skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree.

There is a sublime melancholy to be had watching actual people's lives. The temporal nature of the series (as pointed out in these comments) inevitably leads to contemplating one's own mortality (to put a fine point on it).

The "Up" particant's ambitious and youthful energy in some cases turns to cynicism and it hurts to recognize these things in yourself.

Most eventually pair off and it is on to what is usually the next stage of life — parenthood. And some of the lost energy returns in the rearing of their children — balancing it with their relationship with their partner, their careers.

Being just a decade or so behind these people gives me a sometimes sober preview of life to come, sometimes hopeful. Always though their "common" lives slowly reveal the plain beauty of a simple life lived honestly.

For people new to the series, jump into the middle. The first of the series are more clinical — intended to explore classism in the U.K. But as the series goes on, the class-angle falls away and, as I say, the beauty of watching people go through what we all must go through becomes the more pointed aspect of the experiment.
Given that he claims lizard aliens control the government, it doesn’t seem like it would be hard for him to be discredited about this.
Hate to reply to myself, but if a webhost could do the above on a 1-click install managed service with a nice UI, it might be a winning ticket for this, Tumblr but better. An ansible or puppet script. UI make very smooth and nice looking, I think that would be a go-er. Where do I apply for funding (/s)?
That is incorrect. There is a friction clutch between the controls in case there is a mechanical jam the other pilot can at least control half the control surfaces. It needs a significant amount of force to detach, though. It is documented on Egypt Air 990 however that both elevator surfaces turned into opposite directions.
I'm just saying it would be blasé to say that "risk is always an option" in regards to astronaut lives or billions of dollars of equipment.
So the north Korea model? Free housing, education and Healthcare. Let's see how this will work out with the pulling out of poverty.
Posting this because I had not heard of it before this week and it seems to be at the centre of a debate right now
Plenty of wiring in and around the fuel system and running close to control cables.

Are you implying that fire couldn't interfere with control of a non FBW aircraft?
> If you really believe that programming languages are just tools for building programs (in particular "useful" programs that make money) then yes, Haskell has not much to offer you over PHP or Ruby and other languages in that vein.

I'd agree with this generally. During grad school I loved hacking my research on haskell.

But this doesn't seem to be a consistent claim from the community. It'd be helpful if the core maintainers published this somewhere. Because I consistently get haskellers telling me that I'd be more productive as an engineer and my programs would have fewer errors if only I worked in Haskell.

Some other languages do have this sort of vision statement (or, at least a fairly well implied one) that makes it clear what they are offering and what they aren't. C++ wants to give you speed and flexibility without overhead for things you aren't using. That's been consistent for decades.
It doesn't seem they needed any additional surveillance to stop this. Just adequate security staff for a pre-planned rally of very angry people that they already knew about. They plan for this kind of thing all the time. This time, they failed.

I see the most likely initiatives of the new administration to revolve around reining in the powers of the presidency.
This could be the beginning of the end for anonymous social media. I can see lawmakers suggesting we move to a KYC model like fintech or like China has where a real ID must be associated with each social account. It would certainly help curtail bots and also make it riskier for people to promote violence in a public forum.
Approval is one thing involving a whole world of bureaucracy. But the Moderna vaccine was designed by January 13, 2020 and took just 2 days. 2 days plus decades of prior research... This was before the first identified case in the US and in fact before China or the WTO recognised that it could be transmitted between humans.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/12/moderna-covid-19-vac...
If you're copying what the advanced (10+ years training) as a newcomer, that was your first mistake. Their training is specifically designed for someone who has the neural adaptation and muscle mass of a person with many years under their belt. You don't progress by doing the same thing for 10 years, that's antithetical to the ideas of adaptation concerning hypertrophy. Look up the lectures by Dr. Mike Israetel for good info.
The NHS recommends it for example.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vitamins-and-minerals/vitamin-...
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/people-at...
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Hi,
please help me understand something.

How GPC works?
I'm understanding that it send "signal" to not sell my data, is it true?

Because it doesn't make sense for me. Why I must opt-out from selling my data? It should be exactly opposite, otherwise it don't make any difference.
And why it is acceptable on the Internet? In the world outside the Internet nobody would agree on stalking and selling data as default...
It was a dismal communication strategy from the non-fringe leftists to adopt that slogan; there was no way it wouldn't be interpreted as "abolish the police" by a large fraction of the constituents, likely alienating many moderates and giving their opponents an obvious counter. Something like "demilitarize the police" would likely have worked much better.
I'm increasingly convinced that a script in a real programming language is the way forward.

The D compiler used to have a bunch of fairly flaky makefiles (different make vendors => pain), but now there's a shebang script written in D that not only does it's job well but also handles args properly and to top all that off is actually readable by people who aren't used to building software on Linux
But then I'd just find another job (when it was clear that something was rotten). There's an argument here about the ethics of having helped build something that ultimately became terrible, however I don't think inability to predict the future equals complicity.
Just added that article to the collection: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood/commit/eadea6...
> There are endless videos of cops being executed by unhinged drivers who were pulled over for things like "a busted headlight."

Frequently, this is because they suspect the cop will find they have a warrant or contraband and the stop will proceed past a ticket to arrest and felony charges.

Separating the civil and criminal enforcement here makes these encounters safer; we can see this in countries where traffic cops aren't routinely armed.
These companies want nothing more than to be hands off and they tried to play the free speech card for a long time. The problem is that the large online forums with no social consequences eventually get taken over by extremists every time.

I agree this power should not be centralized in a few companies, but neither do I think we can afford to do nothing. The big problem in the modern age is that the reasonable majority is staying silent while the extremists on both sides of the political spectrum are given free rein to spout demagoguery, which is amplified by engagement-driven algorithms.

Politics and the mechanics of control aside, one thing is certain: we can not get out of this situation if someone does not start standing up for the truth. Tump's disregard for the truth was deeply unsettling, and if his tactics are seen as successful and taken up by the left, then we are in for civil war.
That's simple! You think "this is probably a pump-and-dump", then flip a coin and go post about it on Twitter if it comes up heads.
I think the complaint is that many of the dramatic bee-decline stories are, without mentioning it, just about rent-a-hive services. It seems dishonest to present as evidence of an environmental catastrophe a particular business problem.

However, as you say, there are real concerns about wild insect declines, and the same chemicals surely kill both. These are what should get airtime.
Never heard of either of these companies.
Everyone's experience is different, but that's very different from my memory of autotools - a Turing-complete macro processor which generates several thousand lines of pre-modern shell script with embedded C source codes. When anything goes wrong, it's pretty much impossible to match it to the original macro definition. Just so that one can hypothetically build the project in an ancient UNIX system which is so old that its shell doesn't even have functions.
As long as there is air friction complete zero-g is highly unlikely. It takes a lot of training to set the engines correctly to cause zero g by compensating exactly the air friction
I'm totally on board with that plan (it would be nice if there were someone I could call to check on a possibly-suicidal friend who wouldn't show up with guns drawn). Americans are four times more likely to be killed by cops than Canadians, and 1 in 1000 young black men is killed by a cop (or some number along those lines). Clearly something should change.

My question is, why call it "defund the police"? The core of the idea is that, in many cases we can change our response from involving police officers to involving some other group who will hopefully be able to do a better job. The fact that this can be accomplished by reallocating funds from the police department, to avoid needing to levy taxes to raise revenue, seems like almost the least important part of the plan. Even then, "defund the police" is only the first half of "defund the police and use the additional funding to create another group that picks up some of the police's responsibilities".

My feeling is that many people view police with antipathy, so they like the slogan and concept of "defund the police" because it feels like a retaliation against the police. I strongly suspect that other ideas, some of which may be much more beneficial than changing the response, will be ignored if they can't be phrased as a tactical strike in the culture war.

Here's one list of proposals [0] for police reform, many of which seem very promising for how little cultural sway they have (delegalize police unions, abolish QI, decriminalize victimless offenses, etc.) I wonder if they have so little sway because they can't be phrased in a sufficiently incendiary manner.

(And by the way, just because there's antipathy towards the police doesn't mean the police are directly at fault. For instance, if police are made to enforce unpopular legislation like the war on drugs, that will obviously make people dislike them but the root problem is somewhat upstream)

[0]: https://medium.com/@yudkowsky/a-comprehensive-reboot-of-law-...
As others have pointed out, the explanations have existed but perhaps not in your view.

From where I stand (Seattle, know multiple Defund folks), the reaction has been "So, the one true thing we think cops should do - prevent significant violent action and protect people - they failed at. This further proves our point". You can dither on whether blocking traffic is violent (it's not) but the events really only strengthened their case - BLM peaceful protesting is met with an order of magnitude more violence than actual attempted attacks on the government. So why bother having cops if they don't do anything when it actually matters?
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It's not the "Pfizer" vaccine.
It's either the "Biontech" vaccine or the "Biontech/Pfizer" vaccine. Please fix the title.
? Why should a business in 2000 have to build its own datacenter?

But in 2020, most small/medium sized business could be run on two-ish beefy boxes. With a cloudflare, or similiar, firewall there simply is no need to build your own or rent a datacenter.
I've been working on an open-source Identity Access Management solution in the past few months: https://gatekeeper.page/en/

Gatekeeper aims to enable small and medium-sized enterprises to have their own on-premise IAM solution that supports all relevant protocols and standards and is secure by default (by offering automated updates and using memory-safe languages etc.).

Features include, for example, LDAP, OpenID Connect, SCIM, and Gatekeeper as an identity-aware reverse proxy. (with fully managed ACME certificate management)

The tech stack is ASP.NET Core + Postgres on the backend. The frontend is written in C# and uses Blazor to run using Web Assembly. If someone is interested in taking a look, we are working on a hopefully helpful Developer Documentation (https://docs.gatekeeper.page/developer/)

The code on GitHub: https://github.com/GetGatekeeper/Server
I haven't seen that.

I have seen many saying black people would have been shot, and this is unequal, that doesn't mean they want more shot.

I've also seen many decrying the lack of defence of congress. Again, doesn't mean more deaths, just better preparation.
> But I don't understand why, when showdead is false, the title is hidden by default when you are already on the page. Also vouch should probably be available there already.

I verified this behavior. It is probably a bug. Write to the mods hn@ycombinator.com so they fix it.
Very interesting. Any code?
The glibc implementation[0] uses Enhanced REP MOVSB when the array is long enough. It takes a few cycles to start up the ERMS feature, so it's only used on longer arrays.

Edit: Wait a minute... if this is true, then how can AVX be responsible for the speed up? Is it related to the size of the buffers being copied internally?

[0] Line 48 here: http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/x86_...
That's valid, but if the platform doesn't make it a two-way street by providing easy ways for more people to discover me and my posts, I'm just not that interested in it.

I have things to say and share as well, and the product needs to tend to that in order to have me be interested in staying on as a user.

There are other platforms where I can follow AND be heard. HN is one of them. I've shared several projects that got to the front page. Whenever I post projects to Twitter, even put a shitton of hashtags on it, and all I get is dead silence for my 50+ hours of work put into something honestly interesting, while some "influencer" gets 100K likes and 10K follows for their one-line low-effort armchair tweet bashing Elon Musk that they spend 10 seconds on. That discourages me from wasting more time logging into Twitter.

That's just my experience as a user. If they want more people like me on there, they need to fix their product to improve discoverability of small creators. If they don't, that's fine, I don't really need Twitter anyway.
Grain. Water. Salt
I thought this would be a great list to share, but found it quite short and wanting in certain respects.

I don't know what class of programmers this list is intended for, but I believe that anything about biometrics should start with the statement that biometrics capture and verification are all about probabilities and thresholds for false positives/false negatives. They're not deterministic.

This list doesn't comprehensively cover the falsehood that biometrics are considered by many systems to be static throughout one's life. Biometrics change with working conditions, age, health conditions, weather and environmental factors, due to accidents, surgeries, etc. The "Biometrics can’t be changed" section could do with more information.
Another formulation would be "optimising on one parameter means pessimizing on one or more others".
でしょう has other meanings in more formal use as well so your answer is incomplete
> shipped systems with most of userspace built in 32b mode

Gah, so that's where ARM's THUMB instruction set got its inspiration from.
Yes please please listen to this. Every person who becomes an expert at “AWS” entrenches their monopoly and allows them to charge more and more.

The cloud could be commoditized, open, and cheap.
Funny, I get the same impression when I go to Twitter, it’s full of far left loonies and communist sympathizers, not to mention raging cancel culture mobs, so brainwashed they disown their families for supporting Trump.

And the worst thing is that Twitter is based in Silicon Valley, with many of its key employees belonging to the same herd.

There must be an alternative platform.
There is a documented accident like this of a civilian B747 cargo plane carrying military equipment that shifted to the back.
National Airlines Flight 102

Very scary and impressive videos of the crash on YouTube
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50% is a bit better than you think. If you were to do a coin toss on each as a basis of determination you would only have a 25% chance of getting 2 correct. As n-schemes becomes larger, the coin toss does much worse in respect to the Bayesian probability.
> Most troubling of all, I am seeing many people openly advocating the police should have shot more protesters or brutalized them in some manner.

> This seems highly contrary to the goals of the movement.

It is, and most people "in the movement" I've seen are saying "hey, this gentleness is how BLM protests should've treated, too".
Steam's login method is kinda interesting
How does this play with Assistive Technology?
In Polish, Aleksandra (also female version) is shortened up to Ola, good luck with that ;)
It's true that there are differences of opinion among the many people participating in this conversation, and the reporting on it.

But to be fair, this article does say:

"But don’t get me wrong. We are not abandoning our communities to violence. We don’t want to just close police departments. We want to make them obsolete.

"We should redirect the billions that now go to police departments toward providing health care, housing, education and good jobs. If we did this, there would be less need for the police in the first place.

"We can build other ways of responding to harms in our society. Trained “community care workers” could do mental-health checks if someone needs help. Towns could use restorative-justice models instead of throwing people in prison."
That's how Twitter started back in 2006. Also, you reminded me Posterous [0], which ironically has been acquired by the very same Twitter.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterous
Doctors (and basically any degreed professional) aren't interested in recommending anything that doesn't involve them.
How does Parler compare with Mastodon?
Sure there is groupthink, we're mostly software engineers. But it's a relatively small group, uniform presentation visible to anyone, and very limited reach. Contrast with what's going on in Twitter and Facebook: many orders of magnitude more reach, and it's almost impossible to have any idea what people are seeing or saying in aggregate, and what the many small groupthink bubbles are.
I don't really feel like this is true; people will invent when they want to, even with the internet. Hell, it's due to the internet that I'm here and have been making my own applications.
Made me think about LMMD (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Memory-Mapped_Data...) and wonder why mmap didn't seem to have catched on more in storage engines
There is no video showing it on the webpage? Or am I missing it?
WhatsApp convinces you to give it your contacts
The lack of clarity in the slogan has frustrated me as well, but most news coverage I have seen (NPR, NYT) is usually clear about its established meaning among the people using it. Same with in-person conversations.
murder is bound to happen in space. it is inevitable.
Another factor is that the black people that were mainly affected by the segregation were the primary funders of the bus system. Their boycott was incredibly significant to the bottom line.
> Most troubling of all, I am seeing many people openly advocating the police should have shot more protesters or brutalized them in some manner.

I've seen lots of people ask questions like “where were the tear gas and rubber bullets?”, but I think you are missing the point of those and other references to the behavior of the police during BLM and other protests if you interpret them as a call that the violent behavior should have been repeated.

They are, in at least most cases, using the restraint shown in the attempted coup where top government leaders were targeted to highlight what they see as the inappropriateness of the violent response in earlier protests and the hollowness of law enforcement claims that the force used in those earlier events was reasonable, necessary, and justified rather than motivated by racial and political bias.
Verizon delaying shutdown of its 3G wireless network
ACLU Counsel Warns of 'Unchecked Power' of Twitter, Facebook
If they're aware of something like that, they should involve the authorities - not just block social media accounts.
The real question is why are govt officials using public companies to communicate to the public? The shareholders who drive profits can ultimately do whatever they want to the accounts.

It gives too much power to unelected officials and sets a side channel of unofficial but official communication which is confusing for citizens.
I've experienced this at small startups and BigCorps. Granted, at the BigCorps fewer things blew up in general, and when they did, it was interesting.
I can make big cash money doing something I already do even if I didn't get paid for it.
I like the part where the fossil fuel industry gets bullied around by the uber powerful environmental groups.

Its funny because besides being the scapegoat for every failure of the fossil fuel/nuke industry, these environmental groups seem to lose every other battle they care about.
Here is what I learned about this particular pesticide, from my cousin, who is a farmer who also sometimes plants sugar beets.

1. This particular pesticide comes in the form of a pill, which is planted with the seed.

2. It is very targeted on a particular pest (german name is Rübenrüsselkäfer).

3. Without it, the whole field will be lost.

4. The replacement is a conventional broad band pesticide. It kills everything. He said that after using it once, when he walked the field he saw all kinds of dead bugs and worms - which are kinda important for the soil as well. He said "farming like this makes no sense" and stopped growing sugar beets.

The real killer however is this:

5. Sugar beets do not blossom.
I agree it's terrible web design, but like many such cases, it can be fixed by enabling Firefox's Reader View.
So a traffic stop shouldn't involve a check for outstanding warrants?
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