skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, those who work hard and aren't lazy aren't having any fun either.
You definitely can... the feature set keeps growing. We have multi-field filtered GROUP BY now. It's amazing to see how flexible Roaring Bitmaps can be!
It may sound ridiculous (you're going to laugh), but when I find myself stressing over superficial things, it helps me to think of the song "The Grand Illusion" by Styx. To me, no words better sum up the odd complexity that has emerged from humanity. It's my mantra. My wife's mantra is equally ridiculous and true: "it just doesn't matter" from Bill Murray's monologue in Meatballs. Maybe one of these mantras will help you.

I have to also note that in my ~20yrs of corporate experience, the kinder you are, in concert with being as blunt and truthful as possible, the more people will trust and value your input.

I think these traits emerge if you repeat mantra's like the ones above to yourself multiple times a day - when skimming through your emails in the morning (I often just delete or archive all but 1 or 2), when in a meeting that's going in circles or getting heated (I often just smile and leave), when you're running late for work, when you're worried about taking time off, when your air conditioner brakes or you get into a minor fender bender, or $200K of you're employee owned shares are suddenly nullified. It's all a grand illusion, and it just doesn't matter.
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Beyond ethics, I'm worried more about societal collapse. Going further we might have entirely generated ultra-realistic and ultra-specific pornography that will ultimately lead to people just not having sex... This concern has already been raised with sexbots, but machine pornography (for the lack of a better term) seems that it'll arrive first.
BitCoin was supposed to transform the way people buy things. Instead it's mainly transformed the way people buy BitCoin. That's a legitimate criticism.
This is different, the comments are simply pushed to the bottom of the page instead of hidden.

Usually, when you post a new comment it's boosted to the top for a short period of time. Now, the opposite is happening.
From this article: http://gothamist.com/2019/01/22/subway_speeds_signal_timers....

"I have directed my team to identify and resolve every root cause of delay; in doing so, we can then implement the right fix, often for little or no cost,” NYC Transit President Andy Byford said in a statement. “The SPEED Unit continues to examine hundreds of miles of track to find areas where we can safely increase speeds. Their work is absolutely essential and demonstrates that New York City Transit employees are fully committed to making tangible changes that will improve service for our customers."

Which reminds me of a story from this book: https://www.amazon.com/Its-Your-Ship-Management-Anniversary/...

Paraphrasing:
"As captain, I kept asking why we had no time for training. I was told because painting the ship took up a huge amount of time. So I asked 'Why do we need to paint the ship?'. I was told because the bolts used on the hull are not stainless so they rust and the ship looks bad so we paint it. 'Can't we use stainless bolts?' I asked. 'No', I was told because the Navy stores didn't have stainless bolts. So I gave my credit card to the supply officer and told him to go buy some stainless bolts. Hundreds of hours saved and now available for training."

EVERY SINGLE PROJECT I have ever worked on could apply this story and I would bet that there are similar examples of this on the MTA. The "speed team" from the article here is a perfect example of how sometimes lots of small fixes in the same direction can have enormous impacts.
Can we talk for a minute about that first graph in the article? "Bitcoin Activity By Category" supposedly lists percentages on the Y axis, but they included the percent sign on the label, making the range go from 0% to 1% instead of from 0 to 1 like they intended. Bloomberg should know better!
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The terms are interchangeable. Look it up.
As the comments on that page indicate, you have problems with float precision pretty quickly. It's hard to intuit just how fast you're shedding bits when you zoom in.

Some quick DDG-ing around suggests that there isn't a great solution for arbitrary-precision GPU numbers, and that trying to force it on to GPUs either loses all the speed advantages it has over CPUs or even just loses to CPUs. Corrections solicited.

(Remember... GPUs aren't "faster" than CPUs. They're different. There are things GPUs are much faster than CPUs, but there's also plenty of tasks... indeed, it's most of them that we actually perform... where CPUs are faster. You can get differentials of 100x-1000x in either direction. That's why we use CPUs.)
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This is a good blog post and I agree we need better models for reasoning about security.

However, feeling cynical this morning, and arguably technologists need to understand "the business," is more than a black box, and product owners need to understand that "the infrastructure," is an economic factor with risks that affect the viability of their business model.

The basic problem I've encountered in large organizations is that most security tools exist to keep devops technologists entertained playing spy v. spy games while the real business instrumentalizes them as a black box of uncertainty to sandbag estimates and commitments, obstruct competing projects, obfuscate catastrophic risk exposure to investors, and externalize reckless project risk to something "nobody understands."

It's the "aw, shucks, security surprise!" game that project managers the world over use to deflect accountability for poor decisions.

I remember about 10 years ago security people discovered economics as a shallow set of metaphors for describing what they did. Today we're all about machine learning and threat hunting, technologies which I think are just more sophisticated versions of the same nonsense that keeps security people focused on externalities instead of getting real traction to effect the design and production of better products and systems.

We should ask whether the data that post-production security systems collect gives us real leverage against business risk, or if it's mainly entertainment for a tech governance group who are played as marks by the rest of their organization.

I love this field, but that also means taking a very hard look at it and asking whether it creates value beyond its hype cycle. Internet security is a disaster, and we should ask whether a new set of metaphors to help us ignore the fact we are still just doing the same thing is the right approach.
On Magic Boxes
> You can cast between byte arrays and strings in Go.

Yes, you can. But, in the specific case you mentioned, no competent programmer would cast the bytes of an invalidly-encoded file to a string, then iterate through the runes of the string. That wouldn't even begin to make sense!

I really don't understand what you're trying to argue here.
Being 'good' in a non-smart way is not actually being very good at all.
The best solution I've ever come to that didn't negatively impact my clients was generating a UUID on the server via an ajax call 100ms after page load. That UUID was stored in a cookie, and returned via AJAX and stuck it in a hidden field on the form.

Server checks cookie != null and cookie == hidden field, and returned a 200 OK regardless of if it failed (used the response text for success or failure indication), and deleted the cookie.

Implemented it across a network of sites ~10 years ago, and only a handful of spam had gotten through when I quit that job 4 years ago. They had been getting 10-20 spam comments per day per site.
I'd just like to go on record saying I use it as a payment method for developer services for developers locked out of the western world's banking system.

Of course most of these devs will take any of the top N cryptos.

As a very early bitcoin adopter who made and lost and made and lost a fortune; I can say that bitcoin and crypto is still "ahead of schedule" for realistic-optimistic timelines of adoption.

I still believe cryptocurrency will continue to grow and eventually eat gold; but I am less convinced that it will eat fiat.
I’m so glad I had parents who encouraged in me what you are encouraging in your children.

I was accepted to a very prestigious university, and as my friends, their parents, and other adults (including some family) found out, there was mostly encouragement to just go there. The attitude was, “why wouldn’t I want to go there? Just think of the opportunity!” They we’re shocked I was thinking of attending a state school instead of automatically saying yes to the prestigious one.

My parents were much more practical, pointing out how much it would cost - even after the scholarships I’d be given - and how much debt I’d have at the end of 4 years.

They pointed out how difficult it can be to go a long ways away for college sometimes, and how young adults of that age can struggle, especially in the first year. I saw that happen to many friends and acquaintances; leaving to a school far away, only to move back much closer to home after a year or two.

One friend who wasn’t strongly encouraging me to go to the prestigious school? Someone who was in a grad program at that prestigious school. He was confident I’d succeed and be happy at either a smaller, state university, or the big name one. When I chose the state school, this friend - who had been pretty neutral up to then - said he was very impressed and happy that I went the way that I did.

All the people who hadn’t had that experience seemed pretty hesitantly approving of my choice to go to the state school. “Oh, you chose that one? ... well, good for you!”

I later ended up working at the same company as many people from more prestigious schools, and graduating from the state school with no debt let me be a co-founder of a company much earlier in my life than if I had tens of thousands of college debt. I’m totally happy with my choice.
I’m having a similar “here we go again” feeling, only it’s the completely expected reaction trying to move the goalpost as to what “intelligence”, or, in this case, “intuition” are supposed to mean.

The fact is that certain behavior appears, from the outside, to be fascinatingly human-like. It doesn’t matter that it can be explained by peeking behind the curtain, because it’s almost certain that all behavior, including human, just comes down to “statistics”. Unless you’re a proponent of some sort of body/mind dualism, which would put you squarely outside the scientific mainstream since ca. 1865.
<surprised pikachu>
Like Pokemon cards?
It's fun. But does not carry any value.

You can't buy a car or toilet paper with your precious Pokemon cards.
>> It is also at this stage where the player releases the seaman into the wild

Not good. Not something to teach to kids, or anyone. I cannot stand people who think that it is acceptable to raise an animal and then "release" it into the wild once it isn't cute anymore. Setting aside the horror of doing this to a dog, there was also a famous Japanese cartoon where a pet raccoon was released once it became an adult. Raccoons, like many wild animals, start off cute but can become violent as they mature. Raccoons are now an invasive pest in Japan, a problem that started during the years after the cartoon.

The concept of keeping animals in a cage with the intention that one animal will eat the other is also very problematic. There is a very fine line between a "natural behavior" and cage fighting. Zoos may feed the lions meat from a dead Zebra. They don't release live Zebras into the lion enclosure.
and do you know WHY they want to reverse the LEZ? are there any real reasons further than the opposing party implemented it so I must be against it?
You read flags are working OK, I found the article dishonest. I live in Madrid (suburban town to the north of the city) and I think the El Pais article mentioned in another response to your comment is much better, I read it several days ago in the spanish version. I actually think the no traffic area might be a good idea.
No, let's not.

Let's keep the original style so that future generations can experience it the way it was originally intended.

Modernization is not always the best idea, especially with historical architecture.
Non mobile link: https://www.cbc.ca/passionateeye/features/how-does-facebook-...
Got your points, interesting.

I just wanted to add to your last paragraph that we are paying 25ct per one-way plastic bottle on top of the regular price, we get it back when we return the bottle. That means the return rate is super high, because otherwise people will lose a lot of money. I think the system is quite good.
The instability and the high fees make it useless for generic payment. The lighting network was supposed to fix latter problem.

As soon as the bitcoin price becomes stable it will be useful. As soon as it is useful it will swiftly rise in value and become unstable again. We have already seen several iterations of this cycle. Who knows when this will end.
@aey used to work at Qualcomm according to their resume. So, take that for whatever you think it’s worth.
> one step closer to its 2021 launch

boy, that's gonna be a nail-biter. who's gonna insure that launch?
No-child-left-behind really screwed the gifted programs. All the money went to get the marginal kids to pass the tests.

I was in the first big wave of gifted programs in the mid-80s. My teachers had doctorates. There were 10-15 kids in my classes. We did lots of off the wall stuff.

Now, my child is in the same boat, but her class size is 30-35, and the curriculum isn’t particularly special.
Articles in the Guardian aren't designed to inform, they're just there to inflate it's readership's self-righteous indignation about "rightwing politicians" winning votes (how very dare they).
Source: I live somewhere some consider is Spain and some not.

Gibraltar?
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I can come up with myriad examples of verifiably limited items that are valueless, I don’t think there’s any point in litigating that issue.

And bitcoin is easy to move internationally, but that’s just begging the question. Why would anyone want to move bitcoin? Presumably because it’s valuable, but now we have a circular dependency; bitcoin is valuable because you can move it internationally, and people want to move it internationally because it’s valuable and can be converted into currencies in which people can actually buy goods and services.
I've done a 7 and a 10 day, and this was my experience.

Around day 4, I lost the desire for food. It was no longer a struggle.
Well there is that one company that keeps claiming that they own C++ and keeps trying to sue people for using it.
2 layers of mosquito netting is all that's keeping this from going rogue? We're cool I'm sure nothing could possibly go wrong.
Real diamonds are indistinguishable from artificial diamonds, but nonetheless the market treats them as a different product, even with the risk that some criminal might try to substitute them. Bitcoin is in a better position, with no risk of accepting a forked coin unless you want to. It might be all human irrationality all the way down, but if so it's the kind of irrationality that's been around forever.
for the same reason Trump doesn't believe in climate change, because they are douches who only think of the $ in their pockets
https://www.sqlite.org/lang_with.html scroll down to the bottom to see a sqlite mandelbrot
Obviously "people keep buying it" is enough for the price to go up. People keep buying for the reasons already mentioned. I don't have much else to add to the conversation.
The end of an era.

I used Air a lot for making interactive contents for museums and marketing events. AS3 was a fine language.
What does 'original style' means, though?

Notre Dame was refurbished and changed in the 19th century (and at various other times) . For example, the famous gargoyles are not 'original' at all but date from that time.
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Me and my 4 year younger sister share our birthday. Growing up people would often gasp and ask themselves "what are the odds??", to which I'd usually reply "1/365?".

My father and step-sister also share their birthdays.

I guess probabilities are just really unintuitive to people.
I read nothing in this article that confirms the headline, rather it just shows that content moderation is hard.
SQL is a great language. It's for querying records from a database. Trying to wrap stateful objects around SQL is where the industry went wrong, IMO. It does make some code more portable across datastores, but for me the price is too high. When you know how to write efficient SQL statements, ORM feels like having a hand tied behind your back.
In Spain, there are multiple things GP could be referring to. Many people in Catalonia consider themselves to not be part of Spain. This could also apply to País Vasco, a.k.a. Basque Country.
I just heard of this because of your comment, these little servers seem like a good deal for not having to do anything yourself really, especially for under 2000USD.
> It’s a black box that uses root to do everything and is a pain to debug.

This is less true these days (and on macs that had to use the docker machine "hack" it was barely ever true, per say) -- rootless containers are on the way thanks to user namespaces. For example LXC can run fully rootless containers that act more like VMs themselves (as in they will have systemd as pid 1 inside) -- kernel support, user namespaces, and File systems in Userspace (FUSE) make this possible.

IMO One of the biggest benefits to running containers is actually E2E tests -- I don't see it done as often as I should, but it has become drastically easier to run an entire postgres instance for a single local E2E test runs -- I do this on almost every project I start now, I set up E2E tests that spin up the actual world I expect in production (so all the backing services, at the version they will run at), and interact with my application -- this is a huge step forward compared to a huge wiki that has "how to set up the local test VM" -- you can spin up and shutdown these services so fast that you can use them ephemerally (I do) without much worry.
What you call original style is a "modern" modification from the 1800s :)
Comparing to gold as a "buy & hold" store of value is only viable as a future possibility. Bitcoin has been too volatile to qualify as a store of value. If that changes, so too might its legitimacy for this use. But for the average investor/institution looking for a non-sovereign store of value, a year of stability isn't going to be sufficient. Maybe 5 years would convince, but then that puts bitcoin's legitimacy as a store of value at least 5 years out, and every time an exchange collapses or fraud or theft is revealed that sends the market into chaos, the clock is reset.
I'm curious, if we had the power to just snap our fingers and irradiate all mosquitoes, do we have consensus to do so? I worry about unforeseeable consequences.
Personally I think the whole reaction to deepfakes is overblown, and makes luddites out of otherwise reasonable people.

If it were to become common, society would quickly learn to take all video with a grain of salt. We already question suspicious images. If the exact line of how a photo got to you from the camera is unknown people quickly exclaim things to be Photoshopped.

I don’t think expanding our questioning to video is that far of a societal jump.
I never really began to succeed until I stopped playing stupid games and became a man.

Nice work. You're so manly now.
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So bitcoin is more valuable than its hard forks because there’s more hashing power.

Ok, that makes sense. So why is there more hashing power on bitcoin than the hard forks? Oh, because bitcoin is more valuable and so the mining reward is higher once converted to fiat? Well, that seems like a problem.
And nobody cares. Because actually being able to use software, even if it is insecure, trumps not being able to use it.
Which would only help me on my phone, while I am home.
Agree 100%

Historic Preservation is very important
Yes, I would, provided there is another asset that I would expect to appreciate against it.

Also there is a difference in short term and long term. In short term one might sell only to buy again after corrections, but this is risky/hard to time.
Roger Scruton recently wrote about where he suspects the plans for the repair will go:

> It would be wrong to assume that a gang of modernists set fire to Notre Dame – it could perhaps have been an accident. But there was no better way to advance the great project, shared by all forward-looking architects from Le Corbusier to Richard Rogers, of razing Paris to the ground and rebuilding it in concrete, steel and glass. An international competition of the kind proposed by President Macron will in all probability result in a replica of Norman Foster’s Sage Gateshead, expectorated onto the walls of the cathedral, to cling trembling above them like a gob of shiny snot.
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The hard part of being a teacher isn’t teaching the material, it’s managing 20-30 kids. Homeschoolers don’t have to deal with that.
I still remember the conversation with a senior IT support guy who had been sent my way by the CIO - "<boss> says to speak to you as email is broken". "How much of it is broken?", "All of it"....

The cheap VM running sendmail with 12,000 entries in its alias file was being DOSed....

That was my introduction to crappy large email systems!
My concern is that, because someone BELIEVES they are using logic, education, and intelligence to come to a conclusion they may be just as wrong. "logic, education, and intelligence" is a way of justifying a belief, it's not a way of proving the assumption to be true. It's not a matter of being imperfect in judgement, it's a matter of being willing to accept that we are imperfect, and that, even if you think you're using the perfect method for rationalizing the world, it may not actually be.
Cathedrals are alive. At the scale of centuries, change is a constant for them. A great deal of Notre Dame is not "original" anyway. For instance, those famous gargoyles, I was surprised to read are actually pretty recent additions (relatively).

All that said, I do agree with you for the most part. Let's not have some arrogant hotshot architect do his flavor of the day on and add the "nosql" of architecture on there.
> The decision to ignore or delete extreme content appears to rely on how it’s being positioned. In one instance, the undercover moderator asks the advice of his colleague regarding a video that shows two underage girls, one of them being beaten by the other. “Unless it has a condemning caption, it’s a delete,” says the colleague, referring to the text accompanying the video.
Well the thing is, they aren't a big new thing! But the hype train needed it to be (and to be fair, the ecosystem has benefited greatly from the attention).

You rarely see hypetrains for old, established things :)
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I am ok with that.
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what puzzles me all the time is why not build two instead. it looks like the R&D portion of the budget might be greater than the actual manufacturing cost, so building two would be less than 2x the price.

if one launch fails, we've got a backup. if both launch, we have two instruments deployed.

why don't we do it??
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> I think there's a lot of worth using a high level language and integrating with C.

I agree.

Python is an awesome high level interface to low level libraries and algorithms. As which it became even more appealing since you can write your low level code in Rust and call it from Python via PyO3 [0].

[0]: https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3