skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed we do.

So, I think my biggest issue with your A/B dichotomy is that I don't see it. That is, in school, in myself, in coworkers, there isn't this large group of people who are trying to do all the theory at the expense of practicality, as opposed to this group of stuff-accomplishers who aren't theoreticians.

I mean, occasionally those people exist, both the "fuck it I'm going to sit down and type until it works" people and the "I must understand this concept before I write a single line of code" people. But as you say, everybody is a mix of both, and I think most people are nearer the middle than the sides, which makes the possibility of mild bias towards one side or the other a lot less harmful than you maybe expect.
This would quietly swallow all the errors though
“Fred visited Bob after his graduation”

such a sentence could be ambiguous because it's not obvious who graduated. Some may argue it's bob
> The scenario these address aren't two nation states going to war, one with eagles and the other with drones.

Was this as weird to type as it was to envision?
at what point does a word get used so commonly in an incorrect form that it becomes, literally, the new definition?
That's a lot of interesting writing. Thanks.

Though I think the alt-right is an embracing of the worldview of identity politics that mainly comes from the left. It's a if-we-can't-join-in-fight-them response to picking sides. That's to say I don't think it's a social conclusion to a rejection of future improvements or something.

Also, if you look at my sibling post, I indirectly point out how I think some of the implications of progressive social change have inhibited progress in other areas.

In other words, maybe we're not innovating in space travel because we're too busy innovating in generational mobility, family structure, and other things. It's unreasonable, I think, to assume that changes of that magnitude wouldn't have unintended consequences in other areas.
Considering that Jobs single handedly saved Apple when he returned I would think he would get a bit more of an honor than a theater named after him.
Load Balancer Router Reinvented
Don't know why you were downvoted.

I at least felt you were contributing constructively to the discussion and have upvoted you.
California protects these rights by default. And no company can take them away from you. (I'm not a lawyer, but this is my understanding of all current law).

That being said, it does not mean that you are free to earn money outside your employer, but they don't own your brain.

Make sure you can prove that your work never comes from work machines, etc. This includes not using company internet connections as well.
I checked Dutch, German and French. Nothing.
Ah, quoted-printable, known to cynical mail admins everywhere as "quoted-unreadable encoding".
Google’s Waze Plans Dramatic Expansion of Ride-Sharing Service
How iOS Jailbreak developers can lose their reputation in less than 24 hours
I'll chime in.

I have always asked for it politely in advance as part of the negotiation process, before there's a contract. I didn't try to strike stuff out. I specifically made it clear throughout the process that there are some things that are important to me that I wish to continue doing. It's usually never no when I ask because the outside work I've done is often the reason we're talking in the first place. When I frame it that way, they're usually able to find some exemption.

The conversation usually starts with my soon-to-be manager about me wanting to work on projects on my own time without using company resources, that don't directly compete with the company's business.

I've been fortunate enough that I've never been in a position where I've only had one offer I've had to take, though. If they said no, I was always able to go to another offer and say yes.

Some companies literally do not budge though. But I have to look out for me and my family. I do side projects mostly to learn stuff and help people. I also love writing about technology. And, for example, my current job doesn't really have a place for me to do Elm and Elixir, but I think those things are important skills for my future.

If I take a job that doesn't let me do those things, and they decide to let me go because reasons, now I'm on the market with out-of-date skills and that scares me. It also scares me to work for a company that's against me investing in my skills on my own.

I think that if I was in a situation where they wouldn't budge on that, I'd have to walk away and take my chances as a freelancer at that point. I mean, I'd rather have my risk spread out among a few clients than on a single employer who wasn't willing to negotiate.
JudasDNS: Nameserver DNS poisoning attacks made easy
It would be interesting if Apple used these chips in upcoming Mac desktops.

I'm guessing that adopting these lower priced chips without lowering prices would have a negligible impact on sales for Apple if the performance is as good as AMD claims.
Node 6 at Wikimedia: Stability and substantial memory savings
I can't remember names of people, but I'll remember their faces for years even if we just meet once or twice, and recognize them walking down the street.

I always figured it's just what I regard as important or not.
I see, thanks. In that case the customer sees the gratuity on the bill and then presumably doesn't feel the need to tip? So if I understand correctly this is kind of a way to run a no-tipping restaurant located in a place where tipping is part of the culture.
Sometimes medicine helps patients, sometimes the medical-industrial complex makes work for itself. I took a lot of medicaid patients to & from doctor appointments where nothing much was accomplished.

> In 2012, Brown had coauthored a paper that examined every randomized clinical trial that compared stent implantation with more conservative forms of treatment, and he found that stents for stable patients prevent zero heart attacks and extend the lives of patients a grand total of not at all. In general, Brown says, “nobody that’s not having a heart attack needs a stent.” [...] Nonetheless, hundreds of thousands of stable patients receive stents annually, and one in 50 will suffer a serious complication or die as a result of the implantation procedure. [emphasis added]
That's actually one of the whole points of using promises: it doesn't swallow errors.

Errors bubble up to the top-level. It's the old callback-style that swallows errors unless you manually handle them every time. It's one of the chief advantages of promises.

In my case, errors bubble up to error-catching middleware and, at the end of the chain, into a 500 error that gets logged.
they deliberately conflate legal (skilled) immigrants and illegal aliens. to them, there is no difference.

it is a hyper-egalitarian interpretation of the word 'immigrant' with no basis in law or social norms.
Deserve is a terrible and dangerous word.

Even the mere idea that jobs should be for the "deserving" sounds like some sort of weird cultist wet dream.

But maybe in the future we can get rid of borders and citizenship, establish a global government with a single labor market, and then allocate jobs to the "deserving" by going down a list of afflictions, awarding points for suffering, and then giving jobs to those who've suffered the most. It really sounds like a utopia.
Where is the policy "don't discuss voting in threads" outlined?

My personal policy is never to downvote just for simple disagreement. I upvote comments that I disagree with if I think they're making a quality contribution to the conversation. Downvotes are reserved for comments that are trivial, combative, insulting, or intentionally offensive.

For some reason I'd been assuming HN guidelines prescribed this approach to voting, but maybe I was thinking of reddiquette. In any case, it seems weird to drive-by downvote someone who's earnestly expressing their views when a reply would more clearly show that you disagree, and why.
I don't get the title. Does it matter what color the man was?
In an article about TBL I also don't expect a title beginning with 'The white man whom ....'
If there is nothing more suspicious than a cleared device, the next step in the privacy arms race is to automate the generation of an innocuous but prolific history for cleared devices and find a way to link that history with decoy accounts, preferably accounts that have existed for a while and that have been created solely for that purpose.

Scripts could be written to populate a system with an inoffensive browser history and file usage that reflects light-moderate casual use, the only issue is making any attempts at spoofing appear congruent, believable and not anachronistic with whatever dummy accounts you present.

It's extreme and absurd, yes, but preferable to have them snooping in on your actual life. I suspect crossing the border in the future will be on the same level of 'invasive' as a personal audit.
In order to get the proper Source IP with TCP Load Balancing before Kubernetes 1.5, you used to need to use a Daemon Set with Host Networking.

Kubernetes 1.5 introduced Source IP using Source NAT and Health Checks: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/services/source-ip/

You still must write scheduling rules so that pods are scheduled to have at most 1 instance running per node.
New concurrent collections?

.NET 4 is over eight years old now.

And for all these years, the docs have explicitly informed about lack of thread safety in the non-concurrent versions and referenced the concurrent equivalents.
I'm not talking about propensities of selfishness. I'm talking about the prerogative of power. Selflessness doesn't change that. Whether or not you are selfish does not hobble your prerogative to purchase citizenship and property in New Zealand.
> The Pentagon is essentially a round building

I burst out laughing at this comment, because https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essentialism

Aristotle: the essential qualities of an object are those properties that make the thing what it is, without which it would not be that kind of thing

jonwachob91: a pentagon is essentially a circle

Aristotle: u wot m8
Drug treatment could combat hearing loss
Honestly at this point just the Google Weather one...has everything I need including UV index.
The A.I. Winter Is Over. Here's Why
You don't. The unwritten assumption or meme I keep hearing from the community (not necessarily here on HN) is that if you're good, you'll just keep turning down jobs with such clauses until you get an offer from somewhere without such clauses. Otherwise, too bad: you're not talented, passionate, 10x, or whatever enough. Sigh. Sucks to be tied down to a state that does enforce and seems to encourage those clauses.
Looks to be a stage 3 proposal[1] so that seems likely. Had a quick read through, looks like a pretty solid proposal. If I read it correctly, it means `import()` will only load ES2015 modules. (I.e. the result of HostResolveImportedModule is a Module Record. That's a good thing as far as I'm concerned.

Given the history of discussion around this, this seems surprisingly low key and reasonable. (The System.loader stuff was gnarly!)

But what does this mean for nodejs? I don't see how this rhymes with current proposals re `require.import` and the likes. If the above proposal wins out it becomes a language spec, so presumably will also become available in nodejs, and if they go ahead with the ideas mentioned in another comment here, we'd have both `import(specifier)` and `require.import(specifier)` – seems pretty confusing, but maybe I'm getting it all wrong?

[1]: https://github.com/tc39/proposals
How UI prototyping is helping undergrads engineer with empathy at UPF
I'll be writing a few specs to validate my design, but spending most of my time on other parts of the toolchain. Adding new targets is straightforward to make it easier for anyone to write an architecture, so I don't feel the need to personally write a whole bunch of them unless I'm bored some weekend.

Edit:

>Mill uses two program counters, and every wide instruction is split into two parts. One of the program counters counts backward. So, the code of every linear instruction block is executed from its middle to outside by two almost independent decoders.

Oh dear lord.
Not related but Montreal is mentioned every once in a while on HN but I still feel a bit of pride every time.
racism is racist.
Mr. Lee Iacocca – The American Dream
Google Cloud Security Toolbox
Naming the theater after Jobs is a really nice touch. His product introductions are among the most iconic parts of his legacy, and you could always tell just from watching that he took great pride in doing them. A fitting tribute.
What could be true with the last generation may not necessarily hold true for the next generation.

Fair point, but I still haven't seen much - if any - evidence that it's any more necessary for developers to have degrees now, as opposed to in the past. But, as always, it's going to vary by (company|geography|industry vertical|etc ), so my sample data is almost certainly not broadly representative.

I wrote this on hardware and software made by and improved by organizations of highly educated

True, but FWIW, I would argue that "highly educated" and "highly formally credentialed" are not the same thing.
You can't necessarily discern a person's racial makeup from just their skin tone so assuming these people have "microscopic amounts of black admixture" seems pretty ignorant. Basically you just made a list of light skin black people.
Worlds largest office building
There are limitations on what employers can demand regarding assignment of employee IP in several states: California, Delaware, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, North Carolina, Washington, and Utah. This list was current ca. 2001, so it may be different now. https://www.ieeeusa.org/members/IPandtheengineer.pdf

If you live in one of those states and an employer demands assignment of all IP, even if created with your own resources, on your own time, using your own ideas, they are probably outside the law and you can point to these statutes as evidence. Of course funding litigation is another thing entirely, but if an employer has a very broad assignment expectation and is in one of these states, you should look for work elsewhere.
The Israeli Harop[0] and Harpy[1] are literally Anti-Radiation drones in service today.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAI_Harop

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAI_Harpy
Ask HN: What's the reason of Clojure having lots of abandoned libraries?
I'm curious to see whether development focused on Clojure makes sense or not.

There are just way too many such libraries, compared to other languages like Elixir or even relatively more mature languages like Go.

Is it because there is/was something wrong with the language? Or there is/was something with the tooling? Or being hosted on JVM or NodeJs (CLJS) really remove(s/d) the need for native libraries?!

P.S. This is a serious question. I'm a CL programmer and know Clojure already. Clojure is certainly full of good ideas, here I'm trying to see whether there's anything more to it.
HN expectations... ;)
Samsung+Galaxy+S8+leaked+in+live+images
in a Windows environment, Let's Encrypt does not have very good support.

There are very good ACME clients (ACMESharp, etc) for windows that allow doing http-01 and dns-01 certificate issuance. Additionally, there is IIS integration (letsencrypt-win-simple) with the stuff you would expect (cert generation for all or specific sites, automatic renewal, etc).

Basically the only thing Windows doesn't have is official support in the Certbot client.
I like how they added (what is essentially) left pad. Hah!
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I wonder, at which point do we get to MAVs that are so small and agile that a room full of 300 humans could not grab even one of 300 mavs even if they tried really hard.

In other words every time the MAV sees something coming at it, it redirects is flight in microseconds to avoid it, like a fly. Imagine such swarms infiltrating any size crowd without ever getting caught.

You could incapacitate a whole crowd via MAVs landing and causing electroshocks. Or administering a pathogen.

http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2014/04/10/insects-frui...
It depends a lot on whether the facilities can be put to good use and how big the tourism effect is in the interim.

An interesting case to study here is the town of Oberammergau in Bavaria. Several centuries ago, the people there vowed to put on a passion play every ten years if they were spared by the plague. They stuck to that vow and have been doing it ever since, putting on an absolutely top quality production each time. The next one will be in 2020, and tickets tend to be sold out years in advance.

Even though the town rakes in a lot of money during passion play years, they tended to be in financial dire straits all the time because of the enormous fluctuation, and (comparatively recently) started to use the rather large facilities that were built for the play also for other cultural events in off-years.

10 years gives you a bigger gap than the 4 years of the Olympics, but I'd expect similar issues to arise.

BTW, the story of Oberammergau really is absolutely fascinating. One of the rules is that only people born there can participate in the play, with the consequence being that the town systematically produces a massive amount of talented musicians, actors, and other artists, considering how small it is. Really makes you think: if there's so much potential there, then how much human potential are we wasting almost everywhere else!

Another fun fact is that one of the first electrified railways in Germany was built specifically to connect Munich to Oberammergau.
Losing 6 out of 14 is more than enough for me to call it "fairly unreliable." Imagine if NASA had destroyed six Space Shuttles during development.

The genius of SpaceX's approach is that they built a landing system where it's OK to be unreliable for a while. Instead of being a billion-dollar item like the Space Shuttles were, the Falcon 9 boosters are a few tens of millions of dollars apiece, and the launches are priced to cover the entire cost of them plus more.

ASDS repair depends on the nature of the failure. When a low-margin GTO mission miscalculates and craters, that does indeed take some fixing. A JASON-style tip over and kaboom seems to basically involve picking up the pieces and repainting the lines.

I think your last sentence reverses cause and effect. If they substantially cut down on core construction, that will be because the landings became reliable enough for that to happen. That doesn't make failures costly now.

I will also note that their landing approach is inherently unreliable to a degree, because there's little redundancy. If Falcon 9 loses an engine on the way up, it's fine. If it loses an engine during the landing burn, it's going to kerplode. If it loses an engine on the way up, then that will likely wreck the fuel margin needed for landing. I'd be shocked if Falcon 9 can ever achieve anything like the Shuttle's perfect 133 out of 133 landing record. (I'm not counting Columbia since it was ultimately a launch accident that manifested on reentry, and never got anywhere near the actual landing.) But that's fine, they don't need to.
Chrome Version 56.0.2924.87 (64-bit)
macOS El Capitan 10.11.6

And yes, it appears fixed now, thanks!
> It seems to be focused on restricting government action, like you said, not restricting the actions of individuals.

Libertarians believe in restricting actions. They just think having the government do it in all cases is an overreach and harmful. If citizens want, through free speech, new mores, and free association, to eliminate tobacco addiction, that's not a big problem. In contrast, having the government throw people in jail over cigarettes is not acceptable.
And I don't think anyone is saying it shouldn't be allowed, legally. We're saying, it's bad for society that this has become normal.

E.g. If you lived in a society that found adultery almost
totally acceptible, You could think adultery is wrong, you could not like that society considers it acceptible, but you could still be against making it illegal.
First (amateur) third-party benchmarks confirm a ~$350 Ryzen beats $1000 Intel processors in CPUMARK, 3DMark Fire Strike Physics, Cinebench: https://www.chiphell.com/thread-1706915-1-1.html

AMD had said for years their Zen goal was a 40% IPC gain over their previous microarchitecture, but they ended up with a 52% gain: http://www.anandtech.com/show/11143/amd-launch-ryzen-52-more...

Today's launch event by AMD's CEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v44wWAOHn8
CentOS should get their stuff when RedHat is finished, as is usually the case, I think.
I watch shows with Spanish dubs + Spanish subs. Since they are translations, the language is simplified.

At first it was super slow. I paused almost every frame to look up words or phrases with google translate. If I still can't divine the phrase, I switch the the English subs for that frame.

Over time I just got better. Now I can watch shows without much pausing or word lookups.

I can read Spanish fairly well these days. Unfortunately, it didn't seem to work out my hearing/speaking muscles at all and I have to train those independently.

The upside is that I can netflix & chill with a Spanish speaker.

The catch is that this isn't a good strategy for shows that you particularly want to enjoy. Translations lose pretty much all the character, becomes robotic, and the characters are spread between the same 2-3 voice actors.
Zero to One was a hell of a read, even just as a Thiel biography - I think you're right to conclude that he's not a libertarian in the classic sense. The "Secrets" chapter among others suggested that he just has a vastly different view of where value and progress come from than most people, and is driven by that rather than the usual moral/economic arguments for libertarianism.
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Identity politics is quite regressive. I left that out but it's another example of 70s-liberalism and as such has become a part of the great synthesis.

I'm not sure I buy the latter part. The still-innovative cities and regions of the USA tend to be more on the socially liberal side of the divide, and if you look into the people who were responsible for all that basic invention in the past you'll find quite a mixed bag of social viewpoints from Marxism to early-SJW-ism to Naziism and eugenics to everything else you can think of.

At best I think there is little correlation between proximate political views and capacity for invention. But on a deeper level I think all of these people had a basic futuristic orientation to their thinking.

Edit: think of it this way:

Marxists, 60s "Leary era" hippies, post-WWII era American progressives, Eisenhower conservatives, and eugenicists and Nazis all believed that they were working to create a new and better world that was qualitatively superior to the existing world or to worlds of the past. They just disagreed about how and about what that new world would look like.

All the post-70s liberal and conservative regressive movements I discussed all agree that a new world is futile or foolish and that we should go back to something. They just disagree about why innovation is futile and what we should go back to.

The alt-right as the ultimate synthesis posits that we should go back to nature and the Bible and the pre-enlightenment social order. It's a totalistic anti-progressive movement.