skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Should just start including it with bar code stickers in general.
As a resident of California, these warnings are a joke. You learn to pay absolutely no attention to them, because they are everywhere. They are like the real-life equivalent of the "this site uses cookies" warnings the EU imposes.

Do the people behind this lawsuit truly in good-faith believe such warnings for coffee will make the world better? (It seems hard to imagine.) Or are there other motivation at play here?
Nonsense, I live in central Europe.
SpaceX is great, but having the highest launch rate in the industry does no good if they lose money on every one. Any more than Tesla would succeed if it outproduced GM and Toyota but lost money on every car.
There UI doesn't look like it is using React. Maybe they are still working on it?
add LBRY.io to the list. I wonder if anyone's developing a syndicator for posting their videos to all of these sites. It's getting pretty difficult to 1) keep awareness of every venue as they come out and 2) manually syndicate content across all of them too. Having all these d_apps installed on a single PC take a toll on resources too.
> It’s not a matter of culture it’s a matter of economy.

Their point also stands in regards to economy. It's not a "situation" we magically find ourselves in and just have to get along with.

> Somebody is saying this is inevitable - and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it's very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true.

-- Richard Stallman

> Humans, in so far as they are more than a completion of functions able to react, whose lowest and therefore most central are the purely animal like reactions, are simply superfluous for totalitarian systems. Their goal is not to erect a despotic regime over humans, but a system by which humans are made superfluous. Total power can only be achieved and guaranteed when nothing else matters except the absolutely controllable willingness to react, marionettes robbed of all spontaneity. Humans, precisely because they are so powerful, can only be completely controlled when they have become examples of the animal like species human.

-- Hannah Arendt

> The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

-- Hannah Arendt

All this pseudo-objectivity to hide oneself behind , all this "I didn't make the rules"... before talking about how to live a decent life, start with examining it... a well developed personality will be all sorts of content in situations, and their happiness will depend not only on their own stomach, but whether people around are hungry.

> Do not preach the straight and narrow way while going joyously upon the wide one. Preach the wide one, or do not preach at all; but do not fool yourself by saying you would like to help usher in a free society, but you cannot sacrifice an armchair for it. Say honestly, "I love arm-chairs better than free men, and pursue them because I choose; not because circumstances make me. I love hats, large, large hats, with many feathers and great bows; and I would rather have those hats than trouble myself about social dreams that will never be accomplished in my day. The world worships hats, and I wish to worship with them."

> But if you choose the liberty and pride and strength of the single soul, and the free fraternization of men, as the purpose which your life is to make manifest then do not sell it for tinsel. Think that your soul is strong and will hold its way; and slowly, through bitter struggle perhaps the strength will grow. And the foregoing of possessions for which others barter the last possibility of freedom will become easy.

> At the end of life you may close your eyes saying: "I have not been dominated by the Dominant Idea of my Age; I have chosen mine own allegiance, and served it. I have proved by a lifetime that there is that in man which saves him from the absolute tyranny of Circumstance, which in the end conquers and remoulds Circumstance, the immortal fire of Individual Will, which is the salvation of the Future."

-- Voltairine de Cleyre

You can call these idealized notions, but that also goes for something like "money is how you ensure your kids have a decent life", or "the strong must crush the weak" or whatever you have.
Do we like to tell ourselves the purpose of school is academics or athletics?

If athletics, school must start as early as possible, so "away" outdoor games can be held outside in sunlight and "away" teams can get home at a reasonable hour.

If academics, school should start as late as possible, so students (and instructors!) can do class prep immediately before class and/or sleep in.

Its interesting that the only acceptable model of alternative education is essentially "pick your major in high school" such that there are art high schools or music high schools or aviation high schools, etc. And of course religious schools that have been around for centuries. However there are no business model schools based on priority, like a school with no athletics program that focuses on academics.

The real purpose of school is lowering unemployment by increasing babysitting years, along with raising the bar as a filter to reduce the number of "successful" kids needing jobs. Certainly we have far too much academics for our economy and culture to hold them.
> night owls were especially vulnerable, many appearing so chronically jet-lagged that they were unable to perform optimally at any time of day.

I experienced this with an 8am biology class I was required to take. It wrecked my whole day. About 1/3 of the way through I just started skipping the class and then later getting notes of the lecture from a friend of mine. It ended up working dramatically well. I got an A, while my friend who got up every MWF to take the notes, got a B. It was kind of a wild result since my studying was based almost entirely on her notes. I hadn't given it too much thought, but it would make sense if being sleep deprived is what hurt her in this case.
I'm sure there are many people who think this is ok, because it's not the government doing this, but a "private company". Who needs a totalitarian dictatorship when plain old capitalism works as well if not better?
Writing assembly is tedious when the processor is smaller than the task at hand. Doing more than 8-bit math on a 6502 was a pain because you had to handle multi-byte addition yourself. Zero page - because no 16bit pointers. But when the processor isn't too small and the instruction set is well written with humans in mind (I look away from Intel here) it can be kind of nice. The MC68000 was a dream compared to earlier processors I'd used before.

On a related note, I learned first on an 8080 but with a different naming and syntax than the standard intel ASM. Maybe it's because that's what I learned first, but it still seems better to this day.
Wait till California finds out about the radioactivity of bananas.
I miss my aolserver days. It ns_put itself into my heart perfectly.
I'll never forget scrolling through google news a few years back. There were two articles that were grouped together but with slightly different headlines:

Recent study shows that coffee extends life

Recent study shows that coffee causes cancer

This is one of those debates that will never end. The solution is "everything in moderation". I enjoy a cup of coffee per day - and I limit it at that...
Our school district just spent the last year trying to convince parents we should shuffle around start times to make high school later and elementary school earlier.

It was a complete clusterfuck. Both teacher and parents alike at both the elementary and the high schools all had a million reasons why it couldn’t possibly work. Since there are a limited number of buses which are shared, you can’t move one start time without moving the other.

It came up at every school event, sports practice, kids party, to the point where I would just walk away when people starting bitching about it one way or another.

The biggest issue was we had a new superintendent who wanted to “start a dialogue” about the start times rather than actually make a policy change. It took up hundreds of hours in PTO, Administrative, and Town Hall meetings and of course ended up in absolutely no change in the end. Everyone’s opinion of course had to be heard, whether it was a longer commute that a teacher would have, or then not having time to drop off their own child before getting to class, or impacting afternoon sports, or the something about the bus route, or... Of course none of the debate actually addressed if students would possible learn better from it.

I was so glad when they finally sent out the email saying they were dropping it just so that I wouldn’t have to hear the constant bickering.

It was like an engineering team with no lead and a non-technical manager arguing over what DBMS to use where no decision could be made until everyone agreed we had the “right” solution!
Estimation is Hard
CherryPy is pretty cool. I wish it got more notice. Bottle is another single file Python framework as well.
Do not fall into the trap of assuming that because cost of complying with the letter of an incremental regulation seems like it would low to you, that means that it does not impose a burden on business owners.

Regulations are cumulative. This is yet another thing to add to the list of notices that have to be up and yet another thing that an unaccountable city inspector in a bad mood might decide it not quite displayed prominently for their liking and fine you.

That is what businesses complain about, not the cost of each regulation, the cost of complying with all the regulations, all the time, with no way to defend yourself and no one to tell you if its enough (and defend you if someone disagrees later).
This particular use case (checking odd or even) doesn't even need to use the modulus operation -- which is expensive. A bitwise AND is much more efficient (provided that the compiler doesn't apply that optimization upon seeing % 2)
Std.variant is everything cool about D
I can definitely confirm this from my time in college at least. I had an 8am, 4 day a week calculus class my first semester that I was only taking to get an easy A since I already had the AP credit. Ended up dropping it and my grades in every other class improved.

My best semester by far was one in which I somehow managed to schedule all of my classes after 2pm until about 9pm.
The utility of Facebook is it's raw messaging and information sharing capacity. These exist in a thousand ways in different apps from Twitter to Diaspora to Signal. People use Facebook not because of the raw utility - it is winning a competition for people's attention that is going to be an endless battle.

Setting some ground rules for what can and can't be collected and shared from people is way more effective than having the government enter that rat race.
I'm actually working on this now: [1][2]

CGI was abandoned because of the slowness of process forking, but with modern kernels, new compiled languages, and better reverse proxy servers, I believe that the speed difference is trivial in regards to the advantages:

- Deployment can be done by simple file upload.

- Process isolation adds security and reliability.

- CGI scripts/binaries are vendor agnostic and can be run/tested locally

- CGI scripts can use any language, are stateless, promote hyper modular design (aka functions) and are generally minimalistic in nature.

[1] https://bigcgi.com/
[2] https://github.com/bmsauer/bigcgi
Beams are back in the LHC
I spent a long time wondering why it was multiplying by octal 1 as well. I'm not sure whether code like this should be critiqued for readability, but "0L" (uppercase) would have worked better.
I feel like that when it comes to social media, decentralized is really the answer. I'm not sure I could trust many big corps (maybe Wikimedia). Mastodon and Diaspora fill these needs, perhaps what they need is better marketing and improved UX (specially for Diaspora).
100% agree and it's nice to hear you're exercising your right as a consumer by boycotting Mailchimp. Having said that, can't Mailchimp do whatever they want? They're a company with their own set of rules and priorities. Seems fine to me as long as they disclose it to customers.
I wonder how many people were drinking coffee in the court room during this trial.
Iran's need to steal intellectual property
These days mere mortals have access to enough information about brokenness of operating systems, filesystems, disks, raids to make better decisions, than sqlite ever did. I even suggest to go purely log structured and completely get rid of random writes to save people some time.

Also these days I disagree about perfect APIs, they are not realistically achievable. It's a mistake to think there will be no mistakes. For example, another common mistake people make is in event loops, when they assume kernels are going to report descriptors as readable or writable correctly all the time for correct descriptors. These are all mistakes that come from the assumption that other people don't make mistakes, instead of treating lower levels as black boxes and not relying on promises. So, while it sounds like a nice idea to have yet another API to fix broken promises, it's not. A good library can fix broken promises. A bad library still won't realize it's relying on broken promises.
The problem in college is bad, but the problem is some high schools is even worse. At high schools without block scheduling, every day might be a 6 am alarm to get to school by 7:00.
We don't need an alternative to FB at all. Social Networking isn't a first principle of society.
How RoI Pooling and RPN Work in Faster-RCNN
That's not surprising. Towards the end of the Mhz Wars the heatsinks had become pretty ungainly but they were still using the flimsy spring clip instead of the more modern 4 post or gantry type systems used today (sorry I'm sure they have proper names but damned if I know what they are).

I had a solid copper heatsink that was easily 5lbs for my Athlon XP system. I held onto it for the longest time after I got rid of the system because I knew the metal was easily worth $20.
I'm the author of the article, so feel free to ask me anything, or give me your thoughts on the article.
Sorry, but the term "third world" has long been co-opted like "hacker".
No just no. How about we just do without Facebook period.
Why, no government-funded institutions have ever violated our privacy. What a wonderful idea.

Propaganda, trite.
It might already be possible for facebook employees to access your information anyway, and if it isn't then a similar system could be set up in a govt run agency. There are many advantages to having a democratic administration run such a system rather than a profit-driven one --- businesses will always, rightly, put profit before privacy. If we decide that privacy is more important then we either have to regulate better, nationalise, or choose not to use the service. The third option doesn't seem to be getting widespread uptake; where young people are moving away from facebook it is not primarily because of privacy concerns.
When I was a kid, the record we cared about was flight time, not distance. We'd build planes that would gently circle and throw them straight up in the air. Distance seems to have more to do with the arm, to me.
It wouldn't be able to compete.
I wouldn't mind trying the same test on guitars -- especially a '59 Les Paul v. 2018 Les Paul.

That said, a fancier instrument might help a person play better, because of the confidence it brings to the player's psyche.
I used to have lots of problems getting up early and always championed later times. Growing up through my twenties, it was great seeing finally seeing more and more evidence for a later school start and I was hopeful for future teens.

But it wasn't until my first kid that I finally understood that school doesn't start this early because it's good for the learning experience.

It starts this early so parents can get their kids to school and start working afterwards, without getting fired.
95% of all documents can be converted with pandoc. But in all seriousness I'm guessing author is using pandoc with syntax highlighting flag.
http://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#syntax-highlighting
I'm waiting for the first aviation GPS nav system to pull the automobile trick and refuse to accept programming while in flight. "Sorry you may not select an emergency landing airfield as a new destination, the aircraft is in flight, please land the aircraft then for your safety the GPS configuration screen will be unlocked". Its merely obnoxious nanny when a car driver is alone, but its incredibly frustrating when the car or airplane has a "copilot" dedicated to the task.
We can guess your name
Don't fool yourself, there is a lot more to landing humans on Mars than building a big launch vehicle. The only data point we have is the Apollo project, and Mars is an order of magnitude more difficult. Apollo was around $150B in today's dollars, so if anything, the $100B estimate for Mars is low. Which at this point puts SpaceX closer to Mars One than it is to Mars itself.
How do you do this ?
A cynical explanation here would be: those in charge wanted the appearance of having considered these changes without the headache / political risk of actually changing them.
It's happening where I live too. It's amazing how quickly the discussion moves past "what's best for students" and into the "it's annoying to me personally" and "when I was a kid, we suffered" conversations.
Are we really at the point of "needing" Facebook?

edit: BBC taking the "Social" part of "Social Networking" too literally.
At the same time, the point of college for most kids is to prepare them for a white collar job. If there's a huge client meeting at 10am and there's still 3 hours of preparation to do before they arrive, no one's going to be very sympathetic to the excuse that you have "social jet lag." Expecting college adults to get out of bed before 10 is hardly a substantial burden.
“Why I’m Quitting GMO Research:” Exhausted by the Negative Response
For some people the potential money they make justifies the change, the environment be damned. They'll bend over backwards to rationalize it with false equivalencies as either being benign or actually benevolent when in truth it is neither.
> First of all, these systems mean the engine uses more fuel

And yet small capacity modern turbo diesel engines power some of the most economical cars on the road.

If I recall correctly there was a Citroen vehicle getting 3.6L / 100km.[1]

1. https://www.carshowroom.com.au/showrooms/citroen/c4%20cactus...
Not seen: IPv6 makes unique user tracking easier
>but don't take the choice away from me

You do realize you can research everything you ingest. Nobody bars you from it.

And there is a public health risk to worthless warning labels. Not to mention the unstated economic cost of trying to navigate and implement these worthless regulations.
I have and i used to like it.

But some kind of mindrot is setting in at the user facing levels of development, and it is worming its way down the stack towards the kernel.
WebTorrent uses WebRTC, not WebSocket.
> Because of these I have considered secondhand tobacco smoke (signs in hotels), benzene (on fuel (petrol) dispensers), lead in brass (plumbing fittings), asbestos (automotive brakes, clutches, gaskets), and many others.

If the regulations were limited to chemicals with the amount of evidence of harm that these examples have, there would be fewer people with issues.

Instead they get applied to these... and coffee, and sand, and lots of other things with very little evidence of harm, to the point that it stops being a signal of evidence of harm and starts being meaningless noise.
I suppose, but a little more nuance is welcome. The CJR ran a piece about Seymour Hersh, but I think a lot of the things they had to say about Hanlon's Razor and similar aphorisms are thoughtful and relevant to this discussion: https://www.cjr.org/analysis/seymour_hersh_osama_bin_laden.p...

> No phrase has been bandied about more than “conspiracy theory” in describing Hersh’s reporting. Critics argue that he’s accusing “hundreds of people across three governments of staging a massive international hoax that has gone on for years.” How could that be possible?

> [...]

> [I]t is extraordinarily naive to think the government is incapable of keeping a large secret involving dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of people. I am reminded of this passage from the memoirs of Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, who knows a thing or two about how government secrecy works. Not only is the idea that you can’t keep secrets in Washington “flatly false,” Ellsberg writes, but by repeating it you’re doing the government’s work for them.

>> [Such sayings] are in fact cover stories, ways of flattering and misleading journalists and their readers, part of the process of keeping secrets well. Of course eventually many secrets do get out that wouldn’t in a fully totalitarian society. But the fact is that the overwhelming majority of secrets do not leak to the American public … The reality unknown to the public and to most members of Congress and the press is that secrets that would be of the greatest import to many of them can be kept from them reliably for decades by the executive branch, even though they are known to thousands of insiders.

> [...]

> The old adage that “three people can only keep a secret if two are dead” is a fantasy, and journalists should stop mindlessly repeating it.
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With all due respect, I've been reading your comments on this thread and you sound completely off your rocker. You'd be surprised by how much more weight your opinions would hold if you'd cut the childish, pseudo-political statements about 'brown people', how the US is on the downslope and any disgusting statements calling an entire country "garbage".
Ask HN: Could blockchain secure privacy?
Blockchain seems to be a good medium to disseminate encrypted personal data in a potentially decentralized network.

Why not use it to store personal data such as FB to only be decrypted via a private key?

Devil is in the details of course.

All I've heard thus far of blcokchain's utilization is monetization schemes, not necessarily deriving value for civilization.
Does it also support aggregation or your end up doing that on the client side? Are there operational issues or it's pretty much hands-off? Auto-scaling, provisioning, etc, etc...
A daily habit does not strike me as moderation
This article is pretty focused on the build type of k8s developer tools. There are other types as well that can fit into specific places in your workflow. Joe Beda does a fantastic high level overview of the different types in last week's #tgik8s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW85Y0Ug3KY .

Here's a couple tools that try to tackle this problem in different ways:

- Ksync - `docker run -v local:remote` for your k8s cluster (https://github.com/vapor-ware/ksync)

- Telepresence - extend the cluster network locally (https://www.telepresence.io/)

- Forge - end to end development through deployment (https://forge.sh/)
Can we get some health care first?
Sure. There are probably some regulations that make no sense. Instead of complaining about overregulation in general let's fix these specific things. Overall environmental regulation has been a huge benefit for the world and we should push for even less pollution.
I ordered some as well. I bet they'll wonder what caused a spike in orders today.
A message to business owners about publicists
It doesn't have to compete. It just has to provide an alternative for people who want to use it.
Well, I tend to make a lot of very small stateless components. If a component is 1-6 JSX tags, the new context API represents a boilerplate overhead of between 100 and ~17%. Additionally, the semantics of having a consumer's props.children be an immediately invoked function are a little bit unintuitive to me. I think having multiple ways to pass "props" increases the api surface area, having everything "just be props" would be simpler.