skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The quoted sentence has dropped the word "can't" I suspect.

Reworded: "Horizons pose an issue for warp drives as one cannot control the warp bubble if one can't see or communicate with it."

The problem, then, is that warp drives as posited create KVF horizons that would seem to make them impossible to control, enter, or leave. That would mean warp drive is not permitted in the universe.

Some KVF horizons, like the outer ergosphere of a black hole can be detected, entered, and exited. Conclusion, warp drives are not ruled out on the grounds that they involve horizons because we don't know what kind of horizon they might have.

tl;dr Warp drives aren't ruled out... yet.
> The whole idea needs some kind of evidence that it works.

> We can all imagine that maybe if there weren't patents, certain things wouldn't get invented. But that experiment happens in people's heads

Yeah. These hypotheticals are always brought up whenever someone criticizes patents but the fact is there's actual historical evidence that lack of patents leads to more innovation, more competition, more industry, more prosperity for all nations and especially for developing countries.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28330810

All intellectual property is nothing but monopolists trying to maintain their monopoly position. They struck gold once and want to keep extracting value out of that mine forever.
The fact that C++ was able to eventually standardize on a single string type (despite the same mess of many dozens of incompatible implementations) shows that it is possible and desirable. It's not like raw buffers will go anywhere if you add a higher-level type. Nor does it have to be perfect - only "good enough" for use across the API surfaces of various libraries.
You are simply arguing for those with the most capital to have a tax loophole unavailable to others.
That's pretty much the central principle of anarchism (the political philosophy and practice, not the colloquial slur). Dismissing it as "impractical" is a bit premature - it's a concept well grounded in ethnological examples, and there have been plenty of very cool modern social experiments.

In any case, it's conceptually useful to orient vis a vis hierarchy in this more general way, even if the "full realization" is difficult to imagine achieving.
The future value of existing art,

without adding an accompanying authenticity NFT,

is lower. Seems fairer.
The thing is; in practice, how can you re-id someone that has a very rare medical condition if you don't already know that the person has this very rare medical condition ?
> Also browsers do not have the same right like on other systems. Only Safari has, which is not what you should test with. It is ill suited at least for web development.

What right does Safari have over Chrome running on a Mac?
Right, which - perhaps to your point - demonstrates how a seemingly innocuous piece of data left in a dataset could be used to, with relative ease, identify that individual.
Maybe look on that as compensation for decades of suppression by the central government?
.. If only we had clear data to make such a decision.

However, collecting and analyzing that data would likely have eaten a percent or two into the eighty billion dollars Pfizer made last year, so I guess there's nothing we can do but trust the same authorities that brought us 'natural origin for sure', 'masks don't work', 'NNVTs don't mean anything any more', and 'Covid isn't airborne'.
If you’ve read their paper, there is a lot of detail in it to create your own. Of course they haven’t given out the code but the paper is a pretty solid design document.
Racist school immigration assignment has advocates calling for curriculum change
Exact dates and exact hospitals should also not be included. Doctors do not manually write their hospital location and the date in each of their notes (instead these are fields added by software like Epic) so this should be easy to just not export those fields.

There will also be some risk that someone has a very unique combination of visits or treatments that does make them identifiable but that should be an incredibly low percentage and we need to weigh the pros/cons. I can also get a good idea of who has cancer by sitting on a bench outside a cancer center and watching who goes in.
Not sure if it matters too much from an individualistic perspective. Near light-speed travel will allow a person to go anywhere instantaneously, they'd just have to contend with leaving the time and space they know behind them.
First they replace Scheme with Python for their CS classes, and now SICP in JavaScript! Isn't this another portent from Nostradamus about the coming of the end of the world?
If you want to feel some dissonance about this dissonance, you might note that a meta-analysis was done on the evidence that using a parachute is effective at saving your life when jumping from an aircraft. It's a real, but satirical approach to worshiping randomized controlled trials for things that should effectively be obvious. There are obvious limits to empiricism, and we shouldn't proudly flaunt lack of evidence ≠ evidence of absence in cases where it's perfectly reasonable to expect results. I mean, we could be wrong about theses things, but it would be a shift in thinking akin to newtonian -> einsteinian physics.

Paper: Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial

Conclusions: Parachute use did not reduce death or major traumatic injury when jumping from aircraft in the first randomized evaluation of this intervention. However, the trial was only able to enroll participants on small stationary aircraft on the ground, suggesting cautious extrapolation to high altitude jumps. When beliefs regarding the effectiveness of an intervention exist in the community, randomized trials might selectively enroll individuals with a lower perceived likelihood of benefit, thus diminishing the applicability of the results to clinical practice.

>https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094
Same people who are responsible if you get a vaccine injury.
NestJS makes pretty heavy use of decorators and I really dislike it because of it, it reminds me of reading Spring Java code.
In case you missed it, the claim has nothing to do with choice -- it has to do with making a blanket, absolute statement for one thing and a more nuanced statement for another.

I guess you're exactly the person these types of statements were meant to placate.
An interpreter tries to understand what your code means. It doesn't try to guess at your intentions. (Pedantically, some do, but on a limited scale.) You should write quality code. You should try to anticipate edge cases. Your code will fail sometimes. You'll fix it.

Law has the advantage of much more advanced interpreters; but judges should still be interpreting the law, not guessing at the minds of the people who wrote the law. Lawmakers should be writing quality laws and fixing problems.
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"FTL is impossible" doesn't seem like an extraordinary claim at all, but actually quite an ordinary one. The natural world seems to obey a light-speed limit every time it's been tested.

Sure, it might be wrong, but as far as claims go it has a lot going for it, both experimentally and theoretically.
There will be a high price to pay for pandemic theater. In the immediate term because the theater does not work and effective actions are ignored and in the long term because the ineffective actions are also harmful.
ADHD? CTPST? I have a glitchy little neurological misconfiguration that stops me judging distances properly if I'm moving, and it very precisely stops me driving safely and basically has no other effect on my life.

It's worth checking for neurological stuff - are you dyslexic? Dyspraxic? How's working memory? Visual recall?

You may find that you've got a little bit of odd wiring, and the relevant field professionals may have some tips.

Your complaint is specific enough that I think it would be worth trying to narrow it down and check for a neurological cause. Like dyslexia, there may not be much that can be done about it, but you may discover you love audiobooks as a result of understanding the situation more clearly.
CPTSD.

Dyslexia. Strikes. Again.
Do you live somewhere that forces you inside of diners several times per year? I'm interested in where that is.
The burden of proof for people making that claim is on the person making that claim. The burden of proof for making the claim that it’s “fundamentally impossible” is likewise on the person making that claim.

For all we know, our understanding of the universe could be at a stage of analogous to “there are four elements: earth, air, fire, and water”. Many things that we enjoy daily were once “fundamentally impossible”.
For the same reason people kill most animals: tradition and they're delicious.

I've heard of vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, etc., but it would be interesting if there was another eating style based on some (admittedly challenging) evaluation of the animal's cognition or social behavior.
Cops can't always prove a suspect has committed the crime they actually care about, and in such cases will look for other crimes the suspect has committed that might be easier to prove. The most famous example is that Al Capone was convicted of tax evasion.

Marijuana possession is both very common and easy to prove, so it works well for that purpose. If a cop happens to come across it on a "good" person, they can always look the other way.

(not endorsing this approach, just speculating as to how police may view the situation)
"this person is certainly my biology teacher, who shared the fact that she had a rare genetic disorder during our Genetics unit as well as <insert otherwise non-identifiable columns>. She has herpes. Or also she has an alcohol problem and used to do acid." Teacher is now fired.

You also keep ignoring the issue of consent. Step one is to ask patients.

Or the person shared their story on the public website of a "Run For The Cure" style website about that genetic disorder.

Or so on.

"Sparse Features" aren't always a thing that the person wants to keep private.
What batteries are included in C++? There's the STL, but most of the rest is a mess to the point it's actively avoided in favor of alternatives (iostreams, locale).

Now if you do something like C++ with Qt, that's a very different proposition - but that applies both to batteries being included, and to the overall coding style.
Depends how tight you want your security to be, risk tolerance varies.
The Computer Moves in (1983)
I've avoided using or recommending Samsung phones since this error started showing up in my developer console: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24809580/noclassdeffound...

That their engineers and managers still to this day prefer to write their own apps instead is using stock or close to stock tells me they haven't learned from that mistake.
It's astounding how rare this rather obvious course of action has been in the global conversation.
No idea where the name came from!
When was the last time you tried a Samsung device? They've continued to improve on everything. Most Samsung users tend to agree that Samsung's first party apps are now better than the stock Android ones: Samsung browser, notes, health app, etc. The One UI interface is clean and much more consistent from version to version than whatever "flavor of the month" Google is doing with stock Android.

I will agree that in the era you last saw it, it was awful.
Citation needed. Please don't invoke magic
Iosevka is great. It was my preference for a while until Comic Mono stole my heart.
Summary - president of country YOLOs the state's treasury on bitcoin at the top, it loses 25% of value and so does their bonds. Claims about cheaper transaction costs with banks outside the country (primarily the US) turn out to be false and instead are 300% more expensive. Turns out Western Unioning money is pretty cheap.

This is an unsurprising turn of events. Yet somehow some people will still be surprised.
each company is different,
from my experience it would depend on the severity of the fix, and the severity of the issue. the problem would get resolved by any means ie temporary sticky plaster if necessary.

Another team would then assess and analyse the root cause from a company wide perspective and then assess the risks, costs and impact and then make any modifications (possibly redoing the temporary fix, and fixing it properly)

Real issue, a call center main telephony system and one of the management servers kept crashing causing over 1400 call center people to stop working. Temporary fix was to re boot the servers every 4 hours causing minor pain, but the call staff was up and running.

After a whole stupid week of the engineers not being able to find the route cause it was escalated extremely high and our team was brought in and we found the root cause in seconds (literally)The servers was VMs and the engineers hadn't checked the physical ESX server they were hosted on. another VM on the box caused the server to go unstable (ESX not configured correctly).

BAU project set up to audit/ report and fix all the ESX servers in the company for other stupid config issues
Also the prototype of React, and the creator also went on to make ReasonML: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15209814
Thanks, I wasn't sure which link I should post. I read the German version on heise: https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Googles-Kamera-verfaelscht-.... But a German article doesn't really fit here. So I thought the original source might be good, didn't realize it was behind a Google login, since I was logged in already.
It was a great day in the Supreme Court for anyone who wants to bribe a lawmaker
You can get to a sane place just by mentally substituting "engineering team" for the word "company" in the original comment.
I believe they are both CC-licensed. See https://sicp.sourceacademy.org/

A ton of work seems to have gone into this -- they have a meta-circular evaluator in JavaScript (and it's not that much longer than the original Scheme)!
Under the safe-harbor deidentification guide you posted, all dates must be removed except for the year. If this was done on a clinical trial dataset, the data would be useless. Specifically for the COVID vaccine trial, the “statistic” used is the number of days between when the patient enters the study and when they get COVID. This is called TTE or time-to-event and underpins the entire study design. You need the exact date the patient entered the study AND contracted COVID to calculate the TTE value. Without this information, you have no chance of validating the results of the study.
I think the level of effort we make as a society on medical privacy is backwards. All health information should be public except in extreme circumstances. Right now, it's almost impossible to get datasets on health data. Imagine if 100% of everyone's data was digitized. The amount of health innovation, lives saved, cures found, is likely to be incredibly large. All the costs that go into trying to comply with HIPPA, could be gone.

I get that some people want to prevent the use of the data for discrimination...just legislate that then.
Famous outages along with deep postmortems?
I just finished reading the Roblox outage postmortem (trending on HN: https://blog.roblox.com/2022/01/roblox-return-to-service-10-28-10-31-2021/). I learned a lot reading about it and found myself thinking "surely there's other well-written postmortems that are a doozy". Does anyone know a good resource where I can find a compilation of such outages? If they're classified/tagged then even better :)
What do you do when you're working on a storage system and rolling back a change leaves some data in a state that the old code can't grok properly? I've seen that cause other parts of the system (e.g. repair, re-encoding, rebalancing) mangle it even further, overwrite it, or even delete it as useless. Granted, these mostly apply to code changes rather than config, but it can also happen if code continue to evolve on both sides of a feature flag, and both versions are still in active use in some of the dozens of clusters you run. Yes, speaking from experience here.

While it's true that rolling back recent changes is always one of the first things to consider, we should acknowledge that sometimes it can be worse than finding a way to roll forward. Maybe the Roblox engineers had good reason to be wary of pulling that trigger too quickly when Consul or BoltDB were involved. Maybe it even turned out, in perfect 20/20 hindsight, that foregoing that option was the wrong decision and prolonged the outage. But one of the cardinal rules of incident management is that learning depends on encouraging people to be open and honest, which we do by giving involved parties liberal benefit of the doubt for trying to do the right thing based on information they had at the time. Yes, even if that means allowing them to make mistakes.
Anecdotally a lot of that is coming from California, though, which would have no net effect on the median line, right?
I think the reason one bothers us and another doesn't (in the case off smoking) relates to the level of non-contradiction evidence. It's been decades since the pseudo-research propaganda from the tobacco industry was taken seriously, and lots of legitimate research to go along with that.

Alcohol on the other hand seems to produce a fair number of contradictory studies on a regular basis. There are pretty clear negative effects of excessive use, but at the low-to-moderate levels it's a lot murkier. It's especially hard to know from some studies whether or not the proposed negative impact was caused by alcohol or whether alcohol use was a type of proxy variable for general health and lifestyle.
Isn't the oldest person in the world an old lady who is a daily vodka drinker?
> Even then some people choose to ignore words from the “articulate” people mentioned that make them feel uncomfortable.

If you're making good points that contradict what people believe, they'll ridicule or at least ignore you -- that's par for the course. We celebrate people like this because they persevered in doing good in the face of intense opposition.

> I think it’s pretty rich to deny good education and then complain when the neglected don’t speak in the preferred manner.

I'm not sure what your point is. I am promoting good education - I think the system as-is has to be reformed. People need good education, especially people trying to promote societal reform.

> There are plenty of educated and articulate people who have been making the same point for years and nobody listened.

For people who are promoting good causes, let's support them and encourage them to persevere despite how difficult it is to continue being ignored and/or persecuted. The truth will prevail in the end: "For nothing is secret that will not be revealed, nor anything hidden that will not be known and come to light." (Luke 8:17)
Technically speaking, adding a period at the end of a URL is valid in that it implicitly exists for all URLs in the context of DNS. Your browser doesn't care however and while not exactly niche, I don't think it's widely known either. Funnily enough, typing a URL" "correctly" such as https://amazon.com. (make sure to include the trailing dot!) can actually cause some load balancers to freak out and serve no or even garbled content! It's pretty neat and this is definitely a tangent. Either way, you don't want your camera mucking with the contents of a QR code
Overflow
https://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/gcc/integer_overflow.h...
It's that knowing that someone has a rare medical condition that someone willingly shared can be a signal to find out other things in their medical records that they may not have wanted to share with others they know.
People who brought up these worries about the indirect impacts of COVID lockdowns were shouted down as heretics. Now if you don't support full lockdowns and shelter-in-place, you're supporting genocide against the immunocompromised, minorities, etc. (according to Twitter, company Slack, etc.).

TFA has a great line about many rites of passage being effectively stolen from a generation. That's something they'll never get back, and the fallout is something we'll be observing for decades to come.
"Yes." is a full sentence, which I'd use here if it weren't so glib and frowned upon on HN.

Privacy matters, you don't just get to look at people's health data for free or without caveats and conditions, namely their consent.
Removing caffeine can help slowing down
I remember learning CGI to write a web app in late 90s. Most resources at the time seemed to focus on it as a Perl thing, with all code examples etc being in Perl, other languages mentioned briefly if at all (usually at the beginning, when explaining the "it's just a process" model).
I saw this the other day on Amazon while picking up the SICP instructor's edition. For the life of me, I can't figure out why they chose JavaScript to do this. And the new authors are professors.

Since the original SICP has a permissive license, I've actually thought about doing something similar, but with a more modern functional language.
I don't think it's especially interesting to discuss, but either way: it's not important on this thread, where it is an off-topic tangent. We all share responsibility for making sure we're talking about the meat of an article on its thread, and not burying the thread under a relitigation of some past rhetorical controversy. It's as much about predicting what responses your comment will generate as it is anything else.

Thank you for the kind words about the blog posts! I'm particularly happy with the sandboxing post.
Finally Netflix bubble popped.
How to waste your career one comfortable year at a time
It doesn't wrap Amazon's S3 it just provides an S3 compatible API. Our use case was to have application code that only interacted with file storage through a single S3-api compatible filesystem adapter. Then we'd either spin up minio in a docker container in those offline deployment scenarios and feed that container's info into the applications environment variables, or when deployed to the internet we'd feed it real AWS S3 connection info. The application code then never needed to know or care where the files lived which meant that code didn't need to have conditionals to use regular filesystem libraries in one code path and S3 adapters in a different path. This also naturally prevented some of our junior devs from trying to do things that instinctually made sense when working directly with a filesystem but is impossible to do on S3 (like trying to unzip a file on S3, or symlink or think that you have cheap and easy move operations).
Felines of all sizes have social hierarchies.
Are you against drunk driving laws?
I don’t think this is quite the same story, as Peloton is at least trying to shift their business model to a more sustainable subscription based model that is providing different training services.
Sunsetting Stack Overflow Jobs and Developer Story
If that feature was the one most recently deployed or updated? Yes, if possible. That could be a big if, though right? Maybe rolling back such a change isn't trivial, or imposes other costs to returning to service that are more expensive than simply working through the problem.
It's also the name of a cattle breed that's native to the region [1] and famed for its meat, as well as the name by which the very language discusses in this thread used to go by during the Middle Ages (as the Limousin dialect formed the basis for the normalized form of Occitan, that was used by the Troubadour movement ever since its inception by Eble II of Ventadorn).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limousin_cattle
> The "no amount proven safe" mantra is refuted by epidemiological studies on the subject.

Is there a source?
Yeah, imagine the craziness of making materials like this accessible to users of the most widely used language.