skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You can't migrate every person on the planet to another one.

I completely agree, none of them are suitable. On the other hand, space habitats built from asteroids are a practical possibility.

>"If the asteroids are ultimately used as the material resource for the building of new colonies, and if by constructing new colonies near asteroids relatively little reaction mass is wasted in transportation, the area of land that is made available on the space frontier can be estimated. Assuming 13 km of total area per person, it appears that space habitats might be constructed that would provide new lands with a total area some 3,000 times that of the Earth. For a very long time at least mankind can look toward resources so nearly inexhaustible that the current frustration of limits to growth can be replaced by a sense of openness and the absence of barriers to further human development."

From the NASA report, 'Space Settlements: A Design Study' - https://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/75SummerStudy/Table_of_Conte...
This draft: https://github.com/dgryski/go-perfbook/blob/master/TODO
This short list: https://github.com/enocom/gopher-reading-list#performance
This article: https://medium.com/@val_deleplace/go-code-refactoring-the-23...
Not sure if the voice generation is actually happening on the phone but Call Screen is not conferencing in anyone AFAIK. It's pretty seamless. You get an automatic transcription interface to see what the caller is saying in real time, and can choose to pick up, ask some canned questions, get them to clarify what they said, or mark the number as spam and hang up. Often when I've suspected a spam call and started a Call Screen, they just hang up (which I consider a success).

(My opinions are my own, not necessarily those of my employer.)
How does one even figure that out though? Almost every flight one books, the aircraft model isn't listed.
The same reason a Turing machine (even a finite one) is a silly programming 'language'. It's an abstract model of computation. It just happens that real-world languages based on The Lambda Calculus like Lisp are only a stone's throw away syntactically, whereas the gulf between even assembly and a Turing machine program is quite large. I suppose that's because The Lambda Calculus doesn't aim to describe a pseudo-physical machine, and therefore leaves implementation much more open to interpretation.
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2019.17/18 Three Months to Riga – Weekly Changes in and Around Perl 6
If you want to kill someone, we're the right guys
Almost none of this is about Go. 80% down they mention some basic stuff about GC, but nothing very specific about the Go GC. Then after that it is back to very basic language-agnostic optimization ideas.

I was hoping for more insights about Go specifically.
To be clear, only one amateur rocketry team (the one in the link) ever made it to space.
Jews don't embalm. Embalming is only really necessary if you are doing open-casket, which we don't do.
With the ternary it's more obvious that you're always putting the result in the same place.
Control is both enabling and disabling, depending on the specifics; I think that is an important lesson that can come from looking at "cults".

Examples of enabling control: Learning math was forced on me as a child (unlike reading, I hated doing problems), but its importance to my life cannot be overstated. I join exercise classes to control myself and make sure that I get healthier. Etc. While there is a lot of difference between these and a "cult", I think the point of the OP is that control isn't simply bad.
> According to some theory it takes about 3.5% of the population to take part in active resistance to cause change

If that's true, it should be made more widely known.

I think that would be cause for hope for many people who despair at democracy and collective idiocy, and it would change their behaviour because of hope and belief in the effect of personal actions.

If the 3.5% is actually true, that change of behaviour caused by knowing it might tip serious balances.
Is tobacco advertisement still allowed in the US? I'd expect Heroin/Meth to be under even stricter advertising, tax and availability regulations than Tobacco if it were legalized.

Advertising ban for Marijuana seems similarly reasonable, although then Alcohol advertising should also be banned.
The article I'm referencing was from back during the Olympics, when the IOC ruled she could run, sorry I did not find the link. There was no mention of the fact she was intersex.

In terms of the article you reference, first: "mid-distance running seems to be testosterone independent" this is highly speculative, and I say bogus. Men utterly dominate women in that sport, and most of the differentiator is 'testosterone'.

Most importantly - Caster is not famale. She is a woman, yes, but her sex is not male or female, she is intersex.

We divide sports ultimately on the basis of sex, not really 'gender self identification'.

The NYT et. al. are oddly trying to conflate gender and sex due to their concern about 'rights'. They are creating a straw men situation "people attacked female athlete's in the past" as though this is 'more of same'. It's not - there's totally reasonable and fair grounds to discuss the intersex positioning in all of this.

If someone has the testosterone levels of a man (and testicles that produce it) has XY chromosomes ... well maybe they ought not to be competing with other women for whom this would be very unfair?
That is not what stoicism is at all.

> According to its teachings, as social beings, the path to happiness for humans is found in accepting the moment as it presents itself, by not allowing oneself to be controlled by the desire for pleasure or fear of pain, by using one's mind to understand the world and to do one's part in nature's plan, and by working together and treating others fairly and justly.

> Stoicism teaches the development of self-control and fortitude as a means of overcoming destructive emotions; the philosophy holds that becoming a clear and unbiased thinker allows one to understand the universal reason (logos).

> A Stoic of virtue, by contrast, would amend his will to suit the world and remain, in the words of Epictetus, "sick and yet happy, in peril and yet happy, dying and yet happy, in exile and happy, in disgrace and happy," ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism#Basic_tenets
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Well, it could be if we had more research.

From my experience, and from my reading on tons of books, code, clean code suggestions, bug reports, etc, patterns of bugs are more commonly found on such code bits, that sacrifice clarity for succinctness or "clever points" (in fact that's the very premise of TFA).

Most respected elders in development also warn against those types of code.

Lacking objective research, that's the best we can get, and I'd say better than "it works for me".
Ambiguous proverbs.
I hear similar things about Marijuana but I have seen people who smoked way too much until their personal and professional lives suffered. One thing is physical dependency but there is also psychological dependency.

All I m trying to say is that it's dangerous to say "there is no addiction risk in mushrooms. They are totally benign". If you say that it will be really easy for opponents to find counterexamples. Instead we should say they are not more dangerous than already legal things so there is no point in prohibiting mushrooms while other similarly harmful things are legal. .
Unfortunately the majority dictates the medium. As for the second point, if I consider the information worthwile, I make a personal copy of the volatile medium (this means not just social media, but any web page - if it's not on your computer, you don't control it and it can disappear at any moment).
We should all congratulate drugs for winning the war.
this is one of the most informative and clear response for this topic. thank you very much!
Right, I understand that about Call Screen.

What I want, though, is an interactive bot, running on my phone, that will eat up telemarketer's time by pretending to be a real person, and responding to them in such a way as to keep them on the line for as long as possible.

I want to pick up a call from a scumbag, tell them, "hang on, let me get my dad", and press the "fuck you" button - which puts a fake doddering old man on the line for them to talk to instantly, without any more intervention required from me.
Some people will abuse it, sure. Mushrooms are usually a good experience, but it is too intense for most people to want to do regularly.
So what is Gravity? kops/kubespray without an MIT license?
> In other countries, mobile phones have their own "mobile phones" area code which is non-geographic and applies to all mobile phones.

Here in Brazil it's slightly different. The area codes are the same for fixed and cell phones, but if the first digit of the local part of the phone number is in the 7-9 range, it's a cell phone (if it's in the 2-6 range, it's a fixed phone; 1 is reserved for special services like emergency, 0 is the interurban/international/toll-free/etc prefix). So a number like +55-11-9xxxx-xxxx is a cell phone in the São Paulo region (area code 11), while a number like +55-11-2xxx-xxxx is a fixed phone in the same region.
This isn't how it has to play out.

You can fly, you can eat meat, you can import things, you can do anything you want so long as it's sustainable.

What if cargo was travelling by modern, computer controlled sailboats that used zero fuel? What if planes used fuel produced by yeast that fed on raw sewage? What if cars could be made out of mushroom-based plastic and fully recycled metal?

None of these things are impossible, but nobody will do any of them until they're forced to. Either that's by preventative regulation, or, if things get really grim, by necessity.
Oh! This, this could be what I'm looking for.
Scooters Wouldn’t Be So Dangerous If You Just Wore a Helmet
Similar with scientists in my experience. Though it's more easily explained as the older generation sees the terms as interchangeable or not worth arguing about. The younger generation tends to use sex specifically and might call out improper use of gender.

// "MICE DON'T HAVE GENDER!!!!" <- something I've heard at high volume too many times
You don't need much knowledge to recognize whether 18650 cell is genuine. Just measure the capacity under different loads (say 0.5A, 1A), and check whether its weight is around ~45g (off the top my head). Get something like iMax b6 (dis)charger which is rock solid and cheap :) I've been using it for years.

Additionally, you can rely on other reviews.

When I buy 18650, I thoroughly review it for others.

Usually, the ones that come with some other items are cheap 18650 with low capacity and with sand (counterfeit / faking weight).

I want to point out something for everyone: there are cheap Chinese 18650 which are solid! For example, I've personally used official Liitokala batteries and the ones that I used are 100% genuine, high-capacity 18650.

As with everything else with life, you need to be careful and check reviews before you buy something.
FWIW modern C compilers recommend double-bracing exactly for that reason e.g. in clang, by default, it triggers:

test.c:3:17: warning: using the result of an assignment as a condition without parentheses [-Wparentheses]
if (statement = ref) {
~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~
test.c:3:17: note: place parentheses around the assignment to silence this warning
if (statement = ref) {
^
( )
test.c:3:17: note: use '==' to turn this assignment into an equality comparison
if (statement = ref) {
^
==
Why do we allow pay-per-minute phone services to even exist? There's no point to them in this day and age. If someone wants one of those services, there are plenty of ways to make it pay-per-minute without the phone company acting as a broker. Just end support for it, immediately.
Yes, absolutely. There is a significant population who will not do something if its illegal. Full stop.
I think its a question for all humans, not just specifically related to engineers.
Might this outcome differ in a ubiquitous information age?
You can colo your server and roll your own k8s clusters. But you can't afford the luxury of high throughput networking, EBS, etc., and don't forget HA options (Multi-AZ) for your clusters.
The problem with the batteries in relation to vaping has to do with the application. The only stories I have seen where one of these blew up was in an application where there was no regulation. Which is extremely stupid(since it’s unregulated you get more “clouds”). There are countless regulated options on the market that make these batteries as safe as using them in a phone or laptop.
>use in a way that’s detrimental to them or others

But that's so vague it's basically meaningless. If you drink enough alcohol to be hung over is that "abuse"? Only the most uptight people would say it is. Similarly, any recreational activity that costs money and results in that money being unavailable for things that other people consider a more important could be considered "detrimental to one's self" and therefore abuse by that metric. I assure you the guy who lives in a trailer with a Corvette in the driveway is not "abusing" cars, he's making a decision that reflects his priorities.
> the chances of your mailed laptop or phone being intercepted and searched are far, far less than if they are on your person at the border

Isn't "mailing a laptop" now counted as sending dangerous goods, due to the battery?[0]

If so, the chances of it being subject to interception and/or search might well be far higher than someone just carrying a laptop in hand luggage across an international border.

[0] https://www.dhl.com/en/express/shipping/shipping_advice/lith...
I don’t think that’s what Breiman is saying. He means useful and reliable information. The point is not just prediction but also actionable information about variables. Look at the 3 examples.
The next-to-last line cracked me up: "The costs can be much lower… or much higher!"
What's with all the condescending "uh"s? Are you roleplaying as Daria?
Drugs are the new political correctness, businesses want the money, junkies want the high. Against legalization? Backward shithole. Victims? Nah there can't be any/your are doing it wrong/control yourself mate your are just weak/X study says it's grand and not addictive, next make it a human right. Oh hey here's your latest Vice episode extolling weed: "Why Weed Is Good".
I am curious to see how they recommend handling storage on bare metal k8s.
Luck seems relative. He did get shot after all
I'd rather talk to people, too. I'm not even young, I'm 43 years old and I grew up running into the kitchen to answer every phone call before anyone else could grab it. These days the phone is so useless that I only get to talk to people face to face. Part of the problem is the spam and part of the problem is the voice quality. If you are my age you remember when phone calls actually sounded OK and phone companies competed on call quality ("you can hear a pin drop"). Now every phone call is a battle between your ears, some horrible vocoder, and 99% packet loss. Not enjoyable at all.
I was able to get the PS2 controllers at a discount at $8 per controller. If you can link me to better and more affordable ones, I would love to see them. Keep in mind this was self-funded, so we had to make a lot of compromises to keep things somewhat affordable.
See also current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19838229 (178+ comments)
Clowns must be held accountable for their actions, otherwise they don't learn.
Will you enjoy your life transporting pollen with a paintbrush? https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/5193-De...
> Never thought the ternary operator required high expertise for associativity/precedence reasons

If you chain or nest them.

> Funny :-)

I'm glad I could brighten your day a little bit.
I see them around Washington, and it appears that the riders are having a good time. Certainly many of the riders are tourists, but so are many of the pedestrians.

I do find it obnoxious to encounter them left on the sidewalk or beside a bike trail.
China is trying.

Russia is in the fossil fuel export business. Without it they're dead.
Build Artificial Intelligence That Everyone Can Trust
Last physical datacenter my team at the time ran our app in we spent weeks troubleshooting some hardware network driver issues that caused the network to drop. Was an enormous distraction and Dell and VMware support were useless at resolving it for us. I’m glad to have others deal with those low level “oh it must just be your setup” issues.
A 3D Rendering Engine in Java
This is too funny. Engineers focus on “pipeline jungles” lol!
"Doesn't apply to me, thus it doesn't apply to anyone"
Just wanted to add that I made this post to throw life-lines out to those who are suffering with the same illness as I am. This was not meant to be an invitation to healthy people to debate the merits of my diagnosis. I don't think healthy people can really understand this illness. It takes an immense amount of research and dedication to wrap your head around what's really going on. I gave up everything in my life to focus on studying my illness for over a decade. I'm talking 80-100 hour weeks for years and years. It just doesn't make sense to argue with people who haven't put in a similar amount of time and effort.
Yeah, Zig needs a "Zig by example" (akin to the Go and Rust by example pages).
Or maybe the opening song of Windows 98...
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>quick google search reveal the bee is important for pollination.

I suspect that you might not be the best informed person out there.
Price of Privacy in the Keynesian Beauty Contest [pdf]
I use a variation of your system with two phones. One is like yours and I always hawe it with me, turned on. The second is for everyone else - delivery people, banks etc. I have it muted except if I expect a call. Every couple of days I check it only to find that there were no important calls. Once a year someone leaves a message and I call them back. This system works great, I don't remember when was the last time I had to deal with scammers and other people wasting my time.
There are services in NYC where you can volunteer to simply talk to lonely elderly (or play card games or some other activity) in your neighborhood. I can't provide a link right unfortunately. You have to sign up, they'll verify you and then they'll connect to some lonely elderly in your area. Loneliness and isolation is understated.
this is also done automatically in iOS through the phone app
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Same here. People at my high school and middle school had zero interest in this sort of thing even if I was able to come up with a club for it.
Can science deliver the benefits of religion? Psychologists suggest it can
My dude Maarten would love the Pixar movie Inside Out
Maybe you can expand on why slowing down exploit dev is written off as zero value? If you're writing a zero day, I can certainly concede that this week vs next week has no practical effect.

But most users' exposure to vulnerabilities comes in the window between patch released and patch applied. It takes some amount of time to reverse a patch and develop an exploit, and users are racing against that time. The difference between just 24h and 48h can matter, no?
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At the scale where owning infrastructure makes sense, that's not a distraction but some team's full-time mission.
I retain faint naïve optimism for blockchain's long-term impact, but I really feel this paper overstretched trying to impose blockchain on the AI safety domain.

An example is the author's 3rd proposed axiom for Safe AGI in Table 3: "Morality, defined as no use of force or fraud, stored via DLT."

I applaud the sheer optimism, but found it difficult to take the paper seriously beyond page 6.
What's the theory? So far you just stated a premise...
I think it kind of gets lost in this debate- but lets say that the facts point towards a very grim outcome in the relatively near future.

Now lets say we could possibly mitigate the grimness of that outcome with our actions...wouldn't it make sense for all of us to do everything in our power? What would we lose? A burger tastes good, sure, but who gives a flying fuck if the planet is essentially uninhabitable?
Design for Collaborative Survival: An Inquiry into Human-Fungi Relationships [pdf]
it's also nice with Haskell's Multiway If:

x = if | a < b -> -1
| a > b -> 1
| otherwise -> 0

(and `cond` in lisps)
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Stop trying to just convince people to wear helmets because safety, it's not going to happen.

Instead, make affordable helmets not look ridiculous. I'm wearing a helmet (while biking), but I totally understand why people that are fitted with more vanity have a hard time, especially kids who are even more pressured to fit in.

Solve that, please. Explaining it will increase adoption rates as much as it has ended smoking, poor diets and sedentary lifestyle.
Facebook’s cryptocurrency might work like loyalty points
We're increasingly incapable of surviving on a planet that's perfectly suited to us.

There's no chance we "look towards the stars" if we can't fix the ground.
Someone else commented:
> If you have any investments shift them from fossil to green.

I'm interested in ideas about how to do this.

There are some MSCI indices along these lines like the "low carbon" ones[1]. But these still include fossil fuel companies, just with a lower weight.

There are also "ex fossil fuel" indices[2], but these only exclude companies that dig up the fossil fuels, and not necessarily those that emit. There is no weighting based on emissions in these.

Are there any broad equity indices that exclude fossil fuel companies and heavy emitters entirely, and then weight-adjust the rest based on emissions?

[1] https://www.msci.com/low-carbon-indexes

[2] https://www.msci.com/eqb/methodology/meth_docs/MSCI_Global_F...
Ask HN: Personal Data Preservation Strategies
I have some personal data that I can reasonably expect to never need again, aside from maybe just wanting to view it for historical reasons, but I don't want to just delete it all since it would be irrecoverable. How do you go about preserving personal files that you won't need but don't want to lose.

I was thinking of something like zipping it all, and putting it on a dedicated hard drive to create my own personal archive for this and other similar data. But thought I'd see if someone had already invented this wheel before purchasing the hardware for this strategy.
When you put it that way, it, for me, shines a light on alcohol. I honestly don't know how addictive opioids are; I haven't really been around any and have never felt compelled to take them (when I've had prescriptions). I grew up with alcoholism, so I have some idea of what it COULD look like.

But it is a damn shame that opioids are effective and inexpensive for pain management. But at this point they are all but unobtainable. I understand why, it's just a shame.
In many environments, you don't actually need distributed storage:

- Application servers are stateless.

- All state lives in stateful databases.

- Those database handle high availability at the application layer by replication data, so you can use local storage and deploy them using StatefulSets. Has the extra benefit of avoiding the network storage latency penalty.
I use a very simple Hugo and GitHub Pages setup. I wanted to keep it as simple as possible, because for me it's very easy to tinker instead of writing.
Yes this is true. From experience i'd estimate there's a 40% increase in tolerance/unit for each subsequent day used.