skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You say:

> Literally all the bloodshed and horrors Europe went through in the 20th century were caused by attempts to unite it into a single empire. The bizarre lesson some people see in this is to keep trying

Here is a response to this from [0]:

> Within the zone of integration, there has been no conflict since 1945, making it the longest period of peace on the western European mainland since Pax Romana

So from this there are two possible conclusions:

1) Either empires are good for peace

Or

2) EU is not an empire and it is not trying to be

Regarding:

> Finally, there are no problems to which the solution is empires

First: there are problems which cannot be solved by each state. See global warming for example

Second: The collaboration between countries is not mandatory to be an empire as form.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Europaea

Edit: formatting and adding quote author
A lot of people using PySpark are moving to Dask for significantly faster performance. Dask is also built for kubernetes - which is a huge deployment win.

Spark is still in-between yarn and kubernetes.
If you don't have a pension, I presume you have retirement savings. It's the same pyramid scheme. You're expecting future generations to take care of you when you get old. You're presuming that the 2019 dollars you save now will give you a claim on the resources of 2049.

But if there are no working age people in 2049 then there's nobody to take care of you so your 2019 dollars are worthless.

In other words if demand for caregivers greatly exceeds supply inflation is going to destroy your savings.
I was unable to find one so I guess it's just "easy" for a certain narrow group of people.
I forgot to mention:

> but if you use the right tab width (and many projects mark it inside the files with a hint e.g. Emacs understands so that won't be an issue) - then it becomes a non problem too.

This isn't going to work when you're looking at a diff/patch, emailing an excerpt or otherwise looking at the code outside of a particular editor.
Why should we hold Facebook to a different standard than the postal service? No, you put mail in, they deliver it. What about broadcast TV? You buy the time, they air it.

ninja edit: AOC's big "gotcha" was "can I use facebook to show ads that say that XYZ republican supported the green new deal". Well. Yes. She should. Just like she should using the mail to deliver that message, or broadcast TV. Let the republican respond. Let the republican sue AOC. The carrier of the ad shouldn't be held responsible, that would be on AOC.
Yes, this is not routine autopilot landing, this is "the pilot just had a massive heart attack and the only other people in the plane are a 12-year-old and an armless nun" landing.
If you read the paper, this is exactly what they have done, and this is why this achievement is so interesting.
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Maybe back with AirBnB was just getting started. But not anymore.
What a poorly designed site. Nothing but a spinning circle with Javascript disabled - Firefox reader mode doesn't work, either. Completely unacceptable from a privacy and usability perspective.
This isn't foolproof either, though. I booked a hotel for 2 people in Chicago for an anniversary trip. We arrived to find the hotel had 4 very narrow and short bunkbeds. I checked the booking and it makes no mention of this.

The only reason we think of a hotel booking as being up front is that there is a standard observed across the industry: either 1 king or 2 queens. There's no similar standard for AirBnBs.
AI that ships with games (even the hardest difficulty) are made to be beatable. Of course pros beat them.
The LDPL Programming Language
ok... so should we teach video games in schools? I'm not saying we should ban the use of cursive. I'm saying it doesn't deserve a prominent place in school curriculums.
While I agree, my main point was based on safety. If your primary objective is survival, the idea of grabbing a weapon _and_ moving towards danger is ludicrous (thanks media portrayal).

If you are in a life or death situation it might make sense to arm yourself and encroach, but if someone is breaking in your front door and you have access to an exit you are not yet in a life or death situation. Arm yourself and attempt to flee.

If you don't have homeowners/renters insurance, live alone, value your property over your life, and enjoy high risk life or death situations - then by all means charge on in. Just make sure you don't shoot your friend who you gave a key 8 months ago stumbling in from a night at the bar.
AFAIK that is exactly how restic works. You use `restic forget` to remove the roots (snapshots), then `restic prune` garbage collects unreachable blobs.

ETA: However, nearly all data in restic is encrypted. This includes the index files. So you still need to have the encryption key to look at snapshots and walk their trees.
We have been artificially inflating demand in the West since the end of WWII. Labor for manufacturing has been in decline since the 70’s.

You could easily reduce the resource intensity in the West with some cultural shifts. And the next generation may insist. Without disposable income you want things that last.
If I had to fix a bathroom fixture on my own on a vacation, it would definitely piss me off enough to never use the service again. I'm surprised that you're so nonchalant about it
Thank you...

Everyone seems to be forgetting that this is a 100% opt-in service. Why do we get to say what FB is obligated to do and to what standards they have to keep their website at?
It appears well done, congratulations on the launch. Are you targeting services like Cloudinary?

I'm curious, what's the connection between https://kraken.io/ and this; they seem to be connected, and similar?

I was also taken aback the 3.9bn images processed on your homepage. Then I looked at Kraken's, and its 3.5bn processed, but it launched in 2013? Is it the same image-processing engine, with GPU's?
>Given that Android exploits are far more common than iOS, I would expect they had one of those too.

The Pixel was the only device that was not pwned in the 2017 Mobile Pwn2Own competition - the iPhone, running iOS 11.1, was exploited 4 times via both WiFi and Safari.

I'd be incredinly surprised if NSO were able to compromise an up to date Pixel phone.
I'm currently doing a literature review for a research project closely related to this exact topic. And they say reading HN is a waste of time! ;)

But seriously. This is a great example of what a lot of other research also points to: the growing vulnerability of the US food system to systemic existential risks due to geographic specialization, market consolidation, and decrease in network resilience of local food systems. This is important stuff. Glad to see food systems pop up here.
The earth doesn't have finite resources. Resources are defined by the resourceful.
It's a biological urge for many, which makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint. Sure some don't have it, and some control it, but that's clearly not the majority of our species otherwise we wouldn't be so ubiquitous.
> It's going to be smaller than the normal OoO logic, which means it's a pretty minor tax at best for actual hardware.

But it's a major tax for designing that hardware, and a potential source of bugs (the more complex, the more difficult to debug and verify).
China can't even manufacture military grade jet engines. You think that they'll be able to clone Raptor? I haven't looked at BO's engine tech since there's so much vaporware with them, but is it close to Raptor?
The state actor will have a more difficult time doing that if you are living in a different country. Exploits don't care about borders: https://www.voanews.com/africa/ethiopia-accused-using-spywar...
If I had something like Xavion to help with the approach I would probably choose the dead stick approach but really, how often have any of us ever really dead sticked it? I haven't. We pull the power to idle, but that's not the same as a propeller windmilling. That propeller is a huge brake and we aren't used to it. I for one prefer five nines of survival probability to something much smaller. What are the dead stick survival stats?
I am in the event ticketing business. It currently feels like a new provider appears every other day as the entry bar is very low. The tricky parts start when you realize how diverse event organizers‘ needs actually are.

Nonetheless, as a result there are many user-friendly alternatives to the few big names available nowadays. But it‘s a slow moving market and it will take some more time for them to win the trust of large organizers. I am sure, though, the change _will_ come.
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I mean, a violent purge of non contributing old people would solve this. But barring that, a world without economic growth is grim. Tons of people virtuously declare that it’s ok if society doesn’t get richer but they don’t really understand what that means and how awful that makes societies function.
Much of what NSO Group does is sell to smaller despotic regimes who then use them to spy on dissidents who live abroad and would be quite hard (and embarrassing) to black-bag. Not everyone can send a murder team to Stockholm (or wherever).

Some despotic regimes do have large kidnap-and-murder programs (ex Rwanda) but if you just want to keep tabs on exiled dissidents and learn exactly who they're talking with back home, NSO Group has a product for you.
They could give a range.
Welcome to the world of functional programming!

This is how much memory the garbage collector has freed during the computation. It does not mean REPL actually used that much at any given moment.
Introducing.. Frontend Design as a Service
Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot owner PSA agree £35bn merger
The place is cheaper precisely because it is sketchy as hell and doesn't have to spend to meet any of the requirements and regulations hotels are subject to.

Its only a matter of time before authorities catch on and it isn't so cheap anymore
I'm somewhere in the middle. I enjoy taking photos, especially on trips, but will rarely pull my phone out during an event, and almost never post anything on social media in any case.

One way that has perhaps been personally helpful in moderating the amount of photos taken is that I mostly use a film camera. This has its downsides, but one upside is that you're limited by the amount of film you physically brought, and so you take a single photo of something rather than 20 (which, incidentally also cuts down on the amount of time you spend picking the "perfect one" -- you either got it or you didn't, and that's it).

That being said, as phone cameras have gotten better, I have found myself taking more photos with those devices as well... but perhaps due to habits developed with a film camera, I still manage to find a balance between just looking at what's around me, device in pocket, and taking it out to snap a nice picture here and there.
No, you're correct. I stopped trusting WhatsApp after the Facebook acquisition.
I've been under GA several times, the experience differs pretty drastically actually. When I had my wisdom teeth out it was much like you describe, as though a period of time had simply been excised from my reality. Other times the awakening was so slow that it was like I was slowly piecing reality back together from its base components.
No, the alternative is adaptation.
For those who don’t have a spectrum analyzer, you can test with an inductive amplifier like ones used for tracing cables. Or even an AM radio.
https://youtu.be/Xo232kyTsO0 check out this PBS spacetime explanation for what it means for energy to have mass. It's impossible to convert energy into mass, adding up all the mass inside a composite does not equal the true mass, because energy itself has mass. When we split an atom, we are releasing some of that extra (energy) that was stored as potential energy holding the parts together, not converting energy into matter, just moving states of energy to other types.
It seems that these kinds of demands are becoming more common. Is it because conflict resolution is becoming a dying art, is it because people don't rise to the level of maturity of past times? I just find it to be confusing.

Non PW link:

https://archive.ph/IkYQ3
No, but it is similar.

A smart person with a burning desire to produce offspring will have the greatest advantage. A smart person who dislikes children will have the greatest disadvantage. In between those people are the people who screw up birth control.

If the human population contains a million people with the trait for wanting lots of kids and a billion people who are just dumb about birth control, both will be selected by evolution. Once those traits are the norm, it would likely turn out that wanting kids is the more successful strategy. We could thus see intelligence go both directions, first dropping and then rising.
It’s interesting that it’s not insanely bad. I assumed it would be maybe 2-10X worse but it’s in a similar ballpark.

Would a full on private jet be way worse?

Would these planes carry a fair few people than a car? If so what’s it like taking passenger numbers into account?

I guess super-rich folk probably would be happy to fly just themselves in a big private jet and also be travelling waaaay further than they ever would in a car so it’s probably a silly comparison anyway
Facebook deletes the accounts of NSO Group workers
It doesn't have to be even close to "mainly fraudulent uses". If just 0.01% of users use it for illegal stuff that will get your home network connection shut down, and an exit node sees a thousand different users a month, then it would be unwise to host an exit node at home.
Good for you @charly1811 - keep going!

I suggest adding a silent layer of data aggregation like Clearbit, it will feel like magic to people by removing the pain of manual data entry.

* used to work @clearbit
I agree. I like Nintendo as a brand more than I like Blizzard as a brand. I don't like that I have to buy their hardware, but I do appreciate that they keep producing quality content.

(I do wish they'd left the old Wii online stores open, but that's another issue.)
When I read "design docs that stay up-to-date" I thought you meant system architecture docs that integrate with AWS, Azure, GCP, DBs, etc. I hope someone builds that.
This looks like a great case-study. Basically, it seems that if the licensing isn't in Amazon's favor (take the OSS project, put it into operation, sell it as a service), then Amazon is likely to simply build their own implementation that is API-compatible. It remains unclear whether the ROI for this exists, especially for larger/more complex projects, but the precedent is very discouraging for my idea.
It also doesn't have to be at the level of genes. Countries and religions apply varying levels of restriction on birth control, and make deciding to be a parent more or less desirable. All else equal, the groups that encourage having kids and discourage birth control will grow, and the others will shrink on a relative basis.
I'm not sure that "craving huge families" is a genetic trait.
TypeScript makes a big difference here...
> The fact that someone who is cited as a co-author of the paper

They are not just some random person, they were top SCII players. Who else if not them would know this well enough to make assumptions?

There is a custom interface in the sense that the bot does not read pixels from the screen - it reads the information through the API, same information that is usually presented on a screen. But the amount of information is limited to exactly what a human would see at the same time using the standard SCII interface.
> Because it conflicts with the internal human desire to reproduce

You didn't answer the question. If you can't control your basic instinct it doesn't mean that general population reduction will be a "bad" thing.

Population control doesn't mean anything "inhumane" at all. As one above said, countries with higher levels of education have better control over population growth naturally. That's one of the solutions to explosive overpopulation: EDUCATION!

Overpopulation is a real problem. For the environment, for the climate, and for the future.
The only one there is. The one we're living in.
If they aren't alive to experience it, in what sense does said perspective exist?
I'm sure in our lifetime we will see CRISPR replacing drugs as the panacea to these "biological" issues.
Ok, my apologies. Let's be specific then. Show me please some international authority saying that the sentence was wrong, or that they did the right thing disobeying court orders or with that "declaration of independence" (what the hell was that more than a provocation that they knew could get them in jail?). But, please, do not show me people saying that they want a democratic solution, that they are against police brutality (who isn't?) or that they support the goal for self-determination. That would be changing the goal, it's not a nice tactic.

You show the case of Iceland. They have "expressed concern". That's fine. I'm concerned too. And Scotland asks for a "democratic solution". A democratic solution cannot include breaking the law or ignoring court orders from a democratic country. I think both sides are guilty of not finding a democratic solution, don't you agree? Don't you think that these people refused the democratic solution the moment they decided to ignore the law? And, if you really think Spanish police is worse than the Chinese one, well... you should go there and check by yourself, I sincerely don't know what to say about such statement.

But let's forget for a second about the other comments and, please, answer me one question: what do you want? What should happen now to make you happy (or at least to stop spreading FUD about our country)? Should the government go against the court rule ignoring separation of powers? Should they allow the kids to burn Barcelona? What exactly do you want?
I have this problem as well. I have gotten around it in a few ways:

First, practice what you are going to say RIGOROUSLY. You should be able to recite your full speech / pitch / presentation / whatever with no use of visual aids. Basically, you should memorize it. I always assume that I will be ~20% worse while performing than while practicing, so if I can do the whole presentation without visual aids while practicing then the visual aids will be sufficient to save me if I get in trouble while presenting. Most people rely on their visual aids as a huge crutch during practice, and as a result they forget what they want to say and end up staring at their PowerPoint or notecards during the entire presentation as opposed to engaging with the audience. They come off as nervous and unprepared. Further, using your visual aids as a crutch incentivizes creating verbose slides as an insurance mechanism which is why most PowerPoints you see are shit.

Second, realize that public speaking is fundamentally about telling a story. A good story and a good presentation should share the same elements: they should be amusing and engaging (always work in some humor and audience interactions to engage the audience, many of whom probably don't want to be there and will fall asleep otherwise); they should be concise (don't go on tangents); key take aways should be clearly stated and there shouldn't be a data dump; there should be a natural flow and verbal transitions should be employed as if you were speaking to a friend; etc. Finally, know your audience. What do they care about / want to see? What do they already know? How can they be persuaded or amused?

Third, as other posters have mentioned, the only way to get better at this is to practice. Go find opportunities to practice. It only takes a few good presentations to shake the fear of being a bad presenter / acquire the rep of being a good presenter.

Finally, realize that the stakes are pretty low normally. Most of the presentations I sit through are awful (even those from C suite people who basically present for a living) and most people can't speak or convey information well. As such, I rarely remember when people bomb as bad performance is the norm.
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If you like this, do check out Rex Research. You have to sift through a lot of BS but there's some great stuff buried in it.

http://www.rexresearch.com/index.htm
maybe Lucid will
As with many things the optimum is not at the edges. Too much or too little fertility are bad, though they lead to different problem sets.

In the short term I think slightly below replacement level is ideal. Once we get past fossil fuel dependence at or slightly above replacement might be best. As long as we run on fossil fuel we are basically putting our children on a credit card with an unknown interest rate.
Makes sense. FB and Instagram reflect the sensitivities towards sexuality of its host country's culture.
> Starcraft is a relatively simple game (which is one of the main reasons for its enormous popularity)

In the most practicle uses of the word "simple", especially in this context (number of possible actions and search space and whatnot) your statement is just incorrect.
Whoop-de-do. If you don't like the company, leave.
Oh thanks, this wasn't mentioned in the linked article.
I disagree. There are some resources which are resources no matter what anyone says. Water, land, and food come to mind
The biological urge for sex rather than the urge for procreation may explain our ubiquity.
And when I have to do incremental backups or retrieve a single file, do I have to move the whole backup from cold storage, and then back again?
Israel has some companies who are really good at this. I recall a story about the Saudis purchasing service from some Israeli companies to spy on other's cellphones.
Right. Generally, memory accesses in real-world software are unpredictable enough (no matter how good the compiler is) that single-threaded execution is always going to get a big boost from OOO.

An interesting question is why Intel believed otherwise when they created IA64. I think there's a strong case that publication bias and other pathologies of academic compuer science destroyed billions of dollars in value, and would have killed Intel had it not had monopoly power.
I think that a lot of people see a rise and mainstreaming of White Nationalism and want to push back.
Another CTM chiming in to say that Toastmasters should be one's first stop on this journey.
For one internal build, Windows 95 contained an evil message
What you described sounds exactly like "reading between the lines"
The examples are all in Rust, so it’s very hard to make a non-toy demo. Usually if one uses the RDD API, one has some sort of library code that’s already in Java or Python and it’s impractical to port that code to make the job run. Or more likely, somebody will write an initial version using that code and then port / optimize the job later.

Native dependencies usually mean you’ll need docker. Spark pre-dates docker, and just relatively recently added the Kubernetes runner, which makes dockerized jobs easy. But historically it hasn’t been easy to run a job in a containerized environment with the native dependencies you need. You can ship native deps with your job, but that’s not easy, especially if you need a rebuild with each job.

The main advantage of Spark is flexibility and interoperability. You save time by not having to write something optimized on day 1 (for something you might throw away). And you get SQL support, something Beam / Hadoop don’t have (certainly not for Python). There are lots of benchmarks where Spark SQL is not a winner, but the point is Spark will help you save development time.