skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think he's invoking that. That we must be tolerant of intolerance lest we become intolerant ourselves.

I think he's saying that that the ease of which we can cut out any information that challenges our beliefs does more harm than good.

I'm sure you're a fine, upstanding, rational person who will always consider every viewpoint and come to a reasoned conclusion based on the facts every time and won't let emotions dictate any part of your decision.

However, not everyone is so disciplined. Don't consider the rational actor. Consider the irrational. Consider the flat-earther who can personally silence any sources that provide evidence to the contrary. Just stuck in their little bubble of misinformation. Then when something does sneak through their filter, they'll regard it as the anomaly because everything else they see confirms what they already know.

Now, there is some benefit to being able to silence certain opinions. I for one don't need flat-earthers constantly pushing their narrative that flies in the face of facts. But, then again, they feel the same way. I believe I've considered their evidence and their viewpoint fairly and have come to a conclusion rationally. But so do they. I believe I'm right, I'm fairly certain of it. But so are they.

It comes down to believing that personal abuse should be silenced. If I'm just blatantly attacking you or you're attacking me with no other goal but to be insulting, then being able to block each other seems fine. But to be able to silence information just because you disagree with it seems a bit more dodgy.
Relatable unrelated https://www.reddit.com/r/kubernetes/comments/8v9qxo/bare_met...

I bet the problem was at scaling/updating system on individual locations because I heard about the similar problems in small remote groceries/shops.
Vim-zen, a barebones vim plugin manager
Look at all what django does.

It has one dependancy.

No, there are 2 reasons for this dependency creep:

- the fact JS has a so few features and such a little stdlib. So everyone has to rewrite even basic stuff.

- the community culture toward stability, maintenance and future proofing is almost inexistent in JS.

Too many JS devs have only ever coded in JS. This give them have a very twisted, unbalanced view of programming.
No, it seems to be the other way around. China's GDP figures are definitely false but likely to be inflated, not suppressed.
A microscopic percentage of social media users have even heard of blocklists, let alone use them, but it's the people who forcefully opt themselves out of pointless Internet arguments that are the problem? That's a ridiculous and telling argument.
Alzheimer's occurs due to a build-up of sticky proteins in the brain called amyloid plaques;

And Scientists claim herpes, chlamydia and other infections could be responsible for Alzheimer;

https://www.netdoctor.co.uk/healthy-living/wellbeing/news/a2...
Tell that to compound interest.
What is the reference here ? Is it the same reference as neighbour comment about Tasmania and daemon armies ?
You need overhead to run a business. Pointing to GP is nice for a company that can expect overhead to stay the same while they reap the benefits of increasing scale, but all the large grocery chains in the US are already at scale. If there was extra net profit to be had by reducing overhead, they would have done so already.
I was using Bittorrent Sync for awhile but the product got buggy, renamed, and seems like going through weird times. So looked for an open source alternative and found Syncthing. It works well to keep files in sync between laptop and desktop, its all local - but you give up any cloud storage if all your computers go fubar.
Can you explain why that is for the ignorant ones like me?
Do you mean 10% higher? Surely you don't think China's GDP is one tenth of it's reported figure. This would have it sitting between Spain and Mexico [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
Looks like they canceled it in the testing phase and noticed it simply didn't work or under performed. With those very expensive consultant hires (SAP is notoriously expensive, both licensing and consulting) it might have been cheaper to cancel it outright then to dragging it along. I applaud their idea to do it in house as they are big enough to have IT/Supply line software as a core principle which can save you money in the end, and not as an external expense which is just an annoyance.
I sent a PR; as they merged, they mentioned their test scripts use it...
Aliens killed by spelling mistake in 2013 Colonial Marines game
I think it has to with peoples inherent lack of discounting sunk costs. “We have already spent X amount. We must make sure it isn’t wasted, so let’s spend Y more and see if that’ll fix it”. At least they pulled the plug.
MIT, do whatever you want :)
Not meaningless, but I agree it says more about industry composition than how green their energy is.
> I read that the new releas has improvements and I hope they work

There are no improvements related to keys not working, only less clicky.

> Combined with the need to have a reliably working machine, I have no choice other than buying a Mac

That's funny, I would think that a machine where about 1/4 of the keys don't work properly (or work at all)--which can die and take all your data with it, is not exactly the definition of neither "working" nor "reliably".

What am I missing here..?
Mars at Opposition 2018: How to See It and What to Expect
I would recommend, http://jrnl.sh it's made for the purpose described but in a much better and simpler way (also allows tagging and searching in a simple way).
> And all the "blue collar" workers at those hotels and truck stops?

Don't worry, universal basic income will save them. /s
Trust me, 499e per month is really steep from Finnish perspective too. Not really sure what's the target customer demographic here. Maybe companies, as an alternative to leasing a car.
My tasmania comment is about what the US-AU army wargames used to use as the hypothetical invader. they were briefly stupid and used a map of indonesia because of jokes about west irianjaya and 'south iriyan' -and then changed to use the map of tasmania (which btw, is a euphemism for female pubic hair) upside down as the notional invader.

the other reference is to turn-by-turn games of war on maps (I think)
PDF is easy to create from a Word document, try using Word to create HTML and you get a dogs dinner. If our industry was better at creating tools for ordinary users to create HTML then the problem would solve itself.
I don't know much about SAP besides the fact that I don't think I've ever heard anything positive about it (but then again, nobody talks about the trains that are on time). I always assumed that it was a "nobody gets fired for choosing SAP" situation. It's huge, it might be clunky but you know that if you pay for the support it'll probably end up doing mostly what you want and it'll mostly keep working. The alternatives would be either using a less popular solution or creating one in-house but in both cases you're taking additional risks even if it might pay off in the end if everything goes right.

It's the same situation with Oracle, Microsoft Windows and countless other "corporate" software solutions. If you look at it from a hacker point of view it makes no sense, it's ridiculously expensive, it's often overkill, it's not elegant, you could do the same thing for 1% the cost and it'd work better etc... Now if you look at it from the point of view of a company that needs something that will work 100% by a given deadline and you want somebody you can yell at if it doesn't (and you want to know they'll still be here 6 months from now) it makes total sense.
> Brazil had 27 shots and 9 on target with 59% posession. Belgium only had three shots on target, and made two of them to win.

A modern model would accommodate for the fact that those numbers alone mean nothing, because they don't. Those are the numbers broadcasters reluctantly put on a screen for entertainment value, but they don't have real analytical power because they have no comparative metric.

How up or down were each of those numbers against previous wins and losses for each team?

What was Brazil's conversion from on-target shots before the tournament?

What was Belgium's success/failure rate on on-target shots they were defending against?

Likewise the other way around: were Brazil guilty of particularly poor defending? Were Belgium finding ways of making on-target shots count against all opposition, or was it luck on this game?

Any human analyst could tell you going into that game that Belgium were "lucky" and easily free scoring beyond expectations, able to make more of fewer opportunities. Likewise the consensus from most experts was that Brazil were guilty of mild complacency, the team were young and not yet formed into a strong unit yet (rather still just 11 strong individuals at any one point in time), and their on-target shots - whilst frequent - were of lower probability of being able to turn into goals due to distance, power, position, etc.

So why did the Bloomberg model not pick that up?

I actually think they did pretty well all things considering, but I'd love to see whether they did any runs on previous World cups to try and check their thinking and whether they over-fitted a little to a couple of key metrics. I think the lack of metrics from previous games might mean they relied on some headline numbers, but there's more that they could have done to get a better model here...

Still, it's not their job is it? Just a bit of fun... which is a good job, because I find it just a little bit amusing.
Having interacted with a number of government websites, I have to say the UK government does an excellent job of theirs. Most things are simple to understand and clearly presented. Even though I only use it for the the most mundane of things, using it is generally a very pleasant experience!
The context is that there's a lack of trust about the system being stable and implemented properly. Hence why it falling over proves them right.
> China's GDP is probably 10% of what they reported.

> other way around ... likely to be inflated, not suppressed.

If their GDP is actually 10% of what they report, then the reports are inflated.
I haven't signed up, so I'm going only from what I see on the front page.

This feels more like a single feature of a larger product, than a product in its own right. I already have Facebook for my Facebook content, so putting the same thing on my website isn't really bringing much to the table. It looks like a nice zero-effort way to keep a "news" or "blog" section of a website up to date, but I'm still going to want all the other features of a website to be there.

If it were my product, I'd look at a few approaches to generate revenue:

- Your page puts the £15 a month front and centre, and makes it seem like the "free non-premium domain" is part of that package. There's no mention of a free tier.

- Forget the premium domain tier. Instead, limit your free tier to one post every 24 hours or something like that. Your current model means I can't upgrade without losing all my traffic - any my registrar will redirect my domain to the free tier anyway, so why pay you?

- Have your example sites link to the actual site instead of just popping up in the same page. Let me see and use existing sites so I know what I'm getting.

- Let me have some analytics, either my own Google Analytics ID or some inbuilt functionality. It's one of the things a website offers that Facebook doesn't, so use it.

- Give me a free trial. For something like this, I'd offer 3 months free. Combine that with a marketing campaign to encourage me to promote my new website. By the time I need to start paying, I've already got traffic and possibly stationary printed, so it's easier for me to justify the cost.
Totally agree. It seems that the main advantage it has is that the complexity can be skewed to any angle (helpful for sales), and that the decision-making process at many large companies is an exercise in check-box procurement - rather than, say, genuine understanding of the problems to solve or the user(s) needs.
Human translation (I should practice my German anyway):

Because introducing a new data system didn't work out, the Deutsche Post (German Mail) has already booked higher losses a few years ago. The same now happened to Lidl. The planned system still doesn't work smoothly after seven years and more than half a billion euros in costs. Now, the discount store pulled the kill chord.

For years, Lidl is expanding operations. The discount store from Neckarsulm has stores in almost all European countries and is now also expanding in the USA. A new inventory management system should support purchases and logistics to keep track of ever more complex business. That was the decision in 2011.

System is not suitable for high-turnover countries

The software of the development concern SAP from Walldorf should be adapted to the needs of Lidl. Until now, the system is only being used in small places in Austria, Northern Ireland and the USA. It was clearly shown that the by over a hundred IT specialists developed SAP version is not suitable for high-turnover countries. Now, Lidl has stopped the project. In a paper called "Heilbronner Stimme", an article writes to the employees that the goal is not achievable "with reasonable effort". Until now, the project cost over half a billion euros according to expert opinions -- for example for costly IT consultants and SAP licenses. Now, Lidl says they want to further develop their old inventory management system.

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Edit: I've never had much to do with SAP, but just today I've been applying for jobs in Germany and two of the places (out of five or so) use some SAP system for their online applications. The former threw a HTTP 400 and later HTTP 500 errors so I couldn't complete the application. The latter is currently stuck on registering: I've been waiting for the page to load for 4 minutes now. Pretty sure that one is broken, too.
Why do you feel you're too good for software development?
External debt is just 14% http://www.usdebtclock.org/world-debt-clock.html
"By writing down an entry in the bugs file for each interesting bug, I find that I learn much more easily. There is something with the act of writing that makes me think more deeply about what happened." - linked post

I like this a lot, I've been using my blog as an extension of my brain and the act of formulating a single post about a text file forced me to clarify my thoughts. Ill try this the next time I find bugs. Also +1 for split keyboards!
much in the same way that most human intelligence derived from years of intergenerational and interpersonal intellectual development.

wow! I had no idea the archeology on early hominids was that good... (yes, implicit /s)
European economies are hardly poster children for constant borrowing. Most of them have been in enforced austerity for years, and have only managed to avoid much tighter spending cuts because the ECB is funding governments through vast amounts of money printing (which boils down to confiscation of savings). Result: huge government spending overruns, ever-falling savings rates.
It it like using LOC towards judging the complexity of a code base :

"God 100K ! your code must be filled with so much boiler plate !"

- During the Second World War Britain / US went deep in the red to fund their survival, I wonder if anyone

though "We cannot afford to go into debt to defeat the Nazis !".

- Debt and deficit by itself is neutral - being a creditor is not inherently a good thing just like being

a debtor is not inherently a bad thing.

- If you look at the list of countries that have the lowest debt / Gdp ratios you will find its mostly low income, low productively countries, the question is not "damn how do they not need credit !" but "why are creditors
not willing provide credit to these countries".

- A country with high deficit is also a country with either high FDI or high rate of internal investment, its

just doesn't sell as good a headline to say that though.

- For China is makes sense since they are quickly ageing, so the current cohort of working age people will

have high savings to draw down from at old age, same for the US / Japan / EU.

- The big question is what does the saving and investment get you ? Is it to fund foreign wars like Vietnam during Nixon, real estate speculation, education for the next generation ?

- The world is awash with credit and savings due to rise in income across all of humanity, driving down interest rate, its a good time to be a debtor and a awful time to a creditor (only generally, if you are a creditor/debtor in the payday loan sector then the inverse applies ).
www.DeepL.com/Translator of the article:

Problems with new data system: Lidl blows 500 million euros

The Lidl brand plate at a branch. Picture: BR/Herbert Ebner

Lidl has been expanding for years. The discounter from Neckarsulm now has branches in almost all countries in Europe and is now also growing in the USA. A new merchandise management system was needed to provide an easy overview of the increasingly complex business processes and to control the stores, purchasing and logistics. That was the decision made in 2011.

System is not suitable for high-turnover countries

Software from the Walldorf-based operating software group SAP was to be adapted to Lidl's needs. So far, however, the new system has only been introduced in the small agencies in Austria, Northern Ireland and the USA. This has shown that the SAP version developed by more than a hundred IT specialists is not suitable for high-revenue countries. Now Lidl has stopped the project. In a letter to the staff of the newspaper "Heilbronner Stimme" it was stated that the actual "goals" could not be achieved "with justifiable effort". Experts believe that the project has already cost more than half a billion euros - for costly IT consultants and SAP licenses, for example. Lidl now wants to further develop its old merchandise management system.
Years ago I did some contract work for a company that was being taken over by a competitor. The consensus in the business was that implementing SAP had weakened the business so much they had become an easy target for takeover.
This is skirting around the edge of an important point: increase in absolute debt level is fine in any economy, what's potential trouble is changes in the rate of debt increase - specifically vs GDP growth - because it affects the total disposable income you have to service it.

Where China has a risk is if they can't transition to a developed country's style of debt spending where GDP growth is much lower. It's also where endemic corruption becomes a big problem.
> Nobody uses the layers of complexity needed to preprocess, compile, load, link and finally run C++ as a fundamental criticism.

I do. C++ is an excellent example of accidental complexity got out of control. Actually, C++ complexity has been a main reason of why Google created Go. And Go embraced pursuit of minimizing accidental complexity at its best.

> Modern web-dev and JS-dev has no problems in this area, but hey what do I know I've only been doing it for 14 years.

Number of years in industry is clearly not an a argument. It's actually may work against you. For example, I can assume that you can't see "problems in this area" because you spent years deep inside them, learning workarounds and solutions. So what a newcomer would call a "weird and complex" you may call "normal and obvious". (just an example)
Especially when the DoJ says that fleeing domestic and gang violence are not grounds for asylum, it's ridiculous to consider the lives of a corrupt cop and his family above society, which this decision does.
SNI is key to https virtual hosting. If encrypted how will the server know where to go? More importantly, why not just use the "Host" header inside https if you need SNI?

I mean, if SNI is encrypted then we don't need SNI at all, just use the Host field inside https header which is encrypted already and carries all the info you need know. Am I missing something?

Yes SNI could be encrypted outside of the SSL handshake in client-hello, but why? will it be useful to defend domain fronting, don't think so.
How e-commerce is transforming rural China
I've been using this great imagemagick script for optimizing images the past few years. Works like a charm. Any images that are going to be served from my websites first get optimized via the script.

smartresize() {
mogrify -path $3 -filter Triangle -define filter:support=2 -thumbnail $2 -unsharp 0.25x0.08+8.3+0.045 -dither None -posterize 136 -quality 82 -define jpeg:fancy-upsampling=off -define png:compression-filter=5 -define png:compression-level=9 -define png:compression-strategy=1 -define png:exclude-chunk=all -interlace none -colorspace sRGB $1
}

Usage:

smartresize image.png 300 outdir/

Looks like I must have found it here https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/06/efficient-image-res...
What are your favorite tech podcast episodes?
Your favorite podcast episodes , not favorite podcasts.
> If you are getting into SAP and "adapting it to your needs" then you will almost certainly fail.

This is a tricky topic. If you're getting into SAP and you're not adapting it to your needs, you're almost certainly doing something wrong.

The trick is that it _has_ to be a "meet in the middle" kind of situation, where SAP wants to be used in a certain fashion, but also allows a certain amount of leeway — any non-trivial implementation project will involve both tweaking the knobs SAP provides to fit the customer, and developing bespoke components for those scenarios that SAP either doesn't cover at all, or doesn't handle the way you'd like.
"Won't fix" is the incorrect terminology to use. I'm having trouble finding a direct quote from Apple in any of these stories. My assumption is the actual statement is along the lines of "It was designed to be quieter." while omitting any reference to addressing the sticky key issue.

Saying "We designed it to fix the sticky key issue" creates liability admitting that there's a significant defect that needs to be fixed, which no corporation would ever do, especially while currently facing multiple class-action lawsuits about said issue.

So while saying it was designed to be quieter, that doesn't mean there aren't additional benefits or corrections being implemented.
I believe I got my facts wrong. Thanks for changing my perspective.
People have to eat. People don’t have to eat meat.
US - China’s and China - US’es.
A country might want to inflate their reported GDP to make the country look more attractive to foreign investment.
My previous contract PM role was working in HR on a SAP contract. I'd never come across it before and it's very strange. The thing it reminds me most of is Lotus Notes, in that it has its own specific vocabulary and the whole system is stored in its own database.

Screen are rarely referred to by name, but have weird codes like XQ44 and are ugly AF. It also has a whole bunch of utilities for fixing up the referential identity on records, importing data etc.
If a government prints its own currency there's not even a theoretical limit to the total amount it can borrow.

There is a limit to the total rate of government spending - spending beyond the rate of the economy's ability to produce - which causes hyperinflation. That is unrelated to the deficit though (theoretically it could even happen in surplus e.g. if you destroyed all your factories and farms).
Am I having a generational moment? I have fond memories of 1994's "Internet" with a capital I

It just looked and operated like a whole other beast then. In part and parcel it practically was a different aninmal.
Huh. I guess I'm a myth then.
It's interesting that they boast "256-bit AES" on the Github README, but when I look at the source code, they're not doing authenticated encryption:

https://github.com/maebert/jrnl/issues/549
RISK game
And the "wanting someone to sue in case things go wrong" strategy is typically a pipe dream as well - you're simply fucked and paid a lot of money for nothing in case things go wrong.