skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I might not have guessed Shudu was fake, but man, Miquela is so fake looking as to almost not even be entering the uncanny valley
Beyond that, it is like people have never heard of guerilla warfare. The United States is a vast area and lots of it is lightly inhabited. It would be very difficult to suppress an insurrection.
The DoD is not interested in using their budget to reduce their number of civilian "casualties".

Their only intention here is to scale up their drone programs.
Those are not books are they?
I keep reading comments like this, but I don’t ever see any particularly glaring issues when reading from my iPad. Is it a desktop / chrome thing that iOS / Safari is automatically mitigated against, or are my standards just so low that I don’t notice the issues?
Then, again, you weren't using the right hardware. I've used Linux on two Dell XPS and three different Thinkpads in the last 5yrs and I haven't had a single hardware issue. And we're still talking about very popular, affordable, and accessible devices.

It's nothing like it was 5-10yrs ago.

The person you're replying to is right, using Linux is a lot like using MacOS, you need the right hardware for the software. I too had issues with Macbooks and it was like night/day switching to Dell/Lenovo when using Linux. When everything works, desktop Linux is very nice and on the same tier (or better) to MacOS as a programmer.
Unless you running a million-user app, I believe you shouldn't fall for this. I have, multiple times. I've tried to catch what users were doing and get a log of the exceptions they faced. Only despair followed from these attempts.

The best error handling technique is to catch exceptions and show up a big popup on the screen with the error details.

Your users will send those details to you instead of just saying "the app crashed".
My state constitution clarifies it as "The right of the individual citizen to bear arms in defense of himself, or the state..."
eggs are not at all. think about backup systems, and if you do not do that, I will lose faith in humanity
Overall gun homicides aren't the only concern motivating gun regulation. What did the mass shooting rate do in Australia after the buybacks?
It's really not a dangerous slippery slope. If Facebook starts moderating messages too harshly, people will just move to another platform.
That flamethrower is awesome. What use does a flamethrower have though besides burning buildings, that a normal gun wouldn't?
I'd vote for Belgium.

Belgian atrocities in the Congo suggests that would be a very, very poor choice
It has to do with the intent and why the virtuous cycle isn't always so benign.

We should really value companies that actually make products you can take control over, rather than blindly relying on lack of security to being able to do what we want. Intent is quite important. It also sends a strange message when lack of security is seen as something good.

Now I don't have any criticism/knowledge about this product or xiaomi in general. IP cameras are generally quite overpriced in my uninformed opinion and you still almost always get locked into the cloud. So I really welcome this hack.
That is some nasty stuff. Can someone who understands lubricants explain the need for it in lubricating oil? Is it to keep mold from growing in the oil, or does it have essential anti-wear properties?
She could have bought the views. But if she did and she knew she did, she wouldn't have been so outraged when she doesn't get any money then. I guess this person was genuinely feeling being ripped off by Youtube because she really had an audience but then with no money in return.
Photographers have been begging the big camera makers (Nikon/Canon) to add cryptographic signatures to photos from their cameras for years, but so far they've resisted doing so.
Incidentedly, I worked on drones for the Navy and Marines for many years.

My issue is with the hypocracy. Don't claim to be moral and sell this Kool aid. It sounds a lot like religious high priests that I have a viceral reaction to (given where I come from). It could just be my own personal issue with the faux moral sell of the valley.
While I'm fond of Delphi & Pascal, I can't honestly believe it's in the top 10 of popularity. It should be, but these days, I fear Brainfuck & Whitespace has a bigger developer community.
> just like we would want people to design roads in ways that limit driver deaths

This isn't a response. We don't design roads so they're less convenient for murderers than for other people.
It's still alive as an open source project, but probably less support now. https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb
ACINQ Releases Android Eclair Wallet v0.3.0 – Lightning Network Mainnet
After a certain point it's irrelevant. Soviets developed the Tsar Bomba; should the US have tried to one up them?
If Synology is moving up the chain into Cloud Backup and Storage. Will Blackblaze move down the Chain and make a simple NAS for Home user? ( With B2 services Integrated of coz )
I'm sure there are better people to answer this question, but cat-v.org is the personal blog & collection of interesting stuff by former plan9 personality uriel (sadly no longer with us).
It hosts random thoughts and lots of interesting stuff (including man pages) about plan9 and early unix systems, and miscellaneous other unix trivia.

It really is a treasure. Take the time to browse, it's well worth it if you're somewhat interested in unix history and not overly familiar with the subject already.
Yeah, you can't create new files that way; but opening an existing file can have side effects (think of tape devices or named pipes).
These days:

- Martin: Clean Code
- Martin: Clean Architecture
- Fowler: Refactoring
- Feathers: Working Effectively with legacy code
As a Linux-only user, there are almost no Linux-compatible games I'm interested in playing on Steam. So, if I have that rare desire to load up a game, I always find myself going back to TF2, which I didn't even pay money for, and at this point am about as entertained by as Solitaire.

None of the big name releases ever seem to be available. I understand this is due to the game studio's decision of not spending the money on porting to a market that they calculate would make up a rounding error in revenue.

I'm sure there are Linux-compatible indie games out there that would be nice to try, but I'm a casual gamer and I don't have time to research and trial and error what might be a good fit for me.
The title is “The New Webster’s Library of Practical Information: Quotations”. ISBN: 0-7172-4565-9, and the only link I found that was representative of what the set I have resembles is below[0], though it’s worth noting that it’s quite overpriced in said link (afaik) so please don’t take this as a purchase recommendation.

Apparently newer additions have been released as individual books (not as part of a set), and I’m sure you could snag a free pdf of a dictionary of quotations via libgen for a quick peek.

[0] https://m.ebay.com/itm/The-New-Websters-Library-of-Practical...
> And while they're not intended to look or pass as humans they "give" hours-long packed concerts: https://youtu.be/HI0mv7P_sRk

That's because they learned their lessons from 20 years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONIKb1EwX6U
(kyoko date, one of the very first realistic virtual idol, 1997) (god, when did I become old enough to see patterns through generations :|).

edit: I find the new crop of virtual idols a bit creepy (anime charadesign, childish themes). Might be a generation thing.
Thank you! So glad to hear this! :)
Spotify is actually small in the world. All music service subscribers combined are a mere ~110 million.

Eddy Cue recent pegged the market opportunity at 2 billion.[1]

And Apple Music ramping the fastest.[2]

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-music-hits-38-million-subscr...

[2] https://twitter.com/asymco/status/973568200616050688?ref_src...
from the wikipedia page:

>It is used as an antiwear and extreme pressure additive in lubricants and hydraulic fluids.[2][3]
We have p2p wifi between our barn and farm house. The barn is powered by solar.

I use engenius WAPs, a 100Ah battery, 2 100W solar panels, a $15 solar charge controller, various buck/boost converters for other power requirements. The system also powers an LTE repeater and LTE modem, to provide the farm with internet access.
(1) Are you saying that immortality is bad because it's infinitely good? That seems like an argument for bringing immortality to everyone as soon as possible.

(2) I'm saying that one of the reasons why death is viewed as cowardly is because that belief is promoted by generals in order to make their soldiers more willing to die in battle. If that's where the idea comes from, then we should reject it, because willingness to die in battle is no longer a good thing.
Big fan of CryptoKitties and CryptoCollectibles. I collect my notes at the Awesome CryptoKitties page [1] and also started a collection of (open source) tools and public domain datasets at CryptoCopycats [2]. Have fun with the blockchain. It's serious business. The future is meow :-).
[1]: https://github.com/cryptocopycats/awesome-cryptokitties
[2]: https://github.com/cryptocopycats
Didcovdrability isn't great, but eg: "apropos input" suggest "man xinput" and a quick search points to acceleration along with a pointer to the "xset(1) man page".

Unfortunately it looks like the path from "apropos mouse" might be a bit more convoluted.
Sure. Games and toys are a category of products and services.

The premise of this article however is that things that look like toys are often actually not just toys, but "important" innovations.

To point out that there are toys that look like toys is less insightful.
> Programming Python from O'Reilly. It helps lift my monitor nicely.

Wow - same with me. Perfect size to match my monitor base! I also keep a 2002(?) copy of "Creating Web Pages for Dummies" to remind me of my roots.
This would be a useful feature for any programming font. I can totally imagine writing exploits through zero-width characters; smart insertion into interpreted strings (scanners/parsers) can potentially insert a security leak by an attacker. Though input can come from many places off course, this would at least make one vector visible.
> In the past few years I've flown a bunch on the AA A321T configuration, brand new planes. I was shocked at just how much better the 787 is in almost all regards in terms of the environmental quality of being on the plane.

Brand new planes of a design that first flew 25 years ago, of a family of aircraft that first flew 31 years ago, compared with aircraft of a design that first flew 9 years ago. It's hardly surprising that a much more modern clean-sheet design is better; the A321neo would be a more interesting comparison, as that should be much quieter than the A321ceo, but that's still not a clean-sheet design.
Also if you don't use an unambiguous encoding if you're signing multiple aggregated fields. Either by using field separators that can't occur in the data, or by using a format that prefixes fields with their lengths.
Ingesting Musical Content at Scale Using AWS Lambda and DDEX
Sure, if you had the money, time and/or motivation. If you didn't, it was extremely difficult to travel. Nobody would trust you, and staying at inns was expensive. Get caught camping in lands where no one knew you, and you're at their mercy.
There is a joke that goes like this;

The richest man in town calls up the local newspaper and complains that he didn't get the store coupons in this week's Sunday supplement. The clerk responds, "Why do you care about the coupons? You're the richest man in town!" Then he responds, "How do you think I got to be so rich?"

Several things come into play in these scenarios.

In Google's case it makes essentially no actual money on "Google Brain", sure it gets headlines for beating Go, sure it attracts top talent (that needs to be paid!) and it still gives those folks free lunches and nice office space etc. So anything that offsets that expense is good.

And in Google, for all of its "lavish" perks, is a penny pincher like our rich man in the story. One of the stories when I was working there, they used to have a brand name juice cases where you could pick up any of the varieties of juice or smoothies that they made. The smoothies were very popular. Then one day out of the blue they swapped them for a different, and by every measure, inferior brand and fewer choices. There were lots of stories about why they switched, but after a lot of internal debate and investigation, the reason was that the replacements were cheaper (by about 25 cents each on their most expensive smoothie as I recall). It angered a lot of employees and one allegedly quit over it (well technically they called it the latest in a string of bad choices). The cost savings, assuming that every employee drank a case of their most expensive smoothie every day (which would represent an upper bound) was about $18M. That was 1% of the quarterly free cash flow (money that had been deposited into cash after all other uses). All of that pain for what was sure less than $18M in "savings".

The third factor is dual use. Sure you can use AI research into interpreting images to build killer robots that can identify and assassinate only those targets you specify. But you can also use it to pick out where the roadway has changed subtly indicating a roadside bomb, or a hazard that a self driving car should avoid, etc.

When you combine these three factors; one that AI team is just overhead, two the corporate willingness to alienate and possibly lose some of their employees over saving a nickel, and the ability to rationalize any number of non-evil uses for the technology, you get a recipe where of course they will sell things to the government without any regard to how that technology will be used. Just look at their main business, selling advertising. They just "sell ads" even when those ads are promoting illegal or unethical acts by consumers whether it is payday loans or Canadian pharmacies. Only when the FTC comes in and tells them to stop do they stop, not through some inner altruism.
The other extreme is that some folks actually have a conscience

Those people are not working in AdTech.
does encryption being classified as munitions also put it into second amendment territory?

It doesn't much matter. Even if somebody made the case that "crypto is a form of 'Arms', subject to 2A protection," the 2A doesn't grant an unregulated right to own whatever "arms" one chooses. All the rights granted by the Constitution are subject to reasonable regulation.

So, Congress could simply legislate a restriction on crypto, much as they have done with machine guns, grenades, and nukes.
I'll admit I was modifying what I would have said IRL for this medium. You are absolutely right: one of the most brilliant victories of so-called "neoliberal" capitalism is how it's utterly convinced people that it represents human nature. That it's not ideological. What I meant by my comment was that "saving the world from the evil of global Fascism" was a post-hoc rationalization, not what motivated America to join the war years after it had begun.
>Yes, and the crazy people are the ones who, when desperate and angry, try to kill 3 innocent people and then themselves.

That was crazy, but maybe not all parts of that machine were broken. If I genuinely had millions of views on my videos that gave me an income and was suddenly cut off, I would have felt being very wrongly treated as well.
Originally it was the "military-industrial-Congressional complex".
> What time period is that? I'm not sure what historians consider the first nation state.

There's disagreement about this, but the contemporary concept of the nation-state is believed to have merged between the 17th and 19th centuries. 1648 is usually given as the earliest date, though that's partly out of a desire to ascribe a specific year to what was actually a slow process.
if you are in europe here is a template of an email you can send in post GDPR world - https://sixthvariable.com/?p=6
Paradise jobs agregator?
Hi, I want to start a job aggregator focused o jobs in paradise. I have a list of job offers. Where should I post the list it to get fist email addresses?
Imagine deciding to run a local ISP for 300 homes in your neighborhood. You don't know if all 300 will sign up for service. You don't know how long it will take to get to 300.

Do you pay for peering agreements that will meet the demands of 300 homes for the two years it will take to get there, or do you try to build up gradually? Will you be in a situation where you can't meet your existing customers' demand? Who will have leverage in that next peering agreement? It's clearly the entrenched backhaul provider.

If you have some ability to steer & prioritize traffic, you will have some wiggle room when it comes time to negotiate your next agreement. With net neutrality concepts- you lose that tool. You're totally dependent on the accuracy of your traffic predictions & the peering partner has a significant negotiating advantage.

You're going to take on the risk of digging trenches & negotiating peering agreements for underserved, rural or suburban locations. You're going to need a mass of homes to agree to the trenching & installation. You're going to have to negotiate labor for digging these trenches & laying cable in a way that will resist water damage & other threats.

All of this sucks and is hard.

>>the more you can pay the better service your company can offer which directly benefits larger entrenched companies, no?

I don't believe that anyone really wants to rate websites differently than they already are (via peering arrangements- which are how the Internet works, folks). But the argument that most people want to make is that ISPs will block access to example.com. The best example of access to a website being cut off I can point to is google's decision to block Amazon devices from accessing youtube.com.

If no ISP is doing this kind of blocking, then what's the point of exposing ISPs to risk of unfounded claims from random customers that you are violating net neutrality principals? Do you now need to absorb the cost of Audits to prove you're not? Digging trenches is hard, expensive & risky. What happens when you pile on more regulations?

Who is excited to get into this business? The established providers already have legal teams & are prepared to deal with legislators. Startup ISPs are annoying bugs that can easily be crushed with regulatory pressure. Add "ability to absorb regulatory & legal tangles" to your list of runway calculations.

All I see are increasingly challenging hurdles for startup ISPs that need pricing flexibility to manage the early, high risk tasks of starting an ISP.
Looks interesting. Seems it might be simpler than express MVC in some ways. You might consider adding how to connect to various databases/using an ORM in the documentation.

I didn't take an in depth look at roosevelt, but it also doesn't appear to have generators (for controllers/models etc). One of the bad things about some MVC frameworks that lack generators is the copy pasta style development
In my experience, its best not to get involved in behavioral aspects of team being engineering lead. You need to get work done and such things change the context of your conversation.

But if this is visibly affecting delivery quality or timeline then it makes sense to get involved.

If it comes to that, I would defend my team member until proven guilty. Ask for specific scenarios and then if they seem serious then just pass a word to team member that there is heat around this issue. And he / she could have said this or handled this way.

Sometimes people are what they are. It doesn't occur to them that they are offending others.

You also can't expect them to change without patience n guidance. Keep sharing scenarios and what he could have done better.

If this is behavioral problem then he would take time to come out of it.
This is strange, considering the competition going on in this industry.
All of my comments have been about the shooter's relationship to YouTube as a company, so that's why I brought up employment status. I was literally replying to the comparison to "someone getting fired from their job".

I'm not trying to make a dig at anyone - I'm describing reality and it's upsetting a lot of people who feel entitled to ad revenue. I honestly hope YouTube just does away with their partner program altogether.

As for YouTube careers - I couldn't agree more that many creators are full-time and put their time and energy into making content. The Slo Mo Guys, VSauce, etc are all making money outside of Adsense. They've done what Philip Defranco often tells people to do - diversify where you're getting your money from.

My whole point is that being a YouTube creator or a blogger is a perfectly fine profession - but that requires work to monetize your product and/or direct support from your subscribers/readers.

I am a huge proponent of users in general creating and participating in services that truly meet our needs and wants rather than going all in and hitching ourselves to a multinational corporation that has advertisers and board members to please.

I honestly think we're on the same side of this argument. I just don't think the answer is in expecting YouTube to take care of us.

I know a lot of people want to nationalize YouTube/Google, but unless/until that happens (and unless/until their IP becomes free & open source), we cannot count on them.
that’s exactly what they’re trying to avoid.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Circular argumentation
Currently I have:

- Procedural Generation in Game Design

- The Art of Halo 3

- PUBG + Cats
Indeed,

The "it's a proof concept" argument falls down when you realize that automatic contracts would be a serious bug, not a desirable feature, if applied to anything other a wholly arbitrary thingy.

And just as much, the examples are "toys" because crypto-contracts can only work on toys or rather only has it's guarantee properties for things encoded within the blockchain.

The ability to have land change hands automatically with no recourse if said land winds-up in ill-intentioned hands? If you want to trample the rights of tenants, ignore regulations on environmental protection, ignore worries about fraud, assuming all zoning ideas are ridiculous and so-forth, that would be great.

But even if you did want this stuff, it's unlikely crypto could get this because real world things already have their real world keepers because of their usefulness and few are willing to discard the actual protection such keepers have for the mis-features of crypto-contracts.

Edit: Not that I'm a fan of DRM, but it also doesn't seem like blockchains could enforce DRM, which is the primary feature that everyone trying to fence off cyberspace want.
Well you asked why wasn't the US allied to Germany in the war. Asking that makes it sound like you weren't aware that Germany declared war on the US, because that's a pretty obvious reason for the US not to be allied to Germany.
Two half days, not 2.5 days. So 20% support. One day a week.

I've seen it used effectively. I've had customers write in about a bug that I was able to solve almost immediately. No bug submission, no triage, and an apology from someone who wrote the code with the bug. This a) got us a super happy, referenceable customer, b) fixed a longstanding but infrequent bug with almost no overhead, and most importantly c) reminded me as an engineer that real people use the stuff I build.

I've seen other engineers fix long standing issues with password resets. I've seen designers tweak the language in welcome emails. I've seen a CEO fix a pricing issue on the fly during a live chat with a customer.

Being the support person also gives you empathy for the support people that support the things that you build, and to fix death by a thousand paper cut issues. That's how you afford support days: it makes your customers happier, increases customer retention, and fixes dumb inefficiencies of your support team.