skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a big gap between questioning the attribution of one piece to Bach and attributing all of Shakespeare's plays to someone else. For someone with a big body of work, there's always some debate around the edges. (For example, people now think Shakespeare was the co-author of a play about Edward III.)
What I have found helpful with documentation is when it is stored in a single location of the project and automatically formatted to various output formats: markdown, html, stdout, and possibly pdf.
You have to manage the situation with empathy.

Aside from legitimate technical concerns, which you did not mention, from that person point of view, he/she was likely the expert, the go to person to understand how stuff worked, or could be implemented, and suddenly he/she will be relegated to a maintenance mode or worse be let go.

That might not be true, but that is surely how that person feels.

So depending on the exact circumstances, you have to reassure him/her by taking concrete actions, like making him/her responsible of a key element of the new architecture, so that this person will feel empowered and useful in the future.

To be blunt, even if the situation is better for the company or product roadmap, in the end, most people don't care. The normal reaction of normal people in face of change, is to consider how it will affect THEM first, they don't necessarily take into account the bigger picture. So you cannot convince them with rationale and objective elements how it will improve the life of everybody else.
With Graal AOT you can make command line utilities that start on the order of 0.008s

https://github.com/graalvm/graalvm-demos/tree/master/java-ko...
Ok, how about cost overruns, administrative costs, technology upgrades and on and on? Its only as regards these things, that I regard profitability to be an important pressure.

Management responsible to the bottom line will sometimes improve those things. Management responsible to … I don't know what a government agency is responsible to? rarely upgrades, review, improves. It is axiomatic of government agencies that they exist for their own sake. And cost a bucketload of (our) money.
I think my favorite (in terms of humor) is a commit from mpv complaining about locales and encodings. You can practically feel the committer's sheer frustration.

[1] https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02...
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If only important/tricky commits have long messages it's fine. Most IDEs will show you the full text if you hover over the line, so when working on something it's easy enough to check them. I'm huge fan of the timemachine-like "Show Git History for Selection" view that IntelliJ has, so usually there's no reason to go to a Github/Gitlab commit page.
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The parent's point is this. You don't own the undersea cables and Iceland doesn't either. How many companies own these cables that come into Iceland? Are those companies all from Five Eyes countries? What if the undersea cable company says stop sending traffic to this domain or we cut off your access from the data center or ISP provider side? What happens if the Five Eyes place travel/trade restrictions on Iceland unless physical data related to some alleged incident is turned over? The point being that sure no physical access is an improvement but maybe not a panacea. You may have protected data but how does that help you if it can't leave or enter your servers? The internet doesn't have to remain as free and open as it is now.
That's not politics. That's basically just saying don't be a jerk and say something hurtful regardless of the reason. You seem to be making a leap of judgement that etc means don't post politics at all instead of don't attack someone for their political opinion and then you're mad that on a completely different personal site he says he's against some actions and that companies need to not be okay with this. He gives no actions he's planning on taking just says that they should discuss it. He doesn't demonize someone for how they voted or their political party and even cites people from the opposing party with whom he agrees. Your position comes soon appearing like you're chomping at the bit to make anything you disagree with somehow some evil conspiracy plot where a certain segment of the population you disagree with us out to get you. You're allowed say different things at home than at work. I doubt heavily his opinions at home are solely made into policy at work in a vacuum.
Yeah but a website/accounting function? It should be accurate, efficient and legal. Which our tax office is sometimes seen as not-those-things.
I'm getting it as an alert on msb.com. However I already created an account with email, and it works great!

Your "Magic dashboard" looks great! This UI looks so refreshing. It would be great to use it to monitor own clusters.
I would assume the probability of that is roughly comparable to the probability of a Boltzmann brain[1] assembling, which is roughly one in 10^10^50, or 10 with 10^50 zeros after it. Could be as high as 1 in 10^10^30 based on a discussion of the probability of macroscopic tunneling that I read. Assuming you wrote this number down in decimal form using the most efficient available technology[2], it would require the material in roughly 400,000 galaxies the size of the milky way.

Regarding earthquakes, the USGS estimates[3] the probability of a magnitude 7.5 quake near LA is about 30% in the next 30 years. A magnitude 8 is probably 150 times less likely, so the probability might be roughly 1/15,000 to happen this year.

The difference between 1/15,000 and 1/10^10^40 is...roughly 10^10^40 times. So if you worry about tunneling through the floor, then a devastating earth quake is essentially as likely as not tunneling through the floor.

Really, have a sense of proportion!

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_(atoms)

[3]https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-probability-earthquake-will-o...
Did the move get you off the easylist?
AutoCAD’s Journey to the Web (WebAssembly SF October)
It doesn't make sense to frame the issue as a matter of guilt, and neither is it relevant to look at the relative emissions of others.

The simple matter is that we have a carbon budget per person on Earth. If you're above that, you should voluntarily reduce yourself below it.

If you (we) don't, more aggressive mechanisms will eventually force us all to.

Fly as much as you want, but you must capture or offset the emissions.

This applies equally to all direct or indirect usage of fossil fuels. Driving, heating, goods, whatever.

It's basic mathematics at this point. Guilt and shame are one potential social mechanism for getting people to realise what they must do. Taxation is another. People dying out is another. Etc. I suppose in that lens it's probably the lesser of the evils.

But it's very much indirect, the shame is a sort of evolved potential solution rather than anything "real".
>> I don't want your entire life story in my commit log.
>Then I never want to work with you ever (or any code base you ever touched) because of your laziness...

What an incredibly aggressive response.
It's COBOL, not Cobol. And I keep my COBOL textbook to ensure that I never have to work in COBOL again. I'm certain that as soon as let that textbook, I'll end up needing it.
I think an unwinnable scenario works quite well with the nuclear weapons theme.
Indeed: stars don't emit radiation per se, the trillions of atoms absorbing and emitting quantised photons do.

So,

a) they would have to be made of something other than the normal atomic matter normal stars, planets, and rocks, and people are made of

b) be normal Hydrogen, Helium, etc. but with completely different quantum mechanical behaviour. Just sitting their in isolated regions of space - right next to normal matter.

Grade-A bollocks.
I use javadocs all the time. Those are generated off comments in code. Is that the kind of thing you mean?
> Other benefits from Erlang that may shine in the web space is the per-process garbage collection. It may reduce the variance on the latency and for short-lived requests, you may not perform garbage collection at all.

This one was a big draw for me. It was a major reason I got interested in Elixir in the first place instead of going the Scala/Akka route.
Grass would make up the bulk of their diet. Note that corn is a grass.

Dairy cows have a diet that is strictly designed by a nutritionist. When cows are fed corn, it isn't just the corn seed, it is the entire plant. Dairy cows get the more expensive premium feed, and soy is not a large part of that.
This is a continuation of this discussion "Fixing Getrandom()" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21114524).

I love this story, as a complete unrelated kernel commit that reduced the amount of file I/O, caused the kernel to not generate enough entropy at boot, and in consequence, made the system unbootable.
Not guilty at all. I travel internationally. There really isn't a better option for traveling over the pacific. Yes, I recognize I could stay in one place, I don't consider that a viable option.

I think it's a boondoggle to attempt to shame people into changing their behavior when they do not have viable options.
Many if not all of these mainframes have been fully upgraded or at least serviced due to hardware failure while still running.

I’m not entirely sure how you define uptime for these machines if none of the original parts are still there.
Some MFA apps can backup your codes, if that fits your risk profile (e.g. Authenticator Plus)
Then why do you even bother (and us too) by clicking on a story explicitly about Bach according to the headline?

Imagine doing that in real life. Every time you witness a conversation about something that doesn't interest you you go over there and tell them.
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It’s still run locally isn’t it? Just in a much less optimal environment.
Using CPU jitter is a clever solution. I hope it stands up to scrutiny.

> but mixing entropy from the hardware with other sources is considered to be safe by most, even if the hardware generator is somehow suspect.

To be clear, it's a property of bitwise xor that it preserves entropy. If you xor a random bit with 1 you still have a random bit.
I can imagine that working to a degree: Make a fork of a commit at an issue, then merge that fork back in with master at point of fix. Bit of a mess in the tree though.
I have only one problem with LUKS container home directories, in my eyes disk hardware is too flaky to handle fully encrypted filesystems.

I have no problems with encrypted files, but I am not waiting for access problems of my own stuff.

systemd-homed is a solution for NSA and secret companies, not for someone like me who has no problem with how things function today.

But I am afraid there is no opt out but only filosophy enforcement.
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Parent was talking about US, not intercontinental
What are you doing on your travels that prevents not traveling from being a viable option?
Trivially: 100%
The comment it responded to wasn't exactly friendly either.
(Offer)I can rank your business across your location
Yes, because developers who want to spare minutes of work for others to spare DAYS OR maybe even WEEKS of work deserve shaming. It's very frustrating.
>What is it that makes some examples unnerving, and some acceptable?

Some combination of the status quo and ideology.
I think I have settled for ML = gets better with more examples ("learns"). So I'd say Bayesian models of all flavours are definitely in the ML umbrella. AI is super fuzzy though. I think of that as, does something you'd think a computer shouldn't be able to do but a human can, and is thus a forever moving goalpost.
The NYPD Is Requesting Rappers Be Removed from Shows. What’s Next?
I have CD's from that period - some fine as, others disc rot most evident. Even had rot in gold layered ones (few VCD's I had). Gets down to manufacturing quality and in just the same way silicon chips are made, not all chips are equal and work perfect forever. Same with media.

Tape has done well, however when you look at how it was used and how it is used today. The density of data is much tighter today than the 80's era. So tolerance of errors was greater and more forgiving as data would be stored in a larger area, so a few atoms going adrift won't stand out, when you get into density when a few atoms is your data, errors are statistically more prone to happen.
AI can streamline insurance claims – but at what cost?
Has it flourished? If we use the GPL as a barometer of FSFs success then it's going downhill. Apache and MIT licensing is on the rise dramatically while GPL is a decline proportion wise. On the other hand companies that want a GPL-like license are finding the GPL not strong enough (MongoDB).
This is awesome. A nice improvement would be to have the loop continue with the old code when there are errors (rather than pausing iteration).
Nothing funny about it. One makes it clear it's a personal anecdote, the other states that "scientific studies show" - should be easy to show these studies then
Time crystals mentioned in TFA are an entirelly different thing from crystal oscillators.
might be a swagger/openapi issue. golang for example does generated doc quite well imo. i wish other languages had the same.
While I'm not going to disagree Switzerland is an OK option, you have to understand first why ProtonMail choose Switzerland.

One point being "In the US and EU, gag orders can be issued to prevent an individual from knowing they are being investigated or under surveillance. While these type of orders also exist in Switzerland, the prosecutors have an obligation to notify the target of surveillance, and the target has an opportunity to appeal in court. There are no such things as National Security Letters, and all surveillance requests must go through the courts. Furthermore, while Switzerland is party to international assistance treaties, such requests for information must hold up under Swiss law, which has much stricter privacy provisions."

I read this as, it isn't to say a government can't monitor what's going over the pipe for sigint, but if they specifically target a user for surveillance it must be disclosed to them and they have a right to appeal.

Nonetheless, if you're an American connecting to Switzerland for ProtonMail, the US govt will have some sigint, even if it's just your origin -> protonmail destination.

I'd go as far as to argue, as long as all communications are fully encrypted with the best possible encryption available (and no backdoors) it's fairly safe in any country for most general content. If you're extra concerned about privacy and surveillance (like I am), you should host in a country which has strong privacy laws but read up on the privacy laws, most of the time a country has good privacy laws for individuals, companies within the country, not foreigners.

Just my two cents away.
> FP has been largely introduced into the mainstream of programming through Javascript and Web Dev.

JavaScript's use of more and more functional patterns came with Underscore.js and CoffeeScript, which were both inspired by Ruby-based web dev!

I'd say the entire industry, Java included, has been moving towards more FP in a very sluggish fashion.
I wonder how difficult it would be to build an airplane that runs off ethanol - until we get electric airplanes it might be a decent stopgap measure for the conscientious oligarch.
I Know some one in our DnD group who when working for the MOD in the UK, got into trouble for naming a set of servers after the kings of Rohan.
Flying is a stupid symbolic focus as a "luxury" if you are talking about airlines instead of your own private jet. It has better passenger mileage than cars but worse than a fully loaded bus.

Yeah you should look at better alternatives for viability but otherwise can we give this dumb meme a rest and focus on real solutions?
Final paragraph:

> All in all, I believe this proves that software developers as a whole and as a culture produce worse results than drug addicted butt fucked monkeys randomly hacking on typewriters while inhaling the fumes of a radioactive dumpster fire fueled by chinese platsic toys for children and Elton John/Justin Bieber crossover CDs for all eternity.

I also nominate this commit.
There is this common internet illusion that these things only happen in the US. It's a myth, of course, it absolutely happens in Europe too and everywhere in the western world.

How could it not, its economics and its a business. The goal is to produce the maximum amount of dairy at the lowest possible price, to fulfill an ever-increasing demand.

Maybe the agricultural factories are usually not of the same size as in the US, but the techniques and the consequences are the same.
All I can think is what a liability nightmare that would be in the US if a pharmacist made a bad call. For both the pharmacist and the company that employed them.
Then there are mathematicians and quants, like me: breastfed on Matlab, weaned on Python, claim a much deeper understanding of algorithms and code factoring techniques than front-end jockeys, but still shudders at memory management (other than by preallocating matrices/numpy arrays), devops and other practices that are all in a day's work for "man's man programmers".

Granted, we're precisely what PL authors had in mind from time to time (eg with SQL): nonprogrammers who can write domain code. But because our training goes into proving big-O complexity, etc. front-end jockeys look at us as if we're capital-P programmers.
My uni in Slovakia, Zilina.

just kidding, Aalborg.
What does SEMRush do that Ahrefs doesn't? I get along just fine with ahrefs.
Same here. Why is documentation standard so low? Tell me how that buffer management works (do I provide it? delete it? when? how?); how threading is supported (reentrant? send/receive at the same time/different threads? interprocess?); dependencies (necessary initialization? teardown? states in between?); efficiency (can I hold a lock around the call? does it block?).

Instead, we often get nothing but a method name and argument types. Ridiculous.
Indeed. If you already understand the data and the business and you already know Python or R then you can download Keras in the morning and have something useful to the business running in the afternoon. Then you can add ML to your CV.

It’s not clear where an ML expert who isn’t already familiar with the data and the business fits in or adds value, or even what an expert really means in industry.
Does the fact that there are no other options for trans pacific travel change how much CO2 you're releasing into the atmosphere because you don't want to change your habits? The planet doesn't really care about options or intentions, only actions.
> “Our climate just can’t tolerate widespread frequent flying,” said Dan Rutherford, who directs the council’s aviation program.

It would if we could control our breeding. How guilty should you feel about having large numbers of children?
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I am a swede and I am totally confused on why people in my country seems to totally have lost their minds. People only feel guilty about some things.

These are the same people that buy products from "hip" companies like Apple which are famous for making products harder to repair and practically forces people to buy completely new devices even if something is wrong on the current one and that it easily could be repaired. Yet I have never heard about any shame owning an Apple product, most likely it's the reversed.

My point is that people are irrational and only acts on stuff that either feel, sound or looks good. Like always when a headline starts with a question, the answer is probably going to be a resounding "no".

It isn't the act of flying that makes it bad. For example, a swedish company fly with partly renewable fuel (https://www.flygbra.se/hallbarhet/boka-miljo-class/faq/) and I believe any issue can be solved with technology advancement.

We shouldn't limit ourselves because of climate change. We should instead improve the technology and make it better so it doesn't impact the climate in such a way it becomes unsustainable.

This is the core issue I have with the crazy people in my country. They complain but offer zero alternatives except "not doing that". Just compare Greta Thunberg (which is a person with zero suggestions) to Boyan Slat that actually tried to develop technology to clean up the oceans.

Greta is way more famous and have way more attention even if Boyan is far, far more admirable and actually tries to provide solutions for the future.
Security flaw lets anyone's fingerprint unlock a Galaxy S10 phone
But the problem is that there were no proper build systems to use, not that they weren’t familiar with them.

Gmake, cmake, scons, waf, whatever - non of them provide hermetic deterministic builds, track compiler versions properly, etc.

The only build system I had used which could, with crazy effort, provide some of those features, is iirc ClearCase (or whatever it used for version control and management), and it was painful in every way and still didn’t enforce it - just had enough to allow you to do it with great effort (which gmake/cmake don’t even do)
I don't think this "you don't need to feel guilty if you're not a frequent flyer" narrative is useful at all.

A flight uses between 2 and 6 liters of kerosine per 100 km for every passenger [1]. You travel around 800-900 km per hour on a passenger plane, which means your rate of fuel use is fairly high (let's say 30 liters per hour). Putting it in these numbers allows you to compare it to filling up your car and puts some things in perspective.

Taking a flight now and then is not going to end the world. But it does provide an easy opportunity to reduce emissions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft
Myself I use mobile broadband and no IPv6 option at all in any form available. Many ISP's in the UK still don't offer it as an option either. You do find the smaller ones will offer it. But in general, been lacking a push in the UK at consumer level, though that may change over the next few years.

https://ipv6-test.com/stats/country/GB