skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most folks took 70% to mean that she would certainly win and were bitterly disappointed the morning after.

Surely, given the outcome, more of those folks were pleasantly surprised at the outcome than "bitterly disappointed".
Right, I linked to these summary notes in a different comment:

https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/ocaml-multicore-report-on-a-june...
If I had basalt under my house I would dig a system of tunnels too. But our water table is basically 2 feet under ground. :(
Have you considered that users can think for themselves, that we might not have to spoon-feed them? :-)
Are these documented?
I imagine that would have to be snuck in at construction…
> In some TASes, the player will move/shoot/jump/etc. in ways that seem bizarre but are actually done to favorably affect the pseudorandom number generator

And then there’s movements like the arm pumping in Super Metroid, where it’s done “because you can” while performing long stretches of movement that aren’t very entertaining/complex on their own. (One might say that it’s done for a demonstration of skill when human players do it, but there’s no similar justification for a TAS doing it.)
Until the advent of Hard AI it is possible that many people could be put to work constructing the digital realities and experiences for video games. (even playing actor roles in video games) However I think even for this to be a reality one would still require a UBI.
I'm not saying there should be no copyright. I'm analogizing vast restrictions on copyright to arguments people often make about surveillance, that if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to lose.

I think that argument is more or less well understood, and I think the logic transfers over to use of powerful tools to police copyright infringement.

We can't anticipate how those tools will be abused in idiosyncratic ways by flawed political systems, and we shouldn't enable vast enforcement powers without building in the same checks against human abuses that are part of democratic systems.
Since I roll with JS disabled everywhere except a few sites I trust, I get an eternal "Loading... please wait...". Fingerprinting defeated, or just defeated fingerprinting 'test'?
Draconian or Nanny State: Concurrency Ideologies of Java, Go, .. And Rust
Very well put... and this was the point I was making about "decent" performance. If you have super-special requirements (you don't), you'll probably discover it along the way to SUCCESS. If you don't any old SQL database will probably be more than sufficient AND it will be flexible enough to allow you to evolve your schema along the way.
in addition to the sale, it seems like it would make sense to ban the importation of sunscreen with tourists in their luggage. Hawaii's a frequent vacation spot for me, and I always pack my own (high spf) sunscreen. I can never find sunscreen when visiting that works well with my skin.

if they can't ban the luggage-packed sunscreen, perhaps an information campaign. if I know what not to bring, I'll tend to make sure I don't, and I'm not alone.
> I wonder where this will lead to.

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."
I often see great articles from BBC travel, anyone know if there's an RSS feed?
Cheers but as I said in OP, doesn't work anymore
I remember reading years ago about prohibiting politicians from practicing if they proposed too many laws that we found to be in conflict with the constitution. I believe ancient Greece had something like this but cannot find anything about it anymore.
Looking at a 30 year trend in, say, the S&P 500 vs the European stock index, suggests Europe would do much better if they started emulating US business.
(throwaway account because people don't respect civil discussion anymore)

NASA is fake, space isn't real. I wish people here were evidence minded instead of authority minded.

1. Astronaut can be seen riding a CGI harness (VISIBLE) in official NASA footage, see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8KJcSL28-8&t=20s

2. Astronauts on "ISS" manipulate objects in virtual reality while visualizing those objects through VR contact lenses. The VR result is then broadcasted live.

This is revealed in this footage where an astronaut is manipulating objects that aren't there!. They are caught with their pants down:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8KJcSL28-8#t=1m

3. In the Cupola design for the ISS, the unforgiving vacuum of space is held back by just two o-ring type seals! Those things can barely seal my refrigerator let alone the vacuum of space from a pressurized cabin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSzuiqVjJg4

4. You can see the ISS Astronots disappear while the green screen ISS hull stays perfectly still behind them! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOecuvBOf5Q

I welcome discussion on the matter, there are hundreds more pieces of evidence I can show that NASA is lying to the people and has been since they went to the moon under Nixon.
Chinese hardware with US based OS and mostly US based services.
> 3. There seem to be easier ways to hack visitors to singapore - like getting physical access to their laptop.

In the US, it's as easy as Customs giving you a choice: 1) sit in a room indefinitely or 2) let them take your device into another room for an hour or so. Definitely a case of this: https://www.xkcd.com/538/
I think you're conflating trades, which often provide solid incomes, and lots of room for creativity, learning, and skill-development, with mind-numbing service jobs like being a cashier, delivery drivers, or call-center employees.

There is also some conflation between 'creativity', and 'artistic inclinations'. Lots of things require creativity, artistic practices only being one of them.
It's not stealing or immoral. When you were hired, you agreed to terms that were favorable to you. This usually includes forfeiting some of the profit you create.
Adding TS won't magically make your code base maintainable. TS/Flow are both successful, great projects for adding types. They help with tooling, and you spend less time inspecting the underlying code. But now you also have to maintain those types when things change. I work on a very large JS code base and the number of type errors I see is pretty rare. That being said, I'm not opposed to types. It's just not the panacea that people claim it is. Good tests and simple architectures will do more to make a code base maintainable than types will.
Can confirm.

I live on Broadway at the north end before it turns into 10th and one night out my window I heard a homeless guy screaming "JUST FKING DO IT. KILL ME". I go to my window and a guy has a gun pointed against his forehead, presumably a drug dealer since he was asking for his money. This screaming went on for a good 15 minutes while the drug dealer repeatedly hit him.

I've seen theft happen everywhere, people on meth screaming all night, homeless people sleep on the sidewalk no matter what, people shooting up on your door steps, dead homeless people, etc.

The thing is I never felt really threatened by anyone, including the people who were extremely high on whatever cocktails they had in their systems. It seemed like everyone was really just trying to survive or to escape their terrible, hopeless reality.

I don't hate these people who are obviously under massive stress and have obviously nothing, but it's a very good look into the reality of what problems Seattle really has.
Facebook's Reason ML might be a more approachable introduction to OCaml concepts. Reason adds a cleaner, more JavaScript-like syntax on top of the OCaml compiler backend.

The Reason team's primary focus appears to be compiling Reason/OCaml to JavaScript. It's a nice language, but I'm not sure why they want to pass through a OCaml "middle end" before emitting JavaScript output. Why not just write a direct Reason->JavaScript compiler similar to TypeScript?

https://reasonml.github.io/
Someone should do an analysis of that pdf to see if anything is embedded in that.
Wish I could get a house...
> run map(), reduxe() and filter() on a series of events.

Can't you do that with a btree already?
Great article :) Particularly the summary where the author asks whether issues we have now might be similarly due to ignorance that we will condemn in 60 years.
I added the part about the Welfare State because that's what we have today that favors workers, not because that's socialism. It's a manifestation of social democracy, I'm in agreement with you.
Yeah, why would a bunch of basement-dwelling computer nerds be interested in a giant underground tunnel?

I kid, I kid! :-)
Along related lines: zinc-based sunblock has gotten a lot nicer to use in recent years. Worth checking out as an alternative.
Maybe a play on words? Many people pronounce Tcl as tickle. Jim Tcl, George Dickel?

If so, they should have named it George Tcl. Jim is known for another whiskey.
It's perfectly simple," said Wednesday. "In other countries, over the years, people recognized the places of power. Sometimes it would be a natural formation, sometimes it would just be a place that was, somehow, special. They knew that something important was happening there, that there was some focusing point, some channel, some window to the Immanent. And so they would build temples or cathedrals, or erect stone circles, or...well, you get the idea."

"There are churches all across the States, though," said Shadow.

"In every town. Sometimes on every block. And about as significant, in this context, as dentists' offices. No, in the USA, people still get the call, or some of them, and they feel themselves being called to from the transcendent void, and they respond to it by building a model out of beer bottles of somewhere they've never visited, or by erecting a gigantic bat house in some part of the country that bats have traditionally declined to visit. Roadside attractions: people feel themselves pulled to places where, in other parts of the world, they would recognize that part of themselves that is truly transcendent, and buy a hot dog, and walk around, feeling satisfied on a level they cannot truly describe, and profoundly dissatisfied on a level beneath that.
And the world-wide web (Tim Berners-Lee at CERN)
They don't pay you any percentage of profits. Your wages are rent paid for your labor - profits go to the shareholders, not employees.

That's why when productivity (and profits) go up, wages often don't. Why would they? One has nothing to do with the other.
That's reminiscent of this incident from a few years ago [1]. A women in Australia took a SIM card from an electric meter and used it to download a bunch of movies and make a lot of calls, which the electric company found out when they got a bill for A$200k.

I can't find a link, but I have a vague recollection of a similar thing happening in the US.

Some cellular providers have data plans specifically for things like remote sensors that need to periodically reports small amounts of data, such as few hundred bytes an hour. They have low data caps and astronomical per kilobyte charges if you go over the cap.

[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/02/stolen_sim_woman_ja...
Is it great to be a U.S. worker? Not compared with the rest of developed world
Yeah, this has completely replaced most of my use of bookmarks. Now they mostly exist to improve search results, which is awesome.

And to go a step further: pinboard will crawl and index bookmarked pages if you pay a bit more, so you can search within page contents. I've almost stopped tagging things because I can get close enough just by searching for a keyword or two. Only real downside I encounter is that I can't search pages that are behind a login.
>you agreed to terms that were favorable to you.

This is out of touch with reality. A lot of people don't have a choice.

>This usually includes forfeiting some of the profit you create.

Why isn't it going back to the people who made the profit in the first place? That seems very immoral.
If you're posting on this website, you can probably get a house. Just not the house you want, where you want.
> Even ignoring the fact that 12 drives will have much better performance than a single one, would you still just blindly throw them away to buy the single one, without considering if it would be cheaper to buy 12 disk slots instead?

Density does matter. And 12 individual disk will have a high failure rate than one disk because there is 12x electronics, 12x motors, 12x seals. Also the power needs for 12 disks is higher than 1. And you would need more raid cpu power to coordinate 12x disks.

> Why a few? Isn't a single high-end one enough to saturate an NVMe or PCIe slot these days?

Sure. I feel like you are just arguing for arguing sake here. You get 1GBps from most ssds and ddr3 is around 15GBps or so.

> What if this "new" class is actually DDR3 and the "sticks" are actually PCIe cards? That's what I've been suggesting

If it was significantly cheaper and new sure. Ddr3 is just as expensive as ddr4 right now.

No body running a professional data center wants the unpredictability of used parts unless they have had very consistent and tame histories. According to large scale studies ddr has increasing error rates as they age: https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub35162
And even US-built chips. For quite a while iPhones with final assembly in China had processors built by Samsung in Austin, Texas, using semiconductor fab equipment built in Germany and the US.
Report: 18% of People in Turkey Own Crypto Compared to 8% in the US
Yes, this would be the book I would recommend as well. I'll give a bunch of general advice as well:

OCaml is pretty old (introduced a year after Java IIUC), and it contains quite a few crusty libraries and programming patterns that come from age. Stick with the latest version you can find through this "modernization" process headed up by JS.

I'm on 4.06, which just made immutable strings a default, and broke a ton of libraries. If you run into a broken lib, this recent version change is almost certainly the reason. I strongly recommend 4.06 as a minimum version (if you're not working with legacy code). If there's a library you want to use that is not compatible yet, bug the maintainer to update it. I've run into problems trying to downgrade/upgrade my compiler version + all the tools. I can't recommend doing that, it kinda ruins the experimentation experience.

What else can I say? Opam, the package maintainer, is great. There's a great build system, nice IDE support with a set of tools called merlin, and the compiler is super fast. The compiler field-level error messages are generally helpful (typo-fix suggestions), but can be fiendishly opaque if you happen to mess up a match boundary (which can happen easily when mixing in if/then/else statements).

Most stuff is google-able, but there's a lot of "line noise" in OCaml function signatures - especially for variant types and labeled arguments. That's harder to search for, so read that section thoroughly in the book.
Ctypes.sh: foreign function interface for bash
Yeah, but it's not free agency in the sense of someone saying, "To heck with cultural norms, I'm gonna follow my own whims."

AFAICT from the article, he felt drafted into this project from a voice in his dreams, which I'm guessing he reckoned to come from a different agent.
I don't understand why people bring easily acquired items like sunscreen in their luggage. Unless you're going somewhere that doesn't have a Walgreens or a Rite-Aid, I see no reason to haul around sunscreen, shampoo, toothpaste, deodorant, mouthwash, contact lens fluid, etc., to get stopped by the TSA multiple times and have to throw it out anyway because it exploded because of the pressure difference.
Its not like the poor is going down, they're also going up but not nearly as fast. Almost all of our poor people are rich by global standards is an argument I hear often. Most poor also end up middle class as they grow up, take responsibility and contribute to society is another I hear.

I lived in poverty for years after dropping out of college, sometimes with roommates that were way beyond toxic, worked multiple jobs 70 hours a week just to pay rent and food and still ended up middle class with a job I love; I've been through hell to find heaven. What I learned on the way I now use every day, its made me a stronger and better person and I can now help others do the same.

If someone had given me what I have today, just for the sake of equality, I would not have learned responsibility, discipline, I would hardly have developed most of the skills I now have and probably would've lost all of it by now. I would basically still be an angsty teen in an adult's body, which is what kept me poor in the first place.
UK Government Body Completes Pilot Tracking Beef Supplies on the Blockchain
I can easily imagine this happening. Makes me wonder what can society do about it?

Google for example takes hiring decision away from interviewer - the committee receives interview feedback in written form and makes a decision based on that, not seeing the candidate. You do lose a few bits of information that what, but it takes like half the bias off the table (the other half is allowing the interviewers to ask more difficult questions and being more nit picky in grading answers).
i think (it's always hard to know for certain, because this is a pretty deep subject) that I agree with everything you said.

on difficulty in framing discussion: I agree that there can be two extremes, and discussions always seem to get bogged down in labeling due to these ingrained notion of what is good and bad. Is communism bad? most americans would probably say yes because that's what we learned in school. but i would argue (and I think based on what you said you'd agree) that there's no system inherently good or bad (within reason), it's just execution, implementation, situation etc that causes certain systems to be good or bad. I would argue the scandinavians, from what little I know, have done quite well, whereas most wealthy americans would take up pitchforks at that level of taxation.

and to be honest, i never was a big fan of ayn rand. it seemed to take too strong of a stance, as if there was no room to even consider if, in fact, greed (I guess they would call it something like individualism or great men or something like that) might actually be bad in some cases, or if the invisible hand might be leaving a large portion of the population in generational poverty (and simultaneously ensuring the top stay on top). my 2c is that nothing is 100% good or bad, it's situational, and there's a lot of gray areas.

lastly, at the risk of babbling on, it would be great if you are right, that there is some aspect of morality (along with, to weinstein's point, self-preservation) to the discussion. is it wrong for bezos to be worth $X billion, while a large portion of his workers live paycheck to paycheck? is it wrong that larry, sergei and the other tech elite live in an area that also suffers from rampant homelessness? at the least, I absolutely think it's a valid moral question to ask.

To your last point, I agree. I think capitalism worked pretty well for a long time when a rising tide lifted all boats, but that it's time to evolve with the times.
Cost and convenience. The markup on personal hygiene products at Walgreens for example is horrific compared to say, Walmart. After landing in a far away place, I don’t want to have to spend any time tracking those items down.

If you follow the TSA regs for liquids, it’s a non-issue.
It's from BBC's News From Elsewhere [1], which covers weird local stories that their journalists come across. It's meant to be light, humorous news.

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-23204394
Why should I choose you vs the other guy/lady?

> 15000 Hours Of Experience
I really don't see your point here. What does this have to do with anything? Was this time spent pushing your skills and learning new stuff, or a focus on the basics? The 10k rule is debatable.

> No Rights Reserved. Theme purchased from ThemeForest.
WP? really? You do web dev, but purchased a theme? Why not create your own? Seems odd imho.
They actively refuse to use parameterised sql queries, opting for their own home baked userland implementation instead.
The Yiddish original, "a shprakh iz a dialekt mit an armey un flot", was targeted at people who refused to view Yiddish as an independent language, but rather just as a dialect of German. The point was that if Yiddish-speakers had their own country, those people wouldn't have said that.
I guess the fact that you have a delay associated with the recognition of commands not loaded into the recognizers current vocabulary is an artifact associated with the design of the recognizer which was probably tuned towards continuous speech. In other words your dynamic grammars idea was a way to work around a limitation of the speech recognizer you were using.

Part of the benefit of designing a language specifically for speech based coding is that the design of the associated recognizert could be tuned to that language. Compared to a brute force translated version of the keyboard input based language developer workflow, a speicifcally designed language would likely have a far narrower vocabulary. This would make it possible to tune a recognizer for better recognition accuracy and speed.
on the other hand, if your blood alcohol concentration rose outside the "exceptionally unlikely" range it is "almost certain" that you'd be dead.
An Introduction to TBTK
Wordpress core has very secure coding practices, and if you can find an 0-day in it, then you've done very, very well.

The problems with Wordpress are mostly:

1. WP installations are often not properly configured or maintained.

2. The plugin ecosystem is a mess of vulnerable and/or malicious code, or simply dead code that isn't maintained yet still deployed in the wild.
GNU rm I believe requires the --no-preserve-root flag these days, to prevent that command from happening by accident
Notice I didn't argue for basic income or any other specific redistribution scheme (I like cost effective schools and low cost health care though) rather i argued for things that end rich dynasties that purpetuate inequality across generations.

I think each generation should earn their riches rather than rich dynasties persisting across generations. I favor capitalism and inequality of outcome but earned capitalism from at least a relative equal start.
What I do is stay out of the sun from 10-2.
In the sense that (IMO) most people don’t need Wordpress, I am, I am (slowly) working on (yes another) static site generator.

But, in response to your general theory: I can criticise a car as being fucking terrible without someone suggesting I “go build my own then”.
The most likely result from these shutdowns is that people will just google for what they were looking for. And in stead of more or less correct information will get whatever shows up. (For example looking up vaccines will get some antivax stuff)
I second this. I wasn’t saying everyone should be painters or musicians or novel writers.
See also the Forestiere Underground Gardens in Fresno, dug by one man over a period of 40 years from 1906 to his death in 1946. He came to Fresno from Sicily and when he couldn't productively grow citrus on his property, he began digging. The tunnels are nice and cool in the hot Fresno summers and there are fruit trees growing in open-air sections. They give tours.

http://www.undergroundgardens.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forestiere_Underground_Gardens
Why are cheap TVs a problem? I don't understand that part of what you're saying.

FWIW, I think the biggest missing piece in this discussion is to directly address the lower productivity growth. I think technologically there's plenty of runway still for higher productivity, if we weren't collectively sabotaging ourselves in poorly-understood ways. (Not that I claim to understand just how we're doing it. Only that we're nowhere near the limits of the possible with technology.)
Korean guy studying alone creates a huge following on YouTube