skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are putting too much value on your work and you maybe be trying to substitute work with worth.

I mean work is just a small facet of life.. when you put too much emphasis on it and start spending disproportionate amount of time on it while ignoring things that actually make you happy like playing with your kids, spending time with SO, watching tv / sports, etc you may start equating life with your work performance which can make you feel this way.
Great to see this happen. Criminal justice reform seems like one of the rare bipartisan efforts in quite awhile, especially when it comes to an issue in which the most direct beneficiaries are a non-voting constituency. There was a great "This American Life" episode pre-2016 [0] about a billionaire conservative family -- the Deasons, not the Kochs, but in that same strata -- who, like the Kochs, were passionate about pushing through criminal reform. And then Trump -- whom the Kochs hated -- became the nominee and split the conservative base and attention. The TAL episode was about how the Deasons were so impressed by Trump that they parted ways with the Kochs and backed Trump despite not knowing whether he's support criminal reform. Back then, it truly did seem that regardless of Trump's beliefs, criminal reform would fall by the wayside with respect to the other political issues that Trump prioritized.

That the Kochs and the Deasons were so committed to criminal reform, aligning themselves with the likes of ACLU and left-leaning groups, I remember reading op-eds/screeds from activists accusing the Kochs of having an ulterior agenda. But not much evidence has surfaced of this. FWIW, the TAL episode refers to a 2015 NYT op-ed that Doug Deason wrote about how close his life came to being ruined by a felony burglary charge, which is a great read [1].

[0] https://www.thisamericanlife.org/591/transcript

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/30/opinion/ruining-lives-wit...
Felons are restricted from voting in many places, too.
>He fabricated impossible-to-verify "facts", such as quotes or other, often tangential, factoids

>Many times, some eerily apt song was somehow involved (playing on the radio, sung by passing child etc). They write it's impossible to miss if you read all his stories at once, but wasn't noticed in the normal, daily flow with sometimes months passing between stories

This kind of tangental factoid reminds me of people who tweet things like "My 8 year old just asked me..." - everyone knows they are fabricating it but the stakes are so low it ends up being a joke, which evolved into the "woke toddler" meme. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/woke-toddler

I call it "cheap contextualization". It's rampant with journalists on Twitter who are not limited by their editors.
I think it goes beyond NIH, although NIH certainly part of the problem.

I think the moment political theory is mentioned, the response is basically that politics are gross and we should do better than that. This appears to stem from the idea that politics and all the negative aspects of it stem from some location other than people haggling over limited resources. This thought process is both ridiculously naive and a highly ineffective way to go about running a community.

This thought process is not unique to engineering. You see it all the time in various utopian projects on both the left and the right. The idea that you can escape the grossness of political processes to a land of total freedom from capital/tyranny (left & right respectively) is extremely popular, and extremely silly. Time and time again we see these movements immediately recreate the problems they decry because the problem was people all along.
They will be globally indexed, signed and versioned rather than downloaded at HEAD from a random repository. I'd say that is pretty different.

Also, https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/go2draf...
That's why I never install any updates on IoT devices. They usually remove features like that and you can never go back. I'd rather have my device 'insecure'.
ElasticSearch doesn’t have adequate data integrity to treat it as a primary data store for most use cases.
Maybe a judge could apply due process to force private prisons to apply the same protections for prisoners similar to how the federal govt, specifically District of Columbia, was forced to integrate schools in Bolling v. Sharpe. The 14th amendment should apply if it was a state prison but being federal makes it different.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolling_v._Sharpe
Why not raise rates, cause the crash and move on? Sounds like a good solution.
It's a fundamentally different problem. There are extremely limited commonalities between an opt-in group based on a technical project, and a society. I think people actually illegitimately apply all sorts of concepts from mass politics to small working groups, without paying attention to the actual reason why these concepts are necessary in society, and what problems they exist to solve.
This was a mistake - we have it ready and just forgot to publish it. I'll get it out ASAP!
There is no need to state obvious guidelines, until the obvious guidelines are broken.
What I find particularly off-putting is that this attitude of superiority is sometimes married with objective incorrectness. If you're going to claim something is black and white, it should actually be black and white.

&&, ||, switch, select, for, and while all do conditional execution in Go.

So the rule is not "A language needs only one conditional control flow construct." The rule is really, "We didn't think a conditional operator was worth it." That's a fine rule, but it's better to be honest about it than to pretend the language was designed around some pure principle that doesn't actually exist.
> the US human rights record is much much better than other large political entities

While the US treats its own residents better, their human record rights abroad is much worse. If China started the war in Iraq instead, all news outlets would have called it as genocide. The US basically toppled a ruler of a stable country, gave the "good side" a bunch of guns, and told them that anyone who opposes them is evil. Inevitably, the two sides fight and kill each other as well as hundreds of thousands of civilians. The US just feigns surprise and shrugs their shoulders.

While this may be an unfair summary of the war in Iraq, this is about as much nuance as American news outlets give to Russia's war in Ukraine or China's treatment of Uyghurs.
Do you live in the us? It's only anecdata but I made about $40/hr in college waiting tables. It's not a bad job.
The "dom.disable_window_move_resize" preference is still there. There doesn't seem to be UI for it, but it can certainly be set in about:config.
go to china for few weeks. you'll be cured. no vpn will persuade u. <3
Skyscrapers of the Future
There are multiple points in the parent's post. While I agree that the idea of unnecessary military spending is noxious, the impact of safe global shipping and the unmeasurable deterrent effects for global stability may still be important. It's not clear to me how we measure and assess the value of this vs. hypothetical and more desirable alternatives.
My son grew up with my ex. The entire household smoked. When he moved in with me, he switched to vaping. I am very thankful for that. While vaping has some risks (shady vape juice vendors, low quality coils that give off toxins), I gladly accept that over something that we all know causes cancer for the consumer and those around them.

Any time I see discussions or articles about vaping or e-cig being dangerous, I automatically assume it is funded by a part of the tobacco industry that has not invested in vaping. There is no logical reason otherwise. The vape juice quality can and should be addressed by the FDA and consumer reviews. By all means, educate people on risks, but every attempt to keep people on cigarettes needs to be nullified.
Wheel of Misfortune. A role-playing game for incident management training
And a really dangerous person to go hunting with.

George W Bush had exceptionally terrible taste when it came to his cabinet.
Passing might not be the right way to look at it?

> This interpretation hinges on interpreting successful sub-majority writes as not necessarily successful: rather, a successful response is merely a suggestion that the write has probably occurred, or might later occur, or perhaps will occur, be visible to some clients, then un-occur, or perhaps nothing will happen whatsoever.

> We note that this remains MongoDB's default level of write safety.

- http://jepsen.io/analyses/mongodb-3-6-4 2018-10-23
Is there a way to do this on android too, maybe rooted phones?
Loved the story, really captures the magic of curiously poking the universe that most folks call inventing stuff

Complete side note....I has wanted something just like the Egg Controller, and got the "fireboard" as a gift. It works fantastically well, and I've wholeheartedly recommended the product since then. The technology stack is well done - changes are instantly reflected on the mobile/desktop/controller - and I've gotten 10x better at smoker cooking using the data collected. Some examples in case anyone is curious:

Here's a test of how well my oven PID works - https://share.fireboard.io/F65461

Here's me showing my grill controller board going bad (got a free replacement board using the data!): https://share.fireboard.io/C95FDA

Here's is a fun one - I wanted to track how much ambient temp changes the internal meat temp (per advice to open/baste as quickly as possible). TUrns out, it's good advice, there is a significant effect! https://share.fireboard.io/792FDC

etc...not affiliated with this company in any way
They can pull a Tinder and charge arbitrary amounts.
> These are things that are great for product development and devops and not in fact all that valuable in scientific computing

I disagree. Again, this may very well be science-domain dependent, but in High Energy Physics (where, finally, Python is recognized as a mainstream language, BTW) many -- if not all -- of the pain points that slow down undergrads, PhDs, post-docs and researchers at large, are these Go features.

yes, the time from "idea" to "little script that shows a bunch of plots" on a subset of the overall data is definitely shorter in Python (exploratory analysis is really really great in Python).
but, at least for LHC analyses, python doesn't cut it when it comes to Tb of data to swift through, distribution over the grid/cloud, ... you die by a thousand cuts.
and that's when you are alone on one little script.
LHC analyses can see well over 10-20 people assembling a bunch of modules and scripts.
You really long for a more robust to (automated) refactoring language than python, pretty quickly.
> So are they saying that the power curve for the 911 engine peaks at much, much higher rpms? So high that you can fit two gear ratios between peak power and typical cruising rpms?

That isn't how gearing works. Gearing allows car designers to tradeoff speed vs torque. You can design a gear so that when a car is running at 100 mph, the engine is at 800 rpm.

I suspect Porsche has designed the 7th gear is for normal cruising (65 mph at 1000rpm), and the 8th is for autobahn cruising (165 mph at 1400-2000 rpm).
Same applies to Maven, in fact many enterprises forbid access to Maven central, while curating an internal one.
Some very useful tips in there. Especially the first one: "No one has time to read your article, write the first lines like they’re a TLDR." Not a good idea for fiction! but it's essential to save a reader's time. If the main topic is buried 3-4 paragraphs down, I've already left.

Note that this one person is getting significant attention writing about a specialized topic (EDM). That probably characterizes most blogs that attract much attention.

A few people managed to be 'generalists' in the early days (e.g. Kottke), but you're probably better off trying to find a congregation that feels under-represented online and is looking for a home. (It's not a blog, but, e.g., deviantart.)
Our education system is the most funded in the world, and corporations build infrastructure and other corporations benefit from it.
Great graphical depiction.

one question: Why do dwarf plants on the right have an upward sloping diameter as you get farther out? Isn't a dwarf defined by an absolute diameter cutoff (i.e. above which it's a true planet, below which it's not)? or is there a formula that takes into account distance from something?
In terms of out of the box stability and support? Yes, absolutely.

The power and flexibility of Linux comes with the cost of a much lower floor for stability than proprietary operating systems. You can make a rock solid system using Linux, but that requires nontrivial effort and knowledge. I have yet to see an issue on my personal Windows and macOS machines that approached e.g. package management hell on Linux, in terms of complexity and frustration.

For examples of what open source projects look like when they have the backing and resources of large companies, look at LLVM versus GCC, BoringSSL versus OpenSSL and CentOS versus Ubuntu. "Better" would be too broad a description, but if you qualify it to the narrow scope of stability, then yeah I think proprietary resources generally come out ahead. I also don't think that is a controversial observation.
>We The People want to see something more meaningful domestically from our tax dollars and public debts - if the elite know better, then drop the facades.

I think this is what people don't get about US military spending. From the moment you wake up every single day you are directly benefiting from it as an American. The fact that you, as a normal middle class person, are able to step out of your brand new house purchased with a no money down 30 year mortgage, step into a brand new car you don't own that's financed at 2%, drive to a brand new shiny shopping mall, and buy brand new fancy $200 t-shirts at the shopping mall on your no-limit 0% credit card is because of the fiat-reserve currency system setup by the US fed, and defended by the military.
Because I don’t really care about someone’s moral belief in what’s right or wrong as long as it doesn’t effect anyone else.

We have an existence proof that the “War on Drugs” has been a failure, has not made drugs any harder to get, and penalties are unequally applied on the poor and minorities.
I assume the societal goal is to help young people, whose brains aren't yet able to make sound decisions (https://www.aacap.org/aacap/families_and_youth/facts_for_fam...) and keep them from doing things which might really hurt them in life like developing nicotine or alcohol dependency. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4519837/)
You can kind of solve this by making the constructor of the outer class private and defining all subtypes as nested types.

It's not ideal, but it works.
Nothing Changed from Windows XP then.
care to explain why? I've been using it across all my projects just fine.
hmm.. from OP:

I’m 21, but I’ve been blogging for almost 10 years.

I grew up doing this.

What I’ve written on the internet has reached millions of people. Most of what I’ve written is in Italian, but I was also quite successful when writing in english. My Quora profile, reached 400k people in three months.

i feel like these are reasonable qualifications to give blogging advice. Your advice sounds good, but are you speaking from experience or is it just something that makes sense to you? what exactly do you find meh about his advice and why?
A highly hackable US biodefense system
Similar experience.

A VC told me that "Money is flowing freely right now" and to "take advantage of it".

Implicit message was that it won't be this way in the near future and now is the time to jump on the wagon.
No, the same way most of all adults didn't test for Diabetes, which is a lot worse than most STD.
Starting to think that maybe, just maybe, finding ways to securitize everything under the sun is not such a good idea.
Top PyTorch Repositories
Previous discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18264245
Not sure what this brings over JSON.
E cigs are physically healthier than normal cigarettes but I still think they are worse for you.
> I think this is a bad way to characterize the overall conversation.

> pretty much every Go-related conversation over at /r/programming seems to have someone arguing that it's literally impossible to build software in a language that lacks generics

Literally literally? Isn't your reply a "bad way to characterize the overall conversation" as well?
I think the mirror can pass through the public signature provided by the notary. That cannot be spoofed if you have a trust chain for the notary to ensure the mirror has not tampered with the module.
"The CentOS managed base image uses `yum` and `rpm` for package management, and these pull RPM files only over HTTPS connections."

That's interesting. Is there a reason for that?

IIRC the stock CentOS doesn't use HTTPS for its yum/rpm repos and I figured it wasn't necessary to use HTTPS since the package signature is verified.
I don’t want to create one for Go. It’s for a hobby language I’ve created.

I only mentioned it because the op discussed Go’s language server.
Yes, but that is why it costs so much to deploy industrial robots. There are many applications where it is technically possible to automate today, but not economical, due to the cost of setting up the robot, due to it needing ample space and having to program a specific motion. If the robot could see and avoid obstacles and dynamically plan to pick stuff up, it would not need as much space, and it would be easier and faster to program them for the task (when the task changes).

Stefanie

Senior Director, Realtime Robotics
Yeah, MailChimp support is absolutely terrible. And it literally looks like they don't care about it at this point. I stopped using them a few months back and moved to SendX. The experience with their support team has been phenomenal.
Keep reading. After some years, you'll build enough knowledge to feel "wise", or at least wiser than most people today as nobody reads that much.
I think it's funded by governemnt.

The report is published by, and commissioned by, Public Health England.

PHE is an executive branch of the Department for Health and Social Care. https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/public-health-en...
Still wouldn't stop 1x1 pixel image tracking, which I can only assume they're doing alongside other cookie syncing techniques.
It's very true; any other Solar System body can't sustain a large human population with the lifestyle we've been used to. The rocky bodies are too small: Mars, the largest (Venus doesn't count), has a surface area about equal to the Pacific Ocean in size. Cloud cities on Venus or Jupiter require a level of technology we can barely fathom. And I've got a feeling that living on a space station makes those cages in Hong Kong look comfortable.
First, you write 11% of adults smoke, then go on to write that ~525,000 of the population smokes. 11% of the adult population makes a much smaller number than that. The number of people who smoke daily among 16-24y olds is 3% and 15% for the age group 55-64y [1]. Of those who used to smoke, 80% don't use any nicotine products anymore [2]. The reduction the last years in the numbers of smokers was so large everybody knew at least one close family member in the process of quitting. According to the numbers, most smokers have low education and earn less [3]. As this article points out:

> Samtidig er det vist at relativ fattigdom øker kronisk stress, som igjen fører til mer røyking.

Translation:
At the same time, it is shown that relative poverty increases chronic stress, which in turn leads to more smoking. (I thought this was a pretty well-known fact).

[1] https://www.ssb.no/statbank/table/05307/chartViewLine/

[2] https://www.ssb.no/helse/artikler-og-publikasjoner/fire-av-f...

[3] https://www.fhi.no/ml/royking/hvorfor-har-roykevanene-endret...
Are you reading the detailed reports prepared by the Jepsen audit team, or the press release? Jepsen audits are public.

The summary of the latest MongoDB report [1] follows,

"In this Jepsen report, we will verify that MongoDB 3.6.4’s sharded clusters offer comparable safety to non-sharded deployments. We’ll also discuss MongoDB’s new support for causal consistency (CC) in version 3.6.4 and 4.0.0-rc1, and show that sessions prevent anomalies so long as user stick to majority reads and writes. However, with MongoDB’s default consistency levels, CC sessions fail to provide the claimed invariants."

[1] http://jepsen.io/analyses/mongodb-3-6-4
Here's a 2018 URL affirming the same estimate:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/phe-publishes-independent...

That page has tons more detail. The first footnote is a report commissioned by Public Health England, the British equivalent of the US FDA.

Here's a joint statement by 13 of the most influential - and most neutral - UK public health organizations, including the Royal College of Physicians (US equivalent: American Medical Association) and the British Lung Foundation (US equiv: American Lung Association): https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

These aren't obviously biased studies or people and they aren't easy to dismiss.

Whether the health difference is 20x ("at least 95% healthier"), 10x, or 50x, there's now a nicotine delivery method - vaping - that, while far from healthy, almost everyone agrees is far healthier than traditional smoking. The difference may be large enough to justify removing paper cigarettes from the retail market entirely.
I agree. I am very dependent upon matcha green tea. If I don’t have at least two cups per day, I feel terrible. But when I do take it daily, it provides an incredible amount of clarity and energy. I’ve come to accept the downsides - and there are always downsides - because overall, it’s a net positive in my life. I don’t doubt there are people in similarly positive but dependent relationships with far harder substances.
That is true, the concentration is higher. But you get a lot less vapor so it evens out. Think about the people who blow clouds the size of cars. Even with 3mg nic the volume of vapor makes the difference.
Yes, but it only works if absolute-goddamn-integrity is not a concern.

We unfortunately inherited a cluster from someone who thought it would be appropriate as a SoT for forensic data, which causes me no end of grief.
It's betting that Google are better package maintainers than Debian/CentOS/Ubuntu, especially when it comes to maintaining container images. From a purely technical, and financial, point of view, it's likely true.

Of course, they could have bolstered the distro teams. And the fact that the repositories are within GCR, not Docker, is just convenience.

It brings you closer into Googles warm, technototalitarian embrace, is what I mean.
Upgrading Strava to Rails 5.0
Company hired by company finds finding that will make company hire it again in the future. Not news. Not saying the story is true ofc.
This does not surprise me at all.
Trust on the press by the public is in a (slow) free fall, personally I think the Lügenpresse has their days counted. It's one of the few good things of the social network era, they can't get away with their lies.
Couldn't they do this by using Atlas and choosing AWS as the host?
K-Cup creator John Sylvan regrets inventing Keurig coffee pod system
> I don't like that cz.nic decided to make something so different than vanilla OpenWRT.

They said it so themselves. When TurrisOS was made (don't forget that it also runs on the older Turris routers), openWRT was stagnating (that was before LEDE came to life) and there were no clear indications on what it would happen.

The version 4 is going to be rebased on the latest OpenWRT, and for MOX a lot of things are being pushed upstream (so I'm being told).

Not affiliated with cz.nic in any way, but I am an Omnia owner.
Postmortem: Beating the NATS race