skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can avoid association with what is happening for the kickback later.

AT&T just got a 25 year contract to operate a national first responder network (aka have the Feds pay for network expansion). Verizon is feverishly building out capability to deliver diminished levels of service to people who pay less to match AT&T. The fix is in, no mayor has the juice to block that.
State of the Black Market – You Can't Buy Vantablack
This story is wild. Recommended read.
And what is there to say, really? "I clicked the wrong thing." The reason why that was likely to happen is blatantly obvious to anyone who has seen the screenshots of the interface.

Edit: And STFU is smart advice in any situation where there is even a remote chance you will be charged with something. You can always make a careful statement later on advice of counsel. Nothing is lost by remaining quiet at first.
If you do not have it, the alternative is a low-end hotel where you can pay by the week, which lacks the upfront cost but costs much more over time — for the room itself but also increased food costs and life complexity.

This ignores hotel taxes which often run 15-20% with the revenue earmarked for attracting tourism/convention traffic. In some ways, hotel taxes may be the most regressive commonly imposed tax scheme in the US.
It has similar challenges than a monorepo.

First challenge is, that you have to keep some kind of reference on what proto are you using within your project. What Google (and some others) do, is that they a) put all the proto files in a separate repo [0] and then generate them for each language separately (python [1], ...). This way you can use whichever proto file you need within your project, however you have to load more libraries than you need to. To be honest, it only makes slight difference when deploying, so not too bad.

The second challenge is, that you have to generate the result files every time you make some kind of change. If you have a lot of proto files, then it may take some time to generate them and there are very little tools available to help you. Google open-sourced Artman [2] although it's more focused on APIs than managing shared protos.

The massive advantage is that, because proto files are self-explanatory and if you put enough information in them can function as direct documentation of your API's interface, you don't need to fish out the requirements in the project or in the documentation but rather just directly read the proto file itself. But this does depend on the developers, to make it as consistent as possible, which is not always the case [3].

[0] https://github.com/googleapis/googleapis

[1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/googleapis-common-protos

[2] https://github.com/googleapis/artman

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16166153
Commuting cost time also. If your rate is $80/hour, that really adds up if you have a one hour commute each way with traffic.
It's the unexpected stuff. Parking tickets when you honestly didn't mean to do anything wrong, your car unexpectedly dying, roto rooter for the pipe that blew in your shitty mobile home, the surprise tax bill because you filled out your W2 wrong, the unexpected 2x bump for your bottom end heath insurance, your car's catalytic converter dies and it won't pass inspection, your Mom that suddenly has Alzheimer's, lease renewal comes up and your neighborhood has been gentrified and is suddenly 2x the original cost, right sizing and layoffs, etc. Maybe you can work out a paycheck to paycheck strategy, but chaos theory gets you eventually.

I lived this, and got past it, but luck was a big part of it. Right place, right time, and some hero[1] gave me a chance. Not everyone is this lucky.

[1] Big thanks Gene, if you're still out there.
They are public cameras taking pubic photos.

That's the whole deal with the "creepshots" deal on Reddit/Tumbler/etc. The subjects are in a public place. If someone does candid shots of lots of different types of people in a city and puts them in an art gallery, they're often considered art (even if 10% ~ 15% of the photos are of really pretty men or women that might be taken as being sexual). However, if you have a site that's only attractive men/women in public settings .. then it's not art ... or is it?

It all comes down to context. Legally it's fine to take public photos of people in many countries (and probably should be, because we don't want to go down that slope). Is it immoral? Well, that's another issue, and that depends on the context the photos were taken in. But you have to set a line somewhere, at least with the legal concerns. You might not like it, but it's just a part of being in a free society you have to deal with.

Now if someone takes a photo in a private area, like a bathroom or spying into a home, that's a different legal issue (unless it's looking up a skirt in Texas[1])

[1]: https://news.vice.com/article/court-ruling-makes-taking-pict...
For anyone who missed it: https://twitter.com/CivilBeat/status/953127542050795520
Fantastic! Glad to hear that you're profitable. :)

FWIW, I would pay to disable ads.
Weird, but really shouldn't almost the entire focus be on the terrible design and the people responsible for it in the first place? Why does Miyagi still have his job? Unless the "button pusher" was also the developer I don't see what having him cooperate really accomplishes. I think we all generally know what he did. He clicked the wrong thing. This was practically an eventuality.
The point I was trying to make was, if advertiser's increased profits were less than the expense of advertising (e.g., a company spends $20 on advertising, but profits grow $10), then they the company would not advertise again, since that would be as effective as burning money in a pit.
Like Tesla, I think the other manufacturers are constrained by the supply of battery cells. In order for GM or Ford or Toyota or whoever to "leave Tesla in the dust", they would need to fix that somehow.

Maybe some of the major car manufacturers will build their own battery plants or some new supplier will fill the market demand, but that takes time. Until then, the incumbent manufacturers will continue to sell mostly gas cars because they have no alternative.
It's possibly a legal strategy... or possibly avoidant behaviour due to depression/anxiety for messing up so badly.

This guy is a button pusher at some random state government agency. Probably not the extroverted types who handle global media attention and ridicule well, let alone the guilt and shame of scaring the hell out of everyone in your state.

Especially given the phrasing of this:

> “He’s choosing not to have further engagement with other employees at the Emergency Management Agency who have attempted to reach out to him.”
You can do this with a rubber band on your wrist.
I love my Prius for this very reason, fold the back seat down and it’s got plenty of room for moving stuff around (being mindful of the max weight the car can reasonably haul) - if it wasn’t for my semi-purist nature when camping I’d seriously consider camping in it instead of pitching a tent.
"and, the worst part is, I'm pretty sure virtually every one of our societal and financial systems is engineered to enforce that "
Cells Are Not Computers and DNA Is Not a Programming Language (Stanford Seminar)
Have we actually seen the real interface? There was the first round, which was a mockup many were told was a 'screenshot', and a follow up that was a second mock up that was closer.

http://www.civilbeat.org/2018/01/hawaii-distributed-phony-im...

It's a common enough UI issue to be immediately clear to a professional how it happened though.
Considering compensation definitely drops in your 4th/5th year (because your on hire grant is fully vested and it doesn't get refreshed properly), you're almost certainly a sucker if stay longer than that rather than leave for a little while and then go back.
And then people wonder why Agile never produces quality results.

Intellisense has replaced the need to read the docs and Agile has replaced the need to understand what you're doing.

Its no surprise that basic knowledge found in the documentation is later "discovered" when the project is already running in production.
I live in Los Angeles. If the company is in New York, does that mean I should take out the price of plane tickets for each way?
The wikipedia article above indicates that the durability of aquatic roman concrete is the result of a reaction between the lime and tufa

>The seawater instantly triggered an exothermic chemical reaction. The lime was hydrated – incorporating water molecules into its structure – and reacted with the ash to cement the whole mixture together.
Given that the federal and state authorities are making this public, STFU was a smart move.
Slugging doesn't seem to really exist on a sustained basis anywhere other than NoVa. My guess is that it requires a specific set of circumstances to take off: SOV commutes need to be generally feasible (so that you have drivers), HOV lanes need to exist (so that drivers have a reason to pick up passengers), you need specific job loci (to make driver/passenger matching exist), and you need commuter buses (to provide the passengers).

The Pentagon and I-395 provide one of the most optimal conditions for slugging, with the added bonus that you have effectively direct access ramps from Springfield and the Pentagon that completely bypass the regular lanes. Since I-66 was HOV-only during the rush hour until recently, that probably retarded the existence of slugging despite HOV lanes (since the SOV backup wasn't so feasible). Similarly, the lack of HOV lanes in MD (save for 270) also retard the impetus for slugging.
That's why I moved to Chicago, and staying at Airbnbs while looking for an apartment was fantastic. It was hostel style so while most people were tourists, I also met friends who were in the same position as me.
The guy should get a lawyer.

This was a poorly designed software interface.
The dynamic linker is also Win32. You can wrap things to either call dlopen or LoadLibrary. In Cygwin, you have dlopen and friends which work with DLLs.
I spent months repeatedly buying disposable dishes because I couldn’t afford real ones. Ironically, I couldn’t save the meager amount to purchase real dishware because of the perpetual cost of disposable dishes. My brother once told me that he had a similar situation with candles eating into his paycheck when his power had been shut off.

If your current paycheck doesn’t take you far enough to solve the problem, you have to pay for substandard stop-gap solutions in between. This serves to prolong the time it takes to accumulate the capital needed for a permanent solution.
Goat milk is healthier than cow milk:

https://www.livestrong.com/article/402645-what-are-the-healt...

At least some Greeks appear to have a genetic mutation that shields them from the worst effects of cholesterol and saturated fat in cheese:

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/809612/greeks-un...

Even the recent cheerleading studies for cheese caution that eating it in large quantities is dangerous:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2017/12/06/is-chee...

And health issues aside, dairy is cruel:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/30/dairy-...
It's not bloat or memory leaks per se, the JVM just does not return memory to the OS after it is freed. To limit its memory usage, tune the heap size. To fully allocate the heap on startup for consistent usage, use -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch
Reminds me of "Don't talk to the cops": https://thisistrue.com/dont_talk_to_the_cops/
The short answer is that it was useful! The parameter space of things that have been tried in uncountable organisms over _billions_ of years is vast.

And proprioception is incredibly useful, even in small doses. Imagine you're a single-celled organism:

At the simplest level, some vague sensory input about your surroundings so that you can avoid the predator/find the food gives you a massive advantage over other organisms that can't. Every random mutation that improves this ability, even a tiny bit, is rewarded, as you can grow faster/die less and ultimately, reproduce more. (this is what we call "fitness" - how many of your genes get passed on).

If you get a mutation that hurts this ability, you're going to be massively penalized - eat less, grow slower, reproduce less.

In pretty short order, the organisms with higher fitness are going to take over.

Mutations occur all the time. In humans, the rate is very low - about 3 new mutations during every cell division. In many bacteria, the fidelity rate is much lower, and the reproduction rate is much higher, and so they are _constantly_ exploring new combinations of parameters. Most are neutral, many are disasterous, a few give a slight advantage.

Pile up these small advantages over millions or billions of years, and gradually, in fits and starts, very complex abilities evolve.
Smaller toll but still a toll. Do you not have a fastrak. I can't understand how anyone in the bay area who drives doesn't have a fastrak it saves so much time. You don't even need to keep it with you just register the license plate with the website.
Looking at comments on Dutch forums, the timing is related to the introduction of a new law (Sleepwet) which gives the agency more possibilities and resources to spy on citizens.
“In 2017, world leaders failed to respond effectively to the looming threats of nuclear war and climate change, making the world security situation more dangerous than it was a year ago — and as dangerous as it has been since World War II,” the bulletin’s science and security board, which oversees the clock, said in a statement.

Wait -- climate change is now factored in? That seems like moving the goalposts. The "doomsday clock" has always been about the threat of nuclear annihilation.

Two minutes to midnight is a great Iron Maiden song though.
I can elaborate on these points.

The service acts more like a key value store (this is a simplified explanation, but for your questions it will do).

You give it a value, it gives you back a token, which you can later exchange for the original value.

This means the real value is stored in the encryption service, not in the receiving applications database.
This gives us the flexibility to perform key rotation (and even upgrade our ciphers as the crypto landscape evolves) at any time without having to worry about where the the encrypted value is being used, as the only data stored outside the service are opaque tokens.

As for de-anonymizing, the service is not designed to take an encrypted value and return its token.
If that were possible, we wouldn't have done a very good job encrypting it ;)
?self-http://samuel-beckett.net/lessness.html
And the public reference genome is about 2/3 from a single African American individual from Buffalo, New York!
Turns out life also worked before electricity, but for some reason, if you were to advocate for people to live without it, most people would consider you a lunatic and luddite.
Does this work? https://github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway

Seems to generate a REST proxy server side.
The service is written in-house, but we do use Vault for things like provisioning temporary credentials.
Astronomers really hate that disco ball satellite secretly launched into space
If it helps people then by all means I hope it succeeds. But it does bring up some questions. Does strength of shock improve outcomes? Is it the actual shock that improves behavior or is that just the delivery method of negative reinforcement? (Likely the case).

I would think we could find more gentle ways of redirecting behavior, perhaps an app that keeps count of your failure and success towards a certain goal - therefore gamifying habits (likely exists).

In the off chance it is the shock that helps curb bad behaviors, I would love to see some more fashionable shock collars for the more extreme self improvement junkies among us.
You can build yourself such a rifle, or maybe even ten of them, but you can't build and sell a billion.

The points of control are pretty easy to find in a context where the Internet is run by a dozen large companies all headquartered in the United States.
This person in incredibly well advised.

Operators should not be blamed for government-mandated, piss poor alert systems. The government is responsible for this fiasco, not the button pusher.

They have nothing to gain and a lot to lose by complying with an investigation.
A company is valued in terms of the currency in it's stock exchange. A company in US has it's market cap in USD and a Japanese company has it's market cap in JPY. If you want to calculate the market cap in USD for a Japenese company, you have to use an exchange rate.

Now since cryptos are currencies themselves, it makes no sense of talking about a market cap. The market cap of stellar is the number of stellar available.

The market cap of a real currency like USD is the money supply. The money supply has probably a couple dozen different definitions depending on how you want to look at it and the fungibility of different representation of money. (Eg does it really make sense to consider burned bitcoin or satoshi's supposedly "never moving" bitcoin as part of the "money supply")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply#United_States

There is a reason forex market economists/analysts don't talk about the "market cap" of the Japanese Yen or market cap of the British pound.

There is also the whole intrinsic value of a company part. People buy stock because they believe the company is worth more than other people do. They (except for minor exceptions in the case of small investors) judge the companies future ability to generate profits and cash to decide on whether the buy or sell the stock. People buy crypto on pure speculation that other people will buy crypto in the future.
As I said: What if corrupt, evil, law enforcement working with corrupt, evil, judges are able to issue warrants and read whatever they want, whenever they want?

I think the problem I see is in there somewhere. Did I state it poorly? How could I state it better?
great comment BUT real world finance works like that too except USA keeps its currency in demand by forcing international trade especially oil to be settled in USD and invading countries who resist. Macro voices podcast went into that in super depth https://www.macrovoices.com/podcast-transcripts/341-anatomy-...
The Tyranny of Simple Explanations (2016)
sidenote: Pages indeed creates some of the best html of any Wysiwyg I've looked at.
The focus is surely going to be on finding a scapegoat to blame quickly and coming up with a story that the public can understand that makes this all that scapegoat's fault. The scapegoat will not have the word "manager" in his title. The button pusher should be only talking to his union rep and/or lawyer at this point.
I assume battery sales for energy producers will play a big role in Elon’s plans. Is he right? Maybe, if there is political will to fight climate change.
Are we all operating off of a single screenshot, or has there been a public video of what the process looks like, start to finish, including any confirmation steps?

(Bonus points if the video is not of the actual live interface.)
But Amazon's value is not based on it's assets. What is the value of AWS? Is it the physical servers and data-centers? Or is it the knowledge and systems which make it all operational.

If you can accept the later is where the real value is, eventually you're going to get to the point where you see the REAL value is in putting these pieces together into a system where a customer can exchange $$ for the value being created.

Then look at somebody like Stripe, and say, they make all the $$ just facilitating the exchange of $$ online.

Now, all of a sudden these other crypto services that enable the exchange of $$ don't seem so out there or do they?
I hate to sound like a nut but I still feel like their crappy system got hacked and they don't want to admit it

When I was a teenager I realized you could set of the emergency alert system with a dtmf 4 digit code on some 144mhz with a ham radio.

I never did it, but I pretty much expect that to be still possible.

The reason I say this is because yes, it is possible someone got the wrong button, but shit software like this probably has vnc with no auth/useless auth so someone can activate remotely
Is that 1-2 hours per day indefinitely? Or is there a training period that ends eventually?
Yes, it only works (from the employers point of view) if the following are true:

1. the employee either genuinely enjoys the work or genuinely cares about the company

2. the employee has not become cynical about the company, even if (1) was originally true.

In most lines of work these are unlikely to be true for most people. However, software engineering can, if you're lucky, have an addictive quality and be intellectually enjoyable and intellectually meaningful. If that coincides with a decent company with decent people, then weirdly, remote working can result in people working hard away from the office. In my case, getting much more done away from the office because personally I can get nothing done in an open plan office with frequent meetings.
I need to know what is the definition of "co-operation". In government lingo it could mean "accepting the blame".

In my opinion the guy is smart to remain silent.
Memory Market: Will History Repeat Itself?
I'm not assuming the original investor wasn't the owner/proprietor, but I mention the possibility. I do assume a board, if that's not present, bail.
It's definitely a good starting place for people from a CS background, but if you really want to learn biology, don't get too attached! As you get deeper, you'll quickly discover the limitations of that analogy.
Isn’t it pretty standard practice to confine (overt, obvious) PII to the users table/user CRUD service, so that the rest of the infrastructure only speaks in user IDs?
Anything you care to actually address? Lots a clicks, the only words are unintentionally ironic. How come? I mean, at least it's picture perfect, down to how you're not dealing with what I said, and comfort yourself about it. The less of you get that the more there is for me.

Jealous because you didn't turn around sophistry on adults even as a little one? Not a very intelligent and lively childhood followed by an adulthood doomed to cowardice, is that it? No parents who treated you as a person so you never felt the need to conform to abusive adults? Or just didn't happen to have the mental strength to go along with that?

But of course, I can't be personal in response to a personal attack, how dare I. My original comment was horribly wrong for reasons so foul they can't even be pointed out, but your ankle biting reply to it is just fine, heh.
Working remote is a perk. I don't see anything wrong with a negotiation based around perks vs income.

There are extremes and exceptions, of course, but the base assumption seems reasonable to me.
After a certain point, it's better to borrow against investments than to pay cash for things. This is especially true when selling your investments would trigger a capital gains tax, which would normally have a far higher rate than a loan with your investments as collateral. Plus, your investments stay in the market the whole time unless you default.

One of the life lessons I've learned from wealthy people is that they know how to use debt as a tool to keep their investments in the market and avoid taxes.
If supermarket chains can predict pregnancy based on shopping history, maybe one day mass murderers may be predicted by their behaviours as recorded in the contents of their phone?
NASA’s IMAGE satellite, lost since 2005, is alive
I think what the article is proposing is that it can be quicker to drop the indexes and recreate them than to load a lot of data in an indexed table.