skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not saying everybody in military is "just working there". Some may genuinely believe they are doing something noble or at least necessary evil. But some enjoy shooting, killing, torturing people. And some are just taking the opportunity to get a good job or the benefits.

Shooting and killing other people is an enormity, unless there is a necessity or other justification. I'm just saying that "it was war, we had orders, I just worked there" is a false justification that some military men fool themselves with. To go to a foreign country and shoot people there, I would demand a much stronger reason than rhetoric, news coverage, free college, etc.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26061935
People respond poorly to abuse. This is basic human nature, trying to fight against this is a fool’s errand.
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I agree with some of what you wrote. Especially the following point was intriguing:

> Knowledge of one app/cloud/system convey no useful expectations or knowledge of another system. All systems are remote, far off, unexploreable, unlearnable.
At the risk of proving your point: why would I bother commenting if I didn't want to have a conversation? I'm either shouting into the void to hear my own figurative voice, or I think other people might actually be interested in what I have to say.

I'm really grateful to the GP, because I didn't have a solution for getting notified when I have a reply here, so I mostly wound up missing them.
If you're referring to bordeaux-threads, that's a compatibility library that gives a consistent interface to the various CL implementations' threading interfaces.
I recenly distro hopped around trying to install an encrypted Linux alongside windows.

The installer used by Ubuntu made this completely manual, roll up your sleeves, set all your volumes up in the terminal. It took ages and was precarious as hell.

The installer used by elementaryOS automated it, though it had a tendency to crash.

The gui installer used by Debian and Manjaro was literally a doddle. Select a dual booting encpyped install and off you go.

I was very surprised that installing Debian would be easier than Ubuntu, and pleased to hear Ubuntu is changing their installer.
If you call it with argument 0 you get a runtime exception, because it results in a division by zero.

It's "partial" because it's not defined for 0.
70k is a lot for a person, but not really a lot for a company. Someone mentioned they were one or two people, so that's not too bad, but if you get much beyond that, cutting that 70k may make it more trouble than it's worth.
> Freely sharing your friends' data without their permission may be a GDPR violation.

GDPR is for businesses. Me giving out your phone number as an individual is just being a jerk.
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As a Former Civil Engineer, One of the big problems is getting any public works maintained. Nobody want to spend the money. Civil Engineering professional groups have been trying to get attention paid. While it might be self serving for them to grade infrastructure lower, these are not risk averse people that tend to exaggeration..

For the US 2017: (2021 report is due in a few weeks...)

"ASCE’s 2017 Infrastructure Report Card graded the nation’s dams a “D.”

The average age of dams in this nation is 56 years, and the number of high-hazard potential dams – those whose failure would result in the loss of life – increased nearly 52% between 2005 and 2015 due to continued population growth and development below dams.

The Association of State Dam Safety Officials estimates that the combined total cost to rehabilitate the nation’s dams exceeds $64 billion, with $22 billion of that needed just for the high-hazard potential dams. "

https://www.asce.org/advocacy/water-resources/

Its not just Dams.

Even after a highway collapses not much changes (https://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/10-years-after-the-...)
Learning Curve Theory
Cambridge Analytica used the Facebook API to ask users to share data about them & their friends. Stupid users agreed to that.

According to Facebook, this is not what happened and CA's collection of this data represented a breach in their platform policies [0]:

In 2015, we learned that a psychology professor at the University of Cambridge named Dr. Aleksandr Kogan lied to us and violated our Platform Policies by passing data from an app that was using Facebook Login to SCL/Cambridge Analytica ... He also passed that data to Christopher Wylie of Eunoia Technologies, Inc.

[Kogan] did not subsequently abide by our rules. By passing information on to a third party, including SCL/Cambridge Analytica and Christopher Wylie of Eunoia Technologies, he violated our platform policies.

0 - https://about.fb.com/news/2018/03/suspending-cambridge-analy...
Wouldn't that improve after a few keyframes? Objects that don't move tend to compress better
Also could someone change the link to the prize specific page rather than the XPRIZE homepage?

https://www.xprize.org/prizes/elonmusk
FYI, there is a name for (roughly) this style of argument: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy

useful to know, as you say it describes a lot of arguments people make online and face-to-face unfortunately.
> well regarded philosophy journals (in my academic neck of the woods) have ridiculously low acceptance rates (2-3% often)

This just shows that academic philosophy is a very exclusive club. It doesn't say anything about the standards involved.

If anything, an extremely high rejection rate tends to enforce intellectual conformity and conservatism on a field that you would think is least in need of those qualities.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26079200
Is he kneeling to the Asians?

Sorry I missed that!
Python webserver support doesn't support SSI-style open and closing code tags in HTML files to be executed per-request, last I checked.

Is there anything like php or bml (bradfitz's equivalent for perl) for python, so that you can put code right in your html to be replaced at serving time with the code's output?
Hey!

I appreciate the feedback (rereading the site I can see the confusion), but I think concluding this is “doing poorly as a startup” is a little premature and something you can’t accurately judge, especially since from your submission history it looks like you have little in the way of a successful startup background when this field is very much a learn by doing one.

This is closer to a roboadvisor than those niche hobby brokerages. The massive difference is those all have incredible barriers to entry - knowing how to code, or at least knowing how to build a profitable automated investment strategy. These are all turnkey, transparent, and no code customizable. Regular investors can use these, only a few can properly take advantage of those you listed. Most of my users came from Fidelity, Schwab, Betterment, and so on. Not Quantconnect (though plenty have come from there and others).

Compared to roboadvisors: these models are more far more innovative and diverse. Use crypto or quantitative strategies made by professionals or curated from other users instead of standard stock bond allocations. Even innovative roboadvisors like m1finance only go as far as hedge fund followers. The difference is huge - the goal here is to be your platform for higher risk and higher return investing, for the 15-20% of your portfolio you want to go further at the risk of larger drawdowns.

I was where you were on my entrepreneurial journey recently, so my best advice is just to do. “10x improvements” and other academics they teach you in SUS is super useful (and often true), but until actually applying the learning, finding what works for you in the current market, you’re just repeating catchphrases without understanding them. You likely won’t even understand the magnitude of an improvement until you do your research and try things out, so best to focus on that when your idea has been validated first.

For your reference: this scrappy site with no optimizations, no contact, no how it works, no fluff, has already garnered several millions of $ in pledged user investment, has profitable and repeatable acquisition channels with an on page organic conversion rate of a large fraction of visitors, has collected thousands of data points, surveys, and interviews towards product market fit and all aspects of the model from target customers to revenue streams, and all this only a few weeks (late December) into prelaunch. I added only what was important to my preexisting library and put it out there. All my research and customer feedback so far suggests that this is a magnitude of improvement, and many are desperate for a platform like this.

Hope that clears it up and thanks again for the feedback!
Do you happen to know of any best practices guides that might help others achieve similar results? I’m working on an app that might have to scale very quickly at launch, and I want to do my best to help our team do it right.
Yea, I agree with this and it's a good pattern in the case you know the type is "Int" or some other primitive. But Haskell thrives on type variables and data structures are usually defined generically making it more complicated.

From what I remember to get around this one would use a type class to define a data structure's operations, and then provide specific implementations of that data structure for specific strict data types. But that is more complicated than just having the compiler apply strictness everywhere.
A I see where my mistake is now, thanks! I suppose it makes sense that reversing the process would also meant that the 'heat intake' is equivalent to the exhaust heat, which for an efficient engine wouldn't be all that much.

I suppose that means that the cooling requirement will increase the energy requirement by nearly 2 orders of magnitude.
> Freely sharing your friends' data without their permission may be a GDPR violation.

Absurd, how would an email provider or social network even work if you couldn't enter your friends contact information.
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Somehow this makes me think of a story about the Bush-era euphemism for torture: "extended interrogation techniques."

Everyone on Fox news taught themselves to use this euphemism in smooth, everyday punditry. It spread very quickly.

Later, perhaps around the mid 2000s or so, there was some additional talking point added about some prominent Democrat's support for torture after 9/11. Could have been Hilary in a Senate campaign, or Obama, or possibly someone else.

I remember eagerly watching all the Fox punditry shows to see how they squared the circle. It was fascinating-- they'd ramp up using the same kind of red-hot rhetoric one would expect for labeling the "other tribe" a hypocrite. But at the climax of their take they would trip over their words, having to actively think to avoid saying "torture" and instead to use the euphemism, "extended interrogation techniques." You could just feel their brains creating all of these effective smears-- "torture apologist," "fan of torture," or whatever-- and then studdering because they couldn't use any of them without admitting what Bush authorized was indeed torture.

Does anyone have a clip of any of this? I thought it was fascinating.

Anyhow, that initial quote with brackets reminded me of that. I guess the connection is:

1. finding a solution for a narrow problem: obsessively ensuring context and syntax of a quote is always crystal clear, or making oneself feel better about supporting monstrous government crimes

2. being duct taped into a corner when you want to do the thing you care about: write compelling prose, or bark mindlessly into a television camera

Edit: use the word "crimes" instead of "misbehavior" (Damn, that euphemisic propaganda is effective!)
> On on side you have a mega corp doing all it can to harvest as much data as possible, backed by behavioural analysis, AB testing, and all kind of studies on how to trick people's brain into feeding the algorithm with more data points. On the other hand you have "stupid users"

This lawsuit is explicitly not about the big tech giant's (Facebook) data processing (which I agree is a problem).

The lawsuit is about how Facebook should've somehow been able to predict the future malicious actions of a company and prevent users from sharing their data with them against their own will (again nobody's data was shared without consent - people explicitly opted to share their data - which includes basic info about their friends, which I'd argue is their data too - with Cambridge Analytica).

If there's a "megacorp shark" here, it's Cambridge Analytica and not Facebook.
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I don't see how this is related... In this case they are talking about known vulnerabilities on specific Android versions. Here we are not talking about a specific vulnerability but about the way Android works and how custom keyboards function.

Perhaps the accessibility permissions are relevant. If Signal could detect these settings and warn the customer if these settings are egregiously open, that would be a valuable feature in my opinion. To me, support for older versions of Android sound like an entirely different discussion.

Signal does include the "incognito" function[0]; Signal is already taking some steps to address the issue. However I'd argue that many people have likely forgotten that they ever installed a custom keyboard and if it was pre-installed on their phone they may not be aware of it.

[0]: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360055276112-In...
> Basically, don't try to outwit nature.

Our whole human society is based on outwitting nature. Previously, open fractures were uniformly fatal. Now, they are routinely treated. Previously, you had to get infected with a disease to get immunity, now we have vaccines. Previously, crossing oceans was a rare event, maybe a small animal got trapped on a log in the right current? Now we can cross oceans in a matter of hours. Previously, you relied on your own skin to try to keep warm. Humans, however, learned they could keep warm by wearing animal skins or other clothes.

All of human progress has been built on outwitting nature.
Normal situations should not be warnings (especially not repeated ones)
You can say the same about VMs, to some extent.

Containers absolutely are intended to be a security boundary.
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You can run out of sockets, but that's easy to tune. I don't know the limits on other systems, but FeeeBSD lets you set the maximum up to Physical Pages / 4 with just boot time setings. So about 1 million sockets per 16 GB of ram.

Worst case, if you start running out of sockets because you're sleeping, sample the socket count once a second and adjust sleep time to avoid hitting the cap. Also, you could use that sampling to drive decisions about keeping http sockets open or closed.

I should add, select on millions of sockets is going to suck; so you'll need kqueue/epoll/whatever your kernel select but better interface is.
This is a reason why you

1. Should always insist on a first phone interview

2. Ask the hiring manager why he believes that you are a good match for the position.
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No, do not put words in my mouth please.
Not legal advice, but it seems like it boils down to an insanity test where that insanity deprives the act of suicide of its voluntariness. The "irresistible impulse" test used to exist in California penal law, and is what got Lorena Bobbitt acquitted. To prove it in this context, it would certainly help to have testimony about a descent into insanity that was apparent to those around the decedent, or even some medical evidence, but the very short timespan here makes that evidentiary basis far more difficult. I do not know enough about the caselaw to say whether taking the time to write a suicide note like that tends to evidence voluntariness; anecdotally, it seems like a contemplative act that would show that the decedent understood what he was about to undertake. If you can grab a copy, Tate v. Canonica, 180 Cal. App. 2d 898 (1960) is a good overview of the law and an example of when there isn't enough evidence. Grant v. F.P. Lathrop Constr. Co. 81 Cal. App. 3d 790 (1978) is an example of when a suicide can be linked to the defendant's conduct (negligence).
> With this, you really have to mind that camera quality on Zoom and WebEx is usually so terrible that you can't read anything smaller than what he put on his slide and in an illegible

huh, I routinely people see sharing their screen in 1080p on zoom and even 9-10pt fonts are pretty legible
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Facebook does not "sell" data and has absolutely nothing to gain by selling it or sharing it with Cambridge Analytica.

CA abused a legitimate feature that allowed users to delegate access to their accounts. My comment is about how this lawsuit will set a bad precedent and restrict API access even further (hindering legitimate usage) without doing much to prevent abuse (because people can just share their credentials instead).
Agreed. But the reason why might be because agent caching was a lot more difficult 20 years ago. It was a pain, especially for new users; you had to start the agent and then launch a new bash session, until Daniel Robbins wrote GNU keychain as part of Gentoo. Now, however, it's turned into a crazy mess of insecurity.
Sorry to hear that :( Our app is doing fine, possibly you are relying somehow on their API? In any case deploys are also down so not much to do about it.
Google Colab is amazing for speeding through these early roadblocks. Controversial opinion but a beginner’s goal should be accomplishing a task - not learning about software development.

A few wins later, they’re going to run into some friction and that’s when you can teach them about the standard to write code. Most importantly, they’ll understand the underlying “why” at this point.
I'm going to make this a separate post to address one specific point:

with little sleep now

I'm not the preachy type, and I'm not going to tell you how to live your life. But I will share this observation from my own life. If I read my other post, you'll see a part where I say "I had a heart attack". OK, at the end of the day, nobody can really say exactly when a given person has a heart attack on a specific day. There are various risk factors that contribute, ranging from age, to whether you smoke or not, to stress levels, to weight, diet, etc., etc.

In my case, I was a bit overweight, but had otherwise been fairly healthy, and I was only 41 at the time. I had no near relatives who'd had similar issues, etc., so I had very little inclination to think I was at risk of something like that happening.

But what I was doing was working like 80+ hours a week between the day job and the startup, drinking ridiculous amounts of coffee / red bull / etc., eating chocolate covered espresso beans on top of that, and struggling to get by on not-even-close to enough sleep.

Did all of that contribute to my having a heart attack when I did? It's hard to say for sure, but it's pretty well established that failing to get enough sleep is a major health hazard... and doing in in conjunction with borderline OD'ing on caffeine probably just makes it worse.

So yeah... not going to tell you anything about what you should or should not do. It's your life and your priorities and values. Just please be consciously aware of the risks of certain behaviors and take those into account. That's all I can really offer.
What was your company's max contribution? Typically an X% of salary isn't unlimited, it's up to a certain cap. E.g. let's say you're a director making $1M/yr, they're not contributing $40k/yr to your 401k (this would very likely violate the IRS's 401k safe harbor rules).
WINE and ReactOS are separate projects and the allegations in the Quora post are specific to ReactOS. WINE doesn't handle NT kernel internals; it reimplements public Windows APIs and proxies kernel functionality to the host userland (usually GNU+Linux+X11 but occasionally Darwin+AppKit).

The main existential threat to WINE would be the Oracle/Google case being decided (sometime before June). If that winds up creating adverse precedent to Google's case, the entire Free Software movement will be negatively impacted. Actually, it'll be like 100 SCOs, given how much of our Free foundations are functionally-compatible reimplementations. We'll lose pretty much everything except scripting language runtimes, Rust, and C compilers; and there would surely be no way to do something like WINE if SCOTUS decides to trample all over the merger doctrine and starts granting copyright on functionality.
It's typically known as motte-and-bailey.
Reddit is a net negative for the internet. Facebook isn’t wonderful but at least it’s better for society, and less dishonest to its users than Reddit.
This has nothing to do with my post.
This slightly reduces risk, but it's inconvenient and probably better to just use agent forwarding as little as possible.
It's hard to believe that there are still people writing the old "post-modernist philosophers are bad for civilization!" rant.

One thing that always surprises me about these posts are that they always fail to get the arrow of causality right. In general postmodernist philosophy is a descriptive philosophy, not a proscription one. That is Foucault and the many other philosophers this author wants to write off as pseuds aren't stating "we should live in a world where all truth is in question" but observing that we do live in this world.

The rise of "astrology, homeopathy, flat-Earthism, anti-vaxx" in recent years for me is a strong argument that these thinkers were largely correct. People aren't reading Foucault and becoming anti-vaxx, and people who think Fox news is reality aren't doing so because they read some Deleuze.

While it is of course folly to try to paint all of these thinker with a broad brush, the general themes that they describe is that in our postmodern, late capitalist society we're seeing systems of meaning and value begin to break down. And again, they largely aren't saying that they should break down or that this is a desirable direction to go. Just observing that this is happening.

If these philosophies had made any predictions it's that as global capitalism grows more manic, we'll see the continued breakdown of systems of value and meaning, were people become completely enmeshed in a world of symbols detached for any real meaning. Not only the rise in "..., anti-vaxx" but also things like "fake news", the commodification of identity in social media, the surrealism of the radical "right" in the US, all of these things are the logical conclusion of what you would expect given the descriptions these thinkers have of who society works.

The bizarreness of rants against these thinkers is somehow blaming them for the very state of society, culture and knowledge that they predicted. It's like blaming epidemiologists for a pandemic. If anything we should view postmodernist thinkers as absolutely validated.
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AMD's 64 core 2995WX processor pulls 279.96W peak power in their tests whilst Intel's W-3175X 28 core CPU pulls 290.41 peak.

I'm amazed how Intel has lost their crown.
They don't have the best servers, HEDT and consumer desktop cpus.
And if they are competitive they consume significantly more electricity

Plus on laptops AMD has more cores and consumes less power whilst Intel touts how their CPUs beats AMD on AI photo upscaling.

Not to mention how Apple is in the process of ditching them