skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same, I use it as the central authoritative DNS server for our internal domains, backed by a simple sqlite datbase which seems to be able to handle it without a single issue. Local Bind9 instances are configured on all our sites to ASFR all zones, and handle the client-facing traffic. All this is managed using Ansible, and works like a charm.
The writing style of the Cyberlaw Podcast certainly makes it hard to take them seriously:

> ...but by the collapse of the left-lib claim that building law enforcement access into IT devices is impossible because, uh, math.

Except no-one is claiming that building law enforcement access into IT devices is impossible because of mathematics. The claim is that there is no way of doing so that doesn't create a general vulnerability.
It might have something to do with them being used to having a government that isn't utterly dysfunctional from top to bottom. Such a thing is possible, believe it or not. Their health systems are certainly less complicated and bureaucratic than US systems, despite being public.
Would you say this course would help learn languages? I'm currently self-studying Japanese, so adding another "class" would be difficult time-wise. But if this Coursera course would help, it might be worth the time for me. Thanks!
But needing a different chip in the socket? That’s definitely not common and for many not even possible.
It really depends though. As a parent raising kids in the city myself, my wife and I made the conscious decision to settle in the city and raise our family here.

We based this on:

0) We just really like the city and want to raise our kids in the city.

1) In Chicago, where we live, CPS students outperform the state overall. Source:
https://www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-news/perception-vs-reality-c...

2) Breaking down a school's performance at the demographic level can often change the equation. The elementary school my son will attend actually scores higher for students above the poverty line than the one I attended out in the suburbs.

3) My wife is a STEM professor and has seen lots of students who attended the region's top-tier public schools (9/10 or 10/10 on greatschools, etc) that were woefully unprepared for college, despite otherwise decent ACT scores.

4) The suburbs are facing their own austerity crisis: postwar subsidized infrastructure gravy train is long over, so property taxes are rising. Their housing stock doesn't align well with the smaller and most cost-conscious millennial family. So a big worry for us was, do we want to buy into a "good school" suburb only to have our kid's school budget slashed to control costs? This is already happening to one Chicago suburb famous for its great schools (Hinsdale, IL)

5) School performance is, at best, a trailing indicator. Say you've got 2 kids under the age of 4. Is it worth buying a home somewhere because of a high school they won't be attending for 10+ years? It makes sense if you're talking about a radical difference in school performance, but marginal advantages seem prone to change.

I don't claim that this is the best course of action. For all we know, the city schools could just as easily go sideways due to budgeting issues, or maybe suburban schools are the first to break free from the trend of "teaching to the test" and our kids are left behind. But right now, it just feels like once you have a safe learning environment and some basic academic standards, most of the outcome is in the hands of the parents and students. High-performing schools don't produce great students so much as they attract the people who foster that attitude.
>The Tesla story is interesting to 'good hackers' because it is a company that does exactly the kind of thing that 'good hackers' love to read about

That it like saying Physicists will be interested in the bowel movements of Einstein because he is a brilliant physicist..

Tesla may be an interesting company to "hackers" or what ever. But does the article contains anything of that sort? If HN is filled with the quarterly reports of every "interesting" company, that would be bad, right?

If it contained a technique, or an interesting idea that Tesla is employing, then it would have been ok.

Clear?
These conventions are there because it's the default, not because most people use them.

Here on HN and most of the old reddit users certainly use that, but I doubt that the majority of reddit today (including the team of 20 designers making the new design) care about it "middle click to open in a new tab".
MIT OpenCourseWare Algorithms https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...

Watching them throw seat cushions as prizes was funny.
Reddit is also the 6th most popular website in the world, and likely gets thousands of potential new users daily that are turned off by the design and don't become Reddit addicts.
> that private firms cannot be trusted to manage financial transactions despite the massive history proving they can

Can they? We saw a decade ago multiple countries having to each provide over 500 billion USD to such private firms to stop them from going bankrupt… that doesn't seem like a "massive history proving" they can manage private banking.
If the next gen was close, it would not be an issue. But because it's way behind and one commenter up above stated its 18 months out. So it's an issue.

My dev team is finally abandoning mac books for lenovo laptops with 32 gig.
How do they compare to Revolut/Starling? I think a friend of mine uses it but I never see advertisements so I only really heard of it recently :)
I don't have money. But I'am wealthy;
Do you feel that SAT scores have a negative correlation to "success"?
I'm sorry, but that's against the HN guidelines.

>Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

It's annoying that pointing that out to the didn't reader is against the rules, but derailing the discussion by not reading is perfectly okay.

But what do I know? Am shadowbanned most of the time.
I think he actually means don't indent the quote, because it results in a truncated text box that you have to scroll awkwardly. The > quote markers are fine IMO.
Well, the Anaconda Distribution and conda-forge build many thousands of packages and they use a variety of (often programmable) build systems.

So quite often the build system will be mis-programmed or will simply not care for relocatability at all, hard-coding /usr/lib/libfoo.so as DT_NEEDED, or hard-coding /usr/lib as DT_RPATH and/or DT_RUNPATH.

So conda-build runs a post-build step to make all DSO loading relative. We use patchelf and install_name_tool for that on Linux and macOS respectively.
I was think the guy was making an Electron joke, but yeah, Electron is Chromium-based, and if each Electron app was packing it's own ESET antimalware engine, you'd see some serious upset going around.
It's somewhat distinct from other languages because Clojure is actually just a java library - it's not a standalone concept/runtime/whatever.

https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.clojure/clojure
FYI Jeff Dean gave a lecture at YC on AI last summer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcStlHGpjN8
Do they usually use average instead of median? That terribly skews the numbers with the top 0.2% being weighted much more highly than the bottom 99.8%.

The gender distribution for the top 0.2% doesn't matter since most men and women will never reach that income.
There are many businesses in the Netherlands that don't take cash anymore.

Heck, even my municipality doesn't take cash anymore (if you need to do things like renewing your passport).
Maybe different cities? I‘m in Munich.
> Much of the rest of the world is happy to raise families in cities... why not here?

Do you really need to ask that? "We" have the land and the area for people, a lot of "the rest of the world" does not.

For other reasons, schooling and crime are such that for those that want families, cities are less than ideal than the suburbs. The ability to get around is relatively cheap.

And the economics reflect that. So you can anguish in your "what should be", but ultimately it mostly comes down to money and incentives.
Thanks! I'm excited to try this and benchmark it against my current setup!
Both definitions are useful. Different pay for the same work is obviously unjust at the surface because it affects individuals. But a different mixture of jobs that leads to unequal pay, while it doesn't involve anything so easy as pointing at an individual to blame, still hints at a structural problem in our society.
I guess in the end,

http://www.constellationsoverplayas.com/atlas/

is a parody of

http://www.emrtc.nmt.edu/

I live in Socorro and attended NMT and I'm not entirely sure what the point is of this. The words on the page seem to be different on every page load.

I think the description of the project is probably more effective than the project itself. I have never been especially comfortable with the cozying-up to defense/national security of my alma mater, but it was more pronounced for me from the CS side with the Scholarship for Service and iCASA, etc., rather than EMRTC. Explosives are going to be interesting to the military.
Ask HN: Smart bike light on Kickstarter?
My original plan was to launch a premium smart bike light on Kickstarter. Because of its small target base, I'm thinking of changing the direction by turning it into a multi-purpose light for biking, hiking, running, camping, and so on… I can't share the core tech here, but basically, some features of the light are controlled by the mobile app(Android/iOS). Would you say this would be a good idea from the marketing perspective?
You're using circular logic. Classical physics can't predict the future because classical physics can't predict the future. Try again.
Saying "society needs to care more" is the last stop before the final destination of "this can't be done". Getting great many people to coordinate on something that's beneficial to them long-term, but carries an (even insignificant) short-term cost is one of the hardest (if not the hardest) things to do, out of all the things humans ever tried.
I just applied for this job but I'm from the UK. Do you know if visa/relocation assistance is offered?
Can you explain the relation of "tit for tat" to Godel's (incompleteness?) theorem? I'm familiar with both but don't see the connection.
Ruby Sass to be put to pasture, in favor of Dart Sass
I'm guessing it's because many cities still strangle development. "Overbuilt" could be concluded from a lack of feasible projects within a city.

There's also the nebulous problem of investors buying units in new luxury buildings but not occupying or renting them. This could preserve high rent prices as new units are not being faithfully put into the housing pool. Stories about that pop up often but don't seem quantified as an issue.
Humans hate change. Our minds strive to maintain equilibrium and have an immune system like response to anything that threatens to disrupt that state. Even when we intellectually commit to change, our emotions sabotage the effort.

Cue the bereavement model and the diffusion of innovation. Successful advocates of change account for the time and effort it takes to drag people along.
He has a CISSP (or so says his LinkedIn) though, and on Wikipedia it says DoD, ANSI and NSA value or approve of it and its holders have a higher salary on average.

And we're talking about the director of security with 17 years of security experience here, (he also spoke at Akamai Edge 2015), not a common programmer or admin, I'd assume he already isn't too cheap to hire with those credentials? And that a company that size doesn't skimp on it's directors?

Then again they'll probably lose nothing over this leak and their response.

Being passive aggressive is even somewhat justifiable if they really get that much scamming but taking offense at someone asking for a PGP key isn't nor is ignoring Dylan's emails repeatedly for 6 days when he asked if his encrypted information came through.

Plus the whole "we are working on it" and then not doing anything for 8 months. Did he throw what Dylan sent him away? And then the fix that required you to login (with an ordinary customer account) to get all customers' data instead of exposing it to the internet. They also told fox only 10 000 customers were affected, treated Krebs like an idiot to the point that he went on a Twitter rant against them and he and others were posting links to other holes, web accessible admin login panels of various things, etc. and saying their website should be taken down (which it now is).

Dylan also angrily posted this after they said to the press they take security seriously: https://medium.com/@djhoulihan/no-panera-bread-doesnt-take-s...
And no notes are legal tender in Scotland.
I think you're thinking of Mixmaster: http://mixmaster.sourceforge.net/faq.shtml
Are you afraid that you won't be able to find quality remote work at some point? As much as I'd love to go far off into the woods, my job prospects - even as a confirmed, life-long remote employee - are so much better being close to an urban center with solid transportation connections to major cities.
Ignoring the P(Rain|Seattle), here's a way to look at this: let's say it's not raining. Then all three must be lying; the probability of that is 1/27. So the probability that it's raining, given that these three are saying it's raining, is 26/27
That wasn't a breach, a possible MitM != breach nor does putting data into an analytics company. I'm not saying they are blameless but it irks me when thinks like this are mislabeled and dilutes real breaches.
I've taken 10 GaTech OMSCS courses via Udacity. Two of my favorites (so far):
Intro to Computer Vision: https://www.udacity.com/course/introduction-to-computer-visi...
Reinforcement Learning: https://www.udacity.com/course/reinforcement-learning--ud600

I found the Isbell+Littman combo to work so well that I also took the ML course. I know some people complain about their humor but it was perfect for me. I could listen to those two explain just about anything. I still LOL when I think about Littman saying to Isbell something like "are you trying to teach us something by making this lecture infinitely long?" Who knew RL could be funny?
Trump should just cite the studies that show it's not true, but present it as a NEW DEVELOPMENT and thus #MAGA and take credit for it.
"For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
It has always been like this. Look for the Dropbox "Show HN" thread.
Hey Team Alfred!

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I'd love the chance to talk more about how I can add value to your team. Feel free to reach out to me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seantravistaylor/ or my direct email at: sean.travis.taylor@gmail.com
This argument is the common sense fallacy.

Your personal bias is that Family > Heroin. In this example that seems to also be the social consensus (which I hold as well) however that doesn't mean that the individually must certainly value family over heroin.

Your actions are directly tied to your preferences - whether optimal or not. If you neglect your family because of heroin, it's because at some point your reasoning system decided that the hit was more important than the relationship. You can argue that preferences can be hijacked by chemicals, but in that case it becomes a reductionist determinism argument - that can be easily argued down to biochemistry in either direction.

It's too easy to fall into the "common sense" trap when trying to evaluate human behavior.
> If there were any sensible way to quote on HN, I'd surely use that instead. Could you suggest an alternative?

Surround the quote with asterisks, and prefix it with > to get the result above.
Alright, you might not appreciate it, but it’s not a waste of money.

Maybe that’s arguing semantics, but to me a waste of money is something like a $150 HDMI cable… Or 64GB of RAM you’ll never use. Things that you can brag about but that don’t actually improve your life in any way at all.

However, the $100 extra I’ve spent on a 4K vs FullHD monitor was, I’m certain, one of the best purchasing decisions in my life.

My 4K display[1] makes spending time productively so much more pleasant, and so much less tiring, both on eyes and mind. And it just looks gorgeous.

The first time experience of watching BBC’s Planet Earth in 4K on this thing was mind-blowing. It must look absolutely incredible on an actual big screen with full range of HDR.

I also have a very cheap Chinese netbook with a 3K display (260 ppi), and I have, on occasion, used it to read books etc. I would have never even imagined doing any extended reading, of any kind, on my old laptop. The font would need to be huge to make that experience at all bearable. At least that’s an option for something like ePub or HTML, but a lot of things are available only as a PDF. On that little netbook it’s no bother to have multiple columns of tiny text on the screen, all at once, just like in a real book.

I wear glasses and with the old LowDPI devices I was always unsure if I need a new prescription or if it’s just the crappy display.

As for SSD I can strongly recommend getting one in addition to your HDD. For my workstation, I’m running a bcache setup (in writeback) with a 60GB old SATA3 SSD + 1TB HDD RAID1 and I’ve been extremely pleased with that so far.

I can only tell I’m not running an actual 1TB SSD right after I do a major upgrade. It takes at least one cold boot to promote files in the boot path to cache[2]. Every time that happens it reminds me just how much faster SSDs are for certain things.

Nevertheless, you almost get to have your cake and eat it too. Bcache (or dm-cache, a fine choice as well) will intelligently sync all the randomly accessed and most used data with the SSD and stream anything bigger (like movies etc.) directly to/from the HDD.

In writeback mode it will also use the SSD to buffer random writes, until they can be written sequentially, all-at-once, to the backing device.

It makes both your SSD and HDD so much more valuable. Strongly recommended :)

[1] http://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-24UD58-B-4k-uhd-led-monitor

[2] It’s something that could be solved, though. An explicit interface to promote certain extents would do the trick. So far I think only bcacheFS offers something like that.
Of course it does tell us that (or at least give us an indication). We see that they don't believe that men and women deserve equal pay for their work.
Don't be Evil-ish?
Has there been any discussion about open-sourcing Eve? It's a shame to see the project abandoned without at least making it available for other people to try to maintain. It may not find the right set of maintainers, but if the project shuts down without putting the code out there, it will definitely die in darkness.
Out of interest where did you get the regional data for IP addresses from? Did you collect it yourself, if so how? There seem to be very few sources that allow you to resell it.
If I were to setup my own instance, like you, how do I interact (read & write) with other, curated instances (e.g. octodon.social, mastodon.social etc.)?
In most cities, hotel taxes alone can add 10-15%. That's on top of regular sales tax.

So a "$100/night" room can easily end up costing $125 or more.
Jeeves may or may not be human, but having hired many people and unfortunately having to fire a few people over the last 30 years I do have some experience with humans and work.
> wouldn't a electronic ledger be must safer and reliable than if the government say just started printing more money leading to inflation problems

No. Aside from the added vulnerability of the infrastructure needed to maintain and interact with an electronic ledger, such a system either still allows a government to issue new tokens (and thus has no effect on the issue you raise) or requires blunter, higher overhead means at serving the same national functions that wartime money printing serves, which means either (or both) more internal disruption or greater probability of losing the war.
Yes, see QubesOS which has a shoestring budget compared to Apple.
Where do you draw the line on ethics? How do you take a stand when you want to keep your job? This week, we discuss ethical behavior and the responsibility people have regarding it.
On the automated checkouts I've seen in my country, there's no possibility to pay by cash. You have to pay by card in order to use the self-checkout.
What industry experts were saying about Falcon?
Yes, for devs with vms for compiling and testing like my team does, 16gb is not enough. Thus we are moving off macbooks. You can argue that you shouldn't do that on a laptop, you should have a desktop that you always connect to, but that's not how we prefer to do it. If there was no laptop with more than say 8 gig we'd probably have gone that way. 16gb is almost enough.
>You can argue that preferences can be hijacked by chemicals, but in that case it becomes a reductionist determinism argument - that can be easily argued down to biochemistry in either direction.

Well, yes, exactly :)
It is a great town. Very friendly people. Beautiful valley. Really looking forward to summer! :)
Competent at MBA-speak, golf, and schmoozing, most likely.
100%, YES.

Self-taught Japanese, Chinese, etc. Course changed me. Wouldn't be a programmer without it.

Sidenote, there's no PM function here, but my email's in my profile. Shoot me a note if you want any tips on Japanese etc. Got decks of anki flashcards for daaaays.
This course was excellent. After years of self study it really pulled everything together for me.
That's nice. In Sweden various retailers and others that sell services claim that cash is a nuisance, a cost or a danger.

For example, bus companies have had "cash strikes" after robberies, claiming cash is a danger against their working environment, and as a result nowadays most buses are cashless.

Retail shops and banks alike publicize and complain about the cost of handling cash transports securely.

We can guess these are probably complaints towards an end: yes, they want to save money. There is no vision or will to keep accepting cash.
" For example, if only the state was allowed to process financial transactions, we never would have gotten credit/debit cards. "

Perhaps the modern state but during a certain period US gov basically made the foundations for nearly all modern technology. Even Peter Thiel acknowledges this fact.
Just today on HN there’s a story about another ad-driven company and their role in genocide...
Do they work after the 1st year expires?
Wrong. Even people like Keynes didnt believe that.

Resources that are wasted on stuff that we don't need is directly taken from other better places that those resources could have been spent on.

By not spending now, we are instead able to spend those resources on the future.
But that would be revealing personal information; some customers would consider it creepy, and possibly even sue.
> I can't but imagine what kind of personality is needed to not be affected by that kind of reputation and recognition.

The reason many Harvard grads keep the fact that they went to Harvard to themselves is because they have a similar expectation -- that everything they say will be brilliant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q51ld-scMI8
Same here. As a web developer and gamer it's hard to ignore the Intel lineup, but I'm a big fan of supporting the under-dog, and it makes it easy when there's so much value packed in.

I assume that motherboards with new chipsets will be released as well, but I've heard less about them.
Love that saying. I use a different version, "The devil makes work for idle hands".