skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rust isn't only great because it's low level. Things like sum types (called enums in rust), pattern matching and expression orientation mean that it is often much more expressive than other languages for high level code.
How to Feel Nothing Now, in Order to Feel More Later
"Tell me about a time you failed" is the tech interview equivalent of "When did you stop beating your wife?"
To be clear, only some parts of astrology pretend to predict the future through mystical means.

Just as some parts of religion insist their version is the only truth.

So I believe the most reasoned response on these topics will depend on whether we are talking about the whole or a part.
Yeah I should have clarified. The buildings downtown could afford to be lifted to the new street level.

Homes outside of downtown that couldn't or wouldn't do the lift had to build new entrances on their upper floor. Many of these homes still exist today.

http://chicagopatterns.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/damen-...
It's more "impunity" than "anonymity" (compare Facebook) but implementing moderation well (1) is the biggest cost in the whole system, you need literally hundreds of full time humans, (2) is somewhat of an unsolved problem, your moderators are also liable to become fuckwads, and (3) this is because your moderators are drinking from the firehose of the internet's dark side constantly and losing SAN points like they were buddying up with Cthulhu. This has commonly been regarded as inhumane.
While this is true, the thing that doesn't change is that it is business that makes most of the decisions. They back both sides and threaten to not support a candidate for reelection if they don't get their quid pro quo. I feel like we actually live in a plutocracy.

The most convenient part for the the ruling class is that we have been tricked into thinking it is about red vs blue or left vs right. People talk about politics in a very "us vs them" vernacular. In the meantime, the corporate interests rob the middle class blind. It is a game of misdirection and self interest.

The only way to ever really solve it is a more representative and distributed democracy model. This kind of setup also forces a lot of the money out of politics. Alas, the rulers have no appetite for giving up the corruption they have worked oh so hard for.
What are your use cases for the tiny home server and the APU? I built a smallish FreeNas with an i3 earlier this year. It was before this year’s AMD announcements. I like the i3 because it has ECC memory and can fit into some supermicro server boards. IPMI makes it easy to setup over LAN and I don’t have to ever plug in a monitor or keyboard. It would be nice to see more AMD boards with it beside the AsRock X470D4U.

My desktop/plex server is due for an upgrade next year. Maybe the threadripper price will go down.
It's good PR too. This really makes me appreciate GitHub that much more
There're quite a few a file system UIs out there but they're usually coupled to php backends. I found one that's fairly agnostic though.

https://github.com/Studio-42/elFinder

Right now I'm modifying the node connector to use BrowserFS. It's a bit of work but should be worth it.
yes but it also has the added benefit of preventing heirs of plutocrats from hijacking democracy.
There's something deeper to it. The examples used up front read like any other current events political article, but it does transition.

> If you checked everything you were told from first principles, it would become impossible to talk. Humans are hard-wired to assume that what they hear is true—and therefore, says Mr Levine, “hard-wired to be duped”.

> So strong is that instinct that people suspend their critical faculties when given orders by a superior.
Aside from the so-called "great horse manure crisis" story being somewhat vaguely sourced (horse manure was of value back then and was traded as such), even if it were true or at least becoming a growing problem, I feel this problem is likely overstated. If cars had not removed it, we would've solved this problem by other means.

Human "manure" was also as big a problem: sewers were relatively recent and still being build, and toilets were a brand new invention. Yet we've largely solved this issue without getting rid of people from cities.
The Wikipedia article for this, the Raising of Chicago, is one of the funniest articles on the site. I don't know exactly what makes it so funny other than how clear it is that the author had a really fun time writing about an event that seems so absurd and unbelievable.

"In January 1858, the first masonry building in Chicago to be thus raised—a four-story, 70-foot (21 m) long, 750-ton (680 metric tons) brick structure situated at the north-east corner of Randolph Street and Dearborn Street—was lifted on two hundred jackscrews to its new grade, which was 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) higher than the old one, 'without the slightest injury to the building.'"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago
Ah, of course! I saw background jobs and Redis but didn't make the connection at the time.
By nobody, I meant here in this article.

Also, just a nit, iPhones aren't purely biometric. You have to input your pin after reboot or a long period of inactivity. I'll agree it's still a bit too close to being a password for comfort though.
Because mental health is medicine too. "Fake it til you make it" where you will cause minimal harm to others.

If I sell myself as the best Asp.Net developer in the world, and get hired to build a DotNetNuke eCommerce Site. Will my client kill themselves because I accidentally broke their website? Likely not.

A psychic could lead a person down a terrible path pretty easily, though.

A psychologist is trained, required, and regularly retested on their ability to spot potential troubling behaviors and report them.
Exciting! I know this has been a long time coming, so congrats to everyone for finally landing it in stable.

As a rust noob, small question based on the example given: Why does `another_function` have to be defined with `async fn`? Naively, I would expect that because it calls `future.await` on its own async call, that from the "outside" it doesn't seem like an async function at all. Or do you have to tag any function as async if it calls an async function, whether or not it returns a future?
These are the public versions, I promise it's much worse; A little light reading for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Rich , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glencore ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trafigura . Claude died.
Your taxes already have nothing to do with government spending. Their affect is to keep you from doing other things with your money. At best, taxes disincentivize bad actions and reward good through decreases/rebates. There’s the obvious tax incentive for marriage, for instance - not considering whether that’s a good or bad thing.
I don't believe it is possible to change your password with the GitHub API, and that action also requires reauthentication.
I always thought it was generous when you were allowed to schedule your cancellation of a free trial.

The choice Apple presents a user of a free trial is not predatory, it's just not "very generous". A 1 year trial, though is super generous, even if you can't schedule the cancelation.
Here's a book chock full of the results of numerous studies and meta-analyses that backs it up. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35805860-real-magic

Here's another book with the results of a few studies and first-hand accounts of the experience of how saying "so actually um there seems to be something going on here" is career poison because it's going against the currently-accepted dogma: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8025803-the-energy-cure
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Wouldn't that just be a free long call for the government?

Valuations can change pretty fast. If you declare your s&p500 index fund portfolio with the most recent value and it goes up 10% over the next few month until the IRA reviews your wealth. Are they allowed to buy it at the declared value?
People have obvious tendency for apophenia, seeing patterns and cause of action, even when there is no scientific connection between two, I call it intuition. Many argue it's part of evolution. If our ancestor interpreted noise in jungle as a danger he was more likely to survive. This behavior evolved and thanks to it we are able to discover many things unfortunately it also leads us to false conclusions like thinking that red berries are good for blood and psychics exists.
I'm blond with big boobies, you like?
Firecracker requires KVM, but QEMU can be used with instruction emulation, correct? Does that make this potentially a little easier to develop with in certain environments?
I would bite AMDs hand off for a Mac mini equivalent with a reasonable graphics card and AMDs latest chips in. Everything in JavaScript/Docker land on projects of scale takes an absolute age to run all the tests on a laptop. Fans are constantly on and throttling. It’s crazy that JS dev is this hardware inefficient...
>The range of problems faced by people who can afford $50 for fortune telling turned out to be limited: troubles with romance, troubles at work, trouble mustering the courage for a much-needed change.

I'm not ready to say fortune telling is good, but I'm not ready to say it's bad if it's helping people make changes they need to make.

Source: me, who's working on making some big changes in my life. (No fortune tellers involved.)
Exactly, we need legal changes. The changes aren't even hard, just require enough political will.
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Well, speaking strictly logically: If they were both astronomers and astrologers, and their astronomy was sound, it does not mean that their astrology was, too. Many great scientists of the past were religious, and yet that is no proof of god.

It's just hard for me to see how astrology could work. Either the movement of the stars affects the fate of individual humans everywhere, in a weird semantic connection ("Mars, the bringer of war" and so on), or people seek out astrologers to confirm whatever they need confirmed (Confirmation bias). This just seems massively more likely and doesn't clash with anything in the scientific framework. Astrology simply plays into all the biases everyone is affected by, so I don't mean to belittle anyone who believes or practices it, but it can't be called a science in any sense of the word.
Agreed - just trying to temper expectations. I'd hate for new users to come in and be frustrated due to implied "completeness" of Async. While Async itself might be "complete", as a broad concept it really needs so much more to be end-user complete.

Traits are a big one for me. Though, I've seen good things with the Async Trait Macro libraries. So hopefully those do good.

It doesn't make this Async-Stable event any less big of course, not trying to downplay it. We can't really move forward without this, so I'm super happy to see it merged! I'm just hoping to manage expectations :)
I agree. I think it’s a travesty all court documents aren’t mandated to be freely accessible.
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I suppose I should've provided more context. My build usually takes a few minutes only during the day, as the changes are small and they are broken into multiple packages / units. Once or twice a week, some changes trigger chain reaction and takes 4+ hours to build. This is painful because it eats up chunk of my productivity. And perhaps once a week, I build from scratch just to prove everything still can be built from scratch.
Looks like someone needs to update https://areweasyncyet.rs/
Looks great! I love how responsive it is. Did you code it or did you use an existing platform?
I understand your point but only putting trust in regulated/trained professionals sounds like a really simple answer.

Friends are untrained but can provide great advice because they understand the person and can see repeated patterns.

Believing in the power of planet movements can affect our lives is a religion not a science. Would you tell that person not to believe in God because based on science we can't prove they exist? Do you consider that harmful because they are basically the same thing?
Depends on the commute.

I used to have a quite long commute on the subway - 1.5 hours in one direction. What worked well in the morning was getting up a bit earlier, doing some exercise, eating a good breakfast with time to spare, then relaxing with a book on the train (fiction, non-fiction, really anything that tickles my fancy, something engaging) - especially nice buzz after a morning warmup. The evening reverse commute wasn't that much fun, the best use of time was leaving a little earlier, tidying up non-urgent 'for info' emails for 40 minutes, then some music as a barrier between work and non-work; not every waking moment needs to be 'productive'.

With another company, with a shuttle bus, an hour each way, most of the bus slept but I continued to read, stared out of the window at passing fields, plus found reading at the end of the day OK when comparing to the subway at the end of the day. I also had a 'bus buddy' which consisted long fun conversations if we were on the same bus. I also didn't eat anything for a couple of hours before leaving - things settled on stomach tended to make me sleepy in afternoons.

I understand the tube will be getting mobile reception in the coming months. It will be interesting to see if London transitions to carriages of people with their heads in their phones like most underground systems around the world. I hope not; implicit pressure to check and respond to emails before and after work can be pervasive/invasive - busy doesn't mean productive.

I now walk about 20 minutes, just walk, with no distractions from walking, arrive a bit earlier and keep up reading or other activities through an extended lunch break.
Ancient Chinese culture as well as 1600s European culture shared enough of our norms related to truth that they would have judged astrologists as violators, if they had realized what astrologers were doing. A civilization whose norms do not distinguish between false and true testimonies cannot have a functioning court system, but those cultures clearly did. Any system that has a concept of punishment must have along with it a norm against making up a story and telling it to people as if it were true (recall that horrible period after the French revolution for an example of what happens when you have punishment but nothing preventing false testimonies). Observations and inferences were just as important to them as they are to us.

Now, there is an interesting possibility that I don't know of any examples of, but could have happened. Suppose a primitive tribe with no norms against lying developed a bunch of superstitions due to the wild stories people were telling. Later, the tribe develops those norms after they get tired of punishing clearly innocent people, but by then a bunch of true believers are spreading the superstition. In that case the false beliefs have been "smuggled past the norms boundary." But, again, I am not aware of any people group that doesn't have a norm against false testimonies.
I’ve been playing with async await in a polar opposite vertical than its typical use case (high tps web backends) and believe this was the missing piece to further unlock great ergonomic and productivity gains for system development: embedded no_std.

Async/await lets you write non-blocking, single-threaded but highly interweaved firmware/apps in allocation-free, single-threaded environments (bare-metal programming without an OS). The abstractions around stack snapshots allow seamless coroutines and I believe will make rust pretty much the easiest low-level platform to develop for.
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Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21473259
Also the production of hydrogen is far from being low-carbon.

Yes there are some ways to produce hydrogen from electricity with electrolysis but at the moment 90% of hydrogen use natural gas or other hydrocarbons and release enormous amount of CO2.
It's really difficult to get the land, and the planning, in an area you'd want to live.
This seems like a test case for the association between lead and crime. http://freakonomics.com/2007/07/09/lead-and-crime/
Let's pick an example that a lot of people think have a negative influence on politics -- the Koch brothers. They inherited their wealth from their father, Fred.
It's probably worth noting that an async scheduler (executor in Rust terms) is required for this to be useful, hard to write yourself, and not provided by the standard library.

There are crates that provide ready-made ones, and that will work for almost all cases, but it's another dependency that you have to evaluate and stay on top of.

It is entirely possible to do yourself, though. Last month, I dove into the details during a game jam. Not much of a game came out, but I did manage to get a useful async system up and running from scratch:

https://github.com/e2-71828/ld45/blob/master/doc.pdf (cf. Chapter 3)
No, the same doesn't apply, as heroin will also cause harm to your body, whereas the other examples (shop therapy for example) don't necessarily cause harm.

Not to mention heroin being illegal...

You need a better example to refute the parent's example
Hi HN!

We recently released Textflix, a prototype app using transfer learning to apply sentiment analysis to old movie reviews. We wrote about it here: https://experiments.fastforwardlabs.com/log/textflix-report/

The baseline algorithm used is available as a scikit-learn class here: https://github.com/fastforwardlabs/nbsvm

Hope this is useful or fun for someone!

Thanks,
Chris @ Cloudera Fast Forward Labs
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You could make a good argument that the South was not a democracy and the civil war was an overthrow of their aristocracy; not a war between two Democracies.

Just look at the Constitutions of pre-civil war Southern states.
https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/suppressedbooka0...
I do not disagree with astrology but its application. In fact, stuff like cellular automata got me curious about astrology (obviously I did not find any relation).

My point of view: astrology is a way of "evaluating the environment/universe and its effect on us" and determining a probabilistic outcome, not a perfect outcome. It is more like an ancient equation passed on to astrologers, that gives us the probability of success for a person trying to cross a river with a strong current. The intuition about these equations is either long lost and not yet discovered in science.

I have been told by some astrologers (quite a few) that I could not do certain things. But I stood determined, and did those successfully. If I had not tried, I had already failed. But both of us were right. I could not do those things in a traditional manner, I had to achieve those differently. Retrospectively, after learning a bit of astrology myself, I can see why they said so.
Phoronix does compilation benchmarks (for the Linux kernel and LLVM), the existing Ryzen chips do perform quite well on them. The i5-8400 is probably the closest thing on the chart to your 8850h.

But there are diminishing returns to adding more cores past a certain point which will depend on your codebase and compiler. If your builds are at 100% CPU utilization most of the time then you will probably see pretty large gains, but sometimes a significant chunk of the time ends up being bottlenecked by single threaded performance.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ryzen-37...
The harder problem is selling hydrogen fuel to consumers.
I mean, if someone is forcing me to login at gunpoint, I'll gladly oblige - no need for them to gouge my eye out.

This is not the threat model being used here. This feature is meant to protect you when you forget your yubikey on your laptop while on lunch break, allowing any co-worker from logging in/using the GPG keys stored within.
Thank you. I appreciate your comment very much.
The anecdote the article featured mentioned Vanderbilt sending her an application even though her SAT scores were lower than "most" of the admitted class, but it wasn't lower than everyone in the admitted class.

The SATs give college admissions a lot of information, but that information is still only part of the picture. I agree, it would be silly if they were sending out brochures to students with SAT scores lower than anyone they've ever admitted before, but it's conceivable that some of the lower scorers might have otherwise great applications and be admitted.
The documents are not "explosive." The title should be updated to remove linkbait.
I appreciate and have used a few of the export templates, and they're great! I have even created my own based on an existing one. The process isn't so bad.
The term limit on the Presidency was a mistake.
> 2. Why is this iOS only?

Remember when IG was iOs only ?
In all fairness, Smash is mostly a Jazz musician.
> The point is that Rust's borrow checker can't reason about lifetimes very well over function boundaries. It can reason about coarse things that are expressable in the type language, but everything more nuanced than that, such as reasoning about how control flow affects the lifetimes is limited to inside function bodies.

BTW this is a big pain point for me (unrelated to async). Code like this:

let ref = &mut self.field;
self.helper_mutating_another_field();
do_something(ref);

gets rejected because self.helper_mutating_another_field() will mutably borrow the whole struct. The workaround is either to inline the helper or factor out a smaller substruct so that helper can borrow that which doesn't always look good.

Of course it is preferable that all information needed for the caller to check if the call is correct is contained in the function signature but it truly is frustrating to see the function body right there, know that it doesn't violate borrowing rules and still get the code calling it rejected.
I have no sense of how long that is. What would it take on a 4 thread Macbook Pro?
A quick google suggests that aviation accounts for 2% of global carbon emissions.

Everyone in this thread is pointing out how difficult the engineering is to convert aviation to something emission-free.

To me it seems obvious that we should focus on shrinking the 98% as fast as we can. While we should also work on decarbonizing air travel, I am pretty sure that if we decarbonized everything _else_ that the environmental impact of air (and space!) travel would not be enough to fuel global warming on its own.

Further, because the impact is so much smaller, it might be more feasible for air travel to eventually be required to perform offsetting direct carbon capture than to replace jet fuel with an alternative. That would make flying more expensive, which I think is fine, but it wouldn’t make flying _impossible_ which I think is at least highly undesirable.
> Friends are untrained but can provide great advice because they understand the person and can see repeated patterns.

But your friends see you often; an astrologer sees you when you call her up and pay up. And they only see what you tell them; your friends get to observe you and see those patterns.

> Would you tell that person not to believe in God because based on science we can't prove they exist? Do you consider that harmful because they are basically the same thing?

If you're having serious emotional issues, and your priest's solution is to tell you to pray harder, then yeah, I'd tell them to consider that maybe their religion isn't helping and maybe actively harming.
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