skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, US prison camps are definitely worse due to their scale and history.

> Many of these prisons had very recently been slave plantations, Angola and Mississippi State Penitentiary (known as Parchman Farm) among them.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/prison-...

Uncomfortable truth. Will probably get flagged.
Is it? I've noticed fresh produce bought in plastic packaging goes bad before the one I buy at the farmers market.
>Evolutionarily, it wouldn’t make sense for our systems to evolve features that discard ingested calories or burn calories without good reason. Food wasn’t plentiful for the vast majority of our evolution.

I don't understand the argument. I agree with you that the human body seems to have several mechanisms (in terms of behavior changes) for reducing food consumption and/or up-regulating calorie expenditure to avoid gaining excess weight. And presumably there were excellent evolutionary reasons for humans to evolve these mechanisms, even though food was often in short supply! (As someone who has spent time trying to do physical activity while overweight, I can attest to this.)

But then you say that it wouldn't make sense for humans to evolve other physical mechanisms (such as changing digestion efficiency, fat storage efficiency) to accomplish those same well-motivated goals. Why not? I'm genuinely curious.
That article is 5 years old, it would be interesting to see an updated view on this.
You mean unit tests?
Now apply your idea to dollars, and think about who prints the dollars.
That's still visualization though... The idea of my thoughts having color or taste makes no sense to me.
I've posted/commented about it as well.

Interestingly, they can change the font of the subject lines which no valid email I have ever received in gmail has a subject with a different font.

That would be an interesting filter: if subject is !Font, then spam.
Buried ten feet deep in the article - they retired E2E tests and introduced "acceptance" tests, which are more efficient E2E tests that they still run on critical code. But I guess "We Renamed Our Eng-to-End Test Suite" isn't a very good blog post.
If this post received the comments, how did they get moved? Is this a fair practice?
Is there a single large economy that doesn't prohibit forced prison labor? I can't find one.
I don't really understand why is it the case. I could understand that sleep is a complex mode, when hardware have to properly sleep and restore. But hibernate is just dumping RAM to disk. It should not require anything special from underlying hardware.
How is throwaway comments and opinions on generic social media sites in any way comparable to answering questions on a very technical subject in order to assist people working in said technical area?
React State with a Fragmented Store
Hi,

Creator here. This small side projects was to learn more about SVG's and api design (documentation, rate limiting, etc).

Still lots to do but I wanted to show the world as soon as possible and gather some initial feedback.

Hope you like it!

-- edit

the Guess Who game is just a gimmick, it is mainly about the API
I've seen the same behavior on a 10+y.o. system with Win11 on it. I started unplugging it every night and re-plugging it every day when I went to use it.

Funny thing has happened in the meantime, since getting a MB Air I haven't plugged it in for like 2 months now...
It's cheaper to make things that aren't maintainable. We optimize for the dev, not the platform or the user.

It's the same lazy dev culture that gives us Electron apps, or the lazy sysadmin culture that gives us docker.

It's cheaper to create massive incomprehensible and unmaintainable edifice that requires massive storage / processor / network inefficiency to maintain versus well thought-out and "clever" systems that work efficiently.

Personally, I wish the days of optimizing for low-resource machines, slow network connections, and expensive storage weren't gone. As an end-user I think the results of moving away from a culture of optimization haven't been good. I think the ship has sailed, though.
Genius. It never occurred to me that I have a huge pool of palaces available in Counter-Strike maps.
It’s extremely unusual for senior citizens to commit violent crimes against strangers. It’s news like “man bites dog.”
The actual title is "UC reactor makes Martian fuel" and the subtitle is "A gas station on Mars? Engineers envision the possibilities." But the submission title is "UC reactor converts carbon dioxide to fuel to address climate change"?

While it does talk about applications with respect to carbon capture, if we consume the fuel byproduct, presumably we just end up with co2 in the atmosphere?

> “In the future we’ll develop other catalysts that can produce more products,” said Zhang, a doctoral student in chemical engineering.

So I guess if we produce products which sequester carbon then maybe that would be useful, but this is purely speculative.
You need to buy crypto“currencies” to get into NFTs as far as I know; there's no conflating.
The two critiques I have of the OP link are solved in this one:
- The land/water contrast and the dark/light should be inverted
- Zoom speed is terrible in the OP link, but much better in this map
10 Year Smartphone
It embiggens us all.
Was there ever any more development on that case? Last data I saw was that his father worked at the building he blew up, but no explanation for his motivation.
Now I am wondering if Google hasa disgruntled employee/rogue-agent in its midst's!
Oh come on, this is a perfectly cromulent submission.
This is kind of overstated. From what I remember, it only makes addresses vulnerable after you spend from them, and in all likelihood the network would migrate to a resistant algorithm.
It says the majority of the problems caught in E2E were due to changed contacts, so it makes sense to have a dedicated test type for those errors. If the remaining caught bugs are few enough and their customers are willing to suffer occasional unavailability, just let them be caught in production and save that expense.
Lol there's a very straightforward way to verify this since that kind of physical exertion produces reciprocal changes in the body. So are there any chess pros that have the physique of Phelps? Hmm
I can't say for sure what a judge would make of a cryptographically secure hash of a piece of content that there's no record of prior to the hash's registration on a blockchain. I think if somebody tries to claim authorship of eg. a screenplay I've written, such a hash should be pretty good evidence in my favour.
Yes. Hyperpartisanship is the way to maintain minority control of an ostensibly majority-controlled system. Both parties feign gridlock over popular policy but cooperate on what their owners want. Populist support for policies doesn't matter when people are kept divided along party lines. "Radical" nonconformists who aim to do what voters want can always be defeated from within their party if not by the other side.
Meh... there were some bonds provided by the Mexican government between 1850 and 1951 that at the time seemed like a good investment and now they are worth nothing [1]. Different instruments for different goals.

I would hold BTC for a 100 year horizon. I wouldn't hold it for a 500 year horizon. Actually I would not hold any asset for a 500 year horizon (including gold): I don't have kids and I don't think I will have to worry at that time.

[1] https://www.banxico.org.mx/marco-normativo/d/%7B097567D4-647...
Another one here:
https://www.submarinecablemap.com
the 13th amendment states that the only acceptable form of slavery is prison labor.

pair that with the fact that the united states is #1 in prisoners per capita, and it's not hard to come to a pretty dark conclusion...
That's true and probably exacerbated by the huge number of political parties. 5.9% in Canada is not that bad then maybe? I don't know.

Same applies here, only citizens of age are allowed to vote.
Absolutely unfair to have removed comments from a piece written by a woman of colour from Asia because it is shared later than the West media?
"It’s not just about your usage of Chrome or a particular website: If you’ve stepped away from your computer and aren’t using any applications, Chrome can tell the website you’re not actively using your computer."

That suggests to me that this feature is more than just "did you touch that particular tab", and I'm not really sure how you're reading it differently?
this is a bad faith argument.

Proton logged IPs in response to Swiss court order and handed over that data after the order was received. They do not log IPs otherwise. And bear in mind, the specific request in question here had the involvement of the French state as well.
You still need to create `/etc/dracut.conf.d/resume.conf` with `add_dracutmodules+=" resume "` line and regenerate initramfs with `dracut -f`. Then it should work.
I wonder how much of this will be used for tipping thirst traps
Big-O isn't a lie. The utility of Big-O is a lie.

Students are told that cyclomatic complexity of algorithms is the be-all and end-all of performance. They're trying to replace the student's intuitive idea that opcode-level optimization is the be-all and end-all of performance.

In practice, performance rarely depends on either of those. And performance as a measure of merit -- either the program's or the programmer's -- is also rarely the most important thing.

Big-O is taught because it's a thing you can teach. Students need to practice writing programs, and fundamental algorithms have the advantage that they don't require either domain expertise or knowledge of any particular framework. They get to practice writing code using just the language they've learned, with a simplistic goal like putting data in order.

That's also the reason it shows up in so many interviews. It's easy to test and objective. And it feels important, even though it's almost never a tool you'll use in real life as a programmer.
Ah, thank you, haven't read one of their reviews in years. Happy to hear they're still fighting the good image quality fight.
Owning an iPhone with no other means of Internet connection makes one not the target market for an iPhone?
E2E tests are required because no matter how well-defined your other tests are or how completely they've tested everything . . . you can't prove that they'd absolutely catch all the bugs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance

Kudos to Nubank for whatever combination of logic and bravery led them to their decision.
Was the last update for Cosmo not in April? [1]

And isn't the point of Open Source that if someone distributes tweaked binaries, you can always demand the source code - do they not do that?

But this was kinda my point - I'm aware and resigned to the fact that to run linux, I will need to do a bit of work myself. I would hope that the "premium price point" products of the original post would guarantee to do the heavy lifting for me.

And if I'm honest, I'm part of the target market that likes a reason to tinker every so often. But I appreciate the heads-up.

[1]: https://support.planetcom.co.uk/index.php/Linux_for_Cosmo
You need to think about the threat model for someone living in that kind of state:

1. Radio transmitters are by definition easy to detect: once you get identified, you are in a world of trouble because you demonstrated full knowledge that you were doing something illegal. Anything which can be used to circumvent the Great Firewall will be treated as a threat to state security even if you personally are only using it for a less serious crime.

2. Blockchains are a censor's dream: you have a full signed confession of every transaction made by the person you just compromised and a list of everyone they corresponded with. If you catch someone new and have ways to get them to talk (China has a well-honed system for this), now you have that for all of their past transactions, too. Have a few undercover agents tell people about this mesh networking app and you can quietly roll up an entire network over time while making it look like the police just happened to get lucky breaks a lot.

3. Blockchains are hard to conceal: they require huge amounts of data transfer and you have to be online at the time you make a transaction, both of which dramatically increase the challenges of trying to be covert.

All of those combine into a huge problem for using blockchains: you don't need to worry about any of that or the extra expense _unless_ you're doing something illegal. That means that simply participating is inherently risky — better hope that you don't ever make internet traffic which would show an interest in this or have someone audit the apps installed on your devices — and the costs are guaranteed to be high because everyone involved is taking on the extra risk of whatever you're doing (and the chance that you're not being completely honest about the level of risk or are compromised) leading to scrutiny and/or that you will fail your opsec in a way which provides proof of their noncompliance.

No matter what you think of the Chinese system or whether it's right, it seems like a system designed to expose its users to significant risk in addition to whatever it is that they're trying to hide.
“ and the best thieves in the world.”

That’s good, right? :)
I have experienced all the same problems that they outline. E2E tests require a huge number of human-hours to maintain, they're difficult to debug when they fail, almost always false positives, and bugs still get through anyway. But for many situations, there doesn't seem to be a better solution.

For most early stage startups, it seems that time would be better spent optimizing your deployments, rollbacks, and real time metrics so you can maintain a high velocity and roll back quickly when you make a mistake.

For more safety critical systems, the cost of maintaining E2E tests needs to be built into the total engineering cost for the project. It's a hidden cost that is often way bigger than you'd expect.
It is a good thing. Even shitty software was underpriced back then. Developers and tech companies deserve massive ROI for the work they do. In an alternative world the Linux Foundation would have become the first trillion dollar company.

The fact that shitty software companies are raising massive valuations now should signal that the actual, real useful software companies are massively undervalued.
Contracts are basically unit tests for whatever size of unit you're testing. How do you capture all the dynamic behaviors of a system without some sort of end-to-end test? Delayed timers, queues fill, missed interrupts, locks are held for too long, dead lock, live lock, priority inversion, dropped messages, out of order issues, etc. These things are not captured by contracts and are often exactly why the end-to-end tests were flakey in the first place.
I'm a bit curious about something that I've never thought about before -- how were telegraph signals routed? Was it just a one way street, or did they have a frequency range to work with?
There is an obesity problem in America, and is possibly a burden on healthcare. Yet at the same time, the threat of obesity at the individual level is overstated by experts and the diet, fitness, and health industry which oversells the danger of obesity . Unless you are so overweight that you find it hard to move and have to use a scooter or something, the number of years lost to obesity is not that much, maybe 2 or 3. I see plenty of obese fully functioning people well into their 80s. Henry Kissinger is anexample. Another is William Shatner, aged 90. The number of years lost due to obesity is much less than smoking or chronic alcohol consumption. Having to constantly count calories and do tons of exercise for those 2-3 extra years is possibly not worth it. Bigger humans may be the default now owing to increased prosperity.Humans were thinner 100+ years ago due to not enough food.
The commission paid by the bank is recouped by the bank by raising the interest rate slightly. One way or the other it's paid.
The URL matches the submission title, at least. Perhaps the content changed?
Crypto is a delusion. It's a very bad idea to move money into an 'asset' that has no value other than to the degree other people share that delusion.

Real-estate is valuable on some level, so are most other assets - even 'currencies', however poorly managed, are valuable because people need them to do stuff.

The worst place to go is crypto, it's the bottom of the 'store of value' equation in almost every way - the fact that the government would wipe them out immediately being just one of many risks.

Cypto, at least the way they exist today, have no rational place in anything other than for entertainment and intellectual speculation.
From page 28 of https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0610212

> For large P , the three-form fluxes are dilute, and the gradient of the Myers potential encouraging an anti-D3 to embiggen is very mild.
I didn't come here to criticize, if you notice my first post, I came here to tell others to not to, regardless of my beliefs. then I was specifically asked for more detail, so I answered.

and I single out JS because I like programming languages and learn and use most of them, JS suffers from this problem the most. anyways, sorry, I did not intend to argue over this. so I will refrain from continuing. I have my personal views on JS and I was trying not to detail the thread, seems I failed.
> Bitcoin is open source, the original founder is nowhere to be found, there were no VCs involved in its creation or in the distribution of the coins and the entire network is run out in the open. The Bitcoin network is a commons.

Hmmm. You've conveniently danced around any suggestion or mention of the fact that the "creator" of bitcoin mined 1.1 million - 1/20th of all bitcoins that will ever exist(!) - coins in private before launching bitcoin publicly and holds them to this day.
Is there any stuff in existence that even needs to be sandboxed? I had the impression that all the software available on Linux phones comes from whatever Linux distribution is used.
Exactly. If you think your beanie baby is still interesting in 2021, you can put it on a shelf. Showing off your NFT quickly devolves to "cool story, bro."
It will eventually catch up to Uber and if doesn't bankrupt them it will still be very bad for business.

However the criminals that started the whole thing, actively built this business to go around laws and in some cases break them are walking away wealthy. Ready to start a new venture with no recourse for the damage they have done.
Kinda feels like a JavaScript version of Elixir
I concur, looks like the title changed, slug remained the same.
Stack Exchange sites are not mere social media but more like an encyclopedia for specific topics. Answering as well as asking good questions requires extensive research and being mindful of future readers.

Sad to see SE contributors are compared with FB users.
From the NYT article about this:

> The footprints were formed when people strode over damp, sandy ground on the margin of a lake. Later, sediments gently filled in the prints, and the ground hardened. But subsequent erosion resurfaced the prints. In some cases, the impressions are only visible when the ground is unusually wet or dry — otherwise they are invisible to the naked eye. But ground-penetrating radar can reveal their three-dimensional structure, including the heels and toes.
My point was that you need less people for a transaction to happen.

The cost will go down over time.
And you have to provide those schemes in your App's plist as well if I recall correctly. Gated pretty hard.
Seems unethical but the line between between insider and outsider seems too fuzzy and arbitrary to really enforce such a law consistently, IMHO.
I systemd because I deeply disagree with the philosophy of it's developers. You shouldn't write system critical software if you don't understand how and why said system works. I'll give you It's much better now, but I don't forgive easily. I till haven't touched debian after they disabled crypot-randomness either. I've also gotta say, it's a little annoying to see someone condense all the issues surounding systemd as "hur dur, change is scary... grok no like change"
Some seem to be for redundancy, some bring power to municipalities (i.e. island cities) with limited power production capacity. There’s a list here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_power_cable
They were defined by law. They are supposed to have roughly equal populations and must be re-assigned if the difference in population exceeds 25% (I don't know what that means in practice, e.g., what the reference is.)

Here's a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bundestag_constituenci...
Great Unconformity
Just to nitpick slightly there is no such thing as white tuna. What’s called white tuna is always escolar. Albacore is a pinkish or off white tuna but I’ve never seen it listed as white tuna at a restaurant.
I used to train pilots for a living. Just eyeballing it from the photos but that looks like 1000' AGL to me. Plus, that building is in San Jose's airspace, which means that aircraft was in contact with and radar-identified by San Jose ATC; the FAA therefore has a radar tape for that aircraft including altitude squawks. So unless that pilot is a complete idiot, there's no way in hell they busted 91.119.
if you called someone crazy at some point for suggesting this as a possibility, it is time to pause and reflect
If you wanted to lose weight solely by running:

You need to have a calorie deficit of about 3500 to lose a pound of weight.

Running a mile in about 20 minutes is about 200 calories.

So you would need to run 17.5 miles over 5 hours and 50 minutes to lose 1 pound. So running about 50 minutes a day, you could lose a pound a week if you don't change your eating habits.

Alternatively, if you eat 500 calories less a day, you would also lose a pound a week. You can probably do that just by skipping a part of a meal, cutting out snacking, or not drinking sweetened drinks.
Catching all the bugs is generous. You won't be able to prove...basic functionally when all the components are deployed in production
Care to name which ones do? China, US, probably Russia? Who else?
When I got my work laptop, first thing I did is erased its NVMe SSD by writing garbage. It was fast first 30 seconds. In the end sustained write speed was around 60 MB/s. My old HDD works faster. It's fast enough in day-to-day usage, though.
Sounds like this specific e2e suite was poorly optimized and was killed instead of rewritten/optimized due to a perceived notion that inefficiences are inherent in all e2e suites. If you maintain speed and strict curation of such a suite, most of the bullet points against are not an issue.

Also it sounds like the solution is just a bit higher than limited integration testing which does have value of course. Sounds trite, but if you don't test end-to-end you aren't going to catch bugs that only appear end-to-end (which also happen to be the ones customers see making the e2e suite a decent place for high level regressions assuming you maintain test performance of course). This is especially true in environment-specific scenarios.
That's amusing. The change must've occurred in the ~8 minute window between the submission and my comment, which seems odd considering the article is 2 days old. Not casting doubt, but remarking on coincidence.