skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of those ideas that looks simple enough until you actually have to do it, and then you realise all the problems with it.

For example, in order to avoid any possibility of data loss at all using such a system, you need to continue running all of your transactions through the previous version of your system as well as the new version until you're happy that the performance of the new version is satisfactory. In the event of any divergence you probably need to keep the output of the previous version but also report the anomaly to whoever should investigate it.

But then if you're monitoring your production system, how do you make that decision about the performance of the new version being acceptable? If you're looking at metrics like conversion rates, you're going to need a certain amount of time to get a statistically significant result if anything has broken. Depending on your system and what constitutes a conversion, that might take seconds or it might take days. And you can only make a single change, which can therefore be rolled back to exactly the previous version without any confounding factors, during that whole time.

And even if you provide a doubled-up set of resources to run new versions in parallel and you insist on only rolling out a single change to your entire system during a period of time that might last for days in case extended use demonstrates a problem that should trigger an automatic rollback, you're still only protecting yourself against problems that would show up in whatever metric(s) you chose to monitor. The real horror stories are very often the result of failure modes that no-one anticipated or tried to guard against.
Or maybe it's like perhaps counter-intuitively you can't be the best on something which very few people play. You got to be the best on playing the same instrument that the stars play. You can't start your own sport, that would be the equivalent of playing a new instrument. Just a thought, don't know how much truth there is to it
Here's my take:

> "there is no gamma compression for red in the eye"

I'm not familiar with this terminology, at least in this context. Would you mind expanding on this? If you've any references I might use, that would be helpful, too.
"Exaggerated a bit" isn't saying that every block in every city in the entire country has homeless people that are either violent, mentally ill, or using the sidewalk as a bathroom. Whatever point you were trying to make is lost through your "why is the USA the only country where every city is a homeless dystopia?" hyperbole.
They do! CANDU reactors, in operation all over the world, can use Thorium fuel today.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANDU_reactor
Perhaps a parser exists that can determine if an input regex is runaway backtrack prone, and can automatically switch to a deterministic algorithm?
Sure, but the structural issues that Seattle (and many other municipalities) have with ensuring conditions to allow sufficient construction to meet housing demand don't have much to do with visible homelessness stemming from mental health issues.
Is providing the service to the API providers competitors not somewhat creating a bit of defense in this situation? If every app can do it through a partner which is focused on that feature, is there a real benefit to the app building their own solution?

I think this is Relive's misstep, though time will tell. They have all of the major apps as part of their API now, but they've also started directly competing with these app, giving the app creators an incentive to compete right back.

I do have a dog in this fight as the founder of https://ayvri.com which creates interactive 3D videos, used for sports and other domains.
Hopefully you are responsible and keep off pavements/sidewalks
To be clear, by institutions I don't mean monolithic asylums. I mean institutions in a broad sense. The way the fire department is an institution. I mean something much more akin to networks of social and the community centers you mention.
Everything is political to somebody.

I see that the bird lovers have finally conquered the Feral_cat page on wikipedia. That took some doing. The obsessed cat crazies used to really guard that page.

A decade or two ago, wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales had to step in to handle pedophilia-related pages that were being guarded by sympathetic editors.

Most companies will guard pages related to them. Whole countries will even do this.
MeetUp a Corpus of Joint Activity Dialogues in a Visual Environment
Minimum US national load is ~400GWh and peak is ~675GWh, [1] so there’s a tremendous amount of storage which could be used to smooth out the curve.

Perfectly smoothing the curve would require something like 2TWh (charging at 150GW for 12 hours and then discharging at 150GW for 12 hours), which would be total overkill, but every little bit can help stabilize the grid—and spot prices—that much more.

The fact that 10 years from now we could have 100GWh of storage, and adding maybe 50GWh per year is pretty awesome. Global Li-Ion battery production is forecast to be ~1TWh by then.

Between electric cars, home storage, and grid storage, chemical battery production seems like it’s turning into a trillion dollar market. Eventually we’ll add airplanes to that list!

[1] - https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=27192
I've talked to some Microsoft employees who use the Server edition of Windows on their primary development machines, especially instead of Windows 10, since they can legally do that easily. Apparently it's somewhat popular to do that. I think it's quite telling when its own employees avoid Win10.
That's like saying a torpedo hit the sub and the reactor stopped working so it's a reactor problem. You're being disingenuous. The reactor was not the part that malfunctioned.

Again, if you read that page then you'll find several other causes like faulty ballast tanks that didn't eject, isolating the steam system too quickly and eliminating potential energy from the turbines, and inexperienced personnel not restarting the reactor after shutdown. If just the ballast tanks had worked then the sub would be safe for rescue, if the steam was used then it could continue to drive to surface.

According to an official report [1]: "U.S. Nuclear Powered Warships have safely operated for more than 50 years without experiencing any reactor accident or any release of radioactivity that hurt human health or had an adverse effect on marine life. Naval reactors have an outstanding record of over 134 million miles safely steamed on nuclear power, and they have amassed over 5700 reactor-years of safe operation." and this is from several years ago.

1. https://www.mofa.go.jp/region/n-america/us/security/fact0604...
Then comes the inevitable tweets every few weeks. "cloudflare doesn't event trust cloudflare to run their own control panel"
This past year I taught Python to 7th and 8th graders.

But to 6th graders I taught CLI basics and Inform7 (all on the command line).

It was one of the most successful "programming and computer basics" courses I've ever run. A fair amount of custom tooling to make it run smoothly, but a shared VPS for the students and some deploy scripts made it possible to not only make individual games but also collaborate on a larger scale game written collaboratively (each user writing their own set of rooms which was compiled automatically into a full game).
They're even alone as babies. Americans have this weird obsession with putting babies to sleep in separate rooms as soon as possible, including newborns, as if this develops some rugged independence. All the research (and common sense) shows they need to sleep as close to the mother as safely possible. Yet this mentality persists. And then the move to kick them out of the house at 18, why?
Hey guess what. I didn’t use cigarettes at all for the last 10 years but used ecigs because they tasted good and were fun. It happens too. They could be harmful on balance!
> That said, there is also a puritan no drug element to these "anti-tobacco" lobbies that have nothing to do with harm or risk, they are just the Calvinists of our day.

True, and what's also weird is a lot of the anti-nicotine puritans are pro-marijuana.
You've been able to control all the Microsoft Office and other apps like Internet Explorer through "out of process" OLE automation for ages, and Python has a great win32com module (part of pywin32) for controlling "in process" and "out of process" OLE controls / ActiveX components.

https://pypi.org/project/pywin32/

http://timgolden.me.uk/pywin32-docs/html/com/win32com/HTML/d...

Intgrating COM into Python is one approach, but another approach is integrating Python into Active Scripting. (The age old extending/embedding debate.)

https://docs.python.org/3/extending/index.html

And Active Scripting (1996) let you plug different "in process" interpreters into the web browser and other multi-lingually scriptable applications, and call back and forth between (many but not all) ActiveX components and OLE automation interfaces more directly, without using slow "out of process" remote procedure calls. (Some components still require running in separate process, like Word, Excel, etc, which work, but are just slower to call).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Scripting

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1m...

>The Microsoft Windows Script Host (WSH) (formerly named Windows Scripting Host) is an automation technology for Microsoft Windows operating systems that provides scripting abilities comparable to batch files, but with a wider range of supported features.

>It is language-independent in that it can make use of different Active Scripting language engines. By default, it interprets and runs plain-text JScript (.JS and .JSE files) and VBScript (.VBS and .VBE files).

>Users can install different scripting engines to enable them to script in other languages, for instance PerlScript. The language independent filename extension WSF can also be used. The advantage of the Windows Script File (.WSF) is that it allows the user to use a combination of scripting languages within a single file.

>WSH engines include various implementations for the Rexx, BASIC, Perl, Ruby, Tcl, PHP, JavaScript, Delphi, Python, XSLT, and other languages.

>Windows Script Host is distributed and installed by default on Windows 98 and later versions of Windows. It is also installed if Internet Explorer 5 (or a later version) is installed. Beginning with Windows 2000, the Windows Script Host became available for use with user login scripts.
A friend of mine works converting spreadsheets to Python/Java programs. Basically people at the company solve the problem with Excel, and when that gets to slow, he codes it up to read from a CSV and they're off to the races.

It's amazing how far these business types can get before needing a programmer to optimize things. As a programmer, I tend to think in terms of logic, and then I tried to build a complicated budget tool in Python and the turnaround was just atrocious. So, I did it in a spreadsheet instead and was far more productive.

Spreadsheets are awesome, and whoever came up with the concept should get some kind of award. I can't think of a single software tool that has enabled more productivity than a spreadsheet.
Musks's satellite internet project (in progress) should perform very close to landline internet (unlike existing sats), with potentially even better latency.

Makes going off the grid even more enticing…
I agree, spending tax money collected from one area to spend in another is a problem, but that's not to say that there's no place in Seattle proper that isn't cheap enough.

To the second point, there will always be NIMBYism, and to be honest the expensive parts of Seattle will fight it a lot less than the cheap places, but I don't think that directly rebuts the point.
It's the safest form of energy in terms of deaths per terawatt-hour generated by an order of magnitude [1].

[1] https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-ener...
If this is what he wants for himself, it's not dystopian, it's personal info.
Sheetz Store in Winston-Salem (NC) Testing Bitcoin ATM
Not everyone is how they appear and your disregard and assumption of greed is just sad. For example, I'm going to college, working 'and' working on a side project. I face the near future prospect of having to support myself and two parents, which hardly requires greed on my part. This situation is far from uncommon.
It really seems like a poor choice to dramatically alter the financing of another business because some other unrelated investment is doing well.

That seems like just doubling down in a bad way.
Most peoples data doesn't originate from Strava, right? At least not anyone I know (runners, MTB'ers, cyclists, triathletes). Nearly every single one I know uses a Garmin, Suunto, Polar or Wahoo device. Maybe a couple use a phone, but even then I don't think they record with Strava. Heck even my retired parents have a Garmin first...

Relive works with (at least) Garmin, so that's how I sync to it first, then I sync to Strava... so for me, and many many others, Strava is just a 3rd party app to Garmin. Garmin could play the strong hand and cut off Strava's access to the API and they'd suffer quite a bit too.

Disclosure: Strava member since 2011, Premium/Summit member since 2013. But, after 6 years of paying, this is turning me off. I won't be renewing Summit at the next renewal (especially since there haven't really been many useful features added over free)
I actually doubt it. Whenever I go back to Italy I can easily buy glasses at full price for the same price I get WITH insurance in the USA. Same story for a lot of other stuff, like dental work etc...

Insurance pushes the price of care up by about 5 to 6 times in my estimation, single payer would fix it.
True.

The diagnosis is simple. We have a cycle of sympathizing and then cracking down on marginalized people and it stems from having a one size fits all approach to social problems.

The solution of course is terribly complex. It stresses some of the most difficult questions of Western social philosophy. Such as how much should we respect the individual will vs. the collective need? And what is our obligation to the needy? And how much power over others should we place in the system or delegate to people?
The hustler culture indicts us to a life of packing up and moving across the country just for a marginally better job offer or degree or cheaper mansions. You see this even on comment threads here discussing where to live in the US. People "shop" for the best city right now to move to because it has cheaper housing or taxes or whatever. Scan the entire thread and you don't see being close to family or community roots ever mentioned.
Did you travel outside the normal tourist areas?
Adventures in CNC Robotics
Correct. Ignoring the problem and pretending that these folks are living meaningful, empowered lives is a sham. They're obviously miserable and need some help.
Did I miss something? What negative consequences were there?
Well, don't neurons get pruned as you grow up? So you don't necessarily have the same hardware.
One way is to override the libc time functions using LD_PRELOAD using something like https://github.com/wolfcw/libfaketime

This doesn't work with everything (for example doesn't work with Go because Go doesn't use libc for such things) but if it does then it's a very simple to use:

% LD_PRELOAD=src/libfaketime.so.1 FAKETIME='1999-12-31 23:59:59' date
Fri Dec 31 23:59:59 PST 1999

% LD_PRELOAD=src/libfaketime.so.1 FAKETIME='1999-12-31 23:59:59' python -c 'import time;print(time.ctime())'
Fri Dec 31 23:59:59 1999

or to have the fake clock ticking starting from the specified time:

% LD_PRELOAD=src/libfaketime.so.1 FAKETIME='@1999-12-31 23:59:59' python -c 'import time;print(time.ctime());time.sleep(1);print(time.ctime())'
Fri Dec 31 23:59:59 1999
Sat Jan 1 00:00:00 2000
Labor is only a small percent of agricultural costs. They could profitably pay pickers far more without a substantial increase in food prices.
Steam turbines are part of a nuclear reactor. If it had used batteries and Diesel engines there would have been no steam system to fuck up.

I absolutely agree it was not the single cause of failure, it was even recoverable in theory. But, if the reactor had continued to supply power, like large result battery systems tend to, then it would have likely made it. That directly means using a reactor was less safe to put on the sub.

If an aircraft lost all engine power over the ocean because of a defective engine design and thus crashed. Well you can bet the navy would blame the engines, but with nuclear power they care about perception. The loss of a crew is acceptable risk, the loss of nuclear reactors from a public backlash is a loss of capability.

PS: They can and do mitigate this risk by having large battery systems for redundancy, it’s only a few hours of power. But, it can run a redundant electric engine to move the sub, and that’s an important lesson learned.
Sometimes, it's called "multiple sclerosis"
I think the dangerous thing is that people who have never smoked are using vapes more and more. I'm 26 and the vast majority of my friends have never been smokers, but are consistent vapers. I agree that they can help smokers, but I think the primary audience for these products never smoked.
I am only recently aware of Patreon because of that V-lang stuff that has been hyping around on Reddit and here; this however seems very interesting to me. In my spare time I have been working on something similar for a long time but this looks, at first glance, clean and well done compared to my own efforts. Will have a play when I really wake up.

Another nice one (again imho) is [0].

[0] https://www.patreon.com/csaba_hruska
Implementing CSRF doesn’t stop an outside party from finding out that you have (for example) an AppleTV inside your network. The device will still return a HTTP status code. You could legit spy on end users this way. A real boon for ad tech, too.
I haven't kept up, but as of 12 years ago they were anonymizing search logs for users that aren't logged in:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/searchengineland.com/google-ano...
I doubt anyone would go there and use bitcoin except students at near by University who would use the school electricity to mine bitcoin.
(I went to school there so I know kids do that lol)
Yeah I lived in Manhattan, never geographically closer to so many friends and rarely saw them. Everyone's too tired or too scheduled. In the suburbs we were often bored and open to just hanging out and not stressing about optimising our time. I always say the burbs are where new culture is created and the big cities are where it is commercially consumed.
Yes. This is the problem and probably why we are doomed to repeat this cycle of tolerance and crackdown.
From the Introduction-link above:

"In a nutshell, Opera Unite is a collaborative technology that uses a compact server inside the Opera desktop browser to share data and services. You can write applications — in the form of Opera Unite Services — that use this server to serve content to other Web users."
I'm a fan of old UNIX papers, i remember his name associated with Multics mostly. "Introduction and overview of the Multics system", F. J. Corbató, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and V. A. Vyssotsky Bell Telephone Laboratories. (https://multicians.org/fjcc1.html)

seminal in OS development at the time.

if anyone has links to other interesting papers, do share.
I use Inversify for a project that has a lot of custom objects/data flow that dont fit in your typical react/redux model.

The learning curve took me a while, but now creating new objects and inserting them into my app doesn't require too much thinking and is nearly bug free
Correction: It still happens with a completely fresh install, just like withinrafael claims.

https://i.imgur.com/zDWo4Hb.png

Very sad.
ATM will let patrons buy/sell Bitcoin ... a half mile from my house.

( I wish I still had my 325 Bitcoin that I sold at a decent profit to order a Butterfly Labs Monarch Bitcoin miner. I even plunked down additional cash for a second one. I moved from Bay Area to Winston-Salem at around that time and kept looking for decent cheap office space with a good electric power supply. I'm glad I didn't sign a lease because, of course, BFL never delivered their Monarchs. I was fortunate to get a full cash refund. )
Climate despair is making people give up on life
Would you end your app for 500 million?
Not since the days of Microsoft astro-turfing have I seen such a campaign against a tech company. Some of these metrics are very subjective and I've seen so many bone-headed security bugs in equipment over the years (Cisco, Nortel, TP link, Dlink...) that I really have difficulty believing the narrative of state sponsored malice.

Regardless, Huawei needs to clean up their practices.
Ineptitude isn't a defense and this level of sloppiness is unacceptable; We have too much at stake with these essential networks, and I think legislation of security practices and standards in these products should be considered.
This is kinda patronizing
Yet another person using the word Nazis for people with different (and sometimes tasteless opinion), diluting the word.

Alt-right, conservatives, even racists or xenophobes for some, but Nazis really doesn't help pushing the point across.

I mean, stuff like this [1] (I pixelated identifying info, I don't want a witch hunt), attacking an alleged nazi by hoping them all sorts of accidents or mishaps and threatening to harass someone is not okay no matter on which "side" you stand.

[1]: https://i.imgur.com/ifI5spa.png
Last time I was tested for the kneecap reflex, nothing happened. The doctor told me to take my hands and hook the fingers of one around the other and pull them against each other, and then the reflex appeared.

I don't know what that has to do with consciousness, since I didn't decide to suppress anything.
I've been using Strava since 2011... but garmins since 2005. Used RunningAhead.com for many years. Then MotionBased once I got Garmin. They got acquired by Garmin I believe and it became what is now My.Garmin. Strava has a social lead on them, but My Garmin has basically the same functionality as Strava. What gives Strava the nod is they pull info from many devices, not just Garmin. But if Garmin cut off Strava; most of us would just use My Garmin.
Sweden Declines to Sign UN Nuclear Treaty
This Overview of NASA's SR-71 Blackbird Is a Must Watch
Gab joins the fediverse to become the largest Mastodon node
hbr1.com Radio on since 2003, now victim of ransomware
From their guestbook:

earlgrey wrote at Tue, Jul 09 2019, 20:56 (utc) following comment:
Hello world.
Yes it is true. No backup because they got a hold of this drive also. And no one never ever would have expected bullshit like this... We received an answer from the Hacker... Hacker #1 because there is another one in the game ?!?!
Stupid kids-stuff ... hope they realize and come down to earth
please read the answer:
"Good day. Yes, your files have been encrypted with our crypt. but another hacker has encrypted your files on top. Now on your files are two crypts. you need to contact first with another hacker and agree to decrypt your files. Then we can already help you."
It has a rules engine. I don't think it's the same thing?
I think yes if you’re not logged in. But there’s plenty of ways Google is tracking you, and serving ads to you, away from Google.com too.
A Forth-y with types, let alone dependent types, are not ‘a dime a dozen’.
Specifically they run IBM zTPF on their mainframes, which is also used by airlines. Some installations have uptimes measured in decades.

https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/transaction-processi...
The hypocrisy! NIMBY is precisely the name for this entire thread of self-pitying heartless belly aching.