skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't worked 40-hour weeks in nearly 7 years, and have recently started working for myself as a consultant.

If you go this route, it can be very rewarding. Work no longer becomes something you "have" to do, or something you escape during the weekends, but instead something you're doing because you want to, and doing it as much or as little as you want (within reason, you still probably have bills).

The most important lesson I can share is to be forgiving to yourself.

You will definitely spend whole days watching youtube or doing something 'unproductive', sometimes for long stretches.

Then you'll get dizzy thinking of all the lost opportunity and feel even worse that all you're doing is being 'unproductive'.

Remember this is normal, and human. If you're able to tell yourself it's OK, and try to just aim for being a little better about it, you'll be fine. If you beat yourself up about it, it'll just take you that much longer to get out of it and get to things you want to do.

Nowadays I recognize my unproductive cycles as a need to do something different for a while (eg. drawing, cooking, music) but it took some time to get used to harnessing my own motivation and accepting that it waxes and wanes as it does.
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I wonder why you can't export them as a read-only git repository. (Read-only to avoid people messing around with the history)
I am a monk.

God says...
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I talk with God as you can see.

You are a major retard, LOL.

Yer fucked.

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God says...
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My point is that Chrome cannot always auto-update for all installations. From that standpoint I made the comment that an Internet based revocation code may not be sufficient, and disclosures/notifications will still need to be monitored by administrators.
My understanding is that the reason is because that's how insurance works.
You have to look at statistics, not just declare that installers are professionals so it's nonsense.

Yes, building power plants is dangerous too. The question is, how do they compare?

Wikipedia has some stats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents#Fatalities

Rooftop solar is vastly better than anything fossil fuels, but worse than nuclear, wind, and first-world hydropower.
There's always limit on how much one can focus. Here's what I do to compensate:

1. Write everything down, in some sort of structured form.

2. Take breaks.

3. Return to writeup, think about it some more.

This scales from smaller two day things to multiple month projects; see Rich Hickey's talk, which focuses more on the latter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc
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Why would it require tens of thousands of people?

Again, if an election is close you can flip it with less than 100k votes. And even if you don't flip it, you can cast doubt on it's legitimacy if you leak some information showing what you did.

The machines are generally stored in centralized locations that aren't particularly secure.

If there are exploits that can be ran from a USB drive, one break in and you could hack machines that will be used by tens of thousands of voters.

You could potentially pay off a security guard to let a few people in or just pay someone has access to the stored machines to do it for you.

The CIA could definitely pull this off in another country, not sure why you think a foreign government couldn't do it here.

We managed to load stuxnet onto airgapped embedded computers in a high security nuclear facility. Voting machines are easy compared to that.

I have no idea why you think you need tens of thousands of people to install an exploit on a few thousand centrally stored computers, built and maintained by a few companies.
Yeah, and it's actually more general than that: it describes how to serialize and deserialize them generally, so you could use, say, serde_json to get json, or serde_yaml to get yaml.
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Biomass, according to IEA [1], is 10% of global primary energy production. It might not contribute lot in the US, but for example here in Finland, wood biomass accounts for one quarter of all the primary energy production.

1: https://www.iea.org/topics/renewables/subtopics/bioenergy/
Here it is from my perspective:

I raise this every once in a while on BTC discussions and nobody's ever been able to tell me anything about the investment fundamentals of BTC. Why should it even be worth anything, and why should it go up? Owning (some part of) a BTC just means that you can use the blockchain to prove that a while ago, someone raised the total entropy of the universe by solving a relatively unimportant crypto problem. I fail to see why that (solving an insignificant crypto instance) should be worth money in the first place.

BTC is literally just some bits in a few computers out there. It is not backed by the full faith and credit of a stable entity like the US government, and, because the blockchain is literally a distributed, public transaction ledger, it's more trackable than cash (as another commenter noted. I can't reasonably expect to make significant amounts of transactions with them in day to day life (Bay Area coffee shops that accept BTC notwithstanding). I can't explain it to my mom, which tells me I don't understand it, and nobody else can explain it to me, which tells me they don't understand it.

Even assuming you can answer why they should be worth something, why should these bits be worth more than the output of /dev/random, or some bits that make up a MP3 file?
If it's fishing you want, the water reservoirs for nuclear power plants make for good spots. I used to live over by the Rancho Seco plant, and its backup water reservoir (and the surrounding land) is still maintained as a public park even decades after the plant shut down (and was maintained as such even when the plant was operational, from what I understand). Good trout over there.
In Singapore, every building of a reasonable size has its own zip code
I remember when these guys were getting their start, I was working for Best Buy at SXSW ages ago. They were super passionate about their product and getting everyone to try it.

I'm glad they 'made it', I still use the product as well.
All software depending on Github repo releases downloads are down, e.g: Rancher CLI.
Just adding to the theme of "Bill Gates was a privileged, privileged man":

https://worldhistoryproject.org/1976/2/bill-gates-writes-ope...

> Microsoft's software development [for Altair BASIC] was done on a DEC PDP-10 mainframe computer system. Paul Allen had developed a program that could completely simulate a new microprocessor system. This allowed them to write and debug software before the new computer hardware was complete. They were charged by the hour and by the amount of resources used (storage, printing, etc.) The 6800 BASIC was complete before the Altair 680B was finished.[21] This was the $40,000 of computer time [mentioned in the "Open Letter To Hobbyists"].

[snip]

> The [PDP-10] computer system was funded by the Department of Defense through its Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The computer was delivered in the middle of the night in 1969 at the height of the Vietnam War protests. Harvard officials were not pleased that Gates and Allen (who was not a student) had used the PDP-10 to develop a commercial product. They determined that this military computer was not covered by any Harvard policy. The PDP-10 was controlled by Professor Thomas Cheatham who felt that students could use the machine for personal use. Harvard placed restrictions on the computer's use and Gates had to use a commercial time share computer until MITS provided access to a PDP-10 in Albuquerque.

Was it wrong, legally or morally, to use a DoD-funded computer to develop a commercial product? Dunno, but the point is, Gates had access to it because he went to Harvard, and the software he developed on it got him into the position where IBM noticed him and his company.
> Google called its advertising approach "common"

Tragedy of the commons. At this point in time, any and all forms of data collection have become common. When I visit a website, I expect them to collect everything about me - my IP, my mouse movements, what I clicked, how long I took to click it. Just a matter of time, that they start tracking audio and visual cues as well. It's unthinkable today but we will get there. It will enter slowly in the form of alexa and google home. then a browser plugin. Then a browser integration. Then a web api. And to cap it all, everyone will claim how it's made their life better.
I haven't read it (or the underlying legislation being amended), so I don't know.

The eprivacy directive amendment (the "cookie law" I was referring to as a dud) didn't show it's flaws until it was implemented by sites in what now appears to be the recommended manner^. Basically, it allowed a generic (and IMO useless) interpretation of informed consent,

Most of the discussion (parliamentary and otherwise) was around tracking and privacy. What seemed to have fueled it was retargetting. To the best of my knowledge, google analytics, FB advertising or any of the other major ad networks have not made meaningful changes to their systems as a result of the legislation.

I think a change to browser defaults could have (still can) have a more meaningful effect than this legislation and all its regional children.

The overview you link to, describe the legislation's intent. I agree with the intent. The problems are not there. The problems are with effectiveness in practice. As I said, I don't know the details of this commandment so I don't have those details for you.

In the legislation this amends, many of the problems arise from the "user initiated" approach. You have a right to see what data FB have on you, but you need to know FB have info on you to ask about.

It also (as this article suggests) needs to deal in a lot of grey area around anonymous data.

I'm not against laws. I'm not a hater. I'm just skeptical that these issues can be resolved solely or even primarily via legislation.

^see here: http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm#se...
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Ludum Dare? :-)
Are you sure it's "User-Agent Switcher for Google Chrome", not just "User-Agent Switcher"? See my other comment that refers to the difference.
Guessing absolute failure rate previously not encountered by current graphing tool, incorrect scaling factor. Or, it was decided at some point that always reporting 0.000XXX% failure rate, even if correct, didn't offer an intuitive metric, so zeroes were intentionally truncated.
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>Also worth mentioning (at the risk of being very pedantic) that solar is technically nuclear power.

At the risk of being even more pedantic, solar is fusion power, whereas "nuclear" in the common parlance refers specifically to fission.
It's mostly due to the chemistry required to liberate the Uranium from the ore. What you have in the ore is mostly Uranium oxides. You have to strip away those pesky oxygen atoms in order to further process the Uranium. And in that process quite the amount of CO2 is produced. Now keep in mind that this must be done to all the Uranium, before it undergoes enrichtment. So for every atom of U235 you get about 200 (give or take) atoms of U238 and you have to account for all of them on the chemical side of things.

It's not that much better with Throrium either.
I recently bought a reference design RX 480 and I can run 1440p at 60fps. Some games even run at 4k with 40-60fps. I paid $150 after rebate.
>Before the IBM representatives would explain the purpose of their visit, they insisted that Dorothy sign a non-disclosure agreement. On the advice of DRI attorney Gerry Davis, Dorothy refused to sign the agreement without Gary's approval. Gary returned in the afternoon and tried to move the discussion with IBM forward, but accounts disagree on whether he signed the non-disclosure agreement, as well as if he ever met with the IBM representatives.[8]

No one knows what really happened.
Tesla's line of credit isn't due to "status" it's due to past performance.

They have consistently doubled sales and production every 18 months or so since they began selling cars, and have orders on the books showing at least as much growth for the next several years.

What "status" do you think Tesla has that makes them a target for creditors? You think Deutsche Bank just thinks Elon Musk is cool and hip?
No, that's war. Local rebellion people don't have access to thermite carrying drones.
I'm familiar with BuzzFeed's other "articles", and I've seen plenty of attribution there (e.g. articles that basically come straight from reddit, with each bullet point attributed to a reddit username, that always amuses me). I haven't actually watched any of the Tasty videos, so I haven't had a chance to see for myself if and when they get attributed, but if Kenji López-Alt is raging about Tasty on Twitter, then I have to assume there's a bit of a problem there.
There are good deployment tools for databases, e.g. ones for which all of the database 'code' objects (or just all of the objects period) are maintained in source control and updates are either automatic or scripted.

Of course updating a database is much harder than overwriting executable or library files, but a lot of the objects in a database should be safely updatable by simply dropping and recreating them.

The tricky changes are of course things like, e.g. splitting one column into two or merging two columns in two tables into one. But those changes are even harder to do the 'dumber' your database is, i.e. the less logic there is in it that enforces a certain level of quality in its data.
That is correct, and something to specify when buying a safe. In our case I was actually replacing a fire safe that my wife had bought at CostCo so fire resistance was a 'must have' feature. It has has our critical documents in it and a key to the safe deposit box where actually valuable but not something you might need to get out at home stuff is kept.
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What was happening to Github for a week or so in late June -
early July? I see "The status is still red at the beginning of the day" for a whole week.

https://status.github.com/messages/2017-07-03
Someone in AMD marketing department should be fired for this slide: http://images.anandtech.com/doci/11682/rps_vega_22.png

We need more information about "radeon" "pro" and (tm) !!!
Why do people value gold? Shiny or hard to fake? Gold ownership now is faked, bitcoin ownership cannot be.
According to this, there are multiple fatal accidents in the wind power industry each year: http://www.caithnesswindfarms.co.uk/accidents.pdf

Wikipedia's stats on energy production fatalities have wind being pretty decent, at 150 deaths per PWh (rooftop solar is 440, US hydro is 5, US nuclear is 0.01, and fossil fuels are in the thousands), but if the number is negligible it's only because wind power itself is negligible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents#Fatalities
Yestermorrow
Samsung chooses Berlin over London 'it's not fun unless you're really rich'
It's fairly clear that, absent a world government, national laws apply to companied outside of the nation based on the combination of will and ability of the particular nation to enforce penalties on foreign violations.

The ability side tends to be very high if the company at issue has any substantial assets held in the country trying to enforce the rules, or in a another country with an interest in keeping that country happy.
See if you can find a tool that creates flamegraph input files from the traces, or if not write one yourself. My causal logging library, Eliot (https://eliot.readthedocs.io), has an experimental branch for that, and it wasn't particularly hard to create the input files.

https://github.com/brendangregg/FlameGraph will then create nice graphs that can help spot bottlenecks.
Earlier this year I bought a Developer Edition (Ubuntu) of Dell Precision 5520, which is the business version of XPS 15 9560. Same chassis and hardware, better factory QA and different GPU options.

I very much regret this decision. I spent ~100 hours trying to get it to work properly and to configure Ubuntu (including supposedly simple things like switching Alt and Ctrl keys). At the hourly rate I'm charging, this is more than enough to buy ANY laptop. Next time I'll swallow my pride and just buy a top of the line Macbook Pro.

Out of the box Ubuntu works great, but it is very fragile to updating. For example, updating BIOS to a version that fixes an important CPU bug causes the computer to freeze and shutdown every few minutes at random.

Updating the OS itself caused weird bugs such as being unable to click on app menu items with a USB touchpad. Ditching the default Unity for Gnome3 fixed this particular bug.

The recovery image that Dell provides for Ubuntu simply does not work a few months after release – craps out when it's unable to either fetch or install some package. So I don't even have a way of getting a working version of Ubuntu on this laptop if anything happens to my hard drive.

Oh and the touchpad configs are appallingly bad out of the box. Impossible to use. I fixed 98% of palm interference issues with a few lines of xinput config. I don't know why Dell didn't do that themselves.

And of course, Dell only provides only 7 days of Ubuntu support. After that you're on your own.

Now I'm trying to sell this laptop, but no one on craigslist wants it even at 35% ($900CAD) off the original price. A few months old laptop in perfect condition that is still on warranty.

Speaking of Ubuntu itself, it has been a profound disappointment as well. I will not be trying Dell or linux on desktop for another 7 years at least. My 9 year old Macbook Pro is far superior to this mess.

PS I also tried hackintoshing this laptop, and it worked 95% of the way, but it requires the latest BIOS to work, and that causes random shutdowns regardless of the OS.
Were the safer designs available in 1971?
Those are all valid points. But why were they skipped over? Why was solar and wind skipped over? It barely mentions them, pretends that they don't exist.
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When you say "win," do you mean be worse? Because I think the others mean it as being better, and I'm getting confused.
Fixed now, thanks.
I had the same concern when I found out. I narrowed it to see that it was probably only within the last ~5 months that it was updated to include the badware. I don't have the skills to decode it fully (since it was obfuscated quite heavily) but I know at the very least that it sends browsing history and injects ads.

I'm not sure if extensions also have the capability to capture the https body info, but I erred on the safe side and also changed passwords.
Your standard of safety does not sound appropriate for nuclear reactors. And, the decision not to spend the money to make Fukushima safer may well have been a craven, if not corrupt, one. TEPCO has been pretty sleazy ever since the accident.
> I bet Fukushima was pretty damn safe, maybe one of the best nuclear power plants designed.

While it was an okay plant, they'd actually been warned about the emergency cooling system as early as 1967. Also, they ignored a 2008 study saying that their plant was vulnerable to tsunamis. The Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission found that all the causes of the accident were foreseeable prior to 2011.

> The best designs cannot account for everything.

The common factor in nuclear accidents so far has been operator error, and it's true the best designs cannot completely account for that.
I'm actually going about building a platform to do algo trading of equities and forex. There is a lot to learn in the finance markets before going down this path and not everybody wants to take the time to learn it.
or, if you prefer, every point is a 'knee' in the curve with a huge speedup afterward
"Good" design is ill defined. The fact that a design is riskier than an alternative does not immediately make it worse. Especially when safety can be engineered to arbitrary standards with enough money.
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Its not like your editor is down.
In case anyone else was wondering about the power requirement for the sintering furnace: 208V 3-phase, 30A. The 3-phase requirement may be an impediment to some hobbyists; they should probably offer it with a buying option of their own branded inverter.
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That's the cost of two quality CNC machines, it's definitely within the realm of access for smaller machine shops everywhere.
Did you know that if you type "Google" in the Google search box you can break the internet? :|

(BTW, this was meant as a joke... although I'm not discarding that kmfrk broke Github just yet!)
https://status.github.com/graphs/past_month
Release downloads are affected?
> Power companies don't seem to be willing to spend the money needed to encapsulate waste for thousands of years.

The "Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982" charged utilities a 0.1 cent/kwh fee for disposal of nuclear waste, and the DOE was supposed to take receipt of that waste. There is $31 billion in reserve for waste disposal...

https://www.eenews.net/stories/1059999730
I really loved the book in combination with the book Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. In Deep Work are several strategies explained to get into a state of flow by doing deep work. [0]

- [0] https://www.robinwieruch.de/lessons-learned-deep-work-flow/
"The suggestion that Netflix get rid of scale rating is pure conspiracy, without any evidence to back it up."

This has already happened, BTW, and a quick search would have shown you that, but I'm sure you were much too busy writing up your personal insults above to do any research.

https://deadline.com/2017/04/netflix-discontinues-star-ratin...
http://ew.com/tv/2017/03/16/netflix-star-ratings/
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-netflix-replaced-its-5-st...
Not really.

It is just very public when they go out.

Steam, Blizzard, Activation are down at least 6 hours a week. While Bank of America is offline 24hours/month. Scheduled downtime is still downtime.
On making architectural decisions
Vaguely related, the technical writing style manual from NASA:
http://hdl.handle.net/2060/19900017394

It's of course opinionated, but for anyone who is not an opinionated pro themselves, it's a great resource to learn concise, precise, and readable technical communication. (imho, of course)