skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was going to comment earlier on something you posted but I wasn't sure it was the time Walter. But hey, here goes.

In reply to someone else you posted to the effect that

>if the trim goes uncommanded, that's runaway trim.

If there is anything I did take out of Langewiesche's article, it is that apparently for some subset of the human species, it appears that the mental optimization you and I are capable of connecting naturally (stab runaway on continuous uncommanded trim-reduces to-> stab runaway on any unaccountable trim), is not, in fact, completely natural to everyone.

I've come to realize I have a team member who is one of those people. I have to be very careful with instructions to them, almost like programming. If I handed him that piece of paper, then asked them whether a pulsing trim system demanded that procedure, I'm not willing to stake my life on him getting it. So life being what it is, I have started to take the possibility of someone being of that disposition into account more frequently.

I've been somewhat disappointed at how frequently I run into it. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with those type of people, just that I can't necessarily generalize the capability with enough confidence to be comfortable with the connection not being proven to be made without demonstrable proof in the form of a simulator session or two.

It's just not a given I'm capable of assuming away anymore. I've seen (and even been the unwitting subject of) too many counterexamples, albeit in less than life-threatening conditions.

I certainly couldn't wrap my mind around why they wouldn't have made the mental connection while actually successfully retrimming the plane. After several months of devoting a hell of a lot of mental cycles to meta-cognition though, I've found I have my own corpus of "Oh, what the hell, how did I not make that connection til now?" which has been the result of many years of habit building.

I think I realized this earlier on, but couldn't convincingly articulate it. It came previously from the idea of psychological anchoring, and it's effect on subsequent responses in the presence of priming. It's a fairly well researched phenomena, and network theory also suggests it's a near certainty that this type of inability to grok can happen if mentation is an emergent result of our internetworked mass of neural nets that is the gray stuff between our ears.

It's still one of those fuzzy hunchy sentiments though, so not really something worth writing a paper about.
> We now believe he should receive his prizing. We understand that for some this is not about the prize, and perhaps for others it is disrespectful to even discuss it. That is not our intention.

It's a little weird that they say they "believe he should receive" his prize, rather than saying that he actually will. It's hard to think of a reason they would word it that way, except to give the false impression that he's getting the prize he won.
That's fair, though as mentioned, not much different from other scripting languages with OO. The _private convention seems to work ok in practice, if not in theory.
Elixir/Erlang isn't a general purpose language. You pointed-out one reason why - scripting. Computation is another area where the language is deficient. I'd go so far as to say Elixir's failure to challenge mainstream languages for mindshare is down to to it occupying a niche - lightweight concurrency and distributed systems.
I certainly hope you haven't.

But yes I know what you're talking about: that is certainly a behavior of a certain type of racist I've encountered. I find quite often that people with reactionary beliefs feel that they are personally under attack, or at least its important that they nurture a certain type of victimhood. I must insist, though, that there is another type that comes from a belief that your perceived "genetic" (here in quotes because these people tend to play very fast and loose with that word) inheritance make you in some way implicitly superior to people who lack your "genes". It's for this reason that I bring all of this up: no matter what they say, there is a difference between wanting to relegate people of color or gays to a second class in society and the intolerance of those beliefs. It's this relation that Popper was talking about.

I also want to be clear that I'm not trying to say what you've experienced isn't real. There are definitely people like this. My reply was only in the context of the top-level "tolerance of intolerance" quote.
I want to make an ebook marketplace. the income of the platform will be from ebook sales. If you don't want to sell your blog content as books, you won't be charged.
A lot of this is a repeat of weird issues that we saw 8(!) years ago with OSX Lion. Perhaps I'm off the mark here, but I strongly suspect there's lack of a proper manual QA team at Apple.

QA at most so-called "modern" companies these days has turned into overly fetishising automated testing. Automation is valuable, but crucially also leads to situations where the least-common-denominator situations get tested since it's easier to automate the conditions for testing them. So for example you might write an automated test that verifies that the mail index is correctly upgraded from (say) El Capitan to Mojave to Catalina; but that doesn't show the whole picture. There could be 20 other complex factors that affect it when it's used as part of an OS upgrade, and none of those get tested.

Project managers, line managers, and other suits also seem to love automated testing, because you can show off some kind of real number to someone in an "Oh we wrote 200 tests this cycle, isn't it great that we can run them everyday" way, even if there are 0 issues found. Manual testing in the same case leaves you with no output that can be run in an automated fashion. Also, no one wants to argue against automation (even if it's taking away manual testing resources) because that can make you seem old-school and out of touch. And once this attitude gains steam, no one on the QA team will want to go against the grain and say "You know what, we should spend more time not writing automated tests".

All of this is to say -- sometimes during testing, you simply have to put yourself in a user's place (for as many different kinds of user you can imagine) and actually use the thing you're supposed to be testing. I strongly suspect that Apple is not investing enough, or at all in this kind of testing. Instead, they are pushing it off to those enthusiasts who install and use beta or newly released versions of their software. So far, this strategy seems to have paid off for them, but perhaps people will wise up and stop testing their stuff for free. I am certainly not upgrading my machines to Catalina any time soon.
And as another example, Mac OS X (10), which debuted in 2000, has had every subsequent version continued to be named 10.X. Just this week, macOS 10.15 Catalina was released.

Funny that the name Mac OS X went to OS X and then (back) to macOS, but the 10.X name persists.
>Edit: If you're one of the many downvoters, who presumably disagree with this, I dare you to say any of these things if you work for a tech company.

"Apple sucks" is pretty safe to say. The other ones are dead on, though as evidenced by the downvotes.
> There was no need for crypto or a Libra association to begin with.

If you're in control of the currency it provides you more flexibility and the blockchain aspect arguably makes it easier to manage the accounting as well.
Well sure, I take your point. We live, we die. Science tells us how it all happens, but can never tell us why it happens at all.

And yet despite the certainty of death, we, individually and as a group, seem to have an unquenchable desire to know more. To know is to grow, and this collection of processes we call life has never been seen off the planet so yeah, it'd be quite some growth.
Theoretically, you could have a dump of staging data that your prod script could read and use. What’s key here is recognizing that staging and prod don’t have to talk to each other or be trusted, as such. Instead, what’s trusted is the deploy script, and your system is only as weak or as strong as the code used to deploy the deploy jobs. There aren’t many good answers here because you can fat-finger a security bug or data wipe, or have a bug that only presents itself in certain states. Or is created by human input. This quickly devolves into the “trusting trust” problem. Is my paranoia worse? ;-) I’d suggest monitoring all the things, and doing as much code review and fuzzing as you can afford... what normally improves your code and processes will probably help prevent security defects too.
I feel like this is Activision and not Blizzard talking.
Correct, the fed funnels money away from savings accounts to the Treasury, exporters, and banks.
AWS managed services are usually subpar. We run our own ES clusters for this very reason.
I support Blizzard's decision, it kept the bottom line. I feel ridiculous, in order to support the riots in another country, some people were so passionate. I think this people are affected by anti-China sentiment.

I write a post, tell everyone what happened in Hong Kong and try to persuade everyone not to make political opinions so easily, especially if a place is very far away from you.

Stand with Hong Kong, but which side? https://chloerei.com/2019/10/11/stand-with-hong-kong-but-whi...

The content may make you uncomfortable because it is different from the reporting position of some Western media. But looking at the problem from multiple angles will give you a more comprehensive understanding.
Elixir still has to borrow arrays from Erlang and it's a pretty ugly implementation at that so no - I would not agree that Elixir has an excellent set of first-class generic data structures.
`toString()` actually works here :D
I would expect interviewing and mentoring to be a job responsibility at any large engineering organization.
His son Brian and Kevin J Anderson did write the last installment based on detailed notes from Frank Herbert, so at least the story is complete.

While their writing is not as brilliant as Frank Herbert's, the books they wrote, mainly the prequels, have helped me understand just how big the original vision was and have helped me enjoy the sequels more. God Emperor is truly as masterpiece, but it took a couple of reads, and the sequels, for me to appreciate it more.
Wow. Directly using easily-sourced 18650 cells for power is a killer feature. The trackball seems nice, too. Reminds me of my old Powerbook 180.
Yes, if you terminate TLS its drastically cheaper. Without TLS, each NLB unit lets you have 100,000 concurrent connections. With TLS, a single unit is 3,000 connections. Similar pricing occurs with ALB's.

Terminating TLS yourself incurs some CPU cost and a bit more memory cost. How much CPU/memory is eaten depends on the efficiency of your code. Our Rust implementation roughly matches C code efficiency, so we could handle terminating TLS ourselves if ELB stops being feasible at some point.
I'm sorry, but that is a naive misconception. "everything is owned by the GC" is a sign of not understanding concept of ownership, BTW. GC is not an actor in the system, so does not participate in the ownership. A Java finalizers might kind of do stuff, but that's when all references are gone, so they have exclusive ownership.

Anyway... Languages with GC still do have ownership. It is just defaulting to be the most problematic case of "shared ownership" everywhere. Shared ownership is only worry-free if you don't ever modify data. Which is possible, but actually harder and more constraining to implement in a practical software (especially if you care about any performance). So then you either have to synchronize everything with mutexes, and figure out a way to not deadlock yourself on every step (also hard), or you have to implicitly track ownership and decide who can and when mutate the data, which is exactly what Rust would make you do, but this time you get no compiler help. The only reason people don't notice that is because they do it incorrectly and it works most of the time, so they are unaware.

There is no escape from it - one has to figure out ownership with a GC or without it, because GC has nothing to do with ownership. It only reclaims memory after all references are gone. That's it. That is actually very, very little improvement.
Right now there are a few places for the great filter. To my knowledge:

1. Life

2. Multicellular life

3. Intelligent life

4. Interstellar colonization tech

If you make it through all levels you should be colonizing the galaxy and detectable by us therefore.

Finding life with a separate origin than ours removes one of the possible spots for the great filter and makes it significantly more likely that the great filter is ahead of us rather than behind.

This is a question that will help with the survival of humanity.
I was curious how they automated all the testing and data sending back then. In Wikipedia it mentions that the Viking landers had 24 bit CPUs with 18K of plated-wire memory and 1280 megabits of tape storage. That's actually not bad!

Think about what you could do with an Apple II (8-bit CPU, 4/8/16k memory), and the Vikings were much more powerful. They were also the size of a Volkswagon, but I'm not sure how much was equipment vs computer.

A software update killed one of the landers by accidentally overwriting the antenna software. (40 years later, not much has changed...)

More info:

https://history.nasa.gov/computers/Ch5-6.html
You're thinking of "Raca" from Matthew, it wouldn't make sense for him to call it based on that verse though since it's not a pleasant word. Jesus specifically says not to call your brother Raca. Why would he call his language that...
Yup, that hasn't changed in our experience. If you're looking at bursty traffic beyond what AWS will pre-warm for you, then this likely won't work. We have fairly consistent loads throughout the day.
Pythonista is a nice IDE. I used to love the Raskell Haskell IDE for the iPad, but it has not been upgraded in a long time and I have file access problems with it now.
This is my experience with doing such transactions, minus the call from the broker. (It was all via a webapp.)

AML/KYC requirements took a scan of my passport, and two days to get verified. At which point, I was good to go.
>I have seen zero evidence of that in my travels through China

The parent comment said: "The Chinese, for example, practiced until recently strict exogamous marriage [...]". This explains your experience.

>Do you have any sources for that?

Try searching "Chinese exogamy" in Google Scholar. Surname (i.e. "clan") exogamy is fairly well-known and still practiced. Here's a passage from Rubie S Watson's afterword to the 1991 book on Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society that she co-edited:

>In China, most unions have involved the transfer of the bride to her husband's household, which, at least initially, has often been headed by her husband's father or a senior agnate. Although not all newly married couples have lived patrilocally, residence with the husband's family has remained both numerically and symbolically significant. This has been especially the case in rural areas where more than 80 percent of the population live and where village exogamy has remained the usual practice.

If you're reacting to the statement that "[w]omen were forbidden to have contact with their biological family after marriage", this was not necessarily a strict prohibition. Because exogamy typically involves moving to a faraway village, it was usually a hassle for the bride to travel back to their biological family, and so if she actually did it, it could be interpreted as a breakdown in the marriage.

Until recently, the practice of adopting a pre-adolescent girl to be the future bride of a pre-adolescent son (tongyangxi) was also a common form of arranged marriage in China.[1] The practice can also go in the other direction, and is known as zhaozhui, or "son-in-law adoption".

[0] https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft6p30...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongyangxi
> I don't really know what "differentiate" means [...]

Probably “set themselves apart from others”.
> Reclaim your privacy and security: No microphone, camera or management engine

The nice thing about Libre laptops is the camera + microphone have a hardware switch, so it's not either/or. They also claim to have neutered the management engine.

Regardless this project looks cool and is obviously a different approach to Libre.
I am very not internet famous. I was able to implement this for a company past the startup stage for the security team. To my surprise when I also tried it for compliance manager and project manager. Both turned out to be major contributors. And told me after they were hired that they were passed over by other companies with traditional hiring practices.
I had so much trouble with insomnia a few years back - I remember not being able to get sleep for at least 3-5 days straight on multiple different occasions. I thought I was going to die at least two of those times it happened.

These days my ability to fall asleep feels like a superpower (because - 1. I know just how absurdly many people out there are functioning on less than optimal sleep on a daily basis, and 2. I know I'm not the only one who has had trouble with falling asleep).

These are the bits of advice I have:

1. I've woken or havent been able to fall asleep because I was hungry. Always try to have eaten at least one satiating meal a day. Also make sure you're not dehydrated or have to pee.

2. Don't ever worry or intentionally think that you have to fall asleep. The stress, the cortisol, and the excitement(when you start falling asleep) will keep you awake. Going one night without sleep is not the end of the world. At worst you were really really relaxed in a nice cozy bed for 8 hours, so take comfort in that time.

3. This one is the most important: think about your brain like its some sort of muscle. If it's engaged its sort of 'flexing', and its very hard to fall asleep if its flexing. If I just 'unflex' my mind the way I would let go of my grip, the next thing I usually notice is that its morning and my alarm clock is waking me up.

Other than these things, everything else I've seen had little affect on my abilities to sleep when I had insomnia - working out until exhaustion out didn't work, neither did weed, neither did alcohol, and neither did induced food coma, reading a book, watching tv, counting sheep. And when I learned again how to fall asleep, I haven't had a problem with blue light, I haven't had a problem with caffeine, I didn't even have a problem with a lot of noise. These things help or hurt your ability to sleep but it doesn't ultimately determine whether or not you do.
That's "rhakos" and doesn't explain it well since this comes from "Rakudo", but Rhakos means torn off cloth according to Strong's Greek concordance. I guess it fits though.
I loved the movie when it was released, and felt it was true in spirit to the book. Sure, some of the details were missed or altered, but that was to be expected in a movie adaptation of a book with so many details. Herbert was on the set and at least had some input. Baron Harkkonen has to be one of the most memorable movie characters ever.
I have a question, what if he was to thank his mom while on a broadcast that would not be about the content of the game either will he be banned for that? Talk about foot in your mouth Blizzard now we can all count down to Blizzcon and watch the fireworks I am sure there will be.
A lot of old laptop batterus are a bunch of 18650's wrapped in a black case.

https://imgur.com/gallery/Fywq0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBE7-LEPDSk
You can always write a borrow checker for Go and have the lifetime annotated in comments similar to how pre-3.7 Python type checkers worked.

In Rust, the borrow checker is too a separate static analysis stage and not directly tied to code gen. There are Rust compilers without the borrow checker.
Contrasting this with the shit show that is Catalina and the last 4 years of mbps, I don't think it's controversial to assert that this is where Apple is going long term. I ain't mad. I'm just not interested in sticking around for it. Perhaps I'm falling behind the times...
That's mistaken. Everybody called out the first Stack apology because it was like this -- not an apology. The second Stack apology was much better recieved because it was actually written as an apology, even through their actions didn't change at all.
Not so much automated testing but too much focus on unit and shallow integrations and not enough the big picture testing.

Such as load testing, end-to-end testing, fuzzing. All of which can be automated to a large degree.
Wow, why would anyone care (I am not even talking about exchanging their cash for that crap) about one messenger's virtual currency? I am personally looking forward for an opportunity to invest in Candy Crash Coins and Sim City Dollars and you wanna know why? Because BLOCKCHAIN!
I mean, sure, but also, of course you would say this: You run a recruiting practice.

Everyone has secret sauce that works. Whether it's you or leeny or any of the other well-known industry blogger-veterans offering some fix for this problem. What a great way to cash in on name recognition!

Maybe the reality is that any process that has sufficient buy-in from both sides of the hiring pipeline works. That all that matters is aligned expectations and the means for all parties to deliver on them. Forgive my cynicism but maybe all we have to do is get everyone involved to be honest with themselves and each other.

Everyone is saying something different and has the data to back it up, but maybe it's all just fluff.
Highly Distractible People Have More Creative Success (2015)
As with the Matrix, the main problem with the sequels is that they deconstruct the basic geek power fantasies set up at the start.
This is the first time I hear of SerenityOS so I'm honestly amazed to see that the warm gray of the 1990s is back in style! There's definitely something to be said about the simplicity of that old school UI.

But more importantly, I really wanted to commend the author on their truly inspiring approach to criticism (valid or invalid)

I was left with this impression just by looking at his comments on this thread, but then later came across this video¹ which was posted as a response to armchair critics on OS News... and the tongue-in-cheek tone is just too nice for what I'm used to seeing on the internet these days! Congrats on this huge feat after 1 year of development but above all kudos on being such a nice person even in the face of seemingly pointless criticism

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoScn0X2DFM

2. Original thread https://www.osnews.com/story/129716/serenity-a-new-unix-like...
Despite the huge numbers, the battlefield supremacy of the greek phalanx seems to be forgotten here. 100 years after this, Alexander the Great conquered the world with the phalanx enhanced with longer spears called the sarissa.

I recall reading many descriptions of the Alexander's forces taking on armies 10x bigger than them and routing them with little losses as he conquered Persia and other lands to the east.

Alexander never conquered the Spartans, IIRC.
>> You're suggesting nonwhite people...

Iqbal Khan is white. You just sort of assumed that he isn't because he's involved in a scandal. Now who's the racist?

You must be fun at parties.
I follow this stuff pretty closely. Any organization that suicide bombs civilian areas is a terrorist IMO.

The EU, NATO, Japan, etc didn't start using that designation for nothing.

PKK also had an estimated 3000 child soldiers which were also used for terror operations and in combat in Syria: https://hrwf.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Child-soldiers-in...
Yep, definitely ironic that an oxidant like perchlorate reduced the chance of finding life.

You’ve been a great audience, I’ll be here for the next 7 sols!