skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"catch up with all relevant political news in 1-2 hours/month of concentrated effort."

I have noticed this too when coming back from a month long trip. Usually nothing important has changed. I would argue that by checking once a month you get a better idea of the big picture because you deal less with the noise. At my company they have CNN playing at lunch time and during that hour almost nothing important gets transmitted. It's just endless discussion about the same topics.
Part II has been postponed year-by-years since Part I came out.
Fair point.

> That 19th century captain measured the angle between the pole star and the local horizon with a sextant;

Which immediately provided latitude. To get longitude, he did the same with just about any other star and correlated the angle to an accurate clock and carefully-prepared tables.

That "accurate clock" business was why longitude was such a difficult navigational problem for so long until John Harrison finally cracked it. (I know this is getting OT but I find it fascinating.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harrison
I had a newsletter that went out once a week and summarized the 10 most "important" news happenings of the previous week. Not gossip or politics or entertainment but "this happened and here is why it matters."

Granted I could have marketed it better but there was very little interest.
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Exactly. This my frustration with the professor and the course. I couldn’t tell if he was stupid, misleading, or obliviously enthusiastic.
I’d really recommend reading the article. I think it addresses this issue very well.
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They say RTS as a genre died, but I think there is an untapped market.

I liked Starcraft 2, but I think Blizzard needs some competition.
Appetite for risk, threat model, competency available _and_ platform constraints, IMO. I think we're in violent agreement: you should only do this if you have someone on board who knows what the hell they're doing, and you literally can't afford a decent TLS stack on that device.
> ALSO, while we're at it, the only global or thread-local variables you can read from or write to from a signal handler must be of type volatile sig_atomic_t (or else volatile of any other integral or pointer type that you can use with atomic operations). This is very important.

I'd rather recommend C11 atomics without volatile. They use memory barriers to guarantee visibility, and getting the idea that "volatile" should be used in the context of atomics is a bad idea, as it allows reordering (unlike memory barriers).
World Wars have not been the normal state in history.
I recommend The Source by Michener (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Source_(novel)). Masterfully written.
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It was said back in a blog post for the introduction of aws batch, but when will we be able to also use lambda functions in a batch environment? (The job isn’t too complex, it just needs to run longer than 5 minutes (an hour or two))
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>Knowledge is a good unto itself

This is a fallacious claim in an age of information overload.
Somewhat agree as I'm not as depressed as when I'm on reddit. But just in the past few weeks we've had things like: active shooter on youtube campus, all the facebook doom and gloom, cell phones cause cancer in male rats (I think I got that from hacker news), China's social credit system, etc.

I have a friend who actually doesn't follow the news (I'm not sure he knows what cambridge analytica is yet) and he tells me all the time how doom and gloom I am just from reading hacker news.
You can put them in the trash.
This logic is worse than strawman.

You build a business that 100% depends on facebook. Facebook is a commercial company. At any point they can shut it down, and you are back to 0. Bad.

You build a website that depends on "a browser". There are at least 4 popular browsers desktop browsers, with several variations on mobile and more exotic browsers. All 4 are run by different companies. For most websites you would still function if even 3 of the 4 major browsers were shut down. Furthermore, desktop software is downloaded and cannot just vanish (let's ignore app store and that kind of magic, as not all browsers come in like that).

So I think you just proved the point on writing a "website" is a safer bet then writing a "tool for facebook"
I sometimes get SP (couple times a year max) given long sessions of programming, sleep deprivation, weakened immune system. part of me recognizes them and is able to "step aside" while mind stays busy generating colorful "wannabe frightening" pictures. whole thing reminds me muscle pain after hard workout but for the brain. most peculiar thing is that body sort of associates fear with liberation.
I think the point he's making is that it's worse if a person dies because of something they have no control over (self-driving car malfunction) than if a person dies because of their own stupid choices (driving drunk, driving too fast for conditions, running red lights, etc).

This, of course, ignores the fact that stupid choices drivers make tend to affect other people on the road who did nothing wrong, so the introduction of a self-driving car which makes less stupid decisions would reduce deaths from both categories of people here.
I highly recommend this book (by a French author), which covers the years 70 AD to 1943, so not far!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Abraham_(novel)

I don't know if some would call it biased, but it made a strong impression on me as a young adult. I am not Jewish, but it is fascinating in and of itself.
Look, I think this is great and all, but I'm pretty skeptical of this chant, "If the news bothers you so much because of what you're reading, just stop reading. It's not like you can change it."

Obviously, events that already happened can't be changed. But a lot of what upsets people so much is about legal interpretation and political policy. These things are changeable, and direct (and/or collective) action can change them.

When you're in a position where by default things go your way (dominant gender, dominant sexual orientation, dominant phenotype/race in local community) then yeah, you can just disengage and suspect that things are ticking over nicely for you. That's not the case for people outside this happy intersection. It certainly reads to me, as someone out of one of those bounds like you're telling me to disengage while people actively trying to shape law to marginalize me certainly won't.

Further, resistance to propaganda and misinformation is not an attribute of mentality. It's a combination of learned skills and _context_. By yielding all current contextual information, you are severely damaging your ability to process current events. This is in sharp contrast to the arguments put forth here and in the article that often lament the lack of skills (e.g., statistical thinking) that you can both learn and maintain in isolation.

I agree that controlling your media consumption is important and some folks (including myself) sometimes go off on media benders, getting very stressed. But the second assumption (that it's pointless) is wrong. My anger and outrage has helped me aid numerous political campaigns and individuals with money, time and emotional support.
"When I got back from a trip I took abroad with my family earlier this year, my friends mentioned that they'd seen the photos that "I" had posted to Facebook. Except... I hadn't posted any photos to Facebook. I have a Facebook account, but I deliberately have a very minimal presence on it. What my friends were seeing was the photos that my mother had posted, and which I had been tagged in. My privacy was violated by someone else's inability to understand Facebook's privacy settings."

Ironically, it was your OWN inability to understand Facebook's privacy settings.

Go to Settings -> Click " Timeline and Tagging Settings" -> Edit " Who can add things to my timeline? " section : " Review posts that friends tag you in before they appear on your Timeline?" make " Enabled "

There, you will never be tagged in another photo or post, and you now have a review process for anyone who attempts those things, so you can manually up or down those things.
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Turning sand in to grass - this sounds like a great thing doesn't it?

It's for golf courses - there are amazing golf courses in dubai that required genetically modified burmuda grass in a sandy synthetic fertilized substrate. They take huge leaf blowers and cover football fields worth of sand with it, water the HELL out of it, and pretty soon, beautiful grass in the desert.

Grass in the desert is great for everyone, that wants to golf or make money off golfers.

Getting grass where it isn't sustainable is not benevolent.
Less neocolonialist mass murder in foreign lands for the purpose of enriching armaments manufacturers and their agents in government and media.
you should still get a tv and hook up Netflix, don't get the damn cable or any other ad infested services
WeWork's future is in Enterprise Services. Do you think they're overvalued?
After multiple facebook breaks (and now im off for more than a year) I must say, that I dont see any usage for social media platforms anymore, that work like facebook or google plus. All this egocentric stuff is based on instagram and user created news is based on reddit or twitter. Communication is based on telegram, signal etc.

So what the hell do I need FB for? I dont need it and i dont see a reason to switch to an other social media platform like friendica or diaspora anymore. But maybe im just getting old :D
In poor areas, this was true for games on top of consoles. I might have gotten a game a year or something like that. So, a friend with a newer game got to show out in front of other friends like I did with mine. Then, there were the rare people who had really different consoles. They got to show us a whole, different experience.
I'm going to wait five to ten years before I get my robot car. Let all those early adopters be the guinea pigs we need to reach that level of robot cars being safer then human drivers.

It seems tons of upper middle class to wealthy people are lining up to pay dearly with their wallets and lives to be a billionaire's crash test dummy.
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As far as I'm aware, they're national speed limits because they don't have the resource to work out the limit, or police them. I learnt on country roads and my instructor was very clear that although I could go at 60mph, I should drive to the conditions of the road.
I've been Tunisia where they had a hose like this in the hotel, as you can see it has variable pressure, and even without setting it to the maximum it's sufficient.

https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/06/b7/48/74/...

Some of them also have variable temperature.
Ecuador Cuts Off Julian Assange’s Internet Access. Again
correction - if you send thousands emails in short period of time - then new device is considered spam sender. Typically there are no issues sending small amount of emails (like logs from server) unless IP address was already blacklisted after actions of previous IP renter.
That doesn't sound like something that has been extensively studied -- it's strange to me how Tesla keeps citing [0] miles driven by "vehicles equipped with Autopilot hardware", as if it couldn't estimate the subset of miles in which Autopilot was activated -- and it seems like something very hard to measure anyway. How can Tesla or the driver know whether an accident was bound to happen if the accident was prevented?

However, I would think that testing Autopilot-alone seems impractical. It's been asserted that AP has no ability to react to or even detect stationary objects in front of it. Can't we assume that in all those cases, non-driver intervention would result in a crash?

[0] https://www.tesla.com/blog/update-last-week%E2%80%99s-accide...
Did you read the article before writing this presumptive and judgmental comment?

She had a difficult pregnancy and thought this would be her only chance to have a child. She left her job to avoid being exposed to harsh chemicals that could jeopardize her pregnancy. On welfare, she was allotted only $180/mo for necessities beside food. When her partner got a job, she was disqualified for the assistance—he had to work 18 hours a month just to make up the aid they no longer received. She struggled to find a job herself but ultimately got one.

The article notes that the average diaper is $0.25, so your 360 would cost $90 on average, 1/4 of her monthly assistance on one item alone—assuming she only needs 6 diapers per day, which sounds like a low estimate. She did proactively seek out coupons and discounts, and decreased the frequency of changes—which had minor medical consequences.

The article is about the plight of a mother who faced adversity in providing for her son, but persevered the best she could. I defy you to justify your claim that her priorities were wrong, or that she was unfit to be a parent.

Perhaps the only disqualifying attribute for parenthood is the utter lack of empathy for another human being.
I feel like this is a problem the non-profits should tackle. The mother in the article does this, it seems she really is trying to work and not depend on charity/welfare. However, there is some financial literacy / access to capital / cashflow planning type issue going on that prevents her from planning properly (buying in bulk ahead of time). If the non-profit simply offered her affordable diapers (I imagine removing the retail markup alone saves a huge amount), a line of credit or something and helped her plan her diaper supply needs it seems like it could be a helpful service (maybe they do that, article only made it sound like they give away diapers to the poor)
Unhealthy weight loss is never desirable.
Anecdotally I agree. Especially if you are buying the Costco branded diapers in the 168-count boxes.

The Costco diapers (and formula actually) are the same mfgr as the name brands, at a significant discount.
Is it only Tesla's and Ubers that are crashing?

I havent heard of GM killing anyone with their car.
my question which is the same as others, does Tesla register events where the driver overrides the system? If they register it how do they account for it?

if they are not even considering that the driver overrode the system because it was going to crash then all their claims are suspect.
Set up a Patreon and a Donate button.

I wish Google had paid you more, but maybe the people in this thread will put their Money where their Outrage is, and thank you themselves.
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Made a mistake, whitepaper footnote is [2], not [1].
Probably the most important article currently active on HN and it is racing down the list of new entries.. about to fall off unnoticed. Sign of the times?
A big part of the reason this isn’t a thing right now is because modern water-saving eco-friendly washers are simply not capable of washing diapers. This is further compounded by the fact that modern laundry detergent is phosphate free. Basically, the average person no longer has access to the necessary equipment to properly do it.

If you are well off, you may be able to pay a diaper service with commercial equipment to do the washing for you. We had a relative cover this for our third child, and I can attest that it works out quite nicely.
> scale of problems that Big Pharma, Health Insurance, big banks are causing thats not even a blip and yet most media attention and good amount of public outrage is fairly skillfully directed toward tech and SV.

It really shouldn't surprise. "Big pharma continues shitty but legal business tactics," "Big banks continue to play games with people's money without significant oversight," and "American health care system overly expensive for poor outcomes marking continued national shame for leading nation" they're all old stories so there's not much new happening there. There's still lot of people angry out there about these things but there's nothing really new coming out so it doesn't get coverage. News is naturally biased against news that doesn't change, it just gets boring to most viewers.
In the short term perhaps, but it's not going to take that long to hit 10,000$ worth of energy and again that's just one of many uses of this water which as far as I can tell is uncompensated.
I agree 100%, but I'm curious how you feel about the state of Phoenix/Elixir when it comes to popularity.

I'm perhaps too inexperienced/young to know how these things tend to shake out.

That said, my impression is that it has enough of a foothold, and with Erlang enough of a solid base, that I wouldn't end up in a situation, say, 10 years from now where the whole ecosystem is a ghost town and I need to move to some other language/framework. And based on my research it's even quite possible that Elixir might end up becoming a formidable player.

But I don't feel certain enough about this to recommend Elixir to a new startup, for example. I'd love to hear other people's thoughts on the matter.
10 minutes later he used the hostel toilet and came back saying that it had torn him a new one.

You know a high pressure hose that pushes back when you spray it? It was like that. Vicious.

In terms of duration, it was just like a normal tap, I assume fed by the local water supply so you're not limited.

I'd use it for max 10 seconds to feel fresh.
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App.net failed charging $50 a year. I think they should have tiered or been cheaper. But that’s one datapoint.

FB does tens of billions in revenue on 2.1 or 2.2B users worldwide. Far more than $5 a year. I assume a $10 a year social network could break even or even profit. But how many people will really pay? Especially when you scope out to every type of person from every country FB has a hold on.
The disclosure of the exploit signifies the status of the hacker. The amount of the award is a slap in the face that is entirely disproportionate to the value of the exploit.
> if you ever flip Linux to text mode it is just about unreadable

setfont sun12x22

[0]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts#Console_fonts
That’s part of the charm of HN: scrolling through the top articles you’ll see brand new experimental software tool, a NYTimes piece about some world changing technology, then some rando engineer’s personal blog—right next to each other. Much more variety than the “top” search results elsewhere.
It's not exactly the same thing. Encryption at rest on S3 is good, but security is about layers. If you only use that, then you are one mis-configured S3 bucket policy away from exposing your secrets. Bad bucket policies are one of AWS' biggest footguns- plenty of intelligent people have done it before, don't assume it's a mistake you'll never make. It's so easy because S3 is a service that has to make publicly-accessible storage easy to achieve.

KMS keys on the other hand, do not have that use case. If the secrets in your S3 bucket have been encrypted using a KMS key (or better yet, a data key derived from a KMS key) and your bucket is compromised, your secrets are safe as long as the attacker cannot ALSO get access to the KMS key. By all means, enable encryption at rest on S3, but don't make that your only defense.
Sorry was 8 years ... ClickOnce refused to launch on over 2000 machines when they removed download prompting from IE9. This sits between the .net framework and the IE team, neither of which would take responsibility for fixing. Eventually we got a registry fix out of them from bottom line support which turned download prompting back on which was removed from the IE UI but still left in there. The registry fix we had to deploy to hundreds of clients and had a massive support cost. This is still broken in IE11. It was reported on an IE9 beta.

Pain points: large project performance, high concurrency projects, IDE reliability, cost, odd time sinks, bugs in the framework, lack of automation possibility for a vast number of project types (try building VSTO applications on a CI server), deprecations (WWF/WCF changes, AppFabric, Velocity etc) all sorts.
The line breaks on this make it hard to read. Is there a rhyming mechanism in play here that my amateur poetic brain isn't picking up on?
That was my experience back in the 2000's; best friend's house was Halo house and mine was Smash Bros house.

But those were the days of splitscreen local multiplayer games. I expect there's much more pressure for a social group to all have the same console now due to the the prevalence of online multiplayer.
>Looking forward to trying a Japanese toilet with those sprays...

Why wouldn't you just use the 3 seashells?
Are you thinking of Process Monitor?
Does your server pass this test https://github.com/iNPUTmice/ComplianceTester ?

Did you try conversations.im server that is known good for comparison?
Which business pays for it? I don't want mine to pay for it, because someone else will. And I can keep using the road because who's gonna stop me?

> One thing that always struck me, was in a capitialistic society we are actually all incentivised to fix potholes ourselves

Is it not the case that in any society, we are all incentivised to fix it ourselves. Who is the government in your society? Us or them? Why not both?
Well, I'm not really sure what to say other than that I don't have any of those issues. Sitting here right now with my HiDPI XPS13 screen and a regular HDMI monitor. Things look good and I have no scaling issues. Haven't messed with any of the settings, it's just an Ubuntu install with i3.

I don't know any specific macbook models as I'm not an apple user and there is like no visual distinction between them. All I know is that I have two coworkers who use macbooks, and theirs are incredibly loud & warm.
You goyim have no heart. All you want is lehashpil otanu.
You're quoting prices for a diaper service--one that comes to your house and picks up the dirty diapers, launders them, and gives you clean, folded diapers in exchange. This is a rich person's service. My parents didn't use a diaper service in the 1970s, they washed them in the washing machine like virtually everyone else. So, in today's money, those $0.01-0.02 cloth diapers would be about $0.10-0.25 in 2018 money each and let's say that soap would be another $3 in 2018 money. 40 cloth diapers and soap is about the same as that 40-pack of Pampers and you get to keep and re-use the cloth diapers. You're breaking even after one load.

Any parent here who has ever used cloth diapers can tell you: they save money. They should be teaching cloth diapering like they teach breastfeeding to mothers of newborns.
So many opinions! I will add mine.

Best solution is do your business at home before shower. Hot water and soap and wash cloth or something in shower is only way to get properly clean.

When out and about, wet paper is the best, it is superior to water alone, and dry paper in terms of cleaning yourself after you've done business. This is why wet-wipes are so popular. It's all about getting you the distance to the next shower in your life.

I don't subscribe to water alone, or using hand to clean yourself. Even when washing your hands after, you might have bits under your fingernails, and that is disgusting. Toilet paper is a protective barrier to the horrible matter. I will never use my hand. Obviously the Romans didn't want to use their hands either, and preferred a communal bum cleaner!