skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If your formal education was math, then you should probably demand your money back.

Why? Have you spotted any errors in my lectures? They're usually very well received and I haven't had any complaints. Or perhaps your knowledge of math is as rich as your knowledge of sexism, and you say I'm wrong because that's what you think you're supposed to say in a debate and you really have no clue?

> Your idea of "science" laughable.

Why, what's my idea of science and what's wrong with it?

> Your attempts at drawing analogies is nothing short of desperate. Comically desperate.

For once I agree. Debating a topic with someone who knows absolutely nothing about it yet insists on making bold assertions tends to strain my rhetorical skills. I'm used to debating with other knowledgeable people. People ignorant of a subject usually just start flinging personal insults when they realize they have nothing intelligent to say, and it takes a lot of patience to keep them engaged. Analogies, even bad ones, often do the trick.

> Anyway, it's been fun.

Has it? I find it frustrating to debate something with someone who knows nothing of the subject they're debating.
This isn't necessarily surprising. We share all the same DNA after all. A gene that makes a male a better hunter would also get passed on to his female children. Even if they don't benefit from it, as long as it doesn't hurt them, there's no selection pressure to make that trait vary by gender.

But even if the differences between men and women are only in a few small areas, that doesn't mean they don't matter.

One of my favorite studies is a school that made every students grades public like a leaderboard. They made getting good grades a competition. And the male students improved a bunch, and the females didn't change.

There are some other studies where researchers try to remove as much cultural influence as possible and give kids a selection of toys. And they find boys still prefer to play with trucks and girls dolls.

Some people try to explain away all sex differences as cultural. The problem with this hypothesis is its not falsifiable. We can't raise people in artificial cultures and see what happens. Whenever a specific cultural hypothesis is disproven (e.g. proving the tech industry isn't sexist by comparing the percentage of female tech workers to CS majors) they can just insert another one that's even harder to disprove (eg that its role models.)

I don't know what theory is true. In my personal experience, the women I have known did have very different interests and ways of thinking about things. I find it hard to believe its entirely cultural. That doesn't make them inferior or anything, just (statistically) different in a few areas.
You make some very interesting points on flexibility and the ability to adapt. I also wonder how China is able to keep adapting to circumstances and survive if the voice of people is not heard.

But then I realize China has a different system to allow that to happen. In modern China, the only way for politicians to go up the ladder of leadership is to slowly rise from the bottom.

In this sense, they were once a normal citizen as well, and through working closely with the local community in the early political career, they should have a good understanding of the impact of policies on average citizen.

The fact that China is still strong in terms of economics despite being one-party is largely due to the economic reform pushed by the highest leadership Deng Xiaoping.
Don't have Facebook account. I did get a Google account but only used it for the purpose of communicating to somebody on a Youtube Livestream. Now that I'm reminded of that I'm going to delete it... done!

I recommend Fastmail for email. It is pretty much for the same reason that Saul Goodman asked Walter White for one dollar.

I know I mentioned using Youtube in the other thread we were talking in - but actually I don't use it conventionally, I usually use youtube-dl to download 720p copies of the videos to my hard drive, and sometimes download entire channels that way.

It's so much easier than dealing with youtube's playback issues, it's a much higher quality experience.
I think it's a bit dangerous to imply that modern vapor recovery systems make starting a fire with open flame near a gasoline dispenser improbable.

Stage II vapor recovery systems (the "secondary hose inline with the gas hose") have been, or are being, decommissioned all over the United States[1]. In many areas they were only required in ozone non-attainment areas. Modern cars have on-board refueling vapor recovery (ORVR), but plenty of people still drive older cars. I think it's safe to say that the combination of a pre-ORVR car with a dispenser that doesn't have Stage II vapor recovery is a real possibility.

[1] http://www.sourcena.com/stage2/
The Surface Book had a ton of issues on launch; but those were worked out within the first six months. I haven't had a docking / undocking issue in ages.

I would expect a Surface Book purchased today to work without all those launch issues.
There are farms of blogs with junk content and reviews that exist purely for ad revenue and referral marketing. Online communities have sockpuppets doing the same shit. Respected news papers have "submarine" PR pieces promoting one product or another. The fake positive reviews you mention already exist - both on blogs and sites like Amazon, App Store etc.

In this vast sea of noise, it is very hard to find good information. These massive industries keep churning out ads in a million different forms & keep blurring the lines between ad/content with a motive to sell and trustworthy content from a real person without ulterior motives.

Its a constant never-ending war on trustworthy content and erodes the webs utility as a whole. In the past 10 years the web has become more and more of an artificially curated garden to sell you shit and keep you clicking.. and despite many protests about ads, they remain invasive and pervasive.

They ignore all these concerns and keep ramping it up. So I don't think twice about using AdNaseaum.
This sounds a lot like the common "God of the gaps" argument that Hitchens and others describe, in which a deity or deities are supposedly invoked to explain what we do not yet understand.

Yet it is fascinating that (1) any system of thought (including science itself) must rely on axioms; (2) by Godël's incompleteness theorem, no system of thought can prove its own axioms; and (3) thus it would seem that faith is inescapably required to believe in anything at all.

When evaluating world views, perhaps the best metric is to evaluate which of them requires the least faith.

For my part, when considering the known universe's mere existence, atheism seems to require a lot more faith than theism.
This cli is free and easy to add to a CI pipeline:
https://github.com/nodesecurity/nsp
High voltage is 1000V AC or 1500V dc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_voltage
The article briefly attempted to address the safety concerns, but I feel those homemade rigs were totally unsafe just based on the sheer number of batteries. One battery failure would cause a catastrophic chain reaction and these people are using discarded batteries.
What a ridiculous way to think.
Hi.

What you have described is not negative at all. It is just what it is with RabbitMQ. I can remember the first time(many years ago) when I experienced my first RabbitMQ node split and I was so disappointed with it. But reading on their documentation, I was able to realise that, that is just the way RabbitMQ handles partitions.

> A managed service has to solve the hard problems(high availability) to be compelling.

We hear you. And are working very hard to try and come up with high availability solutions/plans that do not have the same failure modes that currently exist in RabbitMQ.
But we believe that those problems need to be solved in RabbitMQ itself. So we are looking to see if we can come up with other failure handling modes, apart from the 3 outlined in[1]. We cant make any promises, however.

If you are already running your own node and are looking for HA solutions, then we might not be right for you, yet.
But we still believe we can offer you value by taking over the headache of running the node from you so that you can concentrate on other things.

Thanks for checking us out!

1. https://www.rabbitmq.com/partitions.html
Patreon is doing very well I believe.
Can't remember who first said: "A sentence is a formatted thought", however there is a lot of evidence how language shapes our thinking. It even includes distinguishing colors.

Maybe we should first find out how we think and then build a theory what thinking is in general.
> Also, why, if they are human being, are they subjected to lesser criminal penalties than "adults" ?

Yeah that's something that we really need to fix, although aren't there many cases of minors being charged as adults?
Until recently I basically lived of Adsense. But i never use the Internet without adblocker myself. Even on my phone and I help all my friends to get ad free as well.

The crazy thing for me is that I still did depend on ads to keep my free content alive. On the cheapest hosting option one of my sites would run into around $40 worth of hosting a month plus endless hours of moderation and 'fixing'.

I did experiment with self hosted ads. Sorrily this is a pain in itself because for whatever reason a lot of adblockers block anything that appears like a obvious ad. Even self hosted images if they may are in a subdirectory called ads or have a id therelike. So I called everything 'meow' instead of ads. A month later a popular ad block list included a filter for my ads... (~3 million sessions/month) and my self hosted, non evil, non JS ads were blocked again.

Not to mention that the income was not even a 10th.

I still am undecided on the topic. But i want people to understand that especially Adsense is indeed important for small publishers.

End of the story is i sold the site because Adsense started to pay less and less for more traffic and now a ad company is milking my back then only Adsense site with about 5 more trackers and ad networks...
What do you mean by genuine? Any recommendations on Android?
There are of course various other levels of participation. B-)

Facebook is only good for shitposting, because you cannot really engage in any "serious" discussion if at any moment your account can be frozen for weeks.

You have to be more careful with Google however. Professor Jordan B. Peterson's Gmail and Youtube-accounts were suddenly disabled "for good" without any explanations and no possibility to appeal. It is kinda difficult to use an Android-phone without Gmail-account.
You are right. Many bad assumptions were made by me today.
Why do it when you can overdo it.
US energy agency asked scientists to scrub references to climate change
iOS or Android? On Android, if I tell an app "no" enough times (2?), the system UI offers me a checkbox: "never ask about this again".

Although I suppose the app itself can show "please enable" messages outside of the system UI...
We've got a fair amount of lego train sets, I just wish it was easier to get them to interact with the recent Mindstorm sets. I'd love to program the Mindstorm to control the trains & tracks, but that's not an out of the box option.
Depends on the place. The mediterranean winter (which I am aware of) in places like Spain, France, Italy, Greece, etc, was not that much of a deal.
Go with what you know...

To me, I've used Windows for >20 years and it is the devil I know. Windows 10 is fantastic.

My attempt to convert to a Mac / OSX machine was just a confused mess that I abandoned. Like they go out of their way to do things different. [I'm not sure if they 'they' in the last sentence is Apple or Microsoft]. One thing I never got used to was that the mouse scroll wheel detection was reversed between the two OSes. And I had lots more crash problems on the Mac than I ever did on Windows.
Some people do try to come up with alternatives.

https://flattr.com/ has been around for a while, but they're doing an overhaul of their model now, together with the company behind Adblock Plus. Here's the latest related post:

https://adblockplus.org/blog/the-story-about-the-new-flattr-...
Hi, even in pause_minority mode; when the node/s that was in the minority rejoin the cluster, then it will loose any messages that it had and assume the messages of the majority.
I'm shocked by some of these answers. Is SF that ridiculously expensive these days?

For reference, I was saving 50% of take-home on a $90k salary three years ago, living without roommates in a nice neighborhood in NYC - which isn't exactly known for being inexpensive.

What do you spend that much money on?
What is BGP?
I can tell by your post that you never did any sort of meaningful repair on a car.

Yet, for some reason, you seem super concerned about what other people might do.

Is there a term for this kind of bizzare nanny behaviour?

Why pretend that you know what you are talking about and then take a step further and not only suggest ridiculous 'solutions' but push for regulations.
>For example 'judgement and decision making' in any professional field has to be built on a foundation of technical knowledge. And that judgement and decision making is probably not really transferable to other professional fields.

Is it though? Because we have the case of CEOs and upper management doing fine in widely differing companies and industries.

It's more about knowing who to trust and what the signs tell you, than about having any low- or even mid-level technical knowledge.

Taleb has this story: "“In one of the rare non charlatanic books in finance, descriptively called What I Learned Losing A Million Dollars, the protagonist makes a big discovery. He remarks that a fellow called Joe Siegel, the most active trader in a commodity called “green lumber” actually thought that it was lumber painted green (rather than freshly cut lumber, called green because it had not been dried). And he made a living, even a fortune trading the stuff! Meanwhile the narrator was into theories of what caused the price of commodities to move and went bust. The fact is that predicting the order flow in lumber and the price dynamics narrative had little to do with these details — not the same thing. Floor traders are selected in the most non-narrative manner, just by evolution in the sense that nice arguments don’t make much difference.”
For want of a dollar
Unfortunately even VisualNES experiences some inaccuracies compared to real hardware. I've only personally found an issue caused by it in one game (Who Framed Roger Rabbit,) and the effect isn't noticeable if you're not looking for it. But it is there.
> But that's another story.

We'd love to hear it
A really interesting read. I agree BGP leaks are a great risk to instability, but that could be said about any glitches that affect major backbones like NTT and Google (not a backbone but it's so well connected...). BGP Routing issues happened numerously, and will likely continue. Last year with Telia too had 4 or 5 "glitches" as they upgraded their network. [1] I talked to them about it and the mitigation is always the same, be more careful, peer review, additional filters, etc.

Since each ISP implements BGP/Routing Tables/Topology in their own way, I'm not sure what you would do about this, other than choosing your peers carefully and filter any crazy route changes.

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/20/telia_engineer_blame...
It's more a sci-fi way of expressing things, but yes, sort of. Time dilation becomes infinite at c, so massless particles do not "experience" time. This is the reason that photons on a Feynman diagram are traditionally drawn horizontally.

But the black hole part is actually wrong. Time dilation approaches infinity at the event horizon, not the singularity. So to extend your metaphor the interior of a black hole forever exists "beyond time" from our perspective.
I remember the first time I saw a fire start from a discarded cigarette. The sight was awesome to behold, especially as it burned uphill on one side of a freeway.

It's why I'm extremely paranoid about dousing anything that was once on fire.

All it takes to start a fire is an idiot and a cigarette.
>So cables are visibly the same and have a different set of capabilities. For example, Apple's USB-C cables that come with the new Macbooks aren't capable of high speed data transfer. Some cables are capable of charging at 87W. Others much less. How is this better?

Just buy the high speed/high charge capable ones and you're set. That's how it's better.

>I remember reading one description of this that went something like this: prior to USB-C nothing fit but everything worked. Now everything fits but nothing works.

Yeah, I read the same. That's why I stopped reading such things. Now everything works, with USB-C, and I don't have to worry about some writer's hysteria to drum up views.
All of my addons are "Legacy" in Firefox now. How do we get updated versions of these?
It is hard to find out what happened because it is more mundane than the titillation of vague code of conduct allegations and requires a little digging and neither of these make for good web stories.

The background context can be read here, https://web.archive.org/web/20170821222518/https://github.co...

The gist of it is that back in March the Nodejs board realized it was in non-compliance with its by-laws. The by-laws limit board membership to one employee per employer unless that company is a Platinum sponsor. Vagg and another board member were(are?) employed by the same company and that company was(is?) not a Platinum sponsor. Legal council had confirmed the opinion that this was in non-compliance with the bylaws.

The community did not appear to support changing the by-laws to allow the two members to continue to serve. Vagg's response in the linked discussion did not suggest any sort of path toward solving the problem.

--- Speculation follows

The by-laws did not provide a mechanism for handling this situation. Neither of the two employees resigned. The company did not become a Platinum sponsor. The board continued to be in non-compliance.

---Discussion

A person could make a plausible case that continued presence on the board that causes non-compliance is not an acting good faith and is therefore a possible code of conduct violation at the level of a board member. It is hard for an argument that non-compliance with the bylaws is acceptable to gain traction.

[OK, a bit more speculation] The Node Foundation's statement regarding removal is more likely to be related to by-law non-compliance than the code of conduct. Non-compliance with the by-laws is the level at which the Foundation is appropriately involved. Based on the archived discussion, the need to change the Board membership has been known for nearly six months. The failed vote to remove a member and neither conflicting member resigning means that the board is unable to resolve the problem on its own.
Ask HN: What do you wish you knew before starting your first developer position?
I start my first development position tomorrow, primarily working with Java. What do you wish you knew before starting at your first developer position?
I have not checked on iOS but I guess the app has the same behavior there since the 2 platforms privacy models are now pretty similar :
At each startup (and also maybe at each screen display, I have not checked that far) the app checks its permissions.

It first displays a full screen splash (already a big nono for a messaging app, these must load quickly) during that time. If it misses either contacts or localization it will ask for these.

Since it checks each time, even if you accept at first and revoke afterward, it will still ask again the next time you use the app (and revoking permissions understandably restarts the app).

Of course you can refuse them permanently but then the app will be stuck on that screen with a popup asking you to activate these permissions.

So far, it is the only messaging app I have seen with such an aggressive approach to critical permissions.

It can also be argued that the app does not need any of these to offer its core feature.
Border Gateway Protocol, which is the standard for routing on a super-organizational scale.

There are two (main) flavors, but here eBGP (external) is the relevant one. Instead of explaining how it'll route traffic through itself, Google can tell its neighbors that it can reach, say, Vodafone (but with a certain cost).

Importantly, this approach allows for autonomous systems to decide which routes to advertise to which neighbors. Content providers generally don't also provide transit, e.g. Google typically doesn't carry traffic from AT&T customers to Comcast customers free of charge, even if it is directly connected to both of them.
One thing that often strikes me is the use of 18650 cells in an unpractical, though technically and economically correct way. Even low power laptops today employ series of multiple 18650 cells in parallel, so why not make an effort to bring down the price of bigger cells such as the 26650 or 32650? today the 32650 costs more than the sum of the 18650 cells it replaces, which clearly explains the wide use of 18650s, but using that one would also reduce the number of cells by 2 or 3x, therefore saving some good money in both time and parts (wires, fuses/protections, holders etc). I'm talking about generic lithium cell production and marketing, not this project which is truly great even just for avoiding the burial of used cells in some 3rd world landfill.
They need to know the correct account to credit/debit for citizen points:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Credit
IFEs seem pretty popular still on long haul. On short haul they were always a bit useless. I'm a big fan of the recent trend to have mains power points in the seats so you can use your laptop or what have you.
I've worked with buy side teams and a lot of it is ignorance. I think you'd be horrored with some of the slots that your company gets purchased (and that process, in Australia anyway.) Things like having 1/3 of your 5 figure weekly budget spent on one advert.
> as it seems like you support amqps at the $55 level but do not on your pricing page.

Hi, sorry about that. We'll fix the comparison page.

> Why not support TLS/amqps at all pricing levels?

When we started out, we were offering AMQPS/TLS for all plans through certificates from letsencrypt[1]. However, it became hard to manage certificate renewals, since we had to renew them on one machine and scp them to the respective RabbitMQ servers. This was too labour intensive and not worth.
We however still have plans to roll out TLS for all plans at no extra cost.

1. https://letsencrypt.org/
Unlike Animals, Humans have Machiavellianism (willingness to manipulate and deceive others), Narcissism (egotism and self-obsession), Psychopathy (lack of remorse and empathy), Sadism (pleasure in suffering of others);
> China to forbid unidentified citizens from posting on internet platforms

This is inefficient. They just need to incentivize companies to identify citizens like we have.
https://www.versioneye.com is great, they support many languages, and maintain a checksum database for libs
I prefer wttr.in
Hi.

It started out as a side project but it has grown to a point where we are now doing it full time.
One feature of these "victim identity" wars is that a tiny number of individuals claim to speak for an entire identity group without authorization.

These claims should be ignored as illegitimate.
Given the unpopularity of my other comments, I don't think trialling children as adults will be popular either.