skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This movement is about centuries of unjustness. To me, it is appropriate that the occasional bystander and business is overlooked. That doesn't mean that if you were my sibling, or friend, or business that I wouldn't be entitled to express personal pain. But the magnitude of my pain is nothing next to the pain that's led up to this, and no it wouldn't be appropriate for it to get remotely equal attention.

Sure, ideally bystanders and local businesses (in particular) would be spared. But nothing about the historical events leading to now is ideal.
unless you are referring to multiple sets of distinct dice.
Providing the service assumes staying in business, no?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23351181
He and his colleagues were immediately fired and he has since been charged for his actions. It hasn't even been a week, what more do you want?

edit: s/charged/arrested
Another Utahn here. Fascinating that they codenamed it "bumblehive". The Utah territory was named "Deseret" when the Mormon settlers arrived. Deseret is believed to mean Honeybee in an ancient language and was chosen to represent industriousness.
Allegiance! Now there's a name I haven't read in a long time. tried to get into that community around the time the first Free Allegiance release happened, but I didn't end up with the right combination of personality and time to get really involved, and even though I think the gameplay might be more my jam today, I think the community has largely dried up, and I don't have nearly the time I used to for gaming. (A few years later, I got DEEP into ArmA and DCS, which led my career into academic research connected to defense training and simulation.)

Incidentally, this is another reason to be excited about the second coming of Microprose -- I'm unclear on the exact relationship, but I believe I read that some of the same leadership responsible for TitanIM is associated with the new Microprose.

TitanIM is a defense simulation engine, using Outerra, which is a world-scale 3d+terrain engine. Tech demos of Outerra are around, and there's at least a few TitanIM videos floating around. I've been out of the sim/training niche for a couple of years, but I believe Titan is still being marketed as a competitor to Virtual Battle Space (VBS) which is the ArmA engine, but expanded and specialized for training, and sold into government with the associated contract support, etc.

I have no idea if this overlap in leadership means Microprose might have access to/be using the same tech stack as Titan for the new Microprose games, but if they are, it could be pretty darn cool.
What I want to know is what, if any, are the implications for CPU architecture. How should bignum arithmetic be efficiently implemented in hardware?
Man, what a coincidence?!!
I was just thinking of random things yesterday, and my beloved childhood game Transport Tycoon came into my mind for a bit. Then I immediately recalled Chris Sawyer and his genius, along with his less-known company MicroProse.

Totally stunned to see this post on here today!
> "Step" refers to an interval gap of "half step" or "whole step"

Right, but it does not mean 'half step'. It means one or other depending on the harmonic context, not the language context as said above. In the case in the article, a "step" down from the third is the second, not the minor third as the article says.

> I would be quite open to a definition where '1 step' is always '1 half step'

I don't understand this, sorry. Why not just use semitone?

> Since both 'semitone' and 'half step' imply a less useful fundamental value of 2 half steps

Western music isn't fundamentally chromatic either, so talking in semitones isn't particularly useful.

As you imply with reference to wholetones and dissonance, the words tone/semitone also give useful melodic information that we've all already learned. E.g. raising the 5th a tone is consonant, raising the major 3rd a tone is dissonant. Of course you could teach students that not all steps/two steps are the same, depending on scale degree, but then you're back to square one, just with different words for semitone/tone.

> Your entire hypothetical dialogue is confusing as well, since your hypothetical person isn't using correct words either.

Yeah it's meant to be confusing, my point is that overloading terms gets confusing quickly, at least for me.
FWIW, HES doesn't require admissions - a prospective student simple registers for the first few required classes in the program. If successful in those, they continue on in the full program. I believe one of the courses is a research & writing survey that is reportedly quite difficult to pass.

So, still not an option for an average 18 year old. But, potentially a fantastic option for a smart 18 year old who wouldn't otherwise be able to attend Harvard (or other elite institution).
cookieEnabled is not reliable for handling third-party cookies, unless you also load a third-party frame running JS. (And even then it doesn't work like you'd want in many browsers.)
I do think it's amazing that we can now script out a million dollar data center, build up, tear down for just an hour of use (and just a fraction of the cost). And that's available to ordinary people (with a little budget obviously). Compare what we had 20 years ago. Mind blown.
Can you rephrase the choices?

- Unsub from this marketing topic.

- Unsub from all marketing mails. You will continue to receive paid course content; to terminate see [account deletion request page].

On the account deletion page, make it clear that they'll lose out on further paid content, don't come back crying, blah blah.
Any company I’ve worked at, anonymous feedback surveys were never anonymous.

The most egregious one was a startup that I worked for. There was a weekly all hands where anyone could ask anything either by raising their hand or by using a home made tool to ask questions. They would then get selected (we were 30 people, selection was not because we lacked time to answer questions) and the hardest questions would rarely get answered. People could also vote on which questions they wanted answered most. It was guaranteed to be anonymous but we were encouraged to sign our questions so that they could “ask clarifications.”

Questions that were not signed that were selected were always answered with “I wish I knew who asked that so I could answer them directly” from the cofounders.

But they didn’t really need that anyway. They knew exactly who asked what and who upvoted what because it was all in the database for the service.

I asked why we were not paying interns at all (it’s illegal and unfair) and signed my question. I was promptly shown the door and everyone was discouraged do good to ever use this tool to ask meaningful questions ever again.

So, yes, unfortunately the workplace is not a democracy. It’s a dictatorship in which you have no right to free speech. No one is interested in fixing anything because it puts their job or power in jeopardy. They know it sucks, but that’s why they pay you to bite your tongue and sit there 40h a week. But if you want to keep getting a salary regularly, stay quiet, do your own thing so that you meet the performance expectations, and suck it up or look for a new job while enjoying life outside work. But spoiler: your next job won’t be better, just different. Oh, and sont say anything bad on the exit form/interview: it won’t change anything about the workplace you’re never working at again, but it will bite you in the ass through references and gossip.

Really, it’s lose lose to try and provide “constructive criticism” about the process or idiotic things that are in your manager or superiors hands.
EOS Open Storage
> You'll be extremely relieved to know that nobody forced them to open a business that sells products and services to the general public.

Same goes for Twitter. By your logic, Twitter has no grounds to complain when Trump screws them over for censoring conservatives, because no one forced them to go into business.

Are you really thinking about this? I feel like you're just responding with bad-faith platitudes.
The majority of websites use third-party analytics that collect way more information than necessary and may use it for their own purposes (surprisingly a lot of these companies' main business is ad-tech). The problem here is that not only do you get analytics but the third-party (with whom the user has no relationship and their interests might be against the user's) is now able to track that user across other websites.
I just visited NYT's sit. It immediately set 20 cookies before asking for consent. It also loaded stuff from google.com sites.

The options that appeared are (a) Accept (b) Manage Trackers

Manage trackers leads to this page

https://www.nytimes.com/subscription/privacy-policy#/cookie

Which seems to list lots of 3rd parties that will track me if I view the site. I'm told I have to go to their sites and opt out.
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CUPS is a (network) Print Server
Luckily, there's a lot of that kind of content out there already.
Is Jewel v. NSA still ongoing? The last update was in 2017 but did not sound like a decision.
Looting private businesses and setting fires isn’t “self-defense”.
> The rules are very clear once you look past the fear-mongering.

Hence the massive debate to this day over the rules.
Add a language to your CV when you are fluent enough in the language to understand all the syntax and you can read anything written in the language and you have written code yourself in it. This doesn't mean you are an all out expert and know every detail, just that you are capable in the language. Most of the time we use 60-80% of a programming language IME, so once you know that common set you are good. That other 20-40 percent of a language is usually specialized to specific things or fringe and not common, so not knowing those fluently is fine IMO.

Put another way, you know a language when you can pick up any project written in it and can read it intelligently without having to look up what common library functions do (not all of course, but the most common of the functions).
These are all the features killed by Microsoft in Windows 10 May 2020 Update
This deserves to be a top comment. Once you hustled your life away and have your life full of regrets that you haven't spent it with your loved ones - you realise that location is a pretty useless qualifying factor for life unless your family and closest ones are around.
To expand on it, there's no assurances of that flag working, and crates relying on it to work on stable are breaking all compatibility guarantees the language restricts itself to. Updating stable compilers can break your crate, and nightly features in stable and beta do not receive backports and them being broken won't stop a stable release, so it's pretty much like running on nightly unless you know what you're doing and take on the responsibility of maintaining the stability assurances yourself.

That being said, it can be useful in closed source repos for specific circumstances.

It would be nice if we changed what the flag is named every stable release as a way to "discourage" its use. I wonder if I should write an RFC.
The art of software engineering is all about finding the right abstractions.

Higher-order abstractions can be a productivity boon but have costs when you fight their paradigm or need to regularly interact with lower layers (in ways the designs didn't presume).

Airflow and similar tools are doing four things:

A) Centralized cron for distributed systems. If you don't have a unified runtime for your system, the old ways of using Unix cron, or a "job system" become complex because you don't have centralized management or clarity for when developers should use one given scheduling tool vs another.

B) Job state management. Job can fail and may need to be retried, people alerted, etc ... Most scheduling system has some way to do deal with failure too, but these tools are now treating this as stored state

C) DAGs, complex batch jobs are often composed of many stages with dependencies. And you need the state to track and retry stages independently (especially if they are costly)

D) What many of these tools also try to do, is tie the computation performing a given job to the scheduling tool. This now seems to be an antipattern. They also try to have "premade" job stages or "operators" for common tasks. These are a mix of wrappers to talk to different compute systems and actual compute mechanisms themselves.

If you have the kind of system that is either sufficiently distributed, or heterogeneous enough that you can't use existing schedulers, you need something with #A, but if you also need complex job management, you need #A, #B and #C, and having rebuilt my own my times, using a standard system is better when coordinating between many engineers. What seems necessary in general is #D.
The Steam reviews are... pretty harsh. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1057240/Crucible/
I suppose paying good money for IP rights only to not take full advantage of those rights wouldn't be the wisest business decision in some people's view.
Yes, we need to improve the backfills in Airflow.

We're working on making the scheduler HA and more performant, reach out to me if you'd like to collaborate on your use case (ry at astronomer dot io)
It was Diplomacy. They still haven't finished the game.
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> I think that looking at past history of voting fraud shows pretty conclusively that _vote by mail_ fraud has always been a very low percentage.

If fraud was committed successfully, it's not going to show up in the data. You won't know at all. It's like saying "there's no evidence of a cover-up". Well of course there isn't, that's the point.

I've heard plausible methodologies for carrying out mail-in vote fraud that would be undetectable. E.g. mail containing ballots being diverted/"lost". I can neither prove nor disprove this is happening though.

I agree that electronic voting is an even worse idea than mail-in voting.
> but I was looking forward to a president ceding some of his power back to congress

And you were expecting that from someone who draws a significant amount of fame from "You're fired!", and "I'm the boss", "I have total authority"??
Yeah, isn't VR perfect for space combat?
- Your direction is controlled by the joystick and not the direction of your vision, so you can sit in one direction
- You sit in a tight cockpit, so there's no need for fancier VR that tracks positioning of the headset to the room
- Inertial dampeners and artificial gravity lessen the need for force feedback (although vibration units in the headset and joystick would be cool
I agree it wouldn't sell very well.

But postmortems in the tech world do trend sometimes

a news cycle postmortem - someone pitch this in an elevator
(author here) I don't have anything to add, you guys have great arguments, I just want to show appreciation for starting a good debate based on a code example I did :)
I am so, so tired of everyone apply "conservative" to outright nonsense. We should say "republican" or "trumpian" instead.

There is nothing conservative in many of the far-right ideas, by any definition of the word. If the idea or opinion is:

1) Based on pure hate

2) Based on treating a protected class badly - you know, the whole reason we have class protections

3) Based on NOTHING AT ALL, no facts given, other than sometimes a turtles-all-the-way-down derivation of other crazy opinions, and sometimes with a "make it true" initiative bringing up the rear. Speculation is not a position. Speculation is not a position. SPECULATION IS NOT A POSITION!

those are NOT Conservative. Those are crazy. Especially #3, employed all the time by the current POTUS.

I personally believe the Conservative movement has actually been wildly successful over the last several decades, and the country has shifted significantly to the right.

Now, all that remains is the crazy. That is all the right has to differentiate itself, and they're going all in.

Anyway, TLDR: crazy is not Conservative, please use Trumpian or Republican if that fits. Also, speculation is not a position :)
> The rules are very clear once you look past the fear-mongering

> Don't stalk people

Are you just not aware of your own hypocrisy?
This odd thread sparks my memory on another story about data centers that I came across -- how railroad history determines where data centers tend to be located in the US:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/how-r...

I wonder if this US Govt data center ties into / depends on the Union Pacific trunk(?) fiber lines?
bubbling is radicalism
Really? People who steal should be shot?
It’s amazing that this guy was able to deconstruct this shenanigan. I’ve seen it too on amazon mktplace and was like what? Then forgot about it.
I can't tell from your comments whether you realized yet, but the trick is only useful if you add several 256 bit numbers. You can add up to 2^13 numbers (each one 256 bits) before you actually have to do the four carry shift-outs once. In effect, you do reduce the number of carry operations (to four, albeit slightly more involved), and that is what ends up saving time.

There is no performance gain if you only add two numbers, even though that's the setup the article discusses for 90% of its length. It seems that this is leading to some confusion.
Clever usage of subdomains
Huh, I stand corrected. I assumed that since the geckoview / the new UI had come to beta, that it supported the same addons as preview.
Let me word it another way then.

Given limited resources, don't you think it's undeniably correct to direct those resources where they are more effective?
That's not correct, none of the four officers involved have been charged yet.
HN was (is) super into GDPR and any dissonance was (is, but fortunately less nowadays) quickly downvoted.
They will likely face consequences from the United States and other places for this, both from international finance (They will withdraw capital) and maybe other avenues, (covert funding of opposition parties, threats of sanctions) but they’re not in Latin America so at least there won’t be a coup.
It should be noted that the police arrested a journalist from CNN faster than they arrested the guilty officer.
They actually do, there is alt-right Twitter aka gab.ai, alt-right Youtube aka Bitchute, alt-right Facebook aka Vkontakte, a boatload of "bulletproof" hosters and domain registrars. They even have their own TV stations (OAN, parts of Fox News), radios and podcasts.

For just about anything you want the alt-right has their "free speech" alternatives. The thing they are whining about is that the reach of these alternatives is way, WAY lower than the reach of the companies/projects of the alt-right. Almost as if the free market actually works and people deliberately choose to not engage in platforms dominated by alt-right hate mongers...
Baking Is Not a Ritual
This is a nation wide issue and has been for centuries
This was in the south end of Seattle. People don't break into cars willy nilly, they steal shit. My brother's car recently got broken into (he's a broke musician but lives in a more affluent neighborhood) and they took everything not nailed down, including a ratty pair of shoes and the pad he used to track his gas mileage.
I've tried to distinguish levels of proficiency with a language in my CV. For example, "expert/highly proficient", "proficient", or "familiar". There's only one or two that I'd consider myself "highly proficient" in, and probably a half dozen that fall into the latter categories. Gives you some flexibility to say "hey, I've worked with [language X], but I'm not as strong as I am with [language Y]"
Several of the comments responding to him do address this and at least some of the people commenting do appear to know, or at least know more than Nassim Taleb appears to.

Besides, his statement isn't an argument, and present no facts or information.

> Imbecilic remark. Do you know how many humans would die if we eliminated mosquitos? Any idea?

petters also appears to be correct on what would happen if we had these issues in North America. Your own province kills mosquitos en masse and those ones aren't even carrying deadly disease they are just a nuisance.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/deltamethrin-first-u...
Current party lines blur to to the point of falling apart in the context of the 1964 Act, because it was a huge precipitating event for politicians switching parties (particularly Southern Democrats becoming Republicans). You can't directly map "Rs voted for the Act" onto party membership today: there was a very different mix of platforms at that time, only loosely comparable to what we have now.
> Every law called "the Civil Rights Act" passed with overwhelming Republican support.

The PATRIOT Act is hardly a champion of many patriotic things. Names mean... very little, so I'm not sure your point.

"Every faction in Africa calls themselves by these noble names - Liberation this, Patriotic that, Democratic Republic of something-or-other... I guess they can't own up to what they usually are: the Federation of Worse Oppressors Than the Last Bunch of Oppressors. Often, the most barbaric atrocities occur when both combatants proclaim themselves Freedom Fighters."
It certainly does. I've been at a company that had an improper permission result in a CSR getting elevated access and deleting the whole customer database, including every single credit card number, by mistake (admittedly this was back in like 2002). Better still, the devops guy who wrote the backup scripts had recently quit, and they were broken, the backups weren't being done. The company-saving backup from the previous day wound up being on an internal tools developer's laptop. I wasn't a database admin there or responsible for the permissions, but it was quite a wakeup call for everyone to double check their stuff when the rumors of what happened got out of the meetings the next day.

The counter argument is, would it better to have 10, 20, 100 such possible situations mulling around the building every day, or just one? Maybe if there's just one, you put enough effort and people into the one to get it right. That's the pitch for AD / LDAP being used for all auth and permissions, and I think a compelling one at that.
the policeman involved in the original incident should be investigated

Oh give it a rest. We saw him kill the man, he can sit a cell and prepare for his trial like any other killer. If you don't like what people int he media say find different commentators or stop listening to pundits altogether.

I am sick to the back teeth of people complaining about 'the mainstream media', when Fox News and Sinclair broadcasting are two of the biggest companies in TV.
A bit too traceable for money laundering but it could be in some cases
Is YouTube blocked in the EU? Let’s assume it’s turning a profit there, then start wondering how. The obvious answer is that monetised videos generally have a subject, and advertisements can be tied to that subject.
Well said, but I'd like to restate and emphasize a point you stated:

the Constitution specifies that States (not The People or citizens or voters) shall choose their electors.

As you said, allocation of electors by states has been played with in different ways based on different election/ voting methods, but there's actually no constitutional requirement for States to hold a general election at all.

It's entirely up to the state legislatures, who have all since delagated the responsibility to a statewide vote.

From Article II:

"Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors..."

That's it- the rest covers how many electors each state gets.

It's questionable as to what theoretical limits the modern SCOTUS might place on this power to delegate, but they've already said that voting must adhere to "one person, one vote" principles, and have hinted that the states can't delegate the power externally (from the state). But they've never explicitly "locked-in" the requirement that any state hold a general election at all.