skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was apprehensive of your comment at first since you start with fierce criticism of Mozilla. But on reflection, I concur that regardless of the high esteem I have for Mozilla generally, it is disconcerting how little attention Thunderbird sees despite its regular use by so many people. I've never agreed with the neglect it has received from Mozilla and, in fact, feel that Mozilla is missing an opportunity to help resuscitate and modernize email.

Email, for all its faults, is among the most successful distributed protocols. And as a champion of protocols over centralized services, Mozilla should be emphatically in support of keeping email relevant, modern, and productive. Not only is Thunderbird part of that, but I'd like to see Mozilla expand their email vision to include tackling client-side encryption (ala GPG, but made user friendly).
I remember naively believing that FDIC covered theft. There are little notes and placards posted all over banking websites and physical locations advertising that your funds are insured by FDIC. I'll bet most people who see those signs believe the same thing I believed: that "insured" in that context meant your funds were protected. Against theft; fire; fraud; etc. Right?

But FDIC _doesn't_ cover theft. Or anything else. It only covers bank failure. Bank runs were a real problem back in the old days, and the fear of it drove most people to leave their cash in mattresses. So FDIC was created to alleviate those fears and get cash back into the banks. That was, and is, its only purpose.

Not that that isn't a useful thing. It certainly came in handy again during our last recession. But this knowledge raises an important question. If FDIC is the only insurance I've seen advertised by banks, and it only covers bank failure ... what covers everything else?

I assume, hopefully, that banks have private insurance policies or something. Maybe they're legally required to have a private insurance policies. I just don't know. I bet most people don't know.

Very interesting stuff.
I fully support equality for all and believe that as long as people are not hurting others what they do with their life and body is their call but your argument is not advancing that cause.

You seem to infer immunity on the part of those you deem oppressed from having their statement being taken at face value but don't extend this same courtesy to those you deem oppressors.

You believe that someone should read "kill all men" and respond in a curious manner, because you think you are in the right, regardless of whether they are a parent of small male children. We exist in a nation of free speech but if you say something, it is not the responsibility of the listener to do the research to figure out if there is some deeper meaning to what you are saying. Even if there is a deeper meaning, calling for the eradication of a gender or race is not going to initiate the productive conversation between the speaker and those being targeted that you think it is. I have young boys and once someone says to me "kill all men" anything else they say is pretty much meaningless. There are better way to initiate a free exchange of ideas.

Many would not extend this courtesy of looking for deeper meaning to those whose view points you are trying to change. Would you be happy to initiate a calm thoughtful conversation with someone who tweets out that "Women are ruining this great nation" or would you call for their firing and censorship?

Individuals have different ideas on life and that's ok but the workplace is not the right place to discuss controversial topics unless the freedom of expression is extended to all view points, and there has to be an understanding that feelings may be hurt on both sides.

Finally, words have specific meaning, especially the written word. Words also carry consequences. If someone says "Kill all men", I will believe that what they mean is "kill all men".
I prefer the term "rusticate".
Sure, I agree with that. I want this policy made known to me before I decide whether to attend or not.
I'm not sure if we're now going in circles or if you failed to read what I just wrote. Repeating it:

"The implication of your comment is that the wisdom of the masses is little more than incorrect answers canceling out on average leaving nothing but a survey of experts. Yet I think there's no evidence for this (even if it may be a perfectly logical 'kneejerk' reaction) as it works even on things where nobody is an expert, and if this were the case then we ostensibly should be able to get comparable answers from coordination - yet coordination causes the entire system to collapse. ... "

I'm not sure if you even realize all the assumptions you're making. You are assuming, for instance, that 'guesses' are regularly distributed. That assumption may be correct in some cases - I expect in many it is not. Alternatively there is the possibility is for you to claim that you're referring not to the individuals in question as the estimators, but the entire group. In that case you've spent a lot of time saying nothing as it boils down to "people are only correct if they're correct."
That's where the oil is as well as relatively cheap electricity. The area is quite developed for the purpose of extraction.
you should give it a shot, interactively working with stuff is an excellent learning experience; my 11 year old daughter is having a great time, she might be a bit stunned if i said "here now you have to do it like this in C"
It's actually 118e/month (the price on the webiste are excluding VAT).

I'm using it, and I can only recommend - 0 problems, pretty decent box for a low price. Great solution, and waiting for the crypto bubble to burst and GPU prices to fall !
Some of the underlying technologies are, yes.

Off the top of my head, DKIM and SPF are somewhat new, using TLS for server-to-server communication is somewhat new and not fully deployed, etc. Mail server operators need to keep track of new developments and update their software and infrastructure to account for them.

There is no possible way that the current state of email is how it will be forever.
The dirty truth is that a lot of Americans sympathized with Hitler at the beginning of the war. This was a major reason for the US's initial neutrality. The universal hatred of Nazism came only after the war concluded.

Further a lot of major American companies were hedging their bets in case the US remained neutral - in which case Germany would have been a major power. The situation is similar to Apple and Google appeasing Chinese censorship today (albeit without the death camps).
I love The Master and Margarita. A lithuanian friend introduced me to it and she told me that it was censored back when Lithuania was still part of the Soviet Union and they used to share those parts in secret (copied on a typewriter).
It turns out there's a sequel! http://www.georgehart.com/bagel/knot.html
Speaking as a snowboarder, I take different lines than a skier does and I get off the chair lift differently. So I see why they don't interact well on the slopes. In practice, everyone has adapted, though.
> Isn't that only the case for gmail?

Yes. Email providers are free to create that kind of rules, and this one looks very specific to gmail.

> As an aside I'm surprised someone setting up their own dns-server would still be using gmail.

Well, be wary of getting contacts about your DNS in an email that depends on your DNS. This is the one place to use a gmail address, not one you control.
1. Are you making an "intent is irrelevant" argument about speech outside the workplace?

2. What if the speaker cares about expressing frustration about bigotry? Do they have to get your sign off on how to express it?

3. It's a little wicked to oppress people for centuries, and then tell them they have to choose between expressing anger about it or participating in a constructive dialogue about ending it -- especially when a lot of us don't even recognize the problem.
PHP is the backend language that currently pays my bills. PhpStorm and Xdebug are mature enough, so are the frameworks such as Laravel.
Origins of the Sicilian Mafia: The Market for Lemons [pdf]
I'll agree it was unwise. But the person literally clarified the point. Look, it makes me uncomfortable too, but I understand it as a style of speaking and that people get carried away and that non-offensive language sometimes feels ineffectual. Eyes on the ball: fire bigots not people who are a little loose with their language.
Thank you (and GP!) I know what I’ll be doing for the next 90 minutes.
> ...and we have no way of turning it off (temporarily) that we can't just switch right back on...

i solved this problem by convincing myself that i don't actually want to turn it back on
>and I hold a small amount of XEM.

*held

:^)
How is Ikea a charity?
> On one hand, if you live in the USA maybe it's better that a Chinese company spies on you

It depends on who the "you" is.

If it's a couple of internet nobodies like you and me that China is spying on, then it's no big whoop. But if the "you" in question is someone who works at the Pentagon, or at a defense contractor, or a diplomat, or government official, then there's a problem.
Just ahead of graduation I think of my career path a lot. I feel, that I want to pursuit a career path that I will leave a good footprint in the world.
Although I see a great culture in the software development community itself (e.g. open source software, Wikipedia), I would love to see more programmers with an idealistic drive towards society as a whole.
Think about how much money the company is saving by not reserving you a desk in an office space, etc. You may save some money on a commute, they definitely save money by you being remote. Since it's a money-saving move for them, why should you lower your salary? IMO salary should be dependent on other factors like what you're worth on the market and how much it would cost them to find an equivalent employee.
> Or do dudes the same thing.

Motor vehicles (muscle cars, Japanese sport bikes, Tesla, etc.), programming languages (JS, Lisp, Rust), liquor (vodka, whiskey, Moscow mules), electronics (hi-fi audio, pagers, TVs, smartphones), web frameworks (too many to list), beer styles ("imports", stouts, IPAs, Pilsners), grooming (sideburns, beards, mustaches), etc.

As far as I can tell, the main difference between men chasing trends and women doing is that dudes sink way more money into it and take it way more seriously.
Same as driving a "safer" car. Cars are MUUUUUUUUUUUUCH safer than they were 20 years ago. Yet car injuries are not declining. You'd think we would be waaaaaaaay safer.

Driving and biking is a large mental effort. The brain does this because it knows it will die otherwise. The safer the environment the less the brain cares about putting full power into attention to the activity.

DHH Mentioned this about F1. F1 is WAAAAAAY safer than it used to be, yet more accidents. Why? Because when before people realized that speeding down a sharp turn could lead to a fatal cliff fall, now with the guard rails they can push themselves harder without as much risk, so they do, and end up crashing.
The question is what is the true cost of transferring money and is Facebook losing money every time it does it in order for users to get addicted to using their service?
The MCTS variant used by AZ offers a big advantage in the exploration/exploitation tradeoff, with a better exploration profile during training and better exploitation during competitive play.

The training phase emphasizes exploration using a modified upper confidence bound for tree search criteria to limit the expansion of the search tree. With a uniform prior over the action space (like standard MCTS), you will explore a large number of unlikely actions. The prior provided by the NN allows them to bootstrap the value of leaf nodes _and_ efficiently sample the actions at each state. AZ has eliminated the simulation phase of MCTS entirely.

AZ uses different criteria for move selection during training and during competitive play. The competitive selection criteria basically replaces the UCBT criteria with standard argmax over the actions (like a normal RL policy selection). We know that tree pruning can be very effective during search _if_ you can order the nodes in a beneficial way. AZ MCTS uses the output of the NN as the prior instead of a uniform prior, which is like a "virtual" pruning (because moves with low probability in the prior are unlikely to be explored). This tends to more quickly focus the search on strong lines of play, so the algorithm produces strong choices with less search (AZ uses about an order of magnitude fewer expansions than other state-of-the-art MCTS engines).
Well, if that bio triggered me, I'd probably assume bad intent. But it doesn't trigger me, so it makes me glad to see people fighting for inclusion.
> When it becomes trivial to generate convincing fake videos, nobody will take said videos seriously.

People often weigh evidence based on what interpretation confirms and reinforces their existing biases - there is plenty of unconvincing, obviously fake video out there of conspiratorial and paranormal activity that people nonetheless take seriously.

In a court of law, sure, the value of video evidence will be diminished, but in the court of public opinion, when these videos are indistinguishable from reality, not explicitly labelled and the subjects have the weight of political, social or religious prejudice against them? Probably not so much.
Brb, writing an article about how Gordon Rugg and Donald Fisk's previously thought-to-be-meaningless text was deciphered by an AI. Did they channel ancient Bengali spirits when writing it? Read more to find out.
OnePlus isn't all that special in the hardware category. Buy any device supported by Lineage OS and go nuts. If you want the whole package from a single company keep your eye on the Librem 5

https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/
Dovecot Push Notifications for iOS
Jordon Peterson has genuinely bad and poorly defended ideas imo, but he’s clearly not a racist or bigot. I think his ideas have been inflated in value because of his public (and admittedly very effective) rebukes of inflammed liberals that attempt to label him as a bigot. He’s great at public debate, but he’s a bad intellectual.
Someone should build the app that replaces one actor's face with the viewer's own face, rather than a celebrity. It could 3D-scan the viewer and automatically find videos with sufficiently similar actor bodies. Then you could watch yourself interacting with the other actors.

Depending on the personality of the viewer, it would be either the best or worst thing they'd ever seen.
There’s no way it’s true though. It’s simply not big enough.
> I didn’t realize that saying “kill all men” was attempting to foster a useful discussion.

It's not. It's meant signal membership in a group and piss other people off (and show you don't care you did it).

> In fact, I’d say there’s nothing constructive about saying that even if you know the context.

The "context" is just an attempt to delegitimize the people who find the statement objectionable.
I fully believe that people should be wary of "just rewrite it mentality". However, in this case, when we've had a mostly-dormant Thunderbird for a long time, based on what is now an outmoded development toolkit (the outmoding of which supposedly had a non-trivial amount to do with security) backed by a very complex and large upstream codebase, which is itself in the process of being abandoned for next-gen solutions, is it really wiser to resurrect the old code?

I've used Thunderbird off and on since it was announced and I know that it has many advanced features. It's no slouch and I deeply respect that there's still a local mail and news client that somewhat works and sometimes gets a little bit of TLC. But the ecosystem is in shambles, and this is only going to get worse as Firefox diverges.

It would obviously take time for a serious revamp to reach parity, but Thunderbird needs a total skeletal reconstruction to pull it off life support and get people excited again. This is just upping the cholesterol meds.

All the other "client-side email software" applications in recent memory have been Electron apps. Surely Mozilla can do us one better, and build a revitalized Thunderbird with staying power on an appropriate modern stack? This seems like a great pilot project for a serious Rust-based desktop toolkit.
Chicago bankers will push down Bitcoin in 2 hours
Futures will expire at 3 pm central time and bankers use this to double their power to push down BTC and buy it cheap.

www.cmegroup.com/education/cme-bitcoin-futures-frequently-asked-questions.html
So I’m not the person who posted the code, but I don’t think I really understand what you mean but I want to learn from it. Can you explain what it would mean in practical/layman terms to resume his work better?
And here is a much lower budget (but still enjoyable) documentary about Fine Art, an AlphaGo clone by the Chinese company Tencent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHJ2BnFx8Ak

Favorite line from it: "AI blew the gates of the Go palace open. And we realized there was no one inside."

Another interesting thought was when one of the developers gets asked why bother to clone AlphaGo when AlphaGo already exists, he says something like "Was it pointless for China to develop the atomic bomb even though the USA already had?"
I was thinking the same thing, at least in the US it will expand the shadow of a doubt, as any doctoring could lead to inadmissible evidence.
If the US mandates insecure products or backdoored encryption, it will put the US at a competitive disadvantage.

The other 96% of the world's population will know that if they want a secure product don't buy from the US.
A usd-token requires trust that the token issuer isn't just printing magic internet money. You've just moved your point of failure from the exchange, to the token issuer.

All evidence points to USDT being just that - magic internet money, with nothing backing it.
Ironically SES-14 was originally slated for Falcon 9

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/6wimhc/ses_switches...
true samizdat!

I have the english translation by Burgin and O'Connor, which is excellent. https://www.amazon.com/Master-Margarita-Mikhail-Bulgakov/dp/...
And with this, Intel's market cap went up by twice as much as AMD is worth.

If one were to look at AMD and Intel, one would infer that AMD is the nice guy that always plays by the rules and Intel is the brute that's in it to win it no matter the cost.

You might be rooting for the nice guy, but you should never kid yourself that the odds are stacked against him even when he's doing all the right things. The brute isn't looking to play by the rules. The brute is looking to win.
A Brief History of DevOps, Part II: Agile Development
Apparently, Still not enough to get an Emmy. I lost my faith on Emmy's because of that.
The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli.
Well, you could plug Graham's number into the Bekenstein–Hawking formula[1]. The formula defines the area and there's a factor of the plank length in there, but Graham's number is so overwhelming that the the result is pretty much Graham's number in any units you want.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-hole_thermodynamics
The Blood Feud That Launched the War on Drugs – POLITICO Magazine
Fuck George Soros - destroyer of sovereign nations and a full blown murderer.
I'm very much a leftist, and I agree that there is a problem with this. But being more precise is important, because there is a long tradition on the left for pushing for tolerance as well. Libertarianism started on the left.

Fittingly for this debate, the word "libertarian" was first used by the anarcho-communist Joseph Dejacques in attacking the anarchist Proudhon for his misogynistic views [1]. But unlike the "diversity-advocates" you complain about, Dejacques argues for diversity as a consequence of liberty, and argues for liberty as essential to the humanity of all.

Applying power over others to force diversity is the antithesis of this, and there is a major schism over this on the left just as there is between authoritarian and anti-authoritarian ideologies on the right too.

[1] https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/joseph-dejacque-on-t...
Yes good point. Pre-loading the full distance matrix is the right thing to do here. That's what we were doing at a startup as I was at a few years ago. GraphHopper is quite expandable so it is nice to work with once you understand how it functions.

But you definitely need to put your Java hat on :).
The Epistles of the Bible: Romans, 1-2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1-2 Thessalonians, 1-2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Hebrews, James, 1-2 Peter, 1-3 John, Jude
Nope, all you need is a public address, some technical know-how, and the will.
Antifragile - Nicholas Nassim Taleb

Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut

Pavarotti: My World - Luciano Pavarotti, William Wright

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World - Jack Weatherford
"hired by $some_old_PHP_shop throwing Ansible into the mix"

Wholeheartedly agree. Got brought on board and Ansible was the first tool I reached for (there was previously nothing like this in place). The new tech is great, but something more broad in scope that can work with different kinds of systems can really come in handy if you're not working on new tech or greenfield projects.
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life - Mark Manson

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard Feynman

Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
I ran my own mail server (a few VMs in the cloud) for about five years. It's fun as you have control over accounts, aliases, forwarding, sieve tricks as well as backups. It's good to know that your broker and doctor's mail is delivered directly to your server and not Google.

It sucks ass when your mail does not get through as GMail/Hotmail rejects a connection from the IP address your cloud company allocated for you, in spite of DKIM etc. Or they decide to mark your mail is "suspicious" and it goes into the recipient's Spam folder. Fighting these huge hosting companies is impossible as they don't want to talk to you.

Also constant tweaking Spamassassin is not fun. My setup worked well for for the first four years but then started letting more crafty junk through... So, I had to compromise by moving the mail to Fastmail.
Coinbase Support issue going to Texas Licensing Board – if not relief
@brian_armstrong

RE: Case #3176651 - PROOF in Emails from Coinbase, Screen shots - and detailed pdf sent to support.

Coinbase Support has not gotten back to her in timely manner and she is getting jerked around.

Enough is enough -

5 more days for Coinbase to provide relief or - complaint to: Texas Department of Banking, 2601 North Lamar Boulevard, Austin, Texas 78705, 1-877-276-5554 (toll free), http://www.dob.texas.gov .
You can have a backup server that holds your e-mail until your main server goes back up. You configure priority in DNS zone file.
Yeah, no, it happens in San Francisco, Portland, and
New York, too.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/...