skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's like surviving any kind of disaster: You need the mindset that you will survive, instead of staying unprepared because you are too fearful to plan for disaster.

The whole country of Switzerland is protected by law. Everybody has shelter that will withstand a 12 megaton strike at a distance of only 700 meters. Very few warheads are that large.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallout_shelter#Switzerland

A few other countries, mainly in northern Europe, have lower-quality shelter. Impoverished countries have an excuse, plus they tend to not be targets. The rest of us are being irresponsible.
It does, since happiness is by definition the goal. What makes you happy can change (it could even be getting executed if it helps a great cause), but nobody is content with being miserable.
Blast furnaces do not need fuel to create iron, the process in which iron oxide is converted to iron is endothermic but the coke itself is the fuel in the furnace. It actually is necessary to do this to produce carbon monoxide which reacts with the iron oxide.
> I think a lot of people dislike that idea because religion, unlike science, doesn't offer us any certainty.

Nope. The real problem is it is being misused by evil people always in every culture and moreover no one can question to correct it because based on belief with no evidence.
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>I think it's interesting to realize that your only real currency on anonymous message boards is the quality

Perhaps initially, but an equally effective currency is shock/bait value. And when reply counts are the only way to keep threads alive, it's often the most provocative but not necessarily highest quality threads that garner replies and snowball. In fact in the case of many boards it often leads a pool of low quality drudge as the user count increases.
I'd imagine it being the possible for theoretical physics, as it is in math. Otherwise, one problem is when you start needing advanced equipment and laboratories. The barrier to contributing is higher.
Yes, Sci-Hub has been a great boon. It's still not a sustainable long-term solution though, and not only do we need to abolish copyright for existing published work (whose copyright will already eventually -but only after far too long a time- expire), but also make sure that future published work will become immediately available to access and re-use. That's what this is about. (Note that Plan S was initiated by governmental organisations, so there's the governmental intervention for you.)
And what if you can't manage to get financial independence, or ever be able to put "100% of my energy into improving my community via endeavors that otherwise would not pay a dime" ever, like 95%+ of humanity.

What then?

You'd spend all your life miserable because of it?

You won't divert the "self-improvement schemes/self-pity" effort towards whatever percentage you are left with for improving your community (even if it's like 20%)?
I would like to add the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy to that list.
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You can experience this dream today by simply installing Google's "Chrome" browser. If you prefer a different browser you probably don't have long to wait, Firefox and Safari have announced plans to check CT (Apple says in Calendar Year 2018 but I won't be astonished if that slips) and it's something Microsoft's browser team are contemplating - if you care about trust in the Web PKI you obviously shouldn't use Microsoft's products anyway, but if you do...
I need to hunt around for a cheaper shipping forwarder I think...
And by "Western", keep in mind Italy and many other "2nd world" countries (to use some dated terminology).
Definitely. That is the best way to deal with stuff like this. Without a union individual employees have a too weak position to complain.

Although I hope the US adopts a more Nordic/German style union system which is less adversarial. I think the US system has sadly given unions a bad reputation.
Given that the Pythagoreans believed that "all is number" and worshipped "Oneness", I'd be surprised if they didn't consider one to be a number
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With the unexpected result that the here so beloved Z3 solver is actually the worst of all used solvers. You shouldn't blindly use everything with a python binding. https://hal.inria.fr/hal-00967132/en/
I really like the idea of a "TIL" category in "ask", just like this. Nice work.
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Do you need an ID with your current address to buy cigarrettes? Because you need one with your address to vote in North Dakota.

It's not just about having ID. I have loads of cards with my face and name on it. It's about the ID requirements being tailored to disenfranchise certain voters. It's public record that this is the motivation for the people making these laws! There's no debate about the motive, because people are on the record as saying it's targeted disenfranchisement!
I highly recommend to read his novel that's also mentioned in the article: "Permutation City" [1]. Apart from a great story, it provides a lot of food for thought.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City
Lol, in the US ambulances are often run by private companies and the bill is delivered to the patient.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_medical_services_in_...
Zammad is a good example: it's open source[0] and packaged binaries are available if you want to self-host[1].

Corporations can:

1. Self-host for free but hire their own engineers/sysadmins to maintain it

2. Pay for a per-seat hosted version from Zammad[2]

3. Self-host and pay for a support contract so that Zammad engineers can maintain it for you[3]

[0] https://github.com/zammad/zammad

[1] https://zammad.org/

[2] https://zammad.com/pricing#hosted

[3] https://zammad.com/pricing#selfhosted
We're missing any kind of definition for "a decent life" (or indeed "grinding" for that matter).

I live in an region where the population density is at least 50 times less than that of greater London. We have few Michelin-starred restaurants, a distinct lack of opera houses, and no top-ranked universities. I'm not bothered in the slightest.

Living in London (or NYC, or the Bay Area) is, just like so many other things in life, a choice.
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Thanks seapunk, yes my passion and background is building communities. We just came out of closed beta last month and have a couple thousand users who are highly engaged. Good question and something we’re still thinking about. If we do release our content on web it will be just that ie. no user data exposed and no planned web experience.
No matter how many resources you have, using them inefficiently is bad. Dispatching a team of on-call paramedics with specialized emergency equipment to non-emergency situations is bad.
Nah, that's how the people who want to change the voting system kill time. People have their preferences, but they're fairly united in thinking most systems would be an improvement.
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Can someone chime in as to why C++ compilers in particular are notorious for extremely verbose yet unhelpful error messages? Is it something endemic to parsing the language that there can't be errors as helpful as Rust's?
Apologies if this sounds dumb. But isn't P(n) = n!
In this case, n=14 (episodes), which translates to factorial(14) = 87178291200. Which covers every possible arrangement of the 14 episodes? Where is this 93,884,313,611 coming from?
Or am I making a fool of myself here?
The US will always amaze me. If you don't have enough ambulances to cover the interventions then just buy more ambulances. And what kind of ambulances should be used should be up to medical professionals, not yourself. It is fairly common in many countries for hospitals to use regular taxis instead of usual ambulances when they know it will be fine, but it should not be your call as a patient.

I guess in the US the incentive of the hospital is just to bill you as much as possible so it makes things different. In many places the incentives of the hospital are just to keep you in good health and do not overspend their budget ...
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Interestingly, this is exactly the process used in Andy Weir's new novel Artemis and makes oxygen the least of the problems of the moon city that the novel is named after.
But the outcome for consumers isn't better at all. What's happening, despite Linux being GPLv2, is that its used for a giant spy net (Android) and financed via ads. Moreover, the concentration of computing in the hands of very few cloud providers has been only made possible due to almost all software being free/open such that it has become a commodity, and what little revenue there is, isn't going into maintenance.

Also, your screwdriver analogy isn't fitting, as a screwdriver is a physical product that you must buy, whereas for software its only ISPs, web hosters, and cloud providers that can earn a living by providing a service on top.

The recent questions about F/OSS licensing are about sustainable models for software development, and are not answered by dogmatically referencing "the four freedoms".
After playing around with PWAs, their OS APIs integration (UWP and Android) and WebAssembly, I have came to the conclusion that for plain CRUD apps, mobile Web and PWAs are the way to go.

Now for highly interactive experiences that go beyond the typical CRUD app, then native apps are still the way to go, specially when some Web APIs happen to be constrained to what is actually available, e.g. WebGL vs OpenGL ES 3.2/Vulkan/Metal, WebAudio vs audio engine, SIMD access, Workers vs actual multi-core,...

In any case, from my point of view, PWAs are a good argument against being forced to use any Cordova, Ionic or React Native flavor.
But doesn't that quote refute "We already know that self proclaimed aficionados can’t tell the difference between cheap and expensive wine." assuming aficionados would be considered expert wine consumers?
The same thing got around my head as well - I think I'm gonna try Azure soon for one of my little side-projects to see how it's gonna work out.
I am quite competent software engineer and good at math too. But never really understand what Philosophy meant and what does it tries to study. To me sometimes it sounds like too much of a fake stuff like religion. Any resources or books that you can point to get a clear understanding of what philosophy really tries to study about ?
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That's the number of permutations. But we are allowing overlaps by a shifted window so the number can be lower. It's easier to explain with an example - in the article there's a nice diagram.
It is also incredibly painful when your conscience and your actual means to achieve what you can conceive are way too far apart, and one of your addictions is to actualize your conscience further neglecting whatever little improvements you could be doing, because not only your end but also your midgame seems hopelessly far away.

Life is way too short to actualize all the improvements you can learn, the speed disparity between learning and executing can be just downright atrocious.

Unpaid work is not ok for a vast majority of humanity, lest we forget that what still kill most of us is not disillusion pain but the lack of basic needs, and that kind of stuff kills you way faster, yes money robs most of us of life, and most of us simply do not have the time or mental space to ever come close to realize it, since we're either strangled by basic needs or entangled in a web of distraction/disinformation.

While information has been made widely available to almost half of humanity, the power to act on most said information is still in the hands of a pretty darn small minority.

Sorry for the rant :E
Signature wouldn't mean anything if there was no warranty. In which case warranty is what they sell and the signature is just a minor technical detail. And selling warranty on software is already a thing.
"Mangen et al. say that this is because paper gives spatio-temporal markers while you read. Touching paper and turning pages aids the memory, making it easier to remember where you read something. Having to scroll on the computer screen makes remembering more difficult."

https://insights.uksg.org/articles/10.1629/uksg.236/
Similarly, I also discovered the joy of reading books, English in particular, quite late (I'm 36 right now). When I was younger, the only books I read were text books. My reading stats is jumping from 1-2 books a year to become 11 read books so far this year ( Mostly, self-help, business and technical ). And the weird thing is, English not my mother tongue, but still enjoy it more than my native language. Grow up and live in an environment where English is not country's official language. Found out this habit affect my brain organization massively. So, thanks to the internet and Kindle which help me accessing great books easily :D
You could make your argument much clearer if you chose an example at least vaguely similar to software, such as books, rather than something completely unlike software such as a screwdriver. Deliberately choosing something that shares very few characteristics in common with software, when other very common and well understood better examples exist could give the impression you're concealing something. Protecting authored works with a copyright to prevent unauthorized copying is well understood and commonplace and has good economic and social reasons backing it up.

Furthermore even some screwdrivers or similar devices, and many more complex devices are absolutely protected by IP in the form of patents, so even the argument you make is simply untrue in many common everyday cases.

Free libre software licensing has a lot to recommend it, I've published thousands of lines of code under GPLv2. The FSF is a powerful and virtuous advocate of it. However it's not right for everyone in all cases, including me.
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> You are signalling that neither party has your support.

To what point and purpose? A politician is accountable to the voters, not the non-voters. Non-voters are not a consideration because they've chosen not to be.

> Even in countries with mandatory voting a decent number of people cast an empty ballot.

Australia has compulsory voting. There was a 91.93% turnout at the 2016 election and 3.94% of those votes were informal (see the 24th page):

https://www.aec.gov.au/About_AEC/research/files/voter-turnou...

So, in effect, about 12% of voters in Australia failed to vote in the 2016 election.

Contrast that with a voter turnout of 60-61% in the 2016 US presidential election:

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/random-samplings/2017/...

http://www.electproject.org/2016g

That's not counting any invalid votes so more than 39% of voting age citizens failed to vote in the 2016 election.

I'd say the Australian model delivers a better result.
Clinton is absolutely a moderate.

That’s an odd thing to say, because Clinton never talked about policy. Sanders talked about free healthcare and education. Trump talked about building the wall. But all Clinton ever said was that it was her turn. Similarly their supporters all echoed those policies, except Clintons who were just “with her” in a policy vacuum. So you can’t assert that she was moderate because no one knew (or cared) what her policies actually were!
Oh hmm, no, that's not my point. My point is that unless the study also looked into what the people with fewer hours then did with the now-free hours, we all have insufficient information with which to make a good/bad judgement call on it.

I don't follow your utilitarian math. Can you rephrase?

> that the employee gets the value rather than the rest of society.

I don't think drawing this line is reasonable. The employee is part of society, trying to reason from a starting point of separating them from it just seems silly.

As far as I understand your argument, I definitely do not agree that it's a broken window fallacy. In your view, what is the broken window in this case?

(Not the fallacy, the thing that would be the literal broken window).
This does not exist in MySQL.
Alternatively, score voting but using letter grades (ABCDF) instead of numbers. Everyone who's had a small amount of education can understand that.
The simple argument is that it can be considered a poll tax, and those are unconstitutional.
Exactly. I really think Philosophy is like religious gurus confusing the listeners with confidence and as though only they can understand but not put in clear words.
It seems like a bit of a grey area - I don't know how to classify a "self-proclaimed aficionado" -- is that someone that really knows wine, or just a wine enthusiast that knows less than they think? (as opposed to a professional sommelier who has had professional training and certification, or at least proven experience)
As the topic is about Ray Tracing in One Weekend and the book admits it's "technically a path tracer" here's a great Disney video introducing path tracing: https://youtu.be/frLwRLS_ZR0
As a developer it is important to get to know your tools.
You can disable the extension recommendations in your configuration:

- extensions.showRecommendationsOnlyOnDemand

- extensions.ignoreRecommendations
The coal used by most countries for producing electricity is not that clean though.

If anyone is really serious about global warming, shutting down coal plants should be priority 1, natural gas plants priority 2 and transportation emissions priority 3.
Thank you! I will look into these. I know the problems. As i was working in the accounting firm i was dealing with imports/exports from various accounting softwares a lot. In fact i'm currently working on an app which can convert between them as my side project.
The city already has the names and addresses of the law abiding ones. They registered with the city.
Finishing the entire Certificate Transparency system will take time, but the elements that exist today already work fine. Install Google's Chrome browser. The browser checks for SCTs (the proof that the certificate was logged) and will reject new certificates that don't include such proof. It has been doing this since April.

Try this URL: https://invalid-expected-sct.badssl.com/

If you visit that in Chrome it gives you a full page interstitial warning it's bogus and if you click past the page is labelled "Not Secure".

In other popular browsers it works fine, because it has a perfectly nice certificate but the Bad SSL site is deliberately not presenting the SCTs for it. [[ It's hard to do this by accident, most places that give lay folk a certificate will assume your goal is to have your certificate accepted, so they will log a "pre-certificate" for you and bake the SCTs inside the certificate they give you and you can't remove those ]]

But yes, fully completing Certificate Transparency will be more work, we need a Gossip system so that monitors can consult each other to detect a split horizon, and mechanisms for clients to show summaries of what they know to determine if there are conflicts.

What we have now is like if you have a house you've half-built, there is no roof over two rooms, and no electricity, and the floor is bare dirt. But, it's still a house, and in a rain storm it's better to be inside that unfinished house than out in the cold and wet. The people outside in the rain don't think "That guy's house doesn't have triple-glazed windows" they think "Lucky bastard isn't out in the rain like me".
I believe he's talking about attribution, not advertising.
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When a document or its derivatives are intended to be read and accepted by all sides of a conflict, neutral language is a necessity. It's ugly, but without neutral wording representatives of the Myanmar government likely won't even read past the first paragraph.
>> The only thing our world needs now is a reorientation away from growth at all costs into a mode of life that values the simple, the close by, the cheap.

Well, populism and xenophobia are simple, as simple as it gets, they appeal to base urges that demand no thinking (indeed require to not think at all). The whole world is nowadays "close by", thanks to cheap flights everywhere. And the labour that produces all the consumerist crap we, well, consume, is dirt cheap.

You should rejoice.
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Which is why we have, at least in France (and AFAIK, in most of Europe), different kind of ambulances depending on the gravity of the case.

The hospital won't send an ambulance with ER stuff for a guy who don't need it.
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It doesn't require a standard of proof in the way that people don't work with a standard-of-proof 3-pronged test-of-likability for their spouses.

Among the myriad reasons: the nature of the crime matters. If they got caught with a bit too much LSD in 1975 it doesn't matter even if proven & admitted and convicted. If, however, there's just a whiff of corruption then that's Game Over, next please.

Hell, if they were arrested in bar fight just last year and spend a week in jail, that might even be a plus: first hand experience of the criminal justice system from "deep inside" could at least excuse a singular transgression (perhaps depending on what side of emacs-vs-vim they so drastically defended in that bar).

So it's more of a calculation, as in

probability X recency X seriousness X relevancy for job
+/- all other factors.

...rather than any single standard of proof. And that's fine. That's how it has always been, and how it was originally envisioned.
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I still have occasional nightmares about Threads (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads). Mostly about the milk bottle melting.
Possibly the scariest TV show I've ever watched - largely because it was set just down the road in Sheffield.
You're straw manning. The point is you need to consider reality before trying to decide how to tackle problems. Your regulations are not only not going to levy any consequences to bad actors, it's going to directly reward their bad behavior. They're the ones that are going to be able to capably break the law, and work to minimize consequences in any case where they're caught. But the law will severely hamper good actors that try to abide it. I think you realize this which is why you're now resorting to 'Well, so we just them all get away with this without consequence!?' And the answer there that when doing 'something' is less effective than doing nothing, you don't have any choice. To do otherwise is simply cutting off your nose to spite your face.
What can I do about climate change?
A couple in their early 30's just meet up after getting home from work. The wife, nervous, approaches her husband and says, "I have something to tell you". She pauses, taking in the moment, and him. "I'm pregnant".

Is that an easy moment for you? If she has an abortion, then chances are higher that she could never have a child again. It's not just a "choice". Christ.
n - 1 + n! <= P(n) < n * n!

The lower bound is achieved when the permutations overlap perfectly, e.g. when n = 2:

1, 2, 1

The upper bound is simply the concatenation of all permutations. You can get lower than this by exploiting the fact that some permutations' suffixes are other permutations' prefixes.
Maybe you could provide a link.
I'm posting this because it's a good comprehensive overview of the question. Most similar articles give a superficial overview with two or three ideas. However, climate change is not a simple issue where you can just change a thing or two to fix it; it requires deep changes in most aspects of life. And this change has to happen right now.
For those interested in some background info, here's a Numberphile video explaining Superpermutations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJGE4aEWc28