skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any big projects that moved already? Or those thousands of repositories are dot files?
What if you use a Chrome extension to train a ML model to format the article, then publish that model back to the web? At least it would allow users to remove ads and other cruft from articles.
If your argument were true, we'd see increased unemployment. But employment is near effective maximum, and has been for most of the post-1980 period where wages have stagnated relative to productivity.

Try again, this time taking observed facts into account.
It's definitely interesting psychologically, especially N,N-DMT, considering many of the users all share many of the same trip experiences[0]

[0]: https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/5gkkpd/dmt-you-cannot-ima...
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What would be cool is some peer-to-peer git protocol.

Say I have a local repo, but don't host my own domain. Suppose I could run something which connects to the peer-to-peer rendezvous server, which provides a web presence for my repo.

Then suppose that the clone URL served by this repo would just put the user in contact with my IP address to do the git clone from me directly.

The public server facilitates the contact and provides a presence.

Patching this into git would help. Suppose git supported some htt2p://foo.bar/baz URL which connects to foo.bar, and retrieves a special dynamic resource baz which redirects it to the current location of baz; e.g. git://x.y.z.w/whatever/baz
Because software engineering stopped being rational and has largely become a game of emotions and marketing? If you can trust Google and Facebook, then you can trust Microsoft.
I understood that facebook shares a persons data if a friend of theirs has given permission to an app. Thus a person can be vigilant about their own account, and still have their data compromised.
Anandtech also has an article on that.

It's fine for showing off of far the chip can go, but nothing someone would have under the desk.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12907/we-got-a-sneak-peak-on-...
US govt mulls snatching back full control of the domain name and IPaddress admin
Is there a recording/YouTube of this talk?
You must be jealous that we're self-hosted. ;-)
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Diamonds are not naturally scarce nor is gold
You can't "store value" without trust. Value is not a thing, it is an implicit contract to exchange things over time, and requires trust that everyone will continue to adhere to the contract, ie that debts will be paid.
> Imagine if someone made an easy GUI tool for that. Just load an image, overlay some vector shapes, associate shapes with links, spit out either a static site, or plain HTML tags to embed elsewhere.

This is an amazing idea! That way, any person with the software could create a website that would work well. It could obsolesce the notion of hand-crafted XHTML entirely!

A system where What You See Is What You Get for the web would be incredible.

Is it perhaps possible that not only are you not the first to think of such, but that such systems have been created and commercialized?
No, but his arguments do.
Is a that very useful way of understanding growth? Without any change in the income distribution, everyone getting 1% richer would increase the absolute gap by 1%.
> That depends, will surgery for a broken leg cost 20 million dollars in 100 years?

It will if we don't get government out of healthcare!
> but the idea that labor and company are splitting a same pie and that with organized labor you will increase that pie is a veiled labor theory of value. It goes contrary to other concepts like increasing profits , increasing capital investment, increasing wages,

Eh? Increasing wages is exactly what we're talking about here.

For any given firm, after accounting for external costs there is a quantity of money left over which may be re-invested, given out as wages in some distribution (how much to the CEO?), or returned to investors. Some re-investment may also be in the employees in the form of training or retention perks. Exactly how this is distributed is up for questioning.

> Unions(as they are known by the public) are enemies of liberal economics

I think the point of the Economist is that this is a political view, and that it needn't be this way: Germany is always cited as a country where it works differently. Having adversarial relations with the union is a choice. A leader can also choose to consult them on mutually beneficial changes in working practice.
Hang on though. Lets not conflate China the country, with Chinese the inhabitants. I can be highly suspicious of China and Russia the countries without feeling any animosity towards the people who are from there.
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This is really great advice, thank you.

I think it really crystalized the issues I had reading the article; you can do (or try to do...) all the ‘right things’ and still have a terrible result.

If it was easy to get right, things would be great... but its not. Its hard. ...and a slide deck of protips doesn’t cut it as a solution.
There is so much to appreciate here. The bit about starting to create an elvish language really stands out to me in painting his passion for this world.
This is a really bad analogy, and misleading. A better analogy is like Facebook is a bank with safe deposit boxes. I give my key to my phone, and then my phone goes and gets something from the box for me.

There is no window to break. My phone can take the key and send it to the phone manufacturer who can then get into my safe deposit box whenever they want. The only way having an API makes this easier is that the manufacturer's Facebook app is more obscure than the browser, but the manufacturer's browser can just as easily steal keys, and it's no more or less illegal.
Pre-owned / refurbished ThinkPads can be found surprisingly cheaply on Amazon (and elsewhere, I suppose). If you value reliability over performance, formerly top-shelf ThinkPads provide that at a great price. I got a ~2011 x220 for about €230 a few years ago - works like a charm on Debian, and compared to what that money gets you in current hardware, it's still a kick ass machine - except for the low display resolution...
Good stuff. Was just looking at a refurb project in Estonia and saw some of these already :) Such a rich history.

Also, really brings home the point how geographically distributed population used to be in terms of countryside vs city, compared to now when large part of the population lives in Tallinn.
He talks about later stages of communism. There was no famine in 1970 or 1980.
Is there a benefit to using the Snac Pro plan over something like Netlify's free tier, which offers many of the features that are only in your pro plan?
This misses the point of where Intel is going. Intel does not see the PC market as a growth sector as a whole. It may grow for individual companies, like AMD, as they take up part of the share, however. That doesn't mean the PC market as a whole is growing. It's actually shrinking.

Intel recognizes this and is focusing on data centric use-cases like supercomputers and clouds.

For example, Intel is leading "Pathforward" with the US Government to develop very high-end solutions to large-scale problems; https://www.ecpannualmeeting.com/

In summary, Intel doesn't care that much about the PC sector because it's shrinking as a whole.
I'm curious if someone at MS or GitHub tipped GitLab on Saturday evening to be prepared for additional traffic. Seems like it would have been a nice thing to do.
The 7 Natural Language Processing Techniques Machine Learners Should Know (pt 1)
Let's say you set this up with the Tor Browser, all your DNS resolutions are done using this onion, then they're all linkable--whereas with the default they're unlinkable since two different circuits were used for different first-party domains. That's the point.
I created RhodeCode, and know for sure Kallithea does not support SVN.

- RhodeCode is based on newer and more modern than turgobears2 framework, called Pyramid.

- RhodeCode had 20 releases since 2017, Kallithea had two.

- RhodeCode fixed many security issues that Kallithea didn't, not to mention dozen of features that RhodeCode has but Kallithea doesn't, e.g pull requests updates, integrations framework

How is that a better activity and release?
It really is slower. In games it is slower than AMD Ryzen processors, no compiler manipulation here. It is also to be expected with a lower clock and higher memory latency.
History doesnt repeat itself but it rhymes.
They've managed to maintain a consistent roughly-6 month release cadence since 1995. CVS is working for them, so why switch?
They idle really well. In particular the software layer around suspend is really first rate when compared with the Linux BSPs from vendors, which tend to be somewhere between glitchy and awful (c.f. all those times when your off-brand Android phone turned red hot in your pocket, or the fact that a RPi is running a "mobile" SoC that never manages to draw less than 3W).

The power under load is quiet high, apocryphally. No, I don't have numbers.
But once extracted their energy costs are negligible (especially with gold being stored and the rights traded instead of the physical asset a lot of the time). In the case of BTC you can't really separate out the cost of mining a block from validating the transaction because until it's in a block a transaction doesn't really exist (this will get much better with lightning though). But without the constant burn of mining BTC (even post lightning) will be come useless.
OKay, but why does this matter for security and maintenance?

I just developed a blog using laravel, and while I see the difference in complexity, I dont see how security/maintenance is affected.
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>> Citizens of liberal democracies do not expect to be frisked without good cause, or have their homes searched without a warrant.

Lol. What world does this author live in? I expect to be frisked every time I go to an airport or football game. I expect to have to turn my pockets out every time I cross the US-canada boarder. I'm not a minority, but I assume some who are will want to add to this train of thought re being frisked by cops.

And a warrant to search my home? Warrants are pieces of paper. Cops drive tanks and carry machine guns. Whether they bothered to phone a magistrate for permission before hand is the least of my concerns as they break down my door. Warrants only matter if they are going to charge me with something and want evidence admitted in court. Even then, there are so many exceptions. The evidence gets in. My concern isn't about paperwork, it's that I'll be swatted one night and they will shoot my dog.

Also, the "warrant requirement" is an American construct. It isn't a thing in places like Canada, which most would consider a very liberal democracy. Canadian cops can use evidence even if seized illegally. Nor do they have to stop questioning you if you demand a lawyer. Nor do you get a jury trial. Don't assume that all western democracies use the American legal system.
> Warmth and water (and carbon) are the very fabric of life. Nature will adapt to utilize this free energy source before you could say "thank you"

Ocean warming is extremely detrimental to ecosystems across the globe. You can't just simplify it to more heat == more energy == better

>In other non-tropical regions of the world, marine heat waves have been responsible for widespread loss of habitat-forming species, their distribution and the structure of their communities. This has a tremendous economic impact on seafood industries that have to deal with the decline of essential fishery species.

>It is likely that over the past century, the impacts on ecological chains have been more frequent as ocean temperatures have escalated decade after decade. This is the case in Nova Scotia, where kelp forests are literally being wiped-out by water which is much warmer than usual. In this corner of Canada, the ocean is not just a form of recreation, it also means a way of life for many that rely on fisheries and aquaculture as an important part of their economy.[1]

[1]https://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/ocean-heat-w...
Musk promises manufacturing, self-driving, battery breakthroughs – and profits
My experience with Phabricator is with the code review system (Differential), rules system (Herald), CLI (Arcanist), and API (Conduit). I can't speak to other functionality like repo hosting or task management.

I joined Eventbrite shortly after they moved from Review Board to Phabricator for code review about 4 years ago. It took me a little while to adjust, but once I did I found it to be superior to what Github provided. The CLI provides a nice way to standardize on a workflow company-wide. The UI for composing a review has a few quirks but a lot of functionality, and the patch-based aspect makes it easy to track the evolution of a diff. Herald is very powerful for making sure the right people review a diff. Conduit provided what we need to integrate with Jenkins for CI.

Github has gotten better since then, but I'd still lean toward Phabricator as the better tool for code review, especially for larger projects.

I eventually partially inherited running Phabricator at Eventbrite, and found it overall to be straightforward to configure and troubleshoot. We were only running a single node and using git for repositories, though. Now I'm at Mozilla, and we recently switched from Review Board to Phabricator for Firefox code review. Some of my teammates run the service, and I know that running a multinode setup with mercurial as the repo format has proven challenging.
Facebook never mislead anybody about how their data was being used. That's a lie the media is feeding everyone for some reason.
You definitely have some good points, but I think there are good responses. (1) It doesn't have to be perfect to be better. (2) You don't need everyone to read the source code, just a few people. (3) Open-source not only makes it technically harder to do malicious things to users. It also (hopefully) improves the incentives.
Going by my webhooks firing upwards of 15 minutes after the git push to my (already on GitLab) repos when the migration started I'm going with no, it feels reactive rather than proactive
I'm not sure it matters, so much as do people in the West have the option to vote it down. Seems that's been slow to happen.
Facebook wanted to do this so everything did work as expected, they have been doing it for a long time and built it precisely to be used just as Cambridge Analytica used it. The only problem came when it was used to help Trump. When it was used to help the Obama campaign nobody batted an eye. Facebook is a political agenda and getting more people involved and helping their favored campaigns is something they were very interested in doing; that is why they allowed this - not realizing it would bite them back.

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/facebook-data-...
Google and democracy
It says "used by the Wikimedia Foundation" in the title, but that's sort of misleading.

We do use Maniphest, the issue tracker component, heavily. And it's pretty great, honestly. I find it to be a useful blend of exposed functionality and ease of use.

That said, we don't use Differential, the code review component for most (any?) teams. Instead we're pretty entrenched on gerrit still, and I haven't seen any signs of that changing over the last few years.
> avoid inequality growing even more

How do you pull that off without enforcing equality in some way?
This is a really good list. I especially like #2—your fleeting ignorance is an asset that can be leveraged.
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Ask HN: Requiring users to sign up for free trial. Yay or nay?
We have an API product that has had a no signup or credit card free tier for a while now.

However due to rampant abuse (potentially a small scale DDOS) we're contemplating requiring users to sign up to access the free tier.

Does anyone think this is a bad idea that might reduce uptake of our API?
GitLab has been this fantastic secret and now with MS buying GitHub so many people are coming over worry it will mess it up.
CAR-T cell therapy is a new way to treat blood cancers. T cells are taken from a patient, genetically modified to target specific cancer cells, then readministered to the patient

One issue is that sometimes the T cells don't survive or replicate enough once readminstered to effectively fight cancer

In one particular patient whose cancer was completely destroyed, 94% of the engineered CAR-T cells were sequenced and found to derive from one single T cell clone. In this T cell, the genetic engineering process accidentally altered another gene. These mutant T cells demonstrated different epigenetic activity and functional roles as memory T cells
Possibly anti-Russian bias? It's common here. That said, Taxify is pretty good and cheap, and personally I don't bother with anything else.

I live and work in Tallinn as a remote worker for a few clients; internet is cheap and fast. I've half-Australian / half-Estonian, and have Estonian citizenship so I'm not really familiar with the e-Residency program except to the extent that it's clear the government is investing a lot into it.
A closer analogy is "Facebook confirms data sharing with Israeli companies", which seems slightly less inflammatory.
It works for them. Changing would be a lot of work for little benefit.

Note that there is a mirror on github at https://github.com/openbsd and to my understanding, developers who prefer git use that, but the official source tree is in CVS.
The odd reality of life under China's all-seeing credit score system
I'm not going to suggest that 'imply' is clearer/less clear, but they both mean what you think 'prove' does. To quote a bunch of dictionaries, the phrase is using 'imply' to mean:

'to involve something or make it necessary'

'to have as a necessary consequence'

'to involve something as a logical consequence'

Thus XKCD's extension of the phrase to `Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there'.` -- which is essentially what you're getting at.
> our economic model

That you frame that as a "natural truth" and not a cultural artefact is part and parcel of the manipulation. Our "economic model" is something that has been arrived at by centuries of manipulation and is constantly being contested and changed in ways large and small.
None of them have intrinsic value.

At least gold & diamonds are useful
Honestly once Microsoft takes over GitHub I may migrate my GitLab / BitBucket projects to GitHub. It will not surprise me if they open source GitHub and allow private repositories to be hosted for free. They ran CodePlex for 0 profit. They can make some profit off GitHub but probably can afford not to turn it into a cash cow and thats ok for them to do because their profits will come from elsewhere. GitHub is going to be their way to ultimately give back like never before to all developers on all platforms. Disclaimer I don't work for Microsoft I just don't drink the Koolaid of blind hatred.
Taxify is awesome. They are giving Uber a hard time in some territories.

Seems to be same amount or more drivers than with Uber in Tallinn.. And well priced too. We were driving in and outside of Tallinn for a couple hours (visiting some suppliers), same driver, waited for us when we made stops. 25 euros on Taxify
Obviously there needs to be more evidence but it seems quite possible the word transgender triggers demonetization, at least in these cases.
Libertarians I know are horrified by the U.S. way of handling healthcare. It's not a "free" system by any conceivable metric.

https://mises.org/wire/how-government-regulations-made-healt...

My country (Uruguay) is the total opposite, it has some nasty warts, but socialized basic medicine + the option of purchasing better healthcare if wanted seems like a much better system.
I haven't studied UBI a ton, but it seems to me like prices on non-discretionary goods would increase to absorb the additional income and the people who set those prices would be the ones benefiting i.e. the people already benefiting now. Rent seems like it would be a big one. I bet if you just up and gave everyone an extra $500/month then rents would rise by $500/month and house prices would increase commensurately, which is great if you're a homeowner but not so great if you're a renter (and many of the people who we are trying to help with this are renters).
If you are a social person then yes, my method isn't convenient. You do have to manage everything by hand.

I use my phone almost entirely for data and messaging though. Calls are rare.
I am a bit surprised your free tier doesn't have a signup. Do you give people an API key, just like, randomly generated on the fly on page load?
I made a program called Meta-CVS in 2002 that stores a versioned directory structure with permissions and symbolic links along with the files in an ordinary CVS repository.

http://www.kylheku.com/~kaz/mcvs.html

Meta-CVS has an import feature (mcvs grab) which detects renamed files. It fixes up symlinks pointing to moved files too and such.

Meta-CVS didn't catch on widely because by the time I had it stable, CVS itself was being side tracked by newly emerging projects like SVN.

Plus people were afraid of it being written in Common Lisp.

If you're still using CVS in 2018 and not Meta-CVS, you're ridiculously backwards though. :)
U.S. officials warn Congress on risks of drones, seek new powers
They all learn from each other. In addition we have companies that are building the necessary infrastructure which then probably can be used by a surveillance state. Unless surveillance gets checked by law it will soon be world wide.
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Would be surprising; even the iPhone 5s from Fall 2013 is equipped with the Secure Enclave and is getting iOS 12. Including the feature to disable USB communication pins after 1 hour without the user's passcode. A feature aimed squarely at disabling Cellebrite from uploading their brute-force firmware.
But that isn't an inherent fact of a diamond. Mining them doesn't require that people lose their lives it's a fact of shitty people. And most diamonds consumers will encounter aren't from that stream.
You're completely right. Facebook should not have created APIs that could be used to re-implement a Facebook application. They most certainly should not have made such APIs available to companies that are anything less than completely trustworthy in every possible way.

Facebook's error was in believing that anyone outside Facebook could be trusted to author an app. I expected they know better now.
If gdpr had its way, then yes, you would probably lose access to google and pretty much the rest of the web.
Right now, most companies are skirting around the law though so we will have to wait and see the real effects once the lawsuits start settling.
Do you have any numbers to back that up? The best I can find are the Stack Overflow developer survey for what developers are actually doing....

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/

Windows software development jobs have been in decline for years...

https://www.itwriting.com/blog/9121-stackoverflow-developer-...