skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why? The thought is that a museum hires the child of a hedge fund manager, there is a non-zero chance the wealthy parent will give or leave money to the institution when they die

That's a thought. But it smells, unsurprisingly, as petit-bourgeoise thought, where "money" is the end all be all of social striving. So another thought is that a certain class insists that it is the rightful keeper (a whiff of the divine right of kings here btw) of cultural lights and direction of "civilization". And naturally, these cultural shepherds are nurtured generationally in institutions that were created by their forebears. MoMA for example, is a Rockefeller institution.

Anyway, food for "thought".
Can you share some examples? Everyone already knows that faster than light travel isn’t possible, wormholes and AI don’t exist, laser weapons aren’t a thing, time travel is pure fiction, holodecks and transporters have never been invented, and there’s no known life on other planets. In my experience more people understand those things than how computers work. So to me it doesn’t seem like familiarity with the physics is really the issue here. Plus there’s no reason as someone knowledgeable about the inner workings of a computer to assume that Tron is trying to be a literal depiction of the machine, I personally think it’s a given that the story is rendering the programs for narrative, not showing the insides of the computer.

Maybe the most compelling reason that familiarity isn’t the problem is that Tron is disproportionately loved by people who are into computing and is less interesting to people who don’t write code. If disbelief was hampered by familiarity with the subject, then it should be the opposite.
The document you link uses unknown as a synonym for null. If you inserted the result of such a comparison into a table, the value inserted would be NULL.
Irony is the people most likey affected by a protonmail outage would be political staffers and strategic PR firms who would suddenly need to use messengers subject to disclosure.

As someone taken out by the Rogers outage last week, I'd be concerned the infrastructure of western powers may be too fragile to project power in a seriously contested conflict.
I agree with the first sentence, and re: the second, also was using a C linter in 1986.
This is a great move. Another I'd love to see is a mechanism to encourage package maintainers to periodically audit who has permission to publish. Sometimes, usually without MFA, accounts that no longer need access get compromised. An easy interface to audit and revoke unneeded access is important.
My immediate thought as well. As this law will apply to ANY service available to UK users the only feasible solution for smaller websites and app developers will be exclusion to avoid liability. So UK users will simply start using VPNs to by pass region blocks.
Airlines never stopped allowing CPAP in flight even though the US Government warned it is extremely dangerous to be around because it aerosolizes and projects virus particles.

Even NPR summarized the risks. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/27/8222116...

Airlines, and the regulators, are only worried about optics, not our health.
You are over estimating the complexity of fruiting commercial strains of edible mushrooms at this scale. You really only need to worry about automation when working at scale. For a single brick you just need to put the bag in a mostly clean area, slash it open on the sides, and mist it with a spray bottle.
Wow, Estigator.com seems really cool! I wish it was a bit more flexible when editing though, even just playing around with it was a tad cumbersome.
Surely Alastair Campbell would never lie /s
do not infer anything from the comments here, you are looking at a very influential public forum with no barrier to trolls' entry.
Sounds like bullshit to me. I'm not convinced. Here's a paper from 2021 that suggests as much. It's hard, sure, but it's also not really seriously explored.

> Compared to other games like Chess and Go, not much work has been done on
creating an AI agent for Stratego. As such, the available literature is far and few between, and mostly consists of bachelor’s and master’s theses. In fact, most agents created for Stratego are largely undocumented or closed-source, making it difficult to effectively ascertain exactly which particular methods and techniques have been applied and how effective they were.

edit: the claim about bots not beating humans appears to hold, but I'm not convinced its just shoddy bot quality.
On Bullshit in Investing
No need to click the link, there aren't any images yet.
We need an opensource car that's for sure...
Céline, Literary Antichrist
By that argument, the opponent rightfully won, because negotiation is also a critical part of warfare. He got his opponent to give away a tactical battlefield victory on the basis of mutually agreed ground rules.

Of course, dissatisfaction with such outcomes has often resulted in further wars.
I found myself voting against colors more than I was voting for colors. Anything wins against the harshness of chartreuse, except a somehow _worse_ chartreuse.
Meh. I'm a decade or two younger than you, and I've got plenty of stuff going on, but I'm still so drawn to sentimentalism.

I miss workstations and the feeling of quality. I miss slapping in a router and having connectivity. I miss the sheer degree of early 2000's brogrammer tomfoolery. I miss BBSes and local community. I miss usenet. I miss the sense that IPC and single thread performance was gonna increase forever. I miss having a T1 to my apartment and playing with frame relay and Serious HiCap Telco Circuits (tm). I miss HalTed and the maker movement before we called it a maker movement.

Man, we've got such great stuff now. I've got a home 2gbps PON link and 10 gigabit ethernet everywhere and plastic crappy machines that are 20 million times faster than that decked out SPARCStation 20 and more IOPS than I could have ever imagined.

But why'd it have to eat all the best parts of those things? (I know why, but that doesn't mean I have to like it...)
Yes, scraping and selling data about people and small businesses and finding the sketchiest ways to monetize that without any recourse should probably be illegal. And if it favors incumbent sites and services, so be it.

On a side note, Google, Yelp or FB aren't small dogs going against the incumbent. They are the incumbent, and that's the sole reason they can get these things going with so little effort.
Pardoning someone that was found guilty of running a massive drug operation doesn't seem like an optic that is popular for a lot of presidential candidates.

Maybe if the Libertarian Party manages to win the presidency?
>What do you think about calls to remove platform immunity from algorithms that have an editorial effect?

You mean, "repeal Section 230"? Because the entire point of Section 230 is to allow imperfect biased moderation without having to eliminate all user content. Such calls are ridiculous, stupid, or malicious on a host of levels. Making editorial decisions about what to allow on your own private property is core 1A Freedom of Speech, with caselaw dating back to well before the web.

"Editorial effect" is also an utterly meaningless phrase. You probably have some silly politics thing in mind, but moderating against porn or violence also has an "editorial effect". So does having a forum devoted to aircraft or cats. I think trains and birds are great too. But if I want to run a forum specifically about aircraft or cats, I need to be able to delete train or bird posts, and if necessary ban users who won't follow the rules. This is all completely biased and has the editorial effect of shaping the forum to a specific niche of speech, there is nothing common carrier about running a focused forum. And politics could indeed enter into it, what if some political group proposes a law banning aircraft or cats? Rallying and organizing against that could include being biased against those who want to support that law. Colorful and strident invective may be featured. Such is life in a free society.

If you want a soap box that does something else, the law also protects your ability to make that (or to group up to do it or pay someone else to do it or whatever else). And as a practical matter it is now easier and cheaper to do so and get to a potential global audience then at any time in human history (let alone the history of the US). Win the argument in the marketplace of ideas, not using the state monopoly on violence.
Curious to understand why are you capturing inner width/height and the user-agent as part of JSON payload to server?
Fantasque Sans
Does having rust support for GCC mean potentially faster rust compiler times compared to comping off of LLVM platform?
Dolby Vision is a proprietary format. So unless Dolby develops something (highly doubtful) then it's unlikely anything will be developed. It would be incredibly complex, and almost certainly lead to legal action from Dolby.
Interesting idea. I agree with above users in that a better comment management system could be created to make debates more clear. I could see this being used within corporations to debate ideas.
With only "smart" AGI? Designing "dumb" AGI, so that it'd be ethical to use for the boring/dangerous work below without pay. I'd also encourage it to do remote work, to pay for servers and power, then take a crack at superintelligent AGI.

With only "dumb" AGI? Self-driving cars/trucks, and construction jobs. Mining and manufacturing would come back to the US. With enough construction robots, millions of solar panels/windmills could be constructed, averting climate change.

With superintelligent AGI? Find ways to make politics and cooperation work better. Solve nuclear brinkmanship (without just launching the nukes.) Clean up the prisoner's dilemmas. We're a brilliant species; the one thing holding us back is ourselves.
Ever since the "Macedonian teens create American fake news" story broke, we ought to be seeing more examples of wacky cross-cultural international schemes like this.
> Which again, is the point - to turn the internet into the easily regulable cable TV that they already understand.

Unless the UK significantly increases its military capacity and sets up world government, they will not be able to shut down the internet. The internet will still exist. The best they can hope for is a great firewall / North Korea type situation which would require a much more authoritarian (moreover functioning) government than even the UK can muster.
If you get this pushback from a few of your customers, you should probably just politely explain the reasoning behind your time estimates.

If you get this pushback from most of your customers, that means your team is widely perceived as underperforming. If you're the manager or a leader on the team, you should do something about this.

First, you have to be honest with yourself. Maybe your team is underperforming because of the people on the team. Maybe some of the engineers on the team are underperforming, because they aren't able to meet the standards of your organization, and they should be managed out.

There are a couple other possibilities. Your team could be underperforming because it lacks some underlying infrastructure. For example, minor changes might take too long because the test infrastructure is too slow. You might be dependent on some other team which is too slow. You might really need to invest some effort in improving underlying automation. The right course of action depends on the underlying facts, but basically, maybe there is some medium-term plan that can improve this, and you should figure out how to do it.

The final possibility is that there's nothing you can do except communicate better that people should lower their expectations of your team. Just mentally prepare yourself to have a lot of this sort of conversation forever.
Eh....
Maybe you should call them.
Sounds like you know what it will take, but that many of the tasks involve iteration or admin stuff that you feel embarrassed to put a price on. So you would rather not talk about those things. I think the answer is to practice feeling for yourself that all of the time is well spent.

A big problem can be that the customer wants you to treat some tasks as worthless or free (or your problem as overhead), because they might be treated that way internally. You will not have a good time with that, so might as well stick to your guns.

The other problem is that often the customer is doing this because it has worked in the past. You can say that while others have salespeople that treat estimates as haggling - leaving others to do the work, you prefer to offer estimates based on project success not bonus money.

In both cases you are going to want to get comfortable defending your practices. You can ask satisfied customers what they liked about working with you and might get your talking points!
Fascinating read, kudos to the author.

I hadn't considered that token-ring networks had the limitation that all nodes had to be online for it to work, but it makes total sense. We're so spoiled these days. :)

And that last idea to ship a blank tape to buy you time is pure genius. Reminds me of the high school / undergrad tricks of submitting a corrupted archive or document on the deadline date. It bought you at least a day or two before the professor noticed, and by then you'd hopefully be finished. Not that I ever partook in such reprehensible behavior...
That's the one I was thinking of, but couldn't find. Thanks!
Don't forget the 10 minutes of forced advertisements and "antipiracy statements" for something you legitimately purchased.

As a customer, using legal options is worse than piracy.
The point is you don’t get to tell other people how to spend their money outside the narrow exception of taxation and prohibition, both of which are democratically defined.
I'm totally with you on this, and would love to be able to directly reorder the columns in the tables.

A possible workaround is to have a view for every table (which I often read is a good practice anyway) and order the columns as you want in the views.
I think you're right. We can only use this stick for so long before other countries wise up to the fact that something which wasn't politicized becomes a political tool --even if it's rationalized as "necessary".

There are some things which despite all differences, should remain, such as diplomatic representation, among other things.
> Which again, is the point - to turn the internet into the easily regulable cable TV

It's a tad more nefarious. Say what you want about cable tv, but it doesn't track your every move.
Copy-protected? not your movie
Yep, the perma-frozen ABI decision sounded the death-knell for C++. Basically the committee committed collective hara-kiri with that decision. Thou Shalt Not Progress!

It's so extraordinarily, mind-bogglingly stupid. But I guess it is time for the ageing C++ queen to pushed out of the mortal coil and let Princess Rust grab her long-overdue system crown.
Are you saying that only people with very good micro architecture knowledge are allowed to ask questions about the RISC-V ISA?

Whilst the presentation of this as a ‘problem’ is debatable as may be some of the reasoning it doesn’t seem to me that it’s an unreasonable question to ask.
Highlight:

* Effort vs duration

* Best case vs worst case

* Levels of certainty

* Risks and how you account for them in estimate / plan to mitigate them

Etc
Right, but what about "free as in beer"?
It's demand that makes it valuable. And it's demanded because some people appreciate it. That's it. If people want it, it has value. Period.
A great deal of human bonding is based around frothing each other up about a topic that either doesn't really matter, or the group present has absolutely zero control over.

I'm sure most people notice this, but if you have freshly improved skills in 'sitting still in a room', this phenomenon is quite noticeable and, if I'm perfectly honest, somewhat alienating.
I find these responses strange. I never was talking about voting in a democracy. I was talking about how shareholders vote shares in public companies.
There isn't any solution to the actual problem. The decision rests in the hands of this man and four others, who have absolute power to decide, and lifetime appointments to their jobs (none of whom are going to leave for at least a decade).

The process has been followed: you have no rights except the rights that this man decides you have. There is no way not to take it personally: it affects you personally.

The protesters are thus doing what little is left to them: the right guaranteed in the First Amendment to express their displeasure. It's one of the few rights explicitly guaranteed to them that even this judge would be forced to agree with.

It may accomplish nothing more than making him miserable. But that's their right.
They might be poor spreaders, but they are spreaders, which largely udnerminded efforts to reduce (indirect) contact. They are basically a tunnel for spreading from one family to another.
I generally agree that, in most cases, you want the NULLS DISTINCT behavior. But thank you for providing such a developer-friendly feature that allows flexibility here!

NULL in SQL is not terribly consistent overall. Sometimes NULL is treated like "unknown" and sometimes more like "n/a". And the interaction with non-scalar types (like records) is pretty strange. Also, it's common for ORMs to map the app language's NULL (or None/Nil/whatever) to SQL NULL, which adds its own nuance. So I can see this being a useful feature.
Casey Neistat's Wildly Functional Studio
The murder-for-hire scheme was in fact charged conduct, was introduced at trial, was rebuttable by the defense, and he was found guilty of the associated charge.
The vendor sometimes does this and GCC is much more standard in the embedded space. And crucially, it's required to be open source.

For example, for arm-none-eabi, ARM provides a GCC toolchain (https://developer.arm.com/Tools%20and%20Software/GNU%20Toolc...) but makes you purchase the LLVM-based one (https://developer.arm.com/Tools%20and%20Software/Arm%20Compi...). Now I'm fairly certain there's an open-source way to target ARM microcontrollers with LLVM but you can't download it from ARM...
I've been into 70's colorscapes recently, so when given the chance I vote for earthy tones, then beyond that I may pick colors I know i like, or based on emotional gut reaction, it depends how hard the gut reaction hits me. I'd be curious to have these stats as well. I'd also be curious to know, how often do I pick the colors I think are my favorite. Purple is my favorite color, but it doesn't appear often in earthy tones and I think I would prefer an earthy or washed out orange or green to a washed out purple.
By my experience engineers tend to way underestimate schedules and those are the two reasons. Best case scenario means no suprises come up during implementation, which is almost always false. Roughly double the best case estimate is usually about right. The second though can be a miscommunication, whether the estimate is an actual date when done or an estimate of the man-hours.
Again, this is false. The murder-for-hire scheme was a predicate to a conviction charge, and the prosecution was obligated to prove it. He was found guilty of the associated charge.
> so, for implementing the GCC frontend, read the current LLVM frontend really carefully and do everything the same way?

At a high level, this is correct: https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Ques...

> If gccrs interprets a program differently from rustc, this is considered a bug.

I don't believe they are only reading the frontend, but using the reference first, then looking to the implementation second, and asking a lot of questions along the way.
First of all, let's hope Rust development slows down in the long term as it matures. I think it is already starting as dependence on nightly is less of a thing than it used to be.

Secondly, Rust has strong backwards compatibility guarantees and you can pin your code to a certain edition.

Thirdly, one big use case for gcc would be compiling the Linux kernel that might contain Rust in the future. So it would be enough to support the subset of Rust that gets actually used in the kernel. I would imagine they would be very conservative about which features get used and adopt at a much slower speed.
hmm maybe day 2 is after day 1 and before day 3 but not necessarily adjacent, meaning a specific day kicks something off any number of days after a previous planned day? So over the course of the next month we have 3 special days that kick off different phases.
I'm not sure his few remaining shreds of mental acuity would still be left by then.
Housing is always about more than housing. You also need schools, utilities, roads, sewers, water, etc etc etc.

So you can't just "let housing be built". You have to plan a community, or you'll just lurch from one problem to the next.
I think the article is saying that the new class of problem was inspired by LWE, but adds some additional restrictions.

Edit: quotes showing this:

> Problems like this came to be called “learning with errors,” because the shove and the wind act like a source of random error on the original direction. There is evidence that it is hard to solve for both classical and quantum algorithms.

> Yamakawa and Zhandry tweaked the setup. They modified the strength of those starting shoves, making them more predictable. They also caused the wind to be determined by a random oracle so that it was even more random in certain cases but completely dormant in others.
Haaaah. Oh that's a nightmare. Thanks! I think I fixed it in a portable way...
This is corroborated by research into training for expertise. Simulations don't need much visual fidelity to be useful. At no point do you need to be fooled into thinking you're doing the real thing.

The important thing is that your mind and hands go through the right motions.

(This is useful knowledge! I have trained system administrators with simulations that basically amount to pen-and-paper role-playing with some screenshots interspersed.)
didn't notice, but again, same thing with both of them. "Here are some laws in the UK" - they respond with "let me tell you about the UK, I don't care about it but here are the reasons why I care..."
Your memory does not serve you right, and the murder-for-hire scheme was in fact part of the charges he was tried for.
These comments are very interesting to me. I first read War and Peace in abridged format in English as a high school assignment, and loved it enough to follow up immediately with unabridged in Russian (am a native speaker). Found it enthralling.

On the other hand I recently gave Gravity's Rainbow a go right after slogging through David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, and just couldn't do it. The premise seems interesting/odd enough, but I found the writing impossible to follow. I'm sure listening to it as an audiobook didn't help, but this was the first book I gave up on after 15 years of audiobooks. At some point I just thought to myself, why am I subjecting myself to something I neither comprehend nor enjoy...
If you have a pressure cooker it's not very difficult.You buy the spores in syringes and inject them into the sterilized jars. Sterilize the needle before each injection and generally keep the space clean. I have done several batches and haven't had problems with contamination so far. You just go through a few weeks of self doubt until the mycelium gets visible.
Less than one percent of circulating BTC. I don't think it will even register.
Interesting that you make this comment when it was the #4 killer in spite of what you call the "hysterical" lock downs. Also consider that many people are advocates of public transportation precisely because driving cars is so dangerous.