skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to think that being smart was inherently virtuous, but I've noticed that some people use it to infinitely rationalize their demands of others. It is utopian thinking, colored by some flavor of personal bias, which inevitably falls short of the real world in its attempts to optimize other people's lives.

The traditionally spiritual mindsets are necessary to be a positive fit. Wisdom, mindfulness, humility, acceptance etc. I think they are correlated to intelligence but they are not as immediately accessible as cleverness, they must be intentionally cultivated.

Everybody has to seek these for themselves and try to be a good model for those they interact with. Nobody is good enough to be good for everybody else, plan the whole system, and cure everybody by rule of force. The inability to tolerate some amount of imperfection and dirtiness is the root of a greater evil. Don't invite dragons to take care of your wolf problem.
But at least the software could assert that the construction speed was lower than what the map stated the speed limit was so you could only slow down a car which would hopefully be a safer failure.
Do we also allow people to seek rotten meat, ineffective medications, or not wearing seatbelts?

There are known things we can do to substantially reduce harm to the public. It’s always a balancing act between a “parental gov” and individual liberty: there is no universal answer. But over time we learn as humans what we think those trade offs should be.

Note I’m not necessarily for making sins illegal personally, but I am for finding ways to regulate the hell out of them.
Sounds like security absolutism again. Encrypted email, even using a weak algorithm, is more secure than unencrypted email and will deter some percentage of attackers.

Yes, PGP is weak, metadata is exposed, email wasn't designed for any of this, and people will fuck it up.

It tickles me that plaintext replies are submitted as an argument against encrypted email. The reply being in plaintext is an example of UNencrypted email. If you oppose a thing, let it be because of what it is, not its opposite. You don't sell your failed useless car because of that one time it broke down and you had to take the bus. Hopefully in my view, you sell it because of what it does when it works - it burns money, stinks, is loud, and kills people. (Car hater here, so I personally know the difference with this particular analogy.)

Actually to me "encrypted email" isn't even a thing. There's encryption and then there's email. If you have a secret, you encrypt it, and if you're OK with sending it publicly (i.e. via email) then you attach this encrypted secret thing to the email. And get the key to the person somehow privately. I dunno what the big deal is. No matter how earnestly and ferociously you declare yourself the mom and dad of the world, they all still keep messing up, murdering each other etc. and nobody cares, so take a vacation.
Firstly, congrats on the launch.

Please let me know if I am wrong but it seems the major differentiator from Segment is (3) as you can do the 1,2 and 4 with Segment.
And even with (3) the only difference is the way the events are collected (through code / point-and-click).
So my question is whether this really needs to be an end-to-end solution / competitor to Segment rather than just an adapter/ wrapper on top of Segment.
Signal can't work on an air gapped system. So it is entirely subject to all the available attacks on the rest of the system it is running on. Someone risking their life no the overall security of something like, say, a smart phone is not being wise.

Something like Signal is OK for most people, particularly if they trust the Signal company. But when things get serious you have to:

1. Know what you are doing.

2. Keep the device that is doing the encrypting as separated from the rest of the world as possible.
Curious. Since you both worked at Heap before, is there a potential conflict of interest or Non-compete that you may have/had to worry about ? I don't know the details of Heap or Segment but I am assuming this service is similar to them if not closer ?
how exactly is linking to a custom location on a document "stealing the web"?
I’m not telling anyone to do anything.

I’m telling people what they should not do: that is, don’t discriminate against people who insist on privacy.

Choosing to use Discord does that, so people who don’t want to discriminate should not choose to use Discord.

I’m also offering them alternatives that don’t discriminate against those people, so that they can make better choices if they decide that they don’t want to be the kinds of projects that discriminate against segments of their userbase.
Even only hearing your side of this, I think Discord is being reasonable. It sounds like anyone could grab a cheat from your server and go wreak havoc on an unmodded server for this game... surely your mod isn't universally used?
thanks for your response, it really made me feel a lot better. it was TikTok, btw.
Actually curious on this, my knowledge of financial theory is sorely lacking. To my understanding, states can (and do) issue debt through municipal bonds. Is this one of those “exceptions and loopholes”? My understanding of the Puerto Rican debt crisis is that their bonds were made more attractive because income from their bonds is tax exempt by federal law from most US income taxes. By (artificially) increasing the attractiveness of those bonds PR was able to borrow more money than they would otherwise.
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Notably also, there is very little difference between the opinions of men and women on these questions.

I suspect a major reason for the "barely budged" is simply that people already knew the score (and have for a long time). People talk, and hearing accounts from people you know and trust is far more convincing than hearing from Twitter celebrities.
Here is a citation: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jged4x/envestnet-yodlee-c...
I'm getting strange vibes for how people must be reacting to this.

Your idea of a possible better world is so bad that you should feel bad! /s
I wince every time I use application code to do what I know SQL can do faster and easier. ORMs are nice but it's often impossible to translate performant SQL into the ORM's API. SQL is just so concise.
It's fine at normal clocks. Not good for the chip, but it won't kill it within the normal operating lifetime (say, 3-5 years). That's why chips ship with a little more voltage than they need, so that they can suffer some electromigration and still function.

Overclocking? Yeah, it'll kill it quick, and that's your problem, because you're operating it outside normal specifications (more voltage than designed). If that's your standard, that you should be able to overclock and then redline the chip 24/7 for an unlimited period of time and it should never kill the chip, then you're going to be disappointed.

The fact that Threadripper is having problems is definitely a fault but it's something that you really shouldn't be doing anyway (and it sounds like the problem is the motherboard not the processor).

More generally: this is like arguing that you should be able to buy a camry and run redlined 24/7 and get the inevitable engine failures covered by warranty. If the manufacturer finds out you're doing that, they're not going to cover it, because it's not normal usage. Somehow people think it's a reasonable expectation for processors.
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Democratic institutions must be transparent. But of course, the eurogroup is NOT a democratic organization. It makes you wonder why an unaccountable organization like the ECB was allowed so much power.
Charitable contributions can be deducted from taxable income in a lot of places.
Sift migrated petabyte scale HBase to Bigtable with zero downtime (3/4)
> It's been 5 years, and the Eurogroup destroyed the Greek economy.

Reality and the facts contrast heavily with this rhetoric. The eurogroup/IMF/european commission only stepped into the picture way after Greece bankrupted itself and digged a deep economic and social hole. Complaining about the organizations that mitigated Greece's pending collapse is like complaining about the cast and crutches you had to use after breaking your leg just because your leg hurts.
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I haven't used Azure much. But because it's Microsoft, it's going to be a default option for a lot of customers who are entrenched in the MS world.

AWS is complex also, but I remember when you're only option to launch an EC2 instance was through the command line. And it's still easier to figure out than most of my tech stack. Not that I need to be adding anything with needless complexity.

I do actually like DigitalOcean, but in an AWS / GCP / Azure world I feel it's best to learn one of those well.
It's a good question, though I think the "publicly" and "responsibly" aspects may be inherently at odds.
>Unlike art, the techniques employed in an essay should never impede its purpose. There, it's only the message that matters, not the medium.

On the other hand, it's very possible for the techniques employed to work in service of its purpose. Many of Adorno's essays are arguing for a point of view both aesthetically, in form, and argumentatively, in content.
Thanks for your response. Obviously it says more about how terrible their process is than it does about me as a candidate, but you can't help but internalize some of it. Appreciate the input - will keep chugging. Choo choo!
E-bikes are certainly not "the greenest form of transportation in human history". They use batteries, motors, electricity, and etc., after all.

I'm not sure what the greenest would be, but certainly walking or biking is greener than any motorized transport.
Honestly I don't think they should ever say it, had we said that Newton's Laws where settled, I mean they are laws after all, we may not have general relativity.

I don't think science is ever settled and if we find a unified theory it may bend relativity to the point that relativity bent Newton's laws.

You could certainly say that Newton's Laws where settled, you could certainly say that relativity is settled but it creates an undercurrent that there is no stone left to un-turned. To the laymen it turns off a switch in their mind and they don't really want to process anymore information. I experience it all the time when I talk about the reefs dying, those that have settled on climate change is the reason will not listen to the fact that it is Nitrogen not ocean temperatures killing the reefs. Saying it is settled flips the off switch and people decide one way or the other, not processing new information.
If we have the tools to do better, why shouldn't we do things a better way? One-way surveillance is never a good thing, so why settle for it?
It looks minimalist, but it's not.

I was talking about it without CSS.

Turning CSS-blocking on for it with uMatrix makes it look fantastic once more.

No one with sensible browser settings/extensions will see a pop-up, it's certainly not exclusive to Brave.
My blog has a feed. If you’d like to see RSS make a comeback, perhaps you can subscribe to signal your support for decentralized tools.

There is no javascript in the feed. :)
Of course it can be streamed! Nobody ever suggested it could not be. The point is that to stream it portably (i.e. without knowing the hardware characteristics - and possibly software characteristics too - of the reciever) you have to first serialize it and then deserialize it, because the in-memory representation within the sender is NOT portable.
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Just use Evil and have the best of both worlds.
Suggestions? Seems more like demands in the linked blog post.
Bitcoin... codes?
Yes. Another way of looking at this is to say "there are more than two sides". Many lay people have no direct contact with the thoughts of scientists concerned about climate change, but do have direct contact with the thoughts of science illiterate journalists writing clickbait articles, or science illiterate activists making hyperbolic claims.

I don't think it is helpful to view all people who agree "anthropogenic climate change is real and a real concern" as the "same side". If we insist on this, then we have to admit that this "side" has a lot of agenda driven liars on it, which is not fair to the scientists.
> Understanding that we are changing the balance of greenhouse gases

Are we? How settled is the science on anthropogenic part of AGW? Between the natural ocean cycle of carbon dioxide emission and absorption and constantly changing cloud cover and the generally chaotic climate system, how can we reliably tell that it is the human contribution in particular that is causing the changes?
How do you choose the right mattress for you then ?
I sympathize, but it's probably useless to get angry about this. The moral of the story is to always be putting multiple irons in the fire, and assume that most will ghost.

In a way they're doing you a big favor. They're identifying themselves as a company that you don't want to work for, and that information is gold.
Notably, Mozilla has switched from IRC to Matrix.
Appeal to biological instinct to hate and love is always the quickest way to get clicks.

The side effect being everything is us vs them nowadays.
Some Seasonic are probably among the best consumer power supplies you can find (e.g. https://www.anandtech.com/show/11252/the-seasonic-prime-tita...)
I prefer David Deutsch's optimistic approach to our problems: use science to find solutions. Rebellion is beyond the pale. We don't need rebels; we need scientists and more good science.

"The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World" by David Deutsch

https://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Infinity-Explanations-Trans...?
At the very least, Anandtech seems to rate Seasonic very highly: https://www.anandtech.com/show/11252/the-seasonic-prime-tita...
I work for Adyen and would love to talk over any feedback and suggestions you have to make the integration easier. My email is lucas@adyen.com
Metroid Prime is one of the few games I've played all the way through multiple times. When it became increasingly difficult to do so on a GameCube, I relented and tried the ii U version. Much as I've tried,I can't get comfortable with the controls.

Thankfully I finally have a laptop that can properly emulate the GC version and allow me to use the GC controller that I dusted off.

But I can't wait for a GC-inspired version on the Switch!
Why would the carbon split? Why not stay carbon? And wouldn't this technically be fission energy then?
This reminds me of the saying "don't speak unless you can improve upon the silence" (apparently attributed to many sources, but most commonly Jorge Luis Borges). The world would certainly be less noisy if we all followed that one.

I've always found this idea helpful when anxious or unsure of myself in social situations. A lot of the nervousness comes from the pressure to "say the right thing" and make a good impression, but that very pressure tends to ensure that I won't say anything of value (often quite to the contrary!), so I'm better off keeping my mouth shut, or speaking very little, until I relax and start thinking of truly 'useful' things to say naturally. And if it doesn't happen, that's ok--I'm fine with being the quiet guy.

It can be applied in many other areas as well. It's amazing how much you can usually improve a visual design, a piece of writing, or probably any other creative work just by repeatedly going through and removing or revising anything that you have even the slightest doubt about.
The things that most need to be said are always unpopular.

Of course, things are also often unpopular for being stupid and wrong. But if you always err on the side of leaving people alone, saying something stupid doesn't hurt anybody. So I don't worry about it too much, and I just say what I think.
I got one I mentioned elsewhere here - if registry editing is disabled, just use a different registry app (there are some on Github that are better than the standard one anyway).

Then you can undo group policy settings at will, as long as you know which registry keys to flip. A good site for this is:

https://gpsearch.azurewebsites.net

Some settings are set in the local security policy file, rather than in the registry. From memory, if you have local admin rights you have to specifically grant your user account full control to the adm files, then you can use the local security policy MMC snap in to change settings.

Once you change things, they will periodically be set back, which is annoying, but the tip near the end of the article might work to stop that.

Another tip is to install a dual boot version of Windows on an encrypted partition, and use that instead of the "official" install. Of course, this only works if you don't need frequent access to resources on the domain.
One difference is that today's page anchors are only put there by the page author, so, since all authors are cracker-jack security experts, they would not have made an anchor available in such a sensitive part of the document, since it opens their readers up to this risk.

As you can tell, I think that the difference is a real, technically true difference, but the implication is a bit dumb, since authors do not have this kind of thing in mind when deciding whether to anchor. You might as well be mad about lazy image loading too. If a browser is smart enough to only load images near an anchor, then this same risk would have been opened up when that was introduced. (The author wrote the anchor before lazy loading, so they correctly perceived no risk, then lazy loading turned it into a risk.)
Your argument is that those children in Greece deserved to die because children in Romania are dying too? I am not convinced by that argument.

What is going on here is that debt in the current financial system is at conflict with current moral standards. Debt is being transferred from parents to children (mostly in the form of state debt), while defaults are being pushed almost exclusively on the the debtor from the debtee. The consequence is that there are a lot of people being punished for events outside of their control.

Yeah, when a debt cannot be filled, debtor and debtee need to share the consequences proportionally. And in the case of Greece, the 30% haircut is not remotely proportional.
I overclocked a threadripper 3950x on a Gigabyte card and never encountered any problems in the various stress tests I ran. That machine convinced me that AMD's presently marketed consumer CPUs are superior to Intel's offerings, dollar for dollar. (I also benchmarked a comparable Intel chip. Both machines were cooled with a Corsair H100, ie liquid pumped through a radiator.)
It's cool to hear this, but couldn't find any mentions on their official website: https://eng.kist.re.kr/kist_eng/?sub_num=3559
Unlimited and immediate transparency are generally not a good idea. Before government data is released to the public you have to ensure there is accountability to applicable regulations and sensitivity to any personally identifiable information.

The goal is to hold governments accountable without violating the privacy of impacted individuals or any other internally sensitive information.
I think if you humbly said you’d prefer people to not use Discord you’d not get this backlash. But you’re making a demand - it’s rude and will instantly turn people against you before they really consider your arguments.
> The fifth step is to attach it to power generating equipment

The part that jumped out at me as strange is that they claim their process generates electricity "directly" without having to drive a turbine. Supposedly they produce helium cations, and that can drive a circuit.

Can anybody comment on whether that makes sense?
The HB11 reaction doesn't produce neutron radiation. I've seen claims that there would be side reactions, generating neutron radiation totaling under 1% of the energy output, but the only source of that I can think of is if deuterium isn't removed from the hydrogen, and we could do that if necessary. It might not be, since neutrons from deuterium fusion are a lot less energetic than D-T neutrons.

The energy output of HB11 consists of fast-moving alpha particles, which is good because that's the energy you capture, along with x-rays. None of this would activate reactor components. The waste product is non-radioactive helium.
This is awesome, and from the timing and some Wikipedia sleuthing, it sounds like they inadvertently created the first ever screensaver?
This isn't particularly strange - it's as good as certain that many of those repatriated are infected. Having some already confirmed before getting home is just a PR or bureaucratic issue, not practically meaningful.

> As American evacuees sat crammed into buses idling on an airport tarmac in Japan

This however is just... I don't understand how civilization failed so completely on that ship. You have controlled conditions and people that have nowhere to go - there's absolutely no excuse to having extra infections. As far as we can tell from the news, they just treated it like flu.
There is no layer above, it’s not like coffeescript which compiles to another language. It’s literally an alternative syntax.
Yeah, I'm sure that kind of thing could be shared privately by email between the relevant parties
Agreed in the entirety. Thanks for taking the time to write this reply.
That may be carcinogenic in another way. It's my impression that nasally ingested dry snuff tobacco is not as strongly associated with cancer as smoked or chewed tobacco. That said, it's hard for me to trust anything I read suggesting that, since I can't rule out the possibility that the tobacco industry has corrupted anything I might read suggesting it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snuff_(tobacco)#Health
Lol. The tailpipe exhausts, agriculture emissions and smokestack releases are genocide by that rational.

Seeing how battery is kind of a stretch, do you see obese people as homeless (because of ruining their bodies/sanctuary)?

I still laugh when I think of how much nicotine and coffee were consumed by NASA to get the space program going back in the day. I'm pretty sure intelligent people are/were aware of the dangers of their indulgences.

Smoking in confined spaces may not be recommended, but smelling smoke (from tobacco) in an outside setting should not warrant such an irrational response.
the other thread on this subject https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22375269
Wow... I've never read so much bullshit in one blog post. They're basically hoping that nobody who reads this has any embedded development knowledge.
You are being needlessly contrarian.

Fiscal policy comprises both borrowing and taxing; the two are fungible as far as spending is concerned.
I think that was true once upon a time, but the politicians seem as caught up in the partisanship as the voters these days. I also think an awful lot of confidentiality is abused or, in less extreme cases, simply reduces public engagement. I'd like to see the sausage-making being a lot more open, and the public becoming more tolerant of imperfections in our elected officials. Naive as that may seem, it actually seems more achievable to me than that the political class becomes less dysfunctional in the absence of any consistent oversight.
Congratulations on your launch!

I use Segment and can easily see the value in backfilling historical data when adding new data destinations. Also impressed with the respectable set of integrations [1] you have implemented already.

[1]: https://www.freshpaint.io/integrations

What would be your plan if Segment added “backfill” as a feature to their existing product? Does your “automation” also provide significant advantages over Segment?