skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least that way the people affected get to decide what happens rather than being tools in some pointless political dick waving contest.

I'm very much against war but if there was impending danger locally I would sign up to sit near the beach and shoot down any danger coming my way.
This isn't true.

Roundup-ready GMOs led to replacement of many more toxic herbicides with glyphosphate. BT GMOs led to much less usage of insecticides on crops.
It looks like a horrible bike if you have to actually pedal it, the wheels are tiny! You might as well get a moped or something instead of that, which would stick out like a sore thumb and be a good target for thieves. Also where do you lock it up if you have to? Or do you just fold it up and take it inside? For some reason it doesn't seem like it was made by a person who's ever ridden a bike.
Training them to recognize it. Repeat training yearly or more.
There's a magnificent little scene at the end of Fiat Homo, where Brother Francis confesses to the Pope that he cannot understand anything in Leibowitz's blueprint. The Pope confides, with a wink, than neither can he. And for a just moment after that wink, Francis notices how shabby and poor everything about the church is.
I use PIA but it's the only one I've ever used.

I travel a lot in Asia which is why I need it as some countries block websites I need.

Had issues with it in China but put ExpressVPN on my phone which seemed to work fine 70% of the time.
Nobody has any idea what a modern x86 cpu does under the hood because we have no access to the microcode.

The only thing you can do is run your code and get an empirical answer to the question 'Is it fast enough'.
Agree you need all of these things and more... but if you could do this above the microservice level, as a piece of K8S or whatever the MSA, then you might have an advance over RDBMS.

The result would be the same features/guaranteed you have with current DBMS, but you get independent deployability, elastic scalability, redundant availability, and other advantages of microservices that are missing with traditional DBMS.
Ok, you got me, bravo
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The local variable elimination optimization breaks introspection features.

def foo():
a=1
return a

Then we can inspect the local variables:

print(foo.__code__.co_nlocals)
print(foo.__code__.co_varnames)

On a related note, I believe it was also a deliberate decision to keep the name of all local variables during compilation. This is of course very different from C.
Nothing you're describing is a problem with the model, just the implementation. All of those things are easily solvable by being able to choose how the program sees the world. You can do it today with the various namespaces in Linux.
One of my favorite euphemism is to call army as "defense force". Army exist to enforce ones will when other means to do so becomes less economical.

The invention of army is itself a psychological wonder. A person wants to enforce his will using large swath of other humans. So he pays these other humans for no reason except getting trained day after day at following orders without any questions. This requires continuous suppression of counter-thoughts and de-rationalization. One might think this would be impossible to achieve at scale and consistently but apparently there exist a regime and synthesis of moral framework that allows to do this! Technique of creating organized armed forces that can move in unison at the command of a single person despite of any level of risks while heavily suppressing individual counter-thoughts is one of the most powerful innovations that stands in shoulder to shoulder with things like farming.
They turned into Dynamicland

https://dynamicland.org/
That's exactly what Adam Wathan has been doing over the past few months while working on newer stuff for Tailwinds CSS: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy1H38XrN7hi7wHSClfXPqQ
Why would the total number of draftees increase?
Do you know any company that does this? That doesn't seem realistic but I hope I'm wrong here.
Because, even for small operations, you want to make it yours. And making it yours involves a lot of creative decisions. The software has to support those creative decisions.

I use vMix to do single-camera personal streams and five-camera, eight-feed, we're-adding-a-drone-soon fighting game tournament productions. But that's because I've already bought into the complexity enough to do it (and the budget; my copy of vMix cost $1300).

I'm not sure I see much of a market for XSplit or Wirecast, but they've got their fans...
Given what artificial neural networks are already capable of, it shouldn't seem like a magic trick what our own brains are capable of (from the outside).

The hang up is on the inside right? You have an essence to your consciousness experience that you believe a fly, bacteria, rock, computer, artificial neural network may or may not have.

Panpsychism does answer that question by saying yes, they all have some sliver of consciousness. Two atoms bumping together at some level experience the interaction.

I agree the theory doesn't have answers as to how or what the essence of consciousness is. But I definitely seeing it as a stepping stone towards that goal.
I've even heard of companies that send fake phishing e-mails to their employees so they can see who clicks on the links (and presumably give them additional security training).

The financial companies I deal with frequently send reminders to their customers saying that they will never ask for personal information in an e-mail or phone call, and asking customers to report any such incidents to their security team.
anyone use wireguard? i hear it’s extremely lightweight and can be used between containers, but curious if it’s beneficial for common use like netflix?
> Placing restrictions on user accounts is only useful for protecting the system from users, which is a valid concern on a network with shared resources but worse than useless on a personal desktop.

True for home users; not necessarily true for corporate users-- where computers are IT-managed (i.e. "don't let end users fuck them up") and may be shared (which is highly situational-- the degree to which computers are shared varies highly from company to company, or even deployment to deployment).

Heck, it's not even unheard of to end up with multiple "simultaneous" users on a single-seat desktop machine-- every major OS these days supports some form of fast user switching, which will leave one user's programs running while another user's physically sitting at the machine.
i'm uneasy about the security aspects of running under a common kernel too, but what else would you use for deployment?
in my case I've been using it as "light VMs" for cross platform development - e.g. toolchains, or handing over a container to a customer which builds their embedded Linux system instead of a full VM. It opens a lot of possibilities.
It's amazing to me that the people who write these laws are the least capable of understanding their impact.

If I am reading FastMails statement right, they have been forced to add backdoors to their codebase and not been allowed to tell their team about it. Only a lawmaker who has the technical acumen of say, my grandmother, would decree something like that and think it was a good idea. Australia deserves better than these clowns. Then again, I live in the US so...
De nada.

https://test-ipv6.com/ is a good test site.
I just think it's all more complicated than people want it to be. Some choices in life MIGHT have a slight net positive on the environment or on animals deaths. But then people get so invested in the outcomes that they paint it as completely black and white.
Seems like part of the problem is that there might not be much overlap between the types of things he points out that aren't optimized - which are obscure and useless - and what could "legally" be optimized.

So, yes, something like this isn't optimized:

def foo():
return [1024][0]

But it's also pretty unlikely to see something like that in actual code. One could argue that that's just an example of a /type/ of a more general case, but I think you'd find that the more general case can't be safely optimized because Python is insanely dynamic. So e.g.

def foo():
return SomeArrayLikeThing(1024)[0]

can't be optimized because not only might the behavior be very different from a typical Python array, the behavior could very easily not be determined until the exact moment when that code is run.

IOW, the things the author points out are things that, in practice, end up being so narrow and rare that there's no real point in trying to optimize them.
Never is a strong word; especially when people idolise high end athletes that turn to a vegan diet for an edge (i.e. MMA)
> With higher salary easily come higher living standards. Bigger house, not looking at food prices so much, more expensive vacations.

While I kind of understand it, I also see a difference in general between Japan and not just the West, but also many other places in Asia, notably Chinese cultures ( as referenced before, no discussions of salary for instance in Japan, and no showing-off of means even if you have them ) when it comes to contentment. To reach a point where you don't have to think about getting something better, and that's a decision to make, because there is always something better. As I also mention I keep hearing about 'stagnated economy' but I look around and I see me and everyone I care about being paid, living well. I don't care for 15 million as opposed to 4 in that sense.

お金持ち is easily thrown around slightly offensively in Japan, while in Taiwan callling you rich would be high praise.

I've downsized in many respects over the years. I could spend more on food now, but I don't need to. Used to live in a house 4 times bigger than now, and I wouldn't go back to it for anything now. I earned three times more 20 years ago ( and spent as much as I earned ), but as I also mentioned before, no money in the world is getting me into corporate Japan to die of karoshi or spend 90% of my time stressed, abused, and exhausted.

The only thing money could help with or improve in certain circumstances is health, which in the end is the only thing that really matters in life.
Foldable ebikes have to have small wheels, so they can be carried easily when folded up. For a non-folding bike, I think they're just being dumb.
The TFA mentions video issues as Nvidia/AMD's fault. To a reader, it might seem they are equally bad.
Compilers almost never emit instructions that are microcoded on any modern processor
"The prospect of only drafting men is not progress" is an empty, meaningless statement. You probably don't like the idea of the draft at all, and that's fine, but it's naive. If we don't make deliberate choices about this then they get made for us.
I think it's deeper than that. It's not just the soldiers who feel the urge to procreate at the end of wars. And it has been quite common during wars for soldiers to have readily-available sex (that the term 'camp follower' exists would seem to illustrate this point.)

But it seems to be a natural human tendency to want to create new life in response to the threat to existing life. I always liked the line from Rent, "The opposite of war isn't peace, it's creation" because it captures that peace is the neutral territory between the destruction of war and the creation of trying to fix what was broken. When the pendulum swings towards war, its return path will swing past peace and towards reconstruction, in all its forms.
oof. I've hired people just to find bugs.
also use expressvpn, close to 4 years now, it’s typically quite stable and i live shanghai, the updates are quite frequent, i suppose it’s to circumvent or make the service more available and the locations are plentiful. the cost is pretty high, 99 usd a year, but if you refer enough users, there’s a 20 usd discount.

the speeds are not great, but it just maybe because i’m in china, i couldnt watch hbo go or stream netflix at the time, i use it generally for programming.
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This is one of the very few articles I've read about the nature of consciousness where the ideas presented are cogent, consistent, and novel (to me). She does a terrific job of explaining the current state of affairs in philosophy of mind, about as clearly as anyone could, and then describing a new paradigm.
Norway and Israel are not melting pots. It's not the same, their conscriptions are colored by race or religion.
You should really read jhgg's response describing the BEAM runtime's pre-emptive scheduling of its lightweight processes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19241194 . No other runtime can do that for you, not even the JVM.
Check out https://lowendbox.com/ -- you can find some a VPS options for something in the range of $1/month.
There are several tools to help with that, like the PortableApps.com launcher, JauntePE, or even Cameyo. Programs that just use config files can usually be dealt with without those kinds of wrappers by changing an environment variable. But if you don't mind not bringing the config with you (and it often isn't an issue in my experience), you can usually just drop the folder on the drive and you're done.
I’m sure Bron, Rob or Nigel will weigh in shortly. Fastmail is a damn fine service, I now trust Australian internet privacy even less due to recent law changes and this does concern me not just with Fastmail but as someone that designs and hosts platforms for software the organisation I work with writes - which is also in Australia.
I think stating that there's a "hard problem of consciousness," which is not explained by self-awareness, is begging the question. We just kind of assume that there's something inherently special about qualia, raise them on a pedestal, and claim that they are unique to humans. Why assume that 'what it's like to experience the colour red' isn't just the experience of being aware that you're experiencing a red visual input?
Planet Money episode #886: The Price of a Hack [1] interviews a supervisor at a company who instituted required anti-phishing training, with good results.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...
But at this point, what are you actually saying? What does turtles-all-the-way-down consciousness actually pick out? I have a hard time seeing it as informative. That is, the statement "everything is conscious" is doing no work for you in describing the thing in question.
Norway and Israel always come up in these debates. In Norway it's national service - not necessarily direct military conscription. That's something I'd be willing to entertain. Israel is different, since one could argue they have a constant existential threat on their border and it makes sense to have a deliberate military requirement in place. They also side-step the gender integration issue by having all-female units, which isn't what happened when changes were made allowing women in combat roles. I'd still be against this.
There might really be nothing to it, as the Proton* people claim. Or at least, just a somewhat iffy roll-out of their VPN, using Tesonet staff.

But on the other hand, I gather that Mozilla has picked ProtonVPN for its integrated VPN testing. And they seem competent and privacy-friendly.

Also, whatever they did with ProtonVPN, there's no reason to believe that there's anything wrong with ProtonMail. That's arguably their core competency. And they arguably brought in Tesonet because VPNs were not part of their core competency.
Have you considered that even many power users don't want to use Linux Desktop? It has by no means won over even that crowd.
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It is lamentable that we have come to devalue gender in the name of equality. An army of women will lose and that is independent of wanting equality for women.
Why would it? Hardware support boils down to new kernels, mesa stacks etc and how many non-free drivers the distro wants to include. Opensuse (Leap) is not particularly cutting edge and is more restricted concerning non-free components than many other distros (e.g. why does it need pacman?).

So, no. It does not have "the best" hardware support and no distro has "by far" more hardware support than all other distros.
That dialog (the "your keyboard cannot be identified" dialog) is about layout detection, not "authentication". IIRC, it's also skippable (but I haven't seen it in a long time; I've mostly switched over to Apple keyboards and they don't trigger that dialog).
>We are deeply sorry for hurting everybody,”

Damn. While I get the position of the Taiwanese, I sometimes wish they'd send more middle fingers at the mainland. "yeah, xi jinping is a dumpling, fuckm, we apologise for nothing."

As if Taiwan is an existential threat to prc by hurling insults as dramatic as "Winnie the Pooh" across the strait. Just seems like more bullying to me.
Just curious: when spending that amount of money is it specific materials/features you're looking for that the lower end bikes don't have or the reputation (quality/durability/other) that makes it worthwhile to you?

I knew a few people into old school (i.e. manual drive) bikes that would pay that much for competition-grade bikes made from state of the art materials to shave every last ounce off the bike's weight. Just trying to understand what it is about the e-bikes that makes this kind of pricing worth it to enthusiasts.
To clarify: Combinators are declarative specifications, and for parsing, they are specifications of the grammar.
We should develop an extremely potent and long lasting opioid that's destroyed by cooking (maybe some peptide could work). It needs to be powerful enough that we can keep the animals constantly high for their entire lives. Alternatively, figure out a practical "wireheading" brain implant with the same effect. Animals do not have any ambitions or desire for self-actualization that would be thwarted by this, and we already assume they have no right to life, so the arguments used against doing this to humans do not apply. With enough drugs/brain stimulation they could be perfectly happy in a factory farm.
For what it's worth, my sense is that the issues that SF has Chicago doesn't--homelessness, untreated mental illness--largely stem from cost of living differences, particularly housing prices.

My experience is that Muni itself is generally OK (yes even the 8/9, 14, and 38), but that BART has gotten really bad over the past couple years. For a while Muni stopped running the (then new) hybrid buses in the Bayview because people would hit the external kill switches when the bus was stopped.

There are a couple of California-specific and SF-specific issues at play as well. SFPD simply doesn't ride Muni, although I believe they're contractually obligated to. Meanwhile BART PD is spread very thin (around four officers at any given time for their SF stations).

At the state level, California makes it very difficult to force someone to stay on psychiatric medication or keep them in an institution. I don't believe this is as much of an issue in Illinois.
https://github.com/bnb/awesome-developer-streams

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>But then what happens to the Orders that reference that now old and outdated Customer identity? If changing the Customer microservice breaks the Orders microservice, then what's the point of the separate encapsulation?

Isn't that what append only event sourcing and CQRS is designed to solved?
The configuration I spoke of does not eliminate a shared cache, it uses the existing shared cache.

In addition, a validating endpoint resolver is no more a "dns server", than a stub resolver is.
You're absolutely right. I wonder if something like DBus and PulseAudio could happen with my UNC pain point.

With the assumption that the goal is for "vi //server/share/file.txt" to work the same as "notepad.exe \\server\share\file.txt" does on Windows, here are my thoughts.

First off, notepad.exe doesn't really care about the fact that it's a UNC path. It just opens the file with CreateFile (either CreateFileW or CreateFileA).

There would need to be replacements for the libc file functions. These could be a shim in front of libc, or baked right into libc. Note, there's a LOT more needed than "just" new file functions - any functions that do anything with paths need to be looked at. Shells would likely need some changes to work properly, though it's not like the Windows shell can truly do much with UNC paths - copying files to/from works, but you can't cd into them.

How does it ask for credentials? If it's via DBus, a desktop environment provide the authentication prompts, but what about a pure-commandline system? Maybe the transport is just SSH and relies on the existing public key authentication? But what if you're just doing a one-off thing and don't want to set that up? Using SSH is probably a decent idea since it's got authentication, security, and a file transfer protocol, already built in.

On top of all of this, when you open //server/share/file.txt for writing, what does that actually mean? Is there a file descriptor? How does that work with the kernel? Does libc now manage all file descriptors with only a subset corresponding to kernel file descriptors? Could a pure user-space solution fake this well enough to actually work? Would this need to be a FUSE filesystem along with some daemon to automatically unmount the remote servers when the mount is no longer needed? Would it be something like the automounter, just a lot better? Does a kernel need changes for any of this to work?

This is one of those things that touches so many layers and potentially interacts with so many parts of the system, potentially all the way down to the kernel.

My guess, and I don't actually think this will happen, is that Apple will do something like this on Mac OS X and have a reasonable mapping to the BSD world underneath, then someone in the Linux community will come along and do something similar in a way that's better suited for Linux. As a parallel, Apple came out with launchd in 2005 to replace init scripts, systemd made an appearance in 2010 - both do very similar jobs, with launchd tailored to the needs of MacOS and systemd tailored to the needs of Linux. Maybe something similar could happen with UNC-like file sharing.
Wow, I actually didn't know they were different. (I assumed scheduled air cargo would be the same rules as scheduled pax). I see Congress tried to harmonize back in 2012/2013 but it didn't happen. I guess it makes sense for things like the small FedEx 208 flights to be different from pax, but large jet aircraft should probably have similar regulations to passenger service, as the risk isn't only to the aircraft, but to those on the ground.
1) Agreed that the smaller the effect, the more statistical power (usually from a larger sample size) you need to detect them. But to assume that all changes have tiny effects, and therefore not detectable and a waste of time, is a flawed assumption.

Once upon a time we published over 100 a/b tests here: https://www.goodui.org/evidence/ and clearly the relative effects vary (not all single changes have always a small effect).

More so, the effects of a/b tests can be further increased by grouping multiple higher confidence ideas together into a single variation.

2) Short term gains may (or may not) lead to long term disengagement. Measuring micro (shallow) and macro (deeper) metrics would be the right way to answer this.
One of the tools that helped people and other computers into spaces was named, in part, HAL