skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>So people are allowed to fish and kill a lot of them and you guys are more limited on fire many you can fish to reproduce? Wow, I never cease to be surprised by how stupid government can be.

Can you rephrase this in the form of a sentence?
> Wow, I never cease to be surprised by how stupid government can be.

Past certain level of efficiency, there's likely something of the trade-off triangle ("good, fast, cheap, pick two"), and two of its vertices are "smart" and "democratic".

People are allowed to fish and kill more than protect and reproduce, because the "kill" side has a lot of people with money, who don't give a damn about ecology or even long-term viability of their businesses, whereas the "protect" side that does the reproduction is also the same people who set up limits on what to do with the fish, so they kind of obey their own rules.
The definition of preacher places an emphasis on one who does it professionally, words can mean different things though.
I think your comment and Zuckerberg’s framing of the issue hides the ball in a way that appears dishonest, though I do not think that is your intent.

For instance, what do you mean by this?:

> But I do think that any cure will be worse than the disease

Because it all depends on what "cure" and "disease" mean, right? Free speech is good is blithe and techno-utopian in the sense that it makes a blanket statement that refuses to get into the details and have opinions. Facebook used for ethnic cleansing? Well, free speech is good and Facebook is all bout free speech; the problem has to lie elsewhere. Guess we should fix that ethnic cleansing problem somewhere else.

Sticking to a high-level generality implies that, because your basic aim is good we must frame solutions or restrictions in a different way. We must remedy the damage done with speech using ideas and methods that aren't related to speech, somehow.

I don't know what is in Zuckerberg’s heart, but it strikes me that this position is extremely kind to Facebook's business model. As long as everyone is committed to unmoderated speech being central to digital spaces, they can avoid expensive moderation. They can also distance themselves from the consequences of the use of the platform they designed and provide. We should not let them do either one of those things.

Edit:

To use a non-speech example: This seems to me like someone claiming that we can't do anything about drunk driving because "people need to drive to work." Of course, the statement is true and people do need to drive to work. It simply glosses over all of the many changes we can make to how we let people drive that can crack down on drunk driving. It refuses to engage with the issue by asserting a general principle that, actually, does not present any obstacle to regulation and is unresponsive to the critique.
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Go's GC makes certain compromises that affect the language as a whole; this is not reasonable for d, which is frequently used without GC.

The situation could definitely be improved by a lot; d's GC is just plain bad right now. But looking at other languages' GCs may give a misleading impression because those GCs' designs are not suitable for d.
Ah you're probably right. My mistake, I had left the industry before MIFID II took effect, I was unaware.
I actually subjected myself the the entire 30 minute video of his speech and there’s little else I can say other than that it was embarrassing, bordering on disgusting in its western chauvinism. And I don’t just mean castigation of Chinese government policy: he quite literally said it’s in the worlds best interest for Americans to continue controlling the censorship policies for the entire internet.
They wouldn't need to to remember the rule, they would follow a checklist. And someone else would check that they are following the checklist.
Is it possibly due to a lot of the psychoanalytic language Becker uses? I'm uncertain how psychoanalysis is generally viewed by the presumably relatively young twitter psychologists, but I wouldn't expect it to be in fashion.

The Worm at the Core presents a more modern, evidence-based to TMT, but I don't know if it's widely read.
Postgres does not use O_DIRECT for data (contrasting to the write ahead log / journal, where it can in some configurations), neither when reading, nor when writing. So data will definitely pass through the kernel page cache.

By default we force the kernel's hand about when to write data back to disk from the page cache for a lot of the writes (from the checkpointing process and the background writer, but not by backends themselves - it can be enabled for backends too, and is often beneficial), as disk performance otherwise is quite unpredictable (with long stalls when the OS decides to trigger writeback).

For some workloads, in particular large and high read/write volume databases, it'd be very beneficial to support O_DIRECT for data too, but there's some work on postgres' IO subsystem needed to make that doable without performance regressions in a lot of scenarios.

Even once we add it, it's unlikely to become the default, at least for reads, as using O_DIRECT would require somewhat accurate tuning of postgres. Even for databases without high throughput. Whereas also utilizing the OS page cache doesn't require accurate sizing of shared_buffers etc, and adapts to changing workloads and global resource availability.
I don't think that article supports your statement.

Sure, that policy implies that Gitlab would take China's money if China wanted to be like any other customer. The policy doesn't seem to say whether or not Gitlab would take China's money if that meant censoring their other users.

(Also, that policy was rolled back the next day)
Social media and Bitcoin metrics: which words matter
>In good OO programming, we don’t make class hierarchies in order to satisfy our inner Linnaeus.

This correctly identifies one of the worst problems with how people construct OO programs when they get out of college. They are infected with the idiotic desire to make neat taxonomies. They don't know why. They can't even explain the rules that make one taxonomy good and another one bad. They just feel some immense pressure to arrange things in trees. I've been like that when initially learning Java and it took a while to recover from it. It's like fucking brain damage from bad examples.

Inheritance is not about creating taxonomies.

Namespaces are not about creating taxonomies.

Both are practical solutions to practical problems that occur when writing code.

Inheritance is a result of several insights:

1. It's convenient to be able to sketch out a protocol which a set of objects will follow - without having to work out every damn detail about its implementation.

2. Most of the protocol can be implemented once and then reused.

3. Often you want to use the default protocol implementation with some changes. Instead of re-implementing the rest of the protocol, it's highly convenient to be able to specify only the differences.

#3 is the core reason why inheritance was developed.
No need to wait, KDE's Plasma already does an excellent work embarrassing them.
> His friend bailed him out the next morning, but at the bond hearing, the judge granted the $500, minus court fees, to the hospital.

I know it's not the subject of this, but this sounds like it's probably illegal? He's seizing money that was supposed to be returned to someone other than the defendant.
Zuck gets it just fine, he's following the money. If you think a guy running a multi-billion dollar company doesn't understand something basic it is more than likely that you are simply not understanding him.

What else is he going to do? Do the right thing and shut Facebook down starting a year before any election?
Nothing, but that's how it works today. I could show anyone my feed and they could see my friends activity. Same with my web browser, plugins, anything happening to be running in my OS that can capture screenshots, people looking over my shoulder... I'd argue that those are even greater risks as people I know are most likely more sensitive to the information I publish than 3rd party businesses that are scraping data in aggregate for ad targeting purposes.

There will always be the analog hole and many a user experience have been degraded in the quixotic attempt to close it.
I’ve also learned a lot in my degrees, and greatly enjoyed my time in the university. However, I’ve only ever needed a tiny fraction of what I learned there in my jobs at Google and Facebook.
Try discovering a project/package on GitLab vs GitHub. They really need to add proper search / explore mechanism.
The CEO's been removed from his (previously simultaneous) chairman role, though he remains as CEO:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-ceo/boeing-board-s...

That's a possible sign of spine, though a rather weak one.
Not at all that simple. There are many things involved in music composition and production beyond chords and melodies. Instrumentation, orchestration, tone and timbre of instruments/synths, mixing/mastering techniques, vocal timbre and range, form, and that's not exhaustive.
To me this underscores how the same medium can be used in a wide variety of ways. The medium is not destiny. Saying that each medium occupies a single point on a scale didn't make much sense when McLuhan did it and still doesn't work very well.

In particular, I find the idea that audio requires less interpretation than text to be counterintuitive, considering how often song lyrics are misheard. Sound is often played at a low volume as background. Transcripts or subtitles are often needed to find out what people really said.

But perhaps this is just my poor hearing? It's a good point that it depends on the audience.
But not in Sweden since we no longer have the capacity to generate electricity for our industry.

https://www.di.se/nyheter/elbrist-hindrar-pagens-expansion-n...
1) the GDPR is European and has a huge effect in changing policies for internet giants

2) are you defending the government currently imprisoning millions of people in indoctrination camps just because they believe in something?
"I suspect you could use two in one car for all-wheel drive and more power"

Sure, I imagine that's super simple.
But do these 'analytically' orbit? I reckon such a proof must be quite intricate? Are there proofs for each of those families?
Sounds like they're just trying to get more people through the meat grinder. Unpopular opinion on HN, but if I'm really honest, I didn't learn much about my chosen profession (embedded software development) at college and felt it was mostly a waste of four years. It was all about jumping through the right hoops, getting the credential so I could pass through the Career Gatekeepers.

Half of the software engineering curriculum was too abstract and math-y, and not practical enough. The other half that actually focused on programming were way below my existing programming skill level at the time. I'm trying not to make it a humblebrag, but there were about 3-4 of us who were self-taught and already knew a few languages, who slept through the classes and got straight As and the rest struggled to get hello_world.c to even compile before getting their D and moving on to major in Business. There were some neat software-related electives like compiler construction and one or two cool labs (build a computer from a 68000 and some wires) but they were the exception.

The required electives and diversity indoctrination classes that were supposed to make me well rounded (or whatever) were a waste of time. Nobody took them seriously. I never got into the greek life or into college sports. So most of it felt like high school minus the wood shop boneheads. "Get this game's level over with, with minimal pain, so I can move on to the next level."

Only later did I find out that all of work life is about grinding through the level so you can pass a career gatekeeper and get to the next level. So at least college prepared me with that skill.
The concrete point in the above is that that employees vested with stock would rebel. But of the employees weren't so vested yes Zuvk could go do that. I would rather he did to teach people this multi class stock business is silly.
“Whatever Mark says, Sheryl is inclined to agree”
I am not so sure anymore where I read it. This is interesting:

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-January/03...

It refers to this, I guess.
http://www.paulgraham.com/lispfaq1.html?viewfullsite=1

"If you look at these languages in order, Java, Perl, Python, you notice an interesting pattern. At least, you notice this pattern if you are a Lisp hacker. Each one is progressively more like Lisp."

This is the basic thought. Turns out PG wrote it more explicitly than ESR.
Pyro is pretty wonky too. Something like Gen, which is still a big research project, has a lot of hope for the sort of universal behaviour you're describing.

In practice, so many ordinary programs in ordinary languages use heap-allocated lists with runtime-specified lifetimes as intermediate values and return values. That sounds wonky, but I'm saying there's a lot of "businessLogic(X) -> variable length, nondeterministic on X length List of Y" functions, which is ill suited for PPL modeling. On the other hand, neural networks, which really work on binary images of inputs and outputs, handle those situations surprisingly well. That's what you're really competing with.
This notebook sharing website look nice. Why we haven't seen this before?
They came to LA to chase a Hollywood dream. Two weeks later, they were homeless
I’m proud parent, and I want my child to get all the opportunities

Every parent believes this, and so here we are. It was in your power to opt out but you chose not to.
This is laughable; as well say "you could have an independent ruler".
My comment was supposed to be a joke about the vernacular in which OO tends to get presented.
> Unfortunately they have no options that are comfortable for me.

Unless you're literally over seven free tall, surely you can fit in something like a Toyota Land Cruiser or Hilux? Those cars are enormous.
Much of the evidence supporting TMT shows things such as people behaving significantly differently when even subtly primed with thoughts of their mortality, such as driving past a graveyard.

At the end of the day it's always going to be a theory within which that evidence finds its explanation, but it's perhaps more compelling than the alternatives.
LegalTech hits $1B investment as lawyers embrace automation
The New Yorker slamming the printing press and the idea of the inevitable march of progress was a bit of a surprise. Who's the "neo-reactionary" now?
I ran a search and it looks like there hasn't been much HN discussion of legal tech since 2015 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10765654), but it seems like there has been a big push of funding into the space. But it's still way shy of FinTech funding, for example. I'm curious where this community thinks things might be heading given the ~4 years since the last discussion has seen such a large funding increase

Also: https://abovethelaw.com/2019/09/at-1-1-billion-its-already-a... (arguing "Will this investment trend continue? At this point, there is no turning back.")

https://www.forbes.com/sites/valentinpivovarov/2019/01/15/le...

(713% Growth: Legal Tech Set An Investment Record In 2018)

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bloomberg-law-analysis/analysi... (ANALYSIS: Legal Tech Investments Top $400M in Q1)
Shigeru Ban Is Changing the Priorities of Architecture
Here, I'll paste the quote that substantiates this entire story--
Vincent Pang (Huawei):
“There are some companies talking to us, but it would take a long journey to really finalize everything... they have shown interest."
> Pre-fetching may be interesting if the first SQL query using prefetched data picks a small set of data stored on a disk plate here, then another one stored far away (distant cylinder), then back, then again far away, and so on... On a mechanical HDD the implied head movements may considerably slow this first query down.

That's extremely common for index based accesses. Which in turn are a large fraction of queries in most use cases.

> If I'm right pg_prewarm if not adequate with a SSD storage device,

For SSDs random accesses and small accesses are still substantially slower than bulk reading data into memory.
> The hatchery fish were weaker

Maybe this time... normally is the opposite
We are being attacked with foreign propaganda by our long-term enemies. They are succeeding in destroying our position on the world stage. It's not something that can be turned a blind eye to under the guise of free speech (which it isn't).
> The reason we don't have it in the US, from what I've heard, is because it doesn't meet our safety standards.

These are decently common in Europe so it's relatively doubtful that there are significant safety concerns.
If you google "earthquake-proof bed" you'll find at least one way to avoid getting crushed by (a typical) falling roof.
1) and that’s a great thing. watch the video and you’ll see it begins with the claim that “no one wants to live in a world where tech companies control what you can say” and ends with “but we should keep doing exactly what we’re doing”. GDPR would never pass here partially because interests like Zuck’s don’t want it to.

2) quite explicitly I am NOT saying that. What I’m saying is that neither the government that disappears protestors NOR the government running concentration camps in the open NOR the government outright banning climate protests should be deciding what qualifies as dangerous to say.

EDIT on 2) just because I’m critical of the claim that the west and America specifically has any moral high ground here doesn’t mean in any way that I condone human rights violations by China. I think that’s an unreasonable implication.
Why is your presence compelled in court?
Mark Zuckerberg has defended Facebook’s decision to let politicians lie in ads
I probably wouldn't have got into the university I did or have the career I have if it weren't for SATs. And no, I didn't have wealthy parents who could afford test prep courses. My prep consisted self-directed study using off-the-shelf test prep material.

As a way to discover scholastic talent in populations that is otherwise invisible, it does a good job. If the goal is to discover "talent" that somehow is impervious to measurement of any kind, of course testing is bad at that. But then again the premise seems suspicious.
Depending on your job, i think people confuse the true idea of what a college education is meant to be.

It is not a trade, nor is it career-prepping with the exception of a handful of programs (engineering, nursing, accounting).

So in your case, depending on your field, your education was designed to give you a basic understanding of the fundamentals that you will need and the critical thinking skills that will allow you to alter those fundamentals into something workable for the project you’re doing at Google or Facebook.

Edit: I once spoke to a MechE graduate from MIT. They held internships at one of the Big Three automakers. During our conversation, I asked explicitly: what do they teach you at school? engine design? safety harness mechanisms?

They said, “No. They teach us the foundations of engineering.”

You could ask the same to a law school student. Do they teach you the law?

No, they don’t. They explain the law to you and encourage you to apply the law under your own discretion. They do not give you simple A, B, C answers to a case. The example of “John murdered Steve, but Steve was a slave and John had a contract of borrowing Steve. Is John responsible for Steve’s death or is Steve considered property under federal statue — as he’s a slave — and therefore would not be protected by standard of care?”

As you can see, no true education gives you direct cause-and-effect answers, unless specifically those mentioned in my above paragraph.
> They are using it as an excuse to protect the spread of disinformation.

I really don't think so. They want usage, period. They don't want to actively spread disinformation. They probably find that editorializing and censoring information annoys users. There's been no proof whatsoever that Russia had any impact via FB on the 2016 election. Most people know this and reject larger narratives that push centralized manipulation of freely publishable information.
How to Accept Being Misunderstood
the insurers would probably play a significant role here - if insurance rates jump then the plane's profitability and thus airlines' usage of it may be affected.
> Even the EPA is more concerned with protecting the affluent neighborhoods than Flint Michigan.

And from this your conclusion is to put lead back into gasoline.

> The government has proven time and again that it can’t be trusted to do anything fairly.

...therefore we shouldn't worry about monopolies, and do nothing about corporate abuses? If you're going to say "vote with your wallet", let me remind you this is known not to work [1].

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/22/repost-the-non-liberta... especially point 2.3.1. But you'd probably benefit from reading all of it.
> Today I spent the day creating the EPUB’s XML and XHTML by hand, instead of using a generator.

Not everyone’s ideal use of a day, especially when the work is already done and the drop in file size helps (almost) no one.
Saying this is pretty ironic for salmons, they have a "stronger DNA" than wild fishes in several aspects
As opposed to petroleum?
Node.js Server Starter with Koa and TypeScript
Are you not beginning to struggle with the contradictions of yours? Laws against defamation are exactly intended to prevent the spread of false ideas. Why not remove them, and let the plebeians figure things out themselves?
BSD is mostly overcautious about security that leaves it behind others hardwarewise and softwarewise. For some people that is ok, (who has old but enough hardware or needs to run good enough and settled down software) for others this might be a deal breaker like this case apparently.
Pop quiz:

when sampling a a random amount of people on the street, how many would be able to turn off Google Assistant on their phone in 5 minutes?
US proposed helping North Korea build tourist area amid nuclear talks: report
All governments push propaganda. Russia's miniscule ad spend on FB had no measurable effect (please provide proof if you think this is wrong).

Clinton and Trump spent many order of magnitude more on political advertising than any foreign nation and even that didn't assure their win. People aren't mindless robots, they vote for who they want to vote for.
The "fixed with bureaucracy" thing is entertaining, but it's probably a delusion that the fix is effective.

For one thing, this rule is not intuitive and people aren't likely to remember it. People have an easier time remembering and following rules whose reasoning clicks with them. It's not a recipe for success to say, "Oh, there's this one weird thing that you can't do, and it isn't going to make sense to you why, but remember not to do it."

I also wonder whether, even if someone in the industry does know the rule and really wants to follow it, there's an easy method to know whether their train has 256 axles. Is there a procedure in which axles are counted or an automated system that does it? If it's a manual procedure, is it time-consuming and is there pressure to skip that step when you're in a rush?

And, if a fallible human being should make a mistake and run a train with 256 axles, is there any protection against the phantom, undetected train scenario, or is it a silent failure?