skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will my values change in ways that they are unlikely to change without the changes to my brain? By analogy, drinking alcohol has temporarily affects on my judgement because it affects my brain chemistry and on the whole it makes my judgement worse (although sometimes it has removed unhelpful inhibitions).

To me the premise that the possibility of changing my brain through fasting is unquestionably a silver bullet free of tradeoffs is suspect. Or to put it another way, the fact that fasting had a particular effect does not imply that effect is a positive one.

Furthermore, hunger is a strong motivation toward behaviors that are ethically suspect in its absence. A full belly is a rung up Maslow’s hierarchy.

People who spend their days starving mice at scale have incentives to interpret that starvation in positive ways. It would be hard to rationalize starvation and vivisection otherwise and still consider one’s life choice reasonable and ethical. Hence, I am skeptical of acting in the ways an optimistic interpretation of the report suggests. YMMV.
Thats an interesting perspective. Why don’t you agree that the privatization was a reaction to a failing system? Surely if command economics had been successful they wouldn’t have felt the need to privatize?
The galley and toilet was actually a thermos, thermos holder and... I guess you could generously call the toilet a urine vacuum and receptacle (1)

1 - https://youtu.be/Ynm3em8fHaA?t=403
Either the human should never have to intervene (can sleep) or the human should never be allowed to take their eyes of the road.

Any level between that is dangerous, irresponsible, and should be banned from use on public roads.

Which leads to an interesting question or two: a) why isn’t it? b) what will happen to Tesla and Uber once it’s clear that “Unsupervised driving” will remain a decade away for at least another decade?
Thanks for looking this up. My hindi is really bad and I could not decipher the name of the book from the video.
Most of the ex soldiers I know transformed for the better in the army. Admittedly this is selection bias, because all the ones I know now work in tech. But the ones that do, learned leadership and teamwork in the army. So it did at least help those people.
The idea is that we are running few multi-tenant Kafka clusters to amortize the operation cost. These clusters host many topics with different topology depending on different requirements, cost profile and scale.

Some clusters are hosting hundreds of topics, thousands of partitions and used (consumers/producers) by hundreds of services.
> PHP 5 wasn't fine at the time which is what the GP was saying.

"Fine" (as in "adequate") is not a high bar, and so is easily defensible. I get that it's fun to say that PHP was "stupid", but history shows that PHP's historic imperfections didn't prevent developers from building everything from web-scale apps (Facebook, Wikipedia, Flickr, Tumbler, etc.) to, yes, millions of blogs.

(Don't get me wrong, your favorite language seems nice too.)
Every stat? Wow. I'd be very interested in reading some of this material if you could link to some.

If you take a shitty driver and compare it to an AI, I doubt the AI will perform worse when it comes to preventing accidents.

Sure, a skilled human driver will likely perform better than this early stage AI, but if even 1% of the bad drivers out there switch to an AI, that's a net positive in my view. Not to mention all the other risky situations involving alcohol, sleep deprivation, etc. where an automated response can save lives.

You didn't address my main point though. Why is a driverless accident worse than a drunk driver?
Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, a fascinating read, not an easy read either, but if any HN reader is looking for something... a masterpiece that is true to today across countries and cultures.
I'd done an order taking/processing extranet system 20 years ago, in PHP, at we did around $1b/year. No one was doing that amount at that time (well, info wasn't available anyway if they were). This was all PHP. PHP4 to be precise. Had done an earlier iteration in classic ASP, but ended up needing more servers to accommodate growth. Moving to PHP, we were able to reduce the server count.

Now... this was naive ASP - all the session state was kept in memory. There probably would have been a way to not do that, but no one where I worked knew how to do that (or even thought in those terms - it was just "set a sticky bit on the load balancer!".

The PHP code was slower than the ASP, but because the session state all went to disk, the memory usage never got too high. We still ended up using the sticky bit on the load balancer, but there was far less concurrent memory usage (IIRC servers had either 256m or 512m). We could serve more - slightly more slowly - via PHP.

The upside was that it was a known user-based - contractor/dealers buying from the company - so we didn't have to deal with "well, we might get 40,000 browsing visitors tomorrow because of a TV ad". The user base didn't fluctuate wildly, so it was easier to manage against.

By comparison, in the same company, another team of people were working on a Java web app. It would often take them 15-20 minutes to recompile/redeploy something to a test server to try out an idea to get feedback on something, whereas with the PHP, I could put code on a test server for feedback in a few seconds. (could usually do that with the ASP too). Yes, no doubt, the Java people were "doing something wrong" and someone can say they'd have known how to do it "right" in the year 2000, but... it was what it was.
I love internet tough guys.
Can they compose dark matter?
Metrication in the United States
I am super interested to hear more about the vitiligo clearing up! Can you elaborate?
All the 'programmer' reasons I've taken a pay cut for a programming job
The code allegedly includes third-party code as well as contributions that were initially accepted into AGPL code, which from what I understand are technically owned by the contributor and licensed to use under AGPL.

What the guy here did is to disregard all of this and relicense it autonomously.
Right but I didn’t buy my computer from Adobe
> Partner A needs to chill the fuck out and remember that partner B is a functioning adult that can survive multiple hours without the observation and worry of partner A.

Telling people on the internet what to do. Doesn't sound very un-control freaky.
Depends on why you are fasting. A little milk won’t kick you out of ketosis, particularly if it is higher fat. But for autophagy benefits, it might.
Cruise control + lane keeping perhaps. Which is why I think lane-centering driving assists are dangerous and the limit should be lane-leaving warnings (buzz in steering wheel when close to lane edge - no steeeing to follow lane).
If it's so uninteresting to you, why participate in the discussion?
I didn't flag your comment below, but just to be clear, at least in the US the law considers any individual contributor to be the copyright holder of their own code. They can assign or license it to someone else, but they're the original copyright owners of that code.
The French were aware that their traditional (mid-19th century) red trousers were not appropriate for modern warfare. Unfortunately, getting them replaced was not an easy task due to political difficulties.
This article (in French) is a good summary of the French army's efforts from 1903 to find a uniform more suited to modern warfare:
http://rosalielebel75.franceserv.com/reforme-uniforme.html
It does mention the importing of red dye from Germany, in the context of the planned future uniform being a patriotic mix of red, white and blue, and the red being omitted due to the supply being curtailed.
Is youtube-dl going to stop working? I assumed the problem was limited to having the repository taken down, but are they pushing to get the service to be defunct entirely? Short of not allowing them to publish the code or executables anywhere, that would require legislation passed to prevent existing and future packages in Linux repositories to be banned, or a major change in how it interacts with YouTube from YouTube's end to render it useless.
This seems reminiscent of the issues farmers have been having with John Deere tractors.
But if they'd used that, exactly, plenty of people would still be hair-splitting & demanding more – maybe even you, since even your wording doesn't do most of the things your first post above wanted!

The problem is that when you list your acknowledgements and chosen actions, you're implicitly refusing to acknowledge anything else and are indicating that no further actions will be taken.

When the apology is open-ended, and includes further specific actions such as an independent investigation, then you've done none of that.

The social function of apologies also requires gracious acceptance of actual admissions of error.

When the apology performs the social functions of apologies, it only works when the recipient graciously accepts.

But when the apology fails to perform the social functions of an apology, there is no obligation on the recipient to pretend acceptance.
I wouldn't ignore them, but I'd suggest that there were other more potent mechanisms for information control which resulted in ineffective capital allocation.

Consider that talking about a superior suspension system present in Western cars would have been problematic to the censors. Engineers who pushed such systems could find themselves in trouble, and ultimately cozy insiders could get competitors blackballed for pushing competing programs e.g. Censorship and Corruption did the most damage to the efficient allocation of capital.
>In PHP on the other hand one had to build on top of bad parts since there was no good alternatives.

What exactly was so bad in PHP that you couldn't also ignore?
Of course that won't work because that type synonym is far from a monad. I think you meant to write `type Id a = a` or `type Id f a = f a` instead.

But I get your argument now. What you are saying is that we want some kind of a way to define functions that are either pure or return a monadic value. Currently that's not doable because these two have distinct types. It may be difficult to unify them via the type system. This is even more difficult for higher-order functions that take other functions.
> and any who did not sign we simply rewrote their lines of code, or we would have

Why wouldn't you rewrite all lines of code instead?
I phrased it poorly. I think the odds of the media turning self driving cars into a moral panic is quite low. I don’t think such a panic will materialize organically.
I wondered as well, but it seems entirely plausible. This thing had about the same crew size as an Ohio class submarine but more than double the volume.
Listen, personally I would recommend you visit countries abroad for a change - like China, Russia, India or Europe (pick any they are all nice) and leave your US bubble.

Nobody * has reason to start random wars abroad and people are not excited spending billions of dollars on weapons to nuke innocent civilians.

Just assume that people you don’t know (abroad or not) are guys like you - having no interest in nuking or bombing others or starting wars; but they are generally worried about their families and mortgages.

Wars are fabricated by a small group of people in power that gain from buying and selling death. Wars are inherently inefficient and a waste of resources.

Edit: * Well, I guess Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Laos, Libya, Syria and many others would disagree....
This is excellent, with the very minor detail of the fonts, which look a little off, and perhaps a little too anti-aliased? This seems to be the main issue with all web-based retro simulations of Windows 9x and XP. I'm guessing this is because the default font (Tahoma?) isn't freely licensed? Everything else is spot on, though!
> Unpopular treatments of Calculus that only deal with computable numbers exist and produce the same results for physics.

I'd really appreciate if you named them. I've seen synthetic differential geometry, which isn't nearly well-developed enough for use in all of physics, and I've seen nonstandard analysis, which obviously doesn't do away with the uncomputable reals at all.

> there is no way in which the use of mathematics by physics serves as justification for the reality

I am not saying the standard reals are real. I am saying that they are more convenient than any existing alternative, and fulfil the current needs of all of physics. I am also saying that the parent's claim that "uncomputable numbers … in the guise of string theory obtained a death grip on fundamental physics" is absurd, since string theory and uncomputable reals are pretty much unrelated.
Indian lived in India for many years and in the UK. Never been subjected to caste discrimination or seen it, only heard the odd jokes in Punjabi songs, Jatt ones but never seen high caste Rajputs, Brahmins etc say anything. If anything I think the problem is economic background, its always money that determines real status and that too the poorer suffer most.
Nothing that's not already out in the media. Colin Wallace (and others) wrote about this, so they framed him for manslaughter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Wallace#Imprisonment
The adaptive cruise control in my Honda is also bad about braking without good cause. Of course, they don’t market it as “self-driving”.
Copyright ownership is not a matter of your opinion. It is settled law, mutually recognized by the 179 countries (out of the 195 in the world) who have signed the Berne Convention [1]. Copyright ownership is established as soon as a work is "fixed in a tangible medium of expresssion" [2]—in other words, as soon as the contributor wrote it on their laptop. The "author" entry in the package.json file is irrelevant.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention

[2]: https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2017/10/03/with-copyright-wh...
This argument is silly since it assumes that self driving is somehow both the fastest and most efficient way to save people's lives, however we have working technologies we could implement today that could save lives (breathalyzers for cars, measures of visibility plus warnings, etc). Self driving efforts related to saving lives miss the opportunity costs of doing so.
In your experience, how does that compare to measuring continual "use" of your product, like churn, cohort tracking, and others?

From the linked article, I'd say the "what's missing" question is perhaps the best signal, if customers list tons of missing things yet continue using the product despite those shortcomings, as measured by usage stats for instance, then you know you not only have PMF but also the beginnings of a lock on the market.
I don't know of any goalpost moving. Most reasonable people from the beginning assumed,

1. There were legitimate "scandalous" materials gained via hacking.

2. The entire story of how it was acquired was either fabricated or setup.

3. The materials that attempt to tie the scandal to Joe Biden are the ones that need authentication to be interesting.

4. Without authentication it could be an attempt to use the personally scandalous materials of Hunter Biden to create an air of authenticity for the other items.
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/jkjeib/comment/ga...
His name is Juan, he goes by Obijuan in his open source contributions.

https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Gonz%C3%A1lez_G%C3%B3me...
I did have my phone number linked to gmail and I was able to reset my password using otp code, not 2FA though. As you say, it might not happen if I enable 2FA but I've had enough that day frantically trying to get my ~10 year old account tied to many things back. But still, I would like to keep my account and will follow your advice but won't be counting on it to last forever anymore.
> To this day it has the best implementation of parallelism; one can achieve a 7x speedup on 8 cores by adding a handful of lines to a program.

Eh, you can achieve the same in Rust using rayon, this isn't exclusive to Haskell or FP. Do you have an example in Haskell, where you get an effortless speedup which wouldn't be easy in another language?
The Air Force Sent Its D-21 Drone to Spy on Russia
What exactly is a medical mask? Is it the same thing as the cheap blue surgical masks?
Apparently he had been offered the role of Gandalf (which ultimately went to Sir Ian McKellen) in the LOTR movies but turned it down!
Came here to say this.

As soon as it popped up, I was like; oh, shit, yup - there it is.

WinAmp and it's fantastically on-point UI-mockup and functionality was also a super nice touch.

tbh I still use Windows XP SP3 in my VM on my Mac for the occasional Windows utility I need. It's super no-cruft and lightweight - especially as a VM - compared to anything since - and is surprisingly compatible. Because it's in a VM, I'm not too worried about the security issues, and most of the Windows-only utilities I use are fairly archaic anyway. (In computer years)
I can't edit my comment now but it seems like HN thinks once you buy a CPU, you should get all software for free, because that general-purpose CPU can execute any arbitrary programs, so whatever new software you use is merely exercising the functionality that is already present on the CPU, which you paid for. Ergo, all software must be free (free as in beer).
>You're also assuming that telecommunications networks, physical infrastructure, particularly power, are in good working order

the same is true of bitcoin, right? I mean gold will continue to be gold in the absence of power, but will bitcoin even exist?

The most damning critique of bitcoin is that it requires power to be free and infinite.
I see no excuse for artificially sabotaging output.

Limited access to features is one thing, artificially injected breakage is another.

A person or company that behaves that way is not someone I want to deal with and not a tactic I want to reward with success.

I would rather pay even more to have open source developers work on honest problems.
I don’t agree this is settled ethically unless you can come up with a better example. This leaves full agency in the hands of the driver throughout the application, unlike a drug which is a point-in-time decision which leads to a long chain of events outside the patient’s control. A better example would be something where a manual operator was displaced by an automated one, especially where the operator was a non-professional and the use of the thing is risky and already kills many people. Perhaps there is an analog in trucking or machinery.
If it's consistently as good as an average human that's still better than an average human. That's because robots don't get tired, hungover, angry, bored, drunk, or get an eyelash in their eye at a really bad time.
I am very disappointed in the lack of response from Explorer > Help > Is this copy of Windows legal?
While I don't have an OpenBSD system to check that man page, I doubt that it is sufficient to set up a proper mail server.

You may find one of the printed books on Postfix helpful. No Starch Press has a decent one, which, regardless of its age, still is a good one.

Make sure that your server cannot be used as an open relay to deliver spam. Take a look at http://www.postfix.org/SMTPD_ACCESS_README.html to learn how to do that. Postfix is a well written piece of software and (IMHO) rather easy to maintain once you understood the basic principles. I've been using it for more than a decade now.
> If your advice to people is to avoid all of the premier manufacturers, I think that shows that the ecosystem has major problems, no?

I've seen you try to make this point everywhere in the thread and I can't for the life of me even understand what you mean by this.

As a developer, I often reach for open source libraries, tools and platforms before any "premium" offerings (databases are far from the only examples, but they are an obvious one: to wit, Postgres vs Oracle or SQL server), and the OSS options are also the ones I suggest when I'm asked.

In another example, my current laptop is from a niche manufacturer instead of by Dell or Apple.

So, yeah, I don't understand what you mean by this question. Then again you also say that repairability is not high in your priority list while TFA is explicitly about that so I don't actually understand the general point you're trying to make in this discussion.

Seems like you should just use Apple products.
Nit: Licenses are not by definition revocable. They can be revocable or irrevocable.
I had the same when I ported the gruvbox theme (that was for vim) to emacs. I used the same license and also added full credit, since the elisp was mine but the selection of colours wasn't.

One contributor decided to fork straight away and then link to it in an issue rather than adding a pull request. Eh, whatever, I didn't like it so much at the time but we came to an agreement, and the person who forked did a great job maintaining the theme.

It became popular enough that some more prolific emacsers caught wind, and the project became more integrated. As you might know, emacs is hardcore GPL, so this basically demanded a relicense. This was a few years after I started the project back in 2013 (I think), but I got pinged on the issue and messaged privately, and that was enough.

Turns out it wasn't necessary at the end of it all, but the process was quick and easy. Everything was cordial and I still have my name attached to it, which I guess is nice.
Because it improves safety.

By way of context as to the vigorous enforcement of this law, NYC gave out 300 jaywalking tickets last year. That is not a lot.

In fact that's only about 2x the number of pedestrian deaths in NYC last year.

And this is a city where everyone pedestrian or driver will take every inch they can. Any driver who hesitates is going to find an entire group waiting for a light taking the opportunity to just start crossing.
I couldn't contain a smile when I saw Winamp's interface :)
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Self-sufficiency is coming back, I think.

The SARS-NCoV-2 epidemic showed how brittle the worldwide supply chains really are. China is a production powerhouse, producing all kinds of everything, and everyone and their neighbour wants to produce in China, but unfortunately this had created a single point of failure. Once the virus stopped things in China, the disruption cascaded along the supply chain networks; demand existed but production was stopped.

Resiliency in supply chains won't happen through adding massive inventories to handle a months long disruption, instead it will happen by moving some of the production away from Asia back to USA, Europe, Great Britain, and so on.

Naturally bananas and corn won't get this treatment, but technological goods will.