skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
News flash!

Emotion, character and reason are all valid in this discussion.

Let me put it to you just a bit more directly:

An aggrieved mother and father are there, facing you and their dead child.

Now, having made this call to let their kid die, what do you say to them?

I will wait...

Actually, I won't. It is one thing to speak of optimal choices when one is seperated from, or above, disassociated.

Real life, where the actual humans are plays out much differently.

Above, when I asked, "Seriously?" it was this I was getting at.

The claim of strange morals, based on some 100 to one, as if!

I found the whole thing deeply disturbing. Not a negative to the participants. Not my intent.

No, what I found disturbing was the detached nature of the whole thing.

Maybe Liberal Arts education remains more relevant than I realize.

Again, not a negative toward anyone. Context matters, that's all.

I very seriously question the general wisdom in having some percentage of us so far isolated from people overall, and any sort of meaningful policy, moral debate being beneficial.

You completely failed to make a meaningful rebuttal. Correct... ?

Like I said, seriously?
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That's pretty much what I did, but the original record wasn't stored in the DB, just the specific instances. Our use case was such that folks were moving around events periodically (it was a scheduling app), so we rarely had anyone "run off the end" of their repeated events.
Facebook Fallout Ruptures Democrats’ Longtime Alliance with Silicon Valley
I wrote a 3-axis CNC simulator using a new algorithm and published it as Open-Source. See https:/camotics.org/ More recently I created an S-curve path planner for CNCs. Also Open-Source.
Well the us and Soviet space programs were more about building advanced ICBMs than going to the moon. The latter was a nice side effect for patriotic ends. If you can get a rocket into space without issues, you can slap a warhead on it and hit any target you please. The space race was a pissing contest over nuclear launch capability.
The future sounds beautiful.
> ultimately the solution of taxing tourists does not work well in practice.

Got any examples? Many cities in the world have tourism taxes, charged as a per-night fee added to hotel bills. Miami has a beach fee for tourists. Somehow, despite no income tax, Miami manages to stay solvent.
This is simply not true. Look at Santa Barbara for example: high tourism, high prices and locals are forced to distant outskirts. Local spending doesn’t increase because prices simply go up and locals shop at cheaper places outside of tourist hub. I doubt their wages are any higher either.
I could not possibly disagree more.

Conferences are almost always a split of local and non-local attendees. Forcing conferences to be exclusively non-local attendees makes zero sense. It would be even more expensive, in absolute dollars and environmental cost, to have everyone travel to the middle of Nebraska.

I know it's not your intent, but your stance here reeks of elistism, xenophobia, and othering. Extrapolating your worldview I don't know why a country hotel would, or even should, be accommodating.

> don't organise conferences in places which are full of tourists already.

This is absurd. Conferences are about people. Places with a lot of people will naturally have those people come together for events. Things that make a place attractive to live can also make it an attractive place to visit.

Travel is so expensive it's almost crazy NOT to make the most out of your trip. Adding a day or two of tourism to a multi-day work or education trip is more than reasonable.
This could be the summary of 90% of the "AI" startups these days.
How about a resident discount? A reverse tax - you can keep prices high, but locals with a resident ID get a discount - it could be subsidized by the local government.
Wait, EBS and Elastic Beanstalk are completely different things in AWS.
It's not really friction that's slows stuff on reentry. The heat is from compressing the air. Which is why the heat spikes away from the vehicle.

Anyway, the rocket equation means if you wanted to slow down before reentry you would effectively need to accelerate to twice the final speed 0 to X then X to 0. That's simply not going to happen.
This sentiment on blockchain is posted very often. Have the authors studied all startups in the top 100 on CoinMarketCap? How about top 500?

Yes, we've all met people who read about Bitcoin and Ethereum in the WSJ and felt incredibly smart when both declined from their highs.

But what about the ICO money raised in 2018? It's likely over 5 billion at this point.
A lot of the time the costs aren't actually payed by the breached party though. Most customers don't meaningfully change behaviour due to security breaches and meaningful fines are the exception, so your biggest risk is a breach benefitting your competition. If most of the costs can be externalized there is little incentive to care about them.
Well, I don't know if mine will help. I love Goffman's book, it's super-readable, enlightening. It's about the different roles and..settings people operate in, and the rules and customs of those places, e.g. backstage, shopfront, military ranks, hospitality etc. Full of great stories quoted from an impressive number of sources, very diverse.

Korzybski's book used to be huge, recommended by all kinds of famous people. I spent a few hours reading in it one day, to see for myself. (Plus had heard a fair bit about it before.) Korzybski basically seems a huge crank, who thought himself and his baby General Semantics[0] as important as Aristotle. The quote one always hears from it is "the map is not the territory", and well, that's about the only thing worth quoting from it. Plus he tried to get rid of "is" from the language, i.e. "A is B".[1] Seemingly because such sentences are deceptive - if you say "The car is red", well, it's many things besides red, so the sentence is a lie is many ways. It's a very strange objection. As if it's bad because it doesn't say everything, just one thing. Aristotle he's not.

Also there's an interesting contraption featured in the book, made of metal with holes, strings, plugs, used to make maps of levels of concepts. I don't know if it's practically useful.

Apart from that, what makes it a big slab of a book, are a host of chapters on different academic subjects serving as introductions to those subjects, e.g. one on maths, calculus I think, supposedly illustrating general semantics applied there. These seem mostly intended to give the impression Korzybski is a genius polymath. People who didn't know anything about that subject might learn something from that, and feel the book taught them something. But it's nothing to do with Korzybski's theories.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_semantics

[1] This was extended by a student of Korzybski's to E-Prime, a language without any form of the verb 'to be'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime
This is an old plugin, but it's still one of my all-time favourites.

For instance, my task today was to update some terminology in a large app. I had to replace all references to 'Ab1' with 'AbFoo', 'Ab2' with 'AbBar', and 'Ab3' with 'AbBaz'. I also had to replace 'Near' with 'Node' and 'Far' with 'Antinode'. To complicate matters, both of these were usually found in the same line, and both had different capitalization variants - e.g. gAb1NearSensor -> gAbFooNodeSensor, ab1Group -> abFooGroup, nearSensor -> nodeSensor.

With Abolish.vim, this is simply a case of opening each affected file, then doing:

:%S/ab{1,2,3}/ab{Foo,Bar,Baz}/
:%S/{near,far}/{node,antinode}/

This handles all the possible case combinations automatically. Instead of spending hours tracking down all possible combinations, and inevitably missing some, it's done within half an hour.

Just because that's not cool enough, the plugin also offers variable name case coercion (between MixedCase, camelCase, snake_case, UPPER_CASE, dash-case, dot.case, space case , and Title Case) and abbreviation/replacement of commonly used or misspelled words.
This alphabetti spaghetti of boot flags is getting ridiculous, there seems to be no central list anywhere, just random snippets across the web. Why is there not a Linus rant when you really need one? :-(
Would you like a nuclear powerplant to be ran with this kind of approach to safety? Given the amount of possible targets and how unreliable people can be at assessing what risk they're exposed to, having mitigation active by default is obviously the only sane answer.
Simplicity (2016)
Ever heard of concrete?

Also, there's plenty of earthquake resistant techniques you can apply to masonry. Mediterranean houses are all built with steel-reinforced concrete and bricks even now and there's all kinds of seismic activity over there.

https://clay-wienerberger.com/expertise/brick-buildings-for-...
Like you said, it depends how much you're betting on your JS to work perfectly, and who your intended market is. If all you're doing is hoping for the most optimistic JS runtime (and perfect connectivity, high bandwidth, etc.) and your site is a white screen of death otherwise, then you're not really building a robust piece of software for the web. Of course, that may not be what you're trying to do, then it's a non-issue.
Theoretically I think it's possible to submit bugs using GDocs especially since you can essentially use Javascript to do so. The coding engine is pretty powerful. I can imagine using forms to do so.
The Citus team recently created a Postgres extension implementing Paxos.

https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2016/04/13/masterless-distrib...
A-Normalization: Why and How
nytimes story: Mystery of Lost Argentine Submarine Ends a Year Later, Deep at Sea https://nyti.ms/2DrCpDR
Excess heat from Bitcoin mining to warm buildings
The shuttles largest issue was it's weight. It's the old square cube law. You need to remove more energy based on the mass of the object, but you remove it over what amounts to a 2d area.

Unfortunately, part of the design requirements was to return a large amount of mass from orbit which means it needed to be designed to dump a rather obscene amount of energy into the upper atmosphere. This meant it could not do a rapid decent and because it would overheat, and thus needed to stay in the upper atmosphere for a long time. Which meant it's thermal tiles needed to operate for much longer time periods requiring extreme amounts of thermal protection.

PS: The wings also added even more weight issues.
As I wrote, I see interesting and valuable points in your comments above. But I think the apparent commonality and prevalence of outrage in recent times starts to grow boring on me, and it's hard for me to keep reasonable respect to users of it, I'm afraid. I'm finding armchair critique cheap and easy. While trying to do something constructive is so much harder, as one opens oneself to inconsiderate, authoritative condemnation on any slightest imperfection.
It seems we agree in principle on tragedies of commons - that in edge cases where normal rules of economics produce lethal externalities, we should intervene.

My original comment was simply pointing out that it is not inconsistent to blame the system for these lethal externalities.

Where and how we draw the lines on where to break from economic decisionmaking and into moral decisionmaking is a way, way bigger topic.
Not directly related to the topic, but I wonder if there's a way to at least partially recover energy, spent on lifting stuff to the orbit, from kinetic energy rockets have on reentry.

This question also applies to the heat generated from atmospheric friction during liftoff and landing. And also to payloads.
Who is avoiding travel because of tourist taxes? The relative cost of pre-tax airfare, lodging, etc. is exceptionally high relative to the typical hotel tax, for example. When did you last decide not to attend a conference because the destination’s tourist taxes were prohibitively high?
Had a major DNS bug with Google DNS, it was on their side and they were completely messing up how they were handling some requests. Took them 2 months or so to fix it, they never described what happened, never said what was broken, and it took finding resources inside the company to solve. Google doesn't functionally have support for many of their paying services, nevermind their non-paid services.
> I see you arguing that things went just the way they should have all over this thread.

Actually, I never said that anywhere. I think what happened is basically a no-op. Without a profit motive, the drug would never have been developed, and therefore not available to anyone, and we'd be in the same boat we're in anyway.

What I do think is one of two things should happen: Either (1) we decide that the drug is worth it, in which case health systems should pay the owner of this drug fairly for their investment. Or (2) it's not worth it, in which case we're no worse off than we would have been without this company, other than the fact that they wasted a bunch of their money.

(As an aside, note that I said we should pay the owner, fairly for their invention, not the original developer who voluntarily gave up the rights. This is an important distinction as the ability to voluntarily transfer property rights is pretty central to the whole concept. Imagine if after you bought a car, anyone could take it, because you're not the original manufacturer. It's not hard to see the path from this society to one where nobody bothers making cars.)

> The two doctors who made the drug do not even hold the patent and basically gave it away for free to the company trying to distribute it.

Those two doctors did the least expensive part of the whole operation. The more expensive part was funded privately. If you want to fix this you can either have the government fund that expensive part, or you can have it done privately and pay the owners what they want.

> if not for the patent this drug would definitely still exist, and probably be available to people who actually freaking need it

Sure, maybe the doctors still would have done the research, but there would be no money either for the clinical trials, and so manufacturing and distributing the drug would be illegal.
Dropbox would be a better analogy.
The gp was being sarcastic.
In the city I live in, a proposal for an In & Out came up. It split down the city in half for reasons; traffic, "In & Out is great", "In & Out is awful", and so forth. Nothing's come of it and as far as I know the lot remains defunct.

Elsewise I too encounter people who hold In & Out on a pedestal simply because of their food. Personally, I've tried and honestly but I just can't. McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, Jack In The Box all have better burgers and fries than In & Out for me, but say that to the devout and you'll be shown the door faster than they'll tell you to go to Hell. It's amazing.
Fixing a SRAM 11 speed GX rear shifter on my mountain bike. I was on a downhill MTB holiday and fell off, snapping the thumb trigger on my rear gear shifter.

Replacing the shifter is usually like a £30 part, but I was in an alpine resort in summer so the shops that stocked them were charging nearly £100!

I had my tools and some super glue so sat down to repair it. The snapped part fixed in two minutes but getting that part in place required the complete disassembly of the internal mechanics of the shifter which was all tensioned with multiple hidden springs, the internals literally burst apart half way through carefully taking it apart.

We had no instructions, no YouTube video (since it is usually cheap enough just to swap out) and no diagrams.
It took me and a random guy staying in the chalet 3.5 hours to put it back together, we essentially had to spread everything out and think from first principles of how a shifter works, the specific features of that shifter (rapid fire, mutiple down shifts with one leave arch) and build up how those peices would match how it operates.

Must have been 30 part, all small and all tensioned with three(?) springs.

6 months later still working fine but man did we get a mental workout that day.

Next day I had to fix my 3 axis gimbal but that was a lot easier.
And I'm sitting here waiting for the industry to start taking security seriously. These are not ridiculously unpractical attacks. These are attacks that have been hypothesized for years and are only now getting attention because people finally started to create (public) demonstrations. I would be shocked if there were not already non-public exploits based on these vulnerabilities.

The only reason these attacks even have the appearance of being unpractical is because there are so many other areas of our computing systems that are even easier to attack.

The only reason we are in this current Spectre et. al. mess is that CPU vendors choose to prioritize performance over security, and we now have to live with their bluff getting called for another hardware generation or two. I suspect that the performance impact will be far less when the fixes are done during the hardware design process, instead of figuring out how to bolt them on after the fact.

Ultimately, I think we are overdo for a new computer architecture (both in terms of security and performance, we are being encumbered by the need to keep new architectures backwards compatible with old ones).
But YouTube, gmail, etc. all drive people to advertising. That's like saying the words in the NYT don't "work".
> Now, having made this call to let their kid die, what do you say to them?

This wouldn't happen, since I'm a (non-sociopath) human.

You seem to have missed the point of the argument completely.

> Real life, where the actual humans are plays out much differently.

Nobody disagrees here.
The keyword there was “contrast.”
Are these global sales? Leafs are everywhere in Norway, so that would mean that we get the lion's share of the entire production.
I think you dropped an /s

The security of banks is certainly not in their IT departments.
I've been looking for blog posts and content about macOS UX design and testing. Because it really is stellar. I'm curious what kind of stuff the elementaryOS team is reading that informs their design choices. Any ideas where to look?
Both cities are such a chill place. I've been to both. Before Shenzhen, I worked in Shanghai on a half a year contract to bring a small webdev and marketing consultancy shop back from the dead after loss of a CTO.

But the moment I stepped out of the plane in Shenzhen, I felt it almost physically that the air there is different: public transport that runs like a clockwork, exemplary public sanitation, police in subway that actually does its job, all public services being largely well run, and ..... the most unchinese thing possible ... traffic laws actually being enforced, and very zealously at that
>"Eg: Using Azure we found out the hard way that the Firewall was cutting connections after 5m of inactivity."

Could you elaborate on this? Which firewall is this? I remember something similar with their load balancer but I thought this was fixed years ago. Might you have some link to the issue? Thanks.
Since that one's the active discussion, we've moved the comments there.
> Schools produce Computer Scientists

This is not actually true, at least at average universities in the United States. Schools have a degree called "Computer Science" but the standards are shockingly low.
Why is so much code being added to a kernel?

<terms of lines of code changed with more than 354 thousand lines of new code added at the end of October when this merge window opened.
The Art of Money Getting by P.T. Barnum (1880)
biggest garbage post ever, ever! Take it off the internet now, shoot it behind a barn or something.
Editing a Minecraft save with sh and dd to resurrect my girlfriend's wolf.
Good idea! I am a complete sucker for tracking down CS textbooks from my courses 20 plus years ago. And I like the hard copy versions. My outlook is, an engineer is known by the books he keeps.
To me, "Dropbox" means "a folder that syncs across your devices"
Disclaimer: All the figures need to be looked at to make a reasonable judgement as to whether "Chicago lost Amazon" or not.

Is it really a loss? Maybe having a large company like Amazon is not the 'gain' that it appears to be. The city has to provide tax breaks, supply transport infrastructure, house and land infrastructure, water infrastructure, education and health infrastructure to entities like Amazon. What's the bottom line for the city? Is it a gain and increased city income? Or is it a loss and drain on scarce city resources?

Like staging the Olympic Games, what looks to be a benefit to the city may end up being a costly affliction. More and more cities are beginning to say 'No, Thanks' as the huge costs and social disruption of staging the Olympics become more trouble than it's worth.
You'll get a much better deal anyway if you do that. I never buy the current generation of hardware. Much better value per dollar to buy one or two generations old. Unless you absolutely need bleeding edge performance.
Somehow I doubt nuclear power plants run (unmodified) Linux kernels released in the last 5 years
Who is avoiding travel because of costs? Almost everyone.

How much would a trip's cost be reduced with the elimination of tourist taxes? Totally depends. It's not the biggest cost. But it ain't zero either. They call it nickel-and-dime for a reason.
Maybe https://app.vanhack.com can help you!
It's funny, because I've actually been contemplating the total costs of having conferences in areas outside the SF bay, and it's probably net cheaper to have people fly to the middle of nowhere AND rent a hotel PLUS conference space, than it is to simply rent the conference space in SF.

Cost of living has grown so large that it's almost cheaper to fly into SFO every day from a regional airport instead of renting a hotel room.
Can someone explain what kind of exposure livestreaming like this brings? Is it actually beneficial, what are some success stories (eg something interesting happening due to the stream)?
>Who is avoiding travel because of costs? Almost everyone.

Nice dodge there, Neo
Punitive actions are meant to correct the aberrant behavior by acting as a deterrent. The end goal of anything in criminal justice is to make the victim whole, and if that is not possible to deter future crimes of that type. This is why there are limits to how cruel we are allowed to be, as cruelty for vengeance sake is no more effective than is securing an individual who is very likely to continue their behavior.
There's the other side plus the shield itself is a pin. It's the ground.