skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you please add to you message whether he flies lethal drones or just pure reconnaissance?

While some people could be tempted with "paid 3x as much..." most will pass on this opportunity, learning you actually have to drop bombs and undoubtedly kill people for your tripled pay rate.
Do you use any specialized software for that ?
It's not the hardware that's at fault, it's the software and/or configuration. See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17448022
Co-Working Giant Looks to McDonald’s Model to Fend Off WeWork
I don't mean that it's affordable, I just mean that the reason isn't a pre-existing condition exclusion. For insurance for myself I'm paying $484.71 a month and there's a $5850 deductible, after which it probably only covers some percentage of it, until a maximum out of pocket is reached (this information isn't viewable in my account online and is probably in some mail that I've thrown out). Certainly not affordable.

A pre-existing condition exclusion means that you're on your own for expenses arising from your pre-existing condition, or if you didn't report it when you applied for your health insurance, that you could have your health insurance retroactively cancelled, and have to pay back any money you received. It's really bad, but since some healthcare expenses seem to have more than tripled in the last 10 years, it's often worse today. I'd much rather pay 100% of $800 than 50% of $3000.
Starting with zstd-1.3.8 we support the `ZSTD_CLEVEL` environment variable. We've started with a small scope for the variable, because we don't want users to unexpectedly remove the source fie, for instance.

If you want to pass extra options, you can pipe the output to zstd, which is exactly what tar is doing internally.
> You can check my post history to see if I frequently reference someone's nationality

See, I'll take your word for it, because I think it is a little creepy checking people's post history.
Why does it need fixing per se? (Assume optional plurals)

If the parameter is incorrect, then the parameter should be adjusted correctly. Note that having an availability bias in the dataset is also incorrect, the parameter will reflect the incorrectness.

However, if the parameter is adjusted correctly: what is the problem other than people not wanting to be confronted with uncomfortable truths?
Totally agreed - I hope Bollinger makes it to production, because they are really nailing the simple/functional/practical ethos.
Because if you really thought about it, you'd realize that you have so much in common with the religious zealots of old (and be so horrified by this) that you'd have to go home and completely re-think your belief system. In the 21st century, people want to believe that they have nothing in common with the Spanish Inquisition.... "Put her in the comfy chair!".
Argumentum ad hominem / trust is not the only way to evaluate the truth of statements.
Planet’s ocean-plastics problem detailed in 60-year data set
Eggs can be consumed during Lent (I presume you mean the Catholic tradition of fasting, particularly "no meat", on Fridays during Lent). It's not considered meat.
> Talking to yourself is far less disruptive than say...

Still, talking to yourself IS disruptive. Especially depending on your volume.

>they're going to be using headphones anyway

Unless you are playing music at a level that damages your hearing, headphones do not cancel out voices.

> Honestly, you do you.

Agreed. And I will complain about unnecessary noises invading my space.
Healthcare finance is a mess in the US.
>It was, however, the only Patient Safety Essential that targeted surgical patients specifically during the interval studied.

That's hardly hand-waving.
That seems like a good, in-person direct question for a 1:1 with your manager when you have plenty of time to follow up with questions. It deserves having its own time devoted to it, which is (presumably) the point of your 1:1s.

It doesn't sound like you've been able to ask it that way yet, and that would probably be the best way to get a feel for what it means, your manager's expectations, and how to improve.
Ask HN: What database(s) do online poker rooms and betting exchanges use?
Very curious, at their scale, to see what main databases are used by PokerStars, Betfair, Bet365, and the likes.
> You cant come to reasonable arguments for human rights without faith in some belief in natural good, dignity or humanity.

We can, and we did.

The US constitution for example, is explicitly secular.

In fact I'd say there's a convincing case to be made that - as soon as faith (in some form) enters the equation - you can no longer have a reasonable argument about human rights, because by definition, a person who believes something 'on faith' cannot be persuaded by logical argument, reason, or evidence. They simply 'know it to be true'.

> I think a good example is human rights. Remember, these started out as natural, or god-given rights.

The teachings of the most common major religions included some human rights. But also a lot of incitement to commit atrocious acts completely counter to our human rights (for example the death penalty for adultery and homosexuality, the command to commit genocide in several cases, genital mutilation and so on).

Sure, you can cherry pick just the 'good' parts of your chosen religion, but if you're doing that, why bother with religion in the first place?

If you (or anyone else reading this) genuinely agree with the comment I'm replying to, please, please, please watch this debate with an open mind --> (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJCZKZomtXQ).
Frankenstein has taught us nothing uh?
One thing I do as a pilot, btw, is that for each item on the checklist I touch the actual control (and sometimes even activate on and off again, for example the alternate static air intake).

It serves several purposes:

* it ensures that you actually look and check, not just say the magic incantation ("fuel selector valve: BOTH") out of habit, and

* for rarely used controls (such as the alternate static air source), it familiarises you with it once per flight, so you don't fumble around in case you need it.

Not all pilots do that. I wonder whether there are studies on whether this helps. Certainly, there are many cases of planes crashing because pilots forgot to do certain items, even though they were on the checklist and the pilots have gone through the checklist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lufthansa_Flight_540 ("The flight engineer was found to have failed to open the slat system bleed air valves as required on the pre-flight checklist.")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522 ("the flight crew overlooked the pressurisation system state on three separate occasions: during the pre-flight procedure, the after-start check, and the after take-off check. During these checks, no one in the flight crew noticed the incorrect setting."
I think you have confused me with someone else.

My point is that the tech for minority report exists today (soli, leap, etc.) but the demand for novel mobile device interfaces is stronger than some waving-your-arms interface at a giant desk full of monitors.
No, that's the Popular People's Front.
Yeah this sounds like trying to dramatize what is normal business operations. There's going to be politics at any company larger than a sole-proprietorship. The fact they stayed for 6 years is honestly a remarkable retention assuming this is at least 2 years beyond vesting.
Trump Stirs Alarm That He May Be Giving China a New Trade Weapon
There are a plenty of youtube videos of people getting attacked trying to go to these no-go zones. Merkel openly admitted to Germany having them too.
I don't understand why you're downvoted. It's an important observation.

In my case, my employer was bought and sold 3 times. All three cases involved a sudden and abrupt termination of my insurance.

It was "okay" when I was single, but once I carried my wife, and then my entire family, it became a huge problem.

Throughout my tenure at my job, I had major surgery and two children. Sudden insurance changes immediately before or during any of those events would be a huge problem. (Fortunately, the timing worked out.)
TL/DR for anyone else looking for context.

> A malicious server could send a specially crafted packet which could result in an unchecked integer overflow. The value would then be used to allocate memory causing a possible memory write out of bounds error (CWE-130). [1]

Maybe now we can put a stop to all these ssh bots crawling the internet. Just setup a malicious ssh server ;). This CVE was part of a larger release of nine separate security advisories concerning libssh2 [2].

[1] https://www.libssh2.org/CVE-2019-3855.html

[2] https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/03/18/3
Well if your caught lying your online and offline identity/reputation will take a huge hit. It would be extremely detrimental financially and professionally to your life ... like having to go bankrupt. Be moral and just online or you don’t matter! Otherwise in time the Internet may not matter as much.

Further re deepfake stuff that’s even worse ...threat of going to jail!
Or you can just use \u escape codes and keep all your source in ASCII.
I don’t see why they bothered drugging the brains. Even if they became conscious, the pig’s bodies are dead and gone. There is nothing to feel, one is simply alone with their thoughts, perhaps even dreams.
>I don't get distracted by noise or movement so that could be a big factor, so I can code without any problems

I agree that this is the biggest factor. If it didn't bother me, I would probably enjoy an open office.

> I think better alternative is to allow both option, allow employee to work remove if they prefer not to see their coworker.

I yearn for the day my workplace opens up this option.
Smalltak too
We build manned warplanes because you want a human with decision making capability on the trigger, drone communications can be jammed, and AI is a myth.
> The EU itself has shown itself to be, with the introduction of the GDPR and related regulation of the IT sector, a champion for EU business, privacy and security.

It has also weakened Net Neutrality laws, introduced VAT laws that complicated the life of small businesses, and just passed harmful copyright directives.

So what the EU has shown itself to be is an organisation that is not the champion of the internet we once thought, and that big money and computer illiterate MPs can still do a great deal of harm.

At this point I’m more inclined to believe the good laws the EU as passed (e.g. GDPR) were flukes.
Let's Encrypt is a nonprofit so all expenses on cross signing would be tax deductible. Also LE only does DV (not OV or EV, and only recently wildcards) and it has purposely short expiry times so it's not a 100% direct competitor.
My favorite work environment I was initially skeptical about.

I had done in the past cubicles, private office, shared office, etc - but this one was somewhat unique because the company that I was hired on with didn't have any other place to put me and the rest of the "new guys".

So they stuck us in their small conference room. Which had terrible air flow (aka - none).

We had this long table-like desk; there were four of us, two on each side. We all had a dual-monitor setup with regular PCs - nothing fancy there.

It was crazy hot in there - we called it "the oven".

But we made it ours while we had it. Our team lead played a crazy mix of music from spotify. We could easily collaborate as needed. We could keep the lights off and not be bothered with that.

Eventually we got a portable AC unit to help with the comfort of the room.

We got a lot of great work done in that room. About a year later, we moved offices, and the owners decided to go "open floorplan" (we later learned this was all a scheme towards selling the company). Things changed greatly. While our entire team could be together (we had a couple other members of the team who were outside of the oven at the old office) at one "desk" - the open office didn't facilitate talking amongst ourselves as much or collaboration, because sales was nearby, etc.

Most of the time, we listened to music or whatnot on headphones, and just used Hipchat and email to communicate.
Most of those who would find out first would already be in a bunker, simply because their workplace is a bunker. Alerting the public would be their best strategy to get their family to safety.
My employer switched health insurers 3 years in a row. First because we became a new company (understandable), second because they thought they could get a better deal at another place (okay...), and thirdly reverting the 2nd change except some of the numbers and coverage is different now.

I really am considering leaving if they switch a 4th time.
A comparable zstd call that uses a 64 MB window size and all cores is:

zstd --long=26 -T0

From there you can tune the compression level, or increase the window size up to 2 GB (--long=31). zstd won't beat the compression of xz, but it can compress much faster if you trade off some space.
Yes we do try to control them, but that's a last resort, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EodxubsO8EI

Same problem with Texas and floods, Florida and hurricanes, &c. building in risk zones is inherently dangerous. The people who died knew the risks.
SSH Brute force bots... beware ;)
лисп мачине
Read the article again. The machine has a problem with certain hairstyles.. not hair of certain races.

People of African descent have a propensity towards the problem hairstyle that skews the results.

If your argument is for 'de-racialization' then you need to convince people to change their hairstyles to make everyone more similar.

You can't blame a machine for treating a 1 as 1 and 0 as 0.
All the inefficiencies are either profit or jobs for them. US health insurance companies are the worst bureaucracies I have ever seen. They have power over people's lives and almost zero accountability. They can do pretty much whatever they want and you are helpless if you can't afford the time and money to constantly call them or hire lawyers.
Switch macOS Dark Mode in One Click
Pain exists in the brain, not the body.
This is often paired with Feynman's "Nobody understands quantum mechanics."
That's just an urban legend, especially because "Nova" is not the same as "no va."
The way it was explained in Lemonde, it's that french firefihters don't always do that. They did it to preserve the interior, but that might not be their every day strategy.
There's no market based approach that can "fix" healthcare. Market self regulates around substitute goods, but healthcare is in the business of health and there's no substitute for that. Very few humans will say "all considered, the ROI/statistical likelhood of this procedure is not positive so I will pick death instead", it just doesn't happen. Single payer is the only way to go.
Muggeridge was a very complex one - a serial groper with almost as infamous a reputation as Saville - until he found religion late in life. Another one who it turns out was well-known for it at the BBC. He wasn't ever a clergyman, though he had faith his whole life: pro communism, anti communism, christianity, and was always anti-something. Pot, free love, contraception, swearing, monarchy, Life of Brian, and firmly in the Mary Whitehouse anti-progressive anything camp. Seems it was only his excellent writing that gave him the place as national asset.

So it wasn't a surprise to read that link and find he disliked most things - that seems to fit very well. SSC's commentary says far more about American attitudes than the actual history in places.

Anachronistic as even in 1979 nobody seemed that bothered abotu what the church thought of Life of Brian, whether christian or not. The furore was among the great and the good (lol) in the media, with a few town councils banning it, and a fuss on the TV. So the debate was already distinct and disconnected from the regular people and out of time. In those days the media and establishment moved slowly. It was the follow up Not The Nine O'clock News sketch as a reversal of the absurd debate that was the talking point.

The countless revelations of abuse over the decades since have reinforced the feeling that any place the church still held in society was ill deserved.

> And yet we have material prosperity and 'freedoms' - we are more depressed and anxious than ever before.

I see this as likely a symptom of the loss of community for individualism.

Historically religion and community went together, today they both seem rather lacking, but are separate and distinct. It seems to be the loss of community that is hurting rather than the general decline of faith across Western Europe. As I hinted above, it's that role the churches could have tried to fill, successfully, but chose not to.

Why couldn't Blazing Saddles be made today? Some of the jokes would be different -- mores have moved in 40 years. There's been racial progress, even in America!
We don’t know what a brain disconnected from all sensory inputs feels. It could be agonizing pain for all that we know.
Numerical Methods in C++ Part 1: Newton-Cotes Integration
I interpreted that as meaning that the ice sheet is only defined as that water which is in an icy state, not the snow that sits on top of it. If snow is melting, refreezing, and becoming part of the ice sheet (not sitting above), then the mass of the ice sheet is increasing.
HD emulation mod makes “Mode 7” SNES games look like new
> the machine does not differentiate on the basis of race

I’m guessing it was predominantly white men who built this machine and white men who tested it. Reminds me of certain facial-recognition programs being (initially) unable to identify black faces. It may not be racism, but it is discrimination.
My understanding is that they are not targeting a certain type of hair, rather a certain type of hair has characteristics that the machine cannot distinguish from potential risks.
No, 'secularist' just means 'secularist' because it's the right word.

It says nothing about 'the commenter' at all.

As for the word ... the 'old stodgy conservative clergyman' was apparently raised by the furthest thing from that: old-school communists, and since most people don't fully equate communism to secularism (which is effectively the case) - the description is apt, given the whole point of the thread is the nature of this guys religion, and the recent history of secularism.
What's the rationale for all comparisons returning false for IEEE754 NaN values?
There's no way to tell how many terrorists have been dissuaded from making an attempt because of the existence of the TSA.
What could he? He never shared the details of his methods with us. All we have is some third party account with superficial descriptions.
Well, it didn't work that well for me. Adding to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19682019

$ time 7zr a -mmt=$(nproc) -ms=off -m0=lzma2 -md=64m -ma=0 -mmf=hc4 -mfb=64 -mf=off linux-5.0.8.tar{.7z,}
real 60.49 user 158.94 sys 3.06 maxrss 8995040

$ stat -c '%s %n' linux-5.0.8.tar.7z
127700475 linux-5.0.8.tar.7z

$ time 7zr e -so linux-5.0.8.tar.7z >/dev/null
real 14.09 user 13.96 sys 0.12 maxrss 282208

Basically:

- it took twice the time to compress data even compared to xz -2 (which also uses lzma2 under the hood),

- it is comparable to zstd/bzip2 ratio-wise,

- it used almost 6 times (!) more RAM than even zstd -12 --long,

- it only used about 2.5 CPU cores out of 4 while compressing (which aligns pretty well with your reasoning for using -ms=off).

----

But hey, source code is not that regular. Since you mentioned JSON and fixed-width-field binary data, I decided to re-run benchmarks on 10M lines of nginx access logs: they're way more regular in their structure (repetitive URLs, timestamps, Mozilla/5.0, stuff like that) that might benefit from larger window sizes.

$ time lbzip2 -k access-log-10m.log
real 90.59 user 313.04 sys 18.46 maxrss 117904

$ time ~/zstd-1.4.0/zstd -T0 -k -12 access-log-10m.log -o access-log-10m.log.zst-12
real 77.34 user 277.21 sys 1.55 maxrss 886416

$ time ~/zstd-1.4.0/zstd -T0 -k -12 --long access-log-10m.log -o access-log-10m.log.zst-12-long
real 69.24 user 242.18 sys 1.85 maxrss 1411872

$ time 7zr a -mmt=$(nproc) -ms=off -m0=lzma2 -md=64m -ma=0 -mmf=hc4 -mfb=64 -mf=off access-log-10m.log{.7z,}
real 109.10 user 356.42 sys 4.69 maxrss 9777664

$ stat -c '%s %n' access-log-10m.log* | sort -n
208537395 access-log-10m.log.bz2
231953002 access-log-10m.log.zst-12-long
237566691 access-log-10m.log.zst-12
249412192 access-log-10m.log.7z
3386733539 access-log-10m.log

Now tweaked 7z did better CPU- and time-wise, but it's still behind zst and bz2 on every metric, especially RAM which it requires so much of (literally gigabytes) it becomes impractical in a number of situations. And we needed a pretty regular input (not just some pretty compressible text like source code or Wikipedia dump) to close that gap. So I can't really recommend your suggestion, unless you have some niche input that benefits from that particular set of options (but then, who has time to learn lzma internals and how every option plays with different kinds of input?).

----

It's also worth pointing out that zstd also has plenty of options to fiddle with: https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/programs/zstd.1.md...
People are free to choose their hair and hairstyles. The burden of not discriminating is on the government agency, which is funded and mandated (including, according to TFA, $100M for deploying the scanners) to not be discriminatory, including on characteristics related to race.

As u/tj-teej pointed out [0], the utilizers of this tech have the agency and means to improve or mitigate the tech, including prioritizing the training of algorithms to handle black hair styles instead of shunting it off to an edge case, conveniently burdening a demographic who has been historically limited in power and influence.

To think of it another way: in many parts of the U.S., Asians are very much a minority. Asians more commonly have narrower eyes which can interfere with face detection/recognition [1]. In the near and possible future, when face-detection becomes a "feature" in security tech as a means to expedite processing -- e.g. if your face is scanned and not found in a "Real ID" database, you're automatically put in a line for more invasive searching -- would Asian-Americans not have a legitimate case that the U.S. gov't has failed to improve their tech to the detriment of Asian-American citizens? Especially when it seems Asian countries have successfully mitigated the issue?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19684290

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-newzealand-passport-error...
Reminds me more of the capability based OSs, like KeyKOS, EROS, and Coyotos.
Idle thought: Frankenstein with VC money...

"Yeah, we're raising our series A so we can ink a deal with a Chinese morgue for a steady supply of parts to stitch together, and to scale up our electricity generation to the needed amount so we don't have to depend on the odd lightning bolt, which turns out to be really rare here in Palo Alto"
> There's a problem with people smuggling dangerous items on to aircraft

We have a lot of evidence that these machines are minimally effective against most terrorist threats.