skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Americans certainly aren't the source of arrogance nor its sole practitioners.

But the phrase "American exceptionalism" is a thing for a reason. And if other societies through history may also have indulged in similar thinking, it functions more to demonstrate how a comparable place in the world can present comparable temptations more than it serves to refute the existence or problems of exceptionalist thinking among Americans.

Religious fervor may, of course, play a greater role (something I'm personally acquainted with as someone who was also involved in evangelism once). The combination of background cultural exceptionalism doesn't help, though.
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Or as Matt Levine says - it is about theft (ie trading on stolen information) not about fairness
Well, hopefully the dark web version of google kept a nice cache of what was important
List of books by Richard Hamming - https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/richard-hamming/242314/
Incidentally, as a throwaway comment, FTP is from the 70's and rsync is from the 90's. I think about that sometimes.
I like how the site is an example of very fast software, such a simple design and it renders immediately; a single file load with the tiniest of javascript to make the videos work. A full page load in 27ms with only 14kb transferred!
These days, I think astronomy is at least as likely a place to find new physics as a particle accelerator.
What if they are a 10x programmer put on the project that was shut down after a year of development? Did they produce measurable value or not and more importantly, do you want them on your team or not?

What if they were just doing whatever was asked of them without caring about value and now are pulling up some measurements out of mostly thin air because the hired resume writer told them to do it? Do you want this person on your team or not?
Is jinglemail uncontestable if the bank finds out the borrower has money to pay?
You keep talking about helping Linux spread, as if you are trying to do some overlooked thing a favor. Linux is BY FAR the most deployed group of software environments/OS' on the planet. I'm not sure who you think you are trying to do a favor?
Exactly, that is the phenomenon I pointed out in my first comment above as being deeply surprising and incongruent with the pervasiveness of the corruption. I agree it’s very real, that’s the unsettling & surprising part.
> I'm glad every scifi movie and TV show's sound designers decide to ignore reality and make it interesting.

Not every movie and TV show.

You are right though that that it wouldn't be the same.

R.I.P Firefly.
Let's stick to the facts, because you're speculating here:

- There are UNIDENTIFIED flying objects

- (it would seem that) the scientific consensus is "we would like to investigate this, however we cannot"

- a small percentage of these UFOS are not explainable in conventional ways.

The rest are conjectures and speculations. Non-reproducibility is not the biggest issue, non-falsifiability is a bigger problem.

Scientists are saying: "we don't know, we should investigate, but we can't". You are saying: "they can't investigate, then it's obviously aliens"! I say they are Santa's little elves using camouflaged reindeer (this also explain the "flying lights": it's Rudolph's nose): prove my theory wrong.

TL;DR: if you can't scientifically study a phenomenon, or if no studies are done, science is not telling you what the phenomenon is. You can believe you know what that is, but it still just your belief.
Probably not a myth, just not happy-clicky (low-friction).

I have found the bar to entry is "how many clicks or steps" is the receiver willing to perform. Even the least technical of my friends can decrypt a PGP or 7-zip file I send them, but I have to put something they really want inside it.
I'd like to see the budget for each of those services.
Landlords like that are the reason (besides financial considerations) that I bought housing as soon as I was able. That adversarial relationship was never fun.
Why would you think so? A page is 4096 bytes and it's hard coded into the kernel (and the hardware). With byte sized granularity, you are just introducing extreme large overhead for page table entries and make the TLB a lot less effective.
The scene in Interstellar (spoiler) where Doctor Mann gives his speech.

(spoiler) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKaydrJJUD0
No, you are correct, there's no limit.
I recently read "The World Turned Upside Down" and I was surprised by the parallels:

https://www.amazon.com/World-Turned-Upside-Down-Revolution/d...

During the English revolt, the censorship of the press was suspended, and people could publish anything. And they did. And the number of inaccuracies spread rapidly.

It became common to argue that England had once enjoyed a rough democracy during the Anglo Saxon days, even though there is no evidence of that.

It became common to argue that studying the Bible was unimportant, compared to the importance of being moved to speak by the Holy Spirit.

A number of establishment figures thought they could stop the spread of error simply by writing books pointing out the errors -- which seems very similar to what is happening now.

After the King was killed, and the official Church limited in its legitimacy, a problem arose that no one had the legitimate authority to determine if someone was the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, so more and more people began to claim that they were, in fact, the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. And the competition among these so-called Second Christs somewhat resembles fights among modern day influencers on YouTube.

In the end, the public became exhausted with the way nothing seemed to have any legitimacy, and which point the public became nostalgic about having a King. And this made it inevitable that eventually the monarchy would be restored.
Ask HN: What tool to use for building a Linux app installer?
My company has a piece of software they want to demo to potential buyers by getting them to install the software on their machines. The software we produce binary rewrites other applications (e.g. Apache webserver and Apache Kafka) so it involves pulling something off the web, reading the configuration of the machine it's being installed on, getting some user input, creating some config files and copying some files. We will go across mostly Ubuntu and CentOS/Redhat machines.

I know the traditional ways of doing this are shell script or shar files. Is there something more common and easier to use that is commonly used today (e.g. SNAP packages)? I'm looking for ease of use on our end, extensibility and flexibility and the ability to extend to multiple applications over time. For various technical reasons, containers are a non-starter for us.
I'm sure the NSA and China has a backup someone could use.
‘Tetris Effect’ is therapy for distracted, anxious minds
Author here. I've been working on-and-off on Ratel (JS parser/compiler toolchain) and earlier this year Lunarity (Solidity parser). Both projects share a lot of architecture, as one might expect, with lexers I've built for them being both an object of pride (because they were so fast) and shame (because they were so ugly). It seems I'll be working on more parsers in the future, so having that ugliness abstracted out behind an auto-magical derive macro seemed like a good idea.

So, today, after getting a PR for Lunarity that migrates its lexer to Logos coming up green, I'm happy enough with the crate to start talking about it. There are still kinks to iron out, docs to write, and it might need a blog post or some such, but right now I'm happy.

TL;DR: Here is a crate I wrote that allows you to quickly make a Lexer that reads source code at ~1GB/s on a 2016 i7 laptop.
Short range commuter rail will be electrified in some places like Caltrain.

http://www.caltrain.com/projectsplans/CaltrainModernization/...

Hydrogen is probably a dead end. It's too bulky, hard to handle, and the energy efficiency is terrible. Most hydrogen fuel today is produced from natural gas, which is just stupid.
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Numbers for Ryzen 2400G would be nice. That's my main computer and they make a great HTPC.

Great news though!
It's more than a handful of pages - each forked process requires its own set of page tables.
10/12-bit can usually be done together, but are completely different from 8-bit. However, it's possible we'll do 10-bit first and then later on make the tiny adjustments that allow us to use them for both 10-bit as well as 12-bit.
It's because non-monetary benefits are a good way to attract talent in a tight labor market, which is more or less how the software developer market has been for the past twenty years. Developers like going to conferences, so they like working for employers who pay for them to go.

Think about why tech companies provide ping-pong tables and nap-chambers (obviously unproductive) and yet Wal-Mart isn't sending its warehouse workers to warehousing industry conferences (presumably at least somewhat productive).
Stable OpenAI baselines
Ion thrusters still need "fuel" in the form of electricity from batteries.

These ion thrusters have worse thrust/watt than an electric propellor drive, and far worse than the jet engines they use.

So there's not really any reason to use ion thrusters at cruising altitude, unless the relative silence is worth paying a lot more per-ticket.
In theory I could have done it for them or some other front. It feels scammy but I am just curious.
Only Half of Jobs at Amazon's HQ2 in Tech
The world has what, maybe a dozen countries with nuclear weapons after 7 decades? I think the restrictions have worked very very well, especially considering just how desirable nuclear weapons are.

The "why" is pretty simple. Technology leads to the rise and fall of nations. There is a huge benefit to the people of a nation when their nation has a technology advantage. This applies both in war and in peace.

Like it or not, each nation is fiercely competing with every other nation. The relative degree of winning or losing determines the level of prosperity. Technology is unavoidably a part of this. It can't be just set aside. You're part of a team (with your fellow citizens) and you are expected to avoid helping the other teams win.
Yeah, this is one of those things that might look weird at first but is probably just a wonky quirk of bureaucratic systems, PR engagement, non-technical writers and probably even autocorrect. It's not far from the realm of possibility that someone tried to sign off a pre-written e-mail with "Amazon.com" and somewhere along the line a token "http://" got added to it by sheer mistake.

That being said, one of the biggest companies in the world should be more attentive when sending out e-mails like this.
>a PHP zero-day vulnerability. Details about this unpatched vulnerability were known for about a month

I find this to be a very upsetting attempt at technical clickbaiting. Feels like a journalist trying to appeal to semitechnical readers with hackerman slang.

If it was known for a month, it's not an 0day.
This was a nice article, especially since I'm a fan of his The Soul of Man Under Socialism, which I'm ashamed to say is the only work I've read by him. In particular, he stands in an odd relation to the other socialist thinkers of his era; Marx known as a thoroughly rational type who went to pains to avoid moral arguments save for the rhetorical devices he was known for even in personal correspondance and Kropotkin apparently seeing no issue with making such moral arguments to argue for socialism. Wilde's stance on morality and argumentation is thus different to both of them - eschewing the rigorous systematic critique of the capitalist system (as the production process of capital, Marx) while also departing from a familiar morality which, at least in their day (and to me even today) moved anyone to the socialist cause (Kropotkin).
If you have something that you want to be hidden you most likely don't want it to be found in your apartment.
Burning questions!
Start with figuring out whether you want to buy a robot platform and go from there for learning resources or whether you want to build from the ground up. If you buy a robot platform, you'll be jumping right into the advanced topics if you buy the right platform (high degree of freedom humanoid or hexapod). If you build from the ground up, you can focus more on the lower, system level and electronic control systems. In either case, once you get to having a stable robot, you'll be ready for exploring sensing, mapping, pathing, motor control, and all the other fun stuff.

I'd recommend starting with the good old robotic arm before jumping into anything like an autonomous vehicle. You'll see different challenges and functional areas depending on whether you go with ground, underwater, or air robots. At the same time, you'll see way more practical, industry work based on the relatively simple arm than you will with what is essentially still in heavy R&D with vehicles and legged robots. Alternatively, the LEGO robotics platform has a tremendous community (CMU established C/C++ as a near standard for the NXT and an open source group has enabled a feature-packed Java environment for it)

Either way, choose or build a platform that you'd have fun with though, it's not cheap. If budget is no concern, there's no limit to what you can advance to (some humanoid platforms start at $20k). On a relatively reasonable budget (Apple desktop scale), though, you can build or buy some awesomely expressive (high degree of freedom) hexapods, RC trucks, or very nice polycopters.

Adafruit - best place to start with physical computing and ground-up robotics
https://learn.adafruit.com/category/robotics
Sparkfun - another good place to start
https://www.sparkfun.com

Math fundamentals for robotics
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~me/811/

Robot platforms for sale
https://www.robotshop.com/en/robot-kits.html
We’re Bad at Interviewing Developers
Out of curiosity, is b [1]? Or if b receives a copy of a, then b would still be an empty list, i.e. []. Not sure what answer you're expecting.
Hobos prefer Python to Ruby. Everyone knows that.
If you're looking at implementing something along those lines these days, take a look at CRIU: https://www.criu.org/Main_Page
Breaking Down the Physics of Wok Tossing
Here’s one example. In 2012 my home was worth much less than the mortgage. I live in a no recourse state and strategically defaulted. I paid cash for a condo. I didn’t default because I couldn’t pay, I defaulted because it didn’t make economic sense to keep paying.
Pretty hard to come up with your own principles when you're either dying of hunger or by tanks...

Gross generalization, but the point still stands.
Not going to spend $250 on an ugly looking IDE that forces me to work on a Windows PC.
Not only that, Linux MD let's you resize a RAID5 into a RAID6 (online, of course)
I've been dealing with a severe case of major depression for the last five years. I've been on every class of anti-depressant under the sun, at one time being on five different medications at once. None of it was able to fully lift me out of a depressive episode. ECT (electro-convulsive therapy) was the only thing that was able to bring me back to anything resembling happiness. Lexapro was the sole medication where the benefits outweighed the side effects, so these days I'm just on that and Adderall for ADHD. Those, along with a SAD lamp to help regulate my circadian rhythm throughout the year is much more effective than any other combination I've tried.

Unfortunately, it was hell trying to convince my psychiatrist that I needed to be weaned off the other medications he had put me on. I had to do the research myself on how to safely do it, then weened myself down to just Lexapro and Adderall on my own. He was absolutely shocked when I eventually told him that I'd been on just one antidepressant for four months straight.

If I ever have another severe depressive episode (highly likely), I'm going straight to ECT. I've done two rounds of ECT over that last 3 1/2 years, and it's been two years since my last round. The medication and lifestyle changes I made (again, against doctor recommendation) seems to be working well to keep my mood relatively stable, though I still have relatively minor periods of depression each year that last a few weeks each. The medication cocktails with all of their side effects and withdrawal symptoms just aren't worth it, especially when I get depressed enough that my life is literally on the line.
What if the mail got lost or delayed? Why would any sane landlord immediately spend the effort to begin eviction process before contacting their tenant, when there are countless reasons that they didn't receive a check for the current month?

MA enforces what I think is a reasonable policy: the landlord must send a written notice to quit to end the tenancy, and may not file an eviction case until a 14-day notice period ends. The tenant cannot be evicted if they pay the owed rent with interest by the end of the notice period.
I suppose I'm lucky, I have Blue cross, they covered by sleep study, only cost my deductible. I go to a sleep specialist clinic, I have an Apap machine which auto adjust the air pressure as needed by on my breathing, and though my machine has the slot for a cell modem, and could join the wifi, neither were required.

I did have to bring in the machine, after something like 3 months, they did a data dump to confirm usage.

But I've never had to provide any further data in the past several years.

my supplies, require a pre-auth request from my doctor, and their is a fixed replacement schedule, which is much shorter than I go through supplies. the supplies and machine follow the same cost share model that anything does on my plan. which is 80%/20%

so all in I think I paid $400 for my machine and first 6 months of supplies.

P.s. if you are wondering about the data on your machine, and it stores it on an SD card. I highly recommend Sleepy Head (https://sleepyhead.jedimark.net/) you can view all your data, graphed over time, etc..
from a programming perspective or a configuration perspective or ?
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This is the unfortunate truth. You have to stand up for yourself and own your own data. I like to hope that over the next few years we are reigniting the technologically literate into self-hosting and providing small hosting services for their less technologically literate connections. I think the secret to making this happen is through PKI edcutaional initiatives and simpiliar access to administration automation. I live in NYC, and my wild imagination sees a world were each building has a technically literate "supervisor" that is making a stable profit off hosting the basics for tenants. It's a pipe dream I know, but that's not going to stop me taking what steps I can to make that happen.
Recognizing that the deck is stacked against her because of her gender isn't contributing to stacking the deck further against her. It's doing the opposite; it's pointing out an example that women can succeed in the industry.

Framing both the reality that the tech industry systematically discriminates against women, and pointing out that fact, as if they're two sides of the same coin makes no sense.
Facebook Acknowledges They Asked Firm to Do Work on George Soros
The main difference between a green and a non-green thread is that the scheduling of said thread is done in userspace. Also, JVM threads are not green since the early 2000s, there's a 1:1 mapping between Java threads and actual kernel threads, and as far as I'm aware, said java threads are never migrated between different kernel threads.
If you mean "limited" as in at any point of time there is a fixed amount of wealth, then sure. But wealth is being created constantly. Recessions can put a short term dent in this progress but overall the progress over time is pretty impressive.

Take a look at the GDP per capital since 1960: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=global+gdp+per+capita

Looks like per capita GDP has increased by a factor of 20 since 1960.
I'm no expert. I've no idea with regards to parens, but with quotes, this is definitely a UK/US difference.

In the US, a terminating/trailing period or comma goes inside the quote, "like this." — Whereas in the UK we do it "like this".

Personally, and as a programmer, parsing the UK usage makes more sense to me logically, and I find the other way to be mentally jarring. Just my 2p.
Thanks! i had updated the question to specify non-tech roles, and that must have happened just after you replied!
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Saudi Arabia has a much larger budget to spend on arms deals (the real US interest) and allying with Iran would anger Israel who the US considers an important ally (for tech, geopolitical, military, and electoral college reasons).
There's already a commercial product based on a reverse engineered Go Plus - the Go-tcha (https://www.go-tcha.co.uk/). It's based on some kind of fitness band chip.
In the video included in this article [https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/small-drone-soars-on...], the subject discusses that ion thrusters are less effective at higher altitudes as the air is rarified.
I live in Australia too, and I think this could be pretty dang useful! Anyone have experience on noob programmers in terms of getting remote gigs? I'm a career changer, after 15 years in corporate.
Company policy is probably that they're not allowed to take tips. So accepting it would be a risk. Getting you to fill out the survey and give them good ratings could get them promoted instead of punished.
Haha, I would definitely go there. I went to Donington festival and Wacken while I lived in Europe. Too bad there are no good metal festivals on this side of the world (American continent).
I should have been more clear that I was responding to the statement that the idea itself was "ridiculous" and not to Rick Perry's inability to speak coherently about the idea.
If I were being picky I would day that directly porting everything down to the `+ geom_*` syntax isn't that idiomatic for python.

But if I said that, I have to be a pedant with no joy in their life, so...
This might be interesting if I could read it. Who here wants a closed internet?
I read more into this being a Thanksgiving news dump than any particularly scandalous details.

Facebook is embarrassed by what many orgs would consider routine corporate communications practices. This is positive that they care about their brand and reputation at a higher level than your local closely held global conglomerate.
You're not wrong. It's not simple, but it's also not that hard, really.

Yeah I use a DigitalOcean load balancer in front of the servers. At this point in time the application serves my family and friends. It's not critical. And even when or if it does become public, even then I would just use maintenance windows.

Not sure what the benefit of zero downtime deployments are, to be honest. They make things complicated for a few seconds of downtime to switch traffic over. You can even make a maintenance page that's all fancy and checks for the backend coming back up and then redirects traffic... not that hard at all.

I might consider Swarm. Probably not though. I do agree those technologies can complicate matters but they can also make life easier. I guess it's a balancing act, isn't it?
I had to try at least a dozen antidepressants to find out that Lexapro was the only one that noticeably worked well enough to be worth the side effects. When my sister started suffering from depression as well, her doctor actually had her ask me about the medications that worked best for my depression. Lexapro ended up being effective for her as well, and she avoided the same process I went through because they were able to use the genetic clues to at least find a good starting point.