skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He addresses this sort of question in the intro:

> So it is that Christianity has taught the Christian to think dauntlessly of everything earthly and worldly, including death. It is almost as though the Christian must be puffed up because of this proud elevation above everything men commonly call misfortune, above that which men commonly call the greatest evil. But then in turn Christianity has discovered an evil which man as such does not know of; this misery is the sickness unto death. What the natural man considers horrible -- when he has in this wise enumerated everything and knows nothing more he can mention, this for the Christian is like a jest. Such is the relation between the natural man and the Christian; it is like the relation between a child and a man: what the child shudders at, the man regards as nothing. The child does not know what the dreadful is; this the man knows, and he shudders at it. The child’s imperfection consists, first of all, in not knowing what the dreadful is; and then again, as an implication of this, in shuddering at that which is not dreadful. And so it is also with the natural man, he is ignorant of what the dreadful truly is, yet he is not thereby exempted from shuddering; no, he shudders at that which is not the dreadful: he does not know the true God, but this is not the whole of it, he worships an idol as God.

> Only the Christian knows what is meant by the sickness unto death. He acquires as a Christian a courage which the natural man does not know -- this courage he acquires by learning fear for the still more dreadful. Such is the way a man always acquires courage; when one fears a greater danger, it is as though the other did not exist. But the dreadful thing the Christian learned to know is "the sickness unto death."

It's not just about not fearing death, it's about not fearing death because you fear something much worse.
There are some programs that do this: https://github.com/systemd/casync . See the readme for similar tools.
You say "expected/supposed to" a number of times here without ever giving a reason or mentioning what tradeoffs are involved. Who cares about the testing pyramid? Theories of software development are as ubiquitous as blog posts. Which is right and why and when?
My favorite example is that time Kanye shared a screenshot on Twitter and didn't crop out his Pirate Bay tabs for pirating Deadmau5's music software, Serum.

https://twitter.com/deadmau5/status/704876167157907456?s=20
over $1000 lost is still greater value?
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/506466/given-tablets-but-... here's a link to the story that you mention about the kids teaching themselves and hacking the computer. It's an amazing story.
Aren’t they pretty much the same thing? It’s just the bodies they are attached to are different. I suppose anybody could theoretically be offended by anything.
I'm not sure what you're arguing for. The faster the population falls, the harder the problem is to solve. Whether it's political or not.
What's GP supposed to do, never walk around the apartment? Avoid the living room entirely?
I have massive distrust in companies headquartered in China. No company of TikTok's (purported) scale w.r.t revenue/valuation is going to be divorced from the influence if not ownership by the CCP.

I would not invest in the Chinese government, and therefore would not invest in a large Chinese company since they are two sides of the same coin. Not only out of morality, but because I don't want to expose myself to financial risk by betting on a communist government/dictatorship not to fuck me.
I don't have one and don't expect one.

Pensions, like infinite population growth, aren't sustainable. Most people no longer spend their entire career at a single company, so the concept doesn't even make much sense anymore.

If you're referring to a government pension like social security rather than a company sponsored pension, that can and should be made sustainable, unlike the borrow-from-the-future mess that we have today.
The poster might have meant that heritable psychological tendencies that make one less likely to use birth control will become much more common.
The value of YC as an investor is not the cash they offer but the advice and guidance. As such their influence is disproportionate to their investment.
Building columnar compression in a row-oriented database
>I'm not a doctor, so it's not my place to judge or diagnose anybody for their mental health issues.

Yet that's exactly what you just did.

I suspect that your mental health cop out is nothing but a rationalization for your unfounded biases.
You should not backup directly to Glacier, you should backup to S3 and move from S3 to Glacier by retention policy configured for an S3 bucket.
I agree, but when the people you want to talk to are on WhatsApp already...
GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract
I wouldn't claim that unit tests are completely sufficient; you clearly also need integration tests. But you don't need all of your tests to be integration tests; in fact that would often be needlessly expensive and annoying.
Hopefully someone "disrupts" the events and ticketing industry. Buying a ticket to anything has been hell lately. Terrible UX and 10/20$ of added random fees (Ticketmaster, Live nation, etc ...).

I sadly bet that this is more a business issue than a technical issue.
yeah...I'm 36, married, 2 young kids..taking the family for a vacation over Christmas. This article basically convinced me to book a hotel instead of an AirBNB.

I have not had a bad experience w/ AirBnB when it was just my wife and I travelling, but I can't subject my kids to sleeping overnight in a dump - or supporting a company that does not actively address these issues.
> This idea that for Swift to thrive as a server language it has to win some contest against Go and Rust makes absolutely no sense to me.

That's not the point! It's that engineers have to use Mac machines to develop Swift because they're tied to a development platform. Go and Rust (simply called out as nearest neighbors) do not have this limitation. Even Microsoft has made great progress in making their tools available on other platforms.

It would be foolish to choose Swift for this reason. You're tied to Mac machines until it's been proven other platforms will have full support. It's a real handicap for Swift as a language and platform for anything beyond writing Apple software.
Be worried if they start playing tic tac toe.
Rights group says CIA backs Afghan paramilitaries that execute people
Yeah, the exploit has absolutely nothing at all to do with message encryption. It's just your run-of-the-mill security hole that happens in other software all the time. As such, most of the comments in this thread are completely off base.

What makes it notable is which app it was found in, the reach of that app's userbase, and that a company was selling these exploit services.
I use and like Restic but I wish I could easily have "write only" keys like I do with tarsnap so an intruder can't delete all my backups.

I heard there's a way to have an "append only" backup or something like that. Is it possible to still prune old backups from time to time?
> Using windows/osx will always be more convenient at first.

Or, you know, forever. The number of things the Linux Desktop community is actively hostile to that could make computing life so much simpler is ridiculous. Portable applications? Relative icon paths in .desktop files? A standardized set of base libraries developers can rely on being present? Linux Desktop cares not for such things. If you don't want to do things their way, fuck you, that's their motto. Then they wonder why people keep choosing other OSs.
You know, I actually assumed it had compression. It looks like it will get it eventually though, so I'm not too worried. That said, I can get some benefits by compressing some of my backups myself. For example, I currently backup my postgres dbs with cron jobs like:

$ pg_dump dbname | restic backup --stdin --stdin-filename dbname.dump --tag dbname -q

With restoring as simple as:

$ restic dump latest --tag dbname dbname.dump | psql dbname

I should probably stick a gzip/gunzip between those two commands.
It's alive and kicking on the Texas Instruments DSP chips. You can get incredible performance out of them, but you pay with horrible compile times.

To give you a taste what these chips do:

- 64 registers, 8 execution units, so 8 instruction can execute per cycle. Each instruction executes in a single cycle but may writes back the result later (multiplications do this for example). It's your responsibility to make sure you don't generate a conflict.

- for loops the hardware has a very complicated hardware scheduling mechanism that effectively lets you split the instruction pointer into 8 different pointers, so you can run multiple instances of a loop at the same time.

I wrote assembler code for that. Sudoku is a piece of cake compared to it.
Random cat thoughts:

They are more social at night, solitary during the day.

Three "modes" of hunting, related to three main kinds of prey, each cat can have one, two, or all three:

Pounce/bite-neck: for mice and other ground prey. Some cats will pounce with their paws, but if they're hunting for food they try to get a quick kill by nipping the spine at the neck. I've heard, but I can't verify it, that the cats' tooth lines up with the mice' neck vertebrae just right to snap it instantly, when the pounce is good.

Leap/two-paw-grab: for birds/bats and other flying things (bugs). (Look up the videos of the cat and owl that grew up together...) The cat will try to grab the bird with both paws and then land on it to pin it before bringing the mouth to bear.

Reach-and-pull: For fish. Many cats ignore fish, but the single-paw reach-and-pull maneuver is to hook fish on the claws and yank it out of the water onto the land (thence to pounce/bite.)
I don't really care that natural systems have incredible complexity and capabilities if they aren't understood, optimized, and controlled for our benefit. If we only have a thousand years left, I want to spend those thousand years engineering things for our benefit, not nature's. Perhaps dealing with advanced soil retainers and other natural systems in the next hundred years is a necessary stepping stone, so be it, but I won't pretend like I think it's an ideal vision of the future.
Also relevant:
https://github.com/thrill/thrill

A Spark inspired framework written in modern C++.
One major issue was that the segments overlapped, so two different pointers could actually point to the same address.

> Half the issue with Spectre is that there isn't a clean way to describe to the processor different memory security contexts except with a page table pointer swap.

You don't need segments for that. A flat address space where the 2 MSBs (or however many you need) of a pointer encode the context would also work.
Birth control would go unused. People who crave huge families are going to win out over those who would rather not have huge families.

There probably will be some reproductive organ changes to sometimes defeat some forms of birth control, but mostly this will be brain changes. If people actually want birth control they can invent things faster than we can evolve past them, but if people just want kids then it doesn't matter how effective birth control might be.

Non-voluntary measures are possible, but again the evolutionary winners will be the ones who evade that. If the desire for kids is strong enough, people will bribe their way out of mandatory birth control.
Yes, those might have some impact, but it is clear that the progress is there, with this new APM cap and camera movement etc.

You can also see in replays that the AI often makes mechanical mistakes, missing spells, missing units, even ordering wrong units from outside the screen - so it surely seems that if it's win rate was conditioned in any strong way on its sheer mechanical ability, it would have learned to not make any such mistakes. Since the mistakes are clearly there - it seems that its power comes primarily from somewhere else, likely from the AI ability to choose the right actions, not from mechanical power of executing them perfectly.

Thus it is not likely that "this artificial intelligence is still under significacnt artificial motor skills welfare". They have consulted top players before they set this AI up, and if those details were important, they would have baked them into the limitations list already.
4ch is honestly great. In many ways, it's so much better than reddit:

- No "ego"-moderation. Mods and janitors are invisible, and seem to do their jobs well. Compare with the constant mod drama (years of the stuff) on various subreddits.

- No "retaliation culture" via downvotes. If you really really hate something someone said, the worst thing you can do to them is just ignore it.

- No identity. Posting with a name gets you shamed into being anonymous pretty quick unless you have a very good reason to do so. This means there are no karma/score/image issues, you just say what you think.

Like you mentioned, /fit/ and /g/ are great boards. /p/ is solid too if you're into that sort of thing.
Most Fortran compilers are also C/C++ compilers, so sure.

I've never seen any Fortran code in the wild that does that, though.
The operator is communicating via VHF with ATC. I’m not sure on exactly how the transmissions are handled (via aircraft, or remote radio station?) but the operator is in communication with ATC. If you can find a live ATC feed of Syracuse tower they’re frequently doing touch and go’s there.
SinGAN Explained (ICCV '19 Best Paper)
It's a little eye opening to me that anyone could have a friend group that "universally prefers open source software to good UX".

I have and use Signal with some friends, but there are also loads of people I communicate with who couldn't even tell you what open source software is, let alone articulate a preference for it over good UX.

Are all of your friends software engineers and/or technophiles?
If anything, the comparison I'd make is javascript. Just like Node, it's a nice notion that you can take your client language and use it on a server. Aside from that, does anyone think that javascript is a good language choice for backend development?

Swift has a lot more redeeming aspects than javascript does, but like this post acknowledges, they don't have its package ecosystem.
There will be 2 new emojis soon enough.
I wonder if Spark, compiled with Graal, would produce much better performance (compared to plain Spark), so no need to rewrite.
Glancing and the videos it looks like it was quite full for the opening but the audience had largely drifted away by three hours in. Masayoshi only spoke for about four minutes half way through day two.

I imagine a lot of the attendees figured they were better off networking than watching the discussions.
Open letter to Aaron Sorkin: lies you happen to like aren't necessarily "truth". Everything else in this "open letter" is behind a paywall, so I can't comment on anything but the headline.
The "fertility crash" is only impacting the developed world.

As the article directly states, global population projections are set to grow by another 3 billion. I would call that a fertility explosion, not a crash, but most of that population growth will be happening in the undeveloped and developing world rather than the developed world.
User error or Imgur removal, not positive which. Apologies.
Not necessarily. If they can solve the issues with 3d printing then they can potentially have a cheaper, faster, and more versatile production methodology which can result in faster iterations to solve the issues that they face with the actual launch process.
I know a military contractor working on stuff for non-Nato airforces. These guys use WattsApp for everything. It blew my mind.
"You're doing mishandling of communications wrong. Here, let me show you how to really mishandle communications."
I have been using signal for awhile and I try to convince people to use it, however I'm curious if using signal would have prevented this. It sounds like they got into WhatsApp servers and then did something else to get full access to people's phones.
Fresh produce is sensitive to logistic snags but aren't grains much more robust and thus able to better withstand delays caused by temporary infrastructure failures?
Could you talk about Prefect ? we are in the process of moving from Spark to Dask. I have never heard of prefect. what do you use it for ?
I put a tutorial together for this not too long ago, a very good tool and great when paired with Minio/s3 - https://github.com/alexellis/restic-minio-civo-learn-guide
> Well, as both Americans and Spanish might say, "we had a war to settle that issue." The U.S. have been a republic (what you call a "democracy") for the entirety of their history as a nation, and yet unilateral secession is clearly forbidden.

That's not a fair analogy. If Texas decided, tomorrow, that they wanted to pursue independence, I'm reasonably confident that at no point would the federal government dismiss the state government, arrest their members and throw them in prison. They might say, "We're incapable of having any discussion on the matter until a bill passes the US Congress permitting us to negotiate" or "We'll negotiate, but terms cannot be settled and finally agreed to by us; we will need a constitutional amendment" or "Sure why not". (The US President is, after all, the president of the United States, and so their agreement is tantamount to the consent of the states. Moreover, if US federal power is withdrawn from Texas by the order of the US president, legal or not, such that it takes a revolution to regain it, it's fair to say it's happened, whether it's legal or not.)
>The only way to deal with climate crisis is to lower the population of the planet down to one billion. Possibly without wars and famines.

Who decides who gets depopulated? And how? What if those chosen to be depopulated don't want their population lower? Historically, not many peoples willingly sign up for their own genocide, there is usually significant war.
I'm not sure 20mph is correct. The POH says it's the equivalent of being dropped from 10 feet. It's not something I want to experience but it doesn't really sound that bad.
Ya I noticed that too when I tried to share it. I've been reading through the articles, and even though I am INFP and the author is INTJ, I align very strongly with many of the main points so far.

It's a strange feeling to have (what in my mind is) a very consistent, rational view of reality with all of its beauty and flaws, yet have that considered to be so fringe or even disruptive somehow by society to the point where it is censored.

I actually just posted quite a rant on Facebook about the dangers of censorship and how corporate control can distort the conversation, using links from that site as evidence. It's funny to see the comment count be 6 or whatever and only see 4 comments because the others are blocked. An oversight like that in their code tells me that even Facebook is having a hard time stomaching censorship, so that gives me hope that some enlightenment may come of all this.
It supports PayPal: https://github.com/alfio-event/alf.io/blob/master/src/main/j...

And Revolut's business API: https://github.com/alfio-event/alf.io/blob/master/src/main/j...

So adding new payment methods can't be that difficult
What's your proposed solution?
Nepalese man shatters record for scaling world's highest peaks
Unless you're arguing that Facebook-owned channels are more prone to security bugs, I don't see how this conversation is useful. Let's not forget that whatsapp is end-to-end encrypted by default; they literally brought end-to-end encryption to the masses.
Overloading and variable-length instructions are the two big reasons that I can think of, off the top of my head. That's pushing the limits of my understanding of how decoding and microcode generation work on-silicon, though.
> It's that engineers have to use Mac machines to develop Swift

That is patently untrue.
I've gone 100% Booking.com/Agoda and been really happy with all my bookings, and I've traveled at least 4-6 weeks every year for the last 3 years. I like being able to read 100s of reviews and not just relying on owner provided information.
The only difference is that your final SSL termination would occur on a host that's better placed to handle the load. Literally everything else could be done on-prem e.g. at home.

Realistically this 'oh no I got hammered by HN' case is something that is irrelevant anyway. If you're really worried about it, don't host large image files, sorted. The "old internet" didn't have that stuff anyway because we were all on slow connections, 100KB took 10+ seconds to load on dialup.
At least for RISC-V (I haven't looked at Thumb2), the decoder only has to look at the first byte of any instruction (RISC-V instructions are always little-endian) to know how long the instruction is. For x86, it's much more complicated; the decoder has to read several bytes to find out the length of each instruction, and some of these bytes might or might not be present depending on other preceding bytes.
Van Cleave: Do you feel that Uber acted responsibly?

Anderson: Absolutely not.

Van Cleave: Have you seen a company ask for an NDA from people who've ripped them off before?

Anderson: I can't think of another case that our office has handled that has that dimension to it. This case is extraordinary in that regard.
The FAA has a lot to say about how software gets onto planes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DO-178C
Money is our best proxy for work/effect.

Removing money has been tried in places like Russia. People stop working and if they are forced will not try as hard.

Money has been part since the beginning. To vote you needed to own property which made sense because land owners paid the government in the form of taxes. Personal income taxes came after the war to pay for the war debts.
The concentration of traffic is an interesting element of this.

River transport remains huge. It's already impacted by low water (which railroads love: more rail shipments). Possibly also high water affecting navigability via both current/navigation hazards and low bridge clearances.
And even with limited APM, the response time can still be superhuman. Bit disappointed that they didn't add some human-level latency to the agents' actions.
> What those people really need is to have their opinions challenged by outsiders. That used to happen more on the early internet.

This is your opinion, please don't present it as fact.

Feel free to spend your own time deradicalizing white supremacists, but don't insist that the problem is that normal people aren't being welcoming enough to white supremacists.
Here is another scam that someone tried to pull on me.

I booked a place in Reno a week in advance. On the night before check-in at about 2am I got a text from the host asking me to increase the price of stay by $20. That was small and I did not want the hassle of arguing but just decided to leave it till morning. In the morning I looked at it again on computer (as opposed to the phone) and saw something odd: the dates of stay we crossed and replaced by the exact same dates. Then I saw that weekdays were off. Then it dawned on me that the scammer changed the dates of stay to the next year and added $20 just to distract me.

The scam is simple. The scammer lists the same property twice with ~30% difference in price using slightly different photos and descriptions. The cheaper one goes first. If he books it at the higher price he kicks out the first renters with the "next year booking" scam. Reading reviews made it quite clear.

I reported the scammer to AirBnB, got a refund + $100 but they did not do anything other than $100 fine to the scammer. The crook makes more than that from a single scam. AirBnB just does not care.

Pecunia non olet.