skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hardly. I have been aware of how the condition turns out almost from the beginning. You see, one of the hallmarks of it is extreme abdominal pain, which easily eclipsed my broken bones or other items like having a gallbladder infection due to stones. I am told childbirth and having an appendix rupture also aren't as high up on the scale, although neither have happened to me. After a few of those episodes sans painkillers (and of course feeling like death would be preferable to continuation of that state) I went hunting for information since doctors are typically uninterested in pursuing the concerns of teens. Once I matched everything up, the medical literature was not shy about what the endgame looks like; after confirmation with some unlikely tests, I was largely on my own to deal with this, which meant more literature dives and even more unattractive stories.

So when he relayed this story, my internal reaction was more of a nod, "yes, that's how it tended to go back then," a bit like hearing old stories of the agonizing, inevitable deaths of those who contracted rabies, because by then it was just another data point in a straight line. That's not immoral at all.

Immoral, to me, is hiding this sort of thing from the people to whom it will happen, because if you do not know, you cannot plan around it. Being uninformed removes agency, and that's what we're discussing here -- do we allow other humans legal agency over their deaths, since they haven't any over their births?
They replicate the data by some amount within an availability zone using some form of forward error correction. They look at their machine/hard drive irrecoverable failure rates within that facility and get 99.99% durability.

Then they replicate all of that again 3 times within a region across 3 different availability zones (again independent facilities). And they are then making the claim that they will never lose all 3 facilities irrecoverably at the same time. i.e (1 - 0.9999)^3 = 0.99999999999.

Simplified view, since they likely have to tweak the replication by object size since their claim is by object and not number of bytes. But, the answer is not magic, just redundancy.

And you can get very good at predicting failures when you have millions of hard drives.

It's part of the reason AWS never open a new region without at least 3 availability zones, otherwise they couldn't run s3 there.
I'd like to see the tweet and read their genocidal rhetoric directly. If the alternative is a news outlet digesting and editorializing their words, I'd rather hear it directly from the source.
No, it didn't vanish! Tucker Carlson re-obtained it and has stated that he won't release it, out of consideration for Hunter Biden's low fortunes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXgO7L0rcAQ
Now that solar is the cheapest source of electricity miners are actually switching to solar in a big way.

This not only drives the solar industry, but takes proof-of-work’s foot off the gas, environmentally speaking.
That's cool. You should make that clear on the website, I definitely got the impression from the photos that they were in a frame.
Alternative approach depending on preferred readability:

STDIN.each
.map(&:downcase)
.map(&:split)
.flatten
.tally
.sort_by { _2 }
.reverse
.each { |word, count| puts "#{word} #{count}" }

(It has a slightly different performance profile and is slightly slower than the other implementation. 477ms vs 418ms on the KJV dataset for me.)
Ok, technically I don't keep track of it in my head, but in my pocket. I start with a given amount of Euros in my pocket. Each purchase reduces that amount. If I want to check my current balance I reach into my pocket and see how much money is left. Checking this against the current date gives me a rough idea if I'm over- or under-budget.
You get used to that feeling: there’s so much money whose holders can’t think of productive uses that these bubbles happen periodically – during the 90s it was dotcoms who were guaranteed to lose money on every sale still having enormous valuations, with the ensuing collapse then leading investors to pour money into the “safe” housing market, etc.

The blockchain bubble has had enough speculators pump money in that there’s a whole industry creating things like NFTs trying to prop up valuations, and that part of the cycle always lasts longer than seems possible to anyone prone to thinking about the market analytically rather than emotionally.
A good article by Vitalik Buterin, the creator of Ethereum, on "credible neutrality" as a guiding principle for the protocol:
https://nakamoto.com/credible-neutrality/

Twitter has long lost credible neutrality as a platform which is why it's ultimately going to die.
It's clear that they don't know how to handle her powers and are doing the best they can, albeit yes, it was probably the worst way to handle it. They were scared that someone would get hurt by her powers (check) and that, if discovered, she would be deemed a monster (check).

Furthermore, the troll king's advice was that Anna could not know about her powers or the damage from being struck in the head would return. So their only choice was to isolate the two sisters from one another.

There was nothing intentionally villainous with the parents.
And I’m going to be a millionaire so I don’t pay rent anymore
No good deed goes unpunished. :(
I only need cash for maybe once a month. Transaction logs sent by mail are way too slow.

Yea that way much slower and much less convenient compared to online banking.
A couple of things:

- RH devtoolset doesn't support clang, only gcc

-The compilers installed with the devtoolset packages on RH/CentOS 6 & 7 do not support the _GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI flag -- the old ABI (COW strings) is the only one supported. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1546704 and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50836145/glibcxx-use-cxx... for more info.
I have quite literally no idea what the correct answer is, and I reckon anyone who claims to have an easy answer is lying, because the landscape is fundamentally different to anything we've seen before.

Twitter is both a public forum and a private enterprise. The decisions it makes—not just in terms of moderation, but in terms of structure and incentive—substantially affect the spread of mis/disinformation. Is it the responsibility of the platform to prevent its abuse to that end? Or is it essential for it to remain entirely neutral? How does that work across different legal, social, and political environments? How does that apply differently to democratically-elected leaders? What constitutes harassment or targeted abuse? What counts as impersonation or parody?

It feels like it's going to be a fairly unpleasant period while we figure that all out.
That's on our government.

We should just start vetoing some of those important treaties or other big agreements. We need to start pressuring the other EU members into pressuring the Netherlands for us.
That's discrimination, unpopular as this may be, world leaders are also people. To fairly implement what you suggest, twitter must make a rule that political personalities must post political content while in office on a dedicated "world leader" handle
Despise security questionnaires, so a very important problem you're solving.

My company just onboarded RFPIO, which I'm super happy with which addresses everything it seems you're offering.

How is Stacksi different than RFPIO?
Also, if you phrase the question “should everyone follow the same rules?” in the right way, everyone is going to say “of course!”
> Death on command

Precisely nobody is proposing "Death on command". From the article:

> ...the person must:

> - suffer a "serious or incurable illness" or a "chronic or incapacitating" condition that causes "intolerable suffering"

> - be an adult Spanish national or a legal resident

> - be "fully aware and conscious" when they make the request, which has to be submitted twice in writing, 15 days apart

> A doctor can reject the request if the requirements have not been met. It must be approved by a second medic and by an evaluation body.

> Any medic can withdraw on grounds of "conscience" from taking part in the procedure.
I think they should bring out personalized, customizable and curatable blocking/block-lists for both accounts and topics, and perhaps content sentiment as well.

E.g. I want to follow Star Trek celebrity actors for their Star Trek/culture/movies/good content, but not for their incessant anti-Republican and Trump-bashing content. Yes, sometimes I'll miss stuff because AI/ML isn't perfect. But we don't want to "desensitize" people by forcing them to internalize beliefs not their own because they want "some" of the content posted by the people they follow.

Ads and "engagement" have a huge negative externality that comes with all these online tools, which is why these platforms never go in the direction of enabling and giving tools to the users to drive their own experience.
Well there are certainly many freedoms that we restrict or completely deny just because of the potential to misuse them (e.g. freedom to own a gun).

I don't think this is the case though, and I agree with all of your second paragraph. But I do think (and it seems that) potential to misuse a freedom is sometimes enough to restrict it, even completely.
HR too. Makes your staff feel "valued" and listened to.
"Seriously because the aliens are already here and I have proof!" -- Joking aside sometimes pushing a truth whether it's true or not has an impact on inflaming conspiracy theories... Youtube's covid, election banners for example IMO did more to incite deep state conspiracy then to reduce it... "One often meets their fate on the path they take to avoid it..." - Kung Fu panda
I think it makes accountability easier as well. And this is actually the reason why I don't do online billing as much as possible.

A stack of papers going back years showing that the corporate entity you're dealing with confirms that you payed them on time for years feels a lot better defense than:

Me: your honor, I swear I paid them
Corp: our computer thingy says you didn't. also it's a tangle of 50 different sql databases, so we'll never know the truth for sure

Similarly, if you have a bunch of paper showing that you did something with respect to the government that feels safer than officers showing up to your house because a database upgrade went sideways. Something is traceable. There's an artifact that can be used to reconstruct what really happened.

And the government needing forms can be useful too. If an internal auditor (or reporter or something) shows up and finds a bunch of filled out forms in the trash or they see that some forms are intentionally not replenished, then they can bust some skulls. However, on the other hand if things are just "lol the computer says you can't have freedoms and liberty" then maybe it's because of a bug with respect to the hyphen in your last name or maybe it's because someone is persecuting you illegally, but nobody can prove anything and there's no trail to follow.
The lengths the world has gone to in order to protect the elderly from Corona is at odds with your claim though.
I like that they didn’t go all out on those dark patterns and created a rather user-friendly and straightforward version of how that experience feels in real life.
I don't know... there are parts where it seems like Olaf was edited in after the fact... so don't discount bad storytelling :)
> With lower safety/environmental standards, lower wages

Well, no, thanks. I'd rather not be forced to enslave my people in order to compete with western capitalism.
> what are the underlying causes

I don't want to reduce this complex issues to just one cause, but

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_work_ethic

might help to understand at least parts of what we are seeing.
The method they used of encoding the transactions into the output value of the transaction could be done a LOT cheaper if they just mine transaction hashes with 16-bits of prefixed data. It's not that hard to create a transaction over and over until you get the first 16-bits of it's hash exactly as you want (in essence this is basically what Bitcoin mining is, just simply on blocks instead of txs)

Also they could just do it with 4 transactions at 8-bits each too.
Getting a human to change over a bunch of direct debits from one account to another is way better than doing it myself online.
This is very cool. Kudos for tackling this. At Security First (https://www.secfirst.org) we build free open source apps and tools for helping people learn about and manage physical and digital security. At one stage we spent a lot of time looking to how to built out smart forms like this for stuff like incidents. It gets very very complicated very quickly in terms of building out the backend brains of it. So massive kudos to you for tackling this challenge, I can only image how difficult it was. I look forward to testing it and seeing how we might be able to use it with groups like journalists and activists at risk. It's kinda hard to know at this stage from what's on your site but will there be some kind of api we can use with it?
I was struck by the Chinese embassy that got banned a couple months ago. They said that their fight against radical islam is good for uighur women.. which is propaganda but also the exact same propaganda that western interventionists use all the time. One is ok, the other is not.
Fantastically written article. Fantastic article. It's always great to have both.
>The fact that us-amerian judges fund their own election campaigns

Whether judges are elected or appointed varies by state and the states with appointed judges do better at some things but not others.
I see what you mean, and this perhaps is related to the OP's suggestion that ideally you have a "open source-licensed projects with a non-profit home, neutral trademark ownership, and multiple significant contributors" -- multiple significant contributors.

But here's the thing. Open source means that even the single contributing entity can not take away your ability to use already-reased code, or anyone's ability to fork it and keep working on it without the permission of the original author.

Open source is designed this way exactly to avoid vendor lock-in -- you can always, in the "worst" case, fork the code without the participation of the original authors at all.

This won't necessarily be easy, cheap or even feasible; sure. Open source does not automatically solve all your problems or guarantee that you'll be able to get the software you want for free forever. It just takes out of the question needing to get permission to do what you want or need to do from the authors or a single owning vendor. This is what many mean by avoiding vendor lock-in.

In some cases open source may not be sustainable. In some cases as a consumer it may make sense to choose a non-open-source product; in many cases as a producer trying to make money producing open source may not make a business model. But if you want to limit people's ability to use whatever hosted service providers they want, including after a fork, including even if your business goes out of existence, that's not open source.
Based on what logically coherent, moral argument?
That's pseudoscience, sorry.
Make an HTTP Get/Post Request in Golang
This is the correct goddamn answer. Or, better yet, get rid of cookies as a thing. The one and only legitimate use for them is session tracking, so why not provide a session storage mechanism instead? Every website gets a standard login/logout button with pluggable functionality for how you authenticate. And maybe, just maybe, we can then also have Persona-type identities that are stored and synced across all your devices so you just choose from a drop down of which identity you want to use to log in rather than typing usernames and passwords.
Soft power and economics have been used as weapons for centuries
Do you really think that their current or recent use is enough to warrant the moniker “WW3”?

I don’t
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I always thought the intention was to make people angry at lawmakers for coming up with GDPR. “Look what your government made us do to you” kind of thing.
I don't think your first comment really made those very legitimate concerns clear.

I'm pro right to die, but I'm also aware that it's a slippery slope and can go bad places.

That's a good thing to talk about, but it's not easy to do and I don't think your first remark made your concerns clear.
> it is always wrong to end your own life

This is a very blunt statement that you proffer as fact - it is, in fact, your opinion. Many other people feel differently, and your opinion doesn't change that.
I don't think anyone has any idea how disorientating tech can be until they've witness this for themselves. Also how hostile and large a divide tech creates that the industry doesn't give a damn about (I'm looking at you, Material Design and your crap low contrast fonts and lack of clear clickable buttons that has resulted in more support calls from my aging parents than probably anything else).

Anyhow, a neighborhood homeless man and I became friends and I'd help him out with $$ and food and drink from time to time. We'd hang out and I get to hear stories of all the crazy shit he'd seen in the past 40 years in the neighborhood, from growing up through the civil rights era and seeing the city burn in 68, to the lines of people around the block waiting to buy crack at Rayful Emmonds grandmothers house. He'd been in and out of jail, run with gangs, the full nine yards. After getting hit by a drunk driver on his way to holdup a liquor store to get money to buy his new baby diapers, he'd ended up on the streets with nothing but his stories and a bum leg.

Along the way, he told me about his wife and children, his stint at the Navy shipyards in Virginia Beach, and his childhood in North Carolina. He told me about how one day he'd love to travel back to his childhood home town and see his mother, who he'd purchased his childhood home for with the proceeds from his successful dealings at the shipyards.

One day, he mentioned he'd gotten some money and wanted to send his mother flowers, but he couldn't remember what the address was. I asked if he remembered how to get to the house, and he said he did, so I grabbed my laptop, opened up Street View in the center of the town and asked him which way to go.

I've never experienced quite such a reaction in my life. This was black magic fuckery to him and he thought I was using some secret government technology. I explained to him the general principles of it, and he just didn't believe it. Incredulous wouldn't describe a tenth of his reaction.

That reaction wasn't anything compared to when we finally found his mothers house. He couldn't believe that he was looking at the house he grew up in, had purchased for his mother and that he'd not seen probably 30+ years. He teared up looking at it and got quite emotional. I offered to find her phone number so that he could call her, but it was too much for him at the time, and he waved it off.

He eventually got housing through a city program, and I lost touch with him as he stopped frequenting the neighborhood.

Old Dirty, if you're still out there, I miss your company and stories and hope you're doing well!
>The decisions it makes—not just in terms of moderation, but in terms of structure and incentive—substantially affect the spread of mis/disinformation.

If we can't trust individuals to digest information themselves, what are we doing?

I find the premise troubling. People can disagree and interpret events differently. Without that, there's very little to discuss.
Robocalls I assume are profitable to someone. Therefore they will always find a way around blockage.

I have noticed most calls I get, the phone rings I answer, there is silence for a few seconds (maybe just one) where the robocaller detects someone answering the call, then they route it to a human. The human then gives their speal. I will do one of two things:

1) Say "hello, oh yeah I would like that" and then put the phone down near the TV.

2) Just hang up.

If I think it is a SCAM I will usually say something like, "you should be ashamed of yourself".

All in all, option #1 tends to work the best. I am now only getting "Extend your car warranty" call every 6 months.
> Unpopular opinion: I think

This part of the comment doesn't add anything. We can leave "I kNoW I'lL bE dOwNvOtEd BuT..." on reddit.
Depends on the people.

When I did my degree, C++ was taught in the second year and Caml Light in the third.
I satisfy my chocolate cravings with chocolate from fairafric now. Chocolate produced all the way from the tree to packaged chocolate bars in Ghana. They ran a couple kickstarter projects to get going. It's excellent chocolate too! At least the dark variants, which are the only ones I care about.

https://fairafric.com/en/home/
There was a city there but it wasn't that large and was dramatically redeveloped after it became the new capital:

https://www.thegreatcoursesdaily.com/making-constantinople/
The op talks about what the "next step" will be. And as it hasn't already been, it's clearly speculation and in no way "stating what happens".
I disagree. In the US, the public also is pretty happy to lock people away for extended periods of time.
Still no NFT for a picture of someone’s penis? So disappointed.
So doing to cars what's already been done to digital media. Well, I expect there to be a similar response by those technically inclined. Eg. Tesla crackers.

That's assuming they managed to achieve full autonomous driving and got through the legal barriers to this.
Cybertruck Giga Press Video
Globally redundant and available database by accident?
Given the recent S3 Lambda service — https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/aws-rolls-out-s3-object-lambda-to-process-data-for-multiple-applications/

If S3 is truly global (multi az-zones), redundancy, and infinite storage, instead of using Cassandra — why not save customer data as text files and use lambda to convert to Json for each application?
I'm sure many people here have experienced frustration helping older relatives or friends use computers. Recently though, I realized, that computers are just way too hard to use.

In our pursuit to avoid cryptic black screens with command prompts, a user must now understand that their computer has Windows with all of its menus and functions, a browser window with all of its menus and functions, running a webapp, with all of its menus and functions. Whenever functionality bleeds into other layers ("how do I print this pdf file"), it is a huge hassle trying to explain "oh, it's not that print button, its this other print button".

It makes me sad to think that people prefer their "appliance computers" (phones, tablets, chromebooks) over real computers, but I can hardly blame them.