skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an interesting and valid point, I think. Fear may motivate some to start changing and looking for solutions, but it has the opposite effect on many: denial is one of the most pervasive defense mechanisms in psychology. And climate denialism has got to be the most astounding example of it.
If you don't enjoy doing research, you will be miserable doing a PhD. That's really all there is to it.
It's not FUD if the danger is real. In that case it's just everyone's responsibility to stay informed.
What, precisely, did you find rude about “ Ada. It’s not an acronym. ADA is the Americans with Disabilities Act.”?

Sincere question. Rudeness was not my intention, and those three sentences appear to be three simple facts completely neutral in nature. I’m not understanding how they could possibly be perceived as rude.

“go away” on the other hand, seemed an unnecessarily hostile and rude response to such a neutral correction, and I think the voting well reflects that. On the whole I get the feeling I’d prefer not interacting with someone so hostile about nothing, too, but I’m hardly inclined to let the assertion that I was rude go unchallenged.
(1) was not about logging. I was trying to illustrate a valid use case for `if` statement that requires `true` guard expression. We used lager[1] for logging. I understand that new logger was inspired or loosely based on lager.

(2) I would argue that it's a rare case you don't care about errors.

(4) Multicore support in Erlang was not always great and you would run into all kinds of problems after 2-4 cores. Than for a while it was 12-16 cores. Not sure what the limit is these days.

Again, I am not arguing Java over Erlang. There is no lack of great examples of large successful project running on Erlang. For me and my team Erlang was just too much hassle for not much gain. Your milage may vary.

[1]https://github.com/erlang-lager/lager
The checkmark status should be like that.

It should be like an voluntary stricter license with arbitrary conditions set on content creators.

They just need to articulate what those conditions are.

The lack of being direct is what is hurting them here, and also not communicating what “verified” actually means, because it doesnt mean “you are popular and important” it just means “you are an aspiring LA model or aspiring SF tech CEO that both perform for Saudi money”
Something that has helped me with recognizing incremental progress on long running side and personal projects where completion seems so far off is relating it to the crawler vehicles NASA used to get the Space Shuttle to the launch pad.

https://www.nasa.gov/content/the-crawlers
https://youtu.be/N1WvVRavXsI?t=60

Incremental progress and speed seem slow (1 mph), but eventually you will get into position for launch.

This has helped me understand how weight and physical constraints (these == time commitments to a primary project, family, sleep, etc.) impact velocity on where you start from getting to an eventual goal (starting a side project and coming to release, launch, etc.). Some things just can't travel faster than 1 mph due to external constraints.
For the example you shared, the paint is still fresh on project Vesta. Mining, crushing, transporting will have a non-neutral carbon impact which is not taken into account into their model afaik.

Overall our atmospheric models are not yet mature, which make carbon-trapping mechanisms from the atmostphere hard to gauge. Easier if we reduce or trap carbon emissions before it is spread into the atmosphere.

Please also consider we will eventually run out of fuel/oil/gas/coal; carbon dioxide savings is the long term strategy.
What about an ever increasing rate of criminality? If more and more people are competing crimes then doesn’t that suggest the deterrent effect is minimal, more importantly insufficient. And if the deterrent effect is insufficient then shouldn’t we try to find a better way by making use of modern science and data driven decision making?
Thank you! It has been awesome to see GNOME https://gitlab.gnome.org/explore/ Freedesktop https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/explore/ and Debian https://salsa.debian.org/public embrace GitLab and we hope KDE will have a smooth experience.

We're also hoping to see them contribute back features to GitLab they need for complex projects, and I think we've already seen a few.
Neat project, although selecting cells often does not work. (I assume that's because it's in alpha.)

This line, though:

> is lightweight: ~2000 lines of source code (excluding libraries)

I feel like that's a very different meaning of "lightweight" than I normally think of. I guess you're considering it from the perspective of a developer who works on it. As a user, however, the browser downloads 1.4MB of javascript, which is quite large, I'd say.
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> Also there are size limits on disk-based tables which are a bit limiting

There's now mnesia on leveldb

https://github.com/klarna/mnesia_eleveldb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcJw3RYFWUM
You would be surprised - I use Godot to make games, program in Vi, and currently do art in Piskel (https://www.piskelapp.com/). Will definitely give RX a try!
What an absurd telephone-game evolution of any actual facts. It disgusts me that intelligent people are taking part in this witch hunt. Stop it.
Thanks for the link - I'll probably just use this instead!
> At the other extreme Google has (mostly) a monorepo.

One shouldn't conflate the VCS with org structure and/or code sharing.

The Google monorepo is perforce-based, which has per-branch, per-directory (even per-file) access control. One project's dependency on another can just as easily use the build artifacts from that other project as it can a source tree. And the way Google has built it, is looks far far closer to git than what you might think of with p4 (or svn or vss or name-your-monorepo).

Lastly, AIUI, from day one there were very restricted parts of the "monorepo" that only a very few devs had access to.

The Google monorepo is very different than a single git repo.
> Also it's a potential legal issue for any given project if there's a registered trademark involved.

At some point we will have to generate random strings for the name of our projects because all the "good" (or even "bad") ones are taken. :P
How is "implemented in Rust" relevant for anything but bragging rights for using some obscure programming language.

Your software has not more inherent value just because it is written in Rust.
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black and white is not usually an effective model for the world. I don't think I would become a "murderous, thieving, drug user", but I would probably take parking rules a lot less seriously. I might fly my drone places where it's not allowed. I'd probably get a really loud exhaust for my car too.
I've seen proposed edits on my own answers that would have changed them from correct to incorrect, so that's a real problem.
I wouldn't assume that human traffickers are proud of what they do, or that they enjoy it. I guess the question is why does someone get into a hard criminal lifestyle like that in the first place. Maybe education and opportunity are the answers to that.
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I thought it was an interesting figure. The amount of renewables we have now would have been sufficient for all but the last 150 years, it puts it in context, and indicates to me it probably is possible to move to 100% renewables.

Obviously that is a point of view though, and we are free to disagree :)
Yep. The same reason they ignore Gen-4 nuclear, and sucking carbon out of the air. Politicians frankly don't want to solve global warming; they want more money and power. They want to pass laws telling the masses what they can and can't do (see how after the GND was published, AOC was spotted with a friend eating cheeseburgers), and they want an excuse to raise taxes on anybody they can get away with taxing more.

But if you actually have something that will reduce emissions? Well that's a threat to their plan to get more money and power.
When I see you say “any brand of FIFO loses” in the same post as “what you need is a ring buffer”, it shows that there’s a terminology disconnect here: A “ring buffer” used for streaming data is a brand of ”FIFO” :)

Therefore, the implementation you’re suggesting is actually not all that different from my current solution, except for a few important details related to the particular problem I’m solving — e.g. handling many parallel streams which may momentarily drift out of sync (where those that are not delayed must still be processed without the state of other streams interfering to add latency), among other important details.

Ultimately though, aside from this discussion on high performance designs (which though fun, would not work without you actually knowing the requirements of what I’m working on — e.g. it’s not HFT), I’m just glad we’re in agreement that there are applications where avoiding dynamic allocations is absolutely essential, and that it would be a huge mistake to add them to a high-performance language’s most fundamental integer types.
Today it's on sale again for $25. Just grabbed a copy!
So they managed to pick up a stealth jet.. that was equipped with special markers to make it extra visible (for air safety outside of combat), with additional help from a strong polish broadcaster... with information knowing exactly when and where the aircraft would be?
The #1 thing that controls population growth is increasing the standard of living. See the conflict?

That said, population is already leveling off. The main cause of population growth now is not high birth rates, but rather increased lifespans and lower infant mortality rates. By the end of the century, population will have leveled off and may even start shrinking some.
I'm no financial expert, but based on discussions with them years back, it seems like Black-Scholes has all sorts of issues and isn't actually used in practice anyway.

Black-Scholes is basically the textbook model taught in schools. But modern finance has more complex models to address its flaws. In particular, Black-Scholes assumes that Call-options and Put-options are symmetrical, but in reality, people value put-options more than call-options. (In laymans terms: protecting against market drops is more valuable than protecting against market upswings).
There are cases where there isn't an answer.

A common one I come across is people trying to track who's online/offline with window.onbeforeunload.

The answer is always "that's not reliable, you can't really use it for this".

A good answer mentions the alternatives - storing the user's last activity and considering them logged out after X minutes, using websockets for a presence channel, etc.

I see no reason to avoid the "you can accomplish your underlying goal in a better way" answers.
So ideally you'd have no qualms with a preschool teacher who blogs about how sex with children is perfectly fine in their spare time?

Or an employee who regularly publishes manifestos on why people of certain skin colors should be murdered and exterminated?

These are extreme examples of course, but you are saying that ideally no one should experience any consequences for expressing any opinion outside of work.
Yes but you don't use aggressive cancer treatments on low risk cancers.
I don’t see the 18% number in your linked paper. It says total US food production (meat and otherwise) uses 17% of fossil fuel consumption.
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> If more and more people are competing crimes then doesn’t that suggest the deterrent effect is minimal, more importantly insufficient.

is this actually true? as I understand it, we are well past the peak of criminal activity ( at least in the US).
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I was in a PhD program, and left because I realized that I didn't really want to be there for another 4 years to finish after my Masters degree.

I think the problem with academia is that you are always around very intelligent people with PhDs, who have survived the very ruthless culling to make it into academia. From their perspective, a PhD is a great deal. In reality, a PhD is more of a mixed bag.

These are my observations from viewing the outcomes of my cohort:

The pros of a PhD: 1 - you're more likely to be working on research, 2 - you're more likely to lead an R&D team (and in some places it will be a requirement past a certain point if you want to climb the science management ladder), 3 - there's a small salary bump, 4 - people will tend to give your scientific arguments more weight than someone without a PhD, 5 - a PhD is a requirement for some positions at (a very limited) number of employers.

Cons: 1 - Those three letters next to your name will make you overqualified for a lot of very interesting jobs; 2 - there is a huge opportunity cost associated with getting a PhD; 3 - employers value practical experience far more than someone with more education; 4 - a PhD does not necessarily guarantee that you will find more interesting work, there are tons of people with PhDs who are essentially underemployed (by choice or by necessity); 5 - depending on your field, you may find that jobs at the PhD level are geographically limited; 6 - job search typically takes much longer.

Overall, there are only two reasons I would recommend someone get a PhD: 1 - they want to be an academic/researcher; or 2 - they want to spend 4-6 years studying a specific subject out of curiosity or intense interest.

Also, you can always go back. There are people who complete PhDs in their 30s, 40s, and 50s. The only thing that alternative students give up, is potentially the ability to enter academia, but even that is not always true.
This absolutely happens. I assume crooked reviewers are a lot more savvy and coordinated now...back in the day, a competitor's employees panned our app using their own names!
I suppose it could be done a lot cheaper and easier, but don't forget the initial research required to figure out how to do it efficiently. All the trial and error required to create a set of OPSEC rules to abide by as you operate.

In terms of useragents, you are right that they are easy to spoof; I actually meant the device fingerprints aren't easy to spoof (Twitter probably looks at heuristics like screen resolution for example) which is why I would suggest getting a variety of different phones like a mix of legacy Android, newer model Samsungs, iPhones, etc So you have different screen resolutions (which are not trivial to spoof) even different timezones, along with a mix of other unique specs

One caveat to using hundreds (if not thousands of phones) is the cost. I get that. But remember these are the army we are talking about that have a large budget to spend on psyops and can actually pull something like that off. Another caveat to using phones is the lack of dexterity; using a phone is slower than using a desktop environment with keyboard, mouse, et al, although you can extend a phone with a keyboard for faster typing.
Microsoft Windows 10 is the least secure OS on the market.
Tracking, spying on, selling all user data to the highest bidder. MS is an abomination to privacy and security.

I still have an installed copy of Win 8 for special use if need be. However, I am avoiding the use MS products if at all possible.
Where are you getting these amazing 50MPH trains? Do they run on some new type of magic energy source? We're lucky when they break 30MPH here. It takes longer to take the train than to sit in bumper to bumper traffic.
That’s what has been done in this case which lead to cheating devices to be installed in the first place.

It’s very hard to near impossible to do or enforce all it takes is a country just by you that is willing to accept them.

People aren’t going to take a huge price hike and countries that are dependent on imports won’t ever enforce such requirements which would leave these vessels out there.

At the end of the day unless you are willing to fund a fleet of 1000’s of new vessels and or pay to upgrade existing ones the shipping companies won’t budge and you won’t ever be able to push them into a corner since the economic fallout would be catastrophic for you but not much for them.
This is absurd. Something can work in some cases for some people and yet not in all cases. It's not a matter of always working or never working.

There's a line of thought I keep seeing in this thread:
a purpose of imprisonment is deterrence by punishment. people still commit crimes. therefore deterrence by punishment doesn't work. therefore prisons should be replaced with free-range daycare for adults.

You don't have to like the idea of restricting someone's freedom. But would you rather that a violent offender be in prison and unable to cause further harm? I would.
I rant about the F-35 a lot, but seriously: this thing is a trillion-and-a-half dollar shitheap, and this is just the latest proof.

What's really damning about this news is that it calls the entire value proposition of the plane into question. By which I mean, every time someone like me points out that the F-35 loses dogfights to planes from two generations ago, the apologists always come in and say that doesn't matter because the stealth and ECM technology means it will never be in dogfights, only BVR engagements.

But if you think about, that statement is essentially a gamble. It's a wager that our stealth and ECM technology will always, for the entire 40+ year projected lifespan of the plane, be ahead of competitors. Is that a safe bet? I don't think it is. This news shows it, and that's only what's publicly admissible. Imagine what Russia and China have that they're not talking about.

This thing is a piece of junk based on multiple failed ideas (V/STOL, stealth and ECM obsoleting actual combat performance, on-the-fly development, etc.) and it needs to be scrapped yesterday and started from scratch.
Lies. I've been reassured by the highest authority in the land that this jet is literally invisible.
I have a Ph.D. in CS from the University of Washington. I'm glad I did it, but it's not for most people.

Academic research is like a marathon and the Ph.D. is like a marathon training program. If you don't want to run a marathon, you probably don't need a marathon training program. Yes, a marathon training program is an interesting and rewarding way to improve your running, but it's very likely you can find equally interesting and rewarding ways to improve your running that don't have the grind of a marathon training program.

I'd strongly recommend you read The Ph.D Grind at http://pgbovine.net/PhD-memoir.htm before you consider starting a Ph.D program. It's a good summary of what a Ph.D. experience at a top CS university in the US is like.
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I'm one of these self-righteous dudes.

I look a the local thing because in my country's shops I can buy stuff that comes from thousands of kilometers away (I live in europe and I see quite often potatoes coming from Egypt, yep, and my country is the biggest exporter of products derived from potatoes...) Local makes sense on the fuel department.

Buying local stuff prevents me of buying non local stuff like : most exotic fruits, many fishes. Of course if I buy a pineapple that is grown in my country, it'll have a huge fuel quantity attached to it.

Buying local helps the farmer around my town. Even if it doesn't help, it sends a signal to whoever looks.

It also helps me to know the farmer, to ask questions (that's how I understood how screwed the milk market is).

It is also an exercise to learn to enjoy what's readily available and not look for novelty. And that, I assume, qualify as "imposing my view". But learning to love what's there and not always wish for more is a very important lesson in life.

People like me want less things and slower things. Everybody can do that (ie at some point in your life you'll have to accept you'll never have that sports car).

Now I use a car, an internet connection, etc. which doesn't help climate at all. It's impossible to be 100% coherent. But the little things I do, I do them to push for a change in mindset, mine first.
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I'm inferring from your statement that you believe that the only justified use of deadly force is a situation where someone is themselves at risk of physical harm, is that accurate?

As far as caring for them, I don't think anyone is obliged to care for anyone or anything (free will and all that). I do think that the more people that you choose to place into your own personal out-group of "gofuckthemselves", the more of your own humanity you lose touch with.
Yes I've often wondered why trains are so expensive compared to airplanes as well. We have a him but it's literally cheaper and faster to fly and that makes no sense.
This whole thing has been nuts. It's clear no one who invested late ever actually believed in the valuations -- matt levine says it better

"We came to market and public investors informally expressed some skepticism and its private backers were immediately like “wait this company isn’t profitable, why did no one tell us, burn it all down.” I am not saying that the public markets are wrong, but I kind of wanted there to be a difference of opinion; I kind of wanted the people who bought WeWork at a $47 billion valuation to act like they meant it."
Next up: every body fired!!
Midway through the article it finally mentions that this was with the "radar invisibility cloak" turned off by installing Luneburg lenses to make it radar visible. I don't doubt that there are current advances in radar technology that weaken the stealth claims of the F-35, but I don't think that this specific case demonstrates this.
There is a bit of a positive side to this - if our side uses murderbots, and their side uses murderbots...why bother with humans?

I hope, far in the future but not too far, wars are held among the stars with remotely operated or even autonomous starships battling over resources such as meteors or comets. It is in every nation state’s best interest to reduce the human and property cost of every battle.

The need for conflict will likely be forever a part of humanity. The need for death or injury, however, is quickly withering away.
This would have been news worthy if they had NOT postponed! Probably the best move for the company while they (most likely) restructure into what they actually are, a real estate company.
> bribing someone to vote against their own preference,

The preferences are not as strong I suspect. If someone out there offered tens of thousands in relocation packages, stipends, other assistance, I imagine a lot of people would be joining that party, whatever the party is.

"Go tell this org that you are voting this way and you need help moving and you get $50k to move to Georgia" you don't think the party won't find a lot of "helpers" all of the sudden.

At that point that's not very different than handing out coupons or gift cards locally.

Just like you can wrap up the relocation package in a language that makes it "legal", can wrap up handing out gift cards in a similar language. "We just want you to go out and vote, here is a restaurant card, and a free Uber trip, and a free, an amusement park ride tickets,..." etc but you can reach a lot more "voters"t that way.
It is intentional.
When I was young the Milky way "was" an spiral galaxy, now it "is" a barred spiral galaxy and the "photo" changed according. :)
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Apple has code names for code names.