skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What? Consensus algorithms in this class are used everywhere in web programming, from MySQL to AWS. Ironic that your comment may very well have touched several consensus algorithms on its way to my eyes. The fact that you remain blissfully unaware of them is a testament to their power.
It should be fixed now!
The Fall of Chimp Civilisation
Securing a spot in line was the whole point of Model 3 deposits.
Even in a zero trust scenario, you need a majority of nodes to be good faith, non-colluding actors. Even anarchy breaks down in the face of unequal power.
That is an impressive project! Thanks for sharing.
Related: Polestar, Volvo's spinoff, is also taking deposits on their Polestar 2, which they also position against Tesla's Model 3:

https://www.polestar.com/

Price is higher than the Telsa, but you could take the view that just like Porche, they bring Volvo's experience--good or bad--at running a sustainable manufacturing business to the table.
You clearly have a grudge against us, so this is not going to be a meaningful discussion, but we do want to point out that this is entirely unsubstantiated:

> As far as I am aware, Mozilla did nothing to visit the office in Vilnius, Lithuania, where ProtonVPN was actually being developed.

Check on Linkedin. Proton devs are distributed across all our offices (Geneva, Zurich, Skopje, Prague, Vilnius, remote). Proton management is in Geneva, where we met Mozilla.
Erlang's niche is distributed systems anyway, an area where static typing is at odds more often than not. I mean, you can guarantee the executable you are working on is exempt of typing errors, but it's just a small component of the overall architecture. What about data you are receiving? What if some remote client is using an older version of your software? What if the web service you are calling changed its API recently?

I use Elm, which is as statically-typed as possible for a client webapp, but I know I can never guarantee that JSON data I receive from remote servers is of the expected type.
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You can render Mathjax offline for non-interactive purposes (ie most use-cases) using 'mathjax-node-page'. I recently implemented this for my website; now pages like https://www.gwern.net/Embryo-selection display math instantly (instead of requiring ~5s - it's a big page), and also no longer require the MathJax JS, just the fonts/CSS.
I absolutely agree on the ugly fonts in Mercedes. New Porsche replaced a multi button interface with a dual touchscreen, which I am not a fan of. I really like the Bmw iDrive system. It gives you an option to use either a touchscreen or a rotary wheel, it’s super convenient.
There seem to be an awfully large number of mentally ill people who read rightwing material, post on rightwing message boards, and then engage in political murder.
VISA requirements only for those states that voted a particular way during, say, presidential elections would be comical.

Though not too different from imposing trade sanction on those products that hit some states much harder than others.
I use an original Google pixel and a cheap $20 keyboard and have done some basic scripting etc on it.

Main problem is tmux doesn't work well on it. Otherwise vim is pretty great, for example. It's actually even pretty usable without the Bluetooth keyboard thanks to the volume keys being a fn layer and ctrl
What are you referring to here? Modern cars have bigger pillars so they can roll over, at the expense of massive blind spots, you seem to be talking about something else?
How about if it was put together some standard box, then install any operating system and connect a browser to a website [running on the box, the website printing "hello world" to the screen - and must be open for the judges to connect to].

Plenty of scope for choosing and comparing different OS, different software, etc..
I've found many of the folks at the National Review, for example, to be quite principled.

Folks like Ben Shapiro wobble a bit in this regard from time to time, but tends to make arguments based on principle and not merely on leadership, and it's safe to say he's got a pretty loud bullhorn right now as well.
A very large portion of R&D costs for drugs are in doing phase 3 clinical trials. These will always be expensive because you have to recruit and closely monitor several thousand people with a relevant condition to determine if a treatment is better than existing alternatives and what sort of side effects a medication has. Many drugs which were developed by academia using federal dollars and which passed phase 1 and 2 trials fail phase 3. Pretty much every phase 3 trial is paid for by private industry.
I got pretty good at this type of thing at one of my earliest jobs was as a network admin's assistant at a training place that was similar to today's webdev bootcamps, but for stuff like Oracle, VB, and Java.

Before every class began, I would go through the entire classroom of 15-20 workstations and do a clean install of WinNT4 and whatever software packages were necessary for the class.

Imaging was possible with software like Ghost, but it was still pretty clunky, and NT4 required extra work after imaging, so we just did it manually. Typically, by the time I was done a step with the last workstation, the first one was ready for me to click the next Next button.

Thanks for the memories!
True. However some capsules have rather small engines, and small available delta-v, so the whole propulsion package can be made, say, replaceable. Soyuz, for example, lands using only about 30 kilograms of hydrogen peroxide to help with control during reentry. Maybe Crew Dragon can evolve to have this subsystem serviceable.
The guts or the discipline?

Dynamic doesn't really cause problems in its own. Only abuse of it which can be said about most things.

I guess there is an argument that f forces you to have good habits but that comes at a pretty big cost if your team is half decent.
For (2) the tax should also be based on the biodegradability of the materials.
No, today, "Art" is anything an artist can convince a source of cash that the cash they want is for this argument claiming
some object/event/scribble/thought is "Art".
So high income parents with no sick leave don't send their kids?
I was recently amazed to find out that Windows 95 is still used in an industrial automation setting. The company uses the NetBEUI[0] protocol and Windows 95 is apparently the only version to support it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBIOS_Frames_protocol
Progressivism and the West
CERN did not cut ties because some other scientists rebutted his claims. This was completely ideologically driven. Strumia was presenting on a gender workshop and his crime was to be counter-narrative. Check for yourself:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c_NyUhOZ8erdqU2AGZJZtNfFeA9...

And if you have any question as to CERN's motivation, here is their official statement:

Updated on 1 October 2018

From 26 to 28 September, CERN hosted the first workshop on High Energy Theory and Gender focusing on recent developments in theoretical high-energy physics and cosmology, and discussed issues of gender and equal opportunities in the field.

It is unfortunate that one of the 38 sessions, by a scientist from one of the collaborating universities, risks overshadowing the important message and achievements of the event.

CERN, like many members of the community, considers that the presentation, with its attacks on individuals, was unacceptable in any professional context and was contrary to the CERN Code of Conduct. It, therefore, decided to remove the slides from the online repository.

On Monday, 1 October, CERN suspended the scientist from any activity at CERN with immediate effect, pending investigation into last week’s event.

CERN is a culturally diverse organisation bringing together people of many different nationalities. It is a place where everyone is welcome, and all have the same opportunities, regardless of ethnicity, beliefs, gender or sexual orientation. Indeed, diversity is one of the core values underpinning our Code of Conduct and the Organization is fully committed to promoting diversity and equality at all levels.

CERN always strives to carry out its scientific mission in a peaceful and inclusive environment.
Or if you are a doctor, lawyer, politician, etc..
Which details should I look for, exactly?
Be specific. "Mental illness" is not a good catch-all term for a variety of different conditions. Depression tends to cause violence towards the self - suicide and self-harm - but not violence. What specific mental conditions do you have in mind and how have they been diagnosed in the people under discussion?
These "sporty" muscle cars are designed for drag racing. No need to change lanes there! Just look up the marketing for Charger Demon. It's not a bug, it's a feature ;)
>why do people insist on choosing ideologies that are so obviously not in the interests of the majority of the people?

Because policies that depend on taking from the economically productive to prop up the unproductive eventually become unsustainable.

Does it upset you that people work jobs instead of voting to receive a million USD annual stipend? Would you vote for a policy giving that to every person?

Back to the Walmart story. There is more we aren’t being told. There are thousands of lawyers drooling to take a case against a company the size of Walmart firing people for simply getting hurt due to the company’s incompetence. OP more than likely was at fault for the accident, which would be grounds for termination in most European countries as well.
You must be thinking of the Sutherland Springs Church massacre which did not have a political or racial dimension cited by the shooter.

Mr Bowers, prior to murdering his victims wrote on social media:

"A man with that name had posted anti-Semitic statements on social media before the shooting, expressing anger that a nonprofit Jewish organization in the neighborhood has helped refugees settle in the United States. In what appeared to be his final social media post hours before the attack, the man wrote: “I can’t sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I’m going in.”"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/10/27/pittsburgh-...

When you justify your actions due to a belief that jews are replacing "your people" you're a right wing nationalist. I am not surprised that ideologies that back this proposition attract crazy people who then commit murder.
You and 5G: Wait Until 2020
And even beyond that the EU states all (by EU regulation) willingly stand in for each other when it comes to their citizens in foreign countries.

If you're from a big country like France or Germany, you don't notice, but if you're from a smaller country like Portugal this means when you realise your country does not even have consular facilities in the random place you're visiting, you don't worry, the French or Germans do and you're an EU citizen, so they'll sub for your own consular officials as needed.
The contempt spiral did not magically start with Trump.
This model is perfectly fine for most of the economy, but is a perfect example that for-profit medicine is inherently flawed.
Static types in a distributed system with hot swapping, live upgrades of parts of a running system, isn't trivial.

Types are great at stating and preserving global invariants. Invariants sometimes do vary as systems evolve, though. You may need to handle polymorphism in your data flow mid-transition. And runtime polymorphism is just another phrase for dynamic typing.
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Article is below, for the no-JS users, who just get a blank page on this silly website. Will HN ever have accessibility standards for stories that have many differnt possible links?

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Porsche's Taycan EV has pulled in more than 20,000 deposits
It will reveal the EV's final design this September.

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Looks like Porsche has drummed up massive interest for its Tesla rival, because the automaker has revealed that it received 20,000 reservations for its upcoming Taycan electric vehicle. The company also confirmed previous reports that it's increasing the planned production capacity. While it didn't mention a particular number, it told CNBC in January that it's doubling production from 20,000 vehicles to 40,000. Now, we know why.

Porsche chief Oliver Blume said in an interview:

"This is a significantly higher figure than we expected: we usually only see ordering peaks after the first driving reports are available, when the vehicle is presented, and when customers have been able to sit in the car in real life."

These aren't just people signing up for a slot either: As CNET's RoadShow noted, reservations require a €2,500/$2,500 deposit. That's a drop in the bucket compared to the Taycan's $90,000 to $130,000 price range, though, so the company might see a few cancellations along the way. Especially since those reservations were made before Porsche unveils the vehicle's final design this September. One thing seems to be for sure: the automaker will equip the Taycan with a 350 kW 800-volt system that can can charge it to 80 percent of its 185- to 250-mile range in 15 minutes.

Source: CNET, Porsche
In this article: electric vehicle, gear, geneva motor show 2019, porsche, taycan, transportation
>Experts wielding their jargon and credentials as devices to shut up non-experts, even if non-experts have credible critiques and ideas to offer

I don't know if I can agree with this: a layperson might make some ridiculous claim about vaccines causing autism, and a medical doctor absolutely has the right to dismiss them based on credentials.
Are there countries where drug research and production isn't privatized?
I would naively consider it ideal if research and “recipes” were made in the open, shared between countries and the production wouldn't be the job of for-profits… what am I missing?
Use state of birth, if it's encoded on the passports, and if not, require a visa from everyone until state of birth is encoded on the passports.

As a point of order, US states do have citizens. As a US citizen, I'm also a citizen of the state in which I reside.
Or with methane synthesized from CO2 taken from air. You're going to always have CO2 in air, plants need that, so a healthy loop of using it as an energy storage may eventually make sense, today's climate crisis notwithstanding.
What about Scala? It's probably my favorite language: incredibly expressive, FP+OO, higher kinded-types, great tooling, flexible performance (you can adjust between elegance and java/C++-like performance very easily), and runs on the bullet-proof JVM.
Microsoft is spending X per year on engineering. So Windows has a marginal cost.

Because I am overcompensated and have spare engineering time I can dump it into a free Linux product to force Windows out of a market.

Redhat is actually taking my free engineering time and monetizing it! The villains!!!
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Complex Adaptive Systems – Dave Snowden – DDD Europe 2018
> there's no real way to track whether a US citizen overstays more in some parts of the Schengen area than others.

Doesn't matter, it's 90 days applied to the entire Schengen area, regardless of which member state(s) you visited.
Thanks, I'm strongly in favor of this debate existing so I'm glad that site exists.

As I read it, that site does not rebut any of the claims of particlesforjustice. It attacks a few sources used by particlesforjustice in defense of the claim that discrimination exists in STEM and potentially explains the reason why some groups perform more poorly. Granting, for argument, that those attacks are valid and the sources don't claim what they're being used to claim, that still does not rebut Strumia's argument. Indeed, justiceforstrumia says, "They object to Strumia's talk for 'mining' and 'misrepresenting' data, but their own case suffers from comparable flaws." In other words, perhaps Strumia's argument was flawed and so is the rebuttal; that still leaves us nowhere.

The remainder of justiceforstrumia is a digression about James Damore, tribalistic thinking, why socialism is bad, horseshoe theory, the "war on gamers" (I'm not making that up, that's the exact title of a source offered by justiceforstrumia), and the importance of falsifiability. This would be interesting if at some point we got to the question of whether Strumia's claims were falsifiable or not, and whether particlesforjustice had in fact managed to prove them false, but the site never gets there.

Assuming the sources offered by particlesforjustice in claims 1, 3, and 4 are invalid, claims 2, 5, 6, 7, and 8 still stand. A coherent rebuttal would either say why those claims are invalid, or why those claims are inaccurate depictions of what Strumia said. Saying "You can't say person X's claims wrong, actually the whole ideology of science is broken and falsifiability is important" is not scientific debate; it is itself ideology. Saying "Here, let us determine whether these claims are false, through analysis and argument of the claims themselves and not their speakers" would be scientific debate.

(Who wrote this site, btw? Is it from a scientist, or just someone random on the internet? It doesn't seem like it's written with the same understanding of scientific debate as particlesforjustice, so I'm trying to make sense of it.)
EU Antitrust accepts commitments by broadcasters on cross-border pay-TV services
We are witnessing the breakdown of the world order established post WWII. The EU exists because of the US. Its security and trade routes are guaranteed because the US is an ally. No EU country has a military that compares to that of the US, especially in terms of naval power.

Hindering access to the EU may be a minor nuisance on the surface. But its a harbinger of worse things to come and undermines the unprecedented peace and stability we've seen in the world in the last 75 years.
"How I Built This with Guy Raz" on NPR
I don't agree with the tone of the article. Doing complex functions in hardware is a lot cheaper, often by 100X, compared to doing them in software.

As an extreme case, to do a simple 32-bit add, you light up tens of millions of transistors if the addition goes through a CPU pipeline. The adder itself of course only requires a few transistors...

Saying that "specialization saves dispatching costs" is minimizing the savings by orders of magnitude. Of course, the article is correct in pointing out that hardware doesn't make things free.

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I've always thought recycling is a bit of a sham, designed primarily to provide some feel-good busywork for people who are concerned about environmental impact of using bad packaging, but not enough to change their habits.
Yes, and the idea is here: make the disposable goods expensive to buy so people stop buying them.
What would you do with it if you can't add more software yourself? (which Apple expressly forbids). Try to customize your vim macros? Nope. Want to change your ~/.bash_profile? Also against the rules.
Why do you find GNU stow's uninstall method to be half-assed? Just curious.
This reminds me of another article from a bit back about a guy who "hacked" a government website by accident to download what was supposed to be private files, by simply incrementing a query string integer in the URL.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16853203

It scares me a how seriously this was taken. This wasn't a mistake or miscommunication, they actually are going to take this person to court where he could be given 10 years of prison time.

The police claimed "There’s no question, this was not someone just playing around" while the convicted of course said what the rest of us are already thinking "I didn't do anything to try to hide myself. I didn't think any of this would be wrong if it's all public information. Since it was public, I thought it was free to just download, to save". There was no warning or sign that any of this publicly accessible information was not meant to be publicly accessed.

The fact that you can "hack" anything by complete accident, without malicious intent, because of someone else's shit software is mind boggling to me. In the the OP article it's mobile browsers being shit not bothering to deal with popups properly, and in the article I linked it's the Canadian government's website security being shit.

Ultimately I believe we need to make laws regarding hacking much more clear, or else any person using a computer is more or less at risk. I'm almost certain if someone was looking over my shoulder all the time and was identifying any "illegal hack" I accidentally did, I would be facing jail time by now, at least by the extremely low standards presented in these articles.
I didn't say CERN cut ties because other scientists rebutted the claims - CERN is entirely within their rights, and it is entirely appropriate for the progress of science, to cut ties because the researcher was incapable of collaborating in a productive manner with other scientists.

I said that, nonetheless, the claims were rebutted in the end (unless they were not?), and therefore the comment "one would think Physicists could easily debunk them if they were bogus" does not apply - they have been debunked. The comment "Ideology over science" does not apply because there was science; the comment "feelings over truth" does not apply because there was truth; the comment "shrieking, hysterical pronouncements over rational argument" does not apply because there was rational argument.
Just to clarify the phrase "one of the NTP people": I'm the lead designer of NTS, which adds modern cryptographic security to NTP. I did not design NTP; Dave Mills did that, in large part before I was born.

If I got the chance to redesign NTP from scratch, there are a lot things I'd change, but use of fixed binary fields is not one of them.
High income parents without sick leave may be able to hire a babysitter. And are far more likely have a job that can be done from home (most "knowledge work") than requiring physical presence (food service, retail, labor). And are more likely to simply have more leverage with their employers / more rainy day resources to be able to insist on taking a day off anyway and swallow whatever the consequences are.
My favorite dev-related podcasts are Under the Radar, Swift by Sundell, and Swift Unwrapped. My go-to current events podcast is Citations Needed.
I would probably watch that. At least it would be better than most of the things on the telly.

Semi-oblig-xkcd: https://xkcd.com/284/
"Just write good code" or "Just hire perfect programmers" the go to retort for any language weakness. I've been in this industry long enough to just roll my eyes every time I hear that now, it simply doesn't scale beyond one individual.
I love Termux too. I used it on my Chromebook while I waited for Crostini to land for my hardware.

It's on my phone though I don't really do much besides to play around. It's pretty awesome if you have a bluetooth keyboard.
You needed to talk to more lawyers. If the case is like you said, it’s open and shut. Walmart gets successfully sued all of the time when they are at fault for workplace accidents.

I personally know of two separate acquaintances’ relatives who were hurt at Walmart, fired, sued with no up front legal fees, and won. One got hit by a parking lot shopping cart train and the other got injured in the mechanic shop.
Lol the office file won't know that it's pirated. Noone will know just get virtualbox, free, win10 iso, free, and pirate kmspico and office 2016 or newer. As far as anyone will ever know you've paid for all of it. Just truck it.
Amazon’s Tax Breaks and Incentives Were Big. Hudson Yards’ Are Bigger
But mean income per capita is what should be compared when talking about social services such as healthcare, etc. If you take a developed country, add a bunch of wealth inequality to it, and then say that you can't compare that country to other developed countries because wealth inequality is part of equalition of being developed, you are just going around in circles.