skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this question essentially boils down to: "why do people commit crimes" and that's not something that has one easy answer
I do this too, and am surprised not to see more recommendations for it. It's simpler than a traditional full system backup, lessens security risks like copying credentials into a backup, and IMO keeps things better organized as well. I know Dropbox or git repos are just syncing the files I care about, in a way that I want them organized and can browse on a web interface, on mobile, sync to another device even if it doesn't have all the same software installed, etc. Whereas with a full system backup, there's not always a clear line between system configuration and data files, so depending what apps you're using the data that you're backing up might only be able to be accessed again on an exact copy of the machine running all the same versions of the same apps, which is often not what I actually want.
The Deadly Consequences of Rounding Errors
You can also use Reader Mode on Safari, which not only avoids the modals and popups but gets rid of the top and bottom bars as well. Long-click on the Reader Mode button and you can set it to always use it on medium.com.
> That's the thing, there is NO transition point. There's just two of you. SO, if there are two of your consciousness with the same thoughts, experiences, and the whole shabang up until the second one is made and the first dies, does it even matter that it's not the original?

Externally, no. But it matters to me, the original.

> I would argue no. Because for you, your consciousness, it's as if you are still the same person.

Yes, for the copy, it is as if they are the original.

> The first doesn't matter, because it's just turned off.

What if the copy is made non-destructively?

> But you still exist.

A version of you still exists.

> Unless you're arguing for a 'soul', there is no difference between the two consciousnesses. Therefore, you are still alive.

The causal chain of events matters. If a copy of your consciousness is made, it can be done without you ever knowing about it.
So by design, the rocket motor is going to be active, and pointing at something he doesn't control?
If you want secure your top choices, in my opinion, are Signal and Wire -- and I like Wire better because I can sign up with a burner account or seemingly random alias on my ProtonMail account.

But don't just take my word for it -- here's a good place to start your own research:
https://www.securemessagingapps.com/
HN is typically responsive to jokes that are on topic, technical in nature, and/or make a good point. Rickrolling is none of those. As an example this joke [0] I made is currently at 6 upvotes despite being burried pretty deep, I can't see how many upvotes the joke it is a reply to has, but it is clearly highly upvoted (it probably has many more upvotes than my reply).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21411080
Super cool guys. Congrats on the launch. You're touching on a big pain. Will most definitely give it a try within our upcoming re-design of our app. [1]

By the way, if you're a remote team, I'm happy to talk with you guys and get in touch [2], love what you built. Sick landing page.

[1] https://standups.io

[2] jp at standups.io
There is no “your consciousness” as an identity across the two copies. So you fork a process and you kill one of the processes. That process experiences death. Likewise one copy experiences death. Does it matter? Depending on your objectives. If it’s to achieve some sort of world domination through pseudo-immortality, probably not, since your copy will execute faithfully as you. But your perception, the body unit you’re in, will most definitely see an end. It won’t ‘jump’ into the other medium. This you will die. That you will live.
There is probably no shortcut to that skill. Try to find speaking opportunities on topics you know about, e.g. at meetups. It is better to start in front of a smaller group (10 people), from my experience nervosity is lower when in front of a smaller group. Record your talk and listen to it afterwards in detail and find things you want to improve. Don't hesitate to ask for feedback from others, and don't take it too personel. Try to be objective like you would train for a sports challenge.

Every public talk will improve your skillset a bit, so you need to just do it!
Most zombies appear to have much less than a fully functional brain.
Perhaps by using homomorphic encryption?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption
It's definitely been discussed for a while. Recent takes on it include a really interesting Outer Limits episode and the recent Netflix show Living with Yourself.

This is easy to say if you're not the one dying. If you know a perfect clone of your current self is going to live from this point forward, are you still comfortable with being killed?
I had a similar experience in Honolulu. AirBnB with baby German cockroaches.

I was not happy but at some point reality has to set in. Cockroaches are somewhat normal in tropical zones. I Googled around and found several tourists advising others that cockroaches are a reality in these locations. Even proper hotels had quite a few reviews involving cockroaches.
I don’t think I endorsed Airbnb as much as just tried to relate my experiences. In both cases I was traveling alone or sans kids and didn’t give either situation much thought. That said we’ve had many delightful experiences and have come to get to know real people who are sharing their homes. At the same time I don’t buy the story that Airbnb is going to upend the industry. Hotel chains have gotten pretty good about adding properties with suites / extra room at reasonable prices. So I tend to see Airbnb as filling a property category rather than a industry disruptor. I wouldn’t be surprised to see them start to book traditional hotel properties as more and more communities and hoa’s regulate the home sharing business. I can also see where they might branch into fractional ownership for customers that need to live in multiple cities and don’t want to have to lease/own a property they aren’t going to use full time. Right now both cases can be achieved with some workarounds but I can see maybe a class/designation within the system emerging over time. But as I read through the comments the real issue is trust and I would agree that there’s probably more work to be done there - I’ve seen recently a new category for homes that have been verified... so all in all I’m not ready to dismiss the platform but I would agree there are some issues.
This is nowhere near market moving information.
Is the problem with finding the Gödel sentence, or with proving it?

I believe the issue is the proving it.

For a sentence to be a Gödel sentence of something, that something, I think, should be a formal system, a set of inference rules and axioms. While there may generally not be much issue in talking about "the Gödel sentence of [a process/thing that uses such a system]" to refer to the Gödel sentence of the system that the thing uses, in this case, I think there is no issue.
Finding the Gödel sentence of a system is, iirc, a fairly straightforward computational process, given a good description of the system.

So, it should be no difficulty to have a program that takes its definition of a system, and checks proofs in that system / looks for proofs in that system, and also computes the Gödel sentence of that system.

Furthermore, I think (but am slightly less sure, though still fairly sure) that consistent and sound systems can prove things like "if the system [description of self goes here] can prove [Gödel sentence of the system], then it is not consistent." .

Furthermore, I see nothing establishing that humans can do any better than computers in this regard.

Be careful when using the Gödel incompleteness theorems as justifications of positions! They are often misinterpreted.
The reason why Go is successful is because it's a very, very opinionated language, and for the most part its users agree with those opinions. And the opinions that they don't agree with don't detract as much as the opinions that they like.

By being highly opinionated and predictable, it makes it easier to digest. I especially like the reformatting capabilities so everyone's code looks the same. The more people program the same, the more predictably the code behaves and the less overall problems.
Also I think that Go didn't come out of nowhere. It is closely related to past languages that were used in production and research, like C or Limbo.

Of course Dart adopts a lot of concepts people love from other languages. But to me it feels really artificial and disconnected from what developers successfully used in the past. It maybe worked in the 70s that people came up with a completely new language and people used it because there was nothing else.
>I find it a very mediocre language
>...
>What is lost for want of features and abstractions, is gained in human resource.

I cannot agree more, and I am writing Go for living too. Thank you very much for expressing it so accurately.
Actually it doesn't. It receives the damage when oxygen returns and cells have to switch rom anaerobic to aerobic metabolism again, don't they?
Practice it as much as possible, I stutter and developed selective mutism because of it. Speaking used to agonising to me but in my mid twenties I got cured of my stutter. Don't know how it happened, but one day I realised I hadn't stuttered in months while before I was anxious everytime I had to open my mouth. Now I have a bigger vocabulary than most, in part thanks to my avoidance strategies around certain words.
These claims are not credible. Publish your analysis techniques & results.
Languages are only good or bad in the context of performing a task. Ranking them in abstract is a silly waste of time that engineers love to emotionally engage in.

The ABI is also important for performance! You aren’t making this comparison in good faith. You can easily acknowledge the entire trade off rather than just calling one better.
I personally wouldn't say you "had it coming" or "deserved it", but there is an extremely high likelihood that a person attuned to cat behavior observing your interactions with this particular cat would not being surprised by the reaction.
Umm.. That's some fun tale.

Highwinds - a software company that sold usenet server. 1995 or so. Really high performance one. Later went into usenet hosting.

Choopa - a hosting company that started as a porn DVD ripper. When you provide lots of porn, you get lots of connectivity. At which point someone goes "Why don't we sell the excess? We already paying for it" Sounds familiar?

LeaseWeb - a really old hosting company. Predates Amazon.
China's state telecoms to launch 5G services on Friday
Is Top Gear Misrepresenting 2019 Tesla Model S, Using Results from 2017?
How many people actually worry about these spy agencies? If a state actor wants you or your information they'll just pull up in a black van and take you and use a $5 wrench to beat it out of you.
> Given this drawback, dependency injection still seems like the better trade-off to me, despite of its higher amount of required boilerplate. Perhaps it is possible to bring some of the explicitness to the dynamic scoping approach, though.

There's a difference between a program that's industrial-strength versus a toy project.

Any program that's industrial strength will require effort in strengthening, irregardless of the pattern chosen.

(Honestly, I really wish dependency injection was a language feature.)
The Honest Ads Act
A solution to this problem, which seems common to many large platform companies, could be third-party verification.

A trusted third-party could subject hosts and guests according to a more stringent vetting process. It could even scan listings for guests eager to book in the same way Fakespot, et al., do for Amazon product listings. [0]

For those interested in online trust in marketplaces, I recommend Planet Money's episode on the subject. [1]

[0] https://www.fakespot.com/

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/06/27/623990036/epis...
I try not to be too paranoid a person, but whenever I get into and leave an AirBnB (or rental car for that matter) I walk through and take a video of everything using my phone. Takes a minute, I've never needed it, but it may save my ass some day.
It's only a matter of time until Facebook and Twitter are regulated or partly under state control. The battle isn't between Wal Street and silicon valley it's the existing political structure attempting to rein in but benefit from them.
I believe it accepts anything. I used test@example.com with example.
You pay attention to what you install, and take advantage of things like unlocking/rooting to remove apps or use a firewall app to limit access of other apps.
crossposted / post-posted with several others :)

There is a transition point - at least for b.

a gets to the transition point and dies. b "awakes" with a's memories.

So: you are a ... > [transition] ... you are ?

How do you know you (formerly a) become b at that point? Certainly from b's perspective that is the case - but from former a's perspective? Which do you "switch to"? Death or b?

You need to consider 3 perspectives:

a
then after the transition:

b (live a)

c (dead a)

If you don't want to consider dead a, then consider this: what if the experiment went wrong?

a isn't killed in the process, but a copy of their consciousness is loaded into b.

Same situation as before, but both a and b think they are former a.

Which are you (formerly a) in that circumstance? Why?

I would argue a has a strong case to be considered the correct version - which means you die in the first case.
There's a recent open PR adding compression support: https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2441
> If you don't mind, does it give you a /64 subnet? And do you know if you can get a larger subnet?

It does give you a /64. I don’t know whether it’s possible to get a larger one.
I'm betting that if pedestrians think they are safer, they will interrupt the flow of traffic much more often, which will impact throughput.
The Sandwich Generation: The Group You Didn’t Realize You Belonged To
> How would this be possible?

Anecdotally, from a friend at WhatsApp, their engineering has been distracted by integration with Facebook. Holes that would have been patched in an independent WhatsApp may have been left to fester in the-now Facebookdivision.
Any evidence to your words ? Or this is just a lie you made up to spread your FUD ?
Approx 20 months ago, numerous people I had contact with working in western military special operations units dropped WhatsApp in a fairly brief period of time.
Say for an example, I am using PostgreSQL 12 + CitusDB extension

Data cleaning -> PL/SQL and various inbuilt functions for the transformation of data (or new UDF if required at all)

Processing -> PostgreSQL Parallel processing on the local node and Citus DB extension for distributed computing and sharding

Analytics -> Many options here. Materialized views OR Triggers OR Streaming computation with PipelineDB extension OR Using Logical replication for stream computation

ML -> PG support variety of statistics functions. It also supports PL/R and PL/Python extension to interface with ML libraries.

Also, there are various kinds of Foreign Data Wrappers supported by PG - https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Foreign_data_wrappers
Static Typing in Ruby with a Side of Sorbet
Salt is definitely more complex than Ansible. Ansible wins the simplicity battle by a mile - for small or low-maintenance setups, I'd go with Ansible. Salt is way less complex than Puppet or Chef, though.

However, once you have a decent number of things to manage, Salt becomes worth the initial setup cost, IMO. The hardest part about it is just learning the concepts - the difference between "states", "grains", and "pillars" is unintuitive, for example (states are what describe your system, grains are k:v data that lives on the minion, pillar data is k:v data that lives on the master), and it's not initially clear how states differ from modules (modules are "functions" that run, states wrap modules in a declarative syntax). Once it clicks, though, you have a seriously powerful tool at your disposal.
> Their day shift CSRs actually seemed to care about the problem. But their night shift appears to be an overseas call center, and they treated me like shit.

This was my experience as well. Called in the evening about the listing not being described. The CSR was pretty useless. Called the next morning and got someone from California who was far more helpful.
TLDR the listings are fake.

You book a nice house and they'll tell you a problem came up, but they offer to switch to a different one. The alternative house is cheap and run down, it's their real property though. When you switch and stay one night at the alternative, you can't get a full refund. Because so many bail out and leave, expecting to be refunded, they can make it available to rent again immediately. You're also pressured into not leaving negative reviews, so the cycle continues.
I have had cats my entire life (well maybe if I add up all of the time without cats for various reasons it would add to a year... but close enough).

I can't tell you how often I will go to a friends place and they tell me the cat hates people, and half an hour later they are in my lap sleeping, or laying next to me.

A lot of people misunderstand how to act around cats. I see people chase them around the house, jump right at them with all this energy, and then get upset when they jump away that the cat is "mean". No... the cat just clearly does not like what you are doing to them.

In my experience, you have to be slow. Let them come to you if they want, but don't force it. Every cat is different though, and you can't treat them all the same.

Have I met truly indifferent cats, of course. They exist and I will never deny that they do. How much of that is based on people not knowing how to properly socialize them as kittens is an open question for me though.
Cruise missiles don't "land" and they don't care about passenger safety :)
Good bye drone laws!! 250g is the limit before you need a license in Canada!
Thanks for sharing your opinion and being open about your bias and reasoning. Thanks also for pointing out the power asymmetry, as this seems to be often left out from the equation and is IMHO a key point.

I think we can analyze the same problem from many different points of view and depth, but ultimately for me it boils down to it being immoral for some groups of people to prevent other groups of people from attaining a status of equal --it implies superiority.

If the moral solution (embracing self-determination) poses an existential threat to a country (Spain in this case), I think the sensible thing to do is to explore possible solutions such as a gradual application of this right that allows everyone to adjust.

Anything else is just asserting the immoral superiority of a group of people over another, and if this legitimized as an existential need, this only strengthens the argument that independence is also an existential need. Because both sides could pull the argument of of "as with all complex problems, there are trade-offs to be made, one can't aim for absolute democracy at the expense of everything else, we should be careful with absolutes because they are not realistic" to justify any mains of attaining their goal. I think this is a very dangerous and destructive point of view.

And to clarify, I didn't mean to pontify about what's moral and what isn't. This is just my point of view, though I do think it's fair.
I'd disagree. I don't know the policies of this specific store, but most merchants have policies against their own security trying to apprehend someone or calling the police while they're still on the premises to avoid the possible damage and bad experiences for their customers. Before I'd say they're more of a victim than Mr Lech, I'd at least want to know what they did to stop him.
https://twitter.com/alialsalim/status/1189884241523412993

"Watch Softbank chief Masayoshi Son fall asleep during a panel at the Future Investment Initiative in Saudi yesterday..."
I see a lot of comments downplaying this achievement, saying it's not impressive or it won't be impressive until X condition is met.

I welcome skepticism and criticism for this sort of thing, and think most of it that I've seen here is well founded. But I would like to take a second to explain why I think this, and really all the progress in this area, is actually a really impressive achievement to me.

Let me try and frame this from the computers perspective. Let's assume a resolution of 1024x780. I'm not sure what size frames they actually feed their agent but it's not that important to the discussion, the point is it's a big image, and according to the article this agent is learning from pixels. So, you the computer are given let's say 1024*780 = 798720 numbers to look at. You then choose a number between 0 and 798720 (or the crazy 10^26 number the article gives as the possible number of actions at each frame) as your action for that frame, and then you get another 798720 numbers to look at. After the round is over (on average 20 minutes, if you make a decision every frame that's 20x60x60 = 72000 rounds). You get one number telling you how well you did. You repeat the process and get a new number. It's higher this time! But what is the cause? was it that click you made on frame 22456? or maybe that unlikely move you made on frame 4567?

Obviously I'm oversimplifying here, and the numbers are probably wrong. but I still think what I've said gives the right idea for what kind of task we (as a society/community/whatever) have somehow gotten a computer to solve. Computers are DUMB, the fact that it's able to play this game at all, let alone at a high level, is still a minor miracle to me.
Oh well, if men can suck it up and deal with it then women can too I suppose.
Locales in C are an example of this.

https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02...

> The locale (via setlocale()) is global state, and global state is not a reasonable way to do anything.

> It will break libraries, or well modularized code.

> (The latter would be forced to strictly guard all entrypoints set set/restore locales, assuming a single threaded world.)

> On top of that, setting a locale randomly changes the semantics of a bunch of standard functions.

> If a function respects locale, you suddenly can't rely on it to behave the same on all systems.
No, you don't. That's on your roommate.
I've learned a lot by watching keynote speakers, or TED talks. The delivery of some of the speakers is exceptional on how they tie an idea together.
One example could be PipelineDB extension for PostgreSQL

http://docs.pipelinedb.com/introduction.html
This is my experience 100%. Blatant lies, told confidently, are far more convincing than the truth with a source.
So you're saying "typical intelligence analyst stuff" is the reasoning here?

Generally analysts produce questions which operations runs down to figure out if what they think is going on, is actually going on.

Correct me if I'm wrong here but you're basically saying that you have done the first part and found some suspicious links but not the second part do develop actual evidence one way or the other, is that a fair assessment?
No one made him get the trademark for we and then try to sell it back to the company. That's not justifying the amount of money they had. No one made him get control through the super-powered voting shares and control of the board. No made him sell the $700 odd million he did, well before the crash to make sure he got something out of it.