skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The world is filled with people that figured out things accidentally because they were doing something else.

For example, the person who figured out how to heat food with microwaves (and created the first microwave) didn't set out to do so, he discovered that the chocolate bar in his front pocket melted while working on magnetrons.

"Figuring something out" doesn't imply concerted research towards that goal, accidental understanding happens all the time to all of us on many topics.
I've run it. Still run it for NFS4 cots NAS for HPC clusters
and web services. Will be moving back to it next year for HPC nodes...or maybe FreeBSD depending on this acquisition.

fedora was way ahead in performance for years. That was the only reason to go RH-alike but Fedora is _so_ flaky and systemd upstream + attendant cruft like firewalld and the default selinux policies are nightmares. Every Fedora distribution is another set of bugs and workarounds that push you towards RH enterprise..as if you hadn't been doing this for 20 years and needed RH to show you the way.

Fedora is nice if you are doing hypervsiors with QEMU/KVM. Very close to prod out the box.
> Voters should be able to control their reps, via votes. If they can't, then the representative democracy is flawed and needs new legislation to fix it

The ballot box is a very low resolution feedback tool and an election cycle is a very long iteration cycle.

Imagine you only had performance reviews every two years and the feedback from your boss was either "you're not as good as the next best choice, so you're fired" or "you're not fired right now."

Voter willpower is diffuse (different people care about different things at different times) and only infrequently expressed. Special interest willpower can be much more acutely and frequently applied. It's hard to see how you can correct the imbalance between these two things given the current system and the inertia of incumbents who benefit from it.
You appear to have missed the small word "in"?
It takes a while until the brakes in the last car start braking because the pressure doesn't drop everywhere simultaneously.
Pretending a market doesn't exist by forming cartels isn't the answer either.

You can't vote in your small local city to tax 100% of the profits of a local company and force them to stay.
Of note is that DRAMeXchange is in China I think too.
Pretty much, other than they break the deep link.

Follow https://www.npr.org/2018/07/03/625544265/pentagon-questioned...

Redirect to https://choice.npr.org/index.html?origin=https://www.npr.org...

Reject the sell-your-soul option and get dumped to https://text.npr.org/

You should instead be sent to https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=625544265

There is no technical reason for these sites to not work without accepting cookies -- this is easily proven with curl. The sId is right there in the URL.

(of course there's no technical reason the full featured site can't be served either without setting hundereds of external cookies to nameless numbers of companies)
There's the old saying that there are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. We're on box 2, but don't forget about the others.
Yeah how ridiculous! Loved ones should honestly be our number 1 priority. That work is so demanding of the majority of our free time while we are alive is a travesty. Work used to have meaning when we would hunt, gather, or farm. You did that along side your friends and family. Now we isolate ourselves for 8 to 12 hours a day earning money to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. And for what? Is humanity progressing? Is a claims adjuster contributing?
He/she was right, I was trying to write scheme python. I have spent quite some time writing python, but my sleep deprived brain wants to make everything into scheme :)

I don't know what you would lose by having if as an expression. It is easy to notice when it is used in expression context, and there is no extra computation that needs to be done.

It was sort of addressed with the trenary operator, but that quickly becomes ugly.
The larger context here is this all takes place in the context of a DRAM market where prices have increased roughly 200% over the last 2 years (the same 16GB DDR4-3000 kits I paid $63 for 16 GB for in May 2016 are now $171). Meanwhile, Hynix, Samsung, and Micron are all planning to reduce capacity relative to projected growth of demand.

The DRAM cartel is very clearly back into action and China isn't going to sit by and let their electronics industry be strangled by these massive price increases. Over the last 6 months (before the Trump stuff even started) their anti-trust regulator has been having some pointed words with the DRAM fabs, backstopped by bringing their own domestic production online. Samsung, for one, is playing ball, and signed a memorandum of understanding with China's antitrust regulators.

Taking the DRAM cartel down a peg is a good thing for consumers, a good thing for downstream electronics manufacturers (phones/laptops/etc), and a bad thing if your name is "Samsung", "Micron", or "Hynix".

http://www.china.org.cn/business/2017-12/23/content_50157479...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/21/china_memory_insour...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-samsung-elec-chips-outloo...

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3327772-samsung-headed-china-a...

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/270666-china-launches-...

https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20180614PD212.html?mod=3&q=m...

Now, are they going to be extra pointed about this with Micron considering Trump is starting a trade war? Absolutely, but this has been going on for a half year now.
Unfortunately you're right on both counts.
> Why not "library every day"?

Just a guess: some extroverts find "library day" just as unpleasant as others find non-library days?

I really like the way Amtrak handles this: At least on the Northeast Corridor, most of their trains have a "quiet car". Whether or not you sit in it is optional.
There are cheats, but they just don't have a substantial benefit. There are no wall-hacks. Aimbots exist, but aren't that useful. The game already has autoaim builtin, but is rarely used.

The client has fairly limited information. A tank you can't see isn't known to the client. The server only accepts intentions from the client. Such as I want to move forward, I am shooting etc. Everything else is calculated on the server. The server determines if a shot hits, not the client.

Apparently god like mode cheats are available in games like Fortnite however.

In this example, it appears the client can pretty much do anything. Apparently it can kill players anywhere on the map, have unlimited resources etc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0_X1MBaM1s
Positive results for social policy.
Questionable results for economic policy.

Historically the latter has been driven by physiological particulars of a state — availability of farm land, coal mines, etc. Has anyone actually thought through how that transitions to a primarily services-based economy?

(Aside: if state governments are a market, then the Senate is socialism, lol)
Good to know, would explain why there's a phantom eth port on some of these routers, must be used to connect between router and switch chips. Sounds like you're right about wifi->wired transit though if this is the casr
> LINQ only creates an expression tree when the type of the source object is IQueryable

To be further pedantic: it creates an expression when the method accepts an Expression<T>, which IQueryable happens to do.
For one, that is exactly the case. An overwhelming majority of people in America are in debt, and have no savings.

(In the case this isn't obvious: if you have no savings, you have no choice of where to invest your savings.)
Would you attribute this higher rate of part time work to a strong social welfare system in the Netherlands or to some other factor?
This is my gut feeling. It's a combination of it being trendy (because people love it, and companies love to seem hip), saves companies money (one of the reasons for open office plans incidentally), and as more and more workers prefer working that way, it will be a good perk to have. Once something like this reaches critical mass (ie. after a few success stories) I feel companies will jump on it.

Of course, all this because we generally, since we invented the internet, seem to avoid commuting to things we would rather spend less time on and don't require out actual physical presence. Same reason we pay our bills online, do our shopping online etc.
The concept of a "meme" itself (genetic material in media) is at best an analogy to begin with, and from what I've read, fails to take into account the existing literature on semiotics [1]:

Another criticism comes from semiotics, (e.g., Deacon,[16] Kull[17]) stating that the concept of meme is a primitivized concept of Sign. Meme is thus described in memetics as a sign without its triadic nature. In other words, meme is a degenerate sign, which includes only its ability of being copied. Accordingly, in the broadest sense, the objects of copying are memes, whereas the objects of translation and interpretation are signs.

You can go very far down the rabbit hole of pedantry. ;-)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetics#Criticism
At the start of the 20th century heavier-than-air flight wasn't possible. By the end of the 20th century we'd put people on the moon, and brought them back alive, multiple times. Inter-continental flight became so routine that it's not even notable.

I wouldn't underestimate the rate of technological progress.
Posible, but super ugly and unreadable. (Compare and contrast it with JavaScript; someone posted it.)

map & filter work great when one can chain methods (no matter if via methods or %>% pipes like in R) and with decent lambda functions.

If a thing is uglier than in both JS and R... well, it is not a good sign.
I suspect I cannot really help you with your question. Also, I only dabbled in introduction to formal philosophy as side-projects to my CS education. Mostly I am self-taught, having spontaneously performed several of the text-book thought experiments on my own, as a child. Apologies if my nomenclature is not quite right for you. I also have a somewhat anti-authoritarian disposition. I tend to adopt or kidnap ideas I encounter without any urge to toe the line of their respective schools of thought.

Yes, I was referencing that being a bat problem. However, what I meant to emphasize was the spectrum of creatures. Most people grant inner lives to familiar animals even though we cannot claim to comprehend them directly. But, many people have incoherent beliefs as they work further down the ladder towards plants, colonies, and other simple life. Their need to find a boundary where the spark occurs is closeted dualism, in my opinion.

I consider a quest for qualia to be essentially dualism in disguise, and endless debates about the term itself to be proxy war on just how to beg the question. When I was lectured by Searle and his views on being a bat and his chinese room, I felt he was begging the question and playing to the peanut gallery. He wants you to assume there is "understanding" that a room lacks. He doesn't want you to dwell on the difference between the room and the system comprised of the room, the rules, the translation state, and the executive functions literally embodied by attendants. I enjoyed a contemporaneous course from Lakoff to consider his metaphorical mappings and category thinking as a counterpoint. We all liked to joke that it might be metaphors all the way down. My reading of these topics may have begun my own gradual turn towards reductionism and behaviorism.

I do not think qualia deserve any special place compared to any other abstraction. I don't think there is anything more real about the sense of first-person experience than there is about a sense of justice or love in a particular human interaction. I think that these are all in the same category of perceptual abstraction. I think ALL abstractions admit or even encourage an ontological failure mode which is to impose discrete symbols over fuzzy realities, and tempt logical deductions over this willful ignorance. This is why I frequently return to topics like identity, memory, and mental pathology which illustrates such failings. I question the "you", the "moment", and the "ride" as all being convenient but potentially misleading abstractions.

Finally, I think that the qualitative experience you seek to explain is tied up in the mind-body problem and has as much to do with introspection of the body and hormonal systems as it does introspection of cognition. I took interest in Rodney Brooks and his subsumption as a possible explanatory mechanism here. To keep insisting that you can discuss the quality of experience independently of the content is, again, a signal of latent dualism to me.
Why? Doing anything of value requires expending of energy and producing heat, this is unavoidable. Saying that this activity is pointless just because you are not seeing any value does not mean that it is actually pointless. In general anything that people are willing to pay money for is not pointless for someone, otherwise that money would be spent on something else. It is like saying why a farmer needs to drive that big tractor down the field using precious (for whom?) oil and polluting the air whereas I can do things manually on my pea patch just fine. If anything we should welcome higher and higher energy use because it means higher standard of living for the humankind. And just to address 'waste' here, energy is not free so 'waste' that actually wastes resources cannot go on for long lest the waster goes bankrupt.
What we need is a clear separation between the Core OS a.k.a. base system which should be provided by every "Desktop Linux" distribution, and the rest.

Applications should only use those shared libraries that come with the Core OS a.k.a. base system, and either link statically to or bundle the rest.

Like an iOS application can only consume what iOS provides or bundle any additional dependencies privately.

The result would be a much simpler and more resilient system (at the expense of some storage and memory overhead, which is the lesser evil imho).
>Why is Bloomberg anti-bitcoin?

Maybe this?

https://qz.com/84961/this-is-how-much-a-bloomberg-terminal-c...
You're conflating 'startup' with 'internet/app/social startup'. There are a lot of other types of businesses that start small and grow...
mlukaszczyk,

Is GraphCMS a Graphcool service? I see their style of sorting and filtering in your API. If so, what's your experience with Graphcool, and what value does GraphCMS add?
It's actually a little amazing how many people are stumbling over themselves to point out how one possible interpretation of the title that implies some credit is due to this group that people have a generally poor opinion of couldn't possibly actually have done anything useful.

This, people, is exactly what prejudice is.
Launch failures: the boring stuff
>anything of value

Bitcoin's value (not price, mind you) is still very questionable.
This is because the actual translation of `a + b` is a little more complicated. It's something like this:

if '__add__' in a.__dict__:
try:
return a.__add__(b)
except NotImplemented:
if '__radd__' in b.__dict__:
return b.__radd__(a)
elif '__radd__' in b.__dict__:
return b.__radd__(a)

raise TypeError('unsupported operand type(s) for +: '{}' and '{}'.format(type(a), type(b))

In particular, the runtime seems to directly look for '__add__' in the object's __dict__, rather than just trying to invoke `__add__`, so your `__getattribute__` method isn't enough to make it work. If you add an actual `__add__` method to A your example will work.
Per the article, if you instead rely on a depth map, makeup doesn't work. But it does prevent basic image recognition.
Systems like the Open Build Service can ease the pain a bit by building for different distributions and versions, but it is a pain nevertheless. Luckily the Open Build Service instance at https://build.opensuse.org/ can also do AppImages, which run on most "Desktop Linux" systems.
I'm just happy that the news media didn't succeed in changing the term "trolling" to mean "cyberbullying" a few years ago.

Edit: spelling
This seems strikingly similar to another Indian story from a few years ago in which a man was lynched by a mob after a rumor falsely alleged that he had eaten beef. (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/09/indian-mob-kills-man-...)

That time Whatsapp was not involved at all, yet the rumor spread just the same. This seems to be a case of treating the symptom, and not the problem. For example:

>Sukanta Chakraborty, 33, a tabla musician with a sonorous voice who was paid about $8 a day to travel from village to village in a van equipped with a loudspeaker, warning about the dangers of fake news. He and two others were beset by a mob wielding bricks and bamboo sticks in a crowded market Thursday.

In this case, the mob attacked him for trying to get the mobs to question their accepted beliefs (that child traffickers are rampant, and can be identified through Whatsapp), which is a pattern of behavior found in similarly situated groups through history, for example, the witch trials.
Much like the witch trials, there are likely causal explanations for these villager's behaviors. For example, the witch trials are suspected to be a reaction to the citizen's fears of brutal native attacks that were happening around that time.

Perhaps the Indian gov't should look to identify and fix the situation making these people fearful and violent, not just plug up the tubes with legislation that will cause them to revert back to old-fashioned rumor spreading.
>Are you using the latest version of Python and hoping your colleagues and users can upgrade to that version of Python?

Yes, and in situations where I can't do that, I use only the features available in both versions. Currently most of the code I write is python2.7 and python3.6 compatible. Its not that difficult to do so.
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> taxes are still quite high in many places

Taxes for corporations are not very high at all. Fortune 500 companies routinely pay a less than 0 income tax at the federal level[0], and state level income taxes max out at 12% [1].

The race to the bottom has happened for the big businesses that have leverage. Just not for the little guy.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/news/how-fortune-500-companies-...
[1] https://taxfoundation.org/state-corporate-income-tax-rates-b...
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>As a result, almost all of our society’s wealth is caught up in last ditch effort expansion schemes.

"almost all" is completely false. Bonds are in no way "last ditch effort expansion schemes", which massively dwarf the equities market.
>>it's perfectly legal in the UK provided that the parents provide adequate education.

and "adequate" is the key word. The letter and the spirit of the law makes it clear that the state has a very legit interest in educating people--including and maybe, especially, immigrants.
Your claims about goats strike me as true, but I have an addition.

In my experience with goats, their salient feature is a maniacal and skillfully-executed desire to escape/vanish/get loose, typically at the most inopportune possible time.

This kinda breaks the metaphor, which is likely why the author used sheep instead.
The first such phenomenon that I remember was with Pandora Radio. It is a solution. However, Pandora did that to satisfy a USA requirement, not out of its pure own choice. Is your resolve political in nature or is just a preventive measure to insulate yourself from perceived trouble?
This appears to be more of a t-mobile bloatware problem than a specific Samsung problem.
This makes it sound like the US was just a small country mislead by powerful China. In fact every agreement between Chinese and American companies was signed because of it was beneficial to both sides. It was the US that allowed American companies to setup shop in China and transfer their technology for what it looked like a good deal. Now the US wants to recant on its decades old policy as if this was a big surprise.
It is blatantly false to claim that a mayor can circumvent the EPA or any state level environmental agency by simply signig a contract. That's not how anything works...
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It effectively targets the elderly because its benefits go disproportionately to people who bought homes many decades ago, in other words, the elderly.

Another way to determine who it targets is to suggest repealing it and watch who complains the loudest.
Crypto in the longrun could create a world where people could instantly, anonymously, and freely exchange currency with one another. Imagine how liberating that would be for the world as a whole. Companies deciding to outsource various jobs to India really helped revolutionize their economy. The internet along with cryptocurrencies would take this corporate level development down to the individual. Think about mutually beneficial exchanges like tutoring. You want to hire a mathematics tutor for somebody. Somebody in e.g. the Philippines who has excellent English and Math skills wants to sell their service as a tutor at a rate that would be extremely desirable relative to western incomes but also extremely desirable relative to his locale's average incomes. Right now even if these people are able to connect, working out how to actually pay each other is very awkward.

Cryptos could remove all barriers to entry for inter-personal financial exchange. This is something we take for granted, without realizing how much such barriers are really holding us all back. Or maybe we do realize it, but imagine these are necessary obstacles. Think of the, what now probably numbers in the dozens of, different payment platforms people jump through just to try to be able to give their money to people who they want to give it to (and all the new tertiary problems those said platforms then introduce into the process). It's really quite remarkably how backwards our global financial capabilities truly are.
Everyone in the middle class who has no savings has chosen to invest in something else: instant gratification of cell phones, TVs, expensive cars, large houses, etc.
But the problem right now is the opposite. The problem is that we MAKING them live in the countryside instead of allowing those that want to to live in the city.

Let's very much make it so living in the city is just as cheap as living in the countryside. That way everyone can decide for themselves which life is better, instead of being forced to live in the countryside, because the city is unaffordable.
> We can end bufferbloat, now, on everything.

We have been able to for years. htb+sfq has been around forever.
My last employer's official policy was to load engineers at "120% of the max a person could do."

There was no time for anything else.
You tell them Nico! #feeltheburn
This is absolutely not universally true.
Not government-issued, and there's certainly many reasons for failing (or at least, for its chronic floundering), but the Auroracoin airdrop was a thing for Iceland and has not performed very well:

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

https://coinlib.io/coin/AUR/Aurora+Coin
China presses Europe for anti-U.S. alliance on trade
That particular story is an urban legend, but fatal shunting accidents are sadly not. See https://www.gov.uk/raib-reports/fatal-accident-at-grosmont-n... for a recent example (an amateur on a preserved steam line in this case; the mainline railway in the UK minimises manual shunting as much as possible)