skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
with enough technological progress, it's conceivable we can recreate the past in full HD quality in both sound and vision using the current state of atoms. It would take enough processing power to recreate the universe itself as a simulation, but it's technically feasible.
Oh funny. Thanks for both links then. :-)
Oh I agree with you. I don’t think I articulated this as well as I could, but it’s about what spreadsheets enable that tools like Jira don’t: the ability to easily access and manipulate data to create new kinds of output without requiring a 6 month dashboard building project.

I think this also highlights the major gap in good reporting functionality in these tools. If they made the data easier to work with in-product, the export would be unnecessary. But such a reporting tool would need to be as flexible as Excel.
I helped maintain a VMWare infra backed with CoRAID’s ATA over Ethernet tech. It worked fairly well at the time. I want to say it was ZFS on Solaris.

Performance could have been a bit better, but this was back when 128gb enterprise SSDs were nearly the largest you could buy.
What is the legal mechanism for taking some of your employees property?
SolarCity wasn't as successful, but it fit squarely into this as well.
It's the times. And yeah, for all that it looks and sounds like this might have been relatively survivable with a quick evacuation, there's still a little horror in that cabin view.
I've been using kdiff3 for over a decades, it's just so good for a free tool.
There are a million specific reckless things you can do that are as bad or worse.

They're not specifically illegal.

And they're likely to remain that way unless someone manages to do one of them and dodge all other criminal prosecution.
southern racism in maryland?
Would be great to see contributions and results
Looks very cool. Can see a use-case for it at Sky Ledge (IoT/operational insights platform) [1]. To date, we've been building out data ingest from devices for our customers, and for that it's easy enough for us to spin up a service (for more complex use-cases) or a Lambda (for simpler use-cases) to perform the transformation.

However, we're at a stage where we're focusing on developer experience and allowing anybody to create their own "control rooms". Ingest is a particular pain point (we don't want users having to spin up their own servers/lambdas to handle ingest).

Something like DTL where users can define their own transformation schema would be ideal. The syntax might be a bit esoteric and we'd probably want to support both uploading the transformation schema and also composing it via UI for less technical users.

[1] https://skyledge.com
Having worked with Smalltalk a lot I think I know what its main flaw for industrial software development is. It is the image, and your ability to change anything in it (easily), like the Compiler for instance. Then you save your image. Your image is no longer compliant with anybody else's image and the programs you develop "on it" will not run on anybody else's image.

Compare this to a language like JavaScript. There too you can modify the base-objects like Object and Function and Array. But the changes you make to them will be part of your program which is not saved as part of an "image" (only as source-code). Your JavaScript program does not assume anything more about its environment than anybody else's JavaScript program, because you can not develop against a modified "base-image"
(since there is no such thin in JavaScript, is there?).

Smalltalk would be great for things like programming all the smart devices in your house. I think that was part of its original goals, provide an environment where everybody can create their own programs, without worrying much about how your program might later integrate with programs of others.
Although the article claims "Disabling swap doesn't prevent pathological behaviour at near-OOM," I've definitely found this to be the case. My desktop Linux machine has no swap, and when I've run into memory pressure the OOM killer just swiftly terminated the program that was using all my RAM (I later bought more).

When I've used machines with swap, my experience has been the OOM killer was much less aggressive. As a result you're left with an unresponsive system blocked on disk I/O.
That's not particularly relevant to this discussion because walking under the influence is not a major contributor when children are hit or killed by drivers.

Children also have different risk factors, for example many trucks and SUV drivers have poor visibility and cannot see sufficiently short road users that are close to the front of the vehicle, for example when stopped at a stop sign or traffic light.
Payroll tax is basically just secondary income tax. Other OECD nations don’t really do that, it’s an artifact of our wacky welfare system.
As a Christian and a believer in the Bible I can attest that I see it exactly in the way you describe. The factual parts of the narrative / poem for the rest of the Bible as I see it are:

1. God is the architect of the universe

2. God is eternal and has no beginning

3. There was probably a historical Adam and Eve.

The rest is extremely important for the philosophical basis of:

1. sinfulness of humanity

2. dignity of humanity (image of God)

3. the problem that justice can't be both restorative and retributive

4. inkling toward a solution to 3. (forgiveness/sacrifice/charity)

And much more... it's a deep text.
I don’t know if it’s an American thing, but I definitely hear a lot of “stupid people should suffer serious harm” around me.

“Stupid people shouldn’t breed” is popular phrase. As in, they should have died to spare humanity their existence.

This attitude definitely shows in our legal system and how much of our population in prison. It doesn’t bother me nearly as much as it should and I’m trying to think differently. :(
Interesting. I didn’t know console’s market was so different. 90s PCs were dominated by pascal and C variants on the OS and app front, with a tiny bit of assembly sprinkled here and there.
It's an extreme version of Tide Pods. Anything for the clicks and popularity, which translates to notoriety and usually ad dollars.
But we can do that with C. And maybe even easier.
software-defined bare-metal, that's pretty much the gist of it.
I was on a team that sunk 9 months into its model for a major project and what I saw bears no resemblance to what you're describing.

It's a framework that hated the idioms of its host language, as if the problem with front-end development was that it didn't have the ceremony of Java and the attendant abstractions/"patterns" of a static manifestly typed language. The conceptual overhead alone was ridiculous (as famously described here: http://codeofrob.com/entries/you-have-ruined-javascript.html ), and the payoff in terms of performance was negative on mobile no matter what we did. The fact that I had to know what the digest cycle was is a testament to the leaky nature of the abstractions. The tooling, wow, as far as I could tell batarang was actively broken for a good chunk of 2014 and 2015 and nobody had better suggestions.

I've used a lot of libraries/frameworks/languages with their own baggage but I've never had an experience where the differential between what I was hearing and the actual experience was that large, to the point where it's one of the first things I think of when it comes to the hazards of social proof.

If I wanted something that heavy again circa 2014, I'd tell myself to just use Ember. Hell, I'd rather use jQuery than Angular.
Very similar experience with my mid-70’s neighbor. I talked him down off the ladder more times than I can count. Sometimes he even had a glass of bourbon in one hand.
"Under no/low memory contention...

With swap: We can choose to swap out rarely-used anonymous memory that may only be used during a small part of the process lifecycle, allowing us to use this memory to improve cache hit rate, or do other optimisations."

How do you improve cache hit rate when there's no memory contention? And what other optimizations?

"Without swap: We cannot swap out rarely-used anonymous memory, as it's locked in memory. While this may not immediately present as a problem, on some workloads this may represent a non-trivial drop in performance due to stale, anonymous pages taking space away from more important use."

When there's no memory contention, what's the "more important use"?

These are honest questions - I'm not an expert on the topic.
This is hardly new. People have doing stupid things for attention since humanity discovered thumbs were useful.
An option itself has fair market value. Like, I can buy options on Uber stock right now at a variety of price points. You can make the case that options at FMV have negligible value, which is why they get special treatment. But if you want to work at a startup unicorn and ask for stock options with a strike price of $0.01 as your whole income, it's still (possibly) extremely valuable.
That's a super interesting angle I had never considered!

Part of my reason for thinking about solar is that if I'm going to spend 10k on a backup generator it might be far smarter to spend that on solar. For me the invest and pay cycle doesn't address the problem I'm solving. But I absolutely learned something today.
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The popularity of such phrases as "stupid people shouldn't breed" seems to be correlated to the degree which the rest of society is punished for the once-upon-a-time actions of stupid people. Stupid people aren't really a big problem if you're not using them to set the lowest common denominator by which you treat everyone.
At Zoba we use CLP, CBC, NLOpt, and OR-tools. Used to use Gurobi.

* CLP/CBC: open source makes deployment and devops easy, which is great. Linear models are nice in that you "know what you're getting." Performance is at times a pain point.

* Gurobi: super fast, but the licensing was just impossible. Partly that was due to high cost, but ultimately we could have borne the cost; the inability to do something like have autoscaling containers using Gurobi was ultimately the dealbreaker for us. As Zoba grew, we had to turn to alternatives.

* NLOpt: absolutely a blessing, but the variety of algorithms and tuning parameters is really opaque, even for a team with some OR experience/background.

* OR-tools: powerful but the documentation is remarkably terrible, and the vehicle routing problem solver doesn't natively support all the constraints we'd like, so we have to do some hacks.

Overall my feeling for all these tools is roughly gratitude: solvers are complex, and rolling our own would be absolutely impractical at our size. But also there's some pain in between "I've formulated my problem as a nice mathematical model" and "I can reliably get optimal results on time."
So sometimes it's quadratic, once in a while cubic. Never exponential. Never, never exponential. Rid that of your mind! If there were infinitely many dimensions, exponential growth would be possible. There are not, so it's impossible.

So cells. Cells do not multiply exponentially. DNA does not move faster than the speed of light! Nothing in the cell does! It may look exponential but actually that's cubic, they're easily confused, along with a shitty excel library, and bad measurement, measuring it on the small side early on. And what else? A bad education, being told exponential growth is real.
Ah yes. The joys of Total Information Awareness.

You require prople of a calibre capable of processing said situation and knowing exactly who to call, when, and what to ask.

Apparently, DC didn't have that.
Jet Set Willy, you philistines!
> and the product looks somewhat like an off brand Nutella and doesn't smell as bad as it tastes...

As an Australian, I found this part of your statement confusing, as (unlike Marmite) Vegemite tastes great.

More seriously, even in small doses (ie: not spread on like it’s jam or peanut butter) it’s still an acquired taste. Australians just get a head start, eating it on toast for breakfast regularly from a very early age.

> there is always at least one leftover jar of Vegemite in the pantry (Aus version of this)

This is an insult to Vegemite.
> So, those South America consultants, why are they not using crypto right now?

Because the people on the other side of the transaction are saying "why can't I just PayPal you? Oh, it costs 8% more? Not a problem, I'd rather pay more than having to learn how to deal with crypto or worry about the tax implications from it."
Name all the Colours
Is he allowed to not make a claim? Unless the plane was purchased outright, the bank will want to make a claim.
edit: came back to add this link for a pre-revenue sale from indiehackers

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-i-sold-my-0-revenue-sa...
I don't think it is bizarre, it is a pretty clear effort at highlighting the fact that you are a transitioned trans person in an effort to hurt you and let all of the people seeing the message know what's up, and harass further.

It doesn't seem very complex. It is very different from calling Putin a dictator, that seems clear!

I feel like she knows what she's doing, or she wouldn't bother doing it.
Yea, I doubt you actually need a specific permit to crash an aircraft in a controlled fashion rather than everything else like operating a huge drone etc. The issue is the YouTuber essentially abandoned control of the aircraft so it could have landed on anything.
in some sense, this is even better in the US, as First Amendment applies to governments, they shouldn't be able to censor your communications.
OK, since some folks have commented on the candy thing:

That was a one-time event, on the Muni, with both parents there, and with the giver asking our permission to give our son a sealed lollypop. I don't recommend kids take candy from strangers without parents there, but I do talk to strangers in front of my kids, and encourage them to also.

I don't tell my kids that all strangers are dangerous. First, because it leads to a culture of fear and disrespect. Second, because I obviously don't act as if they are, so it would lead to distrusting my advice.

They have to learn the difference between "stranger who seems reasonable and nonthreatening with whom you can casually chat" and "stranger telling at clouds whom you should avoid". They figure that out pretty young, if you let them.
I see no reason to screw employees who job hop. It seems like if 1/10 as much effort was put into making your workplace pleasant, you'd have fewer people leave.
The 3-way diff in JetBrains products, like IntelliJ, are the best, IMHO, because it helps you edit the resolved result, while updating both left and right diffs.

Their diff tool also has a magic-wand icon, which resolves trivial conflicts automatically. I still wonder why git doesn't do that by default... It's such a pain to resolve conflicts without that feature.

Also, you get syntax highlighting, structural editing, help, definition quick-lookup and similar IDE features available, while working on the resolved version of the code, which is syntactically correct usually, because there are no explicit, textual conflict markers in the resolved text.
Hah, I must admit that I didn't catch it the previous times I watched the video when I heard about the incident; It wasn't until I learned he had extinguishers strapped to the back of his legs that I went hunting for them in the video.
> Moreso, they are unable to develop technology to eliminate us, while we can develop technology to eliminate them.

Wow. Just, wow. I hope you realize that that's a dangerous line of thinking.

But then again it's not very surprising. Historically humans don't have a good track record of preserving the lives of other humans (in other lands). Let alone other creatures.

Also your statement isn't even really true. The reason those mosquitoes are targeted is because nature inadvertently came up with diseases that eliminate humans.

Yet I'm not entirely sure that's a justification for eradicating a sub-species of mosquitoes.

Just something to think about.
He's not on the patent and the author of the shipping game was Mark Lesser.

https://www.digitpress.com/library/interviews/interview_mark...

Patent
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/1b/46/29/d3532d0...
>Unless the plane was purchased outright,

It may very well have been. Used GA planes aren't cheap but they aren't thaaaat expensive.

>the bank will want to make a claim.

It would take a very foolish bank to write a loan on a plane (or boat) that is secured by said object. It's probably secured by something else and even if it's not they probably won't care as long as the payments keep coming. Remember, they're money dealers, not plane dealers. They'd rather have the money.
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I think a lot of older school Americans have a real justice boner and justice in their mind is often eye for an eye. At least this feels true about the older, right-leaning generation I know. Justice in the US, traditionally, seems a lot more punitive than rehabilitory. I think that has fizzled off in the more recent generation and some policy is already starting to reflect that, i.e. marijuana laws and releasing people for that crime early.

Source: Am American.
But bunnies in Australia.
you ever had a colonoscopy biopsy? have them stain it for CD117, see if mast cells are outside the normal range of density.
It makes perfect sense.

An immigrant trying to fit in will try to confirm to the average.

An individual native who doesn't care will not care about the average.
It primarily funds Social Security. How is that part of "our wacky welfare system?" If you consider it a secondary income tax, then it really shows how regressive our tax system is since the rich don't pay the same rate.
I've never observed a person getting mad at a child for staring at them. In my experience people seem to smile, wave, or make funny faces.

(A teenager or adult is different, but the story above was a kid small enough for their mother to grab them in her arms.)
The SQL::Abstract stuff is interesting. DTL has it's origins in needing to do a very similar thing - to be able to create a set of transformations and go back and forth between the real expression and a UI / object representing the action to be taken... and to make programmatic adjustments to them. Well, that and a stubborn refusal on my part to resort to `eval()` ;)

There were many times when I wasn't sure if DTL was a good idea, tbh. Thankfully, nearly every time I came close to abandoning it, something else came up that DTL made easy (Or, it forced me to fix something in DTL that prevented it from being easy.) I'm fairly confident it was a good idea at this point. Or if not good, at least useful. ;)
>if you wanted to crash a plane for a scene in a movie, could you do so?

It has been done. I'm pretty sure Howard Hughes wasn't cited for crashing his plane while filming Hell's Angels.

Maybe he should have been, though. Even though he survived the crash and it was an accident, four people died doing the stunts for that movie.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Fitzpatrick_(pilot)
Meld here, for years. It is capable of editing in place and three way compare. It's a very good tool, and quite lightweight too.

I'd rather use KDE software though, since my desktop environment of choice is Plasma. I haven't found the edition-in-place feature in KDiff3. Is it there? Kate also being my code editor of choice, that would be amazing. If it's not there, how do you solve merge conflicts with KDiff3 if you don't have editing in place?
Yeah, these are all good points, and I agree. But the bottom line is that currently no one profiting from the situation has any skin in the game, so when they start doing more harm than good, they have no natural alignments that would make them self correct.
I don't want to be around people who don't have their lives together.

I learned this the hard way in my early twenties. If someone can't handle basic things like having a bank account, there's a good chance the rest of their life isn't all that great. And even being around someone like this can have severe consequences.
We don't have a wildfire problem. There have been fires for thousands of years. There are supposed to be fires.

Our problem is people build non-fireproof homes in forests and demand the government mismanage the forest by stopping fires.
Wow Rockstar released his optimization. That's awesome.
Would it have been ok if he crashed it in the ocean? BP did much more terrible things like adding very toxic dispersant to oil floating in the ocean to sink it... (and I don't think that the fine they received because of the oil leak was because of that).
Just saw a 60-second prime time commercial from him on CBS News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6NoQGKOC2s
This doesn’t seem like a particularly modern problem. People have been doing stupid things for attention since before there were newspapers too.

https://www.trains.com/trn/railroads/history/crash-at-crush-...
Yes, but the comment I was replying to was discussing scenarios other than the one in the article.
If what he did is somehow linked to attempting to start a fire in federal land, arson or w/e (which I don't think is a hard thing to argue), he's in BIG trouble.

If one or two people come out later and state they were hiking around the area when/where this happened, he's in BIG trouble.

Also, this is a wild speculation, but I'm sure 9/11 put in place a lot of dos and don'ts regarding aircraft and their use linked to terrorism. I mean, I don't think he was a terrorist, but if the local jurisdiction finds a way to make it look that way ... he's in BIG trouble, again.

I know this is a bit exaggerated, but I think they're going to throw everything they can at him, to make an example out of this sort of thing and prevent others in the future from attempting these idiotic "stunts".
The lack of harm was luck. The same way I would judge someone harshly for firing a gun down a crowded street even if they managed to not hit anyone, I would judge someone who recklessly endangers others like this person causing a plane crash in a wildfire zone.
I just pasted the code from the docs

julia> using Gadfly
julia> plot(y=[1,2,3])

I just timed this again. It took 53 seconds. So __minutes__ was a bit of an exaggeration. Using Plots instead of Gadlfy takes 20 seconds. Either way, it's an eternity. I'd rather just compile c++.
I don’t get the logistics involved - how can you jump from a plane safely and still have it crash near enough you can hike to it?

Better to use the extinguishers as extra thrust for a wing suit.
So exactly like you can do the right now on storage controller. Backblaze storage pods are "software-defined bare-metal".
It’s a shame that the judges basically gave up on the press, because it truly is an impressive movement.
Matlab: optimization and global optimization toolboxes.

Python: PyOptSparse with IPOPT (and NSGA-II, although not the best implementation) and scipy.optimize.

I use them for the Design Optimization of aircraft with multiple non-linear constraints and sometimes multiple objectives.