skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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The Ground of Optimization
This article goes so far as to flirt with the testing numbers without actually siting them. I really don't see what's so hard for news outlets to throw the total number of tests alongside the total number of positive results.
Indeed, I suspect there is a curse of expertise. If you're an expert, you begin seeing everything as so nuanced, as so fragile, that you will dismiss lots of radical innovation as too simplistic. (And I think especially it affects motivation to actually try something new.)

But if somebody somewhat naive comes along, and just pushes through with sheer effort, they might succeed where many experts have predicted a failure.
There's a saying: "Pray like it all depends on God. Work like it all depends on you." Adapt that to your belief system.
> gradual escalation

Part of the reason for the quick escalation is that (American) cops are taught things like the Tueller Drill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwHYRBNc9r8 that claims that an attacker can close 21 feet in 1500 milliseconds and stab a victim so many times that even a fast ambulance response won't save him from bleeding out.

This idea means the cop has to unholster a pistol as soon as any sign of noncompliance is showm, start firing if a person "reaches for their waist", and empty the magazine because this Olympian attacker won't be stopped by a few bullets.

They just "want to get home to their families" despite the fact that car accidents are deadlier to cops and garbage men have more dangerous jobs.
Really sorry about the frustrations! We're working on improving both of those pain points (as well as many other things). If you're still an ngrok user, send me an email at alan at ngrok dot com
Mail is a pretty awful client imo, but still better than most other. Canary and Airmail however are absolutely amazing (I recently switched to Canary from Airmail) and there really isn't anything comparable on other platforms.
I have a 13' macbook Pro. Really is the pinnacle. I don't even know which osx it is, but it just feels a lot more 'serious'.

I'm not a fan of the new OSX, guess mobile is more prevalent and maybe apple are hoping the iPhone and ipad can be gateway drugs into macbooks / desktop by being more of the same.
It's not quite the Old Oxford, but Merriam-Webster is easier to search online and seems to appear that it's a confusing mix of both. "Riot" is a Middle English borrowing from French, where it meant "public debauchery" (now considered an obsolete meaning), but even in French at the time had associations with violent debauchery. The first uses of the word in English were as a noun and for "debauchery". The first uses of riot as a verb were figuratively in the "riot of color" sense, but even then implied violence may have been part of the figurative imagery?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/riot
Apart from the lack of empathy, it's an interesting study of a refusal to accept logic, in that he is refusing to acknowledge her fear, then continues to argue with her and gets responses he clearly considers illogical, sees the facts of the matter does not correspond to his expectations, yet fail to make the connection that this means he needs to reassess his initial assumptions as they are clearly wrong in one way or another.

They really ought to use this and cases like it as a training case to teach officers to recognize when they start doubling down on a course of action that is so obviously counter-productive instead of pausing to reassess, as whether or not they were technically "wrong", he clearly did an awful job and ended up wasting police resources.

So even in a scenario where the police don't care about empathy at all this way of responding was counter-productive.
> Why don't all the sane people just block them and ignore them, and then go on with their lives

Because ‘sane people’ does not include your employer, who will throw you to the mob to appease them. In the US that also means losing your health insurance, so it can be a death sentence for you or your loved ones.

(I'll regret posting this when I'm starving in a gutter.)
This is just the 2020 version of Windows 95+NT = XP.
If i were the designer, for absolute clarity i would change any character you type to display as a dollar sign.
> users don't care. They don't know what a browser is, what a client is, or an URL or URI or address bar.

All true but irrelevant. The problem is that artificial lack of choice prevents competition and innovation. Microsoft from the 90s is here again. And users don’t care, again.

I do not count another UI as a new browser. It should be different under the hood.
> How is no marking better than some marking?

With no marking it is clear what it means: commits have not been audited to identify security-relevant ones.

With partial, incomplete marking, unmarked commits can be one of two things: commits that have not been looked at, and commits that have been looked at and are believed to contain no security relevant changes.

The majority of commits will be in the "not looked at" category. And there's enough people around to have a significant subset of them be lazy, ignorant, unskilled or stupid and take that as "contains no security relevant changes."

P.S.: also, patches are already marked. By being included in the LTS series. Because that means they were important enough to get a backport — though not necessarily due to security impact.
At this point FreeType is generally better (faster, more featureful) than Apple's Core Graphics, although FT is very customizable and I prefer Apple-like defaults to the ones most Linux distros use. You can definitely get Apple-like rendering out of FreeType; disabling hinting and making sure stem darkening is on gets you most of the way there.
Usually those topics don't fall prey to moral policing.

An example might be someone arguing "trans women are not really women". If the question doesn't affect them personally, they're just pursuing what they see as a rational debate or stretching their mind. Their lives will not actually be affected by the exercise.

If you're a trans woman then that's an argument you've been exposed to hundreds of times and it's demeaning and emotional.

You can argue that you're just being rational. And you might ever change your mind! But it's a shitty thing to force that conversation on people when they're only the ones who have a stake in the outcome.

It's not censorship if you are choosing to hold your tongue out of consideration for others.
Some are good. But many have better alternatives. All mac apps leech your data to the cloud though. And that should be a huge no from all of us.
The photoelectric effect paper of Einstein was 1905, no?
Linux does not solve my problems (as a power user with Linux). It does not work with the proprietary tools I need to do my job and I’ve broken apt way too many times. I’m not remotely interested in debugging this at this stage of my life.
The announcement misses the best reason to change the name: squatting the namespace of an existing open source project: http://www.riot-os.org/
I can of misread this and thought it meant if you're looking for a new job, delete your Twitter account. Strange times.
You do like hardware getting locked down for development less than 2 years after it's release? (edit: OK, a bit over 2 years - 31. May 2018, still not that old)

I don't care about the shop. I just wish people could continue to develop for it as it is (or now was...) a pretty fun device to experiment with VR.
Images got bigger... it’s not that it’s too expensive it’s just way more expensive that good enough alternatives. There are other reasons too but that’s a surprising one
Slate Star Codex had an excellent essay about this, the nature of races-to-the-bottom, and the harm they cause to human flourishing.
Have you noticed how all your arguments are fine yet only personal preferences? (except dataloss)

The UX, UI and 'feel' is what makes people use one thing over another. Unless you can replicate that, or can do better, nobody's getting swayed either way (and that's fine, do what you want).

There is no objective 'my pc is better than your pc' because you're not the same person as the one you'd be attempting to compare against.

Better hardware and better drivers are useless arguments if someone wants to go to a shop, take a device home, plop it down and do some work. None of the betterness of the other stuff is going to undo the work, or undo the experience.

It's like telling someone their 24-pack of toilet paper is stupid because your shipping container full of toilet paper is cheaper and you have more than they have. (especially when all they wanted to do was wipe their butt)
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There are basically two things that the police do:

1> Patrol public spaces to deter illegal behavior in those places, direct traffic, punish traffic offenders, offer directions to tourists, etc

2> Respond to calls from citizens, investigate the crimes that those calls are about, locate and apprehend the associated criminals.

I've only lived in places sparsely populated enough that <1> is mostly impractical except along highways and around major construction sites.

The VAST majority of the value provided to people by the police clearly comes from <2> - it's the reason that no sane person would mug me (or kill me) for $40 cash on an unpatrolled country road, or invade my home and take up residence there against my will. 99.9% of citizens benefit from <2>, as it's the main deterrent to any antisocial person coming and taking whatever they have of value.

It seems to me (though I don't have data) that most (nearly all?) the mistreatment of (maybe mainly black) citizens by police that has been garnering media attention over the past decade or so, happens during the course of <1>.
Surely you see the hazard in funding expensive wildly speculative projects?

If you fail once, fail again but bigger... who cares it’s not our money and the bigger our project the more we pay ourselves...
Remember just a couple years ago when it looked like we were going to have sentient robots around the corner...

Now if we could just get a content moderation system that isn’t a human kludge mess, then maybe we can worry about general AI
Apple and Google aren't going to sell users' login credentials, and if law enforcement is requesting information, they will go directly to the provider who contains your data they're seeking.
Same here, I'm lucky to go through this as the most peaceful time in my life. I exercise and meditate a lot, and enjoy long afternoons in the garden, watching the small life going on and prospering, in the calm of now nearly empty roads.

Could have been the opposite if I was single, unemployed, without a garden and without a dog I think.
I hope you’re enjoying yourself over there dang. I enjoy that you keep it light.
Any news article that mentions the number of new positive cases without mentioning the number of new tests is doing it for the clicks. One is fairly useless without the other.

150 cases out of 150 tests? Yikes! 150 cases out of 150,000 tests? Yawn.
Exploring ‘Other Ways of Knowing’: The New Religious Threat to Science Education
> two fingers to right click works!

I really live by trying not to be snarky but this is testing my principles given how nice a mac trackpad is... (used Linux for a long time and now I've been on macos for almost the same amount of years, I love Linux and appreciate all the work people put into it, to be clear)
Click bait title, as ever I’d want to see more examples.

I hope there are plans to expand gravitational detectors.
Wait, did you just claim that the NYT is part of "the modern left"?

If so, that's the funniest thing I've read in the last few years. The NYT is the home of bothsidesism. It's certainly not "the modern left".

And as far as the NYT writing a hit piece to shut up a semi-popular blog, I'd suggest a quick reality check how much influence either has on public discourse. The idea the NYT would need to shut up SSC is just... pretty far out there.
Q1, Queen of the Demonweb Pits, had something similar if I recall.
> but the degradation of productivity on the current device vs. new device.

What does this mean? Do you mean your current device starts working poorly (but that would mean "existing device degrades per se", which you ruled out) or that the existence of a new device automatically makes you perceive your device as being of "degraded productivity"?
Ah, I see. I initially thought you were going to launch in to three dimensional chips.

Thanks for clearing that up, makes sense now.
> So yes, I think they have to consider that an armed citizen could incapacitate them for life at a distance with nearly no warning

That's different, and a valid consideration of risk, as compared to what you said before - "pretty much always have to approach a situation fearing for their lives."

Approaching a situation in a state of mortal fear, every time, rather than with a calm understanding of real risks, and this fear mindset feeds into their behaviour, this might be part of the problem.
One problem is that there isn't a social script for saying "I have been having a low-key mental health crisis for the past 18 months" in a way that people don't interpret as a request for help.
You don't need to crack open a terminal.

System76 maintains a list of trusted repos that allows you to install all of your software from the Pop!_Shop. All of the examples I gave are real, you can install VSCode, IntelliJ, Android Studio, Steam, and much more from official sources and official repos with one click on the Pop!_Shop. It is essentially a pretty, managed app store that handles updates, installs, and repos for you.
How about you show me an IQ study with a big cohort that shows otherwise? You're the one asserting something that doesn't line up with anyone's experience with zero proof.
How many times of this or similar things happening do you find acceptable? Or tolerable?
This is true for education as well. You can hear or read something and think you understand it, but you really don't unless you can reproduce the explanation, compare it to a ground truth, and verify that you got it.

The percentage of time you are doing that exercise is the percentage effectiveness of your education.

The nice thing about programming is your program is its own ground truth (programs are proofs). It either does what you expect it to or it doesn't (for the most part).
It seems it's all about context. Nobody talks about context. Communicating context is difficult, you have to really understand it before you can talk about it. Therefore context is left out most of the time.
We Are as Gods
Sure, but now imagine you have no confidence that any part of your paxos implementation works at all, nevermind the paxos part. That's my impression of issue #13 from the article: not only did the software not pass the test, it's clear that nobody ever even tried to use it, at all!

Full-scale blackbox testing of a database system is similar to dogfooding. You only use it when you have high confidence that you have exhausted the possibilities of unit and integration tests. It's clear this project did not start with exhaustive unit tests.

It reminds me a bit of FoundationDB, which is also a terrible program nobody should entrust with data they ever want to see again. The first time I tried to use it it ran out of memory and crashed in about ten seconds. I found the problem, which was that their huge-page-aware allocator, which has no tests, had never actually been used by anybody on a machine with huge pages. It was a core library of a released database which had never been executed by anyone. This Redis thing is the same: nobody had ever said "RAFT SET foo bar", if they had done they would have seen the problem right away.
You can still do this thing, you just do it a different way that doesn't fundamentally risk breaking the OS. I understand that there may be some non-zero sized group of people who absolutely want to screw with protected OS files, and even for this group of people you can go and disable SIP and mess with the OS all you want (one of the Macs I have is a hackintosh, which requires some decent modification).

However most people, including me, and I'd venture most engineers too, would rather have a hardened system.
Just taking a look at Dungeon Magazine on archive.org and it seems that crosshatching in walls is pretty common, at least in the early editions.

https://archive.org/details/Dungeon_Magazine_002/page/n25/mo...

https://archive.org/details/Dungeon_Magazine_002/page/n45/mo...

https://archive.org/details/Dungeon_Magazine_002/page/n51/mo...

https://archive.org/details/Dungeon_Magazine_003/page/n31/mo...

https://archive.org/details/Dungeon_Magazine_003/page/n41/mo...
Yeah I don't understand why it's using CJK, the page claims:

> each compressed character holds 15 data bits by using the CJK and the Hangul Syllables unicode ranges.

In UTF-8 these characters take 3 bytes each. Which makes it less space efficient than base64 (60% overhead vs 33% overhead).

The CJK/Hangul scheme has more information per character but I'm not sure where that matters.
My last name compressed to 3 characters. I tried my wife's last name and it was 3 characters, then I decided to add the accent to it that normally gets dropped in an English-language context and it compressed to 2. Adding first names, I was 4 characters and she was 5 with and without the accent. William Shatner went to 6 characters. Barack Obama went to 2. William Shakespeare also to 2.
So much of this makes no sense. Immigrants are subject to bigotry everywhere. You are hopefully aware that during the WW2 a rather large number of people died because of this...yes, bigotry still exists in Europe (the US is vastly vastly vastly more tolerant than almost everywhere in Europe, the US was founded by people in Europe escaping bigotry and pogroms...most European nations are hostile to immigrants because they are largely homogeneous societies).

Your last comment is worse. The US has a level of illegal immigration that is unlike anything that has occurred in modern societies (i.e. since nation states formed). That is why it is a problem.

That isn't the fault of the US. If people somewhere else choose to break the law, the solution to that is not to change the law. US Law is made by US citizens (again, the only place in the world where someone would have this debate is the US).

Likewise, the "war on drugs" is a function of domestic policy in other countries...how can you blame the US for not intervening in the domestic policy of Central American countries (given the history of this in the 1980s). Again, thankfully saner heads have prevailed recently and we don't have govts invading other countries on a whim.

Also, in Europe we have people escaping a real war. A govt that is armed with chemical weapons and airplanes bombing the shit out of civilians. There is a high bar for refugee status...there is a reason why. Some people actually need help. Being poor and your country being a bad place to live is true in many places. If more people stayed where they are, and tried to make their countries better...maybe that would help?
Interesting. But more important is how productive can I be and how expansive is the ecosystem? What’s the developer experience like? Is the community welcoming?
I don't like change.

I don't like the circular avatars - I don't need the place I store my code to feel like a social network.

But the worst change for me is that the 'Languages' section is now below the fold. Now I have to scroll to find out if I should ignore the latest compiler, package manager or system tool because it was written in JavaScript.

Edit: Gah! I only noticed this by directly comparing old and new, but the filenames in the main list are no longer blue, so now on each row, the filename, commit message and timestamp are in three subtly different shades of gray. That, combined with the lack of gridlines just makes the whole thing look like word soup.
Pencil and paper or marker board. If you need share digitally, take a picture.
This whole thing is like a giant self-destructive part of the population coming together. There's ideological based reasoning (masks are for libs, somehow), it reduces my freedom (cause I have the right to die if I want). But you are making a choice for other people by exposing yourself.

It's hard not to see this as the decadent end of a powerful empire (sound like the most famous case), where the people just want to party and they don't care that it will be killing them and greatly reducing their future prospects and their descendants also. They have lost trust in the institutions around them. Let's just go ahead and break up and let the west coast join Canada already.
Not the main point, and this is a very cool dancing bear. But, on this point:

"since none of the awks can read binary, you first need to pipe the classfile through hexdump"

Gawk works fine with binary files for me. Using FIELDWIDTHS for fixed length records or the readfile() extension to slurp in a whole file works fine. The readline() function can also be paired with FIELDWIDTHS to read a fixed number of bytes. Newline separated records with nulls in them also read as expected. I'm curious what problems the author saw with binary and gawk.
> I feel like some of the higher-up men have serious psychopathic issues; if they do show empathy, it comes across as pretended, as a trained tactic to pursue their goals.

Some people need to deliberately practice social skills in order to successfully communicate what they really mean.

> Have people like Zucc, Bezos, or Trump ever taken an extended period of time off because of stress or giving too much of a shit? No, they just fuck off to their resorts, private islands and yachts, do some cocaine or whatever vice they have and shrug it off.

This seems like a statement that would require stronger evidence before I'd build any conclusions on top of it.
> what else could explain it? I'm stumped.

That's irony, right? It's hard to tell these days.
The IRS has been co-opted by the very wealthy. The IRS spends way more resources auditing the very poor than the very wealthy
I would encourage people to stop linking to and submitting New York Times articles, I didn’t read Slate Star Codex but having just read the clear reasons Scott wanted to keep his anonymity I am disgusted the NYT would abuse someone’s trust like this. I’m going to pretend they don’t exist from now on and I expect a lot of others will too. I won’t read another article by the New York Times no matter how click baity the headline. It won’t really make a difference but this sort of immoral shit seems to happen everywhere now. Once an institution of quality journalism it’s now click baiting with peoples livelihoods. Fuck them.