skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is that this time it's different. A revolution has to form somewhere. How will it form when every single citizen can be monitored for compliance 24/7? Everywhere you go, everyone you talk to, everything you do is tracked and analyzed. In the past, the government can't do anything to stop a revolutionary until they've become known as one. But in China they'll be able to stop revolutionaries before they become revolutionaries. At the first hint of anti-establishment sentiment someone can be instantly reeducated.

Say there's mass economic strife, and people want to revolt. Ten people suddenly get the idea to overthrow the government. They organize a get together in the woods, with no technology allowed. Facial recognition can tell the ten of them joined as a group, logs showed they all did not use any technology for a period of hours, they weren't seen in any camera or microphone database for hours... Hmm, very suspicious. An automated system can and will recognize these factors and the group will be quickly sent for reeducation.

Once the technology passes a tipping point, there's simply no way back. The technology enables the existing power structure to be maintained forever.

And that's assuming human soldiers are involved. At some point - maybe 50 or maybe 150 years from now - robotics will be advanced enough that you won't even need cooperation of soldiers, and at that point the entire population can be controlled with the push of a button.
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So you think requiring someone to have verified collateral to take out a loan is less oppressive than allowing someone who doesn't have any collateral to use solely their reputation to borrow money very cheaply?

Your hypothetical system makes financial products only available to wealthy. That's pretty much the definition of oppressive. A system where more people have more access to more products is the fairer one.

Debt can be an important tool if used correctly.
Once autonomous car sensors get advanced enough cars will be able to play the safety sound only if necessary
We have a few of these Renault ZOE [1] around here with that feature and they sound very "spaceshippey" as well.

Also, anybody else finds it funny the self-fulfilling prophecy where we're now actually projecting "hums" and "whooshes" on the outside of our cars that sound like what, in our minds, is what "future vehicles" should sound like?

And can we have 3rd party sounds? I'll make mine constantly say the "Move it, move it!" from Police Academy [2]. It'll be fine.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO1F1ssr-LI

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBFMB6F6nms
Like the first one comparing the puzzles registration flow to the holocaust?

WTF.
I see they're using Cloudflare - likely it's a tradeoff for them between banning attackers and alienating legitimate visitors - and they don't do business in Brazil, yet. They block my (US) VPN exit, too.
Blind/visually-impaired pedestrians would likely still need audio warnings, regardless of self-driving vehicles.
I have AT&T gigabit fiber. Fiber from the pole to the house, through the wall, into a transceiver, which connects to the modem via a cat5e cable.

When I had AT&T DSL, it was standard telephone hookup to the DSL point of entry, then coax into the modem.
The cheaper alternative that the NHS wants to offer is not actually the same as the more expensive drug that's licensed to treat wet age-related macular degeneration. It's related and there's every reason to believe it's as safe and effective as the licensed drug, but it's still not the same stuff.
There are people who term themselves 'Eco-modernists' who are almost always pro-nuclear power:

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

There is also 'environmentalists for nuclear' that includes Patrick Moore, one of the co-founders of Greenpeace and James Lovelock:

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

James Hansen, possibly the original driving force behind modern greenhouse gas concerns is also pro-nuclear.
> Indigenous control of resources. The people who live in a place get to make decisions.

This sounds like democratic socialism with some arbitrary restriction on polity scope.

> With this, right of return for anyone living in diaspora.

How do you concretely define this? This would be a big deal with existing scale polities, but it with your implied smaller polities, it becomes an even hotter issue.

> Capitalism isn’t “evil” or “useless” it’s just a temporary stage in our development.

Agreed.
For me it's very strange to see that a huge portion of the population sleeps until 9am (and a big number even until 10am!). I worked in many countries before and in most workplaces you had to show up at least by 9. Of course there were some exceptions but in general that's how it was.
Who exactly do you think communicates what they say to the masses? Reporters. Without them it would never reach a wide audience.
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> And they know something much more important: every one of these people was affluent enough (or knew someone affluent enough) to spend a three-digit sum on a puzzle in the middle of the worst economic downturn in living memory.

Let's not hyperventilate too much; on any given weekend you can find people who hover around the poverty line spending hundreds of dollars on "toys", although those toys will probably continue to provide value and enjoyment significantly longer than this dumb puzzle.

Also, I would hardly consider the Great Depression to be out of "living memory", and are we still going to say we're "in the middle of" a huge economic downturn in 2028 just to support whatever histrionic point we need to make that day?

Edit: Either the (2009) wasn't in the title when I first clicked, or I just missed the damn thing. Thanks for pointing that out, Shaanie
I grant you Ford and VWAG may do it, and I'm aware that BMW does on some models, but I don't believe that literally every "sport focused" car does it. That sounds like something a salesperson reflexively says when a prospective buyer expresses distaste for the idea.
Possibly dumb question: what is a language server in this context and what’s it used for outside of the AST package?
That seems so odd. Doesn't Google's corporate email system have read receipts like Microsoft Outlook?
Actually it's turning out that arson detectives are on the level of hair and bite mark analysts -- completely and utterly made up.
That probably suited him fine. I mean the anonymity. He doesn't strike me as a jock.
> Tooling is so important to the developer experience for any language, and a language server is one of the most important kinds of tooling there is (because the user interacts with it on virtually every keystroke in their editor).

Here’s how languages backed by large corporations win. They have the resources and the optics to know why these non-fun features are important.
Hmm, my daily ride is 8mi / 13km - and I often want to pick up groceries, library books, etc. A scooter (even an electric) is still much less practical for these use cases.
It makes plenty of sense, at low speeds wind and tire noise aren't loud enough by themselves.

My Volt makes a somewhat annoying tone below 25 mph, but I'm glad it does because almost immediately after getting it I noticed an increase in close-calls in parking lots when pedestrians would walk into the path of the car.

The noise isn't too car-like so it's less effective than the engine noise people are used too, but it's also probably more effective than nothing.
I figured the person you were responding to held that attitude. That if an idea is not novel its not worth publishing, like this story in their opinion.
Blind and visually impaired people still sometimes need to cross roads.
Been using Linux Firefox for over a decade - five years on a toshiba Core 2 Duo laptop with 2 GB ram and a harddisk. Never had any performance complaints even though I sometimes opened >20 tabs.
A Cardiologists Concerns with the New Apple Watch
The majority of the people who say they are on a keto diet aren't actually in ketosis.
Not even FAANG. I would say a majority of companies do the pattern of recruiter call, 1-2 phone screens, and 1/2-1 day onsite. For the candidate, it's a no brainer: invest a week or invest a day. The end result is approximately the same either way, unless your company is super special in some manner.
Since when is tooling non-fun? This depends on a lot of factors.
Look at https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/ for more info. It's a standard interface IDEs can use for things such as autocomplete rather than every IDE having to reinvent the wheel.
Demand for travel by car is elastic to the tune of about 1 billion annual VMT per penny.

https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/jpube-v...
I don't quite follow. Why would drug dogs need to be tested for accuracy? Is the indication of a dog accepted somewhere as evidence?

I have been assuming that dogs give false positives every now and then, and there's a search for some actual evidence based on that indication, which everyone knows can be a false positive.
I love that Internet Archive is doing this, but I have no idea how this isn't running a foul of copyright laws.
Either the Twitter account is a financial venue covered by the regulations at issue, or making the announcement there was illegal independent of its truth.

So, either way...
There are many, many examples of DNA testing being unreliable because of HOW it is done (for example:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/a-reaso... ) and yet the general public still sees it as infallible.

It's extremely important for these kinds of studies to get more publicity, for the courts to start to understand the limitations, and most importantly for the labs that do the tests to start to be held accountable. The standards from a scientific standpoint are truly deplorable.
Heap is an analytics company that stores all (json) events automatically and then provides real-time queries. Their business sustainability is directly tied to how effectively they store and query this data.

They solve it with a large cluster of Postgres server running fast disks with partitioning handled by the Citus extension, along with several low-level tweaks.

RDS does not support these scales or any clustering. Aurora does not have parallel processing. Redshift would be fast but is very expensive and does not have the same level of Postgres features.

There is Citus Cloud so you can get close to Heap's setup with Citus maintaining it all, but that gets pricey too.
Functional core, imperative shell (2012)
You have some astounding performance numbers and experience. Thanks!

Maybe it was a mistake, but I just started with Microsoft's .NET, ASP.NET, and IIS and no more than that as a framework. Maybe that was not so good.

I had to find, download, read, abstract, and index 5000+ Web pages from MSDN -- a big delay and not so good.

For the session state store, I just thought that it was an obvious, easy, routine, normal, expected little bit of programming based on TCP/IP, serialization, and collection classes.

I'd heard of Redis but guessed that just reading the documentation enough to understand it and get it installed would be more work that what I did DIY. What I did was awfully easy.

Yes, you have some good 5 minute solutions, but I didn't have the background to have the knowledge, infrastructure, and code that offered the 5 minute solutions -- I didn't know such things existed. No such things were clear chasing around among and reading Web pages at MSDN.

Well, my session state store work is done well enough now for now and clearly easy enough for me to change to something else later if necessary.

I'm learning, which was the main objective of my first post here.

Thanks.
Iirc, it’s relatively straight forward to migrate to a module though?
Sounds like it's time for Germany to invest some money into energy storage solutions rather than relying on coal-burning plants to take up the slack when solar and wind are slacking.

This applies equally so to most nations, of course.
I would too, except, have you seen what your YAML looks like after all the Linkerd additions? There's a reason they don't even mention in the docs exactly what it changes.
If you have enough money to pay for experts to shoot this nonsense down you are fine but if you don't have the money you are in serious trouble. Some years ago I was part of a jury in a trial about assault with a deadly weapon . The prosecution had an expert witness who talked about lighting conditions during sunset. I do a lot of photography so I know about little about this topic myself. I thought to myself "WTF is this guy talking about? This is plain wrong". But as jury member you can speak up only during deliberation and the defendant was a poor guy whose lawyer didn't challenge this nonsense.

Thank God the case was so flimsy that we voted "Not guilty" anyway but it's really easy to get convicted based on junk science. Unless you have the money to challenge that.
Yeah, well there's a lot of businesses that operate late into the night. You think 24/7 pharmacies, retail, restaurants, etc operate themselves? There's also emergency personnel, security, even night construction crews.
Pure CSS would imply to most people no Javascript. Nice work though.
Google is already a creepy organization. Android is intentionally designed to leak like a sieve, they are stalking people 24/7. No one at Google can pretend they are not building invasive surveillance systems, they can only hand wave it away and attempt valiantly to 'normalize' it.

Whether it is amazon and its work practices, Google or Facebook the common factor is there are thousands of employees willing to do their bidding without protest, without mass resignations, without whistle blowers.

Its difficult to believe that after decades of posturing about freedom and liberty there is only one person in technology who had the guts and integrity to stand up.

Everyone else in spite of knowing what these companies are upto are lining up to sellout. What these discussions do on technology forums is perpetuate the illusion that people care and gives apologists and sellouts an opportunity to normalize, diminish and dilute the implications of surveillance and stalking.
Not really obsolete. 50% of german energy comes from coal and 50% of that comes from lignite. And Germany has been building renewables like mad for the past decade and only get 25% of their energy from that. Cost isn't the issue here but time to deployment.
They are held as examples at plenty of US military officer training programs, thankfully. I learned about this incident and Hugh Thompson at the USNA, where they drilled into our heads that morals, ethics, and the laws of war are absolute and it's the officer corps job to ensure they are followed to the T. I always took that to heart. Unfortunately, as in the civilian world, there are crappy people in the officer corps that don't care much (the American GIs that Mr. Thompson was up against that day, for example).
Sure, but why not just create a fake persona and call it a day. Transient email address, fake name, google voice phone number, done...
It's used by editors like Visual Studio Code to provide intellisense, autocomplete, breakpoints and the like.

The idea is that instead of each editor writing it's own (incomplete) Python or Go plugin, someone writes a language server which is then used (and improved) by everybody.
The LA Times has decided that the cost of compliance with GDPR is not worth the effort since they don't get any ad dollars from Europeans. That's because the GDPR is such a quagmire that it requires expensive consultants to audit compliance, and since it is untested in courts, they're not even sure they are in compliance when they are done. A lot of local US papers have made the same choice, the LA times just happens to be one of the biggest.

Let your MEP know that the next time they want to write an extra-territorial law about technology, they should get some technologists to help them write it so that it actually makes sense.
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Exactly. Hell, I consider tooling to be some of the most fun (and often difficult) things I work on in my free time.

If I can make something easier for my normal dev environment I see huge gains ~40 hours a week. That's pretty damn awesome and flashy to me. It's definitely not easy, but imo it's well worth my time.
Do they really rely on car noise? Based on wind and other noise you can't be sure that you are hearing all cars.
I use the same keyboard at work and at home - a DAS Model S with unmarked keycaps. Maybe that contributes to the brain confusion - but I like the keyboard too much to try and type using two different keyboards.
Solar wind and hydro only provide 25% of Germany's energy needs.
Heap’s usage of Citus predates the rollout of Citus Cloud so definitely hats off to them for their operational know-how. I wonder if they’ve considered switching — my guess is that the compressed filesystem probably results in material savings for them so that’s likely a reason to keep operating their own cluster.
There's also a 113,000 acre fire burning currently.
I walk my dogs in the morning and for a while I had trouble with EVs and hybrids but now I am used to it and haven't had any problems. It's just learning.
Does anyone know if this is introducing more features than the existing Go LSP[1]? I'm all in favor of tooling support - I'm just curious if this actually adds anything to those of us already using a Go LSP. Thoughts?

[1]: https://github.com/sourcegraph/go-langserver
> The first phase of the systems development life cycle requires you to define (and agree upon) high level goals/requirements/parameters

Yes, but when people ask for a system, you can't just give them that list of goals as an answer. Not only is it not a system, but agreeing on goals doesn't make a system meeting all of them logically possible much less practical.
The cheaper one is 3.5% and 5% the price of the other two and is recommended by WHO and used widely around the world, including the US. As always the decision as to what will be appropriate will lie with the doctor but at least they have the option now.

I expect that the price of the other two will mysteriously drop quite dramatically now ...
> velocity = d/t.

Thanks for the example. Here d/t is a proportionality. Or at least half of a proportionality. But the terms of a proportianality must be of the same type. And here they both must be distance. Because we compare what is measured (distance d) to the unit distance, here denoted with the letter t.

I'm not denying the existence of time. I'm saying that we are not measuring time but comparing two distances.

You are saying that if time did not exist the oscillator would not oscillate. Maybe. But we are not measuring time but comparing two distances. We are counting how many unit distance there are in the distance to be measured.

> Time is difficult to define without reference to space, and measurements of the evolution of a system, which may be the problem I guess?

Same with the concept of space. What you call "space" is the distance between two points.

> What would time be in a purely static, closed system?

The system maybe static but this does not mean time is not passing. Time is still passing but there is no oscillator. Without an oscillator to define the unit distance you cannot count the distance to be measured.

> What would time be after the complete heat death of the universe?

This is the philosophic time and it is independent of our ability to measure it. So I'm not talking about the existence of time but about the measurement of time. Because I observe that what we do is compare two distances. I don't understand how comparing two distances is interpreted as "measuring time."

I also observe that no one else have any doubts that what is measured is time. So the problem must with me:)
Again, I was making suggestions in the scope of the planning phase of the SDLC, not the implementation.
When the dog's accuracy can't be tested, then a search based on the dog giving an indication of "There are drugs here" is no different then a search based on a magic 8-ball giving an indication of "There are drugs here".

Every time this technique leads to a search that is used to secure a conviction, it erodes your rights, as a non-criminal, against arbitrary search and seizure.
> Protip: Avoid accidental racism by using “denylist” and “allowlist,” instead of “blacklist” and “whitelist.”

I actually misread it as denyalist, who knows denialism maybe is the right word after-all.

Not being from US, I had no idea that these were racist terms:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklisting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitelisting

Maybe we should also stop using:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_List_Index

because the population of native North American ethnicities is on decline and biologists are all racist misogynists claiming that there is such an absurd thing as biological sex //sarcasm is not even enough to describe this lunacy that's eating the world//
What can you do with 25 Racks of Servers in 2018?
Why not just emit the sound when going below a certain speed AND ONLY IF there are pedestrians closer than a certain distance? That would be more expensive for sure but doesn't cause unnecessary sound pollution.
What if we use ungoogled-chromium instead? How effective is it at removing Google from the browser?
This is one of my favorite videos. I highly recommend DAS videos, definitely worth the subscription.
Neil Tyson was calling for a branch of the government to declare what truth is [1]. He's part of the problem I'm describing above.

1 - https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/1031556958153666561?lan...
That took me ~3 years:

Year 1: Learn basic Python and Javascript.

Year 2: Get some freelance jobs building basic websites in my local area.

Year 3: Laid off from normal job, apply for hundreds of web development jobs and grind through interviews, using the interview process to sharpen my coding skills. Keep doing side projects to sharpen skills and add things to resume.

Year 4: Be a senior developer at a small company, make ~80k
It’s Postgres. You use the same drivers, same commands, etc.

Their is nothing special you do to support Postgres RDS.
> but is it true the Church engaged in the mass genocides like the atheist regimes of the past couple centuries?

Surely, mass murder is mass murder, regardless of the label you apply to it. You're dismissing things like the Crusades and the Church's attempts to convert the New World by force.

One could possibly claim that modern "atheist" regimes were capable of mass murder at a greater scale than the Church due to the effect of industrialization ... certainly the Holocaust might not have been as effective as it was had the Nazis been limited to pen and paper, horseback and swords.

But, I don't see evidence for the implication that non-theocratic governments or societies are inherently more violent than theocratic ones, rather I see a lot of evidence to the contrary, that unchecked religion permits unchecked violence, because you can argue with a secular authority, but if you believe in God, you can't argue with God.

I mean, you can, but if your government claims authority by divine right, then doing so is a threat to the state and it probably won't end well for you.

But my point was that, whatever concerns the Church might have had about the effect of heretical ideas, the possibility of violence was not one of them.