skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Anti union company finds workers need investing in.. Who knew?
Once a widget has run say 100 million instructions, suspend it if it comes from a different domain than the main page, mark it visually and provide a button on it to enable high CPU usage.

We used to do something like that with Flash: make the user click it if they want it to run.
Most people in IL don't have property taxes that exceed the SALT cap; the median homeowning family wouldn't exceed that cap in property and income taxes combined, right?
Agreed. I would love to ditch the customisations and run something standard!
Oh, FFS...

"Nobody liked our bold new creative strategy, but rather than admitting defeat, we're going to try to force it down everybody's throat by going upstream."

Gnome's application controlled UI looks like crap on other, less insane window managers, and it's been a consistent pain in the ass to make these applications behave nicely there. It's gotten bad enough that I've stopped using several "gnome owned" applications that I previously liked, such as gedit.

I hope non-gnome-affiliated package maintainers are confident enough to tell these clowns off.
So rightly said. I have my best work as private repos.
We won't go poking through waste disposal sites for no good reason.

And yet earlier today a discussion on reddit sent me once again to the Goiânia incident, in which that was precisely what happened: an abandoned medical facility was raided for scrap, which happened to include a cesium radiotherapy source. 4 people dead, hundreds of others exposed, expensive cleanup operation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident
Another (mostly ex) Robotics guy here - I have a BSEE and a MSCS. If possible, I'd focus more on the coding side of your capabilities versus the mechanical side - there's just far more upside. People tend to pigeonhole MEs way more than CS (and pay them less).

You'll get a bump though for being able to turn a wrench - it definitely opens doors. What have you been putting yourself on the market as?
> Instead of taking that quote out of context, here's the rest.

I don't think my quote is out of context.

> What it means is "in every country [where CCLI operates]".

The second sentence in your quote references the __websites__ ability to service churches in every country.

The new agreement allows CCLI to operate in EVERY country, even if CCLI does not YET operate there.

That means when CCLI is ready to operate in a new country the new agreement will allow them to do this.
Non sequitur. The fact that we had a governor that tried to sell a Senate seat does not dictate that corruption sets the high order bit on state finances. Like several other states, pension obligations that are straightforward to follow on the books seem to be the major problem we're facing.
I don't think so. It probably uses imagery from some space based system.
The hell does the prefix have to do with user rights? This is a matter of convenience, not capability.

You want arbitrary protocols? The prefix is available to you. You want blessed protocols? The non-prefix is available to you.

There's no restriction in place. And anyways, given OSS, you can bless your protocol with a custom build. But just because you want it blessed doesn't mean it should be forced onto everyone else.
Hi there,

That's a fair point about the time complexity, though the algorithm does at least demonstrate a real-world speedup of several orders of magnitude against fmfn's Bayesian Optimization implementation. However, I am not sure which performance optimizations he has implemented. Simple boils down to a handful of constant size matrix multiplies and a heap insertion at each iteration, so its performance is hard to beat.

I will update the first paragraph of the readme.
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Mary Barra is widely acknowledged to be a superior CEO. Good for GM!
> I wanted to get a valknut tattoo when I was younger just because I thought it looked cool - now I'm glad I didn't because if I had, Nazis would think I was one of them.

It's also a bad time to be a fan of the Egyptian goddess Isis.
If I had more property and my SO wouldn't smack me upside the head for spending $800 on something that shoots fire, I'd totally get the XM-42.
If youre running your own email services and wonder why outlook.com / hotmail.com are blocking you you can signup for this.
https://postmaster.live.com/snds

Its useful as quite often youll get blocked just for being in the same IP block as a spammy server. My experience to date is that once you notify them your IP isnt the culprit the block gets removed pretty quick.
You can see when hardware gets plugged in by running "dmesg" on the command line.
You can click the "web" link to search for the article on Google, and then follow the Google link to get a non-paywalled version. If that doesn't work, clear cookies / private browsing window will get around it.
Doesn't that high number presume that businesses won't move over the WI and IN border to avoid the tax increase? Most of the economy of IL is minutes from those borders.
My battery life is limited and precious. Any site that uses more than the bare minimum of CPU is malicious.

How would such a site make its battery-draining nature clear? And why would it do so, given how many people would leave immediately?
You are both very correct. I browsed through the article really fast and skipped many lines. The light-grey in my comment is well deserved!
Sorry, unrelated nitpick but the name is PostgreSQL or Postgres. Postgres started in 1986 as a followup to Ingres and the name was meant to mean after-Ingres. The query language was later replaced with SQL and the name changed again to a portmanteau of Postgres SQL

It's never PostGRE.

https://www.postgresql.org/about/history/
Was hoping to see Web SQL make its way back into Firefox.

Yes, it's been deprecated for years, but that hasn't stopped the browser makers with majority of market share (Google > Chrome, Apple > Safari) from continuing to ship it along with the strictly worse alternative (IndexedDb).

Now that pretty much every language compiles to Javascript it's a shame to lose SQL functionality on the client. Shared model, shared validation, shared SQL layer, etc. -- it could all be a unified whole, but no, now one has to wait for sqlite-lite to be built on top of IndexedDb; that or throw everything out and go NoSQL on client and server.
I follow Stallman’s school of thought that software should never restrict the user in ability.

A user should not be protected from themselves, if a user wants to install an addon to intercept paypal:// requests for whatever reason, that should be their choice. And it should not require the user to do custom changes to the system.
It's moot. Bombardier already made an agreement with Airbus to build those planes in the USA.
Three problems:

1. It would not make sense to run on mobile.

2. Mining this way is inefficient, so if the site gets one penny worth of work done, it costs me five pennies.

3. Unless readers have decent GPUs, it's probably not enough money.
I've always wanted to try Solus. The budgie desktop looks intriguing, and I've always wanted to try one that was an O/S of it's own and not a Debian or RHEL derivative. My main hang-up is concerning software availability. Since it's not your typical Debian-based OS the normal (huge) package repositories are out, so do you have to compile everything from source specifically for Solus, or do they have their own pre-compiled archive of stuff?
Good point. It's important to keep your ridiculous lunatics separate.
Citus 7.2: Distributed Postgres with CTEs, complex subqueries, set operations
Glad it works for you. My comcast connection is far too unreliable to ever rely on for email!

Curious though, can you also set your own reverse DNS entry for your static ip? I’ve found many mail servers will reject your mail if rDNS records don’t match up.
That's stuff the ad network should provide. 4th party advertisers shouldn't be able to run code.
To be clear you're saying postmeta should pony up the difference right?

(agreed)
http://www.lightpollutionmap.info has much higher resolution data, down to tens of metres. You can also choose the dataset by year - choose the "VIIRS 2017 March" dataset for the best detail. Data comes from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) satellite [1].

For example, with the extra resolution I managed to find a dark patch near the train line in between Waterfall station and Helensburgh south of Sydney - the darkest sky until you go far past Wollongong.

[1]: https://jointmission.gsfc.nasa.gov/viirs.html
I wouldn't negotiate down because of a remote position. That's garbage. I mean sure, you're saving on commute, but what would that ultimately save you in gas money? $50-100/mo? That's $1200.

In office work = free coffee, work laptop, social interaction, and sometimes free food. Pretty sure that greatly outweighs $1200.

And it's not like you're going to get the time you spent commuting back. Likely their expectation would be that you work through those hours. So. Nope.
We really need to prevent the short-term game played by politicians, where they promise rich pension benefits, do not contribute enough to the pension funds and kick the problem down the road for someone else to solve.

The only possible solution I can see is to move from a defined-benefit system (eg. pension) to a defined-contribution one (eg. 401K). Everything else seems it can be gamed.
Mozilla has always reaped a lot of benefits, PR-wise, out of the impression people form when they hear that it's a non-profit.
Well, if you cut the bagel according to this particular linked torodial method, to produce two links, you’d then be able to perform the traditional bagel slice on one of the linked halves, and that would produce a chain with three links...

But deriving from a single original torus, a chain with an arbitrary or infinite number of links, whereby each individual link is bound to no more than two other links? I’ll have to think about that one...
I think its largely a showcase of an ideal: it changes the entirety of the interaction model, and this is ideally what the extension system should be capable of, even if relatively few people want such a significant change.

And, ideally, we should see extensions upturning the interaction model as users experiment with alternatives; that this is no longer possible, that the fundamental model is defined and hardcoded (with minor flavour differences), is, I think, a significant loss.

Its a shame there are few extensions like vimperator; its a greater shame there are none.
Tesla plugs into securitisation market for new funds
It's possible that Soros is blind to those other issues because they always existed for him in some shape, during his life. Internet-based addiction, internet-based anything, computer-based anything, is something he was aware of it's introduction. That is much easier to notice, when you're alive during the change, rather than living with food additives always existing. (I think this would be called the Normalcy Bias.)

I suggest instead of seeing it ironically, see it as Soros being blinded by his biases, like we all are. Given that, it would be better to say "yes, this, AND it's also similar to XYZ", rather than appearing to dismiss what I think are very accurate views (on the danger of FB/attention merchanting).
I guess I could've framed it differently, but I think it's pretty high quality stuff idk.
From a comment below the article:

"I debunk the flamethrower...

it's just a Push-Start Propane Blow Torch ( 50$ from Amazon ) mounted in S.T.A.R. XR-5 Airsoft ( 112$ ). Start piezo button is inverted and in the hole with finger.

You can see the propane valve button on top of the gun...
and you have a propane torch able to burn grass in your garden .. "

See https://www.amazon.com/Push-Start-Propane-Blow-Torch-Long/dp...

Musk gets $600 for a piece of kit worth around $75 and the fan-bois lap it up.
Would you consider "shortest-path-first" a valid strategy for a startup?
the number of SWAT unit deploys probably exceeds this number by some absurd ratio
These Prices Are a Steal–and in Some States, That’s Illegal
Why are you blaming the individual for a institutional and societal failure?

Tesla should pay - at minimum - market rate for this person's skills, to do otherwise is a failure at the institutional level.

We should be valuing people that perform labor in service of jumpstarting a post-fossil economy higher than those that perform labor in service of the existing, damaging fossil economy. To do otherwise a failure at the societal level.
Hospitals are often named in honor of people.

Not just catholic saints, people that contributed to establishing them and such.
I'm not very familiar with the plasma dots approach, but from a cursory look it appears that it is not capable of RGB. On the other hand, there is nothing that can fall out of confinement so the display is probably more stable.

That page says the femtosecond plasma display is pretty safe. This display was - and I believe still is, though I could be wrong - using a UV laser for confinement, which is sorta scary.
I think the Gmail equivalent is Postmaster Tools.
https://postmaster.google.com
“I guess you can’t use NYU Libraries if you don’t have Twitter or Facebook?”
I run my own mail server. Have done since Evolution mail was in BETA circa 2003 ish (time flies). Started with a Linux Mandrake based Postfix, Procmail, Dovecot, Fetchmail setup with SpamAssassin then moved onto a proper Debian setup with Exim, Courier, Procmail, SpamAssassin and then finally after all that faff I found Zimbra.

If you like email Zimbra's great - it's a fully baked mail server which you install on your Linux distro of choice and it goes off and installs all of the above for you. Everything is managed via a GUI and you have a great web interface and standards based IMAP, CalDAV support.

If you buy the paid version you can even get ActiveSync and Exchange Web Services for it.

Despite all that though, I would give anything to have all those countless hours I put into running my own mail server back. It is a colossal time sink. I can't even stress how much work it is, especially if you have anyone relying on the box for their primary mail account. It's no fun at all.

You're gonna be debugging Fetchmail for when you or your user's want POP3 accounts downloading mail locally. Procmail for filtering. SpamAssassin (gawd if ever there was something which consumed my life it's that software and its myriad libs and helpers), not to mention familiarize yourself with DNS MX records, SPF, DKIM etc. etc.

All of the above works surprisingly well and is fairly solid - until it isn't. When Google added DKIM/SPF protection and blacklisted servers which didn't was a fun weekend that I'd rather have spent with my family. When customer emails started bouncing because their IPs had hit an over zealous RBL list which Zimbra was using was a fun afternoon of debugging. When Zimbra decides to randomly let in 10-20 spam emails a day into my mailbox is another weekend project which I've yet to get round to. Thank god I'm self employed is all I can say because no employer would tolerate an employee putting the care and feeding required to maintain a personal email server!

Unless you want to nurture a career as a mail sysadmin seriously, don't host your own mail server.

Bottom line I'd recommend to anyone thinking about hosting one to either:

1. Don't

2. Use Microsoft Exchange Server

3. Use Zimbra

4. Seriously, don't - consider Fastmail, Gmail, O365 or Protonmail instead.
Yes, dude, I feel you. I was there. I got the same shit. A few more examples of their wonderful software:
- GMail sometimes accepted mail from IPv4 but not IPv6.
- I rebuilt the VM running postfix, got a new IP address
and then mail was blocked due to "IP address is known
as dynamic end-user"

Worst of all, the mail does not always bounce... and when it does, this is no one to email and ask. What are mail admins supposed to do?
Assuming we want to exchange two tokens, let's say, FBI and NSA.

Centralized exchange:
send your FBI to exchange's wallet -> exchange updates your balance in its database, i.e. postgres -> trade for NSA -> withdraw NSA, which causes the exchange to send you NSA tokens (if they have them) and update another record in its DB.

The problem is in "if they have them". While normal banks are FDIC insured and a run on the bank won't prevent them from giving you your money, crypto exchanges provide no such guarantees. If the money is stolen from the exchange, like in the case of the OP, then you are SOL. Basically, you have to trust the exchange as much as you trust your bank. And clearly one entity is way more trustworthy than another.

In the decentralized exchange case, instead of trusting an organization to keep money safe through operational processes and tight regulation, you trust a smart contract. Provided that the smart contract has no bugs, this pretty much eliminates the need to trust the exchange. You trust it just as much as you trust mathematics.

Hope my explanation is not too verbose and makes sense.
According to the comment referenced in the comment referenced[1], it's quite lucrative.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16244023
Sure, just a few bad apples. Nothing is endemic.
I think you an I got a very different understanding of what was said and why it was said from the video.
How do I hit the CTRL key without straining my pinky?
There is a (growing) repository of software packages and the developers are open to sensible package requests[1]. So far I've found that almost everything I needed was already in the Solus repository.

[1]https://solus-project.com/articles/packaging/request-a-packa...
>>> I had 4 different jobs, and 4 different career paths, in the 10 years after college.... Each time I switched jobs... I also realized that I’d gotten older, and started to fear that I did not have the time to get great.

I too have changed jobs and careers several times since graduating college. Strangely, doing so has actually been liberating for me. I entered a PhD program immediately after college, obsessed with not only being the greatest, but also the youngest. (I didn't just want to "break records," I also wanted to be many years younger than the previous record holder when I did.)

I let go of these fantasies the moment I dropped out of grad school though. I was starting over from scratch which meant I'd be too old to be the best and youngest at anything. And not chasing that goal has pretty much set me free. Everything is way more fun now, including being a complete noob in a room full of experts.

http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/07/care... <-- I always appreciated this Scott Adams post. It helped me go from path #1 to path #2.

Ps. Your photos are phenomenal. Thanks for sharing, even though it was scary to! You are (almost certainly) already the top 25% at two or more things. Now how bout dat?! :D
If I am using my 6 when the battery is <50% and the phone has gotten too cold, I can reliably cause the phone to shut down if I try to use Snapchat. In combination with your Tinder experiences, this can confirm OP's experience using both apps, where each seems to be using an outsize portion of system resources.
I have an SE as well, have experienced similar terrible quality in software experience.

It may be that the SE is an ignored and untested platform. A lot of native Apple software is just poorly designed for it. By which I mean super low density information display, that leaves touch controls squeezed down to unusable sizes. And some of the controls are just buggy. The audio controls in portrait mode from the slide up pane overlap in their hit targets, making it unreliable to play pause etc.

I suspect many of these issues go away on the bigger phones. I just really don't want a bigger phone. And seeing the low quality trend of all of Apple's software these days, Android is looking more and more appealing. If I'm going to have to buy a bigger phone, I'll probably just jump ship entirely to check it out, as I feel that i have nothing to lose on the software quality side anymore.
> Arbitrage across crypto-currencies is happening constantly.

Then why doesn't it have the effect of equalizing prices across exchanges, as it does with traditional currencies across traditional currency exchanges?

I'm not arguing, I'm just asking. If I don't know what I'm talking about, I'm happy to be enlightened.
Apologies, I will be very transparent: Offer was about $100-110k in the Bay Area + other perks (bonus/stock). I have 4-7 years of experience. This offer was before negotiation (which I didn't end up doing as I thought it was a fruitless endeavor). If I did negotiate, I always negotiate the base salary - that is a guaranteed pay. Bonus/Stock could be slashed, altered and neutered in future.

The funny thing is that I currently make more than that outside of California (I wish to not disclose my location if that's ok). I am hearing from others that Bay area housing is approximately $2k / bedroom and that's not super nice. This leaves a bad taste for working in the Bay area where competition is insane, cost of living is through the roof, and compensation isn't adequate.

Others are pointing out the thrill of working for Tesla/SpaceX has some value - that is, to work for the next gen American manufacturing. I am a bit more objective and less emotional I guess.

I do have a question: Is expecting $130-140k too much for a Mechanical Engineer running one of the most critical areas in their manufacturing line?

Edit - removed personally identifiable information.
TL/DR: the work is "should", which is dropped in favor of "must". The goal is to be more strident and definitive.
Interesting question of what happens to the trove of data they have if Equifax does go out of business. Sensible alternatives are either regulators will have to step in or they are in too big to fail boat. Less sensible would be to do nothing and hope data does not end up in bad hands.
The fact that it assigns the judgment of what code is productive and what isn't is already problematic. It's not something you can detect automatically. Lines replaced in the next commit can be very productive.

The project also judges the volume of code. Even the alert says: " Developer Mark: 23 days elapsed without commits." Honestly: if you didn't know that without this tool, you've got problems at manager level. And if you knew there's no new commits, you don't need this to be an alert.
Well, I've found my weekend project. Gonna install it on an older Laptop that's just laying around. Just for fun and experimentation. Thanks for the info
The US is two countries. My kid goes to a private school where 6th graders are building and programming robots.

Three blocks away from my house, 30% of 6th graders are at reading level.
Cool stuff! I'm curious what limitations there are on how fast the particle can move. Is it theoretically possible to move a single particle fast enough to render complex shapes in real time, or will you need many particles for that?
Fair enough, perhaps not "cosplay" as a broad definition, but in the sense of modern fandom organizing "cons", I found it interesting it went back decades earlier than I'd assumed. I knew there were Star Trek conventions in the 1960's, but I would've never guessed as early as before the US entering WWII. Of course costumes and enjoying stories probably date back to before writing, but I thought the modern form was much newer.
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