skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My state in Australia have heavy, heavy fines, even compared to the rest of Aus. It doesn't reduce the amount of poor driving but speeding at least is unambiguous. There is no grey area. If the speed limit is 60kmph then you will get booked for exceeding it by 5kmph, and the only reason you get that 5kmph leeway is to account for camera calibration and some grace for speedometer calibration. They would ping you at 61kmph if they could

We also have demerit points, so if you get caught speeding say three times in a row you will most likely have ran out of points on your license and automatically get a 3 to 6 month license suspension. Most of this is automated, so you may find out you were suspended by getting pulled over before the letter arrives. It's all very strict.
I'm glad you brought up Montaigne; I was going to, but then realized that people would accuse me of comparing pg to the classics and get mad about that too.

I think it's a bit of a stretch to compare informal quotes to "citations" in the modern sense. The point is that this is an informal, highly personal genre. There are people, as you probably know, who claim that Montaigne invented not only the essay, but the modern idea of a personal self by writing them. So to accuse pg of being too personal or self-referential in his essays is a misunderstanding. The way his writing gets under people's skin is certainly interesting though.
It’s a great talk, but something I would watch after learning how to implement a malloc as it talks about other kinds of allocators and how to make them composable rather than say “how would I encode a freelist”.
Pretty sure that was a point early in his presidency where he was block, but Twitter being a US company was not allow to block the US president....?
MP urged to pay up for his family’s slave trade past
It's best to use foam pads if you're getting started. I wanted to get metal ones one day (as I've worn through a few foam pads). I'm in an apartment right now, so they're boxed up, but I look forward to moving away from the city next year and being able to get them back out again.

It would be cool to build metal pads like this, but I'm super lazy and will probably just buy some.
if...then...else had to be invented (2019)
Anticipating vaccine, forecast expects recovery to begin in spring 2021
Well, no, the paradox accounts for this. In an eternal universe any intervening dust would have steadily absorbed radiation by the stars behind it until it glowed at the same temperature. Therefore, the sky should still look uniformly bright.
In Israel, it is up to the owner of the car to name the driver (or accept responsibility) if no other evidence is available.

Rental companies name the renter, which is what you describe, and it is then up to the renter to accept or name a sub-lesser; by default, the responsible party is the latest to accept, or for court to determine (but that would likely require dissenting potential drivers to file legal complaints against each other)

Occasionally, people use this to equalize penalty points in a household (say, married couples) because other than fines, there’s a point system where 3-5 nontrivial tickets in as many years will get your license suspended or revoked for a while, and other sanctions.

This practice - admitting a crime you didn’t commit - is of course illegal, and not very prevalent - but there have been a few high profile cases involving famous (and infamous) people caught doing that.
It seems .fcntkb knowledgebase files are raw SQLite database files. For the long-term preservation of user work, perhaps something non-binary would be better, like JSON?
Once Upon Atari: How I made history by killing an industry
Computer History Museum recently published a series of videos from UC Santa Cruz organized symposium titled "Celebrating 50 Years of the ALOHA System and the Future of Networking". Both Norm Abramson and Frank Kuo did one of the presentations. Norman was super sharp and on the ball, hard to believe he was 88. Great loss. :(

https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10279209... (videos at the bottom of the page)

https://citris.sites.ucsc.edu/alohanet/
Serious Sam didn't come out until 2001. How did you play it in 1999?
Founder of Dgraph here

> But no, you wanted to enforce your graph database which is not proven for production load.

One of our customers, a big brand e-commerce site, is running 20 TBs of data on Dgraph. I wonder what makes you claim "not proven for production load."

> Hence, it is wrong to claim it being different from Hasura just because you are embedding the GraphQL layer and database into a single binary.

Perhaps you could embed GraphQL layer into Postgres, then change the way Postgres stores data to make it do joins better, make Postgres not require strict schemas and allow major schema changes without any downtime, then add distributed transactions, consistent replication, fault tolerance to it; and then yes, it might be close.
Would the sky also be filled with infinite black holes?
Sometimes I write like this when I am stressed...

"One summer, she collected bits of moss each time we went out and built a bank of it under the window where she would sit in bed and write. She could lay for hours like that, typing surrounded by books and snacks and pillows with the lights off. I never understood how she could write that way until after she was gone, and I no longer had the will to sit up straight."
Hey Simone , I would like to learn more about your approach
China bans topics all the time, and they're on a trajectory to become the strongest nation in the world.
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because thats not what mRNA and normal cellular processes do and there is no mechanism in the body to allow that to happen.

Reverse transcription only happens when a reverse transcriptase (found in retro-viruses, e.g. HIV-1, HIV-2, Hepatitis B Virus etc) does that and the RNA is the direct viral genome or a transcript of the viral DNA (for DNA viruses). They have special marker sequences at either end to facilitate this (search for terminal repeats)

SARS-CoV-2 is not a retrovirus.
What's a good way to verify that I've removed Keystone completely? Google doesn't provide any sort of uninstaller or uninstall instructions.
Fundamental Linux tool: search, filter, etc.,a wrapper of 'find'
Interesting, I checked and the only upstream component of GNOME I could find that requires systemd and doesn't have a compile flag for it is gdm. This isn't required to start GNOME (you can use any other display manager) and FreeBSD/OpenBSD seem to be maintaining consolekit patches for it downstream. So I see why there is little incentive to fix this upstream. (On non-systemd Linux distros the focus has shifted to staying compatible with elogind, but that doesn't work on BSD)
Tim's Vermeer.
I also built a similar frame, but instead it shows informal stuff like calendar events, weather etc.

https://polso.info/raspberry-pi-e-ink-photo-frame-video-and-...
What did you end up reading, if I may?
At this point pg’s articles have a huge survival bias, it’s really hard to know.

The only way to know is YC valuing each company on demo day 1, 5 and 10 years in the future, publicly keeping a record of predicted valuations and their hypothesis for their model Waiting 10 years and regressing to see if their model made the correct predictions.

It could very well be that YC could just shoot money in dark and by the mere fact of being where talent and VCs are, companies turn into unicorns out of sheer luck and timing. We don’t know.

The YC process isn’t scientific, or at-least not open to scientific scrutiny.
Copyright law is bricking your game console. Time to fix that
It seems like the problem is that there is disclosing as a zero day isn't seen as a credible thread, since it's generally seen as bad practice. If security researchers wanted to try and collect more they could in theory form some kind of union to keep up the price of bounties, with like a middle agent pricing the bounty and disclosing the vulnerability if the price isn't met. Maybe combine with some kind of insurance, such that if a company doesn't pay out the bounty the researcher can still collect. I don't know if this would count as extortion though, so it might not even be legal.

Really this seems like a shady security company when I describe it like that.
It's suited for a very specific kind of data processing. It's a kind which isn't typically used today.

The language combines presentation and storage in a way I've never seen in any other language. Let's say you have an 8 digit variable. You can then specify that the last two digits is represented by a different variable, and thus the second variable will only work on those last two digits.

This is useful when you have formatted fields, where you have a variable that holds an ISO 8601 date, with other variables representing the year, month and day parts.

In a language like Java, you need to create a class that holds this information, with separate methods to manipulate the individual components and formatting the output.

In COBOL you only need a few lines of declarations to do this.

The drawback is that now presentation is tightly associated with the data storage, meaning that changing presentation format can be a lot of work. This is why COBOL programs were so problematic during Y2K.
Try esbuild instead of babel. Really helps.
There is an esbuild-loader that can replace babel neatly.
This made me think that there are two type of not-earnestness: "what's in in it for me?" and "what's in it for others?" The first type is what [office] politics is about. The second type is rare and an example of it is when a doctor could tell a patient point-blank that he has 2 months left, but instead strongly recommends to go on a 2 months round-the-world trip and even invents a plausible cause [such trips help so much that savings on meds are multiples of the trip's cost].
I find this interesting with 2Africa(Facebook) and Equiano project(Google), using Free Space Optical Communication. To me it seems as a way to have ownership of the physical infrastructure of the internet and also have sway on how the digital infrastructure can become a monopoly separated from the Telecom companies around Africa.
I call the technique "lexer modes" but it's trivial:

When Are Lexer Modes Useful? http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/12/17.html

Overview of the parser:

How to Parse Shell Like a Programming Language http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2019/02/07.html

You could look at the architecture like this:

reader -> matcher (generated regular languages) -> lexer -> multiple parsers

The lexer takes the mode parameter and has extra logic for disambiguation. There are multiple parsers for multiple dialects, and they're both hand-written and generated.

Feel free to follow up if this catches your interest. I'm looking for feedback on both Eggex and Oil!

more posts:

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/tags.html?tag=eggex#eggex

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/tags.html?tag=parsing-shell#par...
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What machine did you get, if you don't mind my asking? I haven't been able to find one that I'm confident is worth investing time into, as well as the financial investment.
Thanks for that!

I believe you and find that interesting but it seems to me you're talking about your education, not pg's. Those terms aren't universal and, as I'm sure you know, there's also a strain in analytical philosophy that takes pride in not knowing anything about that stuff. Besides that, skepticism about postmodernism generally was as widespread then as it is now, especially among technical people, and I'd be shocked if that hasn't always been his view. Certainly it was 10 or 15 years ago, whenever it was that I first read him refer to it.
A Reddit short story about meta-civilizations
Clickbait... it was not on a launch pad, it was in a construction bay. The rocket did not collapse, the stand it was on did. It seems largely undamaged and repairable, they are in the process already.
Home Assistant is a great way to do it. It has its own automation framework but I’m sure you can easily hook in your own scripts, or write them as your own plugins for HA. You can send push notifications to the mobile apps, it even supports actions on notifications I believe, and then you can obviously send events back to the server with it as well.
Should Companies Require Employees to Take the Vaccine?
HN is always criticizing the tone of any TFA regardless of gender. I’ve noticed it even more since seeing your exact accusation before.

You present no evidence either. I think comments like yours actually want their accusation to be true because it gives you some sort of power and moral clout.

TFA is written like a tweet. It’s indeed obnoxious. It should be somewhat of a red flag that you felt the need to bring up gender. It’s also a lazy accusation. Though the accusation is very trendy these days.
Almost all cars can be set to respect a speed limit already; I do that when I drive on highways to make sure I don’t accidentally go over (which is easy to do especially when others around me do it).

Outside of the US (and perhaps a few other places, but not many), speeding tickets are not designed to be a revenue source. (They do produce revenue, of course - but are not optimized or planned for that purpose)
> a dude with too much money and self-importance

Personal attacks are not ok on HN. Please don't post like that again, regardless of whom you're defending.
Thanks. Your comments were very helpful.
I had a Bearcat scanner that let you listen to the analog cellular bands. I think you had to use a harmonic frequency. This was probably 1992 or 93. I never heard anything interesting really.
Oh god. You are going to hate this. Node v15 on my MacBook Air built in 20 minutes.
Virgin Galactic flight aborts after rocket ignition failure
There's a lot wrong with this title, but the truth might not garner as many clicks. SN9 did not collapse on the launch pad.
Yeah sure. It happens sometimes but rarely. Mostly the investigations being stonewalled, facts hidden/ignored etc/etc
I don't see a plausible interpretation of "all this theorizing are just post-hoc rationalizations to satisfy your ego" that isn't a snarky, shallow dismissal (of someone's work, btw, as the site guidelines ask you specifically not to do: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), and a personal attack to boot.

I've posted so many moderation comments over the years that I'm comfortable saying "regardless of who the target is". If anyone bothered to look through that backlog (not that anyone would or should), they'd find me responding that way across a pretty full spectrum of positions and views [1], depending on whoever or whatever the commenter breaking the guidelines was going after. I don't see why threads about pg essays should be excluded from bog-standard moderation.

(It's true that I've also been posting some of my personal views in this thread and the last pg essay thread, but those are different from moderation replies. You can tell them apart by whether or not they say "please" and link to the HN guidelines.)

Btw also, please don't copy/paste comments, as you did here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25400058. It strictly lowers signal/noise ratio.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Over the summer they started blending it in category by category. Then Right before Prime day it became permanent...It's very tricky because you can see reviews from other regions but interacting with them like providing help to your users is challenging...
Time of travel are the only ones respecting the intent of a law?

Systems that measure your instantaneous speed will ding you for speeding up to avoid (or reduce the probability of) a collision. Time of travel as defined in GP only dings you if your average speed over many km exceeds the speed limit, a few temporary bursts of speed won't change your average speed significantly.
I was using Native Node built from source.
I thought browsers used to let users change the default CSS. If sites had respected that people wouldn't be asking them for themes.
It clear he wasn’t pointing at a particular paper. He was pointing at a general area. I think we agree on that.

And ‘sneering’ doesn’t seem unrealistic, given that he used the word bogus.

But the thread we are having this discussion on is about him ‘Denying the existence of white supremacy’.

I don’t think anyone has said anything which justifies such a charge.

I think one can easily accuse him of is intellectually immature behavior or narrow-mindedness. But not a lot more.
I did not know about the Newt Gingrich incident! That really adds some interest. There was definitely a lot of public attention to the issue at the time, and in some ways rightly so, but of course the resulting efforts were misdirected at a legislative fix. A point that I wanted to make in the article but I'm not sure I completely articulated was basically "this is what happens when Congress writes technical regulations," but of course this is far from the most egregious example of that.

The parallels to what we see today with pervasive surveillance and anti-encryption policy are significant, and it's frustrating to see how much less atwitter congress is about these issues today, when it's their own government doing the eavesdropping. As I make a jab towards in the article, I think that the people of today (and even the people of then) have given up on the privacy of their personal communications in some ways. I can't blame them, but it's clearly a problem that needs to be solved. Perhaps one way to look at it is this: in many ways, our communications on the internet have fewer privacy protections than our communications on landline phones. How did it get to be this way? History and policy, combined in an ugly way.
Isn't this simply how media firms generally behave? Even things aimed at kids like comic books always had obviously scammy stuff like ads for fake products ("X-Ray Goggles"), multi-level marketing recruitment, etc.
When you reflect words back, the speaker feels like you get where they are coming from and feel comfortable sharing more details.
My understanding is that reflecting words back is a passive way of making the speaker get into more details whereas asking questions is an active way of getting into details.
Hence, acc to me the author did not truly understand the consequences of reflecting words back and is getting the same result through a different method.
Can I compute the mass of a coin based on the sound of its fall?
Only because they've decided to use the low resolution graphics mode of the IIe. It has higher resolution modes he could have used
> "Entropy provider" is not a thing

And yet you rely on one daily. Random oracles will likely be big business one day. I'm happy CF has put forward their posture on this. It's a good thing for the internets.

> nor is "good sources and throughput"

So you can provide entropy with high quality guarantees at 10GB/s? Sign me up mate. What's your price?

> I've been cagey about writing about this but this thread is now old

Who the fuck cares? Is this thread about actual discussion of the issue at hand or petty HN posturing? Couldn't care less what influencers and randoms here think. Simply stating thoughts and experiences.

> there is a misconception that running cryptography primitives somehow burns through entropy

Certainly agree, that's not what I meant though. A broken seed is nearly always exploitable in practice. It doesn't matter in the slightest how strong your primitives are when they are deterministic.

> The lava lamps aren't doing anything for Cloudflare's security. They're a marketing gimmick. A very good one!

Yeah, of course it's marketing, but with purpose, exposing devs to this stuff is worthwhile, means to an end and all that. XOR'ing sources is as cryptograhpically strong as the best source provided, why not do it if you have much at stake and 20 mins to spare.
Yes, the lobste.rs thread also has that feedback: Github Actions is a tremendously useful platform, but the syntax and tooling sucks!

Since JSON is valid YAML, it's possible to generate JSON from an Oil configuration with embedded and parsed shell, rather than using YAML. (Actually there's no problem generating YAML either, but I suppose it's easier to think about.)

Example: I changed my own configs to use .yml.in and .yml and it worked on both Travis CI and sourcehut.

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/tree/master/.builds

Some brainstorming here on this feature:

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Config-Dialect

The benefit would be that it would validate your syntax and possibly your schema locally, not remotely. Some services have command line tools, but I'm sure they don't validate your shell, only the configuration.

Another benefit is the ability to reuse code and configuration. For example, my .builds/ dir has a fair bit of redundancy in its configuration, and that could be "factored" with a real language. YAML has a limited << reference mechanism that does some of this.

I'm looking for feedback on Oil, as well as the YAML + shell replacement idea. I hope that Oil can be a flexible language that will let people write these sorts of front ends for many cloud services, i.e. "distributed shell scripts". And eventually enable portability across clouds too.

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Where-To-Send-Feedback
I write for impact, not for likes
Memory fades a bit over 20+ years.
And an additional comment...the unrelated items is called Twistering...it comes from the devices you put with the asin as "styles" it away vendors 1P or 3p can shift over all appearance of reviews...the end-user does have the ability to filter everything down on the reviews filter page...but ultimately I question do people look that far...ALSO comments are fold under so end users can see review...but have to click through to comments...which make them much less value...Amazon has improved things alot but this could be better for end-users...which ultimately I think is your issue...
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