skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paul Wheaton is a grifter, petty tyrant, and mini Hubbard who has built a cult around himself.

He bans anyone from the permaculture subreddit who disagrees with him, which is why there are multiple off-shoot subreddits, including one specifically dedicated to his malfeasance which broaches into criminality.
Benchmarks in Go can be surprising
what source do you have that the term 'emoticon' was coined in the 80th?

As far as I know, the term was coined in the 90th. Please take note that i've - from the start, talked about the term, not the usage of punctuation to show faces
These are absolutely the worst tests I have ever seen. They make iterating on the implementation almost impossible. Why people do this I will never understand.
Do they need a warrant if the company sells the data? Mobile carriers were selling location dats on specific customers to private companies. Banks are selling credit card purchase data.
Sec-Fetch-Site: It's more like `Origin`but without actually containing the Origin instead just delivering information about if it's the same site, same origin different origin or has not origin.

This makes it much more privacy friendly then both the `Origin` and `Refer` header, it also makes it easier to user for the intended use case and in turn IMHO a strict improvement over both `Origin` and `Referer`.

Sec-Fetch-Dest, Sec-Fetch-Mode, Sec-Fetch-User: Provide a bit more context about how the request was made, while this can leak slightly more information compared to `Origin` or worse `Referer` it's still much better.

So from a privacy POV I would say this is a strict improvements.

From a functionality POV it might look like it further limits 3rd party resource re-usage but CORS already does so. And like CORS it can be circumvented by using download apps which are not your browsers or servers republishing things or similar.

I could imagine there could be some web-extensions which "extend" a website by injecting code or similar which would become harder to do with this. Through I don't know of any where there isn't a reasonable workaround.

So from what I can tell the worst thing it might do is that using `curl` for sites where you need to set a `Origin` header now also need you to set some other headers which could be annoying.
>There’s no additional training or license that permits you to stop maintaining that awareness and control

Being a cop on duty often exempts you from distracted driving laws.

I'm not sure how they can do stuff on a laptop while driving safely but I assume the state knows best. /s
This was in Boston and for a full-time professional day care.
There's a good chance this will take off, because it's controversial enough to gain free press.
Farming on permafrost sounds like the makings for patient 0 of some previously-frozen virus coming along and causing the next global pandemic :(
I'm dealing with similar issues regarding a lost package through the USPS. The sender assured me they had updated my address but sent it to the old one anyway and then got lost.

I filled out the online form for missing packages and it said someone would follow up on the ticket number. No one did. I called the main USPS number and got through to an operator. They said someone should have followed up and then created a new ticket number. Still no follow up.

I called again and they gave me the number for some major customer affairs center (forget the name). First time the voicemail was full, second time I left a message but never heard back.

The local post office finally did call me back ... from an Unknown number (WTF?) so I didn't pick it up, then left a vague message about the package and said to call back the local post office number.

Every time I've tried to call that number it just stays on hold and then goes to a busy signal.
Leave the Billionaires in Space
Having created JavaFX apps in the past: that's comparing mopeds to racecars, because the actual code writing part in JavaFX is so much more tedious. The upside of moving fast and breaking things (which you're absolutely going to with a webview app) is that you move REALLY fast, and breaking things is almost trivially fixed because everything lets you either look at the dev console directly, or attach a dev console in seconds, and off you go setting your breakpoints and var watchers.

(and as always, how bad you break things and how quickly you can determine where and how to fix it has nothing to do with the choice in tech, and everything to do with your experience as a software engineer, or "dev" as we apparently call folks these days)
The study of cancer among the Amish found lower incidence of only a subset of cancers, essentially the ones related to not drinking or smoking, sun exposure (wearing long clothes and big hats), and having few sexual partners.

There’s no mystery.
The theoretical "additional license" would be in addition to maintaining awareness, not a substitution. So all the normal road awareness, plus being informed of likely FSD failure conditions, and anticipating them / being ready and capable to intercede.
But climate change is the single most important issue of our time. Even if I disagreed with a candidate on everything else, I'd still vote for them if their opponent was denying the existence of climate change.

What is it going to take for people to realize how serious this is?
Performance Analysis Using Intel VTune Amplifier XE (2014) [pdf]
Sustainability Project
I wonder if people are taking this too seriously. It's a fun toy, not something to actually use in a professional environment.
Working on a sustainability related project and will love some feedback.
Worked fine for me on Firefox 89.0.2.
"Due to its rarity, the disorder has not been the subject of many research studies."

The definition of "for some bizarre reason"
There could/should be because of Answer Set Programming, which addresses one of the features of prolog that derailed it from widespread adoption. Prolog makes a committed choice as it expands it's search tree, and this can lead to surprising behaviors and failures.

Now - most Prolog folk ardently deny that and say "no these are what the language does, so that's not a point of discussion." But I will write an example and then say why this matters.

In SWI prolog (and all the other prologs I've tried) if you write a program like :

on(a,b).
on(b,c).
above(X,Y):-on(X,Y).
above(X,Y):-on(X,Z), above (Z,Y).

you can query your little world with a query like :

above(a,X)

and you will get

X=b

and all is good.

but if you write your world like :

on(a,b).
on(b,c).
above(X,Y):-above(Z,Y), on(X,Z).
above(X,Y):-on(X,Y).

and you query now (above(a,X) again)...

BANG! Stack Limit exceeded.

The thing is clause orders matter because the inference engine explores them in it's matching process in order and it's really really easy to introduce a killer search like this. This is also really difficult to debug and it's a bug that is very difficult to predict - in that any prolog program of a large size may suddenly manifest this behavior with no warning. You may be able to find the bug, you may not...

So - this really kills enthusiasm for prolog in commercial environments.

Answer Sets get over this - the order of the predicates is not important, the solver can cope with the massive recurrent searches. Knowledge Based Systems and deductive inference are now more possible than ever before - and we have orders of magnitude more resources to throw at them than we did.

Additionally we have mechanisms for probablistic reasoning in MCMC that we didn't before and a unified paradigm of logical programming looks like its on!

The sad bit is that not many people seem to want it - it's quite hard to think of the real problems that we will solve this way. We know that efforts like Cyc are just not going to work out, so there's no talk of "universal knowledge bases" or building common sense in.

The only technical barrier I can think of though is that programming in the large isn't really thought through in these kind of large inferencing systems - there's a unified model that essentially has to be written by one person at the heart of them. We need to have collaboration and concept formation tools and processes that work for large teams to develop scaled systems like these.
Ron Paul Wants to Abolish the CIA; His Largest Donor Builds Toys for It (2012)
Not really. It is ill defined in DSM but if you read Harvey Cleckley "the Mask of Sanity" there is a clear coherent syndrome. Basically it is amoral impulse control disorder.

It shows up on fMRI so it is probably more real than half the things in DSM.
Is it astroturf, though? I think this is genuinely hilarious. Elizabeth Holmes as the patron saint of the website is the cherry on top.
> Your teachers gave you the opportunity to hone your own teaching skill

If I wanted a lesson in teaching, I would take a class in it. Teachers should teach the subject as advertised.

http://www.machall.com/view.php?date=2005-01-26
It makes me sad that 1k rows is "Dealing with an extensive amount of interactive registered elements."
Study reveals ways to preserve employee morale during cost-cutting
You stay away from the moonshots and stick to proven chains with users, transactions, and development.
Needs to add lockitron and little printer.
Aviation and space are a very, very different problem space from surface street navigation, because they rely, almost entirely, on "nothing else being there."

We've had good automation in aviation for decades. It doesn't handle anything else in the way very well at all, and while there's some traffic conflict avoidance stuff, it's a violent "Oh crap!" style response, nothing you actually want to get anywhere close to triggering. Automated approaches down to minimums require good equipment at the airport as well as on the airframe, and if there's a truck on the runway, well. Shouldn't have been there.

Same thing for landing boosters. There's nothing it really has to look at and understand that it can't easily get from some basic sensor data - speed, attitude, location, etc. It's an interesting challenge, certainly, but it's of a very different form from understanding all the weird stuff that happens in a complex, messy, uncontrolled 3D ground environment.

Self driving on a closed track is a perfectly well solved problem. Self driving in an open world is clearly very far from solved.
Great, thanks for that info. I'm remembering the fatal crash of a Tesla on 101 where the family said the guy driving had complained about the site of the accident before. It's interesting to know that there's at least a mental list of places like this even now. Disengagements should at least prompt a review of that interaction to try and understand why the human didn't like the driving. Though at Tesla's scale that has already become something that has to be automated itself.
Why is this being downvoted? I've notice a disturbing trend on HN where bad news is downvoted.

It's unquestionably too late to prevent global warming, and mitigation is only possible if we seriously consider organized economic down scaling. This is stuff people have known about for decades and strangely enough took more seriously in the 70s than they do now.

Carbon emissions grow every year and the rate they are growing at continues to rise as well. Fossil fuel usage continues to rise (globally, local changes are meaningless). The only time we see any serious reduction in emissions is during massive economic down turns.

Many argue that people won't accept a change of lifestyle, but that change is coming either way. Since virtually no one I've chatted with will even take economic reduction seriously I'm pretty certain it is "too late" in every sense.

Downvoting comments like this because you wish it wasn't true is really unfitting of a community that prides itself on being 'hackers' and understanding how the world works.
The Dallas Morning News sent them to subscribers with their Sunday paper back when this was a thing, because they realized nobody would buy one. It still failed miserably.
I love that they included Stuart Hoegner's tweet. Hoegner is a hilarious villain, sort of the Saul Goodman of Bitfinex/Tether (he's their GC). He was the head of compliance at Excapa, the parent company of the wildly non-compliant Ultimate Bet. That online poker site had a back door where some of their friends could see other poker players cards [1]

Seeing him call anyone a liar - as he does regularly - is downright hilarious.

After all, at one point he had all of Tether's entire backing dollars (a small fraction of outstanding USDT) with his personal funds in his Bank of Montreal account. [2]

[1] https://bennettftomlin.com/2021/03/27/before-bitfinex-and-te...

[2] https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2021.02.17_-_settlemen... section 17.
The whole Web 2.0 shift really changed power away from individuals to corporations on the Internet. The "appifization" further created walled gardens.

I remember using IRC, Lynx browser, Unix Talk in the 1990s and being genuinely impressed. I feel the same excitement with Crypto after many years.

Decentralized trust, pseudonymous identity and device-to-device communication will change the Internet for the better in the coming decade.

There is reason for optimism.
Similarly, you probably meant "averse" instead of "adverse."
Why is this heat wave from climate change but past heat waves were not?

Is every temperature anomaly caused by climate change?
I noticed that the pedagogical ideas were fairly generic too. That's why they work for me when I'm in a completely different discipline.

I think that taxonomy is a great idea. Maybe it's something that could be developed inside a department with a wiki?
Google 2FA Vulnerable Code
atomic.Value can work pretty well as well, their example docs show how to do it as well: https://golang.org/pkg/sync/atomic/#example_Value_config

DBPool gets a bit more interesting. In Java world you can you providers that give you access to something, which is what middleware tends to do for Go. If you can have your middleware be able to swap the pool config its loading from, that should work just fine. atomic.Value make work here as well.
By providing predictability/consistency/efficiency. Yes you end up paying for things that are otherwise free, but those free versions are at the mercy of nature and nature isn't exactly getting more predictable/consistent. You can also create highly efficient watering systems where evaporation is nearly nonexistent and nutrients are easily distributed meaning you're making way better use of that water. And let's be honest - if you're working with 10" of rain per year you're not just relying on the free rain anyway. California's central valley is also a prime candidate for this sort of thing as they're pumping water out of the ground so fast it's sinking and the underground aquifers are getting destroyed meaning the groundwater can't replenish and they're unable to capture as much snowmelt. That's in addition to importing water from other regions that are on the brink of not being able to sustain those exports. Water's already expensive and about to get more expensive.

And that's not even taking into consideration the higher density you can get indoors vs outdoors - the amount of land that is cleared for ag around the globe is staggering. Getting an order of magnitude more output from the same amount of land, but having to pay for water and light, is likely to make business sense and be better overall for the environment.

Do the actual economics work out right this second? Maybe not. Will they in the not so distant future? I'd bet on it.
except
- his software didn't have any remote administrative capabilities.
- all photographers take pictures in public and then post them for profit, there is nothing new about that whatsoever.
- There were no disclaimers on the computers in Apple's store that would prevent him from installing such software. Matter of fact, they are available for people to use and test in any way they see fit.

He's getting a free pass because he broke 0 laws. Zero.
As someone who is closer to the 76-96 timeframe, could you give some insights into how you feel this has changed? I actually would like to know how the younger generation of nerds is faring these days, but I don't know any to ask.
It also isn't giving you any information on the source(s) of the generated code. Which might help determine how much to trust it, whether it could have licensing issues, etc.
> I never thought it would go anywhere because who would buy hardware just for that? But I did kinda admire that they tried.

I think they gave away the readers for free. I had one at one point, and I certainly wouldn't have paid a penny for it. I think they were also the basis for quite a few barcode-based hobbyist projects at the time.
Even in different versions of the same project, the glue may change. E.g. my boilerplate functions for making ajax calls have changed half a dozen times since 2005, been gutted and rewritten to be promosified, upgrade to websockets, and all sorts of other options, but I still have projects deployed that use several previous versions. And my typical PHP or Node executor has evolved, too. I myself find it confusing when working new bits into older projects where I'll occasionally match the wrong gateway code with the wrong frontend.

In other words, a machine looking at only my own glue would be more likely to mismatch or use the wrong version in any given situation.
This is not even really a surprising result. Bitcoin is not designed to be a functional currency in any modern sense. It's never going to be the basis of a complex, large economy. It is far too inflexible and inefficient. It is designed to be a hoardable asset, as long as you can keep convincing people to pay into the system. The lack of government oversight and control obviously appeals to the criminal and the corporate mobsters.
This guy has control of the permaculture subreddit? That's awful. Permaculture is a great and important movement.

Does anybody know why movements rooted in holism keep getting taken over by people like this? It seems like every movement that starts out by wanting to incorporate high-level perspectives ends up getting burdened with the crystal-spinners and magic-cancer-curers of the world.
I agree (well, maybe not the worst, but certainly one of the worst), but in retrospect it's hard to say whether Go would have taken off the way it did, had it not pushed the concurrency angle so hard. I think Go's focus on software engineering (as well as its "stubbornness" in general) is far more valuable than its concurrency features, but there's no question the latter is more exciting and likely to drive growth.
> That said, if it came here every four years, the novelty would be gone and the harsh realities would set in.

What if it happened once every 12-20 years? I read an article a few years ago (can't find it) that proposed that the Summer Olympics would be hosted on a permanent rotating schedule of 3-5 cities, and likewise, 3-5 different ones for the Winter Olympics (Salt Lake being one of them).
> I think the biggest problem copilot will have in practice gaining traction is that verifying correctness isn’t any faster than writing the code yourself in many cases.

Humorously, this is a similar problem to the one autonomous driving has. Being alert when something goes wrong randomly is more difficult than being alert all of the time.
Be aware that viper isn't thread safe. You'd still have to copy config by value and then put a mutex on that, then handle reads and writes separately.

https://github.com/spf13/viper#is-it-safe-to-concurrently-re...
Company sells passports to Americans looking for tax breaks on Bitcoin profits
Why are there so many comments from seemingly different posters all saying the same thing on this, "I don't understand why humans are allowed to drive cars"? It feels kinda... culty? Or too similar to be a coincidence. It honestly probably is but these Tesla posts always bring out those types and it confuses me. Humans kill humans, do we want machines to start doing it on the road automatically now too?
Well, he's from a wealthy family, an early investor in Wired when they were cool among other well-known startups, and a co-founder of the MIT Media Lab. Being an angel investor doesn't necessarily mean billionaire.
I’m not a psychologist, but I don’t think psychology is entirely comprised of studying “the mind” or the super ego/sense of self that you are referring. Specifically with human behavioral biology, it is concerned with what happens with synaptic responses influencing an action, hormonal responses influencing synapses, biological inputs (senses) triggering hormonal responses, environmental stimulus influencing the senses, and so on and so forth. It is very much rooted in evolutionary biology, and doesn’t touch on whatever is “beyond the meat.”

That being said what do you have to say about certain personality categorizations like the big five which were determined based off of statistical clustering [0]? Is this not science for some reason because it includes personality?

[0] http://socpers.psihologietm.ro/PDFs/Sava%20&%20Popa%20(2011)...
I don't disagree with you. I believe we're arguing between "can't be solved" versus "it's going to take a long time to solve." I'm stating I fall in the latter camp, and advocating for stronger regulation and investment in the space.
FBI Warns Digital Currency Exchanges and Crypto Owners of Possible Threats
So just hoping the unlicensed companies putting out donation boxes without further maintenance don't attract any donations because the lack the license?
Researchers Develop CNN to Determine Which Correlations Are Most Important
Scary set of videos. Is Tesla using Marylanders to train FSD?
Walking Shadows: the actors who first brought Shakespeare’s characters to life
Not sure if it's the case nowadays, but Go channels were historically around 4x slower than the equivalent mutex-based code. This is a Big Deal™ if you're writing performance sensitive code or in a hot loop.

https://www.jtolio.com/2016/03/go-channels-are-bad-and-you-s...

https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/go-performance-tales/
POS is a reasonable trade-off to solve scaling and make DeFi practical (imo) - his blog posts about it and arguments make sense.

> "Sure infinite coins can be fixed later, but the same can be said about Bitcoin. If POS works, it can be implemented on Bitcoin."

In theory yes, in practice no. BTC community elevated a clear con-man fake Satoshi because he took sides in a block size political battle. They can't even agree to increase the block size. This lack of leadership is a problem, moving to ETH2 is a serious project and requires a leader, priorities, direction etc. I don't think BTC can do any of this.
Hmm interesting. Would the number of human-years or human-hours lived be different? Perhaps looking at population/exponential graphs is giving me a false intuition because the birth & growth rates were much higher in the past but the overall growth rate stayed the same.

It is relevant if you think that the individual unit of human civilization is a single person.
You know there's a very old and working solution to this specific problem, it's calling the police and reporting the license plate numbers so that the driver is punished for reckless behavior. Technology made it much easier via dashcams.
All cryptobucks are pyramid schemes.