skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For things smaller than around 10gb, I tend to use S3. Either with pre-signed links behind a little bespoke portal that people can log into and see what files I've "shared" with them, or just direct S3 links for those that what to automate it all.

For bigger things, there are two basic paths:

If it's to someone that's not primary a tech person, then the data goes on a portable hard drive, and I either drive it to them, or mail it and walk them through accessing the data. In both cases I encrypt the data, generally with Veracrypt.

If it's to someone that won't mind using AWS's toolchain, and has decent connectivity, I'll use Snowcone or Snowball to get the data to S3 and give them S3 URLs.

I tend to get the data to S3 sooner or later so I can migrate it to Glacier. More than once I've had to recover GBs or TBs of data because the customer lost it, so I'm prepared now.
Magic Wormhole is good. These days I use croc,[0] which I find even better.

[0]: https://github.com/schollz/croc
I have also recently learned about "dungeon synth," which was a pleasant surprise. Plenty of compilations and examples if you do a YouTube search.
Am I being paid much more than my co-workers? I don't want to know and I don't want them to know.
This is especially fun when combined with piping through tar, and adding pv in the mix for a transfer speed "progress" bar.

Fastest way to transfer a collection of files on a local network and doesn't require temporary storage for the archive
Note that DOCSIS 3.0/3.1 have a 10 msec latency just to talk to the CMTS at the end of the street.

LEO (500km) latency is only 1.8 light-milliseconds.
Here's the full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhgq-BqyZ7i7MTGhUROZy...
VOTING is the penalty for many of these transgressions...
I third this suggestion, if you have to send the file to multiple parties they can all share among themselves (it's BitTorrent after all) speeding up the process even further.
> Branching scales well when we want to extend the program by adding functions but it doesn’t scale well when we want to add types.

In languages such as OCaml, when you add a constructor to an algebraic data type (which is the equivalent of adding a type here), the compiler will guide you towards the completeness of all the functions in your codebase that match over your type. So this burden is not on the programmer.

> Polymorphism scales well when we want to extend the program by adding types, but it doesn’t scale well when we want to add functions over these types.

In the same manner, you can add an abstract method to your base type to have the compiler force you to implement it in every types that you have defined and that extend it.

So I guess these are not real problems.

The author's two other conclusions are valid however. And I'll add that I believe good software engineering structure programs around data structures rather than functions. So I completely agree with them: long live the switch :).
> What if they have illegal evidence that you’re dangerous and can’t arrest you because it wouldn’t hold up?

Then they shouldn't have resorted to illegal means to gain that evidence. Using it to prevent someone from flying or to subject them to "advanced screening" is no more justifiable than using it in court.

> What if they’re not ready to arrest because they think you might lead them to people higher up in your organization?

They would share responsibility for whatever additional crimes you end up committing in the meantime because they failed to act on the evidence which they had. Until they actually bring the matter up in court, however, you remain a free citizen and ought not be subjected to special restrictions or mistreatment without a trial on the basis of secret evidence.
It's an eighteenth century document that can be maddeningly vague at times.

A lot of people (on HN at least) seem to think it's a problem that the First Amendment only applies to Congress, letting companies like Google or Facebook censor speech as much as they like.

The Second Amendment isn't even written in complete sentences, and we need a room full of scholars to figure out just what exactly they meant by "A well regulated Militia,"

The Third Amendment just seems absurd in the modern day.

Maybe we don't need the Electoral College?

Maybe the President's powers to draft executive orders and pardon people undermines the legislative and judicial branches and should be done away with, given how often they've been abused?

It must be possible to have a more efficient census than through the process required by the Constitution.

It should be possible, in a nation of immigrants, for an immigrant to run for President.

There is no Constitutionally guaranteed right to vote. Amendments related to voting, yes, but nowhere is voting considered to be a right, as opposed to a privilege.

Do we really need to explicitly make the justice system an exception to the Thirteenth Amendment and banning slavery?

That's all I could think of off the top of my head, not being a constitutional scholar. But it stands to reason that a document as old as the Constitution should be updated more often than it has been.
Zip Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs)
Nice! Do you mind sharing your rough Google offer breakdown?
That’s a result of the political compromises that had to be made in order to pass ACA, which is people didn’t want to give up their silo’d white collar employer based health insurance, and insurers can’t compete across state lines.

If there was a single marketplace for health insurance where everyone had to go, there would be sufficient lives for health insurance companies to be able to offer more options.
Take a look at overhead costs as a percentage of the total budget for universities. You'll see that administrative costs have ballooned, while the size of faculty and student bodies have remained relatively constant. That certainly was the case at my university. Here's another article about the issue: https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinesimon/2017/09/05/bureau...
It’s much later, but Arm’s “IT (If-then) makes up to four following instructions conditional (known as the IT block). The conditions can all be the same, or some can be the logical inverse of others. IT is a pseudo-instruction in ARM state.”
This implies you can't determine your value based on contribution, so just use coworkers as a relative measure. Doesn't seem to make passengers happy wrt airline tickets so not sure about salaries...
Clock-Skew-Based Computer Identification
Although I have only a very superficial understanding of modems, I'd say demux() should be a function library, not an instantiated object. But even if it is an object for various reasons such as caching, that's quite fine with me; a Demultiplexer can be thought of as an conceptual component that a Modem "has" inside it.

What I don't like is when things like options, parameters, and intermediate representations of data that aren't actually intuitive are represented as instantiated objects of their own. In some sense I expect every instantiated object to "do" something useful of its own, and represent a functional block in a flowchart. Objects should, to the greatest extent possible, represent "is" and "has" relationships in a system, IMO.

Also, class hierarchy should be well designed. For example, an Exception called ConnectionError (that inherits from Exception) is great. It can be parametrized from there. What sucks is if there is SomeFooConnectionError, SomeBarConnectionError, SomeBlahConnectionError that all inherit directly from Exception and don't inherit from a common ConnectionError, because that makes the try/catch block super verbose and easy to miss a possibility.
> The fact that Intel's only new releases on 10nm are <=6 core low power products suggests their yields are still poor.

That logic seems backwards. If you have poor yields you tend to favor higher-margin products (i.e. datacenter CPUs). This is a laptop CPU intended to sell at significantly lower $/mm2.

As far as chiplets: multichip packages are an ancient idea, and the industry goes back and forth on them. Both Intel and AMD shippsed multi-chip solutions way back in the day, the current age of integration is actually the anomaly. You win on yield but lose on package costs, and the decision as to which to use depends on the specifics of the market you're trying to target.

Certainly AMD would prefer to ship single-chip solutions and pocket the savings, but they can't. Likewise Intel accepts some loss of scaling because of the need to share die designs across the product line.
>People are average judges, by definition

People may be, but individual persons are not. It’s the individual who is negotiating.

I remember a psychology study about the nature of impromptu pay raises. For the initial weeks they were extremely grateful. After six weeks or so IIRC they felt like they were entitled to that extra money all along. We are incredibly adept at rationalizing the outcome we want. Who wants to admit they don’t deserve a raise when handed to them?

People in aggregate may be good judges of value, but I don’t think too many individuals are. How many people do you know who will say they are insufficiently paid vs. paid too much?

I think the best way to gauge your worth is to periodically put your resume out and interview. If you get a lot of offers that dwarf your current pay you’re probably under paid. If not, you may just be a bad judge of your economic worth
I actually have a few original sets of this collection (second edition), and then a few later prints of both Iliad and Odyssey (A set from ~1730, and another from the 1770s, the latter binding is lovely, early copies tend to be in worse condition unless you have chunks of cash to spend).

IMHO the Iliad is far more fun than the Odyssey regardless of translation, it also features much better in the wider Hellenic corpus as a reference point if you like to see how it influences wider classic drama.

I became a little obsessed with him for a while because he became a millionaire in his time by essentially inventing DLC: His courtly friends would buy each volume of the books in advance, so he generated a solid stream of revenue so long as he hit his deadlines. For a poet that's good going.

His Greek wasn't particularly good, so it's suggested that quite a few people helped him, which makes the translation itself inaccurate, but there's no denying his poetic flair.

If you're looking for classic Pope I'd say look at the Rape of the Lock (which most folks read in school), and some of his satires - like Dante though they require some historical knowledge because he was very much a satirist and political commentator and used poetry as a means of expression rather tyhan art.

Bonus fact: did you know he invented the insult "namby pamby", it's derived from a nickname he came up with for one of his literary and courtly rivals.
>Any compression would ruin that.

Well not really. You could have an entire frame as a solid color red to represent a '1' and a solid white frame to represent a '0'. At 24 fps, that is 3 bytes per second and would certainly survive compression. Just keep drilling down, half a frame that is red and another half that is white would represent a '10' pair, now you've doubled your throughput. You could keep cutting these blocks down until you get to a limit, you certainly couldn't get down to a single pixel, but some factor of that. Plus you could use an encoding with error correction instead of just raw binary data.
Fixit: A lint framework that writes better Python code for you
The footnote is that it has to be in network providers and it has the treatment has to be justified (e.g. have supporting data of efficacy).
Piecing Together the Puzzle: Who Are the LPs That Invest in Emerging Micro-VCs?
Here are some animated screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/eSERqFc
I'd think binary systems made up of similarly sized objects where the orbits are in some sense "close" are almost by definition not eccentric. To get to that point from a previously eccentric orbit they convert the eccentricity to spin. Check out this out for an example with neutron stars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JZBmgOEfdo

As to the second part, I'd think it becomes axially symmetric in very minimal time. I don't have a good answer as to why, except that my intuition says the GW signature of blackhole mergers at the point of the merger has a frequency that appears to get infinitely fast as it radiates away the axial asymmetry.
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'Cancel Culture' Will Not Take over America. Fortnite Will
The "problem" in each case is that you have to modify code in a bunch of different places instead of one place.

Tools help with abstract methods and exhaustive enum checks, but it's the difference between a change in one place vs changes in many places.
Yes, I'm not surprised at one-time unexpected expenses. I'm surprised people casually mention several urgent-care visits a year as if it was normal.
Being an authoritarian asshole is probably a coping mechanism for teachers who struggle to navigate the same hellscape the students must. Teachers aren't immune from the school yard popularity contest: the charismatic teachers seem to have a much easier life than the rest.
The executive branch. Following orders or implementing a law that violates citizens right should come with criminal consequence. I don't care who found it unconstitutional, there should be criminal punishment after a court rules that a crime was committed. Of course either side can appeal all the way to the supreme court using any laws or precedent. But if the final verdict is that a government official violated a citizens right, that official should be punished. If a law maker intentionally proposed a law that violates constitutional rights, there should be consequences. If a judge rules or operates intentionally to violate these rights there should be a punishment.

Just like doctors face malpractice lawsuits and felony charges, so should govetnment officials that intentionally violate citizes' rights.

I saw a video the other day where a cop arrested a person for insulting him. Worst case he would lose his job, but no punishment! This NSA case is a small example of a systemic disease.
> If they previously had less than 4GB of memory and were often swapping

These days, it's more like if they previously had less than 12 GB of memory and were often swapping. Having a few dozen tabs open isn't that uncommon and interactive websites (Twitter, Gmail, Google Docs) can use an enormous amount of RAM.
PostgreSQL and all that goes with it, from backup to monitoring and reporting
Yeah, so then you write

for (size_t i = n-1; i < n; --i) { /* operate on a[i] */ }

It works fine (unsigned overflow is well defined) but it's even less clear.
The "3 felonies a day" are mostly stuff like copyright infringement, not rapes, murders, etc. Though there are a few obscure laws like those protecting endangered species that might prevent you from, say, picking up a feather you found outside on the ground, this isn't something that's normally going to get a person in trouble, just the kind of thing that makes for shocking headlines.
My favourite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxbufWzX1NA

I really like the bass.

The pirates of the Caribbean theme fits really nicely as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95M9UsQS2HI

Probably helps that the original music was made for and recorded on classical instruments.

If you like vocals in ancient english: https://www.youtube.com/user/9freakydarling9
Salaries are. Total comp is not.
Will the EU protect VR from personal data scraping by Facebook?
How does the paywall know to let someone through?

Disclosure: I am, in theory, a potential competitor through work I've done off and on over the past decade.
socat on both ends :)
The basic idea: each week, you have an HTML file with some content, and your goal is to create the CSS file that makes this a beautiful piece of (web) art. The contest runs on Github on top of some automation. Contributions, entries, and content suggestions are all handled there. At the end of each week, the project bot selects a winning entry (you vote by reacting to the entry PR), which is then deployed to https://csscontest.com and stays there for the whole week. A more detailed explanation is here: https://github.com/bitsofart/contest/#welcome.
This project is the result of a lot of my interests put together. I wanted to be a designer at the beginning of my career. Back in those days, https://www.awwwards.com/ was a fantastic source of inspiration, and I dreamed of one day having that website of the day ribbon on my website. This day never came, and my interests shifted towards programming and code. But I still love seeing amazing visuals on the web, and I've always thought how nice it would be to have an award, like the Awwwards' site of the day, but more open, both in terms of content and selection.

Along with that, I'm also fascinated by evolution and the idea of things organically progressing in ways no one can anticipate. And I've been long thinking of this idea of a "crowdsourced" code project, and where a community of coders would take it.

So I merged the two ideas in this project: An open space for the community to participate in a contest to make beautiful things on the web. All the few contest's rules and their application are open-source (there are links for them in the repo), and everything is automated so we can have as few single-person interferences as possible. In an ideal world, everyone interested can participate, and I, as the owner of the repo, don't even have to look at it.
Which Nazi Germany did anyway, just a short time later.

It seems that holding joint parades, signing secret pacts, sacrificing Comintern, etc, still did not help much.
This is extraordinarily dystopian.
But, it's not just the cards. Sherrifs also hand out their business cards to their buddies and tell them to flash that if they get pulled over, or firefighters and EMTs show their public service license cards when they hand over their wallet to an officer to get out of tickets. Same thing with the 11-99 license plate holders- donate to the police retirement union to get out of tickets! http://zo-d.com/stuff/automotive/1199-foundation-license-pla...

If the "cards" are banned, their still would be a system for insiders to show they have access to special benefits and treatment.
"There is something universal in our understanding of temporal logic that makes objects changing over time an intuitive model for a computer's internal state."

But that is exactly what a computer does: changes state over time. Languages ignoring that fact are prisoners of their own niche and will never be as popular as those which don't ignore the hardware.
I couldn't agree with this more. Healthcare costs have increased unabated since the passage of the ACA. Make all the noise you want about Republicans attacking the bill at lower levels of government, it's ultimately the Democrats who didn't pass a public option, and more damningly, it's the Democrats who wouldn't pass Medicare for All. There's no interest in actually solving the issue when they make so much money off the system as it exists.
the amount of internal denial about the pay gap between us and FANG companies is pretty silly. a lot of high performers get the principal-band bump tangled in front of them for years as an incentive. (level 66+. level 65 is the first "principal" level but doesn't get the non-linear comp boost yet).
And the government in turn delegates that to the. What other profession can you kill an unarmed man and be back home for dinner the same day?
It's telling that sum types make a lot of code cleanliness issues disappear to the point we're reevaluating architectural vs performance considerations.

Sum types rock.
If things go poorly, just open your umbrella.
The Houston area PD has an organization called the "100 Club" [0] where you can donate to get a nice sticker. Each year has a different color, so it's easy to show how long you've been a member. [1]

Officially they're just to support the LEO orgs, but there's also anecdata in my friend group that having one (or more) makes you more likely to get out of most things with just a warning.

[0]: https://the100club.org/about/#what
[1]: https://twitter.com/sighborgs/status/1246113527158497282
The police sure do for tickets they give. Those penalty fees are all set. Hospitals should have listed fees for procedures.
The healthcare system in the USA is set up to milk you like a the cash cow that you are, and it does not require your consent to start doing that. Most of the time I think you can opt out of receiving treatment, but I'm not 100% sure about that, and to your point, you may not be in a position to opt out.

I had cracked my skull & scraped off half my face on the asphalt. I was in shock. The took me to the hospital the moment I couldn't answer some of the basic question that first responders ask. If I recall correctly, they asked me what day it was, and I said knew the answer, but that I needed to think about it. I was most definitely not in my right state of mind, but I was not in a position to deny treatment, let alone navigate the finer points of in & out of network care.
Community colleges are accredited too.

People transfer to 4 year colleges with AA degrees all the time, even to high prestige colleges.
Haha, as if the Senate going blue would change this headline. The Democrats had 60/59 Senators 10 years ago and passed a disgusting reform that's ultimately not done anything about healthcare costs, and allowed those who benefit from the system to reap in even more money.
Yes, so being in contempt is the what is being punished. Like you said, being told to stop is the only consequence.
You forgot Chineses government subsidy to get a backdoored phone in the hands of the masses in an enemy nation.
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The content is encrypted, users get the key when pay or view an ad. We dont host anything
That index seems flawed. The methodology is not transparent. The Economist is not going to accuse its own ownership of oligarchy.
I get that this is really meant to be a technical demo, but in a way its more art than most modern art is art.
For a parallel in a totally different domain, see Umberto Eco's definition of fascism [0]. It is a list of 14 properties typical of fascism, but it is not necessary to actually possess them all to be considered fascist (and they're mutually contradictory).

The same thing happens with FP and OOP. Both are too broad to be defined concisely, and the definitions, when collected, are often contradictory or necessarily exclude what others would consider valid <paradigm> languages.

Any discussion about these paradigms and their relative merit or "goodness" has to be clear about which subset of OOP and FP properties are being discussed and compared.

An example: A popular view of many current FP proponents is the idea of immutability as a key requirement of FP. But this necessarily excludes Common Lisp, a multi-paradigm language with the ability to use many other FP ideas. Instead, CL would be included under FP (or include FP as one of its paradigms) by someone focusing on things like higher order functions, being able to construct functions at runtime via closures, etc.

The same can be used to understand OO. Message passing is a property of some OO systems. Inheritance and class hierarchies are a property of others, possibly overlapping with the first. Closely tying methods to classes (see Java) is another common property. But Java and Smalltalk are both considered OO and both contain ideas absent in the other. Which of those ideas are OO, which are ancillary. And which OO ideas are present in one but absent in the other, does it invalidate the other language as an OO language or does it just mean it has a different view of OO?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_fascism#Umberto...
And your explanation on the other hand is basically "it's not Russia, because I like Putin".

There were dozens of illogical things Russian government did for decades, and killing opponents (or just innocent people) is among them.