skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Penistone and Scunthorpe and now Memphis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcZdwX4noCE

As much as I dislike Twitter (I only really use it for work reasons) they are in a no win situation. They either moderate what people post with a flawed system that will never be 100% or be hounded by the "Why won't anyone think of the children" group.
It's basically a definitional thing.

An Option type means you must specify Some (pointer) or could-be-None (null, NULL pointer) and the compiler will enforce the distinction. Generally this comes with exhaustive pattern matching, so you can turn Some<T> into <T>, and handle None by raising an error or assigning a default or blowing demons out your nose.

None and null are the same thing, the name isn't the important part. Zig, for example, has optional types as ?*Foo, and calls the null pointer "null".
If you break the twitters infinitely vague rules 5 times your account will get banned permanently. So it is a big deal.

Anyone interested in testing the 5 times limit by using the Memphis?
> How can there be a category error when they share such fundamental characteristics? The only thing that leaks out of your arguments is that you just "don't like" philosophy.

Because every possible thing you can think of as a statement in the universe is unfalsifiable. Every single religion, to theory, to poem uttered by a little kid. Yet although they share the same flaw, Not all of these things are worth studying nor are they worth placing in the same random category.

Only specific things line up with observation consistently according to our best available observations. Religion and ethics are not among these things. Logic and probability is. So why place these two things side by side and call it philosophy? It’s like randomly creating the philosophy of the paint on that wall and studying it as much as science. Both are completely arbitrary choices.
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Honestly, I find that a lot of the time it's management picks a payment provider and then devs have to implement it. You don't need to have deep knowledge to know you want to accept payments and how much it'll cost. And if I remember correctly when they entered the market they were all about how much you paid was cheaper and clear than with the big boys who all had a higher barrier to entry.
...not to mention that downloading an OS from some unknown torrent doesn't sound like a good idea.
Physicists have measured gravity on the smallest scale ever
Launch is not a constraint for... about a year now. Satellites have a bit more lag time.

I don't think NASA needs the SpaceX equivalent for satellites - SpaceX itself is causing a boom in satellite manufacturing, so commercial market is accumulating expertise and lowering prices. NASA should find it easier and cheaper to buy or subcontract pieces of satellites too, and focus on bespoke mission-specific hardware.
Is there a version of this that works on typical laptop keyboards that don't have SysRq? I could map an unused key to it with xmodmap of course, but if my X server isn't responding I don't think that would help very much!
Previous generation of nuclear reactors in France were built for less than 2 billion euros (constant euro) per GW (sorry it's in french, you can see the numbers here http://i-tese.cea.fr/_files/LettreItese18/ECLAIRAGES/REP.pdf on page 10). There were 50 reactors of three types (900, 1300 then 1450 GW). If we had kept this technology instead of losing the know-how and developing a new program, we could certainly build 1500 GW for those 3T. Don't know if any other country ever achieved such economy scale on its civil nuclear program, maybe South-Korea as like France they have only one nuclear company, and even more reactors per sites of few different models.
I agree, and this applies to satellite manufacturing in general. Starlink has demonstrated that the new launch cadence requires a switch from single unit and small scale to serial production.

It's unbelievable that we don't currently have standard designs not just for observatories, but for communication, navigation, cartography and other satellite types. Cubesats took a step into the right direction, the same needs to happen for even larger payloads.

Another side of the problem is that NASA budget is heavily influenced by politics and PR. I'm sure there's plenty of smart people there who have realized that from purely scientific point of view, ten or twenty less capable and more disposable interplanetary probes or observatories could have advantage over unique absurdly expensive projects like JWT and Perseverance. But they are not as exciting and harder to sell to politicians and general public.
How long has the team been assembled for and how do you bring new people on? Is your team mostly tech people? Are there any business folks involved?
Pretty meaningless. I'm sure that every fighting organization that has ever existed would love to have more effective weapons.
this is definitely not true. the median US household has several thousand dollars in their checking account. they might be living paycheck-to-paycheck in the sense that their net cashflow is close to zero, but they don't have nothing in their bank account just before payday. you would have to go deep into the 20th percentile to find households like you describe.

https://www.thebalance.com/what-is-the-average-bank-account-...
It depends on the industry and the job or company. Period. There's no universal answer to this except "it depends".

At my company, you absolutely work more and get less if you're salary than hourly. Overtime is both common and expected. Hourly will make more than their managers if a year is busy, by a hefty amount sometimes, but they both will work the same amount of hours.
My Grandma said:

Silly silly ketchup bottle

First a little

Then a lottle

Same meaning :)
> Those people also likely believe that the “right communism” just hasn’t been tried yet.

It’s crazy anyone could believe that, if anything besides Marxist-Leninist or Marxist-Stalinist communism could be possible then of course it would already happened and thus cannot possibly exist. History is over.
Think of it this way: there is no opportunity for an new entrant into this market almost globally. Stripe's fee is low enough and its API is super easy to use and the brand is well loved by most ecommerce companies. A new entrant will have to go up against this enormous amount of goodwill that Stripe has accumulated. The only danger to Stripe is if a major bank decides to get into this space. I work for a major bank and let me assure you that the technical expertise , market savvy and wisdom to pull off a new venture like this just doesnt exist in banks.
I am not really a conspiracy person. I am saying that because this will sound conspiratorial and I am aware of that. I certainly think I am looking at things from a probabilistic and alignment perspective.

Is he a russian agent? Probably not. But, he's not dead or in prison, I'd say that counts against him. He's complied with fighting "extremeism" in Russia. If Russia did want a view into international communications they would have to publicly distance themself from him. I'm not saying it is the case, but I think the chance is pretty far from 0. Certainly everyone benefits from the appearance that he and Russia do not get along. The chance his co workers are russian is higher, and therefore the chance that Russia has leverage (money/property/family/blackmail etc) directly over at least one employee seems pretty non trivial.

I don't see any good reason to believe Russia or himself are distant on purely the grounds that both of them say so.

Is freedom/what's morally right a guiding light? Well, it's run out of Dubai, the middle east isn't exactly a shining star of liberal ideals. Not everything is encrypted automatically.

Are they consistent? Company is supposed to be a non profit entity but isn't structured that way.

Are they aligned with privacy? Their revenue model is ads, a revenue model with deep precedence for violations of privacy. I see no reason that he wouldn't take a zuckerbergian approach.

I don't find telegram to be any more trustable than Facebook. If I were using a platform for political speech, something I could be blackmailed for, or anything else that would get a state actor interested in me both seem like equally bad choices.
Sure, but not necessarily the ridiculously high ones. You could just cap them to a reasonably low percentage. In the EU it's 0.3% on credit cards and 0.2% on debit cards.

Edit: This is also reflected in Stripe's pricing. They charge EU customers 1.4%+25ct on EU cards and honestly you can go lower. Adyen does Interchange++ and 10ct, which if you're not a big customer probably works out to around 1%+10ct.
Ok, fine, to be more precise, tibbles and data frames and data tables are all implemented as R lists whose elements are vectors which form the columns of the table. And also `is.data.frame` currently returns TRUE for all of them, whether or not that is ultimately correct.
Except when Apple neglects web page technology (example: push notifications are available on every browser platform except iOS).

And harm to companies is harm to consumers when they purchase products with applications that get taken away due to Apple (example: I upgraded my iPhone to play Fortnite, which was available on iOS at the time of purchase -- now it's not).
Not true. Classically, philosophy was most certainly about the truth. How could you know what better living is without knowing the truth? What "better" or "living" really are? Ethics, which is about what a good life is, depends on an understanding of human nature.

What do you think Socrates was doing when he attacked the sophists of Athens? Living better? I guess, if you like taking hemlock.
Outside of speculation, money laundering, black markets, and grey market remittances what real world use cases does Bitcoin have today? Gary Gensler taught a course on blockchain at MIT? So what. What does he understand? How to make a decentralised cyclical Ponzi scheme? That is the "store of value" use case that is now being touted since medium of exchange and unit of account are basically non-competitive with traditional (read: real) currencies. Issac Newton bought into the South Sea bubble. Did that mean the bubble was credible? Did that mean Newton "understood" it or was he merely suckered in by the hype?

Anybody who is trained in economics who thinks Bitcoin is a serious useful, thing as opposed to an Ponzi is probably somebody who has a financial, professional, or social interest in Bitcoin "succeeding." See regulatory capture. For the past 20 years regulators have been basically asleep in a lot of areas in America. They woke a bit after the financial crisis 10 years ago but "too big to fail" and bailing out the banks (moral hazard) showed they were not serious about doing anything unpopular but salutary. Likewise now regulators are tolerant or supportive of blockchain bullshit simply because it is popular.

Similar thing has gone on with driverless cars. The technology is obviously not economically viable (much less technically) and yet at every step in the way has been enabled by regulators. State DMVs should never have issued autonomous car permits, because the technology is bullshit. Yeah I am sure after billions of dollars of sunk costs Waymo can navigate some geofenced area of Phoenix / Chandler. So what? Were is the "innovation" if the "AI" driver is more expensive and less universal than a human driver? If autonomous navigation is a tractable problem why not ships, planes, trains before cars? Planes have more degrees of freedom so are less likely to hit something in seconds if they make a mistake. Same for ships. Trains are bound to rails. Cars have to stay on the road but the road is not systemically cleared (as rails are) and there is nothing mechanically binding the car to the road. Driverless cars are the hardest vehicle class to automate, and yet they were taken seriously. When people will drive a cab for under $10 a hour I don't see how AI that costs 10s of thousands of dollars to do a worse job can compete.

When money is cheap, bullshit proliferates.
I know it can seem silly, but asking people to have lunch via video chat is a great way to get around some of that distance.

Honestly this is just leadership dropping the ball for you and the rest of the team (though it can be easy to miss since it’s sort of a hidden problem). They should put more remote team things together like group learning sessions or just having coffee for 30 minutes to chat. It’s not hard to get on a calendar and although work required socialization is usually eye-roll worthy it does help.
That would be smart of spacex to allocate some profits to do these projects. win-win business orientation
I've been remote for three years now, and the last couple of months my productivity has plummeted, this has been a problem company wide.

It's the pandemic. Next question.
I don’t know how this relates to the twitter thingy, but it was a useful read, thanks!

A relevant tag: #devops
It's perhaps worth saaying that 30 years ago code in the wild might well not have compiled and run correctly on a different system, and is more likely to today. There tended to be more non-standard features and ignoring of the standard -- specifically storage association and order of evaluation rules, which people who hadn't read the standard would swear weren't in it. Also, there are a few things which have been dropped from the standard, though not necessarily from compilers.
I could be wrong, but if Twitter spoke as itself and said “Hunter’s laptop was hacked,” then they can be held liable outside of 230, because that is their own speech. There’s no magic loophole where a platform’s own speech can be immunized. However, this sounds like a horrible case, if they didn’t specifically accuse someone of hacking it. In addition, just because the shop owner reportedly took title to the laptop hardware when it was abandoned, doesn’t mean that he took title to all the material on the laptop. I doubt anyone is going to find someone guilty for defamation for calling the doxxing of someone with data from their own laptop, abandoned or not, “hacking”.
"I'm extremely confident that level 5 or essentially complete autonomy will happen and I think will happen very quickly. I remain confident that we will have the basic functionality for level 5 autonomy complete this year." - Musk, July 2020.

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/teslas-elon-musk-our-fully-aut...
You can actually test that regulators are doing exactly this. There are a few digital currencies which (attempt to) protect the anonymity of all transactions. Monero is the most popular such coin. Go try and exchange some directly with fiat currency. You'll find that it's quite a bit more difficult than with bitcoin. Most legitimate exchanges don't take Monero to stay within anti-money laundering regulations.
If I were you, I'd slow down with the ketchup alright, that sounds obsessively much. Consider that commercial ketchup tends to have lots of sugar and sodium.
/r9k/ was actually modeled after Randall Munroe's open-source "Robot9000" automod bot for one of XKCD's IRC channels (where unoriginal users would be muted for N time, rather than banned).

The original post explaining it is here [1]. I'm not sure whether the 4chan implementation applied to just the 10 visible pages or all past comments.

Fun fact: Twitch also has an r9k mode for chat [2] (that scopes "unique messages" per-chat over a 10-minute rolling window).

[1] https://blog.xkcd.com/2008/01/14/robot9000-and-xkcd-signal-a...

[2] https://twitter.com/twitchsupport/status/382923694864994304?...
> They also kill many birds, but this is nothing compared to the amount of birds that cats kill.

FWIW, turbines may be worse than cats in terms of harming large birds of prey. You won't see neighborhood cats killing eagles. I'd still agree that it's probably a reasonable tradeoff though, and that it could be further reduced with better engineering.
Yes, it's clearly documented but very much unexpected the first time 'round.

The reason for the default is probably that python can be built with none of zlib, bzip2 or lzma support:

> If ZIP_DEFLATED, ZIP_BZIP2 or ZIP_LZMA is specified but the corresponding module (zlib, bz2 or lzma) is not available, RuntimeError is raised.

in which case only STORED is available, therefore that's the only possible default, any other would lead to zipfile raising errors out of the box for some people.

It would probably have been a better idea to just not use a default, and require the compression method to always be specified, at least when opening zipfiles with modes other than "r".
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What's your latency like?

I'm in exurban Wisconsin. Speeds are fine, but Charter has terrible routing that pushes everything out to Minnesota before routing back down to Chicago. 40ms to 60ms latency on EVERYTHING.
Container escape isn't supposed to be that easy these days, but yes there is a tradeoff between security and convenience and performance. I was objecting to the claim of overhead in using a container; if you need more protection than you can get on the same kernel then you'll pay for it in virtualization costs (granted, that's not super high anymore either).
You’re leaving out a lot: gold and silver have significant industrial usage and aesthetic demand so while their rates fluctuate the floor is based on thousands of years of consistent value. You can certainly lose money buying high and selling low but there’s no equivalent to the way Bitcoin could fall below the cost of running the network if people switched to something else because only a few major holders have a significant reason to use it. Since it’s such a small fraction of a percentage of the global economy, almost nobody other than speculators would notice.

That brings me to why your point is wrong: sovereign currencies are backed by governments and that means that there is some intrinsic demand because that currency is used to pay taxes and is paid to civil servants, contractors, etc. In all but the worst run countries that has a substantial anchoring effect. Bitcoin has nothing like that, which is one reason why it’s so volatile – which is great for a speculator but not anyone writing contracts with values set in BTC.
Doesn’t seem like a significant change to me
i think we just have different views of the current ad tech ecosystem.

you can already tell google/fb/dsp/ssp directly no need for zapier - they already have pixels. now fb (and more are building) have server to server. puttin zapier in the middle especially for individual pageviews/impressions would be inconceivably ginormous scale

for sure it's super complicated with the changes google is forcing and a ton is up in the air.

but assuming google's vision of the future comes true this type of data exchange will likely be blocked in whole or minimally as we know it now

from what i understand, in that future the browser holds the 'interest groups' e.g. targetable user data we're talking about for remarketing, interest cohorts etc - i think that's floc + turtledove in action

in thinking from sell side example publisher.com would create a (i think k-anonymous?) interest group in browser.

it looks like google might go so far as to kill something like TTD universal id by enforcing a privacy budget. so there goes that idea of a middle man syncing publisher.com login pii identifier -> ssp/dsp

google's write up says bidding happens in the browser via 'worklet' but i think that can be delegated to a DSP if done to their likeing as a 'trusted 3rd party server' which also gets rid of all these identifiers including IPs/UAs (google will obviously control the market lol). so i guess that could be some product but zapier moving into but totally completely different than now
And what was the king raising money for? Wars waged to enforce high church upon Scotland, while allowing with Spain against the Dutch.
Thanks. That does seem to be it.
Serious question: What happens in 20 years if the domain registration for that URL is not renewed, or the website hosting that JSON is gone?
We could eliminate winter on most of earth in a much simpler way, and generate lots of electricity as a side effect, using ocean thermal energy conversion plants [1].

Using thermal gradient of ocean near equator they generate electricity and heat up deep water, which results in stronger gulfstream, and another set of heat exchange plants in the arctic uses temperature difference between air and water, (which is normally separated by ice in the winter). This will result in much milder climate everywhere.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_thermal_energy_conversio...
What type of dog is that?
>Also, deny list and allow list are more precise terms anyway.

Are they? Black/whitelist feels way more natural to me. You can also say things like "blacklisted this ip" instead of "adding to the deny list" or something.
I'm in the same boat, and it is definitely worse than starting a job in normal times.

I think it's an invisible problem because the decision makers and influential people in the organisation were mostly around before lockdown, so they already know everyone - they know who to ask when they have a problem, they have a feeling for who is friendly, who can be helpful etc. So to most of the staff that aspect just doesn't cross their radar.

It's very easy for remote work to feel much more contractual - you do the work needed for your team and deliver it. You lose the wider context - which I think makes it very hard for the wider team to change direction or have new ideas. The fallout of that inflexibility is intangible and immeasurable, but I bet it will come eventually.

An organisation has to both be productive on a daily basis and choose correctly what to work on. If you don't do both, you fail. Working remotely broadly improves the first, but I think without really good systems in place it completely throws off the second one.
The ebpf site doesn’t mention that because expanding the abbreviation is not helpful for understanding ebpf. The name is representative the past of ebpf, not its present use or future.
Sure, but that's plainly not in the spirit of free software.

I think that we can all agree that blowing people up with bombs is dickish behavior, and yet the software that has been released with otherwise-free licenses that prohibit its use in such bombing systems has been rejected by the free software community as nonfree.

The idea behind free software is that no other party gets to tell you what you can or can't do with it, such as "make money without donating anything upstream", "bomb children", or any other such thing.
pigz is another package.
You have to be loaded to consider DoSing with current transaction fees anywhere near practical.

And it's not like the government couldn't fine the businesses equal to say, 1.5x the amount transferred from the blacklisted address.
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Not to mention the country would almost certainly split if guns were banned. I have zero doubt a large chunk of the states would secede so the ban would only effect states that don't leave.
Also weird that at around 1:55 in this video the user seems to be trying to place a bid for 70 million and can't for some reason. Is this a bug in their auction UI costing someone 10 million dollars?

https://twitter.com/justinsuntron/status/1370227566125096961
In the short term nuclear is undoubtedly expensive, but when the debt from construction is payed off, it becomes an incredibly cheap and reliable source of energy.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cbeJIwF1pVY
Payment is just the entry point; from there they are probably going to expand into other quasi-bank services; the first low-hanging fruit that comes to mind is Advance Loans secured by CC receivables; easy, popular and highly lucrative.