skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my CS major, continuous math, discrete math, graph theory, probability and statistics, linear algebra etc. were prerequisites to other courses. So see if those books are blocked as a "threat to order".

If those get through and he reads through them, try sending things like "An Introduction to Formal Languages and Automata", "A First Course in Combinatorial Optimization" and this sort of thing.

There are also prison reform groups like FAMM that you can talk to.
Linux containers have a lot to learn from mainframe containers.
This is the approach I often take. I'm paid to be an expert and have answers. If the situation has multiple paths, it is on me to weigh those with the context I have and be prepared to adapt when I inquire about other considerations I may have been previously unaware of.

There's nothing wrong with having an informed opinion as long as it isn't presented in a combative or selfish manner.

That said, depending on who else may be in the room, if you naturally take that approach, it is often good to sit back and let others speak, or encourage them to if they are not the assertive type. Leadership is as much (if not more) about listening than speaking.
‘I’m so done with driving’: is the robot car revolution finally near?
> plus I don't have to remember what the prices are at all three [grocery] stores

I take your point that only the big things are worth sweating, but I feel like local comparison shopping is the sort of thing technology should make easy, and it still seems really hard. User uploaded systems, like GasBuddy, probably wouldn't work on so many items, unless uploading the price data could be automated somehow.

If we could kill paper receipts and instead get per-item sales data pumped to our feed of choice (Mint? Email?), then it'd be much easier to build a system on top of that that would run weekly local price comparisons. If you really wanted only one trip, maybe it could compare your total shopping list.

I know a lot of stores offer emailed receipts as an option now, it'd be a little more seamless if your payment system communicated your receipt preferences automatically, and if Mint or something like it was ready to catch that data.
For questions specifically about this paper, you might have luck with Adrian Colyer's take on it: https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/03/08/a-generalised-solution-t...

Or Howard's blog post: https://hh360.user.srcf.net/blog/2019/02/towards-an-intuitiv...

Twitter used to be a useful place for general distsys discussions, but I haven't been around for a few years now so I'm not certain how much still takes place.

This tweet, for example, I would have expected to see more people chime in on.

https://twitter.com/adriancolyer/status/1103935905948028928

There's a distributed systems theory Google Group, but it appears to have completely died off:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/distsys-discuss

To inquire what avenues for theoretical discussion are currently active, I would suggest reaching out on Twitter to Chris Meiklejohn (cmeik), Michael Bernstein (mrb_bk) or Kyle Kingsbury (aphyr).
Configuring and Testing Kubernetes Clusters with Kubenix and Kind
I've been using Debian for over 10 years and I still love it as a user. But as a developer, I find it extremely frustrating. I've several times attempted to figure out how to package my open-source projects [1] [2] for Debian but the process is a nightmare. As I understand it, I first have to find someone with appropriate privileges to mentor me. I should be able to just submit a potential package for review.

Then there is a ton of documentation on creating packages but which 300 page guide is the right one to use is unclear. And which set of packaging tools should I use? In the end, the time investment required to get started has kept me from contributing.

[1] https://camotics.org/

[2] https://foldingathome.org/
Thank you.

My first thought when reading this was that sheep dogs, the really good ones, don't typically bark. They are very patient and quiet. Barking is likely to send the sheep in the wrong direction.

I owned a working cattle dog once (when I worked on a farm with cattle) and this dog did bark, too much! She wasn't a very good working dog because she'd spook the cattle with the barking.

Ultimately, I'm not convinced a "barking" drone is really going to be very effective.
Where? I asked because I couldn't find one on the website or in the repo. I looked at all of the markdown files, the readme, the releases page, and the wiki.
https://outline.com/BfUCs8
Most prison systems will not give the inmate access to a computer to write code, and definitely will not let them keep a USB drive, etc. The books you'd want to send would need to be those that could be followed without access to a computer. (A friend I sent Hartl's Rails tutorial in print was frustrated by errors in the print version that weren't in the online version)
The sample on the github is a bit counter-intuitive. I understand why it generates it, but the result does not make sense.

You post the same request to the /health endpoint. Normally this returns 200 but in case of an internal server error it can return 500. However, reporting this in Gherkin as:

Feature: Test service v1.0.0

Scenario: /health returns: undefined
Given I have "unauthorized" request
When I submit to "/health" using "get"
Then I should receive "200" status code

Scenario: /health returns: undefined
Given I have "unauthorized" request
When I submit to "/health" using "get"
Then I should receive "500" status code

Is not really expected. How does this work when you have a swagger that has all the possible responses listed? E.g. 200, 400, 401, 404, 405, 406, 500. Which all can occur based upon the input you give and the status of the server.
I will never want to die and I will never allow anyone to kill me, stop any potential life support or anything of that sort.

I'd rather be alive than decomposing.
Hm, maybe I extrapolated too far, this became law in The Netherlands a couple years ago and I assumed it was European legislation. In The Netherlands we had lots of these 2 year phone contracts going on where you'd eventually pay almost double your phone's value, those have effectively been banned.
Amazon did it first with elastic apps, uploading a plain WAR file, and letting it run somehow, with transparent mySQL connections.
Ignore, Refactor, or Rewrite
I flew the 737 Max about a month after the Lion crash. I sure as hell will not be getting on it anytime soon.
Just tried this and great it runs PowerShell Core and .NET Core where Termux seems to struggle with.

Since I have a handful of PowerShell modules I regularly use, this will be useful.
How Speech Synthesizers Work [video]
https://outline.com/jcfEVE
If it was the case, owners themselves would've taken more care to take care of their apartment.

It was in quite bad shape for just a year old apartment.
Neat, I hadn't known about this!
Here's the 4m news video embedded in the article:

https://youtu.be/CTjVjKClpyU

I love the way the sheep look like schools of fish (especially when they are on fast-mo).
The commit log: https://github.com/freeciv/freeciv-web/commits/develop

As you can see, it is moderatly actively maintained. More developers are welcome.
That's how the English pronounce it (and they created the English language![1]), probably quite posh if they're saying it with 2 aitches.

[1] created is probably a bit strong, evolved? Smooshed together?
All i-voting is e-voting but not all e-voting is i-voting.
https://mashable.com/2017/10/25/cochlear-implant-sound-proce...

it’s a very nice idea, especially for voice audio.
2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14280625

2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6982205
WAIT, just updated to the latest version and it's working great now. All I had to do was set my Airport to use the Pi-Hole for DNS and now every device on my home network is 99% ad-free. Very impressive.
Another issue, IMHO, is the fact that every time somebody proposes some change, for example Gitlab + Gitflow instead of sending patches in some awkward format, via mail, there are a few people that already have their own workflow based on (probably) mutt combined with 10s of scripts, and they don't really want to change their workflow for the greater good; instead, they'd just find reasons why the new proposal sucks and keep using what they already have.
There are multiple reasons why healthcare is expensive in the US. Life ending or multimillion dollar diseases exist everywhere and the reasonable solution to that is insurance: that doesnt make healthcare expensive or cheap, or care good or bad. If you have a cancer that is estimated cost of care is 5 million dollars, neither private nor public insurance will make it cost less, and someone somewhere still has to decide if its covered or not. You cant have unlimited health care, because it requires human beings to deliver it. (at least today).

> Given a choice between death and bankruptcy, most people will choose bankruptcy. There is no downward pressure on the cost of medical care because there is no alternative

This is a common trope in this debate, but its not an economically sound argument. First of all, people choose this all the time: a european person does not sell their home and get indebted to pay for a trip to the us to get bleeding-edge 1% rate of success medical care for his unique condition. Second, its not medically sound. Medicine is absolutely practiced with economic considerations in mind. Care is not the same in the U.S. than say, an African country with hospital shortages. The doctors recommendation changes based on the patients sensibility to prices (for example, a doctor will not recommend highly expensive vitamins to the unemployed, or wont indulge in expensive out-of-coverage procedures for people who would find great economic suffering for the test alone).

This latter part is a key missing education link that for some reason the public seems to misunderstand. Its strange because in actual education people understand that prices give different qualities, but someone reject the idea that healthcare doesnt behave that way.

I have other counter-arguments to this notion of downward pressure, but fundamentally what makes prices low is competition. Any one would prefer bankrupcy to starvation, but thats not a problem with food isn't it.
After a year or so we no longer count it as a dupe. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
Copyright? There’s no copyright infringement in writing “Black Lotus” on an actual genuine Magic card. That will never stick.
Having recently had a grandparent with advanced Parkinson's pass in a relatively peaceful and dignified manner after contracting pneumonia (compared to the living hell of their primary ailment), I've personally seen the truth in that colloquial name for it - the "old man's friend". Definitely one of the better ways to make an exit, especially when one is past the point of being able to articulate a will to die.
Having 1/3rd of $100k is more spending money than having 1/3rd of $50k. Prices for things that aren't rent, don't change by market. You can buy more smartphones, donate more money to charity, whatever you want.
Ask HN: Are there too many people in the world?
If this thread takes off it’ll probably get flooded with vague, emotional arguments, but I’m asking on the off chance that we get some unexpected perspectives backed by evidence.
It's an unfair calculation. Most orbital rocket are used only once.

Another unfair calculation: 40% of the Space Shuttle have been lost in unsurvivable accidents.

It's better to compare the number of accident divided by the number of flight. For the Space Shuttle, it's 2/135 = 1.4% of the flights. For the manned Soyuz, it's 2/165 = 1.2% of the flight (but both are in very old models).
I have two experiences to share:

Mother in law had heart attack, ended up with low function. She had 10 good years, then the "evil zapper" as she called it, would trigger regularly. She hated it and directed that it be turned off.

Two blissful weeks followed. Just knowing it was not going to happen again perked her right up. The last night, she got up late and I made her a great sandwich. She knew this was it. Went to sleep, and was lucid only one more time.

She said thank you.

The other was my Father in law. He was very old, fell and broke his arm. His body just could not cope. He ended up in hospice care, both of these at home, BTW. Neither wanted to be in some hospital room.

He went through a very painful week of shutdown, but was mostly lucid. This was terrible.

Medical cannibis was available in my state, and he requested a "stiff dose" because the opiates made him a mess. Experiencing some cannibis was on his bucket list and smoking it was out of the question.

I looked up how to make a very potent drink, did it and we gave him a shot glass full of it.

Frankly, the next 10 or so hours were amazing. He got up, out of bed (not supposed to be possible at this point), came out to see everyone, yell at the idiots on TV, and tell us all stuff he wanted to tell, along with old songs and jokes he wanted people, his grand kids to remember.

We all asked (What the hell?), and he said I am stoned enough to forget I am dying. No more of that talk, gimme a beer. (We did) He was Irish, and to him this kind of thing was "going out right and proper"

He passed a day or two later. After that fun night, he went to sleep, restful, seemingly way more comfortable. Was not lucid again.

We did not have to use much of the death drug kit they sent us home with.

I have only done home hospice. I think it has beauty and pain. I think it is a just and solid choice for one to make when they have family they trust completely.

Both thrived. Was brief. No way would it have been the same in a sterile boring, unfamiliar room.

Both contained meaningful end of life experiences. Both appear to have a worthy end. Worthy in that is was their terms more.

That is all. Hope this helps.

For what it is worth, I was moved. I will definitely go that way should my end be known and it being possible.
Models are not equivalent to the phenomena they describe.

Computational models are not an exception to this.

There is not even a single "part" or "function" of the brain that we fully, exhaustively understand through a computational explanation. All claims of certainty are premature.

What's really fascinating and really needs the attention of historians and anthropologists is why in this current historical moment so many STEM educated people who are otherwise very bright end up confused about this. Maybe the answer is obvious though.
@Moderators

Just to avoid people collating together all e-voting (voting machines and similar) with the tech that Estonia uses (they call it i-voting for that reason), could the title be changed from "e-voting" to "i-voting"?
Because it's about people's mental models. When you use an analogy ("like a digital computer") to examine another phenomena than of course people will interpret that in terms they are familiar with.

Otherwise what's the point in using an analogy?
Incover – Life Insurance Coverage for Inmates
The Lion Air crash was a 2 months old plane. I'd expect a 2 months old plane to be air worthy even if some maintenance was neglected.
You have x hours to spend. You can either spend them with yout children or spend them with dementia laden old parents who don’t know who you are

What’s better for you? For your children? For your parents?

A granny flat may be acceptable, but having the in-laws under your roof? It was awful when I was a kid, and we had mother-in-law round for a week or so after she came out of hospital for a knee replacement. We all found it intolerable.

I don’t want to be a burden on my kids, and my parents dont want to be a burden on me.

Unlike in India though, I wouldn’t sue them.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-47154287
> Most of the author's points about sound come down to hand waving and weasel wording.

It's not complicated - people don't like loud annoying noises and air pollution.

No weasel words in that.
I think protons would like to have a word with you.
China recruits Westerners to sell its “democracy”
I wonder if there are estimates out there about how long a randomly generated game of life instance of NxN cells will take until a self-reproducing structure appears. An event that we have not witnessed so far.

Somehow I feel it is related to the question how likely it is for a planet/galaxy/universe to breed life. An event that we have "witnessed" just once so far.

One way to divide it into two estimates:

c = Number of cells of the smallest possible self-reproducing structure

i = Number of new structures that are created on average for each iteration

Then a rough guess could be that it takes 2^c/i iterations.
They sailed west to east on purpose, because it made it easier to get home if they didn't make landfall.

The canoes they used were not tacked, they were shunted, which made it much easier to said into the wind.

To get back home, they memorized a bunch of zenith stars for their home latitude, went north or south till they put those stars at zenith and then just let the wind carry them home.

Non instrument navigation to Hawaii, for example, involves overshooting the island chain by going a bit too far east, putting Hokulea (Arcturus) at the zenith then sailing west till you make landfall.
Strange contradiction: you are show a case on how federal workers have an undue benefit in comparison to the population, which is what my original argument was. This program seems to be about selecting insurances tho, not an actual insurance. It's tangential.
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password is cator

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woodstock!!!

whatever

forgot what I was going to say againnn

thata rhw problem with explanatioua offtopics going

and with iphone fckn5 fckn typing shit (sont call it a aystem nor a keyboard fuck)

anaway... id is a public open aource repo or repos or whatever you put it all in neaby place for easiness and selfcompletion righ

but a private business is fucked anyway, even separaring all in diferent repos like the ancient naval fighting weapon named greek fire

anyfuckingway they see everyfuckingahit and anyshit ans anyfuckingthing you fucking programm

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I’m curious why they would need that system in the first place. Pilots know to trim for level flight so the computer doing it automatically seems unneeded regardless of new engine placement.
Ok, we'll do that.

Edit: actually, just using the word 'online' seems to make the distinction more clearly.
(I'm the author of the blogpost.)

> without, you're basically restricted to "guess and test" and reverse-engineering other drivers to see the differences in behaviour.

Not entirely. If you look at the commits I linked in the post, you'll see that most of them fixed rather egregious spec violations. Arguably the spec could have been clearer; but still.

> The fact that "real" debugging requires an extremely expensive protocol analyser/oscilloscope also adds to that

USB packets can be sniffed in Wireshark. But for the kinds of bugs that this driver had, that isn't helpful; most of the problems were failure to initialize the controller or sending invalid command sequences. So that wouldn't be very helpful anyway.
Precisely...
As excerpt I prefer:

"Although the first edition of K&R described most of the rules that brought C's type structure to its present form, many programs written in the older, more relaxed style persisted, and so did compilers that tolerated it. To encourage people to pay more attention to the official language rules, to detect legal but suspicious constructions, and to help find interface mismatches undetectable with simple mechanisms for separate compilation, Steve Johnson adapted his pcc compiler to produce lint [Johnson 79b], which scanned a set of files and remarked on dubious constructions."

Since 1979, fighting for good practices adoption in C.
"You conducted your navigation adorned with aviator glasses while smarting off in a classroom between homoerotic beach volleyball scenes, while Polynesians embedded their navigation education in a spiritual practice. "

This is totally ridiculous.
A modern os is vastly more complex than what Linus was working with in the early 1990s. Recall that the web had just been invented at that point.
Agreed, I've tried and failed to make Debian packages, and have no idea how to proceed.

In contrast, with Gentoo and their documentation, it was straightforward for me to make my own additional, separate repo, look at other ebuilds to see how packaging works, and have everything just work.

https://github.com/billsix/billsix-portage

I submit ebuilds to Gentoo itself if I think others would benefit.

As far as I can tell, packaging for Arch is straightforward as well.
To address the security issue of Certificate Transparency mentioned by another comment, you can combine Lets Encrypt wildcard certs, and SSL termination at the LB.

Set up a Lets Encrypt wildcard cert, and use it on your internal LB. Set up your internal DNS to autoresolve custom internal hostnames. For example, if you own example.com, set up internal hostnames such as test1.example.com, test2.example.com

These hostnames are internal, so they won't be resolvable ( or known about ) outside your private network. The wildcard cert combined with SSL termination at the LB means all your hosts now have ssl certs.
"I can’t conceive of any sense in which songs or finger movements aren’t retrieved by the brain."

And that's the issue, isn't it? I think he's using "retrieve" to mean something much closer to what a digital computer does. Ie, there's a single "place" in the brain where the song is compressed and stored. My definition of "retrieve" (and yours, I think) is implicitly more relaxed; I say that a rough distributed system that reacts to stimuli like songs by being able to approximately reproduce them later counts as "retrieval."

As other commenters have noted, the article uses a very restrictive definition of computation/retrieval. I mean, earlier in the article, he gives a definition of the same game that the "Lifelong Learning" and "Reinforcement Learning" people use.

I think he's actually on the same page as many learning theorists, and is just trying to make it clear to a general audience that a very "tight" match between the brain and Von Neumann machines isn't reasonable.
> USB 3 support seems.. Basic at this point?

I think you underestimate the sophisticated complex problems of USB 3. Even for a hobby OS this is a massive achievement.
I have not but sounds like I should check it out.
I guess if you want to discourage ordinary users then this is the way to go:

You might have a massive problem with a default option, but it's not reported because the people savvy enough to handle the bug reporting can fix it themselves. But that might mean most people using your software are getting a bad impression and most ordinary users are put off.

Depends on whether you're trying to create an elitist grouping or create something to fill people's needs.

It's an interesting, though not unexpected, position that demonstrates technocratic societies can have the same problems of control of power that capitalist societies have; except instead of the elite controlling access to money resources, they control access to technological abilities: "fix it yourself" might be the parallel to saying to a homeless person "get a job".

It's an interesting revelation to me of how a meritocratic society can fail to be egalitarian.