downvotes can't undo our improvements to ES. We will drag JavaScript and its users, kicking and screaming, to a capability-secure future.
I've been working on ELB day-to-day since 2013, first as Principal engineer and now as one of the AWS services I focus on and help out. I do have some special insight - feel free to AMA.

I can get pretty deep on the TLS/SSL side if you have specifics; I'm also the main author of s2n, our Open Source implementation of TLS, and a participant in the TLS1.3 process.
We need some kind of TrollTrace program to keep tabs on this situation
Yes to all of those. It's a micro manufacturing shop (we also have laser cutters, a CNC mill, woodworking equipment, casting materials, etc.). We mostly sell products that we design and build on Etsy & Amazon, but also do small batch runs for people who need 50+ pieces of something and the economics of injection molding don't make sense. It actually started as a makerspace, but the economics of that model were not sustainable, so we scaled into small-run product manufacturing.
A streaming service that has no Beatles, Pink Floyd, No Motown, No AC/DC etc is going to shed users pretty quickly

Last I checked, Spotify has those artists. Have you actually used Spotify lately?
KG is not what most people think of as AI. It's more of a very large triple database with some confidence metrics than anything like what would pass for machine intelligence today. It's not even in the same org at Google.
I never thought about this until your comment. Fascinating!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound-on-film

I'm blown away by the complexity of sound that can be conveyed in what seems a simple manner.
Three stories about the power of resistance
35km - which is a TDMA timing issue, not a radio range one - that damned pesky speed of light problem...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timing_advance

(Note there's and "extended range" feature, where you can halve the cell site's capacity by waiting two timeslots in the TDMA schedule instead of one - which lets you go as far as 120km...)
sounds neat, thanks for sharing!
Not exactly a coding stream, but a good overview of the tools he uses regularly https://usesthis.com/interviews/jeff.dean/
That was the first thing that struck me too. There's some irony about these showing up on the streets of DC.

New technology only stays in the hands of "our team" for so long before ultimately showing up on our doorstep. Especially when that's low cost surveillance technology...
Luckily iPhones 7 and up have up to 256GB of storage
Book: Mathematics for Machine Learning
I'm not a wireless expert, but then wouldn't it also be theoretically possible to have a network of direction finders? Isn't direction finding also a repeatable set of steps that can benefit from automation?
Kent Beck's Product Development Triathlon
A thinly-veiled ad for whatever consulting business they are.
A decade of growth....?? Where were you in 2008?
My favorite is Dan Sandin's analogue video synth, from U of I Chicago circa 1971: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qh6jRzjmcY

He distributed the schematics free under a "copy it right" philosophy: you had his blessing as long as you didn't mess around with the schematics. All you had to do was send him a video tape asking for a copy, and he'd put them in the mail. If you had questions? Send another tape.

Ten or so years ago I emailed him and got a copy when I couldn't find them on google. They're fantastic, all hand drawn circuit diagrams and pcb layouts. Unfortunately some of the more important ICs are long out of production, and finding suitable replacements is beyond my skill. Not only that, the board he used to generate NTSC color was actually pulled from a specific model of video camera. To reproduce it today you'd have to either design a replacement from scratch or find a different approach.
This leads me to believe that a Hawkes process would be an excellent way to model IPOs.
Spotify's direct listing breaks the mould – unlike its governance
Not a MOOC, but I loved this: http://www.statsoft.com/Textbook/Basic-Statistics/button/1
Read the context.
Sadly, merit is a terrible qualifier. Humans have proven time and again that they are appallingly bad judges of “merit”, and this holds whether they are doing so on an ad-hoc/heuristic basis or by some systematic quantification: both approaches are wide open to intrinsic bias and systematic discrimination, and this routinely happens on scales from the job interview to national elections.

As for democracy, however, what we don’t have (yet) is anything demonstrably better. A meritocracy will not be an improvement over a democracy. The critical function of a democracy is affording the governed a guaranteed means to evict bad adminstration.
It's still an extra step to undo the async by default of JS. In other languages, the async is added only as needed, which I prefer.
I'm downloading and may use this, but I've actually come to like the hyperspec.

It was overwhelming at first, and the formatting isn't great, but I got used to it, and can actually find things pretty quick now. My biggest complaint would be the lack of examples.

I also don't know if I'd call $60 for the official spec expensive, but the fact it's a scan is inexcusable.
Always sad to see games become less popular over time. I used to play a MUD called Shattered Kingdoms. Glad to hear Discworld is still around.
> For the sake of argument, assume all those things are true.

This is about when your client did kill a person and you're using a slowly receding circle of lies to try to give them as much time as possible to skip town.
I've been thinking about this with respect to America's future. Basically, suppose people want a revolution. Well, that would require a competent leader to make the mob effective. This is the rub, if you have leadership skills then you make bank and would be in 'the system'.
I used to play a MUD called Shattered Kingdoms!
I agree with your stance, though my take on it is a little differently headed.

Why do some people choose to define their personal values and motivation along abstract concepts that are only ever read about, never felt, and never even seen live in person? Usually, people just go with whatever lets them get along best with their peers. Don't be ripped off by anyone, form meaningful friendships, do what fills your heart with joy, and then distill from that whatever you think is worth fighting for in life. No need to resort to machine learning here.

It might be true that strong ai will take over in ten or thirty years. But should this really change your outlook? What happens if your bets are off, what did you then spend your life preparing for?

It might be true that science disagrees with traditional metaphysical ideas. (it cannot disprove those, by definition.) but does satellite data really mean that you shouldn't give your church a second chance? Maybe the traditional way of telling the story is funky, maybe the organization at large has some rot (don't they all), but I'm sure there's something to learn from it when it comes to how we can make people get along with each other. At the very least, LIGO and LHC won't.

What does it say about your personal striving that you have to look at Mars to reflect on your limits?

I'm not saying let's stop pursuing those things. I've been wanting a PC interface to my brain since the day I was able to imagine it, and never stopped wanting it. But over the last decade, I've learned to decouple my personal identity from humanity's technological advancement. Because after all, my grandparents knew how to be happy, too.
Very fascinating machines indeed and of course there are software available to mimic video synth stacks like Lumen and Cathodemer (http://lumen-app.com, http://store.steampowered.com/app/697860/Cathodemer)
> Mobike is the world’s first and largest dockless bike-sharing provider

World's first?

Please, DB has been operating one across Germany since 2000, 15 years before Mobike even existed.
They weren't doing it for 10 years because they were terrified of becoming digg and giving users a major gripe. They're already inserting a lot more ads into the feeds, so they're on pretty shaky ground.
Ucore os was ported on risc-v 32/64 CPU
Yeah, like the local garbage collection agency, or the animal welfare agency, or the horse racing regulators. All of whom will claim, if cornered, "We don't need a warrant, because, ummm, we're doing this TO PROTECT THE PRESIDENT!!!"

(That list may sound idiotic, but you can't make this shit up - there's examples where I live of those exact agencies (and more) requesting warrantless access to telecommunications metadata: https://www.smh.com.au/technology/dozens-of-government-agenc... )
That was only one sided though.
This is cool! Maybe not super useful (perhaps could be used as a changelog or something?), but definitely cool-lookin'. Interesting that while images don't load on Firefox, they do seem to actually take up space. I get a big gap in the console on the image render line.
The number of connections is high, but the bandwidth is surprisingly low. Modern edge routers could do it a couple times over.
There's a concerted effort by right-wingers to overrun every "local" reddit. If you go to /r/seattle or /r/seattlewa half the comments in most posts are HEAVILY downvoted hate speech and trolling.
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How did diabetics even manage to buy sugar-free snacks before Amazon's recommendation engine?

Thank god for Amazon profiling them, they must have been starving before.
Great question, and the answer is probably "it depends". I've got all of those except the robot arm/part picker and even if you had really expensive tools like metal sintering printers and a 5-axis CNC mill, you would still have to buy a lot of the components that are produced with specialized machinery. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that maybe in 20 years we'll be able to self-replicate machinery with raw materials inputs and a lot of work. It wouldn't be even close to economically viable to do so, but it might be possible.

It's important to remember that the majority of the core technology in 3D printing today actually dates back to the late 1980s. We're starting to see some interesting developments in materials and capabilities, but there are still plenty of limitations that need to be overcome.
Optane is a brand that covers both the harddrive and RAM. For non-SSD HDDs it will provide a cache on commonly accessed files, providing a big boost to disk HDs and a minor boost to SSDs. Which is why I asked if people have noticed an improvement in practice with either the HD or RAM options, as I assume most people here have SSDs.
>Gradle... It's an environment for programmer!

>Maven...you have to write your own plugin. Not nice.

>If I wanted to change one thing in Gradle it would be for the Gradle project to focus on debugging

You've just explained why I have no interest in Gradle. You're writing one off, undocumented, anonymous plugins, in a weird domain specific language, with debugging tools that aren't very good.

Worse, when the Gradle guru decides to leave the company for greener pastures, everyone else is left with a mess trying to figure out WTH that person was doing in all the build files.
> I just wish the lighting told me something useful.

There's a cross-platform, open source project that does this[1]. You can even script it and bind colors and effects not just to CPU load but to any variable (I don't know - maybe requests being served per second)

1. https://github.com/dcerisano/RGB-LED-Motherboard-Header-Driv...
Again...

As per my other response re: your apparent implicit belief in a labor theory of value, now you're espousing the implicit belief that a labor market must tend towards full employment, and at a wage level that makes revolution unattractive.

If I might make the observation, your positions seem to be littered with false beliefs/understandings.

I'm assuming another one of those false beliefs would be that you'd be in the relative merit camp under any such meritocracy...
I use Wire (wire.com). It's good with a few downsides:

- Cannot send things to yourself.

- Sometimes buggy with video calls

- I would love a bit more customization client side, like being able to have a more compact interface on the desktop
mises.org is well known as a strongly libertarian site. I personally have trouble taking opinions from them at face value. I think it would be roughly equivalent to taking Fox News's opinion of Democrats at face value. Yeah, maybe they have a good point, maybe they don't, but I don't trust the source enough put the effort in to work it out.