skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is also why I pay someone to change my oil. It's a simple procedure, but the list of things that can go wrong is a list.

At a small shop I ran our VCS on my workstation (because otherwise we had none) and at the end of a day I rebooted to do some maintenance on the machine, and it didn't come back online until around 1pm the next day. On the plus side we finally got a dedicated server.

That said, you still gotta touch systems.

If you get off the upgrade treadmill, you will find yourself one day facing a CVE issue that have no patches for the versions you use. And then not only do you have to do a security update, you have to fast-track a version upgrade that your code might not work with anymore.

Last time we had this, I got the team to agree to putting one upgrade of OS or libraries per month onto the task list. We even let the assignee choose what they were going to upgrade (a few had no preferences, and so we'd have them work on whatever was most overdue).

We put some caches in place at work recently, to improve perf and give us some protection against partial outages. Already we are seeing services that cannot handle the same workload they could three months ago.

To paraphrase Jim Highsmith: there are no answers here, and we waste enormous amounts of time looking for them. There are only tradeoffs, with their own sets of consequences to be managed.

The tradeoff I prefer is to drill it into people that shit happens. Something is going to be down, and the more things we have, the higher the likelihood that one of them will be down at any given moment. You can put all of your eggs in one basket and have one outage a year, in which everyone not involved in fixing the damned thing might as well go home, or you have a bunch of systems where I can do 80% of my duties if any one of them is offline.

Systems that are never seen to break (or at least stumble) tend to become siloed, insular. Being able to talk about the 'bigger issue' around an outage is often a time when teams finally communicate with each other (unless you have dysfunctional managers, in which case: run)

And if all else fails, there is always some set of tasks you want people to do but they never seem to have the time for. Having a captive audience isn't the worst thing that could happen to you.
Chess grandmasters don't make great mathematicians. Similarly, great warriors may not become great scientists. I don't see a lot of people making jumps from one technical field into another. They make a jump from one technical field to a general field, like politics or Venture capital.
I disagree. Plenty of people take up writing because it's in their blood. They write because writing is their passion and because they have something to tell. Maybe it's artistic, maybe it's political, maybe it's religious -- or a combination.

Getting paid by publishers for writing books is a powerful motivator, but not the only one. In a world without a way to sell books, writers would still write.
Haskell's unofficial motto is "avoid 'success at all costs'", which is referenced near the end of the article. Piggybacking on crypto fraud would be a cost that's worth avoiding.
Two things come to mind as relevant to this query.

First, the Red language (a variant of Rebol) tied itself to blockchain and created a token, though looking at their homepage now this seems less of a central focus.

Second, the Urbit project (which incorporates the Nock and Hoon languages, among other things), was founded by a controversial neo-reactionary figure. The project seems to be moving forward without him, and does not seem to be promoting those ideologies, but still carries that association. In addition to that, the "business model" for Urbit also seems to be tied to cryptocurrency.
Speaking on crowds influencing officials, I think this has been obvious in MMA with no crowds.

There are times of little action where the ref separates fighters, typically as the inaction goes on the crowd boos more and more. With no crowd different strategies have been implemented to allow for a slower pace at times.

Also the commentators talk so loud in the empty arenas the players have said they can hear them and make adjustments based on their commentary.

Last week a commentator shouted out to stop a fight at a UFC event which has caused some turmoil afterwards as well.

Fans can also now hear all the strikes and slams to the mat watching at home because of the silence. It's made it a much better experience imo.

While all this is happening the judges are also sitting ring side so there is certainly a human factor of outside influence going on in their decision making. (MMA and boxing judges are notorious incompetent)
Building well-architected serverless applications: Controlling API access
A lot of people think COVID-19 is indeed the thing that will tip this into the mainstream default: https://www.bankingdive.com/news/will-covid-19-push-contactl...
This kind of makes me want to do Youtube videos about stuff that I know. Procrastination is a b*tch though ...
I live in Toronto, which has been a super hot real estate market for the last decade. I was almost certain that prices would tank in the next financial crisis. Was in the market to buy for 18 months. Bought my first property early 2020. When covid hit, I was certain I bought at the peak, and that I was in for the biggest financial hit of my life. Turns out the federal government and big banks would bail out land owners at any cost, through emergency relief money and mortgage payment deferrals. The real estate market is now booming again with almost everything listed receiving multiple offers.
It's worth mentioning that there were many similar and even larger (and also much deeper) underwater labs and habitats since the 1960s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_habitat
Are you saying that cryptoscammers are "right wing", or that threatening cryptoscammers to get rid of them is "right wing"? In what sense dealing with "unsavory varieties" can be considered a partisan issue?
> Was this issue a central part of the the IA's reasoning before the lawsuit?

Have we ever received a breakdown of how these decisions were made by IA? Was this a single person shooting from the hip? Or the product of a deliberative process?
European customers aren't liable for fraudulent charges either, I don't really understand your logic here.

Everyone pays the price of fraud and it's probably one major reason that explains high interchange fees in the US.
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how is putting an emphasis on general intelligence a talking point for racists?
> I wonder if Strava could create two heat maps based on what I imagine are the two big clusters on their user base: road bikes and casual commuter cyclists.

I want this really badly. Around me (North Germany) the cycling infrastructure is great for the casual commuter, but the quality of paths for road bikes varies dramatically - some bike paths are beautifully smooth and wide, whilst others are bumpy/gravelly and too narrow for safely overtaking slower riders. Distinguishing between them using Strava heatmaps or other mapping tools seems impossible until I actually go out and ride them. Alternatively, an app where I could simply mark myself the roads I have ridden and a quality indicator would be useful (maybe this exists?).
Yes, yes, yes, no if you want encrypted /boot; yes if not, no.
Notably, this is the second time in a few months that this happens. The previous one was a microcode update, though that one was Intel's fault (according to Intel, it happened only when the microcode was loaded by the kernel; they probably had tested only loading it from the firmware).
They mention no increase in academic performance, since those other traits should positively impact that as well I'm guessing it's not transferable.
http://archive.is/Oyn47
I remember reading reviews of some overengineered Compaq 386-SX with cache onboard :)
S-100 was open.
OP here; I am not saying the suggestions won’t work. I am saying they will not happen because they mostly undermine the power of those who need to take those actions. You are asking the established people in the academia to give up the source of their power and privilege, and in return there’s some vague promise of Bette overall outcome for humanity. Why should they?
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Arguably correct but possibly misleading.

The asynchronous portion of the work is enqueued when the function is called, but does not start executing until it's scheduled, which can't happen until the current task ends or is blocked by an await. This is useful, as it means a promise can't settle before you've had a chance to add handlers; otherwise you might sometimes get UnhandledPromiseRejections because of an unavoidable race condition.

I said arguably correct because there's nothing stopping the function from doing a portion of the work synchronously, which would mean the work as a whole starts with the function call.
I like this definition of intelligence

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”
I dont share the concern. I remember that the Haskell project took a lot MS money in research grants, and this was discussed as "potentially damaging to the project".

Crypto currency is no different for me from other financial products: they have the potential to be very dangerous for the users of such services. Now often this is because of a lack of information (ponzi schemes, sub-prime mortgage packages), but with crypto all the rules of the game are opensource :)
I think the bigger issue is not the terminals themselves, but the software behind it that's designed to process the payment from the track data.

Contactless magstripe (MSD) is a workaround that allows for a contactless payment, but really is just sending the same (insecure) track data through the backend software. Contactless EMV is the right way, but requires more sophisticated software.
Out of a thousand cryptocurrencies you found two that are not harmful; congratulations. It's virtually impossible for people to discover the good stuff without being radicalized by the bad stuff.
Goland and Rust – An Experienced Beginner’s Perspective
In france, and in particular in Paris, https://www.geovelo.fr/ is very very good.
It knows about various Parisian specialties (going the wrong way on residential street is allowed, temporary bike paths, mixed pedestrian/bike paths, etc) that other apps don't really understand. It also gives multiple paths depending on various criterion.

OsmAnd is also decent. Google map is terribly bad.
Yeah these things can take forever to produce especially when it's a small company with no prior manufacturing experience and they have to build up a whole supply chain. A small defect in the manufacturing of a single component can push the build back months. I would reckon on around two years from rolling prototype to introduction to fleet. And I don't think they have a rolling prototype yet, I see a lot of nice renders instead.
If a bookstore buys a book, they now have a book. What they do with it is mostly up to them. They have the right to "sell or otherwise dispose of" the work, according to the first sale doctrine / 17 U.S.C. 109. They do not have the right to copy it.
The Pirate Bay involves one person sending a copy of a file to another person, but that doesn't mean the original copy was destroyed. That lack of destruction is really the foundation of BitTorrent in a way - files are shared among many people. Then, if one person has the file active, it can be downloaded again.
So people who upload a new torrent on TPB are breaking the law in that they're copying something they aren't allowed to copy. People who download and then seed a torrent are illegally obtaining a copyrighted work. The fact they upload it also means they're illegally copying it, as the author has the sole right to copy it.
the morality and potentially negative effects of finance are real but if Haskell wants a gold-niche to appear worthy for the mainstream world then it's a very potent one.
Looks like a really neat project!
When your language is so tiny and unpopular that a growth of couple of small projects in an industry your don't like can overshadow the whole existing community...

If you create neutral open source tool like a programming language, you have to be OK with people using it to do stuff that you don't approve of.

And also, it's OK to have your own opinion about something and share it, but in complex matters you have to admit that there's a possibility that you're wrong. I think TSLA and a some other money losing overhyped companies are a FED-induced bubble, terrible investment etc. but so far it works for people who invest in them, so maybe I am wrong, and who am I to make decisions for other people anyway?
Thank you!

1) Are you sure you cannot change the font and and site theme without logging in? I just tested it and it works fine for me in private and incognito modes.

I purposely designed it so a lot of the settings are available via the quick action bar for non-logged in users.

If you have no-script active or have disabled javascript, then the only option would be to login to change them via the Settings page.

Otherwise, you should be able to toggle those easily via the quick action bar above the search results.

2) Definitely. I probably should have already done that.

3) I am still thinking on this. My plan was to soon remove it for upgraded accounts. There is no user-specific tracking, but by anonymously tracking clicks in general it helps with ranking and generating "popular" search results order.
I have a similar view. The only thing that holds me back from chucking it out in total is the research showing a bunch of better life outcomes correlated with IQ.

I'm open to being set straight on this point but my understanding is that research is largely apart and of a better quality than the more race bating stuff of 'The Bell Curve' crowd.

Edit: Full disclosure, I am really shooting from the hip here so please go easy. This is an issue I've bumped into a couple times and have never gone super in-depth on.
NASA successfully launches its Mars 2020 Perseverance using an Atlas V rocket
The one thing I like about the credit card system (as opposed to "app" pay system) is that the usability is so much better. You don't have to worry about your phone being smashed or running out of battery. It's also less work than a phone, all you need to do is wave your card in front of a reader. No need to get out your phone, unlock it, open the app, wave around your camera so it scans, and finally confirming the payment. Not having to install a potentially privacy invading app is also a plus.
> Can systemd-boot offer me editor at boot time where I can change kernel cmdline?

Yes, just press 'e' as long as editor=yes in the loader config.

> Can it boot non-Linux non-systemd OSes?

Yes, auto-entries will find Windows automatically and other EFI images can be set up through loader configs. Not sure why it wouldn't work with non-systemd systems considering that's an init system and it's a bootloader.

> Does it handle encrypted disks better than GRUB2 does?

Doesn't the initramfs handle decryption of disks?

> Does it work well if I prefer bios/dos/mbr mode?

No, it doesn't support BIOS boot.
The clue is even in the name. What do you expect to do on the keyword "await" except stop and wait?
"Sorry, meant to send that picture to someone else"
Ya.

I dearly miss the offline mail readers from the dial up BBS days. TLDR: most of the features (eg whitelists, blacklists, fetch behavior), were client side. I have a deep hunch that moving all these features to server side, aka social networks, contributed to our current mess.

The recent rehash (front paged) about newsgroups (NNTP protocol) made me wish I had more gumption and just did something about it.
Does anyone have any notion of what language decisions might be affected, especially for the worse, by factoring cryptocurrency considerations into it?
Cross Entropy Loss vs Log Loss
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23998186
>> Why give free money to everyone? Clearly a rich person doesn’t need a monthly check from government...

> The answer is that it's much simpler to send everyone a check. The rich person will pay more in taxes than the amount of their check, so it doesn't matter.

There's a more subtle reason: if everyone gets a check, the program is more politically popular, making it harder for the rich to build a political coalition to kill it. That means the people who really need it will continue to get it.

IIRC, FDR opposed mean-testing social security for this reason. Almost everyone gets it, and the middle class gets enough to make some kind of difference in their lives, even if they could get by without it. Compared to other welfare programs, it's been unkillable.
There was definitely a minor controversy one year where a well known community figure listed "less cryptocurrency" as part of their hopes for Rust in one of the "Rust in $year" posts. Sadly I can't find the details right now.
Well, and they still do a better job than... a lot of companies.
The 1998 DPA was still pretty strict. I have no doubt the DPA was violated when they called my wife.

I blame the manager who came from a sales background. His response to every problem was to "call someone", rather than have the team work out what was wrong.
I call it "functional innumeracy". Our society is stuck at a local-maxima for communicating via headlines and short-conversations where we can only really compress and encode signed-keywords to each other. Meaning like, musk+ or musk-, bitcoin+ or bitcoin-.

If we want to take things to the next level of numerical understanding, where we "graph" all sorts of rates, distributions, curves, crossover and inflection points, etc, then what do we do? Fuck around in a spreadsheet for an hour and screen shot that and upload it to imgur and put the link in here? Comb through google images for something close enough and maybe photoshop some arrows on it?

We need a better communication toolkit than a few hundred bytes of ascii to make it possible for people to introduce a heightened degree of numeracy in everyday conversations and decision making. Image macros and emojis and infographics are pigin attempts to go down this road, but we're not there yet (that i've seen, links if you got 'em).

Imagine you're a journalist right now, you're logged into wordpress, you need to explain the insane disaster of today's GDP report, and you have a deadline of finishing your post before lunch. What do you do?
> Trump infuriates everyone with bombastic statements, that he often can't even implement legally, that sometimes grab members of his base.

That reminds me of something that I've often thought - the Left seems to think that Trump's crazy statements are intended to gain support for his base. They don't; the vast majority of Trump voters also think what he says is nuts most of the time.

I don't know anyone that voted for Trump because they agree with what he says. I know lots of people who voted for him because of what the other side has said and done in response to what Trump says.

That's why Trump voters by and large hand-wave away any criticism of his statements. They don't expect them to be reasonable in the first place, and the believe their purpose is to get the left to speak and act. They do believe the left is earnest in what they're saying.
> I'm baffled with the fact that they were toying with the production database in the production machine. That sounds incredibly dangerous

As Taryn stated repeatedly in the post, they simply didn't have enough infrastructure to have development spare copies of this. They didn't even have enough infrastructure to take a backup.
Laws are principally about justice. The minute the law is warped to enhance personal gain, or twisted so it is about furthering a political agenda instead of about balancing the needs of all individuals, it becomes a perversion of justice. It brings both the law and the abstract concept of justice into disrepute.

This will lead to anarchy and the caveman with the biggest club will be the alpha silverback again.

If a law does not deserve respect, it must be struck down, else they will all be struck down.
>and you have staff who know that platform well.

People often ignore how important this is, especially for a small team like Stack Overflow appears to have. A new platform requires training and/or a lack of productivity as employees learn the new system. It requires developer time to convert over any work designed to use the old system. It makes hiring more difficult because now you will either want someone with the knowledge of both your systems which greatly shrinks down your pool of potential hires or new employees will need to learn a new system on the job which increases the ramp time up for any hires. Maybe this doesn't fit the textbook definition of technical debt, but it is still a real and ongoing cost that comes with making a decision to switch tools.
The LCD is orange [lit] in the mockups but is that a design requirement? Some of the technical images show it as the default "LCD green-grayish" color.
> the fault isn't with the victim nor really with the perpetrator

The perpetrator isn't at fault?
General Transit Feed Specification is a format for public transit agencies to publish this information. There are a few repositories like https://transitfeeds.com.
Algorithmic Design
Of course you could fund it by introducing new taxes. But it’s still trillions in spending above what we’re doing now, and there’s a rather extreme lack of imagination if paying people to play video games is the most creative and productive use you can think of for over a trillion dollars per year in new government spending.

> Also note that nearly all the analysis uses "orthodox macroeconomics," the mix of keynesianism and monetarism that seems to be falling apart as a consensus atm.

Ah, the old “money printer go brr” theory. I wonder how much 1000 Zimbabwe dollars or 1000 Weimar marks or 1000 Venezuelan bolivars will actually buy you.
The history of the police is filled with police launching violent assaults on every other union.

They're a union in the same way they're law abiding citizens: the rules don't apply to them, and they'll physically attack anyone they feel like.
Let's say I'm a different landlord. If the other landlords are raising their rents, I know that by not raising mine, I can attract more tenants and increase my occupancy rate. Maybe I'm at 70%, and I need 80% to cover my costs. I know that if I raised my rents by $1,000/month, I would lose tenants to the landlords who didn't.
It's funny because lasers are better for people like me who very infrequently print documents. I don't need things printed often, so I was always having the ink dry out and be unusable when I needed it.

My color laser printer that I got a few years back is just so much better in every way.
Importance of a Printed Interview Presentation
Wow, to unskeptical passing viewer - this was as good as a human written, perhaps at par with someone with good vocabulary. I'm loving this succession of GPT-3 based experiments people are sharing recently.
the economy contracted 9.5% -> 0.095
Quality of a language's community does affect the experience of using it. PHP is great example to use though - just because people are doing nefarious things doesn't make them unpleasant people.

The difference between this and the PHP case is one of economics. Economic input gives you influence (usually). If people who's approach to life you don't agree with assume influence over the direction of a project, that can be a source of worry.

I'm not sure I think it would be in this case, I think a source of finance is probably going to outweigh it, but I see the logic.