skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't know about this series in particular, but the Harrington series does have a "main thread", and is intentionally written† to not interdepend; the mainline sequence of books by Drake make some references to things happening in the other series, but the books don't expect/require you to have read those series (i.e. the books reintroduce any characters and events that happened in those series that are relevant to the current plot.)

† I find the logic of this series-splitting very interesting; David Drake seems to license out his setting for the creation of, essentially, fanfiction, but fanfiction where he sits in as creative consultant. So other authors create stories in his setting, and he declares them canon.

But, since those stories are not his stories — not created as part of his original series planning — the later novels in the mainline series aren't planned to take these side-sequences into account, but rather just have references to those side-sequences worked in in non-arc-damaging ways as the series allows. Almost like the characters and events from the ascended fanfic are "guest starring" in the main series, as a reward to the audience for reading those side-series and a semi "seal of quality" nod by Drake toward those series.

This isn't a practice I've ever seen anywhere else. The closest might be simultaneously-running TV dramas with different writing teams who lend one-another characters (and their actors) for crossovers, with each writing team acting as the creative consultant for how that character is written by the other team. But even then, there isn't a hierarchical relationship between the two teams, as both teams own their own setting. Also, this setup usually implies that the dramas to be owned by the same production studio.

What Drake does with his settings, is more like when franchise with a valuable IP licenses that IP out for the creation of "licensed" works in adjacent media, on the condition that they sit in as creative consultant for how their IP is being used. E.g. when some random game studio decides to make "a Spiderman game." Except in this case, the IP isn't all that valuable, just an inspiring setting for other authors; and the licensed works aren't in an adjacent medium, but rather also in the original medium, such that they almost "blend in" with the original works.

It's be as if Star Wars were primarily a novel series, but then the various Star Wars Extended Universe licensed novels were still a thing.
The original book came out in 2000. Pre-9/11, pre-Enron, pre-financial crisis, most everyone had an optimistic view of capitalism. If this series had been started a few years later than it was, it would feel very different.
Vitess using range based sharding and with a single command of `Reshard` you can split a range to n sub-ranges.

Ref for how command looks like https://vitess.io/docs/user-guides/configuration-advanced/re...
@mistermann: "I am most optimistic about blockchain based innovation with respect to direct/liquid/etc democracy."

Please stop pushing this snakeoil!
Why philosophers should care about computational complexity (2011)
Actually we do not know that, the title is misleading.
Windows 3.1 at least didn't hide buttons and tabs from your eyes...
Hackers Compromised Middle East Eye News Website to Hack Visitors
My frustration isn't just the sites that make the password rules clear after I submit the form. The worst sites are the ones that truncate my generated password to fit their maximum password length and then don't tell me (which seems to happen in more places than it should).
Browser is the standard library for JavaScript language.
Because crypto scammers are spending on PR to conflate them, so that they can reap the benefits of being associated with legitimate projects.
Perl 4, 5, or 6? What's CPAN's dependency resolution like?
Would we be nice if they'd fix wifi terms of service pages first before layering on yet another security screen. Every time I go to the gym or mail room it's a five minute battle with Chrome to let me see my apartment complex's terms of use screen so I can access the internet. Our building doesn't get good cellular data service inside.

Yes, I'm sure I want to see the terms of use page, Chrome. No, I don't need to be an advanced user to know that. Actually I do since you only let me get redirected to it if I know to type an http site you haven't seen first instead of an https one...
There's nothing that says we have to build it either.

Like crypto up to now, the Web3 idea is a solution in search for a problem.
Five fold increase in Cardiac deaths of FIFA athletes
To some degree, that's more reflective of Baen's marketing than it is of the book. Or, more accurately: Eric Flint's concept of American freedom and justice is not the same as John Ringo or Thomas Kratman's concept of the same. At least at the time of publication, he was a serious union supporter and at one point was a member of the Socialist Workers Party. 1632 is not at all a socialist novel, but the concept of workers rights is important for at least the first few books (which is as far as I read).

I found them moderately enjoyable pulp adventure myself.
This is not really shameful advise. As a Software Engineer in 30s, with occasional side work. I make more than $140k alone. This is not to mention my wife in marketing, who does well, so we are above $200k combined both working remotely now. Now I wouldn't do $1 million because that would just be too big of a house. But we are currently doing half that on our renovation which is feasible even with the increased construction costs. I agree there is more to the costs like property taxes. But I know people in the city who's rent is above $3k a month in rent just for a studio who are now considering buying because it makes more sense now. They also make a lot more than me doing the same thing. But even when all is said and done, factoring in mortgage, utilities, taxes, etc. My wife and I will be paying around an extra $500 a month for an actual house than renting an apartment?
But is Solana even decentralized enough? What's the point if it's not really that decentralized?
It's funny, because original version of this library was written in year 2000, so literally more than 20 years ago (my example of "old") :)

https://metacpan.org/dist/Lingua-Romana-Perligata/changes
isEven is ridiculous but appears to be a joke so thats fine. isOdd being an actual dep is ridiculous and i dont think its a joke? edit: yeah is-odd seems to be a serious project. This is one of the first things people learn in a new language and we have a package for it? I guess its a teaching point? or maybe the author just wanted reputation..
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I use split horizon networking to, eg, provide public DNS entries to a public canary server. Then on the private network a different DNS server provides correct (LAN-only) addresses. This way I can see if/when private hostnames are leaked to some entity.

I have about two dozen devices on my private LAN so I wouldn't consider myself to be "big" or "enterprise".

The setup is fairly unusual though because most users (and unfortunately many developers) lack the technical know-how for it.
Agreed, I was shocked so I read the article thoroughly. But the state of the argument is still the same, evidence in both directions.
Branchless Workflow for Git
Web3? Right; a decentralized web. Cool idea, kind of reminds me of the semantic web. Not getting anywhere anytime soon due to the inertia of the existing web. I'm kind of waiting for the revolution where people demand to own their information, as it makes more sense and could protect against all sorts of abuse, but I'm not holding my breath.
> a blacklist of addresses (that updates on xfers)

Impossible with bitcoin's latest updates.
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@delaaxe: "Their goal is to become planetary infrastructure for the global economy."

Seeing as this "planetary infrastructure" will consume more energy than it produces. A better description would be "planetary snakeoil". The economic equivalent of a perpetual motion machine.
The writing, okay, fine, dude was having some fun. Actually depending on it? Sigh.
The vaccine isn't a superman cape or body condom. It doesn't prevent you from getting covid if you're exposed to it. You're honestly an idiot if you believe it prevents you from getting covid.

The real benefit of the vaccine is that it lessen the effects if you are infected. The benefit of that is that hospitals don't fill up. People who have other issues won't be locked out. Fewer people will die.

Get vaccinated.
I agree that would be a useless smart contract. If that is your intention, then don't use a smart contract.

If, however, there are a limited number of known possible outcomes, then smart contracts offer advantages over court-based settlements.
I've been a huge skeptic myself until a friend almost forced me into going down the rabbit hole.

I have since been wondering why we tech people are so unbelievably critical. "There is no use-case." and "It's a technology looking for a problem" are common phrases.

I have no answer.

Just a thought: for someone living in the 90s, wouldn't something like Facebook have been also very difficult to conceive? "What's the value of having friends I see daily online?". I think it's very difficult to imagine value of technology that is not mainstream yet.
Yeah, and I’m terrified by the “new” UI Outlook keeps prompting me to “try”, knowing that one day the old one will probably just go away.

The new UI takes up way more space and completely messes up my preferred split-screen approach (e.g. instead of working in a 50/50 layout, the new UI basically forces the split to be more like 70/30 with less useful stuff on screen).
> but only if we all agree.

"we all" in this case refers to the top single-digit percent of holders [1]. It's no small feat to get consensus there! But it's also not very decentralized/democratized and sounds a lot like our existing financial (or societal) systems.

[1] https://news.bitcoin.com/analysis-shows-bitcoin-whales-are-s... -- which optimistically states that only 71% of BTC is held by the top 2%.
Yeah, "don't overdo X" is always true by definition. That is what "overdo" means. Likewise "don't be an X zealot" is always true by definition (based on how we use the term zealot in modern English).

That said, despite the clickbait title, I think these sorts of posts make a valid point because people often do in fact take heuristics like DRY to mean "never repeat any code under any circumstances and any code repetition is per se bad."
> That is a complete red-pillesque reductive explanation that I'd expect to hear out of a MGTOW style community

Precisely, I didn't mean for that comment to sound like an endorsement. Maybe I should have used a "/s" but it's not actually sarcasm, it was just meant to illustrate what some people believe. My bad. From the little I have seen, MGTOW fall into the trap of believing possessiveness is only applicable to women, along with other stereotyping misogynistic beliefs.

In case I actually gendered the explanation, I did not mean to. Either partner can be possessive. I do not know whether there are studies on which direction it happens more often.

> Intimacy happens at more than just physical the physical, and most people reserve some types of intimacy (physical or emotional) for their significant other. When you cross the boundary of intimacy you normally set for people other than your significant other with someone else, that can easily be interpreted as disingenuous or betraying to your SO.

The point is that each partners boundary is a personal thing, it may be agreed upon in a couple if it was discussed in advance and it can be shifted afterwards. And if it is discussed, it may be set in the same place for both partners or not. But by default, if it is not discussed, it is likely to be different. And people are likely to judge others assuming that everyone's boundary is in the same place.

The boundary can be set anywhere but it is important for each partner to know the other partners boundary and decide whether it is something they can live with or not, in which case it is better to find someone who is a better fit, otherwise the result will be resentment, betrayal and conflict.
That reminds me of a Socrates quote "By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."
This is weird to me, 'challenge to disprove self defense' - since the accused was retreating towards law enforcement, and in general you have a duty to retreat if possible, I don't quite get the leap necessary that the pistol wielder was scared for their life. I can, however, believe that post-incident introspection would color the encounter this way, to the person with the pistol.

If there's an active shooter the general thing to do is hide, not go after anyone that is carrying a weapon.

I don't think there's a snowball's chance that any verdict will be accepted as is, though. I know most of my acquaintances have already made up their minds, trial outcome be damned.
We've been down this road before, and learned...nothing.

https://www.davidhaney.io/npm-left-pad-have-we-forgotten-how...

Stupid debates over a formatting tool - or in this case, a simple conditional - should tell you that something is seriously FUBAR in Javascriptland.
I personally think that IPFS is the actual web3. All the noise about blockchain powered NFT's is obscuring the really interesting tech underneath: the distributed, versioned filesystem that can be used to actually host those corny images that people are buying and selling for obscene amounts.

The other thing that is interesting is ENS, which provides a distributed blockchain version of DNS so that you can give your IPFS hosted things a proper human readable name instead of just using long hashes.

IPFS and ENS together feels like it could be an actual web3. But that real tech often gets overlooked amid the buzz and speculation of people buying and selling NFT's and pumping and dumping shit coins to make huge profits. Some people are doing the actual tech work, but the rest are gambling in a flashy casino, making a lot of noise, and calling it web3.
> There is also the Joy of Missing Out (JOMO) too.

Ha! I love reversing negative framings into a positives too. Now that I think about it, I must have had JOMO too! Thanks for teaching me. And have fun riding your JOMO!
They swithed to spanner.
Unless someone actually witnesses a murder you want it thrown out? Someone could walk into a room with a knife, screaming is heard, "no, no please don't stab me with that knife", the person walk out of the room covered in blood and a dead body is then found and you want it to be thrown out with prejudice? That's all circumstantial evidence.
This is beautiful.

From the github user's ("i-voted-for-trump") bio:

> This is a joke. You'll only see this org if you are attempting to troll me about repositories I created when I was learning to program.

I give this troll effort a score of 9/10. Well done - love the testing, readme, docs, continuous integration, etc. Honestly, this is better than most enterprise software I see.

I might contribute for fun and lulz...

EDIT - read some of the comments and there is some anger and confusion. Folks, this is a troll. Yes, npm and the JS ecosystem have some flaws, but let's not get bent out of shape.
Yes, the laboratory would be fine if it weren't for BTC and ETH.

Experiment away! But not with mega-scale proof-of-work projects that consume ungodly resource as a byproduct of securing the network (which is a financial problem in any case)
Plain language descriptions of algorithms and theorems are the best writing of all. Thank you for this! The naive question I have from it is, what makes gradient descent better than 1/e best choice sampling (e.g. secretary problem)?

The "step size" parameter seems the same as given a sample size with what appears to be a random walk. I lack the background, but the example shows that you already know the function, so instead of picking an arbitrary point and descent rate, you pick a number of random samples, then apply the secretary problem to them (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem#1/e-law_of_b...)

Top down from an outsiders perspective, (think product manager or customer for ML solution level) what advantage do I get from the compute cost of gradient descent over random sampling?
One need not exclude the other. You can do both;)
I believe it's for a superscripted 2 after abbreviations of units of measure, denoting area, e.g. centimeter squared, metre squared, etc.
Both. Yet, even if it were only motivated by profit, YouTube is an ad delivery business, its only purpose is profit.
Title: "How we know the oldest person who ever lived wasn't faking her age"

Content: "Professionals are not convinced by the argument that she faked her age"
For those wondering: num-num===0 is a check for NaN.
This package certainly seems like satire. It has no actual implementation in it. Instead it depends on another npm package: `is-odd`.

https://github.com/i-voted-for-trump/is-even/blob/master/pac...
https://github.com/i-voted-for-trump/

> i-voted-for-trump

> This is a joke. You'll only see this org if you are attempting to troll me about repositories I created when I was learning to program.

> is-odd

> I created this in 2014, the year I learned how to program. All of the downloads are from an old version of https://github.com/micromatch/micromatch. I've done a few other things since: https://xn--gith-tc7a
Godsends: The Surprise of Revelation
Hey Everyone! Other Budibase co-founder here.

An open-source platform is the missing piece to the low-code/no-code landscape - I'm also here to answer any questions!
What about CockroachDB and YugabyteDB?
This is the sad reality of modern development... new project? Why take some stable tech, when you can take a 2month old framework and an alpha version of a library, and do two rewrites, before the project fails due to breaking changes and abandoned software. It seems as if people actively avoid anything stable.
> Or similarly they suggest misguided equivalences, like that that quantum mechanics and consciousness are both weird and therefore equivelent [sic] without a reference to a mechanism.

Similarly this article connects bad article about quantum mechanics to bad articles about cryptocurrencies without reference to a mechanism that might explain why these would be the same effect.

> it's simply a proxy meme of the more dangerous idea that technology can fix social problems

Technology literally has fixed social problems. Look at the printing press, for instance in its effects on the protestant reformation. Printing, and printing "dangerous ideas" no less, has been an essential part of social change.
Impressive and quite comforting to see a public entity tackle an issue that many private companies (even in the UX industry!) ignore.
I hear this all the time yet I think it's misguided. Trying to educate users that they're "holding it wrong" instead of satisfying expectations is a fundamental mistake.

For example, I make several trips each year to visit family out of state. This is in the Midwest US, where winters are no fun, and dramatically affect range for an EV. The route is roughly 400 miles, and takes about 5/12 hours. According to the route planner in my friends Model Y, I would need to make 3 stops and I'd arrive at the inlaws house with 25% charge. I'd have to charge overnight there (they won't ever have a fast charger), and that might get me to 35%, depending on the temperature. On the way home, since I'm not starting at 100% capacity, I would have to make 4 stops. This makes the trip outbound roughly 7 hours, and the trip home almost 8.

Now compare this to an ICE. We make one stop, for roughly 5 minutes to refill gas and use the bathroom. Both legs of the trip are about 6 hours tops.
Imagine, if isOdd suddenly changed to:

'use strict';

var isEven = require('is-even');

module.exports = function isOdd(i) {
return !isEven(i);
};
I wanted to write the same comment, the premise of the article is wrong: "if all websites link to the same resources, that resource will not be downloaded multiple times across domains".
Odd choice naming a new technology after an existing technology. It's like calling something HTML.
The point is that the correlation probably points to an underlying variable (e.g. leisure time) instead of direct causation.
> we should require people to use a password manager.

What if I am storing my passwords in clear text in a Qubes OS [0] virtual machine with no network?

[0] https://qubes-os.org
I have never not been confused when logging into matrix, I signed up clicking a link at work, now if I want to use an app it asks for some server name that has nothing to do with the sever I signed up on (chat.mozilla.org vs mozilla.modular.im vs vector.im?)

When I do manage to login I get asked to verify my login and when I click to verify just to get rid of the popup it asks me to verify with a security code which if I remember right was one of those "here is 100 character string for you to write down and store in your vault" type situations.

Slack doesnt fare much better, every few weeks when the token expires I have to play "whats the domain for this slack that I literally only need to login and is permanently hidden otherwise"

I dont enjoy being sentimental and "get off my grass", but its seems sad how less impressive but more complicated tech these days
> I really wish people would stop bashing the industry and instead join in the experiment.

... so that steady supply of greater fools would never end? No, thanks.
I've been using Budibase for a while now to build different business apps. Really impressed with how easy it is to get deployable tools up and running (as someone who's not the best coder). Can't wait to see what else is in the pipeline!
I disagree. I think skill of manager plays into it more than anything. I've seen managers come on board and within 3-6 months were able to operate like this. They focused on learning the technology and getting to know the people before they started actively managing. These were large, long running teams they were joining too.
There's more to testing than unit testing.

I haven't actually read his site, I'm going by what was quoted.

Might be that he meant "unit tested" when he said "tested", I guess.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-ci tells you everything you need to know about where inflated download numbers comes from.
And the result of 2009 was a tightening in lending standards. Which helped create a 5 year glut of housing. More housing was built than there were qualified buyers to take possession. Those govt lending standards haven’t abated. If anything they are too strict as buyers have to bring more cash to closing since appraisals aren’t matching sales prices.

We’re headed for a slow down for sure but not a reversal. As much as I’d like that to be the case.