skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been thinking about that lately.

A couple of months back, I went through an existential crisis. I couldn't find a universal, cosmological reason for being, and, therefore, for doing anything productive. I asked myself: to what end is ouputting effort, if none of it will ultimately matter?

It took me some time – and a Viktor Frankl quote – to get out of the rut. Yes, my life doesn't matter as far as the Sun is concerned, or the black holes that make up the center of our galaxy, or the dark matter, or the next grain of sand I'll encounter... So what?

I enjoy making things. I get a kick out of it. Whenever I'm not facing the dread of failing (an excessively-frightening event that's seriously up to no good), I'm giggly about making effort towards creating something I value. Could be a short story. Could be another element of web design. Could be a philosophical paragraph or two. I enjoy it.

At some point during the bleak week, I thought of killing myself. Why bother if none of it matters the least, right? Might as well not experience any of it.

And then it clicked: it's the same fear you experience when you face the prospect of asking for something and may be rejected as a result, amplified to encompass my whole existence. It's like asking the boy/girl out, but if I'm rejected, by whole being is at stake. Like I'm going to lose myself if I make the wrong move here.

"What the fuck? I'm gonna cancel my being subscription just 'cause I'm afraid to ask the life out? Fuck no!"

What I was left with is my passion, and the fear I'm facing. I didn't just not want to die: I wanted to live. I wanted to explore, to create, to love and be loved – all a consequence of the inner passion I was afraid to realize. Why would there be need for a higher reason when, down here, I'm all good for doing something good?

Most things you face are deeply circumstantial. Life as we know it is absurd. If you want to live, you might as well live without resorting to fear as your safety net.
What would "reject input that it was not designed to handle" look like for an automated car?
He did invent it. Our scientific models are just that: models that can make accurate predictions.
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It depends on how many people are in the channel and the expected purpose of the channel.

There is certainly some amount of information dissemination by having discussions in a public forum, but you have to weigh that against the information processing burden it adds to the people in the group.

Also, it may become searchable, but it's only findable if you and your communication partners use consistent, appropriate, and relatively unique keywords. There are likely better ways to document things; although, documentation is one of my worry areas, and I understand the desire to have something rather than nothing.
I'm talking just raw numbers like you get in a weather forecast. The fact that politics would happen is not really an explanation of anything. Politics happen in everything people do - at some level.
Wow, going to n10as website is an experience...
Have you written about this anywhere? I'd love to read about what you went through.

As a side note how is it possible that you were neither a sysadmin nor coder, yet were in the position to manage a server with VMs managed by libvirt? And how did you know Nix existed, or that you wanted to manage the machines with a central configuration server/repository to start with?
Having built an electron app with linux support: it takes time and effort to get it right, you have to come up with a different updating strategy than windows/mac, and they might not have many users on linux at the moment (low priority).

It's not as simple as "add a flag to build linux." There's a little bit more to it.
In this case, you don't want to downgrade.
> argued that some races are more suited to slavery than others

> see if he was misrepresented

Did you find out whether or not he was misrepresented?
That user/dev error, not a fault of the system or a problem in handling it all with the same.

Metrics can always be generated from logs, especially structured payloads.
You live in a fantasy world if you think uneducated people outside America give two fucks about global warming.

Most uneducated people outside America live worse lives than uneducated people in America, so they have much more important and immediate things to care about than global warming.
Figured someone would say that

I can get 400 megaBYTES per second on my iphone from external sources

Inside my network I can get faster

Dont want the NAS to be a bottleneck for my wireless convenience

edit: still megabits
The Moon better get ready for Chinese Despotism™. I wonder whether Moon dust will be jailed, tortured and executed for lack of optimism about the Great Beloved Chairman's ability to let a thousand flowers bloom in the vacuum.
which is the reasoning behind the phrase "Loud pipes save lives."

No, the reasoning is to come up with some plausible excuse to run open pipes. Safety, however, is a cloud of bullshit to distract you from the thirteen year old boy in leather making vroom-vroom noises.

You wanna “save lives”? Ride like you’re invisible. Because that “cars pay more attention to loud pipes” bullshit is going to get you killed with a false sense of security.

Signed,
35 years of riding on stock pipes, and haven’t collided with a car yet.
I keep a 100w LED cannon pointing out my rear window for EXACTLY that reason. Come up on me with your brights on? I've got something bright for you.
Or Purescript =)
Try https://getseq.net/

It was built for .NET devs using Serilog but can accept structured logs/json over HTTP.
Sure I can, I can turn on the high beam just as they overtake me, not always in bad faith, but maybe they just forgot theirs accidentally and need a reminder; just as I will flash and then completely turn off my headlights when I see a car running without headlights at night in the city, sometimes people just forget.
I once turned off my headlights in a hill traffic jam while completely stopped as I was blinding the guy in front of me on my lowest setting and to my surprise everyone did the same in a domino-fashion.
Tit for tat is pretty good.
Do Not Disturb: The Right to Disconnect
And people just mash the button
I don't think any of his code examples are really JTBs because, like you said, its not "true". In the cow example, you make an assumption based on the papier mache cow that actually turns out to be true through information you didnt have access to. All of his code examples are more about him making assumptions that turn out to be false instead based on information he didn't have access to (or rather didn't think to access at least).

I don't think this really affects the take home message from the piece, I'm just being pedantic that it doesn't parallel perfectly (which he even acknowledges people may say in the last paragraph).
The question isn't just whether something can grow in .2g but how fast it can grow, what shape it will take, etc. This is all stuff you need to nail down if you want to try to survive on crops grown on the Moon some day.
No, the warning can be seen on plenty of two way roads.
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Identify individuals in a crowd based on movement patterns
Would probably be better if an HN mod could modify the title to clarify this affects Zimbabwe and not the US.

Real-time RIPE stats: https://stat.ripe.net/ZW#tabId=routing

This affects more than just Facebook and WhatsAppp, as the article claims.
Well, the golden age of streaming was great until it lasted. With competition increasing alongside Netflix's prices I'm sure we're going to issues soon. I bought a new TV last week, and it came with dedicated buttons for Netflix and Amazon Prime. I should have asked if they will put out a better remote next year when I want to have Disney, Hulu, and CBS all Access on there too.
i would say you have bigger issues because they have access in the first place not neccissarily because of the outcome per-say.
You forgot the on/off switch - designed to be used only twice.
Pretty much any project that involves humans settling in space in itself is a long shot goal by todays terms.

Even if you start mining the asteroids any time in the coming decades, it won't be any thing less than a century after that, until you put humans into permanent colonies.
I have not noticed this time delay for my bank contactless card.
A lot of what we do implies trust.

We trust the browser not to have bugs, the TLS protocol to remain secure against attack, every CA to not grant MITM power to a state actor, the TCP/IP stack not to be remotely exploitable. Much of the world downloads unsigned code and exectues it locally, whether it be a Go client, an interpreted library code dependency, or "curl | bash". Windows has warnings before you run unsigned code, but most people run it anyway.

We trust a lot of things, and maybe we shouldn't. The important thing, to me, is how informed I am about the trust I'm giving, and to whom, and what risks I'm willing to take.

I use scp infrequently and on machines that I control, so that's a level of risk I'm comfortable with. But if the bug had been in curl, my blood pressure might be slightly higher.
> Plant trees and revive massive amount of land loss that most countries have caused due to poor stewardship

In some places you can't even plant the trees back. For example if you clearcut trees on a karst landscape, the rain washes away the thin soil completely, leaving only bare rock.

>The lesson goes back to the ancient Romans, who harvested the great pine trees on the Dalmatian karst on the southern tip of Croatia. “As soon as new trees got started, the sheep or the goats ate them,” Ford says. “The word karst means stony ground—stony because they wrecked it.” In the Middle East, the mythic Cedars of Lebanon—believed by some Christians to be the place where the resurrected Jesus revealed himself—grew on pure limestone karst very much like that of Vancouver Island. They were mowed down to build the temples of ancient Egypt and Jerusalem. The soil disappeared and never came back. Around one percent of the original cedars remain, in scattered, protected groves. Slovenia banned clearcutting on karst in 1949—but by then it was too late. There are photos, circa 1900, of babushka-wrapped Austro-Hungarian peasants hauling topsoil back onto the bald karst after it was clearcut.

(https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/the-cavernous-world-u...)
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Indeed, a number of examples cited are not vulnerabilities in TOR.

The example of the bomb threat is one such, that person was unmasked by looking at the means, motive and opportunity of all suspects.

TOR wont help you if the initial suspect pool is already very small (people that took that exam at that time) (motive). And only one student connected to TOR on premise during the time of the threat (opportunity, means).
He wrote Surveillance Valley. I think he's quite qualified to comment on it.
How big data has created a big crisis in science
The first paragraph seems to imply that they played this lottery for 6 until they (I guess) changed the rules in 2018.
There can be a lack of appeal which lets the district court ruling stand.

What does your second paragraph have to do with anything mentioned in this thread
Sphinx is a workhorse. Very light memory and CPU usage compared to the popular Elasticsearch.
You might want to consider switching to the uMatrix extension instead. My understanding is that uMatrix rules can be created to apply to all domains.
I gain over 10% extra performance for what I use my servers for (with 100% meaning one full new server)

Latency is critical for some tasks, with bandwidth being a distant second.
The two examples you cited are centered around building software. How many of their clients are building software? It's not 100%.
I've paid to have CentOS installed over the "free" (included) Windows OS on business machines.

Dell also sells Ubuntu desktops and laptops that cost more than their Windows equivalents. The cost difference is presumably because the Ubuntu machines do not include the crapware bloat that comes with Windows, such as antivirus trial subscriptions.
Flight search for teams in Slack
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There are three points here: First, Tor was and continues to be funded by the NSA, among other government agencies. Second, the NSA created Tor for themselves to protect their own agents. Third, by operating Tor exit nodes, they are able to spy on other people's traffic, hence a honeypot.
Would you say the same thing about wolves, re the wolves returning to Yellowstone? https://www.yellowstonepark.com/things-to-do/wolf-reintroduc...
Modern HDDs easily go beyond 110MB/s, but nonetheless stay well below 200MB/s afaik. It'll probably be somewhere in between. Otherwise your figures are fairly correct, if not on the conservative side for NVMe drives (a Samsung 970 Pro will sustain sequential speeds above 3GB/s read and 2GB/s write).

But focusing on sequential read speed misses the main improvement that SSDs give you over HDDs: random reads and writes ("seek speed"). Reading or writing lots of small files from an HDD will ruin your transfer speeds unless they're written sequentially, whereas a SATA SSD will do quite well and an NVMe SSD will do really well. This is the cause of the noticeable speedup when you upgrade to an SSD.
It's by operating the exit nodes that they can see the traffic.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted but I'll second this. I had the same thought when my home state decided to double-the-double damages for some tickets (e.g. speeding in construction zone). For many if not most individuals and families in my low-income state a $1,000 ticket could start a cascade of disasters that ends with them losing their transportation, job, and place of living. It's cruelty pure and simple. Especially since a lack of public transportation means you don't have a choice not to own a car, here.
I didn't justify the NSA nor 'dismiss', I said everyone does it, so singling them out in particular is dishonest.

Furthermore, it is their mandate to do what they do; ask yourself: which agencies exist that have attempted to extend beyond the scope of theirs?

This is a serious concern, esp. in diplomatic relations.
I lived in Twickenham for many years. Eel Pie Island to Richmond Bridge is also one I've done more times than I can remember, usually involving stops at multiple pubs along the way.
The average cable bill is $107. So we know Americans are willing to pay at least that much for TV. Streaming currently competes on price, but they know full well that they can make a lot more money if they can compete on content rather than on price...
The guardian links to a study of a nature reserve in australia. The abstract is terrifying.

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Aim We characterized changes in reporting rates and abundances of bird species over a period of severe rainfall deficiency and increasing average temperatures. We also measured flowering in eucalypts, which support large numbers of nectarivores characteristic of the region.

Location A 30,000‐km2 region of northern Victoria, Australia, consisting of limited amounts of remnant native woodlands embedded in largely agricultural landscapes.

Methods There were three sets of monitoring studies, pitched at regional (survey programmes in 1995–97, 2004–05 and 2006–08), landscape (2002–03 and 2006–07) and site (1997–2008 continuously) scales. Bird survey techniques used a standard 2‐ha, 20‐min count method. We used Bayesian analyses of reporting rates to document statistically changes in the avifauna through time at each spatial scale.

Results Bird populations in the largest remnants of native vegetation (up to 40,000 ha), some of which have been declared as national parks in the past decade, experienced similar declines to those in heavily cleared landscapes. All categories of birds (guilds based on foraging substrate, diet, nest site; relative mobility; geographical distributions) were affected similarly. We detected virtually no bird breeding in the latest survey periods. Eucalypt flowering has declined significantly over the past 12 years of drought.

Main conclusions Declines in the largest woodland remnants commensurate with those in cleared landscapes suggest that reserve systems may not be relied upon to sustain species under climate change. We attribute population declines to low breeding success due to reduced food. Resilience of bird populations in this woodland system might be increased by active management to enhance habitat quality in existing vegetation and restoration of woodland in the more fertile parts of landscapes.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1472-4642...
Please do a writeup on something you've built, I am extremely interested.
Interesting, I was just talking about cancelling all our streaming with my girlfriend last night. I'm tired of just how bad the quality is. Most Netflix Originals aren't even at Lifetime movie quality when looked at objectively.
Has anyone felt that Netflix’s UI has deteriorated massively?

I’ve had it on appleTV for several years. It used to be really easy to browse and find content.

But they’ve completely changed the app and now I feel you either need to know what to specifically look for, or happen to find something in the random “suggestions since you’ve watched X” on the main menu which are a fairly random set of X’s.

They even (as far as I can tell) got rid of the helpful list of alternate suggestions when you select a specific movie.

I don’t understand the need for insane UI’s, do companies feel they must make major UI changes so it looks like they’re not stagnating?

Another theory someone said about their complicated UI is that they perhaps massively reduced the size of the available library, and a convoluted UI hides this fact.
Goodbye Netflix. Going to cancel my acc... Oh wait, I'm using someone else's account.
While I definitely agree with you on the broad strokes of the differences between rust/c++/c and java/golang (representing languages without runtimes and those with them respectively), I'd say that golang is a bit more than a java alternative if we consider more than whether a runtime is included or not.

Of course, if the only consideration is whether a runtime is there or not, golang is identical to java but also identical to common lisp or maybe even interpreted languages like python.

I do want to point out that it's possible to write horribly buggy code in c++/c (less so in rust :), which can tank performance/efficiency when compared to a java/golang program. All things considered though, the ceiling on performance and efficiency is of course higher in manual memory management land.

Thanks for clarifying what you meant!
I simply find it offputting for anyone to say "I as a web designer know better than you and will smooth your scrolling for you".
Boycott Netflix. They offer garbage content yet want more money, for what? Another Adam Sandlers or Nicholas Cage movie?
May not be, but my local coffee shop in suburban Brockley no longer takes cash, which seems a pretty strong signal to me.
We have gone a full circle from having cable with a bunch of separate overpriced packages which you buy for the sake of having access to one or two shows, to having the internet where you're signing up for equally as expensive packages and services all for the sake of having access to one or two shows on their platform.

As long as the content providers continue to make it so difficult, piracy will win, if nothing else when it comes to convenience.
Fighting cancer involves lowering cancer rates in each individual person. Individual likelihood of cancer is unaffected by the global population. Fighting climate change involves lowering CO2 rates for the globe, and is heavily influenced by the global population and the population of rich countries.
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There is generally a lack of hard evidence, but it only makes sense that they would to me.

The lack of hard evidence should be your first clue, because you know the loud pipes crowd would crow to sunset if there were even the slightest shred of evidence. But it “makes sense”, does it? How many things did we think we knew because it “makes sense” until one day, “turns out...”?

So one must first establish that loud pipes save lives. And the onus is on the one making that claim.
The article is for the bigger part about operating systems, only a minor part is about programming languages (which is important for the matter at hand). It's not pro-Lisp in particular, it's pro-"general-purpose, well tested and well designed programming languages". I don't exlude other programming languages from the picture. The alternative I gave as examples are the ones that I know of, but sure thing there are others out there in Python, Lua, Ruby, you name it.

I personally like S-expressions because they are very general and have deep semantic implications (eval-apply, a.k.a. code is data) that go beyond mere syntactic considerations.

Regarding your examples, if I understand correctly they are not equivalent, so they don't exactly compare.

Here LaTeX would require the \begin{document}...\end{document} bits.

But regardless, TeX is very painful to program with (lack of proper data structures and control structures). It's very important in my opinion.
Sci-Fi helps people understand Climate Change
>among other government agencies.

That's my point. And I'm suggesting going a step further to non-domestic agencies.

Nowhere do I suggest the point in the article is false. I merely suggest it is closer to cherrypicking as others are obviously neglected. Does the FBI come to mind at all, for instance?
It seems to be quite well established that not dealing with climate change is going to be significantly more expensive than taking preventative action. So your arguments about economic hardship and the associated problems are (if valid) really arguments for taking more drastic action against the problem.
In your value system.

It's easy to construct a value system where my own life and my future child's life are both worth more than 58 t CO2.
Thinking further, what I'd like is something like fractals. You can keep zooming in on your information down to the details - but also out to an overview.

Nope, no idea how that would work, other than when I'm mind mapping I would have it work like Workflowy, where you can focus on each node in turn -- so you can zoom down to a node, and have an entire mindmap off there. Zoom to one of its nodes and be in another mind map.
A user has no way of knowing whether a packet inspection will be performed by benevolent actors seeking to protect their security or by malicious actors seeking to invade their privacy.

As in the good old post "What colour are your bits" [1] regarding the subject of copyright, the computer is colorblind when it comes to privacy vs. security tradeoffs. You seem to see color, believing compromise for security to be acceptable, and hoping you can allow your lawful and good security inspections to occur while disallowing nasty privacy invasion.

The computer doesn't see color. It is impossible to build a security protocol that will distinguish between good third parties and malicious third parties. "Good security controls" come down to trusting people to do the right thing, and when there's big money coercing companies to do the wrong thing, the right thing too often loses.

[1]: https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23/