skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> one of the wires referenced an organization with the word "Jupiter" in its name, which by dumb luck happened to be a word on an international blacklist

Really makes you think about what you should name your company! Imagine trying to start a Venmo competitor called "Jupiter Pay" and discovering mid-launch that all your payments are delayed due to an opaque process. Sounds a lot like the problems people have when they share a name with some terrorist and try to board a plane.
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The materials and quantities of said materials, needed to make solar panels, are dug up from the ground, mines are not very safe.
And also enslaving and killing by the thousand. So no, a utilitarian view doesn't support that idea.
It was covered by NDA.
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> Electric scooters, or more generically Personal Mobility Devices (PMDs)

Geez, they're scooters.
You can even less expect all the compression in the system that’s designed to leave out everything people can’t hear, to leave in this signal people can’t hear.
Our information about the benefits of GMO is pretty thorough and persuasive, so in this case, we don't need to care about motivations.
> I never realised it, but the argument of bikes vs scooters (bulky, hard to transport, etc) is a real one and makes a lot of sense on why using an electric scooter (at least for shorter distances) would be more attractive than a bike.

Indeed, I got myself one and that was very much the discriminant, it's not faster than a bike and has less range (top speed of ~20km/h and ~20km range), it's also somewhat uncomfortable (small solid rubber wheels) however it's much simpler to fold/unfold, less cumbersome (in terms of volume & transportability) & weight-competitive (~13kg) with folding bikes let alone electric foldings.

I can go to work with it and come back on public transport without bothering anyone, it takes a few seconds to fold it and go up/down stairs, …

Even a light ebike like the QiCYCLE (which isn't officially available where I live anyway) is much more cumbersome to carry around — especially with it in one hand and a bag in the other or the like —, heavier, and requires half a dozen movements to fold or unfold, mostly for reasons intrinsics to bikes" you need a proper crankset with enough clearance to pedal, a chain or other transmission to the wheel, a high-enough seatpost to actually pedal, wheels big enough for all that to make sense, … none of which are necessary on PMDs.

It doesn't have the "cycling" fallback if out of juice, but by and large the distances I'm using it on make that a non-issue. I feel lazy as hell riding it, but laziness is not the primary reason I got it instead of a bike/ebike (though I'll admit it was probably part of the overall).
Likewise - was keen to understand what deaths are attributable to solar panels as well, especially since they wre more than turbines.

For wind turbines I can kind of imagine a few disaster scenarios (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-16115139/storm-caused-wind-t...) with all the large, heavy, moving parts swinging around at height. But solar? The same solar panels that sit there stationary like widow glass or floor tiles with zero moving parts?

I guess there are deaths from the manufacturing and raw resource extraction? Otherwise I can only assume they include people falling off of the roof installing them?
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Here's a similar article with lots of sources (which also reports nuclear as extremely safe):

https://ourworldindata.org/what-is-the-safest-form-of-energy
If you follow the links that are inlined in the article you eventually find referenced articles that they themselves have then referenced. Not optimal.

These are the linked articles that contain the references for this data (haven't checked it out so I am assuming on a cursory glance)

https://forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-death... and https://ourworldindata.org/what-is-the-safest-form-of-energy
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How is this different from the other hundreds of modules that go this exact thing?
Outside a namespace, CAP_SYS_ADMIN is enough to grant yourself any other capability, but inside a namespace the main danger is that it exposes a bit more kernel attack surface than a normal user would have.

The important question is whether the APIs that CAP_SYS_ADMIN and other capabiloities grants you access to are potential security issues in an user namespace.
Dropping things like CAP_NET_ADMIN in a namespace is useful, because helps reduce the attack surface further.
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Yeah, it's a struggle. I've attempted to read it twice, and never made it all the way through. Still immensely rewarding though.
Sorry, being a wage slave, even if above average in pay, is not "rich".
I have never tried using portage with binary packages, but I am using Paludis with binary packages since a while and I have to say it is very different from using Apt or Pacman.

Package managers which are build for source packages (e.g. ebuilds/exheres) have a much more complicated logic running in the background, come up with much harder to solve problems and are a lot slower (orders of magnitude).

The only aspect where this setup is superior than e.g. arch + pacman is when it comes to using source packages on the same system. So I guess that is nothing you would like to use on a Chromebook anyway. Therefore, using a Debian container is a reasonable choice, in my opinion.
Which cities are those? Last time I was in China, electric scooters were everywhere we went.

That they are electric and not running on gasoline has a really positive impact. Just compare to places like Thailand and Vietnam where the cities have big problems with safety, congestion and polution due to all the 125cc scooters there.
Dang, ban this cryptonigger
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I do like Lisp, but you should learn better the languages you criticize.

C++ allows for compile time execution, improving since C++11. A feature also shared by Nim, D and Jai.

C# does offer control how the GC operates, and allows for manually memory management if really required. A feature also supported by D, Modula-3, Active Oberon.

.NET Expression trees can be manipulated at runtime.

There are GC enabled system programming languages that are as fast as Lisp, like D, Modula-3 or even the new .NET Native toolchain.
Its interesting how people have weird biases.

Nuclear accidents do happen - and when they do - they poison the area pretty much forever.

If you had the choice of building a power plant - or building a solar / wind factory - it's a no brainer. You're building a power plant factory rather than one single power plant.

Everyone but he US sees the potential.
http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/paypal.com.html From comments here seems that its from 1 or 2 days ago too
It's not wrong, but it's a real dick move toward the older kids.
A shared-workspace campus for you and your friends would work out then? You can picture it as a shared-workspace town if that is more appealing to you. Living quarters, parks, etc. on one side of the highway. A shared-workspace campus hosting multiple companies/teams on the other. Living and working stays strictly separate, everyone has a short commute and you still have all project members available on-site at the same time to reliably work together and gasp actually meet up when required.

To answer your question, I do not want to bring work into my home. BYOD resolves most of the factors that would make me want to provide my own office at home.

May I ask how you currently manage to live close to your family and friends and (because I have to assume you are surrounded by like-minded individuals) their families and their friends and so on? Frankly, I find this very unrealistic, but maybe that's because my friends and family are spread out across the globe.
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Chances are they're simply not covered by existing rules and those rules work like a whitelist.
No, they're looking for concrete evidence of having and being able to apply a well-defined set of skills.

One of the things you learn pretty fast as an interviewer is that charisma and attempts to pitch yourself tend to correlate poorly with aptitude, and an interview that focuses solely on predefined technical questions is by design impervious to yes men.
This really needs to be higher, and the paper actually read by us, as it addresses the nature of the work, the study size and methodology, as well as sociological issues. All things that these other comments speculate about

Crucially it's not IT, the work is a call centre travel agency (and it's also in China).

"First, the job of a call center employee is
particularly suitable for telecommuting. It requires neither teamwork nor in-person face time. Quantity and quality of performance can be easily quantified and evaluated. The link between
effort and performance is direct. These conditions apply to a
range of service jobs, such as sales, IT support, and secretarial
assistance, but they are far from universal. Second, the firm can
closely monitor the performance and labor supply of the employees thanks to its extensive centralized database. Team leaders and managers could generate a report from the database of
the performance of the team members daily and easily detect
problems in individual employees’ performance. Third, the
extent of WFH was limited, so that it did not require a significant
reorganization at the workplace. Team leaders continued to supervise their teams with a mix of home and office workers without
any major reshuffling of team membership."
Think of it like git branching.

In the master branch there is no file "Alice". Two branches get created. One of them runs sed via find on all files with the name "Alice" and then it creates a file called "Alice" if find doesn't find any files called Alice.

The second branch creates a file called "Alice".

Both want to merge now but unfortunately there is a merge conflict. In this case automatic conflict resolution is impossible so one of the branches has to be discarded (transaction rollback). You can now "rerun" the branch and everything should work on the next merge.

Conclusion: "update + insert where" is not equivalent to "upsert". The former can cause a transaction to fail and must be retried on failure. With "upsert" the database engine has enough information to handle the unique constraint.
Assuming that "the "manager" knows his 'stuffs', should know that TaskA requires 5 hours, and TaskB requires 1 hour. Now to that add a 20% for interruptions, emails, etc.

With my team(s) I (almost) always knew (more or less) the time for various tasks.

I was also expecting any feedback/'negotiation' to happen at the time of task assignment OR as soon as someone can see that deadline is at risk.

I know that Tasks from Tasks vary, but hey, this setup requires knowledge from both parties AND trust.
But most of them are not for enterprise grade code. No enterprise is using React or Java 10. Maybe docker, but the project addresses the real enterprise problem: using Java and in its most ugly form (including using Spring).

It misses Cucumber BTW
I don't understand what point is. Do you agree that Lisp metaprogramming has benefits or do you disagree with that?

If you agree, then what is your point? That we should not use a powerful language because it is not popular? Or that features in popular languages are the only features worth having?

If you disagree, can you elaborate what exactly about Lisp metaprogramming do you not find powerful? That would make your arguments more concrete. Otherwise you are just going around in circles stating the same opinion over and over again which is really only your opinion that many of us don't seem to agree with.
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Security, I guess.
I have learned things from some of the ones mentioned. But I also have one that is a bit different than the others here so far.

In 2001 I came down with a heart condition. I was 42, had two young kids, a good job, and basically did not know what to do. Spent a lot of nights up at 2 am. I read through the Aubrey-Maturin series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey%E2%80%93Maturin_series. On their face, they form an adventure series of historical novels (they fit into a category that Great Britian has, naval fiction). But it seemed to me then and still seems to me now that they are literature, an extended meditation on what it means to be a man.

In any event, they fitted my circumstances. I learned a great deal. They helped me. (I advise starting with the second one, Post Captain.)
I wonder at how this would vary across industries and also company sizes. I'm surprised the study had positive results at a relatively large firm. I think its easy to imagine working-from-home gains in small firms and startups where typically there's a much stronger selection for highly motivated and enthusiastic people. It's not clear the same would result in a huge firm where you have less of that selection.

Also how does one measure productivity? (this is probably a naive question as a relative neophyte) An article I found on this says they were 13.5% "more efficient" but I'd love to get the details on what that means. Its a travel agency so are they just booking, scheduling, organizing, etc? Would love to see a similar study in a SW dev environment, alternately something less tech focused but collaborative...I dunno but something creative most likely.
We still don't have a safe way to dispose of nuclear waste, so I think this article is a little short sighted.
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I believe it's the same law [1] that also meant the Hoverboards from a few years ago were also illegal to ride on public pavements and roads[2].

[1] http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Will4/5-6/50/section/72

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/oct/12/uk-hoverboar...
And what prevents your neighbor from changing the address that the GUID points to? How does USPS or FedEx know that the person trying to edit the GUID's address is the person who owns the GUID?

The reason why it needs to be handled through national ID numbers is because ultimately, national governments are today's identity arbiters, and they do the best job of verifying identity. They're not perfect, but they're the best body for the task, and strong, verifiable identity is the foundation upon which all other security is built.
I hung out on the forums for that book for a while. Helped me on my path, there were a lot of hard but important truths there.
As far as I can tell, it's not so much a ban as that the current legislation just doesn't fit them. They don't fit into the existing category of "electrically assisted pedal cycle" and they don't meet the requirements of road vehicles.

Legislation needs to catch up. There is a European effort underway to create safety requirements and test methods for Personal Light Electric Vehicles that would seem like a good start [1]. Maybe we'll leave the EU just in time to not get the benefit :)

[1] https://www.din.de/en/getting-involved/standards-committees/...
Complex motivations, with humans that's almost a truism, agreed.

>companies sure want crops with improved resistance to pathogens and insects for profit reasons, but this is the case where their incentives somewhat align with public good //

If we ignore all other aspects of the public good. Yes we want cheaper food, but not at the cost of poisoning of farmworkers or consumers, eutrophication, destruction of bio-diversity, destruction of soil structure that aids long-term fertility and reduces erosion, etc.. These are all externalised [potential] costs.

>It's also entirely reasonable to expect companies to support development and deployment of it because it's profitable for them. //

Every day this becomes less reasonable to me. Why should we allow the financial profit motive of a small number of capitalists be the primary driver as opposed to the general good of the demos; it seems so perverse to reduce the decisions on managing of economic aspects such as food production to "what makes the owners of Monsanto et al. the most money without producing a provable and immediately catastrophic harm". Bof.
None, it's not a deliberate ban, it's simply not listed as allowed because no one considered it when the law was created and no one has bothered to (or was able to) change it.
Shenzhen, Guangzhou urban core.

Shanghai is big on electric scooters at the moment, but declares jihad on anything without bicycle pedals and what can ride faster than 32km/h. Motorcycle licenses are technically/hypothetically available, they cost the same as car plates on the paper, but in reality they cost much more as they go to rich kids who drive H2Rs on the streets.
1. Gödel, Escher, Bach - An Eternal Golden Braid

2. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

3. Siddhartha

4. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

5. The Blind Watchmaker
Here is an article though it gives no rationale. I think ebikes are allowed on roads as they are pedal assisted. Bikes that don't require you to pedal are in a grey area. Since eScotters have no pedals they are not legal on the roads http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5271874.stm
Seconded. Parts of it are kind of impenetrable, or seem like it, but you can feel the love in it and it's so personal while also being so astonishingly wide-ranging… it's like taking your brain on a world tour to see things it never imagined were possible.
Call or text an expensive pay line, read the codes sent in confirmation text messages or mails. Open a web page that has an exploit on it.
I think introductions can take away from the direct experience of a great book. I think what's important is that since it is a work of literature it has the privilege of not even trying to deal with absolutes. It is an examination of what it might mean to be a moral human being. A kind of huge, entertaining thought experiment.
I've read a few articles on this story, and this one was pretty good, until it got to the North Korea attribution. Funny how FireEye is always around getting paid while pointing the finger at the same group of belligerents... but sorry no specifics, NDA and all that. (But of course the NDA doesn’t prevent the NYT from broadcasting FireEye’s conclusion.)

FireEye's incentive is to deliver attribution, a "bad guy" for the breached victim to shift the blame to. That's why major companies and governments hire them after a breach; because they want answers, not necessarily the truth. If FireEye said "sorry, we're not sure who did this," business would not go so well for them.

Trouble is, attribution is hard, and must be qualified by a degree of certainty. FireEye should be willing to say "we don't know" sometimes, because that is often the truth! But monetary incentives obstruct their ability and/or willingness to do so.

It's easy to find evidence when you don't know exactly what you're looking for, everything could mean anything, and you’ll get paid for finding something.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
Geez, a call-centre? I thought "virtual call centers" are common nowadays, i.e. you can be at home doing laundry, when the phone rings, it will say "Call for $COMPANY", you pick up and say "Hello, $COMPANY, Angela speaking, how may I help you?"...
I don't know how this article calculates things, but both Solar and Wind require lots of sites, and lots of working at heights.

Every time someone goes up on a roof to instal a panel there is a non zero chance that they will fall off and die. The kind of people installing domestic solar don't tend to perform the same level of health and safety analysis as those installing nuclear reactors!
They specifically said rooftop solar. I imagine it's the rooftop part where the deaths come from.
It's not just you. I often see it cited in must-read lists, but also found it rambling and impenetrable.

In the 20th anniversary edition I have, the author spends the full preface admitting as much by explaining that people who've reviewed the book don't seem to understand its message:

“Needless to say, this widespread confusion has been quite frustrating to me over the years, since I felt sure I had spelled out my aims over and over in the text itself. Clearly, however, I didn't do it sufficiently often, or sufficiently clearly.”

He then attempts to outline the principle thesis:

“…GEB is a very personal attempt to say how it is that animate beings can come out of inanimate matter.”

“Very personal” is right — the book reads like a fever dream of tangential scribbled notes compiled into an ~800 page tome, only loosely coupled to the notion of how animate things come to be.

It is still interesting and brilliant and challenging and worth skimming if not reading in its entirety, but do not expect it to be instantly enlightening or full of take-aways.
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It's likely that you are the only one working from home in your household, so during working hours you are all by yourself.

By "relationships that really matter" I suppose you mean family. Those bonding happens outside of working hours anyways, so whether or not you work from home you can always relish those relationships.
In the case of Chernobyl, I would argue that the area is not poisoned "pretty much forever". The effects of radiation on local wildlife is up for debate[0], but note the fact that mammal population is increasing(cited in [0]). From this I would think that the local wildlife is not worse off than it would be if humans continued living in that area.

[0]: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/060418-chernobyl...

EDIT: forgot reference
While that’s really difficult it would also mean you’d have to train the assistant before you’d be able to use it, which is a big hurdle most customers probably don’t want.
"On Becoming a Person" by Carl Rogers, not so much the content, but because the concept is foundational. And "Hidden Order" by John Holland provides a lens for our social existence. They changed how I see myself and how I see my place in the world.
http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/essays-6733/1
http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/des-kaisers-marcus-aurelius...
http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/handbuchlein-der-moral-7739...
I think it's pretty obvious what they're implying. Problem is, it's just a lazy argument. From the article:

When tested on mental rotation tasks, men averaged 66 percent correct compared to 53 percent correct for women.

So the average man may be better than the average woman at these tasks, but it's not a dramatic difference to my mind, and individual women can certainly be excellent at this kind of spatial reasoning, just like individual men can be terrible at it.

Not surprisingly, the Navy actually tests people for these skills and gives them extensive initial and ongoing training. If you can't do this job because your brain doesn't work that way, regardless of gender, it's rather unlikely that you'll have the job in the long run.
Has wind produced 1000TWh of energy yet?
> Nuclear accidents do happen - and when they do - they poison the area pretty much forever.

The Chernobyl exclusion zone is about 1,000 mi^sq and the Fukushima exclusion zone is about 240 mi^sq. This is a lot of land, but it must be dwarfed in comparison to the land destroyed, essentially forever, through mineral exploitation.
There really needs to be a 2nd grid of roads to handle scooters, bikes, and pedestrians. Bikes and scooters should be allies not competitors.

It's the car that is the competitor - you have to maintain roads much more, you have to build large parking garages, global warming is an issue, you push people away from where they work, you have loss of exercise and rising obesity.

Sure it might not work in wintertime - but biking/scooting can surely put a dent in IC engine transportation for two or three seasons.