skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Written by a philosopher amidst the height of Nazi power:

>Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. — In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.

If nobody had fought the Nazis (an intolerant culture), they would rule at the very least all of Europe.
> Python has just one OOP paradigm. In R, you have your choice of several, though some may debate that this is a good thing.

> Given R's magic metaprogramming features (code that produces code), computer scientists ought to be drooling over R.

The benefit of this... is very debatable.
I recently ran into a modified MIT license with a no-military clause. My company would not use the otherwise very nice package because, unfortunately, it includes an "indirectly" in the language. We don't have anything to do with the military, but our clients are large pharmaceutical companies, so they probably have military contracts.
Whats the cost associated with this?
thanks for pointing that out.

now i too am unsure what the advantage is.
Which part of my statement is "unsubstantive" the joke or the fact?
So why was Docker needed to create a lightweight VM? I thought Docker was supposed to replace VMs.
My problem with the GPL is more low level. It (in my opinion) doesn't work well over very long periods.

I work on an open source system which is over 20 years old. For a long time it was GPL v2. We had to either go GPL v2+, which assumes the FSF will never go crazy, or stick with GPL v2, which is incompatible with v3, which causes various problems.

The GPL v2 and v3 are really strict compared to most other licenses, they don't really "play nice" with anything, including each other.
WWDC audience member makes bold request loud and clear (2003) [video]
As an example to back up your point RMS has explicitly supported the use of non-GPL licenses for codecs as a strategic move to avoid being shut out of that market by network effects.
Once you see this extension, you will forget standard output window
Maybe he would have, maybe he wouldn't have. We'll never know. We'll certainly never know if Jefferson would have thought the wholesale slaughter of jews to be an appropriate topic to broach when discussing the relative merits of the GPL vs MIT. Instead of resorting to temporally impossible hypotheticals, why not talk about people who actually had the sort of experiences you think are most relevant to the discussion?
Because PyPi doesn't?

I'm being facetious here, PyPi is a few times bigger but less curated.
"We believe that everyone around the world deserves good privacy controls." - Mark Zuckerberg

"There is no privacy interest, because by sharing with a hundred friends on a social media platform, which is an affirmative social act to publish, to disclose, to share ostensibly private information with a hundred people, you have just, under centuries of common law, under the judgment of Congress, under the SCA, negated any reasonable expectation of privacy." - Orin Snyder (Lawyer representing Facebook)
F-35 project is infinitely more valuable as its contuined production provides A LOT of employment and contracts. I sincerely don't expect the project ever end or deliver anything worthwhile.
Even if it can't, it has wheels and, I assume, distance measuring sensors/encoders, etc. Slip is "easily" detected by monitoring wheel response to motion commands.
Used to have self-replicating persistent malware hidden inside filed that fit on floppy disks.
> I'd say that for time, the second is the only thing people can really relate to. With a bit of practice everybody can count seconds.

Not really. Games like "one Mississippi" are fun approximations, but they aren't terribly accurate. Also this gets very close to the argument that foot is a better unit for length than meter because you can more easily approximate it with the average adult male's shoe length. Easy to approximate has its uses, but also doesn't necessarily make it the best fit for every application.

Scheduling is a critical component to people needing time, and yes is just about impossible without clocks / calendars / sundials / other "external sources". But that's also where all the interesting stuff happens when people use time and if you can't account for the math of scheduling, people would never use that unit for time.

Part of the problem there is that we do keep trying to "square the circle" if we want to apply metric tendencies to our reference points on rotating spheroids. (Another fun experiment I've seen in sci-fi, and played with myself, is the idea of day time expressed in radians.)
I assume it's mostly to make it easier for people to test this out with existing stuff. Docker containers are the standard for taking a base image and adding stuff on top of it.
I hope this issue gets more attention. We're so undernourished when it comes to Magnesium. Also, closely related is Calcium. Calcium and Magnesium work closely together in the body for huge number of functions related to brain health. Of particular importance is the ratio of calcium to magnesium. A Significant portion of the population has their calcium to magnesium ratio way too high, something like 10 to 1 or higher. This is not only due to too little magnesium but also due to way too much calcium. It's not commonly known in the US (because big food companies run the USDA recommendations), but you're only supposed to get 500mg of calcium a day, not 1000mg like the USDA recommends. There are so many studies that show that 1400mg+ is approaching a danger zone. this is exacerbated by unusually low magnesium levels.

If you're looking to get more magnesium into your body, I'd recommend whole foods rather than supplements. Supplements are often not absorbed by the body. Whole foods high in magnesium include: leafy greens, nuts (especially cashews), oatmeal, whole grains, beans. and if you want to find more high nutrient foods try my nutrient based food search: https://kale.world/c (put the selector on magnesium)
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That must have looked very impressive at the time (and must have been quite an engineering task). Makes me think of something out of a fantasy novel.
OCaml 4.08
Study finds that a GPS outage would cost $1B per day
> but what difference does this make in practice?

CentOS is the difference; it is one of the most widely used distributions has the same stability and longevity characteristics and gets security fixes just as fast as RHEL.
> Hopefully it keeps chugging along for some time

That's my biggest question, especially with Google. Meanwhile,
Kodu is still getting updates 10 years later! [0] (Disclosure: I was an intern on Kodu years back, so I'm probably biased ;) )

[0] https://www.kodugamelab.com/archive/new-kodu-release-15470/
I think I got lucky. I landed a job at the first company I applied too about 6 months before graduating. I was asked only two technical questions neither required a white board. The first was about how to deal with a temperature sensor which was giving erratic readings. The other was about sorting arrays. Since then I have participated in about 5 interviews of other hopeful candidates. My company's approach to the interviewing process seems to be rather straight forward:

* Does the interviewee have a basic understanding of what we do?
* Does it seem as though they will fit well here?
* How do they deal with failure?
* Are they excited about working for us?

and the one thing that seems to be most important:

* If they don't know how to do something are they willing to put in the time to learn?

It seems to have served us well. I am always surprised when I read stories like this where candidates are turned away for not being able to build a quad-tree on a white board in 5 minuets whilst hanging upside down by their toes and repeating the alphabet backwards...
Isn't this a good thing though? It shows that the competency of candidates has increased so that harder tests are needed. It used to be that 99% of programmers failed FizzBuzz: http://wiki.c2.com/?FizzBuzzTest
Looking around Illinois I see most of the "connected to grid" dates in the mid-late 80s, which I presume represents the point at which construction ended. The mid-80s isn't that long ago for core infrastructure.

Reading the Wikipedia pages for these plants, many are slated to be decommissioned and some have uncertain futures due to economics; natural gas appears to be outcompeting nuclear in Illinois. Which goes towards explaining why there aren't new plants being built: they're hugely expensive and are not reliably profitable.
Can you explain that? Wouldn't being skilled at algorithms be a false positive at times for dev-ops skills in OP's scenario? Maybe the algorithmic knowledge is simply rote and practicing, as opposed to skills and knowledge in dev-ops specifically.
Recycling is a conspiracy? Can I get a link to that?
I wanna know more about the barley cakes that are being used in several of the recipes. My thought is that they're probably being used like bread to dissolve and thicken, but then why the cakes instead of just barley? My assumption would be that perhaps pre-baked cakes were better for longterm storage (think hardtack), but I'm not sure.
They’ve been trying to get started on one in Utah, though it’s been hung up a few years in court with environmentalists fighting about the water usage.

See “Public Reaction” in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Castle_Project
Does this allow for a docker image to be run inside a browser tab?
Web Accessibility in Context
Yeah, I didn't go into the whole spiel as off-topic (and this comment isn't the whole spiel, either...), but taurine for heart issues seems like something that should just be tried by almost anyone experiencing them. It has basically no overdose risk, as it's an amino acid everybody consumes anyhow, and there are many papers showing it can help. So, very cheap, basically no downside, possible significant upside, abundant scientific support. It was one of the first things I tried that had an immediate, positive effect.

Digging into this sort of thing did convince me there's a lot of truth in the idea that you can't get the medical world very interested in solutions that don't come with a patentable treatment. There's a lot of papers I've found about how much heart stuff can be treated by correcting various deficiencies, such as taurine, or magnesium & potassium, but it all seems very under-utilized by the medical community themselves.

Example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16797868

(Incidentally, just as that abstract says, the literature suggest adding L-Arginine to your taurine may also be beneficial as they work together. If you're fine now, I wouldn't suggest rocking the boat, but if it's only 80-90% effective or something, you may want to consider adding that as there's a decent chance it could take you to 100%.)
Funny, I've been wanting to do/working on a SQL style guide myself, with a big emphasis on using leading commas because of the readability and easy-adjustability. I do something like this:

SELECT
a, b
FROM
t1
LEFT OUTER JOIN t2
ON t2.t1_id = t1.id
WHERE
t2.c = 'foo'
;
When picking up trash substantially impacts your lifetime earnings, that might matter.
(Replying to lone_haxx0r here, as the thread went dead while I was writing this):

> Why don't you 'steal' from your own pocket and help the poor?

See? That's exactly what I was referring to with "frowned upon by those who see capitalism as an ethical system" and with "capitalism has an enormous blind spot".

There's a rational argument perfectly consistent with libertarian free market principles, by which a government collecting taxes is not "stealing", as long as you don't take "anything a government do is evil" as a premise. If you begin from the assumption that people can willingly enter into contracts as long as their terms are legal and free from coertion, the argument goes like this:

- A country's land is owned by the state (or by its ruler, in case of a monarchy or a tyranny).

- There's a "social contract", willingly enforced by the citizens in that country (either explicitly or tacitly)[1], that the government has a duty to protect its citizens, and the citizens in turn will obey the government and pay due taxes in order to support the country.

- You were signed into that contract by your parents when you were born, as they had the legal authority over your rights to decide on your behalf.

- As soon as you legally become an adult, you can step out of that social contract by leaving the country at any time. By remaining in your country, you consent to its social contract, so you pay taxes to the government by your own will.

- Therefore, as an adult, you are not forced to pay taxes to that country where you acquired citizenship; but you don't have a right to be a free-rider by using the services provided by that country (military, roads, social welfare) without paying the required fee for those services.

- There's a free market of countries with open borders; people can vote with their feet in this market and migrate to their preferred one. You have no obligation to pay taxes at any one of them, but they have no obligation to accept you nor provide you with services if you're not willing to play by their rules.

TLDR version: creating governments and establishing taxes is the strategy we use to "'steal' from our own pocket and help the poor" in a sistematic way. Anyone not willing to participate is free to leave, but good luck finding a country that will not do the same.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract
> Hemp is a weed and was growing prolifically all over the US until the 1920's and 1930's, when it was outlawed. Free range cattle still is a big thing but was even larger then. Most of the beef in the nation consumed hemp 2nd hand by eating the domestic and wild animals that grazed on this wild growing weed

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp

1. The link you provided states that hemp contains varying amounts of CBD, and does not claim that cattle have ever consumed any CBD.

2. Even if cattle do/did consume CBD, the link does not claim that any of that CBD is passed down to humans consuming beef--there's no evidence in that link that beef from cattle who consume CBD contains any CBD.

> It isn't hard to extrapolate that humans have been digesting the weed and cannabinoids for a long time and it is an integral part of the human system

> Of course you can say humans and the plants evolved parallel and they arent related. I have no evidence to prove otherwise but typically when you see similar systems in the same ecosystem they are related.

1. I don't buy the claim that "typically when you see similar systems in the same ecosystem they are related". Proving such a claim would require a wide survey of a bunch of ecosystems to prove a hypothesis that doesn't really build toward any theory: in short, this isn't even a good hypothesis, let alone a hypothesis which is likely to have been tested.

2. Even if we accept hypothesis 1 is true, that doesn't show what the relation is--it doesn't show that humans have been digesting cannabinoids. There's lots of evidence that cannabinoid receptors are involved in hunger and metabolism, and while I won't claim to fully understand that, I think we can agree that humans need to eat to survive, so there are some pretty clear reasons for the cannabinoid receptor system existing in humans that have nothing to do with cannabinoids originating in plants. Also, humans aren't the only species with cannabinoid systems. It's just as possible that humans or another mammal are integral parts of cannabinoid survival than the inverse.

I can certainly appreciate the romantic aesthetic of a plant coevolving with humans to expand our minds or some such, but the fact that it's such an aesthetically pleasing hypothesis should be recognized as bias, making me doubly skeptical.
The failures I didn’t mention when I posted my success on Facebook
We don’t know what expectations were set in the interview for the solution space, but anyone with (Unix) ops experience should have the thought “grep can do that” pop into their head. And people with a formal CS education should be able to come up with the dynamic programming solution.

So, whichever side of dev-ops you lean to, there’s a reasonable answer that should be within your field of expertise. And given Palantir’s line of business (the company involved), I wouldn’t be surprised if dissecting a byte string with limited information about it’s structure comes up from time to time in their actual work.
An 85-year-old tech entrepreneur who made her staff millionaires
Again, please read more details about what you’re talking about, or even my previous comments. The C version isn’t going anywhere.
>> last few times I tried to play chess, my mind would just drift off designing a program to do it so I wouldn't have to bother.

That describes exactly how I feel about Sudoku.

I do find a good game of chess to be enjoyable, though.
Then you're going to have a hard time in the post Node.js era. You also probably want to avoid looking at what many popular desktop apps use behind the scenes :)
There's literally no way to not ask that snarkily. Don't do it.

Also, it reeks of "justice driven opinion having" which is scary beyond reason for an employer, e.g. "They didn't ask for this feature the right way so I'm not going to deliver it/deliver it in a way that makes them unhappy."
>Suppression doesn't work. It just reveals that the bosses who have control have you out-grouped if you're not one of their "faithful."

I think that's a bit telling - people are, by and large, being deplatformed for hate speech. And while the US has free speech laws that more or less protect hate speech, it does not have laws obligating institutions (such as universities or social media companies) give these people a platform for hate speech.

>It's a disappointment to see nonsense like "milkshaking" and "Punch a Nazi." These are just dress rehearsals to more serious political violence. These are signs of people being radicalized to the point, where they are going to abandon discourse and resort to violent conflict.

Right, but the regular mass shootings by Ben Shapiro fans isn't a concern.
Yes but I’m not writing code everyday on a whiteboard, I’m writing it in an IDE with access to Google.

When I am at a whiteboard I am drawing very crude architectural diagrams.
>How much is a little wifi camera that can send back a few images per minute?

I was discussing cameras with someone who derives a non-negligible portion of their income from streaming 4k video. The "gold standard" as far as they are concerned is a $60 Logitech webcam. Swap out the cord for a wifi chip, swap out the consumer housing for something that clips to a shelf and can be secured with a self tapping screw and power it with a cheap solar panel and I still can't see it coming in above $100.
> Or I can cut the bullshit and accept that we're really not very peaceful.

I'm peaceful. But I'd violently defend my peace - I think it's a paradox.

The "paradox of tolerance" was formally defined in 1945, at the height of WWII. It's the result of grappling with a complicated moral issue - how do you remain peaceful when Nazis are dropping bombs on your city so as to march in and start rounding up minority populations for extermination? You have to abandon your peace value, at least for a moment.

"Cut the bullshit" is an extremely dismissive thing to say about a highly debated philosophical moral concept. Maybe it feels good to say, maybe it feels like an intellectual high ground, but I say it's intellectually dishonest. It's the imposition of your philosophical viewpoint as "right" because you claim your viewpoint is more "simple" or "natural."
Someday, that might come full circle and you'll be the one who won't be enriched because the original code was MIT and not GPL.

Here's an example: you buy some embedded hardware for a personal project, but you find out that the toolchain for that chipset is a pile of proprietary blobs built on Clang and it only runs on Windows. If it were built on GCC, then the GPL would force them to make the source available and people could adapt/update/rebuild it as needed.

Making something MIT/public domain is free for one hop, from you to the next person. After that it can become even more restrictive and demanding than the GPL (i.e. proprietary binaries).
This may go either way for you, but I feel like the GPL is the closest thing that programmers have to a union. It guarantees that our obligations to users and other programmers always supersede the obligations that we have to our employer. They are a law hack that encodes professionalism.

edit: it seems obvious that a doctor's obligations should be to the patient, then to medicine, then to the particular institution they work for. A lawyer should protect the client, protect the legal profession, then protect whatever firm they happen to work for.

Programmers should make sure that users have access to inspect the code that affects their lives; that other programmers can work with, learn from, and help the users to interpret that code; and that their company makes money. The only way that companies can accept being pushed to the third priority is by a united front of programmers who unambiguously swear to uphold the first two without compromise, and making what you do GPL is attaching an oath to that effect to everything you write.
The user does NOT have the same freedoms under MIT because there is no obligation to release the sources you have modified and distributed as a binary. A user may also be a programmer but if they have no source their options are limited.
Carter Doctrine
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The whole "false positives" narrative is an example of the "saying something enough makes it true" fallacy.

I've interviewed dozens of people, and you can easily root out false positives by asking about their prior experience. Simply probing about things like design patterns to challenges with Javacript front-end coding is enough. If the candidate can go into explicit detail about past projects including bugs they fixed and limitations they came across in a Angular 6 project (as an example), then that's usually a good sign they know what they're talking about.
> It's their software and their right to determine which reasons they care about most.

We are pretty much in agreement here. All I ask is that people think for themselves, rather than farming out that decision to that persuasive sloganeer they recently met.
Just purely from a practical perspective, lawyers tend to run screaming from a lot of usage-based restrictions. Even if they seem fairly straightforward at first scan, once you start asking questions (as in your case and non-commercial), all but the most trivial uses--in which the license doesn't really matter anyway--start to look like they might fall into a grey area.

If your job is managing business risk, it's just not worth it.
More than the robot. You're not going to pay the price of $100 wifi cameras on Amazon, just like you're not paying $35,000 for a glorified Roomba.