skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is funny how people always seem to represent this as the entire city going down in flames. Sometimes cities grow. It happens. But the hole in the wall bars and auto shops and whatever don't stop existing, they just change neighborhoods. People just don't like it when familiar things change. They never have, and they probably never will.
> The 2nd amendment was written when muskets were state of the art and assault weapons like AR-15s were almost beyond belief.

Well, there is no definition for the term "assault weapon", and semi-automatic (edit: not semi-automatic, but self-cocking repeating, similar operation and results) weapons were well known (and not that far away from being popularized) by the time the second amendment was drafted, and by the people who were drafting it. "Arms" also encompassed things like cannons and explosive charges, which could be fitted freely to ships/properties and stored (though the latter could create a tort, if you don't take necessary precautions) by private persons, as proven in case law.

It also applied to bladed, blunt, or more unconventional arms. The word "arms" is used instead of "muskets" because the right being protected is the right of the people to own arms sufficient to feasibly defend themselves (or, with a militia, defend their community), and to do so unmolested.
LinkedIn Workforce Report Reveals Number of Workers Moving to SF Almost Halved
The article has a misleading, sensationalist title. In fact there is no murderer and there was no violence.

The article is about the author's journey of diagnosing a genetic disease in his son.
It is pretty normal that people will bikeshed about blog format on the internet, because people often don't have the technical chops to talk about the content, but why is it that these bikeshed comments get upvoted here?
My comment wasn't suggesting that blockchain is "useless" (that obviously isn't true), just that the "trustless" argument doesn't hold up for me, and that is a primary argument for why blockchain is awesome at pretty much every event/talk I go to on the topic.
> Liars gonna lie

Agreed. As they always have since humans or our ancestors first stood to gain from deception. You'll never stop it.

But I think the solution may still come from market forces. Not as in tech companies inventing showy systems for flagging and muting fake news. But I think people are slowly becoming smarter news consumers, more skeptical about what they take as fact. Who hasn’t become smarter about filtering out BS in the last two years?

The problem for Trump and Fox with all their “fake news” tirades is that you can’t partially open people’s minds to skepticism. Once they begin questioning one news source, they begin developing general critical reasoning ability. Tribalism may keep them defending their bad news source for some time, but as they continue to tear apart other sources, they will become increasingly unable to turn a blind eye to their own. In the long run, Fox making accusations of fake news will cannibalize their own fake news. Whether that happens in the next 8 years or on a longer horizon? Who knows…
Cain offered grain (or at least produce) as a sacrifice. Abel offered a lamb (a living sacrifice). Abel's offering is deemed worthy, whereas Cain's is not.

I'd say the similarity between the two is that they both present an opposition of grain and sheep. I agree with you, that is not incredibly similar.
> And it's a very expensive tool. The "pro" version, which is the only version approved for dev work is $1100

Which brings us to one of the author's other points: Not everyone is rich. There are many solo web developers who simply don't have the resources available to make their website accessible. Do we (in the U.S.) need an ADA for websites? We essentially applied it to government websites, but my personal blog doesn't have to be compliant.

Regulation of that nature would have an immediate impact on solo and other small web developers, just like GDPR. Perhaps it's necessary, though, so that we aren't excluding wide swaths of people from having equal opportunities on the web.

Edit: Note that certain interpretations (including court opinions) of ADA apply the public accommodation concept to business websites. I'm not aware of such an interpretation for personal websites as ADA would probably not apply.
Ironically, this presentation is unusable on my phone in landscape orientation. The responsive landscape layout is a narrow column with just 2-3 words per line and tons of whitespace.
Bitcoin solves a problem. Ever used a dark web market. Good luck with Paypal
> Many – though by no means all – of us are privileged enough to #DeleteFacebook, or at least reduce the time we spend there.

What privilege is being referenced here?
Prop drilling was a React pain point for sure but they have solved it with the concept of "context", which was formally released with 16.3. You can also regard this as "implicit props", or "implicitly passing arguments by nature of the hierarchy"
The Pentagon Is Imagining an Army of Autonomous Robot Swarms
Yeahp it sucks for the seller mostly.
This probably won't be a popular viewpoint, but I personally prefer the decentralized messy version of networking we mostly experience today vs. one big monolith that facilitates all relationships.
His point was these technologies solve people's problems very well. People doing blockchains could just work on improved versions of proven tech that have fewer problems. For Venmo, you might make changes to facilitate more access. He mentioned credit unions to point out different types of institutions can be more fair. A non-profit version of Paypal with chartered protections against high rates or unfair seizures might solve that problem. Another precaution at individual level is spread your assets a bit so you're not overreliant on a bank. I do that with a reserve of cash, a checking account, and several credit cards I pay off quick.

I've never had a problem with a bank that couldn't be fixed with a better policy or implementation of the existing model. Same with a payment service. What remains are the tricks hackers and scammers come up with that we'll always be facing. Traditional methods already have a lot of risk reduction for those with well-understood problems and solutions. The cryptocurrencies will have to go through a lot of loss before they get to where traditional system is now. So, fixing problems of traditional system will also lead to fewer losses.
>...You could instead figure out how to incorporate dark leafy greens into your diet a few times a week. They are basically multivitamins in plant form.

It really isn't that simple. One issue is that it doesn't matter how many vitamins are in spinach if you don't absorb them.

>...Circulating phylloquinone levels after spinach with and without butter were substantially lower (7.5- and 24.3-fold respectively) than those after taking the pharmaceutical concentrate. Moreover, the absorption of phylloquinone from the vegetables was 1.5 times slower than from Konakion.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8813897

And while spinach will get you some K1, it won't get you K2 which is important for how calcium is handled in the body.

>...We examined whether dietary intake of phylloquinone (vitamin K-1) and menaquinone (vitamin K-2) were related to aortic calcification and coronary heart disease (CHD) in the population-based Rotterdam Study.

>...The relative risk (RR) of CHD mortality was reduced in the mid and upper tertiles of dietary menaquinone compared to the lower tertile [RR = 0.73 (95% CI: 0.45, 1.17) and 0.43 (0.24, 0.77), respectively]. Intake of menaquinone was also inversely related to all-cause mortality [RR = 0.91 (0.75, 1.09) and 0.74 (0.59, 0.92), respectively] and severe aortic calcification [odds ratio of 0.71 (0.50, 1.00) and 0.48 (0.32, 0.71), respectively]. Phylloquinone intake was not related to any of the outcomes. These findings suggest that an adequate intake of menaquinone could be important for CHD prevention.

http://jn.nutrition.org/content/134/11/3100.long
The article doesn't address strategies for avoiding such surveillance. How well does it work? Does it prevent you from doing anything you might need to do? How hard is it? How much slower? Can it be done on a mobile device?
The market isn’t static, it’s dynamic. The plethora of news sources will over time force consumers to think more critically about their information, since there is an inherent desire to not be a fool. The current situation is a temporary chaos before society renormalizes to the new conditions. It’s like the first few seconds of chaos when you mix red and blue water, before it settles to a calm purple.
Great experiment, that helps further the discussion and I hope Joel and Jeff see this. What you're finding is a real concern and of course we see it in discussion forums in general but I was hoping the SO community would be better.
Immutability seems like the best thing for a package manager. Do any other packaging systems have interesting “killer features”? I’ve heard of PiSi for Pardus, and Conary for rPath/Foresight, but honestly, I can’t quite keep track of the state of the art.
Children of The Cloud and Major Tom: Growing Up in the 80s Under the German Sky
That assumes all employees are equal which in any non-factory-churn-operation company is not going to be true.
Tracing doping use by amateur athletes from wastewater
That Harvard article is really interesting, thanks.
Changing a mindset is the first step to something new.
Devon, county in England, has a similar problem. They look to be embracing getting local community to do the work, providing materials and who after training are then covered on liability.

https://new.devon.gov.uk/communities/casestudy/100000-fundin...
Be Successful with Content Marketing: All About Education, Not Sale
All of this is hype. Blockchain is only useful when you bolt a speculative asset on top because otherwise, who the heck will pay for the miners to make it work? If your answer is "the people using it will", that means there is already enough trust in the system to just use a Real Database....

And even if you manage to solve that problem, the blockchain still doesn't help with medical records, authenticity or anything else. You still have to trust the people entering those records. you still have to trust that the person who said "those pills are authentic" on the blockchain.

Smart contracts are also the biggest pile of hype. You can't have "code is law" because other wise you wind up with The DAO.... All code has bugs. All code has corner cases where assumptions fall apart. You can't code law.

Blockchain is pure, 100% hype. Almost every single use case falls apart under even a small amount of scrutiny. The only use the blockchain serves is as a platform for fraud. If you are a scammer, there is no better place to be than in crypto.
This story feels like exaggerated due to weak link between Zuckerberg's messages and the new feature.

They also add that Secret Chats in Messenger, Whatsapp and Instagram already support removing an already sent message. Facebook decided to also offer this feature for regular Messenger chats.

I guess any headline carrying Facebook, Zuckerberg and privacy concerns can make it to top these days. Modern online journalism is a whole another subject.
> cannot be reproduced for free

Only if you opt into the particular set of constraints that define what that property is (as set forth in the base of protocol code most commonly used to define it).

If you don't, as innumerable forks of Bitcoin have demonstrated, you certainly can reproduce it for free. I suspect there is a hypothesis of "property" at work here that is being subject to some very privileged and Protean interpretations.
I agree with your second point. Who controls what's considered fake news? Very little is done in the interest of the citizens of the USA anymore [1], so why would we trust our government or media to show us what's in our best interest?

[1] https://youtu.be/5tu32CCA_Ig (Fully Sourced in Description)
What I meant is that this decentralized clock is an emergent property from the use of these various algorithms. The code is actually HashCash, just used in a way that creates a new side-effect. The Time Server is not an algorithm, it's a side effect. I agree that it's a bit subjective though.
Frontera tour link:

> According to Eugenio Martínez Celdrán, however, systematic classification of Spanish allophones is impossible due to the fact that their occurrence varies from speaker to speaker and from region to region. According to him, the exact degree of openness of Spanish vowels depends not so much on the phonetic environment, but rather on various external factors accompanying speech.

So parent point stands. That's my opinion as well as a Spaniard.
There are countries where Facebook is a primary means of communication.
I know this Gucci handbang is not counterfeit.

My prescriptions are the real deal.

As a better escrow for exchanging goods, services.

I can verify if the trog on Fox News is just making shit up. (Verified sources, citations are baked into all content.)
Is this decision is right???
You there are already dozens of modules that do this, right? Yours seems to only parse single lines, not the context.

Anyway, that's a nice beggining.
This is awesome! Somebody just a few months ago show us how they built a WebRTC multiplayer VR A-frame game.

The got the 3D world to permanently persist too, demo here: https://twitter.com/marknadal/status/962013903004684288

Ready Player One's "Oasis" seems to already be real!
True! I ate ten hard boiled eggs one day and I was completely full all day. And that’s only 600 calories.
#TheCakeIsNotaLie You tell him, bro.
Beware the Tech Oligarchs' “Guaranteed Basic Income” Scam
Western Digital WD Black 3D NAND SSD Review
The Nationalist Party of China in the 1920s adopted the Gregorian calendar. This is the group that the communists overthrew and they retreated to Taiwan in 1949/50. The communists never changed back... so the Chinese calendar is only used for traditional chinese events (like the chinese new year).

This is part of the period in china known as the Century of Humiliation (1839-1949)... which includes the invasions of western powers, opium wars, etc.
A good linked list implementation will also allow you to delete nodes through its normal contract
> The 2nd amendment was written when muskets were state of the art and assault weapons like AR-15s were almost beyond belief.

I am not sure why everyone believes this, because it is completely untrue.

During the time that the constitution was written, 30 round semi automatic assault rifles had existed for around ~100 years.

Yes they did. Really.

Check out the Kalthoff repeater: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalthoff_repeater

It was an up to 30 round semi automatic assault rifle, invented in the 1600s.

Now, it wasn't used a whole lot, because it was fairly expensive and also wasn't mass produced (Although it WAS actually used in a couple conflicts, by specialized forces!). But to claim that such things were "almost beyond belief" is ridiculous.
Matt Might is now leading a medicinal institute at the University of Alabama. That‘s an impressing cross-transfer from computer science.

This text is one of the texts I have read most in my life. Not only is it emotionally powerful, but I have spent weeks translating it into German.

At one time, Matt asked on Twitter if there was a German willing to translate, there was a deadline and it was important (for reasons he explained later in personal mail).

I offered my help, with the caveat that I‘m neither a professional translator, nor with any medical background. I wasn’t totally inexperienced, I had translated a few things here and there, like Mark Nottingham’s Caching FAQ.

But boy, was that text a challenge! I always wanted to write that up, but by now my memory has faded a bit.

Quite stressful, but it felt more meaningful than translating a technical text.

And I learned a few things along the way. And I found several errors in the original. I had read the text many times before, but only when translating, you‘re really struggling with the text on a fine-granular enough level to actually notice things. Like when you look up the list of ultra-rare genetic conditions in some medical research database I‘ve never heard of before — because (a) Wikipedia doesn‘t have an article for all of them, (b) if so, the German-language Wikipedia doesn‘t, and (c) some of those have names in German that are not straight translations of the English name — you may notice that Matt listed one or two diseases twice, where the disease has two common names or aliases.

In the end I wonder if anyone really cared about the translation, because the original reason for wanting a German translation kind of fizzled out, in my perception.

Still, it was a cool time.
Coming from Arch I love NixOS for two reasons:

- No separate AUR that some packages are arbitrarily located in

- Not having to care about binary packages: they are just transparently downloaded and used if available

Pacaur makes the AUR a bit more palatable, but you still notice the split.
I find this viewpoint ridiculous on the face of it.

Consider outright propaganda that does not directly harass, libel, or slander another person or group. Propaganda on the order of "1984". Harmless?

A giant news corp. convinces a large segment of the population that 2+2=5. It wreaks havoc on people's ability to do real science and engineering and sows distrust of actual expert mathematicians who know the truth. Some of these believers are politicians, instituting policies that affect you. Harmless?
Well, except for the 14 diphthongs and the fact that /e/ and /o/ are more like /ɛ/ and /ɔ/ in certain closed syllables. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_phonology#Vowels
I enjoyed the read, here is a follow-up article - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/07/21/one-of-a-kind-...
"Think Sears customers. Think Macys. Think JC Penny."

- equivalent sentiment 20 years ago.

> Making it profitable is a whole other can of worms but I definitely see opportunity.

Great, so there's an unprofitable opportunity for Instacart. Fantastic.

In all seriousness that's why I said short vs long term.. I probably agree Instacart can exploit some of the retailer panic here in the short term. But in the long term large scale vertically integrated players have massive cost and customer experience advantages.
ACC/ICC is not a safety feature in the general sense. It might be termed as a safety enhancement to cruise control, in which case it should be opt-out when entering cruise control (which it is, in my case) and which disengages when exiting cruise control (which is done by braking, and that is well known).

On ceding trust - at least with the ICC system in Nissans, it's A) far back, which gives more reaction time B) quite easy to tell when it sees the car in front vs when it doesn't. You're ceding trust, sure, but you can also verify easily.

Your 'tailgate restriction' bit is effectively a more agressive form of collision warning/forward emergency braking, and FCW+FEB as far as I know is available on all or at least most vehicles with ACC/ICC. Unfortunately, the realities of city driving means that 'maintaining distance' is a goal in some cases (i.e. just got cut off, tight merges, etc) rather than an absolute directive - frankly, something trying to force me to a certain distance away from the car in front of me would be more aggravating than useful.
This is an interesting topic, but it is sad to see how people react to it.

A lot of comments here saying the whole system is broken.

An average poor man in the US probably lives better than kings lived in the past.

Food, water, food, hospitals, AC, heaters and such. These evil employers/entrepreneurs are the one creating it.

Life by every metric is getting better, can it be better? Maybe.

Now we could discuss how to improve the system, and its flaws, but this level of cynicism is hard to handle.

I guess by coming from a really poor reality it skews my view of the world.
Have to go the extra mile and right click > view image...
It's about differentiating and showing business value. It's not that hard to generate 10x that value for a business if you know how to apply and scale your knowledge. I am absolutely sure that this is not top of market but people aren't calling themselves "remote developer" to get it.
Wouldn't the plane explode when it hit the highest buildings?
You can use NVDA, it is a free, OS and it does the job!
The question could be - How do you design/develop/maintain dependency hell of your micro services?

Service discovery is one solution. Dependency graph is always behind built tools (SBT, Ant, Maven, NPM, PIP,..etc) unless you standardize them.

If it is environment specific, It could be part of your configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef. I like it here because it is pretty much codified in terms of DSL scripts. Config management sitting in front of Linux package manager like YUM, APT, etc.,

In Docker world, It could be part of application profiles, Pod, Pod groups. Sidecar dockers, System service dockers should be captured as dependencies in pod groups as part of infra/environment setup.

https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/pod/
https://mesosphere.github.io/marathon/docs/application-group...

I guess there is very good market to solve this dependency complexity issues. Micro services leads lot different type of tech stacks and addressing the complexity is niche in demand. This could be very good idea for startup.
Either Overton window does not mean what I think it means, or you misunderstood me. Sure, privacy-conscious people have been warning others about a whole bunch of things, but the general discourse has shifted, so those people were frequently treated almost like conspiracy theorists.

Besides, I'm not only talking about privacy, I'm talking about general loss of trustworthiness that comes from moving away from the "confederate Internet" towards the "feudal Internet". Back in the POP3 days, if the message got delivered to your mail client, the only way it got deleted would be because of something that you did (even if it's "fail to have backups when your machine caught fire"). Nowadays you have people acting like Facebook deleting a message from your "inbox" (not an e-mail inbox, but same terminology is being used) is not a big deal.

The rationale is: "Well of course they can do that, it's their server and their service." And that's precisely my point.
Trading between crypto, I would guess. You spend bitcoins to buy ether and you owe money.
> but the tooling and dominant platforms just aren't as mature as they would need to be to consider it a required core skill

Then incent a generation of 19 year olds to fix that, rather than build yet another JavaScript library dependency resolution tool. I think she is spot on: the tooling and libraries are weak because the developer community just doesn't care.
I did read the article, but I see how the LinkedIn comment is causing you to think of white collar executives.

The fact is that informal forms of networking are how people of all cultures and income levels have always advanced their mutual interests. One of the most effective ways to combat modern poverty is to provide people with mobile devices that enable them to better communicate and build relationships over time.

I'd ask you to consider what a more people-oriented piece of software might look like that would be accessible to as many people as possible and enable very specific use case, such as "I'm looking for a new job" or "I'm willing to be a mentor" that currently get lost in the noise of all-purpose social media.
Wow, I was just reminded the Ursula Le Guin died which in turn reminded me that Diana Wynne Jones also died not too long ago. Bittersweet, but at least serves as a reminder to go and re-read a couple favorites.
My girlfriend's lab at the University of Utah just published a paper on this disease a few weeks ago:

https://academic.oup.com/hmg/article-abstract/27/6/1055/4810...

Biological pathways are insane... I'm really impressed with what's being uncovered in this field of research.