skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because sometimes you want to take some action in case of non-zero $PIPESTATUS instead of just failing everything immediately. This provides full control.
Yes, but going from positive birth rates to negative could also have a catastrophic effect on human civilization and send us back to a darkage just when we were supposed to tackle global warming.

Maybe it won't be that bad, I've never ran the numbers, but intuition tells me population reduction has never been good for human civilisation.
I see this more and more recently where a webpage takes ~5 seconds to load if it’s an AMP page if I have some sort of ad blocking (cookie restriction) in place. What’s interesting is that the page content is already loaded but my browser (Safari) is waiting for something to render everything. So, if I have the Reader Mode pre-activated on the same page, I can read the page before the ~5 seconds is over and I can actually see the page!
I'm the opposite; I think it's good to have kids but I personally don't like kids and do not have any (and at 40, it's increasingly likely I never will).
Is there any reason the astronomers choose to focus on Wolf-Rayet star evolution and not stars in general?

Science starts with data. If you want to prove a general theory, you show that it fits the simply-collected facts. You don't cook your experiment to prove your pet hypothesis.
I am in constant fear of losing my job not being able to pay my mortgage and becoming homeless. Why would anyone have babies under these circumstances?
Anorexia nervosa and excessive exercise seem to be causally linked.¹

If you want to cure someone of anorexia, you will usually have more success if you both eliminate the excessive exercise and address the eating behaviour at the same time.

For some reason, it seems as if each behaviour somehow supports the other, and to break the cycle, you have to address both.

Also if you or anyone has an eating disorder, take it seriously and seek treatment. Eating disorders have the highest death rate of any mental disorder.

1: When researchers restrict rats’ food intake while giving them unlimited access to a wheel, the rats start running excessively. Paradoxically, these rats opt to continue running rather than eat during the short intervals of time food is made available to them. If allowed, they will literally run themselves to death. (https://www.verywellmind.com/excessive-exercise-eating-disor...)
"More effort put into politicking will not yield better results."

I disagree strongly. It's my belief that this attitude is a big part of the reason why we're not actually doing anything.

Depending on the poll and the degree of action requested, a small majority of Americans or a large minority supports climate change action. Policy action is very possible.
Four Years of Rust
Thank you, I just read through that and it's all very anxiety inducing. Probably because it's true.

I'll give it a try. I realise I need to.
Seeking asylum is legal immigration.
Lower genetic diversity, less species resiliency, lower growth for humanity across the board due to less humans exploring various problem spaces.... there are a lot of downsides to declining populations, depending on the surrounding circumstances/causes, just as there are upsides.
"identifiers" just means "area code", they're not wasted

As a user of this numbering system, this is how it generally looks like:

Landline numbers are dialed

0 - prefix to dial outside my area code

XX(X) - area code

XXX-XXXX - phone number

Mobile phones are

0 - prefix

70/80/90 - "mobile phones" area code

XXXX-XXXX - phone number

Since every number starts with a 0, you don't think of it as part of the number. Without the 0, most landlines are 9 numbers long and mobile phones are 10 numbers. When you're calling between landlines in the same area code, you only need 7 numbers.

The largest issue is the death of landlines and the rise of mobile phones. Lots of area codes dedicated to landlines when landlines are dying.

The NANP (north american numbering plan) is basically the only place in the world where cell phones get put into regular geographic area codes, due to the way cell phones are billed there (in the rest of the world, receiving calls on a cell phone is free, the caller pays the extra fees)
Python Release Python 3.8.0a4
> From a national economy perspective, it is a very bad thing for two reasons.

Not necessarily.

Per capita metrics are more important that national metrics. I.e. I don't care what the size of the national economy is as long as people as individually getting better off.
Not in the hypothetical world where Bitnami reaches through the connection and manages the “server” embedded in the software for them. Like Ubuntu LTS with automatic security updates + kernel patches turned on, but at the individual-application level.
Because he works for the JuliaLab and Alan mentions this bit of trivia all the time.
I read quite some things about the data class... in short: If I use a lot of pandas.DataFrames, is this something I should learn about?
What's the best practice for type hinting a class that's not being imported?

I.e. A module contains a function that accepts a pandas.DataFrame. This module doesn't import pandas.
Shared memory construct to avoid need for serialization between Python processes
YTMND was the first time the notion of memes (in the dawkins sense of the word) made literal sense to me. There were a somewhat limited number of themes/motifs -> memes that you'd see combined and recombined. Some were more pervasive than others. Most of them spread with little to no relation to their original meaning/purpose/context. It was interesting to watch the meta level of the thing
I’m completely drawing a blank as to why people having fewer children would be a bad thing for anyone, aside from the Idiocracy scenario. I can think of all kinds of reasons why it would be a good or neutral thing, but I can’t think of any downsides.
Tatsuya is taking a stand against the Patriarchy. He will defeat it with his stomach.[1] Beginning around October, 2011, though with antecedents.

The patriarchy objects, as a patiriarchy does.

The Sisterhood
http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-10-03

...Crim gets Lit
http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-10-06

...'Nique gets woke
http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-10-07

Patriarchy
http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-10-17

Rad Fem
http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-05-06

Peak Dudebro
http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-09-06
http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-09-14

Woke Televisio
http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2018-10-11

Though the early days had some highlights
http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-03-15

1. http://sinfest.net/view.php?date=2014-10-24
Yeah I don't use it in practice - I remembered it because it was part of my bash trivia collection when I started learning more about shell scripts many years go. Named variables are obviously a cleaner choice.
Exactly this- I don't particularly enjoy the game, however it's an easy way for me to stay in touch with friends who live far away and play on different mediums than PC.
HBO CEO Richard Plepler said "Rights are getting more expensive" in an interview from 2017 (https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/16/netflix-earnings-how-much-is...)

Paying out more money for licensing when they don't own the content is like paying rent; it doesn't net you any money in the future, and the market (and your own strength in it) determines your negotiating position, so you may have to pay more to keep showing it later.

Streaming companies like Netflix and Amazon realized this and began producing original content years ago, with costs going toward longer term profits, reduced licensing costs, and increased subscribers of exclusive content. Over 85% of Netflix's new spend in 2018 was on original content, and that year it produced more movies than all major movie studios combined. Not only is licensing content expensive, but an exclusive license is prohibitively expensive; generating the content yourself and keeping it exclusive is a way to attract subscribers and not lose as much cash, and retain have a long-term investment.

This year, Netflix is estimated to spend 15 billion on original content alone. In 2018, Netflix spent 15 billion on content (ballooning up from the 8 billion it estimated before that year began). Compare to 2016 when it spent over 5 billion on content, and 2012 when it spent just 2 billion. Each year they've spent more on content, in part because the licensing is getting more expensive, and in part to produce such a big corpus of original content. But at the same time, its content library has shrank by more than half. They offset this loss of content by leaning on their recommendation algorithm to maximize the content viewed by users.

Compare to HBO, which generally has had marginal increases in content licensing fees. It does this by making nearly all of its TV programming original, and licensing films. Netflix is essentially following HBO's model, but more so.

As even more evidence, Comcast and Disney are moving toward original and exclusive content. Disney is buying Comcast's stake in Hulu, after it recently bought FOX's rights. And NBC plans to put out its own streaming service, where it will probably keep its own content exclusively after 2024.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2016/06/20/netflix-inc-conten... https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/062515/how-n... https://www.forbes.com/sites/danafeldman/2018/07/09/netflixs... https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/disney-full-control-hu...
or they dont know or care. "it runs my spreadsheet fine"
I think the abstraction of humanity as a group of which every human being is part of is something that many people understand. People care about the messages they hear, and most of them still hear a message that says there's no real issue and it's possible to keep living the way they live, and it's possible for everyone to keep living the way they live.

Many people would be okay if the message was: we are all going to have to change the way we live, including the rich.
you were programming in text, a very popular programming language that i'm using right now :)

here is a peg grammar:

text = $.*

you can try it at https://pegjs.org/online :)

edit: sry to disappoint but this matches binary files too :(
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I agree. Until we get our population under control we should be encouraging (not mandating) people to not have more than 2 children. Unfortunately, it is the developing world where this is largely double what is sustainable for our planet. It will eventually get solved by lack of water or food and in some cases reaching a high enough standard of living that people stop having 6 kids expecting that maybe 2 will survive.
It's a bug for sure, but conclusions like this are over the top for a single small bug:

> This isn’t an Apple which has any concern over the quality of its products, or for its users. It’s just another leviathan corporation which has stopped caring or taking pride. One small bug reveals a deep and pervasive problem.

I'd rather see a more measured approach to drawing conclusions from a single anecdote.
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I always liked Mario Teaches Punch the Keys For God Sake:

https://web.archive.org/web/20060603154932/marioteachesptkfg...
Rodney left precisely because Fred wanted to do less goofy comedy. I've gone back and purchased the first two compilations, and they're rather thick. There's a clear transition when Fred switches from webcomic style panel layouts to a clear full page manga layout. There are little Piro joke comics under every one of the web-style comics just to fill the gap, and the storylines are really all over the place thematically. Once they parted ways, things become way more coherent, if a bit boring for folks who made the jump over from the Bench comics that MT did for Penny Arcade.
Sounds like something that requires further research, however, I do see how vegetarians / vegans (or anyone following a specific diet for that matter) become a lot more mindful of what they eat, or what they "are allowed to" eat.
What's the difference ego depletion and decision fatigue?
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You could classify lots of things as 'unhealthy obsessions' but then you'd just have a group of disorders, it wouldn't help you treat them. Clearly even two kinds of obsessive eating patterns are different enough to warrant different analysis. For example, there are a great many more practical ways you can act on ON than AN, and being health-obsessed might have less social stigma so the patterns leading to it might be harder to pick out as problems. If you want to treat these people on their terms and in ways that make sense, you have to drill down and deconstruct the specific phenomena.

There is a place for general obsession research, of course, but examining why people congregate around this one is obviously helpful to that goal anyway. What exactly about healthy eating makes it attractive to obsessive tendencies? The commonalities and differences compared to AN are surely going to be valuable.

We programmers like to abstract over things, but tons of good work in science involves just having a go at at one thing until it is better understood.
No. Data classes are a mutable replacement for collections.namedtuple.
Human factors may have been a contributing issue, but it seems like the root cause was the design/implementation.

In most major catastrophes/mishaps, there's a number of proximate causes (i.e. the pilots didn't do 'X') that 'could' have prevented the issue. But focusing on these to the distraction of focus on the root cause is a sure way to increase the risk of another failure.

Installing a larger oil pan won't fix your car for long if the root cause is a bad filter design.
> When it's no longer the economically obvious choice to drive ICE cars I'll stop doing it but not before then.

Note that this may happen with policy alone. Many countries and cities around the world are now heavily subsidizing electric cars, through things like tax breaks and waiving parking fees. This is only possible because electric cars are an available option.
>the smartest and overall "fittest" women (in particular) have children late (and thus few)

Richest and most educated =/= "smartest" and "fittest."

Even your estimation of "fittest" is totally subjective. From a natural selection perspective, the ones with more reproductive success are the fitter ones. And it's not at all established that people with high socio-economic status are genetically smarter or better on any level than low SES individuals. It's more likely to be nurture and access to resources and parenting styles that set them up for success.
Good luck with that. Numbers are easier to pronounce/use/enter. Not everyone uses latin.

> "bookshelf amusement Vulcan phonetic crackdown alkali merit candidate aardvark Atlantic"

Make some chinese, japanese, russians to pronounce this on daily base.

EDIT: __aardvark__ had to google this one.
It seems to have been just one of those hype cons that Musk is so good at. Musk pitched it in order to rescue the investment made by SpaceX into Solar City.

Every time some approach fails economically/financially, Musk comes up new technology that needs some financing and sells it. He is cashing in his reputation as technical genius again and again. He hopes that that nobody notices how his ideas to turn profit constantly change and are just out of reach.

Tesla was supposed to make 20,000 Model 3 cars by December 2017. If that plan would have worked, Tesla would have needed those cells.

Large scale ramp-up of Model 3 has slowed down to crawl, and has not reached even 6000 cars per month. With those volumes debt will drown Tesla and something must be done. Musk gained new investors with full-autonomy and taxi service idea. Completely insane proposition considering the state-of-the-art and the fact that the regulation is something that the company can't really influence.
That cpu was like that Bob Dylan cd collection Sony made 100 copies of.
The following excerpts score quite high on my BS meter:

- "Although the purpose and meaning of the manuscript had eluded scholars for over a century, it took Research Associate Dr. Gerard Cheshire two weeks,"

- ""I experienced a series of 'eureka' moments whilst deciphering the code"

These two alone much more to discredit the "preliminary" claims than any of the remaining arguments in favor of the "discovery".
> A system should be secure enough to isolate untrusted code.

In a dream world. It's become obvious that our general-purpose systems are far too complex to be proven secure, and trying to run untrusted code on such a foundation is going to turn up vulnerability after vulnerability after vulnerability. It is madness.
I became obsessed with label-reading and healthy foods because I had a serious problem with feeling ill from food. It turned out it had nothing to do with organicness, preservatives, additives or much else besides that I had undiagnosed celiac disease and a couple food allergies.

I was a vegetarian for a while because I found I felt better. This was probably a coincidence related to the meals I prepared being gluten-free.

“They also discovered that vegetarians and vegans were at higher risk.“ seems backwards - isn’t it more that hypertrexia makes one more likely to become a vegan or vegetarian?
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Yes, there will be a drop in growth. More and more jobs will be automated away and soon most jobs will be the government paying people to take care of our elderly. There won't be many other jobs available on the whole.
Pretty much an accident waiting to happen. The contact points offer no break-away bail out options, to sacrifice the connector sections in the event of an emergency.

If I'm in aircraft C, and I notice that A and B are having trouble, I want a way to ditch the linked section of my wing, without having to rely on mechanisms belonging to the other airframe.

I also want the other plane to be able to ditch it's connector, and leave it attached to my craft, without significantly affecting my aerodynamic profile. In other words, the linkage should behave similar to a weapons mountable hard point.

The demonstrations provided look like coat hangers, and really don't appear to be designed to tolerate potential forces and loads anticipating malfunctions or adverse conditions like ice, nor do they look like they'll fail in a safe and predictable way that doesn't result in ripped sheet metal.

Sorry, this shit fucking sucks. Only an asshole would sign up for this shit as designed.
JSON Serialization Sectrets
The other day I come up with an idea to serialize JSON in a pretty fast way. I will share it in the hope that someone will find it useful.

(From a Node.js perspective)
Traditionally the serialization of objects is made possible by the native JSON.stringify method.
What it does is very simple:
- evaluates every property
- evaluates every value corresponding to that property
- parse strings looking for unwanted characters
- concatenates a long string based on properties/values found

This serialization technique performs a lot of subsequent concatenations.

So I scratched my head to find a workaround for performing a smaller number of operations yielding the same result.

If you know in advance the schema of the JSON that is going to be serialized you can do a little trick.

In order:
- You build a schema defining the JSON structure
- Transform the schema into a string
- Transform the string into a template

So, when serializing:
- You are basically filling the blanks of your pre-made template
- Done.

It turns out that this serialization method is exceptionally fast. In some use cases, you can see a performance improvement of 10000x on native JSON.stringify (benchmarks below).

Clearly, this method has limitations. E.g. you can serialize only objects with a fixed structure.
But, if you are dealing with objects that don't change much, it can save you a ton of time.

I wrapped it in a github repo (with benchmarks):
https://github.com/lucagez/slow-json-stringify

Happy serialization everyone!
I always saved the wav/mp3 and gif files of the ones I liked the most. I do this for all sites I like because inevitably, they vanish and rarely render correctly on archive.org.

My favorite was "amorningfilledwith400billionsuns" - or also known as "A Still More Glorious Dawn Awaits sagan" with the auto-tuned version of Carl Sagan singing about our possible future.

Hard to pick a single favorite actually. There were so many great ones.
Uber has no moat, so cannot possibly exploit a monopoly. The hardest part of their service to replicate is the drivers, and since they're all contractors they are free to work for Uber's competitors!

Even if Uber gained 100% share of car rides in an area, if they decided to exploit that by increasing their prices it would be relatively easy to create a competing company and undercut them.
Are you a developer? If so, you may have unintentionally provided subtle hints to them that you're a developer. Everyone seems to be able to guess that I'm a developer regardless of what I'm doing and whether or not I'm wearing a tech-related t-shirt. If they think you're a developer, it's not surprising they would be quick to leap to the conclusion that you're writing code.
> Unions usually have an obligation to defend everyone as part of their [founding princples/constitution]

This too is not the case, there is a difference between hearing grievances and defending legitimate ones, and defending people with illegitimate grievances. If their constitution requires the second it is again the unions fault for putting that in their constitution, and the comment that started this chain is still a illegitimate shifting of blame.

> Maybe I read your tone wrong, but I read negative

I am negative on this aspect of unions, I'm very positive on others, my original comment was mainly being negative about attempting to shift blame to a document of their own creation and not about addressing the pros or cons of unions.

CUPE 3902 is the only one I've been in that affected me in any noticeable way.
I have a Nook tablet with 8Gb internal storage and a 32 Gb MicroSD card installed. Almost all of the Google and Nook apps cannot be moved to the MicroSD card space. Android takes up almost half of the 8Gb internal storage and the unmovable apps take up almost half of the rest, leaving very little space to work with. I've had lots of occasions where the system has told me it needs more space to do an update, and I would have to delete some of my apps to get that update.

I really like my Nook, but having Android and Google apps locking up so much of the internal space seriously impacts its usability.
Bless them, I should donate a little extra just for this.
I simply meant that Crystal lang features ultra high performance, and yet shares much of Rubys syntactical elegance.
Much is built into the standard library and I have to ask what your experience with Crystal has been like so far?
I find pretty much everything I need, and the easy FFI with C takes care of most of the rest (see the Mongo.cr wrapper for the C mongo driver, for example...)
Personally I'm waiting for us to directly inject heat into the Earth's core, and retrieve it when needed.
Birth rates are dropping in parts of the world where incomes have risen dramatically as well.

I think this is really more about women having lives outside the home and couples having things they'd rather do than bang.
Basically, everything man-made which did not previously exist in nature is artificial. As for naturally occuring substances, everything that is synthesized is artificial as well.