skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your essay is written as though more than one person wrote it because its so self contradictory.
Capitalism and Public programs are in conflict because underlying public efforts is progressive taxation (aka Redistribution). Labour protections (which again is anti capitalist) are pretty key for the creation of the middle class in western countries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkPQbJ4jRhE
> My brain can process only so much information, the less thing it has to process (like the less type declarations) the better.

Ignoring that I've already mentioned inference that makes this a non-issue. My other problem with this is that just because you don't have a type system or don't have to write types, doesn't mean that the constraints of that 'information' goes away.

Your function still has a set of invariants that need to be maintained, you've just opted to make them invisible and have your program crash when they are violated. Instead of knowing statically when you've made a mistake.
Try the Fediverse (Mastodon)! It's set up to be less inflammatory because the retweet equivalent doesn't allow embedding your own response. It's also easier to create an isolated island for yourself. Find an instance that aligns with your interests, or do what I'm doing and create your own!
Better Implementation of Wolfgang Schramm for Finding GCD?
Good rust code doesn't have to be free of unsafe blocks. In some cases you can't avoid them, e.g. when doing memory mapping. Instead, the unsafe blocks semantically designate areas you should keep an eye on. I rather have 20 unsafe one-liners surrounded by safe wrappers in a project with several thousand LOC, than a 1k LOC C project where I have to take extra care with every step.
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If I said I was an expert in 'big data visualization with billions of points' and had written my own 'out of core' rendering library that I dubbed 'data shader', complete with a paper where I coined the term 'Abstract Rendering' or 'AR' for short, then you found out that I was just reading points from disk and drawing them with opengl's draw points function, what would you think?

The term 'out of core' rendering comes from raytracing, where you really do need all the geometry available. They are applying it to trivial accumulation where it was never a problem in the first place. That's like me writing a paper on how to make a balloon air tight. That's how it has always worked, why would I take credit for something that was never a problem?
I enjoyed this. What got me is that it probably wasn't code written by the collaboration site to process what he put into the PDFs. It was probably some PDF Library that they had included as a dependency. Speculating, of course
Regarding what is and isn't fake news, could they not lean on existing organisations.

For example: Legitimate news are members of the Independent Press Standards Organisation, or have a licence to broadcast from Ofcom, or something similar. Media on social platforms will be subject to the same standards as those broadcast on television, or written in print. If videos online are 'fake news' then ofcom deal with that the same as they would on television, or ISPO the same as they would in print.

For foreign news, they could rely on similar organisations in host countries, or an affiliation with a member.

In that regulation, Facebook & Google would agree to revoke the account of the outlet in line with the regulatory organisations guidelines.

Any news outlet that is not a member of the independent organisation, or a licencee of Ofcom is considered fake news.

In my internal "how reliable is this source", that's pretty much the first check I do in my head.
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What so you use your Go for and does the battery life bother you?

I want one, but 4 hours seems too short for me
Yes, but you see, only one of those possibilities allows me to live out a fantasy of being a cool space colonist like Matt Damon. The other one requires me to be a usual suspect who has to deal with the material outcomes of living in society. So, all things considered -- it's definitely way cooler to believe that Mars is the answer. And as someone who knows absolutely nothing about pollution, the environment, or Mars, but read every Isaac Asimov novel -- I think this isn't being given due consideration.

You know what they say! If you can't make absolutely minimal changes to the political outcomes of your planet, you're absolutely ready to dart off into space onto planets with no breathable atmosphere or water that could have unknown effects on the human body and mind.
Where and when can I buy one?

Look, this is one of those cool cases where the free market may be able to help the environment instead of harming it. Sell these seedlings for $200/each. Some number of people (myself included) will happily buy them, then plant them wherever and the world has more of these amazing trees. The funds can be used to further the cause of helping forests and old trees.
I'm sure my brain had another sentence that never made it to keyboard when I was writing that, as I've given completely the wrong impression, opposite to intended. No idea what I was thinking. :)

Comet windows did have rounded corners, as seen in the wreckage photo, similar to the 707's and others. The cause was stress at rivet holes and lack of strength in those areas. After strengthening it had oval windows. The popular view continues to believe the cause was windows with corners.
To be honest all of that sounds terrible. Getting a job that compensates me with actual money and using that to buy lottery tickets seems more fruitful.
> [...] which is offering tokens instead of equity

compensation != equity
> Sorry where is the non-sequitur?

It is in your original statement (abbreviated):

If there were easily exploited buffer overflow in <our program>, ambulances and fire engines <for our customers> would never be called to their destinations nor arrive on time.

One doesn't follow from the other. Your statement implies there are bad actors in existence that would actually exploit such flaws in order to disrupt the service. That may or may not be true, therefore it does not follow.

> The previous poster purported that I mustn't have much "real world" experience in coding, and I responded that I and my team wouldn't be entrusted to successfully maintain a program and network that coordinates emergency services first responders over a large land mass and number of people if that was the case.

That's not what I actually replied to, but it's also a non-sequitur. It would be entirely plausible that you could be a reckless band of cowboy coders that happens to be able to produce a working product that is nevertheless full of theoretically exploitable flaws that just happen to not get exploited, because nobody cares. Also, whoever "entrusted" you may themselves be entirely reckless or incompetent.

I'm not saying that any of this is the case, I'm simply saying you can't logically deduce one from the other. Therefore it doesn't really work as an argument.
But the risk of "we fucked Earth" to the point where it's harder to colonize than Mars is effectively nonexistent. You could set off every nuclear device at once and it would still be easier to live here than on Mars. Even a dinosaur-killing asteroid would still leave the planet easier to live on than Mars. (Many species did survive last time, even without technology.)
I mean, they brought most of that with them. The only thing they evaded was religious persecution.
I was waiting for people to say something first. I was sure I was missing something. But for the love of God, that's horrible! Not only what ermir said, but what about collision in 32 bits? It's only 4 billion entries. I keep thinking I should do something in Node to learn, then I read stuff like this. Is this Javascript, the Good part, or the other part? I can't tell.
See also http://socks-studio.com/2014/10/22/gordon-matta-clarks-reali...
Interesting article.

The first 75% I would send to my non-technical friends and family as well as the technical ones, as an awareness builder.

The last 25% are a surprising call for action (surprising as from the tone of article, I expected it to be a fun rant only).
It's tricky because a lot of people tend to discount knowledge imparted once they perceive it was with the objective of persuading you to The Cause. It makes the informational portion more suspect of cherry picking or bias.
In other words, while I personally agree both with the technical rant, and the call to action, I feel majority of my friends would react negatively to two of them together, just on general principles/reflexes.

Not sure what the solution would be; perhaps two linked articles - first the rant, and then a link to "Proposed solution" article at the bottom? Most people I know would react better if they felt they were in control of asking for solution guidance, rather than part of a seeming bait & switch...
Does it hurt to have priorities and pick your battles? Oppression, especially state-sponsored, of women and minorities is way higher concern to me than Amazon's many and varied infractions.

There's also a problem of feasibility: Fairphone eventually conceded on their idealized fair trade product after an amazing effort. There's also world hunger and disease resulting in serious but avoidable death.

You could call this hypocrisy if you want but it's a matter of resources available to fight for these causes.
You [1] emit CO2 from the food you eat, so absolute zero CO2 emission is impossible. There are also emission from volcanos.

For a somewhat similar scenario, you can read about the Carboniferous period https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous . Essentially, the plants invented the wood but nobody know how to eat it, so the dead plants accumulated sequestering a lot of CO2. So the CO2 concentration dropped and the O2 concentration skyrocket. As a side effect, the high O2 concentration allowed bugs to became giant. (It ended when fungus learned how to eat wood.)

[1] And all the other animal, fungus and even plants. And also bacteria and archaea.
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As would the Spitfire. :)
Literally the whole point of the European Union is to promote free trade (they've just announced that they are going to have free trade with Japan in addition to among themselves). It may look "socialist" to the US right, but to everybody else, it is as capitalistic as it gets. That's actually why the British Left like Jeremy Corbyn has always been rather unenthusiastic about the EU as they see it as more a win for business than for people. Which is kind of why Brexit happened -- pretty much the main "remain" bloc was squashed between the anti-immigrant right and anti-business left.
I am from Argentina, and the "sold out to the World Bank" narrative is really harmful to my country. Stop spreading it, you're totally clueless about it.

What really made us poorer is chronic budget deficit supported by debt and inflation, and systemic corruption that weak institutions can't fight.

As an example, we have two ex-presidents-now-senators that are condemned by Justice System but protected by special legal status for senators and congress men.
Are the sliders keyboard accessible? I use Jaws for Windows as my screen reading software and am unable to adjust the price slider in either Firefox or Chrome.
One thing not addressed here is: I can make better software. I can fix these problems. I can find them first, and then fix them. I _can't_ do that when I'm under ridiculous time pressure from an "agile coach" who barely knows what an Excel macro is but who, for some reason, is responsible for deciding what gets prioritized and who gets a bonus and who gets downsized. I can't identify and correct complex technical problems when I'm attending a one-hour daily "scrum" explaining that yes, I'm still working on "task" 5398129 and yes, it was a 4 "point" story (because that's the maximum we're allowed), but as it turns out, almost everything interesting and useful is also complex -- in direct opposition to the mindset that drives the oxymoronic atrocity that people now refer to as "agile".
Could you please share a link to research that supports this claim?
It's cool, I knew this is happening, but didn't know the code name for it. The big thing will be when WebRender is shipping to Firefox.

The plan for C++ / Rust interop sounds amazing.

Anyways the main question is whether other companies should reuse the work already done by the great Mozilla team.
Yeah... this guy, and that other guy in the white house, they have their own reality. But wait, Obamas department of state said in 2015 "There were credible reports that Venezuela maintained a permissive environment that allowed for support of activities that benefited known terrorist groups". Also CNN, that media company that is best friends with the current US president, had an article(1) alleging that Venezuela was selling Venezuelan passports in the Middle East, amongst others to Hezbollah members.

What is mind blowing to me is the "reality" that given that, and all of the other stuff happening in Venezuela, Venezuelan passport holders can still enter the EU without a visa, just a valid return ticket.

(1) https://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/08/world/venezuela-passports...
If you want a web server to test against, we're still running CERN 3.0 from 1994 (on early 1990s Sparc hardware too):

$ nc www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk 80
HEAD /staff/m.handley/ HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.0 200 Document follows
MIME-Version: 1.0
Server: CERN/3.0
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 14:46:10 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 8645
Last-Modified: Tue, 09 May 2017 12:33:04 GMT

It will still speak HTTP 0.9 to you if you omit the HTTP version string in a GET request.
I think this is one of many approaches stated in this video: https://www.ted.com/talks/chad_frischmann_100_solutions_to_c...
Neither equity nor tokens have much long term value if the company fails; or simply fails to be a unicorn. It's a nice little extra in case things work out against all odds though. If you are founder, you may get a little out of an acquihire, IPO, or other exit but for employees the benefits are usually more modest (if any).

The big question is if they are offering equity to others. Because if they do, you can be sure that that is the asset to own when things go well.

This is actually a problem with equity based blockchain token investments. The premise of a proper token structure is to create some kind of long term value that is tied to the economic success of the company. If you have both tokens and equity, the shareholders will try to maximize their return on investment, typically at the cost of the token value and the ecosystem it is supposed to benefit. There's a conflict of interest there that dooms many tokens before they get off the ground because ultimately their long term value is redirected to the share holders instead of the token holders.

On the other hand, if blockchains are going to eventually produce some unicorns, now would be the time to get involved. IMHO, we need to move beyond the current rather underwhelming state of the art that resembles the early dot com days in many ways. But then, the dot com bubble did produce plenty of successful startups in the end. IMHO it will take probably a decade or so before we'll know for sure whether there are business cases for some form of blockchain company to succeed.

Either way, insist on cash payments combined with something that may or may not be worth the gamble. That way you have something tangible.
>So, the first thing we need to do is to move to completely carbon emission free technology of energy production.

I’m very interested when a statement right off the bat throws out that we should completely and unquestionably stop using hydrocarbons which are the most efficient, portable, easy to use and safe source of energy we have ever seen. Not to mention it’s current absolute requirement in long range transport, making plastics, lubricants and production of composites that make the efficient renewable powered machines possible.

How is it some people get a pass on willfully ignoring reality just because the goal is reducing emissions?

So on the topic, you better hope recovering CO2 is efficient because we won’t stop using oil until it’s gone.
I've had 2 coworkers who use different IDEs report that apparently their IDE is running `go` commands in parallel, because they'll get the corrupted module caches.
OP didn’t say ‘break all contact’ any more than the government of the 5th largest world economy said ‘break all contact’ with the world’s second-or-third-largest-depending-on-how-you-count-it economy until and unless they give them a really good deal.

Also, Facebook and Google have regular severe problems with the government of China, whose economy about six times the size of the UK.

Sure, it would still be a drastic and childishly over-the-top response at this stage, but given the UK government essentially lobotomised itself a few years ago, it might happen anyway in more polite language.
While in principle I agree with you. Home food delivery is becoming a thing, houses can be insulated, and country doesn't have to equal bigger house etc.

I'm thinking European levels of rural, where food delivery is possible, don't know if it would be doable at US rural levels though.
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"Last year, when David Keith and his associates at Carbon Engineering published figures projecting that their carbon-capture technology could bring costs as low as $94 a metric ton, Herzog was not convinced. Keith nevertheless made the case to me that two new investors in Carbon Engineering — Chevron Technology Ventures and a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum — scrutinized his company’s numbers to an exhaustive degree and agreed the economics of the venture were solid enough to merit putting up substantial amounts in a $60 million investment round."

This is the most interesting part. The investors are oil companies. Perhaps they are just funding the story that there is no need for government to curtail or tax their activities, because DAC will be able to "reverse time" for us in the future? The article has already debunked this quite well, like the quote from Hal Harvey. But at the same time, these technologies are still pencilled in by the I.P.C.C.[1] and of course, Chevron when they say they will abide by the Paris agreement but still increase their year-on-year output of fossil fuels[2].

Carbon Engineering does seem to get outsize coverage in the news. Hope sells better than despair, or the idea that we would actually need to change our lifestyles (fly much less, eat less meat, etc) to combat climate change.

Carbon Engineering is also based in Calgary, home to a lot of the O&G industry, but are not working on the thermodynamically easier problem - extracting CO2 from the pollution output of power plants, where it's 25% of the output instead of 0.04%.

[1] http://blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/posts/2018/10/response-t...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-07/chevron-p...
Eventually I expect we'll use renewable power to produce carbon neutral synthetic liquid hydrocarbon fuel for long-range transportation.
That's almost exactly backwards. For any decent-sized payload there's too much atmosphere to ignore (so you need heat shielding) yet not enough to exploit (so you need heavy rockets), parachutes rip off of big payloads... the skycrane was the least ridiculous device JPL could come up with for their rover.

The Moon is much easier, it's just a rock and some delta-V.
Perhaps not, but remember that the metal fatigue phenomenon responsible for cracking in the Comet was not yet fully understood at that time.

Nowadays we have a very good understanding of how metals degrade/respond to repeated load cycles and can design around it. I have not personally worked on airliner window structures but there are a number of avenues that one could take to retain the general shape of the window and still avoid structural compromise due to cracking.
Yes it's actually true.

It's more that the counter-position broadly applied over the long run is untenable.

If you don't own the home you live in and/or the land it stands on then you are by definition renting that property. A portion of your labour is going straight to someone who owns at least one home and some land thus depending on how long this goes on for drives inequality.

It's not called “Rentier Capitalism” for nothing you know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rentier_capitalism

If people have a decent chance to own their own home and land it gives them an avenue to a better life, if they don't it doesn't.
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1200 obituaries – one for each US child killed by gun violence
It's not Stack Overflow; Reddit is designed to be visited daily and 'engaged' with.

That said, I do go to Reddit first when I'm looking to answer questions like HDD recommendations or things to do in my city. That's because searching Google for it will give me nothing but awful content mill blog posts stuffed with affiliate links and SEO-optimized keywords ("Best USD Hard Drives in 2019"). On Reddit you actually get the feeling that the question is trying to be answered by actual people.
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At least it emphasizes how important capital is. Even relatively small amounts make the difference. I read this, that you should provide plenty of funding to your kids early. He could have taken it from his official college savings account for example.
Some time in my teens I was at an air show with very relaxed views on where a crowd line should be compared to today. A Vulcan, howling away at full throttle, pulling into a max climb at what seemed just above our heads will never be forgotten, or unfelt. That display was definitely the highlight of the show. Ridiculously agile for the age and size.

No one had car alarms back then or they'd all have surely joined in. :)
Counter-pedant here :) Semi-automatic pistols were definitely popularly called "automatics" in that time period. Here's an excerpt from a kids book published in 1916:

> With all his might and main Penrod longed for one thing beyond all others. He wanted a Real Pistol!

> That was natural. Pictures of real pistols being used to magnificently romantic effect were upon almost all the billboards in town, the year round, and as for the “movie” shows, they could not have lived an hour unpistoled. In the drug store, where Penrod bought his candy and soda when he was in funds, he would linger to turn the pages of periodicals whose illustrations were fascinatingly pistolic. Some of the magazines upon the very library table at home were sprinkled with pictures of people (usually in evening clothes) pointing pistols at other people. Nay, the Library Board of the town had emitted a “Selected List of Fifteen Books for Boys,” and Penrod had read fourteen of them with pleasure, but as the fifteenth contained no weapons in the earlier chapters and held forth little prospect of any shooting at all, he abandoned it halfway, and read the most sanguinary of the other fourteen over again. So, the daily food of his imagination being gun, what wonder that he thirsted for the Real!

> He passed from the sidewalk into his own yard, with a subdued “Bing!” inflicted upon the stolid person of a gatepost, and, entering the house through the kitchen, ceased to bing for a time. However, driven back from the fore part of the house by a dismal sound of callers, he returned to the kitchen and sat down.

> “Della,” he said to the cook, “do you know what I'd do if you was a crook and I had my ottomatic with me?”
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Everything isn’t a referendum on JavaScript. Jeez.
I remember having 3rd party Twitter and FB apps in 2011. That didn't last long.