skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The flooding on Kauai is consistent with an extreme rainfall that comes with a warmer atmosphere," said Chip Fletcher, a leading expert on the impact of climate change on Pacific island communities.

Because no one can know the entire body of knowledge, we divide our understanding of the world among us. Some of us study the earth and climate and accumulate expertise on the subject matter.
> Email was meant to be

Email isn't a religion and originalism isn't a meaningful framework for analysis.

Email started as a simple answer to a simple question, and has evolved from there to answer increasing hard questions. The original inventors totally failed to anticipate many important realities about email (most significantly, spam, but also encryption and signing), and email has evolved to deal with that.

You're free to keep using email as you believe it should be used, but you have no right to insist that other people hold back in adopting new ways of doing things that they feel suits them better.
Kinda funny that he classifies Hacker News as a shovel merchant.
Or it shows that it was enough, and the tester was not able to detect it. It's also possible he was already compromised in a different manner, making the entire ordeal useless.
Have you ever spent a full day in the outdoors? The moment you lay your stuff for sleep before sunset you’re out like a baby till sunrise. That’s because you’ve been walking and being active all day. There’s also less distractions.

Having said that, I do believe that if you were to wake up at 6 am, go to the gym and work daily, you would be ready to sleep like a baby at 9-10 pm.

Most of the time when I become a night owl it is because I’ve been physically lazy and eating like Fat Bastard. I’ll just sit by my computer till 3-4 am wasting away. Change the activity level and eating habits and you’re back to a normal routine.
His thesis is that changes in government policy are the cause of the increasing economic inequality in America. But a simple thought experiment is enough to disprove this: imagine what Larry Page would have done in 1950 vs 1998. In 1950 he would have become a professor or gone to work for Bell Labs. In 1998 he was able to start his own company and become a billionaire. But it wasn't changes in government policy that made this possible. It was the rise of microcomputers and networks that made this possible. And Larry Page's case is the rule, not the exception.
Right, you can have rose trees without polymorphic recursion:

data Tree1 a = Leaf1 a | Node1 [Tree1 a]

flatten :: Tree1 -> [a]

But this type needs it:

data Tree2 a = Leaf2 a | Node2 (Tree2 [a])

flatten2 :: Tree2 -> [a]

Tree1 can vary in depth between nodes, while Tree2 is either a, [a], [[a]], [[[a]]] etc.
Lolol. Wtf :)
Not to mention the fact that there has actually been an observed global cooling the past two years:

https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2018/04/24/did_you...
“Consistent with” does not establish much at all, other than that the event does not disprove climate change. An event tells us nothing about climate change if it is consistent both with and without climate change.

My withdrawing $40 from my bank account is consistent with me having no cash at all left in my wallet. It’s also consistent with me already having some cash but needing more. The event, the withdrawing of the cash, does not tell us whether my wallet was empty.
The important question here is — why do we still put up with the archaic busywork of tying shoelaces?

I loved driving stick shift, but I’m not sorry to see it go either.
Criminalization allows crime.

IMO the government should sell drugs and use the money to treat drug addicts.
The stack overflow hall monitors have flagged another interesting read. I read the whole thing and it seems plausible.
I would use fastmail https://www.fastmail.com/pricing/

I used to use it for awhile. Then I got some AWS credit so I setup Amazon Work Mail.
I'm calling this a bad test in general.

Let's be honest here. None of the more cutting edge attacks are going to be risked by attacking. as hard a target as this guy. The level of sophistication of attack the author is starting to reach is going to be reserved for state-level persons-of-interest.

Espionage is a game of judging capabilities, and cracking some security researcher's laptop telegraphs to the rest of the world that you can. As a national actor you don't actually WANT to flex your spy muscles in obvious ways unless the payoff is JUST THAT CRITICAL. It removes the veil of the unknown, and gives potential adversaries/persons-of-interest that much better a chance of successfully applying tradecraft to hide what you actually want to monitor because they have more accurate knowledge of what your capabilities are. Contrary to popular belief, most organiztions capable of pulling an evil maid attack simply won't because of the revelation of capability already mentioned, and the PRISM problem. Too much information/access in general lends itself to becoming useless due to the difficulty of separating the tasty bits from the mundane.

Kudos to the guy for actually trying the experiment, but it doesn't really tell anyone anything we didn't already know 20 years ago.

Computers are inherently insecure. Every form of "security" is insecure at some point. Computers haven't changed anything except for making a person's computer a juicy target to get some juicy financial information/passwords for non-state actors, or making surveillance potentialities so much more horrifying on account of the ubiquity of networked cameras, sensors, and microphones on the ground waiting to be exploited.

Forget about laptop evil maid attacks. Start thinking about the ticking time bomb of 'poisoned' hardware rife with 'tailored access' whereby state actors can push a button and have every device with a camera/microphone within a certain set of GPS coordinates start silently acting as an input sensor. Combine that data stream with the right neural networks, and you'll see a world that no one in their right mind wants, but is well within our manufacturing capabilities to create.

Or stop worrying, go outside, and make a friend. It's way better for your mental health.
First story was Italy, not exactly a Tier 1 country for Apple.
Second story was Germany.
Only available in Chrome 66+, and why do you submit it twice in a week?
I'm still waiting for someone - say Raytheon, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman or Boeing - to find that those SMD capacitors or inductors they used for their hardware ended up being more than just simple passive components. The amount of space available in the package is more than enough to hide some circuitry which can be used for other purposes ranging from bridging air gaps to denial of service. These parts are used in positions where ample power is available for such purposes. The device could be triggered by outside signals, by specifically crafted power profiles, by simple timers or other means. They could be designed to detect the location where they're used in the circuitry and act accordingly.
Wow, what the hell is going on in the comments? A few climate change deniers and someone blaming Hawaiians for living on the island, jeez.
In particular, there are lots of light effects that can't be captured in a 2D grid of pixels.
This intro seems to be very close to the Yale coursera course on Western Classical Music, which is the most amazing Coursera course I ever took.
For anyone without musical culture, this is the place to start: https://www.coursera.org/learn/introclassicalmusic
People have lived on the north shore of Kauai since about 800 AD, and they have had houses and roads which were subject to extreme weather events since about a week after they arrived. And people have lived in the Pacific Islands for a lot longer than that - Hawaii was the last Pacific Island chain to be inhabited.

If you believe that humans “invaded” Kauai then, if you're being consistent, you should probably also believe we invaded everywhere except sub-Saharan Africa.

Also, “sympathy” is a defining human characteristic.
I agree that things like unprintability probably give a false sense of security. But as far as how email is “supposed” to be I used an email system in the late eighties or so that had security features like that. They meant more then because it was originally a centralized terminal based system. Not everything was Unix.
A border agent would just open that bag right in front of you, making it not a particularly useful measure of being tampered with.

I suppose a large amount of the problem could be solved just by taking checksums of all non-volatile memory on the device - however that doesn't check for, for example, hardware keyloggers which might be inserted without your consent, and then a thorough evaluation of the hardware would be necessary. However that still doesn't tell you if somebody has simply tried to copy data off of your device - so maybe in this case you need something which physically marks the device in the case that the hard drive is removed and presumably accessed outside your computer, like those dye traps they use in banks and when transporting money.
This sort of thing is how we ended up with facebook’s ability to mass manipulate people.
You simply can't do what you suggest. We tried banning alcohol once. It did reduce the number of alcoholics. It also created massive organized crime syndicates that routinely murdered people. Banning vice always creates black markets, those markets tend to have issues spilling violence into the society around them.
I think that they are preparing for the future where everyone will realize that the whole Facebook is a user data abuse (and more because they are tracking non users without their consent).

I think they have decided to take the hit rather now (in the stock price) than in the future assuming that the hit now will be smaller now than later.
Lots of already good advice on health, family and friends.
My suggestion regarding career is to do some career planning/mapping on at least an annual basis, or quarterly, to help you focus and control your work life:
- Goals
- Responsibilities
- Requirements
- Gaps
- Growth Plan

This will help you find mentors, skills, opportunities, and things to spend less time on.
I've noticed that during weekends the quality of comments in HN degrades.
I bet a huge chunk of their customers is Google users/customers as well.
Sometimes I feel like there's a bot-army monitoring all channels for new articles invoking the words "climate" or "global warming" and forwarding those pages to a waiting battalion of troll-soldiers.
Climate is more complex than cooling or warming over a two year timeframe. There is a superposition of many oscillations [1] and these have to be separated and removed before finding a trend [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_oscillation

[2] http://www.atmos.umd.edu/~ide/data/research/publication/ssa_...
What are you talking about? Are you under the impression that people just recently settled Kauai and this is the typical rain pattern there?

Or are you implying that Earth itself has been invaded by humans?
Passive aggressively glib. Would 'we' feel sympathy for the people of California if/when the Big One hits and flattens cities, kill thousands, and levies hundreds of billions in damage? Or if/when massive flooding from a Perfect Storm inundates a major coastal city like NOLA or Houston again? I'm sure I can come up with an appropriate analogy of ignorance for where you live.
I don’t seem why people prefer instant messengers, email does everything they can do.
Career planning or exploring some hobbies, perhaps with your children, perhaps with your spouse.
What is the goal of your comments? Are you trying to convince people that when there is an increase in anomalous weather patterns we shouldn’t say it’s due to climate change? At what point would you say these things are a result of climate change? Do you deny the reality of climate change? Do you agree that it is a reality but are fighting against people ignoring the fact that an individual event might have a different cause?

Due to humans releasing massive amounts of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere there is more energy in the system. Clearly this increase in energy leads to anomalous behavior. It’s ok to point this out.
This is a journalistic experiment not a scientific experiment. Experimental bias isn't a large concern, they're trying to record something happening not prove something.
If not meditation, try stoicism. The Daily Stoic is available by email.
Can you point out other less 'natural' environments? The ISS?
bless your heart..
Won't somebody please think of the disgruntled edge case user who just wants an excuse to be bitter?
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Climate Change is about increased energy in a system creating more frequent and more violent weather patterns. Global Warming is about year over year averages across decades not "two years".
We can be thankful that these kinds of event happen rarely. The thing I find interesting is the comments by the experts that these kinds of events are supposed to be an indicator of future catastrophe and they do not say that these kinds of events have occurred in the past as well.

If we were to see these kinds of events occur more and more frequently (like, every year and a couple of times a year) then we would have evidence that specific changes had occurred in the climate.

But to jump the gun and say that this is a harbinger of massive change based on just this occurrence is premature at best and at worst, well, choose your own words.
You can swim with minimal joint stress.
you may be remembering this very same single transistor back-door from 2 years ago?
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Human brains can’t sense any of that, idk about pig brains.
My motivation? A commitment to truthful and honest reporting.

The claims in this article are no better than climate change skeptics pointing to a particularly cold winter or mild summer as evidence for their position.
1. Do no stop

2. Do not return the money, that's not how investing in startups work

3. Apply to Y Combinator

4. Keep on going, think about "pivoting"

5. Read the book "Founders at Work"
Just relaunch your browser, it should update automatically.
Reminds me of the initial Apple maps release with the location in the middle of Dolores Park for "Truffle Guy".
I believe that's working but it's kind of pain because we need to passing context across function call. So I wonder whether there is better way to do that.

I believe node.js has async_hook feature that can capture context without passing function call, but it's still in experimental phase and won't work for tracing
I disagree with the reason for not implementing it, adopting something like "simultaneous turns" mode from Civilization series could provide that time to think for everyone. But I'll check out Crossfire.
Yeah, bartering was a 90s thing. I suspect it died out because it's actually a hassle compared to gifting.
I agree. And it’s certainly not about a single storm.
What sort of data? It's normal and expected to collect public facing stuff like profile photo, name, gender. I'd be much more irritated if they're scraping entire profiles.
Careful with that phrasing -- you need to prove that _only_ y are true.
Hi, I made this. Thanks for looking.

In case anyone is interested, if you open the console there are some instructions for scripting your own drawings.

(p.s. Thanks for all the suggestions)
Inheritance still doesn’t make any sense
I deleted my Facebook because I was using it mainly for messenger. I simply didn't feel comfortable having my private conversations on their servers, so I got my close friends to (begrudgingly) pivot to Signal.

Later, it would some out that Cambridge Analytica (and likely other bad actors) had been siphoning up PMs:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/10/17219606/cambridge-analyt...
This sounds to me more like:

"Abusing your data is vital for our business model and we will stop our operations before you have the right to request information how we use your data"
I should add that the last time this kind of event occurred at my parents town, which is in the tropics, was just before a significant years long drought. The local post office's rain gauge maxed out at about 1 metre. This was over a period of either 9 hours or 19 hours.
It seems to me that for the last 10 years Hacker News comments have always leaned towards denying climate change if not outright calling it a hoax. Many HN comments are not like that of course, but it has always been this way here. A very vocal part of the community here has always denied climate change.
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Somebody will connect a neural interface to the pig brains. Then run neural programs on the brains as that will be power efficient. This seems like a scene from the movie the matrix.
I was trying not to be overly rude, but your post read like "this journalism would be better if it had more wild speculation rather than reporting proven facts."
If you pay peanuts on average you get monkeys. Competent non-profit management people are not exactly the same as competent for profit management but there’s substantial overlap on the skills involved. All of the highly paid people doing Burning Man could get better paid jobs tomorrow.

If you want to do something like Burning Man yourself but with lower paid permanent staff no one is going to stop you. Have fun.
Indeed, but like many social science results, "signaling" has taken on a life of its own in the popular consciousness.

In the post above mine, signaling has gone from being an interesting and potentially measurable effect, to being the entire effect of education. Emphasis mine:

>>> An MBA, much like most schooling, is all about signaling. Anyone who frames our educational system in any other way is missing the point.
> I don't see anything fundamentally different between the capabilities of Lua and the capabilities of Python

I don't know much about Lua, but one of the problems with compiling Python (or even just cutting corners to speed up execution) is that it is extremely reflective. At runtime, you can inspect all the objects in the system, including the bytecode you are executing and the entire call stack. And worse, you can rewrite all of this at runtime, at will. Self-modifying code is a bit of a pain to compile.

Of course almost all Python code does not do this, but if you want to actually handle the full language, you must be prepared for all of it.
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I just went ahead and logged in to a machine where I had slrn installed, then signed up for an account with http://www.eternal-september.org/ and configured my .slrnrc with

set force_authentication 1
nnrpaccess news.eternal-september.org [user] [password]

then ran something like

slrn --nntp -h news.eternal-september.org --create

and

L*nethack

to select rec.games.roguelike.nethack

then do

s "happy to ann"

to do a subject search going forward, then read the message.

Page down and up with space & b, etc.

It's been a little while since I used a newsreader and I didn't use to slrn, so took a few minutes to get used to.
If Google Assistant worked offline and responded instantly
Looks like a major improvement in readability to me...
My gripe is when I star something in gmail it shows up 3 times in my outlook todo list. I suppose it’s partly microsoft’s fault.

Hmm maybe there is a fix: https://www.msoutlook.info/question/copies-in-important-fold...
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I am sure you believe management consultants provide value and drive changes that shore up flailing organizations. That might even be objectively true for a minority of cases. But having seen a few MBB engagements "deliver value" my take on it is that consulting business survives by delivering one service (only). A backstop for the executive leadership to justify their agenda. MBB said so! Sice they are expensive as hell they must be right.
Again this is about strategy consulting. The other flavors like turnaround/ execution consultants do provide tangible value. But the typical management consulting bashing is about the strategy kind. This is just my opinion. I don't expect anyone to agree. Nor am I attacking your worth as a professional. You could very well be the exception.
We have almost zero marketing budget, how long will it take to grow?
Perhaps the 20-year mistake of PHP is treating it as a bad practice?

This has been possible in functional and "expression" languages since forever, and it's considered a very good practice.
Nice! How do you rank the file names when returning the search results? It'd be cool if you could rank them by factoring in git commit frequency for files, because more frequently modified files are more likely being searched for. Cool project!
See also: Joining the dots (Steve Hobson) and Inside Music (Karl Haas).

The latter also has/had a great radio program “Adventures in good music” introducing different aspect of classical music. You can find some of the episodes at the internet archives:

https://archive.org/search.php?query=Adventures%20in%20good%...
> Learn how to master the art of baking the programmer way. If you love programming, you will also enjoy breaking some bread.

As a hobbyist sourdough baker and professional software engineer I definitely think there is some truth to this.

For me bread baking is a great complementary pursuit to programming. It is entirely manual and rooted in the physical world, which makes it a great way to "unplug" and decompress. But it also requires a similar type of analytical skills and problem solving mindset that developers tend to have.

If you are interested in getting into baking sourdough I would highly recommend this blog as a resource:

https://www.theperfectloaf.com

The tutorials and recipes are very beginner-friendly and have tons of hi-res photos. I own about 6 books on bread baking but would say this site is probably a better overall resource for a beginner. Interestingly, the author of the site is himself also a software engineer. It definitely shows through in the precision of his recipes :)
"important mail" is the reason I stick with gmail.

It allows me to have notifications only for stuff I probably care about. It helps cut down on the crap. At the same time, no e-mail is urgent. If things were urgent, contact me some other way. I check my non-important email roughly daily but no guarantees.

My point being that important e-mail doesn't need to be perfect. It just needs to be close enough that I probably care about the notifications, and don't miss too many notifications.
I second Fastmail. Great company, great service, super fast (much faster than Gmail), and the import process is trivial. I've been a happy user for years and recommend them to everyone.

Seriously, migration is as easy as pointing your MX records to them and running their import tool. It takes ten minutes (I thought switching off Gmail would take ages, but no, literal ten minutes).
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Your last sentence is false. The difference is one of probability. There’s a much greater chance being correct with the climate change attribution over the other one.

We have to make conclusions and policies based on evidence and what is likely the cause rather than waiting for a formal proof. The most likely cause of the increase in anomalous weather events is due to the increase in energy in the system. It’s worth pointing this out when these events occur.
>At least it introduces a new operator, to avoid the classic C mistake of typing "=" when you meant "==", and various ugly workarounds like Yoda conditions.

Well, = and == in C are two different operators as well.

The problem is more allowing non-boolean comparisons
And yet as soon as I clicked on their brand in the navbar I was greeted by 10+ redirects and a shady ad for mobile games (probably including malware).

Good riddance, you will not be missed.