skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arguably they were expected to provide security against external threats, but otherwise no: any social services were the responsibility of the parish in the early history of England. National poor relief laws date to the late 16th Century, but the responsibility falls locally, not from the King. This doesn't really begin to change until the early 20th Century, with the national provision of old-age pensions. Most of the sense of the national government as directly providing for the people comes post-World War 2, not before.
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Germany actually failed in its efforts to get off the coal so far

There was no way to 'fail' such efforts, because until last year, there was no actual roadmap for getting rid of coal.

Instead, there were CO2 reduction goals. We were going to miss the mark for 2020 (40% reduction compared to 1990), but thanks to Covid, we've actually met the target...
Programming is becoming more like factory work. You are expected to continuously produce at a certain pace and quantity. But, as programmers know, things are constantly changing and are expected to keep up. It's stressful and challenging.

From my point of view the fix is for programmers to create their own side project early on with the goal of making it a full time job.

I don't see the industry changing. I see the situation getting worse for programmers. As the number of people trained as programmers gets larger, companies will have more people to choose from while paying less and expecting more. So, the programmers have to change and adapt.
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"To exploit" can mean "to make the best use of" it does not have to imply any ethical question.
Seems like there's a growing trend in American politics where the petite bourgeoisie is permanently angry; a deep fear of proletarianization.
What adjustment are you thinking of making? If you want to bump up the Beverly Hills per-student spending by assuming parents in Beverly Hills spend money on their students that doesn't show up in the school budgets, you still have to give up on the idea that "funding from local property taxes is the reason schools in the south side of Chicago are doing worse than schools in Beverly Hills, full stop". Unless, of course, you're proposing to prohibit parents from spending money on their own children, as some people in the US actually have.

The analysis would fail anyway, though; spending on students (by parents) is also negatively correlated with student performance within families. Parents seek to bring low-performing children up to the level of high-performing children more than they seek to boost their high-performing children further.
Thanks for generalising. I don't break the restrictions just because I'm arguing against them. Nor am I an American.

What I do know is my American friends are suffering for the same reasons my local community are, and it's abhorrent to continue supporting these policies when it's destroying so many lives.

I'm sick of hearing stories about children trying to commit suicide, people getting fat and lazy, domestic abuse reports skyrocketing, small businesses going under and taking generational wealth out of the working class.

This isn't worth it, and we need a better solution.
Well, want can be seen as just a tendency. In that sense, even a ball on a slope wants something: to fall downwards following the slope. Same for e.g. a neural network with or or more attractors ("things it wants").
Determining how well a school did at teaching people subjects like literature, foreign languages, science, mathematics and history now depends on how many of their graduates became stockbrokers and business executives, not on whether the school actually did a good job at educating their students.

Assessing the quality of education by economic output means the engineer who declines a job at Google or Facebook to take a job at a human rights non-profit is a "worse" engineer, and their education must be considered substandard compared to one who goes and takes a Big Tech job. Same with doctors who volunteer to run free HIV clinics in sub-Saharan Africa when they could get a job doing buttlifts for movie stars in Los Angeles, or lawyers who become public defenders or represent asylum seekers and other public interest clients rather than doing extremely well-compensated corporate work.

In as much as it reduces all of human life and values to numbers on a spreadsheet, yes, there is almost certainly something wrong with it.
You plan for the worst case, same as we do now.
There are fewer than 10,000 breeding pairs of golden eagle in the U.S. But perhaps killing 20% of the population annually would have a negligible effect.
They trained a language model on twitter data and extracted some of the sentiment from the training set. The antropomorphic language of "AIs which have become" is misleading.
Thinking that merely using BTC is "like voluntarily adding yourself to a watch list" sounds more like fear than reasonable skepticism to me.
While this is great for homeowners and landlords, all this means is that renters will struggle even more to become homeowners or afford cheaper rents.
https://cbeci.org/cbeci/comparisons

Right here it says `20 863 TWh` which is nearly 10 times your worst case.
I think it would help if distributions could snatch a piece of real estate in upstream software. Something like, "in every project, the debian/ root folder belongs to the debian project and follows their rules". The packaging could then verify this folder and put their patches, build scripts, etc. there. This would help upstream communication a lot, I guess.
Will we actually need five nines out of renewables any time soon? We have the option of hanging on to old fossil fuel plants as emergency power for many decades to come. Peaker plants already perform a similar sort of role.

Our CO2 goals won’t be compromised by running emergency power off fossil fuel once every decade or two.
"Two weeks to flatten the curve" feels like gaslighting in retrospect
This appears to just be saying “using python style indentation to represent trees”? I don’t understand the significance.
Like, yeah, you can express whatever tree you want that way. Plenty of other ways to represent trees. It’s a nice enough default if you don’t know anything about the sort of thing the tree will contain.

But there’s a reason that when writing conditionals, we don’t put each symbol in the expression on their own line.
Those also have their own tree structure, they are also part of the AST, but we put many of the nodes on the same line for ease of reading and editing.
This is a pretty disingenuous criticism.

> The fact that the stdlib HTTP utils in Go recover from panics in handlers and provide no way of changing this

It's comically easy to just wrap the root handler, catch panics yourself, and explode.

> You need to provide your own error handling middleware (of which several exist).

And you need to provide your own handlers anyways, which seems reasonable to me, unless you're against writing code?

> A beginner needs to be very careful and read the docs to catch e.g. this line:

Yes you need to read the docs to understand what a function does. This does not require being very careful where I'm from.

> Also, the fact that Go kind of blesses the use of panics internally in a library ... makes for even more brittle software, as predicting what state a control flow interruption like panic through a call stack leaves your data in can be challenging and require great care to avoid invariants being violated.

They make this pretty clear, that you shouldn't leak the panic, in which case it's just an implementation detail. If your library is brittle, that's on the implementer. You don't have to use panics for control flow. It's just something you can do. A tool. Sure, maybe it's sharp.

> I don't like brittle stuff like encouraging panic-like control flow for non-exceptional situations

I've never seen anything remotely encouraging use of panic for control flow. The blog post even states it's uncommon and unusual. I don't know how you interpreted that blog post, which reads to me as "here's how defer works", to being "you should use panic for control flow whenever possible."
Whether or not is it generous doesn't change the fact that is is censorship.
Why oh why would you name your project with a grammar error.
>but for people of not so stable countries (Mexico, Argentina, China, among several others) where people just do not trust their government & their banking system, Cryptocurrencies deffinitely have value

Fair point, but curious in how many shops in those countries you can buys groceries or how many landlords take their rent in Crypto? Because if you can't use it to feed or house yourself then what's the point of owning it other than going back to BTC's only real use cases so far: storing it for speculation, drug trafficking and ransomeware payments.

Plus, can you imagine paying a $26 transaction fee every time you buy a $0.30 loaf of bread with bitcoin?
It was flattened. Then it skyrocketed again.
This seems very similar to the Game of Thrones Board Game. Seems like it is heavily inspired from Diplomacy.
This is not a typical experience, from what I've heard. But for exceptional cases, in addition to fixed storage in our homes, we should be able to use our EV batteries for items of exceptional need, as they typically can handle 3-4 days worth of energy needs.
No, but I have ways to survive all this. Even climate change will only lead to some billion deaths at worst. One in seven chance? Not a big deal for me. I'll take it.
I've tried various polishing compounds on DVDs to no avail.

But I've also found that trying it in various players means maybe one of them will play it.

The only problem I have with VHS is I have to clean the heads now and then with alcohol.
Yeah well, who's hungry?

No really, neither users nor developers care, nor should they. I've been using Linux on the desktop for well over a decade and I'm tired of seeing this plea for everything to behave exactly like C or scripting languages because every distro wants to be its own special snowflake and it would be too hard to adapt.

The world has changed and distros have to stop pretending it hasn't. Flatpak, Nix, those are better models that reflect our reality where developers don't want to worry about ten thousand different distros with wildly different downstream configurations producing different kinds of bugs, as well as the desire of users of just getting the darned app.

If you're worried about security you must always, first, work with upstream. Upstream should be the party responsible for its users, not you. Upstream not fast enough and you want to go the extra mile? Well then your packaging tool-belt should have support for patching a series of libaries in an automated fashion and rebuilding the dependency tree; and make sure that you return to upstream as soon as possible.

If you want your downstream to diverge from upstream because you want to act as a barrier as the old distros do, then you'll have to accept the fact that you're maintaining a fork and not pretend to upstream that you're distributing their work or that your bug reports are compatible. Otherwise, again, just limit yourself on distributing the latest upstream's stable release with the bare minimum patching necessary for getting things to work with the distro's chosen config.

With some luck, after the Linux community comes to terms with the fact that the distro model must shift, we can begin to finally share some packaging efforts between all distros and we can leave much of the incompatibility bullshit in the past.

Imagine one day everyone just building from shared Nix derivations? Very ironically, it would look a lot like Portage and Gentoo's USE flags but with everyone building off those generic derivations and offering binary caches for them.
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For state of the art on foundations of mathematics, see

"Recrafting Foundations of Mathematics"

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3603021
The way I recall this game, habitual players need fresh meat to pretend to befriend, then screw over.

Perhaps this isn't how it's played at the top. Like Wall Street, you see other people making money through pure genius, so you cut ethical corners trying to do as well?
As it turns out, virtually all electric heating is equally efficient (in terms of electricity used per unit of heat outputted). The only difference is that with electric heating, the desired output is the heat itself. While as with computers, the desired output is some kind of audio/visual signal with heat being a generally undesired byproduct.

So during college, I repurposed my desktop PC to mine crypto instead of turning on the (electric) heat in the apartment. I ended up making ~$60 worth of crypto in about 1-2 months before I stopped mining crypto because the fan noise was unbearable.
Over the last several weeks I was working on an essay about this exact problem, including the connection between static linking and bundling. This one is so well done that I probably won't even publish it.

But I'll add this, for people who may not immediately see why this is important. I think that the real danger these new technologies represent is not inherently bad technology, but the possibility of ecosystem damage. The distribution / maintainer / package manager approach has proven to be an extremely reliable way to get trustworthy software. Many of us love it and want to see it stick around. And it's been possible because "upstream" developers in the open source ecosystem have been willing (or forced) to work with distributions to include their software. But this seems to be changing. A highlight from my essay:

'Many software projects are not good citizens in the open source ecosystem. They are working with a model of development and distribution that does not mesh well with how open source software is predominantly produced. ... These [new] languages are now developing their own ecosystems, with their own expectations for how software should be created and distributed, how dependencies should be handled, and what a "good piece of software" looks like. Regardless, an increasing amount of software is being built in these ecosystems, including open source software.

There might come a day in which open source is fractured. Two different communities create two very different kinds of software, which run on the same systems, but are created and distributed in very different ways. I begin to worry that the community I care about might not survive. Even if my ecosystem continues on its way, I don't want this split to take place. I think being part of the open source ecosystem is good for software, and I think having all the software you could want available within that ecosystem is good for users. If anything, this essay is a call to those who agree to be more careful about the software they create. Make sure it's something that Debian maintainers could be proud to ship. If you're working on a Rust program, for example, ask questions like "how can I make this program as easy for maintainers to distribute as possible?" If you have the ability to work on projects like Rust or Go, do what you can to give their applications the ability to easily split dependencies and support system provided libraries. Let's try to make sure the software ecosystem we love is around for the next generation.'

I'd also strongly recommend the essay "Maintainers Matter" for another take on why this is so important. http://kmkeen.com/maintainers-matter/ Or read about Debian's recent problems with vendoring: https://lwn.net/Articles/842319/
No business operates in a vacuum - there are countless examples where firms have to continue to provide services to unprofitable customers in some locations for public policy reasons - banking and telecoms probably throw up hundreds of examples.

Facebook may not be regulated as a utility now but they are giving lots of reasons why more regulation would be justified.
I don't think people would be more inventivized in a practical sense than they already are.
"exercising their freedom to participate or not in the activity" ignores the externalities of their bad decisions.

Your freedom to swing your fist, et c.

Now the hospitals are full and I can't drive anywhere because there are no ICU beds should an idiot crash into me. Some freedom.

You don't have freedom to pollute the air that I use to breathe, and you don't have the freedom to get and spread a deadly virus (which, really, is a subset of polluting the air that others use to breathe).
Yes, we will publish docker-compose configs that uses insightface with some of the nearest releases.
We'll still support Facenet as well, so we'll see what library is more popular.
Would it be feasible for rust to ship "re-link" scripts? That is, when a cargo dependency gets updated, the distribution can check whether packages code needs to be re-linked? Similarly, when distributed code (say libssl) changes, the rust packages can be re-linked by the distribution on-site?
Some comparisons:

https://boogheta.github.io/coronavirus-countries/#country=US...

I will also note that FL has a significantly larger elderly population than CA.
There's also more waste than just the spent fuel rods. One of the things I learned that really shifted my views is just how expensive decommissioning nuclear plants is. Meanwhile, recycling solar is basically the cost of shipping the material around.
What's the need to frame American socio politics in the specific language of a German theorist from the 1800's whose ideas have failed miserably and caused widespread famine, abuse, genocide, and atrocities every time they've been tested out?
> Should we use this CNAME record?

I think you mean “Should we use this A record?”?

> calling them dotted decimal IPs.

Thankfully, with IPv6 we don’t have to worry about it, since the syntax for IPv6 addresses are invalid as domain names.
200 euros is a lot. I own a remarkable tablet, and it can do a lot more with a bigger screen

I wouldn’t be interested in spending that much since I can’t really do much other than look at my calendar.

I’m either on the move, or in front of a computer, so I don’t see if there’s a good fit for this device in my life
What software do you use to store impressions
Nope, there's still %n in snprintf. snprintf_s is better, but still a security nightmare.
You missed the point of the comment.

The point is you don't need huge complicated nuclear reactor to produce practically endless supply of energy in space, which is what the parent said he thought is a problem.

You probably need more energy than RTG but probably not as much as most people think. If you can apply a steady force for years, you would be able to give the required 10-100cm/s velocity delta to even large asteroid.
> on the other hand you don't need a distribution in the first place.

I think you're right about that, I personally want as little distribution as possible. FreeBSD ports or Arch AUR work well for me.

The idea of solidifying other people's software into a bundle and then maintaining it (with necessarily limited expertise) seems like a loosing battle.
> The mainstream view -is- positive of Bitcoin. Very few people are actually concerned with the environmental impact.

You should ask yourself why that is. I think it's because Bitcoin is providing value to people. It has an extremely low barrier to entry. You don't need good credit to use it. You don't need to go to a bank. You don't need an id.

I don't think most people are actively using it yet, but they see the democratic nature of the "interface" to the crypto system and recognize that the power is shifted in their favor a bit more than the established monetary system. They know this because they've been abused by that system their entire lives.

I find a lot of upper middle class people struggle to see the value in Bitcoin because they can't empathize with people who can't use traditional banking.
Hah, that’s a great point- for all the hand wringing about bird strikes, none of the concern trolls are saying a thing about outdoor housecats.
Two hundred football fields is absolutely trifling even now and much less on the scale of 10 000 years.

You're also ignoring the fact that reactors that recycle spent fuel have been made and can be drastically improved, so demand for storage of waste as well as how hard they are to contain can very realistically go down.
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For something a little more rigorous see the following:

"Robust Inference for Universal Intelligent Systems"

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3603021
We help companies in areas like payments/account fraud where there are constant bots / rings / account takeover attacks, and this is both good advice... and _really_ hard.

To cycle against entity resolution tools for a regular company, that'd mean things like full simultaneous reset of:

* cookies

* browser user agent

* potentially sequence of sites/services you use

* IP address/location

* linked accounts

* contact info

Even one miss/overlap can void your efforts.

The big sites have much more to work with than that, making it especially hard. Likewise, if a team takes a specific interest, there are even more correlations that can be done, e.g., behavioral analytics.
>but I disagree that a hands off approach of Florida or the Dakotas can be deemed as a success by anyone.

First, you are right, I think I misremembered; California has a similar number of cases per capita. However, it was not my intention to show Florida as a success; I only mean to point out that it's hard to convince people to continue with the lockdowns when the results feel marginal.
Unfortunately here in New Zealand we have essentially neither opt in or opt out. It is technically opt in, but if you opt in they wil only take them with family consent. So in effect it requires a pre and post death opt in.

This puts grieving parents or other loved ones in a horrible position of having to make a decision concerning the person they just lost. It also means I don't have the final determination on my own organs.

There is talk about making it opt out... But that would make it even less useful when next of kin get the final say.
A great alternative is rarely fatter than what it aims to replace
Thank you!

Looking at the logs is how this tool was started. This in itself is a failrly involved chunk of functionality. It'll be a year, probably, before I can release even that.
Superiority complex.
Again, all hard addictive drugs (opium, heroin, cocaine) are illegal in pretty much every country on the planet (save the recent notable exception of Portugal). Many of these countries have never had a sizable Chinese immigrant community. Is your rationale that they were all somehow biased against the Chinese? Of course, opium is still quite illegal in China today.
There is nothing wrong with the web page. The Guardian, one of my favorite sources of news (NPR being another) has a solid web site, please try again.

If it is true what the article says, I think that it is healthy for our country to get it out, clean the air, and try to learn to have more over site in the future.

One of the shining moments for democracy in the USA was when McNamara admitted that he and President Johnson lied repeatedly to the US public about the Gulf of Tonkin episode to get us into the Vietnamese war. I hope that that was a learning experience for everyone to trust but verify what the government says.
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