skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought it was fairly interesting that they would limit the posts you could see, seeing as this would limit time spent on Facebook but it is equally interesting that their response to this is basically "if you want to continue feeding your addiction to content, go and find more friends to add."
Considering the fact that UK is a rather largeish (4th largest) contributor to ESA (which operates Arianne programme and several other scientific programs), does it make sense to say they "abandoned it"?

It seems more like they pooled resources with other European countries to make a meaningful space programme.
it strikes me that the terraforming goal is often expressed to be habitable to humans... Why not some economic middle ground? For example, if the oxygen was sufficient for me to survive ~1hour, it would add a bunch of safety in case of ripped suit etc. In many areas of life these middle grounds are much easier/faster to accomplish than the "pure" solution. Maybe that concept applies to colonies on mars too?
> A lot of people don't like him because he's left wing, I suppose.

I mean, sure, you can can your comment with this. But you're replying to someone who actually gave very specific criticisms of his work. You might not agree with them, but why bring politics into this?
The beauty of it is that as long as none of the cryptocurrency/blockchain projects manages to really achieve what they're set out to do the only objective metric to judge them is how much money they manage to pull. When everything is a scam it's kind of hard to single out anything. As such I suppose you could say that "TRON" is a pretty cool name, so buy buy buy.

Beyond that it really looks like a rather simple pump and dump. If you click the "technical docs" on the front page you end up here: https://tron.network/resources?name=1&lng=en

There are 3 PDFs here. "What is TRON" is a 7 page marketing brochure that's about as technical as the MacDonald's menu. The "Design Book of TRON architecture" sounds a lot more promising until you see that it's 12 pages long. It's extremely high level and doesn't tell you anything of value. Finally you have the "TRON Protobuf protocol" which is 10 pages long and exactly what it sounds like.

In other words, business as usual in the cryptocurrency world.
The funny thing is, even though they say "up to 2 business days", the trade was executed at 3:59:59 PM on the dot, on the 2nd business day after I made the request. I'm certain they waited until that moment to execute the trade because legally, they can.
You can also use the Pushshift real-time feed in BigQuery to query for keywords in submissions in real time (unfortunately the comments feed broke last month)

Example query which searches for 'f5bot' in the past day and correctly finds the corresponding posts on Reddit:

#standardSQL
SELECT title, subreddit, permalink
FROM `pushshift.rt_reddit.submissions`
WHERE created_utc > TIMESTAMP_SUB(CURRENT_TIMESTAMP(), INTERVAL 1 DAY)
AND REGEXP_CONTAINS(LOWER(title), r'f5bot')
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Sorry, that was poorly worded.

> If it was gun control specifically targeting people based on race, sexuality, etc then yes.

I think the "specifically targeting" aspect is an odd choice of standard.

You're saying if a CEO advocated for restricting gun rights for everyone, that would be acceptable.

If a CEO advocated for restricting free speech for everyone...would that too be acceptable?
But if you forgo the regulators, then you're choosing to be overcome by bankers - and soon, you can't switch banker (or you can but it becomes a moot action).
If Harvard can be a top school despite accepting people with scores of 1200 (which it currently does) then why can't it come down to this level for everyone and run a lottery?
I guess I should also mention on Clojure's side, the immutable by default data model and pattern matching.
> perhaps serverless computing is inefficient today but it could help improve hardware utilization.

This was a big selling point of virtualization, originally. It was certainly true for environments that suffered from poor utilization due to, say, running one app per (often oversized and/or antiquated) physical servers, as I believe was common for enterprise IT shops.

Whether this improvement could have been achieved by other technical means (at least in non-Windows environments) is debatable. It's also unclear what percentage of total hardware utilization enterprise IT accounted for back then, and I suspect it was much higher than today.

For other environments, where virtualization would replace simple Unix time-sharing, it stands to reason that hardware utilization had to go up, if only moderately.

Interestingly, enterprise IT practices are still so extremely expensive today that moving to a cloud provider is obviously cheaper for them.
I have an Asus router too. (RT-AC68W - W => white) It used to provide my security and as near as I can tell it did a reasonably good job of it. Things that lead me to believe it rates as above average:
- Does not enable management on the WAN port by default.
- Reasonably frequent updates
- Not named as often as some other brands when security problems are publicized.
- I think it made me enter a management password when I first set it up, but it's been a while and I can't be certain about that.
OTOH I just searched "RT-AC68W security problems" and there seems to be no shortage of problems. :(

Some time ago I decided to get a little more serious about security and put a mini-PC running pfsense between my home LAN and the Internet. Hopefully that is more secure though a similar search wouldn't prove that. Perusing some of the critical vulnerabilities at cvedetails.com seems to show that the only critical vulnerability for either of these is for versions of the software older than what I'm running. And I also see the flashing yellow "!" on the Asus management page that indicates an update is available.

That latter part is really a concern. I don't get a notification for an update unless I go look for it. Logging to either is not something I do every day.
Automation is labor displacing
So either Skrewdriver slipped through the filter, or Spotify changed their stance.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/17/apple-den...
Yeah. Let's not the cover-all disclaimer
Telegram traffic from around the world took a detour through Iran
I really haven't noticed any mark of its success on the German job market.
Fiction generator post-mortem: mythology generator
"You may think PHP is slow"

Why would we think php is slow? PHP is blazing fast certain applications (looking at you sugarcrm) make this into a mockery by rewriting queries and loading unnecessary data into each page request.

Nice to see a php related show and tell.
My credit union refunds x number of out of network ATM accesses a month, and networks with other credit unions to share both withdraw and deposit with no fees in the first place within that cooperative network. But between credit cards and bank-app deposits, I think my average monthly ATM visits is zero anyway.
This one?

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/v/ventnor/
ConvertKit will not change its name – a great apology
I wondered why they didn't go for a mesh network where planes transmit location data over short wave to any other planes in the "area". They would only need to keep the data for a relatively short period of time before considering the data unneeded. Even in the Indian Ocean, there are usually planes within a few hundred miles that should be able to receive the broadcasts?
> I mean do you really want subreddit name and subreddit_name_prefixed? They’re the same, one just has an “r/” in front of it.

This is (unfortunately) not quite true. Since Reddit introduced "profile posts," there can be a post where the subreddit name is something like "u_Shitty_Watercolour" but the subreddit_name_prefixed is actually "u/Shitty_Watercolour", rather than "r/u_Shitty_Watercolour".

Example: https://www.reddit.com/user/Shitty_Watercolour/comments/84nh...
If you're so certain, the US could just point at the location of the wreck without actually giving you any new information.
Sadly, Brexit will bring some cuts to UK research. And to projects like EUROATOM, where UK is a major contributor and host. It seems we haven't learned much from history.
What would be interesting in such a colony is space is constrained much faster than on the surface of Earth. Birth doesn’t become something poetic but « Who will have to die for this child to live ». We’ll have to find the courage to tell people that one new inhabitant is not free of charge, as opposed to now.

That constraint alone may set us in a much better mindset for solving problems when it comes to repopulating the surface.
> "Gilad Bracha covered this in a talk once."

Note that Bracha, knowledgeable as he is in his areas of interest, is painfully dismissive of things he does not understand. I watched that talk where he mentions monads (as well as non-optional static type systems, another subject he dislikes), and he comes across as ignorant and dismissive. I wouldn't use his opinions on these subjects as evidence of anything.
So cool to see skateboarding on HackerNews! My worlds collide.
> mind blowing differences that is Lisp's condition system

It's similar mind-blowing when you think about this: that people wrote and used an operating system in the 70s/80s in Lisp, where the condition handling system was in full effect throughout the whole user experience (for example when using the file system, the network, the development environment, etc). With all the pros and cons...
This would only happen if you set the threshold too high. If Harvard wants to be an institution with lots of AA, NA and LA students then just set the threshold at a level where these groups can enter the lottery.
At least one big thing is yet to come out of Britan:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_(spacecraft)
Did you upload the full version or just the lite version? It looks awesome by the way, really cool idea!
Been running a home network with over ten devices and a fast internet connection with an Omnia Turris for almost two years now. It gets regular updates automatically, is fast and the UI is nice. Fixing things like bufferbloat was easy with the community instructions.

Oh and it's openwrt under the hood, with lxc containers for things such as grafana.
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For the average consumer / prosumer, The best I've found are Asus routers. I have a 3-4 year old Asus that still gets regular security updates.

If you want to go deeper, get any cheap NUC or system with 2 NICs, install OpenBSD and configure it as a firewall / router.
It's not unheard-of; https://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/spysat-and-shuttle-...
Again, I don't see how even in that case, the V extension would be part of 'the real base ISA'.

You seem to again ignore that there are many, many applications that don't need or want a graphics card or SIMD of any kind.

What you are talking about is not the 'real base ISA' but the 'real os application profile'. By not hard coding these choices into the ISA you have much more freedom to create new profiles for future needs without changing anything about the ISA.

> So far the A and C extension went from optional to necessary

That is not the case. Its simple false. There are tons of RISC-V chips that don't have either, some of them are even in production.

Before the Linux RV64GC profile was released there simply was no defined official standard for OS application like Linux.

> Also, as implementations improve someone may come up with a low cost (low area) way to implement DSP instructions

That already exists, its the P working group.

> That's part of my point too, the flexibility will bring innovation and that may lead to certain things naturally becoming part of most peoples expectations.

What you are missing is that 'most people expectations' are limited to a specific program domain. Nobody will ever expect graphics on a IoT edge processor. So the default profile for IoT will not include that.
BitTorrent Sync did do some smart things with the protocol, which is always why internal politics wound up causing it to spin out of BitTorrent the Company, which has continually tried to be a "media" company more than a tech company (which should explain BitTorrent Play, and kind of but not really explains why BitTorrent the company still exists at all in the same way that RealNetworks or WildTangent still exist in that "media" companies can be cockroaches).

So BitTorrent Sync is now Resilio Sync, and word has it most of the smart engineers jumped to that ship when it spun out.
TARMAC: The design and implementation of an ARM – x86 dynamic recompiler (2001) [pdf]
I have always used consumer routers and they worked great. I finally got persuaded by the "consumer routers are garbage" attitude and bought an Ubiquiti edgerouter and instantly regretted it. Yes I can now do very complex configurations and control lots of things I couldn't before. But I really dont want to do that and I can't notice the difference in performance so it was a bit of a waste.

My guess the if you get a wireless router, wifi signal strength is most important part, aside from that any mainstream router is probably OK.
If a package doesn't have a typing you just do `declare module "whatever";` in a global.d.ts file and you're all set, you can use it as you would in JavaScript (it's typed to any).

Hardly a problem at all.
If interested in the concept, V. Vinge's Across Realtime books, mainly Maroneed in Realtime explores this concept. Humanity invents stasis bubbles (time stands still inside or almost still), and you can bubble yourself, ships, towns etc for any amount of years. Essentially you can time travel but only forward.
I'd love to still recommend Flow, and as I said the techno is good and does the job, and they continue to release new versions, but I just don't see what benefits you would get by choosing Flow over TS at this point. Flow and TS do exactly the same job, with almost the same syntax (with different ways to transform it in JS tho), but TS has a bigger community and MS seems to put more efforts/resources into it. This has been true for 1 or 2 years now, so…
Cabellas outdoor store had two brands of the same idea, Yeti I think was one and the other might have been Stanley branded.
>> Isn't it better to treat people as individuals?

> This is an equally impossible goal.

For being such impossible goal it seem strange then that 21th century society is basically built around that exact concept. Banks lend out money based on it. Courts make judgement based on it. Government gives out social support based on it. Insurance rates and medical care is all about individual assessment. Even education here in Sweden is by law now individualized and each teacher must teach to the ability of each individual student (a new law since a decade ago).

A few hundred years ago that was not the case. If a person were of the lower class then they were treated as such. Government was not expected to operate on anything except category of people, and the idea of treat people as individuals was seen as indeed impossible. Education in particular was extremely bound by this idea, and a person worth was categorized and put in predefined box from a very young age.

However impossible it is to treat people as individuals, it is better to do so and fail rather then to return to the old ways. If you get a wave of low economic immigrants should we throw up our hands and say “we’ve done our best” with individual assessment in the legal system and just prosecute based on class, or should we double up on it and try to do better? The political winds here is swinging, and I honestly hope that treating people as individuals wins over any attempt of short-term gain from treating people based on class. A person born under low economic class should not have their life hindered because others before them of same low economical class had a higher rate of crime that higher economical classes. That would be a failure of society to treat people as individuals. History does not dictate the future and it doesn't create any benefits and drawbacks unless we treat people based on category and class rather then individuals.
Reddit doesn't even allow users to save more than 1000 posts, and worse does not visibly document this or provide any kind of warning that the limit has been exceeded. Anecdotally, I've read users say that revisiting the saved pages will still show an "unsave" button so the information is recorded somewhere. But once a user exceeds 1000 entries on their "saved" page, adding new ones will silently vaporize old ones.

https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/6nxqjm/maximum_of_100...
Right. We will soon need TS to TS compilation as TS progresses way too fast for browser adoptions to catch up.
This is a classic "shifting of blame". Notice how no one other than the Taliban & it's ilk protest vaccine use!!!

The blame here lies with the Taliban and co. Not with the CIA. Anyone can pose as anything - from mailmen to drivers were rigged to catch bin-laden. Should the CIA's use of fake mail-men and drivers be condemned?

Stop lending credence to the horse-shit pedaled by unreasonable terrorists/tyrants - if not vaccines they'd blame cell phones, or regular phones, or roads, or ….
Toilet paper is shipped at a constant rate, since Trump took control, the average embassy staffer has become more full, thus the excess...
My first firewall was a Thinkpad 750Cs. ;) I can't recall the distro I was running at the time - likely Debian or Slackware. At one point I returned from vacation to find that the hard drive had failed a couple days earlier. Since the firewalling was in the kernel, all I lost was logging. IIRC the last log message was that it was remounting the root filesystem readonly. It continued operating for a couple more weeks until I could arrange to replace it.
How Liquefying Brains Changed the Story of the Human Mind
I think this is one of the better explanations of why "enlightenment" in any field is so hard to get to, so hard to explain, yet so compulsively appealing to talk about. The framing around the joke really makes a lot of sense to me.

I'm tempted to share your writing on my other social channels! Excellently done!
Agreeing on that.

But oh look, it's no longer being downvoted. Perhaps there's something to this after all?
1,2: Awesome, excited to see the updates

3: Cool, sounds like you are thinking about this in a similar way. The one place where there might be issues is when using opacity, i.e. the color is defined in hex in one place and as rgba in another. I am not sure how to solve it, but might be something to keep an eye on. :-)

4: I did notice the history tab, and I think that is very helpful for seeing where an edit went off the rails. I was more meaning 2 completely different edits for the same page side by side. For example, here is what a page looks like with new-font-x vs new-font-y. Thinking about it more, maybe you could just import the page into your system twice? Not sure if you are preventing dupe URLs.
>> We’ve trained a human-like robot hand to manipulate physical objects with unprecedented dexterity.

To be precise, the "physical objects" appear to invariably be cubes of the same dimensions. Not arbitrary "physical objects". Which is probably the best that can be done by training only in a simulated environment.
i think more than half the websites on the internet can run on serverless platform and that makes the web more secure and faster.
This isn't what the article was about. Hence, the downvotes.
One might have emotional attachment to an explainable universe; in such a scenario you might find the concept of an ultimate unanswerable question chilling. Or alternatively if you’re a skeptic, you might find it lovely.
How could time not exist?
I'm so glad I found this comment! It's cool to see others skate on here.
Physics deals with relatively simple things compared to economics, because nature is inherently rational once one discovers the rules.
Humans, on the other hand, can not be grasped so easily because they change the rules. Even if you "discover" a working theory of human behavior, people may just react by not doing that thing anymore to spite you.

So if you want to have some sort of basic theory, any theory at all that really could work with such subjects, you gotta step waaaay back.
The rational actor that actually "works" to build a scientific theory is such a general concept that it has literally zero predictive value. It states that actors make consistent choices, but only for identical choice situations. Thus, even if a microsecond passes, we are not in the same choice situation and all sort of rationality is out of the window.

An actor who chooses chocolate first, and then chooses something else the next second while throwing away the chocolate is can still be rational, it's only about the counterfactual of the first choice situation.
Yet, one was able to show that this sort of very general rationality is a necessary condition to writing a formal model of human behavior, in other words the homo economicus is just answering the question as to what ground rules we need to model human behavior in the first place. It is truly an immaterial, philosophical object that is used in all science dealing with human behavior.

It's more to the credit of economists that they actually wrote this out axiomatically instead of hiding it in implicit discussion.

Then, economists went and tried to write falsifyable theories based on data and observation. This has been done with more or less success, but let's not forget that economic science still replicates much, much better than something like Psychology or Sociology, also concerned with human behavior.

By the way, applying physical approaches to economics is called econophysics and is a thing that exists. It's not really a thing that is successful, cause if you treat humans as mindless particles who are just behaving according to some ruleset, you are working with hyper-hyper rational actors.
But it exists.
I'd be likely to buy such things slightly more often, since I could eat a few and not waste the rest. The way it goes now is that i have packaging anyway that gets thrown out, but half a box of cookies is likely to get thrown out as well.

I recycle all of my plastic. I use enough reusable bags that I have to buy trash bags - the current batch is made from corn and is compostable. But through all this, I'm not sure that a responsible plastic being recycled or composted is any worse than throwing out actual food.

Additionally, perhaps it would be easier for folks to control their eating with the packaging just because it takes so much longer to eat. My understanding is that the bubble packaging on pills helps to reduce suicide in a similar vein (it deters folks overdosing on pills, at least).
I am actually not using Facebook Ads. I am using lead generation tools to find prospects and contact them using text messages. No ads are involved in the process.

"The message above does make some good points and you just try to drown it out with emotion." - sorry, but I find post above my response to be a self-promotion and invalid judging. I have no issue with answering questions, no matter how difficult they are. But a competitor should have more class than just "assuming" and basing a line of offense on that. There is a difference I think in asking valid questions and using the assumptions by a competitor to attack my business.

"I have no clue if that's what you're doing and I actually get the impression that you're not." - we can target people that work for a company located in an office building for example. As mentioned previously, I am using text messages to reach the people. This is just an example of targeting we provide.
Not the parent but check out Philosophy Crash Course in YouTube. You can thank me later :D
Yes, it'd be just as transformative as it was in Cuba and Venezuela.