skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An aside about "opinionated", because something I did a while ago gave me a different perspective.

As a foreigner (who once lived in the US for almost a decade) I try to keep up with US news. Quite a while ago I actually added foxnews.com to my reading list - because I heard so many bad things about it (I had never even gone there before, but my list of regularly read websites is very small anyway), and I wanted to know just how bad "bad" was.

I must say it turned out, in my opinion at least, that the articles are not actually all that bad. (I ignore anything anything from Hannity though - and oh boy, don't ever go to the forums.)

Anyway, I find foxnews.com is a great example of finding bias not so much in the articles - but in the topics they select! Which of course is something everybody does. Every newspaper, website, or even private blog has a bias expressed merely in the selection of topics they cover, no matter how "neutral" the articles themselves are. If you just look at the headlines foxnews.com really stands out, but so does washingtonpost.com, which I find almost equally far from the middle of the topic distribution (they are trying way too hard to report every fart of that guy in the White House).

My point is, this made it clear to me that no matter how hard you try, you can't help being opinionated because what you choose to concentrate on already is a huge factor, and that I only noticed that my own views are likely based on a similar selection bias when I looked at a very different selection from the one I had gotten used to.
SF author Charles Stross has a couple of damning criticisms of He3 mining on the moon, found here:
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/08/moonshin...

In short:

Nobody's built any useful (for power generation) fusion reactor yet, much less one running He3.

There isn't actually much He3 on the moon, just more than here on Earth. It's doubtful that mining on the moon would be cheaper than just making it here.
Neuroscience: a reading list for students considering it as a career
If you accept the idea that a penchant for math is randomly distributed among all people, then the odds of 55/56 men winning by chance are very, very, very low.
I meant shocking as in causing dismay, not surprising.

Women are vastly underrepresented in math.
Buffett structured his bet in a very specific manner to maximize management fees of the other side. His bet was the S&P 500 vs any five funds of funds hedge funds. This is like betting the S&P 500 vs the average return of 20 hedge funds. Of course Buffett is going to be a favorite when the investments are diluted so much and you take into account all the fees on top of fees. I think he would be a dog vs a single hedge fund or five hedge funds.
Wow, thanks for sharing your hard earned lessons.
That's awesome: I wonder how far you'd get by starting a trading team of 1000 (shell companies!?), trading for 5 years and then marketing "our trading group of 5 have made an inflation-busting, above market average profit for the last 5 years!". Would people throw money at you?
If you aren't currently struggling to manage a large pool of servers / services, then you don't need Kubernetes. Not yet, at least. It's over-complicated overkill if you don't need it yet. So are containers, actually, but the bar is a lot lower for them.
No need for Gtk+ on Plasma Mobile phones, for example.

Gtk+2 has some major apps like Gimp that ensure that it's here to stay for a while. Gtk+3's life will sure be shorter, more like Qt4's.

Anyway, it doesn't matter. There is no need for Allegro to link with Gtk+ by default, period. Just like mpv, just like SDL, just like many other apps and libraries that don't need a regular toolkit. For some it might be even hard to integrate the glib's mainloop. "You should use Gtk+" in CSD discussion is just a display of arrogance.
Heh are you me? I too have the same problem with "DevOps" - I prefer to evangelise it as a culture of Developers and Operations/Engineering being able to work closely and collaboratively - two departments that have historically been at each others throats, with a mentality of "toss it over the wall and forget about it"
Does the old i version use js?

https://i.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7wonkf/the_st...
Ciprian Manolescu or Peter Scholze (perhaps he is too young for it for this year).
If your only concern is libraries, you can ask the dynamic loader to print out what it loads:

LD_DEBUG=libs command

You can check out all the valid options with:

LD_DEBUG=help cat

or check out `man ld.so`.

On mac, there is something similar. Lookup all the DYLD_PRINT_* variables in `man dyld`.
Still, introducing a framework and a build system and everything that entails for the sake of 300ish lines of code? You could rewrite that in plain js avoiding the pitfalls you mention in less time I would have thought. As others have mentioned they’d be better off employing a front end specialist... whether they’d recognise a good one is a moot point.
> Every person interviewing me is a rich kid. All of my competition is rich kids. Touring these big tech companies was discouraging. They're all very diverse. Rich white kids. Rich Asian kids. Rich female kids. Rich European kids. Rich Indian kids.

Oh come on -- how could you possibly know this.
That's because you can down-rate the driver.
Agreed. If continuous delivery means you can release your software at any time, then that seems to assume you have integrated all the pieces of your software. If continuous deployment means automatically deploying every passing build, it seem to assume that when you get a passing build, you are in a state where you can deploy. So continuous delivery depends on continuous integration and continuous deployment depends on continuous delivery.

I supposed you could just deploy stuff to prod when the build finishes without being in a state where you can safely deploy. Well now that I think of it I have seen places that do that, but it never turns out well.
Nominations Open for PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC 2018 – InsideHPC
You already got one or more GPS wireless tracking devices in your car, though.
Building Grafana from Source on Fedora – Jeremy Eder's Blog
"Cultures require grooming like any garden."

Let me guess: you know exactly how it should be "groomed", right?

No, thank you.
Indeed, you also want to enjoy your life when you a virile. What's the point of working until your retirement when you are at a point you hardly can take advantage of it.

Start a business. You probably won't hit the unicorn lottery but making enough to retire in your early X shouldn't be out of reach. Find a solution to a problem and learn some sales and marketing.
>I wish this government would take a zero-tolerance to racism

I know that sounds like a noble idea, but I'm not sure it would be a very good idea. For one, it's unconstitutional and limits free speech. Two, who gets to interpret what racist speech is? Under a law like this, I could easily people getting arrested and imprisoned for a joke that was misinterpreted, or interpreted by an overly sensitive person. It could easily be used to silence political opposition in bad faith. There's lots of ways it can be abused.

One truth I've learned in studying US history is you will never fully eradicate racist remarks. Tribalism is human nature, and racism in the US is older than the US. The best you can do it remove it from the legal system.

One final thought. For those of you who favor banning all firearms, consider the usefulness of them in this story.
Am I the only one who thought wait a minute. Is Adobe's JavaScript framework making a comeback?
While I don't necessarily disagree, wouldn't this be more of an example of naive server-side development? One of the first things you learn—as an educated—front-end developer is that you don't trust the client.
Oh wow. That lady, Rachael Lamkin- Motiv's lawyer in this. I wouldn't want to get on her bad side:

Finally, a word about tone: this letter is strongly worded, and contains more
vigor than is usually employed in legal communications. But here the language and
tone are intentional. Motiv is a small start-up, with limited resources, working like
mad to create something helpful and innovative. Motiv is also a patent holder that
respects valid patents. But MHM’s patent is neither innovative or valid, and should not
be asserted, especially against good companies trying to do good things. And on a
personal note, as you (Ed) know, I have repeatedly defended small companies, and the
terrified people working for said companies, from S&T. I have seen the harm caused by
S&T’s business model first-hand. Please counsel your clients to rethink this course.
This isn't the greatest comment in the world but negative?

It's a fine comment. Might be right, might be wrong, but a fine on-topic comment.

The only show correlation under an overly simplified model

I hope you can appreciate the irony of trying to draw any conclusions from what might have been a single erroneous downvote. At -5 and [flagged], there might be cause for concern. If it happens always, then definitely ask questions. But a single -1 doesn't give much information about group sentiment.

Consider that you might be reading too closely into path-dependent noise. In general, almost no one votes, and it's hard to figure out what they are thinking when they do. Possibly someone was bothered by the tiny typo in the first sentence ("The only show"), or perhaps they meant to upvote on a mobile screen and missed. This put the comment at the bottom, and after that it few people read it, and no one else voted. If you are interested, you could ask 'dang' what the actual voting pattern was and he'd probably tell you.

So certainly you should wonder after a while if something is wrong with your commenting style if all your comments end up negative, but I wouldn't assume that yet. I'm commenting here in part because I remembered your username from this pleasant exchange you had with BeeOnRope: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16305216. Please keep commenting.
Are you actually promoting the US Patriot Act? There is nothing good about that.
Or use Uber or a taxi
That's a strong argument against index funds if I ever heard one.
thanks you two, will give Gajim a try!
Something being technically possible and something being done are not the same. As i already wrote, it might theoretically be possible to create a spyware, but unless i download a program that does that it wont happen.

Programs cannot decide by themselves to be installed into a computer without some prior action from the user, it is the user who has to do something for them to install themselves. And no two users do the exact same sequence of actions to be able to claim that all users have the same likelihood to be affected by spyware.

Also FWIW when i use "apps" i mean it as a shorthand for "applications" and for a few messages already upwards in the thread the discussion isn't just about macOS but regardless of OS. So apps can be open source (and personally unless it is some piece of software i trust - usually older widely used programs - or some game i got from a place i trust, i stick with open source apps with security being indeed a major reason).
Leaving the EU will hit the UK's car and aviation industries hardest
In aggregate the market is zero sum so if you think 1 or 5 hedge funds would beat the average easily who are the suckers taking the other side of those bets?
The two aren't comparable because one is very probabilistic in nature, the other one isn't. Also medicine doesn't change as much as the market.

The fundamental difference is that trading is partially an art. Medicine is too, but like two hedge fund managers will have pretty different outcomes, but two surgeons will have similar outcomes.
Are you the author of or contributor to Spry?
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Infrastructure as Code: A beginner's perspective
I, as an investor, am paid for my position.
VLC also has a Python API.

Google vlc python api.
While 1.2 vs 0.4 requests per minute is indeed a factor of three, calling it "abuse" instead of something like "misconfigured" or "misuse" seems overblown.

What are you going to call the initial report of thousands of requests per second then?
Cloud Bills Will Get Loftier
Docker for Data Science
TBF the military is the only jobs program whose recipients are unimpeachable.
It’s rare that I say someone has truly nailed it, but the author has really nailed it. And while much of the critical response has focused on the difference between design and programming, I can say as someone who has been around the programming block (got started at age 9) that 99% of what he says applies equally well to modern application development and infrastructure.
You could make propellant on the Moon (from water).

The Moon is also a good place to test Mars-related procedures (couple dozen hours of travel beats couple dozen months in case of an emergency).

Finally, I imagine building a telescope on the "dark side" is astronomers' wet dream.
What's left is how others remember you.

Galileo and Stalin are famous dead people, but most of us would rather be remembered as Galileo than Stalin.
The 15 C++11 features you must really use in your C++ projects
I guess you didn't watch it before commenting...this video series mentions infrastructure multiple times throughout.

Almost a whole video in this series talks about infrastructure financing and taxation. As gas taxes, driver's licenses, traffic tickets, parking fines, etc will be eliminated. And 30% of court time currently dedicated to traffic will be eliminated.

It mentions taxing each Uber/Lyft/Waymo fleet ride or automated toll roads with surge pricing instead...

It's going to be a GREAT time to be a city traffic engineer in the next decade....
As a self taught, working class rural European white kid with a fairly successful career at one of the big four, I can tell you that this is simply not generally true. Sure, a lot of my peers come from financially well off families who sent them to prestigious universities, but many others had to make their own way. On top of that, I consider many of the "rich" kids pretty open minded, they're sure accepting of me and let me tell you I do not fit the standard mold.

Interviewing is a game in its own, but if you show that you're a problem solver who can work in team, and that you have done your homework, and that you can display some sort of passion for the job you're hiring for, you have a high chance of passing the interview.
Which, incidentally, exposes an info leak. Timing the load time for a cached script reveals if you've loaded that script before. Value low for extremely common libraries, higher for less common libraries.
Here's the problem with this. Most people won't even change their own oil in the car, they aren't going to research and develop their own trading strategy. You do what works for you, but for everyone else, index funds are a great set it, and forget it strategy.
Since IQ, education and wealth are all positively correlated, it's true that any group of smart highly-educated people is likely to come from privileged backgrounds, but that's not why they are being selected.

A lot of those immigrants you talk about will actually be middle class people that had to work twice as hard to get hired in a foreign country.
[hn lost its sense of humor]
Hackers hijack government websites to mine crypto-cash
A specific case I recall was being able to access Sourceforge.
And the more i read about Slack the less i want to touch it.

Emoji, gifs, fuck off.
You are absolutely right about that. I was brought up that racism was for poor white trash and anyone who is racist shouldn't be associated with. Of course I live my life that way, so all the people who I interact with aren't racist. Honestly, even people on the street I talk with don't say things like that. The last time someone said something like that was some old bumpkin in a truck at a gas station said something about Michelle Obama several years ago.

I know racist remarks were quite casual in the pre-Boomer generation, but they don't seem that way now, but I wouldn't know because I'm not around it.

I assume it is a lot better than the 80s, but I could never know. Of course I want to believe that racism is only a rarity today and limited to offshoots of society, and I assume many others want to believe that too.
In aggregate it's mathematically impossible for active management to outperform the market:

https://web.stanford.edu/~wfsharpe/art/active/active.htm

For every smart active manager that beats the index someone else is on the other side of the bet losing.
Hearing, that people still pray to god is very sad indeed. I hope she just said that metaphorically.
It's much better, yes, because you moved the needle much further into personal experience and away from what I referred to as prejudicial generalization. That's the direction we all need to try to go.

I know it's not always clear in moderation comments, but the reason we emphasize this is not so much about right or wrong, as about the effects on discussion of certain kinds of comments compared to others—so it's both more empirical and less divisive than it looks. It's hard for a community this large and uncohesive to agree about large things like right and wrong, but a bit easier to find some shared interest in the kind of site HN should be. That's the hope anyway.
Hypercore is a secure, distributed append-only log (Dat protocol)
1000s of websites hijacked by hidden crypto-mining code after plugin pwned
Actually it's the opposite. Young adults often have a very strong (too strong?) immune response that can make them very sick.
> How does "It auto-updates every time you deploy" fit with "The difference between my local, staging, and production is tiny"?

It builds once, and then that very container with those dependencies gets pushed through testing, staging, and production. No more changes happen after the build.
It's really amazing that we've seen so many of the issues in the past. If you use standard tools in the standard way, you're not going to create any floods. It baffles me that vendors are re-inventing the wheel and generating NTP floods.
Writing ARM Shellcode – Azeria Labs
Babies do smile at birth. It's a reflex smile. They don't start smiling for real until 1+ months.
Some lunar base advocates push the "exploration base camp" narrative. But I find it disengenuius. It's too far away in terms of energy cost, and too close in terms of travel time.
It'd be hard for additional climate research to do anything (politically) that the existing climate research hasn't done already. Although, I understand how there might be some element of "Hah! Got'em!" among some groups.

Overall, I see this as a move towards globally inspiring national pride projects and away from the more subtle and less-expensive "only PhDs understand how this is really important," tasks. It really fits the personality and promises of the current president.
I think that by "It auto-updates every time you deploy." the OP meant - every time you build an image to deploy. But that exact same image goes through testing environments. (test -> staging -> prod)

Local may test with something that's a point release further, but in that case you'd find the issue when testing and pin the python to a specific 3.6.x until you resolve the problem and start rolling again.

There's also nothing preventing your from building images with precise control over versions of your dependencies. You can do it in the image in the same way you'd do it anywhere else. Specify your own repos and use lock files, or whatever your language allows.
We'll probably see self-driving before widespread electric car use. Self-driving is an auto accessory. It's going to come from companies like Continental and Delco, which make auto parts for manufacturers. The big players are targeting 2020 as the year self-driving becomes a more or less standard option. That may slip; Volvo's big Level 4 demo with 100 real users has been pushed back to 2021. But it's getting close. The hardware is here; it's now a software problem.

Electric cars need more infrastructure. Many more charging stations. Cheaper batteries. More lithium and cobalt mines. That will take a bit longer.

Self-driving cars and electric cars are independent technologies. Uber's self driving cars are gasoline-powered Volvos.
No. It's standard practice. No company would be able to operate without acknowledging for expected revenue and planning its moves accordingly. No company lives "in the moment".

And for the same reason, it's BS to say "it's just the present" for humans as well. For animals, maybe.
I bet most of us don't qualify for IRA tax benefits.
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You're right, I didn't make that clear.

What you're missing is that the beginning of the "deploy" process is building the image on your local (or on CI). That's when the update happens. Then you test it on staging, and if all is well you deploy to production.

If there's a problem it's easy to change your Dockerfile from "python:3" to "python:3.6.2" in order to go back to what you had. Or stick with "python:3.6" if you only want security patches. Or, if you want to miss out on those security patches in order to guarantee more stability, go with "python:3.6.2" and decide when to test and deploy an upgrade.
You only need to study successful rich people or use common sense to figure out that you don't become wealthy by investing to some index funds. You do that after you have sold your business and want to shield your wealth for carefree life.
I can't help feel that we have gotten a generation of programmers and whatsnot that has no respect for existing tools. Rather than try to grok what is already out there they will instead grab whatever is the hyped language of the day and roll their own.
It's that it's stacked against you, like this article explains, just like a casino is stacked against you.

Also, for you to have made money on AAPL you would have had to gamble on something. You had to have bought at a lower stock price. If you bought recently, it would be that Tim Cook doesn't suck and they don't botch the new iPhone. If you bought 6 years ago, it would be something else. If you bought 10 years ago it's that the iPhone would remain dominant, etc. etc.
Rust runs. Look at the PR queue.
1) It is closer and more feasible to practice landing and returning from a planet than Mars

2) The ISS is going to de-orbit in the 2020s, so for low-gravity and habitat research, we can spend billions on another LEO station (which private industry is already tackling) or we can do something a bit more daring: set up shop on another rock.

I think NASA should be allowed, broadly, to choose its own missions and goals, and stick with it for longer than one administration. Their work takes more than 3 year election cycles.
Those who lived at the end of school bus and train routes are part of a very special (and elite!) club that nobody else can understand, and that we don’t have the words to discuss. If we didn’t do it, somebody else would have, but we did do it, and it weird.