skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry, but this is nonsense.

1. It doesn't matter whether "sophonts" (whatever exactly you mean by that) are voluntarists. It might matter whether voluntarism is right, which is an entirely different question, but I don't think it's credible that even that is relevant here. Why should anything so broad as voluntarism be necessary for anyone to be able to "definitely assert" that something is true? (Note that I didn't claim, e.g., that anyone at all can sincerely assert that anything at all is true.)

2. "The otaku theory of biology"? Are you just trolling?

3. "Voluntarist personality" doesn't make any sense. Voluntarism is a philosophical position, not a personality trait. If you mean that I'm the kind of person who believes whatever they feel like, well, please go ahead and believe that if you feel like doing so.

4. There is no theorem that would make us dead if human cognition weren't as good as scientists-at-their-most-careful, and if you think Conant and Ashby proved anything of the sort then I think you are badly deluded. What might be true (though actually I don't believe any theorem comes close to proving this either) is that if human cognition weren't perfect then we would be mortal. Guess what? It isn't, and we are.
James Comey was the prosecutor of Martha Stewart case:)
It's CB. Google "Microsoft Driver Verifier" and use it, focusing on the memory tests. I'd wager a sandwich that doing so will cause a bluescreen within ~10 minutes or so, and that those bluescreens will stop if you remove CB.
Raiding Area 51 started as a joke but mystery surrounds turnout
Oddly, the naive way you'd expect `4 // 0.4` to be implemented:

>>> math.floor( 4 / 0.4 )
10

does exactly the right thing.
Taylor Swift’s Asset Restructuring
> First, you have annoying problem of remembering which service or app to use for each show. If available on multiple services, you have to remember which one you were watching on so it preserves your place.

On Apple TV this is pretty much solved by the os. You just tell it what you want to watch and it shows you where you can watch it. I believe it handles the resume use case as well.
What curriculum doesn't teach you about negative numbers until the 7th grade??
He says he 'went looking for them.' I dug around a bit and there's not a lot of really concrete numbers. Here's what I found:

> Since 2000, the number of full-time songwriters in Nashville has fallen by 80 percent, according to the Nashville Songwriters Association International

https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2015/01...

> According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were 39,260 people in the United States classified as “Musicians and Singers.” This is down 27% from 53,940 in 2002.

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2015/07/16/if-you-think-pir...

> At the same time, consumers spent less money on recorded music (both physically and digitally distributed) than they had in the 1990s.[13] Total "music-business" revenues in the U.S. dropped by half, from a high of $14.6 billion in 1999 to $6.3 billion in 2009, according to Forrester Research.[14]

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

> For many musicians, the income derived from sound recordings is a small part of their overall revenue pie, and it’s decreasing. In aggregate, 88% of survey respondents derived between 0% and 10% of their music-related income from sound recordings in the past 12 months. Respondents who identified themselves as composers and/or recording artists were making a bit more, as were rock and hip hop musicians, but even when examined through various lenses like role or genre, income from sound recordings hovered under 15% of music-related income. Though differences exist by role and/or genre, the survey data suggests that income from sound recordings is a modest slice of most musicians’ income pies – a sentiment also expressed by a number of interviewees.

http://money.futureofmusic.org/sound-recording-income/9/

also relevant for the TV industry:

> According to the Writers Guild Association – West, screenwriters’ earnings were down nearly 25 percent in 2013 from 2009.

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2015/07/16/if-you-think-pir...
Do you remember what your username was there? There's a slight chance the WayBack Machine got it

https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://fan.starwars.com/*

edit: oh wow, looks like these archives seem to all be broken because of the javascript they used
There aren't problems with shops selling their own product as long as their core competence is making that product.

There is a problem when a store with significant market share starts paying to produce product it controls.
I must not have written it clearly, sorry.

Here is the only argument I've been trying to make:

Valve has a history of bad security practices and bad responses to security researchers. We should be skeptical of this announcement, coming immediately after bad PR coverage, because Valve has a history of bad security practices and bad responses to security researchers.

----

In support of my main argument, which is that we should be skeptical of Valve's announcement because of their history, I made several supporting arguments.

Just in my last comment, you chose # of clients. Some of the other examples I gave (you guessed it, in support of my main argument, which I shouldn't need to repeat again):

>the age and size of the company, their familiarity with H1, their past responses to situations like this, not attempting to get in touch with the researcher they said it was a mistake to turn away (and there was a 2nd researcher turned away), and the half-hearted response - I simply can't understand making excuses for them.

The letter, which again served in support of my main argument, showed a few examples of how their security culture has always been this way. Although since that time they have moved to H1, which I tried to point out doesn't really mean a whole lot when they were forced into it (and a reminder, we are looking at their pattern of bad behavior with security), the other issues raised include: Putting infractions against accounts that report bugs while rewarding others, and leaking sensitive information including passwords and not forcing a reset.

From some of my past comments, in support of the main argument, I gave examples such as: Shifting blame in their post, not contacting the researcher this entire PR mess is about, not allowing that researcher to submit bugs, and disputing the CVE which requires additional manual review of the bug (and is additional confirmation that they both a) understand that it is an LPE and b) that they don't think it's serious.)

I have done nothing but try to argue in good faith, I'm sorry you see it a different way.

Valve needs to gain my trust after years and years of proving to be negligent with security. They seem to have yours explicitly.
Business logic isn't going to be a large part of a programs size. Most space is used by static resources likes images, lookup-tables, and libraries for handling the former. People aren't cutting out features from their CLI programs to save a couple kilobytes.
> My whole point is that you can still find places where living in preindustrial capitalism is fairly easy due to abundance of Nature.

Any my point is, no you can't. No preindustrial society lives "fairly easy", at least not unless you have a very different conception of "fairly easy" living. Even in the pre-industrial Mediterranean, people lived on near-starvation diets and routinely died of easily treatable illnesses. Average adult male height was bewteen 5'2" and 5'4" in the ancient Mediterranean, based on skeletal evidence. Child mortality was in the 50% range. Most women had no opportunities besides child-rearing and domestic work. No amount of natural abundance can replace antibiotics and industrialized goods like contraceptives, communication, medicine, etc.

If you have the conception that living off the abundance of Nature is at all easy, I highly suggest you dig deeper into this subject. During the 1960s to around the 1980s this idea that the state of nature is idyllic was popular. But as data on the lives of pre-industrial and pre-agricultural societies became more available all but the most ardent supporters of naturalistic idealism arrived at the conclusion that pre-industrial society is a lot worse than life in an industrialized society. Violence, and inability to provide for basic necessities is drastically lower in industrialized societies than it was in preindustrial societies.
I miss TvTorrents.

It had hard-to-find shows, and it kept track of who downloaded what, so if there were no active seeders, you could ping some people to seed it so they could earn credits.
Another reason: pre-auth will deduct up to $125 from your available balance, no matter how small the actual purchase is, which you won’t get back for a couple of days.
One thing not mentioned in the article is that virtually all of Delhi's autorickshaws are powered by CNG, not gas/petrol. On the other hand, most of India's electricity comes from coal, and dirty coal at that. So is switching to e-rickshaws really a net benefit?
I enjoyed reading about how they got started. I loved the fact they were supporting two mental health organizations with donations. Since friend loves this kind of diary-keeping, after I was done reading, I checked out their website with the intention to buy.

Prominently on the home page is an article about using crystals for healing. Ugh.

I don't know if this is intentional, but it really turns me off their brand, and I'm not interested in buying one anymore.
I have been waiting for this change for years. Shareholders are only 1 of many stakeholders, an important one, but there should be a better balance. No, money is not everything.

>>While the statement is a welcome repudiation of a highly influential but spurious theory of corporate responsibility, this new philosophy will not likely change the way corporations behave.

While I think that many of the old established companies will not change their ways, new companies will be looking at the new definition and be influenced by it. We should all welcome the change! It's a big change going forward.

>>The only way to force corporations to act in the public interest is to subject them to legal regulation.

Yes, that's one way but public pressure and new thinking in the education system is the best way to proceed. Pressuring companies thru the legal system is just one way to enact change but not always the best. Companies that are forced into something they don't want to do will find ways to hack the system so they don't have to do anything. By enacting change organically we get better outcomes long term.
Whole hundreds, out of how many tens or hundreds of thousands of spec implementers creating crappy products?
Aha, I had noticed a peculiar construction project near John Day recently, which may have been the early stages a BDA's.
Here is another article from around the same time-frame as the one you linked, slightly east.

https://www.bluemountaineagle.com/news/mimicking-nature-s-da...
I believe Turing Machines are an example. Turing originally called them "automatic machines" or a-machines.
Music, along with other creative endeavors, is primarily a recreational pursuit. It's not socially necessary labor. A century of paying for the physical media necessary to transmit worthless (in a non-perjorative sense) ideas tricked many of us into thinking we were buying music itself. The true value of art reveals itself when these media are removed from the equation.

It's a net good for culture in the grand scheme of things. I'm hoping most professions eventually vanish along with musicians, including my own.
Or the competition on the Forbes list of the richest people.
We used to have a simple line editor so we could edit a text file. Then GNU came along and gave us a wondrously complex editor so we could edit a single line...

From the man page:

Bugs

It's too big and too slow.

GNU software at its finest.
Sorry, in the first example I meant to write (adding a declaration and initialization for n):

int n = 42;
int vla[n];
sizeof vla;

not `sizeof n`). (It doesn't look like I can edit a comment.)

Logically, evaluating the expression `vla` would mean reading the contents of the array object, which means reading the value of each of its elements. But there's clearly no need to do that to determine its size -- and if you actually did that, you'd have undefined behavior since the elements are uninitialized. (There are very few cases where the value of an array object is evaluated, since in most cases an array expression is implicitly converted to a pointer expression.)

In fact the declaration `int vla[n];` will cause the compiler to create an anonymous object, associated with the array type, initialized to `n` or `n * sizeof (int)`. Evaluating `sizeof vla` only requires reading that anonymous object, not reading the array object. The problem is that the standard doesn't express this clearly or correctly.
I really don't want to watch a long video. Is there a link that lays out his thoughts in text?
Boeing’s troubles cost the aerospace industry $4bn a quarter
> You would think after 25 years of making games he'd have enough sense to direct art himself in some way.

It might simply be that he isn't particularly interested in learning it. If he isn't motivated by being an art director, then it would very likely lead to burnout.
C doesn't lack line comments. The obsolete 1989/1990/1995 version(s) of C did lack line comments.
How would you notice? There's nothing you can buy with 65B you can't by with 60B or even 50B. Only the distance to Buffet and others is different.
It’s a lot harder to deal with fraud with a debit card vs a credit card. Better to never use the debit card, use a credit card for everything, and then pay off the credit card on time each month via ACH/bank transfer.

If you can, get only an ATM card for your checking account.

A lot of pumps support NFC/Apple Pay at the pump now. Also a great option instead of pulling a card out.
Thanks! The first quote is indeed a useful bit of evidence. the second one doesn't help us distinguish from the alternative hypothesis where almost all musician income is collected by a very small number of very wealthy people, with few middle class people in the first place.
In that case Disney is in the clear because they are only selling content on their streaming service that they own. So are you saying that Disney shouldn’t be able to sell their own digital content on the Internet? Their “core competence” is producing video content.

In that case neither should any other software company.

Are you also against Showtime Originals and HBO making “Game of Thrones”? Do we really want to go back to the era where all of the cable companies basically just showed reruns from network TV and a few syndicated shows?
The parent comment claimed "child seperation and children dying in ICE facilities" was happening under Obama, implying to the same degree.

This certainly was not true and you have not provided sources saying so.
Transformers from Scratch
Hum... They are (specifically, cutting speed), as evidenced by the OP's link.

Not that it matters with the low number involved.
What Should I Do?
I am the founder/CEO of a startup. We raised some VC money (<1M) and we are ramen profitable. But the company is not growing as fast because of the niche market. We are working on to grow it into a large market but it will take a long time and it is a less exciting industry overall. In the meantime, I am thinking about a new idea for a huge market which is more exciting and promising. What should I do?
You really don't need a gym. Get a pull up bar and some gymnast rings and just do what you can when the child naps. Even better add a bike trainer for cardio since you can't leave the house to run anymore either.

Caring for a toddler means being shackled to a creature that is entirely dependant on you, but there are still ways you can work in some self care while taking care of them.
Diff already has a number of options for ignoring whitespace changes:

https://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/manual/html_node/Whit...
No, those result numbers do not include quotation marks. With the quotes I show the same results as you.
Pivotal was spun out of EMC and VMware.

From EMC came Pivotal Labs, Greenplum and I think GemFire. From VMware came Spring and Cloud Foundry. Not sure which one RabbitMQ came from.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal.
A Tooth-Straightening Startup Runs into Resistance
No, that isn't the question I asked. The question I asked was for a source to the claim that "child seperation and children dying in ICE facilities happened under the Obama administration and it wasn't a big deal then" -- which isn't remotely true. This problem is vastly worse under Trump. Obama was not doing this.
Obtaining Loyal Customers with a Sub-Par Product
There's a specialized algorithm specifically for running levenshtein distance over tens of thousands of strings called bitap[1]. I wrote an impl in rust a while back[2].

But your advice still applies! Run time scales with max distance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitap_algorithm
[2] https://github.com/heyimalex/bitap
Another nice thing is you can find out the actual price on their website. No "introductory price" with an unmentioned actual price. No potential installation fees, etc...
I developed a huge crush on a very close friend shortly after my ex broke up with me. He caught on and told me he wasn't interested. We are even better friends now than we were then. We just took a few weeks apart and then resumed. I appreciated the transparency, but the ambiguity was still necessary for developing the crush to begin with.

I met a few people on OKCupid during that time and was not sure if I had the potential to like them or not because my ex was in close proximity and that was messing with my feelings a lot. I told them to just be friends and expect nothing else, and that I'd revisit the question in June. One said he was out; that was fine, I'd just met him. The other is one of my close friends now, even though the answer was still no in June.

This happened with someone who was already my one of best friends, too. He was hurt for a few weeks, but then everything went back to normal and now we are still best friends.

I can understand why this would be hard after a long-term relationship with someone you are in love with. My ex and I are still very, very far from friendship, despite both wanting it eventually. But with someone you have never even been in a relationship with? It's ridiculous to take rejection personally and let it get in the way of your friendship.

My current boyfriend, I met when I was running away to another state to get away from my ex. I was looking for people to practice my Russian with. The expectation was that we would hang out and speak Russian once in a while, and then probably never see each other once I returned home. And now I'm in a very rewarding long-distance relationship.

I don't think it's that the stakes made it exciting. I think it's that the lack of expectations made it feel safer.

It is just the opposite. So you feel OK getting to know the person just to get to know them. Then your heart does its own thing. And that's why I think people say that love "just happens" and not to look for it. You can look for it, but by doing that, you are setting expectations that might preclude you from getting to know the person you might at some point love, just for the sake of knowing them. Not specifically to love them.

The ambiguity is good.
A few thoughts:

(1) I'm not sure that it is at the expense of usability, so I want to question your premise.

(2) Size on disk is a proxy for many other kinds of bloat. That article specifically mentions one in the opening, compile time. Surface area of the codebase is another good example, where people are concerned that the amount of libraries and code that they're pulling in means higher probability of library bugs and maintenance burden.

(3) Bandwidth still has a cost.
RunBMC: OCP hardware spec solves data center BMC pain points
If I had to relate this to an HN related topic, I'd say this is closest to the theory of "technical debt". The further your code base moves away from the origin, the more difficult it is to address issues in the foundational code. Fudging around with the basic building blocks of life is extremely risky in an evolutionary perspective, gains can be made but they are going to be smaller (less advantageous) than gains possible by fudging around with top level code. By making base level changes, you effectively halt top level change until everything is proved out. By the time a base level change would have stabilized and the gains realized, the more nimble organisms making top level changes will have long since outcompeted the base changer into oblivion.
The short answer is china doesn’t have a lot of options. It’s not clear what leverage they can find, I’m guessing they just don’t want to seem weak and give in. Trade is so unfair the US has practically nothing to lose.

China is actually keeping its currency from devaluating right now(trump is playing the media) If all controls are lifted the currency will plummet. Many friends in china have expressed their desire to get out a portion of their cash, and surely nobody is thinking about investing.
Nah, logic programming and expert systems.
The changing economics of electronic music
I've worked on UC for most of my career and loved Google Wave. Conceptually they were right, but it required imagination on the part of the user and there was no bridge to the past.
Instead of addressing this, Google killed off the product, and then all of their collab products over and over again. I've lost track and gave up on them now, and I think you really have to love Google to even bother with their UC stuff now, but Wave was a joy while it lasted.
Yes, life can be hard. And it’s unfair.

It wasn’t easy or fair in preindustrial times. People worked a few hours less on average, but they received less wealth in exchange and had no opportunity to educate themselves and grow wealth. Serfs were not given a choice of job or even the ability to leave or marry without their lord’s permission. Peasants were stuck for life, unlike someone who works low paid 2-3 jobs today.
Reasons your legacy data warehouse won’t cut it
The video has a text slide, but perhaps the more pertinent assertions are:

* Oracle was extremely straightforward about caring about only money. (In contrast to Sun, or even to the claims of investment banks.)

* Oracle was that way because it was the alter-ego of Ellison. (With funny bit about not attempting to anthropomorphize Ellison.)

(What Cantrill didn't mention, when alleging Ellison's simplicity, was Ellison's supposed intense competitiveness with, or hatred of, Bill Gates. I happened to bump into Ellison once, at an event, and seemed to see a hint of that firsthand.)
Three Funerals in Eight Days: Why Don’t We Live Life to the Fullest?
And it's awful. Typing stuff makes me think about it, and I change it constantly. Then you end up having people change thoughts mid sentence when they see what another person has started typing in response to what they haven't even finished yet. It's like having everyone talk at once.
People also like to work on things that they can be proud of and incomplete software that ignores the edge cases often isn’t that and can be frustrating to work on for too long.
There are few, if any, productive ways to deploy those huge swaths of capital that can command the risk adjusted returns those funds seek. See: negative yields on bonds across the world, and VC gambles.
I'm still not convinced of your claim that "package maintainers optimize for <5mb binaries at the expense of usability". I've never heard anyone talk about that. Do you have more examples?
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