skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So if the private Russian company pays Twitter all is okay?
https://medium.com/@josefow/streets-paved-with-gold-sfs-ridi...
Honest question: Is there anybody here who regrets taking LSD? Is it really safe or are we dealing with a self-selection problem of the people who would regret taking LSD not being sane enough to bother being on internet forums?

I'm no puritan but it just seems to me like a taking acid is a huge risk to take with one's mental health.
Long ago, I worked in a record store, and David Byrne came in to the store to shop. He was wearing a red plastic hard hat, yet gave a disparaging look to everyone who seemed to "notice" him. When he left, I discovered he had forgotten to take his credit card from the counter. I called him (we also had a video store with contact info) and he was incredibly rude and told me just to cut it up because he couldn't be bothered to stop back in. This story has no real point, but it did make me less of a Talking Heads fan, and perhaps relates to the idea that being a good Samaritan isn't always rewarding. That said, I once had my bag stolen at a nightclub, and a few months later someone found my wallet in some bushes and mailed it to me, which was a pleasant surprise. When I've had things stolen, I've always maintained a hope that there will end up being a happy ending, even if that hasn't been the case every time.
> If cars are allowed to cross the road perpendicularly, will there be any significant effects from this change?

Yes, every single block between those intersections will have little to no traffic.
> All the violence I've experienced in communication has been high social skill people passive aggressively using "appropriate channels" and "emotional intelligence" to harm me.

What would be useful is a kind of "defense against the dark arts" program aimed at teaching people who prefer and practice direct communication to defend against these harms without feeling like they have to start using manipulative tricks themselves.
It costs $1M or so in the US to e.g. outfit an existing intersection with a set of traffic lights. I thought they'd be some gold plated, diamond encrusted traffic lights, but no, they're just standard issue. Constructions costs are pretty ridiculous.
Dynamic pricing means the company is trying as hard as possible to give you the worst deal possible, and people resent it because it's insulting.

Basically, instead of "thank you", it's "fuck you".
Completely besides NVC and TFA, etc... But, thank you for the work you do. I've come across a number of your repositories (arch decision records, KPIs, OKRs, smart criteria, ground rules, etc...) and I have to say, they are outstanding resources that I find myself coming back to time and time again.
I don't really know what we're arguing about at this point so I'm tapping out.

I agree that it's good and not victim blaming to offer advice to people, regardless of their gender, as to how they can live safer lives.

I agree that, in the US, most victims know their attacker. That doesn't mean it's safe for young women to hitchhiker in Mexico though. Similarly, you are vastly more likely to be killed by your own gun than any random gun out there. That doesn't mean you have nothing to worry about if some random stranger points a gun at you.
The Golden Butterfly (is a modified All Weather Portfolio)

> Stocks: 20% Domestic Large Cap Fund (Vanguard’s VTI or Goldman Sach’s JUST), 20% Domestic Small Cap Value (Vanguard’s VBR)

> Bonds: 20% Long Term (Vanguard’s BLV), 20% Short Term (Vanguard’s BSV)

> Real Assets: 20% Gold (SPDR’s GLD)

The All Weather Portfolio:

> Stocks: 30% Domestic Total Stock Market (VG total stock)

> Bonds: 40% Long Term, 15% Intermediate-Term

> Real Assets: 7.5% Commodities, 7.5% Gold
Java development is very active. It didn't die.
Introduction to X64 Assembly Language [pdf]
> I'm not sure what the "no skeletons?" references

https://www.techinasia.com/china-doesnt-censor-skeletons-the...
Could you provide a link towards "P.E.T."? The term is not googleble..
How Smart Is Your Shop Floor? Transform Your Shop Floor with Industrial IoT
Which will be India's biggest companies after 10-20 years?
Kinda ironic, Sun powered the dot-com bubble.
Cars are one of the leading causes of death, resource usage, pollution, and noise pollution. Drug addiction and homelessness is a problem indeed but this is a step in the right direction.
You name two countries and then an obscure state. What's the deal with Utah?
Don't do that, have your own personal computer and phone.
NVC is a great framework. I've watched the 9 hour training by Marshall Rosenberg on YouTube more than once, and I keep finding ways that it can be useful in all relationships. It's basically a way to be both non-passive-aggressive and compassionate, while having boundaries. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPNVcESwoWu4lI9C3bhkY...
ORACLE = One Raging Asshole Called Larry Ellison

Oracle is well known for arbitrary and complex licensing that have the effect of locking customers to Oracle under threats of audits.

Recently it has taken to pushing customers via licensing changes on to its own Cloud environment. Its incumbency in F100 companies ensures a vendor lockin that is only slowly deteriorating.

Oracle's record of acquisition and product EOL is also well known. It's responsible for the fork of Hudson to Jenkins, the collapse of Solaris, the API court case with Google (attempting to use copyright on API definitions to stop new implementations), the fork of MySQL to MariaDB, etc etc
Bryan Cantrill went on to peddle Node.js to the clueless shortly after that rant so I wouldn't put much weight on what he says.
That's a facile response, because it works for everybody. Everybody intolerant thinks of themselves as a fundamentally tolerant person, whose hand has regrettably been forced by the unforgivable actions of the enemy tribe. From the other side, you look like the intolerant one.
I have "perfect" pitch, except it's not as perfect as my brother's. We can both easily identify up to 2-3 simultaneous notes/sounds, but he's better than I am at tuning an instrument without a reference, and slightly better at producing correct notes on demand (i.e. whistling) as opposed to recognizing sounds.

I wonder if this has to do with us carrying two different copies of the responsible gene/mutation.

We both received musical training as kids but he had more than I, so that can't be ruled out.
> If you want people to follow you through a break-the-world migration then you need to motivate why it is needed and why it couldn't be done incrementally

They did. I remember looking through this, and I remain convinced that the core developers were correct and there was no way to fix Unicode handling incrementally.
>How would I "discover" events on meetup.com or another event service?

Meetup has a search engine that allows you to find events by date, location, or subject matter. So I could

- look up events near me for this coming week.

- look up events within a certain radius from a location.

- look up events based on my interests.

> if I'm looking for an event I Google.

That's the fallback. I think what Meetup provided was a single site that people visit to find local events that fit their interests, which also allowed community-building.
China has made these claims.

Turkey has called the Kurds terrorists. America may view them differently.
How Data Is at the Core of Abhijit Banerjee’s Experimental Economics
There's a really easy solution here: just use a device with a super shitty battery and only charge it once a day. Then, hide the cable.

Now there's an incentive for them to learn electrical engineering.
Do / can expats just hang out with each other?
Certainly will be happy to not get a shot of exhaust in the face every time I get groceries.
>> That sounds awfully naive to me.

but then

>> fact checked in the press

Now _that_ sounds awfully naive to me. Have you seen the CNN leak that came out the other day? "If Jeff Zucker wants impeachment, there's nothing you can do" - direct quote from a CNN media coordinator. Zucker literally tells everyone to bash Trump all day on the daily 9AM conference call. The "press" isn't there to do journalism anymore.
“We should restrict immigration to limit labor supply so that the native born can earn better wages” is not the same type of message as “immigrants are cockroaches and we should shoot refugees as they cross the border.”

“We should reject colonial oppression of our country” is not the same type of message as “we must wage religious war against our oppressors, and it is righteous to for young men to be suicide bombers”.

“We should end affirmative action on the basis of race because it isn’t fair to individual members of the majority group” is not the same type of message as “all members of X minority are inherently worthless, and we should purge them”.

“Rape accusations should be handled by law enforcement professionals rather than by school administrators, and the evidence should need to meet a high legal standard to be actionable” is not the same type of message as “X person claims they were raped but everyone knows they are a lying slut and were asking for it.”

Etc.

Why do I even have to try and explain this?

> The rules could say absolutely no racism

This is not what the rules do say. What they “could say” is not relevant here. The rules say: “Hateful conduct: You may not promote violence against, threaten, or harass other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease.”

This is elaborated here if you want to read about it https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/hateful-condu...

Specifically disallowed are (1) violent threats, (2) wishing, hoping or calling for serious harm on a person or group of people, (3) references to mass murder, violent events, or specific means of violence where protected groups have been the primary targets or victims, (4) inciting fear about a protected category, (5) repeated and/or non-consensual slurs, epithets, racist and sexist tropes, or other content that degrades someone, (6) hateful imagery
CSR: Corporate Social Responsibility
Coalfire Investigation Report [pdf]
The audit hooks are going to allow some really interesting things, especially around security controls on executing Python code. There is hope for sandboxed Python execution!
In my experience it is the cyclists that aggressively cut everyone off, especially pedestrians.
They want to use those new smart bricks that notify police via Twitter when a homeless person does their business with a video of the deed from the ground’s POV.
One is creating lies, the other is trying not to amplify them.
It wasn't me who downvoted you but your statement contains quite a bit of irony which might not have been your intent.
I've found bank cards a few times and have called the bank in question, they've just thanked me, made a note of it, and asked me to destroy the card myself.
In the US, public companies "have an obligation to their shareholders to be profitable", and China is a gigantic market.

The rules that govern the economy aren't optimized to create equity or equality. They're optimized to push companies to maximize profit and minimize scarcity.

Without proper regulation, the companies that optimize for profit will scale much faster than the companies that optimize for ethics or equality. Consumer pressure is somewhat effective in the short term, but it never lasts.
Have you seen Blizzard's official Weibo account apology to China? It seems like kowtowing still seems to be their plan to get into that sweet sweet mobile game market.
My lights are out at 11, but getting up at 7 is difficult still. On the other hand, it was straight impossible to do at 25.
Another one not mentioned by the sibling comment: they tried to improve upon the poor scalability of poll(2) before epoll was a thing.

Also a bunch of random things in section 2 of your Linux manpages started out as Sun-introduced APIs back in the day.

But a bunch of stuff has been ported or integrated elsewhere. Zfs runs well out of the box on freebsd and as a module on linux. "Containers" are a big thing now where zones might have applied. Etc.
That doesn't mean it's safe for young women to hitchhiker in Mexico though.

I never claimed what you are seemingly rebutting at all. I never said anything of the sort whatsoever.

I only suggested that this particular woman probably wasn't simply lucky. She was probably doing some things right that helped keep her safe.

It's an entirely different idea. It's the difference between saying "Lion tamers have lion taming skills and aren't merely lucky that they usually survive their shows." Versus "Because lion tamers exist, random people with zero lion taming skills are equally safe being locked in a cage with a lion."
Oh, shit. I confused Larry Ellison with Scott McNealy. Carry on.
I suspect what they're trying to do is to carve out some sort of minimal response that doesn't anger anyone too much and hope that people forget about the whole thing soon. That's generally what always happened. I don't think I've seen a boycott that lasted long enough to hurt any of these companies too much. Maybe this one's different? I don't know. I do know that there are movements that are now consciously trying to drag them into the middle of the political issue to actively get them banned.

They were at the wrong place in the wrong time, managing to fan some pretty bad flames and accidentally became a symbol people on the non-extreme ends of both political isles can agree with: the disingenuous corporation putting money above your freedom / others' human rights.

All I suspect is, with each atrocity during the protests, Blizzard's name is going to come up in peoples' minds, even more so than other brands that messed up. It'll be interesting to follow this.
I have a different perspective.

When I have a bit of Raku code that is too slow I complain (send a bug report) and then someone else figures out why the JIT isn't doing a better job and fixes it.

Then bingo-bango it ends up even faster than using NativeCall to call into the C code.

Of course there may be a delay before someone gets around to figuring it out; so in the meantime, NativeCall is actually very easy to use.

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I would like to note that someone wrote Perl6/Raku code and the equivalent C/C++ code. They reported that the Perl6/Raku code was faster. (It was before Raku was brought up as an alias/name.)

I'm fairly sure that the reason the C/C++ code was slower is that it copied strings around rather than using pointers and indexes into other strings like MoarVM does.
> Proponents argue that corporations increase long-term profits by operating with a CSR perspective, while critics argue that CSR distracts from businesses' economic role.

... The 3 Pillars of Corporate Sustainability: Environmental, Social, Economic https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/100515/three...

Three dimensions of sustainability: (Environment (Society (Economy)))
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainability#Three_dimension...
I've found that folks who take "How to Win Friends and Influence People" as a roadmap for getting what they want the same way. I personally think that it's easy to detect when someone is faking empathy, being insincere, etc... And it instantly sours me on whatever conversation I am having when I find myself on the receiving end of these techniques.
It might have been a Russian :-)

But implicit in your statement is that some people (Appalachians/visiting lawyers) are bigoted and maybe someone took offence at that, or from your seeming too much "can't we all just get along?".

Really you can't take individual downvotes as anything except cosmic background radiation emitted from twitter and people having a bad day. People become annoyed (enraged even) because they hit 0 and go grey. With the steady increase in HN commenters, the raw post should start at 3 at least, or votes should be rationals (3 up/4 down) and only start to impact at n=3.
> Let's face it, Solaris was a pile of crap. Security-wise alone, it was a disaster.

Huh, that wasn't my impression at all - for a long while wasn't it much safer to have unprivileged untrusted users on Solaris than on Linux? (that is, Linux quite frequently had local privilege escalations, I thought Solaris didn't?)

I guess "security" is a broad term, what sort of security?
I just hope they are doing drivers only for devices found in mainstream VMs. It would be a fool's errand to try to keep drivers up to date with real hardware. There is no practical benefit to anyone to run VMS outside a VM, but there are still important VMS applications that would run perfectly happily and reliably on maintained equipment in VMs forever.

IBM's AS/400 system (now called i series?) was designed for that from the start. There never was an AS/400 machine, it was always emulated. Programs started in the '80s are still running, migrated from one physical host generation to the next without ever being shut down.
The infamous startup founder method
Yes, they source their results. This is not the extent of your claims. You were stating that they directly rip from other engines meaning that, in your words, "In order for search results to get better on DDG, they first need to get better on their partner search engines".

That is simply completely wrong, as my example showed extremely clearly. The one and only weakness of sourcing from third parties is that if they are not indexing some site, you also will not be indexing it. You were implying they are directly dependent on the ordering and quality of the other engines, which is obviously and provably false.
Mars InSight Lander's Heat Probe Gets a Little Unstuck
- he'd happier destroy 10 or 100 million man-hours of good effort for a couple hundred-K of sales. see Solaris.
- trying to assert IP rights on an API. see java lawsuit.
- uses vendor lock-in to sell an inferior product that a better replacement is free (like postresql, mysql, etc.)

Oh yes, I think Oracle is evil, in a way worse than the worst years of M$. And larry ... is clearly the responsible party.

In my ethos, good capitalism is good itself and for everyone. Wise leaders play for the "long game" and this benefits them, their shareholders, and everyone else. This was the pattern of Sun. In particular Sun, even in the years when the UNIX wars were not very nice. larry (and bill) are simply diseased vultures who trade short term personal gain for mass global loss. Someday, while old larry will be fine, his shareholders will have nothing but a bag of sh*t.
Sorry that's just uninformed BS. Solaris was/is rock solid, its engineering is 1st class, it pioneered ZFS and other technologies, new init processes, NFS, ONC-RPC, R/O root, zones/jails, etc etc.

ZFS provides features that other file systems have yet to provide, eg full COW, snapshots etc.

Linux is great, I use it every day and its solid in a cloud environment. But to say its clean inside the kernel is a mistake. It reflects its development model, messy, with management by consensus and a benevolent dictator in Linus.

But don't call something a "pile of crap" without evidence or condemn engineering in the 90s with 20/20 (or 2019) hindsight.
The recent Oregon standoff was the Bundy incident...
I don't know all the pros and cons of living in Switzerland - but its flag is a big plus...
Merge in SQLServer is horrible imo. It’s horrifically slow. And causes more problems than it solves. After learning about upsert in PostgreSQL. Ah I wish we had it in sqlserver. The PostgreSQL code is so much cleaner and more efficient.
On that note, I also highly recommend Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time.
Given a long enough time in risky circumstances (vs a few months of single-mode behaviour, hitchhiking, in your example) the experience would start to get pretty compelling. I think the cited six years is probably good enough to get a good feel for the risk level, especially since you presumably hear about other incidents from peers and develop an intuition for risky situations.

edit: data tangent - if your Anchorage stats were about reported cases, the averages would need correcting for underreporting.
I have tried LSD a few times and had nothing but positive experiences. My wife, however, tried it once and had a bad trip. She was convinced I was going to murder her (obviously everything I did further proved that point) and everything was scary for her. She was afraid of large trees in a kind of "raises my anxiety baseline" kind of way for about a year after the trip. But, the experience wore off, and she's fine now. She believes that it's possible that the experience contributed to her being a more anxious person now, but that's conflated with all kinds of things like marrying me and changing careers and having greater responsibility for those around her.

I don't think it's as big a risk as you seem to think. The people who I have met who have had bad trips did not see lasting side effects, though they did take a while to wear off.

I'm sure someone else will post it, but if this is something you genuinely want to know more about, read "How to Change Your Mind".
Russians also hacked into email and voting systems and directly assisted various campaings using stolen information.
I'm not super knowledgeable on the topic of uniforms, but don't other things just become the status symbol? Phones, laptops, cars, purses? A lot of these things already have premium brands that most people on this site could name trivially.
Cars can still cross market, just not drive on it east or west. Which you wouldn't want to do anyway; the adjacent SOMA streets are a lot faster.
I don't see how a sane, rational person could see the unfiltered tweets of the President and still think that he is fit for that job.

I especially don't see how someone would chalk it up to democrat propaganda.
yet... but, it's owned by larry who is not shy (supreme court) to ensure that it's his own, despite an "open" promise.
I guess it's ironic that a call for unity gets downvoted, which in itself is sufficient reason to do it, but do you mean the malapropism (sowing divisiveness in common ground)? Personally I enjoy those, people should use more.
In this case, you're the meteor and the other person is at fault. They turned a corner (I don't see how else they couldn't see the intersection - if it's a straight then they can see the intersection - thus my cornering talk) and went into an intersection where another car was already. It's no different than someone romping over a very steep hill (very prevalent in SF) and assuming the intersection they're running into is "clear". (It usually isn't!) It's not a thing they can do and they shouldn't do it.

Either way - sounds like a bad intersection and they should design it differently. (Turn on left with left arrow only, etc.)
The cars are a danger to the people passed out on heroin and a threat to the open air drug market by sixth. Good thing they banned them.
Hot swapping CPU and memory boards was pretty dope in 2000. Can't do that in equivalently priced hardware and servers as easily today.
So they can get rid of cars but they can't get rid of shit?