jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Your example is wrong. Many companies are careful not to use suppliers that use child labor because if they don't the negative media attention will collapse their market and in turn result in less money.

A better example is today many companies have no problem with doing business with suppliers that donate to planned parenthood, even though that means they are morally contributing to abortion. I know right now many of you will be screaming but abortion is morally okay, and others will screaming that they wish they could punish such companies...
Suppose someone, for example a depressed person, wants to use it to monitor their emotional state and use various automated responses like notifications or distractions to help maintain an emotional state they want?
People’s experience with deliverability of messages from self-hosted mail servers seems to be very hit-or-miss but I’m another one of the lucky ones. Rather than using Mail-in-a-box or something similar, I used a cautions step-by-step approach.

About 5 years ago, I read the O’Reilly book, Postfix: The Definitive Guide that had been sitting in my book-shelf for years. I installed and configured Postfix as a sending-only mail server on a Hetzner VPS. I sent a few test emails to GMail accounts and a friend’s Office 365 and they both worked! I then gradually added extra layers of functionality (TLS, DKIM, SPF, DMARC).

Once I was happy that I could successfully send emails, the next step was to receive email: I added MX records for my domain and opened port 25 on the firewall. I was able to use Mutt over SSH to read emails sent to my account. I later installed Dovecot (excellent documentation) and Squirrelmail (lacking in features but was easy to install). I don’t really use web-mail but I’ll probably install Roundcube at some stage and I plan to learn how to use Sieve for automatic filtering.

I thought I’d have serious problems with spam and have to install anti-spam software and/or use black-lists but that hasn’t (yet) been an issue. Simply using Postfix default options along with grey-listing and not accepting messages from invalid (according to SPF records) sources blocks all spam. The only times I received spam was when I had accidentally disabled the grey-listing (the mail logs show I get hundreds of connection attempts with only a tenth of successful connections being genuine). The system actually works better than GMail in that I don’t miss messages that were wrongly flagged as Spam. Another benefit of self-hosting is that I can quickly and easily set up account-specific email addresses, e.g., <hackernews@example.com> – no need for <anthony+hackernews@example.com>

I gradually started using it instead of GMail and it’s now my primary email account for important communication. In the four years of serious use, I haven’t had any problems (touch wood).
I don't understand why this was downvoted. This is a pretty well-written and balanced perspective, to those scrolling through the comments, I highly suggest copying and pasting this comment into a text editor and giving it a fair read.
This is also my favorite TED talk. Ramachandran has come up with some clever ways to study and heal the brain. His mirror box therapy is not only simple and effective, but his prerequisite theory was accurate yet initially based on a tiny amount of evidence.

Here's a short talk by Ramachandran on mirror neurons: http://www.ted.com/talks/vs_ramachandran_the_neurons_that_sh...
And the best educated students in the entire planet according the this metric and study? White kids in D.C. who scored a 37 (compared to #2 Taiwan with a 28) in a city whose average is 1.8.

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/11/your-chi...
It's sort of like a sentence "Me so horny. Me love you long time" but taken to farther linguistic extremes and less racist.
Seems like the focus should be on lowering the cost and increasing accessibility of retraining programs. When it's nearly free and available to anybody in need, motivated individuals will take care of themselves, and you just need to take care of smaller remnant group and address their specific issues.
> the only law that applies is the survival of the fittest.

Is this such a problem? In a world where exploits are used to break infrastructure, isn't the best solution simply to build increasingly more secure code? If that won't solve the problem I don't know if legislation will. Right now a determined hacker can harm a company via the internet (e.g. Sony). Are laws really going to stop that from happening?

If not, please correct me. I know little about cyber warfare and would love to know more.
Oh, and there are 3000 people living there? It's like he's some kind of feudal lord.
It's probably more the layers and layers of bureaucracy they have to go through to push any changes. They probably need at least 3 meetings, and several people to sign off on it.
Struct tags in Go always seemed like a very bad and hacky way to add metadata to fields. I really hope that's something they'll look into in Go 2.
I got the same response: happy to know they're at least adding an "advanced input" mode or similar. To their credit Slack's support has always had good communication in my experience. Glad the feedback made it to the right team, and that they seem to be listening.
> Dikes will be built

* Venice entered the chat *

For reference:

Dikes are not cheap to build and maintain, securing the dutch coasts cost ran up to $13 billion in 2013. That cover about 700km of coast lines & river sides.

Not sure how many kilometers of dikes will be needed, but based on http://world.bymap.org/Coastlines.html even covering 10% of the coast lines will cost more about $1 trillion.
This is a outright lie, he has never denied AGW

Please cite this.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/aug/30/bjorn-lo...
Go back and look at the lines and proportions of the countach[0] and look again at the cybertruck. It reminds me of a lambo in the same way that the phantom menace reminds me of a new hope.

[0] https://rmsothebys-cache.azureedge.net/a/a/2/9/4/f/aa294f0f2...
Apparently TeXMe needs to load MathJax which in turn needs to load a bunch of fonts, so no, that script alone won't work offline.
Moving a total of 2600kg with only 150kg of "useful load" (2 people) is a waste of energy.
Most construction workers want a longer bed. This truck is too short to hold a sheet of plywood.
I'm in the UK and was diagnosed at age 31 - ADHD was barely recognised as a thing for kids when I was at school and if I hadn't met two adults with it during my 20s I'm not sure I'd have ever sought out my diagnosis - and that process wasn't particularly simple.

There were definitely years spent afterwards unrolling maladaptive coping strategies I'd developed, and I've just had six teeth out leaving me with less than half of what I should have, so definitely use reminders to brush, it's super-easy to forget.

PS. I've been on Ritalin (the Concerta XXL slow-release) for a decade now and it's a life-changer. The first time I woke up in the morning and remembered what it was I'd been thinking I needed to do before I went to bed was amazing.
Isn't it a bit of a stretch to build the definition of what a union is by using anecdotes as building blocks? One could argue the same for pretty much any other organized group (companies, governments, ...) yet we don't define their function by individual actions.

In summary: People don't usually form unions to beat others in parking lots, you know.
PostgreSQL is great, but I don't think your statement is particularly true.

Process per connection is pretty easy to accidentally run into, even at small scale. So now you need to manage another piece of infrastructure to deal with it.

Downtime for upgrades impacts everyone. Just because you're small scale doesn't mean your users don't expect (possibly contractually) availability.

Replication: see point above.

General performance: Query complexity is the other part of the performance equation, and it has nothing to do with scale. Small data (data that fits in RAM) can still be attacked with complex queries that can benefit from things such as clustered index and hints.
Its better to work on getting all those users before planning what color the ferrari will be..
Got any examples of how this manifests?
Did you ever set up SMS 2fa? Did any of your contacts use the Facebook app to sync their contacts (at least at one point a default behaviour)? Then Facebook has your number. I remember when I still used it being promoted by a bar at the top of the web UI "Is this your number?" With my actual number suggesting I add it to my profile, so I know they have mine.
There's a difference between wanting to ban something because it is a threat to your autocracy and wanting to dissolve something because it is too powerful and abusive. Punching down vs punching up.

I think most people of that persuasion just want to break up large tech companies though, not ban them outright.
IIRC, HCQ was promoted as an early treatment, not a replacement for the vaccine.

This original article is about vitamin D and I agree with GP that I never saw claims that vitamin d alone can sort this out. I’m sure you can find any bunch of freaks on the internet, I was mainly following medical practitioners and select elected officials in this.

For me vit d was about improving general levels of immunity with the methods easily available at the time to minimise the death toll, not completely eradicate the virus.
Not only was it reachable by the other links to the file, the file ID which had been DMCA'd could regenerate links via the premium account API. So warez sites could automatically regenerate megaupload links everytime a file gets a DMCA. Surely this is incriminating?
The graphs have been generated using Python's matplotlib[1] 2D plotting library[2].

[1] https://github.com/Dobiasd/articles/blob/master/programming_...

[2] http://matplotlib.org/index.html
I dont think the CEO should be doing the hiring... it should really be the tech lead -> CEO later to confirm?
You're describing a lot of wars here. War isn't always the correct decision, but it is often a reasonable one. E.g. Britain declaring war on Germany at the onset of WW2. Millions died so that even more could continue to live in freedom.

The Holocaust wasn't known about at that point, either.

Is locking down schools (again) a good idea? Maybe. I'm not sure. But it isn't a monstrous view to think that it isn't. It's a balance. Personally, I'm not American, but you seem to place a lot of emphasis on your freedoms. Is one person dying for the freedom of your entire country to many? Would you sacrifice everything for that? What about ten? A thousand? A million? Where you draw the line is how you balance it, and arguing to draw the line at such a point that schools are still open is a reasonable views.
Is this true in the FTZ as well? I've yet to find really good reliable info on the net situation in the FTZ...
yep really unbelievable.. maybe it is a kid who posted this
Just don't send your kids to a school that uses such technology, and don't work for employers that use it.

If you cry for regulation, it is a sign that government has too much power. But more regulation gives governments even more power.

Make sure that your citizens have basic rights. Obviously being judged by an algorithm can not make for fair laws. Governments can use algorithms for their assessments, but their has to be a line of appeal.
Like signal, their server code on github is not what they are running.
Why not? They probably have a bunch running for QA and similar. Maybe even a handful for fun. But I agree that this number is probably insignificant. I would guess in the low 10s of servers.
Not every reusable piece of code is a framework.
>Such oversight is essential to defend against systems driven by what I call the phrenological impulse: drawing faulty assumptions about internal states and capabilities from external appearances, with the aim of extracting more about a person than they choose to reveal.

I think the reality is a bit more cynical. People are looking to filter on who will provide the right social performance. But that's not as comfortable to admit when you're on the side of using or selling such a system.
This talk looks pretty epic. I'm glad this discussion is being injected into the mainstream. I wish every one had an opportunity to use a network computing environment such as MIT Athena once in their lives. The original plan wasn't simply to grant blanket licenses for science and simulation software to users in the academic community. But create a true edtech platform that could be used to learn anything: languages, design, entrepreneurship, etc.
mmh. weird. is the tracker updated?

https://elonmusk.today/#500-thousand-teslas-year is still on there.

while it seems that tesla did reach the milestone in 2020 according to https://backlinko.com/tesla-stats
It'll still only work if tax policy is globalized. As long as there are tax havens this cannot operate. And the appeal of being a tax haven for small nations is incredible.

In most places (e.g. Luxembourg, Basel, Lichtenstein, ...) the "pick your favorite tax scheme" game is tolerated (in Basel you can have your pick of 3 tax schemes. Anything agricultural goes for the French scheme, most of the rest, especially medical technology, for the Swiss one, Car companies like their German tax (I'm guessing to avoid import tax)). And while not quite as impactful, it's still tolerated at e.g. the French-German border.

And of course there is the "European exception". EU countries each have their tax policy set so "their" company doesn't get taxed. Even the EU proper has such a company (Airbus). But individual countries do as well: the Netherlands has Shell, France has Total, Belgium has lots of government non-government companies (e.g. Sita, Eurocontrol, BICS, who are "Belgian" but multinationals ...). The incumbent telecom is usually beneficiary of such schemes as well, as well as large medical concerns.

And I would like to point out: one thing FATCA (+the preexisting international income tax the US has) has done is make it much more difficult, much less worth it, for US citizens to work abroad. Do we really want that ?
> And almost impossible to be remote.

On the contrary, I find it quite easy. In the last year or so I've been to the empty office three times: twice to restart local VPN, once to sign a contract because I was switching companies.

I'm definitely going to be looking for remote positions in the future.
Widely adopted source code manager requires a widely adopted build system. CMake is certainly a contender but the ecosystem is too fragmented even then & you have to do a lot to try to link disparate build systems together. Also C++ is a transitive dependency hell nightmare & any attempt to solve that (like Rust has) would break every ABI out there. Given how bumpy such breakages have been in the past, I don't think there's any compiler maintainer eager for it (even MSVC has decided to largely ossify their STL runtime ABI).

Conan is certainly a laudable attempt at something like this. Without access to their metrics though, it's hard to tell if they're continuing to gain meaningful traction or if their growth curve has plateaued. It's certainly not in use in any project at medium to bigger size companies I've worked at. By comparison, Cocoapods was pretty successful in the iOS ecosystem precisely because Xcode was the de facto build/project system.
A better observation would be to see if it had an effect on their work over the next few weeks or months.
My company says it is, but I won't list it here - it's a lie. They talk a big game, then can't answer questions. Like advertising that they are partnering with a neurodiversity contracting agency, then not being able to answer if there are resources for employees who are neurodiverse. Should be a pretty easy question to answer - yes, here they are; or no.
Same applies for frameworks. Your hoping that the framework and ecosystem is clean as to get everyone to update the framework isn't an easy task espcially when a vulnerability arises from within.

It's moot. Take Wordpress for example.
This stuff takes years to turn around, before Zen AMD was in an even worse spot. Intel is down but not out, they have capital to spend and are making the right moves to get back on track.
For all practical purposes, though, it's a tap for most people. What's the limit on NFC? 1.5 inches? At least half of everyone that uses it will inadvertently hit the screen anyway. The UI should be designed with that expectation IMO.
Author here. Yes, the error was to save any other time than the local time where the meeting is supposed to take place.

The point of the post was to demonstrate that when storing future events that is supposed to happen in a certain timezone, save the local time (along with timezone) instead of converting to UTC.
A launch loop is a very similar concept, and is very serious. I think the graphic is just meant to convey the concept.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_loop

It is being worked on in considerable detail:

http://launchloop.com/slides/launchloop.pdf
I'm using FF 3.0.19. For me, it puts up the "Loading" screen, plays music and just sits there. Anything special required?
I'd say that having anyone pledge to donate anything is something to be immensely enthusiastic about.
I thought that this was one insightful article, but after reading your comment I see that not everything is as this person is trying to make us see.

There is no black and white, and not every decision/project can be put in the same sack (even though lots of em are the result of what the article says)
There's a nice book Truck De India: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/50840378-truck-de-ind... which describes the lives of truckers in India but much of it holds true for it's neighbouring countries too.

And there's a nice Podcast with the author of this book, even he mentions about how expansive the art of painting and decorating the trucks is in Pakistan: https://seenunseen.in/episodes/2020/9/27/episode-192-the-lon...
You're going to collect sufficient private personal information about and successfully impersonate 12,000 citizens without anyone noticing? The burden of proof is not on me here. It's an absurd challenge. You can't just hand wave it away. That difficulty is by design. That's the system working.
The claim in question is that religion was designed for the sake of mass manipulation. Because some religions have been shaped and curated deliberately does not mean that religion didn't originally emerge organically as a consequence of shared culture.
It used to be possible, not anymore.
There are some teams that only work on high impact projects. If you feel that your current team is only doing work that's not valuable, you need to change teams or at least let your manager know to change your project. Ask for projects that you think will bring revenue to the company. Revenue = impact or increase in productivity of other engineers (this may involve writing an internal tool, etc.)
I don't want to sound over critical. It's not about the vim. Can you generalize it a bit more?
Let me take a shot at it(!?)

You introduced a new tool to your workflow. The consequences of that was

- Lower productivity initially
- You where forced to think about how you create/edit your code

So, what made it work for you?

- Thinking about how you structure and edit your code. This gave you some clarity around how to think and solve a given problem. Longer you practiced this, better you became at it.

- Learning a new tool made you a better at certain things (Say how you manipulate large amount of text?). Better you became, more confidence you derived out of it. More confidence resulted in taking up more harder problems, and the cycle continues.

- You have started thinking about your tools. You spent time and energy in learning it. This has broadened how you think about software development. This in turn has widened your ability to look at the software problems.

I am not sure what I wrote resonates with you or not. But this is what I took away from you response "Making that change has improved my thinking"

I feel, it's not the choice of the specific tool that made a difference, but the result of changing your regular habits that VIM bought about in your way of writing code.
I am sure, a person who changed to emacs or Jetbrains also would have seen something change :-)
It’s incredible we don’t have cameras recording every step of the counting process.
> even without signature verification you can only cast votes for people registered to vote. That really isn't very fraudy in my book.

No, that definitely is fraud.
If seesawtron won't go to the trouble of using WhatsApp (an alternate way than Signal) of getting in touch with his friends, is seesawtron really their friend?
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At no point was I touting Obama. My criticism for Bush, and Republicans, in general, is they are more focused on preserving the existing status quo (and the current beneficiaries of it) than they are in advancing free market principles. This is exactly why he did the half-ass measure of HSA's while still leaving the exsiting insurance industry absolutely unchanged.

I think the notion of Obamacare representing what Obama, or even most people on the left, "wanted" is patently false. Obamacare isn't what they wanted. Its what they could get after the insurance lobby and the Republican establishment scared old people into thinking a single payer system would involve them being subjected to "death panels." Let's not forget the signs labelled "Keep the government off my Medicare".

The Republican party once (correctly in my mind) opposed Medicare. Now they rely on its recipients to keep them in office, and even expand it (Bush). Which is proof to me that they are the political party of the "I am doing well in teh current system, so don't change anything!" crowd than the actual libertarian reformers they pretend to be.
Based on the current rate of processor development we will probably be able to model a human brain in realtime around 2045 on a supercomputer.

We can model the processing of a human now but it is exceedingly slow, and it is just toy calculations. So even if we can model a mind in 2045 it will may be a long time after that before it can be done in a meaningful way.

In the meantime we will probably be able to model humans in a more simplistic way. Our external interactions are simple. If we can record all interactions of a person over time we can develop a cognitive profile and develop a 'beta' copy of that person. Not a real thinking AI, but to someone interacting with that copy essentially the real thing.

People are working on this topic now but they're a long way away. I'm guessing 2035.
I read this article as

"STEM education to the exclusion of other liberal arts"

versus

"STEM in balance with liberal arts"

and I tend to agree the latter is more preferable for the overall well being of a society.