skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are absolutely wrong about nobody wanting to die and it has nothing to do with the pain to be over, the boredom to end, or the despair to dissipate.

You sound young or too invested in your own life to actually understand the real circumstances for why people would not want to live.

You do realize that not everyone sees life as a gift, right? Some people imagine never being alive in the first place a greater gift.

You mention that if all things are possible to everyone, no one would choose death over life.

Again, you’re wrong. You can’t fathom why someone would opt to no longer exist if all things were possible, but I know people who would opt to chase everything from existence if they had the power.

You just don’t understand it.

I’m really amazed that you honestly think you can speak for everyone when it’s clear you’ve never given other peoples’ outlook anything more than a fleeting thought.

Personally speaking, I’m happy with my life. If I reached my old age and someone gave me the option to live indefinitely or to stop, at some point I’m just going to want to stop.

At some point, I’m going to want to cease to being.
On release I purchased a Pixel 4 and gave it an honest-to-god try for a week. The battery issues really were as bad as the reviewers said they were. I needed a phone with the best camera available and sufficient battery life to handle an overseas vacation, and the Android ecosystem at the time had fallen so far behind Apple that I actually jumped ship from Android to iOS.

So quite literally, Pixel 4 is what caused Google to lose me as an Android user.
I would think only the bigger non-upscale restaurant (groups) could afford such a thing.
I've really been enjoying this guy's little viewed YouTube channel. It mostly consists of his journalism school lectures but it hits so many of the ideas I've been considering about journalism lately and takes them places I hadn't been able to.

https://www.youtube.com/user/robertwilliamjensen

It's really brought me back to a pre-aocial media mindset of journalism. The important things about the journalism we consume are somewhat irrelevant to social media. So I'm fully off Facebook, mostly off Twitter and am consuming as much as I can through periodicals and books.

P. S. Several of the videos of Anthony Shadid's conversations about the U.S. involvement in Iraq are very compelling as well.
So in an HOA is it more like a leasehold or a freehold? From my understanding if it is legitimately a freehold I don't see why they'd have any legal right to do shit to you if you told them to do one. It is very confusing. Why does some external force other than law enforcement have any legal right to tell you what to do on your own property?
Tinkersynth
Lisp is the easiest classic example that took ages to settle on a module standard and has had different competing standards over the years.

PHP and Perl are probably more recent examples comparable to JS here that provided mostly only low level plumbing (include/require) support and nearly wound up with multiple incompatible module loading patterns.

Even C/C++ the "module" system started as a text processing hack in a macro pre-processor that used to be a separate tool (though I don't think any modern C/C++ toolchain uses a separate macro pre-processor, as there are tons of optimization layers now and some of the macro pre-processor knowledge makes its way all the way through to the linker these days).

Historically, modules were always just "smash these two files together in this order" and it was only later that languages started asking hard questions such as "which symbols from this other file are available".

The modern concept of modules as a fixed "shape" of self-describing public symbols is as much a later abstraction out of Object-Oriented Programming as anything else. Our idea of what a module should be in 2020 is much more informed by "recent" notions such as Component systems like COM and languages such as Java and C#.
Black hole created in virtual reality dropped into augmented reality
...Is this famed ‘eventual consistency’?
Project scheduling on works badly if you have resources 100% dedicated to a project. Trying to acurately forcast with partial resource is an exercise in madness.
> NYC Mesh is the example that immediately comes to my mind -- they have installed repeaters on dozens of rooftops and have plenty of peering relationships (though AFAIK they do not provide transit because they are only connected to a single IXP).

... which is why people say it's impossible to start an ISP. Building the local part is relatively easy, but, one, how many backhaul networks serve your region, and, two, how many of them are willing to provide service to an entity robbing them of their rightful monopoly on selling overpriced triple-play contracts to everyone in the state?
A 3% improvement on a 3 second page load means it loads in 2.91 seconds. So even if it were statistically significant, it's not practically significant?

Unless your initial page load is taking like 10 seconds, a human wouldn't even notice. And if it is taking 10 seconds, well, then you've got better things to fix.

That's not an actual improvement. That's just noise.
Ask HN: What’s the most precise definition of DevOps you’ve seen?
With uMatrix installed I don't ever even see this redirect, I don't think. I suspect whatever script is causing the page to redirect is also getting blocked. Does this normally happen to everyone?
> at what point would you be responsible to take your own life?

Not the OP but there may be circumstances where someone is justified believing their continued suffering is a burden to themselves and others.

> By what authority?

What authority do you believe is violated by someone making the choice when and how they die?

> Did you bring yourself into the world?

No, exactly. So if adults of sound mind have a right over their own person (despite an involuntary birth) then certainly they have a right over how and if their existence continues.

> If all things are possible to everyone, no one would choose death over life.

This isn't saying much. Not everything is possible to everyone. Rational people are making difficult decisions all the time for this very reason.

I don't advocate suicide. Plenty of survivors can speak to the value of life better than me.
> Having established the HOA, the developers have expanded their scope, giving them authority to regulate changes to residences, landscaping and maintenance requirements, color of houses, etc., a variety of other requirements and amenities that the developers believe will make their project more desirable to the market.

The last paragraph in that history section made me laugh, because now HOA's are mainly for developers to ensure they can sell their homes and then after the fact when they're no longer relevant you're left trying to satisfy an HOA and they always say its to keep property values up and what have you.
You should look up Till Kottman's other work. Very aware.
Just curious, at the top of it all are municipalities relaxing property tax dues as well?
> Maintaining ag-status is a pain in the ass and eats up way too much of my time.

What does this mean? Do you have to plant some crops to be considered ag?
There are two types of HOAs, right? There's the type where the property is itself "part of" the HOA from the start (because the HOA is built into the legal structure of the development); and then there's the kind where the HOA is just a contract you enter into independently from buying the property–and which, at least in theory, you don't need to enter into.

HOAs created out of regular separately-developed SFH dwellings are the latter kind, and what I was referring to in my previous comment. (I kind of forgot that the baked-into-the-property kind existed for a moment. Oops!) In the voluntarist kind of HOA, it really is up for debate where the HOA's right to tell you what to do ends, because ultimately the HOA's power in such a voluntarist contract derives from the other members' willingness to shun you, annoy you, or at most refuse to give you access to communal resources like tennis courts, for failure to comply.
FWIW, Franklin/Philadelphia Mills, Neshaminy, Moorestown, Plymouth Meeting, Cherry Hill & Deptford malls are all still open & have some overlap with shoppers in KOP's area.

There's nothing wrong with not knowing a lot of malls, but come on, you have to qualify your statement a little bit, because your comment doesn't make sense to me as someone who can drive to KOP and at least a half dozen of the other malls I've been to when I was younger.
Nice. I've got a red but it's probably too low power. My green and blue are 1W & 3W but they're too low a wavelength. High powered reds are relatively cheap. I'll look into it.
Will this be for fall 2020 or fall 2021?
Quite straightforward, I used a ch341A SPI programmer.
Just make sure you take multiple copies of your original ROM image and compare the hashes of them to make sure there was no screwup.

It took me about 10 minutes to do my ThinkPad. All I lost was some enhanced integrated GPU power management and integrated thermal management, but I use a userland fan control program anyhow.
What do you call it when the OS auto-installs Edge alongside IE, and sets it up as the default browser if IE was one?
We've got a core product running on Django, and one thing the author doesn't mention is testing migrations. The migration system is wonderful, except for the difficulty in testing migrations. There's no sane/official way to do this. And it's such an important thing that I don't get why the Django crew haven't tackled it.
Arturia Keystep tear-down and cleaning
This is great for coreboot right?
That chart shows that Typescript is incompatible with CJS modules, because it inherits ES Modules incompatibilities with CJS, not that it it is incompatible with ES Modules.
NaNs have an odd ontology, regardless of what they claim to be. For example, hypot(Inf, NaN) == Inf (C99), which suggests that NaN is "some number but we cannot know what it is".
Many of the points made apply equally to Flask/SQLAlchemy or any other framework (Rails, ...).

They optimise the wrong things and decrease security.
"Maintenance Hole" actually, which is better because it's both more descriptive and not gendered.
I can confidently say you are wrong. Whatever your reasons are to escape this existense, if you can change existense itself you would rather do that instead of death. See, you yourself said it was escaping this existense or something else, you are escaping life not embracing death. It is hatred for life not love of death!

I don't know if I would be consideree young but I am no stranger to the subject.

> You do realize that not everyone sees life as a gift, right? Some people imagine never being alive in the first place a greater gift.

Yes, I do. That's because of the life they know. Not existing to begin with sounds great because of your relative knowledge of what existing means.
It doesn’t matter if it’s provable or not, most developers won’t risk it especially if they want to keep their jobs or be hireable.

If you review the content and publish say a blog post, even without legal repercussions it can impact your ability to be hired in the future since everything you do from that point can be tainted.

So if you do look you should keep it quite or publish it under a pen name that you can’t ever take credit for.
Uber’s Quarterly Sales Fall for First Time in Travel Slump
"JSON Lines" isn't "streamable JSON", it's just JSON that's easier to use with existing tools in a streaming fashion. Just like you can stream an HTML/XML file with a SAX parser, you can do the same with JSON.

I don't think there's any reason it's necessary to have an 190gb json file, nor anything stopping one from incrementally dumping it into Sqlite. Though it would depend on the format of the proprietary file.

But I will add that there's an obvious benefit to dumping the data into the database: it has indexes and querying capacity that doesn't involve full 190GB file scans. The I/O of a 190gb scan alone takes time.
We are on the same page irt tail calls. I assume that instruction handlers (non-standard calling convention, tail-calls next handler) need to invoke helper functions quite often. These helpers adhere to standard C calling convention. VM state is in registers. Unless they are callee-saved, registers have to be saved to stack and restored after each helper call. (LuaJIT VM uses helper functions heavily.)
https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/316145/IGF_Awardwinning_...

Another story I don't have an easily accessible news link for: A chinese game studio launched US and Japanese versions of their title, and their original Japanese business partner registered the trademark themselves and tried to extort them with it. In the end they found a new partner and renamed the title (so it has a unique Japan-only name separate from the name used in other regions)
A definition courtesy of wikipedia

> A closed platform, walled garden, or closed ecosystem is a software system wherein the carrier or service provider has control over applications, content, and media, and restricts convenient access to non-approved applicants or content. This is in contrast to an open platform, wherein consumers generally have unrestricted access to applications and content.

By this definition Mac OS isn't a walled garden, save for kernel modules, although it could become so in the future thus its cohesive design is to be pedantic a product of itself rather than a closed ecosystem. A product of actually having a mental picture of how the whole thing works and a cohesive set of applications to go with it.

Historically windows has without third party applications been a pretty garbage experience even its image and text editors were so bad that you could randomly generate urls until you hit an alternative and most likely get a better choice. Its not shockingly that a platform that doesn't even know what good look likes doesn't have an ecosystem full of anything that represents this.
Can you import/work with .bcp files? (Microsoft SQL server bulk export files). For example, diffing 2 bcp files, even if you need to import and set them up as databases again.
But if we know what a car ought to look like in 3D, can't we take the one photo we have from one direction and just fill in the blanks with that a priori 3D knowledge?
> > it matches to need only to the extent that willingness to pay is driven only by expected personal utility

> How else would you define need?

The question seems odd and seems to likely to be driven by a misunderstanding of the quoted material, so I'll try to reexplain what I intended in a way which I hope resolves the question.

Expected net utility given complete information of the consequences of a decision is the only plausible definition of need.

It doesn't, however correspond in any particular way (even ignoring the information problems that are enormous in healthcare) to the number of tokens one is willing to exchange for a thing in the market compared to other participants unless the quantity of tokens available to each participant is the same.

When the tokens are money and the context is a real capitalist society, that's decidedly far from the case.
Here is a link to our program for open source projects for anyone interested! https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/open-source/ (community advocate at GitLab)
The other funny thing is how easy it is to write migrations in Python via the RunPython capabilities of the Django ORM you can migrate data over. I've yet to need to write any SQL aside from stored procedures and Database Views.

You can even export all the contents of your DB to JSON or YAML and import it in Django, so you probably very well could go from SQLite to MySQL / Postgres if you really wanted to.

Edit:

The other actually funny thing is, Django doesn't force you to use its own ORM. You can write code that doesn't use its ORM. You can override anything and everything.
Ta! Will be busy tracking these down for a while.

Jones gives an early intimation of Snowden during a CIA symposium (1993):

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...

> "A point to be made at the outset is the enormous difference between the scale on which you operate today and our own efforts in World War II..."

(As Jones is fond of Kipling, I offer one of the latter's less jingoistic moments:

Children of the yoke and goad,
Pack and harness, pad and load.
...
While the men that walk beside,
Dusty, silent, heavy-eyed,
Cannot tell why we or they
March and suffer day by day.)
> The most minimalist ASP.NET Core template I could find made it too difficult to create a "page" with some code-behind.

The minimalist projects don't do "code-behind" at all.
Copyright law is fairly universal, so while stealing data/info from another company may not be illegal (depending on jurisdiction) copyright laws are pretty universal.
Django is incredibly flexible, even if you decide not to use the ORM, or even to just use part of it and write a lot of raw sql, Django is a great choice. It can still be a great choice.
Everyday Astronaut has a lot of material on aerospike engines.

I would question whether NASA didn't think they were still in the game or whether politics and pork-barrelling influenced whether they were in line for funding. Shame they didn't try and self-fund developing the engine.
Excel is an amazing tool. But it also has some significant shortcomings:

* A well known tendency to mangle date and gene data under the guide of being 'helpful'.
* Easy to making mistakes when cutting and pasting cells.
* Difficult to see what is going on in a spreadsheet.
* Poor handling of CSV files.

Some of these shortcoming are inherent to spreadsheets. Others are specific to Excel, but hard to overcome due to the weight of backward compatibility.

I have written a product for transforming and analysing tabular data (https://www.easydatatransform.com) that tries to overcome these issues:

* Doesn't change your input data file.
* Doesn't re-interpret your data, unless you ask it to.
* See changes as a visual data flow.
* Operations happen on a whole table or column.
* Good handling of CSV files.

Also it doesn't try to do everything Excel does.

It is a fairly new tool. Would appreciate some feedback.
Diluted blood plasma found to reverse aging in mice
That's horrible UX - why on earth is it that way?
> They optimise the wrong things and decrease security.

They're not meant to optimize for every edge case, they're meant to be as generic as sanely possible.
Europe is quite densely populated in some areas, and insect populations in these areas have dropped to a fraction of past numbers in some areas, over only a few decades. It's quite reasonable to try to do something about it, as we're actually dependent on insects, to a likely significant but somewhat unknown extent.

That there are insects in some places doesn't mean the issues with insect, and general biodiversity loss suddenly disappears.

Bugs are everywhere, but there are species disappearing every at a rate much much higher than they should disappear for natural reasons.

There certainly are cases where fetishization can be part of it environmental policy, but usually it's then about something you can brag about, not about the impact light has on the sex life of bugs.

Even with the possible fetishization of nature, most people still don't care enough to be willing to lower their standard of living, even quite superficially. Generally, I would say cynicism regarding environmental policy is often misplaced, as even terribly inefficient policy makes the existence of the larger issue apparent, and opens the door to better and more informed policy the next time around.

Look at almost any are of legislation, the first plodding steps into a new area is often hilariously misplaced, or terribly expressed with the 20/20 of hindsight. Regardless, they were necessary steps. In some areas, biodiversity arguably one of them, the first plodding steps are taken just now. It's progress, if small.
While I would agree with that in general, with the rise of the eGPU it seems a little less clear cut.

Oh well, it is what it is...
This is close, but not really Pascal's Wager. For one, I do not currently practice any religion. But if I did, I'd have to pick one exclusively, to the detriment of the others. So of course his wager is a weak argument.

But with posthumous baptism, it is someone else doing the thing. And multiple different religions can all claim me as their own. There can be overlap, maybe. (Or maybe not, who knows? We're in angels on the head of a pin territory here)

So, if the Mormons baptizing me causes me eternal harm, then both of the following would be true:

1. They do have supernatural powers after all. (i.e. Mormon rituals have an effect on souls, deities, etc.)

2. But their belief system is wrong.

I guess one can construct a system where both #1 and #2 hold, but I don't see it as being nearly as likely as either one in isolation.
You need a 4. Federal government issues $$$ to property tax authority to cover income gap. The property tax authority needs that revenue now to pay their bills (teachers, sanitation, fire, EMT, police, etc), an easement won't cut it. They need a backstop before they can do that since all of those are critical or legally mandated services and municipalities run very lean.
For those who do not know Django uses said library for PostgresSQL support. Mind you, if you don't like Django's ORM, you don't have to use it.
It would be way less effort to have the same exact program under a completely new name.

MS Excel

MS (names are harder than I thought / remembered) Matrix

In the back-end they'd use the same sanity and share 99% of the code, but Excel would add in the cruft / warts compatibility quirks.
Typescript transpilation is already pretty slow when just used for your own application, if all the node_modules directory entries were in TS I'd probably be looking at hours for the transpilation.
Trying to Build the Ultimate Raspberry Pi Computer (Zero Terminal V3)
My wife got a Moto G6 two Thanksgivings ago. I got a G7 this past Thanksgiving.

I am really pleased with how well the phone works for the $150 price tag.

I don't use my phone all that much, but I can't imagine a situation where I'd justify paying 3-5x that amount for a phone. The Moto G line seems to be perfectly adequate.
At this rate, I fully expect Nvidia to make a meger bid for intel.
dup https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24074588
The problem here is that the real customers are the health insurance companies, Medicare, and the VA. They don't care about being delighted, they want inexpensive and rugged devices.

That's the problem Dean Kamen had with his iBOT wheelchair. They were very cool and their users loved them, but they went for something like $25,000 each and likely needed frequent maintenance.
If you program in C++/Java and all your libraries handle locale correctly, it's doable. A bit more difficult in languages and libraries written by people who aren't even aware of the concept - of which there's plenty. Impossible if you're dealing with customers or managers who don't understand the concept of "data type". The latter is, for example, why the problem from TFA exists in the first place - i.e. Excel being stringly typed, and eagerly converting data into your system locale.

And then, there's the problem of users - whatever locale they have set in their system were most likely not set by them, and are often misaligned with what they're naturally using.

There's a lot of bugs and issues happening to people every day that could be removed if major software vendors said, "sorry, the only allowed input format for date is ISO8601, and dot is the only valid decimal separator; take it or leave it".
Lawmakers Ask California DMV How It Makes $50M a Year Selling Drivers' Data