skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't talking figuratively either. The literal definition of communism is not as you gave it, at least not according to the people who devised the ideology and came up with the name for it. It's all about the means of production - for Marxists, the entire human history, and especially the structure of society, revolves around "modes of production", which are ultimately defined by the relative positions of productive members of society wrt means of production and each other, creating economic classes.

To some extent, I guess, a library (or rather the knowledge contained in it) could also be claimed to be the means of production. But I don't think that's the consensus among the adherents.
Yeah, look at places like London, dedicated bus lanes make sure that buses are almost always on their set schedule.

At least in Southern California we have the extra lanes that could be dedicated that.
> it's clear you're not acting in good faith.

I pointed out that the article you posted said the exact opposite of what you claimed it said (in addition to saying what you claimed it said). How is that not acting in good faith? If the article is contradictory, you need to go to the primary documents, which were available from The Guardian.
OpenBSD: vmm(4) gets support for qcow2
I'm really hoping for a version of macOS that could support a complete embedded iOS in it, electrically, there is no reason why I cant fit the processing power I need in my computer, in a phone or tablet - but as you correctly point out, the software still has no arrived.

(I speak to macOS, because I'm an Apple Ecosystem guy - the same approach could be taken by microsoft)
Notice that I'm not saying that there should be no approval for launches, I'm saying that launcher should bear this responsibility (and follow ITU rules). Otherwise it creates strange situation: feds can't prohibit real Indian, Chinese or Russian satellites, but still can meddle with some of the payload only because it was created by an American company. If this will continue, then this technology will be developed by non-American company and sold back to US.
Would it be a problem to keep a list of DHT peers in the git repo?
Why Rust closures are somewhat hard
That's true, but also a non-sequitur, since nobody "stole" home equity from anyone. The value of homes went down across the board because of oversupply, and that is a phenomenon that required potential homeowners, financiers, builders, and other entities to tango. It's not something the banks caused to happen on their own, nor something they bear sole and unmitigated responsibility for.
A school's "rating" is merely an average of the quality of education students there receive. It's entirely possible to "get lucky" and have an exceptional teacher or participate in an optional extracurricular that helps them learn more than their peers. And, of course, there's also the chance that the student did well despite going to a bad school, by self-studying.
Liveblogger here. This post was best-effort liveblogged while the talk was going on, and this is an error transcribing the talk on my part. I've made a fix to remove this line since it's misleading. Sorry about that!
noted :)
This is a real misunderstanding of how markets work. An index fund invests in everything, market-cap weighted (usually). This means that your investment merely reinforces the prices already determined by the other participants in the market. There are still huge numbers of active managers, not to mention quants and others. They, collectively, determine the prices of assets. When you invest in an index fund, you're just saying "I'll have what they're having", basically. It doesn't cause amazon to rise in price. Lots of companies are in the S&P 500, they don't have returns like Amazon does. Amazon has those returns because people allocate capital specifically to them, i.e. non-index investors.

> And by we, we mean the fat cats who are taking in that investment money you're giving us. You'll make a meager return, but we'll make oh so much more.

Index funds are the least fat-cat-remunerating route you have available to you. They have lower expense ratios than you'd be able to achieve on your own, unless you're using a free service like Robinhood (and if you do that, you're probably paying in other ways, like poorer execution prices).
Harvard’s Foreign Farmland Investment Mess
We got stability. We had to remove a middleware, increase number of Heroku Dynos to ridiculous amount and we had to change Whois provider.
This would be wonderful to believe, but I only see the world becoming more controlling of the freedoms that allow people to do anything about it. My guess is that from here on out, the middle class have increasingly irrelevant influence on anything powerful governments or individuals choose to do.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned this but this website and the whole JAMstack thingy is basically a PR stunt from Netlify.

Static sites generators and the JAMstack are inherently crippled.

With a JAMstack, by design, everything needs to be rendered on the client. This means poor performance on mobile, loss of control over SEO, and virtually no SMO for dynamic content.

Kinda funny to promote a crippled stack that hard...
Yes.

The lesson of 2008-9 is that TBTF and bailouts will be applied in case of any financial crisis. Not much has been done to rein in moral hazard and so institutions will continue to offload risk to the public when they can.

This works as long as the Treasury and Fed can absorb the shock and will create near term stability, at the potential cost of a currency crisis if the shock is too big to be absorbed.
ANY accuracy in their vid?
I suppose that makes sense, thanks :)
And even going back to the 50s with plotters and mainframes -- this book has a lot of cool examples: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520268388/mainframe-experim...
> it's quite unclear why everyone assumes fed's authority over foreign satellite launches

Unless I'm misreading something, I don't think anyone is assuming that (or are you making a deeper point about the dollar as a world reserve currency or something?).

For my part, I also don't understand why the FCC has de facto authority for launches (as contrasted to the de jure authority for transmission).
>It's shorthand for "I think they could probably do the work, but I don't think that I/we could actually stand working with this particular candidate".

Agreed, but in my experience, "don't think we could stand working with this candidate" is much more than talking about assholes/weirdos. It's also the catch-all for things like "our team likes to go out to bars and clubs all the time, and you don't seem like you enjoy going out", or "we tell raunchy jokes at work and you seem like you would be offended by it and make us stop", or even "you seem like you're on the opposite side of the political spectrum than we are so we think we wouldn't want to work with you".

Hell, I've even seen teams at a consulting company (and seen HR defend such teams) reject candidates for being vegetarian, because the team thinks that there wouldn't be "culture fit" since the team likes going out for burgers and steak every week.
New discovery yields 9,000 oz of high grade coarse gold from single cut
Would you please keep nationalistic flamewars away from here? You could hardly start one more obviously.
Did they beat the market because they are actually better investors, or did they just get lucky? There are so many hedge funds now that statistically a few of them are guaranteed to have long lucky streaks.
There have already been quite a lot of UI/UX updates over the past 6 months of so. TBH, I kind of wish you'd leave it the hell alone for a bit!

In particular, I'm not a fan of the most recent changes to the 'build and release' pages. To edit the build pipeline, the edit link is at the top of the list of builds, rather than at the top of the list of build pipelines... I end up searching for the link every. single. time :(
Lest the headline imply otherwise, Orwell was a proponent of democratic socialism: “Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it.”
It's extremely onerous and difficult to own a car in San Francisco (parking situation, street cleaning, meters, lack of reserved and available parking spots) but a bunch of Ubers and Lyft drivers can drive all day in the city causing massive congestion with plenty of drivers who not only don't reside in the city, but aren't even from the Bay Area paying nothing to maintain the roads or congestion or pollution or the fact that they don't know the roads and drive recklessly to maximize the number of rides per hour.
I don’t understand why this study is receiving so much attention. It’s not peer reviewed. It doesn’t contain actual data collection (the estimates are all extrapolated in a way the author considers reasonable, not measured data from traffic detectors or surveys). Schaller is not a researcher or engineer, but a consultant mainly working for taxi regulation.

That doesn’t mean it’s wrong. But I’m surprised the study gets so much press because some guy published something on his personal website.
Why don't we just illustrate the problem using the code from the article?

https://jsfiddle.net/q59Ljeu7/

A loop is not just fewer LoC and easier, it is orders of magnitude faster than the ycombinator decoupled trampoline. The first alert is nearly instant. The second one takes almost a minute. My chrome dev tools are hard locked waiting for the ycombinator to finish.

This is not something I would encourage JS devs to use in practice.
Self signed certificates do not prove integrity. A crab in the middle can generate another self signed certificate for the same domain name and your browser will not know that it isn't the one you expected.

The only workaround is to manually add the certificate to the root store. But this depends on securely receiving the certificate - say by physically transferring it from one computer to another by USB stick.
This isn't a problem with capitalism, all you would need would be a right-of-contract combined with a "you agree not to poison me" clause (I say this facetiously, nobody should have to specify that). Still, many of what people call problems with capitalism are really problems with anarchy.
Report: Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe Under Grand Jury Investigation
> A lot of Americans have/had home equity as their biggest asset.

In all fairness, the only reason their home equity had any value was thanks to an inflated housing market. It seems that what people 'stole' from them was the delusion that their homes had actually increased in value for the long term.
Yeah, that's not completely unfair.

I tend to think that leaks will always happen, regardless of communications media, surveillance, and encryption. But your point isn't entirely unfounded.
You've completely misunderstood my point if you think I'm advocating for the perfect at the cost of the good. I'm advocating caution rather than a blind faith that this solution is ipso facto forward progress, that just needs some tweaking.

The danger here is doubling down on the existing injustices, removing the limited accountability and positive exceptions that exist, and effectively sweeping conversation under the rug or arguing ideologies about the fairness of tweaks to the algorithms at the cost of real human lives.
>That's a very specific view of Utopia that I suggest most regular folk would not agree with

The pain of learning and remembering and the zero-sum nature of forgetting make me disagree with it, but you can call all of those "hindrances". If I could swell my processing speed and memory capacity to absurd levels and become one of many god-like intelligences, able of satisfying all of my curiosities with any and all facets of reality with no particularly strenuous effort before, as a last resort, exercising my power to mutate my mind to the point where I put myself in ceaseless ecstasy for its own sake (in these dimensions or the others[0]), that has to qualify as the definition of paradise.

Let's hope we crack the conservation of energy sometime. : p

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sublimed
Intel etc is not making money because I use a PC they make money when I buy a new one. I have been upgrading my tablet more frequently than my PC in large part because I spend so much time on it.

Multiply that shift by 1+ billion people and you start talking real money.
I'd argue you're into red herring land a little yourself with the systemic goings-on.

From Joe Sixpack's perspective, he paid his mortgage every month for 20 years, was all set to retire on his home equity, and then poof, the rug got pulled out from under him.

It's a bit of a tall ask to say he should've seen that his home was overvalued and planned accordingly when all of Wall St couldn't see it either.
Fundamentals of Texture Mapping and Image Warping [pdf]
Did VMWare bring something to market early also? Couldn't find a press release.

Maybe it was just a partnership with Atrix or Continuum.
I'm not sold on the crowded space thing just yet. Looking at who is in the most danger, I am forced to consider agendas. The most, really only sats at risk are low-flying stuff in polar orbits. The danger space is the area above the poles where all polar orbits cross. Those are mostly going to be imaging sats. And of imaging sats, only those wanting 100% planetary coverage bother with a true polar orbit (90+ inclinations). The stuff most in danger are therefore the military radar/imaging sats in low orbits: spy satellites.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_Kennen

Note the orbital inclinations, all between 90 and 100 polar orbits in the 250-1000km range (LEO).

Once up to medium orbits (GPS, 22,000km) or geostationary (42,000km) risks become minimal to nothing. Space up there is huge, the relative speeds much slower. It is an open question whether collision between sats is even relevant considering the risk of colliding with any number of natural objects.
>If that's true, then why is the current government working hard to remove any protection (however meager it is/was) to prevent the same mistakes from happening all over again?

I find your average worker doesn't really pay attention to the day-to-day news/politics (especially regulations & individual votes, media doesn't cover this either and nobody watches CSPAN) but by now knows that in 2008 the bankers & wall street — the people who put us in such predicament in the first place — got an enormous bail out that went to already super rich executive & CEO bonuses, but the working class lost their homes & jobs and received absolutely nothing.

I don't think think it will go that way the next time it happens.
Huh, I hadn't noticed that - I've subscribed now.

I do still think it would be better if you proactively sent out emails only to affected customers though.
I'm on board with "asshole rejection screening" in place of "culture fit". Of course the flip-side of this is when a team of assholes rejects a non-asshole because they deem them incompatible, so perhaps we need to use the more general "asshole screening" for the sake of inclusiveness.
I agree. It's I don't care if banks survive as long as I'm not negatively impacted. I'm sure the banks feel the same way.

Survive also doesn't mean 'maintain standard of living.' The government has a surefire way of propping up the wealthy: Inflation. Savings accounts lose purchasing power (normal person) and the means of production gets more expensive (wealthy).
As someone who is maintaining one of the SSGs on this list, could you (or others) describe what these Hugo pain points are?

I'm wanting to learn from our predecessors and avoid their mistakes.
By regulating payements and preventing "reimbursement" of people risking others lives from insurance companies coverage of hospitals and helicopters? At least it sounds like what the government of Nepal is doing against "unrestrained capitalism".

Also, paying a decent stable wage/pension to the sherpas would deter this sort of behavior and encourage self-policing as the majortity wouldn't want to risk their long term pay for a short term boost. That's usually how we incentivize against corruption.

Now, you could also argue that the "cost plus" accounting of insurance incentivizes them to support ever higher "quality" and prices for themselves and their peers, but that's typically a longer term problem.
Engineering decision model: messy opinions, neat ownership
I think I'll listen to Warren Buffet's advice on index funds.
I've been describing it as a code editor for sheet music, but I guess it's just as much a sheet music editor for coders?
If you're interested in this. Combining generated art with manual tweaks. Look into http://gif.com.ai

You're in for a pleasant surprise.
It would be helpful, if still dealing with a human brain, to forget things in order to remain sane. Simulated brains which have the ability to forget removed end up acting pretty much exactly like schizophrenics brains.
Is there any reason that a person who owns a car has more of a right to have a ride than a person renting a ride?

Many people 'aren't even from the bay area' and drive in; hell they even take up space in the bay area to store their car when it's not in use!
The original FCC rejection was based on the fear that the satellites would be too small to track. Now, the company has evidence to say this isn't the case, and if so, fine, they should present that evidence to the FCC and let them evaluate it.

The bigger risk now is that, after completely ignoring the FCC's rejection, other companies decide "we don't have to worry about the FCC at all because even in egregious cases, the penalties are light."
> Stick with Jekyll, its robust, has support with github pages

Could you help me understand the value of this? It doesn't seem too hard for an SSG to provide documentation on what to put in a `.travis.yml` file.
If Joe Sixpack owned for twenty years, he was not underwater after the crisis. He might not be in as good of a shape as he was at the top, and I can understand how that would be disappointing, but he's still doing fine. If he got greedy and did a big cash out ARM refinance, well, that sucks, but people are told from a very young age that when something seems too good to be true, it probably is. Caveat emptor! And there are warnings ALL OVER the documents you have to sign to actually participate in such a transaction. I reject the notion that American adults should not or cannot be custodians of their own financial lives.

I'm certainly not saying that I expect the average American to understand what actually happened. The average American believes all kinds of things that aren't true, even in much simpler domains of knowledge. I am just saying what actually happened.
What percentage of 'the economy' do you think is represented by publicly traded corporations?
DevOps is not a role, it's a culture and set of processes to improve speed of delivery through interaction and teamwork between development and operations.
New Planes That May Change Travel
What about the Joe Sixpacks who bought homes because housing always goes up and I can just flip this in three years?
In USA the large companies who will lose profits from simple alternatives will make up reasons to not lose their profits.
> But once you get into adding images, rss, or any sort of complex layout and routing, none of them are really designed to handle that much complexity.

Could you give examples of these pain points? As a maintainer of one of the SSGs on the list, I'm wanting to better understand users pain points, even if they aren't my users.
The banks did cause it to happen. They had an insatiable appetite for mortgage backed securities and would shop credit rating agencies (who were newly public companies) to get a AAA rating on total garbage they knew would explode.

Municipalities and pension funds would buy AAA securities even though the originators and packagers of the mortgagers knew they were garbage.

It was a big fraud caused by the bankers greed.
I guess whether people agree with you will largely be based on whether US regulations apply to US companies/persons or just US controlled jurisdictions. I'm of the opinion that people shouldn't be able to get around US laws while retaining access to the market, to financial services, to infrastructure and so on.

There is precedent for this sort of thing, for example it's illegal for Americans to go overseas for the purpose of having sex with minors.[0]

0 - https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ceos/extraterritorial-sexua...
The data doesn't support your conclusion. Almost nobody keeps all their assets in a savings account. What you should be looking at is net worth.
https://dqydj.com/net-worth-by-age-calculator-united-states/
For those interested in open source/decentralized alternatives to Slack/Discord/etc, I've had a pretty great experience with both the voice and video integrated into Riot.im[0] (uses Matrix protocol[1] for chat, and Jitsi[2] for voice/video).

I've said before that I can't really justify nonfree software for something as simple as text chat.

That said, rooms with very large numbers of people trying to communicate with voice/video is one use case where maybe it makes more sense for a commercial product to solve it.

[0] http://riot.im/

[1] https://matrix.org/blog/home/

[2] https://jitsi.org/
Lazano did the Unison combined RA + scheduler. Cool that he followed through and got his PhD.

Register Allocation and Instruction Scheduling in Unison

http://llvm.org/devmtg/2017-03//assets/slides/register_alloc...
If everyone invests passive, you could make a ton of money by buying companies which are worth more than their stock or just give you an extremely high dividend.
If you need more details there are certainly better sources. But imho there is usually a huge lack of trustworthy high level overviews. Newbies make mistakes and seasoned teachers may have a hidden agenda.
I didn't understand from the article about a "shampoo bottle with bubbles left in it". This diagram seems simple enough.
I presume "ClodFront" was a typo, but given the frustrations I've had with it myself, I'm not certain.
Is it really that someone else has to lose? Some people are toxic like that. Others are only that way because they've been antagonized. However, if they are or they aren't, in either case there has to be something at stake.
Just an opinion here.

The article says a number of things about the Christian Heaven. But fails to recognize the premise is that people who go there are changed. On the inside. There is peace, on the outside, because there is peace in the heart, on the inside. There is contentment, because it is on the inside. There isn't a lust for power and control over other people's lives. Nor any shortage of resources. And the biggest thing described as great about Heaven is being in God's presence. Not material things or power.

The problem with all other utopias is that they seem to imagine something that people create without a change on the inside. People have tried to create ideal kingdoms for millennia. The problem is that its seeds of destruction are on our insides. It is us that is the problem.
Probably more in high-gravity locations, such as planets and stars. Thinking about the Juno satellite orbit, would it be better/easier/cheaper to hang a mining station in orbit around Jupiter, or have a satellite/ship dip into Jupiter's atmosphere every orbit?
I found this really hard to read. At first I tried to read left-to-right, top-to-bottom, but then it felt like the "panels" (or lack thereof) were not lining up. Then I thought "Oh! It must be three columns top-to-bottom" so I tried that then realized I was missing content and that I was right the first time.

I'd love to see you lay this out a bit differently. Apart from that, I love the content. Thanks.
> I've tried to pitch in and do whatever needs doing regardless of whether it's in my explicit job description or not.

IME this is also how you have the most fun at work, provided that the "extra" tasks you take on aren't particularly unpleasant.