skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> An example would be if you don't have a certificate.

Given that letsencrypt exists, I don't see why you wouldn't have a cert.

> Maybe you just have a pre-shared secret or a kerberos ticket.

The pre-shared secret could be a cert which would work with TLS.

> Or worse, maybe you just have a password, and so need to use a PAKE protocol or something to authenticate the session.

I can't think of a realistic example of such a protocol. What protocol uses PAKE, but doesn't support encryption, but will verify a session id? It seems like using TLS would be simpler.

> Or maybe you are using an RPC protocol, like NFS, that doesn't let you add TLS in a backwards-compatible way, but where the client and server do share some secret file handle.

Such a scenario still requires modifications to the NFS server and client software, which, if done, isn't clear why it would be better than just layering TLS onto the protocol.
a + b - a = b

b < (a + b)
Assume that humans stop consuming livestock products tomorrow. The real goal would still be to reduce livestock, right?

How will it be done exactly? How long will it take? Will they be released to nature? Killed? Not allowed to reproduce and we'll wait for them to die of old age? Be supplied condoms?:-)

I don't have the knowledge to know whats needed to be done, or which steps are needed to be taken to do that, even if we stop consuming livestock products.
I really doubt that much effort has been spent on determining the effect of constant, pervasive mm-wave signals on insects.
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Our electronics run on next to no power but then we throw them out constantly and buy new onea because some marketing department said we should.
> No one is entitled to free maintenance of gratis software forever, just because someone once said “npm publish”.

I have made no such claim. If he didn't want to maintain it any more, he could have said "npm deprecate" and that would have been fine.

What's not fine is to say "npm publish", then actively maintain the software for years, then decide you don't want to any more (which, in itself, is fine, it's your choice how much effort you want to put in), but not tell anyone, not deprecate, not send any signal that you have changed your commitment to the package--and then hand over publish rights to some random person who emails you, also without telling anyone.

If you think that is fine, then, as I said several posts upthread in response to another poster, you've basically said no developers should ever trust npm, because people who say "npm publish" are making no commitment whatever, not even to say "npm deprecate" if they don't want to maintain the package any more, or to tell anyone if they decide to hand maintenance over to some other random person. That is not how open source works.
"In the aftermath, I found myself surprised and disturbed by the amount of attention the attack received. I felt intensely protective of my grieving friends and my shocked, horrified community—I wanted to shield them from the intrusive phone calls, the strangers creeping into their social-media profiles, the awful, cruel comments appended to every news story."

...so I wrote an article in Outside magazine about the other bad people writing articles about it.
Live stock farming is ~27% of methane production, where fossil fuels are ~33% [1]. Eating an eco friendly diet is great on the individual level, but we should not underscore the drastic need for decisive action on an institutional level.

[1] https://whatsyourimpact.org/greenhouse-gases/methane-emissio...
Programmers should stop calling themselves engineers (2015)
Okay, maybe I didn’t use the right term. I wasn’t referring to spiritual enlightenment (bodhi), but rather spiritual emancipation (moksha).

Let me rephrase more clearly: a person in a state of (permanent) delirium has achieved Nirodha—that is, reached nirvana and thereby escaped dukkha and the cycle of samsara by no longer possessing any earthly desires, and so no desirous soul to reincarnate.

Delirium seems to be precisely the state that the Gautama Buddha was suggesting people attempt to achieve to escape human suffering: one where their soul has been erased while they still yet live. This isn’t the same thing as the state he was suggesting people achieve to become better human beings while yet they lived as one—the state of being a Buddha, essentially—but rather, was the state he advised people in the depths of suffering seek, to find release from their suffering.

Of course, the concepts are not so distant; spiritual enlightenment (bodhi) is simply the freedom and clarity that comes from the knowledge that one has ultimate control over the fate of one’s own soul—the knowledge that one is effectively free from samsara already, because one can be free from it (through nirodha) at any point in the future as one so chooses. Certainly, these people are happy and functional. But in nirvana they ain’t.
Another way to look at it is that if you have all the prerequisites for that (talent, staff, money, resources, physical space, etc) to do those things, there are plenty of other more profitable enterprises they could be leveraged for unless you specifically need a saber to rattle, which is usually only the dominion of a well-funded despot and/or Bond villain.
It turns into a beverage for your dog.
Are Programmers Engineers?
Wikipedia: Terminal Event Management Policy
Monads – Part 3 – Applicative Programming – Manual / Point Kleisli Composition
At least the person who introduced me told me one should be personally introduced - so I will respect it and leave it at that (it's nothing weird or complicated though and I wouldn't be surprised if rulesets have mutated and forked over time and subgroups). If you are ever in Paris and interested, feel free to reach out :)

I didn't actually read the article, but from what I heard the catacombs used to be a lot less safe. I've been told that in the 90s it would be a very bad idea to venture down as one or a small group of women without significant risk for personal safety. Some of the rules definitely come from just being able to preserve the space and experience, but I would guess that some of the social codes also come from enforcing a safer space.
Also if we reduce meat consumption but not milk and eggs, what happens to the animals too old to produce efficiently? Killing and eating them might have a lower environmental impact than letting them live out their old age and then rot.
You also have to pay $800/year in franchise tax if you run an LLC in California, regardless of income. If OP is just making an etsy or something, he does not need an LLC.
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So all we need to do to fix the nuclear industry is make the public rational. And also, fix pathological project management issues. I don't think either of those things are going to happen. Nuclear power may be technically better, but that is not enough.

Also, economics has an influence on these two issues you identify. If something is cheap then it is more likely that government will override the views of the public. This happens all the time on projects that make economic sense to the politicians. Also, very large projects are harder to commoditize. If a company can get thousands of orders for something it is easier to scale than if they get one or two orders. Project management is harder when every project is singular.
It's still Water, mineral water, tea and your occasional local favorite beverage against Cola & co.
Yes, you need to remove the said comment (or PII in it) upon their request (ianal,...). I don't see how a competitor could abuse that.
> When each repo is so small (equivalent to a single article on Wikipedia, or even less), it seems like they should be part of larger organizations with a bit more bureaucracy and guidance?

You mean like publishing a coherent library-package, rather than a million independent function-packages?

We know how to do this, but the Node-community just won’t have it.
Maybe the mods can fix the link
To me their real life picks are from the uncanny valley.
Today, there are at least two fields that address just these issues: the field of computational complexity investigates just how many operations are required depending on the problem.

I'm not too familiar, but I think control theory addresses the issue that requires accounting for the possibility for error.

Ad for the other field, when von Neumann mentions analytical tools, he is actually thinking of topological tools. To that end, Type theory investigates formal logic with much inspiration from topological tools.
Looks fairly flat in 2000-2008. What happened there?
I think Amazon’s hands are mostly tied when it comes to powering off machines. Many VMs are run indefinitely, so whatever machine they’re on has to stay powered on. They may have live migrate (I think they do, but no official word), but they can’t be too aggressive about that or customers will notice.
It wasn't that owners never bothered implementing it, rather people were actively against it because they felt that no content should be filtered period, and never mind children.

It was actively campaigned against to the point that if you did implement it you were criticized in public. So sites stopped using it and browsers stopped checking it.

Some linkes: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/di...

https://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/19/business/technology-to-le...

https://www.wired.com/1997/02/microsoft-employs-good-clean-p...
Prescient. Nowadays, most computer scientists don't explicitly worry about hardware failures, but we still love randomized algorithms.

Often it's easy to prove that a randomized algorithm has a desirable property with probability 1 asymptotically, or with high probability in finite time.
In contrast, it's often hard to prove the analogous desirable property always holds for a deterministic algorithm.
In other words, we use a trick to make a combinatoric problem more like an analysis problem, because analysis problems are easier to handle -- exactly what Von Neumann was writing about!

Turns out, the power of analytical methods was its own motivation, and we didn't need unreliable hardware to push us in that direction.
Also applies to relationships: self-distancing/meditation can allow you to tolerate a lot of things that maybe you'd be better off not having to tolerate in the first place, and keep you from leaving a bad situation.
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What is the monetization plan? How have you financed the development so far?
Yup I know. I meant time after the appearance of "reply" link. I have interacted with rayiner before and find him rational so was curious about how he thinks abut the things I had pointed out.
A live organized and optimized like a Toyota factory seems absurd to me.
Also attributed to Gell-Mann: the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
It's basically an OS now.
I lived in Paris for over 10 years, and a good deal of my social circle comes from the catacombs.

This article, like others, are so eager to wrap an outing into the catacombs as some type of adventure, a mystical experience, where misstep ends in death and dying a slow death in a deep corner of a labyrinth is inevitable but for your guide.

The catacombs are the Parisian equivalent of hanging out in the woods / trainyard / whatever when you were 19 - 25. Paris is en expensive city. When you're young and want to go out / get drunk / leave the watchful eye of your parents and societal structures, you go into the catacombs.

If you go the weekends, you have to try very very hard to avoid people. There are no "catacomb rules" or codes of conduct. It's a place used for self expression, typically of youth, and mainly for socialising.

It's a little bit frustrating to see articles rendering what is very much a commonplace affair hyperbolic.
I see, that does make sense. Best wishes for Bangladesh want to visit sometime.
Awesome, that sounds pretty good
They don't call it desktop publishing anymore because all publishing is digital. It would be like if we still referred to cars as "horseless carriages".
DOS did nothing and so people extended it with TSR's: "terminate and stay resident" programs. These were a nightmare. They had "conflicts": users had to experiment with the order in which they were loaded to make them like each other. Some of them were interrupt-driven and yet needed to call into DOS, which would be bad if the interrupt had gone of in the middle of DOS. So they tried to guess whether that was the case.
Case in point, Letraset sheets was a big thing for decades:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letraset
> I think the underlying problem is that parents want the entire internet to babysit their kids for them.

It's virtually impossible for parents to check on exactly what their kids are doing, all the privacy controls that the tech world is so proud of have made it almost impossible for parents to keep an eye on their kids.

So what do you expect from parents? What else are they supposed to do? It wasn't even 15 years ago that the whole world helped shield children, now suddenly, nothing.

Not just nothing, active work to prevent parents from watching their kids, coupled with sites also refusing to filter anything.

And then parents get criticized for not doing enough........
Just had a chance to read this--thanks. From the average, the data center guys I'm talking to aren't wrong in a heuristic sense--just inefficient:

"According to the Uptime Institute's 2014 Data Center Survey, the global average (PUE) of respondents' largest data centers is around 1.7."

From what I recall, Google does AC-to-DC outside of the cooled area, and has their own custom approach to UPS. The article adds that they leave the cool aisle at a toasty 80F+, and make use of free cooling techniques.

Most non-FAANG data centers are using stock Dell/HP/Cisco servers with redundant internal AC adapters, attached to an APC UPS (with its own internal AC adapter)--all actively cooled to 70-something F in some poorly-insulated re-purposed downtown building.

I think Google made many of those improvements a very long time ago. I'd have expected their practices to be ubiquitous by now, but they're not...
I'm reading a lot of smoker's-logic in the replies to this: people who love eating meat clutching at straws trying to rationalize it.
Nobody's forcing you to do anything! You can happily ignore this and continue living your life as you wish.
Spending money on legal entities for is an expensive way to find out you have no know idea what you are doing (speaking from personal experience here). My guidance is worry about driving revenue. If you have a customer that wants to give you money, that is a great time to figure out what you actually need. Everyone will take your money and sell you something that sounds like what you wanted. It doesn't take that long to set up a legal entity, and even paying more for a rush job will be cheaper than starting the wrong legal entity now.
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Having used Erlang for a side project recently: pattern matching and supervision trees.
Bushcraft is one of the world's oldest traditions, passed down for hundreds of thousands of years. 'Survival' is merely a skill, but Bushcraft transcends that as not just a way to thrive off the land, but as a way of life and mutual respect for nature. The ingenuity and respect some native peoples have for the land isn't just breath taking, but a living piece of prehistory!

Most western folks don't respect or understand wildlife in the same way our ancestors did. They were not taught and we replaced these skills with engineering and technology.

Like deer in headlights, we modern humans sometimes get caught in the headlights of nature as well, like happened here. A hurt and starving bear just trying to survive saw a meal and nothing more. I don't know what happened, but in a situation like that, it seems fairly easy to not make any mistakes and still get attacked.

I know this article is mainly a social critique, but I can't help but have my current opinion reaffirmed by everything I read: If you spend any time around dangerous wildlife, whether a mosquito or a bear, you NEED to be able to mitigate the danger of that wildlife or you're playing a dangerous game. Like a starving bear, some variables are unknown, uncontrollable and unmitigable except through one thing: firearms.
I did this for 1500 raspberry pi-class litecoin miners. It was awesome to be able to see all the data in realtime across so many devices.
I know it's just an example, but someone who understands programming work would probably not be against learning another language or two and trying to get more interesting work. They may question whether the language will make you happy. Similarly they'd ask someone switching to art whether that would really be the path to happiness, are jobs available, what kind of salary to expect etc.

I wouldn't tell a friend not to pursue their dreams. But I would look for good arguments that they actually understand what they want.
It’s neither/nor.

It’s not about acting rationally versus emotionally.

Reason isn’t necessarily good. And emotion isn’t necessarily bad.

It’s a matter of acting unintentionally versus intentionally.

(For some definition of intentionally).

A crude counterexample {

Some people might act rationally out of habit.

And for them, self-distancing might result in listening more closely to emotions which, for them, tend to be crowded out by deeply-ingrained intellectual ideologies.

} And in fact, it’s not about ideology versus non-ideology.

There are people throughout history who have articulated this much clearer than I have.

I hope someone will follow up with links to passages in this vein.
I think the main motivation of asking yourself those questions with self-distancing is to expose your feelings to yourself. It helps you to state them. You are trying to understand yourself. I guess this is the main reason of this technique. Unfortunately it is not emphasized in the article.
They do look better, but I must say BYTE and friends packed one hell of a punch.

I've almost zero interest in magazines today, but I would still subscribe to BYTE, COMPUTE and a couple others, given their editorial focus was similar to what made them great then.
273msec in DC
Gell-Mann is one of my favorite scientist, partly because he conforms to my idea of what a scientist is, ie. diverse interests (linguistics, systems science), fun communicator (just check YouTube), very slightly eccentric (Yann LeCun's story on how Gell-Mann pronounced his name), captain of big intellectual debates (the whole field of Complex Systems, or as he called it "Plectics" is fun, fun, fun!) and last but not least a great wine connoisseur (the Wine Spectator made a lengthy interview with him in June 2004). Nine decades well spent on our planet. R.I.P.
> Later, after he had used his Garmin InReach to contact the nearest detachment of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)

Did this read to anyone else like an extremely odd product placement advertisement? Why not just say 'satellite phone'?
While I sympathize with your position, this feels a little misleading and lacking in perspective.

I’ve lived all over San Francisco and am now in the Inner Richmond. It’s easily my favorite place I’ve ever lived. Amazing food, easy access to two of the more incredible city parks in the country (Golden Gate and Presidio), and very safe [1]. I’ve gone for many a walk listening to music after midnight with no threat of danger.

Though I’ve never been to Colombia, I’ve been to Tijuana, Mexico City, San José, Buenos Aires, Bangkok, Saigon… in none one of those places would I want to walk around with AirPods, take pictures with a nice digital camera, or have my phone out in public for more than a few seconds. There’s simply too big of an income disparity between you and the average citizen.

[1] https://www.trulia.com/real_estate/San_Francisco-California/...
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One way to achieve both action on an institutional level, and reduce the consumption of meat, would be to capture the 'environmental costs' in the price. This could be orchestrated by government intervention, or on a less-effective scale, it could be a market differentiation for certain beef brands to include climate-change mitigation as part of their strategy and charge a premium.
My favorite doomsday scenario at the moment is that it may be earthworms who finally kill us: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/science/earthworms-soil-c...

They appear to be venturing into new areas and releasing carbon there, furthering global warming.

There are just too many scenarios of that kind.

Either we really are doomed, and climate will switch into a new kind of equilibrium hostile to humans.

Or, there are lots of mechanisms in place that counteract against such effects, and which are not yet well understood.

With so many climate based doomsday scenarios, how did earth survive for so long? I think there have to be at least some regulating mechanisms.
“Put more bugs in the software! I’m making a fortune out here!”

https://dilbert.com/strip/2000-03-19
> If your LLC is sued, you're protected personally from losing assets.

A lawyer friend once told me that anyone can sue anyone at any time for anything. A good lawyer will sue the LLC and the owner of the LLC. Even if the defendant is found to not be liable, it won't feel like a victory when the invoice from the defendant's attorney arrives.
You can dismiss "psychological" problems all you want, but that won't make them go away.
A more effective way of treating the feeling of hopelessness might be to simply stop consuming the news.

They feed on our fears...
Walk the streets any night in Paris and you’ll see people peeing on walls and in the daytime, herds of gypsy pickpockets. Homeless sleep next to the Seine in tents and doorways feature sleeping people on almost any block the police choose to ignore. Go to the Paris suburbs and you’ll see Stalinist apartment blocks filled to the brim with unemployed people, mostly Maghreb, who can’t get jobs because their last name isn’t “French” enough. Go to Avignon and you’ll see a historic city center with more empty storefronts than actual businesses. You have unemployment as high as 30% in those areas. Down in Marseille, especially near Bougainville, you have drug gangs armed with AK-47s. Ten minutes with the Gendarmes in Marseille and you’ll think you’re in a rough neighborhood in Tunisia rather than a highly developed Western European country. Judging American innovation by visiting the Tenderloin is like judging French food by eating at a kebab shop. The homeless issues aren’t because of Silicon Valley, it’s because of a certain breed of politics endemic to California, namely NIMBY policies, regulation and taxation that is the very opposite of innovation. The San Francisco Bay Area is a center of innovation despite these policies, not because of them.
> China is an adversary? Tell me this when Apple packs up and leaves China for good.

Are you not able to separate a nation's business interests from its national security interests? Can you not imagine how the two could easily be in conflict? I am truly dumbfounded by this view. I don't even know where to begin.