skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, the health of the whole planet vs. one large city with an insufficiently diverse economy? Decades' worth of empirical evidence and analysis from thousands of scientists filling thousands of pages vs. hand-waving predictions of economic doom?

I agree that dismantling the fossil fuel industry would result in some economic dislocation, but it really feels like the advocates of that position expect to have their worries just taken at face value, while simultaneously expecting everyone to ignore the lamentable record of the fossil fuel industry in both pollution and obfuscation.

I'm sorry, but I'm running increasingly low on patience for people who work in this sector. Yesterday I was reading that coal miners who are being offered free training to transfer out of the coal industry are choosing to study coal mining technology in the belief that a coal resurgence is going to happen any day now.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-trump-effect-coal-retrain...

I'm strongly in favor of policies that would mitigate or alleviate such people's economic problems, but not in favor of propping up an industry that's putting everyone's health at risk.
Because I don't look at the internals, I look at the outcomes.

Eg - Everyone using google, everyone eating at Chipotle, everyone being addicted to cell phones, etc.
Locking the connection to a provided modem is not legal in Germany since 2016-08-01 by law (FTEG, replaced by FuAG in 2017) The provider is obliged to hand you the required credentials to connect your own hardware, though getting the actual required configuration may require some puzzle work, but most providers give config examples for at least the most common hardware. My setup for example consists of a draytek modem with unifi network hardware and above mentioned Cisco phone adapter. I don’t even have a piece of Telekom-provided hardware here. Took a bit of googling to get IPTv working, but other than that it’s a perfectly stable and capable setup. Many people use Fritz boxes which are a bit less capable but easier to set up.
"It wasn't some trick pulled on them by corporations or Russians manipulating social media. I realize that may be hard to understand, but it is the truth!"

You're right. That 350mn pounds/week for the NHS is right around the corner.

Brexit was nothing but a huge con.

I'll agree with you on Donald Trump. His terribleness was pretty obvious and open right from the beginning. Nothing we've seen from him wasn't evident during or before his campaign.
Is Let's Encrypt down?
Currently deploying an app with meteor to EC2, and the SSL is not working. There doesn't seem to be a certificate issued. This issue happened only today - it was working fine all this week.
It's still up in the air I think - you can see from his blog[1] that others in the the committee prefer a syntax more like

meta::type interface(const meta::type source) {
// … basically same code …
};

[1] https://herbsutter.com/2017/07/26/metaclasses-thoughts-on-ge...
Reasonable people can disagree about what our course of action should be and what sort of incentives we should use to bring it about. Reasonable people cannot disagree about the science, which is overwhelmingly on the side of possibly catastrophic climate change that has been brought about by human activities. They are /right/ to be shunned as science deniers, just as we "smear" anti-vaxxers, etc.
You decide who needs to get cut and notify only those people. Then they have a few weeks to search for a new job and get their things in order.
Lots of people use the Search functionality, and lots of people follow hashtags and trending topics.
Library for implementing Kubernetes liveness/readiness probe handlers in Golang
peaked at about $36K/year

So leave USA for a while or forever, if you need to pay $3000 a MONTH for insurance. WTF?

Unless you have a very, very specific disease everything will be solved in many other countries, at a lot less. By paying cash if needed.
Meh. If they wanted to they could fine me ten bajillion dollars for having a pirated version of Zootopia on my harddrive.

I guess my words could bite me in the ass but I am fairly confident as a non-dealer I'm not exactly a target. Probably on a radar for when the Fed runs out of Big Fish, but for now probably fine.
But given the now rather excessive cost and/or slowness involved in bitcoin transactions these days, it seems inevitable that it’ll be ousted by some other crypto currency in the illegal markets.
No doubt they could provide a better experience; the problem is probably monetizing that search engine. I have a hard time imagining an ad-based model working well.
I really appreciate that feedback.

I wanted to add a checklist option for a group, where the host adds a list of expected expenses and as the money is collected for an item in the list, the item is checked as complete.

Lets say someone doesn't have all the money needed to pay for the expenses, he will be able to pre-transfer an expense which will send the money from other users before the host pays for an expense, but additional security measures will be required for security.

Another idea I have as of right now was to create a way that within the group, the host can add expenses in bulk. What I mean is that the host can calculate all the expense he knows he will have to pay (car, hotel, gas) and request it all at once as one single amount. When money is taken from that bulk amount and used to pay for hotel, you will be notified with the amount for the hotel.

Would you prefer something like each group you are in has its own balance that everyone puts money into when the group is created and it is tracked as the host spends (similar to a Whatsapp group with its own balance), or user accounts where money is transferred after every transaction like Venmo.

There will be no social aspect of this application as of right now. It is purely productivity and finance application.
Well that vast majority has no idea the wonderful drugs they are missing out on! ;P
I am all for bitcoin but you think about it as it is right now. People turn their cash into ether then extract more cash then they put in later only because a bunch of other people are doing it too. This has to pop and when it does i buying a shit ton of it for the next rally.

--edit extra should have been extract.
My impression is that surface rust tends to form a protective layer that prevents deeper rust, so sufficiently massive steel objects aren't in much danger. I could be mistaken.
Mozilla Lean Data Practices
Also, FastMail isn't any better for privacy, and you have to pay for it to boot. The article was more or less reasonable until the nonsensical recommendations at the end.
Also a sysadmin, I've inevitably found that the environment needs/expects a number of services, and it just feels like docker is ill-suited to these use cases. Frequently even the devs themselves want multiple services and can't tolerate stateless systems anyway, but at the very least we have to deal with logging and the like.

I'm not saying it can't be done, but I've never found a developer who had a particular desire to implement containers, and even if they did, their concerns don't represent the entirety of what's involved in running infrastructure.
America's 2020 Census systems are a $15bn cyber-security tire fire
This is quite the generalization, plenty of drugs have negative side effects in high doses (see: tylenol). It doesn't mean they aren't still widely useful in small ones. If anything we need to learn more about the drug, just like any other.

> The combination of effects made 516 seem like a promising treatment for what’s known as “metabolic syndrome,” a cluster of symptoms—including obesity, high blood pressure, and high blood sugar—that is a precursor to heart disease and diabetes. More than a third of adult Americans are estimated to have metabolic syndrome, which made 516’s potential profits seem rather attractive.

The dangers of rampant heart disease and type-2 diabetes can't be understated either in this context.

Also the next paragraph notes it only caused cancer in later stages of the mouses life which may translate to 60-70yrs in humans. It's possible there are potential trade offs still at lower doses for people in their 50s at a high risk of dying from heart failure.

Not to mention tweaking the drug itself.
I had an idea for something like this. I found a fictional device called a memex on wikipedia, and I figured that it would be very easy to implement simply searching your browser cache from the address bar. Obviously the cache will need to be big and persistent, but man it sure would be useful.
2nd sentence of the article: The climate report, obtained by NPR [...]
I'd agree with that 100%. The coin flip example is what I was taking issue with. While it's a good illustration of survivorship bias, it does not apply to the stock market as the stock market isn't random.
Go/Raspberry Pi Power Piano-Playing AI
What if you can't be sure what level of redaction is safe? What if your source is compromised by some watermark or steganographic content you missed?

The Intercept had contacted the NSA on May 30 and sent copies of the documents to the agency, in order to confirm their veracity. The NSA notified the FBI about the situation on June 1. The FBI realized the documents had been printed out because the PDF copies sent by The Intercept "appeared to be folded and/or creased, suggesting they had been printed and hand-carried out of a secured space".[22] Next, the NSA did an internal audit, confirming that Winner was one of six workers who had accessed the particular documents on its classified system

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_Winner#Intelligence_re...
Thanks for the kind words! I won't pretend I didn't put a lot of work into Gratipay over the years, but the reality is that so did a lot of other people. The most meaningful part about Gratipay for me is and has been the community building it. Gosh, I want to start naming names but then I'll forget someone. Aww, heck ...

Thank you clone1018, co-owner of Gratipay, LLC! Thank you mattbk, jessa, rohitpaulk! Thank you edoverflow and the whole (new) security team! Thank you dmk246 and kaguillera! Thank you Changaco and zwn and chrisdev and rummik and seanlinsley and bruceadams and duckinator and colindean everyone else from the Gittip days! Thank you techtonik and aandis and rorepo and wyze and oakes and joonas and patcon! Thank you nobodxdobon and shurcooL and dowski and tshepang!

!m
> especially when load is unexpectedly higher

Interestingly, this is actually the opposite situation for bitcoin mining.

Bitcoin miners are usually located right next to massive solar power plants, or hydro generators.

This way, the bitcoin miners use the excess energy, that nobody else was going to use, and they use this "free/excess" energy because it is cheaper.

There is no reason at all to run your bitcoin miner during peak capacity, when electricity prices are high. You just shut off the miners, and start them back up again during the night or something.

Bitcoin mining could even be considered a POSITIVE externality, in some situations, such as when power production is so high, that the power plants sell it for negative dollars (ie, the extra power disrupts the grid, so they need to get rid of it.).
If I understand correctly, they offer this now, your private instance for your own product(s) & team(s):

https://www.stackoverflowbusiness.com/enterprise

Edit: while interesting, this (private internal instance for your team) is not what johansch is after (separate public instance dedicated to your product, for your users)
Simple introspective kubernetes service that forwards events to a specified sink
The problem with optical illusions like that is that they are, in their vast majority, made of abstract shapes. Most of them play with our perception of distance and depth - and the majority again work on two dimensions, only.

It's really hard to imagine an optical illusion that makes you mistake objects in the physical world for something else- say, panda for a lawn mower or a car for a pigeon, or something like that.

Note that I don't agree that this tells us anything about whether the human brain (or mind) is "like" a machine learning algorithm. To me this question has about as much meaning as asking if the brain is "like" quicksort.

The physical substrates are so clearly different that the only comparison you can make is on the level of capabilities (say, both are Turing-equivalent etc) not that of actual structures. Like, where's the 1's and 0's in the brain?
Do you mean podcasts in German or by Germans? If the latter, any good suggestions?
> I don't agree at all with the first argument.

Makes sense (not agreeing). The whole culture of modern society is all about not agreeing with such arguments.

That is, finding any idea of value in some authenticity that shouldn't be replicated technologically, silly.
Savitech USB audio drivers install a new root CA certificate
Okay, now tell me who I forgot (I"M SORRY!!!!)! :D
Alternatively, couldn't you make "password" an eight-character ligature that looks like the word rather than eight discs?
Like I have the time or desire to compete with most of these yokels. We give in some areas and take in others, that's how the world works. Content creators are not some unassailable gift horse immune from inspection or criticism. People are free to criticize the things I contribute to this world; and my feelings will not be hurt if they do. Perhaps you could learn from this.

Video needs smothering, not competition.
Ukraine blames infamous Russian hackers APT28 for 'BadRabbit' ransomware attack
What about the Sylvester Stallone/Keanu Reeves example? It was just a zoomed in head shot. That seems like an example where humans do a lot better without help from any additional context.
I'm more specifically talking about WebGL. We'd love to use headless chrome at our company but we can't. But even for things like CSS transforms, we do a lot of really heavy 3D work and software emulation won't cut it.
Not true, I've clicked a few on accident.
If that student flipped 200 heads in a row it isn't survivorship bias. That student has a two headed coin.
They do click on job ads.
No, they're the good head flippers in the story; they simply got lucky, someone had to, random doesn't mean no one wins, it means the winner wins by chance.
(Edit) This appears to be for non-public stuff only, though. So an internal stackoverflow.

Still no solution for a company wanting to host a public stackoverflow instance for some product.
> "People, you have to understand this: There exists a large number of others out there who desperately want government reformed, want more localized control over their lives, and who voted accordingly. It wasn't some trick pulled on them by corporations or Russians manipulating social media. I realize that may be hard to understand, but it is the truth!"

Thank you for taking time to consider the effects of media spin and not take everything you read at face value. If more people made the same effort we'd be a lot better off.
Thanks to all our translators!
>I'm sure they make TONS of money from ad revenue.

An old news article said they only get ~33% from banner ads. Most revenue comes from from job listings:

http://fortune.com/2015/01/20/stack-exchange-40-million/
Think about it differently though. He didn't really pick stocks, he picked well established products or brands that started doing or (despite a correction) continued to do well.

If the market would crash 30-50% tomorrow, which stocks would you buy? Probably Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and the likes.

Everyone has losses, and you can't always be right. But within your area of expertise or interests, you should probably be able to pick a few good stocks of good companies because you actually care and understand how they operate. But to do it structurally and consistently is harder.

I'm sure someone will reply bullshit, but that's at least what I believe. The market isn't efficient.
It most certainly can be. 200 heads in a row is entirely possible in a random run.
I also don't see why it would, but then that would of course be a limit to the idea in the paper.

I'm amazed that what the paper shows even works.
Would you pay for air?
On a totally different subject, this is why life-extension technology scares me. Science, politics, and so many other things progress when set-in-their-ways elders give way to young revolutionaries, who become elders in their own time. I worry that the generation in power when medical immortality is perfected will nearly freeze us in place forever.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2016/11/15/how-we-make-money-at-s...
I work remotely and I can't leave my friends and family over money. Money is just money, if I can max out what I make in my radius, cool, but I won't be moving to chase it.

I'm not making up numbers, just speaking from personal experience.

That article is extremely dumb. The title does not match the slogan. Is it salary or quality of life? You make way more in SF than Toronto, but your QOL might suffer because of exorbitant rental rates. That's not new information.

>To prove this, we are going to look at the money you can put in your bank account at the end of the year after paying taxes and living expenses.

We're obviously talking gross not net because net is subjective.
I don't get what this means. "AI" is a vague moniker attributed to a wide area of tangentially related technologies. It's like saying "Canada really gets relational databases". Well, good for you, everybody kinda gets it, but what this has to do with "Canada"?

Then:
it’s not up to the Canadian government to “pick winners,” but that instead that it is their role to say that they’re going to “invest in quantum, we’re gonna invest in AI

Isn't that literally the definition of "picking winners" - putting money in some specific handpicked areas? I mean, if you've got the argument for government investment in technology, fine, we can listen to it - but you can't in the same sentence deny it and praise it, it's insane!

TLDR: politicians duckspeak about being pro everything good and contra everything bad, informational content: zero.
"Layoff" and "firing" are separate concepts here. The central example of a true layoff is a trade work shortage: the layoff happens with very little notice, because it reflects the volatile nature of the demand for the trade. If there's suddenly, unexpectedly nothing for anyone to do, then there's suddenly, unexpectedly no benefit in paying anyone to come in for the day to do it.

Does that kind of situation still confer protections in Germany? If so, how do German manufacturing companies manage to not go bankrupt? Do all the companies subscribe to huge insurance pools?
As someone who reluctantly works in advertising, I can tell you that advertiser's view themselves as God's gift to the internet and think they're doing great things for it. So many people in the industry have drunk the coolaid and honestly, earnestly think that exploiting anyone they can for information just started to to make an add ever so slightly more (creepily) personalised is a good thing.

They need to be put back in their box and have a bunch of their toys taken away. GDPR is a good start.
It's undeniable that their main developer Q&A site is a really great thing that saved me many hours of work. However, it was somewhat hostile to its more export users from the very beginning: the reputation system favors quickfire replies to grab the first upvotes, and they seem to put a strong emphasis on "cookbook" answers where many of the more nuanced discussions were closed as "opinion based". I think there are some missed opportunities here to make the Q&A site even more useful.

However, perhaps that wasn't their focus. My impression is the Q&A site was supposed to be mostly a gateway to their other services, and for that to work, the Q&A part simply had to be "good enough". It's an interesting strategy that perhaps didn't work out quite the way they had hoped it would.
Print it out and scan it again. OCR it and change the fonts, say you're doing it to protect your sources.

It's easy to obfuscate stuff, and sometimes you should be willing to take risks, especially when the stakes are sufficiently high. Someone was willing to take the risk of leaking it to NPR to start with.
The guidelines ask us to eschew flamebait, which means to avoid it altogether—both making it and taking it. This is what happens.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Can we stop framing arguments as "bizarre"? It's unduly personal.

I don't think their arguments are bizarre, and it's better to meet them head-on than to insinuate they're weird.
The idea is to give notice after you figure out who will actually be cut, so that you can have an orderly handover of responsibility and knowledge.

That's how it's done in sane countries because notice periods are proscribed by law. And no, it does not lead to people vandalizing their workplace.
Then that would be another point in favor of actually exercising, if the pills don't hit enough of the same biological systems to mimic the anti-depressive effect. I'm not rejecting any benefits of exercise that can be empirically demonstrated. I just want to distinguish "X has historically been the best way to achieve Y" from "X is virtuous, and should not be neglected even if technical progress provides easier ways to achieve Y."

There is virtue in working hard to achieve good outcomes, but not in working harder than actually necessary to achieve those same outcomes. (If you want to do things a harder way than strictly necessary because it's a fun pastime for you, that's fine too. Then the experience itself rather than the end state is what you are seeking.)
If that would be true, then anything that requires discipline and motivation would help with depression. That is not the case - regular washing dishes or reading or most crafts don't have the same reported effect.

That being said, the help with depression is not because you become physically fit. Exercise works even if you train in an ineffective way. It has more to do with chemistry (e.g. endorphins) in your brain then with overall result.
> Most of SO's operations are something I would not like to fund.

Can you elaborate? Do you mean the other stack exchange sites like Photography, Gardening, Software Engineering, etc.? Or the careers site, or something else entirely? I'm only aware of the Stack Exchange network and careers.
StackOverflow ads are not the same as typical ads that technical users tend to block - they are typically just simple text links to job offers. Additionally, SO has fantastic analytics on logged in users which would drive the cost per impression up - if you've ever filled out their developer survey, you've given them everything they need to sell employers very expensive targeted ads directed at you.
I don't see why, unless you have something particularly against the $ symbol? It seems to fit with existing syntax quite well, e.g. & gives the address of a thing, $ gives the reflection of a thing. Extending that to define a metaclass seems pretty natural.
Thank you, I didn't know that. This syntax makes much more sense. Considering C++ style programming.

I am very interested in having Reflection in C++. But tbh $ makes it really awkward.
Oh yes, I hate the implementation(love the tech) behind PACTOR. Of course there's also the really annoying symbol rate limit regulations as well.

Thankfully K1JT via WSJT has been doing some awesome open source weak signal work. FT8 is pretty sweet and really exploded recently.
I'm talking gross salary offers are in the 2.5-3.5 range for me. Not factoring in QOL.