skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Yep.

We used to regularly buy old British army MRE packs when we were kids that were 10-15 years out of date. And we ate the contents and they were fine! It’s all about storage.
If there are 25 widgets in a particular bin in an FC, I have serious doubts that the instruction and expectation of the picker is to pick the specific one that has this particular FNSKU.

If they want that behavior, it would seem far better (less error prone and faster) to segregate by FNSKU such that any one location has only one FNSKU for a given ASIN. (That they don’t do this [or didn’t always do this] seems to be the root of how you could get a counterfeit good from a “legit” seller, including Amazon.)
At my workplace, any math that can't be done by spreadsheet or with the math built into software tools (such as CAD) is delegated to a small handful of "math people" who happen to have backgrounds in math or physical science, and who retained an interest in math after graduating.

Granted, what can be done with spreadsheet or CAD is pretty impressive.
Simple thought experiment:

I let you study Michelangelo's sculptures for 24 hours using any resources you want. I then hand you a block of marble and a chisel and ask you to create a Michaelangelo-style scupture.

We then present your sculpture alongside an authentic Michelangelo sculpture and ask 50 random people on the street to identify which one was made by you and which was made by Michelangelo. I would wager 100% would reject your sculpture as inauthentic (based on an obvious lack of skill).

Now we repeat the same experiment but with Pollock. I would wager 50% would reject your painting as inauthentic and 50% would reject the Pollock painting as inauthentic (people would randomly choose).

Pollock paintings require no skill, just a large canvas and a few contrasting colors to splatter and drip. There is no dexterity or experience required to make a painting in the style of Pollock, unlike Michelangelo sculptures.
So that'll depend on why the black holes arrive.

This article is about a binary system, which I would argue meets your criteria.

If the black hole were manufactured, and/or being used as a weapon, there's no reason it should hit the sun, and every reason it would hit a planet.

Now I think some of the other responses illustrated why this is not a problem if our current model of black holes is valid. The "what if" in one of those books I mentioned is "what if there was more exotic physics that allowed small black holes to be stable?"
meh. let me know when facebook goes after who actually used pegasus on whatsapp.
I'm not sure the existence of debt in itself is as much of a problem on a macro scale as people think it is - the negative association to debt comes from an intuition over personal debt like loans/credit cards, which doesn't necessarily make sense on a macro scale.

Say company A lends $10 to B. B lends that $10 to C. C lends $1 each to 5 people.

The total debt in this case is $10 (B owes A) + $10 (C owes B) + $5 (5 people owe C) = $25. Each borrower-lender pair increases the debt, even though its all about the same $10.

Now if C defaults on their debt, it has ramifications all the way upto A. But it won't cause a collapse unless the lenders start treating the debt as less risky than it is. In the case of 2008, banks treated mortgage debt as virtually risk-free and borrowed using that debt as collateral - so the problem was that the debt was certified and treated as much less risky than it really was.
If you have trouble telling all these apart I suggest you don't start anything online. One thing is for sure: sticking your head in the sand and pretending there is no problem isn't going to work in the longer term. See TFA.
> Sunday (sic) is a random associate product manager who somehow managed to ride the wave of Chrome to somehow becoming CEO

I'd be more careful about dismissing him as a random APM who "somehow managed to ride the wave of Chrome". Successes like these aren't wholly random and while there is certainly an amount of luck involved, you need to remember that Chrome is/was a crazy essential thing for Google's success before the smartphone/Android revolution.

It is more about not giving up the entry point to search (browser on PC -- mobiles weren't dominant in 2008) to a competitor (MS) who could stifle or charge a steep price to let it be the default search. If you need any more data on this, read up on how much Google pays Apple to be the default search engine ($5B a year IIRC).

So... Sundar's CEO status may or may not have been the best choice but don't discount years of work and navigating inside a behemoth like Google and getting st done :)
I don't consider a cert trustworthy just because it's signed by a CA, unless that CA is mine or one run by someone I personally know and trust. I came to this position before Snowden, though.
Whatever you write in python,you must commit to maintaining it yearly. If you write software and people buy it,you have to update it once in a while.

There are many use cases where this won't fly and it's fine to use something more standardized and stabilized. They should have done this a long time ago to avoid the 2.x -> 3.x headache.

Undesirable for those of us that sorta depend on stackoverflow answers to get a lot of things done but I am sure there's a bigger picture the python devs are seeing.
This doesn't mean 90% of all websites. This simply means 90% of web traffic which I'm assuming a good chunk of it comes from a few handful of services such as Netflix and YouTube
https://epiphany.pub/@seisvelas

Dynamic, hosted on Epiphany. It's the best dev platform I've found.

I mostly rant about data engineering adjacent topics.
Thanks, I did the whole thing manually a few weeks ago and this looks like a good solution at least for mobile devices!
I’d love to see benchmarks on an ER-4/6/8, especially with gigabit WAN availability becoming more common.
Cocaine is Schedule II, actually. While it can be used as a topical anesthetic, I don't think it is especially common anymore.

Xanax has significant medical use supported by actual studies. (Yes, it's kind of a problem that the Federal government essentially blocks studies of many substances.) There's not a lot of real distinction between schedules III-V other than "less potential for abuse than the last one" (per DEA, not any science). Schedule II is nominally "high potential for abuse," like Schedule I.

> The DEA Scheduling system is not fact-based and needs to be completely redone.

Yes, current scheduling is absurd and not based in evidence.

I don't really agree with the policy that drugs must have medical value to be legal (which is enshrined in the distinction between Schedule I and II as they are today); it's certainly hard to reconcile with the legal status of (potable) alcohol or tobacco, which have more or less negative medical value.
> When important decisions are not documented, one becomes dependent on individual memory, which is quickly lost as people leave or move to other jobs. In my work, it is important to be able to go back a number of years to determine the facts that were considered in arriving at a decision. This makes it easier to resolve new problems by putting them into proper perspective. It also minimizes the risk of repeating past mistakes. Moreover if important communications and actions are not documented clearly, one can never be sure they were understood or even executed.

In my limited experience, I have not seen this done effectively in a software project. What does this actually look like when done properly? Ie, how do you store the data and keep it from becoming busy work?
>> I don't feel comfortable saying Snowden is still working for the US government, but I'm certainly suspicious of him.

Well. My deep belief is that individuals that are truly dangerous to the system (here, any system that is powerful enough but one can view it globally as a continuously evolving technology-driven wanna-be-AI) get separated from power asap and then directly eliminated if needed. One should be very naive to think that the following makes any sense: "a young boy from government family says that the whole world is controlled by a few; he wants to stop it and so gets a platform to alarm about it via main media channels, supposedly controlled by the same few". Another point of the whole move was to identify people (e.g., you and me) who will not buy this so they will likely avoid buying other incoming BS.
“Under what is known as the Kafala system, a domestic worker cannot change or quit her job, nor leave the country without her sponsor's permission.”

That doesn’t sound like the a law that is intended to prevent slavery like conditions for domestic workers. And very much encourage abuse in general and confiscating passports specifically (can’t leave the country without the sponsor’s permission sounds like a pretty implied permission to take someone’s passport).
The one chart to rule them all, https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HTRUCKSSAAR

If that were lower I would be less worried. The sky high market is why I worry. If the Fed has to prop things up that bad in an all time high economy they will have no control in a free fall crash.
This is the answer for which I was looking; thank you for your help!
Thanks for linking this, I hadn't heard of subspace before.

Does it handle IP assignment/configuration as well?
> Seventh, Smalltalk represents a new programming model where the image is a snapshot of the total execution state of the application (including the Smalltalk system).

"New"?? Lisp has worked this way since the mid-1960s.
> as urban myths and clichés (like that the Bundeswehr is just for racist nutjobs

Is it really clichés when there's plenty of evidence for it? Remember that "neo-Nazi doomsday prepper group" from June [0]? Those guys turned out largely to be police and soldiers.

It's reached a point where the Bundeswehr considers discharging the soldiers who blow the whistle on the problem [1], instead of having to admit having one.

[0] https://www.dw.com/en/german-neo-nazi-doomsday-prepper-netwo...

[1] https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2019-05/recht...
It's hard to dance k-holed. Any movement makes you want to throw up.
If you want to win against a view, select a leader from your pocket, make him look plausible and make him take control of the whole view. At any point you desire, let that person discredit himself and take the whole view down.
I misremembered, I think the CTSS source was actually written in a language called LRLTRAN. I just remembered it was something obscure.
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So, should I stop working on improving my gift wrapping skills?

"I got you some new socks, and since I wrapped it in a bundle of old newspaper, you'll like it better!"
> I can only guess, but it could be explained by mentally categorizing Uyghurs, Hong Kongers and even Tiananmen protesters as "not Chinese." I don't think it's so much racism as a binary "us vs. them" classification system that expresses itself as the opinion that "the Chinese" should be punished for oppressing <some group>...

That could be in some cases, though what you're describing sounds more like a government leaders/enforcers vs. liberals/oppressed minorities classification (which also leaves a big gray area). The people sympathize and feel allied to the latter group, so the "us" includes a lot of Chinese people, so it's not so much Chinese vs not-Chinese.

I think I've seen similar comments, but I usually interpreted it as a mess of lazy or imprecise language, because often the complaints could only apply to a narrow group even though the person is using some broad term like "China" or "Chinese."
I’d like the next person and all the people following who veto an idea because of national debt to be forced to provide a thing which one dollar of debt keeps the US government from doing. They need to provide 23T worth of effects in the economy that are positive from paying 23T in USD debt off.
There are multiple ways to look at it. One bad sign is the large increase in the budget deficit at a time of economy expansion (from $585B in 2016 to $980B in 2019). Another aspect is how much of the budget has to be allocated to paying the interest on the debt ($376B in 2019). The CBO listed consequences of high debt in 2014: http://www.crfb.org/blogs/cbo-consequences-growing-national-...
It is pretty well established that people are allowed to speak their mind in our society, but they better be ready for the consequences!
Well, I don't really trust random certs even when they're signed by a respected CA -- but I still prefer using HTTPS. Even if the cert is fraudulent, HTTPS is still encrypting stuff and will protect me from other random attackers.

Security is never a binary secure/insecure proposition. There are shades of gray. The key is to use what security you can, but never think "I'm secure now".

As an old mentor once told me: the moment that you think you're secure is the moment that you're at the greatest risk, but you should still lock your door.
The very same economic globalization that turns out to be rather destructive to the environment?

I wonder if such problems might not end up forcing us to reconsider our trading priorities to account more for geographical distance, instead of just taking that as a given.
> But I still feel like I’m being silently judged - not just by him, but by everybody.

Does "everybody" include you, too, by the way? Are you actually just judging yourself for taking time off, and assuming everyone else is?

Do you judge others for taking time off too?

I don't have an agenda here, really, except the point out that this being "in our own minds" is not that different from "assumptions that come from our culture"...
I do agree that there is much less entrepreneurial mindset but there is not less creation.

What the creation leads to is different and I'd suggest two main reasons:

1) Europeans are less likely to make it a business - the safety net might play a role but also just different value sets. I'd suggest that on average Europeans are less focused on profit/getting rich and more on just living a decent life e.g. with work-life balance. So they might run things in their spare time but will be more likely to give their creation away than run a for-profit company with it. See e.g. PGP, Linux Kernel, LibreOffice, OpenCloud & Nextcloud, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, ... - many leading FOSS and even some hardware projects are European-lead.

2) Startup success is quite a bit more difficult in Europe due to lower investor/VC availability and a smaller market (burden of translation & different legislations, although EU legislation is slowly converging things). Nonetheless you had Skype, Spotify, TransferWise, etc. But those were all mostly bootstrapped - there's no money available that allows annual 8-or-9-digit losses like with the typical examples of Uber, Lyft, WeWork or Lime.

So its not that there's nothing creative going on, but fewer try to make it a business and of those fewer succeed - and indeed many of those are then bought by or on their own move to the other side of the Atlantic.

Tidbit: actually I've never seen comparison data on startup success rates between countries, just on overall startup numbers.
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Xanax is not an antidepressant, it is a sedative-hypnotic.
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Another commenter on this thread says that European honey bees were in fact a problem for their farm, outcompeting and suppressing native pollinators. I don't so much care. My interest in this branch of the discussion is simply in establishing that honey bees aren't wildlife, but rather livestock.
This is not confined to the DEA, or the USA. Drug policy in many countries is based on fear-mongering and policitcal point-scoring.

Case in point, the tabloid press in the UK brands anyone that uses any illicit drug a "junkie"; another, UK politicians are unlikely to legalise recreational use of anything beyond caffeine, alcohol and nicotine in our lifetimes.

Humans have used psychoactive drugs since the beginning of time, and the long, damaging and fruitless "war on drugs" demonstrates that we still and always will - surely it's time for a different stance on drugs?
Has a school ever been successfully held liable for a school shooting?
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But what does netcraft say?
Maybe a noob question, but are whatsapp's messages secure from Facebook? Would some motivated employee at Facebook be able to read everyone's messages if they wanted? If no, how do we know?
They do have softer ground and rounder corners but the playgrounds today are way cooler than I was a kid. The one near me has climbing walls and a zip line. It's crazy.
Exactly. And if you bring up a generation of kids who have been normalized to the idea of constant surveillance and censorship, they're less likely to assert their rights as adults. Many of them will even learn the lesson that surveillance and censorship are good things that save lives. It's insidious and disgusting.