skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems to me, one advantage of getting older, is that then, mean people are easier to spot because they'll be ageist to you. When you're young, unless you're a member of some other group they're prejudiced against, it might take longer to find out they're mean. When you're over 40, if your c.v / resume doesn't make it through to interview, you don't have the misfortune to meet these mean people in the first place. So, result! ;) In my 20s, I preferred working with older, wiser , mellower colleagues, than some of my sometimes aggressive or arrogant peers especially new grads. The ones that were cocky, would of course be horrible to a 40-something-yr-old, but they were also horrible to fellow 20-somethings. Thankfully some people like that do learn to be nicer as they get older, also there are a lot of very cool nice people in their 20s who are great to work with whether you're 20-something too or 40 or 60-something.. In summary I'd say that if you do indeed get less job interviews or offers in your 40s and above (which isn't true for everyone), the offers you do get might be of better quality, with nicer more open-minded colleagues hopefully....
You realize the whole point of it being called the "Ministry of Truth" was that the name didn't reflect what it actually did, right?
> "En Marche" ("Let's Go") that took over France in a storm (...) with very few previously known political figures in its ranks

"En marche" is not "Let's go" ("allons-y") but "March on", a military reference. They had key figures in the previous government, for example Macron who was ministry of economy and supervised the destruction of working law protections (2016 reforms) for the "socialist" (huge quotation marks) government.

His first prime Manuel Valls minister was also part of the previous government, where he supervised the crushing of popular uprising as ministry of interior. They both represent the national-capitalist turn/wing of the "socialist" party that emerged in the 80/90's. They both have countless blood on their hands, and have betrayed all their campaign promises. For example, Macron campaigned against Le Pen's racism, then passed racist laws doubling retention times (90 days) for undocumented people, pressured against rescuing the Aquarius...

It's also important to note that if they appear to come out of nowhere, they are not emerging challengers. They have been chosen by the oligarchy (media and land/industry owner establishment) to represent their interests, and have been heavily promoted across private/public media as an "alternative" to the politics we knew. As you could guess, this "alternative" was always more of the same: less public services, more cops/prisons, less taxes for the rich, more corruption in the heart of government.

> The whole thing looked like doing management rather than politics

That's politics, too. Just very reactionary, anti-humane politics that destroy people's lives and autonomy in the name of micro-managed stats. You may be interested to know that historically, having a strong government managing society without "politics" (huge quotation marks, everything is political) is Mussolini's historic definition of fascism:

> "Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."

PS: "Neither left nor right" is also a popular fascist meme.("third position"). In France, it's still represented by famous holocaust-denier Alain Soral ("working Reft, traditional values Right") or Troisième Voie (the neofascist militias who were dissolved after murdering Clément Méric). Hitler was also famously "neither left nor right", and actively campaigned against existing parties, claiming the plurality was a form of chaos that ruined efficiency. He historically managed to convince some workers that he was going to be their defender against the bosses, while at the same time taking considerable funds/support from the German industry owners who he convinced he would be their defender against "communism".
> MicroBlaze, Xilinx's own big soft-CPU core was a combination of slow and large, with a buggy compiler to boot.

Agree, but Xilinx now basically put 2+ ARM cores in everything which solves the problem extremely well.
Unpopular opinion: Facebook is quite decent and gives sufficient controls over privacy to its users. Google on other hand is horrendous.
PostgreSQL handles 100k QPS without any issues unless your queries are very complex and I know many people who run multi-TB databases in PostgreSQL without any issues either. But it all depends on your workload of course.
Aka: k8s is the new hammer and every workload looks like a nail.

I'll be downvoted to hell for this.
Twitch.tv Source Code Leaked
There are 563 entries (cities) in numbeo so 32nd place still keeps Singapore in top 5% most expensive cities to live (probably even higher since numbeo doesn't list many cities)
This quoted part is not native-quality English: "as MDP and detail about specific designs"

There are plenty of other examples in the paper. I would assume it has been automatically translated and then edited for clarity, though it could just be written by someone for whom English is a secondary language.
For those of you who'd like to take a 10-minutes break to actually talk about issues instead of empowering future tyrants: https://archive.org/details/TrapNews
Americans Had It Easy During the Facebook Outage
K8S runs workloads across servers in a declarative fashion. Ephemeral or stateful doesn't make a difference anymore.

Whatever you use to manage the nodes directly is basically what K8S provides (and more) already, so you're really just replicating effort and complexity instead.
Maybe your problem doesn't depend on Vitamin D. Have you tried contacting a doctor?
How is this different to just summing estimated value and variance?

I agree with the author that agile world zero effort estimates are pointless though.

"... engineers determine it by licking the tip of their finger and putting it up in the air.

Unfortunately, the only way to win at the estimation game is not to play it."
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> sufficient controls over privacy to its users

He?
By how, showing a cookie window in EU and not even respecting the settings in there?
Yes don't cheap out. My local hardware store sells off brand wall plugs, but compared to Fischer they aren't even worth the packaging they come in. Fischer isn't that much more expensive, especially if you buy the bulk boxes (50 for ~€8).

For masonry get yourself a 220V hammer drill. I picked one up from Lidl a couple of years ago for €40 and it has no issues drilling into my monolithic concrete walls. If I were using it daily I'd get something a bit better quality, but for DIY it's more than enough.
Their definition of taking a break is strange. Just don't visit Facebook lol

Also, are they still doing the shadow profiles thing where they create "accounts" for your name in order to entice other people to join Facebook? And if you join, people you might know are conveniently already waiting for you. That always seemed shady as hell.
Hmmm. I thought I had something in Firefox (setting or addon) that didn't send referrers for external sites when you click-opened a link in a new tab. But it doesn't seem like it anymore.
It is not and issue today either. Modern RDBMs have become better optimized and hardware has become faster so a lot of NoSQL is premature optimization where people optimize for having 100+ TB databases when their database actually is 100 GB.
Sorry, what am I missing?

1. its illegal to produce pornographic material in Uganda*

2. she produced pornographic material (of herself)

3. it came to light (its always a risk)

4. she has been charged.

If you play silly games…

* I don't think it should be, but that's their law.
I absolutely agree about the Zweitmandat system. For those unfamiliar:

> The Zweitmandat (English: second mandate) is a feature in the variation of mixed-member proportional representation (MMP) used to elect the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg. Unlike most variations of MMP, such as the German federal electoral system, Baden-Württemberg's system does not use party lists. Instead, proportional seats are filled by losing candidates who won the highest proportion of votes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zweitmandat
It is still astonishing to me that Yang was the betting favourite for NYC Mayor at one point.

I completely missed it at the time which is infuriating as a betting opportunity like that to lay him is a once a year occurrence at best.
Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez also covers killer drones, albeit it makes for lighter reading (and some eyeroll inducing archetypes) than Neal's work.
> The office is standalone (and way more trouble than it's worth to grid tie), so when the battery bank is full, there's nowhere to stick extra energy.

I don’t know the details of your site/situation, but I suspect any alternatives to grid-tying your system will turn out to be a lot less efficient than whatever (mostly one-time) trenching, cabling, and paperwork would be required.
Say a startup actually goes and implements one of Gwern's ideas...they further become a great success and then a unicorn.

Would Gwern point to his idea and try to take credit for the startup success or would he stick to SV mantra that ideas are cheap and low value?
I think it should be a legal requirement that users are able to configure retention of their data. For instance that any content you post will only be retained for N number of weeks/ months/years. And that social media platforms over a certain size have to agree to auditing to ensure that this data is actually deleted.
You have power generation, transmission and distribution also when you want to generate synfuel.
This is where complexity comes in. Let Kubernetes abstract the resources for your workloads.

For example, use a storage service (like Rook/openEBS/portworx/etc) that uses node-attached disks to create a data layer. Then you can assign volumes to your individual workloads created and managed by the storage service.

This provides reliable and portable storage for your other services without having to tying them to lower-level details.
Probably too early to ask, it's only been a day or so.
As far as I know, they are. And, since I don't have a Facebook account, I can't find a way to submit a GDPR subject access request.
We Danes do pride ourselves of "samfundssind" (community sense) and pragmatic solutions (also in politics). We are obviously not a dream society but in the grand scale of things our nation putters along just fine and most people are happy about most of our society (including the politicians which regularly does "over the middle" deals with not much drama)..

We do have the covid-app too, but it is currently totally unused (I believe)

The app gave you a "pass" based on one of four criterias:

- some days until some months (still being determined) after positive PCR test (i.e. sick and recovered)

- some days after first vaccination until some month (TBD) after last vaccination (i.e. vaxxed)

- short time (2 or 3 days, as I remember) after a negative PCR test

- even shorter (1 or 2 days, I think) after negative quick test

But as said, I cannot think of anywhere, where I would need to prove it anymore anyways (I am fully vaxxed btw).
Well, we can, that's what buckets of cold water are for.

However, just like with pouring cold water on people in real life, you probably won't get the reaction you seek.
I have an old 850W Bosch with 2 speeds + reverse. That thing is built like a tank.

OTOH, I've used a DeWalt cordless hammer drill. Brushless motors are frightening things :)
Happened in the UK as well. A group of centrist MPs from different parties got together and started a new party called Change UK. They got a lot of good press and good will from people wanting a more 'rational' center option. One catastrophic election later the party collapsed and later dissolved.
Seems cool, their platform has a lot of good elements given the party's main aim ("the current two-party duopoly is not working") . It does have some sort of minor points that seem less worth highlighting (eg "Department Of Technology" which is just a beuracratic revision), but many of the ideas like ranked choice voting, term limits, democracy dollars, etc. are very nice. Might well support this party...

It does seem to have much more to do with organizations like FairVote rather than actual political parties, and I suspect the former is the right approach.
We have Proportional Representation single transfereable vote system in Ireland and its great, as it forces formation of coalitions to actually represent a majority of population (hence less alienation), allows small parties and independents to potentially join governing coalition (Greens at moment for example), forces parties to compromise and drop more extreme policies.

As for the left / right divide in USA, from our point of view your two main parties are well on the right wing out there
Every castle is built over a dungeon

This hit me hard when in Singapore. In particular because of the size: in such a small place, you can’t avoid seeing the migrant workers/maids etc whereas it’s hidden in say, Paris. The contrast is so vivid.
I mean, if you go out of your way to bork the system then yeah, I suppose it does.
17 reminds me of this one: If you have a three-legged stool on an uneven (but continuous) surface you can always find a stable position for the stool just by rotating it.
Because they are- they actively filter out rational and positive contributing individuals from the public plaza. They remove all the good people from the world and give the bad ones a stick for leverage and a hose to spray the neighbourhood down in all caps.
When you're mounting something the important thing is that the stress is distributed across the mounts in a way that means no single component is receiving more weight than it can take. Using lots and lots of 'weak' mounts like staples is just as secure as using eight bolts, but in the case of the staples the load is distributed across more of the wall. If the wall itself is the weak point then that's more secure.
Organic Food is not better than GMO, not better nutritionally, or worth the cost
I don't think individualism became the norm until the early 1980s to be honest. Outside of niche sub-groups and the youth you see massive conformity when looking at footage from before then.
50,000 IUs every 15 days for 8 weeks. I wonder if it would have better effects if they were given 3-4k IUs every day
Inuits have hundreds of words for sea ice (2013)
To err requires a computer. To really fsk things up requires automation.
> make it look like Facebook critics want "more censorship".

Unfortunately a lot of them do plainly want more censorship. Worse, they want it for the whole net. Many people always advocated to be careful sharing your life with facebook. They were completely ignored. Now when the users understood they have no control about their own data and the information that gets shared, they want to make the whole net happy with content regulations with the help of the state.

Facebook doesn't care much about ethics, that is true for any companies. But the users certainly had a choice here. Exception might be people in media that also has alsodependent on Facebook in the meantime.
If your business relies on some big pile of spaghetti code, you might be very reluctant to change it, but you also would be unlikely to recommend that design to someone who was starting from scratch (unless they were a competitor).
A timeline of earth’s average temperature
I still have the beginning of the Mavis Beacon text used for our weekly typing test at school seared into my brain: "It was so nice to see you the other day at the annual general meeting...
No they used GitHub Copilot
The Nios II is quite old. When II/e was designed you had basically the PicoBlaze as competition. In comparison the Nois II/e SW can be compiled using gcc and have less constraints on code size.

The point of these very small CPU cores is basically as a flexible state machine that can be updated (inlcuding fix bugs) in the control path. In a big FPGA design you can have tens, hundreds of them inside larger cores. So worst in terms of performance, but far from worse in terms of functionality, power consumption, flexibility in comparison with complex FSMs.

Today you could use a number of RISC-V implementations (the SERV for example is really tiny: https://github.com/olofk/serv) or other soft CPU cores.

But the Nios was really great when it came, esp Nios II, which removed the issue of having to use different tool chains for the compact, large version was very useful. You can easily extend the ISA, connect co-processors, had a clean interface to the rest of the design. And as long as you used Altera FPGAs free as in beer.

In large systems such a 3G, LTE base station there can be thousands of Nios II cores. They have (are) used in automotive and provides hard real time control.
The revenue only contains a few data points (below), things like TTS donations, 3rd party revenues like OnlyFans, Patreon, Amazon Gifts and sponsorship deals are not included. Amouranth makes insane amounts from her OF alone (an estimate of 1 million $ per month based on an interview with investmenttalk). Odds are that she makes far more than him, same with a lot of other female streamers who know how to monetize themselves. Obviously the same (Patreon, sponsorships...) applies to male streamers but to a lesser extent.

'ad_share_gross', 'sub_share_gross', 'bits_share_gross',
'bits_developer_share_gross', 'bits_extension_share_gross',
'prime_sub_share_gross', 'bit_share_ad_gross', 'fuel_rev_gross',
'bb_rev_gross'
How so? He asserted several apparently factual claims that would basically undermine or make irrelevant most of the commentary in this thread, for example:

- Social media can't cause "polarization" because the measurements of that are going down in most of the world, except the USA. But social media is heavily used everywhere.

- It makes no sense to claim an organization doesn't care about X when it heavily funds research into X.

- If you react to a company researching the harms of its products by leaking everything and publicly accusing the company of being evil, other companies will simply not do research into the harms of its own products.

The second two are just logic. The first would benefit from a citation but I'll take his word for it.
>, so we practiced writing bug-free code. After two years of practicing, and after my previous two years of log-keeping, I was able to write substantial programs (thousands of lines) and run them without compile or run-time errors on the first try. [...] the exercise convinced me that bugs don’t creep into our code by themselves. We put them there, and we can decide to not put them there.

One logic flaw in that self-reported assessment is that us readers don't really know if his 1000-line programs were truly proven to be bug free. But we can still set that aside and entertain the idea that just deciding to not write bugs actually prevents bugs. Consider various disciplines:

- programming: Some search/sort code that had a hidden bug for 20+ years. Both computer experts Jon Bentley at Carnegie Mellon Uni and Joshua Bloch (Java expert) created the same bug: https://ai.googleblog.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-about...

- mathematics: Andrew Wiles 1st attempt at proving Fermat's Last Theorem had a flaw that was discovered by his peer reviewers. And the authors for a SAT math exam unwittingly wrote a bug: https://youtu.be/kN3AOMrnEUs?t=2m05s

- laws : legislators write laws with attempts at precise wording but it still has unintended loopholes or perverse incentives they never foresaw

Did all those people "decide to write bugs" therefore they can decide not to? Of course not. You can reduce bugs by following some best practices (e.g. use well-tested encryption library instead of rolling your own, etc) but bugs will still happen no matter how much you "decide" against it.

Put another way, conscientious people have already decided to not write bugs but since we don't know how to achieve that objective, it doesn't solve the issue.
The GP is either misinformed or ... (lets hope it's the former).

> (I am somewhat confused as to why a christian catholic court won't celebrate an interfaith marriage in Israel, since they are allowed by the church, and there are even specific protocols for jewish/catholic and muslim/catholic marriages, AFAIK)

The problem is that usually the audience for the mixed marriages are non-halachic Jews, not Christians or Muslims, nor they see themselves as half-Christians.

Another reason is that the Christian churches don't want to intervene into affair of the Jews, even non-halachic ones.

The situation in Israel is nothing comparing to what happens in Lebanon [1].
People there converting for various reasons: from divorce, inheritance to emigration to the Gulf countries!

In a phone interview with Archbishop George Saliba from the Syriac Orthdox Church, he said that they stopped converting other Christian sects into their own sect about 3 years ago, stating that “each person should solve his own problems in his own church”.

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[1] Converting One’s Religion in Lebanon

https://medium.com/@zubaidajamal/converting-ones-religion-in...
not a physicist, but remember that accelerated frames break the symmetry.
A little bit of knowledge about stats and the appropiate language helps make this exercise easier. The R language is good at this kind of simulation. It comes with a whole bunch of random number generators out of the box. Here is how to estimate frequency of 7 from sums of two d6 dice rolls in R in two lines:

n <- 1e06

table(round(runif(n,1,6))+round(runif(n,1,6)))[6]/n

To break this down:

`n <- 1e06` assigns 1 million to n.

We want two six sided dice so we sample a random uniform (continous) distribution and round to a whole number:

`round(runif(n,1,6))`

This will make a vector of 1 million integers representing random "rolls" of the dice. In R it is really easy to pair-wise add two vectors of the same length so to get two dice we do:

`round(runif(n,1,6))+round(runif(n,1,6))`

Now we have a million rolls of summed pairs of dice. We want the frequency count of 7s. We can get this by getting the frequency count of every dice with `table()`:

`table(round(runif(n,1,6))+round(runif(n,1,6)))`

Which will return a print out of frequencies for every number that appears in the vector.

We can select 7s by pulling the 6th index and then dividing by the `n` dice rolls to get the frequency:

`table(round(runif(n,1,6))+round(runif(n,1,6)))[6]/n`

We can do the exact same oneliner in python using numpy and the Counter() function from collections:

`Counter(np.around(np.random.uniform(1,6,size=10*6))+np.around(np.random.uniform(1,6,size=10*6)))[7]/10*6`

Will return the frequency of 7s in python3.
It's probably unfair to compare Plan9 to "modern" operating systems. Why not talk about everything it got right and smart instead of all the things which behave differently than what our expectations set?
Both of these are true of course. People need to be aware of the dangers online, and learn how to protect themselves from scammers and other predators. But punishing the victim is utterly ridiculous.
I wish there was a way to do so without having to ask people you haven't seen or met for more than a decade (if they can even still access) to verify that it is indeed you trying to access with the same mail an account that's been sitting for way too long still. I understand the possible risk and inconvenience, but I can't be alone being struck with an account like that. Hell, I'm too afraid to even see if it's public and visible now, since the last time I tried to delete it (for the fourth of fifth time, because spammers kept turning it back on by trying to login years ago, I presume) it kicked me out before I could accept the new ToS. I haven't received any responses on my queries to provide a contact for GDPR requests that isn't a blackhole, also. I should probably just try sending one at the disabled accounts address too.