skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was at Consensys briefly in 2017. From my perspective (inside the venture half), it was more of a playground than a workplace. I was vaguely aware of the "consulting" half, and that they were working with banks who wanted into crypto at this period of peak hype.

There were some incredibly smart people working on interesting problems, but a significant portion of the people working there seemed (to me) detached from reality – solving problems of their own creation. That's not necessarily a bad thing, the let a thousand flowers bloom approach, but it doesn't strike me as something that JP Morgan would touch? It must have sobered up since 2017.
You're describing Consequentialism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequentialism), which is a popular view, especially among technically minded people, but there are also other widely held views that work differently:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deontological_ethics

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_ethics
> You should try it sometime!

An overnight mission at McMurdo or a server reset without internet access on another device?

I'll take the overnight.
Kubuntu is, and always has been really bad, as a KDE distro. Just use the Fedora KDE spin. I've been using it for the past 10 years or so.
The idea was that there are women claiming to be modern feminists who are being paid to undermine feminism.
Types can be composed in two ways. This is fundamental to type theory. It can be composed via a product or a sum.
I highly recommend their free birding app for iOS. It's a great intro into brid identification and it's steps to finding a bird you just saw are simple and user friendly.

It has standard packs that are for common birds in the continental US, but also dozens of others for other regions all around the world that you can download for free. I've used it in Hawaii, Chile, Argentina, Mexico, and Portugal.

https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/
The killer feature with AirBnB for me was always the ability to cook a meal and save money, but once you are Platinum at Bonvoy you generally get free breakfast and lounge access (depending on the property). The lounge has breakfast, snacks, alcohol, drinks, and enough apps to qualify for a dinner (and also dessert). It's a very underrated feature.
I don't see it as a reduction, there are over ten very serious accusations on that thread alone and most comments are sourced. Even discounting the author's biased comments, there's still a lot of proven intolerable behavior.
AWS Cognito for iOS is not ready for prime time
Someone's very annoyed with Twitter's tendency to produce "hot takes"..
I respect your opinion. There is some (a lot) of the skeuomorphism of the time, and even in parts of the old OSX that where terrible, but in my own personal opinion there was some good too.
That’s precisely the issue, until and unless enough libraries are created in Rust with little to no dependency on C/C++, it won’t be a significant language but will just be something similar to Haskell may be bit larger.

So I still feel Rust needs another decade or two to be able to claim as C/C++ replacement, not at present.

This is exactly the problem Swift faced to replace Objective-c, in Apple eco-system where everything controlled by Apple. Rust has much bigger hill to climb to be really useful systems programming language.
This guy's writing is really inconsistent. "v." and "vs.", plus singular/plural disagreements all over the place. I think the CS/ML/EE fields need to raise their standards w.r.t. editing. Interesting paper though.
Well, it depends on the change. For example, fixing a misspelling in a manpage could technically break something, but I think anyone would agree that it's fairly low risk. Likewise, there are changes one could make to code that could be easily judged to be low risk at breaking something. Being able to take the risk at your own judgment is what would be wonderful.

In any case, such "bite your face" moments wouldn't necessarily be visible at the build-time of dependent packages. Rather, they'd be visible when running them. So, you end up waiting for all your dependents to be built exactly like they were already and still exhibit the bug you would have also seen using the previous build.
Agreed, I've been using Heroku about 8 years now for my solo SaaS business. The most I've ever done in dev-ops is restarting a server and upgrading postgres versions. However, paying around $800/mo, I do fantasize sometimes on switching to AWS. Honestly I wouldn't even know where to start, and likely not a good use of time. For Heroku, I'd like to see HTTP/2 support, automated wildcard certs, and another Performance dyno option.
Thank you! I feel like building the right thing. :)
As far as I know Minsky declined to have sex with her. Yes, he was stupid to associate with a convicted rapist, but he was at least smart enough to not have sex with girls accompanying the rapist. Not a high bar, but still a bar he cleared.
This communication doesn’t cite a source. Or an official press release. It’s a huge no no to publicly release private business information when employed at a bank.

I just slowly work on puzzling out how to build a nice federated known participant replicated db with a pleasant service discovery / pki and sane interpreter/programming language on top by day (with some bits and pieces ossed when stable over time , with the occasional wee tech talk at workshops etc), and too much oss Haskell maintainership on my weekends and evenings when I’m not fried :)
I’m using Mailgun on the free plan with some small orgs, got bit by the shared ip thing.

A quick note to their support and they switched the free plan to a new ip. Zero hassle.
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> Actually, I always believed that the internal key-value store that they use would never scale to represent table workloads.

Care to elaborate here? As someone working at that layer of the system, our RocksDB usage is but a blip in any execution trace (as it should be, any network overhead you have given it's a distributed system would dominate single-node key-value perf). That aside, plenty of RDBMS systems are designed such that they sit atop internal key-value stores. See MySQL+InnoDB[0], or MySQL+RocksDB[1] used at facebook.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InnoDB

[0]: https://myrocks.io/
> The lack of credit card payment reduced the peace of mind of a safe transaction.

This makes no sense whatsoever.
> Maybe something is wrong with me, but it irks me that there are 40 seconds of meaningless video before they show stuff in that video. I ended up skipping the video and skimming through the poorly formatted article.

I am a dedicated follower of Plasma and to be honest counting features this is a lame relase.

BUT it's also a LTS release. Some will upgrade specifically for that somehow quality statement. You do not want a ton of new features without time for stabilisation in such a release?
I’m not convinced it’s good to have alternatives, or maybe I’m just too uneducated on the subject to understand why. I’m old enough to have lived through the horror of IE, and since I work in Enterprise where some old web applications still require it, I will continue to live it until we’re capable of rolling out the new Edge with IE compatibility.

I’ve actually used FF as my main development browser for most of those years because it’s the only browser where extensions aren’t controlled by our IT department, and I kind of need extensions on the fly. So I’ve seen the good and the bad of it. I personally prefer Chrome. I also like privacy, but I’ve tried the Duck and it just doesn’t work for my language, leading me to add the !g on almost all my searches, and if I’m google that much anyway, so I really benefit from using FF? Doesn’t FF also use one of Google’s engines to check site security?

Anyway I’m rambling, so let me get back on track. I’ve been testing the new Edge, and it’s Microsoft’s best browser, and what are the risks? Is it really better to have all the browsers on different engines instead of having multiple big guys work on the same open source engine?
My guess: 1 year more for Gnome, 3 more years for KDE.

That assumes non-Nvidia hardware. If you have one of those you are on a potentially very different timeline, that I do not dare to predict.
I've accidentally taken out a television station before. Was remoted in and clicked on the wrong thing with a new platform I was being walked through and exploring. All of a sudden MeTV in the Dallas/Fort Worth area went down in the middle of the afternoon and a LOT of very angry people began calling in but we had it running again moments later. If you are doing a demo of a live enterprise solution -- probably shouldn't click around to see what happens ;)
Then it would be in the author's best interest to avoid the examples that are easily discountable. RMS's opinions on the age of consent are well documented and within the realm of reasonable discourse (the most commonly cited example is him pointing out that the age of consent varies wildly depending on what part of the world you're in).
Causal Inference – Part I - Simpson's Paradox
One of the things that has almost disappeared from these kinds of discussions, is pedantry and feuding over formatting and naming styles. The ubiquity of automatic linters has saved millions of hours of useless bikeshedding.
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I think the parent poster's claim (if I may put words in their mouth) is that, despite the protestations of these other schools of thought, the only reason their rulesets/virtues exist are because of the general case consequences of those rulesets and virtues. They may not explicitly denote their appeal to consequences, but those ethical systems would not exist in their given forms of the actions they proscribe actions did not have consequences.

For example, a virtue ethicist might claim that honesty is a virtue, and thus we should try to be honest. But why is honesty a virtue? I'm not familiar with how virtue ethics deals with infinite regress. However, whatever the philosopher might claim, the real answer is because we evolved in a context where dishonesty was punished. This punishment shaped our sociological and neural landscapes such that we have a dim view of dishonesty in others. The virtue ethicist dresses that up one way, the deontologist might dress it up another, but the actual fact is that the human view of honesty arose from the consequences.
I've been into raptors for 25+ years, and at age 54 saw my first California condor. We were driving back from the North Rim and I saw this massive bird, then caught sight of the white underwing. Pulled the car over, into a couple small shrubs (I was excited, ok) and grabbed my camera. I didn't have my good binos (vintage Leica) but the camera had decent zoom. It was blasting wind and the condor was riding it like a roller coaster, sometimes straight over me, then seconds later a half mile north, then back, high, low. In the zoo, they just sit; here, it was in its element and full of life.
> Yes, I agree that Mathworld is great.

Slighty OT but,

Apart from the fact that it looks and feels like 2006 (that latex renderer is so, so horrible, it's a distraction), and that you can't copy anything meaningful out of it, Mathworld is great. But honestly, as of 2020, I would have thought we'd have much better tools to learn a domain as thoroughly defined as mathematics (interactive, intuitive, etc etc etc). As it stands, it's still really hard without a teacher, but it shouldn't: a rich web experience with text as a basis should be able to produce at least as good understanding as a video (whose only major difference is voice).

I'd expect to be able to hover over anything and get a tooltip definition, be able to move things in equations and sliders for constants to see real-time graphs or limits or edge cases etc; with formulas that self-update in real time.

I mean, it's a poor state of affairs that the combined body of mathematicians on Earth still haven't come up together to find a way to explain and teach mathematics at least as well as a freaking catalog website can show and sell products. It's not that hard to leverage decent frontends...

I love your efforts because I think they're truly headed in the right direction; we need so many more of these tools, innovation on the way to building an actual "base of mathematical knowledge" that's not Wikipedia (too general) nor Matlab (too specific) nor YouTube (good thing but not enough).

Back on topic:

- are you considering a public-facing API?

- I think "discover" (in your title) is misleading and explains some slightly harsh reactions here (failing to honor a promise is really bad marketing). I'd suggest something more like "pro tools for pro math", I mean make the promise that it's a tool for people who already know these things, who don't "discover" but rather "reference", "recall", sort of a modern lookup table. Like, say I've forgotten formula or theorem X, I'd really value being able to get that info as fast as possible.
I run starterstory.com and trypigeon.co.
Coronavirus 'could infect 60% of global population if unchecked'
There's ICA Basic in Sweden or Publix own brand in SE US, to name some additional examples.
I really hate this about the term "AI" as well.
Even on my FHD laptop and ultra-wide (yet not HiDPI) monitor, windows NEVER stay put. Every time I let the display go to sleep (like heading out to lunch) I come back to find all windows have moved to my large monitor and are full-screened. So I have to move them all back around.
Wow, that is a great link, thanks for sharing! Doing a filter based on device, FF doesn't even rank on Phone, and has 12.73% on Desktop. Although the data appears to only be for 24 hours - so not super great, but still an interesting data point.
I agree with you on all points.

There is a different approach that I've been following to some success. Break these 4 things into two pieces. Turn "work" into work and just make it #4. Punch the clock, limit overtime, try to treat it like a blue collar job.

In your spare time, find the other fulfillment. Whether it is volunteering or a hobby (you can teach others too!) or creation, you can find the meaning you are missing at work here instead. I design board games. This prevents me from side projects which are just more hours sitting at a computer. It is different and pushes different skills and even as I make these, it is something tangible I can hold and show others and even have fun playing. Then there is the whole benefit of going to conferences or game nights with other like minded individuals. This also tends to create happiness from within instead of externally. It breaks you from the "as soon as [event]" or "if only [event]" mindsets that can lock you in inaction.
Science rarely if ever resolves political problems.

Science influences them, on occasion, by providing evidence of facts -- but no conceivable scientific result could "settle trans rights"

I mean, what scientific fact(s) could conceivably resolve the issues if proven?
I mean, you can do a lot with metadata.

Also, I think quite a bit of telecomm traffic is encrypted by the telecomm carrier itself. For example I don't think my iPhone, by default, encrypts/decrypts SMS or voice calls on the device. To the extent text messages and mobile phone calls are resistant to dumb eavesdropping, that's provided by the mobile carrier. So having access into all the equipment at the carrier would be a nice centralized place to sit and observe/record.
I see you concern but right off the bat here is a very good example of where this kind of frontend pattern works very well, even for site that is essentially just static content from a user perspective:

https://reactjs.org/

I suggest you open the network inspector and see what happens when you hover over links, navigate and so on. The experience is very fast and responsive on initial page loads and even faster on subsequent navigation:

The initial page load is as fast despite of hydration because many of the requests are non-blocking and/or happen after the raw page content is loaded, including JS scripts.

Further navigation triggered loads just load small amounts of JSON while many of the assets and common UI elements are already there. In this case the data is even loaded while you hover over a navigation link.

Yes, this assumes that you actually navigate through the site and yes it does more than you sometimes need if you just view a single page.

But the trade-off seems to be very good here from my perspective, especially because one cannot know if the visitor will navigate on the site past the initial page load or not. The content on this site is also structured into small subject-pages (see: the docs sections), which synergizes well with this frontend pattern.

On top of that comes ease of development, tooling and automation around the react ecosystem (you'll find similar in other frameworks). And the mere fact that there is much less coupling between the rendering/gui side and the data/server side, even though most of the site is rendered on a server, because the frontend code lives in one cohesive framework.
Me too. I prefer micromanaging what a site gets access to. It's sadly not a great solution for anyone who isn't technical and somewhat persnickety.
:-) I bet he insisted on cash.
Do you have a link to the HN article about DISC?
The issue of "offense" is a common misunderstanding. Suppose some respected person at a company says something like, "all French epmloyees are morons and thieves." This actively harms French employees in the social dynamics of the company even if not a single one of them was present or heard of it. These "offenses" are not about feelings being hurt, but about the social standing of people being actually degraded when people of a certain status express biases without being confronted and without harm to their status.

I am not saying there can't be pitfalls and dangers, but if you care to know what the perspective of those of us who are in favor of repercussions for people who promote dehumanizing views, that's what we're talking about.
> My guess: like a date.

That may depend on how "domesticated" the date is, although I suppose your statement could be in strict conformance with the Law of Identity.

Other domesticated fruits and vegetables are nothing like the wild version of the same. Notable examples include apples and tomatoes (the latter of which originated in South America - image Italy with no red sauce?).
Nah, you're good. I didn't notice that HA was the goal. Saw yet another migrate-to-alt-db post, which is usually about scale, when said scale could easily be handled by SQL, and made the assumption and an unnecessarily snarky comment. That was my fault.
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Disappointing? It's a simple, actionable comment.

It's also the bare minimum required to have readable source code.

Most people don't like reading stuff that looks like it came out of a particularly aggressive obfuscator.
I am not familiar with the topic at hand.

I know that include os stuff is young.

But I wonder, would it be easier to build the website with go, with an os included, and then deploy that?

Both the docker and nix approach seem like alot of random tasks or knowledge is required. Are there bad things about including an OS I am forgetting?
Firefox suggests an account for syncing and leaked password monitoring, but it's dismissable. Chrome, brand new install, will just take your login to GMail, for example, and automatically use it for syncing without asking.
These mental models can be an interesting perspective, but please take them with a grain of salt. The more branding, marketing, cute names, and emojies applied to a mental model, the more you should be suspicious.

This "Turtleocracy" model might help bring some insight or inspiration in certain challenging environments, but be careful about assuming you're in a "Turtleocracy" or stereotyping people into "Rabbit" or "Bird". It's tempting to reach for these systems and stereotypes when you're in conflict with someone because it gives you a sense of having the upper hand. Ironically, doing so will turn you into the very person this article warns about in the section about Tyranny of People with "Takes". Always be on the look out for signs that you're wrong or that you've misunderstood the situation.

In my experience, it's healthy to have a variety of different models and perspectives through which you can view situations. It's not healthy, however, to try to force every situation to fit your favorite mental model. When you all have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Don't be that guy.
Yes. I should have been more specific. I wasn't talking about those -- I was talking about things you use a real browser to work with.
We are really eager for the panic today, aren't we?

C'mon, this is just absurd. We don't live in quite the same conditions were commonplace during the Black Plague
Cat Does Not Exist. Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
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The author disparages Piketty and then later quotes one of Piketty's essential principles[1] as fact:

"The single most significant factor is that financial growth via capital ownership (what the rich do for money) always outstrips wage growth (what the rest of us do for money). Getting richer by owning stuff is always a better deal than trying to get rich by working for wages from the people who own stuff."

So what is the author even saying" Is it, "Hey, progressives are right to want to fix things, but we never will, so we may as well let the conservatives rat-fuck everything!" Is that it?

[1] Capital in the 21st century
"Did you know that console logs can be styled using backgrounds? For even more variety, you can add images, using data-uris"

Ha ha, oh my... Sooo many recruiting ads coming our way!

[Edit: also the WebSocket inspector is really awesome. I wish I had that years ago!]
> In my view, upper class means someone who is financially independent and can afford to not work for money for a year or longer without a change of lifestyle.

Someone making $400k/year should easily accrue the savings to do that.

If they're not after a year, they need to re-evaluate spending habits.
I once wrote a new version of a config generator and pusher for a small part of a major service. I knew data pushes were the largest global outage vector at my company, so I wrote carefully conservative validation logic and unit tested it. But I never tested what the caller did when the validation failed, and I had a dumb mistake there. It pushed an empty file, which was worse than pushing the allegedly-invalid config. Oops. That was a ~30 minute outage of the aspect of the service controlled by this config.

Of course an outage is never caused by one mistake. That mistake was mine, so I felt badly about it. There were also mistakes in code reviews, validation in the part receiving the config, and operational procedures. And then the big one: the company as a whole was in this awkward phase where everyone knew quick global pushes were bad but there wasn't good common tooling to support doing staged config files easily. That was the worst mistake behind dozens if not hundreds of major outages.
You will note that you and many other FP programmers have gotten away with FP programming without doing a single line of actual function composition yet still yielding much of the same design benefits from the point free style.

This happens because the isomorphism between applicative and composition is really really close. I advocate the point free style for educational purposes, but for practical purposes either style is fine.

I get into the isomorphism briefly here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22299297

Where |> is the application operator. x |> f = f(x)
Great read!

I'm ignorant of numerical computing, so I have to ask: is Fortran still used because it is that much faster than C or any other specialized language? I assume that is the case because I'm sure someone would have rewritten those routines by now otherwise.
I figure that would be fun for about 2 minutes.