skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take that claim with a grain of salt. More comprehensive testing still requires deep expertise in resilience/reliability to even just understand what to test for. And you can't have that unless you both study that domain and experience first hand the sheer amount of problems such systems have in the wild.

For example, you might assume there is no difference if you establish TCP connection to a port 12345 or to a port 12346 of the same server. But there is, they might belong to different buckets in a network stack somewhere and one bucket might have too many packets in it and be slow and overloaded, while another isn't and be perfectly fast. This could easily cause outages. Distributed systems are strange like that.
Created an account just to thank you for the post; one of my favorite Will Durant quotes. And so true.
The traditional problem embedding is that the VM did a lot of window configuration before the image started. This has all been stripped out of the "minheadless" builds, which have defined a "virtual machine interface"
used like...
https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/blob/Cog/p...

and...
https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/blob/Cog/p...
Agreed, to an extent. It's incredibly frustrating for things as small as a paraphernalia charge that was thrown out ending up on a local news site, especially for employability reasons. It'd be nice if there were a way to redact names and still provide access to police activity.
To better my understanding, what new discoveries were made post 1984? Few I can recollect:

1. Higgs

2. Gravitational Waves

3. ???
When I see them I make a mental note to not visit that site again. That's getting more difficult with more sites going that route, though.
Imagine how much better off the whole planet would be if we recycled computers for use by other people, kept and repaired computers, and didn't accept the idea that rendering a web page should take half a gigabyte.
“Superintelligence within the first third of this century” – Nick Bostrom
I'd love to see a government experiment with having its central bank issue a dollar-backed stablecoin.

I mean, fundamentally the issue is that the rise in digital payments puts most of the money supply in bank ledgers... if the money supply was on a public ledger, individuals could still deposit it with a bank, but they could also send it peer-to-peer if they so chose.
Basic income is not "for the masses", it's mostly for the destitute (although even poor people with more earned-income would be getting some BI). "The masses" would largely be funding it via the taxes that now go to other social assistance programs.
Yeah. Author claims AOC/followers are ignorant yet falls into the clickbait headline trap. Yikes.
The problem seems to come when the incentive to ensure that the borrower can actually pay goes away.

IE: My understanding of the 2008/9 problem where banks were more interested in their banky uses of loans than just "Hey, an investment with good returns."
> y(x) = f(x,y), y(x0) = y0

If this is supposed to be the ODE definition, shouldn't it be y'(x) = f(x,y)? Otherwise I don't quite understand the definition of 'f'.
Why are they wrong in giving a red mark to Wikileaks?
What encryption are you using? LUKS on HDD is imperceptible for me.
>Chesterton pointed out that both capitalism and socialism entail consolidation of ownership of productive property. Under capitalism, you end up with Big Business, and under socialism you end up with Big Government.

Is Chesterton aware that (going by what you describe here) what he wants is exactly what both Marx (in Critique of the Gotha Program) and the anarcho-Communist socialists wanted all along? Furthermore, post-Marxist socialisms like John Roemer's argue for a redistribution of productive resources. As to whether this solves what researchers see as exploitation inherent in today's system remains a question.
I would go one step further and say that all levels of society should benefit on average equally from growth. It's ok that higher incomes get a larger share but that share shouldn't be growing disproportionately as it has done over the last decades.
Well too bad, because there were news articles shared all over the place and crazy outrage. People were calling for fines or for Google to be broken up.

Or look at flashlight apps that steal your text messages. People shout and scream that Android shouldn't permit this or that Google shouldn't have them on the Play store. But pull a lever to make these things harder and suddenly it is about freedom and how Fdroid is the only good store.
> If you don't use type annotations, a new method will be generated whenever you call the function with new argument types.

Damn. That's a pretty clever trade off between dynamic and static types.
So, a few things. First, I don’t feel like the author really addresses the problems people have with inequality. In my mind, the real issue is that the floor is too low, which is related to inequality. If one person makes a billion dollars a year and another person can’t make $1000 a year, they’re very unequal. If we could adjust the system so the first person still makes a billion a year but the second person makes $100k/yr, we’ve reduced inequality.

But we have huge structural problems in the US that I think could be mitigated by stronger social support programs. I’m a “libertarian socialist” which is a real thing, but it means I don’t really advocate that we use the government to form social programs, but I do strongly advocate that we form social programs through voluntary means. Unfortunately the left ignores the ways we could help each other without the government and the right ignores the fact that some people actually want to pay to help others. I feel as though the right could get a lot of what they want by working with the left to form strong voluntary social support programs that compare favorably to government programs.

However, I’m not against using the government to help people. Martin Luther King Jr was a brilliant man who understood the needs of his people, and he advocated both for community power and for government programs.

We have real problems in the US that leave millions struggling to feed themselves. Millions our children grow up with poor schooling, which can lead bright people down a dark path. Soon we throw them in prison and forget about them.

My issue with billionaires is not that we have billionaires, but that we have billionaires and starving people. We have homeless people who die every winter because it gets too cold. We have enough money to care for them! The wealth is there. But we’ve failed to organize ourselves well enough to use it effectively.

I don’t mind billionaires, but I do mind that we have billionaires and destitute people. We have enough wealth to do better. It is not immoral in itself to have billionaires, but I do think a system that produces both billionaires and poverty is wrong. The left wants a solution and all they can think of is taxes. I really wish the right would see that helping build community power would reduce the need for government support.

Also someone please break the military industrial complex.
The practice of securitizing mortgages is one of the main root causes of the financial crisis. Continuing the practice, which tends to increase risk, should be done only with extreme caution and sufficient financial regulation.

A small snippet for context, although insufficient to explain a very complex problem:

"In many ways, the practices employed by SIVs (Structured Investment Vehicles) and underwriters to structure MBS [Mortgage-Backed Securities] ... tended to magnify rather than reduce risk in the financial system. A key risk-enhancing design feature of MBS was the practice of tranching, whereby several categories of securities were created in each securitization issue ... the senior tranche would have sold at its nominal value and would have been rated risk-free [despite comprising 85% of the entire MBS]."

- "Banking: A Very Short Introduction" by John Goddard and John O. S. Wilson (pg 43-53)
> For a site that's meant to target programmers, HN's handling of code blocks is pretty poor.

Meh. It does literal code blocks, they work fine.

That's pretty much the only markup feature which does, which is impressively bad given HN only has two markup feature: literal code blocks and emphasis.

It's not like they're going to add code coloration or anything.

And while fenced code blocks are slightly more convenient (no need to indent), pasting a snippet in a text editor and indenting it is hardly a difficult task.
Maybe it works great, but the syntax doesn't feel native to me, and I don't see it used in the standard library, which means that it's not embraced by the language developers.
Which is why this is a Department of Education level of implementation. I'm not talking about "daddy, they don't have juice boxes" type of schools, I'm talking middle of Iowa, watch out for that loose bail of hay on the road public schools.

Designing those programs can be done in a way that teachers can be taught how to teach them. Not easy or quick, but doable.

Ultimately it's a matter of admitting that the current education system doesn't work and start a national effort to recruit minds that can design a new one (and then actively start developing it and testing it).
When it comes to battery, no one talks about performance. If I yank the power cable, my battery lasts maybe 1-2 hours, but the performance is 1/2 or even less. So I just avoid it.
I can't say the findings presented in this article are surprising.

That said, I currently reside abouts Downtown Los Angeles and have no car. I find I'm in walking distance to most places I'd like to go, though I realize I have a much higher tolerance for walking than most people. I've found it usually takes no more than one bus/train route to get to places outside of my walking range, say an hours ride or so (which I don't mind as I usually read during this time). Public transportation has been serving me well. Granted, I'm in the densest part of Los Angeles. I'd like to see the survey results overlaid on a map of the county. Those in the more sprawled out portions of Los Angeles County probably don't feel any benefit to increased public transportation spending.

An aside: I find the typeface this website uses for its headings to be terrible.
The actual act of writing code, maybe, but:

1) 4GB—let alone 1GB—is already cramped with just Slack and any one of your usual bloated shitware issue trackers/wanky PM toyboxes (Jira, Asana) open in a tab or two, plus the usual few tabs of DDG/Google, Stack Overflow, some docs, et c. That's before any actual code-writing tools enter the picture. The basic suite of tools to just be working at all in almost any role is just barely not-painful to use on 4GB. Worst case you're in an agency and have all your tools, plus several duplicates for the same purpose for a client or three, and so on, all open. Yes, it's because all these tools are terrible and eat like 20x the RAM they have any right to and even that's generous, but I still have to use them.

2) Better hope you don't need any design tools at all. (Sketch, say) if you're trying to get by on 4GB or less for everything, unless you like only having one thing open at a time or dealing with UI sluggishness I guess.

3) Docker(-compose) or minikube or whatever? Service dependencies, local mock services? Running test suites? Without a strong CPU and 16GB you'll see slowdown.

4) A fan of any of the fancier webmail clients, like recent GMails or Inbox or Outlook or whatever? I'm not and just keep the Basic HTML version of Gmail open because its full-page loads are faster than the "speedy" AJAX garbage on those, but if you are into that sort of thing take a look at their memory use some time.

FWIW I think almost all the tools surrounding and supporting development these days are god-awful resource hogs that somehow still manage not to be very good and think 1GB absolutely should be enough memory to get by doing node/ruby/php dev, but I still have to work with that junk, and 8GB's the bare minimum to do that without hitting swap constantly, IME, and even with that you've gotta be careful. 16GB's much more comfortable, especially if you sometimes have to do things other that just Web dev.
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I think people tend to categorize obvious exaggerations as fake news but in reality fake news is much more subtle than that.
While there will be some overlap there was also a lot of perverse behavior. Basically the drug company creates a drug that it wants to sell, drug reps travel to doctors explaining the drugs, when the doctor does the prescription, the doctor and sales rep get cash.

Now you have an incentive structure where doctors are prescribing drugs to patients that may not need them, may not need the dose prescribed, and so forth.

That combined with how addictive any opioid can be leads along with the trust common people put in doctors, assuming that what they are being prescribed is safe, leads to the problem.

The more of the drugs that get prescribed the more everyone makes in the process.

Same thing that happened with all of the shady loans during the housing crisis. All you have to look for is the financial incentive and lack of punishment and you get the same cycle repeated.
>which still seems insane to me given that you probably can't even use it to buy lunch.

At the risk of being branded a "Bitcoin zealot from Reddit", I'd like to point out that although this may be locally true for any given reader since it's obviously dependent on where they live (which is also true of being able to buy lunch with US dollars by the way), it's certainly either ignorant or intellectually dishonest.

You can buy anything under $500 on aliexpress or amazon here[1], and that's only one of about half a dozen or so different websites I have bookmarked that accept various cryptocurrencies, operating either as currency conversion services or selling directly. The implication that you cannot spend bitcoin on real goods is not correct. If you don't live in mexico, it's much easier to spend $10 of bitcoin than $10 of pesos.

[1]http://olodolo.com/
This entire post is based on a strawman argument. AoC said that a system that allows billionaires to emerge alongside extreme poverty is immoral - with reference to hookworm(which she incorrectly referred to as ringworm) in Alabama. It's hard to disagree with that, and it's a VERY different point than claiming billionaires should not exist (which OP argues against).

By the way, the point AoC was trying to make when put in context is exactly the argument that the OP was making, which is that people getting rich is OK but it's immoral that people are getting rich and also people are living in extreme poverty, so we should improve the system so people aren't living in extreme poverty.

Where OP differs from AoC is (of course) in his assessment of how we eliminate extreme poverty - AoC is famously advocating a 70% marginal tax rate, while OP suggested some unspecified mix of "technological improvement" and "re-imagining of government" to achieve elimination of poverty. Frankly I think OP is just naive. Maybe he thinks government is literally in the stone age with an army of clerks shuffling paperwork, but I just don't see how eliminating some unnecessary jobs (useful, yes) in government can achieve "medical care for all, affordable education for all, and some amount of income for all" (OP's listed aims).

On top of that, ANY change to government is inherently political. The kind of revolutionary upgrades in government efficiency that OP wants would need to be a major party initiative - which would be opposed by the opposite party, watered down during negotiations, and subjected to compromise by the political process. This is simply a fact about how the world works. We're not an autocracy which means we don't get a visionary Steve Jobs figure who can dictate what the government will do for the next 10 years, and we have to accept both the good and the bad that comes with that.

To think that technology will magically save us from real world problems plaguing real people by "reimagining government" and "cutting unnecessary jobs" is literally wishful thinking. It belongs in a bygone era where tech enthusiasts were sure facebook and google would revolutionize the world by spreading democratic and free speech ideals to every corner of the earth. There aren't easy solutions to every hard problem and OP doesn't seem to appreciate this fact.
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The author's argument is not that there are not questions that still need to be answered; but there is no reason at all to believe that a larger collider, that we are capable of building with today's technology, will answer any of them. (This point is made explicit in the comments).

If the funding for your field is predicated on building a larger collider to discover new particles; then you're in trouble. That is the sense 'Particle Physics may be done' is meant in this context.
> but recently you can not export annotated PDFs meaningfully

FWIW, I think they brought back exporting annotated PDFs in the most recent version, 1.19.3

At least maybe there is hope for exporting your work to Zotero.
We can solve this by going one step further and having the matchmaker follow along on dates to continue the conversation for you while you sit quietly and stare.
I remember getting to my first Job and they had Pentium4 based machines (the last stepping that supported x64) with exactly 4gb of ram. They were dog slow but it also meant we were able to see and address performance problems early because they were more pronounced. I remember taking one bug from taking an hour to run to less than a second.
A related item is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18977365 , on NewsGuard's "nutrition label" for the Daily Mail.
Plus keeps your house warm in the winter :)
1894, not 1984.
Ideally, I'd just walk and use no vehicles at all to be most effective.

This assumes lots of services, jobs, and housing all within decent walking distances which is quite common in older (European) cities.

Merely walking doesn't scale but the natural extension for longer distances is to walk to a suitable public transit stop, hop on the train/tram/subway, waiting for a while, and continue walking to your destination.

This will also effectively double the locations you might be interested in visiting: you can walk around near home and you can walk around near your workplace.

So, you can use the most effective mode of transport i.e. walking around hundreds of locations (shops, restaurants, services) but you can also switch the whole area by changing transit to another local centre.

It's like looking up stuff really fast in the whole cache line, and then making calculated jumps to read another location into your cache and continuing to traverse locally there.
Where does your definition of "an indexing" originate? The word "index" literally means "to point at" (hence, index/pointer finger), and in this sense, every element may indeed be indexed -- in this case, by means of a unique integer.

If I had to give a name to the concept you're talking about, it would be an "ordinal index".
Distributism also has an interesting model for devolution of power structures generally (not, of course, devolving everything in the same way or to the same extent, but rather according to the relevant properties of the thing/institution).
This is something Common Lisp does with its reader macros. There's a global variable FEATURES, which is populated by one's implementation (and so might indicate OS, implementation &c.). When one reads in a file of code, there're two reader macros #+ & #- which conditionally include code, based on whether or no symbols are present in FEATURES. E.g.:

(defvar *foo* #+sbcl(sb-sys:thing) #-sbcl(portable-thing))

The elided code isn't even truly read in, so it's not an error to refer to the package SB-SYS in a non-SBCL implementation.

I wouldn't claim that this is the end-all, be-all of code, but it does make for some reasonably compact platform-dependent-but-portable code.
Big money is now involved so expect the next climb to happen quickly and the next crash to be in quickier.
You would probably have to run government like a company which basically means a dictatorship where management makes all decisions.
So at 300PB it took about a month to transfer? Sounds like an interesting project in itself.
correct. that is the entire syntax.
That question is addressed in the article.
It feels like the time is right for a snopes.com for daily news, but it would need trustworthy gatekeepers and a big budget.

I think wikitribune.com is doing something interesting: providing permanence to news stories. Most media cover "breaking news" as quickly as possible, with whatever facts are available, but have no time or space for follow-up or analysis. (Hey, remember that big story from last year (whatever it was)? What happened to those people?)
Bingo and we should anticipate this. Education programs (and the support systems around them) should be designed as though parents are _not_ going to participate. Simultaneously, though, there should be educational programs for how to parent. It's not "obvious" to everyone. The majority are in the "we had sex cause' it felt good and now we have a rugrat" bracket.
I can tell you why I'm averse to raising taxes.

Because the utlitity of government expenditures is really low: for each successful program it has failed programs that last decades and sometimes even have negative returns, let alone justify what private investment would have gotten.

Because the person that advocates the most for the tax, the politician, gets to spend it, and has nothing to lose by doing so and plenty to win.

Because the mechanism itself allows to get money from anything and put it into anything, and once in place its exceedingly difficult to take out, even if it has short term positive results.

Because even today, the government as it is wastes money on a plethora of projects but instead of cleaning itself up, it demands more resources.

Because the consolidated expenditures of the entire government is 23k/year/capita which means that if you just slashed government in half, you could give a thousand dollars to each american every month without raising a single tax.
Several years ago, shortly after the Higgs discovery, I sat down with a couple CERN people, and their comment was that the current problem is that we need more theoretical physicists coming up with measurable predictions. As many of the other posters state, obviously there is more to learn, but we could learn faster if we had better (and more) predictions about what we might find.
Never seen a single positive word about Bitcoin on Hacker News, even when price was at its peak, so if it's true what you say they must have been doing a pretty bad job.
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Since I see links to WSJ pretty frequently, I installed https://github.com/danielmichaelni/let-me-read-wsj to bypass the paywall
Last time I talked to a driver they didn't lie to me and pretend to be their client.

The moral problem here, at least for me, is intentional deception, users of such a service actively pay somebody to lie to another person. That sounds like a great start for a solid relationship. The article makes is pretty clear that she hides her client's emotional baggage, which in principle is what most people do but how is she sure that transfers to the situation where the client actually meets the other person?
Having a few thousand quids disposable might as well mean the client is desparate or simply inapt at social interactions, not sure why that would magically mean the exact opposite to be quiet honest. Being "nice" can hardly be considered a necessary prerequisite for making money.
I've used "telnet 0", for example, as a quick path to localhost on Linux for decades.