skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great men with great passions are rarely the ultra-careful, calculating people that are allowed to succeed today. Teddy Roosevelt was smart and brave but also brash and crude. He LIVED, in the way Nietzsche would approve of. People like him would today be shunned/passed-over/cancelled for something they said, some joke they made, some unconventional opinion they dared utter, if they ever got close to power. One major leader captured some of that energy lately, though he lacked Teddy's intelligence and confidence, and his people rejected him for it. We live in a different time. Teddy's traits would be called toxic masculinity.
I'll bet a good chunk of that 500k also disagree with locking people in their homes and ruining the prospects of multiple future generations.

Being anti-lockdown does not mean being pro-death. Now we know more about the virus the lockdown measures must be re-evaluated.
I understand that people may be interested in finding a safe asset to diversify into, but if there is no underlying asset to anchor btc to, it's purely a social consensus.

If at some point the economy gets better and people want to invest back into actual stuff, what happens to the late leavers?
The major differences being that java.util.concurrent in Java 16 is a bit more powerful as the one in Java 6, Java doesn't have one single GC rather multiple vendor implementations to choose from, with virtual threads on the horizon.

Additionally one benefit over Go, is that in Java (likewise in .NET), the scheduler algorithm is replaceable.
I was genuinely curious what you classed as basic programming.

I would definitely consider pointers pretty fundamental if you're a C++ dev.

It is pretty hard to believe that 50% of candidates don't know what a pointer is. I've barely touched C/C++ and still know what pointers are and how they work.
My speculation is that the more competition there is among a large number of publishers, and the more diverse their reasons are for publishing, the harder it becomes for attackers to chip away at free speech protections.

It's certainly worse if a small number of providers have a monopoly. The European Union uses, as a rule of thumb, that there have to be four independent alternatives in a market for price competition to work. That may also be a useful guide for free expression.

Book publishers now have a choke point - Amazon. That's a monopsony problem, where there's one dominant buyer. When there were many publishers and many bookstores, there was no central choke point. That's over.
I thought the point of the lockdowns was to prevent hospitals being overwhelmed?

Has that problem gone away?
Yes the question mark should be read with hesitancy. I suppose you are right. Too hopeful.
I mean open systems would be fundamentally in tension with the whole idea of paid, proprietary transclusion that's one of the central pillars of Xanadu right?
Roam Research also has them.
> Market pricing is prices not set by the government. By definition.

If a fixed rate contract counts as market pricing, then market pricing doesn't solve the problem.

> That's speculation. Even if true, it would be their choice.

It's their choice, but if enough people choose it then we run out of power.

> They were being portrayed as victims in the news because of their high bills. Having a bill means they had electricity.

Some of them had power, just like some people paying a fixed rate had power.

That doesn't mean that having such a contract gave you notably better odds of your power staying on. Even if it changed neighborhood priorities, that only gives you a very slight benefit for picking that plan.
A person who makes risky decisions is putting their own health and the health of everyone around them at risk. It's not a personal decision. We're 12 months into this thing, I thought that was well understood?
My father took me and my brother to see it at the movies, and I remember me and my brother crying and my Dad consoling us. We were 8 and 7 at the time. I haven't seen it since!
We must have different definitions of "essential". I'm curious which jobs you're referring to, because to my understanding, every aspect of society that I consider essential, has existed since before the advent of GPUs.
Correct me if I'm wrong (really) but isn't static linking mostly a problem for packagers? The less a package maintainer modifies the application the better IMO.

If application A and B rely on dependency D, which turns out to have a vulnerability, fixed in D', Then _why_ do we think it is anyone but A & B's developers responsibility to update to D' and distribute patched versions? If the packager tries to do it, the chances of diverging A and B due to some other incompatibility are too high.

Either, you're running well maintained software (OSS or commercial), and get the update in a timely manner, or you're running unmaintained software and don't get the update.

Only in the second case does it make sense to patch in a dynamically linked dependency. And I'm sure there's plenty of examples of this, but the real issue is running un-maintained software!

I am much happier keeping in close sync with timely releases from Go/Rust projects than I am with Debian et. al's style of freezing the world.
Facebook seemingly has no qualms about removing services which may be immensely valuable to individuals but which don't generate cash for Facebook.

It happens here to individuals and it's now happening at country level. Can't help but feel that Zuckerberg and Sandberg are playing with fire here.
Reducing humans to hedonic consumption machines where life satisfaction is measured by consumption and value is measured by production is easy and terrible.
Oh, DNS is full of these kinds of “not in a RFC but needed to resolve names” corner cases. I will show just one:

(While .foo is a real top level domain, Google doesn’t let the public register names in it. It would be nice if there was a “.example” TLD; “.invalid” looks wrong and using “example.(com|org|net)” is awkward when using multiple domains in an example. 10.X.X.X should not be resolved at the internet-wide DNS level in the real world, but these are examples, not real-world cases)

We get this packet when asking the domain1.foo nameserver for blog.domain1.foo

blog.domain1.foo CNAME blog.domain2.foo
blog.domain2.foo A 10.1.2.3

Should we use this A record? BIND, about 20 years ago, did use this A record. DJB rightfully screamed bloody murder (since BIND allowed domain1.foo to alter the cache for domain2.foo), and would not accept the IP. MaraDNS (Deadwood, these days), on the other hand, accepts the IP, but stores it in the domain1.foo record (so domain1.foo does not affect cache entries for domain2.foo).

Now, the correct thing to do is to not accept the domain2.foo record at all unless it comes from a server in domain2.foo’s bailiwick, since that is how modern versions of BIND do it. Otherwise, there are a small number of poorly configured corner cases (where domain1.foo has an outdated IP for domain2.foo) which will resolve incorrectly.

Now, back to the article, I believe DJB had a way of handling this: If it saw “domain2.foo MX 10.2.3.4”, it would then, if asked for the IP for the domain “10.2.3.4”, return the A record (IP) 10.2.3.4 (or was it Qmail which did the expected thing if it saw a dotted decimal domain name? Or both? There are enough old school DJB advocates here that someone should be able to clarify)

I know this much: DJB made some noise two decades ago that this is a real-world misconfiguration which should be accounted for and handled the expected way, calling them dotted decimal IPs.
Why can't the other party be conservative in what they send?
French food is generally a different level of prestige than pirogis and gobs.
I tried to use it to build a dynamic digital signage solution for the medical industry and it was a nightmare.

I persisted and wrote a plug-in that pulled data from a file that was updated with an API. I was impressed at first, but soon, the inconsistency of the experience on different platforms killed it for me.

Ultimately it was easier to run Android on an Odroid and use React Native to build an app.

I got the use-case all wrong though. A good use case is running Netflix on a Pi.
>but all other forms of energy have undercut the cost of nuclear. It's no longer cost competitive

If markets valued the low-CO2 nature of nuclear, they’d be doing better

https://whatisnuclear.com/economics.html
Did he tell anyone not to comment?
Maybe you should be telling that to Newsom who was maskless inside a building while not socially distancing.
A buddy of mine has solar panels. During the storm they got covered in ice and snow, and generated about 180 watt hours in a 24 hour period
I'd say to make transclusions with the micro transactions work it has to be an open standard. It needs browser support and people willing to use it encoding their work.
have you considered to switch to https://github.com/deepinsight/insightface as base model?

edit: never mind, you do https://github.com/exadel-inc/CompreFace/blob/master/embeddi...
Thanks for this great reply. Yes, I think you're right - at least with the constraints I've set for myself, if I want to build software as a full time job in the public sector it seems like there's no way around getting the credential.

However, I'm guessing I might need to start at the bottom again. Probably wouldn't be able to just waltz into a full dev position with my data analyst experience I'm guessing. That'd mean accepting a huge decrease in salary.

Maybe learning enough outside of work to begin contributing to open source projects that interest me would be enough to scratch the itch.. or perhaps some freelancing/building software to sell on the side? Is it feasible to really get good at it if isn't my full time job though, I'm not sure..

One thing I was thinking of doing, if I decided against the degree, was really digging into some open source data engineering projects like dbt and airflow. Even just reading the source code and getting a good understanding of it if I can't contribute. My thinking was that even if no positions labelled as "data engineer" exist, it might do something to help me maneuver into a data analyst/science labelled position where modern data engineering is really what's needed.
It's straightforward accounting to address the issue you mean. Go read Lazard's levelized cost of energy slides. The cost comparison isn't some sort of mystery everyone but you is getting wrong.
San Francisco’s population more than doubled during the working day. Those people are no longer going into the City.

Restaurants and other businesses downtown and in the SOMA are not going to be able to replace that business. You can’t really live outside SF and order from restaurants there.

Most of those restaurants will have to move if they can. That is sure to be very costly. I wonder what happens if the restaurants break leases.

The to go restaurants in residential neighborhoods outside SF are actually doing well. One hole in the wall restaurant we frequent can’t handle the additional business and got rid of the 3 entree deal because it was so popular. The sit down restaurants are not doing that well but hopefully that will change with the end of COVID-19.
I was intrigued by this question ever since I read Angela's ashes by Frank McCourt.

Seems like his father survived on porter alone (although obviously this is told though a child's eyes).

Beer seems to contain around 1% protein which isn't much. Carbs should be plenty though.
You say we could have that, but no other nation has it either. Presumably some nations are better at regulating than we are; what is their excuse?
It makes perfect sense as a politically-motivated decision. Some excuse was devised to destroy the pods, thus ending the debate forever of whether the Earth might one day return to a green space.

It also forced Dern's character into action, since he would have to return to Earth since his job of caring for the pods was about to end.

The film reminds me somewhat of 'Interstellar' — a once verdant world going dark and expelling the hero.
We already do: the upper class is the kids whose parents either by home prices or private school tuition can get their kids the hell away from the losers.
The link shows paying in btc because they don’t give you what you mine. You rent your hash rate and people bid on it with btc. You’re not mining btc directly. I use NiceHash at the moment. Your gpu mines ethereum (or whatever the most profitable coin is as NiceHash has a profit switcher.)
Agree that we're making the healthy unhealthy. I've experienced mental and physical degregation like never before under the current restrictions. Would not wish it on the worst of em.
> Tell that to citizens of countries who have experienced hyperinflation and whose currencies became worthless almost overnight.

I don’t think any of my family in Algeria are using Bitcoin, and same for my wife’s family in Bangladesh. In Algeria at least, generally you’ll go to a hawala money changer who gives you better rates than the banks and exchange your local currency into Euros. If you need to send money abroad you use the same old Islamic hawala system to send it to France or wherever else.

There will probably be some useful things built on top of blockchains, and I don’t think crypto has zero value, but I don’t think it’s going to reasonably fix a situation of a failing state.
Silver was a big bubble at that time too. I knew the end was near when the owner of a restaurant I frequented showed me the silver statue he had made of his dog.

Once you have real ETFs the crypto mania will turn into yet another debt fielded bubble. In the meantime, enjoy the ride!
Why do you feel there's a flaw? The «root» key signs the batch keypair. It's a normal certificate chain.
"Moonshot builds technology to analyse audiences consuming extremist content, conspiracy theories and disinformation.

In addition to data analysis, Moonshot engages in campaigns to direct users attempting to access extremist material to alternative sources. Moonshot developed this method, known as the Redirect Method, in partnership with Jigsaw in 2016.

Initially piloted against ISIS, this methodology has since been deployed against white supremacists and disinformation."
>> Why do people pin dependencies? The primary reason is that they don’t want dependency updates to suddenly break their packages for end users, or to have their CI results suddenly broken by third-party changes.

Or because we dont want accidental or malicious security vulnerabilities to get automatically incorporated into the software.

This stuff works both ways. You dont automatically incorporate fixes, nor new problems.
fan blade failures are expected. Engines are designed to contain failed blades. There is a huge test that is done whereby a blade is "failed" at full throttle. Engine dies but damage is to be contained.

https://youtu.be/j973645y5AA

(A380 "blade off" test, rare footage of giant engine failing)
I think the reasoning presented in this article generalizes pretty well to a refutation of most arguments involving proving the impossibility of some complex, ill-defined, "I'll know it when I see it" kind of phenomenon via a tidy, small logical proof.

There's a lot of ways that those kinds of complex phenomenon can be functionally equivalent to human observers, but can have different underlying mechanisms. These tidy logical proofs only ever cut off one extremely specific incarnation of that complex phenomenon rather than the entire equivalence class.
Will you reuse it a thousand times?. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/grocery-bag-environmental...
You can "safely" withdraw between 3-4% of your $1M for 30 years and never lose that $1M, assuming you keep that money invested and it grows at an average of 7%/yr.

$30-40k/yr, pre-tax, would still be ok for one person in Portugal / Spain or other lower cost of living places, right NOW. Once you add in a spouse, children, things start to get hairy.

Once you consider that these places are currently undervalued and their cost of living could increase dramatically in the future, that $30-40k/yr no longer seems as safe.

I would personally aim for $2M+ to feel safe that I won't have to be forced to work a job I hate for the next 30 years.
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Texas’ Drive for Energy Independence Set It Up for Disaster
Ah Xanadu! I always think of the 1995 "The Curse of Xanadu" in wired[1], both because it's good and because it's from an age when the idea of universal connection felt much further away.

[1] https://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/
So you can have multiple address for the same MX, eg IN A 10.77.0.1 and IN AAAA fd77::1.
The sad truth is without the package maintaining too many people would be running horribly out of date and insecure software - as there is zero incentive to upgrade a working system.
I think we're at cross-purposes; I am talking about mathematics for the purpose of real-life useful applications (e.g. cryptography, data analysis, etc), in which case you need algorithms.
This is a dangerous and wrong assumption. Weather events can have high area. What do you do if a hurricane comes at the same time as high cloud cover?
Fexprs are misfeature, which is why we have to digging into sixty-year-old Lisp literature to learn about them.

Lisp people had bad ideas along the way. They recognized that this is the case and got rid of those ideas, in some cases documenting some of those choices.
Well then, that it sickens you is such a better argument isn't it not? You should've told us earlier!

Look, we can admit the reality of the world we live in or we can pretend, but only if we admit the real world to ourselves we can even begin to contemplate finding some kind of solution to our problems. Trying to ban everything you don't like is what is really sickening because newsflash, people can think for themselves and don't need you to decide what's moral for them.

Money is important in society, deal with it. Money is useful in society, deal with it. Money, for better or worse, arguably controls society. Deal with it.
> with a wire connecting him to a power outlet. I forget the logic behind that.

Likely this is an attempt at what is known as "grounding" or "earthing", with the goal of reducing inflammation.

There is some intriguing research in this area, here is an informative article from Journal of Inflammation Research:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4378297/pdf/jir...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4378297/

Figure 4 shows a grounded sleep system similar to your friend's.

> Abstract: Multi-disciplinary research has revealed that electrically conductive contact of the human body with the surface of the Earth (grounding or earthing) produces intriguing effects on physiology and health. Such effects relate to inflammation, immune responses, wound healing, and prevention and treatment of chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The purpose of this report is two-fold: to 1) inform researchers about what appears to be a new perspective to the study of inflammation, and 2) alert researchers that the length of time and degree (resistance to ground) of grounding of experimental animals is an important but usually overlooked factor that can influence outcomes of studies of inflammation, wound healing, and tumorigenesis. Specifically, grounding an organism produces measurable differences in the concentrations of white blood cells, cytokines, and other molecules involved in the inflammatory response. We present several hypotheses to explain observed effects, based on current research results and our understanding of the electronic aspects of cell and tissue physiology, cell biology, biophysics, and biochemistry.
Two weeks to flatten the curve. Remember that one?
> Why can't the other party be conservative in what they send?

Because they don't want to be? Because they don't know that they should be? Because they don't know how? Because they think they are but they're mistaken? Because the specification is ambiguous? Any number of reasons.

But you can't control what they do. You can only control what you do.

If you want to send an email to them, you need to be compatible with their email server.
Companies don't general form to create value for individuals with the expectation they get nothing out of that work. Certainly not to the point for it to be considered playing with fire for a business to stop doing something that isn't profitable.

Facebook is not your friend and you are not Facebook's friend.
What if AI just wants to watch Star Trek reruns and browse Porn Hub? As is so often the case when humanity creates intelligences.
Wow what a waste, at least use the waste energy to heat Texan homes.
> Isolating children from the outside world to "protect them" (or for any reason for that matter) should not be celebrated.

Then why do we isolate adults from criminals, by putting criminals in prisons?

> I was barely phased by the relentless bullying at school because home was just so much worse.

That is wrong. But for many people it's the other way round.

I wonder if we could find a solution that would somehow help both types of kids. Being able to leave home, but also being able to avoid bullies at school.
Reminds me of one of Larry Page's rules for management: "Don't get in the way if you're not adding value. Let the people actually doing the work talk to each other while you go do something else."
I noticed something off about that ad too.
Just a random terrible incomplete idea in my head. What if instead of the device generating the transaction sequence number, the sequence numbers were provided to the client ahead of time and signed by a trusted third party? Essentially you get a sequence number ahead of time and a window in which to use it.
Ah sorry I don't mean the mechanism itself, I was referring to the content.

Although even in the case of the standard, leaving aside whether this would make Xanadu feasible or not, I'm not sure given Xanadu's history whether it was ever conceived of being "open" in the same way, say HTML is.

There are plenty of standards that are effectively closed and require payment to access and read (see e.g. ISO standards as well as, in the U.S. the state of Georgia very nearly getting away with putting legally-binding annotations behind a paywall: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/04/supreme-court-ru...). I think Xanadu's philosophy would've lent it to a similar approach, independent of what this would mean for its survival.
At that link, we learn that the industry is prohibited from killing 4200 a year, which number would have a negligible effect on the population and of which number the industry has only ever killed a tiny fraction. Far more eagles die from automobile impact than from wind generation. Eagles are flying coyotes. So long as we aren't actively poisoning them, we can coexist just fine.
> Attaching four hours of storage to a solar generation farm, just enough to get through the duck curve, is now slightly cheaper than coal.

How much would attaching two weeks of storage, which is how long panels around here have been under 20cm of snow twice this winter, cost?
Once you extrapolate that to software engineers, levels.fyi says you can expect 80k EUR/yr in Germany [1] which I think is after-tax.

If that is true, it's more than I thought it would be and I think if you found a good job you enjoyed, making 80k EUR/yr on top of having $1M saved could give you a secure financial future.

[1] https://www.levels.fyi/Salaries/Software-Engineer/Germany/
It seems clear to me those commenters are also in a position to do the work themselves. Maybe coworkers. That is very different from a programmer-user relationship that a lot of people are talking about here. Almost the opposite - complaints are valuable and fixes aren't.