skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. There is some nuance, but the proceeds must be used in a reasonable amount of time to purchase another protected primary residence.

http://www.gibblaw.com/are-the-proceeds-from-sale-of-homeste...
Hopefully that's not a case of "must be seen to be doing something" syndrome. If you can use pre-existing tools and they serve the purpose, how easy or difficult is it to resist the "shift to this" pressure?
I know this is common sense, but for some reason, it's still a pretty taboo topic among programmers and IT professionals. I wanted to share my (and probably everyone else's) views on the topic.
it clearly can if malloc_trim works?

I guess I didn't see how long that operation takes though, but it could certainly be useful for long-running processes like web browsers to call it every once in a while...
RT-PCR (Reverse Transcriptase PCR)
They can't file a DMCA counterclaim because they never received a DMCA claim in the first place. Youtube simply blocks the content, you don't even get a proper claim with the contact info.

"They would then be required by law to reinstate the content. The step after that would be that the other party now has to go to court, to take down your content." is the followup process for a DMCA claim - but that's not what's happening here. Youtube is not requiring claimants to submit a DMCA claim (with all the associated process) and they are not submitting DMCA claims. Youtube could make their copyright claim process following these rules if they wanted to be on the side of users, but they have not. They can also choose to have a process where any complaint simply causes content to get removed with no recourse, and this is pretty much what they have done.
basically everyone who works on "space" projects drank a fucking gallon of post-apollo space koolaid.

all of the aerospace companies take wild advantage of it.

at least musk is actually doing something interesting with their obsession, and not just building bigger bombs.
Are you anxiety about money?
It's quite inspiring to see a real goal and drive towards it.

Purpose is so hard to come by now because we all don't know what we want. When we do know, we're constantly unsure about it.

Such a clear goal makes it easy to have greater purpose that you don't second guess.

This isn't a scheme to get rich, a zero sum political movement, or a narcissistic artistic endeavor. It's pretty unique there.

There's that whole danger of a cult of personality but the project is bearing fruit.
I first learned Antlr way back about 20 years ago and found it fairly impressive. So when I go to write a new parser or lexer I always go take a look again...

But every time I take a new look at Antlr there's a huge amount of issues related to the fact that they have a huge new rewrite deprecating old versions while the new version is not ready: entirely new ways of doing things with missing documentation and examples, incomplete or missing language backends, and missing packaging for various Linux distributions.

What I get from it is: Antlr is a very powerful project... if you're in the Java ecosystem and if you're willing to use old no longer supported versions.

Otherwise, questionable choice.
To be fair, ruby is not a fun language to machine-parse.
Really? If someone told me they were going to write all the glue code that basically gets you the same thing a UI deployment of k8s and a couple yaml files can provide, I’d walk out.
Ok millenial
The name of the function is typically the same though, even with structural typing. This doesn’t seem quite like that.
I can only speculate, that's just how I read that person's comment. That said, there does at least appear to be significantly more publicity surrounding women's issues, including labor, as well as the general value of women's contributions compared to men's.
Where do you put Paul Grahams simple analysis that at the current rate within one month we have 1 million cases?

Over estimation?
It seems I'm getting old, but you can watch it happen:

2007 - https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/unintentional_2007_bw...

2008 - https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/leading_causes_injury...

2009 - https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/leading_causes_injury...

2010 - https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/10lcid_unintentional_...

2011 - https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/leading_causes_of_inj...

All Data - https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/LeadingCauses.html
> faces of non-caucasian individuals

The Chinese government, operating the biggest surveillance state on the planet, have had no trouble with the faces of non-caucasian individuals, historically or otherwise. Their facial recognition systems are highly adept at identifying asian faces. They also supply half the world.

According to IHS Markit, China accounted for nearly half of the global facial recognition business in 2018.

https://www.ft.com/content/6f1a8f48-1813-11ea-9ee4-11f260415...
As with actually using an "open-door policy", that's probably a good way to wind up fired.
Settle on Mars
The lack of proof that the gun was linked to him sounded quite alarming. What I suspect happened was like the #twitterjoketrial: once anti-terrorism police had got involved, it was impossible to de-escalate it and admit it was just a homeless guy and not a secret terrorist bunker.

(The setup is superficially very similar to "stay behind" operations, so I can sort of see how someone might have panicked)
Some people track their own movements and post them on the internet, so it's absolutely understandable they have no problem with it.

What would be more inciteful IMO is if you said why you find it wrong/unhelpful/scary?
Will Symmetrical Art Ever Rule the World?
It's an upper bound, I'm not sure if anyone has constructed an optimal algorithm matching it though.
Humans are not biologically adapted to surviving on Mars, and for that reason, any settlement to Mars is bound to fail in the long term.
>There are a lot of people here very confidently stating that LIDAR isn't necessary but seemingly forgetting to link to any actual evidence of fully autonomous vehicles that work without it.

Funny, I was not aware of any fully autonomous vehicle that actually works with or without it.
Duck typing really only makes sense in the context of dynamic typing.
Same data, way fewer ads: http://ev-sales.blogspot.com/2020/02/europe-january-2020.htm...
I don' see what is the point of this article. Because of how priorities and values work, labor performed for others must be paid (as otherwise why do it?), while labor performed for yourself and your family does not need payment, as the motivation is intrinsic. Calling it unpaid labor is manipulative and disingenuous - who should be paying me if I fix my own shoes for example? The whole problem statement makes no sense.
Wow - if you go further down they mention there was a VT100 Demmo scene
Wait... Is the US really charging for the tests? If they want to stop the spread of the virus, the test needs to be free.

Actually, go one step further, they need to begin random screening. A lot of people are not presenting severe symptoms and therefore are not going to the hospital, but are still carriers.
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Do they though? I've had plenty of virtual machines with over a year of uptime no problem (sometimes quite a bite more). I'd argue the only important thing in an early stage startup is a robust backup plan, including monitoring your backups and test restores often.
With something like Heroku, you can have multiple VM's in staging and production, w/ a deployment pipeline that supports rollbacks, monitoring, alerting, autoscaling, all in a managed environment w/ a managed, highly available Postgres setup, with very little effort and 0 maintenance. This is what I've setup at my current startup. My last company was on K8's and I loved it -- but this is nearly as good and requires literally no maintenance and _far_ less expertise / setup.
Do you genuinely think this is best answered with a simple, top-level "regulation does/doesn't work" argument? The question has no answer, and you gain almost no understanding of regulators by pondering it.

Anyway, even the banking circa 2008 story is not simple.

The banking "regulators" in action at the time were central basically two sets of institutions, with kinda unrelated goals. The first & primary is "central banking," which uses banking regulation and stuff to stabilise currency value (inflation targeting). The second institution is things like the SEC,"consumer" protection against fraud.

The reason the currency regulator(s) get all the attention, independent authority and such is monetary history. Currencies crashed a lot, even gold & gold standard ones.^ In recent decades, this is rare. Even during the crisis, we saw very little hyperinflation around the world.

Maybe they shouldn't have this mandate. Maybe different monetary policy would be better. But, I think it's hard to deny that the big-daddy financial regulators (central bankers) do the job they were built to do successfully... currencies are stable, even under very large debt loads.

The job you give the regulator matters.

^yes, yes, controversial.
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I don’t think that’s an accurate assessment. Kahan, the “father” of IEEE 754, is a professor and Turing award recipient. The designers of Intel’s 8087 were influenced by his writing. Here’s a bit of a history of it, with gripping subtitles such as “The Battle over Gradual Underflow” and “The Showdown”, and this conclusion from Kahan:

“In the usual standards meetings everybody wants to grandfather in his own product. I think it is nice to have at least one example -- IEEE 754 is one -- where sleaze did not triumph.”

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/ieee754status/754st...
Then go have that valuable discussion.
Bitcoin Talk post from 2010 where pizza was bought for 10k Bitcoin
Come to New Orleans and you'll see all the chickens roaming around the neighborhood you'll ever want. The only problem is some of the roosters think 2 PM is the time to crow.
The most frustrating habits of Rust crate maintainers
Not being hugely familiar with London I recognised the name but I've never been to Hampstead Heath - it does have quite an extensive Wikipedia entry that makes it sound fascinating:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampstead_Heath

Mind you, I am easily fascinated.
Business expenses (for the company spinning up instances) are already written off taxes, which is what ozfive was talking about.

Do you mean that the cloud provider can write off that income as charitable donation?
> for the extremely hard problem of getting a super-large vehicle out of Earth’s gravity well into orbit

Why does it need to be super-large? To simulate gravity?
usually people change across shifts over time, you don't always work with the same people every time, so there would be a continuous sync up.
They basically exist for everyone.

As soon as you go down the road of actually doing infrastructure-as-code, using (not running) k8s is probably as good as any other solution, and arguably better than most when you grow into anything complex.

Most of the complaints are false equivalence: i.e. running k8s is harder than just using AWS, which I already know. Of course it is. You don't manage AWS. How big do you think their code base is?

If you don't know k8s already, and you're a start-up looking for a niche, maybe now isn't the time to learn k8s, at least not from the business point of view (personal growth, another issue).

But when you do know k8s, it makes a lot of sense to just rent a cluster and put your app there, because when you want to build better tests, it's easy, when you want to do zero trust, it's easy, when you want to integrate with vault, it's easy, when you want to encrypt, it's easy, when you want to add a mesh for tracing, metrics and maybe auth, it's easy.

What's not easy is inheriting a similarly done product that's entirely bespoke.
It depends. OCaml explicitly has polymorphic records as well.
One of the weird things about being a programmer is that we get really exposed to large crossings across orders of magnitude and it can be very difficult to internalize how that works. Sometimes, lots of little things don't add up to something significant. I don't know the exact numbers, but it's not hard to guess that a cell phone, by the time it's done thermally limiting itself and dealing with a massively smaller cache and all the other disadvantages it has could well be literally only 1/1,000th as effective as a single dedicated machine running this stuff. At that point, it can easily be the case that a million cell phones might add only single-digit percentages of improvement to the system as a whole, which, for the amount of human intervention in question, is not a very useful result. (That is, the same amount of human intervention could be much more usefully spent; if nothing else, by installing the native clients.)

I'm not saying that's the exact number; that depends on a lot of things. My point is that this is a great deal more plausible an outcome than your intuition may think. (It could even be worse.)

A similar idea was in vogue in the oughties about loading JS onto web pages and having people compute things while visiting CNN or something. But especially on the much slower JS of the time, and with no access to GPUs, by the time you worked out all the multiplicative slowdowns involved, and dealt with the crazy broken communications topology (radically slower than in-memory bandwidth, etc.), you were looking at loading down millions of people's machines to get the equivalent of single digit high-power dedicated machines for all but very embarrassingly parallel problems. You were better off just buying the CPU power.

("Well then, what about Seti@Home and such?" All embarrassingly parallel problems running native clients, at high rates of utilization. That's a several orders of magnitude more efficient than running things when a visitor happens to visit some web page (terrible utilization), on a slow JS VM, in a single thread.)
Remember that not everyone is using an operational model that would benefit from K8s.
ECS works great and ties into IAM/VPC/etc.

Also you're not paying $80 per control plane, they're free.
Probably not the link referred to above, but John McPhee wrote about how he decides on the structure of his long-form essays in the New Yorker.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/01/14/structure
Try this from Crenshaw. Its old but just assumes basic programming skills (even if you olnly know javascript its close enough)

I manged to follow it when i was 14, when i found it on one of the newsgroups.

https://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/

here is port of code to C https://github.com/lotabout/Let-s-build-a-compiler
Or, you could use a distro with a sane init system, which eliminates all the systemd and reinvented wheel footguns.

The last time I installed ubuntu 18.04, DNS queries took ~5 seconds. It’s a well known issue, with no diagnosed root cause. The solutions involved uninstalling the local dns stack, starting with systemd’s resolver.

2018 was well after DNS was reliable. How can stuff like that break in a long term support release?
Doesn't sound massively trustless to me, and it does sound like passing the risk of frozen accounts etc onto the user.
Google Cloud goes after the telco business with Anthos for Telecom
As always, the insight is appreciate, Tim!
The main difference between big box and indie bookstores was the attractiveness of the staff. This may seem glib, but the whole point of a book store was they were curated hangouts based on filters of what the staff would tolerate. Big box stores are accessible, but not attractive, they lack what was ultimately termed, "erotic capital."

Being interested in books or niche music was a pretty good filter for people. My book stacks are based on walking down the street with $20 in my pocket, and spending it somewhere I thought I would encounter some curated random personal encounters.

It was never about the products, it was about the community around it. The ability for owners to shoe out undesirable people is what made them attractive places to be. It was a rare retail experience where men and women could meet. Today the people in a "book" store full of scented candles and twee knicknacks that happens to sell books is too random a selection to make it a destination for anyone.

From what I can tell by the big box chain here, today, books are used as a loss leader to provide a decorative bourgeois shopping theme park experience. They mainly sell chocolate sugar candies, magazines (all of which exist on a spectrum of aspirational porn), and brickabrack from slave labour factories.

B&N's strategy will be interesting, as either they will be in the culture business, or the sugar-porn-junk business.
Terminal-Based Personal Organizer
I really like docker swarm for the on-prem stuff we have.
You changed the probability here from 10% to 90% by inverting the test.
I don't know how fun that would be to roam around with a helmet on your face or live in a giant doom or environment controlled building
Procedural Map Generator
Damn cloud.
But it's absolutely not unpaid work though.

I imagine that these women also live under the same roof as their partner and consume food for free.

That has a cost which isn't paid in cash but is paid in exchange of work at home.
It's not like jet lag is a new phenomenon. It's just a bit unfortunate to introduce minor jet lag to the entire population without giving them much chance to adapt.
U.S. Delays New Data-Release Policy, in Win for Media Firms
Do do the same thing this guy and do all the things you mentioned. I create cards on sundays only and i do anki every morning before i start working. It can be accomplished easily, sans children.
The reference to the Great Escape seems most apt to me; this tiny underground wooden construction, ultimately doomed to discovery. But in his case he encounters the London anti-terrorism command rather than the Gestapo. And it's a form of escape, but from high property prices. Effectively tunneling into a society that doesn't want him. The mirror image of the mansion owners digging out another sub-basement for another swimming pool.

There are lots of weird illegal living situations in London; "beds in sheds", hugely overcrowded slum housing, illegal sublets. Talk of providing social housing, but what's there can sometimes also get illegally sublet: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/jailed-man-who-lived-...
OHSU doctors edit a person’s genes inside the eye to try to reverse blindness
I think it’s a safe assumption that any given problem domain has more complexity than is obvious at first glance.
Efficiencies of scale. Too small and you can't pack enough food for the trip or proper redundancies, still too small and you can't build the base fast enough, don't bring enough stuff on the trip and you need to make more trips..which are time limited due to the rendezvous. You end up inclined to 'as big as possible'
I hope he gets to solve the terraforming part of going to Mars, as well.
Also, maybe he sets his eyes on colonizing the ocean space on Earth - lots of empty space in the water.
It's also why, IMO, obscurity is a valid component to security.
fair point!! but in such detail-laden [long!] expository articles, i expect more than _suggestion_ around the central premise of this man's ultimate imprisonment for 5 years. no?
Yeah you can export decks. The export is .mochi format, but it's just a zip file with some plain text data and attachment files (like images, audio, etc).
Transparent Society is still the best book on the subject and I agree with you whole-heartedly about the societal ground shifting.
That just means that the employees are more likely to be well taken care of. This intuitively would suggest the company is more likely to be successful, but i think GP's observation is that the opposite might be what we actually see in practice. At least right now.
Interesting. Do you have any good links to more information about how this works in practice? I guess it's similar to CDMA cell phones.
I am not sure I would call him a brilliant engineer if he had to steal designs from Google.
People managed with dynamically typed languages for a long, long time in building pretty vast services. Static typing has its merits but it really depends on what you're building - if you're a bank, it offers excellent guarantees. If you're building something smaller scale or lower impact, you can cope if you're logical and have good tests.
https://senrigan.io/blog/everything-i-know-strategies-tips-a...

A bit of a self-post, but I've compiled a list of Anki tips I've learned and found. My deck is about 14,000 cards over the last few years - so I've learned a bit from my own mistakes :)
Having several SpaceX employees in my circle of friends, I would not assume that at all.
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A single psilocybin dose is associated with long-term increased mindfulness
> This is a strawman.

Is it? My (perhaps incorrect) understanding of your argument is that your audience should already understand that agreeing in part is not agreeing in full, and that more to the point, if they don't already know that they might not be worth communicating with in the first place.

My argument is that it's a good idea to worry less about what people should know, and more about working around what they do know.

Sometimes good communication means accommodating people's biases and misconceptions about how the world works, and addressing those misconceptions up-front.

> What you're describing is basically code switching.

Sure. And what quotemstr is doing isn't code switching? What is the difference between dismissing an argument because of the source and dismissing it because it was spelled wrong? Why should I accommodate one behavior and not the other?
Yep. It needs to be used intelligently. That's generally how good employees add value.
Absolutely, but I do think the people joining know what they are signing up for.
No the complaint is that we aren't scaling to google levels, in fact we are barely scaling at all. K8s isn't needed.

We ran applications without it fine a few years ago. And it was a lot simpler.
People need to live in it. A 1 Kg probe can take some pictures, the tiny Apollo Lunar Module was 16,400Kg and only designed to support 2 people for 75 hours. Meanwhile Mars (3.72 m/s²) has significantly more gravity than the Moon (1.62 m/s²), making a trip back from the surface even more difficult.
The problem is Tesla autopilot only works on highways and has been implicated in a number of crashes. Waymo seems to be taking the much more cautious approach of using every advantage they can get. Perhaps one day there will be self driving cars without lidar. But for now I think Waymo's results speak for themselves.
It must be copyrighted or have some other broken dis-economy, because the most obvious product decisions that would make this huge have been rejected.

The whole point of this is to study in spare moments, like on public transit - using mobile. Uninstalled. That's so disappointing because it's so obvious, and I can't trust an ecosystem that dumb.

I didn't think it was possible to be as disappointed in an app as I am with this one.
People seem to hate learning vocabulary for concepts that they are already dealing with. Personally I love having a common vocabulary to have precise conversations with other developers.
Thank you! radiooooo.com is blocked here at work but radiooooo.app isn't :)