skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for the well worded responses. I was responding in good faith, and herein also.

>isn't consistently
This is the beautiful thing about socialism. It need not be perfect, or even dominant. It just needs a foothold. From there, it is purely a game of time. Put another way, socialists wait for other viewpoints to come around to theirs (Christianity, Academe, Business) or disappear. They do not become Less Left.

>cladistic
Ah. See you too are a person of depth. Yarvin's work on the neo-Protestant clade is exceptional but not for the faint of heart. I recommend Spandrell's Bioleninism piece.

>falsely generalizing
A salient point. Where are the gulags of the social democrats? Where are the legions of thought police? Where are the desperate informers turning in their neighbors? I know this will be an ugly statement, but I believe the mass murder inclination of socialists is more than saitiated by rampant abortion. It fulfills the same methods and motivations of Holdomer and any other incident of mass death from Lenin or Stalin or Pot or Mao; the greater good. People often forget that the motivations behind the mass death perpetrated by these men and, more importantly, their regimes always had a logical source, for some definition of logic. Socialism doesn't cause mass murder; it justifies it. And to the socialist society, the justification is always good.

>socialist religiosity
So what? Capitalism is faith in the selfishness of man. Socialism is faith in the rightness of good. Cargo Cults use the same parts of their brains for reasoning as Catholics. The question, for me, is not the How, but the What. More directly, To What End and For What Purpose. Objectively, the merit of capitalism vs. the merits of socialism a matter of historical record. Put another way, the same god concept that causes a genocide can also cause, quite literally, science. Equivocation has its value, but in the frame of your chosen context it is relatively valueless.

I point out the religiosity of socialism not to say it is singular, rather to demonstrate that it is typical.
Qubits have not doubled every 2 years historically; I see no reason they’ll suddenly do so ever.

Computers did because process shrank. Most qubits are already 1 or a few subatomic particles. There’s zero feature shrinkage possible at those scales.
Tortoises are a species of turtle ("Testudinoidea")
Netflix's goal with entertainment is to monopolize your free time. Its why they are willing to promote binge-watching, its why they consider games like Fortnite to be competitors in addition to (and in some cases more than) HBO and Hulu.

https://www.polygon.com/2019/1/17/18187400/netflix-vs-fortni...
What I mean is anything that is showing off, has a lack of humility and implicitly disparages others in a way that is totally unneeded while producing lower-quality, less-maintainable, less robust code. Being clever for the sake of appearing clever. That kind of thing.

if(condition)
I_am_tough_so_I_do_not_brace();

The un-braced block is a classic "macho" pose in code. leaving out a '{' and a '}', two characters, has no benefit in any way, shape or form. It is decrying "I will never make a mistake with this loose razor blade if you do maintaining it is because you suck" There is literally no reason to do it ever, under any circumstances. Yet I have, and we do. We can change. Now watch the arguments presented when you bring un-braced blocks up. They're insanely ridiculous. (vertical space, need static analysis, etc.) If you were betting your retirement savings on no bug in the line of code now or in the future, you'd be very nervous about it sure. And then you would brace it. Unbraced blocks are a minor thing that mostly don't matter. I wouldn't fight too hard over it. It's just that it's so very, very clear that one way is bugs for zero benefit while the other isn't. Meh.

So here's Bjarne being "Uber-Macho" to the delight of the conference crowd. Note the quote:

"I think I understand what you're saying and I think you happen to be wrong." (crowd whoops in glee).
https://youtu.be/OB-bdWKwXsU?t=4141

This is a pretty ugly way of saying "I disagree and this is why..." But the crowd loves it. That attitude gets into our code. "Macho coding" is the best descriptive name I can manage. Maybe there's a better one? (Note I agree with the content of Bjarne says, I just think he's being an asshole about it, why do that? https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Waltersobcha... )
Compared to China? Definitely.
Not likely. When manufacturing comes back to the US it's because the company calculated the cost of a US-based automated factory was less than the shipping + tariffs on the foreign-produced goods. If manual labor jobs leave China, they will go to other low-cost countries like Malaysia, Vietnam, etc. or be lost forever. Even producing things in Mexico can cut your labor cost in half in comparison to producing here.
Ahh, was just checking my assumptions. I have members of my family who still complain about having to call Zimbabwe Zimbabwe and who have old SA flags from the '70's, despite them not being from Africa, if you catch my drift, so I was not so subtly digging. For reference, I find it about as disconcerting as if someone decided to call themselves 'ConstantinopleKnight', or similar. If my uncle called himself 'RhodesianHunter' online, he would definitely not be referencing the dog breed.
What’s the alternative you propose?
Supposedly there are (rare) good CrossFit trainers who keep their class safe.
That's not true. Nuclear weapons are a 1940's technology, a fat-boy gun style device is simple enough and can be quite powerful. The only thing that's stopping everyone from producing their own is that refining uranium requires a massive amount of energy and scale. Delivery of warheads is the main problem though. What needs to be secret is the delivery / strategy part.
By the title, I've thought they're going out of business.
It had it's own adventures with colonialism apparently https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/16/france-reunion... just not at the same scale as Chagos.
I said absolutely nothing about race. I resent the implication that my opinion is somehow racially-based.

Nor have I done anything related to a "flame war". I insulted no individuals and I attacked no groups.

Nor has a "flame war" arisen from my comment. There have been many responses and there's no "flame war", just reasonable disagreement.

I simply expressed a sense of loss at the potential dissolution of a culture. My concerns are central to the whole topic; they are shared by most Japanese people. This is not some fringe view, it is at the center of the entire issue and is entirely mainstream.

Your accusations don't connect. This rebuke makes it seem like you're using biased enforcement of facially-neutral rules to advantage one side of the discussion, and suppress mainstream views on the other side. What you're doing here is harmful to the health of the HN community, and wider discourse. Please reconsider how you've approached this issue, and be more circumspect before making such accusations. Ask yourself - How would someone with the opposite mainstream view, or a Japanese person, consider the comment? How would I moderate this if I agreed with the underlying worldview and values?
> Do we really want social issues litigated by major brands slinging mud at each other?

I agree the mud slinging in this post is pretty ridiculous, but I certainly like it when major brands refuse to do business with other brands that are harmful to society. For example, those that chose not to advertise on Fox News.
CrossFit is not just a diet regimen.
Facebook = AOL + friendster and was founded by a someone who called his users dumb f*cks. What else can you expect from a company with this kind of DNA.
sounds like a continuous hmm problem to me :)
And, since you mentioned Fox News, look at the last tweet's date on https://twitter.com/foxnews.

Boycotts have a long, storied history.
It would be interesting to have a forth where, if you try to pop from an empty stack, you get a function object that consumes the next things pushed onto the stack (i.e. functions are curried)
There's a real disconnect in some cultures between what they say and do. Instead of fostering long term mutually beneficial relationships (as they say they are focused on), it is all about screwing the opponent. There is no shame in doing it. The only shame is in being caught. It's easy to see what holds back certain economic systems with such malfeasance.
Framing this as “the users” is disingenuous, again, a lot of users favored the decision too. The arguments of those users were taken into account, but the decision was made against it anwyay.

Those polls were incredibly non-scientific, and don’t really mean anything.
The disconnect is a temporary issue. Evolution will quickly replace the desire for sex with a desire for children, or will give us traits that make successful use of birth control unlikely. There is no stronger selection pressure.
Sorry, I was a bit frustrated with how long that (and similar bugs in other browsers) have been open without resolution.
Colorado becomes first state in nation to cap price of insulin
Exactly, we should just be upfront when we say that his success is due to both luck and hard work. Hard work is a given, and many people do that. But to really succeed you need a good dose of luck as well, and luck is not something you "work" for
Until it gets legalized reagent kits and pill reports are the best way to verify active ingredients.
https://www.ecstasydata.org/
https://dancesafe.org/shop/
From how I read the indictment, Manning had finished dumping what she could with her level of access and then Assange urged her to do more. Then Assange provided the live Linux Distro and the process for dumping the admin password hash. Manning then supplied the hash to Assange who then began to attempt to brute force it.

I don't believe these sort of cases should be protected when they reach that level. I do believe that up until the point Assange started actively assisting Manning in compromising DoD systems from the level of access Manning had was where he crossed the line. If he would have just taken the data Manning provided at her level of access that imo is journalism. Attempting to brute force password hashes to give you admin access to DoD systems, that's a computer crime and should be treated as such.
Ask HN: Best distributed job processing system in 2019?
I have around 10 million network I/O related jobs that I would like to do in a short period.

So I hope to use a job queue to run it distributed on several servers.

I have used celery in the past but it is not quite reliable.

Features most important to me are multiple retries, restarting workers that are not responding, ability to monitor status of the queue and workers. Nice to have features - cron scheduling, task chaining, high throughput.

Which is the most stable, reliable job queue out there? It would be preferable to support workers in multiple languages. The ones I would prefer are Python and Go.

I have used celery in the past, but workers often hang
Governments Should Regulate Rewards Points
They Should Make Cameras That Attach to Binoculars
Supposedly. In personal experience, I've observed an actual 100% fit for people who lack critical thinking skills, or often even general intelligence, and significant Crossfit engagement.

I really do think it is an obviously anti-intellectual consumer cult. I know many people who have tried it and decided it was not reasonable.

Edit:

I think my comment comes across as a generalized put-down, which rubbed people the wrong way and garnered the downvotes.

The experience I shared is truthful. Every single person I know that has really fallen into the Crossfit consumer cult is as far as I can tell a person who proves themselves to be susceptible to morally bankrupt, intellectually inept ideas. All of these people legitimately lack critical thinking skills. That's my own experience.

As far as the actual regime goes, it is pretty-well established to be anti-intellectual and flagrantly dismissive of science. They advertise this.

Yes some very fit people also do it and profit off of it. Some very rich people also promote MLM, which is a consumer cult deserving of similar, but worse criticism.

Should I not be able to criticize people who fall into MLM consumer cults? I think we need to allow criticism.

What about scientology, or other religious cults? What about other anti-intellectual cult of ideas like flat earth, anti-vax or phrenology?

Tell me exactly where the line is drawn, and why.
E-Commerce Warehouses and Shops Will Merge
I used to term natives to refer to people who have been living here for centuries and have made it their home.

The equivalent is expelling everyone from Australia because US/UK wants to build military base there.
We should have bit, doublebit and quadbit data types
Show HN: Simple YouTube Downloader
test $# -gt 0||exec echo usage: echo youtube-url\|$0 fmt \[saveas\];b=$(exec sed 's/http:/https:/; s/m.youtube/www.youtube/;s/youtu.be./www.youtube.com\/watch?v=/;s/hooktube.com/youtube.com/;s/embed./watch?v=/;#etc.;s/?version.//;s/;.//;');echo source url: $b;c=${b##=};a=$(ftp -4o/dev/stdout $b|exec grep -o "https%3A%2F%2Fr[0-9][a-zA-Z0-9.%_-]*"|exec sed 's/%26/\&/g;s/%3D/=/g;s/%3A/:/g;s/%2F/\//g;s/%3F/?/g;s/%25/%/g;/itag='"$1"'/!d');echo video url: $a;exec ftp -4o ${2-$c} $a;
I'm sure a bunch of people in third world countries would be happy to have US/EU passports, but it would still be colonialism for US/European countries to annex them, wouldn't it?
Google Shouldn’t Require OEMs to Support Dated Media Formats
You last paragraph reads reallt badly:
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Why is the US supreme court like that? Because like all US institutions it is created and staffed by people who are ideologically committed to the furtherance of the United States Government. They are not independent; they are fully bought into the Union agenda.
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And you bit about budget is complete nonsense! Where did you even get this?
These fines are minuscule compared to the EU overall budget, they aren't there to cover some kind of budget shortfall.
It's not early friend :(

Having said that, with the amount of Chinese wealth overseas I think there is a vested interest in keeping the status quo
No opinion on CrossFit, but if you've ever worked in Academia you realize that it's more of a cult and spreader of misinformation than any other establishment. Not always on purpose, but that doesn't matter.
The interesting thing about H.264 is that it achieves excellent compression rates not by a single "miracle trick", but by combining multiple small-gain techniques. Every technique lets you gain on the order of 1-3%, but when you combine them all, you get fantastic results.

Another tidbit of (potentially) interesting information: it took many years for H.264 to achieve its full potential, for two reasons:

1) Implementing a decoder is really, really complicated, especially if you want it to run fast, and if you think a miracle "hardware decoder" solves the problem, you need to remember that H.264 places heavy requirements on memory bandwidth and caching (B frames), so it's not like you can just feed a stream through a chip and get video frames on the other side.

2) Implementing an encoder is really, really complicated :-) — and there are many ways to encode a video stream. H.264 delivers the tools, but does not specify how you should use them. It took many years for decoders to get to a state where most of H.264 is used efficiently.
Because collective benefits don't work without the collective. Might as well say "If you want roads why don't you just build or pay for them yourself?" "If you want electricity, just build and operate your own power plant"

You can do a whole hell of a lot more with 100 people working together than with 100 individuals acting of their own isolated accords.
They aren’t attacking academia in general as unholy. Just saying there is a vested economic interest for some in academia to publish content adhering to viewpoints that help company bottom lines.
I received a 'Reset your Spotify password' email yesterday, sent to a unique email address I use only for Spotify. (And it's not of the commonly-used user+spotify@domain.com format.)

The only ways I can imagine someone would get that email address are:

A) From Spotify (i.e. breach)

B) From Google (as I linked my Spotify account to Google Home, which presumably shares the registered email address)

C) From some poor security practice on my part (e.g. maybe I entered the email address on a phishing site, or have malware on one of my devices, or someone has access to my email, ...)

D) Guessing it.

I had presumed C or D, but given the timing of your post, I'm now not so sure...
Whenever I'm doing work in remote locations, I just tether my laptop to my phone which automatically makes a hotspot for me.
I really fail to see how it's criminal for someone in another country to explain how to hack a computer system our govt has. I fail to see how it's criminal for them to even encourage someone to hack the system. They aren't our citizen, they don't get our benefits and rights, they don't have to act the way we want them to.

This isn't different than the Chinese govt demanding us citizens be surrendered who break Chinese social laws.
Seriously this issue has nothing to do with Chinese IP system. Any trademark troll can register their trademark and send a takedown request to Apple. In this specific case, Apple decides to take down the app because the trademark is registered in a first-to-file juristication. It probably will make the same decision if the patent troll registered the tradmark in most EU countries.

Trademark trolling is a big problem. Making this a China specific problem doesn't help to solve it.
Sadly Linux has been a 3rd class citizen for years as far as Mozilla is concerned.
You mean DCT?

Please see my other comment under this post: H.264 has no "real magic", the magic comes from multiple small-gain tricks combined together.
Putting aside any discussion about whether it should or should not be allowed. The article claims the sharing of the 3D prints can't be stopped. But I find that untrue. Wouldn't similar means as taken for child pornography be able to block the distribution in a similar way? Maybe you couldn't stop it completely, like child porn still finds its way out, but it could be made much more difficult to share. I don't see anything particularly more difficult related to the fact they are CAD models. Maybe identifying a gun model from non gun CAD models would prove more challenging then for images?
Fuck Marx lol.
CrossFit talking about “corrupted nutritional science”. That’s rich.
> We should all realize that there are much worse outcomes than the current society we live in,

"Could be worse" is not a compelling argument.

> lots of them increase dramatically in likelihood when you remove the ability of society to protect itself from people who intend to create catastrophe.

I'm curious what you could possibly be thinking of, because to me it seems obvious that the exact opposite is true.

This idea that all communication must be "accountable" to a central authority is very modern, and very very dystopian.

If bad guys can conspire in secret, I consider that an acceptable sacrifice in the name of liberty. Just like ensuring there is no surveillance inside of bathrooms (but what if terrorists assemble their bombs there!).
In that case you and other Americans probably break laws in China and Russia. Should you be handed over to those countries because of that? Because that's what you're saying here
>Why would folks ostensibly wanting to use the sharper sides of self-expression go and label their own actions as violence?

Nobody labels their own actions as violence. They label others' actions as violence, and either don't notice or hope to avoid the logical conclusion. People are not good at consistency.

People label others' words as violence in order to justify their own actual violence in return. E.g.:

"That speaker is racist and his words are violence, so we're justified in forcing open the doors and screaming and stomping to stop the speech."

>It seems strange to suggest that a declaration stripping you of many of your rights and property is not a violent act simply because the lawmaker themselves is a flaccid old man.

It really doesn't, any more than a restaurant recommendation is not an act of eating. Words have meanings.

A law to reduce pollution standards is not climate change, it is a law that will cause climate change. A law to increase government spending isn't a budget deficit, it's a law that will cause a budget deficit.

>I could set up a bomb to explode outside your car when the door opens and then claim I didn't open the door. If I undertake actions that are certain to lead to physical harm towards another how am I not in some way morally responsible?

You are morally responsible, because you're responsible for the outcomes of your acts.

This is so bizarrely simple, and I know you understand it, because you can't function in the world if you literally don't understand the difference between a cause and an outcome.

An act that leads to a result is not the same as that result. The initial act makes the actor responsible for the result. It doesn't mean that the initial act _is_ the result. This is a simple distinction present in all human languages for a reason.

E.g. If I recommend you eat at a restaurant, and you do, and enjoy it, I get some credit for that enjoyment, even though I didn't eat at the restaurant, I caused you to do it.

This is not a hair-fine semantic game, it's basic language understood by children.

Your final veiled threat is childish.
If they had simply said "Facebook does not respect its users and is psychologically unhealthy; we're out" then I would've been pretty nonchalant.

What a weird and unnecessary rant.
So in a free society, power should be given out according to the whims of the already powerful? Rather than earned of their own merits and general public accord?
In fairness I've been across these attempts for years. I was at BALLS when the initial Traveler CATOed, I watched it from Bruno's. Today is the first I've heard of this USAFA launch. The Wired article author is most likely much less across this stuff than I am. It could just be a case of USC RPL wasn't aware of the USAFA boosted dart flight.

And I still contend that recovery is necessary. USC RPL didn't claim Traveler III "broke the record" despite having good confidence it did given it didn't suffer a RUD during boost. They only "claimed" the record when they had a successful flight AND recovery. This is pretty much SOP for high altitude record attempts in the amateur rocketry community. I suspect it USAFA had recovered their boosted dart we would have most likely heard about it.
Not many.
Fair point, people are different. The article refers to the studies, which quality and reliability are obv debatable.
They continue to show everyone else how it's done, simply amazing.

This is quite the historic launch too. It's the beginning of the entire world (ignoring government restrictions) having low-latency high-speed Internet access. It's also possibly the beginning of SpaceX funding their own Mars plans.
The complexity in H.264 gets you later on, when you try to build a complete (e.g. fully compliant) decoder. There are some killer features which seemed like a good idea at the time, but which make the complexity staggering.

MBAFF is a good example (Macroblock-Adaptive Frame/Field encoding). What this means is that the encoder can choose for every block whether it wants to encode it as a single frame or two interlaced fields. Combined with B-frames (and remember that B-frames reference frames both in the past and in the future) this makes for really interesting memory access patterns, which then kills your cache locality and murders performance.