skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't tell if you're disagreeing with OP but they weren't arguing that procreation had any inherent good, just that it "is".

Under most circumstances you can bet that any given person would choose life, even in the face of extreme pain. If that person were to change their mind however, euthanasia should be an option, and that I could see an argument being made for it.

Now, to go back to nature just being what it is without morality, the argument that we're destroying the environment doesn't hold up when you remove people from the equation. I mean, sure you might actually fix a bunch of ecological problems from our current point of view but once we're gone, that value system ceases to exist. Earth doesn't care if there's blooming biodiversity living on its back or that the entire atmosphere might be filled with toxic smog. Those are only problems because we say they are problems.

To go and end the entire human race for that is probably the least likely sequence of events we can fathom. We're hardwired to survive, and I don't see that changing anytime soon.
> We rolled back to Java many such critical paths just to be able to maintain them

I guess that's what I see as one of the advantages of Groovy. You can do ultra rapid implementation of something with minimal code and then as it becomes more critical you increase its type safety by adding first Groovy type hints, but further along that curve, convert it fully to Java or another statically typed language. So what you describe as a problem I see as sort of, optimal workflow, and the real problem is being forced to universally choose one or the other in other languages.
Things may have changed, but to my knowledge iDevices have traditionally been disproportionately represented in many metrics due to getting heavier usage from their owners. Android wins by far in sheer units sold and in use, but iOS users use their devices so much more heavily and frequently that the average iOS user has a larger usage footprint than their Android counterpart.
And here it is, the main problem with outsourcing critical infrastructure. Remote server providers like Microsoft Azure should at most be used as twins/redundant systems to a locally managed system.

Governments of the world: pay your IT people more money to prevent brain drain.
Immoral is a stretch lol, however I would say it isn't heroic or brave, as many paint it out to be, and in fact you are just making a copy of you and your partner's genes and that is why you invest in them. When done "properly" (i.e. marriage, extended family helps etc), it's a huge privilege.
I wish Wuala was still around, damn Lacie for buying - then removing the most interesting part of project (exchanging local storage for cloud storage)... then killing the entire thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuala#Trading
Overlapping categories?
This feels like it's really a branch of Utilitarianism, perhaps it should be called Oblivionistic Utilitarianism?

Speaking only for myself, I am tremendously grateful that I exist, however fleeting that existence may turn out to be, and I currently have no desire to wish that I had never existed.
I was once reprehended for wrting this:

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I want this too
Last major outage affecting our customers was the ides of March (3/15), but I think there was another affecting Europe just a few days ago, right?
Is this related to the existing Magic Wormhole encrypted file transfer application (which is called "wormhole" on the command line)?

https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole

Here's an HN discussion of it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14649727

An LWN article:

https://lwn.net/Articles/692061/
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Not a fan of the "Quiet Modem Project"?
I imagine that from engineering POV, having self-replicating cells that will also do the useful work won't be optimal. This self-contained single-cell system was the only one that could work in the wild initially, but after a while even in natural systems like our bodies we have cells (like those red ones from our blood) that are produced by specialized tissues (red bone marrow), are designed with a specific function and with a simplified structure (like to be small, without cell nucleus), and disposed by other specific tissues (in the liver). If I had to design a system (and a business) it would involve printing specialized (non-replicating) work cells and some control/disposal mechanisms. The research focus on simplest living and self-replicating cells looks interesting but not that much oriented on any practical purposes.
Interesting article! Shopify's approach is cool, it's interesting they're using Kafka to generate datasets. I wonder if the explicit human rankings will get stale (and also be hugely outweighted by implicit judgements in the training data). The real-time feedback aspect sounds cool, I wonder if it's just for metrics or also for re-training in real-time.

I worked on a Learning To Rank implementation a year or so ago. What struck me then (and now reading about Shopify's implementation) is that the approach is often very similar across sites, but the implementation is usually rather tailored. You see the same patterns: online/offline metrics; nDCG; click models and implicit/explicit relevance judgements; re-ranking top-k of results, and so on.

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a technology tying all of the components of an LtR system together. A managed service like Algolia could be an answer. I wonder if industry will eventually converge on a framework, such as an extension to Open Source Connection's Elasticsearch Learning to Rank plugin (https://diff.wikimedia.org/2017/10/17/elasticsearch-learning...).

It's a really interesting area of theory and practice - I hope Shopify write more about their implementation!

I'd also recommend reading Airbnb's really excellent paper - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.09591.pdf.
You might want to look at https://github.com/boyter/scc

It's the same as cloc, but ludicrously fast.
Thanks, this is my coding playlist for next week or so now.
What Is a Vector Index? – Pinecone Blog
Fell in to this rabbit hole a little earlier, so I'll try to drag you in as well. If you switch languages on Wikipedia the list grows a whole lot¹.

FWIW, I've only ever seen one local note in the UK and that was on somebody's fridge ~100km from Bristol where it would actually be valid. I suspect there is a fair amount of money trapped in scrapbooks and on fridges ;)

¹ https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_monnaies_locales_c...
>even above ground the light at mid-day is extremely dim.

Direct normal insolation on Mars seems to be in the 590 W/m^2 range.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=590+W+insolation+mars&t=ffab&ia=we...

That's brighter than an average winter day in Seattle.

http://www.weatherjon.org/meteo/pages/station/climate.php?va...

(click on "Month graphs", and then "Maximum".
Yes, sure. It also will be developed four tourists, so even non owners can visit. It is only possible to buy one share. We voted on which island to buy. I would have preferred a gigantic island in the Philippines but the legal work was too risky in this jurisdiction.

I know some of the people behind the project and they are sound. This is why I joined.
Shock finding! Average headline length matches average sentence length!
RFC4041, cited here, is clearly a joke from a very different era: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4041.txt
The most tiring thing isn't missing out on life, it's seeing all the people who are vagrantly choosing to ignore safety precautions and continue on with THEIR life while others are distancing, staying at home, avoiding people, etc.

By far the worst part about this has been the feeling that I have wasted a year, while others chose not to. My mistake I guess, but for everyone who chose to ignore the rules, many spread the virus.
Petfood Express. It’s a California pet store chain with like 40 stores or something but the staff there are so nice and helpful. Their website is also nice to use though I much prefer going to the store.

The staff is knowledgeable and pet lovers first. I wanted to give my cat the best food and they were so helpful in helping me pick a few different items to try. My cat loved them all so that’s a great success!
Cool! I hope one day Racket will take off as a serious language for app development.

I know it's not really the point of Racket, but it has all the right attributes^, all it needs is a bigger library ecosystem.

^: including a package manager & build toolchain, an IDE, nicely-formatted web hosting for docs, runtime is reasonably fast, has plenty of batteries included, has cool stuff like contracts, supports multiple programming paradigms.
> Find me a linux distro that doesn't have GCC or Clang installed by default

Most distros don't preinstall C compilers.
I think it's likely that the real-world protection against death is actually lower than 100%- immune compromised people exist, and are liable to be comparatively poorly protected. And they're not part of the big efficacy trials.

Ideally you can protect them by suppressing the virus by herd immunity, which I think is actually a viable prospect with these vaccines.
Israel had a fair number of antivaxxers, as well as people who aren't quite antivaxxers but are very wary of vaccination. The "green passport" (proof of vaccination that is required to take part in much of normal life there currently) has been doing a decent job of fixing that... Although I'm skeptical that the US will follow suit to the same degree.
Does it? It seems the priority should be fixing the issue.
coinbase is still a company with shareholders - decentralized or not. there are shareholders who want liquidity; there are investors who want in now.

the choice of listing has nothing to do with the monetary unit of trade ($, euro, btc, doge etc). the exchange simply enables them to trade the equity of their company. NASDAQ/US is just the most liquid one (and likely where their immediate investors past and future are going to have access to already)

but perhaps I'm not aware of alternatives where one can trade equity in the crypto/defi market?

happy to learn if you point me to the right places.
The Next Big Thing on Social Media Could Be a Smarter Camera
I'm not 100% sure. I actually tried to do some research on that a few months ago and couldn't find anything definitive one way or the other (I haven't looked since then).

When I did look, I found some press releases about them partnering, but it was light on details. Based on the name and the fact that their logos now match (they didn't used to), my guess is that they aren't two separate companies.
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> that would be a train with 144 km.

That comparison is pointless. It makes no sense to assume that railway must load at least the load carried by one of the world's largest container ships for cargo to be deliverable from point A to B.

Another pointless comparison is the fact that container ships unload their cargo on ports for it to be transported through railway and roadway to their destination, thus it makes no sense to assume that railway should have to transport 24k containers from China to Rotterdam to then reroute it back to other locations. No, it can pretty much work point-to-point with a little shunting throughout the process.
I also liked this article but then remembered the F-35 and have a super hard time thinking we need more investment. Blame the bureaucrats all you want (I'm with you), but I'm no longer sure we even know how make the right things.
> one year later the marriage would be with 6 guests max if it would happen at all.

I've seen many weddings in 2020 that were totally unrestrained, 100+ gatherings with the justification being "outdoors". No masks worn, nothing.

I can't stand that there are people who would do that.

If I may ask - given how cautious you sound - how did you get covid?
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Looks fun. How novel is it? Can I do these things already in some other language? (Esp. Haskell or Python -- my favorite language and my work language, respectively.)
Have you tried taking the bus while WFH?
Anecdotally, I've seen more DDoS customer tickets at AWS than I've ever seen.
(IANAL) No, but only because Google is a ubiquitous brand. If Google were still a small startup, yes. But my knowledge of this stuff is only surface level. I can do more digging.
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Can't we have data showing career advancement differences between onsite employees and remote employees? I don't understand your attack/sarcasm. We manage to find data to show salary/promotion differences between men and women, or between different races, why not based on the location of the workers?
I find that being stoic and and marching through is the best way. Also thinking someone else has it worse, that if you have meetings and deadlines then it’s a lot cushier than a nurse for example. Coffee helps too.

In the long run say no to stuff, delegate things and request more resource. I’ve found that in the long run giving it your all and going flat out is under appreciated. And who knows you might expand your empire and get the status that goes with that.
I was referring to the US equities and treasuries markets

Which in this context includes cross linked index and futures markets

As this is a conversation about listing an equity versus a security token on a crypto venue, the liquidity is unparalleled (even if crypto venues were trading registered securities tokens)
> Most trains are much smaller than the longest trains too.

Yes they are, and all it takes is a locomotive or two operated by a couple of engineers to move cargo faster.
Geometric Unity: Author’s Working Draft v1.0 [pdf]
They cut communications regularly across the country well before 2019
Goods distribution is pretty fun, because all goods can be delivered to any city. Goods contribute to growth on an independent axis as passengers and mail, so its very useful at making cities grow faster.

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The optional CargoDist settings for passenger / mail is excellent btw. If you plan on using any passenger / mail traffic, I highly suggest turning on that extension. Passengers / mail under CargoDist will plan "routes", and take multiple stops to get to their preferred destination.

A set percentage (say 75%, its configurable) will also want to make a "round trip", and come back home. This allows for more natural "hub-and-spoke" style gameplay for your traffic systems... compared to the default where passengers are willing to be dropped off literally anywhere.

In theory, "Goods" and other stuff can be CargoDist enabled as well. However, I like the idea of "fungible" items (like Coal or Goods), to provide further contrast between passengers/mail and the rest of the game.
Arguably a protocol for Visual Studio Code to...
Do you think locally managed systems are immune to outages? Or that governments are capable of resourcing their teams sufficiently to do a better job at availability than Microsoft, Google, or Amazon?
> Non-technical users misattribute and misunderstand causes of outages.

The website simply answers the question "is anyone else having trouble accessing this?" In practice that's all it does, and that is useful.
I have an issue where it always thinks a couple of accounts are offline. I have to click the squiggle for it to download those accounts. Every restart I have to do the same thing.
Lots of ideas for getting past a hurtful spot.
Very much true, and this is what I wanted to show — what is a case of a real speculative runaway.

Still, the fact stands as mindboggling as it is — China has few Californias of empty housing, and a ridiculous housing price runaway at the same time.
in the few times I've traded BTC, I've personally seen tighter spreads in Coinbase (fixed + % fee) than Robinhood Crypto ("free").

I'm aware there can be many reasons for this but I couldn't help but wonder if Robinhood was baking in some hidden fees.
Presumably, it triggers the fire alarm.
This is a compelling story. Could you also post a couple of sentences about what the app does?
Oh hey neat, some coverage. Actually I'm right on the verge of the next big release (v0.8) which should make doing the networked programming significantly easier.

But here's some more background: I'm co-author/co-editor of the ActivityPub specification, which might give you some idea that I have some experience with trying to build networked systems. Goblins is part of the Spritely project, or even more accurately, the foundation for it: https://spritelyproject.org/

Spritely has some pretty wild ambitions... I won't go into them in detail, the video near the top of the above site explains better. But achieving those in a feasible timeframe means we need some better tooling. Goblins is the foundation of that; it's implemented as a Racket library, but can/will be ported elsewhere. The docs linked above explain some of the core ideas, but honestly I think the video linked from this section of the site explains it better: https://spritelyproject.org/#goblins

In general, people tend to realize that something interesting is happening when they see a cool shiny demo. So here are two pages that might give you an idea with some cool shiny demos:

- Demonstrating "time travel" in a space shooter game (no special code added for this other than exposing it in the GUI): https://dustycloud.org/blog/goblins-time-travel-micropreview...
- "goblin-chat", which doesn't look quite as shiny but is interesting more that the code you see above is "end to end encrypted", but is written in a mere 250 lines of code for the whole protocol http://dustycloud.org/blog/spritely-goblins-v0.7-released/

What? How can the last one be only 250 lines of code? (And a mere 300 more for the GUI!) Well, that's because we're implementing a peer-to-peer distributed object programming protocol called CapTP (which includes wild things like distributed garbage collection over the network (for acyclic references), "promise pipelining", and is object capability secure). The next release will be advancing that work significantly. The Agoric organization is also implementing CapTP, but their stuff is in Javascript instead of Racket; we plan to have our CapTPs to converge. Thus it shouldn't really matter whether you write your code in Javascript or Racket, your code should be able to talk to each other.

Anyway, new release coming out soon. Hope that answers some things since the docs page might not convey what's fully interesting about it (and indeed, neither does this text, but the videos mentioned above do a better job).
Army Makes Gargantuan Bet on New Augmented Reality Goggles for Its Soldiers
Why would you take a social contract to court? :)

Wrong jurisdiction.
Thanks to LWN (https://lwn.net/Articles/851315/) there's the official press release (https://www.xinuos.com/xinuos-sues-ibm-and-red-hat/) and court documents (https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vid.36935/g...). Doesn't look like a prank.
But what defines goodness?
Just got another email from them, apparently "the issue appears to have been resolved with Microsoft Azure". Looks like the problem is resolved
That's not including the credit and debit card fees though, right?

It's been a while since I've used Coinbase, but I feel if you want to just buy a small amount of crypto, the total fees can be up to like 10%.
So you think local IT can acheive the same high availability and elasticity? Sorry that isn't usually my experience. Lots of anecdotal local IT get lucky, but on average I think this is the wrong lesson to learn.
> The amount of different electrical train systems in Europe:

From that map it seems that a train can move from China to Austria while using the same train system.

Between Czechia and Germany, all it takes is a trip to a shunting yard to switch locomotives.
Agreed! But I'm confused, how does the "1s" work? Is that some kind of old-school definition of a short int literal?