skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my experience in dealing with NYU (technical side of merchant dealing with NYU student cash cards), a bunch of stuff is outsourced. I think the last reply in the twitter feed “WTF” is a bit sensationalized.

Yes it’s annoying but they have a revolving door of students and visitors. Managing security is tough. Outsourcing to 3rd party for validation makes sense and brings cost down, even if it pisses of a few folks.
Requires token based diffs for what? I think the whole idea of a graph that puts automated code measurement against a dev name is misguided. It's very noisy and any actionable information you may want to get from it should be clear from other sources. Code is there, because that's the tool used. Who wrote how much code on what day is non-actionable.

If you can grade code quality, do it pre-commit/pre-merge. Why allow bad code in the first place?
> They are not physical objects and carry no identifying marks. Their only property is their amount.

True. It's not the "bitcoin" itself that's being tracked and tainted, it's the transactions between addresses that are being linked.

An amount of Bitcoin is just the balance of an address. However a property of Bitcoin is that transactions contain the plaintext address where an amount of Bitcoin was deducted and the plaintext address where the corresponding amount of Bitcoin was credited.

Thus you can track an amount of Bitcoin as it was held by different addresses.

While it's intangible, it is quantifiable and traceable.
Would it be possible to suspend these kinds of particles using a standing wave of ultrasound ? Perhaps something similar to https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265401333_Cell_and_... and then project the laser on them.
How to avoid dying in a car crash
My backup MX is set up exactly that way, with an almost identical configuration to my main MX, to avoid this problem. Fortunately the config hasn't changed in over five years.

Running since 1998, haven't been on any blocklists so far.
> browser.showQuitWarning

I tried setting this (and only this) to true, but ctrl+q still quits without a prompt.
> [I] have lost all excitement I used to have about that. Same goes for some of my family.

I actually think this is a part of the problem. We watched essentially a completely new product category invented in front of our eyes and watched it mature. The lowest hanging fruit were picked years ago (by 2012, in fact![1]). Android caught up to iPhone in a very serious way. What's left to do?

I feel like both platforms are in a state where they're 'innovating' just for the sake of it, for marketing, because people still expect the giant leaps that we had in the earlier years. Everyone knows this (Apple made a whole ad about 'not much has changed'[2]).

[1]: https://daringfireball.net/2012/05/ios_low_hanging_fruit

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwQjHZp9I6w
As an additional piece of anecdata, I was also thoroughly underwhelmed by my offer (software engineer) at Tesla; they either maliciously or incompetently tried to get me to take an offer at new grad rates, and when I laughed the first offer away (a 30% pay cut to move into the heart of silicon valley), the return offer was just strictly worse than all the other offers I got. Negotiation led to a promised increase to match, but then the actual letter was lower than the negotiated amount. Was thoroughly underwhelmed at the entire process.
also Sketch offers own service free: https://sketch.cloud
Not really related to extensions, but one thing I've been curious of for a while now: Does the Firefox team have any plans to implement something like Chrome's expensive background timers throttling feature?

https://blog.chromium.org/2017/03/reducing-power-consumption...

It seems more and more relevant these days with the advent of cryptocurrency miners.
Companies with Diverse Executive Teams Are More Profitable
I hate this line of logic. San Francisco is already insanely expensive. Letting property crime go untouched is just pushing the cost of that on to those in the city who are already strapped for time and money. My window got busted and I had to pay $350 and miss half a day of work. I fully expect this to happen again, at my own expense.
Is there a way to tap into the iCloud photo library/stream with third party tools. I'd like to do that for an independent backup. The Amazon Prime photo app managed to do it, but I'd like something I can replicate photos to my own home server and not necessarily involve yet another cloud service.
Useful to the advertiser != a valid reason

A camera in my office watching me all day would be useful to the advertiser. That doesn't make it a valid reason to put one there
So create a garbage account, that voids any premise of authenticity or identity to the social login.

Certainly this is jumping through hoops, and performing a silly dance to get a cookie.

One might suggest that it’s not a terrible idea to share passwords to these kinds of accounts with random strangers (written in bathroom stalls at train stations and airports, passed around at bars and restaurants), in order to further confuse authenticity and identity, rendering any attempt at harvesting or collecting interesting information from these emphemeral accounts as fruitful as trying to feed one’s self with the residue extracted from the insides of candy wrappers found in the garbage.
>So it should be possible to define f() and g() such that neither of those are computable, but the truth of f(x) < g(x) is computable, but not so much for f(x) < g(y).

The difficulty is really just defining an uncomputable function that has a definite value for some domain, but this can be done. Let's call one h.

f(x): -abs(h(x))
g(x): -f(x)

Gives your second inequality.
Every company can stand to lose 10% of their bottom tier every year.

The problem is that no company can accurately identify who the bottom 10% are.

The other problem is that false positives in firing will cost you a lot more then just losing an average/good employee.
Totally different API, Sqlite is SQL based while IndexedDb is a key/value store with indexing and transaction capabilities (essentially the bare minimum on which a relational database could be built, the irony).

If your model is highly relational then it doesn't matter that querying for one entity is fast when what you really need is to, for example, efficiently join together multiple entities, grouping on N columns to produce some aggregate result. This is completely straightforward in SQL, but a convoluted inefficient, error prone mess in the alternative.
> Handling this server side seems weird. Why not just have a profile in your mail client that lets you send personal email through the personal server and work email through the work server.

Then I have to have my desktop email client set up for both personal and work email sending, and my iPhone email client set of for both, and my Surface Pro 4 email client set up for both.

If everything, both sending and receiving, goes through my server, then all my client devices just have to use that one server.

In general, it just seems cleaner to keep the email clients as simple as possible and put as much of the decision making as possible on my server.
The example of using a 4 byte hex "string" in an int argument... What compiler accepts that without a warning? Don't programmers read and understand (and fix) any warnings that their code introduces?
Postgres indexes under the hood
Honest question: who's using ssb://?
Taps always irk me, if they have a single handle controlling the two valves. On the left side the handle is marked red, on the right it's blue. If I want the water to be warm, do I pull the red towards me and the center, or do I turn the handle in the direction of the red indicator, hiding it?

People made fun of me because it confuses me every time.
> even if it pisses of a few folks

Are there only a few people who realize how big of an issue having no vender-neutral solution is? That'd actually scare me.

If you think this deeper, then why not organize the voting of the government through Facebook or Google? That'd outsource the identiy management, so it's cheaper.

It's depressing how many people are blind to consequences of technological decisions, especially when financial incentives are at play.
Is there any connection to LIPO http://blog.dlib.net/2017/12/a-global-optimization-algorithm... ?
Yes, Firefox 58 has background tab throttling:

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/01/firefox-58-the-quantum-era...
I use ^_ (0x1F) which can be "typed" with Ctrl + 7 and Ctrl + / in most terminals.
For now, they created a single pixel by trapping one particle (not sure what it's made of) and beaming different colors on it.

Depending on when they managed to trap two particles, we can start applying Moore's law and double it every so often.
That's not particularly constructive, although I don't disagree with you here. If you have experience here, what has it told you?
How Sanchi's, the worst tanker oil spill in decades, could spread
Why would you want SQL on the browser? You cannot sync it to any SQL backend. Are you shipping pure client-side apps with complex data structures?
How would you go about deciding reliably whether a given Javascript program would perform a malicious computation on certain inputs? As the concept of malice seems somewhat hard to pin down, let's simplify the problem a bit: it's enough to decide whether that JS code stops at all or if it would just run forever. How to get that ad smasher written?
This is definitely true imo. But regardless, the amount of issues I’ve had with macOS especially have been pretty bad recently, and getting worse with each release.
Form and Function in Human Song
How many weeks off are you guys given? 4 weeks sounds like quite a lot (it's a whole month!)
Increased Network Bandwidth for EC2 Instances
This is a problem with bluetooth, full-stop. The protocol is insane, and this sort of thing happens frequently on every platform.
I wonder at what point people will realize that Musk is a shyster who uses his media profile to underpay and overwork his employees. Can you imagine working for someone who engages in media spectacles as a way to induce death marches? "I told every media outlet that we're going to have fully autonomous cars next year, so you better deliver!"
> However, the sooner we start, the sooner we’ll live in an awesome CSD-only future.

What if I don't care for title bars, close, maximize and minimize buttons, because I'm using a tiling window manager, making them redundant wastes of screen real estate for things I can do with keyboard shortcuts?

Or, what if I do care for title bars, because I've been using say, Windows for N years, I've well-developed muscle memory and it's the only workflow I care for?

Also, what does "Native-looking close/maximize/minimize icons" look like? Would that be "native" Adwaita buttons in a KDE desktop? Or is GNOME going to be proposing a protocol for determining what native means depending on the environment?
It boggles MY European mind that you consider 4 weeks too few.
Who's proposing a raceless society?
Or, set up a backup MX. For a number of years a friend of mine and I acted as peers for each other. When I was offline for several weeks, every bit of mail I missed got redelivered. Eventually he got tired of running a mail server of his own and I just set up a clone instance on a cheap VM slice, and things Just Work.

Yes, servers are supposed to resend when they can't connect, but in practice for those periods where the backup MX was down, I'd still lose some messages I know I should have received.
I've said this in every thread about these scummy companies, but it is entirely unconscionable that not only are we not allowed to constantly look at and correct the data about us that they have, we are forced to pay for it if we want to do it more than once a year. For them to profit off of us like that is completely and utterly immoral, especially when they clearly do not give a crap about keeping that sensitive data about us secure.
had made tweets like "kill all men"...Believe no actual ill will was intended

If someone thinks "kill all X" is okay, depending on the value of X, then there's something really weird going on! What if X is any of these? Women, Black people, Jews, Lesbians, Asians, Gay people, Republicans, or Rich People? Back in the good old days, "prejudice" meant judging people on their surface characteristics as opposed to on their merits, and such a statement would have been seen as highly suspect. Now, it's seen as the kind of stuff "Social Justice Advocates" say? People who are "community managers" have such a distorted sense of fairness that they can't parse what they're doing?

I guess even supposedly intelligent tech people believe this "X-ism == Prejudice + Power" crap? Sorry, but racism is judging people by only their race, and sexism is judging people only by their sex. The direction of the arrow does not matter. Anyone who believes something like that hasn't learned skeptical thought, and anyone who promulgates that is supporting a supremacist position of one group dominating another.

Power is contextual. This is clearly true, as demonstrated by history. Anyone who promulgates "X-ism == Prejudice + Power" as if Power is a global, unchanging vector is either dishonest, disconnected from reality, or ignorant of history.
I believe these work because of readline, and the standard text controls in MacOS use readline...

Learning keyboard shortcuts is very beneficial, at least in cases where you often do the same things. CMD or Ctrl L is one of my favorites (jump to address text box in most browsers).

It's a bit like coffee^h^h code (wow, autocorrect) optimization; a few improvements in a few places can save an immense amount of work or time.
macOS has just been killing me recently. XCode as well. Builds lock up my Mac for almost an hour without resources even being utilized according to top or Activity Monitor. If the software reliability of the Mac hadn’t declined so sharply in the past couple years (in my experience at least) I would have bought an iMac Pro as well.
It is possible to retrain yourself- I played inverted as a kid but switched to standard as a teenager for compatibility with more games.

What really confuses me are JRPGs which invert the camera horizontally.
It's kind of weird they didn't at least include Google as well, but the whole idea of them not having a vendor neutral solution goes out the window because they've admitted that they have other options, so they are already doing DB maintenance for those accounts. I mean I suppose if they enjoy the Republic of Kekistan accounts that they're about to get, then it's no big deal right?
No, it also means "utter ruin, failure, depletion, or the like."[1]. A person can be said to be "morally bankrupt" and that would also be correct usage.

Maybe consult the dictionary before before engaging in such unproductive pedantry.

[1] http://www.dictionary.com/browse/bankruptcy
What would be a "vender-neutral" solution in this case? There are very very few people that host their own email servers on the internet meaning almost everyone hitting this login window have a gmail/yahoo/whatever email address.
Ah thank you! That's great to hear. Looks like I just couldn't find the right search terms to find it.
They only have two long-term options:

1) depopulate those regions by causing folks to leave (e.g. no longer providing water services)

or

2) deploy costly (and energy-intensive) mechanisms to continue to provide water (desalination, or piping in water from some other place that will likely dry up next)
Ha. I, too, handwrote my sendmail.cf.

My wife won't let me have a neckbeard though.
This article is nonsense. Grammerly or Amazon Echo are examples of how AI can do _new_ things in a frictionless way. Reducing friction is a huge use case for machine learning. Lowering costs in this splintered economy of haves and have nots is certainly valuable but hardly the most interesting or valuable opportunity for ML.
So long as people are willing to do that work for that pay, he will. Nobody has to.
I have been using patchwork[1] as my main social network client for scuttlebutt. In my current experience, the fact that messages are not removable makes me more careful when writing and has led to much better and more meaningful interactions on the network.

Also remember that a message being in the feed doesn't mean it is displayed. Scuttlebutt is quite flexible, there are clients that have support for "chess messages" so their users can play chess, patchwork doesn't support those messages so I don't even see them. There is git-ssb[2] which allows people to host and contribute to code directly inside the feed, not all clients show these messages but they are all there.

New messages could be added for flagging a message id as deleted and clients could honor them and not display that message anymore, they would still be on the feed, much like in version control systems we still have access to deleted files (if no one rewrites history).

I enjoy how permanent things are there because as a side-effect it causes people to care more about the ecosystem and culture as those are permanent stuff you're putting out there. Check out this essay "the future will be technical"[3] about the culture on scuttlebutt, you'll see it is quite different than other social networks, but I agree with you, your experience may vary and what I consider an advantage, others may see as a reason not to use.

[1]: https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork/
[2]: https://github.com/noffle/git-ssb-intro
[3]: https://coolguy.website/writing/the-future-will-be-technical...
Yes, live.com is a problem for us too. It seems they silently blacklist ip addresses and make it very difficult to get off that blacklist. There's a thread here about it with some of us trying to figure out how to solve this problem:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/oemail...

But other than that, running my own mail server hasn't been much of an issue. Set up sendmail, use public blacklists for spam control, and it pretty much runs without any intervention.
Simple. You download the source, patch it, and build your own version.
It’s 28 days in the UK. Those weeks include the weekends!
To memorise moving around the cli:

C-f -> f for forward

C-b -> b for backward

C-p -> p for previous

C-n -> n for next

C-a -> a for Anfang

C-e -> e for Ende

C-k -> k for kill forward

C-u -> just memorise this one. It's the one you use when you suspect you've mistyped a password in ssh or login shell.

Alt/meta sometimes does what Ctrl does, but bigger.

BONUS TIP:
In GNU screen, you can use C-a-a for C-a to jump to the beginning of the line. Now you no longer have a reason to passionately hate the default C-a meta-binding for screen. You're welcome.
Voluntary forebearance is not a solution. Most companies are not The New York Times, and Equifax is providing powerful data for management to wield in relations with their workforce. Unless it becomes illegal (as it has in California), there will always be many, many companies who will not willingly give up such an advantage in information asymmetry.
oh! I was not aware of that bug! thanks a lot for pointing it to me, I will add myself to the CC list there and join the talk.
Yes. It would appear so, based on the 'conversation' on that there social media network OP posted.
I don't think so, what makes you say that?
A good way would be to accept gpg keys as identities.
A buddy from childhood took a similar role there, albeit six years ago. He, now 31 is grinded down and wanting out. This of course stems from ~16 hr. workdays for the last couple years. That works perfectly against your dating and health. He did receive options and built a mini fortune but still.. his plan is to leave soon, relocate to a small mountain town, buy a fixer upper and essentially defrag himself.

Edit/ Fun fact: paint was still wet on the Model X’s on stage at the press event. The parts to build them came in ten days before showtime. Groups of five or six were assigned one to build. He was one of them. He said he slept like 8 hours during the press build.

To clarify, I love the ambitious nature of Tesla, SpaceX etc. but I have done 100+ work weeks and it sucks. Controlling your schedule or at least your queue is what I’d consider one of the most important things in life.
Regardless of what RMS thinks, users should be protected from code downloaded from the Internet. There have been too many problems with malicious extensions not to do this.
A physical deterrent often means "Valuables within."
are there still problems like this? doesn't everyone already know the this is a saas startup now? wouldn't have all of the inefficiencies already been poached? if not I'd love to know about some
It was a plot point in Asimov's Foundation series.

http://www.asimovonline.com/oldsite/EG_Terminus.html

"Every nuclear power station refurbished by the Foundation became a Temple of Scientism with a hierarchy of priests dispensing technical and medical assistance disguised as benedictions from the Galactic Spirit. The brightest natives of the Four Kingdoms were brought to Terminus to receive indoctrination into Scientism at the Temple School, then sent back out to the Four Kingdoms to serve as the Church's Lower Hierarchy (the Upper Hierarchy being reserved for native Foundationers who understood the theoretical underpinnings of the Church's miraculous technology). Any priestly novitiates who were intelligent enough to see through the elaborate, meaningless rituals promulgated by the Church remained on Terminus to become research students (and naturalized citizens of Terminus)."
How Many People Does It Take to Create a Successful Mobile Application?
Haplogroups as evolutionary markers of cognitive ability (2011) [pdf]
this actually seems pretty cool, thanks!
It sounds to me like they move the particle around and use persistence of vision to make an image.
Eventually one of the 1000 or so Alexes is going to grope somebody.
EPA ends clean air policy opposed by fossil fuel interests
Sorry, I'm not qualified to give a good answer.

I would guess that the relatively long wavelength of ultrasound could potentially cause resolution issues.
I've noted that my wife has had a much easier experience with her iPhone X than I've had with my 7 Plus with the latest OS. I don't think its just size, its the focus is one the latest and greatest only...
Does any else remember Matt Simerson‘s FreeBSD Mail Toaster script? Seems like he’s still working on it: https://github.com/msimerson/Mail-Toaster
Out of curiosity, why do alot (all?) of the objects in the built-in library have a % after them? Is that for convention or is that required? It seems like convention (since I see <%> also), but I can't tell for certain.
4 weeks of annual leave is the minimum here in Australia.

Not including the 10 days of sick leave as well.
I went to the east coast for the cyber boom and ended up doing IT contracting for the City of Baltimore school system. I saw a large amount of the schools and it was one of the most eye-opening and saddening experiences I've ever had... and I'm an Iraq war vet. So don't discount your experience there. Baltimore is not normal. Coming from Texas where at least I can concealed carry I had a couple of really fucking hairy incidents that really bugged me that I had no way to defend myself.

I wouldn't live there if you payed me, and certainly never with a family.

Side note, did you hear about the cop who was going to testify against the PD and ended up dead? The PD there is corrupt as fuck.
RIP granite canyon :(
The snazzy misnomer of the day is “robotics”, short for the more accurate “robotic process automation” or “RPA”:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotic_process_automation

// Note: If you’re interested in getting paid to drive automation efficiencies at massive scale with any of RPA, AI, ML, whatever, I’m hiring.