skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This version adds experimental support for typing.TypedDict coming in 3.8, some improvements to error messages, a new RLock based cache, and a ruleset under extras to support working with DynamoDB.
Are you saying that about the FSF? Certainly, Stallman was very important for the FSF, but there was an array of others who worked at various facets at times. Eben Moglen, for example, did a stand-up job and had great success helping the FSF, as did others. So, no, the FSF has not been about "one person".

That said, however, with the circumstances surrounding the removal of RMS, the FSF can longer be trusted. This very different than "depending" on a single person.
Interesting!

It's certainly subsidized by China, so yes.

Continuing your thought. In the past, wars were fought physically by damaging the opponent. We are at a place in history where we can fight not with fists and bullets, but with entertainment.

Like national rap battles.

Wars were fought over resources: water, oil, food. Now they are fought over games, movies, ... products.

Instead of war winners being those who can inflict the most harm on the opponent, maybe now we can shift that into the winner being the most entertaining.

This could be a good thing.
Carbon wasn't presented that way in the beginning. They were supposed to be the three equal pillars of OS X development. Carbon was the C-based procedural framework, Objective-C was the object-oriented framework, and Java was, well, the Java framework.

That's why they have drink-themed names to fit with Java. Porting a classic Mac app to Carbon was called "Carbonization."
I'm not sure I follow the implications - what were those numbers a decade ago? A generation?

I might also suggest that evite.com may not be the best resource from which to get information you'll want to act on.
I like to compare it with the Cuban Missile Crisis. Imagine having that Soviet (in this case US) power projection so close to home.
Original title had to be shortened to fit length restrictions. Original is

Column: Letter calling Penn State football player’s hair ‘disgusting’ is an ugly conversation we need to have

Did a google search and tried for the cache, but it is apparently not populated yet: https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ACYBGNSC1MWgrwKaK3BWoBkM...

Does nytimes work for you? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/sports/penn-state-racist-...

Or this one: https://sports.yahoo.com/penn-state-football-player-tweets-r...
Realize that COM is supposed to be used with code generators. You can write it in raw C even, but it quickly becomes intractable. Perhaps I did not read completely but this is something I see missing from the post -- the annotations fit what the pre-pass C++ code looks like, but don't mention that layer?
People have different reasons for not updating. I have a 2010 Macbook Pro that cannot run the latest patch on High Sierra and I have to stop right before the last known patch. Otherwise the machine goes to an infinite reboot loop. Apple doesn't care for a 9 yr old machine. But it is otherwise a fine piece of hardware - use upgradable HDD, battery etc. I still prefer that to my 2016 Macbook Pro that is a piece of shit machine.
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The kelp elevator example caught my attention because oceans are so large ( operations wouldn't be competing for land), the US Navy is the most funded branch, and the resulting cattle feed emits less methane. It's less of a permanent sequester and more of a resource loop modification. CO2 is a useful resource in this context (even though there is much talk about limiting meat consumption, which could limit the market).

There are additional examples in the article, but they have more to do with deflecting sunlight. In this case, could we still have lots of atmospheric CO2 (to be used as a resource) while still reducing temperatures and regenerating white ice?
One good thing about using dvorak I guess
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> It feels like they are getting ready to isolate themselves to a greater degree than ever.

There was a split in the road, one went to Dengville, the other went to Xiville. Xi, as a requirement of his personal pursuit of absolute power, chose to aggressively pursue the authoritarian Xiville route. Everything Xi is doing is for self-glorification and not for the benefit of China (which is why he's adjusting presented history and inserting himself everywhere in prominence; if he were actually selflessly serving China's interests, he wouldn't do any of that). Every dictator couches their words and actions in the flag of the betterment of the nation, and it ultimately never is. Before he's done, he will largely wipe out what Deng (and the leaders that followed after) accomplished in modestly liberalizing China.

As China's formerly fast, organic (low debt) growth naturally entirely ebbs away, Xi will have no choice but to begin accelerating cultural lock-down to control the restless population. That is already underway and has been for a few years. The social contract will be noticeably violated and the people will start to rebel. The CPC knows this and will try to stay out in front of it as much as possible.
He also now has a strong incentive to stick to what he said. Complying with China after publicly saying he wouldn't would be an even bigger PR disaster than what Blizzard is facing right now.
Pardon my ignorance but I only heard of Susan Sontag because Nassim Taleb used meeting her to illustrate "virtue signaling" in one of his books
For others reading, this appears to be because he believed that in an accident the radio-thermal isotope generator on board Cassini would spread radioactive material all over the place.
Kaepernick is safe because he is a celebrity, did you read the news about some other nobody Americans?
I used to feel that way. Now I invite criticism, it's great for learning/perspective-shift and saves you from fielding bugs. Detached humility is best when you're doing iterative/evolutionary work, which software development inevitably is. As long as it's constructive, have at it.
You say this as though many companies are not already practicing that alternative.
Works fine, just a bit hard to hit those buttons on a 6" phone.
I mean, yeah maybe, but it looks like that's not the case. Apparently 3/4 of people are lonely. Choose your source, they all seem to say the same thing.

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+americans+are+lonel...
Zettelkästen?
> she's a lone scientist defying the consensus

If you think Judith Curry is the only scientist who questions the "consensus" in climate science, you are extremely misinformed.
If is real, I'm incredibly excited!
Neuron EV announces exclusive preview of product line
You really think it's aroun 20% though? I very rarely have problems. Sure learning layouts is interesting, but problems where I flat out can't do something is rare.
I'd have to agree that it's more the case when it comes to desktop applications. I'll download something and not be able to use it at all.
Whenever you gauge the performance of any activity, there is a bell curve distribution of ability.

A very small portion become superstars and a majority fall somewhere in the middle, this is a natural phenomena.

What these platforms have allowed to happen is allowed individuals to capture more of the value they individually produce, with the result being these creators with abilities to perform BEYOND the average do much better.

Of course you don't see the natural selection cycle - the fact that many do not perform as well, and need to find some other - low competition - arena to express themselves in. In which they can perform more efficiently to capture more value for themselves. Typically in high competition environments it becomes harder and harder to make a profit.

These concepts should be obvious, I find it therefore distasteful and deplorable that one could somehow demean these platforms by saying that they "create a small number of superstars who earn orders of magnitude more than the average creator, with all other creators getting a relative pittance". They question the metrics the individuals who voted with their time and money used to decide "merit" because they didn't win by those metrics.
The juicy parts from the Legal Agreement for folks in China using iCloud:

> E. Access to Your Account and Content

> We reserve the right to take steps we believe are reasonably necessary or appropriate to enforce and/or verify compliance with any part of this Agreement. You acknowledge and agree that we may, without liability to you, access, use, preserve and/or disclose your Account information and Content to law enforcement authorities, government officials, and/or a third party, as we believe is reasonably necessary or appropriate, if legally required to do so or if we have a good faith belief that such access, use, disclosure, or preservation is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal process or request; (b) enforce this Agreement, including investigation of any potential violation thereof; (c) detect, prevent or otherwise address security, fraud or technical issues; or (d) protect the rights, property or safety of GCBD, its users, Apple, a third party, or the public as required or permitted by applicable law. You understand and agree that Apple and GCBD will have access to all data that you store on this service, including the right to share, exchange and disclose all user data, including Content, to and between each other under applicable law.
Valve needs serious competition. But I hate epic for trying to buy its way into competition by taking exclusives which were sold on steam initially. Instead of trying to actually be better than valve.
Second with boardgaming. Regularly playing competitive games in a friendly atmosphere can lead to new friendships in your 40s, as I have found out. Boardgaming can satisfy the three conditions for making new friends: ". . . proximity; repeated, unplanned interactions; and a setting that encourages people to let their guard down and confide in each other."

See https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/fashion/the-challenge-of-...
US foreign policy is a big reason why only authoritarian communist governments have been able to survive.

Nicaragua is a great example of this. The Sadinistas lost power through free elections in which the US interferred. Now that the Sadinistas are back in power, the freedom of their elections has been rapidly decreasing.

"Communist" as a lable has been so misused and unclearly defined for so long that it is mostly useless as a descriptive term.
> But the counter to that counter-argument is that the traditional methods of interception had a significant practical cost and therefore an incentive to use them only when there was a legitimate interest in doing so.

The large scale surveillance also existed in the analog time see the GDR or programs like ECHELON.

That's why for many politicians this is supposedly only an issue of "scaling up", which has also been happening [0] and then got blown wide open with Snowden revealing PRISM&co.

This hostility to cryptography is also anything but new: Cryptography in many countries is still subject to strict regulations and has been for decades [1], while intelligence agencies like the NSA do spend quite some efforts in undermining even the process of standardization [2].

Let's also not forget that for a really long time the majority of the Internet didn't even use any TLS for most of its traffic, once we got https rolled out somewhat widespread, guess what happened? Hearthbleed, weird how that went down.

Feels more like they want to legalize a whole lot of what's been going on anyway. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but at this point, it's difficult not to be.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center

[1] http://www.treachery.net/~jdyson/crypto/tattoo.html

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/nsa-foils-much-interne...
Just curious, did you get yelled at because you destroyed the only copy of their password memory aid? ;)
Bullied children are more likely to think about suicide in their early 20s
Please don't take HN threads further into nationalistic flamewar. It's low-quality and repetitive, and invariably turns nasty, and those things make it off topic here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think this is all posturing. They are using Trump's own tactic against him.

Keep increasing stakes with more losses to be had before the next trade meeting
It would take two years to generate every hash, but this one happened to be generated earlier than that. It would also be technically possible to guess a Bitcoin address private key on the first guess, but there are 2^160 total possibilities
Upgrading MacOS all the way to present would break things that I need to use daily for work, without obvious or easy solutions, so it's not as straightforward as you're making out. It can be done, but probably involves a VM to keep the old MacOS running inside.
Perhaps someone could automate the discovery process: build a robot that mixes stuff together, then test how well it works as a battery, then make incremental improvements perhaps using a genetic algorithm.
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+1. It's been years since I used Gentoo, but I felt like it broke me, or required some sort of intervention once a month. Arch was much better, more like once every few months. So far Nix has not broken anything for me in a year of use.
I think “passion” and the rise of startups the past decade are correlated, there is the cult of passion converted into “culture” as a lure. It appeals greatly to younger employees. The economic state and money looking for more money is fuel for the “passion culture lure”.
Here we see the true form of the word "toxic" as it is applied in modern discourse.

>“Providing a gateway for ‘toxic apps’ is hurting the feelings of the Chinese people, twisting the facts of Hong Kong affairs, and against the views and principles of the Chinese people,”

It's a way to say something is bad without saying anything about it.
Scientists can tell how wealthy you are by examining your sewage
GP getting downvoted, OP getting massively flagged; I guess this topic does not sufficiently gratify one's intellectual curiosity.
Apple didn't present Carbon as merely a compatibility layer at the time. It was positioned as the procedural C paradigm alongside Cocoa's and Java's object-oriented paradigms. Carbon was supposed to be one of the three development frameworks for OS X alongside Cocoa and Java, which is why Cocoa and Carbon have drink-themed names to fit with Java. Porting a classic app to Carbon was "Carbonization."
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To have economic growth, you have to actually grow the amount of trade being done. Can't see how you could do that forever - despite the best efforts of advertisers and companies engaging in planned obsolescence, who are largely responsible for the climate shitshow, people will at some point hit a consumption limit. You can play accounting tricks on GDP to some extent, but I'm not convinced this is enough. If value becomes completely detached from reality, people may lose faith in money, and the whole thing will just crash and burn.
I’m a long term (5+ years) customer of Octopus, I know Paul is the CEO, I don’t work for him, I’m a startup founder with my own company.
"Ever considered why no one ever had the idea of waving the Chinese flag and petitioning the Chinese for change?"

You mean the same China that just cancelled the NBA playoff broadcasts because a single NBA GM tweeted support for HK? https://www.foxbusiness.com/sports/nba-china-revenue-busines... The same China that does not even allow the emoji for Taiwan? https://qz.com/1723334/apple-removes-taiwan-flag-emoji-in-ho...

Why indeed would they ask China to help Taiwan - China has made it incredibly obvious they do not recognize Taiwan.

Considering China's past (hello Tiananmen Square) there is a history of violent suppression of dissident thought or political opinion. The first demand of the protesters is literally "Full withdrawal of the extradition bill" - where do you think they would be extradited to?
There's a lot to unpack here, but the things that stand out are "Hong Kong = China", "protestors = US/UK", and "US/UK = bad". You've certainly succeeded in seeing things from the CCPC's perspective - or at any rate from the perspective encouraged by their propaganda. The trouble is these are all very "truthy":

- Hong Kong is meant to be an independent political system, under a treaty that PRC attempted to quietly subvert (and it blew up in their faces)

- The protestors are native Hong Kongers outraged by the above, not agent saboteurs of the West no matter what flags they fly

- the only "chaos and destruction" wrought by the UK's promotion of democracy in Hong Kong before the Handover has been the PRC's response to it

And I don't know how you can claim that China has a better human rights record than the US or the UK. There's ongoing genocide in China right now.
> It is like taxing a stock split. Your asset hasn't really changed, it is just now represented in a different way.

It's not like taxing a stock split. In a 1:2 stock split, you go from having 1 share of AAPL worth $100 to 2 shares of AAPL worth $50 each for a total of $100. It's the same ticker, and represents beneficial ownership of the same fraction of Apple, Inc.

A better analogy might be a dividend. If you hold 1 share of AAPL and it issues a dividend, you now have 1 share of AAPL and + $2.00. This $2.00 is totally unrelated to your ownership stake of AAPL (which of course cryptos don't represent anyways), new value, and you will owe taxes on this event. IMO a crypto fork amounts to a taxable distribution.

A capital gain in these circumstances is actually what you want, because it would be offset by a future capital loss. To your point, the original distribution "plants the flag" with respect to the amount it's worth. If the value drops to 1/3 by the end of the first trading day like a typical crypto pump-n-dump, when you then dispose of that asset, your capital loss from the sale offsets the capital gain from the "flag plant" and you only pay taxes on the new value generated.

It's actually quite fair.

> It seems like this will incentivize people to sell off new tokens immediately, in order to pay the taxes they incurred during the fork.

Not necessarily immediately but definitely by the end of the quarter or by the end of the tax year.
Whales lost their legs when they adopted the ocean life. Do you consider them more or less complex? I’m not sure such a framing might even make sense.
It's a bit more nuanced than that. It seems to me that most PC gamers have no problems with exclusive PC releases as long as they are exclusive to Steam. It's when they are exclusive to other DRM-ed platforms that they start to make a fuss, a self-centered hypocritical view.

Now as a pure GOG game buyer, used to having to wait decades to get games that were released on Steam on release day, I can't say I'm not finding some satisfaction out of all the Epic exclusivity outrage but, feelings aside, I'd prefer that there was no exclusivity whatsoever.
AT&T, facing $158B debt, to sell Puerto Rico network for $2B
what was accomplished with N
Korea?
There are millions of Chinese living at USA right now
Selecting a few outliers and calling it a “trend” is ridiculous.

Honestly I wish there was a stricter policy on HN for posting corporate content marketing puff pieces. These a16z blog posts do nothing more than hype companies in their portfolio.
I think it's a pretty understandable reaction on the part of the protesters. "Hey, we're here fighting for our freedom -- and yours -- and you're pissed off that the road is blocked? Get bent, lady". Sure, perhaps they could be more patient with her (though I doubt I'd be in their situation) and shining the laser pointers in her face is not cool, but she's not exactly being friendly and nice to them, either.

She also fundamentally does not get how protesting works. "Tell me, why do you people need to block the road?", she asks. Because if you sit in a corner and protest where no one can see you, and it doesn't affect anyone's day in the least, you're completely ineffective. It's not great that random people have a harder day because of that, but as a protester, you need to occupy space in a way that causes problems, or you aren't taken seriously. It's a shame that's how it has to be, but that's how it is.

And beyond that, she's just lying and treating them poorly: accusing them of throwing things at her when they aren't, saying that they're armed when they aren't, claiming they want to beat her to death when they don't, and just overall acting completely irrationally. She even tells them that she doesn't care if they set fires and kill people, but just don't block the road. Even if she's being hyperbolic, that's a really shitty thing to say. Then she starts acting condescending, calling them kids who don't know what they're doing. Meanwhile, the "kids" just take it all, offering the truth in response, and she just ignores them and gets more agitated.

Meanwhile, her only real complaint is that "the road is blocked". My sympathy for her is basically zero. I only watched the first few minutes of the video because of how utterly annoying and unreasonable I found her to be.
> What about natural accelerators like the charges that build up and produce cosmic rays?

As mentioned the benefit of artificial accelerators are that you can make the collisions happen right in the middle of the detectors, which is quite nice. You can also generate a lot of collisions, which is good because statistics require it.

That said, there are projects, such as this[1], utilizing natural accelerators. There's a technical talk about their results here[2]. The first part explains the system in more detail.

[1]: https://www.auger.org/index.php/cosmic-rays/detection

[2]: http://pirsa.org/17120007
Thanks for the list of oddities, all of which I'm aware, but I was hoping OP could work on an explanation.
Thanks for sharing the project Kevlar1818.

BentoML author here - we are building BentoML to empower Data Scientists to ship prediction services instead of delivering "models" to dev teams. We proposed a workflow that made it easy for data scientists to create and test prediction services and then deploy them to cloud platforms such as AWS Lambda, SageMaker or Docker/Kubernetes.

Happy to answer more questions, cheers!
> I exclusively use the unstable branch on all my Nix/NixOS machines. I rarely do rollbacks. But it's important to note that I'm a developer with commit access, so I can basically "just" fix things if they're problematic. Not everyone has that luxury. (Many Linux distro maintainers likely operate this way, I guess. :)

An important thing with NixOS is that since the whole distro is built from a monorepo, it's also very easy for an advanced user to just git clone and fix the problematic things too (and hopefully send a pull request!).